Zhang Shi left, and took the grenadier battalion back to save Xinping Fort without hesitation. Lu Jiu watched the infantry camp disappear into the mountains in the distance, and scolded in his heart, this guy is still that virtuous, in order to administer justice to the woman he didn't know, he killed his own brother, but what did that woman do? The stealing man also conceived a sinful seed, which made him deeply involved in official wrongdoing.

Since Zhang Shi was released on bail pending trial in the murder of his wife and returned to the grenadier camp, Lu Jiu can obviously feel that he has changed more than before, and silence has always become his signature move, but people are like this, they always say that if they don't hit the south wall, they won't look back, but in fact, even if they hit the south wall, they may not turn back, so Zhang Shi went back to hit the south wall.

The 20 or so AFS soldiers were all people who framed him at the beginning, and even if he died, he would not be wronged. But Zhang Shishi's cold gaze when he left made Lu Jiu shiver inexplicably, and he suddenly remembered Li Xin a year ago.

It was the last moment of the encirclement and suppression of the official army, the brothers were besieged and could not fly, but Li Xin, who had successfully escaped from the encirclement of the official army, came back in a big way, and was seriously injured in the last battle with the official army, and almost lost his life. originally thought that Da Luo Jinxian would not be able to save him, but who knew that he woke up after being in a coma in Gaoyang Prison for seven days, and a person could sacrifice his life and forget death for his brother, and even God was unwilling to accept his life.

A year has passed in a flash, and the old brothers have all become high-level generals in the imperial court, and now they think about it as if they are a world away. As soon as he thought of this, Lu Jiu suddenly sweated like rain, it was precisely because Li Xin did not give up on them that they had the place they are today. And when it's your turn, how did you become so eager for quick success?

In addition to the more than 20 jurors in Xinpingbao, there are also 500 auxiliary soldiers of the Three Guards Army, Zhang Shi's words echoed in his mind again, you can find it again if the silver is gone, but where to find it if the people are gone?

Lu Jiu was embarrassed, and finally made up his mind!

"Assemble the army, get on the horse, and go back to Xinping Fort!"

The cavalry battalion is all brothers brought out by Lu Jiuyi, and he has never been absolutely obedient, and he will not ask him why he changed his order, and after a while, he got on the war horse, and after a shout, the cavalry battalion roared and went south like an iron stream.

Unlike Zhang Shi, Lu Jiu did not return the same way, but chose a shortcut, entering the side wall from the Chaigou Fort of Xuanfu Wanquan Right Guard, and returning to Xinping Fort along the Xiyang River. In this way, coupled with the speed advantage of his cavalry, he will inevitably arrive at Xinping Fort one step ahead of Zhang Shi.

After a full spring rainfall, the water of the Xiyang River quickly dried up after the peach blossom flood, leaving only the cracked riverbed bare to the sun. The iron stream of cavalry rolled along the dry riverbed and headed straight west.

At the same time, there was also a convoy along the riverbed that was facing Lu Jiu's cavalry battalion.

As the distance drew near, a caravan winding close to Lishh gradually revealed, loaded with horses and loads, dragging the speed very slowly. Lu Jiu didn't care, it was not uncommon to see a caravan at the mouth of the border wall, but then he felt that something was wrong with this caravan.

The caravan soon spotted a Ming cavalry in front of them, and immediately shouted and drove the pack horse cart out of the riverbed to make way for the road, and for a time the mules and horses neighed and the earth was dusty.

Just when Lu Jiu was about to pass by this caravan, he finally realized why he felt that something was wrong, because this caravan that had left the town guard of Datongfu to Xuanfu Wanquan Youwei did not have the passage flag that all caravans transiting through Shanxi had to show. In Li Xin's words, these are black caravans that have no formalities and specialize in smuggling!

Of course, there is a more suspicious point, Xinpingbao to the Acropolis of Zhenyu has just ruined the Mongol Tartars, why did the caravan dare to walk here unscrupulously and be unharmed?

The rapidly advancing cavalry actually made a bend in the dry course of the Xiyang River in the blink of an eye, and suddenly divided into two roads to intercept the entire black caravan.

A swarthy man who looked like a caravan deacon at the head hurried up to clear it.

"Official, we are all law-abiding businessmen, so we haven't done much...... ......At the same time, he took a cowhide bag from the hands of the people around him, carried it heavily in his hands, and handed it over.

"The officials keep the caravan safe, and they work hard, this is a little bit of the villain's heart, and he respects the officials!"

Lu Jiu stood on the horse and was armoured, and immediately thousands of soldiers took the cowhide bag, opened it and immediately exclaimed.

"It's so magnanimous, it's all gold!"

When the man saw that Lu Jiu had collected his own gold, he breathed a sigh of relief. Who knew that Lu Jiu asked coldly with an expressionless face, "Where did your caravan come from and where is it going?" ”

"Come from Datong, go to Xuanfu and transport some grain!" The man replied fluently, as if he had already thought of the answer.

"Hmm!" Lu Jiu nodded, noncommittal, but asked abruptly: "Since you should know the rules of Shanxi from Datong, don't you think your caravan is missing something?" ”

"What's missing?"

