26. Neither reasonable, life and death

The cavalry squad was divided into two, and the leader led three cavalry to escort Wang Lin and Xie An back to the camp on the east side of the mountain, while the remaining three continued to ignore Xie An and Wang Lin's anger, led the two war horses together, and galloped away in the direction of the cricket statue.

Walking out of the pile of rocks, four cavalrymen, one each on the left and right, closely surrounded Wang Lin and Xie An, all of them were on guard, and it seemed that once the two teenagers made the slightest move, they would be killed directly. Wang Lin was indignant in his heart, and wanted to rebel several times, but he was held down by Xie An in time and did not achieve it.

Xie An whispered to Wang Lin: "What's wrong with you today, why are you so irritable, calm down, I will find a way to let us leave safely when we get to the camp in a while." ”

Wang Lin was also shocked in his heart, it seemed that his emotions were particularly easy to get excited today, he didn't know what was going on, his thoughts were running, Wang Lin thought of last night's adventure, was it because he inexplicably accepted the inheritance of the cockroach, and his temper was also affected by the irascible beast?

Thinking of this, Wang Lin couldn't help but shudder, and whispered to Xie An: "Well, it's me who is too irritable today, I will pay attention from now on." ”

Xie An nodded, and then continued: "Although the border army of Xixia Prefecture is loved by the people, but the border army is not united within it, since Marshal Cao's eldest disciple Zhao Yehua died on the battlefield, the power of this army is second only to Marshal Cao's two major participating troops, Lu Yao and Zheng Chen. Marshal Cao was accompanied by Lu Yao, who was responsible for helping Marshal Cao manage the main force on the west side, and Zheng Chen was the overseer and general sent by the imperial court, mainly responsible for managing the logistics of the border army in Xixia Prefecture and the defenders on the east side. Zheng Chen and Lu Yao are extremely incompatible, and Marshal Cao never manages the formation of parties in the army, as long as the battle is fierce enough, so after the death of Deputy Marshal Zhao Yehua, there is no limit, and the two sides have become mortal rivals. ”

At this time, the leader turned back viciously and shouted: "What are you two muttering, shut up for me! When you return to the camp, whether you two are spies or not, you will suffer." “

Xie An and Wang Lin glanced at each other, stopped talking, and decided to go quietly with these cavalrymen, trying not to provoke them.

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On the west side of Broken Water City, in the main tent of the Broken Mountain Camp, Cao Yuanpeng sat in the middle and high position, holding a document to count the demand for war supplies. His brow furrowed slowly.

The closest places on both sides of Cao Yuanpeng were Lu Yao and Zheng Chen, two generals with tigers on their backs. Behind the two were the senior generals of the border armies on the east and west.

Lu Yao spoke first: "Marshal, the whistle of Yilan has been getting tighter and tighter recently, and it is estimated that in the next few days, the Yilan garrison should have some movements, as for whether it will be the angel legion of the Yilan Heavenly Kingdom that will arrive at the border to adjust the defense, it is not yet confirmed." ”

Cao Yuanpeng put down the paperwork, looked at the incomparably huge map of the Xixia Prefecture border in the big tent and pondered, and responded after a while: "It is very likely that it has been more than half a month since the border was in an emergency, and with the flight speed of the Yilan Angel, it should have reached the border of Xixia Prefecture in a few days." Originally, it was very likely that there would be a large-scale transfer of troops in Yilan. ”

Lu Yao nodded and said seriously: "I will send more spies to confirm the news as soon as possible." ”

Cao Yuanpeng nodded, looked at Zheng Chen again and said, "Our deal with the Xie family is just recently, so be ready to meet it." ”

"Don't worry, Marshal, I'll arrange it. Zheng Chen said.

