Chapter 6: Rumors (Adding to the Alliance's Leader's Loneliness to Eternity)
When he arrived at the first post station, Yun Zheng planned to teach the pursuers behind him a lesson, Ye Suo's clansmen had already told him that there were not many pursuers behind him, and that they had already stolen a lot of food from those pursuers, since this was the case, these people had nothing to fear.
Yun Zheng's army walked around the forest every hundred miles and needed to build a post station to repair it, replenish food and water, these Jiaozhi people dared to chase into the jungle with dry food bags on their backs, such courage made Yun Zheng admire the five bodies to the ground.
There seemed to be only these monkey-like Khmer people who could live in the forest without food and water, and their soles were about to turn into monkeys, at least Yun Zheng had never seen the soles of that person's feet that could form a semicircle around a big tree.
The water source of one or two people is easy to manage, and it can be solved by cutting a kind of tree vine, which is not too much, as long as you cut it with a knife, there will be clear water flowing out, which tastes good, sweet and pleasant.
But the problem of drinking water for thousands of people is not solved by one or two rattans, don't look at the forest is full of puddles, but the water is either poisonous, or there are parasites in it, as long as you drink a few sips, in just a few days, those bugs will hatch in your stomach, and it won't take long for your belly to become very big, and finally be sucked dry by the worms and die.
Not to mention the water in the forest, even the rain falling from the sky sometimes has problems, in such an environment, Li Rizun also sent troops to chase and kill, completely let these people die, in order to plug the mouth of the Jiaozhi people, lest others say that he did not rescue his father.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the rainy season is coming, as long as there are panting animals walking by, the trees on both sides of the road seem to be full of thorns, countless grasshoppers stretch out their bodies to suck some blood, walk under the trees, the grasshoppers will rain down, the monkey gang will be the main umbrella, can clearly hear the crackling sound.
The elephant has clamped its tail. The nose was rolled, and the rest of the skin was too thick, and the locusts couldn't bite at all, as for the war horses. The knight had to check it carefully every half hour, lest the locusts run through the silk coat and suck the blood.
Yun Zheng was wearing a fluffy satin dress and a hat, hiding and watching the Jiaozhi people who had been following him for six days, and deliberately gave them the post station in order to facilitate them.
Sure enough, in less than a pillar of incense, the Jiaozhi people came out of the forest one after another, Yun Zheng could hardly tell whether these people were people or ghosts, and they didn't even have time to check after they entered the post station, so they took off their clothes and cried wolf howls and lit a fire to barbecue daggers. Then I couldn't wait to start removing the locusts from my body.
After dealing with the locusts, they found that they were surrounded by armor soldiers with strong crossbows, because they were covered with green silk cloth, and they couldn't see it at all if they didn't look carefully in the dim evening.
Crossbow bolts sneered at the other side, and the defenseless Cochin fell to the ground with a wail. Only those who had just entered the post station fled naked into the forest, relying on the cover of their companions' bodies.
Wu Shengjun did not chase and kill, those who fled naked could not survive in the forest, and the smiling Ye Su collected a large number of weapons, not counting the weapons obtained from Shenglong City, the weapons here alone were enough to arm his few clansmen.
The inn became a garden for the dead. Wu Shengjun has no way to stay here anymore, the scavengers in the forest have been constantly patrolling around, the bucket-thick python slid over silently and began to devour the corpse, and even the crocodile in the distance also ran fast with a broken leg, this is a place for people to feast. Wu Shengjun was not bothered, quickly shook off the locusts on his body, and continued eastward along the muddy road.
After walking for three days in a row, there was no one behind him to harass him, and Yun Zheng was sure that he had completely got rid of those hateful Jiaozhi people. He ordered the whole army to rest in a new post station, and he was going to stay there for three days, according to the news left in front, the caravan was not far ahead, and the Wusheng army had to stop for a few days as a reserve, otherwise the road would not be able to carry so many people advancing at the same time.
There is wine tonight, not much, each person actually only has a big sip, but this is already a preferential treatment, the merchants have left a lot of living materials in this post station, it seems that they are adjusting their bags, and they will be able to get out of the jungle in five or six days, so the excess food and things have been abandoned by them, and there are ashes of burning corpses on the edge of the post station, and there are traces of incense and candle worship, these merchants also paid a heavy price in this long journey, for these people, Yun Zheng is admired, At this point, you can't say that they are simply for wealth, they are all shrewd people, who would not know that the value of life is far more than money?
This time the merchant will never be forgotten for each of them, not to mention the long journey, the boundless wealth that can be obtained in the encirclement of thousands of troops and horses is an affirmation of their own value, and it is also where their glory lies.
Xiaolin's wound is no longer in the way, but Liang Ji is feverish, and the continuous conquest has caused all the hidden injuries on the body of this iron-beaten man to burst out, and the newly recruited military doctor has said that without a year or two of cultivation, he will not want to recover his vitality.
