Chapter 33: The Night Wolf Camp
Early the next morning, the convoy of the Yang caravan came to the outside of Rencheng County early, and the chief secretary of Rencheng County was already waiting outside the city.
He was surrounded by more than twenty carts, all loaded with supplies, covered with felt cloth and sealed.
The process of transporting military materials in the Dayu Dynasty is very strict, and the materials will be strictly sealed before transportation, and the seals will be posted on them.
When the materials are transported to the destination, the military Sima will strictly check the secret notes and seals.
If anything unusual is discovered, all those in charge of escorting will be punished.
And this is why Ren Cheng County dared to hand over the transported materials to the Yang caravan for escort.
However, Rencheng County is not alone, and Rencheng County still sent three people to escort during the transportation process.
These three people are all soap officials of the government, and they are also natives of Rencheng County.
Then Yang Ping and Rencheng County took stock and handed over, and then the Yang caravan began to officially set off.
The Yang family's convoy, which originally consisted of only seventeen or eighteen carriages, suddenly increased by three or four times.
Li Yi sat on his horse and looked at the mighty convoy behind him, and couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Senior brother, isn't our convoy of so many supplies just a piece of fat in the eyes of those bandits?"
"Did you see the thing that the county master handed to Yang Dangjia just now?"
Jing Zizheng was not worried at all, he was still calm and leisurely sitting in the carriage.
"What's that?" Li Yi didn't care about the handover between Yang Ping and Rencheng County just now.
In his opinion, this was a matter between the Yang caravan and the government, and it had nothing to do with him.
But Jing Jingzi's mention of this aroused his curiosity.
"Go to the front of the convoy and see if there's anything on the cauldron."
Keiko poked her head out, pointed to the one driving at the front, and quickly caught up with the carriage at the front.
After a closer look, Li Yi suddenly found that there was a small triangular flag on each side of the carriage at this time.
One side is a red letter on a blue background, with some ornaments embroidered on it, and the word "Yang" embroidered in the middle.
Li Yi had seen this small flag before.
The other side is a yellow character on a red background, and the pattern on this small flag is much more complicated than Yang's, and it is embroidered with the word "Yu" in the middle.
Li Yi roughly understood that this should be a symbol of the government's escort of materials, and the bandits had to weigh the consequences of hijacking this convoy when they saw this small flag.
Li Yi, who knew this, slowed down his horse.
"Senior brother, with that little flag of the government, wouldn't we be able to sit back and relax all the way?"
Li Yi felt that there should not be many bandits in Dayu who dared to rob the materials escorted by the government, after all, once the incident happened, the government would definitely send troops to completely exterminate these bandits who dared to challenge the authority of the government.
"It's true that the bandits don't dare to openly rob the materials escorted by the government, but this doesn't mean that there is no risk at all in transporting the materials of the government."
"Is there anyone else besides the bandits who will come and rob these supplies?"
"It should still be relatively safe in Gunzhou, but once we get out of Gunzhou, the more we go to the border, the more dangerous we become."
Keiko said in a low voice.
"Why, isn't it true that the closer we get to the side, the safer we are? After all, who would dare to rob the border guards of their supplies under their noses? ”
Li Yi couldn't understand the meaning of Jingzi's words.
"Do you still need to ask, of course it's the secret agents of the various tribes of the grassland!"
Jing Zizheng's tone was low.
"The Prairie tribe actually has spies within my Dayu defense line?"
When Li Yi heard the news for the first time, he originally thought that the area south of the border defense line should be absolutely safe.
But he didn't expect that there were also secret agents of the steppe tribe south of the defense line.
"Are there a lot of these spies?"
Li Yi felt that if the number of these spies was small, then it should not have much impact on the logistics of the Dayu Dynasty.
"Be quiet." Jingzizheng stretched out his hand and pulled Li Yi, motioning for him to be quiet.
"The number of spies of the grassland tribe hidden in my territory is unknown, but it is certain that there are quite a few of them, and they call themselves the Night Wolf Battalion."
Li Yi was very surprised that they still had their own names.
In his mind, it was already very good that there could be a hundred or so of these spies, but he never thought that they would all take the battalion as the number, and he thought that there must be a lot of people.
"What kind of spy is this, this is completely a scout force lurking behind our border army."
Li Yi couldn't help but sigh, although the border fortress of the Dayu Dynasty was already strictly guarded against the people of the grassland tribe, it still couldn't prevent the infiltration of the place.
