Zhao Wuxian fought a great victory on the West Bank of Ohno Jersey, and when the belated siege was finally realized, the morale of the bandits collapsed, and Liu Xiazu lost control of the situation, and they were leaderless and unmotivated, and fled in all directions. was intercepted and killed by Mu Xia, Yu Xi, and Ran You from all sides, one percent was killed and wounded, and ninety percent surrendered to Wangfeng, and it only took a moment to end the battle.

After the battle, more than 700 enemies were killed or wounded, more than 2,000 were captured, and less than 300 of the 3,000 yellow turbans escaped.

Then he reorganized his team and counted his own casualties. The soldiers and the soldiers and the pavilion soldiers were injured two hundred, and they died sixty or seventy, which was a brilliant result, but it still made Zhao Wuxian feel a little distressed.

Most of the two or three hundred robbers who escaped fled along the mud swamp into the wetland in the lake, which was a dead end, and half of them had to be trapped in the mud. Because he was not familiar with the situation in the black quagmire, in order to avoid unnecessary damage, Zhao Wuxian did not let people chase him.

In addition to this reason, because the tiger he cared about the most in this hunt had been caught and was waiting for Zhao Wuxian to check it, he was not interested in the small fish and shrimp that slipped through the net.

The kidnapped man in front of him was tall, his hair was disheveled, his face was covered with black mud, and he was wearing a tight black armor suit, which was clearly different from the ragged bandits.

Condescendingly, Zhao Wuxian looked at this person with interest, although he didn't think about how to deal with it.

Judging from his personal understanding of Liu Xiaji, the disciples of Confucius, and his personal understanding of Liu Xia's plantar behind enemy lines, this person is his most troublesome opponent after coming to Lu State, and his vision, courage, and judgment of the situation are all superior. It can be described as a wise and courageous person. If you can surrender it, you may be able to use it as a king. It would be a pity if he was killed.

But if you don't kill. However, due to the public opinion of the secretary and the people of the territory, it is not easy to be taken under his command. This is related to the issue of class, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the nobles and nobles were opposed, and the situation of "being an official, killing people and setting fires to be recruited" in later generations was basically impossible.

What's more, this person is unruly and unruly, and he has put forward a slogan program for the first time, and he has the posture of transforming from a thief into an "rebel army". Although it is defeated now, it is still a banner around Onozawa, and if the tiger returns to the mountain. Recovery may be difficult in the short term, but there is a possibility that he will raise his arms and make another huge wave when the situation is right.

Because of the virtue of the doctors around Daze, Zhao Wuxian knows best, but every year's harsh government has caused a steady stream of people to flee in, no less than Zhao Wuxian's incorporation.

He retracted his thoughts, coughed lightly, and said, "Let him raise his head." ”

The "willow planters" were tied up with five flowers, and several sergeants pressed him to the ground with their thick hands and knelt down at the shirtless, not politely to him, which poured a bag of cold water over his head. This made the tall man shiver as well.

However, when the "willow planters" were pulled by the hair of the soldiers and lifted their faces, looking at the face covered with scars, those eyes that were more than loyal and brave, but not very wise. Zhao Wuxian subconsciously blurted out.

"You're not willow!"

……

Time returned to a moment ago, facing the soldiers who were about to close the siege, the thief was in a desperate situation. The bandits descended from the wind. There are still many people who want to go back and arrest him and dedicate him to Zhao Wuxian, so as to seek a fortune.

"Am I going to die here today?"

He fought and retreated, escorted by several of his cronies. Retreat to the edge of a bushy quagmire, a burial ground that has devoured many corpses.

