"We're gnawing hard bones this time."

In the Huanggu Middle School of Nanxiang County, Deng Ye counted the casualties of the bandits, and although he found that the enemy was not in the right position and immediately called Jin, several people were still captured by the galloping horsemen, and many were injured by the crossbow arrows of the group of soldiers who pretended to be merchants.

Deng Ye checked their wounds, and after pulling out the crossbow arrows to clean them, they observed, not only the quality of iron was surprisingly good, but also the inscription of Shaofu was actually seen on it.

Thinking of the opponent's well-armored, Hulala is a group of cavalry rushing up to scare people to death.

"This is no longer the Wuguan Zhujun or the right army soldiers, I'm afraid it's the Northern Army." Deng Ye sighed so emotionally, and the subordinates on the side looked at each other.

"What is the Northern Army?"

"The Northern Army is the royal division stationed in Chang'an to defend the emperor."

Deng Ye is a rare cultured person among the bandits, and he is also a Confucian student, but he wants to go to Chang'an to study richly. So the clever Deng Ye had the idea of counterfeiting coins, a large cloth yellow thousand, the cost is only half a tael of copper tin, but the value is thousands of dollars, this profitable business is enough to make people forget about life.

The result of the matter was that the big money they made was only used for the first time, and it was noticed by the five Wei Si who came down to supervise, and Deng Ye had no choice but to fall into the grass and take the team pulled up by the fake casting to do a more profitable thing: robbery.

wanted to learn the book of sages, but unexpectedly took the script of the thief, Deng Ye himself felt funny, but after doing it once, he became addicted, this feeling of being the king of the mountain is much more interesting than reading poetry and books.

After more than a year, he gradually became the head of the thieves in Nanxiang and Huanggu Township, and people called him "Deng Qushuai".

Deng Ye's robbery is different from other families, he is very strategic, he has already sent someone to negotiate with the villagers, give him a percentage of the looting proceeds, and promise: "I only rob outsiders, not locals." ”

He also agreed with the county magistrate who sent people to suppress him several times and finally withdrew from the mountains and forests in a hurry: "I will only rob merchants and people, not officials." "By the way, give the county 20% of the looting proceeds.

The largest protection fee was paid to the most powerful local armed force, the Wuguan Lieutenant in the north, Deng Ye asked people to guarantee: "We only rob those who leave the customs, not those who enter the customs." ”

Why is that? Because Wuguan has to collect taxes, if pedestrians and merchants are robbed by Deng Ye before entering the customs, only ox-nosed calf shorts are left, how can they pay the tariffs to benefit the customs guards?

In this way, Deng Ye himself is only left with forty percent of his interests, and he still has one last principle, which is to only grab things and not kill people. People in these years are very keen on revenge, and if they can't hold the knife in their hands for a while, there will be a few more or even dozens of enemies, which is not worth it.

Relying on this eight-sided exquisite, long-sleeved and good dance, Deng Ye has been studying this traffic artery for more than a year and has never missed. The team has grown to more than 100 people, and all forces have allowed him to survive, but today he was pecked in the eye.

Deng Ye looked at the crossbow bolt in front of him, and only felt distressed: "Wang Shi let the southern Jingzhou Dakou not fight, but deliberately pretended to be a caravan to earn me a small thief, could it be that the captain of Wuguan repented?" ”

While thinking about it, the people outside the forest cave shouted: "Yu Kuang is back!" ”

Yu Kuang was the person intercepted by the Yue Cavalry Battalion, the small leader of Deng Ye's subordinates, the bruises on his face were still there, Deng Ye asked as soon as he saw him: "Why can you come back?" ”

If Yu Kuang said that he had escaped, then Deng Ye would have to arrest him and kill him immediately, because it was impossible.

The good thing is that Kuang told the truth, saying that the officials and soldiers let him go.

