Lu's relatives

Chapter 432

It was three poles high in the sun, and the outside of Yecheng became lively.Compared with the strict orders and prohibitions of Youzhou soldiers, the black mountain bandits who came one after another at the appointment, ran around in the barracks with their masters and sons together, huddled together, and in the eyes of people, I am afraid that they are no better than refugees where to go.

Liu Bei didn't know that he had already personally handled several conflicts between the Black Mountain bandits and the Youzhou soldiers.Being able to make trouble in front of Liu Bei, the lord of the army, is actually not a big deal at first glance. It is nothing more than the armor and equipment, food and treatment, so that the eyes of the Black Mountain bandits who are full and hungry Take the green light.

Why?Everyone is serving as a soldier to eat food, fighting for their lives, and this time they are "helping" Liu Bei to attack Yecheng. Why do Youzhou soldiers have two meals a day, can eat corn buns that are full, and have big bone broth to drink when they are free? , while the Montenegro bandits asked to bring their own rations, and the wild vegetable dumplings were served with cold water, and their faces turned green after eating.I didn't feel anything when I was in the mountains before, but now compared with the regular army, the food is not even as good as pig food!Coupled with the fact that the Heishan bandit soldiers who are not angry at "different pay for equal work" always feel disdainful and alienated by Youzhou soldiers, and their chief officer turns a blind eye, maybe he also has this idea The connivance of her, isn't that going against the sky?Grabbing and fighting are trivial matters, and even when conflicts intensified, they even resorted to knives.I also don't think about how the black mountain bandit soldiers, who are hungry and full all day long and can only eat wild vegetable dumplings when they go out in battle, can be the opponent of this private soldier that Liu Bei has worked so hard to assemble in terms of combat power.As a result, the thirty or fifty Black Mountain bandit soldiers were crushed and beaten by more than ten Youzhou soldiers.

In this way, the pot was fried.There are millions of bandits in Heishan, who have been suppressed by the government for ten years without hurting their bones, and no one has even found out where their lair is. Baotuan is famous for it.The suppression by the Youzhou soldiers was very satisfying, but the leader of the Black Mountain bandits, Yu Du, and the leader of the bandits, Zhang Yan, were rumored to be coming in a few days, and Zhang Yan, who was sent to contact Liu Bei with [-] vanguard troops Congzi, the thief will quit.Not to mention the noisy atmosphere that stirred up Liu Bei's army camp, and relying on Liu Bei's repeated strict orders to restrain Youzhou soldiers from clashing with Heishan bandits, they became more and more presumptuous. For the Youzhou soldiers who were strictly ordered not to fight back when beaten or scolded, it could almost be called looting.

It is rumored that Liu Bei loves soldiers like sons.At least on the surface.It really took some thought to raise such a large army under Gongsun Zan's nose.These Youzhou soldiers of Liu Bei's family, how could they have suffered such grievances, they were insulted by a group of thieves, and they were ordered not to overreact to "surprise the friendly army". The prestige in the Youzhou army is extremely high, and I am afraid that he has already screamed because of the dissatisfaction of the army.

But going on like this is really not a solution. Yuan Xi in Yecheng did not meet him face to face, and Kong Rong who sent him to the city begged for a letter. He did not know what happened, and it has been delayed for three to five days without reply.This weird atmosphere made Kong Rong, who originally wanted to go to the city to see what Yuan Xi wanted, subconsciously stopped, and waited patiently for an answer.If it weren't for the smooth communication between the generals in the army, Wen Chou and Zhang Jaw's words were considered polite, and there was no access control inside and outside the city, and the spies in the city sent news from time to time that there was no movement of the army in the city. Liu Bei, holding on to the excuse that he came here to help Yuan Xi resist Lu Bu and Cao Cao's attack, desperately resisted the idea of ​​a strong attack.

