The Guangming Temple was unexpectedly not burned down by the official army, but the side courtyard was a mess, the feces all over the ground, filthy, even the well at the door was thrown into filth, and the draft water had to be used for the time being.

Long Qian, who led the team back to the mountain, was concerned about the injury of the Aggressive Village, and did not stop at the Guangming Temple, so he asked Wang Mingyuan and Lu Shan to temporarily escort the captives into the Guangming Temple, and took Jiang Yun to rush to the Aggressive Village. Feng Guozhu, Ye Yanbing, Feng Lun and others followed behind, trotting all the way.

"Jin Kingdom, Second Tiger," Long Qian shouted from afar. Approaching the village, the officers and soldiers had obviously been here, and the houses where the Eighth and Sixth Teams used to live, including the walled brothel courtyard, had become a ruined wall.

"Captain, you're finally back...... "The first one to run out of the forest was a soldier named Fei Ning, Long Qian recognized him as a soldier of Lushan's first team, and he was wounded in the leg and was left in the village.

"Old Song, Captain Long is back!" Although he had already learned the news that the brigade had successfully broken through and won the battle, seeing Long Qian, Fei Ning still shouted excitedly.

Long Qian was pleasantly surprised to see people running out of the woods on the other side of the Dusk Mountain Pavilion one after another, and he saw the bearded Song Jinguo at a glance.

"Old Song, look, what I said is good, right? Shall we meet now? How are you doing? ”

Holding Long Qian's hand, Song Jinguo burst into tears, "I'm afraid I won't be able to see you...... Everybody's fine. Seeing Erhu and Jiang Yun, I was finally relieved. ”

Gu Xiaolin, who limped behind Song Jinguo, also burst into tears.

"I guessed that the officers and soldiers didn't care about carefully searching the mountains." Long Qian smiled and hugged Song Jinguo, and patted the head of the former guard. That is, after a few days' work, Lao Song's eye sockets were deep, his beard was unshaven, and he was haggard.

Long Qian let go of Lao Song and hugged his subordinates who ran out of the forest one by one, and the prostitutes also ran out, standing two feet away and looking at the returning team, their faces were full of excitement and excitement.

"Thanks to those women." Lao Song said, "The officers and soldiers burned down the house and withdrew, and waited for another day, seeing that there was nothing to do, we came out of the cellar, and we didn't dare to go back to the Guangming Temple, that is, they took care of the injured number and changed the dressing, and they didn't dare to make a fire when cooking......

"If you look at them as a man, they will look at you as a benefactor. It's as simple as that. Long Qian said in a low voice. His gaze turned to Sun Juan, who was the leader, "Sister Sun, sisters, thank you." Long Qian walked over and bowed deeply to the women.

Seven women panicked. Sun Juan, who was the leader, turned sideways and avoided it, choked up and said, "We can't afford to kill us." ”

"Afford it!" Long Qian smiled and said, "In the future, you will be soldiers of the eighth team, and we will be comrades-in-arms." ”

"Captain, the heads of the family haven't come back yet, and you don't have any news from them?" Old Song didn't see a single leader.

"There is no news from them yet. It's only a matter of a day or two to come back, or you won't be back. How's the wounded guys? ”

"Two died, the rest were fine." Old Song was a little gloomy.

"Don't be discouraged." Feng Guozhu held Lao Song's hand, "Our eighth team made a fortune this time and captured Maoyang Town, and captured more than a hundred prisoners alone!" There is also a foreign devil who also brought back to the captain. ”

Seven women let out loud exclamations.

The wounded people who were able to walk came out, Long Qian asked them about their situation one by one, and it was generally very bad, some of them emitted a pungent stench, and it was estimated that the wound was suppurated. Fortunately, he brought back some bandages and Chinese medicine this time, and Long Qian counted them, including the injured people who couldn't move, a total of twenty-three people. In this way, with the addition of the brigade returning to the mountain, the total number was one hundred and forty-eight, less than half of the number before the battle of the eighth and sixth teams. But these people will be the strongest and most reliable fighters after this life-and-death battle.

Of course, there were more than 100 captives who were "coerced" back to the mountain.

