The happy life of a prodigal

General Qi Yan, who led the team, also reacted very quickly, got on his horse, and was ready to meet the enemy.

It's just that no one answered him, because the other party had already rushed into the camp.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

There was a burst of shouts from Chu people.

The sound was like a heavy fist hitting the chests of these beggars.

It turned out to be... from Chu! ?

Sure enough, those despicable Chu people can only do these sneak attacks!

Before the beggar had time to curse, he began to actively meet the enemy.

They thought there would be a bitter battle, but the opponent's intention to attack did not seem so obvious.

Just for a moment, it seems that these beggars are not so easy to deal with.

A cry of 'withdraw! '.

The guys who sneaked up quickly left.

However, the direction they left was not Qiuning Prefecture City, but the north!

General Qi Yan looked at the back of them leaving, his eyes revealing the color of thinking.

The guard beside him shouted angrily.

"These despicable Chu people! I have long known that I can't trust them!"

"Did they think we didn't know who they were in the sneak attack!? And they ran away in the opposite direction, guilty of guilt. Those bastards in Qiuning Prefecture City tomorrow will definitely not admit that they did what happened today!"

"Chu people cannot be trusted!"

"..."

Everyone cursed at one another.

General Qi Yan looked very calm.

He watched the backs of those people leaving, thinking about the words shouted by the enemy general who attacked just now.

It is indeed the language of the Chu people, but it sounds so... unfamiliar.

It's a bit like the Chu people's language I speak!

Soon, he had his own judgment and said, "Those are not from Chu."

After hearing this, the guard next to him showed surprise on his face, turned his head to look at his general, and said loudly: "General, they are wearing Chu people's clothes, speaking Chu people's language, and they know our language. The position, how could it not be from Chu!?"

General Qi Yan looked at him and asked, "Did anyone stay?"

Immediately, a voice came from the side: "Yes, General!"

After speaking, a corpse was dragged over.

It was clearly the armor of the Chu people.

"The armor belongs to the Chu people! The hairstyle belongs to the Chu people! The speech also belongs to the Chu people! The weapons used also belong to the Chu people!"

The person who spoke seemed a little outraged.

General Qi Yan was not disturbed by him, got off his horse, and lifted his helmet with his sword.

Then he put the sword aside again, and peeled off the man's armor, revealing the lining inside.

That lining...is clearly not from Chu!

The guard next to him saw the lining, his eyes narrowed, and he said loudly, "It's from the Zalu tribe! Everyone from the Zalu tribe wears this kind of clothes. I saw it before when I was in the Zalu tribe!"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't believe it.

This is the city of Qiuning Prefecture, how could there be people from the Zhalu tribe!

Moreover, why did the people from the Zalu tribe wear the armor of the Chu people?

Everyone gathered around to observe.

After observing for a long time, they found that the lining was indeed not much different from theirs.

They all knew that Chu people's dressing habits were different from theirs.

Therefore, there is a high probability that this person is not from Chu...

General Qi Yan stood up, looked around, and said in a firm tone: "The ones who attacked were from the Zhalu tribe, and this is called the strategy of alienation in the Chu people's art of war.

It is to make us mistakenly think that the sneak attack is from the Chu people, so that we can fight with the Chu people! "

Everyone was silent and did not speak.

General Qi Yan continued: "This matter is like this, deal with these people, whoever doesn't believe it can let them take a look, don't say anything else, stop here, continue to rest, send more people to guard, Don't let Zalu's people sneak attack again!"

After speaking, he turned and left.

Everyone was left to look at each other in blank dismay, and finally did as the general begging for Yan said.

That General Qi Yan returned to the camp, but there was hostility in his eyes.

The inner lining is indeed from the Zaru department. There is nothing wrong with it...

But those linings are obviously rotten!

Chapter 9 Sixteen

What this means is self-evident...

These people from the Zhalu tribe were disguised as guards from Qiuning Prefecture City!

No matter what the purpose of these people is, and whose order they are following, this General Qi Yan is determined and pretends not to know anything.

Because he knew in his heart that these were some people in Qiuning Prefecture who were psychologically unbalanced, so they wanted to provoke a dispute.

However, once a dispute is provoked, it must be the Qiyan Department who suffers!

You know, the current Qiyan Department needs to rely on the relief of the Great Chu court to survive.

He knows this better than anyone else.

Therefore, all he needs to do is to ignore any provocative behavior, and then send these captives of the Kret Department to Kyoto Prefecture safely, and hand them over to the new Anhou!

On the other side, Qiuning Prefecture City.