"Come here." He saw that there was no hope of breaking out. Then he called a cronie to his side, and said to him with his sword in hand:

"There are very few people I admire in my life, one of them is Shen Yinshu, the left Sima of Chu State, who fought with the Wu army in a row after Baiju, was wounded three times, and was finally defeated in Yongxi, and was seriously injured and could not fight again. Because he had been a minister in the state of Wu in the past, and he knew King Wu, Wu Yuan, Sun Wu, etc., and he did not want to be captured and humiliated, so he asked his subordinates to cut off his head and take him away secretly. I want to emulate it today, and the corpse is in two places, so that Zhao Xiaosikou can't recognize it, and it's better than hanging his head on the Yuncheng Tower! ”

After speaking, he had to learn the tradition of the defeat of the nobles of the Chu State in this era, and drew his sword on the spot and killed himself.

Seeing this, the cronies hugged their legs and held their hands to stop them.

A person with a figure similar to him said: "I think that when the general first entered Daze, he encountered setbacks and fled alone several times. Now there are more than 2,000 soldiers and hundreds of ships on Dongyuan Island, and I don't know if I can't get up again, how can I say such depressing words. The villain and others have pledged allegiance to the general, but they are the general's ministers, and the king humiliates the ministers to death, so it is better for the general and the villain to change their clothes and armor, and then escape from the mudflats! ”

The thieves were extremely moved, but they hesitated, and the cronies saw that there were more and more people around, and hurriedly shouted: "Please also ask the general to leave quickly, just ask the general to attack the city one day, don't forget to punish the king of the unreasonable, cut down the greedy doctors, both rich and poor, and wait for the promise of the noble and low!" ”

So, the tall thief who changed into the thief's clothes became his stand-in, and after wiping a handful of mud on his face, he was captured instead of the thief, not only did Zhao Wuxian see through it at a glance, but after revealing his true face, even the thieves who captured him said no.

As for the real thief......

"Even if he escapes, he may die under the hooves of the arrows."

When this question was mentioned, in front of Zhao Wuxian, the kneeling thief laughed and said: "The general has excellent water quality, and can hold his breath in the mud for half a moment, at this time, he must have already fished into the big lake and swam the world, and you can find him!" ”

Hearing that Liu Xiajiao changed his clothes and absconded, everyone's faces were heavy, and Kan Zhi, who was following Zhao Wuxian as a herald, stomped his feet and felt sorry, and Ran Qiu even bowed down to ask for punishment.

"It's all about not covering up your whereabouts, if you close the siege early, you will definitely be able to capture the willow plantar alive!"

Although today's battle was not fully successful, Zhao Wuxian was not angry, he waved his hand, let everyone get up, and turned to the bound thief and said: "The little thief also dares to call himself a general, let me ask you, is it really worth exchanging your life for the life of Liu Xiashan?" ”

The thief stiffened his neck and said, "The life of the villain is like a mustard, and the life of the general is like a daifu!" How can it be compared! ”

Everyone was furious and applied to show this person's head to the public, but he said: "It's difficult to bind the tiger." It was not easy for me to meet Liu Xia Plantar for a while. The guests arrived from afar, but they did not say goodbye. What a faux pas, you must send someone to chase after and keep it. Invite him to Yuncheng to drink a few freshly brewed Lu wine. ”

He became serious and ordered: "Yu Xi, quickly send light knights to search along the shore of the lake, to see people alive, and to see corpses when dead!" The rest of the people quickly identified the elements of these surrendered bandits, and found out which islands they came from and who was in charge of them. Then he sent an embroidered messenger to cross the lake by boat, trying to make a trip to each island, and said that the thieves had been destroyed. The little Sikou of the Lu State can exempt the accomplices from the death penalty, and persuade them to take people out of the lake as soon as possible to surrender, and if they find the whereabouts of the thieves, they will be thanked for bringing them together. ”

After a period of resignation, the military officials went their separate ways, and Zhao Wuxian's eyes turned to the thief's cronies whose faces turned pale all of a sudden: "As for you, I don't want your life." Untie him and give him a boat. Let him go to Higashihara Island to see Yanagi and bring me a letter. If the thief were alive and could have dodged so many of my 'invitations' one by one. ”

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The blade of the sword pierced into the fish's thin body, and it was twisted with a desperate twist. Its tail and muscles twitched violently.

