A knife in love

Chapter 2767
After hearing Zhang Gui's words, everyone gathered around the fire, took off their soaked clothes and armor, and held them to roast by the fire.Although Murong Danyan and Wang Xiaoyu were dressed in men's clothes, they refused to take off their wet clothes in front of everyone. They just sat beside the fire and whispered, waiting for the flames to dry their wet clothes.Li Qiufeng and Qi Jiu knew what the second daughter was thinking, so naturally they couldn't let the second daughter take off their wet clothes to bake.Zhang Gui, Xu Yingyang and others also knew that Murong Danyan and Wang Xiaoyu were daughters, but they didn't bother to pay attention to the second daughter.Zhang Gui's soldiers and Xu Yingyang's Jin Yiwei also gathered beside the fire, taking off their armor and clothes to bake.All the guards in brocade clothes were silent, and Zhang Gui's soldiers were all rough and bold, talking and laughing loudly while baking their armor, and the old man's mountain was full of people's voices, and it was extremely lively.

After a while, more than a dozen soldiers brought bamboo baskets and wooden buckets, and brought dry food, beef and water to the crowd.While chewing steamed buns and sauced beef, Zhang Gui said loudly: "This time, I took my brothers to the south of Dongliao County. In order not to startle the snake, I didn't cross Motianling along the official road, but passed through the east end of Motianling. before I led the troops to the south, I sent people dressed as merchants to go south first to introduce seeds for the brigade. After they reached the north bank of the Dasha River, they collected four small boats from the homes of the people. I led the troops to the Afterwards, relying on these four small boats, it took a whole day and night to cross the Dasha River.”

When Qi Jiu heard what Zhang Gui said, his heart moved. He turned his head and lowered his voice and said to Li Qiufeng: "Brother Li, listen to Mr. Zhang. He has brought at least five or six hundred soldiers with him on this trip. But at the moment there are only five or six hundred soldiers on the top of the mountain. One sergeant, where did the rest of the officers and soldiers go?"

Li Qiufeng was stunned, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Zhang Gui. Seeing that he was chewing a piece of sauced beef, he didn't even have time to say anything, and he didn't pay attention to talking to Qi Jiu at all, so he turned his head and whispered to Qi Jiu: "What's the purpose of brother Qi's words?"

Qi Jiu said in a low voice: "Master Zhang said that he took the officers and soldiers to the north bank of the Dasha River, and relied on four small boats to ferry back and forth. It took a whole day for the whole army to cross the Dasha River. When I was in Dengzhou Wei, I often practiced with the officers and soldiers. I know that each small boat can carry three to five officers and soldiers in addition to the boatman. Based on this guess, the number of officers and soldiers brought to Dongliao County by Mr. Zhang is about 600. But except for his personal soldiers and General Wang, etc. Isn't it too strange to see no other officers and soldiers besides dozens of people?"

Li Qiufeng frowned slightly after hearing what Qi Jiu had said, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Gui seems to be rough and bold, and doesn't seem to have any scheming, but in fact, this person is thoughtful and intelligent. He went south to help, and his whereabouts were secretive. It is true that he intends to reap the benefits of being a fisherman. But in Li’s view, Zhang Gui’s behavior is mostly because he is worried about the officialdom’s turmoil, which makes him go south to confront the Japanese pirates. Even if he defeats the Japanese pirates, he will be guilty of no merit.”

When Li Qiufeng said this, he glanced at Qi Jiu, and then said: "Brother Qi grew up in Dengzhou Wei since he was a child, and he knows the dirty things in the officialdom. If Zhang Gui leads the army to Dongliao County, immediately Even if he can defeat the Japanese pirates, his soldiers must suffer a lot. Zhang Gui has been in the army for many years, and he has been promoted from a big soldier to the general soldier. I don’t know how many people he has offended. If his subordinates The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the political opponents in the imperial court must seize the opportunity to attack and gather the censors to attack. How to defeat the Japanese pirates without harming the soldiers under him is what Zhang Guiming is thinking hard about.

"Yi Li guessed that in order to protect himself, Zhang Gui ordered his soldiers to hide in a safe place and not show up easily, in order to protect himself. He left the decisive battle with the Japanese pirates to the Manzi. Annihilation of the entire army will not do any harm to Zhang Gui."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "Since Zhang Gui deliberately concealed where his soldiers are hiding, Brother Qi must not ask, so as not to violate his taboo. If you have a dirty life with this , I'm afraid it will be very detrimental to Brother Qi's official career."

Just as Li Qiufeng finished speaking, before Qi Jiu could answer, Zhang Gui finally swallowed the piece of sauced beef in his mouth.He patted his stomach and said with a smile: "Old... When I took my brothers to the south bank of the Dasha River, it was already evening, and the surroundings were so dark that I couldn't see what was going on around me at all. Let's explore the road first. My brother came back and reported that there was a large-scale Zhuangzi one and a half miles away from the south bank of the Dasha River. The inside of the Zhuangzi was dark and dark, and I don’t know if there are people living there. After discussing with several lieutenants, I was worried about the army going south. Leaking out would inevitably delay the important event, so two hundred brothers were sent to sneak into Zhuangzi quietly, hoping to gather the people in Zhuangzi together without anyone noticing, lest they escape indiscriminately and alarm the Japanese pirates.

"I didn't expect that the two hundred brothers sent by me had just entered Zhuangzi, and they were immediately discovered. However, there were only more than 30 people who rushed up to stop them. After the melee, more than 300 people were mostly killed, and a few were seriously injured and captured, but they refused to speak. Later, I led my brothers into Zhuangzi, searched from house to house, and drove all the more than [-] people in Zhuangzi to a big house. But these people are either silent or chattering, and they can't understand what they are saying at all.

"Fortunately, before going south, the officer thought that this trip south was going to fight the Japanese pirates, so he specially brought two interpreters who knew the Fusang dialect to go with the army. These two guys were so frightened that they eavesdropped on the words of these people, and they hurriedly Come and report to this official, tell this official that these people speak Fusang dialect."

When Zhang Gui said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "After hearing this, I was both surprised and happy. I was surprised that there were so many Fusang people hiding in Dongliao County. I was happy that Zheng Worrying not knowing the details of the Japanese pirates, God sent this group of Fusang people to the official. The official saw that there were many women and children among the captured Fusang people, so he ordered all the men to be tied up tightly, and then threw them into the Guarded in the empty house, only the women and children were left in the yard. These Fusang women are very stubborn. No matter how I question them, they just keep their mouths shut and refuse to say a word. There is nothing I can do , I had to use some means to deal with these Fusang women. After all, women are women, after suffering, they finally had to obediently tell the situation in Zhuangzi."

Listening to Zhang Gui's words, Wang Xiaoyu was curious, wondering what method he used to force the Fusang woman to tell the truth.It's just that she was about to ask, when she saw Zhang Gui's obscene and vicious expression, she thought to herself that this bastard Zhang Gui was vicious and cruel, even more shameless than Xu Yingyang, Jin Yulou and other bastards.Therefore, the methods he used to deal with the Fusang woman must be extremely despicable and shameless.If he asked rashly, he would only be ridiculed by everyone.Thinking of this, Wang Xiaoyu cursed secretly in her heart, gave Zhang Gui a hard look, turned her head and ignored him.

(End of this chapter)