Chapter 290 Complete the mission of eradicating evil
"Mr. Wu An, I'm sorry. I couldn't go north in time to fight alongside you, which made you trapped in the isolated city."
On the battlefield outside Guangwu City, sporadic battles were still going on, but the captains of each team were responsible for the command, and Li Tai did not need to supervise the formation. At this time, the defenders in the city had also blocked the blocked city.
After the door was cleared, Li Mu went out with his own soldiers to greet them. Li Tai then rode up to Li Mu and his entourage, clasping his fists and saying.
After Li Mu heard this, he looked ashamed and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Boshan, please stop laughing at me. I underestimated the enemy before and almost suffered harm from this antbeard. I retreated hastily. The state border has been lost. If it weren't for Uncle
Shan, you led the troops to help in time, I don’t know how long it will take to break through the enemy!”
Seeing Li Mu's shameful look, Li Tai thought that his self-esteem was severely frustrated, so he stopped continuing the topic, pointed to the battlefield and said: "Our army came to fight from afar and does not have a deep understanding of the enemy's situation. I'm afraid we might miss someone in the battle."
The leader of the thieves, Mr. Wu An, if your troops still have spare strength, why not join the formation to drive away the thieves?"
After Li Mu heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "There is no need for such a common trick between me and Bo Shan. You are willing to run to the rescue, and I have already touched my heart. These thieves were all defeated by your army, and all kinds of harvests are yours."
My subordinates do have some spare time to use, but they really don’t have the honor to share the credit.”
Private armies are prevalent nowadays, and no matter how important a war is, it is difficult to accurately allocate credit to each soldier who participates in the battle. Even if rewards are given, they are mostly given to the generals who supervise the troops, and rarely to the troops.
If the generals want to motivate and reward their troops and boost the morale of the troops, they have to either pay for it out of their own pockets or find other ways.
There are often records in history books that some famous ministers and generals rewarded others with their salary, so that their own family had no money left, in order to show that they were morally noble. But it is very likely that this person is a strong man who supports his troops and respects himself.
He is a military leader, and his ability to generate revenue and increase production is only so-so.
In addition to paying out of one's own pocket, one of the most important ways to support the tribe is to fight to support war. For example, on the battlefield right now, those thief soldiers and horses fleeing everywhere and abandoned weapons and materials everywhere are naturally victors.
The spoils of one party.
Hearing that Li Mu had given up the right to distribute the spoils without any fuss, Li Taidang was no longer polite and asked the garrison soldiers who were leaving the city one after another to temporarily collect all the belongings left on the battlefield and tell Li Mu
After a negotiation, they jointly sent out troops to organize a pursuit team of 3,000 people, and pursued and killed the rebels in the direction where they fled.
While the soldiers were busy doing their own business, Li arrived with an envoy to report that the camp left by the rebels had been occupied and cleared. After hearing this, Li Tai invited Li Mutong to visit the enemy camp.
Li Mu also wanted to use the enemy's remaining fortress to learn more about the enemy, so he led a group of soldiers and entered the bandit camp with Li Tai.
There are many tributaries of rivers on the north bank of Qingshui. In winter, when the water flow dries up, these rivers often dry up, forming diagonal and longitudinal valleys. The rebel army's camp was set up in such a valley.
When Li Tai and Li Mu entered the enemy camp and looked around, they soon noticed a mystery.
The camp of the bandit army was quite exposed, but many of the remaining tents in the camp showed no signs of soldiers living there. It can be seen that the bandit commander was also bluffing and exaggerating the strength of his own troops. Although he eventually fled, he also for a time
It was so frightening that Li Mu, including Li Tai's reinforcements, did not dare to attack.
Soldiers never tire of deceit. A battle is always full of variables before the outcome is determined. It is necessary to do whatever it takes to increase one's own chances of winning. This is also the awareness that every general who leads an army must have.
"This thief general is quite cunning. He took advantage of my previous underestimation of the enemy and failed to distinguish the true and false situation to bluff. If I could see the false situation in his camp in advance, I would attack the thief camp myself, so why bother running around Boshan anymore?
It’s a journey!”
Li Mu was a little embarrassed and cut open several empty tents of the thieves camp one after another, and said bitterly, half unwillingly and half angrily. He himself was also a master of disguise, and earned himself ten lives by doing so, but in the end he was killed by a
The thief was deceived, and he felt a double defeat in his heart.
Although he had stated that he would not participate in the distribution of the spoils of meritorious service, after walking around the bandit camp, Li Mu still couldn't help but ask: "Has the bandit general been captured?"
