vs 17 Horse thieves (1)

Not long after Turai left, Zilharang and Derge arrived, and as soon as Azig met them, he told them the original story of today's battle without concealment, and then spread his hands and said: "I can't do it, I lost nearly 200 people in today's battle with the yellow flag, and seven or eight of the white armor, and it will be up to you tomorrow." ”

Azig's words frightened everyone, Wu Nag beat the seven or eight thousand Ming troops on Huadao to kill more than 200 people, and a group of ordinary people who asked for food actually killed many people with yellow flags, which was also too fierce.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Azig shook his head and said: "I know you don't believe it, but tomorrow you will know, those people who ask for food are much more powerful than the Ming army, and tens of thousands of people are fighting around me, each more barbaric than the other." ”

Chang Shu immediately proved Azig's statement, and said that the Mongols had increased again, more than 10,000 people, and now there were at least 30,000 people.

Several Baylors were all big, and they only came with a total of about 3,000 people, and no one was sure that they would fight with 30,000 people. Sakhalian simply said that the well-fed and the hungry will definitely not take advantage of it, and we will see it tomorrow, and if we can't fight, we won't fight, and we will talk about it when the king of Khan comes with the main force.

Azig said very sadly: "I just didn't expect these people to work so hard to suffer a big loss, and even those who are so fierce in Elu have lost it." Sakhalian heard that "Erlu has lost it", and his heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked what was going on.

Azig briefly talked about Li Yu's failure to come back, and then sighed: "Although this kid Erlu is a little annoying, it's really gone, I still blame him, but it's a pity that this kid is single, and he has no descendants, so it's good if you don't ask the Great Khan to chase him for half of his future." ”

Several Baylors sighed repeatedly, Li Yu has not been in the Jin Kingdom for a long time, but he has already become famous, the old Khan sometimes has to ask Erlu how he is, and the fourth Baylor said that Erlu is the new generation of Huerhan of the Dajin Kingdom, and the Baylors also generally believe that among the young generation of Zhushen, Erlu is the most outstanding. Sakhalian was even more distressed, in his opinion, Erlu was more promising than Huerhan, because Erlu knew more words than Huerhan, and if he cultivated it well, he was a model among the young people of Zhushen who could both fight and love to learn, and his face as a Baksh also had a bright face.

While everyone was sighing and sighing, there were enthusiastic cheers outside, and someone was shouting: "Erlu is back, Erlu is back!" Sakhalian and Aziq rushed out of the door almost at the same time, almost crashing into each other's arms.

Li Yu really came back, Turai took his hand and walked in front, accompanied by Ao Bai and Meng Ke, and the iron spear also followed behind triumphantly with a bull's eye, and the brothers with yellow flags happily surrounded them, shouting and shouting towards a few Baylors, Sakhalian went up and hugged Li Yu: "I knew you would come back alive, you guy has a big life, Kurtang and Dahai still want you to go back to the Wenguan to study with them." ”

Azig was not polite, pushed Sakhalian away, kicked Li Yu is feet, and scolded in his mouth: "Stinky boy, you still know that when you come back, you will scare the master to death, if all the minions learn from you, will the master still have a good life?" ”

The news spread throughout the city of Youtunwei in a very short period of time, and became a hot topic of discussion in the Jin army tonight.

The next day, the Belles sent their respective white armor as scouts to search and investigate, and also captured some prisoners and came back, and the information they got surprised them, the Mongols were far from the 30,000 people that Chang Shu opened his mouth to cover for Azig, but at least more than 50,000 people, who were called by Nangnuk Taiji of the Bahin Department of Chahar Khan's subordinate, most of them were indeed hungry people, and when they heard that there was food here, they came one after another, and the Taiji of each department also came, but they did not dare to attack the city, but hid their respective elites behind and did not show their faces, The elite of the Bahraini department of Nanuktaiji is also said to be nearby, and it is unclear where the captives are hiding.

