"Quick, quick, put the gun on!" Before the smoke from the muzzle of the cannon cleared, Du Guoying urged loudly, knowing very well that victory or defeat depended on time. When the only three shells were fired, he led the remaining dozen of his men to rush towards the shelled houses.

"What's the matter, why is there no one, where has it gone?" Looking at the half-collapsed transept in front of him because of the shell, the ground was full of broken door panels and fragments of furniture, but there was no corpse in or outside the house, Du Guoying's heart gave birth to a suspicion, and at this time, there was a slight hissing sound from the wing room on the right, vaguely the burning sound of the fire rope.

"Disperse, there is an ambush!"

Before the words could be spoken, a burst of gunfire rang out on the right, and the ambushed rebels fell to the ground. Du Guoying's thigh came from a sharp pain, his knees were weak and he knelt on the ground, he tried his best to stand up with the saber support, only to see twenty or thirty young men rushing out of the wings on both sides, many of them were holding the three-eyed guns that were snatched from the rebels not long ago, but among them were two bald men, Du Gu bowed slightly, and was smiling and saying something to one of them, and in an instant Du Guoying understood everything, and he shouted: "Thief! He limped and threw himself at Liu Cheng, but as soon as he took a few steps, he was forced back by seven or eight spears.

"It seems that these three-eyed guns still have a good killing effect on armored enemies within ten meters!" Liu Cheng walked out of the side room, and checked the results of the ambush he had carefully planned:

There were a dozen or so soldiers who had been killed or seriously wounded lying on the ground, and although the remaining few people were still holding their swords and guns, judging from their wandering eyes and pale faces, these people had no fighting spirit to continue to resist.

"Put down the guy in your hand, our family is kind, and those who put down their weapons will not be killed!" Du Gu stood up and shouted loudly.

"So be it!" Du Ruhu patted his nephew on the shoulder who was about to scold the past, and was the first to drop the weapon in his hand, his luck was very good just now, and the lead bullets fired at close range by seven or eight three-eyed guns were not even scratched with oil.

"Uncle!" Du Guoying stared at Du Ruhu as if she was meeting each other for the first time.

"There is no point in fighting any more than how many people die, and there are enough dead people." At this time, Du Ruhu's voice was full of a kind of relief after relief: "After the incident in Liangxiang, we will have this day sooner or later, so be it, everything is over!" ”

Du Guoying looked at his pale companions on both sides, and then at the mouth of the black hole in front of him and the tip of the spear, tears of despair flowed from his eyes, and he slashed to the ground, and the steel knife was broken into two pieces.

The long and bloody night was finally over, and when the old and weak women, who had been restless on the hill for a long time, returned to the village, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the village was safe and sound, and that there were no dead people, only a dozen or so people were wounded, and that the rebels who threatened the village had been wiped out.

For the vast majority of people, this is already much better than they could have imagined. Every villager who was lucky enough to stay boasted triumphantly about their martial arts and the number of enemies they had slain in front of their relatives and lovers, and from time to time some people quarreled over the number of enemies they had killed, but one thing was the same - everyone praised Liu Cheng's strategy to the sky, and the whole village was enveloped in a joyful atmosphere.

But the atmosphere in the courtyard of the Yu family was diametrically opposite, more than 20 men in the courtyard in front of the hall were squatting or sitting, looking depressed, many of them were wounded, some were still bleeding, but compared to the injuries on their bodies, being defeated by a group of villagers was much more mentally traumatic, so that when the courtyard door was pushed open, only a few people raised their heads.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!" Dugu shouted in a high tone, and behind him two villagers carried a wooden bucket full of porridge. If Du Gucheng's behavior of betraying his robe not long ago was still out of impulse, the scene in front of him at this time made him very glad for his previous decision. For a veteran ruffian like him who has dealt with the Mongols for twenty years, it is not enough for a general to be kind, but also to be cunning and brave enough to be able to constantly bring victories to his subordinates, and Liu Cheng is undoubtedly very good at this. In Du Gu's opinion, if Liu Cheng still has any fly in the ointment, it is that he has softened his heart and has not killed the Du family's uncles and nephews and several of his closest cronies to prevent future troubles.

