stubborn thief

Chapter 122 Order it [Please subscribe! ! ! 】

Under the night, the officers and soldiers pulled out a long line on the mountain road, and were inevitably surrounded and intercepted.

Most of the rebels blocked the road in front, followed by Wang Wenxiu's elite chasing them. With a whistle in the middle, Feng Lu's elite all rose up, ran around on the hillside and in the fields and fired arrows, tearing apart the formation of the officers and soldiers.

Liu Chengzong did not participate in the pursuit, he led the Han brothers and other officers and soldiers to the hillside behind the bandit soldiers, and waited for the officers and soldiers to disperse before using precise shooting skills to kill a single enemy soldier.

This is what he thought of when he met the officer who asked him to shoot arrows in the face before the battle.

He plans to build a team of sharpshooters in the future. He will hone his skills with good food in normal times, and join the front team scattered in wartime.

Not long after, scattered officers and soldiers rushed out of the formation, but before reaching them, they asked Feng Ru's subordinates to intercept them on the road. Some were pushed to the ground and surrendered, and some resisted and were killed.

The terrain outside the village was not suitable for the brigade to spread out, and soon the officers and soldiers were separated again, and they clashed one by one, and were intercepted by bandits who rushed from everywhere.

Some fought to the death without surrendering, some fled in all directions after being defeated, and some dropped their weapons and surrendered in the middle of the fight. When they asked what was going on, they lost their strength.

And there are quite a few people like this, they are all tough, but this day is too long for them.

From Jiulian Mountain to Jiapao Mountain, and then through the forty miles of mountains, the soldiers were already exhausted, and before they had time to rest, they were repeatedly attacked by bandits.

Standing in formation to resist the attack of the bandits was okay, but when they really ran, they fought against the frontier army under Liu Chengzong's command.

But after a while it gets boring.

At this moment, a team of more than ten people finally broke through the encirclement from the formation and fled to the official road on the hillside at the foot of Liu Chengzong.

The night was dark and the wind was rushing, and they couldn't see the identity of the person who came. They only knew that the pursuers of this group of people came in a hurry, and they fled in a panic, but they still formed an formation. Liu Chengzong estimated that there were officers inside.

He and the Han family brothers looked at each other: "The general who broke through the siege, beat him to death."

The three of them only cared about the position of their faces, they drew their bows and hit them, and several servants were led by Zhong Bao to run down the hillside to stop them.

Liu Chengzong has the heart to recruit and surrender the frontier army, but for the generals and schools in the official army, just think about it.

Ordinary frontier soldiers have no food and clothing, and they send troops to chop off a few heads to improve their lives, and they can still have some morale. After the war, they are still alive rather than dead.

Maybe the parents have starved to death, and the wife and children have been sold long ago, so there is nothing to worry about.

Speaking of being able to eat enough food is still very attractive to the officers and soldiers who have lost their will to fight. Anyway, there is no hope of improving their lives in the officers and soldiers. In the rebel army, at least they can eat a few full meals before they die.

However, any officer with a rank of more than [-] generals would have no hope of surrendering unless the surrendered general himself made a fatal mistake. Liu Chengzong thought very clearly about this.

Who told him that he didn't even have a piece of land.

The family members of the surrendered generals are not protected, there is no possibility of being promoted to rank, let alone the hope of honoring their ancestors.

On the contrary, defecting to the rebel army would harm his family, lose his official position and salary, and even his ancestors would jump out of the coffin to kill him if they knew about it.

If you die in battle, you can still get a pension.

Changing places, if Liu Chengzong was a general of the imperial court, if he wanted to rebel, he would secretly contact the rebels. If he didn't want to rebel, he would rather die in battle than Guangzong Yaozu, and he would never surrender before the battle.

The three of them swished arrows down and overturned the two of them, and then Zhong Bao led a group of people with knives, shields, spears and spears to block the way.

The battle lasted only for a moment, and it was unknown who was shot down, which caused the rushing out of the official army team to collapse in an instant.

Liu Chengzong heard someone shout: "The general is dead!"

The three were overjoyed, but they looked at each other, not even knowing who shot the arrow.

Liu Chengzong shouted on the slope: "Your general is dead, why don't you surrender? If you put down your weapons, there is a way to survive, and if you fight stubbornly, you will die!"

As soon as these words came out, the remaining eight or nine frontier soldiers looked at me and I looked at you. Starting from the first one who put down his weapon, several people put down their weapons one after another, and there was a ping-pong sound.

Only one person was holding a waist knife and was undecided, so he dared to rush towards Zhong Bao alone, shouting loudly.

But he couldn't touch Zhong Bao at all, and was stabbed in the throat by the eight-foot short spear.

He died in a moment.

After they all put down their weapons, Liu Chengzong jumped down from the slope, pointed at the dead body and asked, "Who is your general and what is his name?"

A soldier pointed to a dead body on the ground with an arrow in its throat and said, "The general is Liu Guozhen, Qianzong of the Shenmu Battalion."

