Chapter 83 Going to Tongzhou
"Brothers, you have to get up, otherwise we will be mistakenly killed by the Guanning Iron Cavalry!" Li Laoer woke up the sleeping brothers. Based on his judgment, Yuan Chonghuan, a naughty young man, would definitely regard his team as the Later Jin army and release the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Jizhou City to deal with him.
It is not clear whether Yuan Chonghuan was a Han jian Li Laoer, but it is certain that this person is very ambitious and talented.
Everyone got up, and Li Laoer immediately took his brothers out of the woods and galloped northward, preparing to pick up Cao Lei and one hundred cavalry on the way.
As expected by Li Laoer, about a quarter of an hour later, the Jizhou city gate opened, and a large area of black cavalry rushed out of the city and galloped towards the forest where Li Laoer had just hidden. After a while, the Guanning iron cavalry chased after the horse's hoof prints left on the snow, besides the woods.
However, Li Laoer's anti-tracking technology was unique. After his cavalry passed, more than a dozen cavalrymen were left behind, dragging branches on the horse's tail and clearing the horse's hoof prints on the snow. After that, the more than a dozen cavalrymen turned west and ran away.
The Guanning Iron Cavalry chased after a long journey and found that the horse's hoof prints had disappeared. So he wandered around and found a large area of horse's hoof prints marching west, so the Guanning Army also chased westward.
After getting rid of the Guanning Army, Li Laoer and his six hundred brothers continued to run northeast for more than ten miles. Finally, they saw a small cavalry galloping towards him. The cavalry was wearing the armor of the Jin army, but they used the banner of the word "Cao".
"It's our people back! Get ready to welcome them!" Li Laoer said loudly.
On the avenue not far to the north, a small number of cavalry were approaching Li Laoer.
The two sides were getting closer. Li Laoer met Cao Lei and the 100 brothers who came back. He rushed forward and shouted: "The Guanning Army discovered us and regarded us as Tartars. If the road ahead could not pass, we would go around from the other side."
After Li Laoer met with Cao Lei, he immediately walked around more than ten miles east of Jizhou, and then went straight to Tongzhou.
It is more than 200 miles from Jizhou to Tongzhou. Li Lao Er and others are one by one and two horses. If they march in a hurry, it will only take two days. But whenever Li Lao Er and his friends meet a village on the way, they will go to the entrance of the village to shout a few times, reminding the Later Jin army that they are about to arrive, and asking the villagers to escape from the village as soon as possible and find a big city to hide in.
At first, the villagers were regarded as the Later Jin soldiers by Li Lao Er and others. Later, they met some villagers who ran out of the village in front. They also recognized Li Lao Er, so they were no longer regarded as the Jin soldiers by the villagers.
On the afternoon of the third day, a team of Yebusuo sent by Li Laoer found a team of Ming cavalry coming towards him, under the banner of "You", with about 3,000 people. When he saw the Ming cavalry, Yebusuo blew a sharp whistle, turned his horse's head, and walked back. The Ming cavalry behind found several cavalry dressed in Jin army and immediately chased after him.
"Take off your helmet and tell them that we are Ming people!" Li Laoer immediately issued an order when he saw the Ming cavalry chasing him.
The seven hundred cavalry took off their helmets from their heads, exposed their hair and buns. At the same time, everyone turned over and dismounted, pulled a white cloth, and shook it as a white flag.
Ming general You Dai chased after him with three thousand cavalrymen. He was also shocked when he saw a large group of "Jiannu" cavalry appearing in front of him. However, he found that those "Jiannu" cavalry were dismounting and shaking the white flag. He rushed closer and saw that the cavalry took off their helmets, but the hairstyle on their heads was Han people's hairstyle. Since it was Han people's hairstyle, it was definitely not Jiannu. You Dai knew that Jiannu had strict requirements on hairstyles.
So You Dai ordered to slow down, rode his horse and move forward slowly, and after approaching Li Laoer and the others, You Dai sent someone to come forward and shout: "Which army is the opposite side?"
Li Laoer stood up and replied: "Go back to General You, we were originally thieves from the foreigners. Because Jiannu invaded and poisoned the people, we couldn't stand Jiannu, so we killed hundreds of Jiannu and wanted to enter the pass and besiege the Ming Dynasty to serve the court."
"Hundreds of Jiannu have been killed?" You Dai was shocked when he heard Li Laoer's words, "What the hero on the other side said is true?"
Li Laoer opened the package on the horse's back, took out two heads, grabbed the rat-tail of the money behind his head, held it in his hand, and shouted: "General You, this is the head of Jiannu, and Caomin has 700 deputy Jiannu's level here!"
You Dai asked again: "Since you have entered the Ming Dynasty from outside the pass, can you tell where Jiannu is now?"
"Jiannu is besieging Zunhua! He has been besieging for six or seven days, and I don't know if Zunhua is lost. After all, we are few people and dare not fight with Jiannu. We can only kill some Jiannu scouts and Jiannu who are wandering in chaos."
"Since I have brought Jiannu's head and want to be recruited by the imperial court, please follow You to Tongzhou."
After saying that, You Dai turned around and walked towards Tongzhou with three thousand cavalrymen. Several servants sent flag-speaking signals to Li Laoer, signaling Li Laoer and the others to follow the Ming cavalry.
After about an hour of leaving, he came outside Tongzhou City. You Dai ordered Li Laoer and the others to stay: "Dear heroes, please stay and wait outside the city, and wait for You to come in to report to the supervisor."
Li Laoer said: "Please also ask General You to bring two Jiannu-level figures to the supervisor."
You Dai ordered two servants to come forward and took two heads of the Later Jin soldiers from Li Laoer. The two servants then followed You Dai into Tongzhou City.
After entering the city, You Dai sent someone to report it, he met Sun Chengzong.
"The general of the army, the last general met a team of cavalry twelve miles north of the city. Most of them were wearing Jiannu armor, and some were wearing our Ming armor. There were about 700 people, one with two horses. They claimed to be thieves from outside the border, and killed more than 700 Jiannu and wanted to enter the pass to serve the court. Here are the two Jiannu-level figures they handed over to the last general, and asked the supervisor to take a look." You Dai saluted and presented someone to the Later Jin soldiers.
"It's a real slave level!" Seeing the two heads of the Later Jin soldiers, Sun Chengzong identified for a moment, checked the shape of the head, scalp, and teeth, and then determined that it was a real head of the Later Jin soldiers, rather than killing good people.
"Where is the hero who killed Jiannu?" Sun Chengzong asked hurriedly.
Youdai replied: "I am worried about letting them enter the city, so I let them wait outside the city."
Sun Chengzong stroked his beard and nodded, "Let them enter the city, but their origin is unknown. You must hand over the weapons at the city gate before entering the city. After I have seen them, if I sincerely serve the court, rather than doing it in detail, I will return the weapons to them and cooperate with us to fight together."
Li Laoer and others waited outside the city for about half an hour and saw You Dai and several servants walking out of the city gate.
"Dear heroes, the supervisor invites you to enter the city, but you must hand over the weapons at the door." A servant shouted.
When Li Laoer heard that it was the supervisor who invited him, he knew that it must be Sun Chengzong. He was very excited, so he turned around and ordered his brothers: "Everyone goes to the city gate to hand over the weapons."
"Brother, we have killed countless slaves in our hands. Now we are not used to handing over weapons." Han Dashan was very uncomfortable with Sun Chengzong's order to hand over weapons.
"Take it all over. In their eyes, we are a group of people of unknown origin. If we don't hand over the weapons, how can they let us enter the city with confidence?"
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Chapter completed!