Deng Ye was very vigilant: "Why do you want to let you go?" Are you going to follow him and come to the mountains to attack me? ”

Yu Kuang hurriedly said: "After the other generation interrogated me, I couldn't stand the fight, and said everything that should be said, including Qu Shuai's hometown and everything we did. Only the place where I gathered, I only reported the one in the suburbs of Nanxiang, once the other generation searched the mountain, Qu Shuai could immediately detect it. But after hearing about Qu Shuai's deeds, the fifth doctor was quite appreciative and actually let me go. ”

"I deliberately went around the mountains several times to make sure no one was following me before I came back."

Yu Kuang is telling the truth, his wife and daughter are still in Deng Ye's hands, and they won't mess around.

But Deng Ye was still not at ease, and immediately asked people to pack up their rations and move to another stronghold in the deeper mountains, most of his subordinates were people from the mountains of Xixian County, or small farmers who were forced to go bankrupt by taxation.

After waiting for safety, Deng Ye asked Yu Kuang to tell him, what did the "Fifth Lun" want to do?

"The fifth doctor claimed to be the envoy of the imperial court, and the person who escorted him was the elite of the Yue cavalry battalion of the Northern Army, a full five hundred! Going up the mountain and down the river is like walking on the ground, and has exterminated the rebellion of the Qiang people, not to mention our thieves, if the fifth doctor is willing, he can also ask for help from the court, and send tens of thousands of people to search the mountain. ”

Deng Ye was frightened, this time the basket was bigger, although he relied on the deep mountains and dense forests, he was not afraid of the county soldiers and guards. But once the number of opponents is large enough, even if there are three caves, it is not enough, and you can't really be a rogue.

"This is justice, and the fifth doctor said that we robbed his caravan last year, which is a personal vendetta."

"But Nian Zai Qu Shuai did not harm the lives of other people, and the fifth doctor was not willing to kill them all. I also heard that Qu Shuai had secret agreements with Wuguan, county, and township, and the fifth doctor said that he was willing to give Qu Shuai a chance. ”

Deng Ye really hopes to understand this grievance: "What chance? ”

Could it be that he wants to pay a few percent of the benefits to go out?

Yu Kuang said: "In the future, when I see the banner of the Fifth Clan's caravan, I will avoid it, and I will ensure that it is safe to get out of the valleys of the county." ”

"If this is the case, the fifth doctor will not blame the past, and will also speak for us when the time is right, amnesty and recruitment, and maybe even give Qu Shuai an official!"

……

Yu Kuang ran again, and this time sent a letter from Deng Ye, in which Deng Ye lowered his voice, kowtowed and kowtowed, and said that he had eyes and did not know the jade of Jingshan, and he actually provoked the caravan of the Fifth Clan, and he was willing to ...... three times as much as the looted goods No, five times the return!

In the future, as long as you see the banner of the Fifth Lun or the Fifth Clan, you will immediately let people protect them from afar and repel those miscellaneous people who don't know what to do.

Fifth Lun didn't want to compensate, only let Yu Kuang go back to the mountain, and this deal was reached.

Cheng Zhong of the Yue Cavalry Battalion didn't know the inside story, so he only said that Wu Lun had changed his mind, and then said: "Earlier, Knubo said that it was to eliminate the thieves in Xixian County first, so as not to infested with bandits when we welcomed back the prince. ”

"But now he is relieved but not punished, why is that?"

Wu Lun smiled: "In this way, Cheng Sima is willing to lead troops into the mountain?" ”

Cheng Zhong suddenly stood up, saying that they were the elite of the Northern Army, and how could the cattle slaughtering knife be used to kill chickens. What's more, this trip has a mission, and there is no need to delay time on the thieves. also came up with an idea: "It's better to summon the county governor to pay off the bandits before we return." ”

Fifth Lun shook his head, expecting the county and county soldiers to be even more unreliable, they turned a blind eye to Deng Ye's forces, and even took a piece of the pie, the official and bandit family is a great new national condition, how can it only exist in the new Qin.

