Chapter 43: The Hongmen Banquet, or the Engagement Banquet

The war clouds that had hung over the Tiande Army for several months finally disappeared with Liu Desan's self-restraint and surrender.

In order to protect his subordinates, the veteran of Rong Ma's half life lowered his eyebrows and bent his waist to surrender his arms to the juniors, which is not only a heart-wrenching helplessness, but also a real man's responsibility.

Yang Hao preserved the dignity of Liu Desan and the Hedong soldiers, Liu Desan also reciprocated, he drew up a long list of personnel for Yang Hao, almost all the talents in the stroke, Yang Hao handed over the list to the commanders of each battalion, and ordered them to include all the personnel under their names,

The intelligence room of Guansuo also began to operate efficiently, dozens of relatives squads rushed to all directions overnight, their task was to bring the families of the people listed on the list to Fengzhou, it is a felony to lose the army and join the enemy, in order to prevent the betrayal of their subordinates, the people in power in each town all took their families as hostages, and those generals who were taken prisoner wanted to save their families, there was only one way to commit suicide.

In fact, long before the end of the war, Guan Suo had already started to act, he was originally from Hedong, and he was very familiar with the situation in Hedong, so it seemed easy to do this kind of thing, Yu Chongchong, Wu Chizan, Sui Wohu and other relatives successively embarked on the road to Feng'an, but Liu Desan's relatives were closely monitored by Liu Qingling, and they couldn't start for a while.

Shi Xiong also collected a lot of talents, he was very interested in the strong and tough style of the Hedong soldiers, he carefully selected 800 warriors, organized into a Xiongzi battalion, and appointed himself as the general of the army.

The barbarian blacks and the vulture also captured thousands of Hedong soldiers, they regarded the soldiers as slaves, wantonly beat and scolded, and finally provoked the rebellion of the soldiers, after the barbarian blacks strongly suppressed the riot, they wanted to kill all the soldiers, Yang Hao came forward to stop it, and exchanged eighty carts of gold, silver and jewelry for nine hundred and thirty Hedong soldiers,

In order to thank the armies for helping them expel foreign enemies and quell the civil strife, Wang Ben held a feast in the surrendered city to reward the army, and the war that lasted for several months made the Tiande army thousands of miles bare, and the people's livelihood withered.

There was no beautiful singer to dance and drink, so he ordered the soldiers to sing with steel swords and shields.

When the wine was half-drunk, Yang Hao walked up to the leader of the five tribes with a wine jug in his hand, and said: "Thank you to the friends of the grassland for helping you righteously, without you, there would be no today's big victory, I salute you with a bowl of wine." Lao Wen, the ruling barbarian of the Five Ministries Alliance, said: "We are good friends who have fought for the alliance, and friends should naturally help when they are in trouble." ”

Yang Hao snorted wine and asked the five leaders: "Are we really friends?" The leader of the Gulu Mangyue tribe said: "Of course we are friends, otherwise who would risk killing their heads to fight against the Hedong army." The other four chiefs also chimed in,

Yang Hao laughed and said, "But you are not enough friends." Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Duo Ji Mo said: "Brother Yang, you can make it clear, why are we not friends enough." ”

Yang Hao squinted his eyes and said, "Let me ask you, do you usually go to your friend's house to help, and when you leave, you will snatch away other people's children and slaves." The old man immediately understood what Yang Hao was referring to, and suddenly said with a dark face: "This is not to go to a friend's house to help catch a few sheep, we have died a lot, shouldn't we be compensated." ”

Yang Hao asked: "There is no such compensation in the contract we signed. ”

Duo Ji Mo snorted coldly, and said in a strange manner: "Those people were taken from the Hedong Army, they are like ownerless cattle and sheep on the grassland, whoever has a sharp knife is their master. ”

When Yang Hao heard this, he smiled, pulled out his waist knife, put it on the table, and said, "I don't know if my knife is sharp enough." Seeing this, the faces of the five leaders changed, Yu Yanlu threw the porcelain cup in his hand to the ground, and dozens of ironclad soldiers suddenly rushed out behind the curtain.

