Li Yuanhao raised his head and stared at Lu Shi, who was calm and relaxed, and the thoughts in his heart were the same as everyone else, a person with the courage of Xiang Yu and the ability of Zhuge was not something he could defeat at all. There was a wave of frustration in my heart, a deep sense of loss.

With a thud, the broadsword fell to the ground.

Lu Shi was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly said loudly: "Brothers of the officers and soldiers, I admire you, because you are in the border town, you have been fighting against the Han people for many years, and you are the protector of the Han people and a great hero. Therefore, I will never do anything to our heroes, but now the situation is different, I do not want your humiliating surrender, but I ask you to lay down your arms and go out of the valley, where I will welcome our heroes. ”

What the? Hero? Are we heroes?

This title moved all the officers and soldiers for a while, they fought selflessly on the side, where did anyone recognize their merits? In this year-old fight, lack of clothes and clothing, lack of food, when there is a military exploit, he was snatched by the peak, and when he failed, he was taken out by the peak as a scapegoat, hero? Only this thief really said his contribution and admitted his dedication.

A warm current flowed through every officer and soldier, slowly warming everyone's body and mind.

With tears streaming down his eyes, one officer put down the broadsword in his hand, slowly squeezed through the crowd, and walked to the valley mouth, and another put down his sword and followed, like a few, a dozen, and finally all.

Li Yuanhao didn't leave, looking at the original subordinates who were gradually moving away, those robes who had turned their backs on Zhou Ji, all thoughts were lost for a while, everything in the past became a dream at this time, what military feats, what high-ranking officials, what wives and sons, all became empty, and slowly sat on the ground, no longer had any strength in his body, and lowered his head gloomily.

"General Li, go out and join your brothers."

"No, I will never surrender, I will not surrender to the Tartars, and I will not surrender to the thieves."

"It's not surrender, it's—"

"No-" Li Yuanhao suddenly raised his head to the sky with red eyes and roared, the roar was like a desperate trapped beast, making a final struggle, a tiger is a tiger, and it will never become a tame flower cat.

Lu Shi had to persuade again, but he saw that beside Li Yuanhao, a flame gradually rose, and in a blink of an eye, it was a prairie fire, and after a while, the entire valley was completely enveloped in thick smoke and fire, and in the roaring fire, Li Yuanhao's laughter kept coming, and then it turned out to be crying, crying hoarsely.

At the exit of the valley, all the officers and soldiers had gathered, their swords, guns and horses had been collected by the soldiers of the intruding army into trophies, they were not asked to kneel, and no one scolded them, they just stood with their hands tied, facing a group of people standing on a small mound, and among those people was the white-clothed Lu Shi, the king of Chuang, who looked at all the officers and soldiers with a soft smile, and said loudly: "Welcome, warriors and heroes who once defended the homeland of the Han people in order to resist the invasion of foreign invaders. ”

All the officers and soldiers were warmed in their hearts, and what kind of pride it was to be remembered for their merits and called warriors.

"I thank you for putting down your swords and guns and not fighting your fellow citizens." Lu Shi bowed deeply to the nearly 1,000 former officers and soldiers.

The humiliating title of surrender was not used to them, which was indeed a sign of respect for the warriors, and everyone was genuinely moved.

"I don't want to say much about the urgency of the war, first of all, I will wronged the brothers to visit our base area, recover your strength, if two days later, there are people who are willing to become a brother of our army and create a chance for the people of this world to live, you will be welcomed by us heartily, and at the same time, you will get six acres of high-quality land per person, and you will not pay taxes for life."

Temptation, **naked temptation, seducing Europeans, Mongols, Jurchens with land, the effect must not be good, but seducing Han people with land is absolutely invincible.

Looking at the officials and soldiers who had already yearned for it and began to whisper, Lu Shi was very happy in his heart, it seemed that his method had succeeded, but he also saw that some people were hesitating, Lu Shi hurriedly said: "If you don't want to stay, I won't force you, when the time comes, I will send him enough dry food to go back, let you go, okay?" ”

There was no answer at the bottom, and it seemed that they were all struggling to decide. Lu Shi smiled, and then said loudly: "Brothers, can you still walk?" After a while, we will receive hot rice and meat porridge to eat, and our brother will lead the way, how about going to Black Tiger Village to repair together? "Don't talk about escorting, just say leading the way, this is indeed sincere respect, and all the former officers and soldiers nodded gratefully together.

An officer stepped forward and said in horror: "This gentleman, a certain is the late Li Zongbing's Chinese army, but he doesn't say how the old Li Zongbing treats the young, but the small family is in Yan'an, so I have to go back, I hope this gentleman is gracious." ”

Lu Shi smiled and said: "It's my negligence, but I can't blame you, so let's do it, if you have a small family and officers who don't want to go up the mountain as guests, please stand up, and I'll let you leave now." ”

Lu Shi deliberately bit the word officer very hard, after all, the officer is related to the interests of the imperial court, and has some family property, he is used to being a powerful man, even if he is attached to the army, he will not be at ease, and the transformation is quite difficult, this is a big hidden danger in the future, so Lu Shi does not want to take it in, and most of those soldiers are from military families, and they are basically bitter people who have no overnight food haha, as long as they complain a little about the hardships, they must be in the middle of the army, even if they don't want to belong to it, Lu Shi also wants to take it to the base area to try it first.

