Song Dynasty

Chapter 202
Just as he was watching intently, a man came with two guards, bowed his hands and saluted: "My lord."

It was Chen Da who came.

Wang Shen calmed down, "What's the matter?"

Chen Da: "My lord, I have found Mr. Donglai."

"Have you found the old bastard surnamed Lu? Where is it? Quickly lead me there and watch the young master smash his dog's head with a hammer." Yue Yun yelled angrily.

"Where is he and how is he now?" Wang Shen asked.

Chen Da hurriedly told Wang Shen in detail how he met Lu Benzhong and Liu Fu earlier.

After hearing the words, Wang Shen thought about it, and immediately understood what was going on.Nodded: "Someone said how the Qichun city defenses were so empty before, the city walls were in chaos and there were not many defenders at all. It turned out that Liu Fu withdrew all his troops, which saved our army a lot of effort. .”

Hu Yantong suddenly realized: "In this way, Liu Fu can be regarded as an uprising before the battle."

Wang Shen: "Whether it's an uprising or not is still unclear. The bad thing is that the rebel army is fighting among themselves, and Liu Fu will not help each other!"

Chen Da: "My lord, what is going on with this matter, my subordinates have already found out through the trial that Kong Yanzhou was acting like a beast, and Liu Fu was disheartened. Under Mr. Dong Lai's lobbying, he withdrew his direct subordinates and left Kong's army."

He is a spy chief, Liu Fu's situation today is too strange, after he got down, he took several prisoners, and he made it clear in the first trial, and then he explained it for a long time.

After Wang Shen and everyone finished listening, they all nodded at the same time.Both Hu Yantong and Yue Yun said: "A real man, of course he would not serve under Kong Thief, and he should do the same for me. It seems that this Liu Fu is a man, so he shouldn't be treated harshly."

Wang Shen: "That's true. You can't be rude to General Liu Fu. Let's go and have a look."

Immediately, the group walked to the courtyard where Liu Fu was imprisoned.

I saw that the courtyard was already full of Liu Fu's soldiers, and when they heard that Wang Shen was coming, they all knelt on the ground.

Wang Shen hurriedly stepped forward and helped Liu Fu up: "I know the whole story. General Liu Fu is a good man if he can abandon the dark side and turn to the bright front to revolt. Please hurry up."

Liu Fu was moved, and his eyes were slightly red: "Thank you military envoy, Liu Fu never thought that Kong thief was such a beast, he was really blind. I am now your prisoner, but according to the general's disposal, I only hope that the military envoy can stay. One of my brothers lives. In this way, even if I die, I will not complain at all."

"Don't worry, I guarantee the lives of your soldiers and your personal property. If there are any wounded or sick, they will be treated." Wang Shen said this, seeing that Liu Fu was about to bow down again, he hurriedly used his hands: "General, why should you do this?" Please, please, please, it has just rained heavily, and the soldiers are cold and hungry, why don't you follow me out of the city and enter the camp?"

But Liu Fu shook his head: "Military envoy, Liu Fu didn't like Kong Yanzhou's character, so he ordered the brothers to put down their weapons and not resist. However, the inferior people are not the general's captives. The military envoy is generous and benevolent, and we all respect him." Thank you for not killing me. However, we never thought of serving as a military envoy."

Hearing this, Wang Shen felt a little disappointed. In the future battle of Jianghan, he needs to continue to expand his troops.Liu Fu and Kong Yanzhou have many old soldiers in the surrendered army. These are experienced combat troops. They all need to be reorganized for my use. How can I let them go.

He was about to continue persuading, when suddenly, Lu Benzhong, who had been standing aside with his hands behind his back, suddenly pointed at Liu Fu and shouted: "Liu Fu, you are really a fool, but I want to wake you up today."

Liu Fu was stunned: "Also ask Master Lu for advice."

Lu Benzhong said: "Liu Fu, let me ask you, where do you want to go if you don't work for Wang Shen?"

Liu Fu: "My brothers and I are all from Hebei, so naturally we have to go back to our hometown."

"Hey." Lu Benzhong asked with a sneer, "Hebei has already fallen into the hands of the Jurchens. If you go back to Hebei, do you want to join the enemy?"

Liu Fu said: "Naturally not, how can a certain handsome man shave his hair and dress easily without his ancestors."

"That's right, now you will go to Hebei, the road is difficult and dangerous, can hundreds of you walk?"

Liu Fu hesitated: "The world is so big, where is not a place to live?"

"Then you are going to be a bandit, and you are still doing business without capital?" Lu Benzhong sighed: "General Liu, you are also a man, and you have some skills in leading troops and fighting, so why should you be willing to degenerate? You don't want a future, but you have to give it to me." Your officers and men have a way out, so you can’t let them go to hell. It’s better to be recruited and demoted to the Sizhou army. If you make meritorious service in the future, you can also glorify your family.”

Hearing this, Liu Fu looked at his men who were drenched and pale, and thought for a while, only to feel that the world is so big that there is nowhere to go.

Lu Benzhong said again: "I know you have concerns. After all, you and your brothers have fought many times in the Sizhou Army in the past two months, and you have formed a grudge against each other. But don't worry, General Kong Xian and Kong Shao will definitely meet each other in the future. Serving under Wang Shen, you and your soldiers can be incorporated into his army, and from now on we will all be a family, so why should we divide each other?"

