When Lu Ying woke up, her mother had already put on her armor, and the light of the sky was cast from outside the house, shining on her silver armor, and the cloud patterns flowed on her body with the light, like a divine soldier in the sky.

"Awake?" She turned around and smiled, "Wait here, my mother will be back soon." ”

Lu Xiaoxuan put on a red coat, walking like a fierce blood wind, with a straight posture and clear eyes.

The first time Governor Liu saw Lu Xiaoxuan's uniform, and it was also the first time he saw such a soldier, he was amazed and admired, and immediately wrote a poem, just to praise the heroic posture of this young general.

Yan Hongqin looked at Lu Xiaoxuan's gaze a little stupid, he held the tray and held it up in front of Lu Xiaoxuan: "Lord Lu, drink a glass of wine and leave." ”

The red-haired and white-skinned orchid has admiration on her face, and her blue eyes are unconsciously spring.

Yan Hongqin has seen the cavalry under the command of Dora Khan, they burn and loot, never treat the herdsmen as people, rob women when they see them, and kill people indiscriminately when they are in a bad mood, but Lord Lu is full of righteousness, and when he sees her, he makes people feel that this soldier will not hurt the people, because she is passing a word all over her body.

"You can trust me, I will never hurt you, I will protect you!"

For the first time in her life, Yan Hongqin saw such a sergeant who gave people such a sense of security.

Lu Xiaoxuan turned her head and looked at Yan Hongqin gently, Yan Hongqin held her breath, and her heartbeat became faster and faster.

"Red girl, thank you for your wine, it's just that I don't drink well, I don't dare to drink before the battle, for fear of disturbing my thoughts, and, Red girl, Lu Xuan wants to ask you to help me take care of Yingying when I go out."

As she spoke, Lu Xiaoxuan clasped her fists and saluted.

Yan Hongqin hurriedly handed over the tray to Qiu Yu and said to Lu Xiaoxuan: "Lord Lu is serious, taking care of the son is a matter of slavery. ”

Qiu Yu smelled the wine, the best wine, the aroma is light and sweet, the wine is clean and clear like a piece of amethyst, and I don't know where the Yan Sect Master got it.

He looked at Lu Xiaoxuan without a trace, thinking to himself, something was wrong.

He has seen the sergeants of the Yu Dynasty, those military households do not say that the sentence is perfect for the soldiers, but it is also almost the same, for the common people of the Yu Dynasty, there is not much difference between soldiers and bandits, and Lord Lu's aura of a sense of security, Qiu Yu has only seen it before crossing!

He thought to himself, there is another suspicion, that is, Lord Lu said that he wanted to suppress the bandits because she thought that the bandits were so fierce that the people could not bear them.

But would normal Yu Dynasty officials risk offending the Salt Gang and local wealthy clans, just for the safety and happiness of the common people, and take thousands of soldiers to fight the bandits? Do the officials of this era have the consciousness of working hard for the common people?

There should be such people, but there are certainly few.

Qiu Yu kept looking at Lu Xiaoxuan until she left through the back door.

Today, Governor Liu wants to invite a banquet to the wealthy merchants of the wealthy families in the city to discuss the repair of the river, which is called begging for money, but in fact, he is helping Lu Xiaoxuan and the thousands of soldiers in the guard to drag these people down.

Lu Ying's illness is not yet well, but he insists on sending his mother, Qiu Yu, who got up in the morning to practice boxing, saw that the child was sick and crooked, and even the road was unstable.

In the moat at the entrance of the city, there are willows around the water, but now it is November, the weather is cold, and the willow leaves are withered, Lu Xiaoxuan stood next to the willow tree, turned around and got on the horse, and ran towards the mountains.

Lu Ying kept looking at her mother's back until the back turned into a small dot and disappeared at the end of the road, then she turned around and squatted down.

