Chapter 60 Return again
Half a day after repairing, Gao Jin asked Dong Bufang and the horse army to hold the camp with their servants, while he took his friends to ride a double horse, then brought five thousand kilograms of iron tools and set off for the Aji tribe. Since Su De gave the money, Gao Jin would naturally keep his promise, not to mention the Tartar heads of the Aji tribe, they still need to take them back.
When Gao Jin left, Mulan asked the prisoners to go to the wetlands by the river beach to mow the grass in the camp. It was autumn now and the weather was cooler, but the heads still needed to be pickled and preserved. Otherwise, when they were brought back to the fort, they would probably rot. Without quicklime, they could only use wood ash instead. The weeds cut by the prisoners were burned in the camp and put into cans for storage after cooling.
Li Ergou and his team of servants used the remaining ash to apply the Tartar heads sent by Su De and loaded them with the car. He was cut by the Tartars before, but fortunately he was stuck on the iron sheet in the cotton armor, so he did not hurt his muscles and bones. It was just that he lost too much blood and his face looked a little pale.
"Ergou, I'm a fool before. I've been rude to you. You're going to help you."
Seeing that Li Ergou had finished his business and returned to the camp to rest, Li Laogen hurriedly followed him. He was an old man and never cared about his face. Seeing Gao Jin killing the government army, killing the Tartars, and making a lot of money, he didn't know what he had missed. At this time, he could only beg for Li Ergou's nephew with shamelessness.
"Uncle II, why do I help you? It's better to go find Uncle Dong than to find me."
Li Ergou still looked dull, but his chatterbox personality changed a lot. He only said this to his second uncle who was begging for him to come to his house, so he was so embarrassed to call Li Laogen.
"Where is your Uncle Dong... forget it..."
Li Laogen didn't know what to say. It was not that he had never found Dong Bufang, but Dong Bufang told him that "You treat me with a national scholar, and I serve the emperor with a national scholar" to make excuses him.
If he hadn't seen Gao Jin's skills, Li Laogen wouldn't regret it. Anyway, the caravan's staff were accepted by Gao Jin, so he didn't have to give the work and food silver he should have given. He had nearly 300 taels of silver on his body, and he could become a rich man when he returned to Fugu County.
But when people live, they always have some thoughts, especially old people like Li Laogen. They are still out of seclusion and want to gain wealth. However, when they are greedy for life and fear death and are humble, they are not sure about the opportunity.
"Second uncle, Grandpa has great skills. You said that those who have great skills are broad-minded. Don't think too much. When Grandpa comes back, you will go and talk to Grandpa."
Seeing that Li Laogen refused to leave, Li Ergou said that his second uncle was a famous gossip in the village when he was young. He heard from his elders that he was Ren Xia and had the courage, but he didn't expect that he would be so rogue when he was old.
"Manager Li, our captain is going to rest, you should ask for it first!"
Seeing that Li Laogen was still entangled, the servants in Li Ergou team jumped out and said, "They were originally friends in Li Laogen's caravan, and they used to joke about Li Ergou as a fool, but Li Ergou's fearlessness on the battlefield convinced them."
Seeing that the guy in the caravan didn't look at him at all, Li Laogen sighed inwardly and could only leave in disappointment.
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In the evening, Gao Jin and his team arrived at the camp of Ajibu. They first changed the way to the corpse burial pit five miles away, which was a desolate valley next to the Kuye River. As soon as they got closer, they could smell the pungent smell of blood.
Gao Jin looked up and could see the wild wolf who was digging corpses from the soil. However, the arrival of the horse team alarmed the wolves. Six wild wolves gathered next to the wolf and howled at them.
"What a beast, you dare to bare your teeth!"
Yang Dayan had a bad temper. While cursing, he took the bow and shot at the wolves. Gao Jin frowned when he saw this, and then took the bow and said to his friends around him, "Kill these beasts."
The wolves are very revengeful. Since they have taken action, there is no reason to hold back. What's more, when Gao Jin follows the caravan, Lao Chen will shoot all the wolves every time he encounters a wild wolf.
Wild wolves can be said to be the most vicious beast on the grassland. When the Mongols encounter them, they will kill them all, otherwise they will harm the entire group of animals.
The seven wild wolves Gao Jin shot three of them by one. Now he is becoming more confident in his shooting skills. He will definitely hit the point if he shoots the bow. After killing all the wolves, everyone dismounted. According to Gao Jin's instructions, he took a face covering his face and dug up the corpse.
When Su De buried his corpse, he only dug a large pit, and a layer of floating soil was buried on it. Soon, everyone dug the corpse pit and saw that there were many corpses of old, weak, women and children inside. