Late Tang

(Thanks to Li Luoqing, Tianjie Xiaofeng, the running homeless man, and Jinchan Chenjin for their rewards, thank you.)

The road was bloody, and in the end only the second leader with a scarred face was left.In the end, he was the only one left among the ten gangsters. Scarface, whose ears had been cut off, seemed a little unbelievable when he saw Li Jing and the others beheading them all.

Li Jing pulled out the feathered arrow from the back of the monkey cheek, and walked towards him with a fierce face, the freshly drawn arrow tip was still dripping with the blood of the head.The scarred face that had always been rigid seemed to have collapsed, and the last bit of arrogance in his heart gradually disappeared.

Li Jing stood in front of Scarface, and Li Shitou and Qiu Sheng immediately pressed Scarface from left to right, and kicked him as he knelt in front of Li Jing.

Dao Scar's face was trembling all over, looking up at Li Jing, tremblingly said: "You actually killed so many brothers in our Xihuo Village, and even killed the head of the family, the brothers in Xihuo Village will not let you go."

"Xihuo Village won't let us go? Even your big boss died in our hands, do you think we will be afraid of the rest of you?"

"It's not just Xihuo Village, this time we received the hero post from Zhendonghai. If you kill us, you will offend Zhendonghai, and they will avenge us." Scarface had already guessed his identity At the end, at the last moment, his eyes were full of viciousness.

Li Jing held the horizontal knife with a straight blade in both hands, and the slanted tip of the knife reached Scarface's neck cavity. With both hands, the horizontal knife slowly inserted into Scarface's chest cavity from top to bottom until it reached the handle .

Scarface's throat was squeaking and he could no longer make a full sound, blood kept pouring out of his mouth, his face was swollen and red, and the veins on his forehead were exposed.Li Jing yanked the horizontal knife upwards vigorously, a stream of blood spurted out, and the vitality of the whole body of the scarred face seemed to be separated from the body with this twitch.His face was contorted, his body was weak, and eventually he lost all strength, and his hands hung limply.The whole person fell to the ground, his eyes gradually dimmed, and only his body twitched from time to time.

Wiping the horizontal knife on Scar's face a few times, Li Jing put the knife back into its sheath, and said with a cold snort, "It doesn't matter if you are Xihuozhai or Zhendonghai, since you match, it's life and death."

When the horizontal knife was retracted into the scabbard, Li Jing's whole body strength seemed to disappear.He sat down on the ground, feeling a sense of loss of strength all over his body.In addition to being powerless, there was also some blood-boiling excitement in my heart, which could not disappear for a long time.

This kind of blood and sword fight was shocking, but it aroused an uncontrollable feeling in Li Jing's heart.This seems to be the power that has been immersed for a long time and has been waiting for awakening.Is this what he expected?

The others were not much better than Li Jing. Xiao Shitou, Qiu Sheng, Xi Gou and Xiao Shan were not injured, but the four of them were all sitting on the ground at this moment, feeling the pain of the first battle, the first murder. body reaction.

For others, the situation is much worse.Xiaowei Wang had seven or eight wounds on his body, and he was lying on the ground at this time, being bandaged by Zhang Zuoli, who only suffered minor injuries.In addition, Wang Liang was the most seriously injured, with one arm cut off and an arrow wound on the other shoulder.For the other four young men surnamed Wang, one was stabbed in the leg, the other was shot in the lower abdomen, and the other two were only slightly wounded by arrows.

In this battle, Li Jing has seen many problems.The ten recruits in Wangli Village are actually pretty good.But at the time of Guan Jian, because Xiao Shitou and the others followed him and did not run around, they twisted into a rope. In the end, not only were they not injured, but they even killed the enemy.But Wang Liang and the others didn't have a command backbone at all, they ran around when they encountered bandits, and the result became a mess.If it hadn't been for Captain Wang's desperate resistance for so long, everyone would probably be finished today.

Looking back at this moment, Li Jing still feels that it is a bit of a miracle that everyone can survive until now.A military officer and a civil official led ten recruits who didn't even have weapons, and were ambushed by ten gangsters. In the end, none of them died, but all the gangsters were wiped out. This result is unbelievable.

Li Jing was still recalling and summarizing the battle, but Captain Wang, who had been roughly bandaged, had already walked over on his own initiative.