The black general Gu Duoli roared, and immediately overturned the table, and shouted to the guards: "Protect the Khan, kill out of the city." ”

After that, he swung his knife and slashed at Yang Hao's door, Yang Hao dodged and dodged, throwing the wine jug in his hand at Gu Duoli, a thin figure on his side was as fast as a spirit ape, and he slashed at the door of Gu Duoli's face, Gu Duoli hurriedly waved his knife to block, "dang" sounded, Mars jumped, the scimitar in Gu Duoli's hand was split in two, and his arm was hot and sore, as if he had been hit by a giant hammer,

Gu Duoli is nearly nine feet tall, with a large body and round arms, shaped like an iron tower, known as the first warrior of the barbarians, this shot, the opponent broke the weapon, and injured the arm, which is just like pouring a scoop of cold water into the boiling pot, and suddenly there was no sound, and the restless barbarian black man retreated in despair.

Gu Duoli was even more shocked when he saw that it was only a black, thin and short scar-faced man who was fighting him, and he asked with trepidation, "Who are you?" ”

The scar-faced man replied, "Captain Zhu Qi of the Flame Battalion." ”

Gu Duoli didn't understand what the position of the "Dian Military Captain" was, so she asked Jin Mili, the leader of the vulture tribe standing aside, and Jin Mili said: "That's the centurion of the Han people." When the barbarian nobles heard this, they were even more frightened, and Jin Mili took the opportunity to lean into his ear and said: "The Han army has a strict hierarchy, those with great ability are in high positions, and those with small skills are in low positions, this ......" Jin Mili didn't finish his words, and was rudely interrupted by Gu Duoli,

Zhu Qi sneered: "If you are not convinced, let's fight again, Zhu Qi can defeat you without weapons." One sentence provoked the anger of the barbarian black department, and the old brother of the barbarian was all in alliance with the great ruling barbarian Wen to stop everyone, and said to Yang Hao: "Do you dare to fight with us, if you win, we will return all the plundered women and men to you, and our gold and silver will also be distributed to you half, if you lose, we will take the women and men away, and you must not be entangled again." ”

Yang Hao sneered and asked, "How to fight." ”

"Three players each, two wins are winners."

Yang Hao nodded, "Do your words count?" The leaders of the five barbarian tribes responded in unison: "If you are in power, it counts." ”

Duo Jimo asked rhetorically, "What about your words?" Shi Xiong and Wang Ben also said in unison: "Brother Yang's words are what we mean. ”

The Manhei Department sent a young general, named Yuegu, less than six feet tall, wearing a black iron mask, pedaling tiger-headed military boots, and wearing a special fish scale armor for the Hedong Army, with long and messy hair that is half black and half yellow.

Although he is thin, the two copper hammers in his hands are very heavy.

Yue Gu walked straight up to Yang Hao and said arrogantly, "You come to fight me!" Yu Yanlu was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "What are you, are you worthy of fighting our general?" Duo Jimo sneered: "The fighting general is the ability, not the official position, is General Yang timid?" Yang Hao pushed open the Yu Yan furnace, took a big gun and walked into the room.

The soldiers of the Xining Army under the four beat their shields with sabers to cheer for Yang Hao,

Wang Ben saw that Yang Hao was provoked, he was a little worried, and asked Shi Xiong secretly: "Has the third brother learned kung fu?" Shi Xiong muttered: "He used to be a captain of the forbidden army, so he must have studied." Wang Ben summoned the tooth general Xiong Lindai and secretly instructed: "Let the archers prepare, and save people immediately if it fails." As soon as he said this, he suddenly heard a thunderous shout all around, the soldiers of the Xining army were crazy, screaming and jumping, Wang ran to the field to see, and was not surprised, the black general Yuegu fell to the ground at this time, and hated to smash the green bricks on the ground with his hand,

Yang Hao was waving proudly around,

Wang Ben couldn't believe what he saw, and he asked Shi Xiong, "This is a win." Shi Xiong was also surprised, so he asked Zhang Huayang beside him: "Brother Yang defeated him so quickly." Zhang Huayang excitedly stretched out three fingers and laughed: "Three moves, it only took three moves to defeat him, what a powerful Yang family gun." Wang Ben said regretfully: "It's a pity that we only care about talking......

