County magistrate Chen Kuang led Lv Dafang to the city wall of Lantian County.

Faced with the war disaster that was about to come, even Lu Dafang, who was as prime minister, was unsure. After all, Lu Dafang was old and only climbed to the top of the city with the help of his son Lu Jingshan.

Lantian County, Jingzhao Prefecture, is just an inconspicuous one of the hundreds of counties in the northwest. It is neither a strategic location nor an economic center. It is difficult to build the dangerous feeling of the Dragon City outside the Great Wall. It is just a city wall that is at most two meters high, which is broken, old and has a kind of desolation under the erosion of wind and sand.

As soon as Lu Dafang climbed up to the city, he felt panicked and pulled the county magistrate Chen Kuang's official robe and said angrily: "How can it be so unusable?"

The city wall is old and many places have cracked. As long as there are a few heavy rains, the city wall may still collapse. The city wall cannot be used on weekdays, but it is unbearable at critical moments, but it will cause death! Lu Dafang is also anxious. Others may not care about Lantian, but he cannot. Lantian is the Lantian of the Lu family. Most of the people in the Lu family are nesting in Lantian?

"Old husband, you know that I have only been in Lantian for two months. Now that the autumn tax has not been collected, the county will not be able to recruit people even if it wants to repair the city wall." Chen Kuang said that it was difficult, but in Lu Dafang's ears, he was more shirking responsibility. Lantian County is the Lantian County of the Lu family.

In any county, once dozens of Jinshi have emerged within three generations of a family, the county is basically the final decision, and the county magistrate is not easy to use.

This is the case with the Lü family. In Lantian, without the Lü family nodding, nothing can be done. Even if Chen Kuang is the county magistrate, the same is true. For most county magistrates in the Song Dynasty, it is also considered a political achievement. As long as it can bring benefits to itself, the officials of the Song Dynasty will not ignore anything.

But why did Lantian County suffer disrepair for so long?

Lu disagreed.

Lantian County wants to repair the city wall, which is equivalent to asking the old Lu family to pay for money. Although the Lu family has a big family, it has a large population, and all the family members and slaves have to be kept in charge. If they take out such a large amount of money, the Lu family will definitely not be able to bear it. If the Lu family does not take money, then for Lantian County, they can only wait for Jingzhao Prefecture to allocate funds.

But today's Jingzhao Prefecture is not Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty, and it is simply incomparable.

As for why Lantian County does not repair it itself?

No money.

Most of the land in Lantian County is in the hands of the Lu family, and the people's corvee and labor taxes are already a very heavy burden. If the city wall is still repaired, it is still the kind of city wall that has been disrepaired for a long time. The huge expenses are not affordable by Lantian County's taxes. Therefore, although Chen Kuang is the county magistrate, it is impossible for him to repair the city wall.

Lu Dafang knew it well, and if he continued to talk, the Lu family would bleed. It was not just bleeding, but it would even cause heavy bleeding and ruin great wealth. Although Lu Dafang was the largest official position among his brothers, he was not the leader of the Lu family.

"Where is the direction of the defeated soldiers? County Magistrate Chen is planning to arrange for the troops to work hard. If the county treasury is insufficient, the Lu family can temporarily make up for it." Lu Dafang narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, but the distance was too far, and he couldn't see it in detail. He didn't even see the flag clearly, but he saw a team appearing at the end of his sight from afar.

But Lu Dafang thought that he didn't look like a defeated soldier!

The reason why the defeated soldiers are defeated soldiers should always have the characteristics of defeated soldiers. They are casual and messy, and even the marching team cannot be maintained, but the scene in front of them is not right.

Chen Kuang was also worried. He had only been an official for a few months, but even if he had been an official for a few years, he would not have had a chance to see the defeated soldiers if he had not been in the northwest. As for the labor force, the treasury still had some food, which could not be supplied by tens of thousands of people, but there was no problem with thousands of people. But it would be difficult to arrange people to stop the defeated soldiers.

"Lu Dutou, you should take people to stop the defeated soldiers first and tell them to set up camp three miles away from the county town. I..." Speaking of this, Chen Kuang hesitated for a while. He really didn't want to take this job, but he was worried about letting others go, so he could only bite the bullet and go: "I will take the people to work for him."

The head of the horse soldier, Lu Ping, looked dejected, rode his horse, followed by a dozen riders, and left the city outside the city.

In the marching ranks.

The moment I saw the city wall, many men from the capital were moved and wanted to cry.

It has been so many days since they have not even had a safe sleep, and they have not even had a comfortable hot meal. The man in the clothes on their bodies has been soaked again and again, and the people are thin like a deflated ball, falling down. After finally seeing the city wall, they all fantasized about having a good meal, taking a hot bath, and having a good night's sleep for three days.

"Laifu, do you think what should you eat if the man enters the city later?"

