[Today's second update.] 】

The bloody breath that lingered around the tip of the nose was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved.

A team of hundreds of people stopped on the road for a long time, still with no intention of starting again.

After crossing the desert and the hills, after crossing the last mountain, the six hundred or so remnants of the dragon tribe tightened the reins.

Stacked on the side of the road were a stripped, robeless, headless corpse. Bai Sensen's skin was exposed, and his shoulders were empty. The blood that flowed from the corpse stained the snow a thick reddish-brown, almost dark.

The dragon Aridin had grown up in slaughter since childhood, but he had never seen this scene in front of him. Compared with the accumulation of corpses along the way, the corpses neatly arranged like firewood on the side of the road before the border wall of the Song people are even more terrifying.

Whether it is for the sake of pasture, or for the sake of water, or for the population, or for the enmity inherited from the ancestors, or for someone to stir up, the tribes often take out bows and knives to fight each other for various reasons. Sometimes a passing quarrel can provoke a fight between two clans.

The tribes under Montenegro have never been harmonious, and the fighting never stops year after year. But there has hardly ever been a battle to exterminate the race. Killing the patriarch's family and annexing the tribe is basically the bottom line.

The corpses were sandwiched, and the dragon didn't know whether to continue to ride the horse and go to the Song people, or turn around and return to the Black Mountain to fight for life and death with the Khitans, maybe the latter was the right choice.

But someone had already come up to meet him, and through a fence in front of the road, a man shouted loudly from afar, in the words of the party: "Which part are you from?" ”

It was too late to retreat, and the dragon Aridin stepped forward and replied, "We are the dragon."

Then another person shouted: "Is it Aridin?" ”

Then the two of them jumped over the fence and walked over. One should be an officer in the Song army, a colonel; The other is the dress of the party members.

The visitor identified the dragon Aridin, and Aridin, who also recognized the old acquaintance who accompanied the colonel, who was the patriarch of another tribe, "It's Ah Xibao?!" You're alive. ”

Ah Xibao was a strong man in his thirties, and his voice was loud, "Aridin, I should ask you this." I thought that your dragon tribe was going to fight to the death with the Khitans. ”

The two are old, and they have a bit of friendship in the old days. Encountering in a foreign land, Aridin was in a good mood.

But Xiao Xiao coughed, "You can wait for the old days, there are some things to say first." ”

Aridin nodded, and turned to listen to the little school. It's just a blink of an eye, but I saw that my old friend was panicked. Aridin was puzzled, although he was sent to the fence, but he would not be so panicked when he heard a word.

Just thinking about this question, I heard Xiao Xiao say: "You were driven out of your home by the Liao people, and my eldest Song Tianzi also felt the same way. Han Jinglu on Hedong Road got the permission of the Son of Heaven and took you in. It's just that the Khitans are cunning and send people to hide in the shadows, and there are some unsuccessful guys who were driven to ruin by the Liao, but they still listen to the Liao's call and want to harass Shengzhou. So you also saw the corpses on the side of the road, all of them were those thieves, and I hope you are not. ”

Aridin nodded: "The villain is sincere and came to the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Whether it's sincere or not depends on what you do. The tribes that defected showed their sincerity, and those who came early helped transport the grain. If you come late, you have to help repair the city. ”

"Repair the city?" The dragon Aridin was stunned, "This ...... We haven't even repaired a house, we've only supported a tent, and we've never done any work. ”

"If you don't want to, you can do it, Han Jingluo also said that this matter is purely voluntary, and he will not force anyone. There is no reason to eat white food in the world, and I think you can understand it. ”

Xiao Xiao didn't use a threatening tone at all, just talked with a friendly one, but the cold air in the dragon Aridin's heart kept coming out, soaking his entire vertebrae in the cold water. Speaking this passage beside the headless corpses all over the ground, it is clearly six words: If you don't obey, you will die. Ah Xibao looked at him vigorously in the back, obviously asking him to agree quickly.

The dragon Aridin didn't even dare to hesitate any longer, "The villain understands, he is willing to repair the city, he is willing to repair the city." ”

The almost suffocating tension relaxed in response, but the mind of the dragon Aridin was still in chaos.

It's not that it's weird, it's scary. The Song people are very generous to the fugitives in the legend, and the elders of the clan who have participated in the southern invasion have mentioned that after defecting to the Song people, as long as there are hundreds of cavalry in their hands, they can be mixed with an official who leads the Lu. But the dragon Aridin did not see this at all today. The Song people's calculations are completely unknown, and Aridin doesn't know what they will do next.

But at the moment, we can only take one step at a time.

……………………

"It's five or six hundred again, and the number of people in Xiusheng Prefecture is almost enough."

If you use party people to repair the city and build a wall, you should not mobilize the people of Linzhou and Fuzhou. Needless to say, this will stabilize the situation in the east, west and north of the river, and we should know how much benefit it will be.

Hard labor is a mill that consumes human lives. Therefore, there are many scruples when using the people, but it is much more convenient to change it to a Montenegrin party.

Zhe Keda stood on a high place and looked down at the soldiers and horses who were escorted to Shengzhou: "But it's also their luck, if it weren't for their sensibility, none of their lives would have been spared." ”

"Well, those who are disobedient are not fit to work." Huang Shang responded.

