The commander of the Yunnan Pingyi Guard is called Li Xi, a native of Shandong, who was transferred ten years ago - the thief woman Miru made a rebellion, and the officers in the Yunnan-Guizhou border area were either killed in battle, or beheaded by the imperial court, or they were sent to Hainan.

The Pingyi Weishi City was also rebuilt, and the original city was destroyed by the thief Miru, and even the guards were transferred from Qujingwei to fill it.

Even if they don't eat empty pay, the number of soldiers is less than 5,000.

After all, Qu Jingwei himself had to keep people, and it was impossible to transfer them all, and Pingyiwei killed 2,000 soldiers here. Half of them were still stationed in the enclave, and the defenders in the city were less than a thousand, and at most three or five hundred soldiers were left behind.

This is also the reason why those bandits are arrogant, the number of bandits in the mountains is more than the soldiers of Pingyi Weishi City and Pingyi Qianhu combined! The bandits who robbed Wang Yuan came from one of the bandit hills, and not all of that mountain, and there were still one or two hundred left in the village.

After Li Xi was transferred from Shandong to Yunnan, although he also frantically occupied the military land, it did not cause much harm to the military households. Because there are few people and more land, the previous military households have died and escaped, and now every military household has land to plant.

The military households even recruited displaced people as tenant farmers, and one by one they became small landlords.

"What? Zhang Er Mazi was killed! Li Xi stood up suddenly, and then burst into laughter.

The bandits were divided into three groups and occupied three hills.

Among them, "Zhen Sanshan" was promoted as the co-owner, and not long ago he went into the city to try the kiln, and was arrested by his subordinates who jumped back to report. There are already women in this cottage, and the devil knows why she ran to the city to get a good time, anyway, the reality is so nonsense.

Zhang Er Mazi is the second master of another cottage, and he also has countless lives in his hands.

For caravans like Qin Jiangtou, who often went back and forth, the bandits chose to go down for a long time, and only collected some tolls and let them go. But if you encounter scattered merchants, or fat sheep with raw faces, you will directly play killing people and stealing goods.

A few years ago, Zhang Er Mazi even cut down a county magistrate. After the blame from above, Li Xi had to lead troops to suppress the bandits, and he didn't get anything for several months, and Li Xi was also hung up because of this.

Li Xi really doesn't need to raise his own respect, his family has a field, and the past merchants have a lot of filial piety silver. If he can destroy the bandits, he can collect more money, and the profits will be diluted by those bandits!

Wang Yuan and others were brought into the city, and Li Xi personally came out to meet them.

Seeing those heads hanging on the horse's body, Li Xi suddenly smiled, hugged his head to Qin and said, "It's really a strong man!" ”

Qin was a little embarrassed and explained: "Commander Li, the leader of the bandits was killed by this prince. ”

Wang Yuan stepped forward and introduced himself: "Commander Li is in person, and Wang Yuan, a student member of the Guizhou Propaganda Division, is contemptible in person. ”

Xiucai kills bandits?

Li Xi used to live in Shandong, and the Xiucai in his impression were all weak chickens. Even if I have been in Yunnan for ten years, I have not had much contact with Guizhou Xiucai, but I have heard that Guizhou Xiucai is relatively healthy.

After taking a closer look, I saw that Wang Yuan's clothes were covered with blood, the blood on his face had not been wiped clean, and his shoulder bandage seemed to be injured. Wang Yuan had a standard bow on his back, two bags of arrows, and a long knife hanging from his waist.

Even if it's a show, it's worth saying a few more words. Li Xi took Wang Yuan's hand and said, "Both civil and military, it is really extraordinary." I don't know how to kill Zhang Ermazi? ”

Qin shook his head and smiled: "Command." At that time, we were walking along the valley road and were ambushed by sixty or seventy bandits. The front and back roads were blocked, and there were bandits on the hillside with bows and arrows and throwing stones. Wang Xianggong galloped on a steep slope, shot the bandit leader with an arrow, and rode his horse to kill three bandits who stood in the way. Riding up to the top of the slope in the rain of arrows, most of the bandits were killed and fled, and then they killed the valley road, slashing the two bandits, forcing the remaining bandits to kneel and beg for mercy. ”

Li Xi was dumbfounded, he was very familiar with the terrain over there, and he could completely review the entire battle process in his mind.

Is this a showman?

It's Guan Erye's reincarnation!

