Late Tang

The sky was dripping with rain, and Li Jing just lay on the ground casually, feeling the coldness of the autumn rain with his eyes closed.The rain fell on the face and melted as soon as it touched the skin, like a gentle spring breeze.

Li Jing loved the drizzle, the cold feeling of the autumn wind blowing the rain on his face, and calming the boiling blood in his heart.Although Li Jing tried his best to appear calm, but after so long since the battle, Li Jing's mind was still full of excitement, as if he had swallowed some exciting potion by mistake.

In fact, his body was very exhausted at this time. After a fierce battle, he ran away all night.But for some reason, although his body was exhausted, his mind was still excited.The image of him shooting the bandit to death with a bow and arrow played back over and over again in his mind.

Yesterday's battle seemed to open a door in his heart, and that feeling was so wonderful that he still can't remember it until now.And after this battle, Li Jing was a little more certain about his decision to join the army. It turned out that he was not just a scholar.Although he knew that this body was very strong in the past, he had never experienced a real battle.He's always worried that he won't be able to face a real fight.But now it seems that not only can he adapt to the battle very well, but also the force of this body is very brave.

"Brother Li, are you okay?" Wang Zhong's panting and concerned voice came from beside his ear.

Li Jing opened his eyes and nodded at him.

Wang Zhong and the others were even more unbearable than Li Jing. Although Li Jing was exhausted, his whole body was exhausted.But at any rate, he was not injured, but Wang Zhong suffered from multiple injuries. Fortunately, they were hastily bandaged after the battle yesterday. Otherwise, even if Li Jing, Red Beard and the others deliberately played tricks and let them go, they probably wouldn't be able to escape far.

Although Wang Zhong was injured, he was an officer after all, and he was still very calm.But the others were different. Xiaoshitou, Li Xiaoshan, Xigouzi, and the little carpenter Qiusheng were better off. They followed Li Jing all the way yesterday.Not only were they not injured, but they all killed the enemy.But the other young people surnamed Wang all drooped their heads, listless.

It was better to run away all the way before.As soon as it stopped at this moment, several people began to feel real fear.In particular, several young people surnamed Wang suffered injuries of varying severity. They didn't feel it before, but now they stopped to really feel the pain on their bodies.

Wang Liugen was a talented young man. He was shot in the back by an arrow. When he fled, the wound opened and blood flowed all over his body.Only then did he realize that half of his clothes were dyed red, and he shouted in horror.Several other people were also infected by him, and they all cried.Some are because of the wounds on the body, and some are because of the battle yesterday.

The few young farmers who were doing their jobs never expected that they would encounter a tragic battle on the first day they were unfortunately drawn to join the army.Blood, broken limbs, injuries, companions died...

All of this was like an Esso lifeline, and they couldn't breathe, and even two young men began to vomit violently lying on the side.

Seeing them like that, Captain Wang got up and kicked them while shouting and cursing.Li Jing also knew that Captain Wang was using a special method to enlighten these young people.This is the Tang Dynasty, and recruits will not have psychological counseling after their first battle.He called Wang Shitou and others to help those injured companions re-bandage their wounds.

Among the twelve people, Captain Wang Zhong was the most seriously injured, with more than a dozen wounds all over his body. Although the others looked serious, they were all minor injuries.Wang Liang, who had been seriously injured and had a broken arm, had been killed by an arrow while escaping, and he didn't even bring his body back.

Li Jing knew very well how Wang Liang died, it was because he asked Red Beard for help to kill someone with a knife.After he was released from prison, he had been thinking of ways to get rid of Wang Liang, but unfortunately he never had a good chance.When Red Beard and others appeared, and Wang Liang actually betrayed him again, Li Jing had already made up his mind to get rid of him.But when Wang Liang really died, Li Jing felt a little complicated.

He didn't regret killing Wang Liang, but he just didn't think it was bright for him to kill him in this way.Especially at this time, as Wang Liang's brother-in-law, he pretended to be sad, which made him secretly despise himself.

