Just when Chen Ruoping inspected the camp tent, the battle situation outside had changed dramatically. As soon as Xu Hu, Lei Bao, He Ming, and Mo Cong joined the battle group, the balance of war immediately tilted to the side of the Central Army, these four people are battle-hardened generals, and the skills of fighting are tempered in the battle with the Longguo cavalry, and the four of them each led a brigade out of the encirclement and rushed towards the two wings of the gendarme, and with the giant crossbow flying stone firepower in the middle, the battle line of the gendarme was quickly torn into a mess.

When the Congjun saw that this formation should be Chen Ruoping's return, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to prepare for a peace truce. At this time, a huge crossbow pierced the sky and pierced the two of them with a pop of the throat, and the words of the army to sue for peace immediately turned into a stream of bloody arrows sprayed into the faces of the men next to him, and the military police were in chaos.

As soon as Chen Ruoping came out of the camp tent and was about to take command of the battle, he immediately heard the sound of gold, and tens of thousands of military police officers generally retreated from the battle line in a tide, and only after retreating for several miles did a person come out to issue a flag to express his identity and intentions, expressing his request to enter the central army camp to discuss the situation.

"Let the army come over, and the others immediately withdraw to the gendarmerie camp. Chen Ruoping ordered his men to issue flags.

The standard-bearer of the Central Army immediately issued a flag message.

The gendarmerie received it and immediately replied.

"My lord, he said that the army had already been killed, and he had to let the others come over. The flag bearer of the Central Army translated the other party's flag language.

"What?!" Chen Ruoping was shocked, although today's battle was fierce, but due to the limited terrain, the troops could not be fully deployed, at best, it was a battle between two battalions, this kind of skirmish that could even be unscathed, the other party even killed the commander, which was really unexpected.

"Then let them send another man. She was stunned for a moment and said.

After the flag was issued, most of the gendarmerie began to withdraw to the gendarmerie camp, and two brigades came here to clean up the battlefield. As evening approached, a field of dead vines and old trees circled in the sky, and the battle lines between the two armies were full of corpses of gendarmes with broken bones and broken legs. The situation was so tragic that it didn't look like going up the mountain to suppress bandits, but like fighting a siege battle at Juling Pass. Although the casualties on the side of the Central Army were not as large as those of the military police, there were more than 1,000 casualties in one day, and the generals of the Central Army were also urgently arranging sergeants and military doctors to clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded while the gendarmes were busy.

As soon as the gendarmes finished withdrawing, Chen Ruoping immediately arranged for two brigades to go to the peaks on both sides to bring back those gendarme prisoners, the prisoners on the eastern peak were more than ten miles away, and they were taken to the camp of the Central Army without much effort, and the prisoners on the western peak were a little farther away, and they were brought back to the camp only after the sky was dark. When everyone arrived at the camp and saw all kinds of tragic scenes, both the masters of the Central Army and the prisoners of the gendarmes were stunned and speechless. It all felt like a dream.

"Dreaming, do you gendarmes want to attack our Central Army in your dreams?" Lei Leopard looked at a group of gendarme prisoners angrily, and saw a group of people bow their heads one after another.

"Lord Chen, how did you find our comrades-in-arms?" asked the military police battalion manager who came from the gendarmerie to negotiate.

"We just picked out the places that your army didn't search, and then we found them in a cave hidden by a dense forest, and these people were all poisoned, and the cave was blocked by a very tall stone gate, so they couldn't get out. Chen Ruoping said.

"That's really hard work for you, if it weren't for your ......," the gendarmerie said a little speechless, and people worked hard to find someone to save people. They are here to attack other people's camps while others are not here, and this kind of thing is really not like a human thing to say, and he himself feels deeply ashamed. "Lord Chen, that... It is also out of our desire to save people's hearts that we are so offended today. Moreover, he himself had unfortunately died in battle, so the court asked Lord Chen to say a few more kind words, so as not to let those poor soldiers bear any charges of rebellion. ”

"We are all people who lead soldiers, I can understand your feelings. But this matter is too big. I'm afraid it's not like I can get over it with a few nice words. You better hurry back and meet with your colleagues and subordinates, write a report on the details of the matter and send it to the capital, otherwise I am afraid you will be more passive. Chen Ruoping said.

"Good. Then the general hastened back. The gendarmerie did not dare to mention anything about taking away the gendarme prisoners, so he directly took his leave and got up and left.

As soon as the gendarmerie took the band, a sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the camp, and a team of Yulin guards stopped in front of the camp to identify themselves, and then went to the Chinese army's tent under the herald's notice.

The big tent of the Chinese army, Chen Ruoping and the others saw that Yu Linwei had arrived, and they all guessed that the emperor was already nearby. The Yu Linwei took the lead and greeted Chen Ruoping, Lei Bao and others, and then said that the emperor had arrived at Shuanglong Mountain, Yu Linwei was camping five miles away, and the captured horse thief captives were going to be taken away now, and the emperor also wanted to ask about the situation on the mountain. As soon as everyone heard this, they went out of the big tent of the Chinese army together, and led three brigades of the central army to Yulinwei's side with horse thief prisoners and more than 20 boxes of gold.

Hang Xiao only took half a battalion of Yulinwei on this trip, and the camp was stationed on a hill very close to the central army camp, and the group escorted the captives to the Yulinwei camp, Hang Xiao was very happy to see everyone coming, and he didn't care about the prisoners for the time being, but just called Chen Ruoping and the eighteen masters of the Central Army to the camp tent.