Zhe Keda turned around and smiled at Huang Shang, who was ordered to ask questions, "The crossbows on both sides of the mountains are shooting down, plus the two soldiers and horses that intercepted the back road, swallowing this and that dragon in one bite and replacing it with a beheading skill, it is not a problem at all." spared them, but it was also six hundred less beheadings. Zihe's big camp doesn't care, but here in Liufachuan, six hundred beheadings is not a small number. ”

"Where did General Zhe say, how could there be a lack of beheadings now?" Huang Sheng glanced at Zhe Keda, and the smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly became weird, "Zhefu Prefecture should have discussed it with Taiwei Li, right?" Are the two divided in half, or in four or six? …… Or is it Sanqi? But that would be too much for Captain Li. ”

When Zhe Ke heard this, the smile on his face suddenly froze. Zhi Keren, who was accompanying him, also looked embarrassed, and wanted to deny it, but he couldn't say a word in Huang Shang's whimsical smile. After a long time, he asked dryly: "Long Tu knows the way?!" ”

Huang Shang turned his gaze back, and chased after the people of the Dragon tribe who were gradually moving away: "There are almost thirty or fifty thousand Black Mountain tribes going south. The hardships along the way, coupled with the competition between various departments for food and property, killed as many as three or four percent on the way. These things were all reported to Long Tu at 1510. It's winter again, and the corpse won't decompose in a short time. Those heads are cut off, who knows who died in whose hands? Isn't that so? ”

Zhe Keda, Zhe Keren's face was extremely ugly, and Han Gang really knew it. I thought I could hide it for two more days, but who would have thought that it would be broken before it started.

"That's tens of thousands." Huang Shang paused, and the corners of his lips curled up again, "If you don't say anything, it will be more than ten thousand." 10,000 beheadings......"

After dragging out the tone, Huang Sheng laughed twice, trembling his heart and liver.

If you don't have such an unscrupulous risk, if you really want to catch it, the crime will be big.

Now, it is Li Xian and the Zhejia who divide the accounts, and the generals of the Hedong Army and the Linfu Army are equivalent to taking each other's handles, and they are not afraid of the other party's exposure. Wait until the matter is done, and then report it to Han Gang. When the time comes, Han Gang will only choose to support. But before he made it, he gave it to Han Gang, how could this matter continue? Who dares to think that Han Gang, who is always very kind, will not kill people.

Zhi Keren sighed, "This is a moment of confusion between my brother and Li Jingji, but fortunately, I can still redeem ......"

"There's no need for that. Long Tu said, when dividing the account, it is good to discuss it properly, don't make trouble. When it comes to the imperial court, no one will recognize the credit in front of him. Huang Shang smiled slightly, and his smile made the uncle and nephew of the Zhi family more and more frightened, "How many thieves are because of the uneven distribution of spoils, and after the trouble, they were caught by the government, but they can't make the same mistake as them." ”

Huang Sheng said harshly, and it was even more embarrassing to fold Keda, and Zhe Keren sighed, "The candle in Longtu Cave is faint ......."

"How could you expect this to be hidden from Long Tu? Even the Imperial Court in Tokyo is difficult to hide. Long Tu said two days ago, 'Even if there are more than 120,000 beheadings, the reward will not increase much according to the proportion.' Let them be happy, do you really think that the court is easy to deceive? Don't look at the number of casualties, who can you hide? Do you really think that you can fool the past by selling the vacancy? ’”

The uncle and nephew of the Zhe family were speechless by Huang Shang's relay. Han Gang is indeed an insider, and what he said hit the nail on the head.

I heard Huang Sheng continue: "Long Tu also said that the Western Army is good at fighting, but its ability to lie and take meritorious service is not bad. Just like those Montenegrin party items in the desert, they will not let go of Shaanxi either. So it's no surprise. Long Tu also said, be careful when you go to cut off the head, the Khitan horse army may be wandering there. ”

Zhi Keren had a good attitude, and said: "Thank you for mentioning it, Keren will relay it to my brother." ”

Huang Sheng shook his head: "Over there in Zhefu Prefecture, Brother Zunzheng was ordered to go." I'm just ordered to observe the military situation, and it's superfluous to say this. ”

"Ah, is it? I see. "Zhe Keren thought that Zhe Keshi didn't come to avoid suspicion, so he went to Nuanquan Peak and went to find Zhe Kexing.

"What about Li Jingzhi's side?" Zhe Keda asked.

"Li Jingzhi is now in Shengzhou City, and Long Tu told him directly."

……………………

After sending Li Xian back, Han Gang smiled slightly.

I just talked to Li Xian, and I felt that he was also unwilling to take this credit. But if the generals below want to be appeased, they must negotiate with the Zhejia family to share the spoils. Otherwise, he is a eunuch, how can he lead the troops to fight smoothly?

Hedong's ability to make false reports is not much worse than Shaanxi's after all. Relying on those Montenegrin party members who killed each other, more than 10,000 beheadings were added in one go, and together with the number of slaughters by the various departments, the total exceeded 20,000. Even if this number is folded in half and then folded in half, it is very scary. When it reaches the capital, it will definitely cause an uproar.

Speaking of which, there will definitely be people who accuse Han Gangcao of taking human lives and slaughtering fugitives from Liao. But it's not a big deal, this accusation can't shake Han Gang's position.

There are advantages to starting hard, and any disturbance is that the more people there are, the more chaos will be. Those who are disobedient are killed, and those who are obedient are either carrying grain or building walls. Under the suppression of the army, even if there is a desire to rebel, it will not be able to make waves.

Moreover, in the past two days, it has also been confirmed that two of the slaughtered tribes are in the guise of the Khitans. However, the extinguishing of the mouth was too smooth, there was no living mouth, and I don't know how many Xiao Thirteen sent out.

Han Gang estimated that there would not be too many, and the casualties of 1,800 could be suppressed by Xiao Thirteen, and if there were more, it would be a crime. And the two Khitan armies numbered around seven hundred, which was only a little less than Han Gang's estimate.

It's almost over. Han Gang thought. If Xiao 13 had no other backhand except for piling up troops and horses in Dongshengzhou.