Chapter 36
Zhao Shi spoke eloquently, not saying much, but Liu Zhengfeng and the others listened to it thrillingly. In just a few days, Yu Zhilong has done so many things!
Liu Zhengfeng and other leaders secretly called it a fluke, if it weren't for Yu Zhilong's series of actions, I am afraid that most of the big guys would be here today! Relying on Meng Qing's department alone, once his rear team arrives, as long as he rests for a while, outflanked on both sides, or directly descends the mountain to pounce, his own side is already sleepy and lacking in horses, and the troops are far weaker than the other party, and the people are in the hands of the enemy, so there is naturally no need to think about the consequences.
The group descended the mountain and walked along the mountain road. After walking for a few miles, I saw a large group of soldiers coming out of the valley next to him, followed by a long line of prisoners, in order to prevent the captives from making trouble and escaping, Yu Zhilong ordered them to take off their coats, and tied their hands with their sleeves.
Liu Zhengfeng, Yu Shichang, Qin Zhanshan, Liu Qi and others couldn't help but secretly stutter when they saw so many captives, since the incident, although they have also won some battles, they have never seen so many captives at one time! Looking at the length of the queue, I'm afraid there are not six or seven hundred people. Now all the soldiers in Liu Zhengfeng's department are only this number.
Liu Zhengfeng and others stood aside temporarily, observing these captives and escorted soldiers, after a while, Yu Zhilong and others rode horses from the opposite side, and saw Liu Zhengfeng and his party from a distance, Yu Zhilong hurriedly dismounted, threw the reins to the soldiers behind, walked over quickly, first knelt on one knee and clasped his fists with both hands, and saluted: "Meet the big leader!" This battle is fortunate to have the lives of the soldiers, God bless me, and now it has finally turned the corner! “
Liu Zhengfeng laughed, hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Yu Zhilong, and said, "I really can't imagine that I haven't seen you for a few days, and Brother Yu has already pulled up such a big team." If it weren't for Brother Yu's rescue, Brother I would have to go to see Brother Yu Hai today! It doesn't matter if I'm dead, but so many brothers have gone to Huangquan because I also went to Huangquan, I really don't have the face to see Brother Yu Hai underground! ”
"Brother Yu, everyone is a lifelong friendship, although we are not brothers, we are better than brothers, this time to save my life, brother and I and the leaders of the family are all inherited from the little brother!"
"The big boss is serious, since he is his own brother, there is no need to say more!"
"Hey, what I'm saying is, let's not say much about gratitude, this kindness is in our hearts!" Liu Zhengfeng said briskly.
Qin Zhanshan and Liu Qi waited for a while, and asked: "Just now Brother Zhao Shi said that the little brother won a big battle and first destroyed most of the men and horses of Meng Lao Thief, and now that he has so many prisoners, I don't know what the specific results are?" ”
"Our army originally wanted to attack the front team of Meng Lao Thief directly behind this time, if it could kill Meng Lao Thief, it would naturally be the best, but I didn't expect to find a large team of people behind the old thief on the way! Luckily, the old thief's rear team was in a hurry, and the scouts couldn't search for it, so I waited for a chance to set up an ambush in the valley over there. I have interrogated several volunteer leaders just now, and I know that this volunteer army is the majority of Meng Lao's thief, and there are no more soldiers behind. The old thief was going to make a long-distance detour to intercept us here, and the soldiers and horses in the mountains were his vanguard, about five or six hundred people, and most of the men and horses behind him were about one thousand two hundred. ”
"Brother Yu originally offered a plan to ambush Mengjiashan, so that the Meng's volunteers did not dare to cross the Qingshui River easily, and today they have destroyed most of the elite of the Meng's volunteers, and even Mengjiashan has taken his life, this Mengqing thief is moldy! Now that I think about it, Brother Yu is simply the evil star of Meng Qing's old thief! Qin Zhanshan, Liu Qi and others all sighed.
"At the beginning, the old thief Meng was chasing after us, as long as a brother fell into his hands, he would be unlucky, he deserved to be unlucky today, but it was a pity that the old thief ran fast and did not leave him!" The leader Wan Jinhai said regretfully.