When the Baylors heard this, they did not dare to act rashly, and Yue Tuo even thought that even if the main force of the old Khan came to this battle, it would not be easy to fight, the hungry people wanted food, and they would fight to the death, and the Mongolian taiji wanted silver, and they would wait for the opportunity to kill our people. There is Chahar Khan behind Nanuk Taiji, there is Ming Guo behind Chahar Khan, their intentions are very clear, with the hungry people as a cover, the elite is hidden behind, just waiting for us to reveal a flaw and suddenly strike, exchange our heads for the silver of the Ming Kingdom, so that the food of the right guard has become our burden, if we bring so much food on the road, then we will not be able to maneuver to fight, they can arbitrarily intercept us along the way, and if you want to leave food, you must leave the defenders, that is more dangerous, as long as our main force leaves, The right guard can't even keep people with food. Yue Tuo was recognized by the people of the Jin Kingdom as the third generation of Chinese martial arts of the Aisin Gioro family, and when he said this, the hearts of the Baylors were suspended.

When the Baylors were at a loss, the old Khan arrived with a large army, he didn't have the leisure to listen to the self-righteous analysis of the Baylors, the old Khan's method was to fight first and then say, he didn't believe that the invincible Golden Eight Banners couldn't pack a bunch of people who asked for food, he warned his children and grandchildren to deal with these scoundrels must not be soft, and they would obey if they were killed, and this is how he dealt with Nikan in Liaodong. So, under the strict orders of the old Khan, the Jin army pounced on the Mongolian scoundrels with murderous spirits, but Azig, who had always liked to take the lead, retreated to the back.

As soon as the two sides started fighting, the Jin army smashed into the air with a punch, the Mongols were not dead-eyed, and they fought together, men, women and children together, and beat the Jin army, but they couldn't suffer a loss and immediately slipped away, and hundreds of tribes of all sizes ran their own ways, and it was not easy to chase - as long as the Jin army was dispersed, there would always be Taiji with the warriors of his own tribe suddenly drilled out, and together with some horse thieves who wanted money and did not want their lives, they robbed and killed the Dajin soldiers, and when the Jin army team came to support, they had already run away happily with their heads, The fanning Nanuk also came out, blocking the Jin army's way back to Liaodong to ambush the Dajin personnel coming and going, almost cutting off the Jin army's retreat. Old Khan was so angry that he wanted to grab Nanuk immediately, but the guy was too slippery to catch it. What's more troublesome is that the Mongols ran away as soon as they were beaten, and as soon as the Jin army retreated, they would soon be able to gather and continue to circle around the right guard, but they refused to disperse, especially the horse thieves in the middle of the mix were bold and black-hearted, coming and going without a trace, not only attacking the Jin army team with few people, but also daring to touch the black hands around the Jin army camp at night and cut off people's heads, and the Jin army was afraid when it mentioned the horse thieves.

Seeing that this battle was going to go on endlessly, and that some of their subordinates were constantly turning into headless dead ghosts, the Baylors didn't want to fight. Sibeile reminded Lao Khan that Mao Wenlong was still in Liaodong, and Chahar Khan was also hiding in the shadows and was about to move, so Jin Jun couldn't delay his return to Liaodong on these poor bastards. The old Khan was deflated, scolded Chahar Khan, Nangnuk and the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and after he finished his anger, he said fiercely: "It's okay to withdraw the army, but you can't cheap these poor eggs, burn the grain for me, burn it all, and don't leave a grain for them." Seeing the stunned appearance of the Baylors, he roared angrily: "If they want to blame their Chahar Khan, it was he who colluded with the Ming State to force me to do this, released all the captured prisoners, and let them go back to tell those Mongols that the Ming State has grain, and if they want to eat, they will go to Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan to find the Ming State to ask for it." ”

The Jin army finally withdrew after several days of entanglement with the Mongols in the right tunwei, and when they left, they set a fire and burned the right tunwei into a sea of fire, which turned the right tunwei into ashes with 100,000 stone of grain and horse material, and also made those poor Mongolian people completely desperate, with a miserable wail, the Mongols packed up their poor belongings, and set out on the road to the south in groups to find new hope for survival. The Jin army was happily heading north, and that was their way home, and they could finally return to see their relatives alive.

