Chapter 20: The Bloodshed
"How's the arrangement for the brothers to go home to visit their families?" Inside the big tent, Shi Zhan looked at the book of soldiers and asked Wang Shicheng, who was baking the fire on the side. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Wang Shicheng rubbed his hands and said: "It has been arranged a few days ago, and several groups of people have already left the barracks, all of which are not far from Yecheng, and I ordered them to rush back within fifteen days." ”
"That's good, how many people went back first?"
"There were more than 12,000 people in total, and I prepared some dry food for them to eat on the road."
"I have always been relieved that you are doing things, and the training of the remaining people cannot be stopped, the world is too chaotic, and the brothers may have to go to war again at any time."
"Don't worry, big brother, it's just ......" Wang Shicheng wanted to speak and stopped.
Shi Zhan glanced up at Wang Shicheng, lowered his head and continued to read, and then said: "Manly man, if you have something to say, don't swallow it." ”
"Forgive my little brother's words, Xiao Min...... Are you going to keep him out there as a halberd? Wang Shicheng whispered.
"Of course not, it's just that he didn't grow up in the army since he was a child, if he wants to command thousands of troops and horses in the future, the rules in this army and the way to lead the troops, he still has to let him experience it well."
"Xiao Min, this kid is brave, witty and smart, and he will definitely be as good as his eldest brother in the future."
"Are you praising me or am you interceding for him?" Shi Zhan frowned slightly.
"How can I mean that......"
"Okay, don't talk about it, I have my own arrangements." Shi Zhan put down the book in his hand and interrupted Wang Shicheng's words.
Wang Shicheng saw that Shi Zhan was not in the water, so he could only shut up with interest.
At this moment, a voice came from outside the tent: "Stop, the general's big tent, how can you trespass." ”
"It's Xiao Min's voice, go, go out and see what's going on." Shi Zhan hurriedly walked out.
"What's the matter?" Wang Shicheng ran out first, and saw a soldier entangled with Shi Min.
"General Wang! Oh no! Something happened! When the soldier saw Wang Shicheng, he knelt down and said.
"What's going on?" Shi Zhan also came out of the big tent, and when he saw this situation, he immediately asked.
"An hour ago, on the way home, a group of brothers who left the barracks to visit their relatives were surrounded by dozens of men of the Qiang tribe, who robbed them of all their money and killed our brothers, and only one of them escaped, seriously wounded, and passed out."
"Where are the people, take me to see!" When Shi Zhan heard this, his face turned pale.
The soldiers hurriedly got up to lead the way, Shi Zhan followed, Wang Shicheng just took a few steps, turned his head and glanced at Shi Min, and Shi Min also followed.
A group of people, led by the soldier, came to a tent, and saw a man lying there motionless with a bloody face, and a doctor who accompanied the army was calling the pulse.
"Old Yang, how is it?" Shi Zhan asked.
The doctor named Lao Yang raised his head, looked at Shi Zhan, and then shook his head slightly.
Shi Zhan clenched his fists tightly, then turned around and walked out of the tent, Wang Shicheng saw this, and hurriedly followed.
"Big brother, what should I do?"
"A hundred, follow me."
"Yes!" Wang Shicheng understood what Shi Zhan meant, and immediately came to his senses.
"I'll go too!" Shi Min said on the side.
Shi Zhan looked at him, didn't speak, and then returned to the big tent. Shi Zhan, dressed in a military uniform and carrying a war knife, walked up to Shi Min and said, "Follow me." ”
"Yes." Shi Min said, following Shi Zhan to the gate of the camp.
By the time Shi Min arrived at the gate of the camp, a hundred cavalry were already ready to go. Shi Zhan asked, "From which direction did the brother who just came back to report the news come from?" ”
"Report to the general, over there!" The guard at the door pointed in one direction.
"Get on the horse!" Shi Zhan shouted loudly.
Seeing Shi Zhan's order, the soldiers quickly rode on horseback, and Shi Min also held a halberd in his hand and rode on a horse led to him by Wang Shicheng.
"Come with me!" Shi Zhan let out a loud shout and rushed out of the camp gate first.
"Drive!" The rest of the soldiers also rushed out immediately.
Shi Zhan and the others rode horses and galloped all the way. Due to the heavy snowfall in the previous days, the snow is slowly digesting, and the road is muddy.
Not long after the crowd ran out, they saw a group of people in the distance, so they rushed over.
When Shi Zhan and the others took a closer look, it turned out that Liu Rong, the commander of the patrol battalion, was leading his men and dozens of Qian.
"I've seen Xihuahou! Why are you here on such a cold day? And with so many people. Liu Rong greeted Shi Zhan with a smile.
Shi Zhan didn't even look at Liu Rong, and gave Wang Shicheng a look, Wang Shicheng nodded, and led a dozen people to continue walking along Liu Rong's horseshoe prints.