Yun Zheng was relieved when he heard the news, and it was impossible for Wu Shengjun to be dispatched in the next year or two. There will be no chance to go out in the future, those who should go home go home, those who should go to business do business, those who should go home to eat and wait for death to eat and wait for death, in short, they can do whatever they want, except for the Jiazi battalion as their own personal soldiers, Wu Shengjun really should not exist in this world.
Whether it is the emperor or the courtiers, it is estimated that they have a lot of headaches about the arrangement of this army now, they can't be scolded, they can't afford to provoke, and they are very uneasy to send out, if these people can disappear automatically, this should be a scene that the Great Song Dynasty court is very willing to see.
Everyone knew that they were out of danger, so they gathered together in groups of three or five, sipping the pitiful wine in the bamboo cups and whispering their future plans. "Mother Lao Tzu, the battle Lao Tzu is enough, after returning to Shuzhong, I plan to ask the Lord for a favor and turn it into a household, this time the reward will not be less, how can it be enough for Lao Tzu to chew the grain, and find a place with fewer trees and no insects to lie down and eat in the second half of his life."
A man with a roe deer and a rat looked at him with satisfaction, and raised his feet to death with a branch of the grasshopper on his shoes, and said hatefully.
"The words of the third child make sense, our brothers can start, all because they met a good general, the Great Song Dynasty will change the lord every five years, God knows what kind of goods will come next time, and it is also a good way to turn into a civilian household as soon as possible, none of us have military merits, even if we can't become a big official in the local area, it's no problem to be a quick catcher, and it's not bad to be rich and rich."
"Idiot!" An older veteran glanced at his companion with disdain and said, "Take the money back to your hometown?" Let's not talk about the poor crazy relatives in your family, even those villagers can scavenge you for nothing in a short time, and you still lie down to eat, and no one will give you hot when you eat. ”
The roe deer-headed man didn't know what terrifying scene he thought of, and hurriedly said: "Brother Wen, you are a veteran of the Jiazi Battalion, and you are a hundred times stronger than our brothers in terms of knowledge, so you will point out a famous path for your brothers, why are you not a box army?" ”
The veteran of the Jiazi Battalion surnamed Wen rolled his eyes and said, "Think about it, did the reward you are about to get compete with you in our barracks?" ”
The three men shook their heads like a wave drum and said, "The reward is given to every brother, that is, how much to speak, and who will fight the ideas of others." But brother, aren't we not soldiers? Why are you still in the barracks? ”
The man surnamed Wen hated iron and said: "In addition to the military camp, there is also a place that will not fight your idea of money, tell you, I listened to the personal guards who served the general, the general has long disliked you, and it is not in order to fight a battle.
Our Jiazi battalion is good to say, there are only six or seven hundred people left, take off their military uniforms and then mix with the general, whether it is the head of the house, or the servant of the family, the children and grandchildren in this life are all properly arranged, you elm pimples, you can't mix with the master, can't you follow the military marquis?
Whether it is the general, or the military marquis will be reused by the official family after returning to the dynasty, not to mention the military marquis who is admitted to the jinshi, that is, the nobleman who is both civil and military, and the nobleman who knows the root and the bottom is not stammering, what are you going to do?
Even if you can't get married to the military marquis, you can't go to the stockade in Huanzhou? Anyway, where are the families of many brothers, and the big guys still live the same life, they are all wealthy families, and that is a good place to live......"
The eunuch Wu Yuntai wandered around the camp to eat, he liked to joke with these rough people very much, and when he casually said a few royal allusions, he was immediately surrounded by people, and such a lofty topic could not be encountered at any time.
As he spoke, the topic turned to the livelihood of the class teacher in the future.
"You are all the heroes of our Great Song Dynasty, if it weren't for a bloody battle this time, it would not be easy for the south to be pacified, the official family is the emperor of the world, and he will definitely reward the big guys, and the big guy didn't think about fighting for a wife and a shadow on the horse?"
"Wu Neishi, the Xiang army may not be properly done, the general looks down on us and says that we will not fight, this is all wronged, we will not fight, who else will fight, this is only the lord of the general, if others say this, Lao Tzu must fight with him." A man squatted on the ground in frustration.
Wu Yuntai's eyes lit up and said, "General Yun's words are inappropriate, right?" This time the southern expedition to level the thieves, the brothers are all good, as far as our family seems to have found a cowardly enemy who is afraid of the battle, when it is time to go into battle, I didn't see a coward, this is a hero, how can the general dislike you, it must be a rumor, it must be a rumor! ”
A veteran of the Jiazi battalion sneered and said: "The general's words are not wrong, Lao Tzu followed the general to see the Qingtang people and the Tangut people fighting, what is the real elite soldier Lao Tzu has seen, don't talk about you, we are all far behind, this time Lang Junhou competed with the Xixia people in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and as a result, there were still a few brothers who did not come back in the case of superior weapons, and the lord said, if we don't have firearms, all the battles should be killed by us." ”
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Chapter 2, you read first, I'll continue, thank you for being lonely to the eternal alliance master.