After listening to what Ma Huayun said, I suddenly felt uncomfortable in my heart, because what he said was very simple. Four words "cut the grass and eradicate the roots". To put it bluntly, even the two who surrendered were killed together. I looked at Ma Huayun and said, "Sir, Li Xuan, the owner of the Whirlwind Village." The heart of killing is too heavy, and he refuses to surrender. It makes sense to kill him. But Zhao Qing, Tan Feng. These two men surrendered to us in the name of generals. ”

When Ma Huayun heard this, he naturally understood the consciousness in my words, and he no longer insisted, and asked: "Then how does the general plan to deal with these two people?" There is only one thing, and they must not be allowed to take charge of the cottage again. After I heard this, I said, "Li Xuan is executed, and Tan Feng will be released." It's useless to keep him, but I'm interested in Zhao Qing. This person still has a bit of fame and resourcefulness. I'm going to put him in my guard. What do you think, sir?"

Ma Huayun looked at me, and after hiding the disappointment on his face, he said, "Then follow the general's arrangement." Then he took his leave in the name of training soldiers, and sighed as he walked out the door. The general is still too merciful, and he really doesn't know if it's good or bad to be born in troubled times. Then he shook his head again, and prepared to check on the soldier's condition with his hands behind his back. happened to meet Hong Zhentian, Hong Zhentian looked at Ma Huayun and asked, "We won these three battles, but I think Mr. seems to have something troublesome?"

After hearing this, Ma Huayun deliberately played a dumb riddle to open the topic, and Hong Zhentian couldn't continue to ask. He walked all the way to the lobby where I was, and after entering the door, he asked directly, "Why did I win the battle, and I didn't look very happy with the military division?"

I counted the trophies of the three cottages, and I didn't raise my head to tell the ins and outs of the matter. Hong Zhentian heard this and said, "You have your reasoning, and the military advisor also has his worries." I don't think these two people are a threat, but don't look at it when it's time to eat. Let's go, I'll take you to dinner."

The two of us were about to go to the house for a drink and celebrate, when I suddenly wanted to see what the soldiers were eating. Hong Zhentian said: "You can't get used to what they eat, let's go, let's drink." I shook my head and said, "They are human beings, and I am also human beings, how can I not get used to them?" Hong Zhentian looked like you were still energetic, and said, "Okay, then let's go."

In this way, we walked together to the place where the soldiers lined up to eat, and watched hundreds of soldiers being escorted next to us. I asked, "What's going on with them?" Hong Zhentian glanced at those humanitarians, "Those are all soldiers from Qinglong Village and Dragon Tooth Village, I am afraid that they will make trouble, so let people watch them." Then he handed me a bamboo tube for rice and a pair of bamboo chopsticks.

Many soldiers said, "General, stand in front." A few people voluntarily gave up their positions, and I shook my head and said, "No, you can just line up honestly." I'm just as human as you are." Seeing that the line in front of him was still long, he walked to the place where the troops surrendered. Looking at dozens of people shouting, "We are hungry, we have to eat". Then dozens of soldiers said "stop talking nonsense, be honest." Then he turned back and said, "See General."

I looked at this group of soldiers and said, "Which one is Zhao Qing?" At this time, a person stood up in the soldiers, "Even if Zhao Qing is doing things alone, I will ask the general to give my brothers a way to live." We haven't eaten anything since yesterday, and we're all human beings. “

Hearing this, I glanced at Zhao Qing, this person has a big waist and a round waist. The swallow-jaw tiger neck is also magnificent. The appearance is extraordinary, and he said angrily in his heart, "Who ordered them not to eat?" The soldier replied hesitantly, and glanced at Hong Zhentian again. I waved my hand to ask him not to speak, and Hong Zhentian said at this time, "I, I was negligent yesterday."

I walked over and personally untied the rope tied to Zhao Qing's hand, and then said that in the future, if I have food, I will have yours. Then asked, "I don't know if you are willing to join our guard?" Zhao Qing immediately knelt down and said, "Thank you, general, regardless of your past suspicions, you are willing to take the lead." Please also ask the general to give these people behind me a way to live.

I looked at him, not like he was lying. Let people first bring some dry food and distribute it to those soldiers, and then say, "I will temporarily wronged everyone for a day today, and it will be good to wait until tomorrow when I reorganize it." You can rest assured that you are full of food, wine and meat, and if you are not full, you will tell me tomorrow. I will certainly not spare those who dare to make things difficult for my brothers."

As soon as the soldiers heard this, they all stuffed the steamed buns into their mouths, and said "Thank you, General" while eating. I asked Zhao Qing to follow us to the queue, and when he saw that I was not embarrassed, everyone readily agreed. Along the way, Hong Zhentian kept looking at Zhao Qing, for fear that he would play some tricks.

