stubborn thief

Chapter 180

He Zan folded his arms and squatted under the canopy of the prison camp.

He shook all night, his mind was full of incomprehensible questions.

Since the Ningxia soldiers were captured, the bandit soldiers took away all their clothes, and 720 prisoners huddled together under the canopy naked, next to each other, basically relying on shaking for warmth.

He Zan didn't know what others were thinking, but he had been observing the bandits.

The thieves were very orderly, most of them slept in the tents of Ningxia soldiers, a few people watched them, and some seemed to cook ginger soup and dry clothes.

Some prisoners discussed how to escape, and each frame of the canopy was made of eight spears, except that there were no spearheads, which could form a certain fighting force.

Although they may not be able to defeat the bandits, it is not a problem for the brigade to escape westward if they defend for a while.

But many people don't want to run because they don't have clothes and they will freeze to death if they go out.

In the afternoon, the thieves brought in the dried middle orders, and dozens of them came every once in a while.

Someone asked the bandit soldiers what they planned to do with them, and the bandit soldiers said: "The general knows that you are cold, hold on for a while, the ginger soup is almost ready."

People don't want to run away.

In the afternoon, some bandit soldiers called out a dozen people from the prison camp, and came back with a large pot of ginger soup. They asked them who was the officer, and asked the officer to distribute ginger soup to the soldiers.

The ginger soup was not enough to drink, and the soldiers of the Ningxia Camp were very dissatisfied with the officers.

In the evening, when the rain became lighter, the bandits came again, and they were asked to hold on for a while, saying that there was horse broth stewed in the camp.

And the noodles they brought from Ningxia, and dozens of people were called out from the prison camp to make the noodles, saying that they would eat pancakes at night.

He Zan asked again, what is the thief planning to do with them?
At this time, the soldiers of the Ningxia Battalion didn't care much about this matter anymore. They found that winning or losing a battle didn't make much difference to them.

If you win, the food is like this; if you lose, the food is still the same.

It's just that many people feel sad for those brothers who fought bloody and killed on the battlefield. If they had surrendered earlier, they would still be able to wear dry clothes and wait for food now.

It was getting dark, and the thieves carried more than a dozen cauldrons into the prison camp. This time, the officers were not asked to distribute the food.

The one who distributed the food was the officer in the bandit army, and the officer on He Zan's side was Zheng Hu.

"You still ask what we want to do, what do you want to do?"

The thief officer named Zheng Hu was very angry, pointed at He Zan's nose and asked: "This is Yan'an Mansion, you Ningxia soldiers came to Yan'an Mansion to beat us, and you asked what we want?"

He Zan was taken aback, and then said: "You are thieves, we are the army, isn't it justified for the army to beat thieves?"

"It's just and right, what a fart, do you think it's just and right, those Ningxia soldiers and Yulin soldiers who died deserve to die?"

While supervising the bandits serving soup to the captives, Zheng Hu took two steps towards He Zan, took a closer look, and said, "Who am I, now that I remember, you are He Zongbing's son."

As he said that, he turned his head and quarreled with the soup thieves in a stern tone: "Every bowl is the same, so don't underfill it."

"Young Marshal He is still wondering, we know you are Mr. He's son, why don't we invite you into the tent, and put you here to suffer the cold with Ningxia soldiers?"

In fact, Zheng Hu laughed hard in his heart, everything they did after the war today had a script.

It was a decision made by the commanding officers of each sentry after they got together to discuss, including Jiang Tang's intention to make less and let the captured officers divide it.

The broth is intentionally made a little more, and they will share it among themselves.

Even the soldiers serving the soup deliberately served less, and then they came forward to reprimand them, all of which were scripts negotiated in the early stage.

Just play it.

"Do you know whom you are fighting? Do you know what kind of war you are fighting?"

Standing among the captives, Zheng Hu raised his hand and pointed at his chest with his thumb: "I, Ding Xuanfeng, a member of the former Yan'an Li Shen general, served as a car battalion management team in Jizhen, fought against Eastern captives in Liaodong, and served in Yulin. I have beaten the northern captives, my name is Zheng Hu."

The Ningxia soldiers in the prison camp were in an uproar.

Some of them know that there are deserters and frontier soldiers in Liu Chengzong's troops. This is not a secret.

But there is also a big difference between deserters and deserters, frontier troops and frontier troops.

The military households in Yulinwei who are busy farming all day are the frontier soldiers, and the ones who carry the burden every day in the Pasha Camp on Gansu East Road are also the frontier soldiers. Ding Xuanfeng, who has been to Liaodong and returned to Yulin, is also a frontier soldier.

There is a big difference between this.

"My general treated me very well. He tried his best, but my brothers and I still couldn't get enough to eat. We have made meritorious service to the court, and meritorious deeds cannot be exchanged for rewards."

