Fenghou

At noon, the subordinates came back one after another, but Wang Huan was greatly disappointed by the news they brought back.

"There are no soldiers who plunder the people's property? There won't be any!"

"Reporting to the censor, it is true that there is no such thing. Chen Qing's army is very strict. Looting people's property and raping women are capital crimes. The soldiers are very afraid. No one dares to mess around. I heard that the soldiers are exhausted every day. I guess there is no such thing. The energy went out to grab money."

Wang Huan asked another subordinate, "What about the embezzlement of military pay? Did Chen Qing take out military supplies and resell them?"

"Reporting to the censor, I asked the two clerks of the county government in humble positions. They were seconded to take charge of the army's salary and supplies. The accounts they recorded were clear. Chen Qing did not embezzle a penny of the military salary, nor did he take any supplies out. Resell, I also heard that Chen Qing even eats the same food as soldiers, so the soldiers are convinced by him, these are the original words of the two civil servants."

"What a bunch of trash!"

Wang Huan scolded angrily. At this time, two subordinates who were in charge of investigating the killing of prisoners rushed over, "Reporting to the censor, the humble job has paid off."

Wang Huan was overjoyed, and quickly asked the two to sit down and talk in detail.

"We asked some soldiers from the village. Although Chen Qing did not kill the prisoners, he killed all the wounded soldiers who were not killed by the arrows. Those wounded soldiers wanted to surrender, but he refused to accept the surrender. Hundreds of them were slaughtered. "

Wang Huan was refreshed, this is indeed a harvest, it shows that Chen Qing's brutal bloodthirsty, although there is no Jingguan, but the killing of soldiers is solid.

"anything else?"

Another subordinate said: "He collected the spoils of the bandits who died in battle, at least thousands of coins and hundreds of taels of silver. I heard that he distributed all the spoils to his subordinates. I don't know how much he divided himself. .”

Wang Huan narrowed his eyes. This was also a crime. According to the regulations, the spoils of war had to be handed over, and then the imperial court would reward the soldiers with part of it. As a small commander, Chen Qing actually divided up the spoils without authorization.

"Go and investigate again to see if there is nothing else, such as using the heads of ordinary people to pretend to be gangsters."

"Follow the order!"

The two men rushed away, Wang Huan sneered in his heart, how could there be no problem?They are supervisory censors, as long as they want to investigate, even mosquito legs can scrape off a few catties of meat.

snort!Chen Qing and his generals must take at least half of the thousands of pennies!

……

Suian County is a small county, located in a mountainous area, in a remote location, the city is dilapidated and small, with a population of only a few thousand people and hundreds of households, generally relatively barren.

The reason why Zhang Kui didn't plunder Suian County before was because it was too poor and there was no oil and water, and he also wanted to use Suian County as his old nest.

It's different now, Zhang Kui has decided to move to Quzhou. Although there is no oil and water in Suian County, there are still three catties of nails on the broken boat, so he can get some food and women.

More importantly, only when Sui'an County was looted would all the bandits under him be willing to follow him.

Zhang Kui's cottage is about [-] miles away from Suian County. To take the official road, you have to go to Chun'an County first, and then walk southwest along the official road from Chun'an County, which takes an extra [-] miles.

Zhang Kui led [-] men to march towards Suian County along a small road. The team stopped and stopped. At dusk the next day, the army arrived in a forest about ten miles away from Suian County.

Zhang Kui ordered his men to rest in the woods, and sent people to Suian County to investigate the situation in the county.

In fact, Zhang Kui knew the situation in Suian County very well. The city walls were dilapidated and small, and at most they could only guard against wild animals.

There are no town soldiers either, only a dozen or so old guards are responsible for opening and closing the city gates.

For them, it is a county town without any defense, which is allowed to be ravaged by them.

As night fell, the men he sent came back and reported to Zhang Qiu: "General Qi, there is no army in the county. It rained heavily in this area last month, and the southeast corner of the city wall collapsed. At present, it is only surrounded by broken mats. It hasn't been repaired yet."