Qiu Yu squatted down and touched his forehead: "What's wrong?" Feeling sick? ”

Lu Ying's voice was muffled: "I don't want to leave." ”

Qiu Yu paused, and her voice softened: "Then I'll carry you." ”

Lu Ying said softly: "Well, Qiu Yu, you can go back to play chess with me." ”

Lu Ying's voice was already soft, and speaking softly like this was no different from being coquettish.

Qiu Yu turned around and squatted down, Lu Ying hugged his neck and was carried up, Qiu Yu walked steadily, neither fast nor slow, his back was wide and warm, and the martial artist's vigorous qi and blood made his body temperature high, which was very reassuring.

Little Lu Ying, like the adults around him, was amazed by his mother's heroic appearance, but he was more worried about his mother's safety than admiring his mother's will and demeanor.

But Lu Ying subconsciously thought that her mother would definitely win this battle.

Because her mother fought a righteous battle, she should win, those bandits under her sword, they will inevitably flee in embarrassment like a lost dog, and then be cut off from the head of the sin, Lu Ying only regrets that she is too small and too weak to fight with her mother.

Lu Xiaoxuan rode a horse to join thousands of sergeants, some of whom had guarded the frontier with her, and some of whom were newly recruited military households in Hengzhou Prefecture.

She dismounted and walked to the middle of the crowd, her height of 1.8 meters made her taller than most people, and her straight figure made her look righteous and awe-inspiring.

Lu Xiaoxuan stretched out his hand, Luo Dahu handed over an iron cylinder to her, and Lu Xiaoxuan raised it.

"Soldiers, I am Lu Xuan, eight months ago, I went north with you to fight against Northern Meng, protect my family and defend the country, I shot an arrow through the head of the eighth prince of Northern Meng, and was awarded the title of prince of Qiongya County by the emperor."

Shengong Lu's name is resounding, especially the guard of Hengzhou Mansion, which is a recruit, and I have definitely heard her name when the veteran brags.

Lu Xiaoxuan asked: "Now that Lu Xuan is going to take you to war, do you know who we are going to fight?" ”

Luo Dahu is an old partner, and he replied in a loud voice: "General Hui, we are going to fight the six major water villages of the seventeen villages in the south and clean up the Xiangjiang River!" ”

Lu Xiaoxuan shouted: "Then do you soldiers, why do we want to fight these bandits? ”

Luo Dahu was about to cooperate with the old chief, but he saw Lu Xiaoxuan raise his hand to signal him to shut up, and then he heard the chief shout: "Because I know that you are poor, I want to take you to earn money!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the sergeants became slightly agitated, and it was common for the commanders in the army to lure the sergeants with gold and silver before the war, but it was really rare for people like Lord Lu to open their mouths to "suppress bandits in order to make money".

Lu Xiaoxuan told the truth without any scruples: "I have also been a soldier, I know that being a soldier is hard, if it weren't for poverty, many families would be reluctant to send their sons and brothers to be military households, but brothers, you are here, you use a brave body, carry a knife to the battlefield and work with the Tartars of Northern Meng, and fight with bandits, you just earned yourself a bowl of clean rice to eat in this bitter world, you are good men!" I, Lu Xuan, admire you, and when I think of killing thieves and bandits with a good man like you, I am happy in my heart! ”

No one doesn't like to be praised, and hearing Lu Xuan's words, some men's eyes were already hot.

Yes, some people are bitter, so they steal, rob, and feed themselves with other people's flesh and blood, but aren't they, the soldiers, bitter?

Once the Yu Dynasty entered the military household, the children and grandchildren were all military households, and the generations had to hang their heads on their waists to earn food on the knife's edge, not that they were too poor to live, who was willing to let their children be military households?

But even if the military households are miserable, the food they eat is clean food earned by themselves.

Lord Lu understands their bitter hills.