Li Dao, who was the first to rush here, shook his head after hearing this, crossed his hands and said: "When the bandit army was defeated, there were still nearly two thousand people who gathered around the flag. According to the account of the bandit chief captured by the old formation, this army
The general's name is Liu Aqi, and he is from the Hu bandit tribe in Lishi..."
After listening to Li Dao's explanation, Li Mu couldn't help but feel disappointed. He sighed with hidden meaning: "It's a pity, it's a pity. It seems that this thief is quite skillful in using troops to plan. He should be good at commanding the emperor among the thieves."
As a wise man in the army, we cannot arrest him in battle this time. If he is allowed to escape, I am afraid he will continue to cause trouble in the coming year!"
Li Tai heard that Li Mu probably hoped to continue to pursue the enemy, but the Dongxia Prefecture headquarters was not safe enough, so he wanted Li Tai's troops to continue to cooperate. However, he had just accepted a rescue mission from Li Tai.
The favor of rescuing the siege has not yet been repaid, so for a while he was probably a little embarrassed to speak.
"How can we abandon the task of eradicating evil halfway and leave the disaster behind! Although our army is not a heroic army, but now that we are here, we must not sit back and watch the bandits disturb the territory and then retreat calmly! If Duke Wu An has a strategy to attack the bandits from a distance, I will also
Please help me with this!"
Seeing that Li Mu was embarrassed to speak, Li Tai simply expressed his stance directly.
This itself is not Li Mu's problem alone. Although these thieves did not directly invade the three-defense city area this time, it also made Li Tai worried. Although it was just a false alarm, he must still give the other party
Only with the cruelest revenge can these thieves be deterred from making trouble out of the blue and interfering with the farm development plan of the three defense cities.
Li Mu was overjoyed when he heard Li Tai's statement. He grabbed Li Tai's arm and squeezed it tightly. He said with a smile: "General Boshan came to help me. I already know that you are a righteous man, and I am grateful in my heart."
Endless. After Guangwu was out of trouble, he was still willing to help me defeat the invading enemy. It really made me...
Alas, I have experienced a lot of people and things in my life, and I have many good friends, but I can work with them, and I can trust only a few people, including the living and the dead, including Bo Shan! Li Xianqing is not a moral gentleman praised by the world, but he will never let down his kindness.
From now on, I will never refuse if Bo Shan entrusts you with something!"
Seeing Li Mu's grateful look, Li Tai was also quite pleased, but he was also afraid that if he continued like this, Li Mu might have to cut off chicken heads and burn yellow paper to become sworn brothers. Our friendship is a friendship, but once
The code is one code. If you want to squeeze into my Longxi Li family standing, then I can't just agree to it!
So he quickly changed the subject, pointed at Li Daofa and asked: "How many bandit chiefs were captured in this battle? What are their identities? Have they all been interrogated?"
"Previously, I was ordered by the Governor to defeat the bandit formation first. After the bandit army was defeated, more than 20 bandit chiefs, big and small, were arrested one after another. They were still interrogating each other in turn. After the confessions of all the Hus were gathered and the information about the thieves was gathered, they were immediately reported to the police.
Grand Governor."
Speaking of the capture of people, Li Dao couldn't help but get excited. Although the real focus of the Taiwan government's military strategy was not in northern Shaanxi, capturing so many thieves and Hu leaders in one battle can definitely be regarded as a great achievement.
But after reporting the basic situation, Li Dao's expression turned a bit strange. He turned around and pointed to a tent in the camp and said: "In that military tent, there was a Hu chief who surrendered himself, but the situation was a bit weird. Finally, the general
I still don’t know how to deal with it, so I have to ask the Grand Governor to make his own decision.”
When Li Tai heard this, he felt a little curious and immediately walked towards the tent.
Li Muze did not follow. After Li Tai promised to help him continue to hunt down the bandits, he was already very motivated and wanted to make up for his mistakes in the subsequent pursuit. Of course, he had to have a comprehensive understanding of the bandits.
learn.
Therefore, after asking Li Dao about the location where the Hu chieftains were imprisoned and interrogated, Li Mu rushed there to interrogate himself to understand the enemy's situation.
"How is this going?"
When Li Taixing arrived outside the camp Li Dao mentioned, he looked inside for a moment, his face suddenly sank, and he pointed at the situation inside and said angrily: "Even if you want to humiliate these thieves and captives, how can they be so wasteful?"
Material! How can these silk brocades be used after being stained like this?"
When the soldiers guarding outside the military tent heard this, their faces became a little distorted, and they clasped their fists in fear and said: "Master Qi, when the servants came here, the situation inside the tent was like this.
