After a while, Zhong Shan, his three sons, and several samurai under his command were escorted over by a group of people. Like throwing stones, it fell at the feet of Chief Lin with a thud.

Wei Qingsong took a step forward and said loudly: "Zhong Shan, this is Lord Lin, the head of the Master's Mansion, I have something to ask you." If you dare to be honest, I will immediately pinch off the heads of several of you. ”

Zhongshan chicken kept nodding his head like pecking rice: "I must answer honestly, I must answer honestly." "I didn't dare to look up, I just begged for mercy.

"Zhong Shan, you should have heard of who I, Lin Yun, are. I just need to ask you one thing and ask you to do one more thing. As long as you are honest in these two things, I will not embarrass your family, let your whole family go back, and you will still be your lord. If you want to play tricks in front of me, I'll dig a pit here and bury your family. ”

"Mr. Lin, Lord Lin, I must be honest, definitely."

"Where did you go to the people of Changzhou City last time?"

Zhong Shan opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a while, only to hear Lin Yun say again: "You won't say that you didn't do it, right?" ”

"Ahh No, no, no, Lord Lin, I did it, I did it. Mr. Lin, I am also acting on orders, and I beg your lord to spare my life. ”

"Where are you, I ask?"

"I took people captive to the west of Xingshan City to work for me, and they are still there, my lord, I am willing to send them back, all of them."

Lin Yun pondered for a while, and then said to him: "I don't embarrass you, after all, you can't help yourself, and you don't dare not listen to the master's orders." But let you go back like this, I'm afraid you'll have to regret it. In this case, I will let one of your sons go back first, and when he sends me the population of Cheung Chau back to the border of Cheung Chau, I will let you all go back. ”

"Thank you, sir, we'll definitely send it back."

"Tell your little son to go back. You have memorized for me, within two months, if I do not see anyone on the border between Cheung Chau and Xingshan, I will immediately chop you people into meat sauce. ”

On the small road a hundred miles east of Xiangnan City, a team of men and horses rushed forward. Even though it was nearly dusk, they had no intention of stopping. The line lined up in a neat line, drawing long shadows on the ground as the sun was about to set. There were about 10,000 of them, all of whom were armed with swords and shields, and the murderous aura that came to their faces was chilling, showing that they were all warriors on the bloody battlefield.

Shi Dang led a thousand people from the personal guard and walked at the front of the team. They set off two days ago and traveled in a hurry, with little rest. After learning the news of Xiangnan's victory, the master issued an order appointing him Shi Kang as the head of Xiangnan's domain, with full responsibility for Xiangnan's management affairs. General Wei personally took 10,000 men from the captives in Xingshan and personally led him to Xiangnan City.

After another hour, it was completely dark, and the soldiers were tired. Shi Dang ran quickly in the direction of the rear army, and after a while, he came to the queue where Wei Qingsong was.

"Report to the general, it's getting dark, the soldiers have been marching for two days in a row, and everyone is tired. Can you take a break on the spot, please show the general. ”

Wei Qingsong looked around and muttered: "Our action this time, according to General Manager Lin's strategy, is to be surprised, we must be fast." So it only took us two days to walk Zhongshan and their eight-day road, and told everyone that while we could barely see a little road, we would go forward in the dark for another hour, and then rest on the spot for the night. We must enter the city of Shannan tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes, sir. Go forward for an hour, then rest for the night. The little one immediately went to give the order. ”

Bursts of cooking smoke floated in the faint morning light in Xiangnan City, and after the last sack of Zhongshan, the city was desolate. Although the young master of the Zhou family is twenty years old, he has not seen any big scenes after all, and the affairs of the collar are all in charge of the affairs of the leader, and the chief manager Wang discussed things with the young master early in the morning.

"Old manager, why did you say that the people sent to Yiling Mansion haven't come back yet? Don't make any mistakes. ”

"Little master, don't worry, through the recent actions of Xingshan, you can completely determine the thoughts of the third young master of the Ji family. He definitely wanted to secretly encroach on the power of the Master's Mansion, and Gangneung Mansion bore the brunt of it. Our Shannan Ling is connected to their borders, and as long as we express our intention of submission, he has no reason not to accept it. ”

"I've been in my heart lately, you said that if you let the people in the Master's Mansion know about this, how can it be done?"

"The little master doesn't have to worry, not to mention that the person who sent it is our confidant for many years, and it is impossible for the master to know. Even if you knew, what would you do? Now that we are not in the past, when the old master is here, who have we been afraid of? Now that we have no strength, the Zhou family has no value to Jiangling Mansion. Not to mention that this new master has no friendship with the Zhou family at all, even if he is kind to us, he just wants you to be a little boss and follow their ass to listen to errands. A Xiangnan collar of Nuoda, will he continue to give us? If we don't throw ourselves into the Ji family, we have no way out at all, and Ji Laosan is not going to directly annex us now, but he just robbed slaves and property on the border. As long as we have the secret support of the Ji family, it will drag on for some time, and the three of you brothers are all samurai, maybe there will be some turnaround. We only had this way to go, little host don't hesitate. ”

"Alas! That's all there is to it now. Just try not to reveal the news, so that there is some room for maneuver. ”

"That's, I'll be careful, I can't tear my face until I have to. The little host is relieved though. Someone reported to me that Gangneung Province had sent an army to Cheung Chau some time ago, and it seemed that there were several thousand people. It seems that this master does not have much strength, and I heard that when he arrived in Gangneung, he only had 30,000 troops, but he brought a lot of slaves from Guiling Mansion. To defend the harassment and robbery of Yiling Mansion, I see it difficult, there are 30,000 elites in Xingshan alone, what will Jiangling Mansion take to guard? ”

The two were sighing, and someone outside shouted: "Urgent! Urgent! I saw a slave rushing in without waiting for the master's message: "Lord Qiqi, an army has appeared outside the city, and there is an army coming from behind. ”

The chief steward was about to reprimand his subordinates for their rudeness, but when he said this, he could not help but be astonished, and forgot to punish him.

"What do you say? Where did the army come from? Is Zhongshan back again? ”

"I don't know where it came from. They marched so fast that by the time our men found them, they were less than eighty kilometers from the city. Their forward troops marched at the same speed as the people we reported to, not ordinary troops. ”