Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 414 0409 [The man who snatches the horse, you are mighty and majestic]

Yue Fei's general, Zhang Xian, had already voted for the rebel army.

At that time, Lin Chong and Bai Qi led a thousand partial divisions to the south, attacking counties and expanding the army along the way, and Zhang Xian was incorporated into the army in his hometown of Langzhong.

Because of his bravery in combat, he has made many military exploits. After two expansions, Zhang Xian has been promoted to battalion commander.He commanded [-] soldiers under his command and is currently stationed in southern Sichuan with Lin Chong.

The name of the battalion commander can already be seen by Zhu Ming.

But Zhu Ming didn't think much about it at all, he couldn't guess that it was Yue Fei's subordinate, he thought it was just the same name and surname.

As for Yue Fei himself, since Zhu Ming asked for it by name, the court officials were also quite curious.

But it's just curiosity, an unknown little person, just throw it to the Zhu thief casually.If not, what if the Zhu thief uses this as an excuse to send troops from Nanyang to the north?

In order to wipe out the bandits in Hebei and Shandong, the imperial court didn't even care about Zhong Xiang, who proclaimed himself emperor, let alone stationed heavy troops to guard against Nanyang.

In March of this year, two eunuchs, Tong Guan and Liang Fangping, took the lead in leading the imperial army and Xiang army to suppress the bandits.

But Song Huizong asked Zhang Shuye to be the coach, and Tong Guan didn't want to be subordinated to others, so he made his own claim and went to Lianghuai to open up water transportation and defeat Cui Dalang who was entrenched there.

Even though Liang Fangping went to Shandong, he didn't listen to Zhang Shuye's orders, he underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, but was defeated by the bandit Yang Tianwang.

Fortunately, Zhang Shuye had expected it early, and led a group of local soldiers to the rescue, setting up an ambush halfway to defeat the chasing bandits.At the same time, Zong Ze led thousands of soldiers from the village to attack the bandit city, and took advantage of the bandit leader Yang Tianwang's lair.

Yang Tianwang was blocked by Zhang Shuye and Zongze back and forth, and was forced to accept recruitment, and led more than a thousand remnants of soldiers to become Zhang Shuye's generals.

After Tong Guan's victory in Lianghuai, he immediately went north to Shandong, and without saying hello to Zhang Shuye, he went to attack Wuhu and Jia Jin in Yizhou.

No matter how the Shengjie army belongs to the young master soldiers, their physique is there, and their armor is there.

However, Wuhu and Jia Jin had no natural dangers to defend, and suffered two consecutive defeats.Jia Jin quietly accepts the recruitment, and cooperates with the outside world to help Tong Guan break through Yizhou, and Wuhu rushes to Haizhou with hundreds of remnants.

Tong Guan took advantage of the victory to pursue, Zhang Fang, the bandit chieftain of Haizhou, was terrified, and killed Wuhu who had escaped to accept the call.

At this time, Zhang Shuye, Zong Ze, and Liang Fangping had recovered Yanzhou, but the Jinan bandit Sun Lie had [-] soldiers, and it was difficult to win for a while.Zhang Shuye asked Tong Guan to help, but Tong Guan still refused to obey the military order and led his own troops to fight against the Mizhou bandits.

In any case, most of Shandong has returned to the imperial court.

However, there are still refugees everywhere, and many remnants of rebels fled into the mountains.Once the officers and soldiers leave Shandong, these surviving thieves will be able to come out of the mountains to engulf the refugees and grow stronger again.

The root cause of the incessant suppression of thieves is that the common people do not have enough to eat.

The Western Army of Yao Gu, Liu Yanqing, Zhong Shizhong, Liu Xi and others are still on their way. They will be sent to Hebei to suppress bandits, and help Guo Yaoshi in Yanjing to suppress the uprising.

Xiangzhou, Tangyin.

Yue Fei was farming at home, and his own land was not enough to eat, and he was also farming other people's land.

The state is recruiting brave fighters again, but this time they are going to suppress bandits.

But Yue Fei couldn't go, he wanted to mourn for his father.

"Pengju, Pengju!"

Yue Fei put down his hoe and turned around to see that it was Wang Gui from his hometown.

