Chapter Seventy-Two: Please take the blame
More than 300 personal soldiers escorted 'Dou Jiande' only three miles, and there was no way out, and thousands of Sui cavalry surrounded them, holding torches high, and illuminating the field as if it were day.
Cheng Yanjin rode Dou Jiande's white horse, his heart was full of pride, he urged the horse to step forward, raised the big axe and pointed, "Hand over Dou Jiande, Rao Er and wait for his life, otherwise none of them will survive!" ”
Luo Shixin was beside Cheng Yanjin, he saw Dou Xianniang in the army, her eyes were still as bright as gems, Luo Shixin looked at her silently, and the look in his eyes was very complicated.
At this time, Dou Xianniang hid in the crowd, stretched her bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow at Cheng Biting Jin's throat, the arrow was as fast as lightning, and it was too late for Cheng Biting Jin to hide, so he screamed in fright, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the axe fell to the ground in shock.
Luo Shixin was quick with his hands and eyes, the horizontal knife slashed obliquely, and the arrow flew out with a knife, Dou Xianniang recognized Luo Shixin, she gritted her teeth with hatred, and shouted, "Sons, protect the prince and rush out!" ”
The guards shouted, escorting Dou Jiande and rushing outward, Cheng Yanjin was so frightened by an arrow just now that he dropped the axe, his face couldn't hang it, he was furious in his heart, picked up the axe and rushed towards Dou Xianniang, but Luo Shixin pushed him away, "Let me come, you go and catch Dou Jiande!" ”
A sentence reminded Cheng Yanjin, almost missed a big event, he roared, picked up the axe and rushed towards Dou Jiande, "Old man Dou, leave Lao Tzu's wealth behind!" ”
Luo Shixin stopped Dou Xianniang with a swing of his spear, and sneered, "That arrow of hatred, you should give me an explanation!" ”
"Humph! This girl's statement is to give you another knife. ”
When the knife arrived, the cold light flashed. The phoenix tail knife slashed at Luo Shixin's neck, Luo Shixin was not in a hurry, and the iron spear head struck on the back of the phoenix tail knife, 'Dang! With a loud bang, Dou Xianniang's arms were shocked and numb, she couldn't hold the knife shaft, and the knife came out of her hand. Luo Shixin picked up the big iron gun and stabbed her in the throat.
Dou Xianniang's face was as frightened as earth, but the iron spear only flickered in front of her eyes. She didn't stab her, and the moment the two horses staggered, she jerked out her sword. A sword stabbed him in the waist, but he hesitated, just now the enemy general spared his life......
When she hesitated, Luo Shixin gently stretched her ape arm, grabbed her wrist, and grabbed her armor silk with the other hand, captured her alive, and pressed her in front of her saddle.
This is, Dou Jiande's guards became fewer and fewer, and they were gradually surrounded and divided by the Sui army. Dou Jiande fled, Cheng Yanjin kept staring at him, he tried his best to catch up, and an axe slashed at Dou Jiande's war horse's ass from behind, and the war horse neighed miserably. Dou Jiande's body was crooked and he fell out sideways.
Cheng Biting Jin was overjoyed, threw away the axe and jumped down, rode on Dou Jiande, held him down, and shouted loudly with joy: "This credit belongs to Lao Tzu." No one is allowed to fight! ”……
Luo Shixin urged the horse to leave the battlefield, ran out of two miles away, and put Dou Xianniang on the ground, Dou Xianniang stood up, took a few steps back, like a fierce little she-wolf, staring at Luo Shixin viciously, "You are not allowed to approach me!" ”
The woman's natural vigilance told her that he must not have been at ease when he took himself out into the wilderness.
Luo Shixin glanced at her silently, turned his horse's head and headed towards the Sui army brigade, Dou Xianniang was stunned for a moment, he actually let himself go.
She couldn't believe her thoughts, and asked loudly, "Aren't you going to kill me to avenge my death?" ”
Luo Shixin ignored her, urging the horse to go away, Dou Xianniang looked at his back blankly, she sighed, turned around and walked south, but where should she go? Uncle was arrested, will Sui Jun let him go?
But no matter where she goes, she must leave the battlefield as soon as possible, it is extremely unsafe here, there are Sui troops and defeated soldiers everywhere, but she is bare-handed, and there is no horse, if she is encountered by the defeated soldiers, the consequences are unimaginable, she raises her eyes and looks around, at least to find a weapon.
