Chapter 606: Return to Qu City

After Wang Yi yelled at them and they were ordered to leave, not long after Su Chi asked people to take those bandits away, Lin Xuanzhong briefly discussed with Su Chi how to deal with the bodies of those bandits. When the arrangements are made, Wang Yiyao's side has just finished counting, and the casualties of the night army are negligible.

After dispatching 500 night soldiers, with the assistance of the two family masters and 500 Qincheng personnel, a team of 1,000 people carried torches and marched straight to Xiaoyin Mountain, twenty miles away, and it was a bandit who was responsible for leading the way.

Two hours later, when a new day was about to break through the clouds, under the leadership of the bandit, Lin Xuanzhong and the others finally turned left and right all the way to Xiaoyin Mountain, in front of the bandit's village. Standing on the mountain, the morning wind was blowing, and even Wu Xiu felt a little cold.

At the gate of the camp, you can hear the shouting from inside in the distance, as if someone is gambling. According to the explanation of the bandit who led the way, it was the bandit who left the housekeeper to have fun all night. From this, it was not difficult for Lin Xuanzhong and the others to think that the bandits who remained behind might have thought that their leaders would bring back a large amount of loot.

Ever since the chiefs had gone with the brigade, they had been drinking and talking in the village, accompanied by many reluctant women, eating and drinking until now, only to be waiting for death.

When Lin Xuanzhong and the others were about to enter the camp, a person who wanted to go to the convenience noticed Lin Xuanzhong's existence, and under the drunkenness, this person mistakenly took Lin Xuanzhong and the others as the leader, and immediately shouted to a room, asking the brothers inside to hurry out to greet them.

Then, when the people behind came out to identify Lin Xuanzhong and their identities, it was too late to escape one by one. Under the influence of drunkenness, those people's movements were not very neat, and they were killed one by one by the night army that rushed over.

After killing those bandits, Lin Xuanzhong directly ordered people to search around in the bandit village to find out all the evil things and people hidden in the bandit village. It took a lot of time to go back and forth, and after searching for everyone and things, the sky was already bright.

There are many items in the bandit village beyond imagination, but what really makes Lin Xuanzhong happy is that the problem of banditry has been solved, and in a short period of time, several surrounding cities should be able to achieve stability. It's a pity that in the long run, sooner or later, the war will spread here, and everyone will have to meet greater challenges at that time, but those have little to do with it in Lin Xuanzhong's opinion, because Lin Xuanzhong must have been somewhere else at that time.

Slowly retracting his mind, Lin Xuanzhong's attention returned to the woman brought out by some soldiers. They were all thinly dressed, and some of them still had traces of being whipped, so you don't have to think about it, the women in front of you are all people who were captured by bandits before. Lin Xuanzhong asked people to get some clothes for the frightened-looking women, and then went to see how many things were found below.

After understanding the situation, Lin Xuanzhong could already determine that the harvest in the bandit village was enough to meet the standard of grain requisition, so that he could rest assured that the grain collected in Qucheng would be distributed to the people in Qucheng.

After letting the things be moved out below, Lin Xuanzhong instructed them to immediately use the car to pull the things away, as for the car that pulls the goods, there are not only ready-made trucks in the cottage, but also animals pulling the carts, seeing the huge mammoth again, Lin Xuanzhong has a feeling of closeness, and can't help but think of that mercenary life, but unfortunately the more he thinks about it, the more sad he becomes.

It didn't take long for Lin Xuanzhong to sort out his thoughts, and Lin Xuanzhong and the two fellow family owners walked around the entire cottage again, and took a good look at the structure of the cottage, this is indeed a hidden place. If it weren't for the bandits, they wouldn't have found this place.

After sighing at the location of the cottage, Lin Xuanzhong was ready to go back, and the matter of transporting things could be handed over to the people below, so there was no need to stay here all the time.

After arranging a part of the personnel to be stationed in the cottage, at the invitation of the two family heads, Lin Xuanzhong rushed to Qincheng as a guest, accompanied by General Wang Yiyao. For Wu Xiu, a sleepless night didn't have much effect, so before going to Qincheng, Lin Xuanzhong went back to the camp to have a look.

By the time we returned to the camp, the corpses of the bandits had been cleaned up, leaving only crimson blood on the ground, waiting to be washed away by the rain or covered by dust. In last night's battle, there were no losses on both sides, which can be said to be a big victory.

After returning to the camp to inspect it, Lin Xuanzhong explained some of the following things, and then went to Qincheng for a banquet with Wang Yiyao and others.

Before inviting Lin Xuanzhong, Su Chi had already spread the news that Qincheng and the Night Army were cooperating to annihilate the bandits in Xiaoyin Mountain, and at the same time specially explained to the people of the city that the conflict with the Night Army two days ago was acting.

At first, many of the city's citizens didn't understand how their city lord cooperated with the Night Army to solve the bandit problem, but after Su Chi preached Lin Xuanzhong's great benevolence and righteousness, as well as his wisdom and martial arts, many city-dwellers poured into the streets to celebrate each other, and the elimination of bandits meant a lot to them.

Also before inviting Lin Xuanzhong, Su Chi and those family heads fulfilled their previous promise to Lin Xuanzhong, and the food that was previously sent to the night army's camp was now owned by the night army. In addition, everything gained in the bandit village goes to the Night Army.

