Chapter 237 Did you really massacre seven tribes?
Just as Yang Zhengshan was snoring, the General's Mansion received the latest battle report from Jiacheng.

However, the person in charge of the general's mansion at this time was not Liang Chu, but Lu Chongde.

Liang Chu has already led his troops to war, and Lu Chongde is in charge of military affairs in Chongshan Town.

"Sir, Jiacheng battle report!"

In the study, a clerk placed a document on the desk in front of Lu Chongde. Lu Chongde just nodded and did not check the battle report immediately.

Only after he finished the official business at hand did he pick up the battle report to read it.

After just one glance, his brows furrowed slightly.

Jiacheng has been issuing a battle report almost every day these days, and most of the content of the report comes from Yang Zhengshan, the garrison commander of Anyuan City.

The general content is that one day and one night Yang Zhengshan led the garrison battalion to attack a certain tribe, killing so many enemies, beheading so many, seizing so much spoils and so on.

If it was just one or two times, Lu Chongde would not find it strange, but taking one serving every day for seven consecutive days made him feel a little weird.

You say he doesn't believe it, but he also thinks Yang Zhengshan shouldn't do such a thing.

Although he had never met Yang Zhengshan, he had heard a lot about Yang Zhengshan, such as the marriage between the Yang family and the Marquis's Mansion. How could he not know about this?

For example, Yang Zhengshan once helped the Secret Guard investigate a case of treason, and the relationship between Yang Zhengshan and Zhou Lan, etc.

Although Yang Zhengshan's official position was not high, because of these reasons, he still knew Yang Zhengshan very well, including Yang Zhengshan's battle record in Yinghe Fort.

But you want him to believe it. No matter how hard you try, he just can't believe it.

Lu Chongde looked at the latest battle report, pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked the clerk who was helping him with his official duties, "Has Captain Yan set out yet?"

"Your Excellency, Captain Yan set out yesterday!" the clerk replied.

Lu Chongde nodded and said, "Then let's suppress the battle report from Jiacheng first, and send it to Kyoto after Captain Yan confirms it!"

Before accurately verifying the military achievements, he really couldn't send the battle report to Kyoto.

Because once it is sent to Kyoto, it means that everyone in Chongshan Town has recognized this military achievement.

Although the General's Office had previously sent Yuan Wanli to verify the military achievements, Lu Chongde felt that Yuan Wanli might help Yang Zhengshan to falsify them.

The possibility of this happening is very low, but it is something we must guard against.

So yesterday he specially asked the Secret Guard to verify the military achievements of Yang Zhengshan, whom he called Captain Yan.

With the Secret Guards verifying your military achievements, there shouldn't be any problem!

Even if there is a problem, it is the problem of the Secret Guards.

Even the Secret Guards were deceived, so naturally all the blame was on him.

Lu Chongde was calculating a lot in his mind.

……

Yang Zhengshan slept until noon, and all the fatigue in his body disappeared without a trace, replaced by full of energy.

Getting up from the bed, Yang Zhengshan stretched hard, and bursts of dull thundering sounds came out of his body.

ow~~
The comfortable feeling made Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but scream.

"My lord, you are awake!"

Outside the door, Zhou Ren had been waiting for some time. He listened to the voices in the tent and asked softly.

"woke up!"

Yang Zhengshan responded clearly, then picked up the brand new clothes and clean armor beside him and put them on.

"Is something wrong?"

Yang Zhengshan walked out of the tent and asked Zhou Ren while adjusting his clothes and armor.

Zhou Ren said, "Sir, there are more people coming from Chongshan Pass, saying they want to verify the military achievements. Sir Yuan has taken them to check the heads!"

"When did you come?" Yang Zhengshan asked nonchalantly.

"About an hour ago!"

Yang Zhengshan paused slightly. An hour ago, he came here and did nothing. Did he go directly to check the military achievements?

This is a surprise attack!

"Do you know who he is?"

"I'm not sure. The other party just showed the token and official documents from the governor's office. There are twenty of them in the group. They look a bit difficult to deal with!" Zhou Ren expressed his impression of the visitor.

