Han ride

Chapter 133 The Imperial Court Sends Troops
It's a pity that his roar didn't bring him a glimmer of life, as the roaming warrior in the front was immediately submerged in the fire cloud, and behind him, the roaming leopard did not escape the fate of death either. Tens of thousands of cavalry were squeezed into a small space at once, and were rushed back and forth by these bison, and the whole Old Elm Bay became a sea of ​​blood and fire.

"Hey!" At this moment, Li Xin, who was standing on the mountainside, looked gloomy, looking at the sea of ​​flames below, and didn't know what to say.In fact, these soldiers not only fired rockets, but also threw many flammable objects into them. After forgetting from the mountainside, a zigzag sea of ​​flames appeared under their feet. Looking from a distance, I am afraid that only a few people in the rear army escaped.Even now, you can still hear the shouts of killing. Although these horse bandits are temporarily used by roving soldiers, they are not regular troops. How can they keep their formation in a panic? Killing, it can be said that many of these people who died under their feet were killed by their own knives.

"My lord, look, General Jutu has already attacked." At this moment, Li Xin's thoughts were interrupted by the words of the soldiers. Li Xin looked around, but saw thousands of cavalry rushing out in the distance, besieging and suppressing the escaped cavalry.

"After this battle, there were no more horse bandits near Zhangjiakou." Li Xin smiled suddenly.The grassland is huge, and although there are many tribes, there are also many horse bandits.In the Zhangjiakou area, due to the role of Shanxi merchants, there are more horse bandits. Now in order to deal with Li Xin, Jin merchants gathered these horse bandits together with money. Unfortunately, these horse bandits did not succeed. Li Xin got angry.Since then, there is only Li Xin's Perak Villa near Zhangjiakou.

The war lasted until the evening, and the fire in Laoyuwan had been extinguished. Unfortunately, there was no sign of life in it. How many people were burned to death by Li Xin's forged fire bull array? It was no longer clear, Li Xin buried the burnt people, war horses and bison in Laoyu Bay.

"My lord, we neglected our duty and escaped some people." Under the torch, Li Xin was still standing on the mountainside, while Jutu and Shen Fei stood aside respectfully, their faces still stern. Remains of this color of fear.Obviously, he has seen the tragic image in Old Yuwan.Li Xin looks handsome, with a smile all over his face, and is extremely kind to his subordinates, but today, the two of them know that the Lord is the Lord, and their ambition is enough to wipe out all the kindness in the world.

"Some stragglers and rogues have become nothing." Li Xin glanced down the mountain nonchalantly, but saw that there were still thousands of captives down the mountain.Seeing this, Na Gutu and Shen Fei felt terrified in their hearts, for fear that Li Xin would kill these thousands of people again.

"My lord, my subordinates think that although these people have done bad things in the past, they are the ones who will appear immediately. If they are rectified, the strength of our army will increase a lot." Ju Tu said nervously, swallowing his mouth.

"Of course I know, if we kill these people, how can we increase our strength?" Li Xin said lightly, "These people will be handed over to you two. Too many people died today, and I don't want to die any more. I will camp in the grassland tonight, and tomorrow we will go back to the Perak Mountain Villa, and I feel uncomfortable staying here." Jutu and Shen Fei also nodded, and if they felt something, they looked towards Old Yuwan on one side. Finally, he quickly followed Li Xin and went down the hill.

The news about Laoyuwan obviously cannot be hidden from the spies of the Eight Great Aristocratic Families. After all, the soaring flames of Laoyuwan speak for themselves. Tens of thousands of thieves were burned to death by Li Xin.Although these spies were extremely frightened, they quickly passed the news back to Zhangjiakou.

"Stupid, what a useless thing." Tian Shenglan slapped viciously on the rosewood table at one side, and the table shook loudly, but the panic in his eyes did not hide it from others.

In fact, not only Tian Shenglan, but also other people from the Eight Great Families such as Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa, etc., also felt a little panic at this time.Thinking that You Yong and the others were just some thieves, but there were quite a few of them, but so many people were completely burned by a single fire, when they thought about it, everyone felt terrified.

"Nowadays on the grassland, no one can fight against the evil wolf anymore." Fan Yongdou suddenly had a question in his mind, whether his actions helped the evil wolf agree to the underground power of the grassland.

"So what?" Wang Dengku said viciously: "Those horse thieves are just a mob. This time the court has ordered Hou Shilu to send troops. The court's army is elite and will definitely be able to destroy the wolf." Everyone also nodded. On the one hand, the imperial court's imperial edict has been issued. Taking advantage of the fact that Jiannu has no way to go west, the imperial court will definitely use troops on the grassland to subdue Guihua City and regain control of the grassland.This is also the credit of the Eight Great Aristocratic Families.