However, the three seriously injured numbers left in the aggressive village are afraid that they will not be successful in Long Qian's opinion. Two of them were shot, and they were all injured, and the other one was pierced through the abdomen by a gun, and it had suppurated, not to mention that the cottage was destroyed now, and there was a lack of medical treatment, even when the cottage was thriving, such a serious injury, the few doctors who were coerced up the mountain by Sun Dewang must be helpless. In Long Qian's view, those doctors are treating general colds and flu, and the surgery is basically treated according to the method of veterinarians. Bandits are also pitiful, and when they are sick or injured, it depends on their own creation.

However, in this era, even high-ranking officials and giants often die because of a non-fatal injury.

This was a time when human life was valued by livestock.

"Let's not talk about anything else, everyone is hungry, open the stove, eat a full meal first." Long Qian waved his hand vigorously, "Guozhu, Yan Bing, a few of you will send the injured brothers to the Guangming Temple for resettlement, we can't live here." ”

The brigade returning to the mountain was already hungry. I didn't care about anything else, so I immediately made a fire to cook, poured the dry food and the ground flour I brought back into a large pot and boiled a pot of paste, put salt in it, and everyone ate it fragrantly.

Back at Guangming Temple, Long Qian ate two large bowls of "batter batter" and wiped his mouth, "Old Song," he shouted to Song Jinguo, "You take the people who seal the national pillar to count the materials in the village and count them thoroughly." Mingyuan, Lu Shan," he shouted to the two cronies who were still gobbling up their squatting aside, "after eating, you come with me to Dongzhai, where the captives will be placed in the future." The rest of the people cleaned up the Guangming Temple, cleaned up, we have to live here for a long time, make it cleaner, don't look like a pigsty. ”

The materials hidden in the village are all there, and those things were buried by Song Jinguo himself, intact.

After Long Qian had a meal, he took Wang Mingyuan and walked all over Lushan, Dongzhai had been burned down, but the stone walls were still there.

"Mingyuan, you bring the captives here to work, first cut down trees and repair the house, your team is responsible for guarding the prisoners tonight, and then change the team to do this every day."

"That foreign devil brought here too?"

"No, the American lives with me, and besides, make the food arrangements as good as possible."

"What are you talking about? It's just a foreign devil__" Feng Lun said dissatisfied.

"You can do whatever you want you to do," Long Qian glared at Feng Lun dissatisfiedly, "Where is so much nonsense?" ”

Feng Lun shook his head and didn't say anything more.

In the evening, Long Qian brought the team back to the village, and in the afternoon a seriously wounded person had died, and the white cloth brought back by the dead soldiers in front of him was wrapped and buried with the previous dead in a large pit where grain was originally stored. Long Qian found a wooden board, wrote the four big characters of the tomb of his comrades-in-arms, and wrote their names later, paid tribute in front of the tomb, and then gave a formal speech to his subordinates for the first time.

"Brothers," Long Qian did not change his name, glancing at the unkempt women at the back of the queue, "Brothers, the dead lying under the land in front of us are our brothers and our comrades-in-arms. They died so that we could live better. They have done their duty, but we have a long way to go because we are alive. Long Qian seemed to feel that his words were a little too civil, coughed a few times, and he raised his voice, "These brothers who died, they all have their own relatives, parents, wives and children, brothers, sisters__, but their relatives still don't know that they have died and will never see each other again." We, the brothers buried in the loess, will not even be able to enjoy the sacrifices of our loved ones, and their souls will not rest in peace. Therefore, I make a rule here, that if our comrades-in-arms die for our common good, we, the living brothers, will erect a monument for them, engrave their names, and offer our sacrifices at their graves at the right time, so that their souls will watch over us and bless us in another world. And we, we must always remember them, remember that they are our brothers, comrades-in-arms who once fought side by side with us, and in the future we will meet with them in another world and continue our friendship__" Long Qian then turned around and knelt in front of the grave, and the men and women standing behind Long Qian also knelt down and bowed respectfully.

Long Qian stood up, "Brothers, you have shed the last drop of blood for our team. We really can't build you even the simplest coffin right now, I'm sorry for you. However, I swear that as long as conditions permit, I will bring out your remains, put them in coffins, and rebury them. ”

Got rid of Long Qian, and the more than 100 people present, including the seven lowly women who had become **, were all shrouded in a solemnity that they had never experienced, and the atmosphere became solemn.

