Seeing that Hu Mingyi still insisted on going to Xinpingbao, Vice General Li had no choice but to persuade him. After all, the other party had the final say on this team.
"Where is this place? How far is it from Xinpingbao?" Hu Mingyi stretched his head out of the car window and took a look at the surrounding environment.
Vice General Li pointed to the road at his feet and said: "If we continue along this road, we can reach Xinpingbao today."
"That's good. I always feel like this place is so scary." Hu Mingyi looked around.
The surrounding area seemed very desolate. Here, he could smell the smell of blood that only existed in the house that had been harmed by the defeated army, although the smell of blood here was already very weak.
Vice General Li also looked around, and immediately said: "If the general's prediction is correct, this place should be the place where General Yang and his troops were defeated not long ago. Look at this black thing on the ground. It should be blood left on the ground and The soil solidified together.”
Hu Mingyi in the carriage heard what he said and looked under the carriage curiously.
Sure enough, I saw a piece of soil on the ground that was different in color from the surrounding ones.
This suddenly reminded him of the blood soaked in the soil, and his stomach began to churn again. He hurriedly put his head back into the carriage and lowered the curtain.
"Don't delay, get on your way quickly." He was afraid that if he continued to stay here, he would vomit everything in his stomach.
Vice General Li noticed Hu Mingyi's discomfort and didn't say anything more. He just asked the team to speed up.
Hu Mingyi, who was sitting in the carriage, closed his eyes and tried not to think about the bloody scene. Gradually, his stomach condition got better and he no longer felt so uncomfortable.
When Hu Mingyi's team was less than five miles away from Xinping Fort, Luzhai appeared on the road ahead and the team had to stop.
"Why don't you leave?" Hu Mingyi in the carriage stretched his head out of the window.
The battalion soldier following the carriage hurriedly stepped forward and said: "There is a roadblock in front of us. The general has gone to the front to check the situation. Sir, please go back to the carriage and wait."
"This has entered the territory of bandits. I tell you, general, to be careful." Hu Mingyi explained, and then he put his head back into the carriage and sat down.
Vice General Li rode his horse to the front of the team and found that there was no one around, so he said: "Come here with a few people and move all the deer villages in front to the roadside."
Several battalion soldiers stepped forward and moved away the Luzhai blocking the road.
However, before these soldiers from the battalion came back, a group of heavily armed soldiers and horses suddenly rushed out from the front and rear of the team, blocking Deputy General Li and his soldiers and horses from the Fubiao Battalion in the middle of the road.
Fireguns were pointed at Lieutenant General Li and the others, and two squatting tiger cannons were placed about twenty steps ahead, facing the front.
The black hole of the muzzle is very penetrating.
"Don't get me wrong, we are from Fubiao Camp, and we came here specifically from Datong Mansion." For the strange soldiers and horses that appeared near Xinping Fort, Lieutenant General Li knew that they could only be soldiers and horses of bandits.
Someone from the tiger-character flag team blocking the front stepped out, looked at Vice General Li and said, "Are you sent by the governor of Datong?"
"Yes, we are sent by the governor, and the person in the carriage is Mr. Hu, the governor's staff." Vice General Li explained, pointing to the carriage behind him.
The soldier raised the gun in his hand and said: "Since you are members of the imperial court, what are you doing in Xinpingbao? Now our tiger-character flag is at war with your imperial court."
"Recruitment, we are here to recruit people." Vice General Li said hurriedly.
I was afraid that if I spoke too slowly, the other party would fire the gun in his hand.
The soldier looked sarcastic and said: "You really want to do good things. If you can't defeat them, you just want to recruit them."
Such blunt words made Lieutenant General Li look embarrassed.
Just as the other party said, it was precisely because Xuanda's two frontier armies were defeated at the hands of the bandits that he escorted Hu Mingyi to Xinpingbao to recruit the bandit leaders.
"I'll let you go this time. You can go back. Our proprietor is not in Xinpingbao, and he will not accept your recruitment." The soldier said to Lieutenant General Li.
Lieutenant General Li did not move, but said: "It doesn't matter that Mr. Liu is not here. We can go see the people who can make the decision. As for whether to recruit people, it is up to your leader to decide, don't you think?"
The soldier hesitated for a moment and said: "Since you must go to see our division, that's fine. I will take you there. However, your soldiers and armor must stay here."
This time it was Vice General Li's turn to hesitate.
Taking off their armor and facing heavily armed bandits, they have no ability to fight back at all. Once they encounter any danger, they will be helpless.
"As they say, everyone's armor will be left behind." Hu Mingyi came over from behind at this time.
Vice General Li turned around, looked at Hu Mingyi who was walking over and said, "Sir, once we hand over our armor, we will put our lives completely in the hands of the other party."
"Even the two frontier armies of Xuanda and Dazhou are no match for me. What do they really want to do to us? What do you think we can do even if we have soldiers?" Hu Mingyi said to Vice General Li.
Lieutenant General Li understood that what the other party said was true, but he was still unwilling to hand over his armor just like that. As a military general, he was not used to putting his life in the hands of the enemy.
When Hu Mingyi saw that Vice General Li was silent, his face immediately sank and he ordered: "I am the one in charge. Vice General Li, all you need to do is cooperate with me and hand over your armor immediately."
"Yes." Vice General Li agreed reluctantly.
He is just an ordinary general in the Fubiao camp, and the other person is the person whom the governor trusts most. If he doesn't agree, he will inevitably be beaten when he returns.
More importantly, as the other party said, when it comes to the territory of the Tiger Flag, it doesn't matter whether they have soldiers or not. Keeping the soldiers is just a little comfort.
Lieutenant General Li turned around and shouted to the Fubiao camp soldiers behind him: "Everyone obey the order and put all the weapons in their hands on the ground."
As for the armor, he didn't say anything, because except for himself, everyone else only wore a piece of cotton armor. The cotton armor worn by many soldiers in the camp was in tatters and could barely be used to keep warm.
Hu Mingyi looked at the Tiger Flag soldier in front and said, "Can you let us go to Xinping Fort now?"
The soldier glanced at Vice General Li and his team from the Fubiao Battalion, and immediately said to the other soldiers around him: "You guys, go over and collect all the weapons on the ground."
Several soldiers handed the firecrackers in their hands to their companions and walked towards Lieutenant General Li and his companions.
Soon, all the weapons were collected.
"Retreat to the roadside and let them pass." The leading soldier ordered the others, and then said to Hu Mingyi, "You can pass."
"Thank you." Hu Mingyi cupped his hands and turned back to his carriage.
The team is back on the road.
