Chapter 336: Revenge (Text)
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In the weather in May, the grass grows and the warbler flies.
The surrounding people were busy in the fields, and their condolences to Lu Xiangsheng could not fill their stomachs. Zhai Zhe's troops and horses left in batches at night, Fengqin and Mengkang had already entered the mountain, and other sergeants were also packing their bags and getting ready.
Xiao Zhiyan, a horse thief who is proficient in scouts, is active on the side of Taihang Mountain, and he is afraid that the rich families of the three towns will often be awakened by nightmares at night in the next few years. Zhai Zhe doesn't want to be too ostentatious now, and he will do things that provoke the imperial court, and his reputation is too loud will only make him the target of public criticism. But robbery alone is not a long-term solution. The leaders of the Shaanxi thieves have been in the Central Plains for many years, and their relationship with each other is close and complicated.
Lu Xiangsheng's death made it difficult for Zhai Zhe to trust outsiders.
In the northern plains, a column of cavalry came from far and near, and the scout Pegasus, who was on guard outside, returned to the camp and announced: "General Lei is here!" ”
"Lei Yanqian?" Zhai Zhe was surprised, "What is he doing here?" ”
After a cup of tea, twenty or thirty horsemen arrived outside the barracks, Lei Yanqian dismounted and shouted to the soldiers on duty at the door: "Please convey to Vice General Zhai that Lei Yanqian wants to see you." "He is an old man in the army, and the soldiers are familiar with him.
Without waiting for the soldiers to paging, Zhai Zhe had already come out of it, and saw that Lei Yanqian was clearly dressed and armored, with a horse whip in his hand, in a frivolous state, and he didn't like it in his heart.
"Vice General Zhai!" Lei Yanqian stepped forward, handed the horsewhip to the soldiers behind him, and did not salute.
Zhai Zhe looked at him with an arrogant posture, so he didn't turn his face and ignored him.
"Vice General Zhai, you are well-informed, when you know this title, you will not be able to afford it soon!"
Anyway, Lei Yanqian once walked out under Zhai Zhe, and now this attitude made him angry.
"General Lei, I'm not here to make fun of me!" Zhai Zhe put on a smile on his face.
"I'm a general now, a general of Xuanfu!" Lei Yanqian was triumphant and did not hide his arrogance at all. He wasn't such a person, but thinking of the grievances he suffered under Zhai Zhe at the beginning, he couldn't help but think about it.
"Congratulations to General Lei!" Zhai Zhe arched his hand and sneered: "The Xuanfu staff general can't control my deputy general of Datong!" "The order of the military department has not yet arrived, and he is still a lieutenant general.
"Vice General Zhai, there is no hundred days of red, we should be grateful to you when we survived with you outside the Saiwai. Now that you are about to be dismissed, my two brothers will have no future with you, and you will not let them go with your noble hand. Lei Yanqian's attitude improved slightly.
It turned out to be digging the foot of the wall, Zhai Zhe secretly laughed, spread his hands and said, "If you are willing, of course I will not stop you." Instructed the soldiers behind him: "Go, call the two leaders of Xiao and Zuo!" ”
The soldiers walked away quickly, and the two faced each other across the barracks gate.
Lei Yanqian carefully looked at the barracks opposite, and now the soldiers showed signs of leaving the camp, and their faces changed slightly.
Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo were called to the front of the camp in a daze, and saw Lei Yanqian opposite. Before he could ask, Zhai Zhe pointed at Lei Yanqian and said, "He came to find you and had something to say!" After saying this, Zhai Zhe turned around and left.
"Big brother, third brother!" Lei Yanqian was very enthusiastic about Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo.
"Why are you here?" Xiao Zhiyan walked out first, and he didn't dare to ask Lei Yanqian to enter the camp when he saw Zhai Zhe's attitude.
"Zhai Zhe has been dismissed, do you know?" Lei Yanqian lowered his voice.
"Yes!" Hearing Lei Yanqian call Zhai Zhe's name, Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo were not happy, and the three of them walked while talking, and stopped two or three hundred steps away from the camp.
