Chapter 12: Challenges

Pei Min's words made Yang Yun exclaim in surprise. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What's wrong?" Pei Min glanced at Yang Yun lightly and said, "Think it's cruel? They came all the way, and the people and merchants they met on the way, did they ever have a soft hand? Have you ever been unbearable? When dealing with them, there must be no mercy, and they must know the price of committing my Datang. Only in this way, the next time you have evil thoughts in your heart, you will be afraid of one or two. If it weren't for the fact that it was summer, I wouldn't even bother to burn. ”

In the hot summer, the corpses decompose quickly, and it is easy to breed a large number of bacteria, which leads to the occurrence of plague.

This Qilihe County is also their territory of the Tang Dynasty, and Pei Min didn't want to cause a plague, so he piled it up and burned it.

Yang Yun smiled embarrassedly: "No, I'm just worried that I will anger them, as the saying goes, the mourning soldiers will win, I'm afraid that Jincheng won't be able to stand their anger." ”

Pei Min laughed instead: "I did this for another purpose to provoke them, only by angering them, will I pay more attention to Jincheng." We're under a lot of pressure here, so there's a lot less pressure on the east, so there's more chance of winning. It can be said that the key to the decisive victory in this Tibetan invasion is in Jincheng. ”

Yang Yun was speechless, and he knew that in the next game, his intelligence would definitely not be able to keep up, so he honestly obeyed his orders.

More than 2,000 naked corpses were built into a high mountain, and a fire was set on fire from all directions, and seeing the flames enveloping Jingguan, Pei Min gave the order to return to the army.

With 1,000 soldiers to meet 3,000 Tibetan vanguard cavalry, only at the cost of more than 100 soldiers to kill ten times the enemy, the results are not brilliant, and therefore by the people in the city soldiers and generals warmly welcomed.

Especially the common people, who have not experienced war for many years, have an inexplicable fear of the coming of war. But Pei Min's beautiful victory made them realize that they were the people of the Heavenly Empire, how could they be opponents of the Tibetan barbarians? In his heart, he responded to Hu Cao's recruitment of Fan Chen to join the army, and was willing to serve as a servant to help defend the city, and by the way, he mixed some extra food and money.

In order to celebrate and win, Changshi Luyu allocated silver money from the treasury to hold a dinner in the urn city to entertain the soldiers on this expedition, and also distributed money to encourage them.

Lu Yu originally only planned to distribute the salaries of the soldiers who were out of battle, but under Pei Min's reminder, he also distributed them along with the soldiers who were resting on the guards in the city. Although the soldiers who went out on the expedition deserved to be commended, the soldiers who stuck to their posts in the city also had a certain amount of hard work. The amount is naturally less than that of the soldiers who went out on the expedition, but it cannot be withheld.

While calming their dissatisfaction, it also let them know something. War is not terrible, but a way to make a fortune. As long as you have merit, you will definitely be rewarded.

With the lessons of the past in front of them, those who have a little ambition in their hearts have more or less improved their fighting spirit.

But the small celebration banquet in the evening was undoubtedly attended by only the soldiers who went out to fight.

Today's expedition, the soldiers who fought were divided into three waves, the guards of the wealthy family, the guards of Jincheng and the mercenaries of the Western Regions. They have their own circles, and it is not easy to get them together. The guards of the wealthy families and the guards of Jincheng are easy to say, but the mercenaries in the Western Regions, many of them can't even speak Huaxia. Mixed in front of it, it's a bad thing.

At Pei Min's suggestion, the guards of the wealthy family and the guards of Jincheng held a reward banquet under the urn city, and the urn city of Jincheng was large enough to be divided into more than a dozen banquet fires, and they were free to eat, drink and have fun. Anyway, there are still a few days before the Tibetan army arrives in Jincheng, and it can be properly relaxed.

As for the mercenaries of the Western Regions, they directly chartered a restaurant for them in Chenggong. After all, they are not Tang Jun, and they don't receive their money, but they do a hard job. The hospitality of gourmet cuisine is also what they deserve.

Alcohol is forbidden during the war, this is the rule of the army, and the wine at the reward banquet in Wengcheng is goat's milk and mare's milk, and the taste of specially processed goat's mare's milk is almost the same as that of the drinks of later generations. Because the mutton and horse meat are enough, and a lot of expensive beef is prepared, it is rare for ordinary soldiers to eat meat several times a month. Despite the lack of alcohol, all the soldiers ate with great pleasure.

As the biggest hero of this battle, Pei Min was respected by all the soldiers and was the core figure of the banquet. He had no fight, and drank with the soldiers with milk and wine, and more than a dozen fires were saluted from beginning to end, and none of them fell.

Pei Min's identity can be described as high in their eyes, and he is so close to the people, which naturally makes all the soldiers feel good.

After gathering with the soldiers here, Pei Min went to the restaurant where the mercenaries gathered.

Originally, Pei Min thought that there would be a miasma of smoke in the restaurant, and the taste of wine and meat would be sky-high. I don't want the restaurant to be really lively, more than 100 warriors gather together to frolic, eat meat in large pieces, there are gladiatorial fights, there are hand competitions, and there are gambling, but there is no smell of alcohol. He didn't know that mercenaries had mercenary rules, and regular mercenaries valued their reputation, and they didn't drink alcohol when they were on duty.

Avier and Savoy are merchants, so in order not to give black food, they are naturally reputable in the mercenary world.

Pei Minfang just walked into the restaurant, but saw the red-robed mercenary who killed the commander of the Tubo Thousand Commanders, knocking off the opponent's weapon with a knife, waving his hand excitedly, and talking a lot.

The language is incomprehensible, and Pei Min doesn't know what he says, but judging from his expression, he should praise the knife in his hand, thinking that this red-robed mercenary is quite discerning: the knife that took off is indeed not ordinary. Although this guy has hidden the loot, he killed the person, and it doesn't hurt to give it to him.

A mercenary who was fluent in Huaxia came to the red-robed mercenary, looked at the knife in his hand with envy and said, "Kendrick, your luck is so good, this knife can sell for a lot of gems." ”

The red-robed mercenary named Kendrick also changed to Huaxia and said: "The knife is very easy to use, and it is not sold." Now it's my second life, and I don't sell any number of gems. Remember, touch the piercing, it's not that I'm Kendrick lucky, it's that I'm Kendrick strong enough, aren't there several Tang soldiers in front of me? They are just too weak to kill each other. And I'm strong enough, this knife is mine. ”

When Pei Min heard this, he raised his eyebrows, Tang Jun is not strong, he does not deny this, but it is definitely not weak, at least today's performance is completely beyond his imagination. What's more, even if it is not strong, it is not the turn of a person from another country to say, strode up and said: "According to your logic, if I am stronger than you, this knife is mine?" ”

Kendrick looked at Pei Min, thinking of the bravery of today's enemy, his eyes lit up with high fighting spirit, he raised the long knife in his hand, and said, "If you win me, this knife is yours!" ”

It is the habit of their mercenaries to be brave and ruthless, and more than 100 people around them learned of this, and they vacated their seats one after another, screaming.