"Arrest these three rotten women!" Zhou Dayong remained silent, and directly waved his hand to let the three team members control the three women. The other two team members followed up at the same time, already standing behind the fifth aunt. "Old woman, now I'll give you a chance to explain what's going on!" Zhou Dayong looked reckless, but he didn't believe the words of the fifth aunt: "Three heads against six sides, make things clear!" With a plop, the old woman knelt down for Zhou Dayong: "King, Kang Pinqing is my distant nephew, and he said that he was looking for an aunt wife." You need to be beautiful and have studied. I'll just say that our host's young lady is very good-looking, and she is still a talented girl, and she knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. I really didn't know Kang Pinqing was a bad person! ”

"Lao Tzu is not the king of the mountain, let alone a bandit!" Zhou Da had the courage not to fight anywhere: "Talk about your own business, how did the owner be killed!" After Kang Pinqing and Miss met, he left Miss to spend the night with him that night. The young lady swore to die, and Kang Pinqing sent someone to arrest the owner and his wife. Later, later, ...... "As soon as I heard the old woman say that she couldn't say anything for a long time, Zhou Dayong suddenly became angry: "What are you doing, say it quickly!" The old woman was frightened by Zhou Dayong, and immediately opened her mouth and said, "Later, we took off the young lady's clothes and tied them to the bed!" We didn't mean it, Kang Pinqing forced us to do it. ”

The fifth aunt asked in a dark voice, "Why did Kang Pinqing persecute you?" The old woman said in a barely audible voice, "He gave us a gold bar!" "Very well, a gold bar will make you betray your conscience!" Zhou Dayong sneered: "There are shameless people like you in the world, very good!" "Girl, don't worry!" Zhou Dayong turned around and said to the fifth aunt: "Kang Pinqing won't live long, tomorrow afternoon will be his death!" These three things that have no conscience, I will let them be stoned to death by gold bars! As for what you said about taking the laborers away, I want to see the situation here, attacking the iron mines of the Khitans, we have no plan this time. Leaving you a sum of money, it's not a problem. ”

"I don't need you to attack the iron mines!" The fifth aunt shook her head and said, "You are here, I will definitely run." However, I can take you to the nearest iron mine. There are only four people guarding the laborers, and if you can kill those four guys, you can take the laborers away. When Zhou Dayong heard that there were only four people guarding, he immediately said, "Okay, I will promise you this request!" The fifth aunt didn't tell a lie, and immediately took Zhou Dayong to open a cover plate at the bottom of the stairs, revealing an underground secret room.

"This secret room is not Kang Pinqing's, but made by the Khitans, and it is said that some reserves are prepared, as if something big is going to happen. There are a lot of wooden boxes piled up inside, and I don't know what they are. I think, since it's a Khitan thing, you should be interested! Hearing that it was something from the Khitans, Zhou Dayong suddenly became energetic: "Come on, go down and see what the Khitans want to do!" ”

After the two team members went down, they quickly came up and reported: "Report to the squad leader, all the weapons below!" Twenty boxes of bows and arrows, twenty crossbows, and fifty boxes of spears. One box of crossbows, twenty boxes of crossbows and arrows. There were five chests of gold bars and three chests of silver. "Very good, take three gold bars and send these three harmful spirits on the road first!" Zhou Dayong waved his hand and sent the team member away, then turned his head and asked the fifth aunt: "Girl, how much money do you need?" ”

The fifth aunt watched the old woman and the two maids being dragged out indifferently, and then said, "I can't take it if I have more, two gold bars and a hundred taels of silver are enough." ”

"Originally, our Great Song hoe gang had to do everything that was seized and returned to the public, but the girl's situation is special, so I will make the decision to give the girl ten gold bars." Zhou Dayong shook his head and said: "Two gold bars can't last long, the girl is out alone, it's better to bring more money." "Zhou Dayong, what are you still rubbing?" Yang Tong didn't come in, her voice had already arrived first: "Don't you know that you want to retreat immediately?" ”

When Zhou Dayong heard Yang Tong's voice, he was immediately overjoyed: "The vice captain came just in time, there is still a list of things you need to decide here!" Yang Tong came in and listened to Zhou Dayong's report, and frowned slightly: "In this way, your second class will stay to rescue the laborers, and the first class will leave first with the loot." Act quickly, once you are discovered by the Khitans, it will be too late to regret it! "Fortunately, Kang Pinqing's shops have their own carts, and the carts are full, and the Zhan Jin Kingdom escort car retreats first and rushes to the direction of Shangma overnight.

