Chapter 147 Some people are alive but already dead
Chapter 147 Some people are alive but already dead
It was already the twelfth lunar month, and Guo Xun was thinking about his usual self.
In this cold season, didn't we used to sit by the warm charcoal stove, drink hot wine and hug the soft beauty, and there would be someone next to us to brag about it?
Now I'm surrounded by stinky guys who haven't taken a shower in months.
"Master Hou, that's the little Zhuangzi in front!"
Qiu Luan pointed to a small village less than two miles ahead. It was said to be a small village, but in fact it could be seen that the field in front of him should all belong to the same owner.
The distribution of houses in that small village looks like it is not an ordinary village.
There are shadowy village walls, tall and round granaries, and a fairly flat drying ground.
It's still dark, so it's hard to see clearly.
Guo Xun moved his steps. He had fallen off his horse while suppressing bandits and had a large bruise on his right leg. He also bruised his knee quite badly. He is still not fully recovered yet.
He looked ahead and asked in a low voice: "How far is it from the river?"
I could hear movement in the west and north. Seeing the fire here, people there must have quickened their pace.
It dawns late on a winter night, it's already almost twilight time, but it's still dark.
Guo Xun's face changed: "No! Maybe there is a secret passage and he has escaped long ago! Raise fire and charge!"
"We have to look for it!" Guo Xun looked at Zhang Heling with his head down, "Bring some water and dry food. I'm afraid he has been hungry for at least two days."
A full force of two hundred people walked out of this small mountain forest, and no one spoke a word.
Li Yi and others' expressions suddenly changed, but Chen Jiuchou in front of them suddenly turned around and shouted: "No one can move! His Majesty's decree is to punish only the first culprit!"
Li Long covered his throat and looked at Zhang Yong in disbelief, who was standing on the horse with a face as cold as ice. Zhang Yong skillfully pulled up the horse's head again, and kicked his chest with two horse hooves.
Except for Zhang Heling himself, why would anyone else keep it? It would still be a burden to carry around.
Zhang Yong stared at them: "For those who participated in the agitation, please stand up on your own so as not to harm your family. This is your Majesty's special favor for the first time the border town has established rules."
"Master Marquis, stay here and watch out for traps. We will eventually attack them!"
Holding Li Long's head, Zhang Yong slowly walked over.
"Li Long sent a message to the nine frontiers and warned the generals: Since I am in charge of the extreme, no matter how difficult it is from now on, it will not be difficult for me to control the border! Therefore, I will send people to investigate and kill anyone who deducts military pay! If the soldiers under my control collectively mutiny
, I won’t investigate, I will just kill! If you can’t control your own soldiers, how can you be a general? If I hear of mutiny in the future, I will regard it as rebellion!”
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"Master Hou! Master Hou! Found it!"
Before Li Long finished speaking, Zhang Yong had already pulled out a knife from the saddle with one hand and cut Li Long's throat neatly in an arc.
Zhang Yong held the horse's rope as if to stop the horse, but the horse's head was held high and its feet began to move wildly.
"The servants are all dead," Old Wei said in a strange tone, "Marquis Shouning was injured... very seriously..."
Li Yi was talking about Fu Ji, the deputy official of the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi Xingdu Division. After Xu Ming died, Li Long coerced and hinted at the various government officials of the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi Province. He also wrote a memorial to Xu Ming to deduct military pay, but Fu Ji was the only one who refused to listen.
, and later on, he was beaten so badly that he was bedridden on the way home.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Yi said again: "Then Fu Juanshi..."
Two hundred steps, one hundred steps later, it was still quiet inside Zhuangzi.
When those who were transferred from Shaanxi Province to serve as governors were paid their full salary, the mutiny among the soldiers would naturally subside.
It would be better to be miserable after going back. Although the bandit suppression was very funny, after all, he, Guo Xun, was always following him on stage.
Guo Xun was stunned for a moment, then he looked out overjoyed and shouted, "There's no ambush? Where are his servants?"
