"Little one, meet the adults."

Under the banner of the Chinese army, a bandit knelt down in front of Mei Zhihuan, Qin Liangyu, Liu Jun and other generals, and presented a letter of surrender from Cao Cao and other thief generals.

With the arrival of the book, there were several wagons of property, which were also worth no less than 100,000 taels of silver.

"Read!" Mei Zhihuan didn't answer the letter, and asked the messenger to read it directly in public.

"The grass people Luo Rucai and others kowtowed: We are all good people, and the children of the Son of Heaven are all guilty of great crimes because of the drought in Shaanxi. Now I vow to surrender and return to my homeland to resume business. The criminals Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, Xiao Qin, Bai Gui, the whole 100,000 Hei Yunxiang, Yizhang Qing Liu Xiu, Xingshi Wang Guoning, and Baima Deng Tianwang worshipped the eight sinners. ”

After hearing this, Liu Jun didn't believe it at all, he smiled and said to the messenger, "Cao Cao and the others are really willing to surrender unconditionally?" ”

"General Hui, that's true."

"Since you are willing to surrender, then put down your sword and come out to surrender, what are you waiting for?" Liu Jun said shamelessly.

The messenger's face changed slightly, and he said, "All the leaders are willing to surrender to the imperial court, but I hope to get a guarantee from Prime Minister Mei and others, and after we put down our swords and soldiers and surrender, we will be allowed to disband and return to our hometown, issue exoneration cards, and no longer pursue the responsibility of the past!" ”

Mei Zhihuan smiled, "As long as you abandon your weapons and surrender, and disband and return to your hometown, the imperial court will naturally forgive you for the past crimes." ”

"There is no evidence, we hope to get the pardon document and the exoneration card first."

Liu Jun estimated that these must be the thieves' delaying tactics, "What other conditions are there, put them forward together!" ”

"The little ones don't dare to have other conditions, as long as the imperial court gives the pardon document and the exoneration card, we will surrender immediately when we see the document and the card."

"Okay, you can go back and wait for a reply."

As soon as Liu Jun and the messenger left, he immediately said, "The thieves are deceitful, I think they must be fleeing north." ”

Qin Liangyu also nodded, "I think that's the same." The thieves came out with so much money to paralyze us and take advantage of our vigilance to escape. ”

Under normal circumstances, now the bandits are asking for surrender and showing great sincerity by taking out so much money. Correspondingly, the officers and soldiers must stop the offensive before issuing them a pardon.

"Let's take the initiative." Liu Jun proposed.

"What if the bandits really want to surrender?" Qin Gongmin said on the side.

"Even if he really wants to surrender, we can't give him this chance. How many times have they repeated it, and what kind of integrity is there. Even if he really surrenders today, can you guarantee that he won't rebel after he returns to his hometown one day? "Liu Jun won't believe these people.

"Why don't we wait for the bandits to descend before we do it, wouldn't it be easier?" Qin Gongmin continued.

Liu Jun shook his head, "I don't think the thieves really want to surrender, they just want to delay the army and delay some time." ”

"But they're stuck here now, what are they delaying? Will dragging it out until dawn break through our interception? Yang Gebu should have arrived in Dachang City yesterday. At this time, they are rushing to this side, and the longer the thieves delay, the more bad they will become? Qin Gongmin asked.

Liu Jun also felt that this thing did seem to be a little abnormal, but he just didn't believe that the thief would really descend. But if it's not really down. What is the thief plotting? Liu Jun couldn't figure it out for a while.

Qin Yimin also supported his brother at this time, "I think I might as well agree to the thief's request for the time being, anyway, it will only be more beneficial to us if it drags on, and when the Yang Pavilion Department leads the army to arrive tomorrow." These bandits will no longer want to play any tricks, they will have to surrender in the end! ”

Hu Gongguo also said on the side, "It's dark and night. It's okay for us to defend with fortifications, but if we take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid it's not appropriate. It is better to agree to the thief's request first, and wait until dawn to speak, and then if the thief still wants to negotiate the conditions, we will directly send troops to destroy them. ”

In the end, it was agreed that there would be a truce and a halt.