Long Qian turned to look at everyone, "The brigade has left Mengshan, if they successfully break through, I estimate that they will not return to the mountain for the time being, and they may develop towards the Mengyin area." If they can't break through smoothly, it's unlikely that they will return to the mountain. What are we going to do? Let's talk about it. ”

This is a heavy topic, the vast majority of the people in the eighth team are not cronies of the few leaders of the cottage, and there are not many people who look forward to the return of the team to the mountain. And after dozens of people in the sixth team experienced the transition between life and death in the past few days, their mood has also changed a lot.

"After we broke off for the brigade, we died for life, and now we are finally safe for the time being, what to do in the future, listen to the captain." Lu Shan shouted.

"Brother Lu Shan's right, we listen to the captain." It was Wang Mingyuan who answered.

They were the two most authoritative squad leaders of Team Eight, so everyone replied in a mess, "We listen to you, Captain." Among them are Ye Yanbing and Feng Lun.

The four-day process of life and death made these people who survived the catastrophe completely convinced Long Qian.

"Okay, I'll follow my rules from now on." Long Qian was not surprised by this, "We have experienced a test of life and death, we have survived, the officers and soldiers have withdrawn, and we are safe for the time being." But it is not excluded that the officials and soldiers will clean up again, which is very likely, and the dog officials are always eager to kill us. ”

Long Qian's words made everyone frightened again.

"To be truly safe, to truly live as individuals, we are not qualified enough. We are thieves in the eyes of the villagers outside the mountain, if we used to rely on the prestige of the cottage, we could obtain silver and two grains, grass and cloth and medicinal materials without swords, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it in the future. The surrounding cottages may be covetous, oh, that's what it means to beat our ideas, and it's not surprising that Green Forest friends have always relied on strength to speak. Even if we can survive on Mengshan, then we people are destined to be bandits for the rest of our lives, we can't marry a wife, we won't have our own offspring, we can't get timely treatment when we are sick__ I'm definitely not threatening everyone, that's the case! ”

Without waiting for the people below to be completely discouraged, Long Qian raised his voice, "But, will we sit still?" Will we fend for ourselves in the mountains? No. We are not stupid, we have to find our own way out. I promise you that I will lead you to a better path, and if you follow that path, there will be an outcome that no one can imagine. Everyone will kill down the mountain, to Mengyin, to Yizhou, to Jinan Mansion, to the capital, not to be beheaded to show the public, but to take our victorious army to be the master of those cities. Yes, we are no longer bandits, we are an army, and from now on, we are called the Mengshan Army. ”

The hundred and ten sluggish bandits who listened to Long Qian's speech below began to exchange ears.

"Don't doubt what I say. This world is fucking bastard, and there's no hope left. We weren't thieves either, and the reason why we became thieves is that each of us has a story that we can tell for half a day and a day. Don't be afraid of the officers and soldiers, you have all seen what the officers and soldiers are like, and you have fought with them. If we had more men and better weapons, we could have killed them without a single piece of armor. At that time, we will become the officers and soldiers of the bandits, and they will probably be thieves. Therefore, what we who survived must first practice our martial arts and turn our identity as bandits into soldiers! In the future, you will know that soldiers and bandits are completely different. ”

Long Qian paused, "The biggest difference between soldiers and bandits is discipline, it can't be said that bandits have no discipline, maybe a few points better than the officers and soldiers who fought with us, but they are far worse than the soldiers in my mind." Iron discipline will transform you, will make you invincible in all future battles, and will make great strides towards what you want to see. Do you want to know what kind of discipline I am asking for? ”

Long Qian looked at everyone, many people had a deep confusion in their eyes, he knew that in front of Lu Dao were a group of ignorant illiterates, most of these people had never been to Yizhou, let alone the provincial capital Jinan Mansion, they didn't know the current general trend of the world, they didn't know what Lu Dao would do next year, what would happen the year after tomorrow, what they hoped was to have a full stomach, if there was wine and meat, it would be better, if they could sleep at night, it would be beautiful.

"That's it today, Lu Shan, tonight your team is responsible for sentry, and several key points in the cottage will be guarded, I will check, don't be sloppy." Tomorrow after breakfast, we will gather in front of the Bright Temple, and I will tell you a few things. Disband. ”