The Southern Army Division watched the mass graves that were originally strewn with corpses being quickly filled by the soldiers, and handed over the completed inscription to Chen Bianzheng. Although he felt uncomfortable, he did not show much compassion for the people of the city. If 10,000 civilians can let this Southern army division who is good at using conspiracy in the south to mess with himself, it would be too much to underestimate him.

"Now that the plague has been quelled, and then the mountain bandits have been exterminated, and then the rest of our army in the south and the scattered troops in the east have been reorganized, waiting for the army to succeed, and it is logical for the Chen family army to cover the sky with one hand here. Nan Ruoxing looked at Chen Bianzheng, who was staring at Sanli Cottage wholeheartedly, and spoke.

"The mountain bandits will be eliminated today, I will not only reorganize the remaining stragglers, but I will also have a radius of 200 miles from these three roads, and there will be no 30 beacons, so that when the war begins, our army's military intelligence can be unimpeded all the way. Even an old lady with eye disease who is over seventy years old, as long as the war is together, she can see wolf smoke!" Chen Bianzheng said with a smile, he was full of expectations for the drastic innovation of Sanli Road.

"It's just that eight of the scouts I released a few days ago died, and they all died in different directions, so it's hard to find out the truth and the truth, what is the opinion of the military advisor?" General Chen Zhonglang, who has always cherished the lives of soldiers in the marching army, hesitated for a moment and asked Nan Ruoxing.

Nan Ruoxing said thoughtfully: "In fact, although Sanli Road is surrounded by mountains and has natural dangers, it is not a place that can be defended for a long time without follow-up food and grass supplies. We just need to use our strengths and avoid weaknesses to ambush the mountain, cut off water and food. In less than a month, they will definitely be defeated, and when the time comes, this group of mountain bandits will be forced to hurry, and it is not impossible for dogs to jump over the wall and eat each other's hands and feet. For Nan Ruoxing, who has been marching and fighting all year round, he has already seen the terrifying scene of corpses all over the field, and he is no stranger to Yi Zi and eating. Although this is not a high-level plan, it is the best way to do it.

When Chen Bianzheng heard this, he just laughed it off, this kind of strategy of using troops to slow down would be fine if it was an ordinary time, but now he is receiving the edict in front of the civil and military officials of Shudu, if he Chen Bian is exterminating a group of mountain bandits, it will take a month, isn't that a smile and generosity, leaving people to criticize? Take a step back and say that if the mountain bandits have supplies, or kill horses and cook, and there is a clear spring on the mountain, even if it is three months, this group of mountain bandits who are not in the climate may be able to afford it. If this is the case, the group of officials in the Xuanguo Shudu who have been talking about the honey-bellied sword all day long in the middle of the court still haven't impeached him to the fullest?

Chen Bian was asking himself, he was reluctant to let his own soldiers suffer the loss of unfamiliar terrain because of the extermination of a group of mountain bandits who were not enough to worry about, and let his own army break his muscles and bones. But it is impossible for him to spend this unexplained time with a group of mountain bandits and hooligans.

Chen Bianzheng looked at the dense forest, and the three leaves of the hundred leaves turned his head to Nan Ruoxing and said with a smile: "I think it is appropriate to attack with fire, I want to burn this place to the ground, and burn the mountain bandits to a piece of armor, even if they can't burn it out, then they have nowhere to hide, and our army can take advantage of the situation to climb into the mountain gate!"

Nan Ruoxing hesitated for a moment, and then was relieved again. It's really old, and the afterlife is terrifying.

Three away from the road and three away from the cottage, Jiang Chengzi is drying and sorting the collected herbs, and he is very busy. The scholar next to him looked tired.

Jiang Chengzi looked at this sour scholar, although he didn't have too much bad feelings, but it was far from the point of heart-to-heart. And he and the mountain bandits are simply incompatible, but every time he sees the terrifying knife hand, his original words of indignation suddenly turn into speechlessness.

In line with the instinct of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, he often walks with scholars, intentionally or unintentionally. He has also asked the scholar many times to help him get back his Shangtong pendant, after all, it was the master who sent him to bring him from childhood to adulthood.

But what he never expected was that as soon as this scholar entered the cottage and chatted with Wang Jingdao for a few words, his true form was revealed, and his habits of being a scoundrel in the city were suddenly seen in the cottage.

