To the west of the Liao River, a young man looked at the other side of the river from afar, and his slightly thin lips pursed tightly.

Behind him, a group of sergeants dressed in the costumes of Tang officers and soldiers were grazing horses, all with solemn expressions.

"Huaiyu, do you really want to do it?"

There was a majestic figure behind the young man, and he asked him in a deep voice, the young man turned his head and smiled: "My brother's courage is also very small, at this time, it is the opportunity for my generation to make meritorious contributions, how can I let it go, you look at General Dong, as soon as he hears my advice, he will immediately send troops."

The person who is called the elder brother shook his head and smiled bitterly, his cousin is not very old, only fifteen years old, but his desire to be promoted is extremely urgent. When he got the news this time, he encouraged himself not to say it, but also moved Dong Qin.

He is just a general, but Dong Qin is already the vanguard envoy of the Pinglu Army, and his status is even higher than him. However, Dong Qin has a straightforward temperament and likes women, so he moved for what his cousin said, and even sent troops to take this risk.

"You are too anxious, Huaiyu, in a few years, why don't you worry that you will not have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Even if there is no side business, he will have to make some side things up," he persuaded again.

"Brother, it's early to be famous." Lang Yi, a young man known as Huaiyu, raised his eyebrows: "When Ye Changyang was famous in Chang'an, he was also seventeen or eighteen years old, and I, Li Huaiyu, am now the same age as him at that time, am I not as good as him?" ”

Hearing Li Huaiyu mention Ye Chang, the majestic man was in front of him.

In the land of Liaodong, who doesn't know Ye Chang

Almost to Liaodong with bare hands, just by gathering some local Han people, he started from scratch to fight a state, from a nominal Xiangping to the current Liaodong marching governor's office to join the army, this change in official position is a leap

"I, Hou Xiyi, am not too old, if I can't seize the opportunity again, I'm afraid that this life will only be wasted...... Huaiyu suggested to Dong Xianfeng without authorization, and it was an opportunity for me to marry this general."

Thinking of this, Hou Xiyi looked to the rear: "Dong Xianfeng hasn't arrived yet?" ”

"It's just right to arrive, let's cross the river and take the lead first" Li Huaiyu's eyes flashed: "What can Dr. An do, how can we not do it?" ”

"Then cross the river" Hou Xiyi thought about it, there should be no major danger on the other side of the river: "Take this opportunity to make a contribution and come back"

"Didn't the Khitan people caught a few days ago say that Anshi City was occupied by the Jili Prefecture army, presumably the Khitan army has been defeated, what we can pick up is not one or two small credits"

Li Huaiyu laughed sharply, the cold light flashed in his eyes, and he didn't look like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy at all.

They crossed the river at a place where the water was slower and the river channel was shallow, but instead of going north of Anshi, they went straight to the big stone bridge, the main road between Anshi and Jianan. This place was originally also a river ditch, when Emperor Taizong went east, the imperial horse passed here, trapped in the river beach, and built a stone bridge to pass. This is the main road of north-south traffic, and as soon as they arrived, they immediately set up checkpoints at each end of the big stone bridge to intercept people coming and going.

At this time, the soldiers had just passed, and no matter how bold the merchants were, they did not dare to pass through here, and a few pedestrians, seeing hundreds of soldiers gathered here from a distance, also avoided it.

Therefore, they came here for a long time, and they did not even meet a single person.

"Brother, something is wrong, do you really want to be here?" Li Huaiyu asked.

"You have a bigger heart than a foolish brother, but after all, you are young, and you don't think about this matter well. That Ye Chang captured Anshi City, but how could he keep it for a long time? Naturally, he wants to return his harvest to Jili Prefecture City, the so-called seeers have a share, we stopped it here, if he wants to hide it, he has to share the credit with us"

"My brother is not greedy." Li Huaiyu laughed.

He was young and couldn't get used to it, so he said it directly, but Hou Xiyi nodded happily: "That's right, if you are too greedy, it is not a good thing to provoke Ye Chang to fight back." ”

"Ye Chang won't ...... like this"

As he was talking, suddenly someone shouted, "Someone's coming, someone's coming."

The two of them stopped talking, and when they looked north, they saw a great troop of men, about four or five hundred people, approaching this place. There are more than 30 riders at the head and tail, and the middle is on foot, and the vision is not clear, but after getting closer, I see more than 300 people in the middle, all of whom are women and children.

But they sent the captured women and children to the south.