Most of the defeated soldiers were taken aback when they saw Du Gu's vigorous appearance, only a few who survived the ambush knew about Du Gu's betrayal, and the vast majority of the people in the courtyard were taken prisoner by the villagers after dawn after being dispersed, and they had no idea what had happened last night. However, Du Gu was very satisfied with the performance of his former companions, he stirred twice with a wooden spoon in the porridge bucket, beat a spoonful of porridge and tasted it: "It is a very thick porridge, the chopsticks are inserted and do not fall, and salt is added, but the person who holds the plate is a kind person!" ”

There was a slight commotion among the captives, and it was close to noon at this time, and nearly twenty hours had passed since last night, and after a night of fighting, the little thing that had been eaten yesterday evening had already been digested, and the hot porridge was like an invisible hook, pulling at everyone's heart. But Du Guoying still sat in the corner like a sculpture, motionless, and several prisoners had half of their buttocks raised, but when they saw Du Guoying's appearance, they sat back again.

Seeing that no one came to eat porridge, Du Gu's face became ugly, as a person who had just surrendered, he knew very well that his future depended entirely on his new master, Liu Cheng's perception of himself, but if he couldn't even do the trivial matter of dividing porridge, then how could he expect Liu Cheng to value himself? He gritted his teeth, knocked the porridge bucket twice with the wooden spoon, and shouted loudly: "The heart of the family is kind, don't be embarrassed!" The words already smelled of threat.

Du Guoying didn't seem to hear the threat in the words of his former subordinates at all, and still sat in the corner like a wooden statue, and the atmosphere in the courtyard became tense, seeing that a conflict was about to break out. Du Ruhu looked at all this, sighed in his heart, stood up and walked in front of Du Gu, stretched out his right hand and said, "Give me porridge, two bowls!" ”

"Yes!" Du Gu lowered his head a little ashamed, and made two bowls of porridge as fast as possible and handed them to Du Ruhu, Du Ruhu returned to his nephew with the porridge, handed a bowl to Du Guoying, and said in a commanding tone: "Take it and eat porridge!" ”

Du Guoying turned his head angrily, Du Ruhu put the porridge bowl beside him, sat down and ate alone, after eating a few bites, he whispered: "Only by eating can you live, and only by living can you have hope!" A few minutes later, Du Guoying also picked up the porridge bowl and lowered his head to eat.

Du Ruhu's action seemed to be a signal, the captives stood up one after another, and used the porridge bucket to get porridge, and a few people who were relatively close to Du Gu on weekdays still had a relationship with each other with their faces.

"Brother Dugu, our two families haven't come out of five suits yet, and our ancestors are still eating in the same pot for a hundred years, but you have to take care of me!"

"My two families can be at the head of the village and the end of the village, and they fish in the river together when they are young!"

Seeing the great change in the situation, Du Gu's face bloomed with a smile, he patted his chest and smiled: "Don't worry, everyone is a kind-hearted person who is in charge of the plate, and he will definitely not let everyone suffer!" “

On the small building in the backyard, Liu Cheng stood by the window and carefully spied on the situation in the yard, and saw that the captives began to rush to receive the porridge, Liu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm finally relieved, if I continue to freeze like this, maybe I will really have to kill a few people." ”

"I really can't understand you!" Hui Neng on the side smiled and said: "There were forty or fifty people who died at your hands last night, but now I care about killing three or five more people, if I don't know who you are, I think you are acting coy." “

"That's two different things, killing people last night was in self-defense, if I don't kill them, they will kill me, and killing people is a last resort. Now that they are just unarmed captives, what good is it to kill more? Speaking of this, Liu Cheng smiled and said: "Didn't Du Gong Department say it? If you can control aggression, how can you kill more? “

"Then it's just a matter of not killing, why give them porridge to eat again?"

"Since you don't kill them, you naturally have to give them something to eat, people should always have something to eat when they are alive, right?" Speaking of this, Liu Cheng smiled slyly: "Besides, this porridge is not eaten for nothing, I asked Du Gu to put the porridge, those captives saw Du Gu's treatment, and their minds lived. Even if there are a few people in it who want to make trouble, they will naturally not be able to make trouble if they are not in harmony. “

"That's right!" Hui Neng smiled, but he didn't care in his heart, in his opinion, if he starved for two meals, these captives would have no strength to make a fuss, whether it was sent to the government to receive a reward or secretly killed, but now his interest had already shifted to Liu Cheng, and he didn't want to expose his hole cards before he had a deep enough understanding of him.

