Wang Xi was commanding at the front line when the army was defeated that day, and he was shocked when he heard that the main general of the right wing had died in battle, and hurriedly rushed to the right wing, who knew that the situation was difficult to reverse. The soldiers were in a hurry and even cut him and his own soldiers, and the wound on his face was left in this way.

He actually suffered more than one wound that night, and the others were trampled and bruised, and it was the most serious on his face, not to mention broken and bleeding.

He fainted in a patch of reeds, and when he woke up to find the battlefield littered with the corpses of his own men, he knew that it was all over, so he had to carefully avoid the crowd and flee north.

I wanted to run to Dayuan, but I found that it was easy to go hungry and arrive and find that it had been occupied, so I had to go into the mountains to avoid interrogating Wang Xi.

He thought about it, but he was afraid that Yintuo was already more auspicious, and even if he didn't die, it was estimated that his current situation was not too much different from his own, but he was unwilling to ask Lou Zishi.

Remembering that Lou Shiyong had mentioned that Yang He was in Fuzhou when he was on the mountain, he gritted his teeth and decided to go west to see if he could meet good luck.

Who knew that the steeper and denser the west mountain became, the denser the forest became, and when he walked near this Meishan Mountain, he turned around, and in a panic, he rolled off the cliff and lost his burden and weapon.

Wang Xi had no choice but to pick wild fruits and drink spring water for six days, if it weren't for the hunger and dizziness that almost collided with Zhou Qin's horse, he was afraid that he would be a lonely ghost in this mountain tonight.

"Daxia just said, you want to go to ten thousand years?" Wang Xi suddenly asked.

"Well, what, scared?" Juan Jie looked at him with a smile.

"What am I afraid of? Ever since I embarked on this path, I have no intention of living." Wang Xi replied in a low mood: "It's just that I don't want to be chopped alive, so it's better to ask you to cut off this head now."

"Isn't it good to be alive?"

"What's the good?" Wang Xi smiled bitterly: "Being a coolie, being bullied, and being beaten and scolded by others, is this what is human?"

"Of course not," Shen Jie shook his head, "There are those who live happily and richly, why should the coolies only live like animals?" Li Saburo said that all men are created equal, no one is born nobler than others, and no one is born to be bullied and trampled underfoot."

"W-That's what he said?" Wang Xi glanced in disbelief in the direction where Li Dan was.

"Isn't that strange?"

"He's a prefect's son, so of course he doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks."

"You're wrong." Shen Jie lowered his voice: "I think it's rare that he, as the son of the prefect, can think like this!

Imagine how many sons in the world can stand side by side and talk with people like us? Is your silver do?

I heard that he was half-fed in the camp, and that the children were so hungry that they wept. But he obviously took the military rations and silver that Lou Zishi gave him.

Looking at Na Lou Zishi, he lived in the garden, and slept with the concubine of the county governor every day, but his subordinates lived by the pond to feed the mosquitoes ......."

Wang Jie tilted his head and looked at Ju Jie for a long time, then squinted his eyes and asked, "You want to persuade me?"

"Whom?" Xianjie shook his head: "Since everyone in the world is equal, who do you need to descend? You just have to ask yourself what you mean and follow the right person."

"But ......, how do I know if it's right or wrong?"

Juan Jie pointed with his hand: "Look at this team, hundreds of people. Originally, many of these people were Wu Chang and Shi Chang, but when they heard Li Sanlang say that they would go back to Yugan to protect the territory and the people, everyone would rather be ordinary soldiers than go with him!

Don't you think these people are stupid and not as smart as you, do you?"

"I ......." Wang idiom stopper.

"Li Sanlang, Tsing Yi'er, Huang Huma, fighting in all directions. The soldiers secretly made him up and sang him, but he was only sixteen years old!

Let me tell you, if you don't want to make trouble, the thousands of people who practiced in the group would have followed Li Sanlang. Following him, not only did he never lose a battle, but he was rewarded according to his merits and made a fortune.

If you look closely, you will know that if the soldiers did not eat, Li Sanlang would not eat; The brothers dozed off on their horses during the march, and so did he.

Look at the carriage behind you, and the Fengquan wine we drank, which one was not made by him?

In his presence, no brother is used

Kneel, you don't have to hide any seizures and distributions, because they will be given according to military merit.

I don't know what happened to Yintuo, but I know that Li Sanlang is a person I have never seen or encountered when I locked Tiangang in the rivers and lakes.

I promised to help him finish his errands and go back to Shangrao to do what he should do, but I don't want to leave now. Because I want to help him, and I want to help these brothers who follow him, and I want to see how far everyone can go on this road together?

