Chapter 265: Shunzhou in Chaos
"Report! Lord Toto, the front scout has discovered the situation! Zhao Xun, who was in the carriage with his eyes closed, woke up the guards outside the carriage.
"Finally meeting people! What's the situation? Zhao Xun quickly opened the car door and jumped out.
"Lord Hui, my subordinates investigated and found that in a secluded place outside the left side of the front, there was a shout of killing. When the subordinates passed, they found that there was a village there, and there were nearly 100 horse thieves doing wrong. The rest of the brothers have already fought with the enemy, and their subordinates have come to report it. ”
"Horse thief?" Zhao Xun's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent, "Wei Dong, leave two hundred people again, you give me a good look here, don't let these bastards come to the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain." Team, come with me! ”
Zhao Xun jumped out of his horse, and more than 100 horsemen followed, running in the direction pointed by the scout.
After Zhao Xun left, the three people sitting on the carriage looked at each other. For a while, Yang Weier continued to eat her pastries with her head down, while Qian Bing and Su Ziyan were a little envious of her temperament of not caring about anything and worrying about nothing.
"Looks like this guy knows a lot about what we're going to do there, otherwise how would he know that. And Old Man Du and Old Guy Gongsun, didn't they only allow the thousand-person Huolin Army to enter the jurisdiction, and the rest must stay away from Gaoling County. But he only sent a thousand people. You should really persuade your uncle not to be the commander of the Shunzhou army anymore, it's thankless. It's not impossible for us to go it alone. Qian Bing said lazily.
"By the way, Ziyan, have you figured out what identity to give him?" Qian Bing said unhurriedly.
"Haven't thought about it yet? If you don't do it in the name of the commander of the Huolin Army, you have to find another name to enter Gaoling County, it's really ......," Su Ziyan said helplessly.
Qian Bing smiled: "I have an idea, how about you listen to it?" ”
"You must not have a good idea!" Su Ziyan hurriedly refused. She knows the little witch around her very well. If you're not careful, you'll be yin by him.
Qian Bing said with a smile: "No matter what the idea is, as long as you can enter the Shunzhou Army, it will be useful, if you don't have a good idea, just listen to me." Didn't you send out your sword and divine bow, just let him enter Gaoling County with your other half, so that he could directly enter the Shunzhou army, and according to his ability, it is not impossible to turn things around. ”
When Su Ziyan heard this, her face turned red and said, "What kind of idea are you, no!" Absolutely not! ”
"Ziyan, now is the time to solve our predicament and save our people in Shunzhou Mansion, besides, it's just to let him be your admirer, and it's not true, think about it, we have entered Shunzhou Mansion." Qian Bing said lightly.
When Zhao Xun hurried to the destination, he saw that three of the more than ten scouts in front had fallen, and the remaining seven were all wounded, and they were fighting guerrilla warfare with more than 30 people. In the village not far away, there are dozens of people rushing for all kinds of things, as well as women.
When Zhao Xun saw with his own eyes that a middle-aged man was beheaded by a horse thief because he intercepted a horse thief to capture his daughter, his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Kill! Kill them all! After a loud shout, the silver bow in his hand had been pulled away, pointing directly at the little leader of the horse thieves a hundred meters away.
"Woo ......" black light flew by, and when the horse thieves on the opposite side were surprised by Zhao Xun's appearance, their little leader's head exploded. Yes, it was the explosion, and the blood and brains splattered privately, leaving the surrounding Ma Ze, who was watching the battle on horseback, unaware.
"Sigh ......" The arrows in Zhao Xun's hands kept flying out, and the arrows were killed, and none of them escaped.
"Boom, boom, boom......" More than 100 guards and soldiers also arrived on horseback, and this time the horse thief who was still preparing to kill Zhao Xun, a white-robed young man who didn't know the height of the sky, was stunned, and then ran to the village.
Zhao Xun gave a kill order, and the soldiers of the guard battalion did not hesitate to carry it out, and seeing the corpses of those killed people made these guards of the guard battalion angry, and they started to do it unceremoniously.
