Chapter 289: What is the crime of abandoning the army?

Hearing that Han Pu was coming, Li Yanzhi's brows couldn't help but furrow deeply. He turned back and followed the messenger to the gate. Han Pu's army was defeated and fled, and it was difficult to escape the blame. Now that he came to his camp with his face and asked to enter the camp to rest, this thickness of his face couldn't help but make Li Yanzhi look down on him a little more.

As a general of the defeated army, Han Pu maintained a rare restraint. The hundreds of remnants he led stood outside the gate in an orderly manner. It was he himself, who stood in front of the camp after being stopped by the gatekeepers, waiting for the gatekeepers' reports. Not long after, Li Yanzhi took Zhou Xing and Wei Xu to the front of the gate. The auxiliary soldiers who were waiting for the battle saw Li Yanzhi coming, and they gave way one after another.

Li Yanzhi strode forward and said to Han Pu: "The last general has seen the overseer. The corporal does not understand the rules, and there are many collisions, and I hope that the superintendent will forgive me. ”

Han Pu was stopped outside the camp in front of his subordinates, and he was a little embarrassed, and he was greatly relieved to see Li Yanzhi coming. Hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Dingdong, this matter is fine." It's just that our army was newly defeated and wandered in the mountains and forests, and now with your help, we escaped by luck. I don't know if I can enter the camp for a ......"

Han Pu is no longer as arrogant as he was in the eleventh year, when Li Yanzhi was only a small hundred generals in the Guangwu Army, and Han Pu was the commander of tens of thousands of elite governors in the state. And now, when Han Pu, who was defeated and fled, stood in front of him, the differences between the two had been invisibly adjusted. However, at this time, the more Han Pu surrendered his identity, the more Li Yanzhi felt that he looked down on him. This difference caused by the sudden surrender of identity undoubtedly clearly shows that this commander, who is still the commander of the most elite troops in Liangzhou, will never lead the army to break the enemy and justify his name.

Li Yanzhi looked at Han Pu and sighed: "Han Gong's defeat is not a crime of war. It's just that now that my ministry is guarding against danger, I have to be cautious in everything. Your army is newly defeated, lest the rout of the army be mixed with the enemy's meticulous work, if they enter the camp and make a noise, or even act recklessly and wreak havoc. Han Gong and I, how will we deal with it? ”

When Han Pu heard this, he was shocked and said, "How can this be? This is all with my subordinates, if there is a mixture of enemy troops, I will do it, Dingdong don't have to worry......"

Li Yanzhi frowned: "Han Gong is okay to enter the camp, but the soldiers under his command must wait outside the camp!" I have ordered the Huotou Army to make porridge and rice, which will be distributed to them later. If Han Gong is still not at ease, please wait outside the camp with his subordinates! ”

Hearing this, a look of disbelief appeared on Han Pu's face. He hesitated, "This ...... I'm afraid it's inappropriate......"

"What's wrong?" Li Yanzhi was already fierce: "After the defeat of the army, he supervised and escorted the abandoned army to flee north. The road to the south, the dead and wounded, the land of Longxi, step by step plasma. Our state Jianrui, dozens of nine of them! The Guardian has abandoned the army once, and now outside my camp, is he going to abandon the army again? Yan Wei doesn't know, in military discipline, what is the crime of abandoning the army? ”

As soon as the word came out, everyone was silent. Even Han Pu, who was standing in front of him, also lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

"I have a word, and I hope that the governor will protect himself." Before Li Yanzhi's words fell, Han Pu hurriedly arched his hand and turned away without saying a word.

"Let's go!" Li Yanzhi waved his hand, then turned around and walked towards the big tent. Zhou Xing, Wei Xu, one left and one right. Smoke rose from the south side of the camp, and the three of them walked towards the smoke together.

There is a vacant lot of twenty or thirty paces between the camp wall on the south side and the camp tent at the rear, which was previously set aside as a temporary house. Between the more than ten stoves dug by the fireheads, the green smoke from the firewood mixed with the white smoke from the boiling water rose and gathered over the camp. The fireheads were holding rice bags and pouring golden corn into the boiling water in the pot.

After inspecting and seeing that the work of the firehead soldiers was in good order, Li Yanzhi returned to the side of the camp gate where the defeated soldiers had gathered, and climbed the watchtower to quietly look at the hundreds of defeated soldiers who were gradually gathering outside the gate. Han Pu's arrival made them feel a little restrained. Today's hustle and bustle outside the gate has long since ceased. Everyone looks preoccupied. Even if a few of the guards whispered to each other, the sound would never be heard by the rest of the people who were a few steps away.