Zhang Qiu was overjoyed, and immediately sent an order to go down, and the whole army packed up and set off to spend the night in the county!

The three thousand bandits were full of energy, packed up their things indiscriminately, and rushed to the county town with the general, asking for wine, meat and women, everyone was impatient.

The team ran about three miles in a mighty way, entering a wide area, with the Suian River on the left, dense forests on the right, and the outline of the county seat in front of it.

The soldiers completely forgot about the dangers around them, and everyone looked forward to the county seat.

At this moment, there was a sound of clappers in the woods, "Bang!Bang!Bang!Bang! '

Arrows were fired from the woods, and the arrows shot at the bandits like a storm. Thousands of bandits were caught off guard and were shot down by the random arrows, screaming.

"kill--"

The main general, Chen Qing, was the first to kill him.

"Kill ah-"

Two thousand soldiers roared and rushed out. After a month of night combat training, they finally played a role.

Chen Qing rushed into the crowd, the long halberd swept across, blood burst out, and three bandits were beheaded by the halberd.

Chen Qing became even more excited, and brandished his long halberd to kill the denser crowd. Wherever his horse passed by, the people turned upside down, and the bandits around him were like weeds. countless.

The main general is like a god of killing, invincible, which makes the morale of the two thousand soldiers even higher, and they are desperate to kill the enemy.

Three thousand bandits were shot and killed hundreds of people by a burst of arrows. Especially at night, I don't know how many enemies there are, especially the enemy's leader is extremely powerful, which made the bandits panic and the team was in chaos.

The two bandit generals who secretly surrendered to Chen Qing, one named Yang Ke and the other named Wang Yun, knew that it was time to perform meritorious service and atone for their crimes, and ordered their subordinates to shout, "The officers and soldiers are here, throw away your armor and run for your life!"

There was rebellion inside, and the bandits were even more panicked. They threw away their helmets and armors, threw away their weapons, and rushed to escape, pushing and trampling each other. Many bandits even jumped into the river to escape in their panic.

Zhang Kui was furious. He swung his knife and beheaded Yang Ke, who was inciting the soldiers to flee for their lives, but he couldn't call out the soldiers who were chaotically fleeing for their lives.

Seeing that the general situation is over, Zhang Kui has no intention of fighting the enemy army desperately, so it is the best policy to go at this time.

He immediately shouted to hundreds of confidant soldiers: "Break out to the west, let's go to Quzhou!"

Zhang Kui's [-] confidantes were all forbidden soldiers brought out from Lin'an, and they were extremely powerful. They quickly organized and began to break out to the west.

These three hundred confidants were also the focus of Chen Qing's attention. He saw at a glance that among the chaotic bandits, there were hundreds of people lined up neatly and well-equipped, breaking out to the west, obviously trying to escape. Battalion, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop them.

Chen Qing shouted: "The first battalion follows me!"

He personally led five hundred soldiers to kill them, and Liu Qiong's army flanked each other back and forth, and the three armies fought fiercely together.

Chen Qing saw that the 300 men were all extremely brave, they had already thrown away life and death, and even if they died in battle, they would die with their opponents. His [-] soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and it seemed that they were no match for the opponents.

Chen Qing turned his head and saw that the other bandits had been completely defeated, so they could just leave it to Zheng Ping to deal with them.

He shouted: "Hu Yantong, the second speed battalion is here to fight!"

A soldier suddenly shouted: "Commander, be careful!"

Chen Qing also heard the color of piercing the sky, he tilted his head, and a powerful spike brushed against his helmet from behind.

Chen Qing was furious. When he turned his head, he saw the enemy general who shot the cold arrow, and also saw the long scar on his face. His face was hideous. Except for Zhang Kui, it could not be anyone else.

As soon as Chen Qing rode his horse, he killed Zhang Kui.

At this time, Hu Yantong also led 500 people from the second battalion to kill, and surrounded [-] fierce soldiers from the north.