Hurried all the way, and finally crossed Shangma Town at noon the next day and came to Houshanliang. Because everyone didn't sleep all night, Yang Tong decided to take a break on the mountain beam and eat some dry food. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for a faint gunfire to come from the southeast. "It's not good, the battle on Zhang Xiang's side is not over yet, and if you don't do it well, you will encounter huge difficulties!" Yang Tong took out a flintlock pistol and shouted: "Leave five team members to guard the cart, and the rest of the people will go with me to support the captain!" ”

As a result, as soon as they rushed down the hillside, more than ten people stumbled at the foot of the mountain in front of them, and not far behind them, Zhang Xiang took the lead in chasing them. Yang Tong is also a battle-hardened battle, and he is not chaotic in the face of danger: "Don't face the hard top, quickly disperse and hide, and catch them off guard!" "The enemy who fled in a rout never thought that there would be an ambush in this hellish place! When they climbed halfway up the mountain, the two machine crossbows had just found a place to block the attack, when a dozen or so people suddenly pounced out of the grass, and they all threw these enemies to the ground!

The dozen or so enemies were already exhausted, and the only thing that came to mind was that the terrain of this place was favorable, and they could buy a buffer time. Unexpectedly, he was suddenly killed by a group of new forces, and all of them were captured alive! By the time Zhang Xiang arrived, the battle on this side was over. Now it was too late to ask anything, a few people nodded slightly, and Zhang Xiang immediately ordered: "Take the prisoners, retreat immediately, and return to the eagle's beak recess!" ”

The guard squad led by Yang Erya did not participate in the pursuit of the enemy, because there were still six trailers on the battlefield that needed to be monitored. Fortunately, everyone has experienced several major battles, and both male and female team members are not uncomfortable with cleaning the battlefield. It's too hot in July for bodies to be left in the open. Shi Liancheng and Cui San'er struggled to dig out two big pits with pickaxes, and the corpses of the enemy were simply buried.

When Zhang Xiang and the others returned to the Three Stone Battlefield, Yang Erya and the others had just completed the battlefield clean-up work. Two horses have been recovered, but five of the twelve mules have been killed. After the rendezvous, the enemy had a total of 40 men, 29 were killed on the spot, and 11 were captured. In the course of the ambush, two members of the team were killed, one was seriously injured, and thirteen were lightly injured.

After the two sides reported the situation, Zhang Xiang knew why Zhou Dayong's second class did not return, so he hurriedly ordered Yang Erya to bring someone to pick up. Zhang Xiang said while sitting: "Actually, it's nothing, it's simpler than the last time in Yingzhou!" Kang Pinqing took everyone away, and the nursing home left behind didn't even know how to use bows and arrows. Because we live in the Three Immortals Inn, which is one of Kang Pinqing's properties. At night, we tied up the shopkeeper and his mates, leaving one person to guard it, and this place was done. The others split into three groups and acted separately. For the specific harvest, let the deputy detachment leader come and say, I want to drink water. ”

Yang Tong's face was ugly, and he was obviously worried: "The harvest is naturally great, but most of them are weapons." According to the fifth aunt, these weapons were hidden in their house by the Khitans a few days ago. It's strange that the weapons of the Khitans are not kept in their own warehouses, but hidden elsewhere! ”

"According to the preliminary statistics at the moment, this is the equipment of a team of 100. 365181 10,000 taels of silver and 520 gold bars. "Oh, yes! The fifth aunt took ten gold bars, just like the last time. The others were a few boxes of clothing, sheepskin shoes, etc., and I didn't dare to bring big things. "It's not just yours but it's the same on our side!" Yang Tong continued: "The first car to the fourth car, all of them are weapons!"