"Daming is not a plug, Zhai Zhe lost his future after being dismissed. I was promoted to the general of the Xuanfu Mansion, and I told Yang Zongbing about you, and Yang Zongbing promised to let you return to my camp first, and then ask the court for promotion in the future. Lei Yanqian looked at the two of them with expectant eyes. He knew that Xiao Zhiyan had always been nostalgic for Da Ming, and he really couldn't understand Zuo Ruo's thoughts.
"Second brother, the court has no way, frame Lu Gong, don't be that general, let's come back to us!" Zuo Ruo interrupted him.
"Coming to you? What do you want to do? "Lei Yanqian is aggressive.
"Don't scare me!" Zuo Ruo frowned and took a step back, "We don't want to do anything." ”
"Big brother!" Lei Yanqian looked at Xiao Zhiyan and said, "Haven't we suffered enough outside the plug?" It's hard to get into today's official position......"
"You're here to persuade us to go to Xuanzhen?" Xiao Zhiyan suddenly realized, embarrassed that Zhai Zhe's tone was not good.
"The three of us are brothers in Yulinwei, and I will certainly not forget you if I have a future!" Lei Yanqian's tone was very sincere.
"What's so great about a general who depends on the salary of the imperial court!" Zuo Ruo snorted coldly, "Second brother, haven't you seen this world clearly?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" Lei Yan reprimanded sharply.
Xiao Zhiyan thought for a moment, stretched out his tongue and licked the corners of his mouth, and said, "You came to persuade us today, but also for the sake of your brother, I won't keep you, you don't need to say these words again." The third brother won't go with you, I don't care about being an official, I can live freely behind Brother Zhai. ”
"You guys?" Lei Yanqian's eyes were about to fall, and when he caught a glimpse of Zuo Ruo's fierce gaze at him, he felt that if he said more, this brother would not be able to do it.
"Good!" Lei Yanqian smiled bitterly, "If you have no way out, you can come to Xuanfu to find me at any time." He was dissatisfied with Zhai Zhe, but he was sincere to Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo, two brothers for decades.
When Zuo Ruo heard Lei Yanqian say this, he also changed his attitude, and said half-jokingly: "Second brother take care, I guess the second brother will come to us in the future, and I will intercede with the little brother for the second brother when the time comes!" ”
"I will never work for Zhai Zhe again!" Lei Yanqian's face changed suddenly, and he bowed his hand towards Xiao Zhiyan, without looking at Zuo Ruo and turned to leave. A hundred paces away, the soldiers handed over the horses, and the thirty horsemen flew away.
Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo looked at each other for a while, until the cavalry turned into a black dot in their sight, and then returned to the camp side by side. Zhai Zhe didn't ask them again, and they didn't think Zhai Zhe would say anything. This is a tacit understanding, if there is no trust at all, Zhai Zhe will not feel at ease to leave Taihang Mountain.
Before the order of the Ministry of War was issued, when there was a fight between the DPRK and China, and no one could take care of him, Zhai Zhe received the last batch of grain and grass from the Shunde prefect.
The order of the military department was first passed to the hands of the general soldier of Datong, Hu Dawei, Zhai Zhe handed over the official seal to the prefect of Shunde, and more than 4,000 people disappeared in the mountains of Taihang Mountain.
On 10 May, Lu Xiangtong got up and escorted Lu Xiangsheng's coffin back to his hometown for burial, accompanied by Yuan Qizhou and more than 80 Tianxiong soldiers from Nanzhili, and 230 personal soldiers of Zhai Zhe's department.
On May 12, in front of Baoding City, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, was chased by the emperor and escorted to the capital. Every time the Qing invaded, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty along the way had to be replaced, which had long become an unwritten rule of the Ming court.
Ti rode out of the city early in the morning, fifty miles to the north, and arrived at the Nanshan Ridge in the afternoon, with dense forests on both sides. This is the official road leading to the capital, and there are always people walking around on weekdays, but I don't know why the road is empty today.
The axles of the prisoner car were a little dry, and it was very bumpy on the road, Zhang Qiping drooped his head, and his chin was rubbing against the hard wood and bleeding. A flock of birds flew out of the dense forest, startling the escorted Jinyi guard, and now this Nanshan Ridge is particularly weird.
Suddenly, a whistle sounded in the forest, and two or three hundred horsemen rushed out of the forest to block the way, all wearing hats to cover their faces.