But now there is such a thing as black mountain bandits making trouble.Liu Bei, who has always regarded forbearance as his own, is really impatient.Although Gongsun Zan's permission was obtained for this expedition, the food, grass and military supplies submitted for approval were really not much, and it was only enough for the 3000 Youzhou soldiers who apparently went to the expedition for a month.But this time, Liu Bei took out all his family assets. The food and grass needed by the [-]-strong army were all stock that Liu Bei squeezed out through his teeth. Liu Bei, who has always been "generous", naturally would not lose face in front of the "friendly army", and almost sucked his back molars and poked a batch of poison.But the problem is that the military rations and fodder that are actually enough to feed [-] people for one month, if they are placed in front of the [-] Black Mountain bandits and [-] Black Mountain elite "vanguards" who have never had the concept of "full food" Hey, people eat horses and chew them, and they are eaten up after seeing each other in just three or two days!As for this, it is still the case that Yu Du and Xiu Cheng's "equality between officers and soldiers" has not been taken lightly.But how dare Liu Beijun send troops for more than ten days, and then fly back to ask Gongsun Zan for food?Exposing strength is still a trivial matter. If it is detected that a black mountain bandit with the intention of "conscientiousness" actually bypassed the official lord of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan, and took refuge in Liu Bei, it would be impossible to say that Liu Bei's methods suppressed Liu Bei's disobedience. The rumors in his heart will come out one after another, and Liu Bei will be beaten back to before liberation overnight.

Liu Bei is annoying!The third brother, Zhang Fei, is alive or dead, the second brother Guan Yu is heartbroken, Yuan Xi in Yecheng has an ambiguous attitude, and his own army is short of soldiers and rations. At this stall, the conflict between the two armies with the Black Mountain bandits has escalated, and we have to be cautious. Will Cao Cao, who has been watching coldly, insert a knife and be picked peaches; what worries Liu Bei the most is that because of Kong Rong's ingenious plan, he has compromised the general of the guard. Hui also took advantage of this great opportunity to retaliate.One thing after another happened one after another, and the hero Liu Bei was exhausted physically and mentally.At this time, even Kong Rong, who was called fish and water by Liu Bei before, relied on him as his confidant, and always regarded himself as a think tank in the Youzhou army of the Liu family, had no idea, except for repeatedly suggesting that the friendship between the two armies should not be hurt anyway. , other than appeasement and appeasement, the scalp is bleeding from scratching, there is no other way to solve other things.

After two days of commotion, Liu Bei could no longer listen to Kong Rong's words, so he continued to wait in vain, intending to send troops, intending to attack Yecheng by force, and could not gather troops to attack the other forces that were waiting outside at this moment. At that time, even if they were facing enemies on all sides, Yecheng would be taken from the left and right, even if the food from Yecheng was used to hold the city and defend it.Zhang Yan, who had delayed the "schedule" for five or six days, ordered someone to send the news that he would lead the army to arrive tomorrow.

Liu Bei doesn't know whether to be happy or depressed now.Although I haven't really seen Zhang Yan's true face.But in several communications, Zhang Yan kept his tone very low, and it has always been like this, which made it difficult for Liu Bei to use the black mountain bandit cavalry led by the poison and the [-] black mountain elites and his own ghosts brought by Su Cheng. Zhang Yan was embarrassed by the discord and conflicts among the state soldiers, and it seemed that he could only swallow it forcefully.Now Liu Bei can only hope that Zhang Yan's ability to gather the commander of the Black Mountain bandits is so high that he can subdue the "friendly army" of these lawless bandits and break Yecheng as soon as possible, even if when the time comes to carve up the resources of Yecheng, Jizhou will be gathered It doesn't matter if more than half of the newly collected rations are given to the Montenegrin bandits.Liu Bei only asks for people to be around, the city belongs to him, and everything else is negotiable. This is also the bottom line of Liu Bei, who has said that heroes are useless.

It is said that you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.In the same way, you can never reason with someone who finds fault.In Liu Bei's eyes, it may be because of the arrival of his own coach, or the arrival of the "big master", the Black Mountain bandits who had been making trouble for several days finally calmed down, which made Liu Bei heave a sigh of relief.

No way, when no one can bear the supper, just after setting up the marching pot stand, there are countless people who have just eaten a few meals with great difficulty, just as the black mountain bandit soldiers who smell like flies who smell blood suddenly appear and swarm up grab food.In order to snatch the food from the Youzhou soldiers, the fierce bandits of the Three or Five Black Mountains fought against the resisting soldiers who were strictly ordered not to fight back.The attack was so ruthless that the Youzhou soldiers, who were intimidated by the military law, could only watch helplessly as the Heishan bandit soldiers in the same robes were beaten by a group of beggars again and again.Liu Bei also can't remember how many times he has received reports from his own soldiers, saying that the Black Mountain bandits are too bullying, but this big-eared brother with a halo of pig feet, on the one hand, has to take care of the morale of his brothers in the army, On the one hand, they have to take care of the Black Mountain thieves under the command of "Xintou", and the left and right must show to Zhang Yan, who is "very respectful" in the letter.There is no good solution for a while, and it is a dilemma.