"Then Mr. Liu, what do you think should be done with these people?"

"What to do?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, he really hadn't considered this, after all, as a traverser, he was not familiar with the social environment at that time, and it was easy to show timidity when talking nonsense: "I just left the temple, and I don't know about this, what do you think should be done?" ”

Huineng smiled slightly: "If Mr. Liu has some ideas about fame, he will send these people to the government, and the government will always give some benefits." If you don't want to make a name for yourself, it's easy. Speaking of this, Huineng slashed down with his right hand and made a "kill" gesture.

"Then let's send it to the government!" Liu Cheng couldn't help frowning when he heard that he was going to kill all these people: "It's good to be an official." He glanced at Hui Neng and hurriedly added, "Naturally, a portion of the mage is indispensable!" “

"Hehe, I'm a monk and the four major are empty, so forget about all these fame and fortune!" Huineng waved his hand: "Actually, for those people, sending them to the government and dying in our hands are almost the same, they are both dead ends." “

"What?" Liu Cheng was taken aback when he heard this: "How can this be?" I heard that Nadugu said that they had not received food for many days, and that they had to start an incident, so would the government not be relieved by this?

Are they punished? “

"Mitigation?" Hui Neng smiled dumbly and said: "How is it possible, which of the soldiers of the Nine Sides Town has not been in arrears for two or three years, if they are in arrears, they can make trouble, so how can the son of the Zhu family sit firmly in the Dragon Court?" The more this is the case, the more severe the punishment will be, and the soldiers below will be repaid, and the leaders will definitely die! “

"The soldiers of the Nine Sides are in arrears for two or three years?" Liu Cheng's eyes immediately widened, he had also read some articles on the Internet about the arrears of the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty before he crossed, but he was far from expecting that it had reached such a serious point, the nine-sided town that Huineng said was the nine important towns on the northern border defense line from Jiayuguan in the west to the sea in the east, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the increasing corruption of the garrison in the interior and the Beijing division, the nine-sided town has become the only field army that maintains the survival of the Ming Dynasty, and even this kind of army has been in arrears for several years, which is too incredible.

"Yes, Liaodong Town has directly engaged in the war with Dongyu over the years, it may be better, and it is normal for other border towns to owe military salaries for two years and three years."

"Then what do these border soldiers live on?"

"If you are in the station, you can also rely on the tuntian, do some small business, and work to barely make ends meet." Huineng smiled: "If you go on the expedition, it will be troublesome, you will need money for clothing, weapons, and livestock, and the young and old people in the family will also need a sum of money to settle down." Therefore, it is often okay to be in arrears for many years in the station, but if you send troops to fight, you can't save a penny, otherwise something big will happen. At present, the chaos in the northwest is more likely to be caused by the Jin Po Bian Qin King after last year. ”

Liu Cheng was secretly frightened while listening to Huineng's narration. Ever since he crossed over, he had been in danger, all his thoughts on survival, and only now did he have time to think about his future. After listening to Huineng's remarks, the ambition of saving the world and helping the people on the Internet in his previous life and the pride of scolding Fang Xuan have long been unknown, and now he is strange not that the Ming Dynasty was conquered by the Manchu Qing later, but how Emperor Chongzhen persisted for more than ten years.

"The world has reached such a point, is it because the Son of Heaven doesn't know?"

"Hahaha!" Huineng suddenly laughed: "The poor monk saw Brother Liu before, how old you are in planning with soldiers, how can you say such things now?" Xuanda is only two or three hundred miles away from Beijing, and Jinyiwei and Neichang are not eating rice, how can the Son of Heaven not know? Speaking of this, Huineng casually picked up the straight placket on his body and asked, "Brother Liu, do you think it can be restored to plain color?" ”

Liu Cheng looked at the black dress on Huineng's body and shook his head.

"Today, just like my soapy coat, it is easy to dye white to black, but it is impossible to change from black back to white. Although it is a good fruit today, it is easy to break the mountain and the thief is difficult to break the court, and I am afraid that it will be a failure in the end! ”

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