At that moment, there was a voice from behind me, 'Da Da! The sound of horses' hooves, Dou Xianniang turned around, only to see an extremely agile rouge war horse appear in the dark, slowly came to her, stopped, and gently arched her with his mouth.
This turned out to be her war horse, and immediately there was her knife and bow and arrows, and there was a small bag on the saddle, Dou Xianniang only felt at a loss in her heart, she slowly opened the small bag, and there were a few ingots of gold in it, and her eyes suddenly became a little blurred.
Dou Xianniang bit her lip, turned over on her horse, whipped her horse violently, and galloped south......
The gate of Leshou City was opened, and the general Ruan Junming led tens of thousands of troops out of the city to surrender, and he knelt in front of Yang Yuanqing's war horse with more than a dozen generals, "Ruan Junming, the guilty general, does not know the power of heaven, and asks His Royal Highness the King of Chu for guilt!" ”
Yang Yuanqing dismounted and helped him up, and comforted him with kind words: "You can be considerate of the soldiers and the people, and protect Leshou City and tens of thousands of soldiers, this is your credit, I will give you a future." ”
Ruan Junming was overjoyed: "I am willing to serve the governor!" ”
Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered Qin Qiong to receive the army, and let Pei Qingsong enter the city to pacify the people of the government, at this time, the soldiers pushed Cao Dan and Fan Yuan up, both of whom were tied up, and they were captured alive in the fierce battle.
The two knelt down and begged: "We are willing to surrender to His Royal Highness the King of Chu, serve His Highness, and beg His Royal Highness the King of Chu to spare our lives!" ”
Yang Yuanqing sneered, "Those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me die, you only think of surrendering now, if you don't kill you, how can you appease my fallen soldiers?" ”
He shouted to the left and right, "Push the two of them down, slash!" ”
The soldiers pushed the two down, and the two shouted from afar: "Your Highness spare your life...... Spare your life! ”
Yang Yuanqing was unmoved, if they were spared, then all the enemies would resist desperately in the future, and finally surrender if they couldn't fight, how could there be such a good thing in the world?
At this time, a soldier rushed over and knelt down on one knee to report: "Chief Qiqi, General Cheng has caught Dou Jiande and is waiting for the chief manager in the camp!" ”
Yang Yuanqing was stunned, Dou Jiande didn't run away, he was caught by Cheng Yanjin, in fact, Yang Yuanqing didn't care much about Dou Jiande, it was good to be able to catch it, but if he ran away, it would also have long-term strategic significance.
Since he was caught, of course he wanted to take a look at this Hebei hero, Yang Yuanqing turned over and got on the horse. With hundreds of personal soldiers, he rushed to the camp......
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Cheng bit Jin Zheng and more than a dozen generals were spitting, his heart was about to explode with joy, and when he caught Dou Jiande, he didn't know how much reward he should have?
"At least 10,000 taels of gold, although the manager did not announce it, but Dou Jiande is worth this price. When the time comes, I will treat myself in the Baiyu Building in Taiyuan and set up a hundred tables of banquets. Whoever does not come will be the son of the turtle. ”
"Lao Cheng, take Dou Jian out and take a look. I know him, and if it's really him, then you're going to make a fortune. ”
"It must be him, I grabbed it with my own hands, the manager is here, I naturally pulled him out, I can't show it to you now." Cheng Biting Jin said triumphantly.
At this time, someone shouted, "The manager is here!" ”
I saw Yang Yuanqing walking in quickly from outside the tent, and the generals saluted one after another. Yang Yuanqing nodded, returned to the handsome seat and sat down, he glanced at Cheng Yanjin, saw that he was full of spring breeze, and he didn't wait for himself to speak. Cheng Yanjin stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "Chief Qiyu, I caught Dou Jiande with my humble position, and I am here to ask for credit!" ”
Yang Yuanqing nodded: "Where are the people?" ”
Cheng Yanjin stood up and waved his hand outside the tent: "Bring him up!" ”
Several soldiers brought Dou Jiande, who was blindfolded with a black cloth, and took off his blindfold. And took out the rag that was stuck in his mouth.
'Dou Jiande' fell to his knees and kowtowed, "The general spares his life!" I'm not Dou Jiande, my name is Liu Quan, and I'm his stand-in. ”
Everyone in the tent was stunned, and a general who knew Dou Jiande stepped forward to identify it carefully, turned back to Yang Yuanqing and said: "Report to the manager, this person looks very similar to Dou Jiande, but he has a black mole on the wing of his nose, and Dou Jiande does not, and the accent is not right, it should not be true." ”
Yang Yuanqing sneered, of course it's not true, how could the real Dou Jiande kneel and kowtow again, he just said, how could Dou Jiande be so easy to catch? He glanced at Cheng Yanjin.
