Black Spear was overjoyed. He had been holding back his nerves for a long time. He took out his iron mace, pulled the latch, and opened the door with a creak. Li Ye led the war horse over and said to Zhang Xiaohuan: "We are going to kill the enemy. You come here and lock the door."
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Zhang Xiaohuan asked in horror: "Are you coming back?"
"Nonsense, we don't know the road, come here and close the door!"
Zhang Xiaohuan climbed out tremblingly, and Li Ye led the horse out.
Black Spear covered the poisonous arrows with more than twenty headless corpses. The two of them got on their horses, jumped up and charged towards the twenty horse bandits not far away.
At this time, Tuoba Changshun was also in a huge dilemma. In one attack, more than 70 people were killed. Including the initial casualties, the horse bandits had already lost more than 100 people, nearly 40% of them died.
Especially the last brutal killing by the opponent frightened all the horse bandits, and no one wanted to continue the fight.
Although Tuoba Changshun was a little timid, the huge temptation of a hundred thousand old sheepskins made him a little bit unable to let go, and he was always in the distance and did not see the fierce killing of the other party.
At this moment, screams were heard in the distance, and several horse bandits rushed over, shouting: "They came out and the young chief was killed!"
The young chief is Tuoba Xiu, the son of Tuoba Changshun. He is only seventeen years old and has no experience at all. This is the first time he has followed his father out to hunt fat sheep.
Unexpectedly, what they encountered was not a fat sheep, but a ferocious tiger. When Tuoba Changshun heard that his son had been killed, his whole chest was about to explode. Veins popped out on his forehead, and he looked up to the sky and roared like a wild beast.
"Get on my horse with me and kill them with a thousand swords!"
The horse bandits mounted their horses one after another and followed the chief to fight.
Tuoba Changshun's son Tuoba Xiu was shot through the throat by a flying knife from a black spear. A dozen people around him were all killed by Li Ye, and only two or three people escaped.
Li Ye urged his horse to go faster, and a crowd of dark knights appeared in front of them. The leader was wearing an iron helmet and armor. This was the only one among them who wore armor, and he should be their leader.
The two of them were getting closer and closer. Tuoba Changshun's eyes were filled with anger. His face was distorted by the extreme anger. He was holding a mace in his hand and wanted to beat the opponent to pieces with one blow.
It's a pity that he has no chance to take revenge. He is just an experienced horse bandit, not an experienced general. Suddenly a cold light flashed in front of Tuoba Changshun's eyes. Before he could react, there was a sharp pain in his throat. He clearly felt something thrust into his eyes.
Once it entered his throat, all the strength in his body immediately dissipated.
Tuoba Changshun finally began to be afraid. He finally realized the fear of countless merchants who had been killed by him in the past twenty years. It was a fear of death and an incomparable nostalgia for life. How much he wanted to live again.
Countless innocent businessmen who were killed by him, as well as the women who were insulted and killed by him, all wanted to live, but he didn't give them a chance, and now it was finally his turn.
A bigger cold light flashed, and Tuoba Changshun's head flew up, flying more than ten feet away, and the headless body fell down with a plop.
Many people did not see the death of the leader. The horse bandits were still shouting that they would cut each other into pieces. Li Ye charged into the crowd like a tiger.
Immediately, heads flew up and blood splashed everywhere. Li Ye slashed left and right, killing these weak horse bandits like he was chopping melons and vegetables. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere he passed, and cries and screams could be heard one after another.
Black Spear cooperated tacitly. He went around behind the horse bandit, cut off the opponent's retreat, and wielded the elephant trunk knife to kill the horse bandit from behind. He was not as fierce and brutal as Li Ye, and basically did not chop the opponent's neck.
His main task was to intercept the other party's escape, and killing was secondary. Black Spear killed more than a dozen horse bandits trying to escape.
Li Ye was surrounded by corpses and rivers of blood. Many horse bandits who turned around and fled were shot through the back of the neck by his flying knife.
The remaining dozens of horse bandits split into two directions and fled for their lives. They fled on horseback as hard as they could. Li Ye chased the largest group of horse bandits from behind. He kept firing his bow and arrows to knock them off their horses. He chased them for nearly twenty miles in one breath.
The group of horse bandits he killed was finally slaughtered by him, and no one survived. However, another group of horse bandits who fled to the northwest managed to escape.
The task of eradicating evil is done, and if these horse bandits are not exterminated, they will continue to kill more innocent people.
In this night battle, only 17 of the more than 230 horse bandits escaped, and the rest were all killed, including the bandit leader Tuoba Changshun and his son.