Guo Xun didn't step on his foot properly and got stuck in a ball of mud and sprained his foot: Damn it, it's already winter, shouldn't the fields be frozen?
Zhangye City is the headquarters of the general army of Gansu Town. The guarding eunuch and the governor's envoy were originally stationed here, but now both the guarding eunuch and the governor's envoy are dead.
Guo Xun nodded solemnly: "It's up to you, go and make arrangements!"
Guo Xun said contemptuously: "Don't worry, he is reluctant to commit suicide."
Li Yi and others could clearly see that Zhang Yong was already quite old, his hair had turned a lot whiter, and the flesh on his face was also flabby.
He didn't quite realize that Chen Jiuchou's slightly backward step had also blocked Li Yi and others. As the governor, it was difficult for others to cross him to greet Zhang Yong.
Why attack by force? Since everyone was running away, how could it be so easy to persuade him? Guo Xun didn't bother to persuade him.
But when they returned, they moved Liu Jin, which made Li Longgao look a little bit more disapproving.
This time, although the soldiers were excited and killed Xu Ming, which was a big deal, Li Long felt that it would be faster to get money this way.
But Li Yi and others were so heartbroken that they put down their knives and threw them away. They also took off their helmets and knelt down.
"Isn't this all right? The people sent by Yang Zhitai and Chen Futai have nothing to say?"
Li Long didn't care about Zhang Yong's reputation in the border town: how much did Zhang Yong have to do with pacifying King Anhua's rebellion? When he and Yang Yiqing arrived, the rebellion had already been put down by the Ningxia generals.
At worst, I'll give him some of the money I copied this time.
"Xiao Qi, the leader of the humble post, should have arrived when he saw the army surrounding him." Qi Yong, a member of the Imperial Guards who came to send a message to Guo Xun, also looked ugly, "Since he is not here now, I don't know what happened to the humble post. Mr. Wei,
What do the soldiers you left here say?"
So Li Long didn't know the way Chen Jiuchou looked at him: some people are alive but already dead.
Li Long had a sullen face and said after a while: "It's okay! Now that the mutiny has subsided, the court will not pursue it any further."
He raised his head and looked at the moon. Guo Xun could wait for an hour.
"I have thought about the reward for the general. Please see, Lord Marquis, those who came today are all elites. The night march is much better than before. It is not yet Yin Shi. If you want to be very safe, divide the infantry battalion into two and move over to block the west.
To the north, one hour is enough. After we wait here for more than half an hour, we can spread out and slowly move over. When we get to the river, we can raise fire. The soldiers we brought with us can cover up from the east, which is very fast.
very!"
He felt that although he was much smarter than Shouning Hou, Shouning Hou's choice was really too stupid.
"There is no mistake. They haven't moved here since the news came. The general's subordinates have been keeping an eye on this place."
Otherwise, how could there not even be a sentry?
The one who came was Zhang Yong, one of the Eight Tigers back then.
What's more, Li Long is very sure that when Zhang Yong arrives today, he will find that at least Ganzhou cannot do without him Li Long at this moment!
Outside Zhangye City, Li Long squinted his eyes and looked at the cloud of dust in the distance.
Li Yi and others turned pale.
Zhang Heling, who was tied to the bed in the back room, was already dying. The most troublesome thing was that his crotch should be gone, but it was bandaged with some medicine.
"I haven't seen anyone in the village going out. Looking at the situation now, no wonder they have seen smoke from cooking stoves in the past two days. They thought Marquis Shouning was hiding here to eat dry food temporarily and was waiting for someone to respond, so they didn't dare to act rashly."
"General, can you really handle this?"
"Is it really still here?" Guo Xun stared over there fiercely, "If we miss him, he won't know how far he can run along the canal all day and night, so how can he find it?"
However, with the light of the fire and the footsteps, there was still no movement in the village, as if there was no one there.
All the elites are here today!
To put it bluntly, it is not the elegant edicts written by the imperial edicts.
After running for a hundred steps, Guo Xun felt that his wound must have opened again.
