Chapter 40: Soaring into the sky

On Gegang Mountain, more than ten acres of space, covered with dozens of thatched houses, there are two large houses, which are full of grain, full of sacks, stacked from the ground to the roof. Roughly calculated, these grains add up to at least thousands of stones. In the Han Dynasty, one stone was forty catties, and I am afraid that it would add up to two or three hundred thousand catties!

In addition to food, the other rooms were filled with all kinds of things, tens of thousands of copper coins, hundreds of gold and silver jewelry, a large number of linen and silk, lacquer and wood, all kinds of things, many of which still had blood spots on them, and at a glance they knew that they were not coming from the right place.

"It's a lot of harvest, it's a lot of harvest!" Zhang Jin was no longer calm, and he was almost jumping up with excitement.

Changyu struggled to maintain the prestige of the patriarch and the captain of the security guard, but his crooked eyes like a crescent moon had betrayed him.

The two of them were still like this, Zhang Qi and the others had long been carried away with excitement.

It was Xu Shu, and there was a knowing smile on his face.

"In the past two months, the Du Liudu and seven brothers have killed people and sold goods, there are five or six villages and towns alone, and there are two or three caravans that have been robbed, I didn't expect to rob so many things!" Xu Shu sighed.

"This kind of thief is brutal and easy to kill, but he is really a thief who harms the people, and he really deserves a thousand cuts!" When he saw a silver lock that was obviously brought by a child, Zhang Miao finally got out of anger. These damn thieves don't even let go of children, they are really worse than beasts!

"That's what Brother Sanjiang said. Most of the reason why my Great Han Kingdom has fallen into its current situation is caused by these yellow turban thieves. Xu Shu said.

In the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the expedition to Mobei sealed the wolf Juxu, the Huns who were killed fell apart, and the expedition to Dawan, tens of thousands of miles in the Western Regions trembled in the prestige of the Han Dynasty.

However, who would have thought that now we are in the current situation. The Son of Heaven was scattered and displaced, the ministers and princes attacked each other, and the territory of the Han Kingdom was full of wars, and the people of Li were devastated.

And the original reason for all this was the Taiping Road Yellow Turban Army formed by Zhang Jiao, who claimed to be the general of Tiangong!

Without the Yellow Turban Thief, the Great Han Kingdom would still be the Great Han Kingdom, and it would never have come to the current situation!

Therefore, in the eyes of the Great Han scholars, the Yellow Turban Thief is the root of all evil, and most of them hate the Yellow Turban Thief!

Of course, in the hearts of the traversers, the Yellow Turban Thieves are actually not so hateful, not only the identity of the righteous army given in the textbooks, but Zhang Miao clearly knows that the reason why many people join the Yellow Turban Army is really helpless. If you don't obey the thief, you will starve to death and freeze to death, and before life and death, how to choose is obvious.

The reason why the Yellow Turban Army was able to sweep the north and the entire Central Plains in a short period of time is that Zhang Jiao has been preaching for more than ten years, and more importantly, the Great Han Kingdom itself has great problems, and all the reasons cannot be attributed to the Yellow Turban Army. Of course, the actions of the vast majority of Yellow Turban thieves are really brutal, and they can't be called a righteous word at all, so it is more appropriate to call them thugs!

The butt decides the head, although Zhang Miao has sympathy for the Yellow Turban Army, his current identity is destined to be incompatible with the Yellow Turban Thief. After all, it was the Yellow Turban thief Zhou Cang who led the crowd to rob Huyang County and Sanshui Village, almost forcing hundreds of people in Sanshui Village to a dead end.

And Zhang Miao's own ambition has to be used by the Yellow Turban Thief to move the knife in advance, and killing the thief to level up is what he has to do now.

Ge Gang was defeated, and the next thing to do was to return to Sanshui Village with all this money, food, and belongings.

When he came, he brought more than 20 carts to attract the thieves to attack, and the carts were not loaded with grain at all, but were filled with dirt, wheat bran and weeds, and now these carts are used to transport these goods.

In addition to property, there is another problem that needs to be dealt with, and that is the capture of more than 100 thieves.

