Li Zhen squatted down and looked at the guy with sharp eyes, "Tell me clearly, how many monks are there? When will they enter the inn?"

The guy said tremblingly: "About thirty monks, we can't understand what they say. Anyway, they just have to drink and eat meat, and they have to leave after eating enough. The official secretary asked them for money, but they got angry and pulled their swords and slashed them. I ran fast, but I was still... I was stabbed!"

Li Zhen changed his mind and asked again: "Do they carry weapons like short spears?"

"Each of them carries a skin bag. It seems that there are five wooden poles in the skin bag. It is probably the short spear that the official mentioned!"

Li Zhen stood up and stared ahead. He had a very good eye and vaguely saw a building two miles away standing next to the official road. It should be what this guy called the post station.

He pondered for a moment and said to two subordinates with good light skills: "You two go and have a look, be careful!"

"Abide by the order!"

Two subordinates ran away, and everyone was waiting patiently for the news on the official road. Soon, one subordinate ran back to report: "Report to the commander, there are several corpses in the inn, and the Hu monks have already left."

"Go! Go and have a look."

Everyone turned over and urged the horse to gallop towards the post station. In just a moment, they arrived at the post station. After the injured guy ran into the post station first, his cry came, "These are the thieves who are killed in heaven!"

Li Zhen led everyone into the lobby of the inn. The lights were lit. The lobby was covered with mess, the tables were smashed, and there were fragments of dishes everywhere. Three corpses were lying in the corner, blood was flowing all over the ground. The guy was kneeling in front of a corpse and crying bitterly.

Li Zhen's face was terrifyingly gloomy. Zhao Qiuniang waved her hand and led everyone around to investigate.

Soon, the crying of a child came from the inner room. Zhao Qiuniang saw a girl who was less than one year old, wearing a pink cloth jacket, wearing a small braid, her hands were covered in blood, and she was crying loudly.

Zhao Qiuniang sighed, "There is a woman behind her who was ruined and killed by them. The child is lying on the woman and crying."

"This is our postmaster's child."

The guy wiped his tears and pointed at a corpse at the door, "That's the postmaster."

A sharp murderous intent appeared in Li Zhen's eyes, and his opponent ordered: "Don't hurry to get on the road, clean up the station, and we'll leave after dawn."

Everyone was busy, and Li Zhen walked up and asked, "Where are our people hiding, do you know?"

Zhao Qiuniang gently patted the child's back, and the child was already asleep in her arms. She whispered: "There is a tavern in Yanshi County that is an internal guard asset, and they should be hiding in that kind of tavern."

Li Zhen pondered for a moment, and a thought became clearer and stronger in his mind.

"I have an idea, let's discuss it!"

......

When it was almost dawn, Zhao Qiuniang's eldest disciple Zhang Wei rushed to the inn from Yanshi County.

Zhang Wei is the rogue leader in Nanshi, but his real identity is a member of the inner guard and Zhao Qiuniang's right-hand man. He is extremely smart and capable. He once led a group of rogues to harass Li Quan's wine shop, but was taught a lesson by Li Zhen. When Li Zhen became the deputy commander, his expression was more or less awkward.

"Meet Commander Li!" He stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute.

Li Zhen quickly helped him up. He could feel Zhang Wei's embarrassment, so he patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "If you don't fight, you won't know each other, don't care about the past."

Li Zhen's smile dissolved Zhang Wei's embarrassment a lot. He sat down at the small table, took out a map from his arms and spread it on the small table, "This is a map of Yanshi County hand-painted by Bei Zhi."

Li Zhen and Zhao Qiuniang came forward and followed the map on the table. Li Zhen pointed to a long road, "This is the official road!"

“That’s right!”

Zhang Wei pointed to a small pavilion again, "We are here at the moment, this is the post station, less than thirty miles away from Yanshi County."

"Awei, where are those Hu monks now? Have you seen them?" Zhao Qiuniang asked from the side.