"Brother just now really turned the tide and helped the building to collapse! It's amazing, brother not only has a superb archery skill, what's even more rare is this calmness. If it weren't for you today, we would all die in this battle." That's it." Xiaowei Wang limped over and praised loudly.

Li Jing hurriedly got up, bowed his hands and bowed his hands: "Captain Wang is ridiculously praised, I am ashamed to be humble."

"You're welcome. My surname is Wang, and my name is heavy and beautiful. If you don't mind, you can just call me brother in the future." Xiaowei Wang said eagerly.

"You little ones dare to climb high, you are the captain, and I'm just a villager."

"It's just an accompanying captain from the ninth rank, and a small official the size of a sesame seed. It's not worth mentioning. But brother, you have made great achievements this time. You killed five thieves with one manpower, and two of them were Westerners." Huozhai's first master and second master. Brother Xihuozhai has heard about it for a long time. It is said that he is an old bandit in Fangdeng County. The hand of my brother."

"The imperial court has regulations on the direction of killing the enemy and suppressing bandits. The military merits of the Unity Army are ranked fifth. The first class is 50 pieces of silk; the second class is 30 pieces of silk; the third class is 10 pieces of money; Fifth class, money 5 guan. Generally, killing one head on the battlefield is the fourth class, and so on. This time, my brother will be the first class, and will reward 3 pieces of silk. For the deputy captain of the ninth rank, it might be possible to directly confer a captain of the military at one time, then we will be at the same level."

In the late Tang Dynasty, the imperial court and all the feudal towns had clearly marked prices for the military achievements of the soldiers in killing the enemy.The price Wang Zhong said was only the price of the Tutuan's military exploits. In fact, the price of the Imperial Army and Guan Jian's military exploits for killing enemies was at least double the price of the Tutuan.

Li Jing secretly calculated in his heart, now each piece of silk is worth [-] yuan, and fifty pieces of silk are worth [-] yuan.Money is still a trivial matter, what excites him the most is the possibility of being directly promoted to an official position.You must know that although Tutuan is used as a professional army in various feudal towns, in fact Tutuan does not belong to registered soldiers.Therefore, Tutuans generally do not have formal official positions, unless they are fighting for meritorious service.

The Deputy Lieutenant of Accompanying Rong is a martial arts rank from the ninth rank, not a real job, but a casual rank with a clearly defined rank.Moreover, it is the lowest No. 30 rank among the ninth-rank and thirty-rank official positions in the Tang Dynasty.But at least, this is a real official rank within the stream.Li Jing's father worked hard all his life, but he was just a miscellaneous county official, and he didn't even get the lowest official rank from Jiupinxia.But now, on the first day Li Jing joined the army, he killed five thieves. Not only could he get a reward of [-] qian, but he might also be directly promoted to the third rank from the ninth rank, which made him unhappy.

"All of this is due to the captain's good command, proper arrangements, leading the way, and leading us to fight to the death. This is the merit. The little ones don't care about greed, everything is the captain's credit." Li Jing said cautiously, Although he had been in contact with him for a short time, he felt that Captain Wang was a good officer, but he still had to be careful.

"Don't talk to me about these polite words. If it weren't for you, I would have lost my life. It's too late for me to thank you. How could I steal your military merits. I remember your name is Li Jing, right? I don't know what it means What is the word?"

"The younger one's surname is Li, his name is Jing, his surname is Ji Yu, and he is the third eldest in the family."

Wang nodded emphatically, "Ji Yu, it's really a good piece of raw jade. Given time, it will be limitless. Well, let's clean up the battlefield first and go back to Chishan Town first, so as to avoid any accidents."

Li Jing was about to respond, but suddenly there was a burst of applause, and then a thick voice slowly said: "It seems that a good show just happened here, but it's a pity that someone came a step late, why are you in such a hurry to leave!"

ps: I finally got the first recommendation this afternoon: strong recommendation by category.The editor said that this is the best recommendation in the category. There are already good recommendations, and Muzi is only worried about the grades now.Brothers, please log in to your account to read when reading, and please bookmark it when reading, and vote for your recommendation votes.Muzi plans to hit the new book list this week, and it all depends on everyone.