Li Yu stared blankly at the raging fire of the right guard, he didn't know why Lao Khan set this fire, he only knew that so much food could keep many people alive, whether he was a Zhushen or a Mongol. Turai noticed that Li Yu was wrong again, and pulled him away, Li Yu turned around and pointed to the fire, "Grain, that's edible food...... Turai interrupted him: "Don't be stupid, we are small soldiers and can't manage these things." ”

The road back to the north of the Jin army was smooth sailing, and the Nanuk who had been blocked on this road had already run without a shadow, and when the Liao River was seen from afar, the Jin army was jubilant - they were about to arrive home. Everyone talked excitedly about going home, but Li Yu was called by Azig, who now had a much better attitude towards Li Yu, and his face still had some smiles, and he told Li Yu that the old Khan had heard that he had risked his life to rescue his comrades from the Mongol camp, and praised him a lot, and promoted him to a third-class guard, and he was still on Bayara's errand, and there would be another reward after returning to Shenyang.

After talking about Li Yu's good deeds, Azig began to send a new errand to Li Yu: something happened in Yizhou, there was a group of thieves blocking the caravan from Shanxi in the Ming Kingdom, and someone needed to pick it up, Lao Khan directly transferred a team of cavalry from Zhenghuang and Huang to Yizhou, led by the second-class guerrilla Bai Ge with the yellow flag, Bai Ge was a little reluctant, he had to pull a few white armor to accompany him, but he was about to go home, it was not good to send anyone, he wanted to come and go and only Li Yu could run a trip, only he was a single person without worry, fortunately Yizhou is not far away, It won't take long to get back to Shenyang, and then the reward should come down. Seeing that Li Yu agreed very happily, Azig was very satisfied and joked, let Li Yu find a woman to start a family after he comes back, Zhushen people are as old as him, and there are several children.

Li Yu said when he saw Turai, Turai didn't take it seriously, he gave a few instructions, prepared some dry food and arrows for him and let him go on the road, Ao Bai also wanted to go together, Turai resolutely stopped, he had to send Ao Bai back to Uncle Wei Qi as soon as possible.

Bai Ge with yellow flags is a middle-aged fat man, not tall, with a face of horizontal meat, when Li Yu saw him, this guy was sulking, of course he was not happy to accept this errand, but the old Khan gave an order, and Azig sent Bai Jia according to his requirements, and it was a little famous Erlu, he had nothing to say, urging a hundred grumbling red-armored cavalry of the two yellow flags to go on the road.

Along the way, Bai Ge didn't care about the nonsense of being a soldier, he always followed Li Yu's side, and cautiously lagged behind a horse's head, opening his mouth "Lord Guard" and closing his mouth "Lord Guard", and had nothing to say to talk to Li Yu. Li Yu was not in a high mood, and responded without a word, and Meng Ke, who usually talks a lot of nonsense, seemed to be thinking about something, and just walked with his mouth closed. Bai Ge had a lot of nonsense, Li Yu was annoyed by him, and opened his mouth to say: "I'm just a little soldier, I can't stand you calling me an adult, and I don't like to call others an adult, so according to our Zhushen's habit of being a brother, do you think it's okay?" ”

Bai Ge's eyes lit up, and he immediately climbed down the pole: "You are still considerate of brothers, my brother has wanted to call you brother for a long time, I am afraid that you will look down on my brother." Seeing Li Yu's puzzled face, he continued: "Don't look at your brother, you are just a third-class guard, the future is very big, the guard is the person next to the Great Khan, speaking of which is not an official, but you can do any official if you are released, you have Bayala's errand, and the big and small military achievements are in the eyes of the Great Khan, my brother dares to bet, it won't take three or five years, brother, you are at least a second- or third-class general, and it is not impossible to be a deputy general, Huerhan next to the Great Khan can be one of the five ministers and a first-class general officer, and even the Baylors have to call him' Brother Shrimp', brother will be developed in the future, don't forget your brother Baige. ”

