Chapter 65: Deep Cold
"You beat these people on the ground?" The lieutenant walked over, first looked at the three Shatu people lying on the ground, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then looked at Yan Liqiang, after looking at Yan Liqiang from head to toe, his tone was still a little uncertain.
Indeed, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have believed that a fourteen or fifteen-year-old handsome young man like Yan Liqiang could actually defeat three strong Shatu men riding on rhinosaurus horses in a short period of time, and those Shatu people had weapons.
Yan Liqiang was pretending to be a good baby at this time, looking harmless to humans and animals, and when he heard the captain speak, he nodded, "Yes, I beat it!"
"Why did you hit them?"
"Seeing them bullying my Chinese compatriots here, the road was uneven, so I came to help!" Yan Liqiang replied calmly.
"What the hell is going on?" the blackface lieutenant's face darkened, and his voice sank.
"Master Qiqi, just now after this Shatu man crossed the border and entered the city gate, he suddenly used a whip to knock the little brother next to him to the ground without warning, and saw that this little brother was injured, and the Shatu people continued to use the whip to whip again, this little hero rushed forward, pulled the Shatu man off the horse, and fought with the Shatu man, and the two Shatu people next to him saw it, and pulled out their knives here to besiege this little brother, I waited until I saw the Shatu people moving their knives here, so I panicked......"
The old man next to Yan Liqiang just now took the initiative to stand up, and in a few words, he explained the matter clearly, and after finishing speaking, he glanced at Yan Liqiang approvingly.
"Yes, that's it, we can all testify......"
The people around them all started talking, and the young man who had just been whipped in the face by the Shatu people also stood up and scolded several Shatu people who fell to the ground.
At this moment, in the ranks of the Shatu people, not far from the city gate, a person suddenly shouted in Chinese, "Let me pass, I am the leader of this caravan, what do you Pingxi City guards want to do, do you want to rob the goods of our caravan here in broad daylight?"
The black-faced lieutenant turned his head to look over there, his brows furrowed slightly, "Let that person come over!"
The soldiers guarding the gate of the city stepped aside, a man in his fifties, with a big hooked nose, gray hair, sharp eyes, wearing a gorgeous sand hat, dressed obviously different from other sand tutu people, strode over, after walking over, the sand tu man first looked at the injuries of the three sand tutu people on the ground, and then his face changed, he picked up the sand tu man who was still moaning on the ground, and half of his ears were pulled off by Yan Liqiang's whip, and asked a few words loudly, the sand tu man suddenly looked at Yan Liqiang viciously, and also muttered a few words, The Shatu man who came over immediately looked at Yan Liqiang's face with a gloomy gaze.
"My lord, our people have been injured by this man, and I ask you to arrest this person immediately and hand him over to us to deal with according to our Shatu customs......" The leader of the Shatu said loudly and domineeringly, pointing a finger at Yan Liqiang.
As soon as he heard this, the black-faced lieutenant suddenly became angry, "Damn, why don't you ask him why he injured your people, it was your people who first injured the people who entered the city, and this young man couldn't stand it before he moved his hand......"
"Our man whipped that man, it was that man who spat on us, and it was an insult to us Shatu......" the Shatu man continued to say loudly.
"I ...... Phew...... "The black-faced captain glanced at the leader of the Shatu people, sniffed, and spit directly at the feet of the Shatu people in front of him, "This is Pingxi City, the territory of our Chinese people, we can spit as much as we want, as long as it doesn't spit on you, do you care, Lao Tzu I vomit now, what's the matter, do you want to whip me too?"
The Shatu man's face changed, and then he said gloomily, "The people of our Shatu Seven Department are not so easy to bully, we are going to have an accident here, and the 100,000 people in our city will not agree, you are a little captain, if something really happens, can you afford it......"
The words of the leader of the Shatu people made Yan Liqiang see once again what robber logic is, for a bandit, he can't bully you, it means that you bullied him,......
The name of the Seven Divisions of Shatu is a little unfamiliar to Yan Liqiang, he had only vaguely heard Yan Dechang mention it once before, but he didn't know the specifics. In the past, his entire life was nothing but cultivation, and he didn't know much about all kinds of information, so now he couldn't think of it even if he wanted to, but he remembered that this seemed to be a part of the Shatu people who had settled within the Han Empire.
"Lao Tzu will have to bear it today!" The black-faced lieutenant glared at him, angry, "You Shatu people don't agree, Lao Tzu doesn't agree, according to the decree of my Han Empire, it is forbidden to show the blade within 50 meters of the gates and passes of each city, and the violator can be punished for the crime of rebellion at the highest, brothers, take all these Shatu people to the camp and detain them, and those who dare to resist will be killed......