For these women and children, Ye Chang has his own arrangements, the women can be sent to the general soldiers of the militia as wives, and the children are gathered to discipline and go to school, naturally, they will lose their Khitan names forever, and will change to Han names, and when they grow up, except for a very few, almost all of them will no longer speak Khitan language.

Because she was the daughter of Direkhan, Ayili was one of the first to be sent away. Fan Chongwu looked at her with a smile, she glared at Fan Chongwu angrily, and the two looked at each other all the way.

For Fan Chongwu, Ye Chang was completely desperate, and he could only let him go.

"Ayili, do you know Lu Dao, I didn't call Fan Chongwu the name before, I was originally called Fan Jiyong, but then I thought this name was unlucky, and I didn't let me earn a daughter-in-law for more than 20 years, and then I took Chen Zhenren of Shuiyunguan and changed me to a name that can be lucky. Ha Luha, I didn't expect it to be useful, it's been less than a year, and the daughter-in-law with big breasts and big ass has arrived."

"Ayili, I won't hide it from you, Ye Sima said, if I marry you, I don't want to be promoted to an official...... It's the rules, and he can't break the rules for me alone. I have pondered for a long time, and now I have 20 acres of Yongye land at home, which is now cultivated by the militia for me, and the land rent is paid to me every year. I also have the salary of the deputy colonel of the company, and I have a total of 30 yuan a year. The residence has its own military camp, and there will be a military house in the future, and now there is only a shortage of girls who have babies."

"Hey, Ayili, why don't you speak, although your Khitan bird language is so mabbling that people can't understand it, but I just love to listen to you......"

The rest of the Jili army who followed Fan Chongwu deliberately stayed away from him, so as not to be mistaken for being like him, and his mind was full of abnormal things. Even so, hearing him say this, some people almost want to vomit

Naturally, they also saw the soldiers at the big stone bridge, but now that Ye Chang ordered Liaodong, no one dared to disobey, and those people were wearing Tang Army uniforms, and they were also under the banner of the Tang Army, so they didn't have much vigilance. When the other party came up, they realized that something was wrong, and someone shouted, "Vice Colonel Fan, come here quickly"

Although Fan Chongwu was not promoted, Ye Chang still entrusted him with an important task and handed over the work of escorting the prisoners to him. Hearing someone calling him in front of him, Fan Chongwu was immediately displeased: "Seeing that my Ayili is going to ignore me, what is bothering me?" ”

He also saw those Tang Jun, but when he was in high spirits, where would he take it to heart.

Seeing a person walking out of this group of profit-accumulating troops, Li Huaiyu looked each other up and down, and then sneered: "I don't know what is dead or alive."

"Who are you waiting for, and why are you blocking the way here?" Fan Chongwu also looked Li Huaiyu up and down a few times, and then shouted behind Li Huaiyu: "By the way, whose baby is this lost?" ”

Li Huaiyu's age is hard, he is only fifteen years old, and there is still some childishness on his face, Fan Chongwu's words immediately made everyone laugh.

But the laughter stopped.

Because Li Huaiyu suddenly pulled out his waist knife and put it on Fan Chongwu's neck.

"You...... What do you want to do, we are the people of the Liaodong Marching Governor's Office...... We are Ye Chang Sima's subordinates" Fan Chongwu has never been a warrior who does not change his face in the face of death, he said in a trembling voice, if it wasn't for the horse, he just wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy immediately.

"This is the jurisdiction of the Anton Protectorate, and when you come here, you will inevitably treat me as if I am the protector of Anton." Li Huaiyu said coldly: "You guts rat, dare to insult me? ”

An important reason why they dared to come directly to intercept the road was because they were soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and this place did belong to the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate in the past

When Ye Chang conspired with Li Linfu to rebuild the Liaodong Marching Governor's Office, he never thought that his power would enter Liaozhong and Liaobei so quickly, and Li Linfu also did not define the jurisdictional boundary between the Andong Protectorate and the Liaodong Marching Governor's Mansion out of his own intentions.

The Jili Army came here to fight, whether it was considered to be crossing the line, but it was a matter of saying that the public was justified and the mother said that the mother was reasonable, and Hou Xiyi, Li Huaiyu and others dared to come here, which is to have this excuse.

"Andong Metropolitan Protector ......" Fan Chongwu was a little stunned, he couldn't figure out the twists and turns behind this, but he knew that the situation was very bad

Why did this Datang army wave a knife at Datang's army?

