"Father-in-law, Dou Jiande is back."

Ximen Junyi reported and added, "He didn't arrest Sun Anzu and Gao Shida back, and he returned with his arms tied." ”

Wei Zheng smiled, "Bound back?" It seems that this Dou 200 leader caught up with his two brothers, and then let go of the team, so he thought he was guilty and returned by himself. ”

Luo Cheng just waved his hand, "Bring me a few jars of two pots and bring them." ”

Carrying a few jars worth five hundred yuan a jar of two pots, Luo Cheng returned to his military tent.

In front of the tent, Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, and Wang Fubao tied their arms and knelt there.

Luo Cheng entered the tent and sat down, and then asked people to bring the three of them in.

When they heard the news, they all rushed to the scene, and a large number of county soldiers and officers stared at these three people.

Dou Jiande entered the account and knelt directly on the ground.

The eight-foot man lowered his head and shouted to the general, "My subordinates betrayed the trust of the general, and took the brothers to intercept Sun Anzu and Gao Shida, but in the end, they let them go according to their private thoughts and old feelings." Please punish the general! ”

Luo Cheng just waved his hand and said, "Come, let's not talk about this first, I have the best good burning and good wine here, it's also cold for you to run this trip, let's drink some wine to warm up your body first." ”

He personally poured a large glass of wine for each of Dou Jiande and the three of them, which was enough for two taels.

Dou Jiande didn't get up either, raised his head and took the cup with his mouth, and drank it all in one gulp.

The same is true for Wang and Liu.

After drinking it all in one gulp, his face was red, and he was indescribably free and easy, and he had the taste of heroic righteousness.

"Kill two taels of burning knives in one bite, and it really deserves to be Yan Zhao Nan'er, atmospheric." Luo Cheng gave a thumbs up to the two, and then said, "Then another drink?" ”

"Come on."

Dou Jiande responded loudly.

He caught up with Sun Anzu and the two, and the brothers confronted each other. He scolded the two that they should not run away, but Sun Anzu said that they were not brothers, and if they were brothers, they should not come to chase him, and said that anyone could come to chase them, and if they caught them, they would be unlucky, but Dou Jiande and the three should not come.

In the end, Sun Anzu scolded Dou Jiande for wanting to exchange his brother's head for a reward.

Dou Jiande was annoyed.

The brothers scolded each other, and finally Dou Jiande waved a knife and cut off a corner of his robe, saying that he would break off with them, and then let them go, and tied himself back to the camp to plead guilty.

The three of Dou drank another big glass.

His face was already flushed.

Luo Cheng smiled and poured another cup for the three of them.

Dou couldn't drink it anymore, but he still drank this cup again.

After drinking the three cups, Dou couldn't kneel straight.

"Now tell me, what's going on?" Luo Cheng turned around and went back, sat there and asked.

Dou Jiande briefly explained the situation, in short, he took into account the brotherly feelings, and then let them go.

"It is said that Dou Jiande is righteous, and he is the most righteous and heroic, and when I saw it today, it was true. It's just that you treat Sun Gao and the others as brothers, but when they say such things, do they treat you as brothers? They fled without permission, putting your brother at a disadvantage. Now that you have caught up with them, they have told you to let them go, and they have run away, but have they not thought that you will be punished? ”

Dou Jiande lowered his head and did not speak.

Over there, Liu Heimin was already drunk, and scolded Sun Anzu and Gao Shida, saying that there were no brothers like them.

Luo Cheng asked Liu Heimin, "Since you are dissatisfied with those two, why don't you stop Dou Jiande, but let him escape?" ”

Liu Heimin's eyes were red, "Brother Dou is my eldest brother, although I don't agree with him letting those two grandsons run away, but I have to listen to my eldest brother." ”

"Wang Fubao, what about you?" Luo Cheng asked again.

Wang Fubao blushed and said, "I listen to my brother-in-law." ”

"Hahaha." Luo Cheng laughed.

Dou Jiande raised his head, "General, I am the one who decided to release Sun Gao and the others privately, all the blame lies with me, follow how the general handles, and ask the general to let Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao go." ”

"You are really righteous, but Sun Anzu and Gao Shida are not righteous enough."

"It's just that in the military, you can't just talk about brotherly righteousness, but the first thing is military law and discipline. Liu Heimin, in the army, Dou Jiande is the same as you are a 200-person commander, regardless of your rank, but you want to call Dou Jiande the eldest brother, and the words of the eldest brother are actually more effective than military orders. And Wang Fubao, you are in the army, and you think that your brother-in-law is more effective than military orders. ”

"The three of you, although you have been under my command for half a year, when you are fighting and charging, you are very brave and perform well, you have never been cowardly, and you are worthy of Yan Zhao Nan'er. But in this matter, you are all very naïve, you only care about personal feelings, brotherly righteousness, and ignore military orders and regulations. ”

"To be honest, I'm disappointed. Originally, I had already planned to promote the five of you to lieutenants, and each battalion would be unified to reward you for your merits. But now, you are giving up on yourselves and ruining your own good future. ”

The sinus head lowered again.

Liu Heimin's eyes turned even redder.

"Do you regret it?" Luo Cheng asked.

A trace of confusion flashed in Dou Jiande's eyes, between his brother's righteousness and his personal future, he really didn't know how to choose. Do you regret it, regret it, but if you do it again, maybe you will still choose to let Sun Gao and the others leave.

Dou Jiande was silent.

Luo Cheng asked Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin said very directly, "To be honest, I regret it, because after listening to the general's words, I realized that those two people are not our real brothers at all." ”

The fourth child stood aside, and he was already a little impatient.