"Yes!" The hundreds of sergeants gathered here responded violently, their long spears shook, and they all approached in front of those Shatu people, two of them seemed to want to resist, but as soon as they wanted to move, several spears poked over, directly on the thighs of the two Shatu people, the two Shatu people screamed, and fell to the ground at once, and several soldiers around them swarmed up, and instantly tied up the two Shatu people.
All the Shatu people were tied up in an instant, and all of them, including the leader, along with their rhinosaurus horses and camels, were escorted to the barracks near the castle tower.
Yan Liqiang, the Chinese youth who was beaten by the Shatu people, and a few witnesses, were also brought to the barracks by these soldiers, and the soldiers who brought them to the barracks were much more polite to them than the Shatu people.
After coming to the barracks, someone asked Yan Liqiang's identity, name and purpose for coming to Pingxi City, as well as the course of the incident, and recorded a transcript of the incident for Yan Liqiang.
When he had done this, he was kept alone in a small room by the sergeants.
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"Those sand tuggs, just the ...... of grandma" In the barracks, the captain inspected the sand tugs who were tied up on the playground one by one, scolded and left the playground with a few subordinates, and explained to a few subordinates," Let's take care of this matter, even if the city governor asks, I can be confident, pay attention to record the mouths of the few ordinary people who are witnesses, especially the one who was bullied by the Shatu people, to make him bite, he just spit on the ground casually when he entered the city, and then the Shatu people made trouble for no reason and were the first to beat people. ”
"Don't worry, boss, I've already arranged for someone to do it, and there will be no mistakes in this matter...... a junior officer next to him said immediately.
"Hmm!"
"These sand dogs dare to draw their knives at the gate of the city, are you really afraid that we will cut them all down as chaotic people, it's really annoying to think about it, this is obviously when we don't exist, if the leader you order, I will definitely be the first to rush up and cut down those sand dogs!" another low-ranking officer said indignantly.
"By the way, that young man named Yan Liqiang is good at a young age, he can fight three of them at a young age, and he can also make a ruthless attack on the Shatu people immediately, I think that young man is by no means ordinary, have you asked his identity clearly?"
"I just asked, that Yan Liqiang is the top three in Qinghe County's Guoshu County Examination this year, and he just came to Pingxi City today, ready to report to the Pingxi County Guoshu Museum tomorrow!"
"No wonder!" all the officers around him suddenly realized.
"For that man named Yan Liqiang, don't slack off, such a young man with flesh and blood and ability is really rare, if this young man joins the army in the future, he will definitely be a good hand!"
"Yes, don't worry, boss, we know what to do!"
As he was talking, a low-ranking officer suddenly ran over in a hurry or even a little panic, "Head, we just checked the goods of those Shatu people according to your instructions, and there is a problem with the goods of those Shatu people......
As soon as he heard this, Captain Su's face changed, and he hurriedly took the people around him to check.
In the barracks, all the boxes and sacks hanging from the camels of the Shatu have been unloaded by the soldiers in the battalion, two of which have been opened and the hemp belts, and on the outside of those two boxes, there are layers of dried medicinal herbs, and under those medicinal herbs is a bundle of swords wrapped in hay, the sword is cold and shining, revealing a chilling sharpness.
The two sacks were also cut open, and on the outside of the sacks were some animal skins, and inside the animal skins were bundles of arrows.
What do these Shatu people want to do by hiding these weapons in medicinal herbs and transporting them to the city?
The hearts of all the officers present were shocked, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
The black-faced lieutenant's face was really dark at this time, he stared at the arrows in the sack, without saying a word, and when he came to the sack, he took out one of the arrows in it, and held it in his hand to look at it carefully.
"Wang San, bring one of the arrows in your quiver......"
A low-ranking officer carrying a quiver on his back hurriedly took one of the arrows in his quiver, and the two arrows were put together, no matter the workmanship and materials, they were exactly the same, and the only difference was only one place.
At the root of the metal arrow cluster of arrows taken by the officer named Wang San, there is a peculiar triangular mark, among which there is a "Gan" character that can be seen by the naked eye, and there is a small number thirty-seven next to the word Gan, which means that this arrow is an ordnance produced by the Ganzhou Qigushan Craftsman Battalion for the Ganzhou Army of the Han Empire, and the quality is absolutely reliable.
And the tails of the metal clusters of arrows in the hemp belts of the Shatu people were deliberately filed with a file in the same place, smoothing out a mark here......
There are too many arrows hidden in the cargo of the Shatu people, not every arrow can be exactly the same in this place, among those bundles of arrows, the black-faced captain searched for a while, and finally found an arrow, the mark on the root of the arrow cluster was only half smoothed, faintly, and you can see the word "Gan" on it......
An unconcealable anger, as well as the frustration brought about by the cold, made everyone around the captain fall into a frozen silence for a while......