"Let's go, while there is still time, let's go meet this man named Peng Cai!"
Yuan Yaoyu will not stop until he is shocked.
Huang Yi moved his lips, but in the end he did not dare to tell Yuan Yao, asking him and himself to abandon the five hundred infantry and quickly escape back to the camp.
After receiving Yuan Yao's order, soldiers immediately shouted to the ship.
Yuan Yao and Peng Cai both cared about their own lives, so they arranged for the interview to take place in the middle of the wooden bridge.
In the Han Dynasty, one zhang was equivalent to about 2.4 meters, and the Xiushui River was about a hundred feet wide, and the wooden bridge built on the river was even longer.
Below the center of the bridge is the broad river, with an unobstructed view, so there is no possibility of an ambush.
Moreover, the distance between the center of the bridge and the river banks on both sides is at least fifty feet. The effective range of ordinary crossbows is only twenty or thirty feet, and they will not be shot accidentally.
The two parties agreed that they could only bring three followers. Yuan Yao took Huang Yi and two personal guards and walked to the center of the bridge first.
Peng Cai took three followers, including the burly man, and arrived in a small boat.
Several people jumped onto the wooden bridge and tied the boat to the edge of the wooden bridge with ropes.
Yuan Yao looked at Peng Cai, the leader, and saw that this man was of medium build and had a fierce look on his face. He looked like a troublesome master at first glance.
Among the three followers following behind, the burly man with a height of more than 1.9 meters stood out the most.
The other two people also had a disturbing aura about them.
Peng Cai was also observing Yuan Yao. It's just that although Mr. Yuan is tall, his face and hands are so thin and tender that he can't be lifted by his hands or carried on his shoulders.
Peng Cai was really disappointed with this appearance that was neither good nor useful.
"Are you that Colonel Yuan from Huainan?"
Peng Cai already looked down on Yuan Yao and did not give Yuan Yao any face when he spoke.
The bodyguard behind Yuan Yao couldn't help but said angrily when he heard that Peng Cai even got Yuan Yao's official title wrong.
"How dare you be so rude?"
"What kind of captain? My eldest son is the captain of Yuzhang appointed by the imperial court. His rank is as high as two thousand stones..."
Before he could finish speaking, Peng Cai interrupted directly:
"Am I rude? I was polite enough without calling me by name. You, a follower, are qualified to talk to me!"
This personal guard was insulted and naturally couldn't bear it, so he immediately wanted to draw his sword.
The burly man immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Peng Cai, with his hand on the saber at his waist.
Yuan Yao immediately took action to hold down his bodyguard. Although he wanted to chop off Peng Cai's head with a knife, but with this burly man present, Yuan Yao was definitely not sure of victory if he took action.
"Young Master Peng's tone is really worse than athlete's foot!"
"If we want to pick fights and scold each other, why don't you and I go back our separate ways and let others scold each other from a distance? Why bother to meet here specifically?"
"Everyone has different status. A lowly person like you who has no status is not even qualified to talk to me in the civilized land of Middle-earth!"
"I am willing to come to meet you today and give you, a pariah, a chance to speak in front of me. If you have nothing serious to do, I will come back!"
Yuan Yao's output showed no mercy for Peng Cai.
Of course, he was not afraid of annoying Peng Cai.
Although Yuan Yao has no martial arts skills, he has often practiced sprinting and riding horses since his long-distance attack on Chen Yu.
In troubled times, you have to practice something, what if you can save your life?
It's just over a hundred meters away from the shore, and it only takes more than ten seconds to run back.
Moreover, the people on the shore are always keeping an eye on the situation on the bridge. If there is any situation, someone will definitely come to save them.
If Peng Cai and his men could kill the two strongest Baizhan guards around Yuan Yao within ten seconds, Yuan Yao would have surrendered today!
"Captain Yuan is quite good at using his words!"
Peng Cai looked directly at Yuan Yao with fierce and sharp eyes, not concealing the murderous intent at all.
Seeing that he couldn't say anything serious for a long time, Yuan Yao didn't bother to talk to him anymore, so he turned around and left.
Peng Cai was startled, but he didn't expect Mr. Yuan to act so straightforwardly.
Or is it disdain?
Peng Cai became more and more furious, and he wished he could kill Yuan Yao immediately!
But he soon calmed down. If Yuan Yao was allowed to return to the shore now, and if he led his men to retreat directly, it would be difficult to deal with the Yuan family master and his five hundred officers and soldiers nearby.
At the beginning, Peng Cai brought his people with the intention of encircling these hundreds of officers and soldiers in a roundabout way, and then make them pay with their blood.