"Lam, great tonic."

"It's better to eat beef than to eat mutton, and you'll have a lot of strength!"

"I'm just waiting to get my salary to go and have a free meal. I just don't know if this woman from Lantian Lie Lie?"

"Doghead, you exchanged your life-long money for Xiaoyao. Have you saved money to get married?"

"Little brat, you know nothing! Your brother, I will be a groom tonight, so I will want to have a wife? Look at this team, are we the most comfortable people?"

"Then you are not as good as Lord Li, you are living a free life."

"A bastard, can I compare with him? He is a Jinshi master, I am just an imperial guard. Are you so hungry that your mind is broken?"

...

Li Kui walked at the forefront of the team and marched and trained troops. These were simple, just for shoes. Even Li Kui, who was a civil servant, wore a pair of straw sandals he had rubbed by himself. There were more than a thousand people in the team behind him, but none of them had a pair of cloth shoes on his feet, and his clothes were torn and ragged, with dirt on his face and in a mess.

Only everyone's eyes are bright and burst into light that does not belong to ordinary troops.

The armed forces were neat, but the entire team still gave people a beggar-like visual impact.

The only difference is that the cohesion of this army has reached a level that cannot be achieved in this era, and everyone is united. As an elite in a civil servant group, Li Kui can abandon his identity and train with a group of imperial guards. With this alone, Li Kui can be supported by this army. Secondly, it is the military value. The army worships the strong. People like Li Kui should enjoy privileges in any army. Not only will they not be envied by people, but they will also be respected.

Of course, with Li Kui's personality, it is certain that he eats more and takes up more, but Li Kui eats more and takes up more and takes up prey he hunts.

Wild boars, deer, even tigers, bears, and the small animals around him have been harmed by him.

But even if he could eat it, he would not have enough food to hunt. It can be said that Li Kui not only convinced the imperial guards, but also abandoned his identity, but also had strong force and short-speaking words.

After having been in contact with Li Kui for a long time, the imperial guards also knew Li Kui's temper, which was irritable and difficult to get along with, but they would never look down on the imperial guards because of their identity.

This is a unique existence among the civil officials of the Song Dynasty.

"Mr. Li, I'm here to pay your respects."

"What do you want to ask?"

"Sir, I heard that you have attended the Queen Mother's birthday party, what have you eaten?" The little pawn had no idea of ​​avoiding it, and stared at Li Kui with expectation.

Speaking of the banquet of the royal family of the Song Dynasty, Li Kui curled his lips and said disdainfully: "It's all cakes, most of them are meat cakes, but they are still cold and not very delicious." Li Kui said with disgust: "That's the matter, the officials who participated regarded it as glory. People who have never eaten it thought that eating delicacies of mountains, dragon liver and phoenix marrow is not as delicious as the cakes of the Immortal Bridge Wang Family Lady."

"Old man is very considerate, and villains also like the wife of the Wang family." The young pawn's eyebrows were so vulgar that he was eating pancakes at first glance, and he was fantasizing about dirty things that had nothing to do with pancakes.

Li Kui spat and spitted on the other person's face, and said angrily: "You deserve it too?"

The little pawn wiped off the saliva from his face without caring at all, and didn't know what shame is: "Why is the villain unworthy? If my father had a secret recipe for making pancakes, wouldn't such a woman be married?"

"roll."

"OK."

Li Kui walked in front of the team, and he no longer needed supervision. The entire team was as easy as being in a rope, and he didn't worry about being lazy. And he would come to him from time to time to time. When Li Kui was in a good mood, he would say a few words to deal with it. He could ask anything casually, but Li Kui didn't care.

Of course, when he was angry, he would inevitably slap the pawn who was unable to open his eyes.

What made him helpless was that with such a strong aura, the soldiers were less and less afraid of him. Some of the beating soldiers were wailing on the ground at the last moment, but the next moment, they boasted about how unyielding he was at the time. But as soon as Li Kui called someone, the first person would be the one who ran away like a dog-legged one.

Li Kui was also sad. Hao Sui took away one hundred people in total. More than 70 people were missing halfway through the road. Now there are only more than 1,300 troops. Under his training, they have become an army with a smell of bad bones, which is amazingly rude.

This group of men has been so weak that they have become weak in less than a month. Li Kui has no problem leading this army, but there are only two leaders of this army, Gao Qiu and Li Yun.

Li Yun is a little better, and he is a top martial arts scholar. In addition, he is a talent who has grown up all the way by Li Kui, and his style is in line with Li Kui's lineage.

But if Gao Qiu was asked to bring these ruffian soldiers, it would be a bit embarrassing for Gao Qiu.

Even though Gao Qiu has achieved the ultimate goal of generals and schoolmen in this era, eating and living with the soldiers, if you want to gain the support of the soldiers, you still need a ability and superb force.