Lu Xiaoxuan continued: "It just so happens that there are seventeen bandit villages in the south and there are many men with hands and feet, but when they are poor, they don't want to go to the north to work with the Tartars, rob the Tartars' territory and grain, but instead aim their knives at the villagers in that village. ”

"They don't farm, they don't do business, they bully people everywhere all day long, the villagers face the loess all year round, they finally grow a little ration, and they have to be robbed of them all, and they finally raised their daughters and sisters, and they have to rob them, and even they will rob the children, throw the children into the pot and cook them! Eat their flesh, and throw bones at the entrance of the village to show off their might. ”

"You say, these robbers who only know how to bully their own family are cowards!"

"Yes!"

"They bullied and killed our fellow villagers, including our parents, our sisters, daughters-in-law, and babies who haven't grown up, these people are not bad!"

"Bad!"

Lu Xiaoxuan walked to the high place and raised the booklet in his hand: "As long as these robbers are still in the day, our villagers will not be able to live a stable life, and we can't tell when we return home one day, we will see our parents, daughters-in-law, and babies being bullied to death by them!" I, Lu Xuan, can't bear this breath anyway, so I'll take everyone to kill these bandits today! We will cut off their heads and take back what they have taken from us, and this is the wealth I will bring you today, a clean fortune! ”

"Lu Xuan swears to heaven here, I won't take any of the money that the soldiers stole from the bandit village today! They are all distributed to the soldiers according to their military merits, if someone dies or is disabled, I Lu Xuan promises that the money you earn will definitely be sent to your home, if anyone dares to be greedy for this money, the whole army will punish him! ”

Just when Lu Xiaoxuan was mobilizing before the war, Liu Fu, Lu Ying and Qiu Yu set up a chessboard in the house, Lu Ying played murderously, and the chess pieces went straight into the opponent's heart like a sword.

Qiu Yu's chess skills are not good, and he does not give in on the chessboard today, he seems to be trapped by something other than the chess game, and the chess path is confused, but he has not given up looking for a way out.

Lu Ying sensed his confusion, and after winning a game, he turned to play coaching chess, and he guided Qiu Yu on the chessboard, trying to help him break through the confusion.

Governor Liu's only daughter, a girl named Ziyan, heard that the distinguished guests were playing chess, she was also a good chess player, thinking that she and the two guests were not very old, so she brought the servant woman and slave over, stood by the chessboard, and watched a black and a white entangled on the chessboard, from confusion to firmness.

The sixth game of chess was over, and Qiu Yu let out a long breath, as if she had figured out something.

Lu Ying held the purple sand teapot to pour tea for him, and the green and yellow tea fell into the warm white porcelain cup, steaming out a wisp of white mist.

Liu Ziyan looked around and wondered, "What about Sister Hongji?" ”

Qiu Yu: "Yes, where did Aunt Hong go?" ”

Lu Ying said lightly: "He has something to do." ”

On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, Lu Xiaoxuan held a big bow in his hand, aimed at the bandit leader, his fingers loosened, and the arrow carried the sound of the wind, piercing the neck of the bandit leader with a cold glow.

She raised her long sword and roared angrily: "The leader of the bandits is dead, soldiers, kill with me!" ”

After speaking, she rushed out of the reeds and rushed towards the enemy, and more than a thousand sergeants from the Hengzhou Mansion Guard followed her pace.

If Lu Xiaoxuan said "kill me", the sergeants might not be so brave, but she shouted "kill with me", took the lead in rushing forward, and the blood of the sergeants was also ignited by her, and a few bandits rose in her heart, but Er'er, we can make the thieves disappear with pride!

And in the place where Lu Xiaoxuan couldn't see, Yan Hongqin hid in the shadows, raised her sword and fell, and killed those martial arts masters who wanted to attack Lu Xuan, who were good at making poisons, secret weapons, bows and arrows, and left like a flying swallow.

He didn't know why he was doing this, but his heart was beating fast, as fast as when he saw Lu Xuanrong pretending.

He followed Lu Xuan's army all the way, watching her restrain the sergeants, not to kidnap the people, not to molest women, to see that she was brave and unmatched, and led the sergeants to capture the bandit village, and all the seizures were returned to the public, but the sergeants were very obedient to her.