There were a total of twenty-one horse thieves, and finally surrendered thirty-five, not because they were not tough, but mainly because this group of opponents was too powerful, and more than 70 people were killed in the battle, while the other party was only injured, and no one died.
After interrogation, it was learned that they were really horse thieves, who had taken refuge in the Black Snake Army, and were not used to being called around, and finally walked away again, and did nothing in this border place.
"Kill! Not a single one to stay! Zhao Xun's fluttering words decided the death of more than 30 people, and Zhao Xun did not mean to let go of these people. Assist the people in the village to bury the corpses, and leave part of the food brought with the army. But Zhao Xun can't let more than 50 people really get rid of difficulties, who knows if there will be other situations? In the end, Zhao Xun came up with an idea for them to move to the Yanzhou Mansion in the east......
Zhao Xun, who looked indifferent, moved forward again in the gratitude of the people, and after approaching the range of Gaoling County, the situation was slightly better. But along the way, he also encountered several horse thieves who plundered in all directions, for which Zhao Xun's subordinates killed more than 30 people and captured nearly 400 war horses. The encounters along the way made Zhao Xun even more determined to bring Shunzhou Mansion under his command.
On the way, Su Ziyan agreed with Qian Bing's opinion, but did not explain it to others, letting others guess for themselves. From the two divine weapons in Zhao Xun's hands, others should also guess the meaning. After entering the territory of the Shunzhou Army, the remaining six people will call Zhao Xun Zhao Yan, and their subordinates will also change their titles and call them young masters. Zhao Yan's identity is a child of the family, and this trip to Yanzhou Mansion is just to see the Huolin Army that defeated the Yan Army.
encountered on the road and didn't go into details, entering the territory of Gaoling County, a day later, Zhao Xun followed Su Ziyan into the county seat of Gaoling County. Compared with the counties of Yanzhou Prefecture, the popularity of Gaoling County is much worse, and the people's faces are full of vegetables. After entering Gaoling County, Zhao Xun had already sent someone to contact Xin Ming and ask him to keep it secret.
During this period, Su Ziyan also asked Zhao about the current situation of the Shunzhou Army. When Zhao Xun heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head. The Shunzhou army, which was less than 10,000 in total, turned out to be divided into three. Li Yu, the most powerful in the past, now has only 3,000 subordinates, and the remaining two are Du Yuan and Gongsun Yang, Du Yuan has 4,000 people, and Gongsun Yang has 3,000 people. The three of them divided equally more than 30 townships and towns within a radius of more than 100 miles under the rule of Gaoling County, and had various rights and interests such as collecting taxes under their rule. In addition, there are three or four thousand belonging troops, all of which are composed of some rebels and some village warriors, who are separated from the three of them.
After learning about the situation of the Shunzhou army, Zhao Xun immediately guessed whether Li Yu was set up by the other two, and the originally largest force has now fallen to the bottom, and the one who was originally in second is now the strongest.
Zhao Xun's three hundred people naturally entered Gaoling County under the leadership of Su Ziyan, and the guards didn't even look at them, and they didn't do two filings, Zhao Xun couldn't help but shake his head, how could he defend the city like this?
As the commander of the Shunzhou Army, Li Yu naturally settled in the captain's mansion in the county, and the Huozi battalion that arrived earlier was also arranged in the barracks in Gaoling County.
Looking at the somewhat decayed Captain's Mansion and the guards outside the mansion, Zhao Xun couldn't help but have a little understanding of the current situation of the Shunzhou Army. The Shunzhou army is too far behind the Huolin army, and even the cotton clothes on the soldiers are a little tattered, and they seem to be some old clothes.
After the report, Zhao Xun waited outside with Su Ziyan, waiting for Li Yu to arrange a place for his three hundred subordinates to stay. As a son of a big family, you must have the demeanor of a child of a family.
Soon after, there was a sound of footsteps in the house, and with all the doors opened, a strong man in his thirties came out of it, and said with a smile to Su Ziyan from a distance: "The female warrior of our family is back, I heard, and brought your good friend!" Zhao Xun smiled secretly, this must have been said by that guy Qian Bing.
"Uncle! Don't listen to Sister Qian's nonsense. Su Ziyan said with a red face.
