Li Xing has obtained confessions from five black hoods.
The five guys were interrogated separately. If they had not confessed before, the confessions should be more reliable.
The interrogation process went smoothly, because he was abandoned by his accomplices, and the five black hoods cooperated very well, and they were all killed without waiting for punishment.
Yun Chao flipped through the five confessions: "Dong Chuan, I must let you die without a burial!"
According to the five black hoods, they were not from Qingyang County, but from the Dongping Army.
In the Dawu Dynasty, there were five hundred people per battalion, and five battalions were one army.
Qingyang County has a standing army of 500 people called Qingyang Camp.
Dongping Prefecture also has a standing army with a strength of 2,500 people, called the Dongping Army.
Dong Chuan was a cavalry commander in the Dongping Army, and he was in charge of one hundred cavalry.
The few black hoods caught were all Dong Chuan's soldiers.
Not long ago, Dong Chuan mysteriously brought them to Qingyang County, saying that he was going to kill the acting commander of Qingyang Camp and replace him.
After arriving in Qingyang County, Dong Chuan did not go into the city immediately. Instead, he found a good friend of his in Qingyang Camp-Li Hu.
They say they are good friends, but in fact they are just a flatterer who wants to rise to power through Dong Chuan.
Li Hu was a bad guy and quickly devised a vicious plan for Dong Chuan.
He said that he was sure to kill Yun Chao without Dong Chuan taking action himself.
As a captain of Qingyang Camp, I don't know much about the situation in Qingyang County.
Li Hu quickly found his target, Jiang Guangtou, who opened a grocery store in the county.
Bald Jiang doesn't have a son, he only has one daughter, and he can take the baby as much as he wants.
Li Hu had his daughter captured, forced him to submit, and assassinated Yun Chao.
Of course, Bald Jiang would not give in easily.
So, Li Hu strangled his wife to death with his own hands in front of Bald Jiang, and sent a tortured corpse of a young woman beyond recognition, warning Jiang Bald not to act recklessly, otherwise this would be the fate of his daughter!
In other words, the young female corpse on the second floor of the grocery store was not Jiang Guangtou's daughter.
This was the reason why Jiang Guangtou didn't tell the truth after he was arrested. He still hoped that his daughter would survive.
The plan Li Hu made for Jiang Bald was a double insurance. Even if the assassination failed, he could still use the tragic death of his wife and daughter to win Yun Chao's sympathy and wait for an opportunity to kill him when he was unprepared.
Unexpectedly, Yun Chao became suspicious about the cause of death of Jiang Baldy's wife and discovered that she committed suicide instead of hanging herself.
Jiang Guangtou's plan to get close to Yun Chao went bankrupt. Even if he was not captured on the spot, he lost the chance to assassinate Yun Chao again.
Yun Chao wanted to take a long-term approach to catch the big fish, but Li Hu was not stupid either. He neither sent anyone to contact Bald Jiang nor sent anyone to kill anyone to silence him.
Bald Jiang was not an idiot. After realizing that his precious daughter would never come back, he decisively prepared to run away.
The people sent by Li Hu to monitor Jiang Baldou found someone following him out of the city, and quickly reported the news to Li Hu and Dong Chuan who were hiding near Qingyang County.
Dong Chuan and Li Hu were afraid that Bald Jiang would do something bad and planned to kill him to silence him.
Bald Jiang had already left the city, and they had twenty cavalry, ready to kill Bald Jiang and several of Yun Chao's followers together.
Li Hu was worried that something would happen, and Dong Chuan patted his chest to reassure him.
In Dong Chuan's eyes, one cavalryman from the Dongping Army could at least defeat three cavalrymen from the Qingyang Camp.
What's more, there were only five infantrymen following Bald Jiang. Even if Yun Chao had some backup, his twenty cavalry were more than enough to handle it.
Unexpectedly, Yun Chao didn't follow the routine and not only sent so many cavalry, but also equipped them with crossbows.
When Dong Chuan saw Pan Guiying and the others raising their crossbows, they almost missed their defense.
Even the majestic cavalry captain of the Dongping Army did not have Zhang Crossbow equipment. A small Qingyang camp actually equipped the cavalry with Zhang Crossbow. Did Yun have so much money that he had no place to spend it?
Dozens of taels of silver for a crossbow may sound inexpensive, but in fact it is not that expensive at all.
A few dozen taels of silver can buy half a house in Qingyang County, and its value is roughly equivalent to the hundreds of thousands Yun Chao had in his previous life.
In Yun Chao's previous life, productivity was so advanced that ordinary soldiers were not equipped with hundreds of thousands of individual equipment, let alone the Great Wu Dynasty where productivity was backward and corruption among general officials was common?
In the army of the Great Wu Dynasty, it was normal practice for officers to drink the soldiers' blood and eat empty pay.
Guys like Yun Chao who have a little bit of money and throw it all into the army cannot be said to be non-existent, but they are definitely rare!
Dong Chuan suffered a huge loss. Pan Guiying killed seven of his men with one crossbow arrow, thus breaking the balance of power between the two sides.
The leader of the three black hoods who escaped was Dong Chuan.
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After reading the confessions of several black-hooded men, Yun Chao was almost furious.
Originally, he didn't want to do anything wrong and adopted a relatively mild approach against Qingyang Camp. Unexpectedly, someone was unwilling to do so and wanted to stab him in the back.
Since you were the first to be unkind, don't blame me for being unjust later!
"Li Xing, what are you waiting for? Take someone to capture that Li Hu for me, and seal the Qingyang Camp. I will avenge my dead brother with my own hands!"
"yes!"
Li Xing had been waiting for Yun Chao's order for a long time. He agreed and led dozens of his men out of the city.
Qingyang County has to close the city gate at night, but the gatekeepers are Yun Chao's men. They can open the city whenever they want.
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Although Li Hu was a captain of the Qingyang Battalion, he was ostracized everywhere because of his poor character. When Ding Yangchun made a surprise attack on Wo Niu Village, he did not take him to "make meritorious service" at all.
Li Hu was still very angry at first, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Ding Yangchun never came back, and not many of his direct descendants came back.
Li Hu, a small team leader who had never been on the stage, suddenly became one of the few small officers. He actually gained a certain say in the Qingyang Camp where there were only 70 or 80 defeated soldiers left.
As a result, Li Hu's ambition arose.
With such great ability, how can he be a small captain? Isn't this overqualification and underutilization?
Gearing up, Li Hu is waiting for the acting commander Yun Chao to take office. He is preparing to perform well in front of Yun Chao and strive to be promoted several levels in a row. Even if he cannot become the deputy commander of Qingyang Camp, he must at least get his head started. .
Unexpectedly, Yun Chao only showed up once. He went to Qingyang Camp for inspection once and never showed up again.
Not only did they not replenish the Qingyang camp, they also took away everyone's equipment.
Qingyang Camp seemed to have been forgotten by the superiors. Even the food and salary were cut off, and they became a child without a father and a mother.
This time, Li Hu's resentment became bigger and bigger.
You Yunchao, you are nothing. You are just a patrol inspector. When you become the acting commander of Qingyang Camp, you don’t hurry up to win over us old people in Qingyang Camp. You actually don’t care. What do you want to do? What do you want to do with us? Are these old people in Qingyang camp unable to escape from hunger?