He has force, one-on-one, and he is confident that few in this army can defeat him.

But what about Li Kui?

This guy shocked more than a thousand people by one person. If he really took action, hundreds of people would suffer. The two of them were not at the same level at all.

Are you saying this?

More than ten horses came out of Lantian County, saying they were war horses, but they were burying war horses. They were quite happy to trot.

Lu Ping, the head of the horse soldiers, was just the leader of the peasant soldiers in the county. He had seen thousands of troops and horses on weekdays. Looking at the city from afar, he could not see the uniqueness of this army. However, when his horse approached, he realized that the military discipline of this army was not even better than other imperial guards from Central China during the march.

The team has no signs of looseness. Even if soldiers often come out of the team, they all act in regular ways. They seem to be reporting to the man at the forefront of the team.

Lu Ping had never heard of this kind of marching. In addition, the army was neatly marching, and the soldiers could not see the expression on their faces, but the fierce aura that was so angry that I was still annoyed to death made Lu Ping take a breath. How could such an army be defeated?

Thinking of this, Lu Ping became more careful.

More than a dozen horses were crossing the middle of the road, blocking the army's way forward.

Li Kui raised his hand and Gao Qiu immediately shouted: "The whole army stopped advancing!"

"The whole army stopped advancing!"

Thousands of people stopped and stopped after one move. This shows that thousands of soldiers remained focused during the march. Lu Ping had not seen the army, but on the contrary, he saw many troops. The troops that the Song Dynasty advanced to the northwest had to be repaired in Lantian. Although most of the imperial guards had combat effectiveness, they wanted to keep everyone focused during long-distance marches, which was almost impossible in the Song Dynasty's army.

Because long-distance marching is often not a dozen miles, but a few dozen miles a day, and the total distance exceeds a thousand miles is not impossible.

With this move, Lu Ping, who thought he was superior to Lantian, was suppressed. But he was suppressed, but he still couldn't get rid of the fact that there was a military man on the other side. He was a tiger sitting on the ground order by the county magistrate. How could he be afraid?

"Who is the chief general of that army?"

"Infantry Army in front of Jingying Hall..."

As the military commander, Gao Qiu naturally had to negotiate, but the problem was that before he finished speaking, the other party spat a mouthful of water on the ground. His disdainful gaze made Gao Qiu look quite dazzling: "Shameless thing, will the master soldiers in the Beijing camp be such a down-and-out appearance. Tell me, the security army, or the Dingbian army?"

This is no wonder that others are the main force of Yongxing Army Road, and they are still closest to Lantian. Of course, Lu Ping thought about this because the troops on the opposite side were still a little imposing. If it were Jingying, then the imperial guards of Kaifeng Prefecture and the emperor's personal army, could it be the virtue in front of him?

Gao Qiu was choked, forgot all the words below, and stood there angrily trembling: "The dog's eyes look down at the person..."

Lu Ping's words immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the soldiers of the Imperial Army, but strangely, Li Kui did not speak, and no one dared to speak. Lu Ping stared at Li Kui. He determined that Li Kui was the leader of this army and kept paying attention to Li Kui's reaction.

Li Kui said, "I am the county magistrate of Yangquan County, this is the official document."

He was not prepared to cause trouble, so he took out the official document issued by the Ministry of Personnel and handed it to Lu Ping. The official document was kept on him for almost a month, and he marched all day long and did not keep it well. Now he is wrinkled and almost broke up.

After Lu Ping looked at it, he became more thoughtful.

The county magistrate is a civil servant!

But where are there any traces of civil servants in Li Kui’s appearance?

Lu Ping read the official document suspiciously, and became more and more alert in his heart, and said sarcastically: "What is Lord Li's origin? Isn't it just a county lieutenant?"

"After the Jinshi, he will be appointed from the Seventh-rank Secret Pavilion."

These are all the official positions that Li Kui can take out, but in Lu Ping's eyes, these official positions were identified as the official who was fake in Li Kui's poems. It's better, they dared to impersonate civil servants. While speaking, Lu Ping smashed Li Kui's pre-emptive documents and pointed at Li Kui's nose and cursed: "A bold thief, how dare he impersonate civil servants and attack Jingzhao, why don't you take them down?"

Lu Ping rode on the horse and kept a certain distance from Li Kui. He found that there was no horse on the opposite side, so he had the confidence to be arrogant. At worst, he could ride on the horse and then threw a sentence: "Come and chase me!"

The subordinates who followed Ma Bing came out also thought it was fine, but they had four legs to help, so they were not afraid of Li Kui's sudden rise at all.

On the contrary, Li Kui's face turned green when he was angry. He was even more obedient than him. He dared to bully him and even tore him up. The gangster was so big. Li Kui stared at Lu Ping with his eyes and gritted his teeth and said, "Boy, you're in trouble!"
Chapter completed!