Not only did he give a lesson to the young master who recently came from Huainan, but he also gave an explanation to his clan members.
Then the matter is almost over. I don't think that Mr. Yuan is so stupid that he wants to wipe out a powerful clan with ten thousand households with only a few thousand men, right?
Even if he asked his own father Yuan Shu to support him afterwards, Peng Cai concluded that Yuan Shu, a prince of Huainan who had tens of thousands of supporters, would not raise troops and waste food and travel thousands of miles to specifically attack one person just for a few hundred troops. Peng's, right?
But what Peng Cai never expected was that the man who commanded these hundreds of officers and soldiers to cause this disaster was the Yuan family prince himself, and not an ordinary lieutenant and military prince as he thought.
But the arrow had to be fired when the arrow was on the string. He had already given orders to the leaders of several major clans to encircle them in a roundabout way. It was impossible to change the order overnight, because the leader of the murder was the Yuan family son, so he simply gave up revenge on the murderer of the Peng clan.
If this is the case, the reputation of the Peng family as a powerful Yuzhang clan and the ancestral motto that all clan members are united and will avenge blood will become a joke.
Even his position as the next head of the clan may be difficult.
So even though he only learned a quarter of an hour ago that the leader of the army was Yuan Yao, the son of the Yuan family, Peng Cai was still determined to deal with the group of officers and soldiers according to the original plan and establish prestige for the Peng family!
Not only must these hundreds of officers and soldiers stained with the blood of the Peng clan be dealt with, but it is also best not to let the young master of the Yuan family escape on horseback.
It seems that some changes have to be made based on the original plan, and a few more lives have to be sacrificed in order to capture the noble Master Yuan alive!
As long as his life is not in danger, he can be returned to Yuan Shu intact. How to solve this matter later, the initiative lies entirely in your own hands.
If I can use my son as a pledge to get a new opportunity for survival and development for the Peng family, then I am afraid that the contribution I have made to the Peng family will not be inferior to that of the first generation clan master, right?
I heard that Yuan Shu has only one legitimate son!
Don't be afraid that Yuan Shu won't negotiate terms when the time comes, and some other princes in the Central Plains will take the initiative to make terms for this proton!
In Peng Cai's view, the so-called aristocratic families in the Central Plains are just powerful families with better positions and bigger names.
Internally, they are divided into direct relatives and branches. Isn’t it important to pass down the line from generation to generation?
Peng Cai had already figured out these stakes on the Clippers.
Although he was angered by Yuan Yao's words and had murderous intentions at this time, Peng Cai calmed down in just a few breaths.
"Captain Yuan is leaving now?"
"Settle today's debt with me, and it's not too late to leave!"
Peng Cai shouted behind Yuan Yao.
Seeing that Yuan Yao did not stop, Peng Cai was so anxious that he could only sarcastically say again:
"Young Master Yuan comes from a well-known family. He's not so stingy that he doesn't even dare to settle the debt with me, right?"
As soon as Peng Cai finished speaking, Yuan Yao stopped and turned around.
Huh, as expected, these so-called young men from aristocratic families all care about face!
Yuan Yao said angrily: "What accounts do you and I have to settle?"
Peng Cai said coldly: "Today at the bridge entrance, more than a hundred members of my Peng family were killed by the arrows of Yuan Duwei's soldiers. How will Mr. Yuan settle this account with me?"
Yuan Yao rolled his eyes at Peng Cai: "These people intend to attack the officers and soldiers, and they are guilty of conspiracy. According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, they will be killed on the spot without mercy. What is there to say?"
Peng Cai sneered: "If Lieutenant Yuan hadn't led his army rashly and broke into the Peng family crossing bridge without authorization, how could my Peng family's children have defended themselves?"
Self-defense?
Yuan Yao only felt that there was something wrong with this Peng Cai, and even the entire Peng clan. Do they really regard this three-quarter acre of land as their own?
"Everything in the world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers!"
Yuan Yao pointed upward to the sky, stepped on the wooden bridge under his feet, and said in a loud voice: "This is a huge world, and all the nine states belong to the Emperor of Han Dynasty!"
"As the captain of Yuzhang, I have been appointed by the emperor. It is the order of heaven. I can do whatever I want in Yuzhang!"
"Not to mention your little wooden bridge, even the Shangliao City built by your people, and the land surrounding it for dozens of miles, every brick and every grass belongs to the Emperor of Han Dynasty!"
"As a captain of a county, I patrol hunting places on behalf of the emperor. I can use them at any time. How can I talk about trespassing?"
Yuan Yao directly raised the silver seal green ribbon around his waist, and his whole body released an overwhelming aura!