Wang Gui had already been recruited as a small soldier officer, and hurriedly said: "There are officials in the state who are asking about you, and they also say that you have contacts with rebels... Anyway, it's not a good thing, you should run away."

It's too embarrassing to say such a thing as gifting a brave warrior to a traitor.

The imperial court will definitely conceal the truth, only saying that Yue Fei colluded with the bandits, then arrested his whole family and sent them quietly to Hanzhong.

The eunuch sent by Song Huizong first went to ask Zhizhou.

Although Han's hereditary Xiangzhou Zhizhou, but can only be inherited by the eldest son.If the eldest son has been promoted to another place, and the eldest son of the eldest son is not qualified to be an official for the time being, the Xiangzhou Zhizhou will temporarily let the official to serve.

Now this magistrate is a foreigner, where does he know Yue Fei?
He also heard that the eunuch said that Yue Fei was a warrior, so he sent officials to the army to inquire, and Wang Gui immediately got the news.

Yue Fei said angrily: "Who is fouling my innocence? I won't run away, I will confront him!"

Wang Gui said: "There are two official characters, how can you confront them? Bandits are being suppressed everywhere in Hebei and Shandong. If you flee to any prefecture or county, you will be able to wash away the filth and prove your innocence. At that time, you Killed many rebels, who would dare to say that you colluded with the thieves?"

Yue Fei suppressed his anger, thinking that what Wang Gui said made sense.

He came home with the hoe, said good-bye to his mother and wife, and fled that night with his weapon.

A few days later, an eunuch came to Tangyin with an official messenger, went straight to the village where Yue Fei lived, and began to inquire about the address while still outside the village.

Yue Fei's wife, Liu Shi, was shocked by the news, abandoned her mother-in-law and youngest son, and fled back to her natal family to avoid disaster.

The eunuch couldn't find Yue Fei, so he had to arrest his family members.

Even Mrs. Liu, who was hiding in her natal family, was arrested by officials.Although Yue Fei escaped, his mother, wife and son were sent to Hanzhong by the government...

At the same time, the eunuch also said to the villagers: "If Yue Fei comes back, let him go to Hanzhong immediately, and our family will send his family first."

Wang Gui had been observing in secret, but at this moment he couldn't help but stand up: "Master Zhong, you are polite, I am Yue Fei's friend, may I ask what happened to him?"

"Since you are his friend, please help him to make inquiries," the eunuch explained, "I don't know who can recommend him. The Zhu thief in Hanzhong learned that Yue Fei was brave, so he asked the court for this person by name."

The more Wang Gui listened, the more confused he became: "Since they are bandits, why did the court send the strong men there?"

The face of the imperial court is important, and this matter cannot be elaborated.

The eunuch said angrily: "Don't ask more questions than you should. Anyway, let Yue Fei hurry to Hanzhong to reunite with his family!"

"Yes!"

Wang Gui bowed and retreated, Monk Zhang Er was puzzled.

……

Yue Fei didn't come, but a fierce man came uninvited.

Li Xiaozhong, a native of Longxi, didn't want to stay in Longxi, and went to the border to observe the mountains and rivers all day long.

While observing the terrain, they will also take the opportunity to snatch the horses of the Xixia herdsmen.Then he sold the horse, and the money he got was used to make friends with heroes, and he held wine and banquets at home all day long.

When the money is almost used up, go to the border to grab horses.

"This war horse is getting harder and harder to snatch." Li Xiaozhong lay on the mountain, observing the mountain pasture below.

Companion Yan Ping is also a hero, and said with a smile: "Those Fan people on the border of Xixia have already been robbed and feared by us, how dare they graze alone? There are not five or six people with bows and knives, and even if you kill them, you won't find out." body."

Li Xiaozhong said: "There are five people in total, all of them are armed, should they be robbed or not?"

"Grab it, I'm afraid of an egg!" Yan Ping said.

These two bold guys led their horses down the mountain quietly, and immediately got on the horses and galloped as they approached the pasture.

The five Xixia Fans on the opposite side immediately rode up to meet them, and one of them blew a horn to try to summon the people from the nearby pasture.

Li Xiaozhong can draw a strong bow and shoot arrows from a long distance.

Both sides were galloping, and from such a long distance, an arrow hit Fan Ren's shoulder.

