In the third month of the lunar calendar, twenty riders of Yanyun entered Henan.
In order to avoid being watched by the locals, everyone changed into Song Dynasty clothes. Fortunately, the economic and cultural penetration of the Liao and Song Dynasties was very strong. Well, it was basically unilateral to the Song Dynasty, so the eighteen Khitan people did not object to changing their clothes.
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These eighteen Khitan guards also proved their combat prowess and loyalty through a series of actions after going south.
Before entering Henan, you must first pass through Hebei, and Hebei was the front line between Song and Liao.
There is a mixture of fish and dragons here, and there are a lot of thieves who cut paths. They are from both Song and Liao countries. Some people from the Song Dynasty crossed the border to the Liao Kingdom to rob, and there were also people from the Liao Dynasty who crossed the border to clear grass and valleys. Their composition is also very complicated, and some of them can't afford to eat.
There are refugees, avengers whose homes are in ruins, rangers who are naturally fond of this industry, and of course there are also sideline workers who pretend to be part of the military.
Along the way, Li Jiang and others saw more than twenty waves.
No matter how many people there are on the other side, dozens or hundreds of people, Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry will handle them all.
As Li Jiang looked on with cold eyes, their fighting style was completely different from that of Jianghu people. They never forced themselves and used military methods to solve problems.
First there was a rain of arrows when they went up, then they separated to the left and right, and the fast-moving war horses roamed around, throwing arrows inward. When the people surrounded were tired, they threw away their bows and arrows, drew their sabers and cut in from the two wings.
The eighteen people themselves are people with strong martial arts skills. This rush in is like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep. Even a team of several hundred people will be in chaos in an instant and will not be able to hold on for a long time. The rest depends on whether they kneel down and surrender or take the time to escape.
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What surprised Li Jiang the most was that the eighteen men were merciless in killing their own people from the Liao Kingdom. No matter how much the other party begged in Khitan language, the cold sword would still pass quickly across his throat.
Li Jiang also asked Xiao Feng about this. Xiao Feng said strangely: "Liao and Song people are no longer human beings if they are thieves. How is it different from slaughtering chickens and dogs?"
Uh! Unexpected and reasonable.
Li Jiang felt that what Xiao Feng said was very reasonable, and he was speechless.
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There was a Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng, but he had been dead for many years.
Xiao Feng and Li Jiang wore curtain hats and led their horses into the city of Tokyo, which was crowded with crowns and hats.
Twenty people randomly found an inn to settle down, and then they started looking for traces of the Beggar Gang.
In this regard, Li Jiang and Shibaqi could not help much. They could only find low-level flowers begging on the street, so they had to rely on Xiao Feng alone.
Fortunately, Xiao Feng is the former gang leader after all, so finding the top brass of the Beggar Clan is a matter of minutes.
The chief helm of the Beggar Clan is not located in Kaifeng, because giving orders at the feet of the Emperor is courting death! There is only a righteous branch here.
After walking around for more than two hours, everyone walked into a high-end and atmospheric alley.
Li Jiang looked at the surrounding environment, and what he saw was either "a certain bachelor's house" or a "such-and-such public house", and the last one was a "such-and-such house" with two stone lions guarding the door.
He couldn't help but be speechless. The senior members of the Beggar Clan understood the meaning of darkness under the lamp. Who would have imagined that hiding among a group of wealthy people?
Not long after entering, Xiao Feng led everyone to stop outside a door with a plaque of "Hong Mansion" hanging on it.
Immediately, the gatekeeper stepped down and asked, "Why do you want to come to Hong Mansion?"
Xiao Feng made a lotus sign with both hands in front of his chest, then he shook it three times to the left and three times to the right, and asked: "Is Captain Jiang here?"
The boy's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his head to look at the left and right ends of the alley for a moment, and then said: "Which branch is this helmsman in?"
Xiao Feng said: "Dali is the helmsman. I have something important to do with the helmsman Jiang. Brother, can you tell me as soon as possible?"
"Oh..." the young man said in a long voice, with a look of contempt on his face, and said disdainfully: "What important thing can you do to control such a remote place with such a generous gift?"