There were more than 250 thieves in Gegang, dozens of whom died in the battle with the township soldiers, and dozens of them chose to flee away from the brigade and did not know where to go, and only more than 100 people fled back to Gegang behind Du Liu's horse's buttocks, and now these more than 100 people have all become prisoners.

According to Xu Shu and Deng Tu's opinions, these thieves should all be killed.

Xu Shu has always hated the Yellow Turban thieves, believing that they are the source of the chaos in the Han Kingdom, and these thieves are all heinous crimes, and Huyang has been made a mess by them.

Deng Tu simply had a grudge against the thieves, and wanted to kill these thieves to avenge the dead ranger friends and the male subordinates in the family.

Zhang Yu didn't express an opinion, and he didn't care if he killed the thief or not. Although Sanshui Village was robbed, it was obviously not the thief from Gegang who robbed it, but the thief handsome Zhou Cang personally led the team. In this case, it is impossible to vent his personal anger on these captives.

"Military advisor, Deng Zhong's father, killing prisoners is ominous, if you kill them all, it will really hurt people. In this way, let's screen these thieves, those thieves who have killed people with great crimes are pulled out and killed, and the thieves who are not too guilty are pretended to be male subordinates. Aren't we going to build a wall, just to let these captives work for us? Zhang Miao thought for a while and said.

The identity of the traverser made it impossible for him to slaughter hundreds of people at one time.

It doesn't matter how many people you kill in a battle, now that these thieves have laid down their weapons, it is not appropriate to slaughter again.

The ominous words of killing prisoners made Xu Shu silent, and slowly nodded in agreement with Zhang Miao's disposal.

"Father Deng Zhong, it was Gong Du, a subordinate of the thief handsome Zhou Cang, who attacked us in Bishui at the beginning, and it has nothing to do with this Gegang thief. The husband has clear grievances, let's take Zhou Cang in the future. Zhang Miao said to Deng Tu again.

Deng Tu finally nodded: "Okay, just follow Amiao." ”

After screening, more than 40 thieves who had committed great crimes in killing the people were pulled out and lined up to behead them on the edge of the cliff. The other thieves looked pale, but they were extremely glad that they were at least alive.

After resting for the night in Gegang, the next day the team packed up their things and prepared to return to Sanshui Village.

Bags of grain were loaded onto carts, as were copper, coins, gold, silver, and cloth. And those that could not be loaded with belongings were ordered to be carried on the backs of the captives, and more than sixty captives were crushed by the heavy belongings one by one.

After everything was moved down the mountain, Zhang Miao ordered a fire to burn down the thief's lair.

"It's a pity, this Gegang is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is occupied, it will be a good place at that time." Looking at the raging fire on the top of the mountain, Deng Tu said with some pity.

Zhang Miao smiled slightly: "What Father Deng Zhong said is not true. This Gegang looks good, but it has great flaws, the flat land on the top of the mountain is too small, there are not many soldiers, and there is only one way down the mountain, if the enemy blocks the road down the mountain, it will become a turtle in the urn. Strategist, what do you say? ”

Xu Shu nodded slightly: "That's true." ”

The team walked westward on the official road, getting farther and farther away from Gegang, and behind them, the flames rose and the smoke rose into the sky.

In the field, from time to time, someone secretly peeped and peeped at this team, but they did not dare to approach it at all.

With the rout and escape of Du Liudu Qi's men, the news of yesterday's battle has spread, and the people nearby know that there is such a brave village soldier, and even the Du Liudu and seven brothers in Gegang are not opponents.

In the vicinity, there are many small groups of thieves, many of whom do not even have nests, usually scattered in various houses, and gather into bandits to rob when there is something, and the defeat of the Du Liudu and seven brothers makes these bandits frightened, so they naturally dare not fight the idea of the Sanshui Village security team that goes home, even if there are more than 20 carts in the team, full of money, food and property from Gegang!

The team set off from Gegang in the morning, and returned to Sanshui Village in the afternoon.

Hearing that the team had returned, the old and weak women and children of Sanshui Village went down to Nanshan one after another to greet the triumphant soldiers. It took at least two or three days for the villagers to come out, and in order to prevent accidents, most of the old and weak people who stayed in the village went up the mountain.

Unable to look at the cart full of money and food, the family members looked at the procession, looking for their own man or son, and when they saw that their family members were unharmed, they showed a happy smile.