The horse bandits active on the Gansu-Shaanxi border disappeared from then on. Xie Di, the governor of Huizhou, wrote a special memorial and handed it to the court. The memorial was transferred to the imperial court of Emperor Li Longji. Li Longji thought for a long time before approving the memorial.
One line of words, "Abolition of bandits, peace of mind, benefiting one party, and meritorious service to the country, Li Ye is promoted to General Ningyuan!"
At dawn the next day, Li Ye and his party went on the road again. They captured the other side's war horses, and the spoils they obtained included 20,000 taels of silver, more than 800 taels of gold, a large number of gems and jade, and more than 200 war horses and ten
Camel head.
Although Black Spear was not quick enough to kill people and had too many worries, he was very effective in handling the funeral affairs. He roped in Zhang Xiaohuan to help him, piled more than two hundred corpses together, cut down a large number of dead branches and shrubs, and cut the corpses together.
Burn the fire.
After walking for dozens of miles, I still saw black smoke burning in the distance.
"Sir, this is not the way to go! Those bounty hunters are unscrupulous and unpredictable. How about we change our names, put on makeup, go to the Xue tribe, kill their chiefs, provoke civil strife among them, and the bounty issue will naturally be over.
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Li Ye also had a big head. This matter was not easy to solve. Moreover, they were still far away from Xue tribe. Even if they reached Xue tribe's territory, it would be even more difficult to find the chief's tooth tent.
"Let's take one step at a time! When I come back from Anxi and the reward is still there, I will find a way to solve it. There is no chance now."
The three of them speeded up, and a few days later, they passed through a canyon and entered the Lishui River Valley, also known as the Wushaoling Canyon. Once here, they no longer needed a guide.
Zhang Xiaohuan also made a lot of money as a guide on this trip. Li Ye thought that he had done a good job in collecting the corpses and taking care of the horses, so he gave him twenty horses, five camels and a thousand guan of money. Zhang Xiaohuan was so happy that he said goodbye and went back happily.
Zhang Xiaohuan reported to the government immediately after returning. This was what Li Ye had repeatedly told him. He must report to the government immediately after returning. The governor and the county magistrate immediately came with a large group of people. What they saw was that the wolves had torn apart the
's bones.
Coincidentally, just after Zhang Xiaohuan left, Li Ye met a Sogdian caravan heading to Chang'an in the Lishui Valley. They were very interested in Li Ye's two hundred horses.
The two parties quickly negotiated a price, and Li Ye sold 200 horses to the Sogdian caravan for ten gold dinars per horse at half the market price.
Li Ye received two thousand dinar gold coins for the first time, which was equivalent to two thousand gold coins of the Tang Dynasty.
Without the encumbrance of their horses, Li Ye continued westward and arrived in Guzang County, Liangzhou eight days later.
They stayed in Liangzhou for several days. After resting and replenishing supplies, they continued northward, passing through the entire Liangzhou and half of Ganzhou, and arrived at Zhangye City five days later.
Li Ye was riding on a camel. He found that riding a camel was much more comfortable than riding a horse during a long journey. The camel's back was very wide. He didn't need to use his leg strength like riding a horse. Instead, he could relax and lie down comfortably on a bed.
Installed on a Sogdian soft chair between the front and rear humps.
This is also the secret why Sogdian merchants are able to travel thousands of miles. They try not to be so tired.
Li Ye and the others had ten camels, and the other five camels were also trophies. They carried a large amount of dry biscuits and water, and were supplies for the horse bandits.
In the morning, the two of them entered Zhangye City. Li Ye encountered a dilemma. Should he go and meet his grandparents and their family?
To be honest, he didn't want to go. He had never met his grandparents' family, and he didn't have any tokens. More importantly, his grandfather had kicked his mother out for fourteen years, which made him feel very unhappy.
"Sir, let's find an inn to stay at. You'd better go and meet us! Out of etiquette, you should go, otherwise your mother will be sad."
Li Ye thought of his mother. Black Spear was right, even for his mother's sake, he should go.
Li Ye nodded, "Let's stay here first!"
The two of them found a large inn to settle down. Li Ye took a good bath and changed his clothes. He wore a green shirt, a gauze hat on his head, and a leather belt around his waist. He looked elegant and elegant, and he was back to his old days in Taixue.
temperament.
Li Ye inquired about it, and soon arrived at Pei's house. He walked up the steps and looked inside the door.
Suddenly a crisp voice came from behind, "Who are you looking for?"
It seemed to be a little girl. Li Ye turned around, and a few steps behind him stood an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with a double-ring bun and a light yellow half-sleeved skirt. She had picturesque features.
Delicate and pretty.
Li Ye smiled and said: "I come from Chang'an, my surname is Li, and my mother used to live here."
