Northern Dynasties

Chapter 143

At this time, there were remnants of the previous battle everywhere inside and outside the manor. After the soldiers swept the manor and carried the wounded into the manor, before they had time to clean and repair it, there was a large cloud of smoke and dust in the southeast. close.

Soon, a galloping cavalry team appeared in the field of vision. Seeing this scene, the soldiers couldn't help secretly cheering. If the manor hadn't been captured, they would inevitably fall into the predicament of being attacked from behind.

Zhu Meng led dozens of cavalry to the south and stopped for a while, while the other armored soldiers withdrew into the manor, first closed the gate of the manor, and piled up fences with local materials inside the gate to form a barrier.

When they finished these things, the cavalry team also arrived in front of the manor. There were more than [-] people. One of them, who looked like a soldier, pointed to the guards on the wall and shouted: "Where are you waiting?" Wu, why did you enter our county? The Luochuan township group is here, please come and see the owner of the Lei Zhuang!"

Standing on the top of the wall, Li Tai looked at this township cavalry team, and couldn't help sighing secretly, the countryside in the north is not richer than the lower reaches of the Luo River, but when it comes to horses, it is much better than Wuxiang County.

Today's Wuxiang county township regiment has participated in the river defense, and is among the best in the reorganization of township regiments in Zhuzhou, but the township soldiers in the whole county only have four to five hundred horses, and a considerable part of them are just cart horses.

He inherited He Basheng's trilogy, so he was able to pull out a cavalry team of several hundred people.But the Luochuan County Township Regiment can pull out a cavalry team of hundreds of people. Regardless of whether the country is more martial, at least the number of horses in this county is much higher than that of the southern counties.

"One of them is a member of the Zhonglang and Dushui envoy Li Shijun's department in Daxingtai. He was ordered to come here to search and rescue his colleagues who were troubled by the local thieves! The local thief Lei has already been captured, and there is nothing to do with you. If you want to cooperate with the investigation, Invite the county magistrate to come here!"

Under Li Tai's nod, Li Yantou yelled out loudly: "The criminal evidence is gathered here, if there is no local governor, the rest are not allowed to enter without authorization!"

"Nonsense! Party chief Lei is a virtuous person from our village, how can we allow outsiders to slander him! Who is the envoy of Dushui? What qualifications does he have to interfere with the villagers here! Let the bandits retreat quickly, and if they dare to kill my villagers, There will be no mercy!"

When the township masses outside heard this shout, they immediately became angry, and under the order of the soldier commander, they quickly put on an offensive position.

"Throw that Lei's body out."

Li Tai gave an order, and the soldiers inside the wall threw the body of the owner Lei Hong, who had already been decapitated, out of the wall.

The officers and soldiers of the village regiment who had already completed their formation were shocked when they saw this scene. One of the commanders of the village regiment was even more stunned. Presumably it was a member of the Lei clan. He pointed at the wall and shouted angrily. : "Dog thieves are so vicious, why do you think I have no one in Luochuan? The thieves who violate the border will die today, and no one can save you!"

"Lei's crime is serious, and the law has already been punished! Those of you who are not deeply involved in the matter should retreat. You are just the pioneers of law enforcement. When the army arrives, this town will suffer even worse! For this reason, all the thieves in the village have committed evil. Fate, forbearance to push the villagers into desperation?"

Li Yantou continued to shout: "Lei is tough, and the villagers know it. This kind of person is not immune to death, so why do you resist the magic knife? Get back quickly, don't pursue the past, if you continue to resist, you will kill yourself !"

The deterrent effect of these words is still very strong. When the township group present took a look at Lei Hong's body, they felt awe-inspiring in their hearts.

Lei Hong was alive, and they would still be afraid of clinging to his power, but now that everyone is dead, and they are not their own flesh and blood relatives, they hesitate to fight for revenge.

They really didn't know how powerful Li Shijun, the envoy of Dushui, was, but they still knew how powerful Lei Hong was.The opponent was not afraid of Lei Hong's powerful background at all, and they would kill as soon as they said they wanted to. Whether or not their township group could beat each other really needed to be weighed.

The commander of the Lei family in the township regiment didn't have these thoughts, and immediately shouted loudly: "Mr. Luochuan, how can you allow foreign thieves to frame you! Capture this village quickly and avenge the party leader!"

While speaking, he rode his horse and swung his knife and rushed forward, but soon realized that apart from his own dozens of songs, few other companions kept up.

"Are you afraid of these foreign thieves? Are you not afraid that my family will pursue you and wait for the enemy to escape!"

The commander of the Lei family was furious when he saw this, he turned his head and cursed: "Follow me quickly and attack together, take back the manor!"

"Brother Lei, I know you are in pain, but please understand the worries of the folks. The former hunted down and killed these thieves, and the township group has acted recklessly. The county commander Yang Shijun even ordered that they must be captured alive. I want to know these thieves The lord is not weak."

Another soldier came forward and persuaded: "This group of people has been trapped in the village. It is safest for us to report to the superior. If we really provoke powerful enemies for the village, the trouble we will suffer will not only be in front of us It's..."

"You have no courage, you shut up! If your relatives are killed like this, you will also be afraid of the enemy's strength and dare not retaliate?"

The commander of Lei's family was even more furious when he heard the words. He first scolded his comrades angrily, then looked back at the soldiers of the village and said, "You have been favored by my family. Today my family was attacked by thieves, and I should sacrifice my life to repay it." ..."

