"Hey, Xiaofeng, why didn't Wu Kuang salute when he saw you? Does this kid think that if he follows the general, he won't take our buddies seriously? Tang Hu said sullenly.

Tang Yuan turned his head to look at Tang Hu, and said, "What do you kid want to do?" Don't go to him for trouble, after all, it's the people around the general, and a few small words to you will be enough. ”

Chen Bao didn't answer their words, but said: "A few days ago, I passed by the baggage team and found a person who looked like Yue Pu, dressed in rags, tied to the baggage car, and called as a beast. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Tang Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"I can't say." Chen Bao recalled: "But it's very similar, but it's a lot thinner." ”

Tang Yuan clenched his fists, "When we were still recruits, we didn't suffer less from this kid, today I didn't fall into the well, I hope to compete with him with real swords and guns, let's go to the baggage troops to have a look." ”

Sure enough, it was Yue Pu.

Now Yue Pu, who looks miserable, is tied to the side of the baggage car, holding a dry coarse dough cake in his hand, and there is not even a water bladder around him, just choking like that, he begged the people around him to help fetch some water, but no one paid attention to him.

At this moment three officers came up, and the first of them, with a handsome face, took off the water belt from his waist and threw it in front of him.

"General Xie gives water."

Yue Pu took a sip of it, respectfully held the water bladder in both hands, and raised it above his head.

Tang Yuan said, "Yue Pu, don't you know us?" ”

At this time, Yue Pu raised his head and looked at the face of the general opposite, he suddenly became decadent, his hands fell weightlessly, and he was silent.

"Are you dumb?" Tang Hu scolded.

"Don't scold him." Tang Yuan waved his hand and said: "Yue Pu, as a fine work of the Southern Jin Dynasty, you deserve to end up today, but I also cherish you as a talent, how about it, have you ever considered taking refuge in my Daliang?" ”

"Yes!" Yue Pu raised his head suddenly, his eyes shining.

"But your family is in the Southern Jin Dynasty." Tang Yuan squatted down and looked at Yue Pu at eye level.

"Ask the general to do this for me. Yue Pu is dead. Yue Pu hugged his fists and said: "As long as the general is willing to help, I will change my name and surname to serve Daliang from now on." ”

"Forget Yue Pu, I won't believe you if you talk like this." Tang Yuan said: "Help you cover up the news, you can hide it from the Southern Jin Dynasty and not kill your parents, wife and children, but your loyalty to Daliang is almost zero." So I can't trust you at all. However, we can make a deal. ”

"What kind of deal?"

"Stay, help the Han people fight the male Jia people, you don't work for the Liang, you can always serve the Han people, right?"

"After beating the man, will you let me go?"

"I can't be the master of this matter, I need to ask General Zhonglang."

"Ask the general to take me to see General Tang Qi!"

Tang Yuan took Yue Pu to Tang Qi's house, Tang Qi was stunned at first, and said, "Tang Yuan, you are so bold that you actually let the prisoner go privately. ”

Tang Yuan smiled and didn't speak.

Yue Pu hurriedly knelt down: "The foreign general knocked on General Tang and begged the general for forgiveness, and the last general is willing to abandon the darkness and follow the general from now on and serve the Great Liang." ”

"Yue Pu!" Tang Qi said with a straight face: "You are a fine work of the Southern Jin Dynasty, I doubt your words, what conditions do you have to impress me, you can talk about it." ”

"Next time I fight, I, Yue Pu, am willing to be the vanguard! I'd rather die on the battlefield fighting a foreigner than be tortured to death in the ranks of slaves. After saying these words, Yue Pu burst into tears.

"Okay, I'll give you a chance, kill a male Commander Jia, I'll erase the charges for you, kill two, and I'll give you military merits. After fighting the male Jia in the future, whether you want to stay in Daliang or the Southern Jin Dynasty, you can choose. ”

"General Houen, Yue Pu is unforgettable!"

From then on, Yue Pu changed his name to Qiu Liang and asked the general to help him make a fake document, only saying that Yue Pu had died in the slave army in the Southern Jin Dynasty.

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"General Tang, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to activate Yue Pu." Ma Butong sat in the military tent with an ugly face.

At this time, Ma Butong's two prison corps captains Cao Fu and Zhang Gan had already returned from injury, and as soon as these two people came to his side, Ma Jianjun instantly regained his confidence.

"This man has been completely burned out after months of torture." Tang Qi said: "It must be uncomfortable to be a cow and a horse with the slaves. At the moment we don't expect him to be faithful to us, as long as he gives us the battle to kill the enemy. I don't know if Ma Jianjun has considered it, as long as he kills a male soldier, it can actually be regarded as a crime. ”

"Why?" Ma Butong was puzzled.

Tang Qi said: "Judging from our current combat casualty ratio, one male soldier is equivalent to more than two Liang soldiers. As long as Yue Pu kills one male soldier, it is equivalent to saving two Liang soldiers, how can this not be considered a merit? Soldiers are human beings, and their lives are also their lives. ”

Ma Butong smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that General Tang's account is a little crooked, I am afraid that the calculation of this account is a little crooked, and the military merit is not less than half the city's merit, and how much credit can it be to kill a few enemy soldiers?" ”

"What I Tang Qi care about is different from Ma Jianjun." Tang Qi stood up and said, "What I want is to maximize combat power, not the battle exploits of sesame mung beans." As for the use of Yue Pu, I have clearly instructed that I will not change my mind, if there is any significance to Ma Jianjun, I can write a letter to the commander. Oh yes, now his name is Qiu Liang, not Yue Pu. ”

With that, Tang Qi brushed his sleeves away.

Ma Butong sat in the chair, his face pale.

After this battle, the two warring sides in the Texas region were deadlocked for nearly half a month, and neither side sent troops again.

One after another, the wounded soldiers returned to the team, and many new recruits were added. Some of the recruits were sent from various provinces, and some were recruited locally.

Seeing that the Shence army had grown from 1,005 to 5,000 people, Hu Ben Zhonglang would bow Fan straight and scold angrily: "This Xiao Fei is too uninteresting. His side is almost full, and he doesn't say that he will give us some troops, but if he wants me to say, we might as well recruit troops ourselves, and now the people of Hebei are enthusiastically joining the army, so we must not miss this opportunity. ”

Han Dang thought for a while and said: "Yes, after all, we have few people now, and we can divide official positions in large numbers, anyway, he Xiao Fei didn't treat us as characters, so he just robbed him!" ”

The two generals acted separately and grabbed more than 1,000 people, Xiao Fei didn't show too many objections to this matter, after all, at this time, his division had quickly recovered to the scale of 8,000 people.

With three thousand tiger elite cavalry in hand, he didn't really care about those new recruits and infantry.

"Report to the general."

Tang Qi was reading a book, glanced at the scout, it was an ordinary scout, and said, "Speak." ”。

"The Southern Jin Dynasty spy network reported that Yue Pu's family was killed."

"Oh?"