After staying on the watchtower for more than an hour, Li Yanzhi finally saw the Huotou soldiers carrying out the cauldron containing yellow and clear corn porridge and walking outside the camp one after another. Seeing that the porridge and rice were ready, Li Yanzhi breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhou Xing was like a great enemy. He blew a succession of short bamboo whistles, and hundreds of auxiliaries soon gathered outside their respective camps. Then, under the leadership of Zhou Xing, each holding a sword and shield, he lined up in a neat array to the outside of the gate, preparing to maintain order.

When they saw the yellow corn porridge carried out from the gate and placed outside the camp, the soldiers who had been hungry for several days came to their senses. They took out their bowls from their bags and swarmed them. Fortunately, Zhou Xing was quite prescient and had already transferred the auxiliaries in advance to maintain order. Under the threat of the sword, these routs did not immediately start to loot.

"Line up, come one by one!" Zhou Xing shouted a few times at the top of his throat, and when Han Pu saw this, he had to restrain his entourage to arrange for these defeated soldiers to line up and come to receive porridge and rice one after another.

Several fireheads held wooden scoops of water in their hands, serving bowls of porridge to these impatient routs. Many hungry and panicked pawns stood by the pot, ignoring the hot porridge, and poured down the bowl as they picked it up. It is often poured into two mouthfuls before the bowl is removed because of the hot mouth and the porridge is blown cold. It took about half an hour to distribute the porridge and rice, and then they each carried empty pots and crockpots and returned to the camp under the support of the auxiliaries.

Li Yanzhi saw from the watchtower that there were still many defeated soldiers coming out of the mountains and forests in twos and threes. Seeing this lively scene outside the camp, I also came here with envy. However, the porridge had already been distributed, and some of the newly joined routs begged for food from their comrades who were eating hot porridge in bowls, and there were several quarrels in the open space outside the gate, which gradually escalated from quarrels to fights as more and more of the rout soldiers were involved.

Han Pu, who was surrounded by a group of guards, naturally couldn't get used to this situation, and hurriedly ordered his guards to step forward to stop him. However, Han Pu abandoned the army and fled north, which was already unpopular with the army, and the appearance of these guards at this time only had the opposite effect of his wishes-in the chaos, I don't know whether those routs intentionally or unintentionally, one of them actually pulled out a knife and slashed one of the guards beside Han Pu. These guards are all Han Pu's own soldiers, and they all walk sideways in the army on weekdays, how can they be so angry? Then he began to draw his sword and slash at the routs. The two sides that had been arguing and fighting before also began to unanimously target these masters in the Japanese army. The two sides were equal in number, and there was a flurry of slashing back and forth with knives, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people fell in a pool of blood.

Han Pu shouted hoarsely to the side to stop it, but the situation has developed to this point, where are those defeated soldiers willing to listen to his orders? Even if his own soldiers had the heart to stop, they could only be forced to fight back under the unrelenting efforts of the defeated soldiers.

Li Yanzhi, who was above the watchtower, had a full view of all this outside. The auxiliaries who were on both sides of the gate were now gathered together, lined up in a phalanx, holding swords and shields, ready to block the impact of the outside rout on the gate at any time. Zhou Xing has been squatting near the camp gate since he started. At this time, seeing that the fighting began in a mess outside, he had already come to the front of the battle, and ordered the auxiliaries to carry the horses and close the camp gate.

Li Yanzhi hurriedly walked down the watchtower, saw Zhou Xing from afar, and called him loudly. Zhou Xing trotted all the way to Li Yanzhi, but heard that Li Yanzhi said tepidly: "Ling Zhanfeng is holding a knife in the camp, and in a quarter of an hour, gather at the gate!" ”

Zhou Xing took the order and left. And Li Yanzhi also hurriedly returned to the tent, put on his iron armor with extra armor leaves and delineated lines, and took his long-bladed knife from the knife rack on the side, and walked out.

When they arrived at Yuanmen, the Zhanfeng Battalion had already assembled and ran to the vicinity of Yuanmen. Everyone wore helmets and armor, and long knives were in their hands. Zhou Xing ordered the auxiliaries to move the horses away. Li Yanzhi yelled: "Come in!" Behind him, the more than 100 ironclad foot soldiers walked out of the camp with him in neat steps.

Han Pu looked at the soldiers under his command, and suddenly the six gods were gone. However, seeing that the gate of the camp was wide open, more than 100 sharp soldiers wearing iron armor and holding long knives walked out of the camp, as if they had found the backbone of the main heart, and rushed towards these iron armored foot soldiers. When Li Yanjiong, who was the leader, saw Han Pu coming, he took off the iron mask on his face.