Zhang Kui was so anxious that the only way out was to kill the opponent's general and break out of the encirclement while the enemy was in chaos.

Zhang Kui yelled, and brandished his long spear to stab Chen Qing. He is very skilled in martial arts and outstanding in marksmanship, but it was a pity that he met Chen Qing. Chen Qing ignored the opponent's complicated spear moves. Stabbing the opponent's chest, this move took tens of thousands of moves into one move, simplified the way, and suppressed the opponent's moves with unparalleled speed and powerful strength.

Zhang Kui was taken aback, and hurriedly raised his gun to stand outside. Unexpectedly, the opponent's halberd was extremely heavy. up.

'puff! The long halberd pierced Zhang Kui's neck, and Zhang Kui's eyes protruded, and he died immediately.

Chen Qing beheaded Zhang Kui with a halberd, picked it up with the tip of the halberd, and shouted: "Zhang Kui is dead!"

"Zhang Kui is dead!"

The soldiers shouted one after another, none of Zhang Kui's confidant soldiers surrendered, but Chen Qing's men's morale was high, and they became more and more courageous as they fought, gradually engulfing the remaining hundreds of soldiers.

Li Shizong, Zhang Kui's deputy, fled. He used to be the deputy envoy of Wenzhou soldiers and horses. He surrendered to Zhang Kui and became Zhang Kui's deputy.

Chen Qing led more than a dozen soldiers on horseback and chased after him. He ran for less than two miles. There was a fork in the official road ahead. Seeing that Li Shizong was about to rush up the official road, a man rushed down from the official road.

I saw that this man was about twenty years old, with a very strong figure, riding a majestic white horse, wearing silver armor and a silver helmet, holding a bright silver gun, and looked very heroic.

This is not the standard armor of the Song Army, it belongs to the folk armor. The man shouted and stabbed Li Shizong head-on. Li Shizong swung his knife to block him in fright, but was picked away by this man with a silver gun, and he stretched out one hand and grabbed Li Shizong's waist Sitao dragged him off the horse.

The man threw Li Shizong in front of Chen Qing, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "A certain family went north and stayed overnight in Suian County. They heard that the officers and soldiers suppressed the bandits, so they came here to help!"

Chen Qing ordered Li Shizong to be tied up, but he saw the man leaving on horseback.

Chen Qing quickly caught up and asked, "May I ask your honorable name?"

The young man chuckled, "Yang Zaixing is here in Taiyuan. We will meet again someday!"

After finishing speaking, he urged his horse to get on the official road, beat his horse and galloped away.

what!It turned out to be the fierce general Yang Zaixing, Chen Qing hurriedly caught up with the officials, only to see Yang Zaixing heading north with two of his men.

At this time, Yang Zaixing was still a subordinate of Cao Cheng, a traitor in the south. He didn't want to be a bandit and left Cao Cheng, but his identity had not been cleared. Although he helped Chen Qing, he didn't want to meet the officers and soldiers.

Chen Qing couldn't catch up with Yang Zaixing, he felt quite regretful, so he had to return to the battlefield.

The battle ended after only one hour of fighting. The 300 bandits killed more than [-] people, and more than [-] surrendered, but [-] people still escaped.

Nearly 300 bandit officers and soldiers were also killed in battle, mainly during the fierce battle with Zhang Kui's [-] confidants.

Chen Qing immediately ordered Zheng Ping to lead a thousand soldiers to search for bandits and deserters in all directions.

Hu Yantong was puzzled and said: "Commander, they should have fled home separately!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "It's fine if they fled home. I'm worried that some small bosses will lead people away, and they will regroup and form a new bandit force."

"But...some of them may have escaped."

Chen Qing glanced at the corpses around, and said lightly: "We will do our best!"

……

Chapter 68 Prepare

It has been three days since Chen Qing led his army back to Chun'an County, and less than half an hour after returning to the barracks, Wang Huan, the supervisory censor, arrived unexpectedly.

"I heard that the command envoy wiped out the rebel Zhang Kui. Congratulations!"