When he comes back half a month later, the county may really be able to hand over a hundred heads, but it may be from other thieves, or even pedestrians and homeless people, so there is no need.

What's more, even if Deng Ye is eliminated, there will be thieves who will rise up and fill his position. The prince or something is still a trivial matter, his caravan is still not safe to come out, since the other party can talk about the conditions, it is better to have a good fate, this Deng Ye is indeed brave and strategic, maybe it can come in handy in the future.

Of course, it is impossible to recruit An, because Wang Mang only issued an order last year, asking the county not to tolerate thieves, and to suppress it first.

Fifth Lun only turned pale: "Since Cheng Sima missed the opportunity to lure the enemy into annihilation, and now he can't come up with a good strategy to ensure the elimination of the bandits, then he can only stabilize it first." Do you want to wait for us to return to the palace when the bandits come back and frighten the prince? If there is anything wrong with the prince, you and I will not be able to exonerate their crimes! ”

Yitong picked up the official scolding, let Cheng Zhong obediently shut up, and the group continued to walk along the road of the river valley, and did not encounter bandits, and within a few days, they went out of the valley and arrived at the Nanyang Basin of Yima Pingchuan.

The mountains were left behind, and the heavens and the earth suddenly opened up, which relieved the fifth Lun, who was already accustomed to the Great Plains of Guanzhong.

It's just that the surrounding scenery is not optimistic, it should be the busy season of agriculture in March, but there is less rain in the spring, the wheat in the field is wilting, and the millet that has just been planted for a short time has to be difficult to germinate on the dry land.

To add insult to injury, they can often see that there are many county soldiers on the road escorting the strong men who are tied with ropes to the south, and Zheng Tong and Zang Fu, who have also been treated like this, clenched their fists angrily.

After the fifth Lun sent people to ask, he learned that it was Jingzhou Mu Feixing who was recruiting troops, probably to choose the opportunity to enter the green forest thieves in Jiangxia.

"After the foreign war is over and the civil war is over, there is no stop."

Fifth Lun glanced at the Yue cavalry camp behind him, which had nothing to do with him, and said secretly: "If the soldiers of the whole county have not been suppressed by the Jingzhou Mu Commander, will it be the turn of the Northern Army to take action?" ”

At that time, when Guanzhong is empty, it may be his opportunity, but I don't know when the opportunity will appear, so this battle, the fifth Lun stands in the green forest......

By the way, I heard that the leader of the Green Forest Army is also called Wang Kuang, and he has the same name as Wang Mang's concubine.

Seeing that it was getting dark, they couldn't get to Wancheng in a hurry, so they stayed overnight in Xixiang.

The residence is a place, the appearance is like a dock courtyard, more than 100 steps from east to west, north and south, and it is dedicated to receiving the envoys and officials of the imperial court, but the fifth Lun They came a little more than a lot this time, and there were more than 300 people in total, and they immediately made this small office busy, and hurriedly cooked and fed the horses for the guests of the Beijing Division.

Fifth Lun's residence is on the second floor of the place, he found that this is the best accommodation conditions after leaving Chang'an, better than the county seat, the couch is no longer hard, a question to know, it is the local village husband specially reserved for the angel officials, must be cleaned every day.

Fifth Lun asked the pawn: "What is the name of the countryman?" ”

"Local, surname Ren, name Guang, word Boqing."

As he was talking, he heard a quarrel in the stables outside the station, and the arrogant voice of the soldier of the Yue Cavalry Battalion sounded: "You have used this kind of dry grass to feed the good horses of the messenger and Sima?" Didn't you tell you to lick the good millet and mushroom carefully? ”

"Superior, there is indeed no millet or soybean." This is the widow, and his voice is full of pleading.