Wang Jingdao also admired this sour scholar who was a little bookish but had a pickled stomach. The two hit it off at first sight, and they had a posture of hating each other. No, I just drank with Wang Jingdao yesterday, and the hall was full of laughter and laughter, chatting about the world, from women, money, and even the Jianghu sect. This made Jiang Chengzi, who saw everything in vain, very puzzled, didn't he just die of his grandfather? Why didn't he show his heart to the young man now, but he also commented on the woman's Yan Feihuan and Thin with that rough man who was five big and three thick? Especially when it comes to the depths, he can't help but dance with his hands and feet.

Whenever Jiang Chengzi mentioned the matter of Shangtong pendant in front of Lu Wenping, Lu Wenping asked with a blank face: "What? What pendant? That's my brother's own!" It is rare for Jiang Chengzi to slander this cheek to this extent.

This unashamed scholar drank and even picked up people's teeth and said the famous sentence "36,000 days in a hundred years, 300 cups must be poured every day". He was not ashamed, Jiang Chengzi was watching at the time, and he drank three or two glasses and became unconscious.

If Jiang Chengzi didn't want to mix with the mountain bandits, he wouldn't want to have more love with the scholars.

This ruffian, bragging scholar, his grandfather just died a few days ago, just made a sour poem in a cozy manner, and turned his head to talk to the mountain bandits.

What Jiang Chengzi couldn't bear the most was that this sour scholar slept in a bed with him at night and had to wet the bed, and when he got up in the morning, Jiang Chengzi almost didn't remove the scholar when he touched the wet bedding. Jiang Chengzi has not been wetting the bed since he was eight years old, why is this person still wetting the bed in his twenties?

But now that he is in the den of mountain bandits, the only thing that makes Jiang Chengzi feel harmless is this scholar.

When Jiang Chengzi dried all the herbs in the sun, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. These medicines should be enough for the master to save more than a dozen people, less is less, and the little adds up to a lot, Jiang Chengzi, who has always been content, has a satisfied smile on his face.

At this time, a thin mountain bandit ran into the cottage in a hurry, and kicked Jiang Chengzi's freshly dried herbs all over the place, which immediately made Jiang Chengzi angry, and he was about to scold who was not long-eyed. But when he saw that it was kicked by the mountain bandits, not the scholars, he looked aggrieved again, and silently packed up the herbs one by one.

Wang Jingdao is practicing the qi practice method taught by the second master in the village, and it is also the guidance of the second master, in the past three years, he has relied on this set of qi practice method supplemented by his innate strength, and now he is a mountaineer of the eightfold mountain in the martial realm.

Seeing the panicked whistle, he scolded in a panic: "Er Laizi, let you investigate the situation under the mountain, and don't let you assassinate any master of the rivers and lakes, why are you so frightened?"

"The three masters, there are officers and soldiers coming from the mountain. At a glance, there are two thousand, to say the least, all of them are officers and soldiers with complete ironclad weapons. The mountain bandit named Erlaizi was dressed in a tiger skin and said worriedly.

Although this Erlai Zi is a blood-fainting bandit, in terms of espionage intelligence, his kung fu foundation is the number one in the mountain gate. Originally, he and his own brother were the right-hand men in the whistle in the village, but that day a rich boy brother passed along the road, and Er Laizi and his brother Da Laizi spied on intelligence at the bottom of the mountain as before, but was discovered by a domestic servant with a spear next to Gongzi's brother, and the servant was very decisive.

When he returned to the village, he cried and told the truth. Wang Jingdao, who had always been unkind to the two brothers and felt that they were useless bandits, turned over and said to the second master: "The second master, I want to rob some goods, and eat well tonight!" The second master was noncommittal, just waved his hand, and continued to wipe the scabbard with a cloth.

Wang Jingdao rode his horse and whipped his whip and chased along the road for a full twenty miles, and the sound of horses' hooves on the trail was as urgent and dense as rain hitting plantains. When he caught up with the rich boy, his horse fell to the ground and was exhausted to death!

And Wang Jingdao didn't speak, only unloaded the fearless gun-wielding evil servant into eight pieces, and then tied Gongzi with a rope at one end, and tied the other end to the horse that the evil servant was riding.

When a carload of maids saw this, their faces were already pale with fright. Although Wang Jingdao is lustful, he has no interest in doing that kind of dirty thing in this kind of barren mountains and mountains, he wants to roll the sheets, and he also rolls on the hotbed brocade quilt. But if he brings it back to the cottage, the second master may have to recite the scriptures to him again, and Wang Jingdao, who has never liked to listen to reason and does not want to be reasonable, feels scared when he thinks about it.

and then scolded those pear blossoms and rain maids who had already cried, and asked them to get out of the morning without any tenderness of pity and cherishing jade. This is not the boundary of the village and the store, the maids are all in tears, they are weak women, in such a poor and remote place, even if they are not remembered by those who care, the snakes, rats, insects and pigs in the mountains are enough for them to suffer for a while. But when he saw the big man in front of him, who didn't look like a living bodhisattva at all, his heart suddenly turned to ashes, and then he fled for his life as if he left.

