Chi Yunshen is not the only one who thinks this way. In fact, everyone understands that everyone is full of doubts about the current situation, and is full of doubts about Cui Zhongxian, who has been hanging over everyone's heads and has been seriously ill for a long time but has not yet died.
But no matter how doubtful they are, they cannot give in in their fight for each other. Moreover, because Yin Chang's true identity is revealed, the intensity of the struggle that was once suppressed due to worries about the intervention of the superior country will rebound rapidly.
In order to break the balance of power and overwhelm the opponent, everyone is gathering all the power they can and trying to hinder the actions of others.
The two hundred people summoned by Cui Yu rushed to Kaicheng in a large car that afternoon. They heard that they would be stationed directly in a military camp under his direct control in Kaicheng. To be cautious, the cars were all covered with tarpaulins.
Each car was packed with more than a dozen people.
The Khitan people are not boasting. Most of them come from the Great Wall in the northern Xinjiang of the Jin Kingdom. They have many opportunities to obtain horses and ride horses. Almost everyone is a good rider. In terms of martial arts, they are also proficient in hacking and killing skills on horseback, as well as swinging a bat to play ball.
, no problem at all.
Of course, they were all bare-handed at this time, and the Korean guards following the vehicle also cast wary looks from time to time. They did not regard them as companions just because they responded to the Privy Deputy's recruitment.
However, after being forced to do hard labor for a long time, it is very happy to have the hope of getting rid of this status. Everyone was sitting or lying in the cart, and some people placed the copper coins they had just received in front of them one by one and counted them.
Then they wiped it with their sleeves; some people chatted with each other relaxedly, and the topic slowly turned to the tense dignitaries in Kaesong and the reason for recruiting people, the so-called polo tournament.
Everyone was not worried about polo, as it was not a rare competition. After a few words, everyone discussed their cooperation during the game, and everyone felt that the team they temporarily formed was enough to overwhelm the Korean knights.
This is because everyone has suffered for several months, and their bodies are weak and their spirits are low. Many people have scars from being beaten with whips and sticks. It is not uncommon for their bones to even be broken and their wounds to ulcerate. But for
Seizing the opportunity to escape from the hard labor camp, they managed to maintain a strong and powerful posture even if they were injured.
If heroes like Brother Yelvliu were still around in the past, and the Khitans spread out their military formations to fight, the dozen or so people in this car would be able to deal with a hundred or more Koreans.
This kind of self-confidence certainly does not come out of thin air. Many tribes in the northeastern hinterland have not taken the Koreans seriously for hundreds of years. The strong self-confidence accumulated from many war victories is also something passed down in the army.
The Khitan leader who came out to respond on behalf of everyone earlier was named Xiao Nieli.
"Nieli" means sun or fire in the Khitan language. People with this name are usually descendants of palace accountants who served the royal family during the Liao Dynasty. However, this kind of official status from one dynasty to the next has been eliminated until now.
It's meaningless.
Xiao Nieli is just a wandering Khitan. There are rumors that when he rushed into Goryeo with the Khitan army, he gave many suggestions to the generals above. However, he lost almost all the middle and upper class in the long years of fighting.
The Khitan army of the characters became more and more tribal, and gradually became content to stay in a corner of Goryeo, leaving little room for Xiao Nieli to develop.
Of course, with his talent, even if he was trapped in a hard labor camp, he could still win over a few reliable companions. At this moment, half of the people in the cart were his close brethren, and the other half were injured and sick people who urgently needed to leave the hard labor camp for medical treatment.
At this time, others were already discussing the arrangements after winning the horse-racing bet with the Koreans. Someone said excitedly: "As long as you win the game and perform meritorious service, the deputy privy envoy will always give you some reward? Maybe he will also do it for the official... That's it.
It’s not bad to live in Goryeo.”
Xiao Nieli suddenly shook his head and said: "It may not be that easy to win a football match. The people who are right with us may not be Koreans!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and were about to ask questions when they suddenly heard a commotion outside the big car. It turned out that the motorcade was about to turn out of the mountainous area, and there was a checkpoint, blocking the entire motorcade.
Several Koreans leading the queue were obviously very angry about this, and they immediately spat and cursed.
I don't know which group of people set up the checkpoint, but they didn't pay attention to the dignified deputy minister's team. I could only hear the shouting and cursing from both sides getting louder and louder. At first, they were still verbally conflicting with each other, but soon the anger subsided.
If he couldn't hold back, he drew his sword and threatened.
There was a Korean man who held money boxes and distributed money to the Khitan people, so everyone remembered him. He would jump up and down violently when they had a quarrel. When he saw the opponent pull out his sword, he immediately moved forward two steps.