Seeing that a few officers were still hesitating in the crowd, Lu Shi said encouragingly: "I understand your suffering, brothers, don't worry, as long as we don't see us on the battlefield in the future, we will be brothers, if anyone else wants to leave, please stand up, my time is limited." ”

Seeing that the first one to stand up was not worried about his life, more than a dozen officers walked out, stood behind the Chinese army, bowed their heads and said nothing, these are all straight men in the army, people are ashamed that they can't be grateful for their benevolence and righteousness.

After waiting for a while, Lu Shi saw that no one came out, so he ordered Chen Che beside him: "Go and get some dry food and let them leave by themselves." ”

"Yes, King Chuang." Chen Che agreed to go down to make arrangements, and soon came back with large bags of dry food to distribute to everyone, Lu Shi arched his hand and said: "You guys are good to go, we will have a date later, but I hope it is friends who drink instead of swords and soldiers." ”

The officers walked away after giving Lu Shi a salute under the leadership of the Chinese army.

But after a while, the Chinese army came back with people, which made Lu Shi puzzled, and the Chinese army blushed and said: "Great grace is not thanks, but it is inconvenient for us to climb mountains and mountains in this armor, and after some discussion, we decided to take off these armors to Mr. ”

Lu Shi smiled and took it, these officers gave the armor to the Black Tiger Army in disguise, and they also had the heart to repay the kindness and personal affection.

Lu Shi and other officers and soldiers left, and began to rectify the remaining officers and soldiers, according to statistics, there were more than 700 uninjured, nearly 100 injured and unharmed, and nearly 200 were stoned to death.

At the same time, more than 1,000 war horses (including those reserved by the army), nearly 500 pack horses and donkeys, and swords, guns, armor, and food were not counted.

Tidy up the team, arrange for them to eat some hot meals to recover their strength, let the Women's Army bandage and treat those who are injured, arrange carriages for the seriously injured, and then order the Black Tiger Army to start preparing for the expedition.

This time, those soldiers were even more moved, one killed the seriously wounded, the other was carefully cared for, and the judgment was made, and the people's hearts were more at ease.

As the military order was issued, a burst of waist drums sounded, and one by one the captains stood in front, tall and shouted: "All the first team stand in line." In an instant, a group of soldiers trotted in unison, their own positions, and then a command kept coming, "The first squad, all of them, take me as the standard, all the way to the vertical and horizontal team, stand upright, look to the left, look forward, report the number"

"I'm done, take a break."

The captain of the third team looked at the fourth team that was still in the whole team with contempt, and suddenly shouted vividly: "The fourth team." ”

All the soldiers of the third team shouted together: "Bad seed." ”

"Fourth team."

"Bad Seeds"

The captain of the fourth team didn't pay attention to it, but just looked at the whole team of his team with a blushing face.

In this way, for a while, the sound of running in front of this valley pass, the sound of slogans and the sound of swords and guns colliding came and went, but the whole team of thousands of men and horses was busy and orderly, tense but not chaotic, as if it was sorted out in an instant, and the soldiers who stood like a mountain and the guns of the forest were displayed in front of the original officers and soldiers who were stunned and stunned who were sitting or standing.

Originally, some people were unconvinced, thinking that the invasion of the army was just relying on stratagem to win, and it was just their own carelessness, but now they don't believe their eyes at all, is this still a bandit? Is this still a bandit who only fights with blood and wants to exterminate? Can such bandits be exterminated by themselves?

Lu Shi saw all this in his eyes, and was secretly happy in his heart, and the whole team in front of them wanted them to see, not only did he defeat them with stratagem, but he would definitely be able to defeat them even if the two armies faced each other, if it was Jia En before, then now this is a deterrent.

After the last captain Tie Qing reported in front of him, Lu Shi looked at the majestic brothers who looked at him with eager eyes, and asked loudly: "Brothers, we have won this time, but Zhang Yuan is still proud, and we still need to eliminate it, are you tired?" ”

"Not tired." All the soldiers were in high spirits.

"What are our vows?"

"I will fight to the death for my father and old man behind me."

"What is our credo?"

"Don't abandon, don't give up."

"What is our faith?"

"Invincible, invincible."

In this confident shout, those attached officers and soldiers also began to boil with enthusiasm, eager to become one of them immediately.

"I announce that the fifth team will stay to bring the brothers who have just joined back to Qianzhai." Everyone looked at the blushing face of the last captain of the fifth team today.

Not only did he not have the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy, but he was also destined to be a mess by his colleagues at the future celebration banquet, and he secretly hated these brothers under him in his heart.

"Take the third team as the front army and set off."

The captain of the third team said loudly: "The third team, target Ganquan, turn to the right and start walking." Brothers and brothers should keep in mind and be prepared to sing -------"

All the soldiers began to sing, and in the Three Disciplines and Eight Notes, a group of soldiers marched with a firm step.

The new brothers listened and watched.

The song was straightforward but firm in their hearts and slowly took root.