Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 212
It was freezing cold and thick with fog.

Inside a low wall, several men with braided hair were drinking and having fun.

Horses are hitched in the yard.For some unknown reason, the horse was a little uneasy.A man with braided hair stood up and comforted the horse for a while, but he still couldn't calm the horse down.

He cursed a few words in a low voice, then opened the wooden door and went out to check.

This went for a long time, and I never saw him return.There was no movement outside, and it was eerily quiet.

The rest of the people put down their wine bowls one after another, with uncertain expressions on their faces.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Several feathered arrows struck, and the field screamed in pain.

A man with braided hair suddenly jumped up from the ground and jumped into the house, followed by another person.

But the speed of the arrow flying was too fast, he had just crossed the threshold when he got hit on the shoulder and fell staggeringly into it.

There were still several people in the house, and when they heard the screams outside, they all drew their bows and fought back.

But the attackers were very cunning, so they hid outside and shot an arrow from time to time, preventing them from going out.

A tall man put on an iron armor and kept saying something, as if he wanted to lead others to rush out together.

Several other people nodded repeatedly, and some people found wooden shields.

At this moment, only the sound of "cracking" was heard, and a huge hole was pierced in the roof, and tiles and wood chips were scattered, making people blind.

There were a few more screams of pain, it turned out that someone was shooting arrows down from the top.With such a short distance, the shot penetrated extremely deep into the flesh, even piercing through the chest and abdomen.

There was a raging fire on the side of the hay house, and there was a scream from time to time.Everyone in the house was flustered and there was no way to hide, so they could only bite the bullet and rush out.

Not surprisingly, there was another wave of arrow rain.

"Le Qukan!" someone shouted.

"Hey, good time!" A man wearing a pussy head, a walking bow on his waist, and a thick-backed machete in his hand let him go forward, and then slashed down, causing blood to spurt from the enemy's neck. , fell powerlessly to the ground.

"Wang Quan beheaded the bandit chieftain!" The crowd's morale was greatly boosted, and the sound of bowstrings rang repeatedly. Several people even jumped off the low wall, knocked the other two bandits to the ground, and tied them up tightly.

The reward for capturing life is higher than beheading!

Wang Quan led the people forward quickly, and another person rushed out of the room, making noises.

Wang Quan let go of the spear he had stabbed, and dropped the knife lightly, and the thief fell to the ground again.

"Looking at the king's command to kill the thief, I feel like lifting weights lightly, as if the thief deliberately bumped into him." The battle was over soon, and a man in a brown military uniform stepped forward, looking at the corpse lying on the ground, repeatedly admiration.

"Captain Sun was joking." Wang Quan was a little out of breath, and said angrily, "I've only been active for so long, and I'm a little out of breath. If ten years ago, a certain man put on heavy armor and would kill seven or seven among the bandits in Tubo Come out. Time is not forgiving!"

"Team leader, Grandpa, another person was arrested at the salted meat room, another person was beheaded eleven times, and none escaped." The speaker was very young, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and his accent was a bit strange, wasn't it? Very standard.

"What's your name, Grandpa? Commander Wang!" Wang Quan said with a downcast face.

"Follow orders, Wang commanded." Wang Jiao bowed his head to be instructed.

"Today, you climbed up to that straw barn and set fire to it. You behaved aggressively, with rough hands and feet. If the thieves are calm, you only need to separate one or two people and shoot a few arrows. None of you little boys will survive." Wang Quan's face was cold. Shuang reprimanded him: "When fighting with the thieves from the fodder house, he was so close, and he stabbed him with a spear, and you also stabbed him with a spear? Forgot to teach you to throw the spear? Before the battle, throw it out to disturb the enemy, and then fight again! "

"Commander Wang, your son is very brave today, so why should you be harsh?" Captain Sun stepped forward and smiled, "When I was in battle for the first time, I was flustered, my palms were sweaty, and I couldn't even hold my rifle steadily. This is your first time, right? Much better than a certain year ago, haha."

"It's also for his own good." Wang Quan sighed: "I have taught so many things, all of which I realized from the battle. It will be really miserable. No one teaches, and everyone doesn't understand. It all depends on enlightenment. Enlightenment is slow." Well, it’s a dead word, bad luck is also a dead word.”

Captain Sun understood.The military of the economic system is generally staffed by coaches at all levels, and many basic things can be learned directly.If the rioters did not join the army, or if they did not have local wealthy families, they would really know nothing. All experience had to be learned from the dead, and the price would be too high.

"Let's go, today we have captured three people and beheaded eleven levels. This outpost of the Tubo bandits is considered abolished." Leader Sun told everyone to quickly count the spoils and prepare to retreat.

"By the way, what does Le Qukan mean?" Wang Quan asked suddenly.

"It means the head of a hundred households in Tubo." Captain Sun was also very envious when he spoke. Wang Quan had hit his luck and directly captured and killed the bandit chief.

Wang Quan laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "Now we have the money to buy livestock, household items, and farm tools. In a few years, my family Erlang will also have Shu Xiu, who went to study as an elementary school."