And the boy brother watched the forbidden ones that he had raised for many years scatter and flee one by one, and couldn't help but shout in pain: "Come back, get back." I'm the eldest son of Suping City, how dare this fallen grass rogue hurt me?"

But the fierce knife bearer looked indifferent, and only said: "Don't say what kind of bullshit you are, even if you are Taishou himself and kill Lao Tzu's brother, Lao Tzu will make him pay for his life." Then he stabbed the son on the thigh. What about even the two brothers who are the most and most unproductive in the village? That can only be scolded by Wang Jingdao and the second master, not to mention killed.

Brother Gongzi was in pain and screamed, knowing that he had met a master he couldn't afford to provoke. Civilian clothes said softly: "A good man spares his life, I have money, a lot of money, and a large cart of gold, silver and jewelry, all of which are in that car, all of which are filial piety to the brothers on the mountain." Seeing that the knife bearer did not respond, he just rode forward.

The eldest son, who was dragged all the way, said everything in order to survive. "If the heroes are too few, my father still has a lot of gold and silver in Suping City, as long as you let me go, I will ask him to give all the looted people's fat and ointment. "Brother Gongzi told all the things that his father had embezzled in the city, and promised a lot of profits. Good words and bad words were said all the way, but they didn't impress this hard-hearted knife bearer.

After dragging four miles, the boy was completely silent, and when he dragged it to the cottage, the knife hand looked back and saw that the boy only had a head hanging on the rope.

Now Wang Jingdao looked at the anxious Er Laizi and scolded: "You just have this little bit of luck? The little two thousand officers and soldiers scared you to the point of urine? Lao Tzu is just staying in the mountains, and they can't find them for a while, if their forces disperse a little, then we can kill as many as they come." Wang Jingdao pressed the scabbard and said unscrupulously.

And Erlaizi, who has always been as timid as a mouse, stammered and said: "There is another thing, it seems that the officers and soldiers have slaughtered the city, and the news released is... The people rebelled again, wanting to spread the plague again. ”

Jiang Chengzi, who originally studied medical pharmacology wholeheartedly after making herbal medicine, did not care at first, he was not a mountain bandit when the officers and soldiers suppressed the bandits, he was a doctor who came to relieve the people, and when the time came, the officers and soldiers would give him a plaque and hang it in front of his hometown as a golden signboard. Until he heard the words of slaughtering the city, he was at a loss and his mind was blank.

The sleepy-eyed scholar who was lying on the side turned over and stood up and asked, "Slaughter the city?"

The second Laizi looked at the scholar who was drinking with the third master and said respectfully: "Slaughtering the city, it seems that there is no one alive." They said that they rebelled, killed soldiers, and wanted to get out of the city. ”

"Impossible, impossible," the scholar replied to himself. "It is impossible for the current people in this city to want to flee, if they want to flee on the day they enter the city, they will take advantage of the situation and flee, how can Shu make a move before thinking about escaping?" The scholar knew in his heart that he didn't know how the others were, at least Xu Erniang and his family could not rebel, they usually helped the refugees with a little surplus food, and even the Taishou, who was collecting wealth and harming the people, paid the tax money every time he levied taxes for no reason. That is simply nonsense.

Jiang Chengzi's eyes were red after he lost his mind, and he asked in a crying voice: "What about my master? He is a good doctor and will not rebel, and we have made an appointment that he will come to get herbs." ”

Master's thousands of miles to the world, even the mountain bandits who are usually unkind to the world are very respectful when they see it. Er Laizi replied in a panic: "The officers and soldiers released the rumor that it was the quack doctors in Suping City who were in charge, and many plague patients died. As a result, the people had a gap with the officers and soldiers and wanted to run away, but the officers and soldiers said that the old man was the culprit. ”

Everyone looked different, and the little doctor just shook his head vigorously. "My master is here to help the world, he is not a quack. "There are too many things along the way, which has made the innocent little doctor have mixed feelings. The little doctor stood speechless, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

"Master, are you packing your bags and going on a long journey?"

"Yes, go to the east, and you will also go with the teacher!"

"I won't go, this May heat is not forgiving, if you travel far away under this scorching sun, you will have to dry up before you have traveled a few miles. ”

"With the teacher, this trip, you just need to accompany the teacher, for you, who have only seen a few trees in front of the door, and the frog at the bottom of the well in the first few acres of the village is a business that only makes money and does not lose money. ”

"Phew, you're the frog at the bottom of the well... Eh, Master, you really want to travel far away, why do you still put all the taels of silver in your pocket, and you don't leave some for me, do you plan to starve the disciples to death?"