Li Xi looked at the horse behind Wang Yuan again, and recognized it as Shuixi Horse at a glance. And it is the best Shuixi horse, ordinary Shuixi horse can't grow so tall at all, I'm afraid it's worth thousands of taels of silver.

Qin pointed his head at Zhou Chong again and said, "Commander Li doesn't seem to believe it. This young man is also a bandit, and he has already escaped, but because he reveres Wang Xiucai's bravery, he took the initiative to surrender and become a slave. Commander Li can ask him to know if I am lying. ”

Zhou Chong immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Fifth Uncle Qin is true!" ”

The bandits surrendered to Xiucai, and Li Xi didn't bother to care about it. Originally, he just wanted to talk to Wang Yuan for a few words, and then get the bandit's head, but now he changed his mind and planned to make friends with Wang Yuan.

With a superb Shuixi horse, how can there be no background, this alone is worth befriending.

Even the title has changed, Li Xi said enthusiastically: "If Wang Xianggong doesn't study, he will be a fierce general!" But the children of Guizhou Health Institute? ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "I'm not from the Wei Institute. But my companion Li Ying and Li Liangchen were the third sons of General Li's family in Guizhou, and he also stabbed three bandits. ”

"I've seen Commander Lee." Li Ying stepped forward and said.

As soon as he heard that he was the son of the general soldier in Guizhou, Li Xi's attitude was even more enthusiastic, and he took Li Ying's hand and said: "The tiger father has no dog, and Li Gongzi is really heroic." You and I are both surnamed Li, and we were still one family five hundred years ago. ”

After a few words of greeting between the two sides, Wang Yuan suddenly said: "Commander Li, we still have a few wounded, I don't know if we can ask the city medicine doctor to treat them first." ”

"It should be, it should be," Li Xi laughed, "The wound on Xianggong Wang's shoulder also needs to be rebandaged." ”

While the wounded were being treated, the bandit leaders, as well as the captured live bandits, were all handed over to the Pingyi Guard.

The Ming Dynasty counted military merits, which were divided into "first merits" and "war merits", and the "first merits" were the number of captured or beheaded people. The first merit is divided into four grades, in order of the north, northeast, southwest and inland anti-thieves, in addition to the second merit of the widow and the thief.

The heads of bandits cannot be calculated for military merit, unless these bandits attack the city and rebel, or grow to the point of alarming the imperial court - this is how the bandits come from, if the bandits are not raised, the bandits will not even have military merits. And the liquidation of small bandit gangs, at most, can add a few lines to the resume, which can only be regarded as auxiliary materials for the promotion of military attachés.

In contrast, civil officials prefer to suppress bandits and make real achievements.

However, Zhang Er Mazi once killed the county official and belonged to the thief wanted by the imperial court, and Li Xi was also hung up because of his ineffective suppression of bandits. Zhang Er Mazi and the bandit head can be used to deal with errands and make up for Li Xi's past mistakes.

The head of the bandits, Li Xi sent his subordinates to hand over to the government. And the living bandits were all laborers, all of whom stayed to farm and work as tenant farmers for the military households.

Li Xi personally took out a hundred taels of silver, handed it to Wang Yuan, and said, "Wang Xianggong, this Ermazi is a giant bandit who went to the sea to catch official documents. I'll pay you the bounty first, so that you don't have to go to the government again. ”

The government of the Ming Dynasty was very fond of rewards, especially for rebellion and great rebellion, if the reward object could be caught, the civilians would be directly given to the civilian officials, and the small soldiers would be directly officers, and all the property of the reward object could be obtained.

"Okay, thank you Commander Li," Wang Yuan took out a silver ingot (five taels) by himself, and handed the rest to Qin Hao, "Qin will divide the head fifty taels to the dead or injured brothers, and the remaining forty-five taels will be divided equally among all the people." ”

Qin clasped his head into his fists and said, "I thanked Xianggong Wang on behalf of everyone." ”

"Righteousness over wealth, good man, haha!" Li Xi laughed, and felt that Wang Yuan was extraordinary, and he would definitely be a big man in the future.

That night, Li Xi invited Wang Yuan, Qin Shotou and the students to drink and eat, while the porters and scholars stayed in the inn.

When the reward was scattered, everyone could get more than a tael, and those who were wounded would receive even more. Wang Yuan's fierceness has long been impressive, and at this moment, he is squandering his wealth with righteousness, whether it is a student, a scholar or a porter, they have nothing to say to Wang Yuan, and they give it a thumbs up.