Yang Hao picked up two copper hammers and prepared to return them to Yuegu, as soon as the copper hammer started, Yang Hao was secretly shocked: a copper hammer was no less than eighty catties, Yang Hao reached out to pull Yuegu, this was a completely friendly move, but it caused Yuegu's misunderstanding, he suddenly turned his hand and clasped Yang Hao's wrist, pulled it violently into his arms, and with this power he rose up, and pulled out a short knife from the tiger's head boot with his right hand and stabbed Yang Hao under the ribs,

This series of actions was only in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people watching the battle around, only Zhu Qi behind Yang Hao could see clearly, he didn't have time to shout, he flew over, at the critical moment, Yang Hao's heart was unusually calm, he followed Yuegu's strength and slammed into him, Yuegu didn't expect Yang Hao to retreat but advanced, and after a little hesitation, Yang Hao grabbed his right wrist, and sealed his right arm on his chest with the momentum of his body,

Except for a few masters, in the eyes of most people, Yang Hao and Yuegu were warmly embracing, the Tang soldiers cheered for the tolerance and generosity of their boss, but the nobles of the five black departments were all dumbfounded, and the impatient barbarian old man had already jumped up, and was about to step forward but was dragged by his brother Barbarian Old Wen,

Yuegu struggled fiercely a few times, but felt that Yang Hao's arm was like an iron hoop, and he couldn't shake it at all.

Zhu Qi grabbed Yuegu's wrist and wanted to pull his arm out to show the public, the "fighting general" is fighting kung fu, and the hidden arrow hurting people is naturally despised by the world.

Yang Hao motioned to Zhu Qi not to make a move, he took a big step back, and immediately let go of his left hand, Yue Gu hurriedly hid the scimitar, shook off Yang Hao's right arm, and silently retreated to the formation, Zhu Qi glanced at Yang Hao, and then at Yue Gu, with a weird smile on Scar's face,

The brutal black man turned his head, and he didn't feel depressed, and the second formation of Gu Duoli came out, and Zhu Qi was about to get off the field, when suddenly a person behind him said, "Let me meet him." I saw Yu Chongchong, the captain of the Leopard Battalion and the acting commander of the army, walking over with a sword, and the black nobles saw Yu Chongchong standing on Yang Hao's side, and they didn't feel that everyone was discolored, and the subordinates whispered: "The generals of heaven have surrendered to him, what are we fighting." The old man glared at everyone fiercely,

Yu Chongchong asked Gu Duoli: "Do you want to fight on foot or on horse." Gu Duoli lowered her head and was silent, and the old man Wen suddenly got up and walked in front of Yang Hao, and said with a deep salute: "One day the general is here, and we admit defeat." ”

There was a thunderous roar of joy in all directions, and the soldiers who surrendered without a fight were indeed more worthy of boasting than the victory won on the battlefield.

Manlao Wen said to Yang Hao: "I am willing to marry my niece Yuegu to the general as his wife, and the five departments of the Mangu and the Tang Dynasty will be good for generations." When everyone heard this, they all whispered: "Yuegu turned out to be a woman." ”

Yang Hao actually knew that Yuegu was a woman, but he never thought of marrying this woman with strange makeup, so he hurriedly replied: "Thank you for the kindness of the ruling lord, but I have already made a marriage contract with a county lord in the court, and I have already accepted a five-room wife, so I dare not wronged the princess." ”

Yuegu also forgot to be shy when she heard this, stared at Yang Hao sharply, her chest rose and fell sharply, and the old man said angrily: "If you say the water that spills out, if you refuse to marry my daughter, you will be the mortal enemy of our department, I swear in the name of Changshengtian, as long as the old man lives, he will fight with you to the end." After speaking, he picked up Yuegu and left, Jin Mili hurriedly stopped him, and persuaded with a smile: "General Yang didn't say that he would not marry your daughter, but he has already made a marriage contract, and he is afraid that he will treat Princess Yuegu badly." ”

The old man snorted angrily and said, "He doesn't want to marry, I don't want to marry." Stretching out his hand to push Jin Mili away, he was about to leave, but Yuegu suddenly broke free of his hand and said hatefully: "Why don't he marry, I won't marry, I prefer to marry him." She walked up to Yang Hao, pulled out a scimitar from the tiger's head boots, and said viciously: "If you don't marry me, I will die in front of you, but before I die, I will kill you first." ”

Wang Ben shook his head and sighed: "A barbarian is a barbarian, if you don't give what he wants, he will fight hard with you; What he gives, you don't want, he has to fight with you. Shi Xiong also sighed: "It's really hard for him." ”

Yang Hao and Yuegu looked at each other for a long time, then suddenly turned to Yu Yanlu and Zhu Qi and said, "Preparing for the dowry, I want to marry Princess Yuegu." Before everyone could understand, Yang Hao suddenly bent down and hugged Yuegu......