Naturally, everything that happened in Qingfu County would not reach Junlian Prefecture within half a day. In the early morning of the next day after Wu Hou's death, Wu Tong ordered two hundred Fan soldiers and set off from Junlian to Qingfu.
He did not expect that when selling some private salt in a neighboring county, he would encounter such a fierce counterattack from the local salt merchants, who would take people there to suppress the sale.
It was just to put the Tibetan soldiers away and let the Qingfu people know that if they were to fight Wu Tong, no one in black or white could defeat him.
It's a shame that Li Xia ate 6,000 guan a year, but was so useless in getting things done.
This was also a common bad habit in the official circles of the Song Dynasty. Wu Tong was not surprised and was used to having to rely on himself to do everything.
Yan Xiao also earns hard-earned money...
In the same morning, Li Xia also ordered his troops and horses to go up the Fu River and head south to attack Wu Tong.
He wanted to ambush at Zhucao Mountain by the Fu River, which, by coincidence, was within Qingfu County.
Li Xia had already thought about what to say afterwards.
"You are a patrol inspector in Junlian Prefecture and a well-known salt lord. First, you sent your tribe to sell salt and kill people under the rule of the county captain. Then you led troops to Qingfu County. The county captain protects the territory and the people. What's wrong with that?
Is there any?"
"What? I received six thousand gu from you a year? I have nothing to live with. When I took office in Qingfu, I didn't even have a place to live. I lived in the county magistrate's house. I gave my land to the village warriors who died in the battle. I had no money, no land and no shop.
,When did I receive your money?”
It is a pity that these remarks are probably unnecessary, because Li Xia planned to silence Wu Tong and die without any evidence.
At three o'clock in the morning, the ambush started on the Fu River.
Li Xia stood on Zhucao Mountain and watched the battle, his mind gradually going further afield.
Killing Wu Tong is easy, but this is just the beginning of extending his power into Junlianzhou.
And Junlianzhou is just one end of the Wuchi Road. Crossing the Wuchi Road is the vast Yunnan.
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"We are ordered to suppress the salt owl, and we will only kill the evil leader, not those who surrender!"
Amid the shouts, the Miao soldier named "Haijinliu" looked up and saw Huhu and Xiong Mountain on the hillside, and also saw the big flag on the top of the mountain.
Hai Jinliu fought with Lulu Hu and Xiong Shan, and followed Li Xia to regain Hengzi Village.
Before the Chinese New Year, he had a drink with Jiang Fan, and heard about Li Xiazhen's killing of Wu Lianghetai, and also heard many other things.
At that time, Jiang Fan suddenly asked: "I heard that Inspector Wu doesn't trust you anymore? What's going on?"
"How did you hear that?" Hai Jinliu didn't expect that this matter would spread, and said, "I don't know why, but after the battle, my brother was like that."
"Everyone who followed the county captain to Hengzi Mountain was ignored by Inspector Wu?"
"Is it because of this?" Hai Jinliu was surprised and exclaimed: "It was my brother who asked us to follow Li County Lieutenant to seize the mountain. It was him who gave the order!"
"Haha, I was just guessing, I was just guessing." Jiang Fan laughed and said, "It seems that Inspector Wu is too small-minded, unlike my county lieutenant, you know, right? I used to work as a landlord in the county.
, I only followed Lieutenant Li later, but neither the landlord nor Lieutenant Li ever made things difficult for me... By the way, how much reward did you get after the last battle?"
"Twenty strings."
"Didn't the county lieutenant in front of Hengzi Mountain give you fifteen guan? Didn't Inspector Wu say he would give you another twenty guan?"
"No……"
With these conversations flashing through Hai Jinliu's mind, he looked at the battle situation in front of him and saw that all the village soldiers were still in a panic, while Qingfu's army was mercilessly killing Wu Tong.
There seemed to be only two choices before him, whether to fight to the death with Wu Tong, or not to kill the one who surrendered.
"I surrender..."
Hai Jinliu went through all these things in his mind before making a decision. He suddenly turned to the front, his eyes widened, and he became very surprised.
"Already dropped? This..."
"What did you say?"
"Wu Tong has surrendered. He was the first to surrender." Xiong Shan said: "The villain did not expect it to be so sudden. He is still dividing his ships. Yu Tian has already captured him."
Li Xia was silent for a while.
Even with all the presuppositions he made, this war ended much faster than he imagined.
Those Miao and Yi soldiers were actually quite ferocious, and they shouldn't have been defeated as soon as they came into contact, but Wu Tong actually made a decision, and that was it.