Walk to the queue and keep standing in line. Many people who were about to cut the queue saw that their generals were lining up behind, so they were embarrassed to cut the queue again. After finishing the meal, the three of us casually found a table and sat down, and the person next to us was about to leave with a bamboo tube. I told them no, and then asked, "What's your name?"

Embarrassedly replied, "General Hui, my name is Li Goudan." My mother said that this name is easy to feed, and that is Li Shishi. The amount of food we eat is a bit large, and it is true that there is not enough to eat. But for us, it's good to stay in the guards and have something to eat." After saying that, I picked up the rice that had fallen on the table, and at first I thought that these people were from the beggars. But I didn't expect it to be someone who had passed the test and stayed in the guard.

People around me also looked up at me from time to time because they felt as if I shouldn't have eaten with them. I asked Zhao Qing to eat first, and I walked to the place where the fireman was cooking, and said, "In the future, we must cook more, and we must let everyone eat to their stomachs." If you don't have enough food, tell me if I hear in the future that my soldiers don't have enough to eat. Then you don't have to eat it. When several firemen heard this, they hurriedly knelt down and said, "The general spares his life, it's not that the villain is unwilling to do more." It's that the above is really not enough for so many people to eat. “

At this time, the soldiers behind also looked over here, and many of them whispered what happened. I asked the fireman to get up and asked the man in charge of the grain and grass. Let the fireman add two more places in line, and then walk back to the place where he just eats.

This meal is indeed the same as chewing wax, because in addition to the rice in the bamboo tube, there are two or three boiled vegetable leaves. I kind of understood why he didn't let me come, and after dinner, I asked Zhao Qing to report to the guards.

He returned to the lobby alone and continued to tidy up his things, and when he met Ma San, he told him to check who was in charge of the grain and grass. Let's see if there's any corruption or anything out of it. Then the next day, the new recruits were successfully organized, and all of them, good or bad, were incorporated into the guard. Of course, sometimes the quality of soldiers is also inseparable from the people who train, although Ma Huayun said that he was a military teacher, he was not weaker than Hong Zhentian when he trained soldiers.

I sat in the lobby and looked at the beggars' gang and Jufu plus the spending records of the guards, and I felt bored rummaging through them. I put it aside for the time being, and weapons have always been a headache for me. Although there are more troops now, it is simply not enough to say that one broadsword is in hand. There are less than a hundred pairs of bows and arrows, let alone arrows.

You can't let the soldiers go with a wooden stick when it's time for war, but there are obviously not enough blacksmith shops in Fengwu City. And the weapons had to be inspected when they were taken out of the city, even though the soldiers guarding the gates were my men. But it's not an option.

When he was thinking about where to get some weapons, Hong Zhentian came in and said, "There are people from outside, who have fled from other places. I don't know if my brother wants to take them in? I've seen it, but some of them are a little older."

When I walked outside the door with him, I saw that there were hundreds of people, most of whom were old men in their fifties and sixties. and old women, dozens of young men and women in their twenties. It's just that they are all gray-headed and dirty, and their clothes do not cover their bodies. Among them, there were eight women, the youngest of whom was only sixteen, and her face was covered with dust and she couldn't see what she looked like.

Hong Zhentian saw that I was coming, sighed, and said, "Alas, Brother Wei, you decide." I'm going to supervise their training," I nodded, watching him leave. In fact, he also wanted to keep those people in his heart, but he didn't have the ability to support them. So I picked out the eight women and more than twenty young people, and the rest of the old people looked at me with blank eyes.

The twenty or so young men hurriedly knelt down, "General, please take them in, or they will starve to death." We are willing to be cattle and horses to repay the general's great kindness. More than 20 people kowtowed desperately, and I hurriedly said, "Get up, and I didn't say that I wouldn't take them in." Then he called some soldiers: "Go and pitch some tents, then go to the quarters and get some food and give it to them, and they will say that I let you take it." ”

Several people said in unison, "It's the general." When the more than 100 people heard this, they all knelt down and said, "Thank you, general, thank you," I was embarrassed to let them all get up. They stood up one by one, their eyes full of emotion, and then I asked them where they were from. At first, I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but in the end I asked them to choose one person to say.

It seems that the villagers of Zhaojia Village and Wangjia Village, because their houses were burned down by bandits, and many people died. I had to come out and find a way to live. Originally, there were two or three hundred people, but there were starvation and disease death on the road, and there were only so many left here. After speaking, I wiped my tears again, I secretly cursed in my heart, this bandit, even if you rob something, why do you have to burn the house and kill people. Isn't this killing chickens to get eggs, and the tent has already been set up when it is time to speak.

I asked the soldiers to lead the two dozen young men to sign up, arranged the old men in tents, and gave them some dry food. Then I took the eight women away, I just felt that Qin Fang was quite lonely alone, so I wanted to find her a few companions. After all, I can't be with her all the time.

A few little girls looked at Qin Fang standing there embarrassedly, and I saw a hint of disappointment in her eyes. He explained the origin of these people.