But fortunately, this kind of aggrieved days are finally coming to an end.Tanma said that the Black Mountain army led by Zhang Yan was only fifty miles away.Just waiting for dawn, they can come here to join forces. For the sake of the overall situation, Liu Bei can only be ruthless and let the brothers suffer another night of "wrongedness".

"What are you going to do, I am the personal guard of General Guan..."

Originally, although the Montenegrin bandits were arrogant, they still had a degree in general.Just for one bite.This gang of black mountain bandits can be regarded as having some "principles". Generally speaking, as long as they robbed the soldiers of Youzhou of food, they would leave with a blank stare at the "victims" who dared not speak up. If anything else, I probably won't grab it a second time.

It is precisely because of the weird "self-restraint" of the Black Mountain bandits that most of the Youzhou soldiers were angry when they were robbed of their dinner by the Black Mountain bandits. The black bandits dared not harass too much, and under Liu Bei's repeated strict orders, no one took the lead in talking about the matter. Therefore, although the conflicts between the soldiers of the two armies were getting deeper and deeper because of one bite, but at any rate Under the fear of each other, the two sides barely maintained restraint. Although there were frictions and fights from time to time, there was no fatal conflict.

But at this "critical" moment tonight, I don't know if the soldier nicknamed Xiaoqi was too stubborn, or because Liu Bei's connivance caused the arrogance of the Black Mountain bandits to change from quantitative to qualitative.Just as Xiaoqi was carrying a food box and heading towards the Chinese army, a group of Heishan Jingzhuang, who came to fight the autumn wind after the leader of the Heishan bandit infantry, Chu Cheng, somehow followed them.

Under normal circumstances, soldiers like Xiao Qi, Black Mountain bandit soldiers would still be a little scrupulous even if they were greedy for the food in their hands, and would not dare to grab it openly, but they don't know that these people have committed evil spirits today. Chu Cheng winked at a Black Mountain bandit soldier beside him, and stepped forward to snatch the food box from Xiao Qi's hand.Unexpectedly, although Xiaoqi looks young, he has gone through some battles anyway, this strong soldier from Montenegro failed to snatch it, fortunately he was staggered by the forward force.This annoyed the Heishan bandits who rushed up, greeted them left and right, and even ignored the dozens of Youzhou Army soldiers who had stood up in front of them, and immediately snatched them away.

"Don't move! Don't move! It's you! Don't... move!" Chu Cheng, who looks like a monkey with a sharp mouth and cheeks, still stutters when speaking, with his tattered armor casually tied around his waist, and he looks like a fool when he walks. Seeing that Xiao Qitong had already noticed the Youzhou soldiers here, he sneered and said, "Tell you! It's your blessing that Grandpa saw what you had in your hand. Do you know who we are? Allies! Allies! Do you understand? Didn't my lord teach you how to treat your allies?"

Although Chu Cheng's words were arrogant, they really stopped the Youzhou Army soldiers who wanted to come over.Liu Bei is really good to these soldiers who can rely on to "make a fortune", but the military law is also very strict.Just because of the friction between the Heishan bandits and Youzhou soldiers in the past few days, Liu Bei has issued strict orders more than once, not to surprise the friendly army!

"Hmph! You can bring it here!" The Heishan bandit who was almost lying on the ground by Xiao Qi just now saw that the Youzhou soldiers were scared by his master, and was scared, his face suddenly showed contempt, and he stepped forward to grab Xiao Qi's hand food box.Unexpectedly, Guan Yu's personal guard, nicknamed Xiaoqi, was also a soldier who had protected Guan Yu from Lv Bu's army.

"ND, I can't do this well, go and help him!" Chu Cheng's eyes showed a bit of sternness, and he impatiently kicked the black mountain bandits beside him, pointing at the stalemate in the field, said angrily.