Gritting his teeth and taking a breath, he continued to touch forward.
"Eunuch Zhang, it's been a hard journey..."
"That means there was no instigation, but it just couldn't be stopped?" Zhang Yong's voice was still very cold, "Dali Temple and Jin Yiwei will arrive soon. When the truth is found out, it will be treated as treason."
Fortunately, Chen Jiuchou understood the situation very well and obediently paid the salary in full.
With a knife in one hand and a head in the other, he did not produce an imperial edict.
But at this moment, Zhang Yong's eyes were cold and sharp.
Is there really a secret passage here? A secret passage dug underground beside the canal?
Lying in the dense forest to the south, Qiu Luan asked in a low voice: "Uncle Guo, do you really want to attack by force? What if Marquis Shouning is hit by a stray arrow or commits suicide out of fear of crime?"
Guo Xun felt a little weird: "Is he stupid? Since everyone has started running away, why did he hide in such an easy place? So close to the river..."
Besides, Zhang Heling still dared to resist in the face of the protection of the army. Wouldn't it be a greater credit to "persuade" him to go back in this way?
Waiting patiently for the time to pass little by little, and after the old Wei came over to tell him that it was almost done, Guo Xun tried his feet, then gritted his teeth and said: "Let's go!"
And there were two hundred cavalry hidden behind him.
Li Long didn't take it seriously. After all, the former governor had just been killed and burned in a mutiny, and Chen Jiuchou was wary of him.
Hundreds of big men surrounded them aggressively, but there was no resistance or movement in the village. Guo Xun felt that he had been tricked!
But what is more difficult than death is that Zhang Heling was tortured into this state.
To be able to avoid collapse for such a long time must be a very tactful person who knows the importance of things.
Seeing the cavalry approaching, Li Long put on a smile and stepped forward to greet them.
Guo Xun's face was ashen as he looked at the house full of murdered servants, more than thirty of them, and even two women.
Would Queen Mother Zhang think it was him?
Guo Xun still didn't know what happened in Beijing. He didn't know the details. He was just ordered to come over and find Zhang Heling and persuade him to go back.
Encountered a bandit on the road at night.
"The generals of Ganzhou will disarm and listen to the order!"
It is said that it is difficult to fly with wings, so it must be difficult to fly with wings. When a group of bandits were surrounded before, Guo Xun couldn't bear it and waited for others to go around to the opposite side to block it. Only then did some leaks leak out and he fell off while chasing after him on horseback.
Now that the mutiny has passed, Li Long has no intention of openly killing officials again.
Arriving at the small river less than three hundred steps away from Zhuangzi, Guo Xun ordered: "Cross the bridge first. When you see someone shouting over there, the lights start to flicker, then raise the fire!"
The news that came in advance also said that Zhang Yong was here to temporarily replace Dong Wenzhong to appease Ganzhou and deal with the Northern invaders. At this time, isn't defending the enemy the most important thing?
"Uu~~" Zhang Yong shouted, as if he couldn't control it.
Guo Xun, who had spent a hard night walking in the dark, felt empty and irritable, and now he had to be carried back to Beijing.
"You mother!" Guo Xun limped around the room and yelled, "Who did this?!"
Not far away, Chen Jiuchou, the new governor of Gansu, stood there silently.
Li Long's eyes were distracted: What happened to the court? Are you crazy? Are you not investigating the case? What should we do about Gansu's military defense?
Li Yi and others all held the handle of the knife with numbness in their hands, but they really didn't dare to move lightly while standing there.
In the past few days, Li Long's hoard of grain has been sold at a high price.
So they crossed the small bridge one by one, spread out again, and slowly approached.
The specific location was told to them by the Jin Yiwei sent by Cui Yuan.
He Zhang Heling can suffer some hardships, but he cannot die!
Guo Xun understands this now.
"...Master Hou, they only know how to kill the enemy, but they have no ability to catch the enemy."