Cheng Biting Jin's face had swelled into the color of pig liver, he rushed forward and kicked the stand-in hard, scolding: "You bastard! Why didn't you say it earlier, let Lao Tzu lose face. ”
The stand-in hugged his head and said: "I've always wanted to say, but you blocked my mouth, I whined, you just slapped me, dare I say?" ”
The generals in the big tent couldn't hold back anymore, and laughed loudly, Cheng Yanjin was ashamed and embarrassed, Yang Yuanqing waved his hand to make everyone quiet, and he asked the stand-in: "Where is the real Dou Jiande?" ”
"He ran ahead of us, his face painted with red paint, and he must have been caught by the general, who I saw still riding his white horse."
Dou Jiande's stand-in glanced at Cheng Yanjin very strangely, obviously he caught it, why did he still talk about himself.
Cheng Biting Jin's mouth opened wide all of a sudden, and his eyes were about to burst out......,......
Yang Yuanqing scolded Cheng Jiande, confiscated his white horse, and drove him out of the big tent, Cheng Yanjin had never seen Dou Jiande, and it was night, he was confused by Dou Jiande, this was not his responsibility, and he did not give him the task of catching Dou Jiande, so he could only scold him a few words.
At this time, Luo Shixin was the only one left in the big tent, with a worried look on his face, Yang Yuanqing looked at him strangely, "Do you have anything else?" ”
Luo Shixin sighed and knelt down on one knee, "The last general is here to plead guilty!" ”
Yang Yuanqing stared at him for a long time, and then asked lightly: "What crime have you committed?" ”
"The Admiral violated Clause 4 of the Catch-Laws."
Yang Yuanqing's face changed, "The fourth paragraph is to release prisoners of war privately, behead!" ’
"Who did you let go?" Yang Yuanqing's tone became stern.
Luo Shixin lowered his head and said in a low voice for a while: "It should be Dou Jiande's niece, called Dou Xianniang." ”
Yang Yuanqing's stern gaze softened suddenly, the spring in this kid's heart finally came, and he nodded, "Why did you want to let her go?" ”
Luo Shixin bit his lip tightly, didn't answer for a long time, and finally burst out with a sentence: "Humble and willing to admit guilt!" ”
"Who else knows about this?" Yang Yuanqing stared at him again and asked.
"Except for a few lowly pro-soldiers, no one knows."
Yang Yuanqing walked to the door of the tent with his hands behind his back, stared at the outside of the tent, and after a while, he sighed, "You can not say anything about this matter, hide it, but you pushed it to me, Shixin, you make it difficult for me!" ”
Luo Shixin's face showed a look of guilt, "The humble duty knows, but the humble duty doesn't want to hide the manager, since the humble duty has been done, he should take responsibility, and he is willing to accept all punishments." ”
"Humph! What a husband who has the courage to take responsibility. ”
Yang Yuanqing snorted coldly: "You are willing to die for an inexplicable woman?" ”
Luo Shixin bowed his head deeply, and after a long while, he said in a low voice: "There is also Article 12 in the military discipline, those who commit capital crimes can resist death with great merit, and they are willing to give up the merit of conquering Qilipo, except for death, I am willing to accept any punishment, in addition, I beg the governor not to say anything about this matter." ”
"You've got the math first."
Yang Yuanqing smiled coldly, "I thought you were going to say that you were my junior brother, let me forgive you in front of my master." ”
"Don't dare to be humble, the public is the public, the private is the private, and the private will never be used to help the public."
Yang Yuanqing pondered for a long time, and then said slowly: "Although Dou Jiande's niece is not an important prisoner of war, your behavior of releasing prisoners of war privately cannot be spared, and you should be sentenced to death. ”
Luo Shixin knew that the manager was sparing himself, and he was grateful in his heart, "Confess your guilt in your humble duties, thank you for the grace of the manager not to kill!" ”
After a pause, he begged again: "I only plead with the governor to charge other crimes, and I don't want others to know about it." ”
Yang Yuanqing thought about it and said, "Let Cheng Yanjin owe you a favor!" Let go of Dou Jiande, as the main general, you should be punished. ”