Li Yu was not interested in being an official, so he chatted a few words casually, and as soon as the topic changed to ask about the situation in Yizhou, Bai Ge replied: The place in Yizhou has long been ours - after the battle of Guangning, the big beyler and the four beylers with two red flags and the brothers of the white flag went to Yizhou to kill 3,000 Han soldiers who refused to surrender, occupied that place, and at first we could still control there, but then we could not afford to support the soldiers there with little money and food, and Nikan was not honest, so the Great Khan ordered the city to be demolished and withdrawn, and the people of Yizhou were moved to the Liaoyang area east of the Liao River, and it was empty. He pointed to a few Mongolians who led the way in front of him and said, there are some Mongolians left in Yizhou now, and there are not many of them, so they can only herd sheep there, and by the way, look at the field to report a message, that place may be chaotic, maybe it will become a den of thieves, if the general thieves are easy to do, we will run away if we go to scare it, and it will be troublesome when we encounter horse thieves, it is a group of guys who kill people without blinking, and the means of fighting are powerful, but Bai Ge bragged on his chest, and their group of red armor soldiers are not easy to mess with, It's more than enough to beat those horse thieves.

Although the red-armored soldiers of the two yellow flags complained a lot, the marching speed was not slow, and after a night of rapid travel, they arrived at Yizhou early the next morning, and found the caravan blocked there by the Daling River, but there was no sabre-rattling as Li Yu imagined, and the robbers did not disperse in a hurry when they saw the Jin army, but generously made a way for the Jin army to join the caravan, and the caravan did not shout when it saw its own reinforcements, but only greeted them and continued to eat their breakfast.

The leader of the caravan was a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who looked to be about thirty, wearing the kind of green cloth cotton robe of the Han people, who could speak Zhushen dialect, and saw Bai Ge and Li Yu thanked him again and again, claiming that his surname was Fan, and he was the big shopkeeper of Shanxi Fan Ji firm specializing in Liaodong business, and asked them to bake a fire and eat some hot rice first, Li Yu didn't have the leisure to immediately want to fight this gang of robbers, Fan shopkeeper hurriedly persuaded him, turned around and beckoned his men to hurry up and serve some hot meals, and then roast a few pieces of meat to send, Bai Ge pulled Li Yu to sit down, If there is a big thing, you have to eat a full stomach.

While accompanying them to dinner, the shopkeeper Fan told them: The robbers on the opposite side are not ordinary, there are not many people, only fifty or sixty, but they are all horse thieves who are screaming outside the Great Wall and outside the eastern border of Liaodong, and they are chased all the way here to intercept them, but the caravan is not easy to provoke, and a lot of good guards have been invited, and the other party does not dare to come hard, and now Dajin's reinforcements are coming, and it will be easy to do it, and after eating, talk to the other party well, and strive to let the other party retreat, and the Jin soldiers only need to put on a posture of fighting.

The more Li Yu listened, the more he didn't understand, he got up and said: "Shopkeeper Fan, thieves are bad people, what to talk to them, I'm full, you keep your belongings, I'll go and fight the thief." ”

Shopkeeper Fan grabbed him: "Little brother, that gang of horse thieves is so fierce that it is difficult to deal with, you may not be able to beat them, even if you can fight, you can't really fight, you are the reinforcements I invited, if you kill their people, we will be in trouble, this group of people can't find you, they will look for us to seek revenge, then don't do our business on this road." ”

Bai Ge felt numb as soon as he heard that there was a horse thief, of course, it was best not to fight, and he also got up and persuaded Li Yu: "King Khan just asked us to answer Fan and them, and he didn't expect us to kill the thief." Brother, let's do what Shopkeeper Fan said, and take them back to Shenyang safely, even if the errand is done, there is no need to work hard. ”

At this time, there was a sudden chaos in the camp, and some red-armored soldiers shouted: "There is a Ming army, brothers guys." Then there was a sound of fighting, Li Yu and Bai Ge were shocked, and immediately pulled out their knives out of the sheath and ran over, Fan's shopkeeper's face changed, and he immediately followed, shouting incessantly: "Don't fight, don't fight, it's all your own people." Tiger head, give me some face, don't hurt anyone. ”

