Chapter 74: Cao Ying, who returned at the end
"Touching" the blast furnace that still has residual temperature, Cao Zhen looked up at County Magistrate Zhu, whose expression was a little unnatural: "I'm afraid this is the real reason why you stayed!" ”
County Magistrate Zhu smiled awkwardly.
Cao Zhen stretched his waist, refreshed himself, and pointed to the robbers and their families who were nested together: "Except for the children, they have picked up the coats of the rest of them!" ”
The soldiers immediately acted, and one by one the bamboo spears were pointed at the robbers, "forced" each other to undress, and they had already become prisoners and took off their coats cooperatively, and hugged each other to keep warm.
Cao Zhen took off his thick trench coat and walked over to another group of miners with hemp ropes tied to their feet, dressed in thin and tattered clothes, frozen blue and purple, apparently captured by the robbers.
He put his trench coat on one of the youngest teenagers, looked at the young man's frightened and daring eyes, remembered his previous experience of wandering, and comforted: "Don't worry! You're free! ”
The robbers' coats were draped over the robbed miners, and if it was not enough, the regular soldiers with windbreakers consciously untied them, put them on with their own hands, and the soles of their feet were untied, and then they were tied to the hands of the young robber men, and they were strung together.
The army stayed in the cottage for one night, and as soon as it was dawn, Cao Zhen woke up the captured robbers to work, and packed up the money, food, iron soldiers, carts, etc., and all valuable materials from the cottage.
County Magistrate Zhu is also a member of these hard jobs, he is obese, and his whole body is soaked with sweat, but under the supervision of Cao Peli, who is holding a leather whip, he does not dare to be lazy.
When they came, there were 3,000 people, and 700 more people went back to Zhenyang County together.
When I returned to Zhenyang, I found that most of the bandits' troops had returned, and the Zhenyang warehouse was full, and supplies were brought out of the bandits' den.
Cao "sex" watched Cao Zhen escort back 700 people from a den with only more than 100 robbers, including 400 young and strong men, many of whom were still wearing Cao Jun's windbreakers, and a dwarf winter melon in the crowd, the figure of a funny cart:
"Ahh Who are these people? And who is the man who pushes the cart for nothing? ”
"Back to Ah Weng's words, these people are all from the cottage......" Cao Zhen told Cao "sex" what happened, and then said: "The robbers are Han people, and these three hundred slaved miners, most of them are Shanyue people, in the eyes of the child, this is the best Hydra Eight Banner soldiers, the child also please put it into the Zhenghuang Banner, and please lead the position of the owner of the Zhenghuang Banner!" ”
Cao Zhen has the qualifications of a general, and Cao Zhen, Liao Hua, and Wang Shuang are the generals of Wei and Shu in history.
Now that I have been a big soldier for more than three months, I eat and live with ordinary soldiers every day, and I have a deep understanding of the soldiers at the bottom, and there is no point in staying.
In case it is really because he was used as an ordinary soldier, performing patrol duties or other battles, he was "touched" by the Shanyue people and killed one or two, this is not enough to die of heartache.
Cao Zhen didn't mention it, Cao "Sex" will also arrange positions for them in the near future, for this fourteen-person combination, Cao "Sex" took out the youngest seven generals, Jiang Qin and Li Haozi went to Lingqu to garrison, responsible for protecting the caravan in Jiaozhou in the south, and Ji Huya went to help Cao Yong.
plus one died, and there were few idlers available in the original pro-guard battalion, which was originally full of talents.
But for Cao Zhen's choice of Eight Banners, Cao 'sex' is still a little puzzled, in the face of his loyalty, I don't need to spend my mind pondering, I asked directly:
"Ah Zhen, you have been in the soldier camp for some time, my father is planning to let you go to Cao Ying to lead a battalion, recently Cao Ying because of the death of his best friend Hu Chi'er, the whole person has been a lot irritable, one day I made myself very depressed, for my father I was worried that he would do something radical, so I wanted you to go to his account, with your involvement, to prevent him from making a big mistake!"
Cao Zhen thought for a while: "Ah Weng, Uncle Ying has already been very depressed, and if the child goes again, I am afraid that he will add another big mountain to his chest!" ”
Cao "sex" stood up, "rubbed" "rubbing" "rubbing" his face, thinking:
It makes sense, Cao Zhen went, Cao Ying would be more restrained on the surface, but he could only ease the urgency for a while, but secretly he was more depressed, and it was better to be sparse than blocked, in this case, he had to let him vent out at the same time, and suppress the bad influence to the minimum.
"Not bad! There is growth, the yellow flag will be handed over to you, and the three hundred mine slaves will also be handed over to you, and at the same time, I will temporarily hand over the yellow flag to you, but the flag owner is set up for foreign races after all, and the position of the flag master will be given up again in the future, you have to be mentally prepared! ”
"No!"
Cao Zhen was ordered to leave, ready to go to work on the construction of his Zhenghuang Banner.
The remaining dozens of bandit teams escorted the prisoners one after another, carried the booty, and happily returned to the county seat, so that Cao "sex" had more than 3,000 prisoners of war for a time, and more than 1,000 men.
Ironically, there are only a few thousand households and more than 10,000 people registered in Zhenyang.
After another day of waiting, until dusk, the last of the 3,000 troops led by Cao Ying returned.
This unit was not at all as excited as the previous troops, but there was still a tense atmosphere, and the soldiers in the army deliberately kept a distance from the regular soldiers, and the regular soldiers peeked in the direction of the main general from time to time, with fear in their eyes.
Only the more than ten blue flag soldiers who accompanied the Eight Banners of the army showed fire and worship in their eyes.
Cao Xing looked at it fixedly, and there was not a single prisoner in the entire 3,000-strong army, but there was not a lot of loot at all, and it was several times more than the other 3,000-strong troops.
There was an ox cart next to Cao Ying, and a flag soldier with a blue flag was excitedly setting up the cart, the carriage was bright red, and the sides of the carriage were full of blood-red "liquid" bodies, and the smell of blood could be smelled hundreds of steps away from it.
"Ah Ying! You are! Cao "sex" stepped forward and asked.
Cao Ying looked at Cao 'sex', bowed his hand, and squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying: "Lord, the bandits' den has been breached, and their heads are in the carriage." ”
Cao "sex" didn't know what to say for a while, just nodded, and the dull Cao Ying said goodbye and returned to the camp.
After listening to Li Feng's report with the army, Cao Ying, who was irritable in his heart, looked at the cottage of the Shanyue people and was particularly red, and as soon as he arrived at the cottage, he took the lead and took the lead in killing the cottage, and he did not retreat after several arrows in his body.
Stepping on the shoulders of the guards, he turned over and jumped over the walled wall of less than a zhang, and the huge broadsword attacked left and right, and opened the gate alone.
The army took the opportunity to kill into the village, the bandits dispersed, Cao Ying refused to let go, led the army to search around, and then directly launched the slaughter of the village, slaughtered more than 200 bandits, cut off their heads, and loaded them into the carriage.