Invincible son

Chapter 281 280 [Subdued]

When the ten scouts sent by Fu Hongzhi returned, General Pei Yue arrived outside Linqing City.

After listening to the scout's report, Pei Yue frowned and said, "Missing?"

Those were eight hundred cavalry, not just a few flies, how could they disappear out of thin air?

The scout said with shame on his face: "We obeyed the Lord's order and did not follow too closely, but in the middle of the night, the Xiwu people found our trail, and then sent a team of more than [-] rangers to intercept us. Wait until the middle of the night Those twenty or so people fled to the west, and most of the enemies have disappeared."

Fu Hongzhi said in a deep voice, "It's been so long that you've been trained so easily to be discovered?"

The scouts hung their heads and dared not answer.

Pei Yue waved his hand and said, "Forget it, the people of Western Wu are not good people, so don't blame them for this matter."

Fu Hongzhi replied: "Yes."

Pei Yue looked at the ten dejected scouts, and said gently: "Return to the team, and work harder in the future."

The sun was high, and the summer sun was extremely dazzling. There were still traces of yesterday's fight on the flat ground outside the east gate, but the dead bodies had been cleaned up.Pei Yue was slightly surprised. This was obviously Wei Rui's way of handling it. As expected of the famous general seed that Wei Xiao had specially reminded him, these details were well considered.

After all, for this era, if the corpses outside the city were not disposed of in time, it would have extremely dire consequences if they caused a plague, especially now that it was the hottest time of the year.

The east gate of Linqing opened wide, and Wei Rui led the first team out of the city to welcome them. Deng Zai and other soldiers were also there.

Behind them are people from Linqing County, such as Mo Qingyun and Yu Zheng, Yan Linchuan is still riding in a soft sedan today, he is too old to travel around.

When the two sides met, Wei Rui bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty, I humbly discussed with Mozhi County and Yu Guerrilla last night, and summoned the people in the city to clean up the battlefield. The corpses of the horse bandits have been buried in the wasteland at the foot of the east mountain. Now it is placed in the Baoguo Temple in the city, and Elder Yan took out ice cubes from the ice cellar at home to preserve the remains of our comrades."

Pei Yue nodded slightly, turned to look at Yan Linchuan who came down from the sedan chair tremblingly, and said sincerely: "Thank you, sir."

Yan Linchuan said with a sad face: "Master Pei, these soldiers are fighting for the people of Linqing. This old man is just trying his best, which is not worth it. I still have something to ask the Lord, dare to ask those Western Wu cavalrymen Where are you now?"

Seeing that the local gentry in Linqing were very concerned about this issue, Pei Yue knew that there was indeed a shadow left in their hearts from the past, so he said loudly: "The cavalry of the Western Wu Dynasty fled to the south. I have sent someone to notify the Governor's Mansion. You don't have to worry."

The Linqing country gentry headed by Yan Linchuan might not have believed these words yesterday, but after witnessing the scene where Pei Yue chopped off the head of the strong man with a single knife, these people suddenly felt trust in him for some reason.

Wei Rui bowed his head and said: "My lord, I deduce that this is a small group of Western Wu cavalry crossing the border, so I have reported the details of this place to the Guping camp overnight."

Pei Yue said approvingly: "You did a good job."

Wei Rui continued: "Because of fearing that the army of Western Wu would violate the border yesterday, I arbitrarily decided to block the remaining three gates of Linqing with stones, which caused a lot of trouble to the local people. My Lord, please punish me."

Pei Yue looked him up and down, looked at Mo Qingyun and asked, "Mozhi County, do you think Officer Wei is wrong?"

Unlike when we met yesterday, Mo Qingyun suppressed the clear arrogance on his body, and said calmly and crisply: "A general thinks about defeat before thinking about victory. wrong."

Pei Yue reached out and patted Wei Rui's shoulder, and said with a smile, "Did you hear that?"

Wei Rui was neither arrogant nor impetuous, with a calm expression, but he still nodded slightly to Mo Qingyun to express his gratitude.