"Hou Shilu is also a cunning person. The soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu are in his hands. Although it is the imperial court's idea to let him send troops, if he really doesn't work hard, I'm afraid we have nothing to do!" Liang Jiabin sighed.

"Don't worry, it's Cao Huachun who came to supervise the army this time." Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "This person has something to do with me. He returned to his hometown at the beginning of the year to build the Xuandi Palace and the Guanyin Pavilion. He didn't have enough money, so it was funded by the old man. Hey, these eunuchs only like money and power. We can't give this power, but we want as much money as we want. With Cao Huachun here, are we still afraid that Hou Shilu won't use his full strength? Hey , Counting our family members, didn’t some people in the court say that we are rich and unkind? Then let them see that our eight great families are loyal to the court.”

"Brother Fan, in this way, even if Hou Shilu wants to keep his soldiers and horses, but with our operation, he has to do his best." Huang Yunfa also nodded repeatedly.He was extremely cautious, and nodded at this time.

"Cao Huachun will arrive at the Xuan Mansion in four days. At that time, we just need to get close to him. I believe that he will speak for us." Fan Yongdou said while stroking his goatee.Using money to clear the way, he has never failed.It is even easier to deal with characters like Cao Huachun.

"The thing that I least wanted to happen has finally happened." Inside the Xuanfu Commander's Mansion, Hou Shilu and his son Hou Gongji sat in the study. Hou Shilu put the imperial decree on the desk in front of him with both hands, and sighed softly.

"Li Xin just used the Fire Bull Formation to wipe out You Yong and other horse bandits, and now they are flourishing on the grassland. Now it's all right, and our imperial army will also conquer them." Hou Gongji said with a wry smile: "When will People from the court started beating people from the court.”

"This kind of thing has happened since ancient times. Do you think that the current imperial court is peaceful? These literati are fighting among themselves every day. As long as Li Xin does not disclose his identity for a day, then he is an enemy." Hou Shilu said unceremoniously. .

"But once he reveals his identity, not only the people in the court will distrust him, but Lin Danhan, who is just a short distance away, may immediately send troops to attack him. Now he is just a horse bandit, that is, people in the court know him , but Lin Danhan didn't know." Hou Gongji shook his head, this is the most fundamental thing.It is impossible for Li Xin to disclose his identity in a short time.Once the identity is disclosed, it will immediately cause Lin Danhan's attack.It is impossible for Lin Danhan to let Li Xin stay in Zhangjiakou.

"Now my Xuanfu army is gathered here, and Cao Huachun is about to arrive at Xuanfu. This battle is inevitable." Hou Shilu's eyes lit up, and he shook his head and sighed: "I, Hou Shilu, have been in Xuanfu for so many years. I look forward to Master Wang being able to leave the Xuan Mansion, attack the grassland, and wipe out the alien race. But what I didn’t expect is that now I’m going to enter the grassland, but this is the situation, to attack a minister who has made contributions to the court.”

"It's nothing if we win. The grassland is vast, and it's easy for Li Xin to escape, but the boy is worried, what will happen if we lose?" Hou Gongji suddenly shook his head and said.

"Failure? How come? Even if we can't beat Li Xin, it's still possible for the whole army to retreat." Hou Shilu was taken aback when he heard this, and finally laughed loudly: "No matter how powerful Li Xin is, don't forget, he There are only so many people under him. Once you encounter our army, the best result is to run away. How can you compete with my army? This is not Liaodong, and I am not Mrs. Hong. There are only me and him here. There is a third army that changes the situation on the battlefield, and Li Xin is also a smart person, he will not use his weak force to deal with my superior force, so he has only one way, and that is to go, the soldiers retreat deep into the grassland, and wait for us After the retreat, he just needs to come back, in this way, it is beneficial to both me and him."

"Although my father thinks so, I'm afraid some people don't think so." Hou Gongji shook his head and said, "First, the fact that the imperial court sent troops this time has something to do with the Eight Great Aristocratic Families, and the Eight Great Aristocratic Families will not let Father do this." Second, my son heard that Cao Huachun was the one who came to oversee the army this time, he is very happy and extremely greedy, once the Eight Great Aristocratic Families bribed him with money and ordered his father to pursue him, what should we do?"

"Hey! Supervising the army." Hou Shilu's face froze when he heard the words, and finally he could only let out a long sigh. He didn't know when the supervising army began to use eunuchs.What is the role of eunuchs, especially the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, they are useless people.Then Cao Huachun is not a good thing. Once he becomes the supervisor of the army, it will prove that the actual commander of this army has become Cao Huachun. When Hou Shilu thought about it at this time, he found that he really had no way to solve it. for this matter.

(End of this chapter)