This commotion waited for the deer and crane guards to completely control the situation before it calmed down, and several villagers came to see the excitement, including many idlers, some village women, and some naughty children, all of whom quietly looked at these people from other villages with curious eyes.

At this time, Li Dazhuang and Lei Laohu were counting the prisoners, directing them to squat outside the courtyard one by one, watching these soldiers play squatting turnips as if it was quite funny, and some children next to them laughed and clapped their hands, and were quickly stopped by the adults. Xu Wenshan squeezed a smile at these children, but the children ran away one after another, and they were a little embarrassed for a while.

What's even more embarrassing is that the soldiers who are squatting on the ground, usually five or six, don't know how horizontal they are in front of the villagers, but now they are all honestly squatting on the ground, and they all feel that their self-esteem has been greatly hit.

Xu Wenshan glanced at the group of people before he spoke: "Which of you is the chief?" Stand up. ”

One of the fattest soldiers hesitated for a moment before he stood up.

Xu Wenshan asked, "What position are you?" ”

The fat man whispered, "Wu ...... Captain Wu. ”

Xu Wenshan raised his eyebrows: "Captain Wu? ”

"Uncle spare his life!" The fat man hurriedly fell to his knees in fright, "The little one is really a centurion." ”

"Centurion!" Xu Wenshan was taken aback, although he had some suspicions that this person was just a Wu Chief, but he didn't expect him to be so big.

In a flash, he changed his previous thoughts, and his expression became serious: "Do you know that you occupy my house?" ”

The fat man thought that Xu Wenshan was a robber, but when he heard it, he realized that this person was actually a good citizen, and he was suddenly a little encouraged, he didn't dare to provoke the robbers, and he was not afraid of a good citizen with a family and a business.

As a result, he just straightened up slightly, and the huge black man next to him frowned: "What are you doing?" "It softened immediately.

"The little one really doesn't know that this is the uncle's house, if he knew, he wouldn't dare to occupy it......"

"I don't know if I don't blame you?"

The fat man was sweating profusely and lowered his head: "Don't dare, don't dare ......"

Xu Wenshan looked left and right at him: "Which of you is running fast?" ”

The soldiers below looked left and right, and no one dared to stand up.

"No one? That's you. Xu Wenshan ordered a small soldier, "You go back to your base camp, tell your general that this house is mine, and tell him not to harass me again." ”

The fat man said with a smile on his face: "Master, I promise not to harass you in the future, then we ......"

Xu Wenshan glared at him: "You can't go back, what if your commander repents and raises troops to fight me?" You are to stay and be hostages. ”

The fat man told him that he was a petty official, even if he was taken hostage, the chief wouldn't care, but Xu Wenshan said nothing and refused to let him go, only let the little soldier report the news.

Xu Wenshan asked the soldiers to keep the prisoners in the backyard, and the onlookers saw that there would be no excitement and went home one after another. After taking inventory of the house for a while, Xu Wenshan unexpectedly found that there was still a lot of food in stock, and those soldiers also left some simple armor, which was always better than nothing, so he asked his soldiers to bring them up.

Then it was time to make a fire, Xu Wenshan asked the soldiers to make some for the prisoners, and when the steaming white rice was brought to the prisoners, many of the young people cried.

Xu Wenshan seemed to have a different face on these little soldiers, with kind eyebrows and good intentions, not only took care of everyone, but also specially instructed them not to be enough, the atmosphere suddenly became warm, and even Lei Laohu seemed much gentler.

The life of their low-level soldiers is not good, and the white rice can only be eaten openly in the days when they are looting, but I didn't expect that the owner of this house is much more generous than expected, and the life of this captives is even better than when they were soldiers.

After eating, Xu Wenshan summoned all these captives to him, and said to them kindly: "I know that you are all civilians of Cai State, and you are all children of good families, and you have to come to be soldiers. Who of you volunteered to serve in the army? Who is it? ”

The captives shook their heads one after another, and Xu Wenshan smiled and said, "If it weren't for Cai Guogong's order, who would want to go to the battlefield to kill the common people?" Everyone is a common people, and the common people should not embarrass the common people. Say, "Don't you have a bitter conscience when you occupy the houses of the common people and rob them of their food?" ”

As soon as he said this, several of those who were late in joining the army cried. Lei Lao Hu looked at these soldiers with a look of disdain on his face, in his opinion, these were soft eggs; But Li Dazhuang looked at them with some sympathy, and he could understand their feelings.

Most of these soldiers are young men from the village, who were forcibly recruited to serve as soldiers, and their quality is naturally not as strong as that of professional soldiers.

Xu Wenshan continued: "In this way, I don't think it is easy for you, I will give each of you the same money, which is your 'return to the hometown', you take the money, go back to your own home, and never come to be a soldier again!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the house was shocked, these little soldiers' annual salaries were only a few times, and they were always in arrears.

And the people in Luhegou are even more shocked, their monthly salary is now a few hundred Wen, and their lives are much better than before, but they have also passed the time when they are crazy about the usual money, but Xu Wenshan's generous action is enough to shock them.

Those soldiers didn't believe it at first, Xu Wenshan opened the money bag on the spot, and put the silver and copper coins firmly in the hands of each of them. Tell them: "This money is your return money, and after you take the money, you must not rob the people again!" ”

The money was in their hands, and it was heavy, and they came back to their senses, Xu Wenshan opened the door and said to them: "Go, go!" The soldiers left stunned.

The little soldiers walked into the field one after another, their steps were still very hesitant, and they kept looking back to see if Xu Wenshan had shot them with arrows, and when they found that they were really not teasing them, they spread their legs and ran away like the wind.

But that centurion is not included in it.

The fat man salivated, leaned up and asked, "Uncle, what about me?" ”

"You? You are a hostage. Xu Wenshan said, "Who made you a centurion?" ”

The fat man squatted in the corner of the wall in a depressed manner.

Lei Lao Hu still couldn't believe what was happening at this time, and his eyes widened: "Chief! This is...... Why? ”

The soldiers below were also a little confused, the prisoners they captured were let go like this?

Xu Wenshan smiled at Lei Lao Hu and said: "They also have no choice, let them go back directly, they may also harm the people on the way, give them consistent money, and let them go back to farming." ”

Lei Laohu said: "However, some of them are obviously not land cultivators, maybe ...... They took the money and went back to being soldiers? ”

Xu Wenshan said: "Then this money is not money for them, but money spent on your life." ”

"Buying life money?"

"What do you think would happen if they all knew that they would be able to take home my money if they became my captives?" Xu Wenshan patted Lei Laohu's shoulder, "Think about it." ”

Lei Laohu picked his head: "So what? ”

I saw that at dusk, the sun was about to fall. Facts have proved that the person selected by Xu Wenshan is not slow, and after a while, the defenders in Shaxian County already know, far away, a team of less than 100 people came, this time it was not a lazy soldier, but a regular army with neat armor and a clear banner.