Chapter 136: Right in the Middle
(Ask for subscription, ask for recommendation) "Back to the general manager, the small and other dozen people are all sergeants who have followed the general manager for many years to fight in the east and the west, and they are not ignorant of the rules of the army and the rules of the general manager. Our brothers and I followed him today and rushed to Songtai Village, at the foot of the western mountain of Wangwu Mountain, to hunt down the rebel leader Li Shu, and in accordance with your original order to take grain on the spot, we asked the people in the village for food to satisfy their hunger, and had some disputes with the villagers. When Lai Xing'er saw it later, he couldn't help but say that he didn't ask the reason, and he killed two brothers with a sword on the spot.
O Chief, what you see now is the head of one of our brothers, and the other is even more pitiful, whose head is still in Songtai Village, and there is no one to decorate it. You say, is this evidence that Lai Xing'er killed people? ”
Fu Yi heard this, his face flushed slightly, from Scarface's detailed description just now, he had roughly guessed what happened before and after: presumably this group of veterans took advantage of the chaos to rob and have disputes with the villagers.
However, Scarface's claims are not entirely unfounded. Three months ago, when he first became the head of the marching army of all roads, he was trapped in the imperial court and could not supply the army with grain and grass in time, and he did issue a military order to allow the sergeants to take food on the spot to make up for the deficit in the army. Moreover, what made Fu Yi especially annoyed was that even if these sergeants were at fault first, as the captain who led the team, Lai Xing'er could capture the sergeants who grabbed the food first, and then send them back to the camp after they were released, and then handed them over to the commander of the left army, and there was no need to kill the sergeants on the spot to establish their own authority. After all, these sergeants are all soldiers brought out by him Fu Yi, and if he comes to Xing'er, he will kill him, so he will not take him as the commander of the whole army in his eyes.
"Leave that aside. Tell me, how could Lai Xing'er privately rebel against the leader? In view of the fact that Lai Xing'er's identity was different from that of an ordinary lieutenant in the army, Fu Yi could only force the dissatisfaction in his chest, and instead asked Scarface about the reason why they reported Lai Xing'er.
"Back to the general manager's words: Early this morning, we met the rebel leader who absconded in disguise in Songtai Village-Li Shu, the king of Ying, and successfully captured him in one fell swoop."
Fu Yi leaned forward in surprise, narrowed his eyes, and asked in disbelief, "Are you serious?" Since you caught Li Shu early in the morning, why did you return to the camp in the middle of the night? So where is Li Shu now? ”
Seeing that he had successfully attracted Fu Yi's attention, Scarface was secretly proud in his heart, but on the surface, he still pretended to have a miserable expression of great grievance, and replied with a sad face: "The chief manager doesn't know, when the little ones caught Li Shu, it happened that he suddenly fell ill and his life was dying. However, Lai Xing'er had to save him first before he was willing to return to the camp. He is the captain who leads the team, and the little ones dare not disobey his orders. So, Li Shu personally took a few brothers up the mountain to some Taoist temple to seek medical treatment. But who knew that this time, until the evening, the little ones never saw Li Shu's shadow again. According to Lai Xing'er to the little ones, Li Shu lay in front of the Taoist temple until the evening before waking up, and then fled to the mountain, where he encountered a mountain beast on the way, and was eaten by the beast. The chief manager, obviously the rebel who has been caught, but Lai Xing'er insisted that he had fed the fierce beasts in the mountains inexplicably, and there was not even a single corpse left. The little ones knew that the rebellion was a serious crime to exterminate the three clans, and they didn't want to be involved by Lai Xing'er alone, so as soon as they returned to the camp, they quietly came to the chief manager to explain the truth, and begged the chief manager's subordinates to be merciful and spare our lives. ”
Speaking of this, he made a gesture behind him, and more than a dozen sergeants fell to their knees and begged Fu Yi for mercy.
Fu Yi listened to Scarface's words whenever he talked about the key point, so he deliberately bypassed it vaguely, knowing that what he said might not be true, and hearing him mention Li Shu's beauty, he was even more confused, and he didn't know much. If it were as usual, Fu Yi would most likely send someone to summon the other party's owner, Lai Xing'er, and ask them to confront each other in the hall to distinguish the authenticity and then deal with it. However, now that he is worrying about avoiding the opportunity to meet Li Qi, the king of peace, these ill-intentioned sergeants actually came to the door and sent him an excellent excuse, how could Fu Yi let it go easily?
With a "snap", Fu Yi stomped his foot violently, stood up angrily, pointed at Scarface's face with his hand, and asked, "You say, in which direction will Li Shu flee?" ”
Scarface never thought that Fu Yi blurted out such a question, and he was stunned, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he had to reply in a matter-of-fact manner: "According to the little ones, Li Shu will definitely flee north to Mozhou." However, he is seriously ill and has not recovered, and he cannot walk quickly."
Fu Yi turned a deaf ear to the second half of Scarface's words, and shouted directly to the soldiers standing in the hall: "Pass the order, the three thousand cavalry of the Chinese army will immediately line up and prepare horses, and go out of the city overnight with the chief to chase the rebel leader Li Shu." Leave 10,000 horses and horses to be led by Changshi, defend the city here, greet His Royal Highness King Mu, and rest the army in the city for one night, and set off tomorrow with five drums, march north, and meet the governor. ”
The soldiers agreed loudly, and they were about to turn around and leave the house to give orders, only to take a few steps, and were stopped by Fu Yi, pointing to the dozen or so sergeants who came to report Lai Xing'er and ordered: "Call people to the left military camp, quickly take down the captain of the jumping team, Lai Xing'er, and put them in the army together with the dozen or so people, and after His Royal Highness King Mu enters the city, he will be handed over to deal with and send them down." ”
Since Lai Xing'er is a special person who was personally married by the emperor, it is difficult to verify whether he is really the rebel leader Li Shubei for a while, so it is better to hand him over to Li Qi, the king of peace, to judge and deal with it. Regardless of whether Li Shu was dead or alive, whether he really fled to Mozhou, he Fu Yi took advantage of the situation of conquering Puzhou, personally led the army, and pursued the rebel leader overnight, even if the emperor knew about it in the future, he couldn't find any fault with it. In this way, isn't it true that he has fulfilled his wish and temporarily kept the military power in his hands from being taken away by Li Qi, the king of peace?
Fu Yi watched the soldiers rush in from outside the hall, and the dozen or so sergeants who came to tell the whistle were not distinguished, and the five flowers were tied up and escorted out, and a strange smile finally appeared on his face that had been gloomy all night. (To be continued.) )