"Big Boss, there are two brothers who have made great contributions to this forward battle, and I will introduce them to you. Come forward, both of you. Yu Zhilong's words fell, and he motioned for the two people behind him to step forward.
Liu Zhengfeng took a look and saw two big men turning out behind Yu Zhilong, one was tall and had long arms, his face was cheeky, his clothes in front of him were almost soaked with blood, but there were basically no blood stains behind him, and he was holding two bloodstained hammers in both hands, it was Mu Chun. The other person's upper body was naked, and several wounds on his body had formed blood scabs, it was Luo Cheng.
"This is Mu Chun, Xuzhou people's clan, this is Luo Cheng, Dizhou people's clan, both of them are fierce generals, this big victory, the two have the most credit!" Yu Zhilong introduced to everyone.
Liu Zhengfeng saw that these two people were covered in blood, and the tiger had his back on his back, and he laughed and bowed: "The two are real heroes, and I will remember the rescue of Liu this time!" On a holiday, Liu asked all the heroes and heroes to drink hard, and they would not return home if they were not drunk! Mu Chun and Luo Cheng hurriedly returned the salute, and then waved at the leaders behind Liu Zhengfeng, and then retreated behind Yu Zhilong.
A group of people chatted lively, chatting as they walked. There was a long line of family members down the mountain, and Liu Zhengfeng basically abandoned the cart for the convenience of the mountain road, leaving only mules and horses with all kinds of baggage and the old and weak, and there were some wheelbarrows mixed in the middle.
There was a group of young women in the crowd, and the first one was Yu Lan.
Yu Lan and the others already knew the situation of the battle just now, and on the way down the mountain, they saw Zhao Shi and other subordinates, and found that although these people were in rags, they were full of joy, and some of them also praised their companions with their fingers, and kept muttering: "Ten taels, twenty taels, thirty taels." At first, Yu Lan and the other women were inexplicable, and they didn't know what they were doing, but later they all laughed when they heard the explanation. Heavy rewards in battle formations are a common means to boost morale, this time I heard Yu Zhilong offer such a high reward, presumably it was a lot of capture in the early stage, several close girlfriends had already guessed Yu Lan's thoughts, and saw Yu Lan's pretty eyes just staring at Yu Zhilong on the side of the road without turning his eyes, and they all laughed in a low voice.
Yu Zhilong was chatting with Liu Zhengfeng and others in front, and he didn't know who was coming behind.
Everyone walked safely all the way and came to Shiyu Village. The courtyard of Zhu Gui's house is the largest, and Liu Zhengfeng and others are temporarily resting here. Fang Xue has been recuperating for a few days, taking medicine for a few days, and having enough food to live, and now he is in good health, seeing Yu Zhilong and Mu Chun coming back, he hurriedly came over and knelt down to meet him, and in front of everyone, he gave Yu Zhilong and Mu Chun a few kowtows, thanking the two for saving their lives.
Wu Side, Qian Zheng teased him, saying that if he hadn't shown mercy to the knife at the beginning, he was afraid that he would regard the sneaky two as fine works at that time and cut them directly! Mu Chun was embarrassed, and then came over to bow down to the two, Wu Side and Qian Zheng didn't dare to accept Mu Chun's gift, today's battle, Mu Chun's courage has made the two really admire, and finally Mu Chun bowed and bowed, Wu Side, Qian Zheng just accepted it.
Fang is literate and arithmetic, Yu Zhilong hopes to keep him, and he can do clerical and logistics coordination in the future. There are many people around me, but there are very few literate and arithmetic, and when the team is big in the future, it is impossible for them to do everything, so we must pay attention to the excavation and training of these talents now.
Fang Xue's family has been ruined, and now he is alone, without worry, Yu Zhilong and Mu Chun have the grace of their lives, knowing that Yu Zhilong has the intention of retaining, they naturally agree.
