"Let go, why are you arresting people?"

"Which military rule did Lao Tzu commit?"

The two veteran ruffians who were dragged out struggled vigorously, their expressions hideous, but their tones were inexplicably flustered, obviously lacking confidence.

"Why?"

Xiao Qi smiled fiercely, and suddenly stretched out his hands and pulled the old ruffian's robe on the left and pulled it hard, only to hear a cracking sound, the old ruffian's cotton robe had been torn apart, and the eyes of the hundreds of soldiers standing in the front row fell on the old ruffian, only to see two minks around his waist.

Another veteran ruffian also had two mink skins around his waist.

Xiao Qi pointed to the mink on the waist of the veteran ruffian, and asked sharply, "What is this, ah?" ”

When the mink fur was discovered, the veteran ruffian calmed down and replied coldly: "Isn't it just two mink?" What's the big deal? Lao Tzu followed you from birth to death, this icy and snowy land came to the Mongolian steppe to play for his life, shouldn't there be just two mink skins? ”

"Yes!" Wang Pu took over the conversation and shouted, "Of course it should!" And by virtue of your deeds, not to mention two minks, but two oxen, twenty horses, or even two thousand taels of silver, you deserve it! ”

The old soldier ruffian raised his head and said coldly: "Then why are you arresting people?" ”

"But you shouldn't hide it!" Wang Pu shouted, "General Ben has long said that all property must be handed over, and then rewarded according to the military exploits made by the brothers, if everyone is like you, and everything you have grabbed is let you swallow it alone, then what will General Ben use to reward those brothers who have killed the enemy but have been injured so that they are unable to rob the property?" What will General Ben do to comfort the families of those fallen brothers? In the long run, who else is willing to rush ahead to block your arrows, and who is willing to sacrifice themselves to save everyone? Who else would want to be your brother? ”

"The army is a collective!" Wang Pu stretched out his hand to the sky and shouted, "What we need is a good brother who is honest and honest, not a villain who is selfish and only thinks about his own benefits!" General Ben doesn't want to take a villain like you to the battlefield, and no one wants to go to war with a villain like you! ”

The two veteran ruffians finally lowered their heads guiltily.

There was an angry look in the eyes of hundreds of soldiers, especially Tang Sheng, who was standing in the front row, who was eager to kill these two guys, because these two veterans were selected by him from the border army in Datong Town.

There are also some veterans with guilty and frightened expressions on their faces, in fact, there are far more than these two veterans who hide their belongings, Wang Pu can't arrest them all and punish them severely, if he really does that, it will backfire and cause these veterans to mutiny, so Wang Pu only caught two unlucky guys.

Wang Pu looked at the two veteran ruffians murderously, and suddenly shouted: "Drag it down...... Slashed! ”

"Yes!"

The four pro-soldiers agreed with a bang, and left with the two unlucky eggs.

"The general spares his life!"

"We know we're wrong, let's give us a chance to mend our ways......"

"The poor villain has an eighty-year-old mother on it, and a child who is just about to leave, general, will you spare the villain this time?"

The two veteran ruffians struggled to break free from the holding of the four pro-soldiers, knelt on the cold grass, kowtowed to Wang Pu like pounding garlic, and wept bitterly.

Wang Pu nodded and shouted: "General Ben also wants to spare you, but the military regulations can't spare you!" Drag it down, cut it! ”

Wang Pu has already made up his mind to use these two heads to clean up military discipline, and now even Emperor Chongzhen can't save them.

"General!" Tang Sheng suddenly strode out of the ranks, arched his hands and shouted, "There is something to say about the humble position. ”

Wang Pu said loudly: "Speak! ”

Tang Sheng turned around and stared at the two veteran ruffians viciously, and shouted: "Zhang San and Zhao Liu have lost the face of our Datong border army, and they hope to cut off their dog's head with their own hands!" ”

Wang Pu said loudly: "Accurate! Here, in front of all the soldiers, let's be executed! ”

"General, you can't kill us?"

"General, please spare us?"

"General, will you spare us?"

The two veteran ruffians were still wailing, but Wang Pu was not moved at all.

As soon as Wang Pu made a look, Xiao Qi took four personal soldiers to spread out a piece of white cloth prepared in advance on the grass, and the two veteran ruffians were escorted to the center of this white cloth, kneeling down towards the army of four thousand soldiers, Tang Sheng slowly pulled out his waist knife and stepped forward.

"Zhang San, Zhao Liu!" Tang Sheng raised his waist knife high and shouted in a fierce voice, "You can go on the road with peace of mind." ”

"No ......"

Two veteran ruffians shouted at the same time.

Tang Sheng's hand fell, Zhang San and Zhao Liu's heads fell to the ground one after another, and hot blood splashed out from the broken necks of the two, dying the white cloth spread on the grass in an instant, and the hands of the four personal soldiers were loosened, and the bodies of the two fell to the white cloth again, and the blood gushing out suddenly became two large pieces of red.

Wang Pu Yangtian sighed and said, "Tang Sheng." ”

Tang Sheng put the knife back into its sheath, turned around and responded: "Humble duty." ”

Wang Pudao: "After returning to Datong, I will give their families a pension of 500 taels each. ”

"Yes."

Tang Sheng clenched his fists with both hands, and said yes.