The fifty cavalrymen of the Jinyi Guard who were escorted were in a panic, each drawing their swords to protect the prisoner cart, and the bright sword face reflected the panicked face. Jinyi Wei Qianhu urged the horse to turn around, and before he could kick the horse and escape, more than two hundred cavalry poured out in front of him.
The land of Gyeonggi is densely populated, that is, the Qing captives have swept through and there are fewer pedestrians now, and in order to intercept the prisoner car, these horse thieves ambushed here last night.
"Don't panic, my lord, we just need this person in the prisoner car!" A man in a black cloak squeezed out of the queue, and the accent should be from Sanfu.
"Bold, this is a key crime of the imperial court, how can you be allowed to rob it at will." The long sword in the hand of Jinyi Wei Qianhu played a sword flower, and he responded with a fierce heart.
Before he could finish speaking, a long arrow flew out of the cavalry, grazing his scalp and nailing the hat that had taken him to the pine tree opposite. The brocade-clothed guard Qianhu reached out and touched his head, and let out an exclamation in his mouth, his face turned pale.
"We don't want to hurt adults, and adults don't want to embarrass us!" The voice of the leader in the black cloak was low.
"Do it!" He waved his hand.
A burly man led thirty or forty cavalry forward, and the Jinyi Guard cavalry escorting the prisoner cart naturally retreated. The man pulled out the axe on his waist, split the thick wood at the mouth of the bowl with just one axe, and pulled Zhang Qiping, who was trembling with fear, out of the prisoner car.
Surrounded by ten times the cavalry, the fifty Jinyi guards did not dare to move.
"Please give us your horses, and I promise that I will never hurt you!" There was an undeniable power in the words of the black-cloaked leader.
"Why should we believe you?" Jin Yi Wei Qianhu looked hesitant.
"Whoosh" Another long arrow flew out and shot straight into the left eye of the war horse under the crotch of the brocade-clothed guard.
The war horse was in pain and tossed wildly, throwing Jinyi Wei Qianhu off the horse, and after a while, he fell to the ground and convulsed.
"Dismount, dismount!" The thousand households huddled on the ground, busy giving orders.
The horse thieves in ambush led fifty horses and disappeared into the dense forest one after another.
Dozens of brocade-clothed guards looked at each other, and the faces of the thousand households changed again and again, and they said hatefully: "When I go back, I will say that Zhang Qiping colluded with the strongman and escaped." This would have relieved him of a lot of guilt.
Those strong men were very familiar with the nearby roads, and after descending the Nanshan Ridge, they went all the way to the west, and then turned north, and entered the branch of the Taihang Mountain when night was approaching.
After confirming that it was safe, the four hundred cavalry stopped and formed a group and threw Zhang Qiping in the middle. The man with the black cloak took off his hat, it was Li Zhigao, and it was Yuan Qizhou who pulled Zhang Qiping out of the prisoner car. Zhai Zhe and Xiao Zhiyan also squeezed out of the crowd, Zhai Zhe stood in front of Zhang Qiping, leaned over and asked, "Lord Governor, do you still know me?" ”
"You are?" Zhang Qiping collapsed on the ground, and his crotch was wet.
"Thank you for those two thousand taels of silver!" Zhai Zhe's fingertips swept across his fat face.
"How can an adult be framed to death by a villain like you." Yuan Qizhou spat at his face. Even Zhai Zhe felt very bored, he killed such a person for fear of staining the treasure knife given to him by Lu Gong.
"You are ......" Zhang Qiping's voice trembled, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence, "It's not me, it's Yang Sichang, Lord Shangshu." ”
"Let's do it! We still have to hurry. Zhai Zhe urged.
There were screams from horse thieves all around, all of them were the remnants of the Tianxiong Army, and Yuan Qizhou shouted: "My lord, go slowly, the enemy's level has been sent!" "The giant axe slashed down and rolled to the ground.
Li Zhigao instructed his entourage to take the prepared lime nitrate.
Zhai Zhe didn't have the pleasure of revenge at all, this kind of person was not enough to give him pleasure. However, the remnants of the Tianxiong Army have done such a thing, and if they want to go home and be a good citizen, they should weigh it in their hearts.
That's what he's really for!