Chapter 98: Where the Tang Dynasty's Swords and Guns Come
After the bandits of the Tang Dynasty had been waiting eagerly for many days, Fang Dongquan and the others finally returned to Huangzhu Mountain with their army.
When Fang Dongquan and his team appeared outside the village, almost everyone ran out to greet them.
The old mother with wrinkles on her face leaned on crutches and stepped forward to take her handsome son's hand. She asked with concern: "My son, are you back? Have you snatched your wife back?"
The son threw down his sword and gun, knelt in front of the old woman and bowed down: "My son did not dare to forget his mother's instructions. After fighting hard, he finally got back a little lady, and I got married to her on the way!"
After saying that, he stood up and pulled out a crying woman from behind!
The old mother then showed a relieved look and said, "Okay, that's good!"
The thin wife dragged her child and staggered to her husband and said, "Master, how much food have you snatched back?"
The honest husband laughed, took out the baggage on his shoulder, and opened it directly to reveal the white rice inside: "I rushed to the front several times before, and I grabbed all these!"
The thin wife quickly took the bundle and shed tears of joy looking at the rice inside.
When all the soldiers and their families were reunited, the four generals, Fang Dongquan, Qian Mengjiu, Chen Tufu, Huang Xueren, and Wang Danxu, also knelt down in front of Li Xuan and shouted: "Long live my emperor! Long live my emperor!"
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Li Xuan looked at them, then looked at the team behind them, which had reached nearly 700 people, and nodded with a smile: "My dear friends, you have worked hard to fight for the country. This time, I have wiped out all the thieves within a hundred miles square. I am heartbroken."
Very comforting!"
At this time, Liu Bagou suddenly knelt down and saluted, and then said loudly: "The great victory achieved by the army on the expedition is all because Your Majesty is the eternal sage, and his blessings are everywhere. In addition, we, the Tang Dynasty, obey the will of God and obey the people's will. In this way, I, the King of the Tang Dynasty, can
Able to win consecutive battles and achieve consecutive victories, he can conquer anything wherever his sword and spear come."
Liu Bagou started bragging about Li Xuan, and naturally many of the people below followed him in time.
Qian Mengjiu and Wang Wenhua, two well-educated prime ministers, continued Liu Bagou's words and boasted fiercely.
Fang Dongquan and other generals are no exception, and Fang Dongquan has obviously gone through a lot of hard training before. At this time, I only heard Fang Dongquan's slightly stiff and half-literary words: "The victory that I can achieve is all thanks to His Majesty's God."
Grace is mighty!"
Others also said that it was all thanks to His Majesty's great blessing.
After hearing this compliment, Li Xuan was all smiles!
No one likes to hear compliments. If so, it must be because the person doing the compliments is not strong enough and doesn’t know how to flatter them better.
Now being praised by the dozen or so people in front of him, Li Xuan had a slight illusion for a moment, feeling that he was really the eternal sage.
Fortunately, this illusion only lasted for a moment. Li Xuan was a person with normal sense. He would occasionally lose his mind, but he would not be completely blinded by their flattery.
After the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty complimented each other for a while, the topic returned to business.
Qian Mengjiu said: "This time, our Imperial Majesty of the Tang Dynasty went to Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village, and Huanggui Mountain. We experienced dozens of battles, including four major battles. We killed sixteen stubborn rebels and injured countless others."
Count and capture 200 young men and women, 700 old and weak women and children, and also seize a batch of swords and guns, grain, and some gold and silver!"
Although he already knew the detailed victory figures, Li Xuan still smiled when he heard Qian Mengjiu talk about it again today.
It doesn't matter how many enemy troops the Tang Dynasty king killed, and even how much food, gold and silver were captured are not the most important.
The most important thing is that they captured a total of 900 people this time, and these 900 captives are no longer prisoners, because since the day they were captured, they have actually become citizens of the Tang Dynasty.
If the bandits in the mountains are defeated, they will rarely refuse to surrender, because for the bandits, there is no essential difference between joining the mountain and becoming a bandit. They are just bandits. Therefore, after defeat, they will surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
For the people of Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village, and Huanggui Mountain, there is no psychological burden.
Many people even think that since Huang Zhushan is so powerful, they will definitely be able to eat fuller and wear warmer clothing after joining Huang Zhushan.
As for the suggestion that Huang Zhushan and the others are engaged in rebellion and fighting against the Ming army, except for a few knowledgeable people who may be worried, most people don't care.
Most of the bandits in the mountains have very limited knowledge. Many of them don't even know what the concept of rebellion is, let alone what it means to fight the Ming army.
In their view, it is normal for bandits like them to be surrounded and suppressed by the government. At worst, they will just run away when the government comes.
But they simply don't know that there is a completely different nature between local government recruiting hundreds of counties to suppress bandits and gathering thousands of regular troops to suppress rebels.
Usually, when it comes to suppressing bandits, local officials may or may not do it!
But to suppress the rebellion, this kind of thing will definitely be done. This is not only because after successfully suppressing the rebellion, you can make great achievements and get promoted, but also because if the suppression is not effective, you will not be able to keep your official title.
If the rebels in the area are allowed to grow bigger, and eventually the rebels conquer the local city, then the court will kill local officials without mercy, killing a large area at a time.
They were ignorant and didn't know that the seemingly powerful Huangzhushan bandit group they joined, the most powerful bandit gang within a hundred miles, had already been on the government's blacklist that must be eradicated.
On the night when Fang Dongquan and the others came back, Li Xuan held a state banquet according to the previous practice. While the ministers were eating and drinking, they were laughing and laughing, as if everyone had forgotten for a moment that the Ming army would be in danger at any time.
Even Li Xuan put down all the worries in his heart for a while and drank a lot accompanied by the ministers, so that when he returned to the backyard, he smelled of alcohol.
Seeing Li Xuan come in, Dong Yunyun took two steps forward. The first thing she smelled was the strong smell of alcohol on Li Xuan's body: "Why did you drink so much again?" Dong Yunyun complained and muttered while taking off Li Xuan's coat.
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Li Xuan waved his hand: "It's okay, I didn't drink much!"
Dong Yunyun said: "If you don't drink well, don't drink so much!"
Li Xuan was slightly startled when he heard this sentence. The feeling of being cared about - very good!
With a little force, she grabbed Dong Yunyun's hand!
Dong Yunyun, whose hand was grabbed, did not struggle. After all, it was not the first time that her little hand was held by Li Xuan. From the panic at the beginning to the blush, to the calmness now, it is enough to show that a woman's shyness has a bottom line.
Yes, once it is broken, there is no shame at all.
So, comrades, please do it and cherish it. When you first catch up with your little girlfriend, you must cherish her who will blush even if you hold her hand.
Because it won’t take long for her to blush if you hold her hand. Even if you take off her clothes, she won’t bother to cover her hidden parts with her hands. Instead, she will wander around in front of you as if there is no one else around. Don’t let the scene be too scary!