Those people were also extremely brave in order to protect their property. They didn't run away when they were shot, and continued to fight desperately.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and the Fanren charged immediately after shooting the arrows. They knew that Li Xiaozhong was good at archery, and it would definitely be a disadvantage for them to continue riding and shooting.

Li Xiaozhong shot another arrow, which hit Fanren's chest.

The Fanren herdsmen only wore simple leather armor, and they couldn't stop the strong bow at all, and they almost died when they were shot in the chest.

On Yan Ping's side, an arrow also hit Fanren's arm.

The two sides passed by wrong horses, Li Xiaozhong knocked down one fan, and Yan Ping stabbed the other fan.

With two against five, it won easily.

Two Fanren who were injured and survived were so frightened that they rode their horses and fled for their lives.

Li Xiaozhong and Yan Ping did not go after them either, they gathered the three enemy horses and left the battlefield as quickly as possible.As for the cattle and sheep on the grass, it is inconvenient for them to take them away, and they will be finished if more people catch up.

The two returned to Lanzhou and went directly to the horse market to sell horses.

After standing for a short time, an official sent over and said, "These three horses are good horses. They are not allowed to be sold privately, but must be sold to the Tea Horse Company."

Li Xiaozhong wondered: "It was still sold last month, why can't it be sold now?"

"If you can't sell it, you can't sell it," the official said impatiently, "Every five guan, the tea horse department will take them all!"

Li Xiaozhong said angrily: "These three horses are all Fanren's mounts. Although they are not top-quality horses, they can also be used on the battlefield. Isn't it too cheap to sell five horses?"

The officer said: "The horses produced in the frontier are naturally cheap. If you bring them to the horse market, you have to sell them if you don't sell them. If you refuse to obey orders, your mounts will also be confiscated!"

"Forget it," Yan Ping tugged at the corner of Li Xiaozhong's clothes, and said in a low voice, "A good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses."

The two had no choice but to sell the good horse at a low price.

The more Li Xiaozhong thought about it, the more angry he became, and he went to ask other traders in the horse market.

They have a lot of acquaintances here. A horse dealer saw that the official sent him away, so he said cautiously: "The tea and horse department has recently collected horses, and they are sold to the Zhu thief in Hanzhong. There are not only famous names that Fan people have always liked on the Zhu thief's side." Camellia, and black tea, which is very popular among the aristocracy recently."

Li Xiaozhong was surprised: "Du Da Cha Ma Si is doing business with the rebels?"

The horse dealer said with a smile: "The Zhu thief in Hanzhong is not ordinary. I heard that several routes of officials and troops were defeated, and the court even negotiated peace with Zhu thief. Now that the peace has been negotiated, of course we can do business."

Li Xiaozhong asked: "Where is Zhu Thief's tea horse officer?"

The horse dealer said: "In Lanzhou, officials, soldiers, and tea men are all there, and they are surrounded by the tea and horse department to prohibit people from contacting. The tea and horse department wants to do their own business, and the people are not allowed to sell horses to the Zhu thief."

Li Xiaozhong became interested in that Zhu thief, thinking that he was a hero who could force the court to negotiate a peace.

He and Yan Ping waited for half a month in Lanzhou, and finally saw Zhu Thief's tea horse officer leaving with more than 160 good horses, as well as a lot of grain, fodder, and bean cakes.

Li Xiaozhong stopped them outside the city, and the soldiers escorting the horses immediately raised their weapons.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm a ranger from Longxi, and I want to inquire about Mr. Zhu in Hanzhong." Li Xiaozhong directly explained his purpose.

The horse buyer saw that he was riding a good horse, carrying a weapon, and was strong and strong, so he immediately said: "Hanzhong welcomes righteous men from all walks of life. Your Excellency, you can come with me."

However, Li Xiaozhong asked about various policies in Hanzhong, and the horse-buying officer answered them all in detail.

After some questions and answers, Li Xiaozhong became more and more curious about Hanzhong, and said: "I will go with my friends first, and if Hanzhong is really a good place, I will write to call more brothers."

The horse buyer said happily: "It's so good, I don't know your name?"

Li Xiaozhong thought for a while, decided to take a pseudonym, and answered, "My name is Li Yanxian."

(End of this chapter)