Li Long felt scornful in his heart, why would he come on horseback if his riding skills were so poor? He pretended to be loyal to the emperor and do his best.
He stretched out his hand to help Zhang Yong pull the reins on the horse's head: "The wind and sand in Ganzhou are strong, and this horse may have accidentally lost his sight..."
In an instant, more than a dozen torches lit up on the south side of the small village, and the faint sound of horse hooves could be heard behind Guo Xun and the others.
A person behind him immediately stood up to pick up the knife next to him, but many people stood up behind him and pushed him and the other two people to the ground: "Eunuch Zhang, I really can't stop the generals..."
This means they can't make the decision. Wu Dinghou was ordered to "persuade" Shouning Hou to go back. How to persuade him?
"... No matter what, we must surround it first so that it can't fly! Old Wei, how do we surround it?"
"Less than ten miles away," the other boss replied.
Guo Xun rushed into Zhuangzi and walked towards a big house. His expression changed as he entered the door, and then he cursed loudly: "Qi Yong, didn't you say you still have your brothers to watch over here? Where are the people who did it?"
"Since we are still here, Lord Marquis, what should we do?"
Taking part of this money was the solid evidence that Xu Ming and Dong Wenzhong were corrupt.
"...Li Long is so arrogant and domineering that General Mo and others can't stop him." Li Yi said immediately, "It's the commander Zhi Yong..."
Thinking of this, he looked at the cavalry getting closer and closer in the distance, his eyes becoming serious.
How will I handle business when I return to Beijing this time?
After the incident, Li Long was indeed a little panicked at first when he heard that Dong Wenzhong committed suicide out of fear of crime, but then he came up with a plan. By virtue of his temporary power as the boss of Ganzhou, he not only found a lot of money from Dong Wenzhong's house, but also used it to
Xu Ming and Dong Wenzhong were charged with colluding with others to deduct wages, sell military supplies privately, and confiscated a lot of money from many merchants and wealthy families in Ganzhou.
"Take all these out and burn them, and then go to the nearby county to find a doctor and find a carriage!" Guo Xun gritted his teeth, "Qi Yong, you go find your people first. Old Wei, before the army comes, let the cavalrymen come.
Everyone in the camp searched the area to see if there were any clues."
"Here it comes! Come over!"
In the eyes of Li Yi and other generals and other people in the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, Zhang Yong never said a word, but stayed where he was, chopped him twice, kicked off Li Long's helmet, and then carefully cut off his head.
Cut it off.
Chen Jiuchou hesitated for a moment and fell behind Li Long. Seeing him like this, the smile on Li Long's face became even brighter.
The five thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion captured Zhang Heling. It was too exaggerated and could easily scare off the enemy.
Seeing Li Long arrive, he just nodded.
After standing up from the table in the small shop outside the city gate, he put on his helmet and walked out.
Guo Xun only brought an infantry sub-battalion with a total of 400 people, and a cavalry sub-battalion with a total of 200 people.
After falling to the ground, Zhang Yongpo's sight was seen as he turned over and dismounted somewhat vigorously. After walking over, he stepped on his hand and slashed at his neck with a knife without hesitation.
The more than twenty cavalrymen behind Zhang Yong did not dismount, but rode around him.
As for the fact that he supervised the military affairs of Datong, Yansui and other towns in Xuanfu for a while seven years ago, did that mean that the late emperor was going to take charge of the government? How many people were around at that time?
Li Long now ran outside the city to greet him, simply because the tiger was still alive and still in charge of the Royal Horse Prison. It was also because Zhang Yong came for the mutiny.
There was a sound of knives being drawn on the horses all around, and they got down and surrounded them.
"I will be wronged..."
Zhang Yong interrupted him: "I'll say it again, if you participated in the agitation and now admit it, you will bear the blame. If you are found out, you will be treated as treason!"
The blood on Li Long's head and Zhang Yong's sword was still dripping. Finally, one man knelt down crying and said: "He is the commander-in-chief. He has military orders. How can the general not obey them? What kind of case-solving method is this?"