The red-armored soldiers who were eating together and the bodyguards invited by the caravan fought, originally the two sides sat together and ignored each other, and each ate their own peace, but the sharp-eyed red-armored soldiers found the Ming army's uniform surrounded by the bodyguards in the big air and the Ming army's standard sword in their hands, so the two sides threw their rice bowls together, and the red-armored soldiers thought that they could capture the thirty or so disguised Ming soldiers in one fell swoop, but they didn't expect that the other party did not kneel and beg for mercy or scatter in a hurry as they thought, but scolded and scolded the guy and beat it, This gang of people is extremely fierce and ruthless, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen red-armored soldiers were knocked to the ground, and a few bodyguards were still holding sticks to chase a large group of red-armored soldiers, but fortunately, the shopkeeper Fan shouted early, this group of people did not kill them, and the red-armored soldiers lying on the ground were just howling, and they had not lost their lives. Li Yu rushed over, kicked over a bodyguard chasing the red armor soldiers, didn't wait for his knife to dodge, two more bodyguards with knives rushed over and hit him together, the kicked bodyguard immediately took the opportunity to jump up and join the battle group, the three of them attacked Li Yu together, Li Yu was not afraid of one enemy and three enemies, each knife was powerful and fast as lightning, the three guys quickly knew that they were not opponents, shouted and turned their heads and ran, Li Yu was trying to chase and kill, Meng Ke came out of nowhere, and hugged Li Yu: "Big head, don't fight, you listen to me." ……”

At this time, Bai Ge's screams came, Li Yu shook off Meng Ke and ran towards Bai Ge, the unlucky Bai Ge was beaten on the back by a strong man with a long beard, Li Yu pounced on it is a knife, the person reacted very quickly, heard the wind and knew that it was not good, a side roll dodged the knife, picked up an iron rod to parry, Li Yu even slashed several times and pressed the man and couldn't get up, a few bodyguards saw that it was not good, and hurriedly came over to besiege Li Yu, Bai Ge took the opportunity to run away.

Li Yu was having fun, Meng Ke ran up to hug him again, and the shopkeeper Fan over there also hugged his beard and didn't let go, under the shouting of the two, the fight finally stopped, and there were more than 20 red-armored soldiers lying on the ground, and more than a dozen people were injured on the other side, but no one was lying on the ground and couldn't get up, Bai Ge's gang of people hid far away and didn't dare to come over, Fan shopkeeper greeted a few times, and Bai Ge and they came over tremblingly - no, no, the red armor soldiers were beaten away before they even had time to ride their horses.

The shopkeeper Fan explained to Li Yu and Bai Ge vigorously: "These bodyguards I invited are indeed mixed in the Ming army, but they are deserted from the Ming army camp to make money, not the Ming army, the Great Khan of the Jin State and Zhu Beile know that we have asked the brothers in the Ming army to help, or our goods will not reach Liaodong, everyone is their own people, don't hurt the harmony, Fan Erxi has made amends to everyone, and all the injured brothers' soup money is mine." ”

Shopkeeper Fan said this, everyone understood that it was a misunderstanding, the Ming army of the bodyguards took advantage of it, naturally they would not say much, Bai Ge's gang still had palpitations until now, how dare they make trouble again, but Li Yu did not believe that these people were Ming army, which was completely different from the Ming army he had seen, Meng Ke spoke on the side: "What kind of Ming army are they, a group of horse thieves who eat in the Ming army." He casually pointed to the bearded man: "Tiger Head, when did you change your career to become a bodyguard, and which line of work are you doing now - horse thief, bodyguard or Ming army?" If Lao Tzu hadn't protected you today, you would have been slaughtered by my brother. ”

The beard immediately sneered at each other: "What do you care about Lao Tzu, a gust of wind, aren't you also eating in the Ming army, is it that the enemy found the camp of the Ming army, you can't hide it, and hide in the Jianzhou soldiers?" ”

Meng Ke's face changed: "Tiger head, don't be complacent, outside the edge of Jizhen is Sun Erniang's territory, he wants to know that you rob his business, and it is indispensable to find you trouble." ”

The tiger head didn't care at all: "I'm not afraid of Sun Erniang, there are grass flying and mountain tigers on the other side, Sun Erniang can't afford to provoke so many of us." ”

Li Yu couldn't understand what they were saying, and looked at them blankly, when a few people came from the robbers, and they shouted from afar: "Tiger Head, Fan Shopkeeper, these people you invited are too, we have to resettle the account." Hey, there's a gust of wind here. ”

Shopkeeper Fan was anxious: "Everyone said that we would ask for help within two days, and we would only give one hundred taels of silver." Flying on the grass, you are a person with a head and a face, you have to be reasonable, and what you say must be counted. The Ming army officer named Tiger Head also disagreed, and the owner suffered a loss, that is, he planted his heels, and how to mix on the ground in the future.