At the luncheon, in order to express their gratitude, those family heads also gave Lin Xuanzhong some thank-you gifts. Under the hospitality, Lin Xuanzhong had no choice but to accept the things they sent one by one.

No matter how valuable those thank-you gifts are, they naturally belong to Lin Xuanzhong himself, and Lin Xuanzhong can dispose of them at will. Speaking of which, as long as Lin Xuanzhong handed over all the grain and grass according to the standards given by Yan Nantian. The extra things, Lin Xuanzhong can naturally keep them for himself, but Lin Xuanzhong will not do that, because Lin Xuanzhong has no interest in money.

Not long after Lin Xuanzhong and the others went to Qincheng, Yu Tong, who had returned to Qucheng last night to deliver the news, rushed to the camp with five hundred night troops to listen to Lin Xuanzhong's further instructions.

Time passed little by little, and after the luncheon, Lin Xuanzhong directly said goodbye to Su Chi and the others, and returned to the camp with Wang Yiyao and others under the cheer of the people of Qincheng.

Yu Tong had already arrived with five hundred people, which was in line with Lin Xuanzhong's intention to rush back to Qucheng as soon as possible, and at this moment the grain and grass team was already on the way back to Qucheng, but there were still many things that needed to be sent back from Xiaoyin Mountain.

It was not an easy task to transport all the things in the cottage to the night army camp at one time, but fortunately with Su Chi's great help. Of course, even so, it will take a while over there.

After ordering the speed of the delivery of materials, Lin Xuanzhong conveyed another order to Qucheng, asking Zhang Jiutian to come forward to explain the forcible requisition of grain, and complain to the people, as for the effect, Lin Xuanzhong could not consider it.

By this evening, except for Xing Hu who led five hundred night troops to guard Qucheng, all the other night troops were required to participate in the escort of supplies.

Right now, by Lin Xuanzhong's side, there are Wang Yiyao and five deputy generals, and in terms of high-level martial arts, the overall strength is not much inferior to Qincheng. Speaking of which, those previous family masters did think about designing Lin Xuanzhong, after all, the night army did not have many troops near Qincheng before, and it was divided into two parts, so they had a chance to attack. It's just that when someone made that kind of suggestion, Sue didn't agree.

First, they all live in Qincheng, unlike those bandits who can hide in the mountains if necessary, in order to prevent the follow-up night army from sending a large army, it is not a long-term solution to be unfavorable to the night army; second, Su Chi has never figured out Lin Xuanzhong's overall strength, and he is also very jealous of the night army's combat power; moreover, Su Chi is not the kind of despicable villain who only seeks profit. Based on the above three points, Su Chi still takes a more long-term view.

Later, Yu Tong brought 500 troops to prove that Su Chi's decision was right, although Lin Xuanzhong said on the surface that the additional manpower was to transport supplies, but in fact he was still on guard against them, so they had no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Now that the strength of the night army has increased greatly, although they are all on the way to the supplies, based on the consideration of Lin Xuanzhong, those family masters no longer mention that suggestion.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was not as easy as imagined to retrieve everything from the cottage, so it took longer than Lin Xuanzhong originally expected. Three days later, Lin Xuanzhong could finally leave with the last of the material team.

Under the escort of Su Chi and others, Lin Xuanzhong personally escorted more than a dozen cars of things to officially return to Qucheng. The line was not long, but the soldiers were in excellent spirits.

It is worth mentioning that before Lin Xuanzhong was leaving, Su Chi invited Lin Xuanzhong to a banquet at the suggestion of those family heads, but at the banquet, those family heads each introduced Lin Xuanzhong to Lin Xuanzhong with the young women in the clan, which surprised Lin Xuanzhong, but Lin Xuanzhong felt that he had enough love debts, so in the end, he still had to come and go.

After leaving Qincheng, Lin Xuanzhong returned to Qucheng that day. After the independent killing of a bandit leader that night, Lin Xuanzhong's prestige in the army became even stronger, not only did the soldiers below respect Lin Xuanzhong more and more, but even Wang Yiyi, who had always felt that Lin Xuanzhong was too young, had now changed his opinion of Lin Xuanzhong.

Like those people in Qincheng, Wang Yiyao knew that Lin Xuanzhong's strength could not be judged by Lin Xuanzhong's age. As for Xing Hu, based on the suppression of bandits, he admired Lin Xuanzhong even more in his heart. After returning to Qucheng, Lin Xuanzhong sat firmly in the position of commander in the true sense.

On the way back to Qucheng, the only thing Lin Xuanzhong cared about was whether he had been forgiven by the civilians of Qucheng, which was also something that Lin Xuanzhong had been unable to let go of for a few days. Fortunately, when he arrived in Qucheng, the scene of countless people gathering outside the city to greet him directly dispelled Lin Xuanzhong's worries.

In the past three days, after receiving the food distributed by the night army, many civilians already knew that the night army forcibly requisitioned food from them before, which was just a key strategy to lure the bandits into falling for them, so after knowing that the bandit problem was eliminated at the same time, those civilians all had an attitude of understanding, and they only liked Lin Xuanzhong and all the night soldiers one by one.

After welcoming Lin Xuanzhong into the city, many civilians also took the initiative to send prepared food to the general's mansion, hoping to show their gratitude to Lin Xuanzhong.