Lu Yao, who was on the other side, snorted coldly and said: "You have made the soldiers and ruffians on the east side of the country so few recently, and offended the Xie family, our border army will be held accountable together, and you will be fully responsible at that time." “

Zheng Chenpi said with a smile: "Hmph, what's wrong with the soldiers, you better train your soldiers first, which time you won the conflict between our east and west, even if the Xie family is willing to provide 100,000 standard weapons, your soldiers will be chased and beaten by Yilan's old birds." “

Lu Yao was furious, stood up directly, raised his fist and was about to hit Zheng Chen, Zheng Chen did not back down, and also punched Lu Yao's fist. "Knock!" the two fists collided, making a huge bell ringing, and the generals behind the two generals saw their respective leaders fighting, and they also rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight.

"Enough!" A huge and strongly threatening voice sounded from Cao Yuanpeng's mouth, and Lu Yao and Zheng Chen stopped at this time, both snorted, and returned to their respective positions.

Cao Yuanpeng said majestically: "If you want to fight, wait for the Xie family's words to leave! Don't lose your face in front of others." ”

All the generals were angry, and said dissatisfiedly, "Yes!" and then the generals left. When I left, I was scolding.

Cao Yuanpeng stood up and walked to the huge Xixia Prefecture border topographic map in front of him, a pair of calloused hands gently stroked the Xixia mountains and rivers on the topographic map, and a confident and resolute voice sounded: "I, a military boy on the Xixia border, am about to stand on the battlefield, so why am I afraid of dying on the battlefield." ”

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Wang Lin and Xie An followed the four soldiers and walked for three hours, and finally arrived at the camp on the east side of the broken mountain.

The large camp on the east side was built on a very flat ground on the top of the broken hill on the east side, the large camp was very spacious, and from time to time soldiers galloped out of the camp on horseback and disappeared in all directions, while outside the gate was a team of twenty people, standing straight outside the gate, without the slightest slack. At the same time, several other squads patrolled around the camp.

Xie An and Wang Lin were escorted into the main camp, and under the malicious smile of the leading cavalry general, the two were imprisoned in an inconspicuous tent in the corner of the main camp. There were many cages and torture instruments inside the tent, and there were many dark red marks on the ground after the blood had dried up.

After Wang Lin and Xie An were escorted into two cages, the four ruffians left the tent, leaving a sentence as they left: "Someone will come to clean you up in a while." ”

Wang Lin looked at the mottled blood stains on the inside of the filthy tent, frowned, looked at the ground, and did not speak.

Xie An reacted slightly better than Wang Lin, looked at Wang Lin and said: "Brother Wang, this is the big camp on the east side, belonging to Zheng Chen's generals, most of the soldiers here are not natives of Xixia Prefecture, but people from various states who defected, experienced or exiled, Zheng Chen is a native of the capital of Zhongzhou, and he is very popular in Kyoto. And the exiled people guarded the frontier for life, and after getting acquainted, they became ruffians in the border army, bullying newcomers and flattering high-ranking people. ”

After a pause, he smiled helplessly: "We are unfortunate that we have become the victims of these ruffians to flatter their high positions." ”

Wang Lin nodded in understanding, looked around, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that many people here have been tortured. “

Xie An also looked around, and said with a wry smile: "The soldiers here are always in a life and death crisis, and they hate traitors and enemies. However, since they are enemies, they do not have any psychological burden. “

Wang Lin looked at the dried blood on the ground, and said with some indignation: "But are we also enemies?"

Xie An looked at Wang Lin and didn't answer him, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

At this moment, footsteps could be heard outside the tent.

"Master Qianfu, this is the spy we caught, who dared to forge the token of the general, compared to this, the eyes of the frog stone statue are not worth mentioning at all. “

As he spoke, a few people walked in outside the tent, and among the two people led by him was the cavalry general he met on the mountain road, and the other man he looked at with a flattering face was the elder Qianfu in his mouth.

I saw the commander of the thousand men walking towards Wang Lin and saying, "Show me your token." ”

Wang Lin did not hesitate, handed the token to the commander with a cold face, and said in a cold voice: "You'd better see clearly, don't be like the fool next to you, you can't even tell the difference between real and fake tokens!"