"Commander Wang..." Captain Sun hesitated for a moment, seeing that the soldiers were leading the horses of the Tubo people, he hurriedly asked, "Why don't you sell me that pair of iron armor? The bandit chief is about the same size as me. It works."

"It's not urgent, we'll talk about it when we get back." Wang Quan quickly stripped off the armor from the Tubo "Le Qukan", and his movements were astonishingly proficient.

After a while, a group of people piled firewood inside and outside the sentry shop, lit a big fire, and left in a hurry.

"Captain Sun, I don't know something." On the way back, Wang Quan rode his horse side by side with Captain Sun and asked, "Didn't you go to Xianhe, Wei, Min, Lan, Hui and other prefectures when you returned to China? How come here is still under the rule of Tubo?"

"Commander Wang, Shang Yanxin's return to the country is naturally a return to the country. However, he has soldiers and territory. He is an envoy for the capital of Hewei, which is equivalent to a military town. How can the imperial order reach the states?" Captain Sun replied: "It was also the king of Gaojun who was so courageous that he sent troops to seize Fenglin Pass. However, after Shang Yanxin's death, the Tubo tribes rebelled and had to withdraw. Now He, Wei, Min, Tao, Lan and other prefectures There are Tubo tribes entrenched, and it is these tribes that the commander wants to fight."

"Is the Fu Fuling family of Minzhou also?"

"Naturally." Captain Sun replied, "The Fufuling clan controls the Min and Wei prefectures. It's not very clear how big or small they are. In short, the nomadic Tubo people's jurisdiction is not necessarily divided according to the territory of the dynasty. I can tell you the general location."

"Then what is the origin of this Luma tribe we attacked?"

"The vassal tribe of the Fu Fu Ling clan." Captain Sun said.

The two talked while walking, and soon returned to the grassland of the Bai family in Huizhou.

There are many villages set up near the Zuli River.In addition to the pardoned Chaozhong prisoners, there are also former Chaozhong households recruited in the four counties of Yinzhou, and Wang Quan is one of them.

He originally rented land for a military farm in Kaiguang County, and he managed to get by.When I heard that Huizhou could win a hectare of land for nothing, I was immediately moved.He understands what the commander means, isn't it just immigration?Others are afraid, but he is not afraid!Who is afraid of who has been licking blood for so many years?
The greedy and aggressive factors in Wang Quan's blood were aroused, so he took the initiative to apply for recruitment, took his wife and two sons, traveled long distances to Huizhou, and was resettled in the upper reaches of the Zuli River.

There were seventy or eighty households who came with him, and they were unified into one mile. Because of his rich experience and reputation, Wang Quan was appointed as the commander of the Tutuan Villager.

The Dingyuan Army also sent a small number of guidance personnel here. For example, in the surprise attack on the Tubo outpost today, a team leader and three sergeants participated.

The reason why they are so rude to this tribe is also very simple. Qubu, who had fled west, has returned.Their in-laws in Minzhou, the Fu Fuling family, agreed that they would continue to graze on the grasslands along the Min and Wei areas.

After the Bai family learned the news, they immediately reported it.The relationship between Huizhou and Fu Fuling's family deteriorated again, and the money was collected but they broke their promises and refused to do anything. Fans are still Fans!

So, since last month, the tribes and settlement villages in Futang of Huizhou have sent people south from time to time to attack the Tubo tribes, demolish outposts, and rob cattle and sheep. Today's action is one of them.

After the group returned to the camp, they saw that there were several times more people than usual, and there were even nearly a thousand cavalry soldiers.Sun and Wang looked at each other in blank dismay. Is this a high official coming?
The two ordered everyone to restrain themselves and not be too lawless, and then they took the prisoners and entered the camp after repeated inspections.

"Oh, the Zhusheng general is so brave that he has captured three bandits back?" As soon as they entered the camp, they met a general in uniform.

The general was surrounded by many personal soldiers, at this time someone shouted: "General Yang, the envoy of the Xinquan Army, is here, why don't you come to see him?"

"Meet Yang Junshi." Everyone saluted one after another.

"A certain person was entrusted by the commander in chief to lead the Xinquan army of [-] people to Huizhou to conquer Tubo." Yang Yue looked at the crowd and said kindly, "He who can kill Tubo people is a good man. There is a reward!"

Wang Quan was overjoyed when he heard this, and now he was excited when he heard the word "reward", so he shouted: "Mr. Yang is clearly rewarded and punished, and he really has the style of a famous general."

Yang Yue pointed at Wang Quan with a smile, and said, "Bring the prisoner here, and I will interrogate myself."

The three captives were quickly brought up. They all wore left lapels and braided hair, and they were all in pure Tubo attire.

"Forgive me, General, I have a sympathetic face."

A staff member under Yang Yue's tent who knew Tubo was about to step up and ask, when someone among the captives suddenly shouted, and what he said was Tang official dialect.

Wang Quan was about to leave, his eyes almost popped out when he saw this, is this Han Chinese or Tibetan?

(End of this chapter)