Chapter 145: Winter Coat

At the beginning of the Tang month, the unexpected heavy snow in the Lingguo flew for several days, and the weather was cold.

The sentry reported that he saw a convoy of officers and soldiers escorting the convoy in the direction of Rizhao Pass.

Gu Du pondered for a moment and asked, "How many people?" ”

The sentinel replied, "Five hundred guards, more than a hundred laborers." ”

Gu Du said: "Two thousand soldiers, no matter what it is, rob it." ”

Feng Jiu went out to order troops in response, and Dongfang Xia Lan asked puzzledly: "There are only six hundred people, what are you doing with two thousand soldiers?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Dispose of the corpse and carry the goods." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan blinked, and Gu Du said, "Go and stay with Mo Xuan." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "I'm going into battle!" ”

Gu Du asked, "Do you dare to kill?" ”

Dongfang Xia Lan asked rhetorically: "Do you raise waste?" ”

Gu Du said: "You are the county lord, and you can be regarded as supervising the war on behalf of the emperor." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan sneered: "You are now in power, who dares to supervise the war for you?" ”

Gu Du said: "Armor." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "No, you give me a drape." ”

Gu Dugang looked at Gongsun Yan, Gongsun Yan covered his stomach, sighed with an exaggerated expression, turned his head and ran away.

Gu Du put on Dongfang Xia Lan's armor, Gongsun Yan came back with a smile, Gu Du glanced at her, and said, "Go to my box, take out the soft scale armor given by the emperor and put it on." ”

Gongsun Yan was stunned and asked, "Wear it for your disciple?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Yes, your martial arts skills are the worst, you wear them." ”

Two thousand people descended the mountain and surrounded the escort team, and Gu Du said: "Those who descend to me live, and those who do not descend die." ”

The leading general drew his sword and shouted: "Kill! ”

Five hundred officers and soldiers raised their swords and guns together, and Gu Du took the lead in rushing forward with his knife.

After a scuffle, all the officers and soldiers were annihilated, and Gu Du said to the laborers: "Those who surrender to me live, and those who do not surrender die." ”

Someone cried: "My lord, let me go, I still have parents, wives and children at home......

Gu Du swung his knife, and the man fell in a pool of blood.

Dongfang Xia Lan's eyes widened in shock, and she scolded angrily: "Why did you kill him? He's just a laborer! ”

Gu Du ignored her, and said: "Those who descend to me live, and those who do not descend die." ”

The laborers didn't speak, they all knelt on the ground and cried, and Gu Du's eyes were cold and said, "Kill." ”

"No way!" Dongfang Xia Lan screamed, but no one listened to her, and all the laborers were killed in an instant.

Dongfang Xia Lan grabbed Gu Du's clothes, glared at him and shouted, "How can you be so brutal? ”

Gu Du said calmly: "As long as there is a living mouth, some people will know that there is an army stationed in Tiger Roaring Mountain, and there are 200,000 troops in the territory of the Spirit Kingdom, and they disdain to suppress bandits, but if they know that there is an army stationed, they will immediately come to encircle and suppress it." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan was stunned, Gu Du said again: "Fighting is like this, it will always hurt the innocent, I must do everything I can to ensure the safety of my people, if you can't bear it, or can't understand it, then go back to the mountain." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan looked at Gu Du blankly, Gu Du pushed his hand away, walked away two steps, and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield, cover up the bloodstains, move the corpses and goods back to the camp, let the horses go, dig a pit and burn the cart, and bury the ashes." ”

Back at the camp, Dongfang Xia Lan silently returned to her room, Gongsun Yan followed, grabbed her, and asked while disarming her, "Are you okay?" ”

Dongfang Xia Lan was silent, Gongsun Yan took off her armor, pulled her to sit on the bed, and said: "Master is right, they can't leave a living mouth, even if they don't want to say it themselves, the government will interrogate them, and then the army will surround the mountain, and Master's foundation will be over." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan looked at her and asked, "Do you want to be like this in the future?" ”

Gongsun Yan replied: "This is the way to fight, do you think that if we fall into their hands, we will have a way to live?" You are the county lord of Zeguo, do you have mercy on the enemy, and are you worthy of the soldiers who fought for you? ”

Dongfang Xia Lan argued: "They are not enemies, they are just laborers. ”

Gongsun Yan said: "They work for the enemy army, cultivate for the enemy army, what are they not enemies? Is it a relative? Will your loved ones feed the enemy army? Besides, the master said, those who descend live, and those who do not descend die, who do they blame if they don't descend? ”

Dongfang Xia Lan pondered for a long time and asked, "Is the soft armor comfortable?" ”

Gongsun Yan squinted and smiled, and said, "Sooner or later, it's yours, borrow me to wear it first." ”

Feng Jiu came to Gu Du with a winter coat and said, "Master, it's all winter clothes. ”

Gu Du smiled, it turned out to be winter clothes, Wu Renxiong told him back then, the border guards change their winter clothes once every two to three years, this time it's good, robbing the winter clothes, the defenders of Rizhao Pass will have to freeze, even if they can cut trees and burn firewood for heating, it will take more physical strength.

Consuming more physical strength means consuming more food, plus cold, eating more, and the food that was enough for a year will be eaten in a month.

Gu Du said: "Divide it, one set for each person, and save the excess." ”

"Yes." Feng Jiu answered, but didn't leave, looking at Gu Du's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping.

Gu Du said: "Xia Lan is still young, she has never suffered hardships, she has not gone through the battle formation, and she doesn't even know the world, I understand this, but many things have to be figured out by yourself, I can go and tell her, but it's better to let her figure it out by herself, if she can't figure it out, even if she is explained by me now, it will be repeated in the future, we are fighting, not living at home." ”

Feng Jiu responded: "The disciple retired. ”

The Rizhao guard waited for Tang Shuo for three more days, but the winter clothes still didn't arrive, so they sent a sentry to check, and reported that they didn't see the delivery team at all.

Tang Shuo sent someone to Lingzhen County to inquire, and reported that the transportation team had passed seven days earlier.

Tang Shuo led a battalion of soldiers and personally went to Lingzhen County to inquire, and the county commander Zhao Kuo swore that the team had indeed passed seven days ago, and said that he could ask someone in the county casually, and many people saw it.

Tang Shuo frowned, he also looked carefully on the way here, and found nothing abnormal, the transportation team had to be five hundred people, how could it be that it disappeared in the air? And the army of 500 people, bandits do not dare to rob it.

Tang Shuo could only return to Rizhao Pass and report to the Military and Political Department for questioning.

After Tang Shuo left, Zhao Kuo asked Wu Tong, the chief bookkeeper: "It won't be robbed by the person surnamed Gu, right?" ”

Wu Tong frowned and said, "Probably not, there are hundreds of people, does the person surnamed Gu have that ability?" ”

Zhao Kuo said: "He got three million taels of silver, and he can't recruit people?" ”

Wu Tong shook his head, squinted his eyes slightly, and said, "How much can you recruit?" It's only been a few months, and even if you recruit some, you can't beat the officers and soldiers, and besides, how can a team of hundreds of people not see a single one? ”

Zhao Kuo frowned and pondered for a while, then asked, "Could it be a defection?" ”

Wu Tong shook his head again and said, "It's not good to say that it's not good, this thing is too strange." ”