The cavalry general beside the commander immediately shouted angrily at Wang Lin: "You spy, do you know who is in front of you, this is the elder Chen Jinjue of our Daxin Border Army, and his family is a famous family in Zhongzhou, dare to talk to my family like this, boy, you are dead." ”

Xie An looked at the cavalry general who had been arrogant and escorted them before, but now his face was full of flattery, and said, "Then what about you, where are you from a famous family?"

The cavalry turned his head to look at Xie An, and snorted: "I, I'm not afraid that you know, my family has managed farmland and industry for the family of the elder Qianfu for generations, and this time I also came to be a soldier with the elder Qianfu." ”

Xie An nodded lightly and said, "That's it, so you're saying that you're just a dog raised by someone else." ”

The cavalryman immediately opened his eyes with anger and shouted: "What do you say! Say it again! Lao Tzu chopped up your whole family, believe it or not!"

Xie An looked at him with a look of pity and said, "You have to remember this. ”

The cavalryman didn't understand, and continued to shout: "What's the matter, don't you believe it? That Lao Tzu will chop you up now!"

Before he could finish speaking, the commander slapped the cavalry general in the face, beat him to the ground, and dragged him out of the tent.

When he arrived outside the tent, the commander Chen Jinjue slapped the young general a few times and scolded: "You fool, this token is real!"

The cavalry general rubbed his swollen face, and it took a while to recover, but there was not the slightest hatred in his eyes, as if he had just been slapped on someone else.

He continued to step forward and whispered flatteringly: "Master, the generals on the east side of us haven't come back yet, and now the biggest official position here is the master, you say it's fake or not, and then let's quietly get rid of the two of them, and directly hand them over to Zheng Chen's corpses, there is no proof of death, according to our Zheng Chen's general's temperament, we will definitely not tell Lu Yao, but we can write down this military merit, after all, it is a great achievement to catch the spies, maybe the military merits that the master wants you to accumulate will be able to be collected this year, and you will be able to go home at the end of the year!"

Chen Jinjue's eyes lit up, patted the young general's face, made a snapping sound, and scolded with a smile: "You dog slave, there are a lot of tricks, not bad, just do it according to your plan." With that, he coughed and re-entered the tent.

Chen Jinjue said to the guards standing on both sides: "These two people are spies who forged the general's order, and they had a great impact, so they were cut down on the spot. ”

Wang Lin stood up and scolded: "What are you talking about! You don't have long eyes, you can't tell the real from the fake, have you ever thought about how we got through the entrance of the Broken Mountain Forbidden Area if the token is fake." You've got a brain!"

Chen Jinjue frowned, looked at Wang Lin with disgust and said: "It's noisy, it's because the defenders at the entrance don't know how to distinguish the authenticity of the token, so you can get through the tricks, don't struggle anymore, someone will cut them down!"

"Yes!" The two soldiers beside him walked over, opened the cage, and prepared to escort Wang Lin and Wu Chi out and behead them on the spot.

Xie An suddenly spoke, and his voice was very calm: "Do you know that I was personally invited by your Marshal Cao, and I hurt us, do you know the consequences." As he spoke, he took out a customs clearance letter printed with the three words Cao Yuanpeng from his clothes.

Chen Jinjue's eyes narrowed slightly, stretched out Xie An's letter, turned around and carefully identified it, and his body suddenly shuddered. Turning around, with their backs to Wang Lin and Xie An for a long time, the soldiers also stopped and waited for Chen Jinjue's follow-up orders.

Seeing this, the young general was ruthless, stepped forward, saw Chen Jinjue's face covered with sweat, and said fiercely: "Master, things have developed so far, there is no turning back, let's not do two things, bury this one named Xie An, hand over the other one, as long as the thing is done unconsciously, no one will know." ”

Chen Jinjue was silent for a long time, nodded fiercely, turned around, tore Xie An's letter to shreds, and then poured it into his mouth and swallowed it all. Then he said: "What was personally invited by Marshal Cao, is there any evidence, why didn't I see it? Hmph! Dying and struggling, cut them down for me."