"Not easy to mess with!" Yang Zhengshan rubbed his soft beard, thinking.

It’s the governor’s office, not the general’s mansion!

This is actually nothing.

The governor is in charge of the administration, military affairs, and supervision of Chongshan Town, and can be said to be a real frontier official. Now that Liang Chu is leading troops outside, it is normal for Lu Chongde to send people to verify his military achievements.

However, when the other party arrived, he did nothing and went straight to check the head, which obviously showed that he was suspicious of him.

"Forget it, where is the person? I'll go check it out!"

Suspicion is inevitable, but let’s wait and see what the specific situation is.

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan and Zhou Ren came to the former settlement of Zarts.

At this time, Zarts' settlement had become a ruin, but Zarts' head was still there. Wang Sheng and Yuan Wanli helped to process it with lime, so it could be preserved for a long time.

"Captain Luo, there are only more than 5,000 heads here. Because there were too many heads, we didn't bring all of them back!"

Yuan Wanli stood in front of a thin middle-aged man and said with a bitter look.

It takes time to process the heads. In fact, so many heads don't need to be processed at all. They definitely won't take them back at a low level.

At the beginning, Yuan Wanli wanted to put the heads together as much as possible to ensure that there would be no problems in the subsequent inspection.

However, the garrison camp slaughtered an entire tribe every day, and there were thousands of heads taken every day. They really could not handle it, so they stopped this somewhat strange work.

Luo Chenhu, also known as Captain Luo, looked at the mountain of heads in front of him with an expression of surprise that was hard to conceal.

"If Captain Luo wants to check the other heads, I can take him to check them out. However, the other heads are distributed among seven Hu tribes, so it may take a little time to check them!" Yuan Wanli said.

In fact, it is not difficult to confirm the results of the battle. The ruins of the seven tribes are there, and tens of thousands of corpses will not rot in a short time.

If we just go over and take a look, we will know that the military exploits they reported are not false at all, and they may even be underreported. "No need!" Luo Chenhu shook his head slightly.

With these heads here, there is no need to continue the investigation.

In fact, falsely reporting military achievements is not a big deal. Killing 300 enemies and reporting 500, killing 500 enemies and reporting 1,000 is actually not a big deal. This unspoken rule has even been formed in all the major border towns.

With thousands of heads left, reporting over 10,000 beheadings would be enough to give an explanation to the higher-ups.

Moreover, he had just checked and found that these heads were all those of adult men, without even a single woman, child or the elderly.

The most important thing is that he had already seen the difference between the soldiers in the garrison camp when he was there just now.

The Songyuan River can wash away the fatigue and dirt on the soldiers, but it cannot wash away the murderous intent in them.

The strong murderous aura made him feel terrified.

The key point is that this is not the murderous aura of one person, but all the soldiers have such a strong murderous aura.

It can be imagined that these soldiers are absolutely killing gods on the battlefield.

Just then, Yang Zhengshan and Zhou Ren came over.

"Greetings, my lord!"

"Captain Luo Chenhu of the Secret Guard Zhenbei Division pays his respects to Lord Yang!"

When Luo Chenhu saw Yang Zhengshan, he clasped his fists and bowed.

Yang Zhengshan raised his eyebrows, it turned out to be someone from the Secret Guard.

"Captain Luo, no need to be polite!"

he said with a slight smile.

Luo Chenhu raised his head and looked at Yang Zhengshan, his heart trembling slightly.

He had also heard of the name Yang Zhengshan. When investigating the treason case, although it was always Wei Cen who had contact with Yang Zhengshan, in fact, many people in the Zhenbei Division were very familiar with Yang Zhengshan.

Because before Lu Hua called in Yang Zhengshan, the Secret Guard had investigated Yang Zhengshan's identity background, and when investigating the case, the Secret Guard also arranged a number of people to cooperate in the investigation.

For example, Heiya Village was surrounded and suppressed by Luo Chenhu and his men.