Chen Xianda behind Pei Yue winked at Wei Rui, while Meng Longfu and Fu Hongzhi next to him looked helpless.

At this time, Yu Zheng, a guerrilla from the Lingzhou Guard Army, asked cautiously: "Master Pei, are those people behind you horse bandits?"

When everyone heard the words and looked around, they saw a long line of Tibetan front guard cavalry behind them, and everyone's hands were tied and strung together with a long rope.

Pei Yue said indifferently: "Yesterday, after nightfall, the Western Wu cavalry fled south. Our mounts lost too much leg strength, so we chose to rest for two hours. Then we rushed to the northeast and found the remaining traces of horse bandits in a small village more than 30 miles away. , half beheaded and half surrendered, and the leader of the bandits, Chen Meng, has also been put to death."

This time, not only the Linqing officials and squires were shocked, but even Wei Rui couldn't control his expression.

Yu Zheng wanted to slap himself twice, why did he ask such a question that would make him feel ashamed.

As we all know, the reason why the horse bandits in Qingyu Mountain are so powerful is entirely because of the incompetence and uselessness of the Lingzhou guard army, who lost three battles in a row before allowing the opponent to stand up.But yesterday on the top of the city, everyone saw with their own eyes that the Qingyushan horse bandit, who had been arrogant for a year, was like a child in front of the Tibetan front guard. More than 400 people died in battle, but they didn't even touch Pei Yue's horse's tail. Appeared, this will be a victory for 400 people to easily encircle and suppress 2000 people.

Even if there were Western Wu people disturbing the situation, Pei Yue still led his people to attack overnight, easily destroying these arrogant horse bandits.

Yan Linchuan praised: "Your Majesty is indeed worthy of your majesty's trustworthy martial arts meritorious service, and it is very incomparable."

Pei Yue smiled and said: "My lord, don't make fun of me. As long as you are willing to sell the coal mine land to Charcoal Temple, this is more important than [-] compliments."

A smile full of deep meaning appeared in Yan Linchuan's old eyes, he took out a stack of documents from his sleeve, handed them to Pei Yue himself, and said sincerely: "This is the contract document for that land, Sir, please accept it."

Holding the title deed, Pei Yue said with a half-smile, "Then I'll accept it?"

Yan Linchuan nodded and said, "It should be so, don't refuse."

What an old fox who is used to going with the flow.

Pei Yue sighed silently in his heart, and said without changing his face: "My lord understands righteousness deeply, and I will definitely report the truth to Your Majesty."

Yan Linchuan laughed so hard that he couldn't keep his eyes open, and he turned sideways to invite, "Your lord has returned from a great victory, how can you greet him without wine? This old man will order people to prepare to celebrate the lord and your subordinates."

"Wait a minute."

Pei Yue glanced at the people in front of him, and said solemnly: "It's just horse bandits, you don't need to be so solemn, I appreciate the kindness of the boss. In Mozhi County, these horse bandits are all heinous, so I hand them over to you for interrogation According to the law of Daliang, he will be punished severely, and then reported to the imperial court."

"I obey the orders." Mo Qingyun bowed slightly.

Why did this person suddenly change his gender?

Pei Yue was a little puzzled. In his impression, Qingliu was made of stinky and hard stones in a latrine, just like Mo Qingyun's appearance when he first met yesterday.Why did he become so docile after a day and a night? Could it be that Wei Rui tied him up and beat him up last night?
Facing Pei Yue's inquiring gaze, Wei Rui shook his head slightly to indicate that he didn't know.

Pei Yue let go of his doubts and said to everyone: "Everyone, please go back, I still have things to do."

Yan Linchuan asked: "What is Sir Sir going to do? This old man may be able to help."

Pei Yue said in a deep voice: "No need, this is Zang Fengwei's own business."

There was a look of sadness in his eyes, which was extremely rare, especially Deng Zai had never seen his young master have such an expression.Soon others understood what was going on, and a tragic and solemn emotion gathered in the three hundred riders behind Pei Yue.

(End of this chapter)