However, regardless of whether the thieves surrendered or faked, the property they sent in twice before and after was real, worth at least 200,000 taels of silver.

Now these belongings are placed there one by one, whether it is Liu Jun or Qin Yimin and other generals, they all look at it from time to time, and everyone is very interested in these money. It is false to say that he is not tempted, whether it is Liu Jun's nine-headed bird or the white pole soldiers of the Qin and Ma families, they all spent a lot of money to pile up.

Especially at present, the imperial court is in financial difficulty, arrears of wages at every turn, and it is difficult to get the reward in time if it wins the battle.

Mei Zhihuan had already noticed everyone's eyes, and he shook his head and smiled.

Liu Jun stepped forward, "Teacher, it's better to send this money as a reward for the soldiers, everyone works hard and fights for the imperial court, and they must be rewarded." ”

Liu Jun means that he wants to divide the money privately, from the perspective of the law of the Ming Dynasty, this is a mistake, or even a crime. After all, these are bribes from Cao Cao and other thieves, and they belong to stolen money.

However, Liu Jun didn't care about this, he sent troops into Sichuan, fought several battles, but not much was captured, and they even brought the food they ate from Huguang, and the local government did not levy a few stones of grain at all. Now that there is finally a pen of silver in front of him, how can he still spit it out again?

Mei Zhihuan also understands what Liu Jun means, what does the war rely on? It depends on the soldiers' lives, but why do the soldiers use their lives? Loyalty to the emperor's court was naturally partial, but more was motivated by food and rewards. He also knew that the imperial court was always in arrears now, and Liu Jun's nine-headed bird had hardly received any salary, and even if there was a salary, it would have to go through layers of deductions and delays. The situation of rewards is similar, for military achievements, they often do not get real rewards, and rewards are often just empty rewards and cannot be honored.

Now even if he hands over this money to the imperial court, he will definitely not reward the soldiers in the end.

"Well, give it to the soldiers."

Mei Zhihuan was still more fair, he divided the property worth 200,000 taels into ten parts, and then distributed them to the ministries. The principle of the penny is one for each battalion. When Mei Zhihuan entered Sichuan, there were five battalions, and later one battalion was temporarily added, Li Changgeng and Yuan Jixian each had a Fubiao battalion, and Qin Liangyu brought 5,000 white pole soldiers, which was counted as two battalions.

So it was exactly ten battalions, and each battalion received a portion, which was equivalent to twenty thousand pieces of silver for one battalion. Such a principle of partition actually takes good care of Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian and Qin Liangyu. After all, Li Yuan's soldiers basically did not go to the battlefield and had been stationed in the rear, and the white pole soldiers had just arrived. And it's just a bet in the back, and I haven't played before.

Qin Yimin, Qin Gongmin, and Ma Xianglin were all very happy, and they came all the way, and they didn't do anything, but they had 40,000 taels in the account, which was really wanted.

Liu Jun didn't care about these details, and expressed his approval of this division, after all, many things can't be taken too seriously, Qin Liangyu is the chief military officer, and Yuan Jixian and Li Changgeng are both bosses. Do you still want to fight with them?

"No, we don't have merit and can't be punished, and our white pole soldiers don't have an inch of merit, so we can't accept this." Qin Liangyu stood up and objected.

"Qin Shuai, why do you need to refuse, if you don't come to reinforce, even if we intercept here, we won't be able to stop it. I heard that Qin Shuai scattered his wealth to replenish military expenses and led his troops to escort the king, which made Liu Jun deeply admired. Although it is a bit irregular, we are not embezzling corruption, but using it to support the army and soldiers, and to be diligent in the king's affairs. ”

Mei Zhihuan is also persuading on the side. "If you don't take this money, Liu Jun won't dare to take it, and the old man will be embarrassed to take it."