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"Master, it's okay, I'll go with you, if I don't go with you, you'll almost move all the valuable things in the house, and you won't leave some for the apprentices, is there a master like you who doesn't care about the family? ”

"Okay, when the time comes, you can open as many prescriptions as you want, and I'm afraid you'll get tired of writing. ”

For this kind of trick of wanting to add crimes, Jiang Chengzi couldn't figure it out when he was present.

Then three more whistles came to report, and found that the other three places that were far away also had assembled officers and soldiers, and each adjacent force could take care of each other, forming a horn-wrenching force, with crossbowmen, foot soldiers, and cavalry, each of which was two thousand men smaller.

When the second master heard this, he couldn't help frowning: "I really want to wipe out the three departures in one breath and leave no son?" Originally, when he found the scout that day, he expected that there must be other places. So they killed three groups of scouts in three other realms far apart. I thought that it would make the officers and soldiers confused about the truth and fearful, but I didn't expect it to be a net of all the troops.

Wang Jingdao laughed out loud when he heard this: "Isn't it just 2,000 people in each place? Isn't there more than 800 people in our cottage? When the time comes, they will hide in dangerous places, as long as they dare to throw themselves into the net, we will break them one by one and let them have no return!"

However, Lu Wenping hesitated, how could a general not see this obvious move? Since he dared to be so unscrupulous and wanted to eat a full mouthful, he must have such a big belly and was not afraid to die. "I think it's better to explore again and wait and see what happens, but now I don't know how the officers and soldiers will start, and it is not easy for us to accept it. Lu Wenping, who didn't regard himself as an outsider when he came to the cottage, proposed.

Wang Jingdao smiled strongly: "Brother Lu, you just came to the cottage, I don't know the strength of our cottage, although there are some useless wastes, but most of them are also good at attacking and fighting." The small 2,000 officers and men are not to be feared. Back then, the garrison of Suping City thought about suppressing bandits, and without exception, they all rolled back in disgrace. ”

The second master was silent for a long time and said: "Explore again!"

On the periphery of the mountains on the three departure roads, there was a general with an exposed edge sitting on a big horse, looking at the Chen Jiajun who was ready, waving his big hand and shouting: "Fire!"

Suddenly, the heralds of all the departments saw the gesture and shouted in unison: "Fire!"

The arrows that had already been stained with fierce fire oil ignited together and broke through the air on the mountain of Sanlilu, becoming a prairie fire, and swept the entire mountain out of control.

The mountains are full of fires, all beasts are fleeing, and insects and birds are crying. The fire seemed to be an insatiable gluttony, and it ate all the originally splendid three departures.

In front of the gate of the cottage, Er Laizi had just been ordered to probe the reality of the officers and soldiers, but now he crawled back with a stream of urine, shouting: "Rockets, rockets, the officers and soldiers have set fire to the mountain..."

In fact, there is no need to say that the current scene is obvious to all. Flames were raging all over the cliffs, blocking all the way down the mountain, and all but one dangerous cliff could be lowered, and the other roads were blocked by fire.

But this cliff cottage only has the second master who has the kung fu foundation that is as light as a swallow and can step on the cliff straight down, although the remaining 800 people also have good hands in the martial arts, but who dares to hold up in front of the cliff of the abyss?

"A few days ago, when the little doctor and I went to collect medicine, we found a valley mouth shaped like a gourd, with a clear pond in it, and the Shirakawa Waterfall hanging from a high place next to it. Lu Wenping was in a hurry and said wisely, the best way now is to ensure the vitality of the heroes who have fallen into the grass, and try to avoid this fire from crushing their own army.

Wang Jingdao, who has been rooted in the cottage for many years, knew that it was a place called Lanxi when he heard it. And the second master looked at the fire like a bamboo, so he had to nod silently, this kind of heavenly fire, can not be artificially stopped, the fire is two hundred miles long, a martial artist, how can it compete with it?

Then the second master said in a deep voice to the mountain bandits in the cottage: "Go to Lanxi Pond!"

The whole village is obedient to the two masters, and the heroes who are obedient to the grass all step out of the village, and only the little doctor who does not join the group stands in place. Seeing this, the scholar scolded: "Stupid doctor, do you really want to be burned alive?" Without waiting for the little doctor to respond, Lu Wenping pulled the little doctor away and followed the footsteps of everyone in the cottage.