"Senior brother, isn't the grassland tribe invading once a year? Could it be that their so-called Night Wolf Camp sneaked in before the invasion? ”
Li Yi didn't understand that it would not be easy for these scouts in the grassland to sneak in every year.
After all, the defenders of the border fortress are not stupid, and these people will definitely be discovered by the border soldiers if they infiltrate every year.
"They don't sneak in every year, they have been lurking in the Dayu Dynasty for a long time."
Li Yi couldn't imagine that the spies of these grassland tribes had lived in the Dayu Dynasty for a long time without being discovered.
"Some of these people have lived in the Dayu Dynasty for many years, they may already be old men who are dying, or they may be fathers who got married and had children in the Dayu Dynasty, and even more they may have multiplied in the Dayu Dynasty for several generations."
Jingzi was saying, but there was a hint of loneliness in his tone.
Li Yi felt the loneliness in his tone, and he knew that Jing Zizheng must have seen these so-called Night Wolf Camps.
"Senior brother, have you ever encountered the spies of these steppe tribes?"
"That's right, once one of my brother's best friends was a member of the Night Wolf Camp."
Li Yi couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, he didn't expect Jing Zizheng's brother to have a grassland spy friend.
"The Night Wolf Camp adopts the inheritance model of father to son, stepbrother and brother, and my brother's friend is the third generation of Night Wolf soldiers."
"I have lived in the land of the Dayu Dynasty for three generations and still regard the Dayu Dynasty as an enemy, and I really responded to the sentence: If it is not my race, its heart will be different."
Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, sometimes faith is an incomparably terrible thing, and this kind of belief that can be passed down for generations is even more terrifying.
"Yes, this friend of my brother eats the grain of my Dayu Dynasty in my Dayu Dynasty, speaks the words of my Dayu Dynasty, reads the books of the sages of my Dayu Dynasty, and practices the etiquette of my Dayu Dynasty, but it is ridiculous that he still thinks in his heart that he is a barbarian of the grassland."
For Jing Zizheng's words, Li Yi is not easy to evaluate, after all, if he is a Dayu person, he will definitely be regarded as a hero who endures humiliation and burdens in Han like Dayu.
"At the beginning, he also intended to befriend my brother, just to get information about the troop deployment of the border defenders, but fortunately he didn't succeed."
"And what happened to this man?"
Although Li Yi had already guessed the ending of this grassland secret agent, he still asked.
"After his identity was discovered, he cut himself in front of my brother, and before he died, he told my brother that he was worthy of the wolf king god and the ancestors of the bone-buried grassland, but he was ashamed of the land that gave birth to him and the friends who trusted him."
"It's a shame."
In Jing Zizheng's description, Li Yi seemed to see the night wolf soldier who betrayed his friend against his will for the sake of his own nation.
In Li Yi's view, this person is both hateful and respectable, he is a sinner and a hero.
Both of them were a little depressed after this conversation.
But in the next moment, a voice pulled them out of their low mood.
"What's the pity, if this kind of person doesn't die, I don't know how many more defenders of the border fortress will die because of him."
A shrill female voice suddenly came from the carriage behind.
Li Yi and Jingzi were looking back, and a girl's head appeared in the front curtain of the carriage behind.
Seeing this head, Li Yi jumped.
"How are you? How did you end up here? ”
Li Yi subconsciously asked.
"Boy, you're too lenient, I'll do whatever I like with you."
Qi Ning tilted his head and said arrogantly.
Li Yi suddenly felt that these words seemed familiar, and Jingzi on the side was stretching out his hand to greet Qi Ning.
It's just that Li Yi clearly saw his face and showed a gloating smile.
Li Yi also remembered at this time, isn't what Qi Ning said exactly what he said to Qi Ning yesterday.
Looking at Qi Ning's disdainful look, Li Yi felt that his head was full of black lines.
"Do you want to squeeze me out in my own words?"
Li Yi's heart couldn't help but slander.
"Eavesdropping on others is not a gentleman's so-called."
It took a long time for Li Yi to hold back a sentence.
"I am a little woman, not a gentleman."
Qi Ning tilted his head and replied arrogantly.
"Unreasonable."
Li Yi knew that he couldn't say it now, so he stopped entangling with her, and immediately knocked on the horse's belly, and instantly opened the distance between him and Qi Ning.