Under the persuasion of everyone, Qin Liangyu agreed to share the money. However, she only took 20,000 yuan, and she gave the other two to Liu Jun. Liu Jun's three battalions took 60,000, but Qin Liangyu gave him 20,000. Mei Zhihuan also took 20,000 yuan from his own 60,000 li to Liu Jun, and Liu Jun divided half of it at once and got 100,000 taels worth of property.

Seeing that everyone defended themselves so much, Liu Jun was not hypocritical, and accepted it all with a smile.

This night, Qin Liangyu led the white pole soldiers to be responsible for the defense of the sentry, and the Huguang soldiers of the other battalions could finally take a good rest. Although everyone still stayed in the position, pillowing their weapons, they fell asleep.

The sky was slightly bright, and Liu Jun woke up.

He first climbed high and took a clairvoyant mirror to inspect the bandits' camp, and after the bandits surrendered last night, they took the soldiers and horses to a place ten miles away from the official army and set up camp, and they could still be seen from a distance.

"The thief camp seems to be quiet!"

Liu Jun looked at it for a while and felt a little surprised.

"Maybe they're really going to come down." Fu Shan stood beside Liu Jun and said.

"I don't believe these people, not at all. There are still tens of thousands of these thieves, and after getting rid of the families and women and children who accompany the army, the thief army is at least more than 40,000, how could they surrender so easily? ”

"General, Mei Du and Qin Shuai invite you to come over to discuss the matter." A Chinese soldier rushed to inform. Liu Jun hurriedly rushed to the Chinese army, and under Mei Zhihuan's handsomeness, Mei Zhihuan and Qin Liangyu both looked not very good.

"What's going on?" Liu Jun asked.

"Our scouting horse has just reported that there is no trace of the soldiers and horses led by the Yang Pavilion Department for fifty miles nearby." Mei Zhihuan replied.

"How come, He Renlong has already arrived in Dachang the day before yesterday, according to our news, Yang Gebu should have arrived in Dachang yesterday. Although Dachang is more than 100 miles away from here, it is less than 200 miles away, even if the large army sets off together, it can't get here now, but it should not be far from here. ”

"That's true, so I'm worried something might be going on over there."

Liu Jun's first reaction was that Yang Sichang might not come on purpose, or maybe he wanted to wait for the bandits and Huguang Army to fight first before he came to pick peaches.

Just when everyone was speculating and suspicious, someone reported it.

"There is a group of people running from the thief camp, saying that they want to surrender to us, and he has important news to report, he said, Cao Cao has run away!"

"What?" Liu Jun and the others were really surprised at this time.

"Bring him right away where he is."

Soon, the soldiers brought up a man, a tall man.

"Little one, meet the Lords."

Liu Jun glanced at the person, feeling that this person was not an ordinary thief, "Who are you, tell me your identity in detail." ”

The man was swept away by Liu Jun, and he couldn't help but feel a little palpitating, he didn't dare to hide it, and said honestly, "The younger one is Deng Tianwang, who was originally with the Eight Great Kings." ”

Listening carefully to his report, Liu Jun and the others knew that something big had happened. It turned out that Luo Rucai had really thought about surrendering after he was blocked in breaking through to the south last night. At this time, Luo Rucai received the news of the accident of the officials and soldiers of Dachang City, and then Luo Rucai sent a large amount of property to Liu Jun and others, and then pretended to surrender and asked for an exoneration card.

After stabilizing the official army and no longer attacking, Luo Rucai led his troops to retreat ten miles. He divided the soldiers and horses into three parts, the original part of Zhang Xianzhong was stationed in the south, the old battalion was stationed in the middle, and Luo Rucai and Xiao Qin Wang and other accomplices of the five battalions were stationed in the north, and they were separated from each other by two miles.

