Chapter 63: Bad news
When Yun Zheng was worried about his wife, the handsome Lang Tan cut off Guo Sanshan's head with his own knife like a butcher, threw it on the dry grass, pulled a handful of dry grass to wipe the blood on his hands, and said to the military leader Ma Liuzi: "Clean up the battlefield, the women and children of the bandit cave will be handed over to the magistrate, and the money and grain will be put into the account, and they will quickly leave the battlefield." ”
Ma Liuzi put the head of the person who had crossed the three mountains with a rope and carried it in his hand and said with a smile: "Junhou, it has been three months since we came out, and now we are finally close to the city. ”
Lang Tan glanced at Ma Liuzi with cold eyes, and Ma Liuzi suddenly shrank his head and retreated. This marquis of his own is the most difficult one among the fourteen marquis, don't look at him is the most handsome, but he has a heart of stone, other marquis are in the maximum play of the effectiveness of the weapons in their hands, this is just the opposite, he is the first in every war, every time he takes the lead in the soldier charge, the bandits began to take more than half a year, and his battalion suffered the heaviest casualties, but the results were also the most brilliant.
Ma Liuzi, the head of the first army, reminded Lang Tan more than once, we have gunpowder in our hands, as long as this thing explodes, the bandits will hear the sound and flee, just pick up the cheap in the back, there is really no need to fight hard.
"The contract we signed with the local government indicates that we will suppress the bandits, exterminate them, not defeat them, not drive away the robbers and let them harm their neighbors, the soldiers must be trustworthy, and they are not good men in speculation!"
This is Lang Tan's answer, Ma Liuzi heard this explanation and really had nothing to say, although the character of the military marquis was a little colder, but he took great care of the brothers, and he never took more than one point from the reward he received from the general, and if he encountered a brother who died in battle, or was disabled, he would allocate some money from his share to support them, so although the battle was harder, the brothers in the battalion had no complaints.
Ma Liuzi looked back and saw that the military marquis had no intention of entering the Sword Pavilion to rest. With a sigh, he threw the head of Guo Sanshan in a lime bag, tied the bag, and then returned to rest among his brothers.
"Ma Tou, did you talk to the military marquis?" A subordinate asked in a whisper.
Ma Liuzi snatched half of the meatloaf from a non-lower hand, took a bite of it fiercely, and said indistinctly: "If you say it, you don't say it." ”
Seeing that his subordinates' faces fell, Ma Liuzi continued: "Don't think about it, the little lady of the Sword Pavilion. The military law of our martial victory army is not to say it to scare people, just go back to Chengdu, one day in seven days to repair, wouldn't it be better to go to Lingxi Pavilion when the time comes?
The lord sent all his family members to Huanzhou, Jiang Junhou with three thousand brothers to guard it will be no big problem, without family members, our Wusheng army will completely become a monk camp, I know that you are suffering, isn't Lao Tzu the same?
The money and grain earned were sent to Huanzhou for his wife to put away, and he would have something to rely on when he quit the barracks in the future. Don't starve to death like the veterans of the past. ”
An honest soldier patted his thigh and said: "It's okay if you don't have family members to hold back, everyone is working hard to make money now, and there is a little rush this day, don't think about the rest." In the past, when the stomach was not full, who had the heart to look at women more. ”
Lang Tan sat alone on a stone in the distance. The soldiers respectfully put the bacon dough and kettle beside him and left quickly, the military marquis did not like to follow too many people in front of him.
With a mouthful of cold water in his mouth, he sprayed it on his hands to clean the blood stains just now, Lang Tan began to eat meatloaf, the life he lived now was very different from the days he had imagined before, he used to be cowardly, and he would scream when he saw a mouse, but now don't talk about mice. Even if you see the tiger, you won't be surprised, Shuzhong is mountainous, and it is normal for the big insect to be silent, several times the big insect drank water on the opposite side of the stream, and he lay in the mud next to the stream, after seeing the big insect so closely. He fell in love with it, and he even bought two large insect cubs from Orion and kept them in the barracks, which he regarded as his best friends.
Crossing the three mountains is the last list that Wu Shengjun received, and the thieves who have become such an establishment in Shuzhong can no longer be found, and if they want to take the order, they may be in trouble. Because it has to go out of Shuzhong, according to the imperial court law, if there is no military order from the Privy Council, the army will be regarded as a rebellion, and neither Liu Yucheng nor the general can afford this responsibility.
Thinking of his colleagues, Lang Tan felt very comfortable, and said that these people were standard idealists, and also explained this term, Lang Tan found that this word was very suitable for himself and his colleagues.
It's really like the general said, fourteen people came together for a dream, whether it is the personable Zhou Tong, or the cunning and wise Wu Jie, or the hot-blooded Jiang Zhe......
A scribe abandons his own position to enter the military camp, which requires great courage, and such courage often comes from dreams, Lang Tan heard Yun Zheng say what it means to be strong, and he is willing to work hard for this kind of strength.