At night, the porters lived in a large bunk, and dozens of people slept in one room.

The smell of sweat mixed with stinky feet made Tian Qiu nauseous, but in order to continue his journey tomorrow, he had to pinch his nose and sleep here.

Tian Qiu is the one who successfully let Guizhou open its own township test in history. Although he was born in Sinan Mansion, he was not a descendant of Sizhou Tian's Tusi, but moved from Ji'an, Jiangxi Province in the early Ming Dynasty. In "Peach Blossom Fan", Tian Yang, a powerful minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty who forcibly married Li Xiangjun, is Tian Qiu's unknown descendants.

Tian Qiu's second brother, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are all teachers in various places. His eldest brother is a lifter, and he will be sentenced in Qujing Mansion, and he can reach it by walking two or three days further.

Two days ago, Tian Qiu also encountered bandits, but it was the big boss who was leading at that time, not the second boss of Zhang Ermazi.

The bandits wanted to kidnap Tian Qiu up the mountain, but Tian Qiu struggled hard, and as a result, the bandits were angered. His scholar was hacked to death on the spot, and Tian Qiu jumped from the top of the ridge to the bottom of the mountain on the way to the cottage, and fainted from his injuries for a whole day before he woke up.

His scholar is gone, his mount is gone, and his exam box is gone.

The silver, of course, is gone. exchanged his belt for dozens of dollars in the pawnshop, and he could only live in the Datong shop in Pingyi Stone City, Tian Qiu planned to go to Qujing to find his eldest brother to help.

"I saw it with my own eyes, Wang Xianggong slashed it over, the bandit's head flew, his neck spurted blood a foot high, and his body stood still and didn't fall."

"yes, what a fast knife technique!"

"Not only is the knife fast, but so is the horse. That kind of steep slope is not easy for people to climb, and Wang Xianggong rides a horse like flying. flew seven or eight feet high, and before he could land, he shot Zhang Er Mazi with an arrow. ”

"You just brag. The horse did not grow wings, and flew seven or eight feet high, and he had to fall to his death. ”

"Don't believe it. Wang Xianggong rode a Shuixi dragon horse, a horse of several thousand taels of silver, and he could fly several feet! ”

"Really?"

"Fake, haha. Don't listen to Liu San's nonsense, at that time, Wang Xianggong's horse only jumped up one foot high. ”

"It's terrible."

"It's jumping down on a big rock, which isn't unusual. Wang Xianggong's real power is that there are many bandits with bows in the mountains, and archery is like rain. Wang Xianggong single-handedly dared to rush up the slope from below, and chopped off all the arrows he shot with his sword......"

"Didn't cut them all, Wang Xianggong was hit by an arrow in the shoulder."

"Yes, an arrow in the shoulder. Wang Xianggong was still injured, and rode straight to the slope, cutting down twenty or thirty bandits by himself. This is not over, I only heard Wang Xianggong shouting: 'The second king of Montenegro is here', so he rode to the official road, stabbed one by one, killed the corpses everywhere, and frightened the remaining bandits to kneel and beg for mercy. ”

"Wang Xianggong is not only mighty, but also very righteous. He offered a reward of one hundred taels of silver, but he only took five taels for himself, and divided the rest. I've got a tael of silver! ”

"You guys are really lucky, you are a good man when you meet Wang Xianggong."

“……”

The caravan porter had no entertainment, and lay down in the Chase shop to all kinds of braggarts, and the other travelers listened to it in amazement.

These business travelers traveled from south to north, and it is estimated that in two or three months, the name of Wang Xianggong will be able to spread in all directions, and even bandits from all over the country know that there is a killing god named Wang Er of Montenegro.

Not only the business travelers, but also the officers and soldiers of the Pingyi Guard at this moment are also talking about it, mainly because Wang Yuan's process of killing the enemy is too awesome.

Tian Qiu was also fascinated, and couldn't help asking, "What is the name of that prince?" ”

A porter said proudly: "Wang Yuan, our prodigy in Guizhou, the political envoy even made a prodigy poem for him!" ”

"But the Wang Yuan who wrote "Linjiang Immortal"?" Tian Qiu said in surprise.

The porter didn't understand: "What is "Linjiang Immortal"? ”

Tian Qiu didn't bother to pay attention to this person, and said to himself: "Such a fairy-like character, I must go and see it!" ”

(I checked the information wrong before, and Pingyi Wei became Pingyue Wei, so the commander was made surnamed Wang, which has been corrected.) ）