317 On the reward of meritorious deeds
Hou Junji waved his hand, and the soldiers of that group closed the cage and continued to carry it forward.
Just a few steps after riding a horse, I saw a large group of people coming over, there were soldiers, there were ragged people, but they were treated much better, not only did they not eat leather whips, binding, there were injured people, and the soldiers of Datang were supported by them, which seemed to be particularly favorable, Liu Yuan recognized at a glance that these people were all soldiers and civilians who had been taken captive from Datang, as well as young women.
"See General"
"Hello General"
"Master General, you are the life-saving benefactor of the slave family."
A large group of people saw Liu Yuan and his party, all knelt down and kowtowed, for them, seeing their own army is simply seeing their relatives, the emperor sent troops to rescue themselves, escape from this hell, it can be said, it is simply a rebirth, can they not be grateful?
Liu Yuan saw that these captured soldiers and civilians were all hungry and bone-ty, many of them were scarred, and many of them were engraved with the word humiliation on their faces, needless to say, the leather clothes outside were just added, on such a cold day, they only wore two thin clothes, and the man who knelt down in front of him was more than six feet tall, so thin that he was estimated to be less than a hundred pounds, and his face was bloodless, these are the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Hou Junji was also emotional, turned over and dismounted, personally helped them up, and said a little self-reproachfully: "Suffering, we are late, we are late." ”
When Liu Yuan and Changsun Chong saw it, they also turned over and dismounted, helping Hou Junji to help the kneeling people up one by one.
"Go, settle these people of the Tang Dynasty, let them eat and live well." Hou Junji ordered the soldiers.
"Yes, General"
After sending away these rescued Tang people, the group's mood was much heavier, no matter when, as long as there was a war. It is the common people who suffer, and Liu Yuan and Changsun Chong's sense of guilt in their hearts has also been reduced a lot, Liu Yuan secretly admires Hou Junji's good knowledge, this kind of task is the most suitable to send Cheng Huailiang to carry it out, but if you send yourself and Changsun Chong to execute, you will definitely be soft-hearted, so you can't do it, and Cheng Huai is a general, and he strictly implements the order one hundred percent.
He Lao Tzu Cheng bites gold. That's the demon king of the mixed world who robbed the aisle, worked as a bandit, and called the king, and where can he send his trained son.
When the group walked to the end of the street, they saw that the cleanup was still continuing, and Cheng Huailiang was riding on a horse. A Tibetan adult man rushed over with a knife as if he was trying to fight hard, but he didn't get close yet. was stabbed to death on the spot by two long lances. And next to him, there was a crying child.
The child was only seven or eight years old, wearing a fur hat and a new set of clothes, puffy, and very cute. One of the soldiers, feeling a little guilty, took a piece of silver, walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and crouched down. Ready to stuff it into him, lest he starve to death, the heart of man is long, he is carrying out the order, it is estimated that when he sees this child, he thinks of the child in his own family, and for a moment his sympathy is overflowing, and he is ready to help this lovely child.
The kid froze for a moment, took the silver with one hand, Liu Yuan saw it really in the firelight, only to see him pull out a sharp knife in his boots with his backhand, and he was about to attack, Liu Yuan was anxious all of a sudden, and shouted loudly: "Be careful"
Just after Liu Yuan finished shouting, the seven or eight-year-old child stabbed the knife to the neck of the Tang warrior, it may be that Liu Yuan reminded him in time, the soldier is also strainable, it is too late to hide, he blocked it in front of him with his hand, and then kicked it with his foot, "Ah" There was a miserable sound, the hand had been stabbed by the knife, and the child also made him kick to the ground in time.
"Ah" The kid was kicked to the side, only to see him immediately get up again, holding the knife in his hand, his eyes were like a fierce wolf, his eyes were red, and he pounced on the injured Tang soldier as if he was about to pounce, when he was about to pounce, there was a muffled sound of "whoosh", and a strong arrow was plunged into his chest, knocking him to the ground at once, and the knife in his hand was also thrown aside.
It was Cheng Huailiang, I saw that he looked indifferent, and the bowstring that had just finished shooting the arrow was still trembling.
What surprised Liu Yuan the most, this Tubo child did not cry, nor did he cry out in pain, he breathed hard, slowly, slowly crawled towards the Tubo adult who fell to the ground, and there was an obvious blood mark on the road he crawled on, Liu Yuan and all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were stunned, and no one stopped him, just when Liu Yuan thought that their father and son had a deep relationship, even if they died together, they saw that the Tubo child laboriously pulled down the tiger skin hat on his father's head, hugged it tightly, and then tilted his head and passed away with a smile.
The Tibetan government and the opposition attached great importance to the death of the war and despised the death of illness. If several generations are killed in battle, they are considered to be of the upper class. For those who are on the verge of defeat, a fox's tail is hung on his head to taunt him for being as cowardly as a fox, and he is executed in front of a large crowd. The custom is that it is very shameful to die like this, and the warriors like to decorate with tigers and leopards, and this Tibetan child actually used this way to show his "bravery".
Die with a smile, this is to prove that he is a warrior and worthy of being decorated with a tiger hat.
A chill rose in Liu Yuan's heart: No wonder in this barren land, Tubo can also crusade against the Quartet, becoming a big trouble for the Tang Dynasty, there is such a custom, it will inevitably give birth to a large number of combat "machines", those who are afraid of Leng, those who are afraid of dying, hunters who enter the mountains, many people would rather kill tigers than tease the wild boars and bears blind, the reason is that they are crazy and ignore anything, and these Tufan people are "wild boars" who are crazy and do not want to die.