Jingzi was looking at Li Yi who was far away, and couldn't help but laugh that these two people seemed to be two fighting cocks, and they would fight as soon as they met.
"Sister, why do you have to be like that kid, it's better to sleep in the carriage if you have this kung fu."
Qi Chao's lazy voice came from the carriage.
Although there were some bumps in the carriage, it still couldn't stop Qi Chao from sleeping.
In addition to Qi Chao, there was another person lying in the carriage.
This person is Ansu, and at this time Ansu has woken up, and the injuries on his body are no longer serious.
Li Yi rode a horse and quickly caught up with Yang Ping in front of him and asked him why Qi Ning and Qi Chao were in their convoy.
And Yang Ping's explanation also let Li Yi know what happened.
It turned out that when they were about to leave in the morning, Qi Ning saw them packing their bags and asked them where they were going.
Yang Ping told Qi Ning that his caravan was going north to deliver supplies.
Qi Ning couldn't help but be overjoyed when she heard that Yang Ping and they were also going to Biansai, so she immediately proposed to go with the Yang caravan.
At first, Yang Ping was a little reluctant, after all, caravans generally don't let strangers join casually.
But when Qi Ning took out a stack of silver tickets, Yang Ping was shaken, but he still didn't dare to agree.
After all, in addition to transporting their own materials this time, they also had to help Rencheng County transport military supplies, and in this case, it was impossible to increase personnel at will without the permission of the government.
So Yang Ping raised his own difficulties.
Originally, Yang Ping thought that he could completely reject her in the name of the government, but he never thought that when he handed over to the head of Rencheng County this morning, the other party would personally add the carriages of Qi Ning and Qi Chao into the convoy.
At the same time, the other party also said that this is the meaning of the county honor.
Yang Ping couldn't figure out why the county lord of Rencheng County would help such a little girl from other places, and later inquired with the chief secretary of Rencheng County to know that the county lord of Rencheng County was actually the protégé of Grandpa Qi Ning.
Back then, Ren Chengxian County respected the imperial examination by Qi Ning's grandfather, and his high school papers were also ordered by Qi Ning's grandfather himself.
After listening to Yang Ping's explanation, Li Yi was speechless.
Li Yi has no good impression of this rude, willful and fierce Qi Ning.
"It seems that I have to keep a certain distance from this eldest lady for the next trip. Can't we hide if we can't afford to provoke us? ”
Li Yi secretly thought to himself that Liu Yu taught him how to survive.
Just as Li Yi had been thinking about how to avoid Qi Ning from meeting her, An Su in the carriage was also thinking about how to avoid meeting Li Yi.
Just this morning, Qi Ning suddenly ran to his and Qi Chao's room and told them that there was a convoy to go to Biansai and they could go together.
Because they were kidnapped by Huang Fengzhai before, the two sisters and brothers now have some psychological shadows for the bandits.
Now it was a good idea to go with the caravan, so Qi Chao also nodded in agreement.
At this time, Ansu was more entangled.
At this time, his injuries were not healed, and he very much wanted to stay and recuperate.
But he was betrayed by the second master, so he is now penniless, and once the sister and brother are gone, he probably won't even have a place to live.
And it is very unsafe to stay in this city and county, after all, his own sea fishing documents are all over the city, and he will not be able to see himself if he can't keep it, and he will not even have a chance to escape at that time.
But although following them can avoid the danger of Rencheng County, they will face the risk of being discovered by Li Yi and them.
In fact, he woke up as soon as he arrived at the inn yesterday, but because he was worried that Qi Chao would let him wash his face after he woke up, he kept pretending to be asleep.
It wasn't until Qi Chao was dragged by Qi Ning to find trouble with Li Yi that An Su dared to secretly get up and look at the situation outside.
But when he saw Qi Ning and Qi Chao kicking open Li Yi's door, he almost didn't scare his soul away.
He didn't expect that the kid in the door was the kid who defeated him yesterday.
It is said that the road is narrow, and Ansu feels that this world is sometimes too small.
He actually met the people he wanted to meet the most and the people he didn't want to meet the most when he was injured.
The person he wanted to meet the most was Jing Zizheng, who had harmed him to such a field, and the last thing he wanted to meet was Li Yi, who was super strong in martial arts.
But when he was still struggling, he was directly carried to the carriage by Qi Chao.
Now that he doesn't have to worry about it, Qi Chao directly made a choice for him.
Ansu had no choice but to resign himself to fate, taking one step at a time.