The sound of fists and feet hitting flesh, the golden sound of weapons clashing, and in just half a quarter of an hour, all the soldiers in the restaurant fell to the ground with faces full of pain.

Li Yi walked up to the team leader and asked: "Whose soldiers are you?"

The team leader stared at Li Yi fiercely, "Young man, you actually dare to attack the officers and soldiers in an attempt to rebel."

He punched the team leader in the stomach, and he felt like his stomach was churning, and he felt as if he was about to die.

"I don't want to ask again." Li Yi's voice became even colder.

The leader of the team didn't dare to show off any more. This group of people were not afraid of attacking the officers and soldiers. They seemed to have some background.

A good man doesn't want to suffer any immediate losses, so the team leader said with a pained face: "We are the soldiers of Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Province."

Zhang Honggong was ordered to serve the king and lead five thousand officers and soldiers. Now that he thinks about it, he should indeed be in the Jifu area.

"Why are you here if you don't stay in the camp honestly?" Li Yi asked.

The team leader said painfully: "We traveled for five days, but when we arrived at the Ministry of War in the capital, they did not distribute the reward. Instead, they asked us to rush to Tongzhou to garrison. We encountered a snowstorm today and took a temporary rest. Our boss took us out.

Let's beat the autumn wind and see if we can get some good stuff, so, so..."

"What about you, Mr. Bai?" Li Yi asked coldly.

The team leader shrank his head and subconsciously looked at the second floor, not daring to continue talking.

Li Yi already knew what he wanted to know and walked up to the second floor.

There was a corpse lying next to the stairs on the second floor. It looked like he was dressed as the shopkeeper of this restaurant. He fell into a room inside, as if he was rushing somewhere, but was suddenly killed.

Li Yi squatted down to check the injury. The shopkeeper's chest was pierced by a sharp blade, and the person who did it was extremely cruel. He turned the handle of the knife and the blade shredded the shopkeeper's internal organs, killing him instantly.

Walking around a pool of blood on the ground, Li Yi walked inside.

I didn't notice it on the first floor, but when I climbed to the second floor, I heard a noise coming from the room.

Standing at the door, Li Yi finally understood what the noise was. He pushed open the door with a livid face. The situation in the room was unsightly.

He finally knew why the restaurant owner died at the top of the stairs and why he was killed in a cruel instant, because under the guidance of desire, people have been completely controlled by wildness.

The fat Mr. Bai got up, looked at Li Yi at the door with an angry look on his face, and yelled: "Get out, I'm done enjoying myself and it will be your turn, bastards."

He was answered with a roar and smoke filled the air. Li Yi held up the blunderbuss in his hand, and his whole body was like a volcano about to erupt.

Zhu Qilong ran over quickly and felt relieved when he saw that Li Yi was fine.

Mr. Bai held his bloody shoulder and wailed in pain.

He looked at Li Yi with resentment on his face and yelled: "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to cut you into a human stick."

Li Yi put down his gun and looked at the woman being raped on the floor. He turned around and walked down the second floor.

The soldiers looked at Li Yi with panic on their faces. They heard the roar of their boss and saw the blunderbuss in the hands of this young man.

Zhu Qilong dragged President Bai downstairs like a dead dog. The soldiers huddled in the corner, and no one dared to step forward.

Mr. Bai was naked and shouted: "You are a bunch of trash, there are only two of them, kill them, kill them quickly."

Li Yi held the gun in his hand and looked at the soldiers next to him. Everyone he targeted was stiff and did not dare to look directly into his eyes.

Mr. Bai still wanted to speak, but Zhu Qilong punched him in the face, knocking all his shouts back into his stomach.

The sound of a carriage came from outside the door. Sun Chengzong walked in with the support of Uncle Ma. He frowned slightly when he saw the messy scene.

Li Yi stepped forward and told what happened exactly.

Sun Chengzong was not very surprised. He glanced at the dozen soldiers with an expressionless face, nodded and said: "Tie them up, and you will lead them to Zhang Honggong to question them. I will write a letter to you when the time comes."

Just leave it to Zhang Honggong."

Li Yi understood the teacher's intention. Now is the time when the war is urgent, and it is not easy to make things worse. Taking the general soldiers to Zhang Honggong is to give him a chance to make corrections, concentrate on military affairs, and strictly enforce military discipline.

Now everyone can see that his teacher will be in charge of defense, and Tongzhou is naturally within the jurisdiction, so the Shanxi soldiers in Zhang Honggong's hands will also be under the jurisdiction of the teacher. In this way, he can also sell a favor to Zhang Honggong to command Shanxi in the future.

Soldiers provide convenience.

As for the dead restaurant owner, the life and death of such a small person should be nothing in the face of the overall situation.

Li Yi felt something was wrong, but he also believed that this was reasonable. This reason was not a way to be a human being, but a way to do things.

"Teacher, I want to accompany you to the capital. Let Zhu Qilong handle this matter." Li Yi hesitated and said.

Sun Chengzong shook his head, pointed to the wound on Mr. Bai's shoulder, looked at Li Yi and said: "You didn't hurt his life at that time, which shows that you understood the intention of being a teacher. The world is like this. As officials of the Ming Dynasty, we have to have a broad vision and be too involved.

If you are too careful, you will only disturb yourself and not help anything."

Li Yi raised his head and looked at the teacher and said: "Teacher, I will take them to find Zhang Honggong, but the shopkeeper's wife is not dead yet. I want to ask the teacher to take her to the capital for treatment, and I also ask the teacher for permission."