Some of the villagers bowed their heads ashamedly when they heard this, while others said angrily: "I have to line up with a knife to defend the land for the righteousness of the village, but I am not a slave soldier of your Lei family! Your family is just to seduce foreigners. The state tyrants searched the countryside to enrich themselves, and their own style is low, and now they provoke foreign powers, the villagers have the guts, and they will not work for you!"

During the commotion, the rural soldiers outside the city were actually divided into two parts, and the soldier commander who was dismissed as a rat by Captain Lei's face was not very good-looking, pointing to a part of the rural soldiers standing sideways, and ordered: "Some The job is to calm down the troubles in the village, not to risk your life to avenge private households! Return to the city quickly and report to the superior, the people and horses in the village will not move, and you must not attack without authorization!"

The township group rushed in aggressively, but internal strife occurred within itself.Although the commander of the Lei family was eager to take revenge, but because the manor was occupied by the opponent, he could not get the support of the masses, so he couldn't help but be wary of it for a while.

Luochuan City is not far from here, and it is also the county seat of Fucheng County. Not long after the township messenger went to report the letter, the county officials came on horseback. The first middle-aged man with a burly body and a dignified appearance was the sheriff of the county. Yang Shao.

Yang Shao led some armored soldiers to ride here, summoned the commander of the village regiment to understand the situation, and then glanced at Lei Hong's body that was thrown outside the manor, his face suddenly sank.

He didn't respond to the sad and mournful accusation of the commander of the Lei family. He rode his horse to the main gate of the manor, raised his hand and pointed into the wall and shouted: "This is the governor of this realm. Go out, if you dare to commit murder again, even Li Boshan himself will not be able to save you!"

"Master Yang, hello, Li Boshan is here!"

Li Tai had met Yang Shao at the Tai Mansion before, and when he saw him coming in and shouting, he poked his head out from the wall, cupped his hands at Yang Shao, and said, "It's really embarrassing to meet in such a situation. Capture the thief." It is really impolite to tell the mansion that it is urgent to save lives.

I have no intention of interfering with the envoy's case, but it is an unforgivable crime for this thief to attack and kill the water subordinates in the capital, and to act as an envoy.I originally intended to go to the village and sue the envoy again, but unexpectedly, this thief stubbornly resisted, so I had no choice but to kill him..."

Seeing that Li Tai was actually in the village, Yang Shao's expression changed immediately, and he couldn't help but turn his head and stare at the soldier who was attracting the attention of the crowd.

He didn't mean to put Li Tai to death, but it was indeed an offense to be lured into the country by him and kill the people in his own government.If he can break through the manor, capture the opponent and his followers before he arrives, he can teach him a lesson.

But now that he has come, if he orders an attack again, he will have to die forever.

"It's really admirable for Li Zong to be young and courageous. But fighting in the village, regardless of safety, is a bit rash."

He suppressed the anger in his heart, looked at Li Tai again and said, "Now that I'm here, if you think I'm worthy of arguing, please do it, and make a fair judgment about the disturbance here."

"It's not that I don't trust Yang Shijun, but the subordinates who were attacked before have been lost in the country, and their life and death are unknown. Although the original evil has been eliminated, the matter is not over. May I ask Yang Shijun, what laws and regulations were violated by the former envoys? Siege and intercept?"

Naturally, Li Tai would not go out casually, but had someone carry the corpses of the subordinates who had been shown to the public by the village people on the wall, and then said to Yang Shao: "It is indeed offensive and rude to enter without notification. But Mr. Yang said that I was acting recklessly, so it can be seen that I don't know each other.

I am a member of the water genus, meritorious deeds will be rewarded, and crimes will be punished. If these members really exercise power and break the law, even if they do not do harm, I will kill them!But they died innocently. Since I obey my orders, no matter who the perpetrators are, they will pay for their blood!
Justice in the world is nothing more than repaying grievances with sincerity and repaying virtue with kindness!If Yang Shijun dares to say that the thief was wronged by death, and the matter will not disturb other people's tongues, I will kill myself and apologize for my rudeness! "

Yang Shao had only met Li Tai once in the Taifu, and he really didn't know much about his character. Hearing what Li Tai said, he didn't know how to answer for a while, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "I'm sure about the inside story of this matter." I don't know the details, but I ask Li to be your..."

"It turns out that the envoy didn't know, so you and I are both innocent. I was wrong for being rude, and the envoy was wrong for dereliction of duty. This man is indeed guilty of serious crimes. He is good at harming the envoys, and he is good at mobilizing the township group to help the evil. It is really dead." Not a pity!"

Li Tai raised his hand again and said: "Open the gate of the villa, and ask Yang Shijun to enter the villa to examine the evidence of the crime displayed in the villa. The criminals are lurking in the village, and the evidence of the crime is shocking. If they are spread out rashly, the people will be terrified, and the king will not enter. Zhuang check?"

When Yang Shao heard this, he frowned immediately, and saw the gate of the manor opened slowly, pondered for a while, and then said to a county official behind him: "I will enter the manor first, you stay outside."

Disrespect is a small matter, but dereliction of duty is a big one.If Li Tai was just an ordinary official envoy, things would be easy to deal with, but he is the youngest employee in the Taiwan government, so Yang Shao had to treat it with caution.

But when he entered the manor, he saw the corpses piled up inside the wall, and his face changed suddenly: "Li Boshan, how many people did you kill?"

(End of this chapter)