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Chapter 413 Recruitment and Secret

When Sun Tu heard this, even Sun Tu had to admire the cleverness of these merchants. After this battle, most people may not be in a state of peace. They were better off and they had already begun to think about how to use the corpses of horse thieves to exchange for more benefits.

But when he thought about it, he also felt that these merchants were right. This bandits of horses have been causing trouble in the Gobi Desert for many years. I believe that both Liao and Xia would like to wipe them out. Now that he and others have taken action, they should be able to get a considerable bounty from the Xia government. Although he may not take this little thing seriously, it is really a surprise for ordinary merchants. Maybe they were willing to risk their enemies before and had plans for this.

So just pondered for a moment, Sun Tu smiled and said, "Since you have this idea, there is no problem. Anyway, we are still some cars and horses empty, so we can take them to Xia Country."

Seeing that he had no intention of splitting the bodies with everyone, the merchants were even more happy, so they stopped delaying and asked people to carry the bodies, and at the same time took down all the valuable things on the horse thief first. Sun Tu came to Feng Ping, who had been standing there for a long time. The man's face seemed to be happy and sad, and it was obvious that the psychological impact of avenge was still quite great.

"Congratulations to Brother Feng, for finally avenging his revenge today. You are enough to give an explanation to your brother back then, so don't think too much." After waiting for a while, Sun Tu comforted softly.

Feng Ping then came back to his senses and clasped his fists at Sun Tu with gratitude: "It's really thanks to you, Brother Sun, you, otherwise I won't even be able to save your life. I owed you a lot, but I'm afraid I won't be able to pay it back in my life."

"Brother Feng is so serious. You and I will work together. How can anyone owe anyone a message? And if I really want to talk about it, I will be saved by them. If Brother Huangfu hadn't saved me that day, I would have been a corpse."

"I dare not take this from Brother Sun. With your ability, we can always get rid of danger even if we don't help you." Huangfu Duan also walked over with a smile. Compared to doing business, he was more interested in raising horses, so he did not interfere in how to divide the body. When he walked up to him, he turned his face and asked softly: "Brother Sun, please ask boldly, what are your plans after you arrive in Xia Kingdom?"

"What, Brother Sun is not going to be with me?" Feng Ping really didn't know this and asked a little strangely.

"I really plan to part ways with you after entering the Xia Dynasty. As for what I will do, you still don't know. After all, I am from Song, and although you are from Han, you are from Liao after all." Sun Tu replied vaguely, but Feng Ping's face became more and more serious, but for a moment he didn't know how to speak.

However, Huangfu Duan smiled and said, "Your words are not like to hear from you. I am not a pure Han or a Liao. Alas... If I hadn't had a decent way of raising horses, I would have been killed by people from the Liao government many years ago."

"Oh? Does Brother Huangfu have such a past?" Sun Tu glanced at him with a little surprise and soon understood again. The other party's appearance was the problem. It was neither Han nor Liao, even on the land of Liao, and it would not be popular. It was common for people to be excluded and persecuted.

Then, he felt a little nervous. Huangfu Duan was a rare talent in raising horses. If he could recruit him to his own hands, it might be a great enhancement to the Qingzhou army! Thinking of this, he tentatively said: "Did Brother Huangfu mean to leave the Liao Kingdom and go to the Song Dynasty?"

"Go to the Song Dynasty? Do you know that before I entered the Liao Kingdom, I was originally from the Song Dynasty. But because the local officials wanted to seize my property, I was charged with understanding the enemy from abroad. If I hadn't been decisive enough at the time, I immediately fled with a few brothers, I was afraid..." After experiencing this war together, Huangfu Duan no longer saw me, so he told me about his experience.

When Sun Tu heard this, he sighed. There were officials in the Song Dynasty who were rude and wrong. In fact, he had met them before when he was in Yuncheng County. It was just that he was lucky enough to have today. However, after a pause, he still said, "I dare not say anything else, but as long as I can return to Song safely, Brother Huangfu, you can come to Qingzhou, I can still place you well. To be honest, I am the military chief there, and the soldiers under my command are worried about the lack of war horses."

"No wonder..." Huangfu Duan knew his identity but had no reaction, but Feng Ping exclaimed at this moment. No wonder Sun Tu was so calm and excellent in this matter, almost playing with this bandit in his palm. It turned out that he was a military general of the Song State, which was understandable.

Sun Tu smiled at them and then asked, "I think both of you are the masters of the times. If you really have the will, you can come to Qingzhou to find me in the future. I will always open the door there for you."