"In addition, the fifth cart was all cloth and silk and jewelry, and there was also a fine sandalwood box. The sixth cart had six boxes. Among them, three boxes of silver were 240,000 taels and three boxes of gold bars were 480! Four crossbows and two horses were also captured during the battle. The sixth car is full of food such as delicacies from the mountains and the sea. Zhang Xiang was not only not excited when he heard these data, but became a little worried. Because he knew that the Xintun garrison was the vanguard. It seems that the Khitans are really operating according to their original ideas, and a large number of weapons have begun to be scattered and hoarded. It seems that they have been plotting south for a long time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is obvious that the weapons we have captured this time are enough to equip two Khitan hundred-man teams and three two-dog hundred-man teams!" Zhang Xiang broke everyone's doubts: "You should know that the Youzhou incident was made by the Khitans themselves, just to find an excuse to go south to the Central Plains." Naturally, there must be an explanation for this matter. That night, the bodies of the two soldiers were buried in the sunny side of the high slope, and the grief and indignation of the people turned to anger, and they demanded that all the captives be taken to the grave and put to death.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have the same feelings as you. But you can't just kill it. Don't you think this time is weird? At least ask for clarification. Zhang Xiang stopped everyone's impulse: "What do the Khitans want to do when they hide so many arms, don't you want to know?" They put a pot of on our heads, are we just going to forget it? ”

"Of course, our brother can't just die in vain!" Zhang Xiang changed his words: "Liu Zhiliang, bring Kang Pinqing and his men up!" Kang Pinqing and his four subordinates had already been tied up by Wuhua Dahua, and when Liu Zhiliang received the order, he immediately sent someone to push them over, and they all knelt down at the grave of the martyrs.

"Kang Pinqing, King Kang Dayan!" Zhang Xiang smiled gloomily: "Hehe, it's so evil!" What a majesty! The Great Song Dynasty laborers who died directly at your hands are no less than 10,000 people. Lao Tzu didn't wronged you, did he? Now I give you a choice, if you make it clear about the Khitan people's hidden weapons, Lao Tzu will let you suffer less crimes! Someone, cut off the heads of his four cubs first, and pay tribute to our brothers! ”

Kang Pinqing's neck stiffened: "The Khitan people gave me a villa to reward me for my merits." They brought in the weapons, saying they would use them in the near future. I don't know exactly where it will be used. This time it was fake to celebrate the birthday of the old father, and it was true to take the opportunity to recruit people and form a special team. That's all I know, if you want to kill it, you have to kill it. ”

"Excellent! Very good! When death is on the verge of death, the Khitan people and Khitan people are screaming endlessly, which is really something inferior to pigs and dogs! Zhang Xiang took out a piece of white paper that had been prepared a long time ago, and then read aloud: "After verification, Kang Pinqing, one of the four leaders of Youzhou Qianjinzhai Iron Mine, is known as the Living Yama King. In the past ten years, he has recognized thieves as his father and brutalized his compatriots in the Great Song Dynasty. In order to curry favor with his Khitan master and earn hard-earned money for himself, nearly 10,000 people in the Great Song Dynasty were tortured to death! In order to comfort the souls of the victims in the sky and return justice between heaven and earth, the Great Song hoe rape team sentenced Kang Pinqing and his subordinates to death, executed on the spot, and executed immediately! ”

After executing Kang Pinqing and returning to the temporary detention site, the team members took the Khitan general out. Before Zhang Xiang could ask, the Khitan general shouted: "What are you doing? Hurry up and let me go back to work! Otherwise, the Khitans of our Great Liao Kingdom will not forgive you! "your Khitan dog!" Zhang Xiang was angry: "Answer my question honestly, otherwise, there will be death!" ”

