Although the Jinyi Guards all have embroidered spring knives given by the emperor, if they really want to fight, they still have to take advantage of the eighteen weapons. Lu Hanjiang was born in the Lu family, so naturally he does not have any ancestral martial arts. He has learned only these since he joined the Jinyi Guards.
Sparse and ordinary external skills.
In swordsmanship, I only learned how to cut people, but in boxing, I learned how to swing my arms.
Lu Hanjiang looked at the half-cut knife in his hand and sighed. It seemed like it was time to find a handy weapon.
Half a day had passed since the killing in the bamboo forest. Lu Hanjiang arrived at the inn first and sent the news back to the capital. After nightfall, the remaining Jinyiwei brothers also returned one after another.
Counting Bian Guang, there were actually seven people left alive. It seemed that the other party had an ulterior motive, otherwise Lu Hanjiang would not believe that a guy who could produce a batch of crossbows would not be able to take down a few hundred general banners.
The seven of them had injuries, both large and small. Lu Hanjiang asked them to deal with their wounds before discussing matters.
Not long after, the seven people in the room took their seats. Lu Hanjiang was on top. He looked at Bian Guang among the seven and asked, "Have you found out any news?"
"No," Bian Guang said with a look of shame on his face: "These thieves are so skilled in martial arts that it's hard to tell where they are, so they must have hidden them deliberately."
After finishing speaking, after a while in the room, another person said: "Could it be the Huashan sect? I just heard from the brothers at the post station that thieves blocked the way to General Qin's banner."
Huashan? It’s not that Lu Hanjiang looks down on them. When it comes to famous sects in the world, the Huashan sect is naturally considered number one, but to compete with the imperial guards, it’s really overestimating their capabilities.
Lu Hanjiang had his own thoughts and asked, "What's going on over there at General Qin's banner?"
The man replied: "It's nothing serious. Most of the thieves who attacked were killed on the spot by the brothers, and the rest also showed their faces. The brothers in Yunzhou are chasing them. They are indeed disciples of Huashan."
"Huashan Sect..." Are they really them? Lu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows in confusion.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Hanjiang waved his hand: "Brothers, you have worked hard today. Let's go back and rest first. The Qi family is in serious trouble. I have sent a letter to Wang Yan, a hundred households, and ordered him to summon the Yunzhou Jinyi Guards to reinforce General Qin's banner."
Everyone bowed their hands in agreement, and another person asked: "Sir, what should we do?"
It was definitely not possible to go on the road. Lu Hanjiang said without hesitation: "Stay in Yunzhou for the time being, track down the escaped thief, and wait for orders from above."
Everyone nodded and retreated one after another. Bian Guang glanced at Lu Hanjiang for the last time and saw that the other party had no expression, so he quietly retreated.
He was not sure whether those who attacked him and Qin Yu were actually a wave of troops, so Lu Hanjiang chose to remain unchanged in the face of all changes.
In the following time, while Lu Hanjiang was waiting for news from the capital, he asked his men to unite with the local guard yamen to track down the escaped Huashan disciples.
For several days in a row, not many of the Huashan disciples were caught, but the petty thieves and gangsters were all in trouble. Lu Hanjiang ordered them all to be severely punished, and looked very angry.
On this day, Lu Hanjiang was sitting in the Yamen drinking tea as usual, but he heard the sound of horse hooves.
Dust was flying outside the door. As soon as the leader got off his horse, he strode inward. His beard was as green as a halberd, and his powerful face frightened the clerk beside the door to retreat. His silver robe rustled, and the sound was as loud as a bell, shaking people's ears.
numb.
"Hahaha, Lao Lu, there are times when you are so embarrassed."
The big man came uninvited and sat across from Lu Hanjiang. He grabbed the teapot and drank it. In a short time, half of the pot of good tea went into his stomach.
"What a waste of natural resources," Lu Hanjiang shook his head and said, "This is a good thing given by the emperor. It's better for you. It's like drinking water."
Hearing this, the big man put down the teapot, smashed it into his mouth like an afterthought, and said disdainfully: "I didn't drink anything new."
Lu Hanjiang didn't comment on this. He looked up and saw the dozen or so people accompanying him standing on the porch. He turned around and asked the man, "Lao Jiang, what did the higher ups say?"
This man who looks like a horse thief is named Jiang Xiao, and he is one of the fourteen thousand members of the Jinyi Guards. Like Lu Hanjiang, he has been stationed in the capital for many years.
As for calling him Lao Lu, it's not that the relationship between the two is so good that they have known each other forever, it's just that he was ordered to fool Meng Yuan.
I don't know if it was because of the commander's sudden idea that Master Meng secretly added twenty years to the age in his resume.
At that time, Lu Hanjiang, who was less than 20 years old and a member of the Jinyiwei Qianhu family, was in the limelight. It was inevitable that someone would check his details. This check revealed that he was recorded as a middle-aged man over forty years old.
Lu Hanjiang also followed Commander Meng's ideas, pretending to be stable in front of others, and usually kept his age secret.
Under this pretense, more people believed it, and some people went deeper and found out that Lu Hanjiang was from the Lu family.
But if they go into the Lu family and continue the investigation, apart from anything else, the Lu family will say that Lu Hanjiang is a young man in his early twenties, which only makes those people believe that Lu Hanjiang deliberately hid it.
Speaking of the Lu family, when Lu Shangshu sent Lu Hanjiang to the Jinyi Guards, although Lu Yan had a personal relationship with the commander Meng Yuan, he naturally couldn't do it too conspicuously, otherwise Lu Shangshu would not be able to serve as an official.
So in order to deceive others, Lu Shangshu made up a background for Lu Hanjiang that he disliked studying and loved martial arts, and then arranged for Lu Hanjiang to participate in the selection of Jin Yiwei. Finally, he used this as a reason to expel him from the clan for being disobedient to discipline.
There were only a few people at this level of the Lu family who could find out, and the reasons for Lu Shangshu's arrangement were quite reasonable. Even Lu Hanjiang's parents didn't know the inside story. At that time, he was expelled from the family and felt sad.
To go a bit further, in short, Jiang Xiao and other thousands of families regard Lu Hanjiang as a peer.
"Lao Lu, let me tell you, you are really lucky."
Jiang Xiao clicked his tongue twice, looked at Lu Hanjiang with envy and said, "This trip was fine. Although it's not a big deal, it hurt a lot of brothers and disgraced our Jin Yiwei. But don't worry, I'll say hello to you from above."
Now, this matter is not your fault."
It stands to reason that Qin Yu is under the jurisdiction of Lu Hanjiang and was arranged by him to escort the prisoners. Although nothing serious has happened now, he has injured so many Jinyi guards and he will inevitably be punished.
However, after all, Lu Hanjiang had a special status and was protected by a commander, and Qin Yu's arrangements were also directed by his superiors, so he could not be blamed.
But for Jiang Xiao, no matter what, if something like this happens, Lu Hanjiang can't even say a word about his failure, which is called awesome.
"Let's get down to business. The boss has arranged for you to come and have a rest. What's the plan?" Lu Hanjiang naturally knew that if it was just to reassure him, there was no need to send someone of Qianhu's level.
Speaking of this, Jiang Xiao's face became colder: "We must have caught all those fish that slipped through the net."
"Sure." Lu Hanjiang seemed to understand what he was here for.
"Well, take them with you and let's take a trip to Mount Huashan."