"This little general, everyone is his own people, you don't need to be hurt and angry, you don't need it" Although he couldn't figure out what was going on, Fan Chongwu reacted quickly, first solved the knife on his neck and then said: "Little general, please look, these are our own brothers of the Tang Dynasty, they were injured in the battle with the Khitans, and I am also injured here...... You see, our own family quarrels are nothing, this knife ...... Please raise your hands high."

"If you want me to raise my hand, it's simple, and those Khitans will be handed over to us." Li Huaiyu said lightly: "There are also those camels and carts, I don't want more, leave half with us." ”

"This ...... This ......"

"Or we'll pick it up ourselves."

Fan Chongwu knew that the current situation was not right, his side was weak, and when he heard the kid in front of him say this, his eyes rolled: "Little general, you also know that we are just acting according to orders, and we can't be the master...... If I give it all to you, I can't explain it to my boss, and I will definitely lose my head...... There is no difference between losing your head then and losing your head now...... We will leave all the camels and carts to you, but these Khitan women and children who only eat and are worthless, we are in short supply to the south, so please let us take them away. ”

Li Huaiyu hesitated slightly, the first batch of Khitan people escorted were indeed women and children, and even if their heads were cut off, they would not be able to repay the credit. Just now he proposed to ask for all the women and children, but it was just a sky-high price

He looked back at his cousin Hou Xiyi, Hou Xiyi's eyes turned among the women and children, and he didn't see the woman who made him feel pleasing to the eye, so he nodded.

At that moment, Fan Chongwu waved his hand back: "Drive people to the side of the road, camels, carts, and leave them behind."

"Vice Colonel Fan, this is not very good......" said humane.

"Don't worry, I'll have something in my pocket, no matter how bad it is, it's better than my brothers losing their heads." Fan Chong martial arts.

He is six points sure in his heart, compared to those money and materials, Ye Chang values people more, if the money and materials are lost, Ye Chang will find a way to take them back, but if these hundreds of Khitan women and children of appropriate age are cut off, they will not be able to come back.

Hearing him say this, the Jili State Army could not do it, so they could only leave behind the camels and carts loaded with property. Seeing that they were interested, Li Huaiyu and the others were not too embarrassed, Li Huaiyu also withdrew the knife, and said with a smile: "You are a character, those who know the times are Junjie, you are a Junjie." ”

Fan Chongwuyu laughed twice, arched his hand, and was about to leave, at this moment, a person next to Hou Xiyi stood up from the stirrup on his horse, and suddenly shouted: "Ayili? ”

Fan Chongwu's face changed suddenly, and Hou Xiyi tilted his head over there and looked at the entourage beside him: "What, do you recognize the characters here?" ”

"Great merit, general, great merit" The man giggled and laughed, pointed at Ayili and said to Hou Xiyi: "That fat woman, what kind of character does the general know?" ”

"Fat Woman ......"

Looking at Ayili's appearance, Hou Xiyi was also surprised, such a strong woman is really rare.

"Who is she?" He asked.

"It's Di Lie's daughter, the daughter of Di Lie of the Diera Division" The person who recognized Ayili said loudly: "The Khitan Eight Khans, Di Lie is one of them, and it is they who came to Liaodong."

Hou Xiyi was overjoyed when he heard this, and looked at Ayili's gaze, which was a little green.

He knows very well that ordinary Khitan women naturally can't get any credit, but the daughter of a Khitan Khan is a great achievement

That proves that they fought with the big tent of a Khitan Khan and kicked the lair of the Khitans - as for Ye Chang to fight for merit, as long as people are in their hands, what evidence can Ye Chang take to show that this girl was captured by them?

"This girl stays, and the rest of the people wait, you just have to take it away." Hou Xiyi pointed his horsewhip at Ayili.

"Don't let me go with them," Ayili said to Fan Chongwu suddenly.

At this time, Fan Chongwu didn't care that this was the first time that Ayili spoke to him, and he didn't care that Ayili could actually speak Chinese, there were dozens or hundreds of flies flying in his head, all buzzing.

To hand over Ayili?

The opposing side was outnumbered, two or three times as large as theirs, and surrounded them, with only sixty horsemen and a few dozen foot soldiers. If you don't agree, the other party will inevitably do it, and the two sides will tear their faces and kill each other.

But promised? Aili fell into the hands of the other party and ...... herself Wouldn't you wear a green hat?

"General, general, no ......"

Before he said the three words, Li Huaiyu's hand went to the handle of the knife again, Fan Chongwu knew that it was not good, he gritted his teeth: "This woman is Di Lie's daughter, if I lose her, I can't go back...... So, General, if you will take me in, I will hand her over, or I will kill her, and the whole of you will be scattered