It’s not like the servants are just messing around with materials..."
"Nonsense! You didn't do it, could it be them?"
Li Tai took another look at the Hu soldiers wrapped up like rice dumplings in the tent, and felt very angry in his heart. He only saw that the tent was full of Hu soldiers, probably hundreds of them, and everyone was covered in...
It was wrapped with several layers of silk, and there was even more precious brocade inside. At least hundreds of pieces were wasted.
Jihu was originally a poor man. Even if he won such a victory, he would probably gain very little except for the captives of men and horses. It was still wasted in this way. Li Tai felt very angry in his heart. If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, he
I have already planned to severely punish the soldiers who did this kind of prank.
"Grand Governor, Grand Governor, they did not lie. This is what the general said is weird!"
As soon as Li Daozheng showed the way to Li Mu, he hurriedly caught up with him. Seeing the angry look on Li Taizheng's face, he quickly explained that in order to show that what he said was true, he shouted into the tent again: "Listen, people in the tent.
, most of my family’s governors are here, please come out and pay your respects as soon as possible. If you still refuse to obey the order, don’t blame the ruthless swords and arrows!”
"Wait a minute, wait a minute! What is the official rank of this Grand Governor in your country? Can he make decisions on important matters?"
As soon as Li Dao finished speaking, a somewhat muffled voice came from the crowd in the tent: "Please forgive me, the Governor, I am not looking down on you. It's just that I have a good status and the things I can explain are confidential.
It’s important that the general public can’t hear about it. It’s better to quickly ask your commander-in-chief to accept the surrender, so that your army can learn the secret earlier!”
Li Tai initially felt a little embarrassed, but when he heard the call from the person in the tent, he couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded. He even suspected that he had heard wrong, and turned to look at Li Dao next to him for confirmation.
Li Dao also gave Li Tai a confused look, and then shouted into the tent: "My Commander-in-Chief is the commander-in-chief of our army, and your life or death is a matter of decision. If you still refuse to go out and worship, it will be extremely difficult."
Treat me with courtesy again!"
"Disperse, all of you, disperse quickly. Don't stop me from going out of my tent to see the noble man!"
After listening to Li Dao's shouting, the voices in the tent suddenly became urgent, and the barbarians gathered in the tent began to disperse to the left and right.
Upon seeing this, Li Dao hurriedly summoned the soldiers from the nearby area, and pulled out the Hu soldiers who had dispersed from the tent one by one. After adding a few points, he found that there were more than 500 soldiers, and they were not old or weak.
The sick and disabled men all looked strong and strong, much stronger than the barbarian soldiers captured in many battle formations.
What's even more puzzling is that after these barbarians withdrew from the camp, they revealed armor and equipment all over the place, and they looked relatively sophisticated, which made the situation even weirder.
However, before Li Lao had time to ask more questions, a tightly wrapped colorful rice dumpling quickly moved out of the tent and asked very earnestly: "Which strong man is the governor?"
Li Dao took a spear from the soldier next to him and provoked it for a while, and then the head and face of the rice dumpling were revealed. He also raised his arm and forcefully took off the brocade and other things wrapped around him, and looked around.
Even if he walked towards Li Tai in small steps, he knelt on the ground with a plop and said loudly: "This handsome and mighty gentleman who is as handsome as a god must be the governor! Xiaomin, the chief of the upper part of Luoji, just steps away from the river in the west river.
Liu Kuzhen, pay your respects to the Grand Governor! The Grand Governor is so impressive that I wish I could not have met earlier. Otherwise, there would be no need for the Grand Governor to lead troops to teach. The common people would lead their subordinates to obey the Grand Governor’s orders..."
Li Tai prided himself on being a knowledgeable person, but after seeing Chief Hu's performance, he was still a little overwhelmed for a while. He really didn't expect that human nature is so different, and the gap can be so big.
Even though he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and had to beg for mercy, the bottom line shown by Hu Chief Liu Kuzhen was something Li Tai had never seen before.
Seeing the valuable silks and satins that this guy had casually abandoned on the ground, Li Tai frowned even more. Apart from his normal aesthetics, this wretched thief chief had absolutely no merit!
He ordered his soldiers to set up Chief Hu, looked him up and down, and then said with a sneer: "I have captured and killed many handsome Husbands, but not many are as arrogant and arrogant as you."
.I would like to hear what is special about you, and what secrets can you tell me that must be heard by the commander. If you are just talking nonsense just to survive, then you are destined to die a bad death!"
As the New Year is approaching, there are a lot of chores to do. Today I will update a chapter...