After all, Shuangquan is hard to beat with four hands. Under the siege of a dozen Black Mountain bandits, Xiaoqi couldn't dodge, and his skills soon paled in comparison.One who was not careful, was caught by the black mountain bandit soldier who had been staring at his lower body, twitched Lengzi and tripped himself to the ground.Seeing the Black Mountain bandit soldiers come to snatch the food box again, Xiao Qi, who had been with Guan Yu for a long time, was also stubborn. Although he was kicked violently on the head and body by the Black Mountain bandit soldiers, he still gritted his teeth and refused to let go. Be careful not to let these people succeed even if you are beaten.After all, Xiao Qi was single and weak. Seeing that he still had the strength to resist at the beginning, in the end he was just holding the food box and being beaten. Although the eyes of the surrounding comrades were all red, it seemed that Chu Cheng could lead [-] black bandits to fight with Liu Bei. Huishi is really not a person to be provoked, and he dare not step forward to help.

"Bring it to me!" The black mountain bandit soldier finally succeeded. He opened his fingers from Xiaoqi's hand, grabbed the food box and handed it to Chu Cheng respectfully.Opening the food box, it was a half-roasted pheasant. Chu Cheng threw the food box aside, and in front of the hateful eyes of dozens of Youzhou soldiers, he took a big bite of the chicken, his ugly face full of wrinkles and pockmarks On the ground, with a look of enjoyment, he smashed his mouth, and threw the roast chicken in his hand to the Black Mountain bandit who had just made the most ruthless attack. Chu Cheng gave his little thumb up at Xiao Qi who was lying on the ground without moving, with a face full of contempt With a dry cough, a mouthful of thick phlegm was spit on Xiao Qi's dusty face.Turn around and walk away.

"Ah! Xiao Qi is out of breath! This group of sons of bitches! Go, suimou stop those black bandits of sons of sons of sons, and find someone to tell General Guan!" Chu Cheng didn't go far, and he had endured to the extreme. The soldiers from Youzhou rushed to help Xiaoqi, thinking that because of Xiaoqi's physique, at most he would suffer a little bit of punishment.Why did our lord value this group of "friendly troops"?But who would have thought that when he wiped away the thick phlegm on Xiao Qi's face, he found that Xiao Qi didn't breathe at all, and when he touched his neck again, there was no movement, and the corners of his mouth were slowly oozing blood. The separated fingers and arms are still in the motion of protecting the food box until now.

Killed!Even Chu Cheng, who was arrogant before, froze.It doesn't matter if the bandits from Heishan fight with the soldiers from Youzhou, even if they steal people's food, they can bear it. Didn't the lord Liu Xuande say that.We are an army of benevolence and righteousness, we must show our tolerance and treat "friendly troops" well!But who would have thought that this "friendly army" would kill someone just for half a roast chicken?
If you can't fight back when you hit, you can't fight back if you scold me, that's fine!But he lost his life. He didn't die on the battlefield, but he died under the besiege of "friendly troops", which is a bit unreasonable.And look at the arrogance of those people, now it's Xiaoqi, but who can guarantee that you and me will not be next?The anger that had already accumulated and suppressed in his heart was completely detonated by the fuse of Xiao Qi's death.

"Ai! Ai! What do you want to do?" The Black Mountain bandit soldier who Chu Cheng threw half a chicken over just now, now has such a sense of loyalty to sacrifice his life to protect the lord, blocking the Youzhou soldiers who surrounded him with a sullen face In front of him, almost pointing at the nose of the Youzhou soldier who was approaching, he asked threateningly: "You thieves! Do you know who my young master is? Marshal Zhang is my young master's uncle! Do you know! It's your master, what is Liu Bei Liu Xuande? When you see my young master, you have to smile and bow, not daring to be disobedient! What do you want to do? Isn't it just to take half of your tattered roast chicken and kill an ignorant thief? Boy! What’s the big deal! I’m warning you, get out of the way quickly, dare to touch a single hair of our hair, report to your lord, and ask for your heads! Uh..."

"Wonderful snatching! Beating people to death! Military law is intolerable! Do you think you are still leaving!" Seeing his words, the Black Mountain bandit soldier seemed to have some effect, and parted a road like a tide from the surrounding Youzhou soldiers circle , but before the black mountain bandit soldier who thought that the Youzhou soldier was cowardly because of his own words had finished his threatening words, he suddenly found that he could not speak, and his eyes were at an extremely incredible angle. I saw the fearful expressions on the faces of my young master and the Black Mountain brothers who had just fought with me.After the bandit soldier heard the last sentence full of faint coercion, he didn't know anything...

(End of this chapter)