Chapter 22: Unconvinced
Everyone held their breath, stared at Li Yan, and looked at Li Yan for a moment.
Li Yan reacted immediately when he heard that scolding, he glanced back at the border soldier, and immediately took a step out, dodging the kick, and then kicked a high side kick, directly kicked on the chest of the border soldier, and the border soldier flew out upside down after a muffled snort.
"Qian Er!" Li Mu also rushed over at this time and yelled, "You bastard! Dare to do it to my fourth brother! Lao Tzu wants to teach you a good lesson today! Roaring, he was about to start moving to Qian Er, who was still lying on the ground, clutching his chest and moaning.
Li Yan stretched out his hand and grabbed him, and stopped: "You don't need to do it." ”
Li Mu glanced at Li Yan before taking a step back and yelling at Qian Er, who was still lying on the ground: "Qian Er, Lao Tzu told you that my fourth brother was merciful just now, otherwise, you would have gone to see the king of Hades a long time ago!" ”
After that, Li Mu whispered to Li Yan: "Fourth brother, be merciful to your subordinates, don't be disabled, how to say it, it's also an old brother who has been with me for more than two years." ”
Li Yan didn't squeak, just nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
"Qian Er, get up!" Li Mu yelled at Qian Er, who was still lying on the ground with his chest covered: "Since you dare to sneak attack, you must come like a gentleman in front of the gong, don't pretend to be dead like a bastard!" ”
Qian Er also wanted to get up immediately, but that kick was too hard, making him a little breathless. After a long time, he could barely breathe, and then he stood up in pain. He stared at Li Yan and said viciously: "Turtle Sun! Why are you beating Lao Tzu?! ”
"Because you can't tell the difference between left and right." Li Yan replied lightly.
"Ball! Lao Tzu has been in the Nine Sides! I also worked in the rebels! There's a fart to distinguish between the left and right?! Isn't Lao Tzu alive and well?! Qian Er retorted loudly unconvinced.
Li Yan said contemptuously: "So you always lose battles. When he was in Yansui, he couldn't beat the Tartars, and he was chased and beaten by the officials and soldiers when he became a thief. ”
"Ball!" Qian Er was still unconvinced, pointed to the crooked two rows of teams, and shouted loudly: "Just you twenty or thirty people?!" It's just that you can't even have a chance to be a rogue! ”
Li Yan smiled and said, "We won't be rogues. Liukou has never been able to do anything, have you heard of "Three Kingdoms"? The Yellow Turban Army didn't get anything in the end, Cao Cao had Gunzhou, Sun Quan had Jiangdong, and Liu Bei also borrowed Jingzhou. It's the same now, Li Chuang doesn't know where to hide, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings of Xiying, and Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, these big camp heads, are now asking Prime Minister Xiong for imperial grain and silver in Gucheng and Fang County. ”
Qian Er didn't have any words, but said viciously: "You are a scholar, you know a lot, Lao Tzu can't say anything about you!" Lao Tzu is gone, Lao Tzu can live freely wherever he goes, and he doesn't have to suffer from your bird sin! ”
Li Yan asked curiously, "Where are you going?" Do you want to go to the official army? If you become an ordinary soldier, your salary will still be deducted, and you will not be able to live. If you become the general's family, then you can live a good life, but will people accept you? You have gone from an official to a thief, and then from a thief to an official soldier, which lord dares to ask you? The other rogues, in your words, are rebels, but they are either recruited or are preparing to be recruited, and when you go, maybe they will start eating the imperial grain. You still can't get the military pay you deserve, and if you can't get a death-free card, you'll be sent home. If you're not doing well, your family is not doing well. ”
"You're going to be able to make life for me, and my family?!" Qian Er yelled angrily: "You can't either!" ”
Li Yan said confidently: "Of course I can, as long as you take your family over, you can get ten acres of land." He pointed to the large wasteland outside the stockade and said, "Look, there are so many fields. I only receive 30% of the goods, and the rest is your own, do you say that this kind of life is not good? Can it still be bad? ”
"You're all a lie! Now there is nothing, you can naturally say whatever you want. When the things are planted, those officials will come to collect taxes, and if they don't pay or resist, the village soldiers in the city, as well as the official army, will come over. Qian Er excitedly pointed to the team of less than thirty people, and shouted loudly: "With just these few people, can you stop it?!" ”
Li Yan nodded, and said indifferently: "If you want, you can stay and watch and see if we can succeed." If you don't want to stay, you can leave and come back when we're successful. ”
In fact, Qian Er didn't have any good places to go at this time, all the situations were similar to what Li Yan said, so he might as well wait here first, and then decide to stay after there are new changes in the future. So he asked Li Mou, "General Li, what do you say?" ”
Li Mu spread his hands and said, "My fourth brother is right, anyway, I will stay to see the situation, you can make your own decision." Then he said loudly to all the border soldiers: "You are the same, whoever wants to leave, go yourself." But after today, at least for a year, I can't have other thoughts, just stay here, contribute when I should contribute, and work hard when I should be desperate. Don't say much else, take your pick! ”
The border soldiers hesitated for a while and whispered to each other, but in the end, no one proposed to leave, even Qian Er lowered his head and stood back in the team, no longer mentioning the matter of leaving.
Seeing that the matter was basically settled, Li Yan began to continue training the soldiers to march in the queue. With the pain of being beaten, the soldiers were able to distinguish between left and right for the time being, so they were finally able to clumsily adjust their stride as they stepped on the striking point, so that the queue could barely maintain a horizontal column during the march.
Li Yan was a little satisfied, and if he practiced slowly, there should be no problem. After walking through the queue two more times, he commanded loudly, "Okay, everyone is doing well, much better than I thought." Now let's take a break and practice later. ”
The crowd scattered, holding their hands in their hands, and squatted in groups of three or five to rest in the sun.
"Everyone else is a fool!"
"That is, although we don't know a few words, but we have been in the army for so many years, and we are not as poor as him?"
The border soldiers whined together. And the recruits sighed, thinking that Li Yan was very powerful, and they had cleaned up all the veterans.
"Big brothers, come and drink ginger soup to warm up." Several young women came out carrying a large bucket of ginger soup and greeted them loudly. These are the concubines snatched by the slain bandit leaders, and they all wore headdresses today, painted with lipstick, rouge and head oil, and they all looked like plums blooming in the cold winter, which was particularly eye-catching.