This man's shout naturally attracted everyone's attention. Butcher Chen immediately stepped forward and reprimanded: "What are you yelling about!"
Li Xuan was also attracted by his voice. He looked carefully at the scene in front of him and found that the man who shouted for mercy was very different from the other two captured bandits.
The first is his clothing. He is not wearing a short robe like others, but is wearing a robe worn by contemporary scholars. Although his robe is somewhat tattered and stained, it still makes him look very similar to others.
Big difference.
Perhaps he noticed that Li Xuan was looking at him, and the man continued: "Wang Wenhua, a common man, is willing to contribute a small amount to your majesty's great cause. I can lead your majesty's heavenly troops to attack Shuilong Village!"
Hearing this man's words, Li Xuan was even more sure that this middle-aged man with a wretched appearance was not some rough bandit who couldn't read or write, because this man's speaking pattern was very similar to that of Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu.
What a scholar.
It has been more than half a month since he came to this era, but strictly speaking, Li Xuan has met only one and a half scholars.
The first one is naturally Liu Bagou, and the remaining half is Qian Mengjiu. The others basically don't know a single Chinese character, only a few can recognize a few characters and can write their own names.
He was a little curious, how did this man who looked like a scholar turn into a bandit?
But before Li Xuan could speak, a guard beside him frowned: "You mean Shuilong Village?"
Wang Wenhua nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, the villain knows the roads in and out of Shuilong Village, and Shuilong Village just robbed a large village not long ago, and took back a large amount of food, money, and women!"
The first half of this sentence is to advance his own role, and the second half is obviously to increase everyone's interest.
"Water Dragon Village?" Li Xuan didn't know what this was, and Liu Bagou on the side also looked confused.
At this time, Qian Mengjiu walked up to him and lowered his voice: "Shuilongzhai is a relatively well-known group within a few hundred miles. Its strength is average and it will never attack large villages or large-scale caravans.
They only attacked some small mountain villages and small caravans that had no ability to resist, killing all the young men wherever they went, and taking away all their property and women. However, its location was very hidden, and no one knows where Shuilong Village's lair is.
"
At this moment, a bandit guard next to him also said: "Those people in Shuilong Village know how to bully the weak and fear the strong, and will only attack the weak. It is really a shame for our green forest people, but if we go to grab a handful, we should gain a lot."
Small."
Several other bandits around him also talked about their disdain for Shuilong Village, with a hint of greed in their disdain. These people wanted to steal food and women.
At this time, Wang Wenhua spoke again: "What these heroes are saying is that those people in Shuilong Village bully the weak and fear the strong. They dare not take action from the government and powerful people, and only know how to harm the defenseless people!"
Li Xuan turned his attention to Wang Wenhua again and said slowly: "Oh, it seems that you are also a scholar. Why did you go to Shuilong Village?"
You don’t need to think about it to know that normal scholars will never run out to become bandits. Scholars these days have such a high status in society. Even if they have no fame, it is quite easy to survive. No matter how bad it is, becoming a bandit
You can also make a good living by working in the accounting office, writing letters and couplets for people.
Wang Wenhua now showed a bitter and resentful expression and said: "Your Majesty, Cao Min was originally a private school teacher in Taohuaxi. Three months ago, Shuilong Village attacked his hometown, burned, killed and looted. Cao Min's wife, children and students were all tragically killed by bandits' knives.
"Originally, the common people were not immune, but those bandits saw that I could read, write, and calculate accounts, so they kept me alive and took me back to Shuilong Village!"
While speaking, Wang Wenhua quietly raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan quickly, then lowered his head again and continued: "The grassroots and the bandits of Shuilong Village are inseparable!"
After hearing what he said, Li Xuan did not answer him immediately, but turned to Liu Bagou and said: Prime Minister, keep this man for now, and you can deal with the others!"
Liu Bagou said: "I obey the order!"
When Wang Wenhua in the back heard this, he immediately kowtowed and shouted: "Thank you for not killing me!"
But when he raised his head, he saw that Li Xuan had already left with a few people. At this moment, he looked at Liu Bagou and Butcher Chen with a charming smile on his face.
Butcher Chen obviously didn't like the dog-like smile on Wang Wenhua's face. He just snorted: "What are you looking at? I'll dig out your eyes!"
Liu Bagou didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't talk to Wang Wenhua. Instead, he waved his hand and said: "Take him with you, let's go back! As for the remaining two people!"
At this time, Liu Bagou's eyes swept over the remaining two bandits who kept shouting for mercy, and said with a serious face: "You thieves dare to offend the emperor, and you deserve to die!"
As he said that, he nodded slightly to the Huangzhushan bandits who were pressing them down. Then the bandits smiled ferociously, then each pulled out their knives and killed the two men on the spot.
Seeing that Liu Bagou looked serious, but in his words he directly sentenced the two prisoners to death, Wang Wenhua, who had just stood up, couldn't stand still, and then collapsed to the ground again, and then
The semi-dry crotch became wet again.
Butcher Chen laughed when he saw this scene.
When the bandits in Huangzhushan saw it, they all laughed. Butcher Chen even said directly: "You are a coward. I didn't kill you. Why are you peeing!"
On the way back, Li Xuan was still thinking about the "Battle of National Destiny" not long ago, and he felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
The battle just now couldn't be considered a battle at all. It could at best be regarded as a armed fight, and it was still very small in scale, and both sides were unorganized armed fights.
The fighting power of these bandits is so weak. What will happen if the officers and soldiers come to kill them in the future?
At this moment, Li Xuan didn't know that in fact, the three hundred county warriors under the county magistrate were not much better than a group of bandits in Huangzhushan. These days, regardless of whether they were regular troops or bandits, small-scale battles were all about the same, so don't expect them.
All the soldiers and bandits who participated in the battle went to fight. It was good that they could wave flags and shout from the sidelines and not run away before the battle broke out.
Li Xuan's intuitive understanding of war in the cold weapon era basically came from later film and television dramas. In film and television dramas, the war was cruel and violent. The soldiers carrying spears, swords and shields collided with each other like the tide, without any care.
And the death of their comrades beside them, their own blood flowed, and they all fought to the death like the three hundred Spartan warriors.
After the battle, there were endless corpses on the entire battlefield as far as the eye could see.
According to his guess, even if the officers and soldiers of this era are not as fierce as the soldiers in movies and TV series, as long as they maintain basic organization and combat effectiveness, they will definitely not be able to resist the rabble in Huangzhushan.
Thinking like this made him even more desperate for the future. Li Xuan could imagine that when the officers and soldiers found Huang Zhushan, he would have to embark on the road to escape again.