Before meeting Lu Xiaoxuan, these ancient soldiers didn't know what they were fighting for most of the time, and they didn't have a sense of honor when they were soldiers, so they also needed to supervise the team to follow behind when they were fighting.

But when Lu Xiaoxuan came, the situation was different, because Lord Lu never had to supervise the team to fight! She would tell the soldiers before the battle why they were fighting and what they could do if they fought this battle! The sergeants who were willing to follow her to the battlefield had a clear goal, and as long as Lu Xiaoxuan rushed forward, they would also rush.

At this moment, they are not soldiers and bandits in the "soldiers like grates", but soldiers who protect the people, in front of such an army, those bandits are like chickens and dogs, they can't even do decent resistance, they are destroyed by devastation.

Until the last water bandit village was killed, Luo Dahu had turned back into the majestic tiger, and he asked the soldiers to pile up the gold, silver, grain, cloth and things collected in one place, and walked in front of Lu Xuan.

"My lord, the loot has been sorted out, please instruct!"

Lu Xiaoxuan: "How many prisoners are there?" ”

Luo Dahu: "Forty-eight people, these water bandits are very fierce, the brothers can't keep their hands, it's good to keep so much"

Lu Xiaoxuan: "Okay! With them and the loot, let's go back to the Hengzhou capital! ”

Take the captives back to Hengzhou Mansion?

Luo Dahu and Yan Hongqin in the shadows were puzzled, and Luo Dahu asked, "General, don't these captives cut off their heads?" What are you left to do? ”

The head can be exchanged for military merits, Lord Lu is kind, in the past, when he killed people on the battlefield, he would leave the head to those injured and disabled brothers, so that they could exchange some military merits and have a better life in the future.

Lu Xiaoxuan sneered: "These thieves have plagued the villagers for so long, we not only have to cut off their heads, but also have to vent our anger to the villagers." ”

With a wave of his hand, Master Lu first distributed the gold and silver he had collected to the soldiers according to his military merits, and asked them to go back, and he took a team of people to directly take these forty-eight prisoners to nearby towns.

There are a total of twenty-three villages and towns around the six water villages, Lu Xiaoxuan pulls the prisoners, and every time he goes to a village or town, he gathers all the people and tells them that the water bandits have been cleaned up, these are still alive captives, what crimes have they committed, and when the people are angry, they will cut off two more heads and hang them at the entrance of the village.

As for the last two captives, who are also the tallest second and third masters, they were dragged to Hengzhou Mansion by Lu Xiaoxuan, and read out the charges at the entrance of the vegetable market, and then cut off their heads and hung their heads on the city wall.

After this operation, the reputation of the water bandits is completely stinky, and almost all the people in Hengzhou know that the seventeen villages in the south are not good things, but they are dead, and they can no longer harm them, because Lord Lu was ordered by the emperor to suppress the bandits with the support of Governor Liu.

At this time, if there are still people who come to her and Governor Liu for Lu Xiaoxuan's bandits, it is against public opinion, and the people behind these bandits are them!

On the day Lu Xiaoxuan returned to the city after the battle, almost all the people in the city came to watch this young and handsome general, Lu Xiaoxuan rode on a horse, his waist was straight, and the soldiers who followed behind him were also majestic and high-spirited, I just felt that I had never been so majestic in my life.

They walked all the way, and they threw their handkerchiefs and purses all the way on both sides of the street.

Governor Liu came to greet Lu Xiaoxuan in person, his face was full of admiration, although he had not been with Lord Lu for a long time, he had completely broken his heart for Lord Lu.

Lu Xiaoxuan jumped off the horse and hugged his fist at Governor Liu: "Lord Liu, Lu Xuan has lived up to his trust and has completely exterminated six of the seventeen water villages in the south, and since then our Xiangjiang has been quiet. ”