This has been made very clear, Kong Lin will marry Wang Shen in the future, and Kong Xian is the eldest brother-in-law of the Wang family, so the Sizhou army will naturally regard the old man of the Kong family army as their own brother.

Liu Fu looked at his subordinates again, and saw that everyone looked eager.With a sigh, he knelt down and respectfully kowtowed three times: "Thanks to the military envoy for not giving up, and willing to serve the general."

This time, Wang Shen didn't bother to help, and let him do the big salute.

What Lu Benzhong said just now reminded Wang Shen that the soldiers of the Kong family army really need someone who can shock them as a commander. The generals under him are obviously not suitable. It is better to let Kong Xian lead them. At least he used to be the leader of the Kong family army. Major General, even as a mascot.

Seeing that Liu Fu surrendered Wang Shen, all the captives breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.Then, together with Liu Fu, under the guidance of several Sizhou army officers, they lined up and drove out of the city one after another, and settled in the military camp outside the city.

At this moment, Lu Benzhong suddenly pointed at Wang Shen and started giggling.

Wang Shen was puzzled by his smile, and touched his nose: "Mr. Donglai, what are you laughing at?"

"Wang Shen, Wang Shen, how did you take this Qichun City, you must already know?"

Wang Shen nodded: "I already know."

"Haha, the old man only needs to use a little trick to let the bandit Kong give the head and hand over Qichun City to you. Wang Shen, tell me, how can you thank me?" Wang Shen pointed.

"Old man, you are so rebellious against the thief, you have made such a big statement, you must be torn apart today!" The other end, annoyed Yue Yun, suddenly pulled out the golden melon hanging from his waist and was about to throw it at Lu Benzhong's head.

Yes, this old man is really hateful. When he saw the military envoy, he said "Wang Shen" and pointed at him. If he didn't kill him, it would be hard to get rid of the hatred in my heart.

"Yes, kill this old rascal. Zhiniang, if he hadn't built so many equipment, we would have taken Qichun a long time ago!"

"So many people died because of the old miscellaneous hair. If you don't kill him, how can you explain to Brother Paoze?"

"Kill, kill!"

The weapons in the hands of almost everyone chopped off at Lu Benzhong's head at the same time, seeing that he was about to be chopped into meat paste by everyone.

"Clang!" "Dang!" Wang Shen took the big city knife out of its sheath in his hand, knocked away all the weapons in an instant, and shouted in a deep voice: "Stop, in front of Mr. Donglai, do you dare to make a mistake?"

Six or seven weapons were fixed in the air, and the torn air flow made people unable to open their eyes.

Lu Benzhong groaned, and sat down on the ground, trembling all over.

All the soldiers of the Sizhou army in front of them had indigo faces, like fierce gods in the temple.Yes, they are already murderous.

The shadow of death shrouded his head, and Lu Benzhong couldn't say a word.

The reason why Wang Shen was in such a mess under the city of Qichun in the past two months was all thanks to Lu Benzhong.What's more, this Lu Benzhong caused so many people to starve to death on the side of the road for his own selfishness, which is really a heinous crime.Wang Shen hated this old man to the bone, just now his subordinates wanted to divide him with knives, Wang Shen naturally saw the success.

However, in the blink of an eye, Wang Shen suddenly remembered that Zhang Jun and Li Heng were almost arriving in Qichun.Beheading an imperial official by himself, beheading a world-renowned celebrity, the political impact is unbearable.

At least for now, he, Wang Shen, still needs to use the banner of Zhao Song to open up territories and accumulate strength.Once you turn against the court, there will be countless troubles, and a wise man will not do it.

At the critical moment, the waist knife came out of its sheath, saving Lu Benzhong's life.

Wang Shen shouted back his men, helped Lu Benzhong up, pretended to be guilty, and said, "Mr. Donglai, the soldiers have all committed suicide. Please don't take offense if you offend me. The city is very dirty. , and please follow Wang Shen back to the barracks to rest."

Lu Benzhong's feet were so weak that he couldn't stand, he only asked in a trembling voice: "Dao Si, Dao Si, what are you going to do to this old man in the future?"

Wang Shen: "Mr. is kind to me. Wang Shen is naturally grateful. When I return to the barracks to rest for two days, there will be a big gift. Don't you want to return the court, now that the Jurchens have retreated and returned to the north, Kong Yanzhou has been wiped out by me, and the Yangtze River waterway has been opened. .In a few days, we will prepare a large ship and send you to Lin'an."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Frightened, Lu Benzhong's mental state is very poor, after all, he is a very old person.However, Old Man Lu refused to go back to rest in the tent, saying that he was afraid of being harmed by other people, and wanted to stay by Wang Shen's side, which made Wang Jun feel bored, but there was nothing he could do.

Not long after I sat down in the Zhongjun Festival tent, the results of the frontline battles have already been counted.

In this battle, the Sizhou army beheaded more than 160 ranks, and captured [-] soldiers of the Confucian army, as well as thousands of civilians.As for the Sizhou army, one hundred were killed and more than one hundred were injured.

To be honest, such a record is nothing compared to field battles.However, a lot of military funds of various colors were seized.

Although the food in the city had already been eaten, Kong Yanzhou ran across half of China, looting all the way, and there were countless gold, silver and jewels in the treasury.Among them, aside from the mountains of copper coins, there were more than 400 ingots of silver stiles alone, which made Wang Shen a fortune.Although these things are not suitable for eating or drinking, they are excellent for rewarding meritorious service and casualties, and giving subsidies to soldiers.

(End of this chapter)