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Li Yuanqing couldn't help frowning, quickly picked up his saber, came to the door of the tent, opened the tent curtain, and looked out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Outside.

The firelight flickered, the figures were mottled, and the crisp chirping of birds had already sounded, and the soldiers wearing bright red mandarin duck battle jackets were working in groups of several or a dozen people, using various weapons to strike at the incoming enemy.

Not far from the tent, Niu Gensheng was also taken aback, and was shouting loudly, beckoning his soldiers to come here to protect Li Yuanqing's big tent and protect Li Yuanqing's safety.

Li Yuanqing's eyes narrowed slightly, and his mind had already regained his composure.

He has enough trust in his own soldiers.

With the lesson of the last time in Dajianshan, even if they go to Liaoxi, including now in Beijing, the soldiers are all fully armed, and everyone has two horses.

At this moment, although the attacking enemy seemed to have a large number of people, they did not have any firepower support, and they could not break through the defense line of several firepower points of the Ming army in front of them.

On the middle and right sides of the camp, more than forty pikemen had quickly gathered, and it was not so easy for the enemy to rush in.

Li Yuanqing's mind also spun rapidly.

This is the territory of Pinggu, which is only a dozen miles away from Pinggu County, and it is already the hinterland of Beijing.

What kind of person is so bold that he dares to attack him here?

Could it be that someone wants to attack him? Even, already have mastered his whereabouts?

But for a moment, Li Yuanqing denied this idea.

When he left Liaoxi, although Li Yuanqing's whereabouts were not secret, there were only a few people who knew about them, no wonder they were Sun Chengzong, Sun Yuanhua, and Ma Shilong.

Sun Chengzong and Sun Yuanhua would not have treated Li Yuanqing like this, because Li Yuanqing only had benefits for them, not disadvantages, and if this matter was exposed, it would not be of any benefit to them.

As for Ma Shilong, he asked Li Yuanqing for help, and Li Yuanqing did not refuse, so this guy should not have a reason to do it.

At this time, Xiaolian and Caizi were also awakened from their sleep, the two girls hugged each other nervously, Xiaolian looked at Li Yuanqing with some horror, "Master, this, what's going on?" ”

Li Yuanqing waved his hand to signal the two women to feel at ease, "It's okay." You wait here, I'll go out and see. ”

At this time, Li Yuanqing had already seen Niu Gensheng with forty or fifty personal soldiers, hurrying towards his big tent.

"What's going on?"

Li Yuanqing strode out of the tent, and the steel knife in his hand was already unsheathed.

Niu Gensheng hurriedly stepped forward, "General, I don't know if it's bandits or rebellious people, the number is about five or six hundred, six or seven hundred, and its main offensive has been defeated by us, and it is estimated that it won't take long to completely defeat them!" ”

Li Yuanqing nodded, "Damn!" Catch a few live mouths for Lao Tzu! ”

"Yes!" Niu Gensheng didn't dare to slack off, and with more than a dozen people, he rushed forward quickly.

The rest of the pro-soldiers quickly surrounded Li Yuanqing and outside the tent, firmly guarding the safety of this side.

From the beginning to the end of the battle, it lasted about ten minutes, and after a while, Niu Gensheng and his soldiers escorted more than a dozen people and quickly came to Li Yuanqing's side.

These people are all dressed in black, but the material is not very good, they are all the most ordinary coarse cloth, it seems that the infection process is also very inferior, as if the coarse cloth was directly thrown into the black water and dyed.

"Get on your knees!"

The pro-soldiers kicked and kicked together, and even if these dozen or so people were unhappy, they did not dare to openly resist the authority of the pro-soldiers, and they fell to their knees.

Niu Gensheng hurriedly came to Li Yuanqing and said in a low voice: "General, these black-clothed people are the backbone of them, we don't have enough manpower, those scattered braves, and the sons and daughters didn't chase them." ”

Li Yuanqing nodded slowly, and his eyes swept over these black-clothed people in turn, "You~~, why do you want to assassinate me?" Ben will have an enmity with you? ”

"Phew! Dog officer! Kill us if you have it! ”

It was a woman, a young woman, who spoke.

It's just that her face was covered with black ash, and her hair was also very messy, hidden in the middle of the crowd, and Li Yuanqing didn't even see it for a while.

"Second sister, stop it!"

Beside him, there was another woman, whispering a reminder to the young woman.

But she obviously knew a lot better than this young woman, and she didn't dare to face Li Yuanqing's might, so she hurriedly lowered her head and looked away.

"Dog officer! Let us go! Otherwise, we will not be done with you! My eldest brother will not let you go! ”

But the young woman was unrelenting.

Obviously, she is a pampered master, and her temper is a little impulsive.

Li Yuanqing suddenly smiled, this woman is really simple and cute, obviously not deeply involved in the world.

"I'll ask you again. Why do you assassinate the general? If one person does not say anything, then the general will kill one person. If you don't say anything, then kill ten people! Until I'm done killing you! Say!!! ”

Li Yuanqing's might, that is, crawled out of the countless corpse mountains and sea of blood, little by little, accumulated with the white bones of the Tartars, how can it be compared to these little bandits who have not added anything to the world?

As soon as Li Yuanqing's words fell, beside him, Niu Gensheng and a group of pro-soldiers had already 'snorted', and each drew his saber.

With the backdrop of the firelight, the cold glow of these cold steel knives made people a little unable to open their eyes, not to mention, these men in black were all kneeling on the ground.