"Report to the master's wife, Hu Seng is in the county town. I climbed over the wall and left the city, but they forced the soldiers to open the city. There was a lot of noise. They brought Xue Huaiyi's gold medal, and no one dared to provoke them."

Li Zhen pondered for a long time and asked Zhang Wei: "How many fast horses do you have?"

Zhang Wei thought for a while and said, "We have five horses, which are very fast, and they all go to the good Hequ horses."

Li Zhen said to Zhao Qiuniang again: "We also have four good horses here. Together with my war horse, there are ten fast horses in total, so we can deal with those group of Hu monks."

Zhao Qiuniang was shocked, "Does the young master want to take action personally?"

Li Zhen nodded, "Of course I will lead the team!"

...

Yanshi County is not big, with a wall of only more than ten miles in circumference. The residents in the city are mainly military households. Large military camps are distributed on the north and south sides of the county. As the New Year approaches, the county is also particularly lively. After the snow, the streets are bustling, crowded with people going to the market.

Among the crowd carrying large and small bags of New Year's goods, a group of Hu monks with about 30 people were particularly eye-catching. They were rude and kept whipping the people who were blocking their way, breaking into the wine shops and inns, and searching for suspicious targets.

This Hu monk team is one of the ten search teams sent by Xue Huaiyi. Their target is a team that returned from Songshan and carried tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver. The night before yesterday, they had already discovered the traces of this team, but unexpectedly, the team disappeared under the cover of heavy snow.

Xue Huaiyi was furious. This was the wealth he had accumulated over the years. He was never willing to be taken away by Shangguan Wan'er. He sent 300 monks to divide them into ten teams to search near Luoyang.

"Who are these Hu monks?"

Pedestrians on the street were talking, and many people were extremely resentful of their brute force, "Does the government not care about it?"

"Who dares to care! They are Xue Huaiyi's people. With Xue Huaiyi supporting them, the county magistrate can only be a turtle with his head."

The more people gathered on the street, pointing to the fierce and rude Hu monks talking.

But dozens of Hu monks ignored them and searched in shops and taverns. Someone resisted and then surrounded them and punched them.

Seven or eight Hu monks rushed into a wine shop near the Xicheng Gate. The leader Hu monk kicked over the wine table near the gate. The dishes on the table were smashed to pieces. Several drunkards were frightened and fled. The originally lively lobby suddenly became silent.

These monks had clear goals and rushed straight to the stable. They could not see the suspicion just by looking at the drinkers, but the horse could see that. The shopkeeper stepped forward tremblingly and bowed and said, "What are the keys for a few monks?"

Before he finished speaking, the shopkeeper was slapped on the ground by the leader Hu monk. After a moment, several Hu monks came back from the stable and shook their heads, saying that they did not find any accidents.

At this moment, a low horn horn sound suddenly came from the street, and the horn sound was very rapid. This was a signal of discovering the situation. Several Hu monks immediately rushed out of the diner.

The streets were already in chaos, and the people on the streets were so scared that they screamed and stumbled toward both sides. The horse's hooves were thunderous. A team of about ten people was riding horses. They were carrying huge bags on their backs and kept visiting them nervously.

Nearly a dozen Hu monks were chasing behind him. They shouted and blew the horns hard. More than a dozen Hu monks rushed out of several shops. They turned over and quickly met on the street to chase the ten riders.

"It's them, they carry gold!"

Several Hu monks shouted loudly, and one Hu monk handed a piece of gold to the leader of Hu monk, "This is the gold they fell!"

The leader of the Hu monk took the heavy piece of gold, weighing at least two or three pounds. His eyes ignited a greedy light and immediately shouted loudly: "Chasing me, you must catch them!"

Thirty Hu monks rode their horses to chase after them, staring at the ten knights running ahead.

The two teams ran in Yanshi County, with horses hooves sounding like thunder. People on the street hid under the eaves on both sides, talking a lot, wondering what had happened.

