He frowned and said, "It's the Linxi Army, not these bandits?"
As he spoke, he kicked Zhu Yi's body away and walked back to the doors of several rooms in the back room to check. When I checked here before, I saw that there seemed to be some clothes in one of the rooms. After searching two rooms, I found them. I found that they were all silk and satin, stacked in one place, and there were actually a few women's clothes in them.
This Zhu Yi is also strange. He only collects gold, silver and jewelry, but even clothes. Could it be that he developed this poor and sour attitude from following Zhu Houdong around when he was young?
Lin Qiao said from behind: "It must be the Linxi Army. I have heard about it. I also heard that the quartermaster in that camp will go to Sanguan City to buy it. There are people in the building who have talked to them."
Li Bochen was even more surprised, but first said: "There are clothes here, please change them."
Lin Qiao walked into the house and closed the door. Li Boxen stood guard outside the door with a knife, guarding against Zhu Yi's guards coming back. Listening to the sound of people getting dressed across the door, I couldn't help but ask again: "You all know that they are from the Linxi Army, how dare they go to the city?"
Lin Qiao smiled inside the door and said, "When Brother Li came here, he felt that the Linxi Army was incompatible with the officers and soldiers in Guancheng everywhere? In fact, this is not the case now."
"The officials in the city know where they are and will station troops nearby. But I heard that there are rarely any conflicts in normal times, and the water in the well does not interfere with the river. People say that more than ten years ago, they were all from the Li country, and now as long as they are not on the Feng issued a death order, but he didn't want to fight with swords."
After she said this, she paused and then said: "Brother Li, what are you doing with them? Do you want to..."
"No." Li Bochen smiled and said, "I found something on Zhu Yi's evil sect, and I plan to give it to them."
After a while, Lin Qiao said: "Brother Li, can I ask you something?"
"You speak."
"Why did you insist on killing him just now?"
Li Bochen was stunned and said, "You mean Zhu Yi?"
"Um."
This question is a bit strange. Li Bochen thought for a moment and knew that what she wanted to ask was "Zhu Yi had shown weakness just now, why didn't he just leave instead of taking the risk of killing him?" To explain this kind of thing, I'm afraid I would have to say a lot more. The two of them had only known each other for a few days, and Li Bochen was not sure whether to tell the truth. But just when he was about to say a few perfunctory words, he remembered how she was sitting alone by the roadside in the morning. His heart moved, he sighed, and said: "Ye Lu is a member of the Kongming Society. Zhu Yi should be because of the Kongming Society." What kind of evil magic has turned into this? I also encountered this kind of thing when I was in the Sui Kingdom."
"I think this matter has something to do with the Demon Kingdom. I just bumped into it, and I can't just walk away... Even if I can't trace anything, it would be good to give it to the Linxi Army and ask them to investigate."
When he said this, he sighed again: "The demonic army has reached the Sui Kingdom... If we don't investigate these matters within the six kingdoms, I'm afraid there will be internal and external troubles, and the situation will be very bad."
There was no sound inside the door for a while. After a while, Lin Qiaocai said: "Brother Li, you shouldn't go to the Linxi Army. Your life experience... they know about this. If they really investigate, they will find out your life experience."
Li Bochen smiled: "This matter is more important."
Lin Qiao stopped talking, wondering what she was thinking. After a while, she opened the door and walked out. Li Bochen thought she would wear women's clothes, but unexpectedly she wore men's clothes. Men's clothing was a bit too big for her, so she used some belts to tie the cuffs and waist, making it look like an arrow-sleeved outfit. It looked very heroic and refreshing.
She walked out the door, smiled slightly, and said, "Then let's go to Hanshan."
After the fierce battle just now, Li Boxen still feels a little sore in his arms, and his emotions have not completely calmed down. But she looked like she was no longer panicking. He also smiled and said, "Okay."
The two found some horses left by the bandit leaders, picked a piebald gray horse for Lin Qiao, and headed north along the road.
As we were walking on the road, we could already see Hanshan Mountain from a distance - the mountain peaks were abrupt, with one side being gentle and the other side being a cliff. There is also a hill next to Hanshan, which is slightly shorter and has a similar appearance. These two mountains are at an angle, with a canyon in the middle called Shuangmen Gorge. Going north from Sanguan City is the only way to go.
Li Bochen looked at the two mountains from a distance on his horse and felt that they were somewhat similar to the Gate of Hell in Beichen. Thinking of this section, I remembered something that I didn't have time to think about in detail just now.
When I was considering whether to kill those gangsters, I fell into a strange state. It can't be said to be in trance. Now that I think about it, it can't be considered as being obsessed. But since then, I have made the Heavenly Punishment Thunder more powerful and used the Yin soldiers more skillfully... Is that state similar to "enlightenment"?
What did you realize? What should I understand about my identity as "Emperor Beichen"?
He thought, wondering what kind of changes would occur in that world as a result. Now I can go back there again and jump out again, but it only takes a moment. But time doesn't matter, it has an impact on mentality. He is still thinking about how to contact the Linxi Army in Hanshan, and he really can't find the energy to explore that area again. Simply, let's wait for the immediate matter and wait until you fall asleep at night to talk about it.