Almost a minute passed, and seeing that these black-clothed people still didn't make a sound, Li Yuanqing glanced at Niu Gensheng next to him.

Niu Gen realized when he ascended, and casually pulled a black-clothed man beside him, and the steel knife in his hand was raised high, and he was about to cut off the man's neck.

This person is about to be scared to pee, where is the slightest backbone? Hurriedly kowtowed desperately and said, "Official, official, don't kill me, don't kill me." I said, I said, I said everything. ”

Niu Gensheng casually stuck the steel knife on the mud on the side, stepped on his back, and his face was flushed, and he said coldly: "If you want to live, hurry up and explain honestly!" Otherwise, the knife in the master's hand will not be long-eyed! ”

"Yes. Yes, yes, yes! ”

The man in black hurriedly kowtowed, and said with a crying voice: "Official, we are the strongmen of Niugong Village on the mountain behind. Today, it is the big boss who finds out that you have a lot of good horses, and he wants to do it to you. Who knows, who knows you, you are actually the border army of Liaodi! I knew that this was the case, sir, give the little one a hundred guts, and the little one didn't dare to do it with the official! ”

The man in black said, tears and snot were already a lot, and he kowtowed desperately.

"Phew! Ma Lao Er, you are such an eggless bastard! What a man! On the side, the young woman couldn't help but smack fiercely.

The black-clothed man named Ma Lao Er also lost his fear, rushed into anger, pulled his neck, his muscles bulged, and shouted to the young woman: "Miss? Lao Tzu is not a man? Is Lao Tzu a man, don't you know if you try it? I said a long time ago, these officials today are likely to be border troops, so don't be impulsive! But he Zhao Yizhu just blinded his heart with lard, but he didn't listen! Now, do you say that Lao Tzu has no eggs? The surname of the dog day is Zhao, Lao Tzu just has no eggs, and he won't work hard for your dog day! ”

Saying that, the second horse desperately kowtowed to Li Yuanqing, "Official, official, the little one is willing to surrender, and the little one is willing to lead the way for the official and flatten the Niugong Village, just hoping that the official can bypass the small one!" ”

"You----! Ma Er, you, you can't die well! Where did this bandit lady think that the situation would develop like this, she couldn't help but point at Ma Laoer's nose and scold.

Li Yuanqing couldn't help but smile, by this time, he had already seen it clearly.

This attack on the camp should not be what he thought, it was a planned, premeditated, and targeted operation, but these bandits wanted to get rich and wanted his horses!

Li Yuanqing didn't have much interest in these bandits.

In the past two years, especially four or five years after entering the Apocalypse, the bandits of the Ming Dynasty have sprung up like mushrooms after the rain, and a lot of them have sprung up at once.

These people, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, to a large extent, are simply more hateful than Tartars.

It's just that Li Yuanqing couldn't have imagined that one day, these bandits would eat the courage of an ambitious leopard and dare to do something to him!

"Take them down! Strict interrogation! By the way, keep these two women in solitary custody, and I'll interrogate them myself!" ”

"Yes!"

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returned to the tent and calmed the emotions of Caizi and Xiaolian, and Li Yuanqing's mood calmed down a lot.

The reasons for the rise of the Ming bandits are very complicated, but in the final analysis, it is still one point, the common people can't survive and have no hope, so they can only fall into the grass.

To put it more bluntly, the imperial court can no longer take care of their employment and survival, so ~~, they can only 'start a business' by themselves.

Especially in the area from Shanhaiguan to Jingshi, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the drought and flood have been uneven in the past two years, the harvest of crops is not good, and the imperial court taxes are seriously uneven.

Especially the surrounding military households.

It is not surprising that they have been 'skinned' by officers at all levels, and they have been exploited so badly that some bandits have emerged.

It's a pity that 'every man sweeps the snow in front of his door'.

The area from Jingshi to Shanhaiguan is a time-honored old military tun, and there are many of them, and they were even established during the Hongwu period.

Even if Li Yuanqing looks unhappy, he can't do this kind of thing.

Especially in Shanxi and Shanxi, the drought has become more and more severe in the past two years, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the little 'official ape' who is working in the post house will be unable to sit still.

After drinking some water with Caizi and Xiaolian, chatting for a while, and coaxing them to sleep, Li Yuanqing quickly came to the outside of the tent.

The grass must be cut to the roots.

Today, since these bandits dare to do something to him, then ~~, Li Yuanqing can't have reservations. Otherwise, if they are not eradicated, I am afraid that there will be trouble along the way.

Seeing Li Yuanqing come out, Niu Gensheng hurriedly greeted him and reported the results of the interrogation just now to Li Yuanqing.

Li Yuanqing nodded slowly: "This matter is not in a hurry. Niugong Village is only seven or eight miles away from here, tonight, let the sons and daughters have a good rest, and tomorrow morning, and then it's not too late to act. ”

Niu Gensheng hurriedly nodded, "General, do you want to file this matter with the local government tonight?" ”

Li Yuanqing thought for a moment and shook his head, "Don't mix with these yellow mud soups!" Tomorrow, after this thing is done, let's go to Jingshi as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!"

After explaining the military affairs clearly, Niu Gensheng hurriedly led Li Yuanqing to a small tent next door, where the two women were imprisoned.

At this time, the identities of the two women were also clarified.

The younger one is Zhao Mei, the sister-in-law of Zhao Yiba, the leader of the Niugong Zhai bandits, and the older one is Zhang Die, the wife of Zhao Yiba.

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