"Mine, I'm an iron ore craftsman, I'm not a soldier! Mine is here to help you develop minerals in the Great Song Dynasty! "Nonsense! You Khitan dogs are a bunch of robbers! Zhang Xiang scolded: "You bandits occupy the land of our Great Song Dynasty, steal our mineral resources, and have the face to help us develop!" The iron ore you dig up every year has been pulled back to the north where your birds don't, have you given us a penny in the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"You exterminate humanity, treat the Great Song miners as the most lowly tools, and how many mass graves are created every year? Qianjinzhai Iron Mine Dongshan Ravine is full of corpses and bones, is it made by you bastards? Hurry up and answer my question! What are you doing at Kangjiatai this time? "We only care about the big work, and we don't care about the workers. Cause the death of your workers, we don't have a relationship! Yours should be looking for those big guys to do the work, not mine. I'm a craftsman who works on iron, and I have nothing to do with it! ”

Zhang Xiang was so angry that he didn't bother to ask, so he hurriedly asked people to send the Khitan dogs back, and gave each Khitan dog a bowl of porridge, don't starve to death. Then, after a little thought, I wrote two letters. turned around and found Yang Erya and told her to do so and so, and Yang Erya took the order and left. This time there were too many things, a total of eleven carts, two centurians of equipment without unopened weapons, and several carts of silver and gold bars. These easts are just left in the wild, and all the people are not at ease. Once something goes wrong, it's a catastrophe.

"Girl, it's been dark for a while now." Zhang Xiang called Yang Tong aside and said: "Leave the weapons captured on the battlefield, and you will have to work hard for other things, and lead the guards to send the wounded and supplies back to Tianjing New City overnight." Quietly walking, the crossbow was also set up on the car. If you encounter a suspicious person on the road, you will shoot and kill them immediately. Of course, once it happens, your life comes first. Remember? You've got to give me a good treat! ”

"Commander, don't worry, I will definitely send the things back safely!" Yang Tong finished speaking and left. "Report to the captain, they have returned from the war country, and they have brought a lot of laborers! You hurry over for a moment. Huang Qiaoyun's sweet cry came at the right time, waking Zhang Xiang up from his daze, as if a spring dream was like a fantasy.

Back at the temporary station, Zhang Xiang had already returned to normal: "What about the people of the Zhanjin country, how is the situation?" Huang Qiaoyun said anxiously: "Go down and take a look." Now there are more than 700 laborers, all of whom are skinny and bones, and they are no longer human. But it makes us sad. "Let's go! Let's hurry over and see, these people are our brothers! Zhang Xiang immediately stood up: "Qiaoyun, hurry up and organize people to make porridge!" ”

Yang Erya said on the side: "Look at you're in a hurry!" I still need you to say this matter, Liu Zhiliang is not a dry meal! The laborers have already eaten! When he came to the platform under the eagle's beak recess, Zhang Xiang saw a piece of black pressing, squatting or sitting, and was gobbling up porridge. Through the dim light of the torches around him, Zhang Xiang saw that all of these people had sunken eyes and shriveled cheeks. The dry five fingers are like a few dry wood. If it weren't for the movement, it would be similar to a dried corpse, and there would be no muscles to see!

Zhang Xiang also has this profound imprint in his memory, this scene instantly tugged at his heartstrings, and tears flowed down uncontrollably. Walking among the crowd, he said in a trembling voice: "Don't worry, everyone, there is porridge." However, it would be better for you to eat half full, and in an hour, we will eat again! If you eat too much, it's not good for your health! ”

Zhan Jinguo saw Zhang Xiang and the others walking into the crowd, and immediately said loudly: "Old and young masters, our division commander has come to visit you. They gave the order that we will deliver you! You always thanked me along the way, in fact, you should be thankful for our division commander! When the laborers heard this, they quickly put down the rice bowls in their hands and kowtowed to the ground.

