"How could it come so quickly?!"

Although Wu Ning was not shocked, he asked carefully, "How many people came?" ”

Zhu Hui spoke quickly: "I can't see clearly, the dust is billowing, not to mention that there are hundreds of people." ”

Wu Ning breathed a sigh of relief: "The horse's hooves are trampled and the dust is flying, and it is easy for onlookers to overestimate the number of those people." There were actually more than a thousand of them, and if they had all arrived, you would have thought there were thousands of them. ”

"So, they only came a little bit?"

Zhu Hui hurriedly said, "But they played two flags, both of which were gilded on a black background, one was written, the eunuch of the official school of the governor of Qincha, Dongchang, and the other was the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, it seems that Cao Wubo is already among them." ”

Zhu Ji touched the handle of the knife with his hand: "Meet the enemy!" ”

"Even if they only came with a hundred people, it was twice as many as us, and most of us still haven't been able to recover from our injuries......"

Wu Ning groaned slightly, and said decisively, "There are many empty houses in the west of the city, and the terrain is complex, which can be used, so let's go there." ”

The crowd immediately began to move.

At the same time, the men and horses of Dongchang have arrived under the city gate.

Wu Ning's judgment was not wrong, their actual number was only more than 100 people, and a large number of the rest of the people were still near Gaohe County and could not rush over.

In order to delay the progress of the Dongchang Brigade before, Wu Ning and others attacked them very frequently, and even sent people to assassinate Cao Wubo more than once.

But since the past two days, these opponents who have been wandering around the East Factory seem to have suddenly disappeared, and they are a little too quiet.

Cao Wubo immediately noticed that there was something strange in it, and made up his mind, with only the more than 100 horses he had just found, he took a hundred elites in advance and set off for Pingyang City.

Of course he didn't know, Wu Ning speculated that there was such a thing as a windy and sandy weather on the ninth day of March, but he knew very well that he would not let the opponent know what the opponent wanted to do.

Although some people in Dongchang and Jinyiwei were quite worried about this, Cao Wubo thought that his martial arts were strong and confident, and his judgment of himself was beyond doubt.

After what he had seen and heard along the way before, he had already expected that even if the number of people on the other side in Pingyang City was gathered, it would be far less than his own more than 100 people, so he naturally would not take this risk seriously.

However, he was so arrogant, after he really arrived in Pingyang City, he didn't ignore the local county government like Lu Xiaochuan and others, and did his own thing.

On the contrary, after sending ten people to each carry the signal of the arrow to guard the city gate in all directions, he took the initiative to go to the county government and ask the locals to help.

"Dongdongdong, Dongchang, factory?!"

When Pingyang County Ling was dragged out of the yamen by two brocade guards, he saw a mighty man with silver hair and red face on the road in front of the door, wearing a strong military uniform, pulling a black cloak, sitting on a horse, and glancing condescendingly.

Shao Tang, the big scalp, was also on the horse, threw a token from behind, and said: "You are a small sesame official, but you still have some eyesight, this is indeed our Dongchang Governor, Lord Zhaowu Bocao, who is sealed by the imperial court." ”

When the county magistrate saw the big characters on the two flags, his legs were already weak, and he didn't have the heart to distinguish the authenticity of the token in his hand, so he cried bitterly: "Xiaguan has been in Pingyang City all these years, and he has been conscientious and ......."

"It is precisely knowing your merits that Lord Cao will give you a chance to rise to the top."

Pi Shaotang interrupted him, "Recently, there have been traitors staying in your city, as the head of a county, you should know the whereabouts of outsiders, as long as you report clues, after this matter is settled, it is okay to transfer you back to the capital as an official." ”

The county magistrate was stunned for a moment.

To the capital as an official? Even if he can't be an official, he is just a small official, and the life he lives in Beijing is not comparable to that of a border county commander like him.

Isn't this just the way to go?

"Outsiders, yes, yes!"

Before his mind could fully sober up from this surprise, his mouth had already begun to shout, "There are indeed a lot of foreign strongmen these days, and a few nights ago, they also used knives in the west of the city, killing rivers of blood." ”

"One of them has already died, but there are more people on the other side, and I pity that there are a few useless servants under my hand, and I don't dare to provoke them."

"Now they should be in the area of the General's Temple in the north of the city."

Pi Shaotang's face changed: "One of them is dead?" ”

Cao Wubo seemed to have expected it, and there was no emotion on his face, and he said, "How many people survived?" ”

A clever official next to him immediately stepped forward and preemptively said: "The county magistrate sent me to negotiate with them, there were more than a dozen earlier, and then more than thirty, and now there are more than fifty in total, and there are two children inside, one is crippled, and many people are wounded. ”

"It seems that Jia Ting and the others have really been killed by this gang."

Qianhu Bai Qi was puzzled, "The child must be in the family, but who is the cripple, they don't forget to take it with them when they flee?" ”

Pi Shaotang snorted coldly: "It should be crippled in the process of rescuing Yu's children, and he refuses to solve this kind of drag, it's really ridiculous, he deserves to die!" ”

He stooped down, grabbed the back of the neck of the official who had just spoken, lifted him into the air, and shouted, "Show the way!" ”

The official hurriedly pointed the way.

When everyone rode their horses and galloped, Pi Shaotang always lifted him in the air with one hand, and his body sitting on the horseback was actually very stable, without the slightest imbalance, and his waist, legs, and arms were as powerful as copper cast iron.

When they arrived near the General Temple in the north of the city, before they reached the temple gate, they found a lot of fresh horseshoe prints.

A team of brocade guards took the lead in entering the temple to check, and sure enough, there was no one left.

"It's not a small move for us to enter the city, I'm afraid that these people have noticed it, and we're going to run away."

Qianhu Bai Qi felt that there was no time to delay, so he wanted to command everyone to turn the horse's head and chase after him.

Cao Wubo saw the tattered clothes in the temple, his eyes narrowed, and he raised his hand and shouted, "Slow down." ”

"There are too many clothes changed here, you said that your county commander sent you to negotiate with them, how did you negotiate specifically?"

Cao Wubo turned his head to look at the officer, "What night did they fight with the other party, and how long have the more than thirty people behind them been here?" ”

The official was lifted all the way, the wind was whistling in his ears, his feet did not touch the ground, and his desire to ask for some benefits had been suppressed in a panic, and when he faced Cao Wubo's eyes, he only felt goosebumps all over his body, but he didn't dare not answer.

After listening to him, Cao Wubo closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened his eyes again, he was calm and relaxed, and he chuckled, meaning incomprehensible...... Okay, okay. ”

"Listen to me, slow down your horse, and check your bows and shields."

Cao Wubo waved his hand, his voice was like a bell, without the slightest sense of the sharpness of an ordinary eunuch, and ordered everyone.

"Don't be in a hurry, pay attention to the surroundings, let's chase slowly!"