"My general is a good man, so in the end he was defeated by the Lion Camp on an empty stomach. I wanted to fight, isn't it just a life?"

"The Lion Camp entertained me with porridge, I surrendered, and I have never been hungry again... Do you know why you are fighting?"

Zheng Hu looked around at the Ningxia soldiers, but no one could answer his question. He continued: "We entered Shanxi to rob Wangzhuang. You also have a palace in Ningxia. You know that Wangzhuang is rich."

This time, some Ningxia soldiers nodded in agreement, but was immediately stopped by Marshal He with his eyes.

Zheng Hu smiled, didn't say anything, just continued: "Crossing the Yellow River from Yanchuan is Yonghe County, that place is so poor that it doesn't even have a Wangzhuang, we can't go further east, there are thieves everywhere, let's help the people suppress thief."

"The army came from the north and wanted to crusade against us. On the way, we first burned a few villages, and every few villages had a living. General Liu led us to suppress the soldiers and calm the people."

"I want to ask you, you all came here from Ningxia and traveled thousands of miles to fight this battle." Zheng Hu asked the surrounding soldiers, "Why are you here?"

He Zan said: "What about Old Jackal Li, he robbed Heshui County and besieged the county town, shouldn't he be wiped out? You join forces with him, what kind of good man are you?"

"He is a hungry man. You beat him all the way, but you didn't realize that those people are no different from ordinary people?"

Zheng Hu's words are unreasonable. Li Laozhen's bandits are far from ordinary people, and many of them were bandits before the severe drought came.

But in terms of combat effectiveness, it is true that He Huchen's Ningxia soldiers deal with them like playing games.

Two to 300 people can beat Li Laozhen with thousands of people, and if they catch up, it will be a big victory.

At this moment, the officer in charge of another pot ran over and said to Zheng Hu: "Order Zheng, my Ningxia soldiers must join the Lion Camp, what should I do?"

"That's not good!"

Zheng Hu frowned and said: "General Liu said, they congratulate General that he is not defeated, what's more, the captives also said that they have a camp on the western mountain pass, and now they have surrendered to the Lion Camp, so the next battle will force them to follow the previous battle." brother?"

Zheng Hu looked at the Ningxia soldiers on his side, and asked, "Do you have any plans to stay?"

With He Zan around, people on his side dare not say it, but the hope in many people's eyes can't deceive anyone.

He Zan was about to die of anger, all the Ningxia soldiers around him had little stars in their eyes.

"Ugh."

Zheng Hu sighed, and said to the auxiliary soldiers standing beside him: "Go and ask the general, or you can keep them."

The auxiliary soldiers trotted out of the prison camp.

In the military tent that originally belonged to He Huchen, Liu Chengzong blew on the butterflies on the horse broth, and took a sip slowly.

The warmth enters the throat and spreads to the limbs and bones, even the five sense organs and nine orifices are much clearer.

The horse broth made by the soldiers of the Lion Camp is getting better and better.

The auxiliary soldiers ran into the account to explain the cleaning, causing Liu Chengzong to raise his head and laugh.

This is a signal, a signal that proves that people's hearts are available.

The low-level officers of the Lion Camp suffered a lot in this battle. Many soldiers caught wind and cold, and some, such as Huang Shengxiao, still had a fever.

The combat effectiveness of soldiers is seriously affected.

But this is not to say that He Huchen can't be defeated. He Huchen's troops have a lot of problems such as wind, cold and fever, and the loss of troops is even greater.

It's just that Liu Chengzong didn't want to fight anymore.

The significance of this battle is very great, which means that the offense and defense are easy.

The soldiers who survived this war all had a strong will to fight, and they defeated the official army head-on in a head-to-head battle... This is the first time.

As long as the Lion Camp system is still in place, they will not be afraid of any conquest by the army.

Those who survived were treasures, and Liu Chengzong did not want to see any casualties caused by storming the camp.

Moreover, these Ningxia soldiers' captives have extraordinary significance to Liu Chengzong.

They are different from Yulin soldiers.

At noon, Liu Chengzong found some Ningxia soldiers and prisoners, and asked about the situation in Ningxia.

The soldiers in that place were basically extinct, which meant that they had nothing to worry about.

As long as the ideological resistance is erased, this group of people can all join the Lions Camp.

Attack on the heart.

It's just that the efficiency of the commanders is indeed much higher than he imagined.

Liu Chengzong picked up the bowl, drank a few sips, picked up the horse meat slices and ate them. He drank until his mouth was burning.

His armor has been dried, but all he needs is no armor.

Several servants ran into the camp first, and then Liu Chengzong entered the prison camp.

As soon as he entered, there was a group of soldiers prostrating beside the nearby soup pot: "General, accept us!"

