readx;? Chapter 8: The Elk (2)

"Murder and arson are recruited!" "Murder and arson are recruited!" The minions muttered as if they had hysteria, repeating all the time. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info dare not raise too loudly, so as not to cause an avalanche. But everyone's spirit has improved several times in an instant.

There is no greater wealth than being an official! For this sentence, the entire team, especially the big and small leaders in the ranks, who are wearing brocade robes, all have a deep understanding. The short career of the "Great Liaotian Righteous Army" allowed them to fully experience the sweetness of being an official. When bandits rob, they have to be sneaky, and when they are officials, they can fight in broad daylight; when bandits are poked in the backbone by their hometown fathers, they will not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave after death. When he was an official, countless squires and wealthy families rushed to the door to pat themselves, and a few pages would be set aside in the family tree to write about what he had done. When bandits kill someone, they will be listed as wanted and chased by the officers and soldiers. When an official beats someone to death, he casually puts a crime on the deceased, even if it is full of flaws, he can wash himself cleanly......

"After leaving the mountain, try not to kill too many people along the way!" Seeing that the morale of his subordinates was available, Shi Hongjie, the big boss, lowered his voice and emphasized to the leaders around him, "Zezhou turned out to be a den of bandits, and no one cares about our past." As long as we do a little better than others, it is easy to break into the name of "grand thief". When the time comes, I will pay some money to buy a few scholars to help brag about it, and I don't have to worry about the government not taking the initiative to come to the door!"

"The big handsome is very right!" the leaders responded with their noses red from the cold, "How far worse are we than the nun's son? Why can he be a high-ranking official, but we have to be driven into the mountains by Guo Jiaque?"

"We are unlucky to be on the wrong team, but at the beginning, who would have thought that Du Chongwei would be such a soft egg?"

"But isn't it, that nun's son, Sun Fang, didn't he repeat it several times before he finally achieved a positive result?"

If the government refuses to agree, we will fight one city after another. Fight until the government agrees!"

"Say that we took refuge in the Khitan and betrayed our ancestors, I'm sorry! That Fu Yanqing, Li Shouzhen, Gao Xingzhou, which one has not received the seal of Da Liao?"

"That is, that is, the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, or the godson of the Khitans......"

With Shi Jingjiao and Emperor Zhuyu in front of him, no one in the "Heavenly Righteous Army" felt that his behavior of raising the banner of the Liao State to harm the local area was aiding and abetting. Moreover, in these years, the heroes who had taken refuge in the Khitans were not the "Tianyi Army" family, the Fu Family, the Gao Family, and the Li Family, all of whom had expressed allegiance to the Liao State as a whole. is a little closer to everyone's situation, and there is also the godson of a certain nun, and Sun Fangzhi is the most typical of the Yiwu Army. At the beginning, Sun was just a god stick who drew talismans and burned paper, and when the Khitans entered the Kou and occupied an earthen fort, he dared to proclaim himself a festival envoy. Then he took refuge in Liao for a while, and Liu Han for a while, repeating it several times, and finally his official position rose higher and higher, and his brothers and grandchildren all wore purple clothes. (Note 1)

Encouraged by the dream of being promoted and making a fortune, this team traveled through Taihang day and night. Although along the way, some people kept falling to pieces, and some people were constantly frozen to death, but more than ninety and a half of them gritted their teeth and persevered to the end.

The road beneath your feet gradually widens and flattens. The sky in the distance also brightened and grew larger little by little. The cliffs gradually retreated to the north and south, and the rocky slopes turned into empty and desolate fields before everyone knew it.

There is still a wind howling from the north, but when it blows on people's faces, it no longer looks like a knife. The snow particles swept in the wind disappeared, and in their place were a cold, moist vapor of water that moistened the nostrils like jelly and jade dew.

"Brothers, work hard! Follow the river, it won't take far to reach Lingchuan!" Shi Hongjie, the big boss, suddenly lifted his spirits, turned his head on horseback, and shouted loudly.

"Work harder, work harder. Defeat Lingchuan City, and each person will send a beautiful woman to warm the quilt!" "The other big and small leaders opened their throats in unison to boost morale.

"Defeat Lingchuan City, kill people and set fire to Zhao'an!" "Defeat Lingchuan City, kill people and set fire to Zhao'an!" The minions were elated, shouting their dreams in their hearts, and their legs moved quickly. Along the river that evolved from the canyon, it quickly rushed westward.

It's almost there, it's almost there.

To build a city, you have to deal with the water source.

Walk along the riverbank and you're sure to reach your destination. According to everyone's impression, in Zelu and Luzhou, the officers and troops are not vulnerable at all. Maybe it won't take much to build a city and live that kind of open fire again.

In the empty wilderness, there was no figure in sight. Before the time to go to the field, the farmers are hiding in the unique earthen kilns in Hedong, and they will not come out to move their bodies easily. Occasionally, roe deer and yellow sheep who had been hungry for a winter rushed in front of the procession, which immediately caused a cheer. An overwhelming array of feathered arrows shot past, shooting the poor prey straight into a sieve. Then he stabbed and ate the corpse.

The farther west you go, the flatter the terrain becomes.

The further west, the softer the wind and the wetter the air.

The cliffs are gradually replaced by hills, and the creek unconsciously turns into a large river full of ice. Near the center of the river, there are already faint traces of flowing water. Some of the fish in a semi-hibernating state were awakened by the neighing of the people on the shore, and jumped out of the ice. The glossy scale armor was basked by the sun, reflecting an incomparably seductive light in mid-air.

"Fish, fish!" Immediately someone shouted and rushed into the ranks, stabbing the prey in the water with their spears. Eating dry food along the way made people's eyes red, and getting some river fresh food was just enough to replenish the body.