Liu Chengzong looked at the huge wound caused by the arrow, and smiled at the Han family brothers: "Look whose arrow made a great contribution."

At first he wondered if he had shot the enemy general himself, but he had no such arrows.

The two brothers took out the arrow and looked at it. The elder patted the younger brother and said, "General, this is my brother's arrow."

"Okay, then it's up to Shiyou to go, go and recruit them, show your prestige!"

Han Shiyou smiled and cupped his fists to accept the order, and ran to the village with his legs up.

Only then did Liu Chengzong ask the captives: "Your general is an officer of the Shenmu Battalion, how could you get involved with Li Bei?"

He knew in Shenmu Camp that the participating general was Ai Wannian from Mi Zhi Ai's family.

Jiang Bing explained: "General Li had no soldiers when he was in office, and when he needed troops again, he borrowed one from the Shenmu Camp. We are all soldiers from the Shenmu Camp, and General Meng also borrowed it to be the general."

Liu Chengzong wondered: "The second tiger general is here too?"

The surname Meng is very rare, and even fewer are soldiers. At least in Liu Chengzong's mind, there is only one general named Meng in Yansui Town, Meng Ruhu.

"General Tiger didn't come, only General Meng was stationed in Hequ with General Li."

After inquiring about some information with the surrendered soldiers, Liu Chengzong asked people to collect the weapons of the surrendered soldiers, and led the team to the village to have a look.

As he was walking, Zhong Bao came over with a three-eyed blunderbuss: "Look, general, it's probably the thing that hurt my brother."

Three-eyed guns are not uncommon in Shaanxi.

Cao Yao used to run with the old gun, and Liu Chengzong also played with it, but this gun was clearly made with much finer workmanship and longer.

The barrel of Cao Yao's gun was one foot long, and the barrel of this gun was three inches longer than that one.

Then Liu Chengzong looked at the medicine pot again. The regulation was different from Cao Yao's.

He said to Zhong Bao: "Take a torch and light it."

With the light, the inscriptions on the body of the gun can be clearly seen. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Yulin Guard made it, and the craftsman who built it was Zhang Qile.

New this year.

Liu Chengzong pointed to the inscription and said, "This craftsman must have good skills in making guns."

The family members are Ding Xingwang, and the fact that Guangsheng had a boy made his father happy at least seven times. If the family can exchange experience in building, the technical problems they encounter may be overcome.

The barrel of the gun was longer, so the body of the gun was naturally heavier. Liu Chengzong weighed it, handed it back to Zhong Bao, and asked, "Do you know how to use firearms? If you can't, forget it. Go back to Chief Cao."

The main general died and was surrounded. The rest of the frontier army surrendered quickly. Even if there were a few stubborn ones, they were not the opponents of Liu Chengzong's frontier army.

But what surprised Liu Chengzong was that those bandit soldiers with a team of hundreds of people were busy collecting their own corpses after the battle, and those who didn't do this just sat in the fields to rest, and no one went to remove the armor of the frontier army.

After asking, I found out that the Heavenly Monkey had previously ordered them not to move the corpses of the frontier soldiers.

This is too powerful.

In Liu Chengzong's cognition, I'm afraid that among all the thieves he met, even including Gao Yingxiang, none of them had such control power as the Heavenly Monkey: "Where are your leaders?"

He was standing at the entrance of the village to ask, when he saw Shangtian Monkey leading a group of people not far away, he gave him a big hug when he saw him: "It can be regarded as a victory."

Liu Chengzong wondered: "You, you are, have you taken off your armor?"

Of course he wasn't talking about the armor, but the monkey taking a bath in heaven.

Not only was he washed clean, but he also changed into clean clothes.

Heavenly Monkey turned his hand around in front of him, raised his thumb and said, "How, did you just find out today that I, Liu Jiusi, is also a handsome little brother."

He laughed out loud as he said it, and then he said seriously: "Not only did I take a bath, but I also ate half a catty of meat and drank two bowls of wine. This is a serious soldier of the frontier army, and he was beaten by Li Bei all the time. I went to the desert outside the Great Wall, and no one told me that you would come, so if you go to see your parents, you can't be too useless."

After finishing speaking, the Monkey King shook his head and said, "I've been lining up here, so I didn't know you were coming. If I had known it earlier, I wouldn't have taken a bath."

This made Liu Chengzong feel funny at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Among all the leaders, he is probably the only one who is qualified to consider how to annihilate the official army.

He sent someone to say casually, and asked Shangtian Monkey to stop this army, and Shangtian Monkey was ready to be wiped out or even killed in battle.

This tragic reality made him laugh dryly, then changed the subject and asked, "How about your casualties?"

"I haven't figured it all out. I was just looking for you for this matter. Can you get medicine in Yan'an City? I have killed more than 40 people here..."

Just as he was talking, a small thief pawn ran over and whispered something in Shangtian Monkey's ear. Shangtian Monkey raised his head and said, "Now there are more than 60 dead in battle, and more than 300 injured. Half of them will die if there is medicine. Those who are injured must die."

Liu Chengzong was amazed, what a talent!
Forty plus twenty mouthfuls counts.