As the warm, smelly blood gradually dripped into his mouth, the trembling between his willow metatarsal fingers gradually stopped. His stomach squeezed the life of the whitebait until the last drop of juice was sucked by him. At this point, the fish was left with only bones. Only then did he stick out his tongue and lick the scales from his mouth into his mouth, ending the only "pilgrimage meal" in two days.

The smell of blood steamed up from the stomach. A low roar came out of his throat, dull, long, long.

I remember that when he was six or seven years old, he hid in a tree by the edge of Daze and watched a few Yiren hunters round up a wounded lone wolf. The wolf was in a desperate situation, and roared low, similar to the situation he was in now.

The wolf died, with several arrows on his body, and was torn apart by the hunters.

"But I don't want to die!" The survival ** in Liu Xia's heart has never been so strong.

Towards the end of the battle on the Ohno Jersey Bank, he changed into the rags of his cronies and crawled away touching the corpse. He stood on the edge of the pool, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and slowly crouched down and fell to his stomach, like a giant deformed worm, slowly diving into the chest-high mire and sewage.

He even let his face run through the mud, holding his breath and swimming in an extremely delicate way, until he was out of the sight of the warriors, and he came out of sight. Then he continued in this way, the weight of the sword just enough to keep him from floating, and paddling the mud from the bottom of the water in the direction of his memory, which few people knew led to a makeshift river formed by the rainy season, which in turn flowed into the great lake.

In this way, he avoided the rope, left the shore of the lake, and immediately crossed dozens of miles of waterways with his superb swimming skills to an island controlled by the bandits.

Here, Liu Xiazu was warmly received by the "island owner", and the enthusiasm was abnormal, so he kept an extra eye and stole a boat overnight and escaped. Sure enough, those ropes used to kill pigs and sheep were actually used to tie up the thieves, and after the thieves landed on the island, the island owner had just kowtowed to the messenger sent by Zhao Xiaosikou and surrendered.

He spent two days in the depressed mood of this betrayal of his relatives, using raw fish and turtles as food, and was stunned to return to Dongyuan Island.

At this time, the news that the thief had died, or had been captured and brought to Yuncheng was spreading on the island, and in addition to Dongyuan Island, many islands in Onozawa responded to Zhao Wuxian's surrender, and the power of the thief who had been operating for many years was faintly in the trend of total collapse.

Fortunately, his return stabilized a mutiny on Higashihara Island, and the situation of the islands falling with the wind eased slightly.

The cold wind of late autumn blew his face, and Liu Xia, who had changed into a suit of armor, stood on the top of the mountain in a trance, looking to the west. The sun was about to set, the tireless rumbling and lapping of the waves was still there, and the power contained in the anger of the Great Lake was still so amazing, but his strength was greatly reduced compared to before the war, and at this point, the population and soldiers controlled by the thieves were already half of them.

From time to time, ships came to snoop, but they did not dock, but faintly confronted the fishing port and the long boat in the reeds, which were the bandit leaders of the islands who had taken refuge in Zhao Wuxian, and perhaps there was Zhao Wuxian's envoy on board.

"Fortunately, I have been prepared for a long time, and I have gathered most of the ships, and even the families of several island owners and cave owners on Dongyuan Island, so that they want to surrender but are afraid. Therefore, there are more than 1,000 young people who can be used by me, but I can last a few months at most, and after the winter, I will lack food and clothing, and if it rains and snows......"

His prestige had fallen to its lowest point and could no longer be sustained.

At that time, a porridge shack in Yuncheng can defeat five thousand soldiers, and he, as well as his painstaking forces, can only fall apart!

Gradually, the color of the world dimmed, and he watched the mist rise on the lake, the dawn of the setting sun gradually dissipated, the clouds became as gray as his mood, the green lake turned into a dark abyss, and the cold wind whined between the cracks of the cliffs on the island, like an old woman crying for her husband and son who had not returned home.

At this moment, Liu Xiajiao learned that the cronies who had been captured for him had returned in a small boat, and he also brought a handwritten letter from Zhao Xiaosikou! (To be continued......)