Unfortunately, their fishing skills are really not very good, and the water in the center of the river is too deep. In the blink of an eye, all the big and small fish that were still rolling in mid-air just now were gone, leaving only a dark black waterline, which was reflected by the ice on both sides, which looked extremely deep.

"Damn, I don't believe in this evil!" More bandits rushed to the middle of the river, carrying steel knives and spears, and began to dig through the ice. As the saying goes, there is great strength in numbers, and soon, the current begins to widen, and the ice under your feet quickly narrows.

"All back, all back, you won't die!" Shi Hongjie shouted impatiently, instigating his war horses to run back and forth on the riverside.

Half-frozen rivers are the most dangerous, and no one knows where the ice is thick and where the ice is thinner. In the event of a large-scale collapse, the gluttonous minions may have a small half to feed the king.

No one would listen to him, except for the hundreds of old teams who started at the beginning. The remaining 9,000 minions have not undergone strict training at all. At this moment, in front of delicious food, I completely lost my self-control. Unless you take a knife to cut it, you ignore all military orders.

"Come on, blow the horn and the whole team! If there are those who do not obey the order, there will be no forgiveness!" Shi Hongjie stopped for a long time, but did not stop a few. Enraged, he raised his horsewhip and roared.

"Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo——!" The henchman struggled to blow the horn and spread his anger throughout the army. The minions who were digging ice and catching fish in the river turned their heads in confusion, their eyes full of chagrin. After walking the mountain road for half a month in a row, people are almost tired like dogs, and they are still not allowed to drink a mouthful of fish soup to relax? Isn't this not that they have not yet become an official soldier? Even if they become an official army, they can't help but give everyone a mouthful of hot food?

"Drumming, drumming gathering!" However, the performance of the big boss Shi Hongjie became more and more unkind. It didn't count just blowing the horn, but also ordered the cronies around him to beat the drum on horseback.

The violent drumbeat of "Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock,......" swept quickly along the river beach, shaking everyone's ears and numb.

Ordinary minions can continue to be lazy and slippery, but those who are the leaders know that their own commanders are decisive in killing! One by one, they dare not make any further delays, carrying the corners of their robes that have been splashed by the river, and stumbling towards the commander's flag.

"The second and third, you two lead the scouts, open the way in front of the head, and report back immediately when you find the situation. Fourth, fifth, you two go and pull the rest of the brothers back from the river as fast as you can, and form a team on the spot. Sixth, seventh, each of you with two hundred archers, take the big willow trees in front of you as the boundary, and if any stranger dares to approach, shoot them immediately! The other brothers, immediately return to their own team and line up close to the handsome banner!" Before the big and small leaders arrived, Shi Hongjie couldn't wait to give orders.

"Great, handsome, you, what are you talking about? This, this barren mountain and wilderness, where is the enemy?" At this time, not only did the minions feel that he was all soldiers, but the core leaders of the team could not understand his behavior and stammered and questioned.

"If you encounter the enemy, it will be too late!" Shi Hongjie frowned on his broomb, narrowed his triangular eyes, and scolded sharply. "Don't be verbose, hurry up and do what Lao Tzu says? Lao Tzu has eaten more salt than you have ever eaten rice. There's got to be quirky around here, there's definitely been one!"

"Oh, oh! Yes!" the leaders dismissed, but their mouths said yes. They all retreated, lazily carrying out orders.

"There must be oddities, there must be oddities!" Shi Hongjie rode on horseback, constantly circling in place. Before he proclaimed himself the envoy of the festival, he had been surrounded and suppressed by the government for many years, and he had already formed an intuition about danger in the depths of his soul. Whether he could see the enemy or not, whenever a fierce battle came, there would be a small area between his eyebrows that tingled slightly. Like a pinprick, he was repeatedly reminded not to take it lightly.

Today, the pins and needles between the eyebrows feel particularly intense. But where did the enemy come from? He himself couldn't figure it out. Zelu and Zelu are bandits' nests, although it is rumored that the imperial court has sent Chang Si to govern them. But Chang Si Even if he is a veteran of a hundred battles, in just a few months, it is impossible to organize a place that has been chaotic for decades into a monolith. Unless, unless, he gives birth to three heads and six arms.

"Poof!" a large fish more than two feet long suddenly jumped up from the middle of the river and somersaulted beautifully in mid-air. Immediately after, more fish jumped out of the water alternately, stretching themselves in the sun. The minions, who were walking towards the bank of the river step by step, were immediately attracted by the posture of the fish, and shouted in unison, and rushed back again, stabbing the river with knives and guns. Shi Hongjie, the big boss, suddenly drew his saber and pointed to the west of the riverbank, "The whole team is facing the battle, the whole team is facing the battle! Enemy attack, enemy attack, a large force of cavalry!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" the scouts, who had not gone far, sped back five times faster than they had set out. While running, he waved the flag in his hand desperately, "Enemy attack, enemy attack! Cavalry, all cavalry!"

The minions who were catching fish in the river all straightened up, not because they heard the alarm, but because of the changes around them. Schools of fish jumped out of the water, one after the other. The ice under his feet was shaking, the river in front of him was shaking, and the blue sky and white clouds overhead were swaying as if they had been impacted.

Cavalry, countless cavalry, suddenly emerged from the ground not far away. The phalanx was lined up, unhurried, like a huge steel ploughshare.

Note 1: Wearing purple clothes refers to being a big official. According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, only those above the third rank could wear purple ayaluo. Sun Fangji's deeds can be found in the "History of the New Five Dynasties", miscellaneous biography 37, and Chang Si, Huang Fuhui and others are in the same column.

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