The soldiers guarding the city gate were also frightened and dodged one after another. Ten knights instantly rushed out of the county town and rushed towards Luoyang. Thirty Hu monks behind them chased each other reluctantly.

.........

The leader of the ten inner guard knights was Li Zhen. They used a piece of gold to successfully lure the group of Hu monks and fled westward. Their horses were extremely fast, like a powerful arrow, stirring up rolling yellow dust and running on the official road. The Hu monk behind them also ran very fast, shouting loudly and shouting to chase.

In less than half an hour, Li Zhen led his men to the post station. They rushed into the post station one after another. Dozens of Hu monks behind were overjoyed. The leader Hu monk ordered several people to block the back door. The rest of them dismounted and pulled their swords to rush into the post station.

The inn covers an area of ​​about seven or eight acres and consists of dozens of houses. As soon as a group of Hu monks rushed into the inn, Zhao Qiuniang led dozens of inner guards to surround them, and a row of arrows were shot out. Several Hu monks at the back door screamed and fell to the ground with arrows.

At this moment, thick smoke rose from the inn. In the thick smoke, Li Zhen led ten subordinates to rush out from the back door. Li Zhen shouted: "They are behind, stop them!"

He set off his bow and arrow, twisted his head and shot it out. The arrow hit the throat of the leader of the Hu monk. The leader of the Hu monk fell to the ground with his throat covered. More than a dozen inner guards who were ambushing outside the back door raised crossbows and shot arrows. The arrows shot into the back door. Several Hu monks were shot into the arrows and fell to the ground. The other Hu monks were so scared that they retreated back to the room.

The fire took advantage of the wind, and the fire at the post station became bigger and bigger, the flames soared into the air, and the black smoke rolled. It was clearly visible more than ten miles away. The fierce battle inside and outside the post station also reached a white-hot level. The Hu monks trapped in the post station fought desperately to break out. They howled and rushed out of the gate or climbed over the wall.

But under the leadership of Li Zhen, dozens of inner guards were ruthlessly killed Hu monks who were trying to break through. Several Hu monks rushed out of the main gate, and five or six arrows shot towards him. Three Hu monks screamed and fell to the ground with arrows. The last man avoided the arrow and swung his sword to attack the inner guards. Five inner guard soldiers rushed forward and dismembered him from the corpse.

Li Zhen led several soldiers to patrol the post station, "Commander, there is one person over there!" An inner guard soldier shouted pointed to the wall.

Li Zhen also saw a Hu monk climbing over the wall. He sneered, calmly setting off his bow and arrow. The bow string was loosened, and an arrow shot out like lightning, shooting through the back of the monk Hu monk and nailed him to the wall.

"Good arrow!"

Zhao Qiuniang applauded from afar, and she urged her to come forward and smiled at several inner guard soldiers: "This battle is so exciting. Our Commander Li will surely establish great prestige among the inner guards."

Li Zhen's thoughts were much deeper than Zhao Qiuniang's praise. He didn't want to talk about this more for the time being, so he smiled and asked, "Is there a Hu monk breaking through the front door?"

"The front door and the back door are gone, and they are probably dead!" Zhao Qiuniang looked at the growing flames and wiped out the Hu monks. Finally, she had a breath that had been holding in her heart for several days.

The fire gradually swallowed the post station completely, and thirty Hu monks were burned, shot to death, and killed. In the end, no one could escape his life and were all annihilated in the post station.

Under the leadership of the new commander Li Zhen, the news that the inner guards wiped out 30 Hu monks under Xue Huaiyi's east of Luoyang was spreading quickly throughout the court and the country, causing shock to the court and the country, like a huge rock smashing into the calm water, and suddenly burst into a thousand layers of waves.

Countless people were happy and encouraged by it, but many people called him stupid and bold, and dared to offend the emperor's inner favor Xue Huaiyi. Everyone inferred that he was about to be overturned before he could even sit in the position of deputy commander.

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Chapter completed!