"What's yours is mine, mine is still mine, if yours isn't mine, I'll beat you!"
Lang Tan never thought he was funny, and Wu Shengjun's people didn't think it was funny, because that's what they did now, fighting bandits and eliminating harm for the people, this was just a side effect, and the real reason was that Wu Shengjun had no money and no food, so he found an excuse to get some food and money.
The poverty of the army is simply the biggest joke in the world! It is a shame for a military man that a violent group does not use its own violence to make money, but has to rely on the blood and sweat of its own people to feed itself.
Others don't feel shame, Wu Shengjun feels it, so they have never lacked food, clothing, food, and straw, and there is even a lot of surplus......
Lang Tan laughed silently, and said that whoever is short of money will take away his share, Lao Tzu almost threw away his identity as a scholar and followed you as a soldier, who will care about money and food, grabbing a handful of golden sands is enough for the whole family to eat for two years, and the money will be used to exchange horses, armor, and the capital will be used as a supervisor for the sharpest blade, the most powerful crossbow, only by thoroughly arming the whole army, can we grab more money and food, there is no place to grab in Shuzhong, who is next?
Lang Tan was very curious, his magical classmate seemed to be planning something recently, and it seemed that when he returned to the camp, he should be notified of the matter.
Thinking of this, Lang Tan saw that the logistics soldiers had already cleaned up the battlefield, and the corpses all over the ground were naturally dealt with by those who were hiding under the big trees and shivering, which had been said a long time ago, the benefits were his own, and the credit was from the state capital that paid for the grain, and Lang Tan had no opinion on these.
"Assemble the army, go back to the camp!" Lang Tan hung the kettle around his waist, fastened his helmet to his head, and ordered his subordinates who had rested.
At the same time, Lang Tan's own soldiers blew the horn, and the soldiers of the Wusheng Army scattered in all directions began to quickly move closer to the banner, and at the same time inserted the blood-stained long knife into the scabbard, and the heavy flail was carried on the back, and the heavy footsteps seemed to wake up the silent valley in an instant.
Lang Tan's four armor-breaking cones scattered on the pile of corpses were found by the soldiers and inserted on his back, and with the footsteps of the military marquis, he came to the place where the county commander of the Sword Pavilion rested, and the soldiers put a lime bag in front of the county commander, Lang Tan said in a deep voice: "County Zun, this is the head of the person who has finished talking about the three mountains, it is the county zun who deserves it, how to ask for credit is the county zun's own business, Wu Shengjun guarantees not to say a word."
It's just that the grain you should give us, one or two can't be missing, what does the county think? ”
The commander of the Sword Pavilion County ordered the head catcher to open the bag and carefully identify it, and after confirming that it was over the three mountains, he said with a smile: "The army is tired, why don't the general go into the Sword Pavilion to rest, and the old man will do his best to be a landlord." ”
Lang Tan shook his head and said: "The army entering the city is not good for the place, the military law of the Wusheng army is strict, the army does not enter the city is a prohibition, the last general will not dare to violate, get the grain and straw that should be there, I should return to Dujiangyan as soon as possible, if the time is delayed, the military law is ruthless." ”
The county commander sighed in admiration, took out a pile of Jiaozi from his arms and put it in Lang Tan's hand and said: "The road to the Sword Pavilion is far away, and it is too difficult for the general to carry the grain, and the official specially entrusted the Liang family merchants to make 1,100 Jiaozi, which is enough to buy the grain promised by the official in Chengdu, and the remaining 100 guan will be regarded as a little heart of the people of the county, please accept it." ”
Lang Tan knew what the county order wanted, and without answering, he took Jiaozi into his arms, and took out a contract from his arms and held it in his hand, and the county order smiled and took out the same document from his sleeve, and after checking each other, Lang Tan blew his own fire fold and burned all the two documents, and the county order obviously breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't say anything to Lang Tan anymore, and ordered the capture of the Sword Pavilion to enter the battlefield quickly and start to clean up the aftermath, and how he reported this matter to the imperial court later had nothing to do with Wu Shengjun, at this moment, he was very confident in the credibility of Wu Shengjun.
When the army returned to the camp, it was not as strict as when it started, and everyone had a smile on their faces, and the harvest was good, and when they returned to the camp, the brothers would have a good harvest.
Before stepping on the Shu Road, Lang Tan found that the court's fast horse post had passed three waves in one day, and they were all the post deliverers of the Privy Council.
"Brother, what's the matter, tell my brother a rumor!" Ma Liuzi asked loudly, and threw his wine gourd to the post office.
"The Yuanzhou thieves broke through Liuzhou, the prefect was killed in battle, and six thousand soldiers and civilians died!"
Lang Tan heard a strange scream, and with a knife, he cut off a small tree growing on the edge of the cliff and shouted to the front: "The whole army accelerates, return to Chengdu within five days!" ”
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