After riding the horse for less than half an hour, the sun rose high and there was some warmth in the air. Lin Qiao's horse had some dry food on it, and the two of them ate from the water in the water bladder. After these efforts, Lin Qiao gained strength, felt full and warm, and seemed to be happy. She sang two songs for Li Bochen along the way. She has a beautiful voice and great singing skills. Even her a cappella singing can outshine the cries of the birds in the forest. Li Bochen listened to her singing and his mind slowly calmed down. The sun fell on my body, and I felt warm. I wished that the road to Hanshan was longer.
By noon, we were nearly two mountains down. From a distance, he saw a small town at the mountain pass. Li Boxen thought it was a military town where local government troops were stationed, but when he saw smoke rising from the houses, he realized that it was a gathering of civilians.
Does this place look so harmonious?
Then he raised his eyes and looked at the mountains on both sides - the higher side is called Hanshan, with lush trees. Here you can vaguely see some military barracks. If they are full of people, there should be fifty or sixty of them. . This is not a small amount - if placed on Beiyuan, five or six pieces of weaving can guard an area of dozens of miles.
Looking towards the mountain on that side, I saw only a few houses. If they were full of people, they would probably be no more than a few houses. Li Bochen felt even more strange... It was only twenty or thirty miles away from Sanguan, but the Linxi Army was actually much larger than the official army?
Just as he was thinking of this, he heard the noise coming from the front. To enter the market town from this road, you have to go around a small slope, so you can only hear sounds but not see people. But his ears are very sharp, and he can vaguely hear words such as "your" and "mine". It must not be about his own troubles.
But he still said to Lin Qiao: "Xiaoman, sit still on the horse. Look at my eyes."
Lin Qiao nodded, and Li Bochen slowed down his horse and walked forward slowly. After walking around the gentle slope, I saw two groups of people arguing at the intersection of the market town. These people are not civilians, they all wear armor. But the six or seven people in one group were not very bright with their swords and guns, and their armor was only half-body leather and cotton armor. The leader was a yellow-faced tenth general. He had more leather helmets than the other soldiers, but they were also worn crookedly and did not look powerful.
There were also seven or eight people in the other group, but all of them had sharp swords and guns, bright clothes and armor, and some arrogance on their faces. A glance at the roadside again revealed what they were arguing about.
There are two people on the roadside. One was a corpse, and the other had been slashed several times in the chest and was bleeding. Sitting leaning against a stone, with his head lowered and his lips slightly opening and closing, he looked like he was about to see something. Li Bochen's sharp eyes immediately recognized that the man was one of the bandit leaders who had escaped before.
Were these two people unlucky enough to be seriously injured and escape here, where they ran into the army and were surrounded and suppressed?
If this is the case, the officers and soldiers here cannot be underestimated - those bandits are very capable, and even if they are injured, they are not something ordinary people can deal with.
Then the two groups of people should be competing for credit. Li Bochen slowed his horse down a little, tightened his cloak and wrapped his armor around him, and tried to walk slowly over. At this time, I could hear what they said more clearly——
The yellow-faced ten generals were shouting at the top of their lungs: "Why did you take it? The two of them jumped out of the forest and asked me to kill one of them with a knife!"
One of the soldiers in the group of brightly armored soldiers sneered: "What about you? These two people are more than enough to kill you without weapons. Zhao Laosi, don't be disrespectful, be careful we will kill you tomorrow!"
Li Boxen's heart skipped a beat when he heard this word "suppression". I originally thought that the local government and army were competing for credit for the two bandit leaders, but looking at it this way, could it be that the Linxi Army was the one in distress? That's so true... He handed this thing over to them, fearing that they wouldn't be able to do anything.
It's just... one side is the "official army" and the other side is the "rebels". If they are really so harmonious, can they still "compete for credit"?
The two sides were arguing, and neither of them had time to see Li Boxen. He was about to ride his horse past when he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the forest nearby. After a while, a black horse jumped out, with a knight holding a halberd sitting on it. This man wears a helmet and has a white face and no beard. He is also in his twenties. Judging from his appearance, he should be a general in the army.
But when he rode out of the forest, he did not rush to the entrance of the market town. Instead, he frowned and stared at Li Bochen and Lin Qiao for a few times, then trotted over with his horse under his belly. When the two of them were three or four steps away from each other, they stopped their horses and said with a half-smile, "Friend, where are you going?"
Li Boxen thought to himself that this man must have seen the armor on his body and the knife on his horse, and became suspicious. He didn't want to conflict with the officers and soldiers at this time, so he clasped his fists and said: "People from the Jianghu are going to Fengzhou."
The smile on the knight's face grew stronger, he tilted his head slightly and said, "Do you know those two over there?"
Did he think that he was an accomplice of the two gang leaders?
Just as Li Bochen was about to speak, a soldier not far away shouted: "General, what should I do if these people don't know how to commend themselves?"
The yellow-faced ten generals also looked at the knight and immediately lost their momentum. But he also shouted: "Qin Le, don't bully others too much!"
The knight looked away from Li Bochen, but still held the halberd in his hand and pointed the tip slightly forward, faintly blocking his path. He sneered at the ten generals and said: "I have been ordered by Lord Linxi to guard this place to help the country and the people. I took down these two bandit leaders - Zhao Laosi, you rebellious weakling, at this time Are you willing to risk your life?"
Li Bochen was stunned - are they the Linxi Army?
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