You don't have to worry too much about who you were, really. My younger brother was originally a snitch, but Li Sanlang treats him with sincerity, as long as he is a good person and does good things in the future, he will not blame him in the past.

I don't want the world to change, even if Li Sanlang can only let the brothers live well in the land of Yugan, I feel that it is worth it to follow the right person. As for whether you agree with this or not, that's your own business. From here to Yugan, you have time anyway, you can think slowly." As he spoke, he patted the dust and got up.

"Wait, you said I had time, don't you plan to hand me over to the government to receive a reward in ten thousand years?" Wang Xi asked.

It depends on what you think, do you want to go with us to fight the thieves, or stay in Wannian to bury Yintuo and their gang?

As for receiving the reward," Jujie chuckled, turning back to look at him:

"Do you know how much silver we give each person for defeating the Yintuo Mansion? Or. Do you know how much Li Sanlang got for distributing the seized money to the soldiers? Ten taels!

How about it, do you still think that we will care about the soup and water of the government bounty, do you think San Lang is so anxious to hand you over? Don't be stupid, you're not that valuable!" After speaking, he patted Wang Xi on the shoulder, shook his head and left with a smile.

"I, my chief's mansion is forty taels of silver...... Wang Xi muttered to himself, and after finishing speaking, he thought to himself: "Shame, it doesn't seem to be worth much!"

Originally, he had always been proud of the reward on the government's wanted list, but after hearing that each of the participating regiments could be divided into ten taels, he felt that the forty taels didn't seem to be so much.

"Brother, is it really as the judge said, after beating Yintuo Li Sanlang, he gave each of you ten taels of silver?" Wang Xi called the guard and asked.

The town guard looked at him like a beggar: "Below is the town magistrate, and he gets dividends according to the treatment of the captain, so it's fifteen taels!" After he finished speaking proudly, he raised his head and was about to walk away, but was stopped by Wang Xi again.

"So, brother, did you ever kill a general to capture the flag, or save the life of a general?"

Zhen Fu was a little impatient, pouted and said in a tone of lesson:

"Zhenfu is responsible for maintaining military discipline, managing prisoners, recording battle exploits, counting seizures, adjudicating disputes, even if we don't go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, as long as we do our duty, Li Saburo will still give me dividends. Got it?"

"Why is that?"

"What's the 'why'? Even the auxiliaries and civilians have a share of the dividends, as long as they have contributed to the battlefield." Calming with a chin swing:

"Everyone in our team is equal, they are all the same, and the difference is just that they have different responsibilities. Hey, what am I doing with all this to you, captive?

Tell you, Li Sanlang said, when we return to Yugan, in the future, whether everyone is willing to farm or work, or go to the caravan to mark the standard will be chosen by their own hearts.

Those who have been pacified like me are at least a captain. If you are still literate, you will definitely not be able to run away from a shopkeeper in the future!

Didn't the judge tell you just now, are we all willing to follow Li Sanlang? You say, I was originally a restaurant guy, if I have a future as a shopkeeper in front of me, how can I not follow San Lang to fight, then I won't be a fool?

Your rebellion is pinned to the waistband of your trousers every day, isn't it also for a future, isn't this better than you following Yintuo?"

"Since you don't go to battle, why should you share military merits with others?"

"We usually don't go to the battlefield, but if our morale is shaken and the battle line is unstable, in that critical situation, we and other pacification officers must charge forward and set an example for the brothers. Let them see that they are not even afraid of death, what is there to panic!"

"Oh! You're the equivalent of a family!"

Wang Xi opened his mouth for a long time, and suddenly raised his head: "You were also sent by Li Sanlang to persuade you to surrender?"

"You're thinking too much." Na Zhenfu smiled and shook his head, "Chief Song only asked me to be in charge of guarding you, and I have to accompany you all the way. Even Izuku has to accompany you, unless you've already descended. ap.

However, we have rules for pacifying, and if you can persuade the prisoners to surrender, they will be credited, especially if you are still a general! Tsk, if I can make you down, with this credit in the future, you will definitely get a fat shortage, won't you also be more free?

Well, why don't you think about it?"

"Huh?" Wang Xi rolled his big eyes and didn't react for a while, and the town magistrate sighed in disappointment and stepped aside.

The team passed Tianwangzhai, and the road ahead suddenly widened. The spearhead sent back the news that they had begun to descend the mountain, and everyone felt relieved: alas, they had finally walked out of this endless mountain road.

The legend of Tianwangzhai is that it is the place where the soldiers were stationed at that time in the Yellow Nest, with stone walls and stone arches. Because of the recent defense against bandits, Shaxi Town has placed 200 regiments in this village to practice as a guard.