Yang Zhengshan at this time was somewhat beyond Luo Chenhu's expectations. He originally thought that Yang Zhengshan would be as murderous as those soldiers in the garrison camp, but in fact, Yang Zhengshan did not have any murderous aura at all.

His eyes are deep and clear, he has a kind smile on his face, and he even looks a little kind!

benign countenance!

Luo Chenhu felt as if he had been bewitched, as he actually felt that Yang Zhengshan had a kind face.

How could a person who led a garrison battalion to kill tens of thousands of enemies have a kind face?

There is only one explanation for this situation, and that is that Yang Zhengshan can control his murderous aura at will!
"Captain Luo, do you want to check other battlefields?" Yang Zhengshan asked with a faint smile.

Since he is a member of the Secret Guard, he doesn't have to worry. After all, he has helped the Secret Guard before.

"No need, I have confirmed that your military achievements are not false!" Luo Chenhu replied.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, without saying much, "In that case, let's go eat first! I just woke up and I'm very hungry!"

He is really hungry!
I have been sleeping since yesterday afternoon and haven’t had a drop of water. How can I not be hungry?
"Please come in, Lord Yang!" Luo Chenhu had no objection!

Soon, the group returned to the camp, and in a moment a simple meal was placed on the table.

The meals were still mainly dried vegetable soup and stewed meat. Under such conditions, even if Yang Zhengshan wanted to eat something good, he couldn't.

Luo Chenhu is not a pampered person. He has suffered all kinds of hardships while performing missions as a Secret Guard.

After finishing the meal, Yang Zhengshan chatted with Luo Chenhu for a while. He wanted to ask about Wei Cen’s situation, but the Secret Guard had many rules and their whereabouts would generally not be revealed to the outside world, so Yang Zhengshan gave up the idea and just asked about the situation at Chongshan Pass.

……

Just when Yang Zhengshan was having dinner, Wang Bin received a letter from Yang Zhengshan near Heiyun Mountain.

The person who delivered the letter was none other than Song Dashan.

Wang Bin led the reinforcement battalion and just wiped out a tribe. Now they are resting near Black Cloud Mountain and cleaning up the battlefield.

Wang Bin was somewhat surprised to receive the letter from Yang Zhengshan, but what surprised him even more was Yang Zhengshan's performance in recent days.

He received supplies and letters from Jiacheng every day, including Yang Zhengshan’s battle reports.

The first time he saw Song Dashan, he couldn't help but ask, "Did you really massacre seven tribes?"

"General, it's not seven, it's eight!" Song Dashan said honestly.

"Eight!" Wang Bin was even more shocked.

He has only received seven battle reports so far, and the last one has not yet been delivered.

"Eight!"

Inside the tent, the military officers from the reinforcement camp all looked at each other in bewilderment.

Among all the military officers, Zhang Yuanwu, the garrison commander of Qihe City, looked most horrified.

Zhang Yuanwu was also a capable and ambitious man. He wanted to kill the enemies and gain merit in this war, so since entering the north, he had been trying hard to find traces of the Hu people.

Hard work pays off, his efforts were not in vain, he really found a tribe.

However, due to the strength of the garrison battalion under his command, he had to ask for help from his immediate superior Wang Bin.

Although he could not get full credit after Wang Bin led the reinforcements, he at least got some credit.

In his opinion, this was already very good and was in line with the situation of the garrison battalion he had led.

However, now that he heard that the Anyuan City garrison camp had wiped out eight Hu tribes in a row, he began to wonder if he was hallucinating.

Is there such a big gap?

Zhang Yuanwu was shocked and couldn't help but wonder this question.

The several garrisons under Wang Bin's command all knew that the garrison battalion under Yang Zhengshan was very strong. Well, stronger than them, but no matter how strong it was, the gap shouldn't be so big.

The garrison camp had only a thousand people. How could they wipe out eight Hu tribes in just over ten days?

Even if these Hu tribes were only small tribes of a few hundred people, Wang Bin felt it was impossible.

(End of this chapter)