"Li Sima ......" Han Pu's voice now carried endless sadness and helplessness: "Please Li Sima to help stop these soldiers ......" Between his six gods and no master, he felt that his prestige was discredited. The title has also changed from the previous expression of deliberately narrowing the distance to calling Li Yanzhi to his official position. Li Yanzhi looked at Han Pu, and his eyes involuntarily revealed a trace of pity. He said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Li will lead his troops forward." ”

With that, Li Yanzhi turned his head and led his soldiers straight to the temporary battlefield where the two sides were fighting. He didn't even look at Han Pu anymore.

Walking to the place where the two sides were fighting, Li Yanzhi waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him had already rushed out from both sides of Li Yanzhi's back under the leadership of two hundred commanders, surrounding two groups of hundreds of soldiers. The iron-armored foot soldiers were all wearing iron masks, holding knives and pointing at the routs who were still fighting, waiting for Li Yanzhi's order.

"Stop!" Li Yanzhi stood in front of the array and yelled at the two groups of routs who were still fighting. However, the effect was not very significant, although the routs on the periphery stopped crowding inward, but the two groups of men did not stop where the fighting in the middle was most intense.

"Battle Battalion, go up, hit with the hilt!" Li Yanzhi yelled: "If you don't want to be beaten, get out of the way!" ”

As soon as the military order was issued, these iron-armored foot soldiers stepped forward in great excitement, took their long knives instead, and began to hit and disperse the outer routs with the hilt of their blades. When had the routs seen such a formation? The foot soldiers covered in iron armor had already surprised them, and these foot soldiers were all covered in iron armor, which not only surprised them, but also added a little fear to them.

The long and harsh training had given rise to the extraordinary physique of these foot soldiers, and it took them only about half a quarter to disperse the outer routers. To the center of this storm. There, dozens of routed soldiers were still fighting with their knives.

Seeing a completely unfamiliar foot soldier join the fight, the red-eyed soldiers did not dig into where the foot soldiers came from, and several of them instantly turned their knives and slashed at these iron-armored foot soldiers. However, the ring-headed knives in their hands slashed at each other's iron armor, and apart from splashing a spark, there was no substantial damage to these iron armor foot soldiers.

The dozens of iron-armored foot soldiers who were approaching those routs raised their sword hilts one after another and struck the rout soldiers in front of them fiercely. Under their relentless beating, dozens of rout soldiers in the center of the storm were also knocked down and subdued. Zhou Xing saw that the scene had basically calmed down, except for a few subdued routs who were still struggling unwillingly, the rest were already holding their heads in their hands, squatting on the ground, trembling to themselves.

Dozens of soldiers fell in a pool of blood at the center of the storm, and Li Yanzhi stepped forward to check, and saw that although someone had been stabbed, he was still struggling and howling; Some of their lives are dying, although they are still convulsing, but Li Yanzhi can conclude that they can't be saved. Others are lifeless and dead that they can't die anymore.

Li Yanzhi ordered his subordinates to carry all the minor and seriously injured into the camp, ready to call for medical treatment. Those who are dead are buried on the spot. Then he brought the captured soldiers who participated in the weapon fight to Han Pu. Li Yanzhi arched his hand and said: "Now that the chaos has been settled, these soldiers are armed and fighting, and Li will hand them over to the superintendent for disposal." ”

With a wave of his hand, the soldiers were brought in front of them and knelt in a row. However, Han Pu looked at these soldiers, disappointed, but also showed a little unbearability and hesitation.

"You are born and die with me, has Han ever treated you badly? Why are the soldiers meeting each other today? ”

The soldiers who knelt in a row all lowered their heads, no one spoke, and no one looked up at Han Pu. As Han Pu spoke, he burst into tears.

"The defeat of Woganling, Fei'er and other ineffective are really my sin. It is not easy for you to escape the thief's butcher's knife and live to this day, why did you meet the sword soldiers of Pao Ze again and die yourself? If you lack food and clothing, and you are hungry and cold, why don't you tell me, I will wait for you. armed private fight, resulting in the death of the robe. Military discipline is lax and unforgivable. Why are you forced to me? ”

Han Pu choked and turned his head and instructed the generals on the side: "Let's go find a few battalion soldiers and ask the reason for the matter." The leader is ambushed. The rest of the people who participated in the fight were given twenty lashes! ”

The lieutenant took the order and left. After a short time, several battalion soldiers had already come to inquire. The battalion soldiers identified a few of them, and then, the soldiers on both sides of Han Pu stepped forward, lifted these people out, and knelt down in the wasteland on the side.

"Armed private fighting, causing death, beheading!" As the adjutant general shouted this sentence with an expressionless face, several soldiers who temporarily acted as executioners waved their swords one after another, and in the blink of an eye, several bloody human heads were brought up in front of Han Pu.

Han Pu covered his face and no longer looked at the heads, his voice was full of sadness: "These soldiers have also fought with me, don't be humiliated, let them go to the ground for peace......"