This matter is very simple for those who have read books and are rich and often go to the market, but the Monkey has never read a book and is very poor.

How to describe the poverty of Monkey King, it looks like it looks poor.

In Cao Yao's words: "This man can't even pay for drinking in the city."

If you don't give money, the shopkeeper may be fine if he is kind.

Otherwise, if he stood at the counter in this state and slapped out fifty Tongbao, the shopkeeper would dare to report to the official that the money came from a wrong source.

He can count so fast.

Then Liu Chengzong realized that this guy is a gambler.

This topic is heavy, Liu Chengzong sighed: "The casualties are heavy."

"Look at it, there is no other way." Shangtian Monkey was not sad about this, shook his head and said: "If they hadn't followed me, they wouldn't be alive today. I treated them well while they were alive, and death is fate What about your casualties?"

"One died and sixteen were injured. I'm afraid two of them won't survive."

Liu Chengzong's words made Shangtianhou tilt his head and stretch his neck, squinting his eyes with a very puzzled expression: "Sir, why are you so sad when you die? You look regretful, but I advise you to look away!"

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "The dead one is called a piece of meat. Just a few days ago I robbed King Qing Zhuangzi's cargo team to Gansu, and surrendered to the Zhuangshangqi Army. He didn't want to follow me, saying that Luocao was a piece of meat under my hands." , As a result, I just called him this casually, and we still don’t know what his name is, so he’s gone.”

"It seems that it is not good to have an elite army. Everyone knows each other."

Shangtian Monkey answered, "I'm different. I only care about what they eat and drink. I don't know them. I get to know them after they die. I dig graves and take care of the parents and children left behind."

Seeing that the topic was becoming more serious, Liu Chengzong wanted to have a pleasant chat, and asked, "I asked your people, saying that you ordered them not to move the corpses and spoils of the frontier army. Why?"

"Waiting for you to divide, what else can you do, your people are amazing, why don't you let me divide?"

Heavenly Monkey looked like 'you don't look very smart', rubbed his hands together and said, "Tell me, how do you plan to divide?"

Liu Chengzong really didn't expect it.

He felt that there were a lot of monkeys in the sky, and indeed they also contributed a lot. If there were no monkeys and thirty centurions to attack in turn, this battle would not be so easy for them.

"Since I'm allowed to divide, my men are powerful, and your men have contributed a lot. I don't think so. We share equally. My soldiers have to fill the quiver. You pick the rest first, and I pick the rest. .”

When Liu Chengzong said this, he only spoke half of the sentence. He said: "But the more than 300 surrendered soldiers are all mine... It's not that I won't give it to you. I'm afraid they will kill you later to claim credit."

Weapons and armor, in Liu Chengzong's view, are things that the monkeys in heaven urgently need.

His people are very obedient, and they are the rewards of the peasant army for the kindness accumulated by the monkeys in the sky. The leader and the thieves are all good people, and good people can only survive if they have armor.

In Shaanxi these days, everyone is used to seeing life and death. It can be seen that there is still a long distance between getting used to the death of strangers and getting used to life and death bathed in blood.

For Jiangbing, the ignorant and simple kindness of Shangtian Monkey couldn't be restrained.

Conversely, for Liu Chengzong, Bingjia is not the most important thing in his heart.

The frontier soldiers of the five sentinels had already been armed, not to mention that there were no mules in the mule battalion, so even if they gave him all the armor, his men would not have any.

What he lacks are talents, talents who have mastered combat skills and are familiar with military affairs.

Although he also needs to guard against descending soldiers, these people are not as threatening to him as they are to Heavenly Monkey.

"Give it..." Shang Tian Hou was overjoyed, and couldn't even speak smoothly. He repeated the movement of hugging his chest with both hands: "Give me half, really?"

He clapped loudly, and leaned forward: "I'll give you all the soldiers who surrendered. You are much more generous than King Hengtian and King Gao Chuang. I thought you would give me money. Don't worry, you are so righteous. I will never take good care of you." Pick everything up!"

Conscience of heaven and earth, Heavenly Monkey never expected Liu Chengzong to give so much.

In the valley to the east there are still Li Bei's elite soldiers and strong generals, and the Heavenly Monkey fought this battle with all their might, doing their duty as rogues.

In addition to Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, and Zuo Guangzi who was defeated by the official army these days, who else has the strength to defeat the official army, and who can defeat the official army to obtain good weapons and armor?

Who does not lack armor?
He asked Liu Chengzong to share, just to try and see what and how much he could share.

More than 300 people were killed or injured, and it would be considered righteous to give the armor thirty collars.

Just a second before Liu Chengzong said that he would split evenly, Liu Jiusi was still thinking in his mind, if he was given 200 taels of silver, then he might as well go back to Fuzhou and guard the Qingyang Banner Guards there instead of playing with them up.

But... Liu Chengzong gave too much.

In the next second, the Heavenly Monkey began to lick it, stretched out his hand and slashed in front of his face: "Order, General Liu, what are you going to do next!"

(End of this chapter)