Shi Zhan rode on horseback, slowly walked in front of the dozens of people who were tied up, and then rode back on horseback and asked Liu Rong: "What's the matter with these people?" ”
"Are you talking about people? It's nothing, just now when I took people to inspect the neighborhood, I saw that they killed more than a dozen people and robbed other people's money, so I took him back and asked what was going on, although it was the Han people who were killed, but I ......" Liu Rongzheng said, seeing Shi Zhan's face pale, he was immediately frightened and didn't dare to continue talking.
"Where are the things they robbed? Show me. Shi Zhan glanced at Liu Rong.
Liu Rong waved his hand to his subordinates, and a person next to him threw two large burdens from the horse, and a personal entourage next to Shi Zhan immediately dismounted and opened the baggage, turned it over, found a few bags of coins, and a stack of letters, and handed them to Shi Zhan.
Shi Zhan opened a letter, looked at it for a while, his face became even more ugly, and then handed the letter and money bag to the people around him, and said coldly to Liu Rong: "You hand over these people to me, it's none of your business." ”
"That's not good, the security of this capital is under my control, although you are the marquis of His Majesty, but this fight and murder is not under your control, so you look ......at it," Liu Rong pretended to explain.
"Hand over the people to me, you don't have to worry about the rest, don't I understand enough?" Shi Zhan said, holding the knife at his waist in his right hand.
Liu Rong saw Shi Zhan's action, and naturally he was still a little panicked, but he knew that Shi Zhan would never kill him, he was the patrol commander of Yecheng, and without the emperor's will, no one had the right to cut him off first.
"Master Hou, this seems to be a bit unruly, you have to give a reason for being humble, right? Humble duty does not allow you to take these people away for no reason. ”
"I am one of my soldiers who these people have just killed, and I will bring them back." Shi Zhan's eyes were full of anger and murder.
"Since this is the case, then you should let the lowly position take people away, and wait for the lowly position to find out this matter, and then give Hou Ye an explanation, what do you think?" Liu Rong asked cautiously.
"Leave people for me! Get out of here! Shi Zhan finally broke out, pulled out a knife and put it on Liu Rong's neck, and then said fiercely: "If you don't leave, I will kill you together!" ”
Seeing this, Liu Rong hurriedly said, "Okay! I will leave it to you, but I will not know anything about this matter, Your Majesty! Let's go! After saying that, he was embarrassed and withdrew with the patrol battalion first.
As soon as Liu Rong left, Wang Shicheng rushed back with more than a dozen people and said, "Big brother, I found it, the corpses of the brothers who were killed are still there." ”
Shi Zhan held the knife, walked in front of a middle-aged Qian, and asked sharply, "Why did you kill those people!" ”
The man sneered: "Lao Tzu has no money to spend the winter, so I can only ask them to borrow some, but they refuse to borrow, and Lao Tzu can only rob ......"
The man didn't finish speaking, only to see Shi Zhan's hand raise and fall, and immediately blood splattered three feet, and the head fell to the ground. The people next to him immediately panicked, and one of them shouted: "Emperor Taizu decreed, it is not a capital crime for the Qian people to kill the Han people, and they can atone for their sins by paying money, why did you kill us?" ”
"Why?" Shi Zhan held the knife in his hand, then turned back to Shi Min and the others and said, "Tell these dogs, why are we!" ”
Before Shi Min could react, the people around him rode horses and waved knives and rushed over, and dozens of people of the Qian tribe suddenly made a mess and ran around.
But how could people outrun their horses, and soon, most of the dozens of people of the Qian tribe were slashed and killed by Shi Zhan's men, and only a few people were left to flee in all directions.
Shi Min relieved himself and saw that a person had run out more than a hundred steps, so he rode his horse and galloped over, and the man ran and looked back, only to see Shi Min holding a halberd, piercing the person from behind, directly picking it up, and hanging it in the air. When the rest of the people saw Shi Min's arm strength, their feet suddenly weakened in fright, and they didn't run, and knelt on the ground "plopped", kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Shi Min looked at Shi Zhan, Shi Zhan nodded slightly, Shi Min threw the person together with the halberd directly, rode his horse towards the few Qiang people, and at the same time drew his knife, those people raised their heads violently, and before they could react, they were cut off by Shi Minqi.
"Huh~" Shi Min reined in the horse, turned the horse's head, and rode the horse to Shi Zhan in small steps. Shi Zhan looked at him and nodded silently, Shi Min was really brave and extraordinary.
"Big brother, what should I do next?" Wang Shicheng gasped and asked on the side.
"Take sixty men and bring back the bodies of those brothers, and the rest of the people, cut off the heads of all these dog mongrels on the ground and bring them back to the barracks, and I will sacrifice their heads to the dead brothers!"
"Yes!" The soldiers waved their swords and cut off the heads of all the people of the Qiang tribe cleanly.