Swap the city, in the Han Dynasty called Gumo country, Taizong 22 years, Tang general Ashina Sheer broke the turtle army here, and captured the king of turtle ci. The city was originally under the jurisdiction of Qiuzi Town, but for some reason, two years ago, the Anxi Prefecture handed over the city to the jurisdiction of Shule Town.

As the eldest son of the king of Shule and the lord of the city, Pan Lengleng received the news that Zhao Ziliang, a quasi-brother-in-law, was going to come to the city to serve as a guard and capture envoy a few days ago.

It stands to reason that Pan Lengleng, as the city lord of the city, is above Zhao Ziliang, so he doesn't have to go to the city gate to greet him in person, but he heard that Zhao Ziliang is the favorite general of Fu Meng Lingjing, and he is also quite appreciated by his father, so he thinks that it is necessary to have a good relationship with Zhao Ziliang, which is good for him to inherit the throne in the future.

More than a dozen officials and some entourages and soldiers stood at the gate of the city and looked forward, seeing that the sun was about to go west, and Zhao Ziliang and others were not seen, Ma Han, the deputy envoy of the guard, yawned and said: "Lord of the city, you see that the sun is about to go down, I see that General Zhao will not come today, let's go back first, and come back tomorrow morning to wait?" ”

Pan Leng turned his head and glanced at Ma Han, but he didn't give him a good look. Ma Han often sends filial piety to Bian Lingcheng, relying on Bian Lingcheng's support, often does not take Pan Leng Leng in his eyes, when he convenes various military and political officials in the city to discuss the affairs of the military array in the city lord's mansion, Ma Han often excuses the excuse, and it has been several times, which makes Pan Leng Leng extremely unhappy.

"Hmph, if Captain Ma doesn't want to wait, you can go back first! Is there anyone else who doesn't want to wait? You can go with Captain Ma! Pan said coldly, flicked his sleeves, turned around and didn't look at him.

Ma Han looked at Pan's cold eyes a little gloomy when he heard this, looked up at the sky, and said leisurely: "It's getting late, General Zhao will definitely not come today, a certain family still has military affairs to be busy, and there can be no delay, if General Zhao arrives after a certain leaves, knowing that a certain is busy with military affairs, he must not blame a certain one!" Ladies and gentlemen, I won't be here to accompany you to wait, farewell! ”

After saying that, Ma Han threw off his cloak and turned to leave, and several of his lieutenants also bowed their goodbyes to the other officials present.

An official couldn't look at it, and pointed to the back of Ma Han and the others in anger: "This Ma Han is really presumptuous, and it has intensified in recent months, relying on the support of the border castration, and not taking us and others in his eyes at all, which is really hateful!" ”

All the officials nodded their heads one after another, and each of them counted Ma Han's mistakes, and then a slow voice said: "Lord Wu, this Ma Han didn't deliberately get along with you, so why should you risk blaming him and gossiping behind his back?" Besides, he is a man in the army, and we are civilian officials, and we belong to different systems. He is unruly, naturally someone will treat him, let's not provoke him."

"Naturally, someone will cure him?" The official sneered, and then said: "You said it lightly, he is supported by a border castration, who dares to touch him?" ”

The official who spoke just now smiled and said, "Why not?" Who are we welcoming today? ”

"You mean General Zhao? I have heard that General Zhao is brave, but I don't know if he has the courage to risk offending Bian Gelding to punish Na Mahan."

Someone sighed: "No one will punish the soldiers and ruffians who have changed cities, I am afraid that there will be a big mess, as for General Zhao, let's wait and see!" ”

Everyone in groups of three, groups of five gathered together and whispered and discussed, Pan Leng stood in the front, turned his head to look at the people behind him, shook his head, took a hand stove from the hands of the entourage next to him, and kept exhaling hot air from his mouth and nose.

On the road, Zhao Ziliang and others were walking unhurriedly on horseback, and in the past two days, Zhao Ziliang has been thinking about the horse bandits he met with Yun Dingtian two days ago.

Cen next to him saw that Zhao Zi was absent-minded and must be thinking about something, so he asked, "The general has something on his mind?" ”

Zhao Ziliang came back to his senses when he heard the voice, and saw that it was Cen Shen who was asking, so he said: "I am thinking, Yun Dingtian and a group of horse bandits have been active in the great desert in the east, if they want to enter the hinterland of Shule Country, they must go through many checkpoints, they are nearly 400 people, such a big goal, how did they pass through the checkpoints in various places?" ”

Cen Shen did not speak, he was not a member of the Shule army, nor was he an official here, just a scribe who had traveled all over the world, and it was inconvenient for him to participate in this incident.