"Old Five, no matter what, they chose the road by themselves, and since they chose this path, then it is no wonder that others are to blame. Military law must be strictly enforced, otherwise how can there be military discipline in the future? Even if Dou Jiande and the others did not conspire with Sun Gao and the others to escape before, he asked for the order to chase people, but he deliberately let them go when he caught them, which must not be tolerated. ”

"You must be beheaded!" The fourth child is the partial general of the second infantry regiment, and the five people including Dou Liu are all under his command. Sun Gao and the others ran away, leaving him with no face, and the three of Dou Liu and Wang went to chase after him, but he made such a private release, and he was even more shameless.

"Wei Ji Room, what do you think these three people should be guilty of, and how should they be dealt with?" Luo Cheng asked Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng took a look at these three Hebei fellows, but said very unceremoniously, "Privately releasing deserters must be severely punished." However, before they could be beheaded, they remembered that they had been meritorious in the past, and they could be deprived of their military positions, punished with rods, and then punished with labor in the camp of the people. ”

"What about you?"

Luo Cheng asked for a group of partial generals Luo Siye.

"There is no need for such people to stay in our army and drive them out." Heiye said coldly.

"General Qi, what is your opinion?"

"Chase." Qi Fat Man squinted his eyes and said.

Then Luo Cheng asked Jia Runpu, the general of the Second Cavalry Regiment, and Lao Jia's opinion was to demote them to foot soldiers, and punish them with twenty rods, so that they would atone for their sins in the future.

The tent was full, and no one pleaded for these three people.

In the end, Xiao Liu said something for them, saying that it was okay to be demoted and retained, after all, they had also fought side by side and shed blood, and their own people did not need to kill their own people.

"If Ben was going to give you a chance, would you still be willing to stay?"

Dou Jiande, a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, was stunned for a moment when he heard this voice.

"General?"

"I'm giving you a choice now, and it's up to you to choose. First, stay, the rod will be punished forty, and he will be demoted to the head of the team. Second, he was stripped of his military position, expelled from the barracks, and went to the people's camp to build a city. ”

Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao both turned their heads to look at Dou Jiande, and the two of them were willing to follow him no matter how Dou chose.

Dou Jiande said in a low voice, "Thank you for the general's kindness, Dou Jiande thanks the general for not killing him, I should have stayed and continued to be under the general's command, as the general's pawn." It's just that Jiande knows very well that there is a serious violation of military discipline, and if I continue to stay, I am afraid that I will set a bad example in the future.

I... I want to leave the barracks and go to the Minfu camp to build a city. ”

"Have you thought about it?"

Dou Jiande said with difficulty, "Think about it, go to the Minfu camp." ”

Luo Cheng shook his head, "Dou Jiande, you disappointed me very much. You said that staying would be a bad example, but I think you are running away, you have no eggs like Sun Anzu Gao Shida, I give you a chance to stay, just to see you agree, and then prove that I am not wrong about you. But now, you're scared, you're running away. ”

He sighed angrily.

"Well, since you don't want to stay, then I won't keep you anymore. Now, I strip you of your military rank and expel the three of you from the county barracks. In addition, you don't go to the Minfu Camp, and Lao Tzu's Minfu Camp doesn't want to keep people like you who have no eggs, since you want to escape, then get out, go back to Zhangnannan, Hebei and forget it. ”

Dou Jiande raised his head.

"General."

"Get out!"

"General, before leaving, can you give me another glass of wine?"

"Willing to drink, three glasses."

"Then I'll have three drinks."

Luo Cheng drew his sword and cut the ropes on the three of them.

Dou Jiande got up and poured himself full of wine.

Raise a glass, "This cup is my Dou Jiande thanks to the general for his trust in our brother before, and he was awarded the position of head of the 100-man team as soon as he joined the army." ”

With that, he drank it all.

Then he poured another glass.

"This cup is to thank the general for his grace not to kill."

He drank it all again.

Shaking his head, Dou Jiande's trembling hand poured himself another glass.

"This cup, General Xie····· I... Dou Jiande will always remember the general's cultivation ·····" Raising a glass and drinking again, Dou Jiande finished drinking, and fell headlong, but he was already drunk and unconscious.

Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao didn't say a word, and drank three cups in a row.

"I, Liu Heimin, don't know how to speak, in short, I also drank three glasses of wine, General Xie's cultivation and the grace of not killing, I came with Brother Dou, and now I want to go, we will go together."

········

The three of them were drunk and were carried down by Luo Cheng.

The fourth child frowned and said, "Just let them go, and let them go back to their hometown, isn't this equivalent to exempting them from civilian labor, it's too cheap for them, right?" ”

Luo Cheng sighed, he remembered that he was chasing Wang Bo at the beginning, Qin Qiongnian let Wang Bo go with brotherly love, but he didn't stop it, and in the end, Zhang Xutuo knew about it, but he didn't dig into it.

Luo Cheng could kill the three of Dou, but he didn't.

"After all, they have all fought side by side with us, and they used to be brothers in the same comradeship, so let's keep this little incense, after all, they are not deserters on the battlefield." It was a difficult decision, but in the end, it was decided.

"By the way, let Zhao Gui quietly release Sun and Gao, since you don't kill Dou Jiande and the others, there is no need to kill these two people anymore. Let's save some strength and kill the Goguryeo people. ”

The expedition to Liao has just begun, but the Central Plains is already in chaos, no one knows what tomorrow will be like, there is no need to do things absolutely, keep this little incense, maybe it will be useful in the future. After all, in the history of Dou Jiande, he was also the king of Hebei.

"I don't understand you, so let it be." The fourth shook his head and left.