Chapter Seventy-Three: Pacifying the Bandits
General Meng Shen was the vanguard of the main road, and indeed encountered stubborn resistance, the enemy had archery, spear throwing, boulders, and logs, so that Meng Shen General could not continue to move forward, and a soldier shouted: "Your Excellency, our vanguard is about to run out." ”
General Meng Shen said disdainfully: "These little thieves are dying, and they still have to fight the trapped beasts, immediately select a few soldiers with loud voices, and shout to the general, saying that the left side has been lost, remember that the louder the better, and when they go to support, the general will outflank them before and after, and take them down one by one." ”
After receiving the order, the soldiers went to find a dozen soldiers with loud voices, and shouted together in a continuous manner that the left flank was lost.
The owner of the second village is leading people to do an effective blockade at this time, but when he hears that the left side is lost, he can't help but be shocked, what, the left side is lost, no, I want to go to the rescue immediately, because any loss of the road will directly affect the safety of the entire cottage, so a small part of his subordinates continued to block the officers and soldiers under the mountain, and he led most of his men to turn to the left side to rescue.
When General Meng saw that the other party had been fooled, he immediately ordered: "Outflank." So General Meng Shen rushed to the front with a saber, and as a result, the owner of the second village and the people he brought were not spared, and they all became the souls of the soldiers under the knife of General Meng, and General Meng took people to annihilate all the remaining bandits, so General Meng Shen led people to rush to Fushan Village, and found that there were people guarding the cottage, and they were also armed with bows and arrows and some long-distance weapons, so they stood by and immediately ordered: "Go and tell the chief soldier that we have attacked and killed the top of the mountain, but there are still some things that need to be handled by him personally." ”
After a while, the news reached Cui Zhendong's ears, and he couldn't help but appreciate: "Good job, worthy of being the capable general of this general, pass on the general's order, immediately go up the mountain and finish." ”
When Tang Jiabao followed the army up the mountain, he found countless corpses, the trees had already been stained red with blood, and the ground had been soaked red, Tang Jiabao sighed deeply when he saw this tragic scene: "It's too miserable!" Whether he is a good person or a bad person in life, it is called a corpse after death, so why can't a bad person do something good? What about being a good person? ”
Soon the large army rushed to the top of the mountain, and the other three pioneers rushed to the top of the mountain with great vigor after receiving the news, Cui Zhendong looked up and said loudly: "Quickly open the gate of the village, give up the senseless resistance, I will spare you from death." ”
The master of the three villages stood on the wall and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Cui Zhendong had a conversation with him: "This general is Cui Zhendong, the chief soldier of SD, hurry up and call your big village master to come out, that is, the SD bandit leader Fu Rushou, come out and talk to this general." ”
The master of Sanzhai said angrily: "The surname is Cui, just by you, you also want to see my eldest brother?" ”
Cui Zhendong said angrily: "General Meng." ”
"The subordinates are here." Meng Shen will take a step forward.
"Shoot that rat down to Ben." Cui Zhendong pointed at the master of Sanzhai and said angrily.
"Yes, my subordinates are commanded." So Meng Shen pulled the bow with his left hand and shot an arrow with his right hand, only to hear the sound of "whoosh", the three village masters fell from the wall and died on the spot, and the thieves in the village were in turmoil, but it didn't take long for them to return to their previous calm, only to see a person who seemed to be the leader walked to the wall and shouted: "Cui Zongbing, why do you want to kill my Fushan Village?" ”
Cui Zhendong explained: "The emperor's order. ”
Fu Rushou said with a smile: "Chief Cui, if you have anything to say, say it slowly, it is the so-called family of soldiers and bandits." ”
Cui Zhendong laughed helplessly after hearing this: "Ben Jiang has never heard of the soldiers and bandits, Ben Jiang only knows that the soldiers suppress the bandits, the bandits kill the people, and the people hate the bandits." ”
Fu Rushou retorted: "Wrong, it is the people who become bandits, bandits come from the people, if the people hate bandits, then why do so many people choose to be bandits?" ”
Cui Zhendong retorted: "Soldiers also come from the people, do you think there are more soldiers, or more bandits?" ”
Fu Rushou said disdainfully: "Hmph! The truth is often in the hands of a few. ”
Cui Zhendong retorted with a serious expression: "So the general only knows the emperor's order and is ordered to suppress the bandits." ”
As soon as these words came out, both sides were silent, and the scene returned to calm, and it was silent for a long time, at which time only the rumble of burning torches could be heard.
Fu Rushou was a little anxious, and wanted to ease the tense atmosphere, so he hurriedly said: "Then Mr. Cui, I don't know what you want?" ”
Cui Zhendong laughed: "Hahaha, smart man, worthy of being a bandit leader, he is very knowledgeable about current affairs." ”
Tang Jiabao listened on the side, and said in his heart, it seems that this is going to be a turning point, but I didn't expect the brief conversation between the two leaders to resolve a more bloody fight, and it seems that only the conversation of the highest-level characters can reverse the overall situation, if it is not a weighty character, then it may be shot down by an arrow like the previous Sanzhai master!