Next to him, Huo Kan asked: "Does the general mean that Yun Dingtian and the others are unimpeded along the way, and there are big people who greet the checkpoints along the way?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "In addition, I can't think of any way for Yun Dingtian to bring so many people into the hinterland of Shule!" ”

Wei Meng said: "General, if you want to find out about this matter, you only need to bring Yun Dingtian, the leader of the horse bandits, over and torture him severely!" ”

After the defeat of the horse bandits that day, Yun Dingtian was swept to the ground by Zhao Ziliang with a horse lance, and his back was severely injured and he passed out, and when he woke up, he had been captured, and there were nearly 200 people who were captured with him, and now Zhao Ziliang and others are escorting these horse bandits to the city.

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "Now is not the time to think about this matter, I will wait until I arrive in the Swap City and settle down before I come to investigate this matter, how far is it from the Swap City?" ”

Wang Can said: "There are still about ten miles, you can arrive before dark!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked up at the sky and said, "It's going to be dark soon, and the order is speeding up!" ”

"No!"

Pan Leng looked at the sky and was about to return with the officials, when a fast horse galloped over.

"City Lord, General Zhao's men and horses have arrived four miles ahead, and they are about to arrive! General Zhao brought more than 100 followers, and more than 200 prisoners."

When the officials heard this, they immediately looked at each other, more than 200 captives? What's going on? Pan Leng was also stunned for a moment, and immediately asked, "How can there be captives?" Didn't General Zhao come to take office? How could you bring a captive? ”

"City Lord, General Zhao and others encountered an ambush of nearly 500 horse bandits on the way to change the city, but they didn't want to be seen by General Zhao when the horse bandits were ambushed, and the two sides fought a big battle, the horse bandits were defeated, more than 200 people were killed, more than 200 people were captured, and dozens of people escaped!"

The officials gasped, there were only more than 100 people, and they were ambushed, not only saw through the ambush, but also defeated the horse bandits who exceeded their number several times, and almost wiped them out, what kind of person is this Zhao Ziliang, with such ability?

Pan reacted coldly, and immediately said to the officials beside him: "Wu Changshi, how are the preparations for the banquet?" ”

"It's ready, just in the Drunken Immortal Building, set up a few tables!" Wu Changshi said.

Pan said coldly: "General Zhao has brought so many servants, we must also arrange food and accommodation for these people, we can't be lazy, and there are more than 200 horse bandits, you quickly let people tidy up the prison cells and vacate some prisons, after all, horse bandits are different from real prisoners, and they should be kept in prisons and wait for the government to deal with them!" ”

"Yes, yes, I almost forgot about it, go immediately!" Wu Changshi said and turned around and left quickly.

Not long after, Zhao Ziliang and others finally appeared, the team was quite numerous, and there were prisoners, and the marching speed was really not fast.

Zhao Ziliang and the others walked to the city gate and dismounted, Pan Leng laughed and stepped forward and said: "Hahaha, looking forward to the stars and the moon, I finally gave General Zhao here!" ”

For this eldest prince of Shule Kingdom and the elder brother of Panzhu Junxiu, Zhao Ziliang had met him once in the palace of Pancheng, so he naturally knew him, but at this time it was a formal occasion, and Zhao Ziliang could only be called by his official position: "Ziliang meets the city lord!" ”

Pan Leng stepped forward to help Zhao Ziliang and said with a smile: "Excuse me, General Zhao has been tired all the way, let's go to the city, this official has already prepared a banquet for the general and his subordinates, please!" ”

Pan Leng was so enthusiastic, Zhao Ziliang was not easy to refuse, and said: "In this case, Zhao Mou thanked the city lord on behalf of them, there are more than 200 horse bandit prisoners here, and they will be handed over to the city lord's mansion for custody, but there is one matter that the general has not yet investigated clearly, I hope that before this matter is clarified, please ask the city lord to send someone to guard it strictly!" ”

"General Zhao, don't worry, come here! Take all these captives and put them in cells! With a cold order, more than 200 people from the nearby city guards took over the task of escorting the prisoners and escorted all these prisoners away, but Yun Dingtian was still under the control of Wang Can and others.