He stepped forward, stretched his head under the blade, and shouted: "Come! If you have the guts, come and chop! If you don't have the guts, give way!"
Many Koreans in the queue cheered loudly, and the coachmen waved their whips, urging the drivers to rush to the checkpoint.
The people who used to go back and forth on the road were now running away in a hurry, fearing that Chi Yu would be harmed.
Some people in the motorcade hurriedly ran back to find the highest-ranking Korean guard who was leading the team.
At this moment, in the team that blocked the road, the threatening man with a knife gritted his teeth.
Previously, Chi Yunshen discovered that Cui Yu sent people to various camps where Khitans and Jurchens gathered to recruit people. He immediately became anxious. He urged his horse to go on his way, intending to get ahead of Cui Yu, and specially left some people behind to let them
Try your best to block the road and delay time.
The man holding the knife was Chi Yunshen's confidant, named Pu Demeng. This man was somewhat clever, so after receiving the order, he first went to a nearby sentry post, moved a few antlers to block the road, and claimed that he was a servant of the capital.
Order to prevent suspicious people from entering Kaicheng.
Unexpectedly, Cui Yu's subordinates did not accept this trick at all, and pressed forward vigorously. In the blink of an eye, they pushed away the antlers on both sides.
Pu Demeng knew that if he shrank back at this time, it would be impossible to stop the opponent. When things came to a head, there was no room for hesitation, not to mention that he was gradually unable to contain his anger. The person on the other side stretched out his head to hit him again, and he swung his knife and slashed.
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The sword flashed, and the people around him exclaimed in unison.
"You're killing someone with a knife!" Xiao Nianli was lifting the felt cloth to look outside. He just yelled and ran out. Immediately, there was a loud uproar outside, and there was a fierce conflict between the two sides.
When the military envoy in charge of security in Kaesong arrived, a small-scale armed fight, or rather a battle, had ended.
There were several corpses lying on the ground, and blood was flowing everywhere. There were dozens of injured Koreans. A group of people who had been ordered by Chi Yunshen to block the road were all squatting on the ground, and were guarded by Khitans holding weapons.
The convoy carrying the Khitan people had already left, and there were only people watching around.
When the military envoy heard the sound of fighting earlier, he thought some nobleman had become ruthless and led his troops to rebel. He was so frightened that he quickly abandoned the city gate and ran home. Later, he was stopped by a servant and found out what happened.
It turned out that Chi Yunshen's subordinates tried to obstruct the convoy of the Deputy Privy Envoy's subordinates, and even stabbed a demonstrator with a knife. In fact, the knife was not heavy, and the blade penetrated the flesh for at most two or three minutes, which was just a minor injury. Unexpectedly, this move alarmed the convoy.
The Khitans were loading goods inside. They rushed out, seized swords and guns on the spot and killed them.
Those Khitan people were all fierce and fierce, and their swords and spears were dancing fast and furious. How could ordinary Goryeo warriors resist them?
Pu Demeng was killed in a blink of an eye, with half of his head cut off. Several of his close companions also suffered. Some had their necks cut off, some had their stomachs stabbed with force, and their intestines spilled out. Others were chopped.
He broke his arm and rolled around screaming for a long time. When the convoy left, a Khitan man came over and stabbed his chest with a knife to prevent him from suffering any more.
It was not that the military envoy had never fought in a war. He was able to achieve this position because he had participated in several coups with Cui Zhongxian in his early years, and had lost several lives under his command. But the scene in front of him still shocked him.
It was not that he was frightened by the blood, but that the parties who were originally wary of each other and did not dare to directly conflict began to use knives to see blood, which made him very uncomfortable.
He also looked at the relaxed expressions of the Khitans holding weapons, as if they had just killed a lot of people and were no different from killing chickens and dogs. He heard that only seven or eight of them rushed to grab their swords and directly broke up the checkpoint guarded by dozens of people...
...Damn it, why did such a ruthless character end up in a hard labor camp?
These people are all tigers and wolves who have poured into Korea from the northern border. According to common sense, they have to be tied up with 17 or 18 ropes and whipped with whips every day to feel at ease.
But now, tigers and wolves have the use of tigers and wolves. Whoever they take refuge in will have fresh blood, and their fists will be much stronger than before! If Cui Yu recruits hundreds or thousands of such ruthless people, gives them weapons, and manages them uniformly
, who can stop them inside and outside Kaicheng?
Every official inside and outside Kaicheng has noble support behind him. This military envoy is no exception.
Seeing that no one was paying attention around him, the military envoy summoned a close aide and whispered: "When you go back and report, just say that the Khitans are vicious, and you have to recruit the same number or more Khitans, otherwise it will be impossible to control them!"