Brother Chun didn't expect Li Qing to be so forbearing and killed six Hu'ers one after another. There seemed to be no movement from the Xixia people. Their camel city was still stationed outside Lanzhou City, and Hai Hu'er still came in and out every day.
Lanzhou City, but this time they all entered Lanzhou in groups.
It is completely impossible to raid those scattered Hehu'er anymore. With a vigilant warrior, it will be a fierce battle whenever they encounter them.
Brother Chun didn't think that the dozens of horse thieves under his command could be the opponent of the ten fierce soldiers of Hai Hu'er. If they charged on horseback, the ten Hai Hu'er could even defeat his small group of horse thieves without hurting anyone.
Easily destroyed.
If the mountain doesn't come, it's me. If I go, it's the mountain. Of course Brother Chun is not a rigid person. If his team of thieves can't kill Hai Hu'er, can't he kill the camel travelers in Lanzhou City?
His purpose is just to accumulate the resentment and anger between Lanzhou City and Tuocheng. No matter where the anger and resentment comes from, as long as it can provoke the two sides to want to fight.
Hongying led his subordinates out of Lanzhou City...
Chen Shu stood in the woods, his body surrounded by some withered yellow leaves, with only a pair of eyes showing indifferently looking at Red Eagle and the others killing people and robbing money.
It doesn't matter whether Hong Ying and the others are killing Song people or Xi Xia people. The only thing Chen Shu cares about is that at this time, Hong Ying and the others are pretending to be Hai Hu'er, and they are also speaking with a strong Western accent, although they can't understand them.
What did he say? What does it matter? Chen Shu believed that the camel passengers could not hear clearly. When the robbers came to kill them, everyone just wanted to escape. Who would care about what those people said.
Although it is very difficult for the masked robbers to cover their beards, the clothes on those people are also half Chinese, half Western Regions, and it is outrageous to hide their appearance.
The strategy was crude, and the execution of the mission by Hong Ying and the others was also rough. At least he, who was in the front line of Wu Shengjun, did not look down at the messy formation of Hong Ying and the others when they charged into battle.
Red Eagle's long knife chopped off the head of an old camel rider, then he reined in his horse, looked at the camel riders who had run away, and ordered to his subordinates: "Clear the battlefield quickly, leaving no survivors.
Retreat after one stick of incense!"
With a loud roar, more than sixty bandits spread out to pick up the belongings left by the camel passengers on the ground, laughing and showing off what they had grabbed to their companions.
This is a medium-sized camel team with more than sixty camels. Now they are kneeling on the ground obediently, grinding their teeth carelessly as they watch the humans killing each other.
Red Eagle didn't have time to see what cargo the camel was carrying. After a whistle, the bandits led the camel and set off again, disappearing into the vast mountains along a path into the mountains. This was pre-designed by Brother Chun.
retreat route.
Chen Shu's leather boots stepped on a mass of dried blood, and the long knife in his hand stabbed a corpse mercilessly. The obviously dead body suddenly screamed, struggled for two times and finally stopped moving.
Already.
Following this scream, two other corpses covered in blood that fell in the ditch jumped out of the ditch like rabbits, running desperately towards the distance. Chen Shu put the long knife in his hand into the sheath and raised his hand.
, the hand crossbow hanging on the waistband was in his hand. Once the crossbow string was hung, a crossbow bolt was fired out. The hand crossbow rang twice, and the two camel riders who were pretending to be dead returned before they could escape a few steps away.
They fell to the ground, only this time, they were really dead.
After patrolling the dead battlefield, Chen Shu returned to the woods and sat under a locust tree that had lost all its leaves, wiping the two crossbow arrows that were stained with blood.
"First of all, there are no spies from Hu'er within three miles. In addition, five camel passengers escaped and they returned to Lanzhou City."
A burly soldier wearing a mandarin duck coat from the Song Dynasty pushed aside the branches and came to Chen Shu and said.
Chen Shu nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Sit down and take a drink of water to rest for a while."
The burly soldier took off the kettle hanging from the branch, took a sip of water, and said: "A bunch of useless monkey cubs, they imitated other people's robbery and made a mess. I see you are wiping the butts of those idiots. That's it."
Can a group of guys who don't have enough to eat and do nothing really fulfill the commander's instructions? Boss, why don't you just accept the command from some woman? We have been in Lanzhou City for more than half a year and have done nothing.
He is hiding like a mouse and is almost suffocated to death."
Chen Shu glanced at the burly soldier and said angrily: "Let that woman take the lead. This is a military order issued by the commander-in-chief. Do you have the guts to try it?"
The burly soldier sat down on the root of the tree with his knife in his hand and sighed: "Old Cui and the others were lucky. They followed Liangtou to Hequ. I heard that the starting point of the marshal's northern expedition was Hequ. Now Lao Cui and the others are so beautiful. Follow them.
If the commander-in-chief kills the Liao people who are like plague chickens, he will definitely make a lot of money whether it is military merit or capture."
Chen Shu said coldly: "Are you short of money? Or do you feel that you are at a disadvantage following me?"
The burly soldier curled up his neck and said with a charming smile: "Boss, I, Lao Zhang, have been following you for six years. If you choose someone else, you can't blame me. I feel unfair to you."