Zhao Xun guessed that this strong man was Li Yu, with a clear face, but this trace of worry could not be erased. Li Yu looked at Zhao Xun and the knight behind him, and couldn't help but be shocked. I thought to myself: Who was this white-robed young man? How could there be such a strong guard. Then he saw the moon-cutting sword on Zhao Xun's waist and the silver bow hanging from the side of the horse behind Zhao Xun.
Arching his hand towards Zhao Xun, he said in a voice like a bell: "Presumably this is Zhao Yan and Zhao Gongzi, since he can be recognized by Ziyan, it means that there must be something extraordinary." There is a loss of welcome, there is a loss of welcome! ”
Zhao Xun hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Master Li praised it falsely, the kid can't afford it, you are the elder of Ziyan, and naturally you are also the elder of the kid." By the way, this time I passed through Yanzhou Mansion and heard that the Huolin Army defeated the Yan Yan Army and seized a lot of supplies, so I bought 3,000 scimitars and 1,000 bows and arrows commonly used by the Yan Yan people as gifts and gave them to Lord Li, hoping that Lord Li would accept them. ”
When Li Yu heard this, he was overjoyed, and now for him, armor and grain and grass are what he needs most. So he laughed and said, "Good! Good! All right! Thank you very much. Li Li, put Zhao Gongzi's people in the barracks of our guards next door, and take care of them well, and don't slack off. ”
A guard beside Li Yu walked out of the ranks, and after bowing slightly to Zhao Xun, he specially glanced at the jade unicorn behind Zhao Xun, his eyes were full of envy, and then he took the soldiers of Zhao Xun's personal guard battalion and dozens of vehicles of supplies to the left side of the school captain's mansion. Xu Le, Jin Yan, and Zhang Shan commanded the soldiers to follow behind Li Li, while Wei Dong and Wei Chen stayed by Zhao Xun's side. As for the jade unicorn, it was handed over to Abla to lead and act with Xu Le and others.
"Good horse! Zhao Gongzi, your mount is a rare good horse in the world! Only then did Li Yu realize that the jade unicorn war horse behind Zhao Xun was different, and he couldn't help but praise loudly.
"Uncle, are we talking outside like this?" Su Ziyan said on the side.
Seeing more and more onlookers, Li Yu patted his head and hurriedly said: "Oh, look at me, Zhao Gongzi smiled, I'm like this, I didn't pay attention for a while." Please, let's go in and talk. ”
Zhao Xun nodded, smiled indifferently, and under the escort of Wei Dong and Wei Chen, he and Li Yu stepped into the Captain's Mansion that became the place where Li Yu stayed.
After bypassing the courtyard of the two halls, there is a vermilion lacquer gate, and inside is a vast martial arts training ground, in the Governor's Mansion in Yanzhou City, there is also this venue, and some soldiers guarding the Governor's Mansion are training on weekdays. And the martial arts training ground in the Captain's Mansion in Gaoling County is obviously much smaller, about one hundred and fifty meters wide and fifty meters deep, in the eyes of ordinary people, it may be a bit positive, but in Zhao Xun's eyes, it is not worth mentioning at all. The martial arts training ground is all paved with big green bricks, which is very smooth, and at the same time it is clean, even if the wind blows, there is not too much dust. Behind the training ground are high steps, and there are at least more than fifty levels of the entire martial arts training ground.
Looking at Zhao Xun's impassive appearance, Li Yu secretly sighed: This Zhao Yan is really a child of a family, and he doesn't even have any feelings for the martial arts field. And his BMW, which is even more extraordinary.
On the current martial arts training ground, there are more than thirty young men practicing their own exercises, and from their moves and weapons, Zhao Xun can guess that these people are by no means ordinary soldiers. What's more, Zhao Xun found Xin Ming, Xie Tong and others in the crowd.
The person closest to Zhao Xun was practicing his sword technique, but seeing him with a single knife in his hand, flying up and down, his whole body was shrouded in knife light, and the guards who accompanied Li Yu all showed very admiring eyes.
Seeing that Zhao Xun paid some attention to these people, he explained: "These are the descendants of some of my clansmen and some generals, and some small tricks make Zhao Gongzi smile." ”