Shiyu Village is an ordinary small village, so many people came at once, so many people and horses had to arrange all the old and weak women and children to go, most of the people and prisoners stayed out at night, fortunately, now the night cold has not come, everyone is the poor, suffering has been accustomed, light a bonfire to heat can be basically solved.
Yu Zhilong said goodbye to Liu Zhengfeng, left Zhu Gui's house and returned to his own camp in the wild, there are still many things to deal with tonight, Zhao Shi has already arranged for people to bury the pot and cook, when the night just fell, the smoke inside and outside the village was already curling, and everyone finally had a hot meal. Today, we marched all the way for dozens of miles, and then there was a fierce fight, everyone's stomachs were empty, if it wasn't for the victory in the battle and the rich rewards, everyone was still excited, but I was afraid that they would have been shouting hungry.
When everyone finished eating, Yu Zhilong convened his subordinates to discuss the matter, and the location was at the wheat drying field at the head of the village. After a few battles, the soldiers of each team have basically recognized the commander of their own team, and can quickly carry out the orders of each hundred households, general banners, etc., especially Zhao Shi, Wu Side, Mu Chun, Ji Xiancheng and other teams of soldiers have witnessed their martial arts on the battlefield, and in addition to admiring each other, they can't help but show some arrogance in the face of their companions in the face of other hundred households. Yu Zhilong heard these talks when he was marching, and thought that this was a good thing, because the generals won the hearts of the soldiers of the headquarters, and only with prestige could they command better.
The main purpose of this meeting was to let everyone discuss the gains and losses of this operation and provide experience for future operations. Everyone used to talk about the battle after the war, but they were just gossiping in private, Yu Hai never organized it when he was there, some of his leaders came from many places, many people later brought their brothers into the gang, Yu Hai with more people gave him a thousand households, and those with few people gave a hundred households, these people can still obey Yu Hai's dispatch during the battle, but the daily camping, seizure and distribution are often on their own. Yu Hai sometimes racked his brains in order to balance the interests of all parties and take into account the feelings of all parties, as for organizing everyone to sit down calmly and discuss the gains and losses after the war, it was simply impossible, not to mention that the interests of the leaders were on how to distribute the seizures, even if they discussed together, they would eventually fall into mutual accusations and break up unhappily.
If it weren't for Liu Zhengfeng, Zhao Shi and others who strongly supported Yu Hai, they had many brothers under them, dared to fight hard battles, and Yu Hai was fair, which made everyone admire, but I am afraid that this team would have fallen apart long ago!
The first time everyone discussed the meeting, it felt both novel and lively, and after the victory, everyone was in a good mood.
"To put it bluntly, we are lucky in this battle!" Yu Zhilong started straight to the point and said, "First of all, the news of the scout's investigation is seriously incomplete, at the beginning, it was only found that it was hundreds of volunteers, but I didn't expect that most of the rebels followed closely behind, although the other party was walking at the bottom of the valley, not taking the mountain road, and it was not easy to be discovered, but the scout's ineffectiveness was the first serious dereliction of duty committed by our department!"
Sun Xing hurriedly stood up and bowed his head to admit his mistake: "The scout thing is indeed the villain's incompetence, he almost mistook everyone, and almost killed Leader Liu and others, please punish the adults!" "Sun Xing is a veteran of the scout team, he is the same age as Yu Zhilong, in addition to serving as Yu Zhilong's personal guard, he also serves as the hundred households of the scout team of the whole army.
"I don't want to investigate the scout's dereliction of duty, but to explain the gains and losses this time, you are a pro-soldier hundred, and you are also the leader of the scouts, and the responsibility is heavy, no matter how much emphasis is overpowered! The most important thing in this deliberation is to sum up lessons and lessons, because we have no one to teach marching and fighting, arranging troops, and we can only rely on ourselves to learn while fighting. Whoever does not learn well, who will bleed more on the battlefield, will die, not only will you bleed your own life, as the head of a department, you will also affect the soldiers under you, the so-called incompetence of one general, killing the three armies is this reason. ”
"Today's military discussion only discusses gains and losses, regardless of rewards and punishments!"