Why can Lao Cui go to Hequ, Yuan Datou can go to Yanmen Pass, and Lou Sangou can go to Tang County? Why do we come to this place where birds don't poop, eat mutton all day long, and eat the fishy smell on my body?
The smell can’t be removed. In another half year, what’s the difference between us brothers and those bearded men outside? Everyone else is going to take the credit, but we are the only ones living a miserable life.
If there is something to do, I, Lao Zhang, will never say no. The problem is that the woman left elite soldiers like our brothers unused, and got a few bastards who robbed things, but they still couldn't get the things they damn well deserved.
If we continue to cause chaos, if we continue to anger Hai Hu'er, those animals will most likely massacre the city."
Chen Shu stuffed the crossbow arrows into his quiver, clapped his hands and said, "Zhang Ting, what are you thinking about bringing so many soldiers into battle by yourself?
Listen, don't take care of things that are not ours to take care of. Don't ask questions. When the general conveyed the commander's military orders when he came to Lanzhou, he only said that we should obey Huang Xiaoman's orders. The rest of the military purposes are not related to ours.
The general did not mention the reason for coming to Lanzhou."
Zhang Ting said strangely: "This is not the habit of generals and marshals in doing things. Even if they are performing military duties that require death, the marshals will clearly tell the dangers involved, and then ask the brothers
Are you willing to go or not? What happened this time?
Chief, are you sure this is a military order delivered by the general himself? Why do I feel like this is a job only done by dead soldiers?"
Chen Shu's cold face suddenly laughed, slapped Zhang Ting on the back of the head and said: "You idiot, you actually got to the point this time, and I figured everything out in one go.
.”
Zhang Ting touched the sore back of his head and bared his teeth and asked, "What have you figured out?"
Chen Shu smiled evilly and said: "Get out of here, this is a secret in the military, and a low-level Qiu Ba like you can't know it!"
Zhang Ting laughed and said: "Let's use Qiu Ba again. You were refused marriage by using Qiu Ba as an excuse, and now you use this matter to teach me a lesson. It's not embarrassing."
Chen Shu smiled and said: "That woman said I was Qiu Ba and refused to marry me. Don't you know what the result will be? I married her sister, and she married a picker. I haven't seen her for five or six years. She is poor.
Come to my house to borrow food.
I think that a woman who was so arrogant back then would never have come to my door to borrow food if she had not been desperate..."
Chen Shu didn't want Zhang Ting to ask him what he wanted to know, so he had to use his past family affairs to lead the topic to other places.
There are no horse thieves around Lanzhou City. This is a consensus reached between the Song Dynasty and Xixia. In the earliest days, there were groups of horse thieves on the Ganliang Road. This trade road was also the most dangerous trade road in the Song Dynasty.
There have been countless green forest heroes on the Ganliang Road. If the thief King Gaitian on Kongtong Mountain had not been wiped out by Yun Zheng, the guy named Qin Long might have turned the place upside down together with his charming wife.
The army combed through the hundreds of miles surrounding Lanzhou City like a comb. Not only the side close to the Song Dynasty, but even the Qin Wangchuan close to the Xixia side could not find even a single thief.
Now there is trouble. After four or five bloody camel passengers rushed into Lanzhou City, they attracted a crowd of people to watch.
"Is there a horse thief?"
When these words came out of the mouth of the camel passengers, they fell like a bolt from the blue on the heads of the other camel passengers. If the goods they obtained from the Hexi Corridor could not be sent to the Song Dynasty for sale, it would not be much more than killing them.
the difference.
Camel customers from all over the city came to the Lanzhou government office in a swarm. Several camel customers who had just been robbed tried their best to beat the drums standing in front of the two government offices.
The sound of drums was loud, but it could not urge the prefect out...
The officers of the Song Dynasty in Lanzhou City all had pale faces, and they hid in the squad rooms on both sides of the court hall and looked at each other tremblingly.
The prefect Liu Wenchunku was sitting in the back hall sweating like rain. After the previous prefect was arrested by the executioner a year ago, he came to this border city of the Song Dynasty.
Liu Wenchun, who came from a businessman family, was different from other officials in the Song Dynasty. When others avoided serving as the magistrate of Lanzhou, he stepped forward and volunteered to come here to serve as Lanzhou, which was meaningless in the eyes of others.
Prefect.
In one year, the Liu family's business interests were fully protected in Lanzhou. In just one year, the Liu family quickly became the leading merchant on Ganliang Road.
Now, the crisis has finally come. Hei Hu'er outside the city has unknown enemies and enemies. If it weren't for the fact that his family's interests are too deep in Lanzhou, he would flee Lanzhou as soon as possible. In the northwest, Hei Hu'er's name can stop his cry!
As the top leader and big businessman in Lanzhou, Liu Wenchun knew immediately about Hai Hu'er pretending to be a horse thief and robbing camel passengers. He didn't care how many camel passengers died, he only cared about whether the Liu family's interests could be fully realized.
of protection.
"Come here, prepare a generous gift. Liu Fu will follow me to Camel City outside the city."
After thinking about it, Liu Wenchun suppressed his frightened thoughts and decided to personally visit the Haihuer camp and ask them what they were going to do.
The family business that the Liu family finally established in Lanzhou cannot be destroyed by the war under any circumstances. (To be continued)