The man looked at Lu Jiu puzzled, and then looked at the heavy cowhide bag in the hands of Lu Jiu's own soldiers, as if he suddenly realized, and patted his forehead, "It's less, it's less!" Bring another bag ......."

This time, Lu Jiu didn't pay attention to the man, and with a direct wave of his hand, all the cavalry raised their short-barreled muskets and aimed them at the merchants who were surrounded by them, and then blew the fire rope on fire, and just waited for an order to open fire in unison.

At the same time, he also ordered, "All goods and goods should be confiscated!" ”

The man didn't expect Lu Jiu to suddenly turn his face, and his face changed drastically, thinking that he was going to commit a robbery in this deserted place, so he suddenly spoke violently.

"Don't be embarrassed, do you know whose cargo this convoy is loading?"

Hearing what the man said, Lu Jiu became interested and asked coldly, "Who's?" ”

"Say it and scare you, sit tight! The celebrant and the eunuch director of the Xuanfu military affairs Li Gong! As he spoke, he took out a token from his arms and shook it in front of Lu Jiu's eyes, "See, we don't want to be too ostentatious, don't kick your nose in the face, hurry up and carry two bags of gold and get out!" ”

Seeing that Lu Jiu looked at himself a little stunned, the man thought that the other party was frightened, with the scale of the cavalry led by Lu Jiu, at best, he was a small Qianzong, and it was natural to be afraid of the name of the director Li Fengxiang, he thought that as long as he opened his mouth, the other party would inevitably get off the donkey, and then respectfully leave two bags of gold, and then obediently get out.

But he never expected that a disdainful smile bloomed on Lu Jiu's face, and his personal soldiers accosted:

"What is Director Li Gong? We only know that the caravan coming out of Shanxi must have a customs clearance diploma issued by the chief soldier of Shanxi Town and a flag to mark! Do you have both? ”

The man was stunned, but he was still extremely strong. "You are Li Gong's people, what diploma flag you have, get out of the way if you know each other! Otherwise, when you go back, Gong Li will resign you, don't say that you don't have the kindness to remind you! ”

Lu Jiu laughed: "Listen, this will be the cavalry battalion officer under the command of the chief officer of Shanxi Town, the former general of the expedition to the west, and your director is a bird in the eyes of this talk!" After that, he didn't want to talk to the man anymore, waved his hand and said, "I'll confiscate everything!" ”

Shanxi General Army? Li Xin? A trace of despair flashed on the man's face, and he suddenly shouted: "Brothers, fight ......"

Before the spelling could be finished, Lu Jiu's personal soldiers kicked him down and spat it fiercely.

"Fight a bird, it's no problem for a grandfather like you to chop you!"

Under the muzzle of hundreds of muskets in the black hole, no one dared to act rashly, and the cavalry door stepped forward to inspect the goods, and after a moment they exclaimed.

"Brother Jiu, come and see, what is this?"

Lu Jiu urged him to step forward, only to see that under the grain bag that had been opened was a wooden box, the lid of the wooden box was wide open, and it was full of white silver! In an instant, he realized that the problem was not as simple as the man had said, and immediately ordered the arrest of all the people in the caravan convoy. After counting all the grain wagons, there were nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and the official silver ingots of Qingyi Water were all marked with crooked marks at the bottom, and it was impossible to tell what the words were.

The deacon man is also hard, no matter how he tortures him, he will be determined, they will come from Datong, Shanxi, and go to Xuanfu! As for why the convoy was full of silver, he didn't know anything! How can Lu Jiu believe it, but he also guessed that the silver in front of him is the loan of the previous Jin merchant who was robbed.

But weren't the silver stolen by the Mongol Tartars? How did it get into the hands of the Han caravan again? How did you come from the town guard again...... Many questions were connected together, and Lu Jiu felt that he seemed to have grasped the crux of the problem, and a clear vein gradually formed in his mind.

Tortured all the people in the caravan, and sure enough, someone still recruited, and the recruitment was terrifying, they were actually guarded by Wanquan right out of the side wall, and then the convoy taken over by the Mongols, and then followed the Mongolian army from Xinpingbao into the side wall, and then prepared to return to Xuanfu via the Xiyang River!

After hearing this, Lu Jiu laughed, it is really not as good as the sky, if he insists on waiting stupidly in the Naha Liutu River, I am afraid he will not have such an opportunity. But then a haze came up again, so even Li Fengxiang couldn't get through the Tartar? It seems that we have to contact Gu Shishi earlier to find out the details. In the military order sent by Li Xin from Taiyuan, it was mentioned that Gu Shixi had personally arrived at the Xuanfu and was responsible for collecting intelligence, and he could contact him at any time.

Lu Jiu immediately sent a hundred cavalry and ordered them to escort Baiyin and the captives to the nearest acropolis of the town, while he continued to rush to Xinping Fort with the cavalry.

Mi Yan woke up, and the sound of screaming and killing came from outside the fort again, and it had been a whole day and a night, and it was impossible to count the first wave of attacks. He tightened the strap that tightened the knife on his chest, and woke up Lu Huizhong again.

"The Tartars are here again, and it's another fight!"

They took advantage of the Tartars' pause in attack to rest for a while, and the lost body seemed to return to the body.