It seems that this mission is not as simple as I imagined, Tubo will not be destroyed, and Datang will not be safe.
There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the angry Cheng Huailiang slapped the kind-hearted soldier in the face, and roared angrily: "Whoever gave him the silver, who made you so careless, if it wasn't for Captain Liu's early reminder, your life would be gone." ”
"Yes, General Cheng, his subordinates are guilty." The soldier was frightened when he thought about it, and even stood up and saluted.
"Thank you Captain Liu, if he hadn't reminded me early, I would have to collect your body now."
"Thank you Captain Liu for saving your life."
Liu Yuan hurriedly said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just a gesture, just be careful next time." ”
"Okay" Hou Junji said impatiently: "You have to pay attention next time, you can't make a mistake, come here, take him down to bandage, General Cheng"
Cheng Huailiang hurriedly responded: "The subordinates are here"
"Speed up and clear the battlefield."
"Yes"
The snow is still drifting. The north wind is still blowing, but in the Maqin Thousand Households, it is lively and not windy, and the laughter is soaring to the sky, one by one the Tibetan prisoners are tied up together, bags of grain, bags of grain and grass are piled up, and the stables are crowded with all the Tubo horses, and the captured weapons, armor, bows and arrows cleared out of the battlefield are piled up into a hill. The most heart-warming thing is that the dozens of boxes of gold and silver goods in the center of the school yard are shining seductively under the glow of the bonfire, and they are on the school field. Dozens of bonfires were piled up, and fat lambs were roasting to a brown and fragrant aroma.
After the big win. Naturally, merit should be rewarded.
Hou Junji sat in the middle of the lobby. Guerrilla General Cheng Huailiang, Guerrilla General Sun Chong, Captain Zhichong Lu Guang, Captain Modao Cheng Yang, Captain Zhaowu Liu Yuan, and several outstanding team members gathered together, and at this moment they were listening to a Xuanjie captain named Sun Daqiang announce the results of the battle:
"In the battle of Maqin, a total of 5,000 soldiers were dispatched, and our army only suffered five minor injuries. There were no casualties, and a total of 583 enemies were killed, including one for the head of a thousand households and five for the head of a hundred households. Annihilation, the performance belongs to the perfect achievement. ”
"Okay, hahaha" The soldiers applauded happily, and Changsun Chong was even more excited to punch the case.
Five thousand against five hundred, it was prepared again, and it was reasonable to win, but the total annihilation of the enemy, none of them died, only five were slightly wounded, and one was inadvertently stabbed by a child, which was unexpected.
With this record, for all the soldiers present, it is an extremely shining stroke on the resume, and even Hou Junji, who has won countless victories, nodded with a smile, indicating that he was very satisfied with this result.
After Sun Daqiang and the others calmed down, he continued: "In this battle, even Feng was captured, 680 sets of battle armor, 700 spears, 320 pairs of longbows, 1,820 long and short war knives, a batch of arrows, a batch of captured grain, 3,200 taels of gold, 13,235 taels of silver, countless copper coins, 32 boxes of jewelry and goods, more than 800 Tufan prisoners, 1,856 healthy horses, more than 10,000 cattle of all kinds, and more than 500 people of our Tang Dynasty were rescued. ”
"Silk"
After listening to the battle report, everyone gasped, no one expected that such a remote Tibetan border town would be so rich, not to mention those armor and food, just gold, silver, jewelry and goods, etc., equivalent to more than 100,000 taels, and the nearly 2,000 horses were worth a lot of money, and the eyes of all the soldiers lit up.
The government soldier system implemented in the Tang Dynasty, the government soldiers are self-prepared ordnance war horses and other things, there is no food sound, all rely on rewards and capture, but this time is special, deep into the hinterland of Tibet, war horses, weapons and other things must be excellent, not every soldier can get it, especially the expensive Mo knife, an ordinary Mo knife also costs dozens of taels, and a few soldiers take it out, so, the ordnance is all prepared by the imperial court, food during training, there are also military contracts, war wounds and deaths, there are rewards or pensions, travel agreements, what is obtained on the battlefield, fifty-fifty points, of course, Like war horses and weapons, they can only be sold to the imperial court at three to fifty percent of the market price.
That is to say, this time the harvest, the Zhenfan army can at least exceed 100,000 taels of income, to put it mildly, even if the soldiers who get the least share, just this night's income, at least the top of the previous half of the year's income, no injury or pain, all of a sudden made a large windfall, can you not be happy, can you not be excited?
People die for money, food dies for food, and there is an abnormal light in everyone's eyes.
Eldest Sun Chong couldn't help but ask, "Why, have you won so much?" I think it's good to have thirty or fifty thousand taels in such a poor place. ”
"Back to the general's words, the subordinates didn't dare to believe it when they counted, and later interrogated a few prisoners to know that the head of the thousand households here is called Yu Bo Lun, the son of a big nobleman in Tubo, the ancestor is a Tubo nobleman, surnamed Xue, his brother is the famous general of Tubo on Qinling, this person is greedy for money, often leads troops to plunder everywhere, and most of the gold, silver and jewelry here are collected from his house." Sun Daqiang replied with a smile.
After doing all the bad things, no matter how much money and goods were collected, the last thing was to make wedding clothes for the Zhenfan army.
Hou Jun raised his hand and motioned for everyone to calm down, and then said loudly: "If you have a mistake, you will be punished, and if you have merit, you will be rewarded, and now, we will reward you for your meritorious deeds." (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )
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