After being scolded by Wang Zhong and persuaded by Li Jing, the younger generations of the Wang family became much happier.They also began to rejoice over their surviving lives, and at the same time, when they looked at Li Jing, apart from the admiration they had for Li Jing in the past, they also had a little more awe.Seeing that he was not only a well-known scholar in the village, but also capable of poetry and arithmetic, he was so brave that he shot and killed five bandits by himself.And last night not only escaped by himself, but also rescued everyone.

If it weren't for him, they might have died yesterday in the hands of the previous robbers, not to mention the hundreds of robbers behind them.Now that Wang Liang, who is more prestigious among the descendants of the Wang family, is dead, they all move closer to Li Jing.The four descendants of the Wang family walked up to Li Jing, knelt down to Li Jing and said, "Thank you Brother Xiucai for saving your life, we will listen to you from now on."

Seeing this, Li Jing was also very happy. Except for Wang Xiaoshitou, the other five descendants with the surname Wang followed Wang Liang, and had a clear boundary with him.Now they are finally convincing him, which is a very good start.He quickly helped the four of them up: "We are all from the same village. Although your surname is Wang and mine is Li, we are all from the same village after all. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. We are all brothers. You don't have to be so polite in the future. I can just treat you as your big brother, and we will have to take care of each other in the future."

After comforting them a few more words, Li Jing asked Qiu Sheng and the others to start boiling water and cooking.Because it was discussed in advance with Red Beard yesterday, Li Jing didn't leave their things behind when he led the people away.When he left, he took two horses, two mules and six donkeys with him, not even a single one of their luggage and the hundreds of pieces of silk.Thanks to these donkeys and horses, otherwise they would not have escaped so far last night.

Taking a jar of fruit wine from the donkey's pack, Li Jing walked over to Wang Zhong and Zhang Zuoli.Both of them were half-body on the ground, unwilling to move, but their faces were not smiling.Zhang Zuoli, in particular, actually took a roll of paper, took a wolf hair and wrote there with a brush.

After watching it for a while, I was writing about yesterday's battle.Wang Chong said cheerfully: "If you survive a catastrophe, you must have a future blessing."

Li Jing said: "Lieutenant Wang, we almost became the ghosts of those bandits yesterday, and now we escaped in embarrassment. I don't know why we are happy?"

"Haha, Brother Li, although what you said is true, it still cannot conceal our achievements. Yesterday we killed the big bandit and the second bandit in Xihuozhai, a giant bandit in Dengzhou, and eight other bandits. What's more, we encountered Zhendonghai later, and broke out from the bandits with ten enemies and a hundred. Once this military achievement is reported, we will all be promoted and rich."

Zhang Zuoli also laughed and said: "Dengzhou Prefecture has long offered a reward for arrest. For beheading the Xihuo thief, you will be rewarded with a hundred pieces of silk and twenty guan. Ten horses, ten strings of money. The rest of the minions will be killed for ten pieces of silk and five strings of money. We killed two thieves yesterday, and killed eight more minions. After calculation, it is 260 pieces of silk and seven coins. Ten thousand. 260 bolts of silk, 70 thousand coins, if all of them are converted into copper coins, it will be "ten thousand coins. Brother Li, you are rich."

Zhang Zuoli laughed happily, and his goatee kept shaking.

Wang Zhong also said excitedly: "It's more than that. We also brought 250 bolts of silk this time. These were originally the money that Wang Li Village handed over to the military camp to buy weapons and equipment for you. Now, we can use all the money It is counted among the lost thieves. This is worth ten thousand dollars, plus the previous 'ten thousand dollars, it is 47 dollars. The eleven of us, even if divided equally, each can share 4 dollars!"

"It's done, it's done, we've all done it." Wang Zhong didn't have the calm look of a captain at this time, and he was caught in the dream of getting rich.

Li Jing couldn't help but feel moved, not only felt the high rewards offered by the bandits in Xihuo Village, but also moved by the boldness of Wang Zhong and Zhang Zuoli who dared to directly greedy hundreds of pieces of silk for ink.