As the secretary of the army, Wu Song had to record the whole process truthfully, so he sat on the sand pile, escaped from the bamboo tower behind him, and wrote truthfully: "On the night of August 23, the 29th year of Taiqian, the 6th Regiment of the Qinglong Army died in the battalion, and the school assistant Zhang Xiaowu ordered 300 cavalry to break the sand bandits 10,000 people, kill thousands of thieves, and suffer 20 casualties. ”

Gu Ruoxi was about to rush up to clean up Zhang Xiaowu's clothes, Zhang Xiaowu took two steps back to avoid embarrassment, after all, washing clothes is either done by himself, or by handymen, or by his wife, a lady who has nothing to do with him sand washes clothes, it seems a bit too ambiguous to say it.

Fortunately, at this time, Miss Gu rushed over, grabbed the second miss's ear and took her back.

The sergeants winked at each other, smiling at the corners of their mouths, and Wu Song winked proudly at Zhang Xiaowu, saying in his heart I didn't say the wrong thing.

Hu Sanwan even said in a low voice: "My lord, we can all see that the second lady is very fond of you." ”

Hu Li quipped: "Yes, the fool can see it, she likes you." ”

"Yes, yes, yes......" Hu Sanwan smiled and smiled, his beard twitched, and he suddenly became angry: "What is it?" Who is the fool? Who do you say? ”

In the afternoon, the convoy finally arrived at the ruins of Roland, and saw dozens of vultures hovering over the ruins in the distance, and immediately flew away to the far part of the ruins. The second lady hurriedly asked why there were so many big birds, Zhang Xiaowu scratched his head and said, "It's a vulture, also called a sand vulture, a bird that specializes in eating animal carcasses." You look small, but its arm span is longer than yours, and if a flock of vultures sees you alone, these beasts will not hesitate to attack you. ”

Gu Ruoxi was startled and complained, "This bird is unlucky. ”

Zhang Xiaowuxin said that the vultures gathered here, I am afraid that they were attracted by the corpse of the sand bandits. In the distance, scouts rode horses to usher, and reported that Du Wei Xiao Kai and Shen Lindong had already set up a new camp waiting for everyone, and more than 2,000 dead bodies were also thrown away by everyone, on the other side of the ruins. They roasted the mutton and horses, prepared the spirits of Saibei, and waited for everyone to enjoy a Saibei feast.

"You can still eat it." Zhang Xiaowu laughed.

The sergeant replied, "You have to live." ”

Zhang Xiaowu nodded, the life of this era is very good, after killing people and eating meat, you can even eat human flesh, and your psychology is far stronger than that of modern people.

Xiao Kai reported that in the first battle last night, more than 2,300 sand bandits were killed, of which 50 percent were burned to death, 20 percent were shot with bows and arrows, 20 percent were killed, and 10 percent were killed by cannibalism. Some sand bandits were captured and all of them were killed by Shen Lindong, and 47 sand bandits' wives and daughters were arrested. Nine hundred and thirty war horses and three hundred and sixty pack horses were captured, and most of the grain and grass were burned, but there were more weapons and iron tools. In addition, Xiao Kai reported that countless gold and silver treasures were seized, including 100 taels of gold alone, 8,000 taels of silver, and as many as 20,000 taels of silver tickets related to Neiyinzhuang.

During the day, the scouts found that there were about hundreds of sand bandits fleeing from various parts of the Roland ruins, and it did not seem to be a bandit, so there should be no bandits in the northern part of the grassland for a short time.

"Are there Han Chinese people in the corpses?"

"Yes, but most of them are horse bandits and sand bandits, they should be horse bandits wandering on the grassland, although they are Han Chinese, they are not Chinese." Xiao Kai investigated very carefully, and then stuffed an item into Zhang Xiaowu's hand. Zhang Xiaowu saw that it was a jade plaque, and there were two big characters "golden clothes" written on the back of this jade pendant.