Xiao Feng has been anxious since he entered Henan. He couldn't hold it back at this moment. He stretched out his left hand and grabbed the boy standing on the steps. He pinched his neck and said fiercely: "Speak quickly. If you delay the military situation, you will die."
It’s not a pity.”
The boy looked like a little chicken with his neck pinched. His feet were off the ground and his face was purple from holding it in. He tried to pull Xiao Feng's hand with both hands. But with the little strength he had, he could only make a "Gruck" sound.
Upon seeing this, Li Jiang hurried forward and said: "Brother, let go quickly, the dead cannot speak."
After hearing Li Jiang's reminder, Xiao Feng calmed down a little and relaxed his hands a little, allowing the boy to finally take a few breaths of fresh air.
Li Jiang advised from the side: "Brother, I advise you to speak quickly. My eldest brother has a bad temper and will really strangle you to death accidentally. Even if the gang punishes him afterwards, your life will be gone. It's not worth it.
What do you think?"
The young man rolled his eyes and said intermittently: "The helmsman... is not here..."
"Huh?" Xiao Feng tightened his hands.
Li Jiang hurriedly put on a white face and said in a panic: "Brother, please tell me what you have to say. This brother may not have thought clearly yet, so don't kill him accidentally."
The boy nodded with difficulty.
Xiao Feng let go again. "Hiss..." The young man took a deep breath of air like a whale sucking water, and said quickly: "The helmsman is really not here. He went to the Luoyang helmsman."
"What are you going for? Who are you with?" Xiao Feng asked quickly.
The boy's brain was short of oxygen and his thinking was not very clear. He never thought that a disciple who was in charge of the helm should care about such a detailed situation of the helmsman. He just wanted to escape from the clutches as soon as possible, so he said: "He and Dazhi are in charge of the helm."
We left together, saying we were going to attend the Xiaolin Conference."
"How long have you been gone?"
"one day."
After getting the answer he wanted, Xiao Feng threw the boy away, turned around and walked out of the alley.
Li Jiang stayed until the end, and said to the boy with a smile: "Brother, please be more discerning next time. We are a gang of beggars, representatives of all the poor people in the world, don't act like a arrogant slave, haha..."
After that, he shook his head and walked away.
The boy looked at his back in confusion and murmured: "Is this a fool?"
After a moment, he realized his situation, and hurriedly ran towards the door, crawling on the ground, shouting: "Those bumpkins from Dali Branch are beating people, please come quickly..."
When he rushed out of the door with a large group of people and carrying wooden sticks, he saw only an empty alley, and there was not a single figure anywhere.
Xiao Feng, Li Jiang, and Shiliu rode out of the high-end community and rushed to the inn as quickly as possible.
I definitely won't stay here anymore, but the war horse needs to be taken back.
As soon as they entered the courtyard of the inn, everyone was dumbfounded.
I saw two eighteen horsemen who were left behind tied up in the stable. Their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, and they looked miserable. More importantly, not a single horse hair was missing.
The crowd was furious, two riders stepped forward to untie them, and one quickly ran to the lobby to capture the shopkeeper.
Before the shopkeeper mentioned it, the two men had already explained the reason.
It turned out that after everyone left, there was an inspection in the inn. When the Song soldiers saw the eighteen horses, they immediately wanted to take away the war horses on the grounds that the procedures did not comply with the smuggling of military horses.
Of course the two people who stayed behind refused to do it, so they started fighting. But this was the capital, the core area of ​​the Song people, and the two of them did not dare to make a killing move, fearing to bring trouble to their master. The shrinking of their hands caused the Song soldiers to become more and more angry.
The more they went, the more they became outnumbered in the end, and they were trapped in iron chains by the despicable Song people.
The man who was tying a horse on the grassland was thought to be a horse, and it was really like hunting geese all day long and being pecked by geese. The two men watched in humiliation as the horses were led away one by one!
While they were telling the story, the shopkeeper also arrived, and he confirmed the words of the two people left behind with a wry smile.
The shopkeeper expressed great regret and sympathy for this, but he also said that this has nothing to do with him. It is your fault for the incomplete procedures and no one else is to blame. The store will not compensate!
Chapter completed!