Seeing Cai Bian asking, Li Dang copied a trophy by hand, it was an iron bow, he touched the iron bow that had been wiped off the mark and said: "This is exactly the hemp back bow that my Great Song Dynasty soldiers are used to, this bow is not easy to make, the shape is set in the cold winter, and it will be lacquered in the spring, and it will not be completed until the autumn of the next year, which is not a simple imitation of the Western Xia or the Liao Kingdom." ”

Cai Bian nodded at first, and then asked with doubt: "Why did Li Shilang rule out these bows because the war fell to Western Xia and Liao?" ”

Li Dang said: "If it is a bow and arrow that was paid by the enemy, they don't need to erase the mark on the back of the bow!" ”

Cai Bian looked in the direction of Li Kang's finger, and sure enough, he found that there was a trace of a knife sharpening stone on the back of this iron bow, he nodded, and said: "It seems that it is really a traitor, do you want to torture those captives to extract confessions, and see who is so rebellious?" ”

Li Dang sighed, handed the longbow in his hand to a soldier, and said: "In fact, most of this group of people are some rabble, and there are only a few soldiers of the forbidden army of the Great Song Kingdom. ”

Cai Bian was stunned for a moment and asked, "Li Shilang saw the tattoo on their forehead." ”

In order to prevent soldiers from escaping, a soldier had to tattoo handwriting on his forehead after enlisting in the army, and Cai Bian thought that since there were soldiers of the forbidden army, there should be this mark on his forehead.

Li Dang nodded and said, "It turned out that there was, and now it has been washed away by people with potions, but it still leaves a faint scar, which is very recognizable!" ”

Cai Bian looked up at the captives who were burying the dead bodies and asked, "In this way, it is indeed someone in the army who pre-arranged Li Shilang to die, I wonder if Li Shilang knows who did it?" ”

Li Kang's gaze also crossed over the captive, and Mu Ran shook his head.

Cai Bian didn't say anything more when he saw Li Dang shaking his head, he thought that it should be Li Dang who offended the soldier of the forbidden army in front of the palace when he exterminated Shi Chong. Only then did they follow them all the way to Hedong Road to snipe Li Kang.

At this time, Li Kang had another judgment in his heart, he thought that these were likely to be Li Xian and Tong Guan's subordinates, because it was not easy to organize such an attack, which required a lot of material and financial resources, and even more elaborate planning and organization. Now that Zhao Lao Er and Zhao Lao Si are mentally crippled and physically crippled, they can't make waves, and Li Dang feels that only Li Xian and Tong Guan can easily do this.

……

As Li Dang expected, this attack was planned by Li Xian and Tong Guan himself.

A few miles away, in a small village. In an inconspicuous cabin, when Tong Guan, disguised as a merchant, heard the spies' report that the attack he had planned had been broken by Li Dang, and that the elite of his men had almost been wiped out, he angrily scolded: "How can these bandits be so unbearable? ”

In order to prevent revealing their identities, most of the black-clothed people who participated in the operation this time were bandits who Tong Guan had bought from Qinfeng Road with a lot of money, and then let a few forbidden soldiers lurk on the bank of Fenshui after some training. He also deliberately scuttled a large river boat when Li Kang was about to come, waiting for Li Kang's boat to come over and "hit the rocks".

After analyzing this operation, Tong Guan believed that there was still a chance of more than eighty percent of success, because he had already discovered that most of the soldiers of the forbidden army accompanying Li Dang were soldiers of the forbidden army in front of the palace. They are used to being pampered, and their actual combat ability is not outstanding, although their gang of bandits is a rabble, but after all, they are well-armed. I have just been trained again, and my fighting spirit is booming.

That Li Dang was unscathed, not to mention how annoyed Tong Guan was. He flipped the coffee table in front of him to the ground and shouted, "Rice buckets, all rice buckets!" ”

Several Li Xian's subordinates from Lanzhou saw that Tong Guan was angry, where did they dare to say more than half a word, and they didn't even dare to take a few breaths of air when they were prostrate on the ground one by one.

……

Nominally, Cai Bian is the chief envoy of the envoy group after all, and he still has to deal with the aftermath. Li Kang was also happy to be idle, and he found Xu Xian'er to help her with psychological counseling.

Xu Xian'er was pale, her body trembled, and she was weak and collapsed under a big tree, she had seen fights and killings before, and she had also experienced the bloody scene of being attacked, but it was the first time she had seen such a scene of hundreds of deaths and injuries. Fortunately, the Fen River was in a hurry, and after the bodies were recovered, the blood was quickly washed downstream. Otherwise, Xu Xian'er would have to go crazy when she saw the red color of this river.

Seeing Li Kang coming, Xu Xian'er suddenly threw herself into Li Kang's arms, and said dreamily: "Brother Li, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that something will happen to Brother Li!" ”

Li Dang gently patted Xu Xian'er on the shoulder, and said carefully: "It's okay, Xiaoxian, the eldest brother is already fine!" At this time, Li Dang thought of Zhao Ying, and he was thinking, if the bloodthirsty Zhao Ying was by his side, maybe he was walking around in front of his eyes with the enemy's head?

At this time, a forbidden army leader surnamed Ye came over, and when he saw Xu Xian'er and Li Dang hugging each other, his brows furrowed tightly, he felt that Li Dang was good at everything, but he was a little, and he was a good man.

Ye Bantou said respectfully to Li Kang: "Li Shilang, as you expected, these people are all bandits near Gyeongju, they are bribed by others, and they are asked to obey the orders of people wearing red scarves, and they don't know anything else!" ”

Xu Xian'er saw Ye Bantou coming, and hurriedly got up to avoid it.

Li Dang looked at the back of Xu Xian'er leaving, and he asked, "Gyeongju?" Can it be close to Qinfeng Road? Li Kang's heart was even more convinced that this attack was planned by Qin Fenglu's envoy Li Xian.

Ye Bantou nodded and said: "Yes, it is the place where Gyeongju and Qinfeng Road meet, there are high mountains and dense forests in that area, and there are often thieves and thieves, but I don't know who instructed them to dare to come to the vicinity of Taiyuan Mansion to make trouble?" ”

Li Kangtou said: "We came all the way from Bianjing, and this piece of water is desolate and remote, they should have premeditated, the way to Shangjing in Liao is far away, we are in the light, they are in the dark, Ye Bantou will order all the soldiers to be more vigilant." ”

Ye Bantou said yes again and again, and he said: "Cai Gong asked me to ask Li Shilang, how are the thirty or so captives settled?" ”

Li Dang pondered for a moment and said, "Pick a few healthy ones to stay as coolies, and reward them with some money if the rest of them are injured, and let them go back, right?" ”

Ye Bantou was stunned for a moment and asked, "Let them go?" ”

Li Dang asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Bantou said: "I'm afraid that they will continue to harass the good people, according to the general, there is Taiyuan Mansion in front, it is better to escort them to Taiyuan Mansion, and it is more appropriate for them to deal with it." ”

Li dared to say: "Ye Bantou still has a way, you do it according to your method." This time, Ye Bantou has the greatest credit for exterminating the thieves, wait for me to discuss it with Cai Gong, write a seal, describe the situation well, and reward meritorious deeds in the future. ”

Of course, the head of the Ye team knew that the merit of the black-clothed man Li Kang just now was the greatest, and now listening to the meaning of Li Kang's words, he wanted to take the credit for exterminating this gang of bandits on himself, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down to thank Li Kang and said, "The last general will thank Li Shilang for his great kindness." (To be continued......)