Then, after dawn, the White Horse Deng Tianwang couldn't find Luo Rucai and the others. In the end, he found that Luo Rucai had run away, and he and the leaders of the other four battalions of his accomplices took their respective old brothers in the war camp, and then only took a small number of family members and ran away quietly on horseback.

"Are you sure they ran away?" Liu Jun asked.

"Ran away, not only did they run away, but Huang Hu's military advisor Pan Duao took Huang Hu's four righteous sons to pull a group of people and horses, and I don't know when they ran away."

"How many people did Cao Cao take to run away?"

"Cao Cao and his gang took away five battalions of Tangma cavalry, about 3,000 people, all of them were one man and two horses. Pan Duao and Zhang Kewang took away four or five hundred horsemen. ”

Liu Jun, Mei Zhihuan, Qin Liangyu and others glanced at each other, and they all knew that they were still careless. But in the final analysis, Yang Sichang has to be blamed, during the war, there was a mutiny on his side, not to mention rushing to meet the teacher, but he made a mess himself. As a result, Zai Ti and others found an opportunity, and decisively left tens of thousands of other tens of thousands of people, and fled north with only the elite cavalry.

Zhang Xianzhong's military advisor and Yizi must have also discovered Luo Rucai later and they ran away, and then they also ran away. Only the white horse Deng Tianwang and others were left in the drums and abandoned here.

Deng Tianwang must have found that it was too late to run with him, and he didn't have a horse yet, and he couldn't fight if he stayed, so he simply ran and surrendered.

Liu Jun immediately informed Feng Sheng to bring someone to confirm the news of Deng Tianwang, and soon Feng Sheng came back, and indeed found a lot of things wrong, the five battalions in the north were missing many horses, and the preliminary judgment of Deng Tianwang's report was the truth.

"Cao Cao can't wait for more than 3,000 horsemen, they will definitely not be able to break through the Yang Pavilion Department." Qin Liangyu said.

Liu Jun shook his head, saying in his heart that this is not necessarily. When Cao Cao and the others moved with tens of thousands of horses, it was quite sluggish, but now that he had left behind the large group of men and horses, only with the elite, and they were all cavalry after they fled, it was not easy for Yang Sichang to intercept them, especially when Yang Sichang's side was still in chaos.

"Mei Du, Qin Shuai, now attack the thief camp immediately! Take advantage of the leaderlessness of the group of thieves to take them down in one fell swoop. ”

Mei Zhihuan also didn't expect to let Cao Cao and other thieves run away in the end, he was very unhappy, and nodded immediately, "Don't let another thief escape!" ”

Qin Liangyu stepped forward and asked for an order, "Please let me be the striker with a white pole!" ”

The order to attack was quickly conveyed, and 20,000 officers and soldiers quickly moved, and Ma Xianglin, the hussar general of Qin Liangyu's son, took the lead in leading 5,000 white-pole soldiers to rush out of the fence like a tide and kill the bandit camp ten miles away.

Then the battalions of the Hydra and others followed.

The officers and soldiers rushed closer and closer, and the people in the thief camp were still kept in the dark, and they didn't know that Luo Rucai and the others had run away, and when they saw the officers and soldiers killed, they immediately screamed in surprise, but unfortunately the top of the bandits were either beheaded and captured, or they fled and surrendered, and they couldn't even organize effective resistance, so they were already broken into the temporary camp without even a fence by the white pole soldiers.

Half an hour later, Liu Jun and others rode into the bandit camp, and the more than 40,000 bandits and more than 10,000 family members of the old camp who were abandoned here by Luo Rucai and others were completely controlled by the officers and soldiers.

"Report to the general, a total of more than 600 people who stubbornly resisted and refused to surrender were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner, a total of more than 61,800 prisoners!" A nine-headed bird officer loudly reported the results of the battle to Liu Junyu.

Such brilliant results, Liu Jun couldn't help laughing! (To be continued......)