Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 242 Heroic Spirit
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General Liu Zhen is drinking tea with several lieutenants under his command.

A few people sat on the closed-door upstairs, Liu Zhenjiang caressed the balcony with one hand, and played with a white porcelain teacup produced in Xingjiao, Hebei Province with the other.Sitting there, he couldn't see that he was a guard guard at all, but he seemed like an old shopkeeper.

"This tea is really tasteless to drink like this. I don't know why Bai Hu Luo Cheng likes this way of drinking?" Liu Zhenjiang shook his head, but he didn't put down the tasteless teacup in his hand.

The others were not used to drinking this kind of clear tea at all, and each of them added condiments such as mutton oil, onion, ginger, garlic, orange peel, and salt.

Liu Zhenjiang frowned and took another sip of bitter tea, "Zhangqiu Luocheng is the strangest young man I have seen in recent years. He is young and has no foundation, but he suddenly rose up. What do you say With his background, how many people, maybe in a year or so, have gone from being a white man to the seventh rank?"

"Before, I always thought that this kid probably climbed some high branches, relying on the support of Zhang Xutuo, the Prime Minister of Qi County. But this time, after seeing his team, especially his brothers, they seem to understand a little bit. Can train a group of teenagers for more than a year to develop such a spirit, and there are so many brothers who follow him wholeheartedly. No matter how young he is, he can still achieve a career. And his brothers , and none of them are simple, but they all show a strong momentum, I dare say that Luo Cheng's trip to Liaodong, as long as he doesn't die, will definitely have a great fortune."

A school lieutenant asked, "Is it so miraculous? I think that Luo Cheng seems to be just average. Even when he suppressed a few bandits, he pushed the mountain to stop him, which is obviously cowardly. And his group of brothers, all of them are You country bumpkin, you don't have any knowledge, you just have some strength. Especially that Luo Laosi, a reckless man."

Liu Zhenjiang shook his head.

"Luo Cheng's brothers are fiercer than each other. Among them, the fourth Luo is really reckless, and the sixth Luo is stupid, but the third Luo is very shrewd. Even the young Du Fuwei has a heroic temperament. , These people are born in prosperous times, and they will definitely become good generals who will bring peace and prosperity to the world. But he is a thoughtful person, this person is not simple-minded."

"Then they will definitely win this time to suppress Liu Badao?"

Liu Zhen said with a smile, "If they don't have this ability, why should I be so polite to them? I'm giving gold and grain. This business won't lose money."

"Isn't it a loss? The capture belongs to them, and they have to be exchanged for the captives and beheadings. In addition, they have to pay for their food and grass consumption, and they also need to be rewarded. No matter what, it's a loss, not to mention that we have to send brothers to lead the battle."

"You don't understand this. Douzigang has the advantage of boiling salt. In the past, many powerful nobles intervened in it, but now that Liu Badao has become a thief, he simply took the advantage of salt cooking from this Douzigang. If we borrow Luo Cheng Killing Liu Badao with his knife will not only prevent Liu Badao from threatening us at Lujiaoguan, but also wait for Luo Cheng to leave, and then we will take over the profit from cooking salt in Douzigang. There are not many left."

"What's more, even if we spend money to invite Luo Cheng to suppress the bandits, what if we spend money to buy the beheaded heads of the bandits and the captured prisoners? If we resend these things and report them, it will become our contribution to the bandit suppression. Not only will there be a reward, but you can also get promoted, why not do it?"

"Gao, it's still the town general Gao Ming."

"Hahaha, this is called borrowing a knife to kill people. It's up to us to kill Liu Badao and other vicious dogs. Luo Cheng may make money by doing this, but we will never lose money!"

Liu Zhen said in a scheming way.

"We can even use this to make friends with Luo Cheng. Maybe after returning from the Eastern Expedition, this kid will climb above us. We will be neighbors with him by then, so we must borrow him."

"I always feel that the town general still thinks highly of Luo Cheng, a group of country bumpkins, got lucky and wiped out a few little thieves by mistake, so they really think they are great." Someone said disconvinced.

General Liu Zhen just smiled, picked up his tea and took another sip.

"We're here to wait for the news."

Douzigang.

Wang Lvshuai led his [-]-year-old criminals, holding spears and horizontal knives, approaching the salt-boiling workshop step by step.

It was a courtyard with a fence surrounded by wooden piles. There were a dozen or so rooms inside, many stoves and pots were built, and many people were busy cooking salt.

Douzigang is a big salt lake, with a lot of salt water, so the water is boiled to make salt. Although the production technology is extremely backward, it does not cost much.

Hundreds of salt workers are fugitives who fled from outside, and there are less than 50 people in the courtyard, who are responsible for supervising and protecting the workshop, as well as thieves responsible for transporting salt.

Wang Lvshuai's slow movements had already attracted the attention of the people in the courtyard.

The group was a little panicked at first, and when they saw that there were only about a hundred people coming, they took a closer look, but it turned out that they were still acquaintances.

"Those thieves from Lujiao Village join the army!"

"These stinky criminals, grandpa hasn't gone to break his gate, but they still dare to come to the door."

Several bandit leaders laughed, not paying attention to the town soldiers who outnumbered them at all.They know the whole thing about the neighboring Lujiaoguan. There were hundreds of people there, but three hundred were transferred recently, and now there are only a hundred prisoners left in the prison. Those people are far worse than them.

"Brothers, gangsters, kill these thieves to join the army. It happens that there are few people working, and the salt cooker is too busy. Capture these straight mother thieves, pick up salt water and chop firewood!"

A group of thieves rushed out like a swarm of thieves after each copying the guy.

Not what Luo Cheng expected, although Luo Cheng gave him the order to be the vanguard and break into the thief's workshop, but the brigade commander Wang didn't have the courage at all. When he saw the thief rushing out screaming, he immediately turned around and took the lead and ran away .

He ran in front on horseback, and the hundred prisoners and guards behind him all followed suit and turned around and ran away.

They ran in a panic, scrambling to be the first, and hated their parents for losing two legs.

Seeing this, the thieves doubted it was a fraud.

not far away.

Luo Siye looked at a hundred town soldiers who were being chased by forty or fifty thieves crying for their father and mother. Some of them even fell behind and were chased and fell to the ground by the thieves, but still no one turned around and fought.

"Bah, idiot."

The fourth child held a straw stick in his mouth, and said with a smile, "The fifth one said that these are prisoners who were exiled from the army."

After waiting for a while, the thieves had already bitten about one-third of the town soldiers, and they were happily chopping.

"It's almost there." The third child said something, then jumped on the horse, and waved the 21-jin heavy knife specially ordered by his father for him, "Come with me, kill!"

Not to be outdone, the fourth child jumped on his war horse and danced with Chang Lao, "Brothers, follow me to kill!"

The two brothers each led 100 men and horses to fight out, like two iron tongs suddenly stabbing out.

On the other side, Shi Xin had already led ten black light armored heavy cavalry to charge first.

(End of this chapter)