The two looked at each other and didn't say anything for the time being. After all, the road ahead is not clear now, and both of them are smart people, so it is natural that they can't make a promise casually.

Just when the three of them didn't know what to say, a sudden scream came from behind, which made the three of them turn back quickly. Feng Ping even drew his sword in his hand, thinking that there were still bandits pretending to be dead and someone was discovered. Until he saw clearly that someone was just holding a piece of stuff and was stunned, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then stepped forward together to ask what was going on.

Sun Tu had already seen clearly that the man was holding a dark iron sign, and he curiously reached out to take it from his hand. However, after looking at it, he still had no idea because there was only an eagle spreading its wings on the iron sign, and he didn't recognize the twisted words on the other side.

"This is..." Sun Tu asked the other party curiously, then his eyes drooped and found that the sign was actually found out from the ferocious wolf. In addition to this, he also had a beautifully decorated short knife scabbard, as well as some dry food and water capsules, all of which were found and placed aside.

The person on the opposite side came back to his senses at this time, and his voice trembled: "He... he has the waist card of the Xia Guo Iron Harrier..."

"Huh?" Sun Tu's face suddenly froze, and the others around him also froze. Several people even exclaimed again. This discovery had a great impact on them.

Iron Harrier, the general term for the most elite cavalry in the Western Xia Kingdom, with a number of about 50,000, and belongs to the Emperor of Xia Kingdom. The reason why Xixia could rise rapidly in just a few decades made powerful countries like Liao and Song Dynasty dare not attack them at will, because it was because of the fierce fighting of the cavalry Iron Harrier and infantry Bubazi.

And now, they actually found such a token from the newly destroyed leader of the horse bandit. What does this mean? Could it be that this horse bandit was pretended by the cavalry of the Western Xia Iron Harrier? The disaster they caused this time would be a bit serious. Once the Xia Kingdom knew about it, I am afraid that everyone here would not be able to escape death.

What made them even more frightened was that they were actually preparing to transport the bodies of these horse bandits to Xixia for rewards. This was clearly a way to die. How could people not feel chilled and scared?

Sun Tu thought more about it. I am afraid that this waist card should not have been stolen by the other party, and the ferocious wolf is indeed one of the iron kites! And so this situation may be related to some shameless greed of the Xixia border army.

Among the soldiers of any country, the border troops are the most miserable. They have the worst conditions but the greatest risks. They always have to worry about being attacked by the enemy. In this case, the best way to relieve their pressure is to give them more benefits.

But what should we do if the court cannot allocate more military pay? The soldiers on both sides of the border between Song and Liao and Song and Xia used the most direct way to cut grass valleys. They vented and made profits by invading enemy borders again and again, burning, killing, looting, and looting. This is also the reason why the people in these border areas are living in poverty.

However, the situation is very different here on the border between Liao and Xia. Because it is too desolate and Xixia has never dared to offend Liao, their border troops will not openly run to Liao to plunder and burn and kill. So in order to solve this problem, the Xixia border troops deliberately created such a team of horse bandits to specifically loot the property of passing merchants to stabilize the morale of the border troops.

But this approach was too despicable, which made Sun Tu feel disgusted: "It is said that compared with Liao and Jin, Xixia is a traitorous villain. This is indeed a good thing. Liao and Jin and Song were all in a blatant battle, but only Xixia often made such conspiracies and tricks that were not enough to be on the table. Before in Tokyo, this time in Youzhou, they tried to provoke the Song-Liao war again and again. In their interactions with Liao, they were so insidious that they disguised their army as horse bandits and plundered caravans in the Gobi..."

Although he was disdainful, Sun Tu knew that this was a big trouble, so he said, "Since their identity is very strange, we can't take risks anymore. Everyone, let's bury them completely, it's hard to mention this matter."

After being shocked, everyone also recovered and nodded in agreement. Now the bodies of these horse bandits have become a huge disaster, who would dare to take them to Xia Kingdom?

So the big guys were busy for a long time and finally buried more than a hundred corpses on the side of Caima Lake before dawn. Even the mounts of these people were not dared to keep them. After all, no one knew whether these horses would be recognized by the Xixia border army at a glance.

But the only exception is that Sun Tu put away the iron kite's waist card. Maybe this thing will come in handy in the future.

After all this, the sky was completely bright. While the weather was not too hot, the caravan set out on the road to summer again, but everyone was already feeling a little nervous...

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