Xiong Shan also didn't react. He cupped his hands and said, "The county captain has ordered to kill Wu Tong. I have always remembered it, but...'We say 'No one who surrenders' will be killed."
"There is also a sentence before, 'Only punish the evil leader'." Li Xia said.
"Yes, but he fell too fast. If he kills him in public, might it stir up trouble? The villain doesn't know how to deal with it."
"I understand." Li Xia said, "Go and control the soldiers and bring Wu Tong up."
Li Xia didn't tell Yu Tian about his plan to seize Junlian's private salt field. After all, this person had just returned.
Yu Tianzhen thought that this time it was the Salt Owl who came to suppress the invaders.
In his opinion, these salt lords went too far, and the county captain was just trying to protect the country and the people.
Therefore, although he was ordered to kill the evil leader, he thought he was just used to shouting like this and failed to understand Li Xia's intention to "kill people and silence them".spanstyle>谷/spanstyle>
Yu Tian was very happy to capture him alive and quickly put down the Salt Owl Rebellion. He dragged Wu Tong, who was tied up with five flowers, up the mountain, and shouted: "County Lieutenant, I am lucky that I have lived up to my command and captured him alive."
Wu Tong had a bitter look on his face, but he still had a hearty smile.
"Brother Li, this is a flood that has washed away the Dragon King Temple. My family is beating my own family..."
After saying this, Wu Tong was still led by Yu Tian towards Li Xia.
He has figured out the whole story. He fell into Li Xia's trap this time. No wonder those people selling official salt dare to be so arrogant. It was Li Xia who was behind this, with the purpose of swallowing up the salt industry of a county and a state.
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But Wu Tong was very rational and had only one thought in his mind: saving his life was the most important thing at the moment.
Where there is life, there is hope.
Therefore, when he saw Li Xia's cold face, Wu Tong did not dare to talk nonsense anymore and said directly: "Brother Li, don't kill me. I will give you everything you want and I will try my best to help you."
Li Xia walked a few steps, took the rope that tied Wu Tong from Yu Tian's hand, and asked, "Really?"
"Yes, yes." Wu Tong said with an apologetic smile on his face, "My salt field and Tibetan soldiers can all belong to you in the future. I will help you take over these, as well as the senior officials in charge and the wealthy smuggling businessmen. I will introduce them to you one by one...
…”
"You're blocking me." Li Xia said.
"What?"
Suddenly, Li Xia kicked Wu Tong and knocked him off the cliff.
"ah……"
It didn't take long to fall from the top of the mountain to the cliff.
But Wu Tong had countless thoughts running through his mind.
For a moment, he thought that Li Xia had made a mistake? Shouldn't it be like this? Even if he wanted to kill, he should wait for a while... Even if it was only for this period of time, he would try to find a way to survive...
He thought of Li Xia's sudden arrival in Junlian Prefecture. He greeted him with a smile from beginning to end, and never did anything to offend Li Xia. He gave money and soldiers, but in the end he only received betrayal?
Even after being betrayed, he was so aggrieved. Why? Why was he kicked off the cliff by Li Xia? I don't understand! What does the phrase "you are blocking me" mean?
As soon as these flashing thoughts passed, there was endless anger.
anger!
"If you take my money, bully me, kill me, I want your reputation to be ruined..."
"Bang!"
There was a loud sound.
Yu Tian was completely stunned.
Everything happened too fast. He led Wu Tong up the mountain. Li Xia took Wu Tong, took him to the edge of the cliff, and kicked him down. The process only took a few words.
"this……"
Soon, Yu Tian felt endless admiration in his heart.
He had already understood those three or two sentences. After being captured, the salt owl Wu Tong, who did all kinds of evil, wanted to bribe the county captain. The county captain would not accept such bribes, so he killed Wu Tong without saying a word.
There are such honest, upright and loyal officials in the world!
"Yu Tian." Li Xia said.
"The villain is here!"
"Go down and see if Wu Tong fell to death and bring back the head...Jiang Fan, you go with him."
Yu Tian didn't understand why he did this. He might as well have cut off his head from the beginning, but he still responded loudly: "Yes!"
Only Jiang Fan understood what Li Xia meant...
Jiang Fan and Yu Tian walked in the forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"General Yu Bai."
"What did Captain Jiang say?"
"You said Wu Tong was too cunning. After he pretended to surrender, he jumped off the cliff, making it difficult for us to find him."
"Ah? He wasn't kicked by the county captain..."
Jiang Fan said "Huh?"
Yu Tian was stunned.
Jiang Fan smiled and said: "Wu Tong has escaped. Yu Bai will hunt him down and behead him. It's that simple."
"Ah, I understand, thanks to Team Leader Jiang for reminding..."