Sun Chengzong nodded and said: "The fact that you have this idea shows that you are still kind in your heart. In this case, I will give up my carriage and take her to find a doctor to treat her injury. Don't worry."

Li Yi nodded and agreed.

He asked Zhu Qilong to find ropes to tie up the soldiers and lead them to Zhang Honggong's camp.

The snow has stopped, and a group of people are walking on the official road, and the originally snow-white ground has become dirty and muddy under their feet.

Mr. Bai walked forward naked, his feet were red from the cold, and he tremblingly begged for mercy from Li Yi on the horse.

But Li Yi remained unmoved.

Finally in the evening, they arrived at Zhang Honggong's camp.

Li Yi asked Zhu Qilong to go and ask for an audience with the letter. After a while, Zhang Honggong walked out of the camp in person.

Zhang Honggong looked at Li Yi with a warm smile on his face and said: "Master Li's visit is really disappointing."

Li Yi smiled and said: "Li Shuai is so polite. I originally accompanied the teacher to the capital, but suddenly encountered this situation. The teacher knew that Li Shuai was loyal to state affairs, but his men were cunning and vicious, so he was deceived. So he sent me specially.

Bring them here and hand them over to Li Shuai."

Zhang Honggong said with a guilty look on his face: "It's very important for Mr. Sun to be summoned by the emperor, but when something like this happens, I don't manage the army strictly. I'm really ashamed to die."

After speaking, he looked at the dozen trapped soldiers and said sternly: "You bastards, are you officers and soldiers or bandits? If you don't return to the camp, I will punish you severely later."

Zhang Honggong's men stepped forward to loosen the bonds of these soldiers.

Zhu Qilong stepped aside slightly and did not hand over the rope to them, but looked at Li Yi.

Li Yi understood that although Zhang Honggong's tone was stern, looking at his expression, it was obvious that he didn't care about this kind of thing.

But he still nodded and asked Zhu Qilong to hand over the soldiers to them.

When the soldiers were taken away, Zhang Honggong said enthusiastically: "Master Li, it's too cold here. Let's go into the tent and talk."

Li Yi said: "Zhang Shuai, I have been dismissed from office. I have no official status. I really can't bear to be called an adult."

Zhang Honggong said with a smile: "My lord, you are humbled. Who doesn't know that your lord is deeply trusted by the emperor. Although he is ostracized by the civil servants in the court, it will be easy for him to become an official with the Holy Family."

This is not the first time Li Yi has heard such remarks. In fact, it is as they said. This time Master Sun brought him to the capital because he understood the invasion of Donglu. He had made many military exploits and was very likely to be

The emperor re-appointed him.

Li Yi entered the military tent and immediately felt warm.

A soldier took out a hand stove and handed it to Li Yi. It was also the first time for Li Yi to use it. He thought it was very delicate, but he also knew that it was not something ordinary people could use.

Zhang Honggong took off his cloak, smiled at Li Yi and said, "It's a good thing that Mr. Li came here this time. In the future, Mr. Sun is afraid that he will be in charge of military affairs, and our Shanxi soldiers will be transferred here. The biggest fear is that there will be no trustworthy Shangguan.

And Mr. Sun is highly respected, so we all trust Mr. Sun."

Li Yi smiled politely and said: "The teacher is indeed in charge of the defense of the capital, but the military troops and the distribution of supplies need to be planned by the Ministry of War. My teacher is old, and he can only make some arrangements for the president's overall situation this time.

, for other things, I’m afraid I’m powerless.”

Zhang Honggong looked a little ugly when he heard this, but he still refused to give up and said: "Since we are in charge of the defense of the capital, we and other Shanxi soldiers have not been given provisions. If Sun Gong wants to take care of this matter, he can take care of it."

"The supplies have not been distributed?" Li Yi said with some confusion: "The capital's food reserves are all in Tongzhou. If you go to Tongzhou to garrison, you will still be short of food."

Zhang Honggong blushed slightly when he heard this and said: "It's not food. Every time we break camp and march, as a rule, we have to pay for the march. We in Shanxi can't afford this money, so we need the capital to pay it, but the Ministry of War has never distributed it.

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If the Ming army went to war, whether it was to break camp or start a battle, they needed to be given money. Otherwise, the army would not only lack combat power, but also be very likely to disobey orders, leading to a major defeat.

But what Li Yi didn't expect was that at this critical moment, the Ministry of War actually dared to default on the money. It was really a desperate situation.

But he is not a minister of war, nor a high official in the imperial court, so this matter is out of control.

So Li Yi could only say: "The official position of the teacher is not clear yet. I will inform the teacher about this and see if the money can be sent out as soon as possible."

Zhang Honggong had no intention of getting the money right away, but now that he happened to be able to talk to Sun Chengzong, it was great to bring this matter up.

But he still planned to take out the last bargaining chip in his heart.

"I heard that the emperor allocated 50,000 taels of silver to Yuan Chonghuan's army. Considering that Yuan Chonghuan only has 9,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry, the money is worth it. It's a pity that we can't even get some scattered silver taels. The imperial power

If you think you are a stepmother, everyone will be unhappy."

Li Yi glanced at Zhang Honggong and said nothing. He just nodded slightly and heard the matter himself.

After saying a few words, Zhang Honggong naturally wanted to keep Li Yi for dinner.

But Li Yi was worried about the teacher's situation and how he could eat these meals, so he said goodbye and left.

When I rushed back to the capital, I naturally went to the Sun family's house in the capital to find the teacher.
To be continued...