Cui Zhendong said with a smile: "There is only one request, order all the bandits in Fushanzhai to put down their weapons and surrender immediately, and you have to go with Ben to exterminate your bandit companions, if you can use your words to influence your companions, it will be regarded as your merit, on the contrary, if you want to let Ben General do it, count you as a big fault, and wait until the end Ben will see if you have more merit than fault, or too much merit." ”
Fu Rushou asked, "How to explain?" ”
Cui Zhendong sneered: "If the merit is greater than the capital, it will protect you, and if it is too great, it will kill you, think about it?" ”
Fu Rushou thought to himself, what should I do, is it to surrender, is to fight, to fight, then the war is invincible, to surrender, maybe there is hope, thinking of this Fu Rushou shouted loudly: "Cui Zongbing, I agreed, open the door of the village, and invite Cui Zongbing to enter the village." ”
Cui Zhendong raised his hand and said disdainfully: "Ben Jiang won't go in, so you should come out by yourself." ”
After a while, I saw Fu Rushou walking out of the gate with his remaining subordinates.
Cui Zhendong smiled slightly when he saw this: "All of them are tied up, all the Fushan Cottage will be burned down, the large army will be withdrawn, and some people will be left to transport the bodies of the brothers back." ”
Fu Rushou let the soldiers tie up his subordinates without the slightest complaint, Cui Zhendong looked at Fu Rushou and said with a smile: "Lord bandit, let's go." ”
"Listen to me." Fu Rushou was expressionless.
So Cui Zhendong led a large army to rush back to the General Soldier's Mansion overnight, and as soon as he entered the General Soldier's Mansion, Tang Jiabao couldn't wait to say: "Lord General, I want to see my two friends in the next place." ”
Cui Zhendong nodded: "Wow, they are in the back house, come here, take Brother Tang to the back house." ”
So Tang Jiabao followed the soldier to the back house, Tang Jiabao pushed the door in, only to see Fu Renjun eating fruit on the bed, while Lu Jinxin was sitting crookedly looking at the book, when the two of them saw that it was Tang Jiabao, Fu Renjun threw down the kernel, and Lu Jinxin threw down the book and walked quickly to Tang Jiabao, Lu Jinxin laughed and said: "Dabao, where have you been these days?" Missed me. ”
"Yes, Brother Bao, where did you go to the mountains and rivers?" Fu Renjun asked.
Tang Jiabao replied with a smile: "I have really spent the past few days!" I'm afraid that Cui Zhendong will embarrass you, so I'll talk about it slowly later, how about it? How have you been doing these days, how has Cui Zhendong treated you? ”
Fu Renjun grabbed the words and said: "Brother Bao, after you escaped from prison that day, it didn't take long for Cui Zhendong to bring the two of us here, it's okay here, there is food, drink and books to read, so the two of us live here very comfortably, if we can live like this every day, how good it would be." Fu Renjun was self-absorbed.
Lu Jinxin said with a serious expression: "Dabao, don't you know, Cui Zhendong doesn't allow us to leave this courtyard, so we have no other place to go except the house and the courtyard these days, so it's boring, so we can only browse ancient and modern books, and we have gained a lot in the past few days, and we have learned a lot of things." ”
Tang Jiabao expressed understanding: "Lu Lu, let you suffer, we will leave SD early tomorrow morning Lu Jinxin asked: "What, Dabao, what did you say?" We came all the way to SD territory, didn't we come here to serve as soldiers? The purpose is very clear, do you want to do your part for the court? Why are we leaving? ”
"Brother Bao, I'll do whatever I want, I can go anywhere." Fu Renjun said it didn't matter.
Tang Jiabao shook his head and sighed: "I found that the profession of a soldier is not suitable for me, the reason is that I can't see too much blood and corpses, the two armies are fighting, there must be countless casualties, I have seen too much of all this in the past few days." ”
"Okay, Dabao, I support you as a friend, friends should help each other, where you go, I will accompany you." Lu Jinxin resolutely expressed his stance and supported Tang Jiabao's resolution.
Fu Renjun repeated: "Brother Bao, I'll do whatever I want, I can go anywhere." ”
Tang Jiabao looked at the two and said with relief: "Good brother, we will have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we will break into the martial arts." ”
In a blink of an eye, the next day, Tang Jiabao and his party came to bid farewell to Cui Zhendong.
Cui Zhendong asked: "Brother Tang, you have helped Ben Jiang so much, Ben Jiang hasn't had time to reward you yet, why do you have to leave?" ”
"Before I came here, I had never seen so many hideous expressions and horrible corpses, but in just a few days, I saw hundreds of corpses in Xia, which I didn't want to see and couldn't accept, so I really can't do anything about joining the army." Tang Jiabao explained the reason to Cui Zhendong.
Cui Zhendong said with a smile: "Haha, Brother Tang, since you insist on your own opinion, fortunately, you found out in advance that you are afraid of seeing the corpse, otherwise after joining the army in the future, then you will be afraid, then it is really too late, and then you will say that you don't want to join the army, it is absolutely impossible, okay, then I will send it to you, if it is useful in the future, the place of the general, this will be a definition, although you say, this will be able to help you, this will definitely help, if this will not be able to do it, this will definitely explain the reason." ”
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief." Tang Jiabao hugged his fists to express his gratitude.