Chapter 118: Get ready for battle
Lu Yixuan held the teacup in both hands, and her legs simply curled up on the stool, where she looked like a girl who killed people without blinking, it was clearly a little girl who looked "trembling" after being questioned, but she did not repent, she crooked the corners of her mouth, her eyes rolled, the tea was gurgling in her mouth, and her speech was incoherent.
"The Marquis of Xichuan oppressed the people, fish and meat township, how could there be a fake all the way, colluded with the government and the yamen, privately levied harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, not to mention killing more than 500 people who were good and impersonated, relying on the emperor of the sky to not take the law of Dayan in his eyes, even if he was escorted back to Beijing, it was a crime to divide the corpse of five horses."
Lu Yixuan gestured.
"He killed Liang Maoxun-" Qiu Lian jumped up as soon as he slapped the table, "He killed Liang Maoxun?!" He thought he had misheard.
"Those 500 people were innocent people back then, Zhang Jing knows it clearly, if you don't believe it, you ask."
"Governor Zhang also knows?" General Qiu was dumbfounded, "They unite to protect a Xichuan Marquis, but, he can't allow you to be so presumptuous!" Qiu Lian thumped his chest, not resenting Zhang Jing for concealing the facts, but blaming Governor Zhang for why he didn't hold the reckless Lu Yixuan.
"The Marquis of Xichuan is also a 'prince', isn't it a big crime for you to kill you so without saying a word to the court? You- how are you going to explain to Asari when you turn around?! "Even if the Marquis of Xichuan is a man full of evil, then he should collect evidence and uphold the prelude one by one, sort out the charges and submit them to the Ministry of War for verification, and then present them to the Son of Heaven, so that the Ninety-Five Emperor can make a decision.
Lu Yixuan smiled softly, and his eyebrows were lazy and full of contempt.
Qiu Lian didn't know that this came and went, not to mention the process of half a year, as long as the Marquis of Xichuan immediately stuffed some silver to the adults of the six departments, those folds could not be sent to the emperor's hands at all, and money could make the ghosts grind, otherwise, why did the situation of thieves in the two provinces become more and more intense and now it is necessary to mobilize the people.
Qiu Lian touched the corner of the case and pinched it fiercely: "How do you explain to the court?" He asked again.
"Doesn't General Qiu have the power to act cheaply?" Lu Yixin pouted, yes, since Emperor Lao Tzu sent Qiu Lianlai, he would naturally give enough power, and this power was not only used to balance her and Su Yicongee, but also to suppress the officials and local princes in the two provinces.
Whenever there is an indecisive incident, Qiu Lian has the right to make a temporary choice on behalf of the emperor.
General Qiu's face changed, this is good, his power has become a talisman for Lu Yixuan's "arrogance and domineering", he glared angrily at Su Yicongee, who had been silent: "General Su, even if I have the right to act cheaply, can't you control a deputy general as the main general?" "The people under this hand have made a mistake, and you won't be able to run away when Su Yi porridge comes.
Lu Yixuan jumped out of the chair and blocked Qiu Lian's line of sight, which also blocked his questioning sight: "The general will not be subject to military orders abroad." She even thought of Su Yi's explanation.
"You-" Qiu Lian was indeed angry.
"Before the bandits, we have to rely on the court, and after the bandits, the court has to rely on us." Lu Yixuan raised his head, and there was a firelight beating in his eyes, I don't know if it was the darkness or the candlelight scattered.
After spending so much manpower and financial resources to get to this point, there is no reason to withdraw the troops, and the current situation is that Shengjing City, which is thousands of miles away, has to listen to the "good news" of their army on the spot.
Qiu Lian patted his head, and was shocked by Lu Yixuan's careless and vicious words for a moment, as if the little girl had a comprehensive plan before leaving Shengjing, and the two main and deputy generals seemed to be "each with a ghost" but could read each other's thoughts with one look.
"Why did the Marquis of Xichuan die but did not make waves among the officials of the two provinces, Lord Zhang deliberately concealed the rumors," Su Yicongee sat cross-legged on the main general's seat with his cheeks bent, and there was some light in his eyes, he did not look at Qiu Lian and Lu Yixuan, but stared at the curtain of the camp tent blown by the night wind, "As we all know, there must be many people in the two provinces who have a delicate relationship with the bandits, and the news that the Marquis of Xichuan died suddenly, the official road is calm, and the small road will obviously not be peaceful, and there will be movement soon." The little general's fingers tapped on his cheek.
"What's going on?" Qiu Shen will be confused.
Lu Yixuan also raised his eyes and looked towards the curtain, "Wow", the curtain was lifted by the soldiers and attendants, and the autumn wind blowing in the mountains and fields carried the coldness of the stars and moon.
The soldier knelt on one knee and held his sword in one hand, and the dusty servant was obviously hurrying back.
"Report to the general, there is news from the twelve teams of people who went up the mountain." He raised his hand and took a roll of sheepskin from his chest and handed it to him.
Su Yicongee's speed was faster than Qiu Lian and Lu Yixuan, and he rushed forward and grabbed the parchment paper and spread it out, scribbling a simple schematic diagram with ink and charcoal, but Su Yicongee smiled loudly.