Xiao Kai whispered: "It's the token of the Golden Guard, there are Golden Guards among the sand bandits, and the composition of this group of sand bandits is not simple." The gold-clothed guard was ordered to supervise the hundred officials to protect the imperial power, but now he is actually involved in the sand bandits, and he is afraid that he will kill the Gu family, and he is afraid that there is that person. ”

The woman who chased and killed the Gu family actually had the Golden Guard, which was a guard army that protected the emperor, and compared to the Silver Guard who protected Longdu City, the Golden Guard was more mysterious and unpredictable. However, the Jinyi Guards of the Holy Han Empire were different from the Jinyi Guards that existed in the Ming Dynasty in Chinese history, they were often only responsible for spying on intelligence and transmitting news, and rarely really did it, and the Jinyi Guards were just the eyes and ears of the emperor.

Jin Yiwei was also involved, so this matter was even more complicated, Zhang Xiaowu frowned, then relaxed, and said softly: "Don't know." ”

"Whoa."

"How's the wounded sergeant?"

"Six didn't survive during the day, and I don't know how the other six will be tonight." Zhang Xiaowu sighed and returned to his tent sullenly.

Zhang Xiaowu was just about to rest in the camp tent, when he heard Miss Gu Er's voice getting closer and closer, and said that he couldn't rest again, Miss Gu Er opened the tent curtain and asked, "I heard that how many soldiers need surgery?" ”

"This ......," Zhang Xiaowu paused, "there can be." ”

The two came to the wounded soldiers, Zhang Xiaowu asked about the situation of the six wounded soldiers, they were not afraid, and it was rare to have close contact with such a young lady of the family, and they didn't even feel pain anymore. Zhang Xiaowu was full of emotion on the side, these stinky and shameless people, they forgot about the official ......

After all, Zhang Xiaowu is a rough man, and the skill of stitching up the wound is naturally not as good as Miss Gu Er, who was only timid in the past, but now she is "enthusiastic" and has to do it herself, so Zhang Xiaowu temporarily gave her a hand.

The soldiers didn't feel the pain, which made the suture operation much faster, and Zhang Xiaowu even instructed him only once, just watching from the sidelines. For Zhang Xiaowu's praise, Gu Ruoxi felt very proud, and after a while, Wang Yijin came in and whispered a few words in his ear, and Zhang Xiaowu left.

The generals discussed, Zhang Xiaowu first said silver, 8,000 taels of broken silver and 20,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the gold was converted into silver There are also 2,000 taels, so a total of 30,000 taels of silver were seized this time. The sand bandits have a habit of taking the looted money wherever they go, and now the sand bandits who have been served by them in the southern grasslands have also robbed them for many years.

The generals couldn't help but laugh, this is the end of greed, everything is nothing.

Zhang Xiaowu proposed to spend two-thirds of the silver to go back to the Central Plains to buy land to ensure the basic livelihood of each soldier in the battalion. Everyone was quite surprised by this, they thought that the school would divide the silver, but they didn't expect him to propose to divide the land, and they were puzzled.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Now that we are in Saibei, I don't know when we will die in battle, and I don't know when we can go back, but even if we return to our hometown, many soldiers will not have any other skills than to kill." So I divided the fields among the people, and at least the sergeants could still farm and not starve themselves and their families to death. If we have enough money in the future, we will let everyone live in a house, marry a wife, and buy a cow at home. Brothers, I want my Pao Ze brothers to have a cow on each of the 20 acres of land in the future, and the wife and children will be hot on the kang. "According to the military system of the Holy Han Dynasty, everything captured belongs to Zhang Xiaowu for distribution, and even some thick-skinned people swallow the spoils of war alone.

Everyone thought that they would divide some gold and silver, eat, drink and have fun, but they never thought that Zhang Xiaowu would use money to buy land, nor did they think about how to live after the war ended.

The generals looked at each other with a look at each other, and Xiao Kai said, "Can everyone go back alive?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Xiaowu said angrily.