"What is this for? Hurry up! Hurry up and eat! Zhang Xiang was in a hurry for a while, not knowing what to do, but kept saying: "Don't worry, as long as we are here, you can eat, don't worry!" ”

It is said that Xiaoguantun was under martial law the next day, and the team leader Yeyu Yanchuan led the Khitans to conduct a house-to-house search. After being busy for most of the day, nothing was found, and the several large carts of weapons stored in Kang Pinqing's house were missing. Later, I found a notice on the street of the Great Song hoe rape team, and then I knew that Kang Pinqing and his forces had been killed cleanly! More than 700 laborers in the iron mine burned down the greenhouses and all fled. At present, the mine cannot be opened, and production has come to a standstill. In addition, the Khitan craftsmen who went to Kangjiatai to inspect are nowhere to be found.

Early in the morning, the eighth prince took She Lao Taijun, Kou Zhun and Wang Qinruo and others to the official hall of Tianjing New City to visit Yang Peng, and before they arrived at the official hall, they saw Yang Peng with Lin Qing'er, Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e, Yang Bamei, Yang Jiumei and his party waiting for the eighth prince and his party at the door. The eighth prince and they were at the door, Yang Peng stepped forward and hugged his fists at the eighth prince and said to them, "I didn't expect the eighth prince to come to our small place in person, I have worked hard all the way, please inside," Yang Peng walked in front of She Lao Taijun and said, "The younger generation doesn't know that She Lao Taijun came in person, and he didn't go out of the city to greet him. ”

Lin Qing'er walked up to Mrs. She, her eyes were red, and she said, "Sister has worked hard, what my little sister has done badly, please forgive me." She Lao Taijun said, "Qing'er, you have accepted a good apprentice, it's not simple, just rely on your own people to build such a big city, it's amazing, it's amazing, it's not simple." You have done a good job, how many ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty have a chance to live under your protection, you are immeasurably meritorious, very virtuous! Lin Qing'er also said hello to Hua Xie and Zhou Yunjing, and everyone entered the official hall together.

Everyone sat down in the official hall divided into primary and secondary seats, and Yang Peng said, "I don't know what advice the eighth prince has come this time, please say, what we can help will not stand idly by, because we are all Han people, regardless of each other." Haha", the eighth prince said, "First, let's take a look at your strength. The main thing is that Empress Dowager Xiao will hunt in Jinyang, I don't know what you think. ”

Yang Peng said to the eighth prince, "Empress Dowager Xiao will hunt this time is a conspiracy against Yang Liulang, this time they will unite with Xixia and kill Liulang along the way, this time they will hunt Jinyang don't go, once the Great Song Dynasty loses Liulang, the Liao State and the Western Xia will send troops together, then the Great Song Kingdom will move the capital, this time the Liao State and the Western Xia will send troops on the third road, where is the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Jinyang." All the way south. Where are the 150,000 soldiers and horses in Xixia also going all the way south, and the 200,000 soldiers and horses here in Youzhou are going all the way south, as long as Liulang has an accident, they will send troops south together in a month, and then what will the Great Song Dynasty take to resist, and the first battle in Xiongzhou is because of Pan Taishi's selfishness, which leads to the leading soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty. The hearts of the people are lost. Emperor Taizong deliberately favored him, in addition to the policy of the Great Song Dynasty, he emphasized literature and light military force, and lost the morale of the army, the last time I said that I was not a talented person, I also asked the eighth prince not to go to his heart, that guy is only seventeen years old, he is just not sensible, here I am here to compensate you is not. ”

Kou Zhun said, "Your intelligence work is so detailed, it's not simple!" Yang Peng said, "We set up Jinyiwei here, mainly responsible for military intelligence work, and there is also the problem of corruption in supervising officials, a country's intelligence work is the top priority, and if the intelligence work is not done well, half of the war has been lost." This time, we raided the iron mines of the Khitan and harvested nearly a million taels of silver. It's a good job of intelligence. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.