"Okay, prepare the people, and set off tonight to explore the reality!"
The young soldier hurriedly withdrew from the camp, and the originally silent camp outside the account suddenly became agitated, the bonfire was shaking, and the sound of armor rubbing and colliding was endless.
Qiu Lian looked left and right, but felt like a Zhanger King Kong at a loss.
Su Yicongee threw the sheepskin roll in his arms to the case, pointed at Lu Yiyu and said with a smile: "With you, take Xichuan Hou as bait, you are not afraid of setting yourself on fire?" He didn't reprimand Lu Yixuan for his unauthorized actions, but grabbed the hideous head of the old marquis on the ground in disgust and threw it away, like discarded rags that could not be seen.
"If you follow the rules and tie your hands, you will be restrained by these old foxes." The thieves who dare to collude with the marquis of the government are not rats hiding in the mountains, their claws have long been stretched out to Shengjing City, and all the circumstances and whereabouts of the bandit army may have been exposed under their noses.
So, be surprising.
Even if it is vicious, even if it is tricky, even if it is unreasonable.
Only when the thieves are in chaos first, can they win with one blow.
Su Yicongee squinted, but felt that the general in front of him was not so much of an eyesore.
"Report, the team is ready." The soldiers outside shouted loudly.
Su Yicongee rarely showed a little excitement on his face, and he rubbed his hands and said, "General Qiu, you will wait in the camp for a while, and Deputy General Lu will go into the mountain with me." He didn't bother to give anyone a chance to respond, and stepped out as soon as the curtain was lifted.
General Su Xiao likes to strike while the iron is hot, and he also likes to be lightning fast, the team outside carefully selected thirty people, and the soldiers went straight to Qingmu Peak and Tianyun Gorge in two ways.
The thieves' walled city is not easy to explore, Qiu Lian's method of scaring the snake naturally does not work, don't look at Su Yicongee's young age but patience is excellent, and he has found out a few walled gates in the past month or so, but if you want to break through each one, you must block the camp number points that transmit information between them.
However, since the bandit army approached the two provinces, the thieves did not move as if they had learned the news, and the state of the enemy not moving and I did not move became a very unfavorable situation for Su Yicongee and others.
Su Yicongee is not afraid of heavy responsibilities and serious crimes, but he is afraid that the convergence of thieves and gold and silver treasures will blind the high-ranking officials in the court who cover the sky with one hand, so as to mislead the country and the people to the Son of Heaven, and ask to give up this anti-bandit action that costs the people and money-
That's really, a failure!
But this clueless stalemate was suddenly broken by Lu Yixuan, she single-handedly killed Xichuan Hou, this movement is not small, the bandits will naturally learn about the changes of Xichuan Hou and the actions of Zhang Jing's prefect, so that what is messing up is their minds.
No, in just two or three days, the spies lurking in the mountains returned to deliver the report, and the thieves carefully ventilated the news, and the camps of the eight horn gates in the mountains were unobstructed.
They're panicking.
There are a lot of birds and beasts in the remote mountains and forests, and the late autumn night is even more cold and biting, not the feeling of being overwhelmed in winter, but a little carelessness into the back of your ears, making you grit your teeth and shiver desperately.
What's more, nowadays, it's the middle of the night.
A group of people shuttled through the mountains, forests and grasses, withered branches and vines turned into clothes, robes and skin, and they were unaware.
Su Yicongee ordered to extinguish all the torches, and groped his way up to Qingmu Peak without stopping by the moonlight and the traces of the march in the mountains and forests in his mind.
Sometimes Lu Yixing has to admire this little general, the mountain road here is confused, and she would have been dizzy if she had changed, but Su Yi's porridge is not tired and flustered for a hundred miles, as if he has been a child growing up in such a foothill since he was a child, and General Shi's recommendation is really well-intentioned.
The night is dark and the wind is high.
The thieves' beacon camp is not big but very hidden, if it weren't for Su Yicongee to place people in the various gorge passes without moving, it would be difficult to detect, and now in this small col, there is a signal point that looks like it is heavily guarded, and they use the mountain forest grass as a camouflage on weekdays, as long as the fire is lit at night, it can give a signal to the mountain head of the downwind road in a moment.
Su Yicongee took out the parchment roll from his arms, and looked at it roughly in the moonlight.
"There are fourteen people in this camp, two outposts, and five people watching the wind," he lowered his voice, stretched out his hand and waved left and right, and the soldiers on both sides understood that they would quietly divide their troops into two ways to surround the camp, "The two on the sentry tower, can it be solved?" He turned to Lu Yixuan beside him, and he couldn't see the expressions of the two sides clearly under the moonlight, but the inquiry became inevitable.
Lu Yixuan pinched the long grass on the side and scurried around, like a gust of wind in the night, and in an instant, the cat had reached the wooden fence outside the camp.
The patrol bandit's vigilance was not high, he yawned twice and turned back, Lu Yixuan committed himself to sweeping to the bottom of the sentry tower, and without waiting for the moonlight to walk over her skirt, he slipped like a monkey climbing the wooden fence up the low sentry tower, turning over and jumping lightly, before the bandit holding the small torch realized that he had strangled the man's neck from behind, and the subtle blood drifted into the air.