Hope and longing for the future rose in the hearts of the generals, and Shen Lindong threw his hands to the ground: "Convinced, convinced, Shen is happy and sincere to the adults." ”

Zhang Xiaowu also said that the battalion of dead soldiers may not be needed to go to the battlefield, and may die on the battlefield next time, so after escorting the Gu family and the caravan to the Two Wolves Pass this time, he immediately sent people back to the Central Plains. This time, Zhang Xiaowu handed over the important task to Wu Song, and then Zhao Suo escorted him all the way with ten sergeants to avoid encountering bandits or accidents.

Wu Song thought for a while and said, "Okay, since everyone believes in me and is not afraid that I will run away with the money, I will accept it." My clan is in Yangzhou, I am familiar with Yangzhou, and I know where the land is fertile and cheap. He looked at the crowd and said with a smile: "I am not a civil official of the Death Battalion, but everyone treats me like this, this matter is not done well, and I will not come back." ”

Zhao Suo hurriedly said: "Mr. Wu, you can't come back, if you don't come back, I'll tie you back." ”

Everyone laughed, Hu Sanwan took the opportunity to propose that everyone write a letter to take home, the battle of Saibei casualties were very numerous, the old relatives at home were worried day and night, if the family letter can be sent home, the family will be more assured.

Everyone praised it, so they wrote letters to their families, some of the sergeants knew some words, some did not, everyone helped each other, worked for half the night, and handed over a dozen of the family letters to Wu Song.

When Zugong Mao saw that everyone had written a letter to his family, he had mixed feelings in his heart, lowered his head and looked at his feet, worried about his wife and daughter. Zhang Xiaowu sat beside him and said, "As long as our brothers don't have to write family letters, it will save trouble." Zu Gongmao coughed twice and said, "They shouldn't have an accident." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "Your wife is looking for a husband for thousands of miles, all the way from Yangzhou to here, if you can live until now, you must have a tough personality, and you will not be defeated easily, you have to have confidence in her." ”

Wu Song put everyone's family letters in the commonly used bamboo basket and said with a smile: "I will not live up to my mission." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "The wealth is not exposed, the dead soldier camp has gained such a big bargain, and the sergeant who has issued the silver will inevitably show off, so I only give each person five taels of silver, and in the name of the Gu family." Everyone said yes again and again, and Zhang Xiaowu said again: "Five taels of silver is a lot, enough to eat, drink and prostitute in the city, lest my mother's soldiers go to Mucheng City to find a girl and can't get the money, eat overlord meals, and fight overlord cannons." ”

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what the overlord meal and the overlord cannon were, Zhang Xiaowu himself laughed first and explained: "I can't afford to lose this person on credit with the prostitute Hongqier, don't mention that it's my soldier in the future." ”

The generals laughed, Xiao Kai suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, what about the woman who wrote about the sand bandits?" ”

"Do they know about our money?"

"You should know." Xiao Kaidao.

Shen Lindong added: "Actually, most of our silver was found in their arms. These women were not plundered, they were all the wives and daughters of the bandits, and they were also the people they trusted the most. ”

Xiao Kai said again: "The 20,000 taels of silver tickets were found from a nineteen-year-old pockmarked girl, and it should be the daughter of a bandit leader." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Who was in charge of watching the female prisoners yesterday?" ”

"Sekijo."

"Call him over."

"Whoa."

Guan Cheng came soon, and Zhang Xiaowu ordered: "Guan Cheng, after dark, you pull them to a remote place......

Guan Cheng suddenly cried and said, "Master Xiaozuo, even if I am an iron-clad man, I can't beat hundreds of old ladies." ”

Zhang Xiaowu couldn't cry and laughed, stepped forward and kicked him, and scolded: "You took them to a remote place and killed them, don't keep any of them." ”

Guan Cheng scratched his head and secretly said that it was a pity, but Zhang Xiaowu glared at him, and immediately patted his chest and promised: "Well, leave it to the lowly, the lowly will make them worse than dead." ”

"Fart, I'm just going to die." Zhang Xiaowu reprimanded.

Xiao Kai added from the side: "Don't make a sound, so as not to frighten the people in the caravan and the young lady of the Gu family." ”

"Whoa." Seki bowed and turned to leave.