Wang Pu waved his hand again, and the two personal soldiers dragged away the bodies of Zhang San and Zhao Liu, Xiao Qi had already led someone to lift the blood-stained white cloth, Wang Pu took two steps forward and pointed to the blood-stained white cloth and said, "Have you seen it, brothers?" From today onwards, this blood-stained white cloth is the military flag of our army, the blood-stained military flag! ”

"I hope that every time you see this military flag, you will remember today's scene, and I hope you can always remember that our army is a collective, and everyone in this collective is a brother who is honest and honest with each other, not a selfish villain like Zhang San and Zhao Liu! I also hope that you will remember that military regulations are supreme, and whoever violates them will be severely punished! ”

Wang Pu said this, turned around and shouted: "Xiao Qi, show the flag!" ”

"Yes!"

Xiao Qi suddenly agreed, took the long penny from the hands of his own soldiers and tied the blood-stained military flag, and then turned over and put the blood-stained flag in his hand into the air and struggled to raise it, the north wind howled, and the blood-stained flag in Xiao Qi's hand was suddenly stretched out, and the two red blood stains on the flag were particularly eye-catching.

Wang Pu looked deeply at the blood-stained battle flag, and said loudly: "From today on, where this military flag appears, our army will be there, this military flag is our soul, each of us must do our best to protect it, and there is only one situation in which this military flag will fall into the hands of the enemy, and that is ...... We're all dead! The flag is in the people, and the flag is dead! ”

"The flag is in the people, the flag is dead!"

"The flag is in the people, the flag is dead!"

"The flag is in the people, the flag is dead!"

Dozens of pro-soldiers behind Wang Pu responded three times.

The eyes of the four thousand soldiers fell on the blood-stained military flag, and they also shouted.

Today's scene has left a deep imprint in the hearts of every soldier, and no one will dare to easily violate the seven military regulations set by Wang Pu from now on, and more importantly, these veteran ruffians who have been defeated repeatedly and the horse thieves who are used to robbing their homes have begun to try to regard themselves as members of this army collective.

This blood-stained military flag is like a bright light, shining in their hearts all the time, when they are facing danger or temptation, their minds are no longer me, but us, our army!

When the shouts of the four thousand soldiers gradually subsided, Wang Pucai shouted, "The whole army is resting, bearded, scarface, Tang Sheng and Monk Zhang, you four come here." ”

Four thousand households gathered around Wang Pu one after another, Zhen Youcai took out the map from his arms and spread it out on the grass, and pressed the four corners with stones to stabilize it, before pointing to the map and saying: "The first step of this surprise attack and naturalization plan has been completed, and it has been completed very smoothly. ”

Tang Sheng asked, "Will the Tumuts concentrate their forces first, and then break through to the west in turn?" ”

"No, it won't." Zhen Youcai shook his head and said, "Tumut Khan is dead, without his order to arrows, the Tumut people will not be able to effectively assemble, and to the west is the Yellow River, although the Yellow River is now frozen, but after the Yellow River is the Shaanxi town of Daming, the Tumut people will never go west to find their own death." ”

Wang Pu added: "You have all remembered, this time only the Mongolian men were killed, and no more women and children could be killed, and the brothers did not graze and did not know how to drive the cattle and sheep to steal the door, so if you want to leave these women and children, you will follow behind and force them to drive the cattle and sheep to the sea of Xiangji." ”

"Yes."

The bearded four should be in unison.

Wang Pu said again: "Talented, Xiao Qi." ”

Zhen Youcai and Xiao Qi responded in unison: "Humble duty." ”

Wang Pu said: "Take an inventory of the property, cattle, sheep, livestock, horses, camels and looting looted in the naturalization city, take away everything that can be taken away, destroy what you can't take away on the spot, and don't forget to set fire before leaving, since the Mongols have chosen to build slaves, they will have to pay the price for their decision." ”

"Yes."

Zhen Youcai and Xiao Qi should be in unison.

Wang Pu turned over and got on his horse, bowed his head and shouted to the bearded four: "Take your soldiers and go!" ”

"Yes!"

The bearded four suddenly agreed, turned around and hurried away.

About half an hour later, the 4,000-strong army left the Naturalization City, followed by the Ming army with more than 300 camels and more than 2,000 horses, all of which were used to load the looted goods, as for the large herds of cattle, sheep and livestock stored in the pastures outside the Naturalization City, except for a small number of sheep were taken away as rations, the rest were driven into the city, and the entire city was burned.

In the next two days, Wang Pu's 4,000-strong army was like a huge sickle, sweeping down the east bank of the Heihe River and the Yellow River.

As Zhen Youcai predicted, due to the death of Tumut Khan, it was difficult for the nomadic Tumut people in Fengzhou Beach to complete an effective assembly, Wang Pu led the army from naturalization to the south to sweep all the way to the Fumao River, and then more than 4,000 troops turned into more than 40 arrows, sweeping from west to east.

The nomadic Tumut people in the area of Toyosu Beach suffered an unprecedented disaster, hundreds of settlements were destroyed, more than 3,000 adult men were killed, and more than 6,000 old and young women and children drove millions of cattle, sheep and livestock to gradually gather a huge torrent and flee eastward in panic.

Poor Tumuts, unaware that they are stepping into the death trap that the Han people have designed a long time ago!

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Dying sea.

As early as two days ago, that is, on the third day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zi'an, who couldn't wait, had already led a large army to camp here.

This is called a wise man's thousand thoughts, and there will be a mistake.

Although Zhen Youcai had repeatedly emphasized that Zhang Zi'an must rush to the sea on the sixth day of the first lunar month, what he never expected was that Zhang Zi'an had been forced to jump over the wall by the 600,000 taels of arrears pressed on him.

Just because Zhang Zi'an sent troops three days in advance, he almost caused a catastrophe in the end!

(To be continued)