As soon as he entered the big tent, Wang Huan congratulated Chen Qing with a face full of hypocrisy. Chen Qing really didn't like Wang Huan. To check the fingerprints pressed by the soldiers is almost to the point of nitpicking.

In the final analysis, he was suspecting that he had embezzled soldiers' salaries, or even suspected that he was empty of his salaries.

Regardless of whether it was his duty or not, no one would like this kind of supervisory censor, and Chen Qing was no exception, but Chen Qing didn't want to deliberately offend these supervisors, firstly, it was unnecessary, and secondly, he had a clear conscience.

"Thank you Wang Yushi, please sit down!"

Wang Huan was not polite either, Da Ci sat down and asked straight to the point: "I saw a lot of prisoners of war just now, how many are there?"

"There were probably more than 300 people. The battle was very tragic at that time. The opponent killed more than [-] people, and we also lost nearly [-] people."

Wang Huan didn't care how many officers and soldiers died in battle, he only cared about how Chen Qing dealt with these prisoners of war.

"These prisoners of war, what does the commander plan to do with them?"

"Wang Yushi came to me to ask about these prisoners of war?" Chen Qinglue was a little unhappy.

Wang Huan's gaze also turned cold, and the hypocritical smile on his face also disappeared, "This is my duty, I have to ask, please understand the commander."

Chen Qing stared at him for a long time, and then said calmly: "These prisoners of war will be treated differently. I will release them. I will release them, not directly, of course, but hand them over to local officials, like those in Muzhou. I will hand over the gangsters to Governor He, and I will send people from other states to escort them back. As for the gangsters who have committed serious crimes, I will publicly execute them."

"Why don't you send them to Lin'an, but kill them on your own initiative?"

Hearing the hostility in Wang Huan's tone, Chen Qing felt even more disgusted, so he said coldly: "When I went out to fight, the Privy Council only asked me to arrest the bandit leader Zhang Kui and the [-] rebel soldiers who followed him back to Lin'an, or take him back to Lin'an." Their heads were sent back to Lin'an, and the rest of the gangsters were dealt with by me.

And I didn't kill innocent people indiscriminately. Of course, these gangsters will be dealt with after strict interrogation. Basically, there will be witnesses and his own confession, and there will even be identification by the victim. "

"What if the beating becomes a trick?"

Chen Qing sneered repeatedly: "Who does Wang Yushi think they are? They are bandits, not ordinary people. How can you say that they are tortured?"

"What does the Commander mean, that you decide who should die and who should not die?"

Chen Qing was also a little angry. He took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said slowly: "Everyone's fate is determined by themselves, just like some people decide to become bandits, while others are determined not to follow Zhang. Kui rebelled, since they chose to be bandits, they have to be responsible for their own decisions, if Wang Yushi has no other problems, I will not accompany you!"

……

Wang Huan left, and that afternoon he led his entourage out of Chun'an County and returned to Lin'an.

But not long after Wang Huan left, Chen Qing received another visitor, admonishing the court left to pick up Xu Yun, who was accompanied by Hu Yantong.

"Since the commander has wiped out Zhang Kui, why doesn't he go back?"

"Arrange for a few days to repatriate the prisoners of war, and then send the bodies of the dead soldiers back to Lin'an, and then I will go back. In fact, it will not be too long. I will return to the court in three days."

Xu Yun glanced at Chen Qing, pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Actually, the commander is in a very dangerous situation!"

Chen Qing frowned, "You mean Wang Huan, the supervisory censor?"

"Does the commander know what Wang Huan is here to investigate?"

Chen Qing shook his head, "I'm not sure, I never had any interaction with him."

Xu Yunyu said earnestly: "The commander is still a little younger, and I don't know the dangers of the officialdom, including an old bureaucrat like me who has more than ten years, trembling and cautious every day, lest he say the wrong thing, or who has a close relationship with him If you are careful, you will be impeached. In comparison, the commander is too careless."

Chen Qing laughed, "I'm just a martial arts student at the moment, is it so serious?"