The voice of another soldier of the Yue Cavalry Battalion sounded: "Who said no, I went to the warehouse next to the kitchen to see it, didn't there be a lot of piles?" Do you want to be greedy for ink? ”

The old man's voice was pitiful: "All the good millet has been supplied to the officials, and only some brown rice is left, which is reserved for people and for us to eat." There was a disaster in the local area last year, and the food for this month has not been sent down from the county warehouse, so we are almost out of food......"

"Bold! Do you know who it is? Filial piety Goro, Knubo! The court holds the festival angel, and his horse is not more expensive than your gold? It doesn't matter if you are hungry, what will happen to the angel's horse, get it quickly! “

Fifth Lun is so angry, seeing that this group of guys who are in the camp really don't treat him as an outsider, and they actually ruined their reputation in that fox fake tiger might, Fifth Lun can't sit still. Immediately went downstairs with a private servant and turned to the stable, but saw that the old pawn had been put to the ground by the people of the Yue Cavalry Camp because he resolutely refused to obey, and he whipped him a few times with a horsewhip, and his skin suddenly opened.

"Stop!"

Before the fifth Lun could walk over and drink, one of them spoke first, and he came closer, stepped forward a few steps, and grabbed the hand of the soldier of the Yue Cavalry Battalion who was about to be beaten again with a whip.

The soldier of the Yue cavalry battalion turned around, but saw a young official over forty years old, dressed in a soap suit very new and distinct, wearing a half-through seal on his waist, with a long beard reaching to his chest, and a gentle appearance, but his hand was pinching himself like iron pincers.

A group of vexatious Yue cavalry battalion soldiers were furious: "Who are you? Want to rebel? ”

The townsman smiled, let go of his hand and waved at everyone: "I am a townsman, this smister is not speaking clearly enough, and I have offended the king." ”

However, his words also make sense, in addition to people to eat, the millet and mushrooms in the place have to be reserved for the transmission of emergency military information, so don't make it difficult for him. All the things you need today are up to me, and that's what people will deliver. ”

The people of the Yue Cavalry Battalion looked at each other, and then they smiled proudly, and said inch by inch: "If you have wine and meat, send some too, otherwise today's business is not over, and you will be punished for the crime of disrespecting the officials!" ”

"Of course there is wine and meat." The townsman asked him to get it quickly, and he helped up the man and told him not to lose his life for trivial matters.

Seeing that it was almost over, the fifth Lun stopped the person who was going to get the wine and meat of the corn, and paced out by himself, and the few people in the Yue Cavalry camp suddenly became quiet.

After glancing at everyone, Wu Lun went around to the stable, found his horse, patted it and said, "Thank you for the kindness of the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, my horse will eat grass today, Su Shu, or leave it to Cheng Sima's mount." ”

Cheng Zhong had already heard the movement and came to the side to watch the excitement, because he didn't see the fifth Lun in the shadow of the courtyard wall, and he didn't care about his own soldiers making trouble, he just held his hands and looked at it with a smile, they had long been accustomed to it.

Seeing that Wu Lun said this, Cheng Zhong was a little embarrassed, so he came out with a straight face to reprimand his soldiers, telling them to retreat quickly and not to make trouble.

Fifth Lun said with a smile: "Cheng Sima, the next time your corporal wants Su Shu wine and meat, don't use my name, Fifth Lun can't afford it." ”

Cheng Zhong promised to say that he would "severely punish" those big soldiers when he went back, and today's incident was revealed. It's not his own soldiers, and the fifth Lun can't press them too hard, and it's possible for the fifth doctor to be killed by the "thieves" in the whole mutiny, but he can't sit back and watch them behave indiscriminately, this balance can be grasped well.

Zheng Tong exchanged glances with Zang Nu: "In this way, in the new Qin, these people have already been beheaded by the general!" ”

The old-looking villager came over to see the fifth Lun: "Xixiang Sifu Ren Guang, meet the virtuous doctor, thank the doctor for saving me!" ”