Chapter XVII: Punishment of adultery
After breakfast the next morning, the reinforcements set off, Ma Xiao packed up the belongings of the house and ran to the marching team of the Tongzi battalion, now the thunder battalion and the Tongzi battalion have been combined into one place, the general of the thunder battalion was seriously injured and unconscious, Ma Xiao has been thinking about the traitor in his heart, and he didn't dare to find someone casually to say, in case there are other accomplices in the reinforcements, it will be troublesome, he has made up his mind, go to General Zhang Tongzhang to report this matter, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find it, but he saw Wei Chao in the team with a round shield on his back, and six javelins were inserted diagonally in the shield, although there were only a few sides, and he didn't say a few words, but this Wei Chao still gave him a very down-to-earth feeling, he should not be an accomplice of a traitor, thinking so in his heart, Ma Xiao ran towards Wei Chao quickly.
Walking in the back, a soldier with a big waist and a round waist saw the waist knife on Ma Xiao's waist, the scabbard is made of good Wutong wood, and the handle is made of red ironwood, whether it is the luster of lacquer or the silk thread wrapped around the sheath, it looks like a good knife, this group of soldiers is thin and small, it must have been picked up when cleaning the battlefield, grandma's, I have been a soldier for so many years, and I haven't handed over such a good knife, what do the soldiers behind think Ma Xiao doesn't know, just when he was about to catch up with Wei Chao, this soldier with a big waist grabbed him from behind, and carried him in front of him with one hand like a chicken"Little doll, how does your Yanling knife look like I lost it, say, did you steal it from me, you little thief, look at how grandpa taught you today" said that he stretched out his other hand to take the knife over, Ma Xiaoyan was fast, and his hand held the handle of the knife at the moment he was picked up, and he saw that the soldier with the bear-like figure wanted to snatch his knife clearly, how could he still let him, he pulled the knife out with a swoop, and shouted "Little master, I paid it myself", and said that he raised his two hands high and cut the soldier's face.
As soon as the soldier saw that the doll in his hand was like a little mad dog and wanted to bite himself, he threw Ma Xiao to the ground, pulled out a generous waist knife and cut it at the neck of the "dog cub".
"Dog, dare to bark at grandpa" The cold light flashed under the morning sun, the thick waist knife was cut down, Ma Xiao rolled on the ground and dodged, a blow missed, the soldier with a big waist and a round waist stumbled forward, and the anger was even greater, and the soldiers who marched together next to him were also surprised, this little doll reacted very quickly, Ma Xiao rolled on the ground and quickly stood up, bowed, holding the scimitar out of the sheath with both hands against the soldier, his eyes were full of ruthlessness to kill, and when the soldier strode over to cut the second time, a loud shout sounded next to him, "Stop!" A lieutenant general on horseback rushed to the front, threw up the whip and whipped it on the pawn and the horse, neither of them dared to dodge, the whip of the superior officer could not be hidden, and he dodged the beating more, "Fuck, all fucking fed and supported, and learned to reverse in the nest" After speaking, "pop" was two whips again, and the arms and faces of the soldiers and Ma Xiao were red scales, and the two people lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.
At this time, Wei Chao, who was walking in front, walked over and hugged his fist at the deputy general on horseback, "General Wu, these two people are a little misunderstood, they are just learning from each other, they don't want to fight, I'll deal with it."
"Hmph! When I saw the Chu soldiers one by one, I didn't see such a "horseback" General Wu didn't have to pay attention to this kind of trivial things among the soldiers, but the reinforcements had just been defeated, and the morale was already low, and he also had a fire in his heart, and there was nowhere to vent, this Wei Chao was a veteran who could fight, and he had some prestige in the barracks, so "General Wu" no longer entangled, and rode to the front.
"Hmph, son of a bitch, you are lucky today, one day grandpa is in a bad mood, I have to dig up your heart and liver to drink" The soldier with a big waist and a round waist withdrew his waist knife and scolded and left, and several soldiers next to him laughed, Ma Xiaoke was not afraid of him at all, he didn't speak, but he rehearsed several ways to kill this bear in his heart.
"You have a big life, you haven't been burned to death yet," Wei Chao said to Ma Xiao with his head bowed.
"That fat man still taught someone to kill him in the end, but thank you Brother Wei for attracting the soldiers in the front yard that night, otherwise I would have burned to charcoals" Ma Xiao returned.
"Oh, how do you know I lured the soldiers in the front yard away?"
"Although I'm young, I'm not stupid, Brother Wei just jumped out of the window and the soldiers in the front yard went to chase you, you must be trying to save the two of us"
"Hmph, well, your doll is quite bright" Wei Chao suddenly felt that the young man in front of him did not look like a teenage doll, and that night he did jump out of the window in order to create an opportunity for the two people who were still in the hut to escape, and took the initiative to attract the soldiers in the front yard.
"Brother Wei, I have something important to tell General Zhang, can you take me to meet him" Ma asked in a low voice.
"General Zhang's old wound has recurred, heal in the carriage in front, what do you have to wait and talk"
"Then I'll tell you first, and when you see General Zhang, I'll tell him," Ma Xiao said as he pulled Wei Chao farther away from the marching procession, and told him what he had seen and heard in the straw pile.
"What you say is true?" After listening to this, Wei Chao asked cautiously, "This is not a trivial matter, and it can't be joked."
"It's true, Brother Wei, I can hear it clearly," Ma Xiaoye said with a straight face.