Liu Chengzong hurriedly went to help one by one, but he couldn't use his right arm. Just as he pulled up one, the other went down again. After a lot of support and dissuasion, he walked into the camp.

Looking at more than 700 captives, he stood at the front of the line and raised his left arm to wave at them.

The situation of the soldiers around each soup pot is different. After all, the commanders in charge of them are different. Some are sensible, some are emotional, and some are tempting.

People have different feelings about different methods of persuading surrender. Even at this time, only half of the people in the camp are willing to surrender.

If it weren't for the severe drought in Yinchuan this year, it might not even have this number.

"Thanks to everyone's kindness, under Liu Chengzong, most of the brothers in the Lion Camp are frontier soldiers, and each soldier is his master. Therefore, the defeated frontier brothers have always been willing to stay and leave."

He waved his hand in front of him and said, "You were ordered to beg me for your own sake. I don't blame you. If the battle is over now, then as usual, I will keep whatever you want to keep; if you want to leave, I will send some." Panzang, let you go home."

"It's just that the battle isn't over yet."

As he said that, he changed the subject: "You vote for me now, and three days later, you will fight against Marshal He at Xishan Pass, can you fight against them?"

"can!"

Several high-pitched noises in the prison camp stunned Liu Chengzong.

This is different from his plan, he didn't expect anyone to respond to this sentence.

"Whoever can come up!"

The two management teams directly pulled four or fifty people to the front, and the leader clasped his fists and said, "General Liu, I'm Dai Daozi, Ningxia Hengcheng Castle Management Team, I can fight them!"

Good guy, Liu Chengzong saw this man in his 30s, with a look of hatred, and there seemed to be tears on his face, so he asked, "Do you have any grudges?"

"I have no enmity with them, but I have enmity with Qingfan, I don't want to do it to the court for a long time!"

Commander Chen Qindai ran over and whispered in Liu Chengzong's ear: "General, this girl from Dai Daozi's family died at the hands of Lieutenant Fengguo of Qingfan three years ago. She always wanted revenge in Yinchuan, but she was not allowed to enter Yinchuan city. .”

Liu Chengzong nodded, walked down to Dai Daozi and said, "Okay, your brothers will be in the Lion Camp from now on. I don't know if I can avenge your revenge, but if I have the opportunity to go to Ningxia, I will definitely let you kill your enemies." .”

Just one sentence, Dai Daozi's eyes were red again, he gritted his teeth and turned his head to the side, saying: "I can't report it anymore, I died of illness."

Liu Chengzong didn't say any more, and asked Dai Daozi and his subordinates to be taken out of the prison camp, and then continued to say to the rest of the people: "I will let you go back to the stronghold of Commander He. If anyone is willing to stay, wait for Commander He When you leave, you keep it, and I take it all."

"If everyone wants to stay, we will send Marshal He away from the fort at Xishankou. I will never harm anyone who wants to leave. You can go back and tell everyone in the village about it."

"You also know that my brothers in the Lion Camp are not easy to mess with. In another battle, I don't know how many people will die. If the Lion Camp wins once, they can win the second time."

"Zhaizi surrendered. If you are willing to stay and work with me, you will be full every day. If you occasionally have meat, I, Liu Shizi, will give you money. If you are willing to leave, if you surrender, I will give you five dollars for travel expenses and let you go home."

After Liu Chengzong said that, the soldiers in the prison camp whispered to each other, and people seemed to be discussing what to do about this matter.

Immediately afterwards, I heard Liu Chengzong say: "You have more time, don't rush to discuss, eat the broth and cakes before leaving, the food is hard to come by during the drought, I squeezed it out of the rations of the brothers in the Lion Camp, Don't waste food."

After all, Liu Chengzong turned his head and led his family out of the camp.

Afterwards, the western defenders of the prisoner camp relaxed a little, and shouted: "Go this way when you are full, your commander is at the West Mountain Pass!"

Shang Tian Hou followed Liu Chengzong out, and said beside him: "Actually, we can keep them, and it's not bad if they break up and attack the village. What if they go back and follow He Huchen to resist the siege?"

"Resist the siege?"

Liu Chengzong smiled nonchalantly, raised his left hand and pointed at the camp: "Have you counted He Huchen's grain and grass? They withdrew from here, but the grain trucks didn't take it away. Even if they carried some food, it would still be wet."

"More than 600 people ran back to He Huchen's camp at Huanglong Mountain Pass. How big is their camp? These people don't have any weapons or armor. How can they resist? Cut wood as soldiers?"

After winning, he planned to eat all of He Huchen's Ningxia troops.

Liu Chengzong took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and looked at the distant mountains, and then smiled: "They can't escape! You still have to worry about how we can feed so many people."

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)