Cao Shangfei said: "We are very reasonable, you want two days, we will give two days, you said that if you can't help, you will leave thirty percent of the property, we also agreed, where have you seen a reasonable thief like us." But the gang of Jianjiao you invited is so bad that even the tiger-headed Ming army can't beat it, so how can they fight us. Shopkeeper Fan, you have to add silver, at least three hundred taels. ”

Bai Ge couldn't understand Chinese, but "Jianyu" was a common contempt for them by the Ming people, and he heard it clearly, so he immediately drew his sword in anger and stepped forward to clean up the thief, and the red-armored soldiers behind him brandished their swords and spears to pounce on the thief. Bai Ge's knife was just about to be cut down, a long whip came and wrapped his hand to raise the knife, and then the long whip forced, and the person who took off the Bai Ge knife was also dragged over, and a strong man in his forties grabbed him by the collar and said sharply: "Do you still want to fight?" Do you know the mountain tiger of Yehebu. "This person is speaking Zhushen dialect, there is still a braid on his head, Bai Ge understood and was also scared stupid, he is a veteran of the Eight Banners, of course he knows the mountain tiger, this person is said to be a warrior under Yehebel Buyangu, when the old Khan ** Hachi destroyed Yehebu, he followed Buyangu to defend Yehxi City desperately resisted, and finally the arrow ran out, according to the Yehe Jintai Shi Belle who guarded the eastern city, the city of Yehe Jintai Shi Beyler was also broken**, Buyangu, who had no power to return to the sky, got the promise of the Great Beyler not to kill, and was forced to lead the remaining clansmen to surrender, but the old Khan did not believe it and ordered to kill BuyanguSince then, the Tiger and Jianzhou have formed a grudge against the sky, tangled a group of Ye He's outlaws to rob the property of the Jin State and assassinate the officials of the Jin State, the people in the Eight Banners mentioned that he was afraid, and the old Khan also hated and feared this person, and sent people to encircle and suppress it many times but none of them succeeded, and the Tiger suddenly disappeared in the past two years, and the people in the Eight Banners gloated that this person was dead, but they did not expect him to appear here again, and colluded with the horse thief.

When the red-armored soldiers saw that their heads were caught, they rushed up and were about to make a move, and the horse thieves also swarmed up dozens of bows and arrows aimed at the red-armored soldiers, and the tiger head shouted, and the Ming army suddenly faced the red-armored soldiers with swords and spears - in the final analysis, the robbers and the Ming army of the bodyguards are the same kind, and they still choose to be consistent with the outside world at the critical time.

The red-armored soldiers were immediately at a disadvantage, the robbers and the Ming army were masters, as long as the two sides worked together, the hundred red-armored soldiers were afraid that none of them would be able to escape, and the red-armored soldiers immediately retreated in horror when they saw that the situation was not good, and automatically formed a dense circle formation in order to protect themselves.

Cao Shangfei motioned to the mountain tiger to let go of Bai Ge, and said to Bai Ge with a sneer: "It's easy for us to kill you pus, but we don't want to make a big deal today, you can go back to your people to discuss, if you want to beat us, you can get out of the way if you don't want to fight." The tiger head then shouted "get out", and kicked Bai Ge out, and Bai Ge rolled and crawled to beckon his red armor soldiers to hide hundreds of steps away, not daring to come again.

Cao Shangfei looked at Shopkeeper Fan proudly: "How about it, we can settle the account." Shopkeeper Fan didn't expect Jin Jun, who made the people of the Ming Kingdom frightened, so he nodded helplessly. At this time, Li Yu, who had been observing from the sidelines, stood up - his mind was completely messed up today, the Ming army, which had always been full of nests, suddenly attacked and beat the Jin army all over the ground to find teeth, the Ming businessman Fan shopkeeper did business with the Jin country, the bodyguard was the Ming army, but the robber was Zhu Shen, could it be that the sun came out from the west.

"If you don't give them money, they're thieves." Li Yu said firmly and loudly.