"Who is that captain, you can show me"
"Okay, you come with me" Ma Xiao finished speaking and returned to the marching team of the Tongzi Battalion with Wei Chao again, his eyes swept around the soldiers, and finally found the captain, who was sitting behind the heavily loaded carriage at the moment, chatting and laughing with a few veterans, Ma Xiao quietly pointed out to Wei Chao, Wei Chao nodded.
"Let's go, you follow me to see General Zhang" After Wei Chao finished speaking, he strode to the front of the team, and Ma Xiao followed closely behind. After a while, he came to a carriage with a shed, Wei Chao whispered a few words to a guard, and the guard jumped down after getting into the carriage and said to Wei Chao, "General Zhang let you two in."
Ma Xiao and Wei Chao got into the carriage and entered the shed, only to see Zhang Tong naked upper body, a medical officer was cleaning the wound on his shoulder, the wound had festered, this wound Ma Xiao remembered, it was the last time he was injured when he encountered Chu Jun by the river after catching the strong man, the light in the shed was very dark, Zhang Tong closed his eyes and didn't look at the people who came in, his face was beads of sweat.
"General Zhang, we have a traitor in the Tongzi battalion," Wei Chao said to Zhang Tong with a fist.
Zhang Tong still closed his eyes and replied, "Well, go on."
"This young man saw the traitor and Chu Jun making a connection" Wei Chao returned, turned his head to Ma Xiao and said, "Tell General Zhang what you just said again, you can't miss a word."
Ma Xiao nodded and said what he saw that day again, Zhang Tong did not open his eyes from beginning to end, and the medical officer next to him used a thin blade to cut the carrion on Zhang Tong's shoulders little by little, and his head was also full of sweat, constantly wiping it with a sweat towel.
After Ma Xiao finished speaking, Zhang Tong nodded and said, "Wei Chao, are you sure who it is?"
"This young man identified a military commander under Deputy General Kong, named Deng Liang," Wei Chao returned.
"Well, you go and keep an eye on it first, and bring people over when you cook at noon" Zhang Tong said lightly, with tiredness in his tone, completely different from the full of anger when he went to Shicheng to catch the strong man that day, and after a pause, he gave an eviction order, "Go down!"
After getting out of the carriage, Wei Chao said to Ma Xin, "You go back first, don't tell others about this beforehand", and Ma Xiaohan said yes and returned to the gangtou camp.
The morning passed quickly, and at noon, the leaders of the army gathered together, put a row of stoves on the ground, set up a row of cauldrons and began to cook soup, just when the radish soup in the pot was just boiling, several soldiers arrived in front of the stove, and one of the soldiers with big shoulders and round waist stood up, this man and horse knew each other, it was the person who was going to grab his knife in the morning, and the soldier pointed to one of the largest pots and said, "That's it, carry it away" After speaking, six or seven soldiers came up with a cauldron of boiling water and carried away with ropes and burdens, the surrounding people were curious, and quickly followed to see the excitement, Ma Xiao also came to be curious, and followed the crowd to a temporary high platform, those soldiers put the cauldron on the high platform, the boiling water inside was steaming mist, and there were also sitting on the high platform The generals and several deputy generals who led the troops this time, and the soldiers who stopped to rest under the high platform were all curiously looking at the battle in front of them, and they were discussing.
After setting up the cauldron, the soldier with a big shoulder and a round waist stood up and shouted, "Quiet, Quiet!" When the crowd stopped talking, the soldier shouted again, "We have two thousand brothers who came out of Suizhou City together, but the night before yesterday in Yushu Village, we were attacked by thieves, and we broke four or five hundred good men and burned half of the grain and grass, this is to cut off our brothers' back road", the crowd talked again, and the man with a big waist and a round waist spoke again. Today, we caught a dog traitor who ate inside and out, and it was he who gave the route of our reinforcements to the thieves, which made us worse."
This sentence made the crowd explode at once, everyone who came out to fight, many of them in the barracks were related to each other, even if they didn't know each other before, they had become brothers who had been born and died for a long time, and they were all closer than their relatives, so many people died last time, and everyone had long suspected that someone had leaked secrets, otherwise how could the other party be so well prepared, waiting for reinforcements to take the bait, and they were caught off guard.
"Bring it on!" The soldier with a big waist and a round waist shouted again, and several soldiers escorted a man with a cloak and a body covered in blood to the stage, and the soldier pulled up the prisoner's hair to show his face to the people below, and Ma Xiao also saw that it was the captain he had identified, "Deng Liang, what else do you have to say?" The soldier asked with a glare.
Deng Liang raised his head and looked at the angry crowd below, and suddenly burst out laughing, "Hahahahaha...... A group of ghosts who don't know how to die, are still watching the excitement below."
"Dare to laugh" The soldier with a big waist and round waist was suddenly furious, and even slapped Deng Liang in the mouth a few times, Deng Liang's nose and mouth were bleeding, and the people below were also angry with the crowd: "Kill him, Kill him!" "Chop this traitor into pulp!"
"Hey, hey, hey........" Deng Liang laughed again, his face was covered with blood, and he laughed madly, "Do you know that when you are watching the excitement here, Suizhou City has already been beaten down, you have a home and can't go back, and you will soon become a lonely ghost, hahahaha......"
"What are you talking about? You tell me clearly" The soldier with a big waist grabbed Deng Liang's collar and asked, his wife and children are all in Suizhou City, if Suizhou really falls, I dare not think of the result. The generals and lieutenants in the back also stood up, apparently they didn't know the news either.