The city gate opened slowly.

Dozens of soldiers in light armor came in slowly on horseback.

It can be clearly felt that they deliberately slowed down their steps, and every movement was very gentle, trying not to make a sound.

However......

After they walked into the city gate, they found that there was a person standing not far in front of them.

Wearing a black robe and not saying a word, the pressure brought by it cannot be described in words.

The one standing guard at the city gate was none other than Qiu Ninghou—Meng Zhuang.

"General."

The soldiers got off their horses and walked up to Meng Zhuang with strange expressions on their faces.

Meng Zhuang looked at them and didn't speak.

When the soldiers saw this scene, their expressions changed. After hesitating for a moment, they all knelt down.

"The lowly ranks are guilty! No matter how the general punishes, the lowly ranks have no complaints!"

When they left Qiuning Prefecture City, they had thought about the consequences, even the possibility of being executed, they had thought about it.

Even so, they left Qiuning Prefecture without hesitation without any other reason.

Just because they hate those beggars.

The Qiyan people have been fighting with them for more than ten years. In the battle of defending the city not long ago, so many brothers fell under the bows and arrows of the Qiyan tribe.

He really couldn't accept it, couldn't accept being an ally with someone from the Begging Yan Department.

Even if they are allies, they must do something to avenge those brothers who fell under the bow and arrows of the Qiyan Ministry!

They never thought of provoking a dispute between the imperial court and the Qiyan Department.

They're just...not reconciled!

That's it!

Meng Zhuang looked at them, but still said nothing.

Among the soldiers, the leader was a school lieutenant. Seeing this scene, he instantly understood what the general meant, hesitated, and said: "All these are orders from the humble officer. These brothers have obeyed the order of the humble officer. He just went out of the city to attack the Begging Yan Department!

If the general wanted to beheaded, he would ask to behead one of the humble officers. The humble staff never complained. After many years of fighting and years of turmoil, there is only one left in the humble staff's family. There is no concern for the humble staff to leave. I only hope that the general... hope General..."

He really wanted to say that he hoped that the general would be lenient and bypass these brothers.

However, halfway through the speech, thinking of the general's behavior style, he couldn't speak again.

Meng Zhuang looked at him, his expression was still as usual, extremely cold.

After a long time, he said leisurely: "This is not an example."

After only four words, he turned and left, as if he had never appeared here before.

The soldiers who sneaked out of the city heard this, their faces were full of surprise, and they looked at each other, and they could see the joy of the rest of their lives from each other's eyes.

Hearing this, the school lieutenant breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the brothers beside him, and said, "This matter is rotten in our stomachs, we have never been out of the city, and we don't know anything, understand ?"

"Yes, my lord!" Everyone said in unison.

During this sneak attack, the Qiyan Department and the Qiuning Mansion maintained a rare tacit understanding.

In the early morning of the next day, General Qi Yan did not mention this matter when he was receiving supplies from Qiuning Prefecture City.

The defenders of Qiuningfu City did not mention this matter either.

Even if the guards guarding the city could easily see what happened in the camp of the Qiyan tribe, no one mentioned it.

Everyone remained silent until the people from the Qiyan Department pressed the people from the Kelei Department to leave Qiuning Prefecture.

After leaving Qiuning Prefecture City, the road ahead was not easy for the Qiyan Department.

Especially in these four northern states.

Every time they go to a state capital, they will be insulted by the people passing by.

In addition, there is the staring eyes of the big Chu soldiers.

All of this made them feel as if a sword was hanging above their heads, and it might fall down at any time.

Even so, they had nothing to do, let alone the slightest complaint, they just kept going.

Fortunately, although the various state capitals are extremely disgusted with these beggars, they have never withheld their supplies.

There has never been a shortage of food and the like.

However, it was precisely because of this that General Qi Yan felt the shock.

Chu people hate themselves, this is human nature, nothing more than a normal thing.

However, it is not normal to still provide them with food if they are so disgusted.

It shows that these Chu people are extremely obedient to the orders of their court.

He remembered that the former Chu people were not like this.

When he used to fight in the four northern states, he often heard some things from the soldiers of the Chu people.

Even if they are fighting on the battlefield, the court of Dachu may deduct their military pay and their rations.

Sometimes, even the necessary armor and bows and arrows require the guards of the four northern states to donate their own silver, so that the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry can give them.

Today, the situation is completely different.

It shows that the court of Dachu is not what it used to be.

No wonder......

No wonder the court of Great Chu became so powerful in just two or three years, so powerful that even if all the tribes of the grassland united, they would not be able to defeat them!