Seeing a large group of men and horses coming out of the mountains, the regiment on the wall of the wall was frightened and trembled.

It wasn't until the top soldiers approached and waved the banner of "Geyang Guard Regiment Training and Preparation Envoy Li" (the defense envoy had been handed over to Xiao Wanhe, so Li Dan temporarily asked Cai General for such a name) that he was amnesty and hurriedly sent someone to report.

The person in charge of the village is a general surnamed Wu, who heard that he came to the wall to watch, and saw so many cars and horses passing through the road to the direction of Shaxi for a while, and he was a little at a loss.

It was still Juan Jie who brought two guards forward and told them not to be nervous, the team came from Geyang and was ordered to return to defend Yugan, so he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly sent someone down the mountain to report to the officers and soldiers stationed in Shaxi.

There are two hundred officers and soldiers stationed in Shaxi Town, and they are also famous generals. When he heard the news, he came out and saw that he was meeting Zhao Jingzi. Seeing that it was the leader of the yellow belt, he didn't dare to make a mistake, and respectfully asked the team if they needed to go into the town to rest.

However, Zhao Jingzi had already received Li Dan's instructions, and replied very simply, saying that the military situation was urgent, and Li prepared to make an appointment to visit the Tongzhi of the Mansion and the Qianhu Lord of the Military Division of the Branch Capital Division today, so he did not stay and continued to hurry.

The general didn't dare to say much, so he had to watch the team leave, and said to his subordinates:

"I heard the news from the horse a while ago, this Li Sanlang cooperated with the officials and soldiers in Shangrao, broke the anti-thieves, beheaded and captured more than 10,000 people, thinking that it was a false rumor. Today, when I see his soldiers like tigers, I know that the rumors are true."

Li Dan also sent his own herald to ten thousand years first, one to send a message to the marching division, and the other to deliver a message to the left-behind office.

When Li Biao learned about it, he rode a donkey out of the city and waited in the Nanguan Zhai Gate. Seeing Shen Jie and Zhao Jingzi arrive with sharp soldiers from a distance, he grinned.

Seeing that one of the yellow belts did not dare to slack off, the guards hurriedly invited the two of them to sit under the pergola in the fence and have tea, while sending someone to report to the city tower.

Li Biao also sat down after the two of them greeted him, and Han Xian'er and Zhu Siwu had already returned to Yugan first, and said that they had purchased more than a dozen carriages and twenty or thirty head of livestock, and there were also batches of iron and medicinal materials that could be brought back with the team.

After a while, the team arrived one after another, and Jiao Baihu also rode a mule to greet him when he received the news, and when they met, he laughed with Li Dan and said loudly:

"You Li Sanlang is doing a great thing in Shangrao, we have all heard about it here!" A look of honor.

Li Dan humbly said a few words and asked where the team was camped? Jiao Baihu said, "Since you will still take the road of my father-in-law's house tomorrow, put the camp near the Zhushan Bridge in the north of the city, where it is convenient to cross the river nearby."

Li Dan readily agreed: "It's arranged like a hundred households."

At the beginning, Wannian City only had two gates, south and north, which were called Hongchang Gate and Jiande Gate respectively. Later, out of the need for military and political convenience, a small west gate was opened on the side of the school field, and the Wansheng Bridge could go directly to the opposite bank.

However, Wannian is a military town, and it is very inconvenient for the brigade to pass through the city. So the procession went north from Nanguan, then east along the outer wall of Tianshou Palace, and then turned north.

The reason why Jiao Baihu took them like this was because this 10,000-year-old city was southeast and northwest, long from north to south and narrow from east to west.

To the west, along the banks of the Zhuxi River, there are large areas of reeds and marshes, the ground is soft and fragmented, no

It is convenient for teams and heavy vehicles to walk.

On the east side, there is no city gate, and the suburbs are endless rice fields.

In order to prevent pedestrians from trampling on it, there is a solid dirt road along the outer part of the East Protector, about 12 or 3 steps wide and about 3 feet above the rice fields.

From this ridge they went north along the east wall to the garrison outside the North Pass. The terrain is a small hill, the front is slightly flat, the back half is more wooded and bamboo, and there are several ponds sparkling not far below the hill.

Overlooking the Zhushan Bridge in the distance, it looks like a brown ribbon across the Zhuxi River. "It's a great place!" Seeing the open terrain here, Li Dan was in a good mood, so he praised it.

"yes, the view is good, but it's a pity that I can only stay for one night." Zhao Jingzi crossed his waist and put his hands on the pergola with great interest.

"Hehe, if Li Sanlang wants to buy an industry here, it's not difficult." Jiao Baihu is selling Guanzi on the side.