In the tent, the celebration wine was ready, the banquet was very rich, and twenty people sat around a large table drinking wine and talking about the operation. As the commander-in-chief of the operation, Chen Ruoping did not mention the conflict with the military police for the time being, but only reported the incident in detail. Hearing all the thrills and strangeness of the matter, Hang Xiao was sometimes surprised and sometimes frowned.

"You said you didn't fight the horse thief today, so why do several people have a strong smell of blood?" Hang Xiao took a glass of wine and asked quietly.

"That's right, the gendarmes heard that we had captured a group of horse thieves, and the commander came to our camp twice to ask for people, the first time alone, and the second time with four and a half battalions of gendarmes. We were searching for horse thieves and prisoners in the mountains, and the gendarmes and a group of unidentified armed men attacked the camp of the Central Army inside and out, and the two guard battalions clashed with the gendarmes in this way. Chen Ruoping briefly introduced.

"Is there such a thing?" Hang Xiao frowned when he heard this, and immediately called in a Yulinwei officer and asked him to pass a message to the military police battalion, so that the army could come here immediately to report the situation.

"Your Majesty, that... The Commander has been killed in today's battle. So Your Majesty should let the others come. Chen Ruoping said.

"What?" Hang Xiao was stunned.

"Those horse thieves are very strange, Your Majesty had better not alarm the gendarmerie camp for the time being, and ask about the situation. Lei Leopard whispered.

"You mean......" Hang Xiao muttered, "Okay, interrogate the prisoners immediately, and bring ten people in first." He thought for a moment and turned his head and ordered Officer Yu Linwei.

The effort was not great, and the ten horse thief captives were escorted into the camp tent by Yu Linwei, and they were trembling when they came in, and they suddenly trembled even more when they saw the situation in the camp tent.

"Lu Chengliang, a disciple of the Qingsong Sect. I joined the gendarme in March last year, and now I am a gendarmerie commander-in-chief, am I right?" Hang Xiao looked at a "horse thief captive" and asked lightly.

"Your Majesty, we just... We just don't want the court to lose a ransom in vain, and we want to save those captured gendarme brothers through our own efforts, and we definitely don't want to swallow that ransom. Lu Chengliang kowtowed and said.

"Are you coaxing a three-year-old child, if you really think like this, just put the ransom money in the gendarmerie camp, why bother digging holes in the ground and pretending to be horse thieves to besiege the Central Army camp?" Hang Xiao frowned impatiently. "Tell me, apart from you operatives, who is the mastermind and who is the accomplice in this matter. If you make it clear, it will be a painful knife, if you don't make it clear, it will be 3,600 knives, and if you make it clear, only one will die, and if you don't make it clear, you will not be able to make it clear that the nine clans of Zhulian are killed. ”

A group of gendarmes pretending to be horse thieves hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy. He said that the chief had said so when he confessed to them, and begged His Majesty to be gracious.

Hang Xiao waved his hand and asked Yu Linwei to pull him out for interrogation.

"Hey. They ruined the mood for a good meal, and it really makes me angry just thinking about it. After Yu Linwei took people out, Hang Xiao exhaled and said.

"The last general is incompetent, he has not caught the real horse thief, and he is willing to be punished. Chen Ruoping said ashamedly.

"That cannot be said, if it were not for the gendarmes who made trouble, you would have succeeded according to the original plan. The reason why I am angry is not because I am angry at 50,000 taels of gold, but because these people are angry that they have ruined my plan. Hang Xiao said, "As for you, although you didn't catch the horse thief, you also got the ransom and the prisoners back, and no matter what, you saved 500,000 taels of silver for the imperial court, which is not a small credit." Hey, but if they make such a fuss in the army, I am afraid that there are more than two or three thousand casualties on both sides, and this disaster is much more than 500,000 taels of silver. If those real horse thieves took advantage of today's battle to escape, hmph, it would be far from something that could be measured in silver. ”

"The encirclement has not been disjointed when we are fighting here, so it is unlikely that the horse thieves will slip out of the encirclement, and the encirclement of the western mountain peak has not moved, and it is impossible for the horse thieves over there to fly with wings, so Your Majesty can not worry too much. Chen Ruoping said.

"Well, that's really hard for your two guard battalions, fighting and watching the prisoners and taking care of the encirclement can't be disjointed, it is worthy of the battalion you personally brought out. Hang Xiao nodded approvingly. "Things have come to this point, it's a blessing that the horse thieves weren't let go, but how to suppress the bandits next is a problem, this time the bandits are the main force of the gendarmes, but the army has made these things at this juncture and died, the gendarmes have no leader, how can this kind of battle be fought?"

As soon as everyone heard this, Hang Xiao seemed to have the intention of letting the Central Army as the main force to suppress the bandits, and they were a little embarrassed. The horse thieves in Shuanglong Mountain are a little evil, they searched for a day today and didn't even see the hair of the horse thief, and they really had to accept it in the end, so when we had dinner today, we didn't even say that we must make persistent efforts to continue to go up the mountain to find the horse thief, but now Hang Xiao revealed this meaning, and everyone was a little stunned. They are not afraid of fighting, but they must have an opponent to fight, and in the face of a cloud of air, even if the world is invincible, they can only cry out in vain, so everyone does not dare to take this stubble. (To be continued......)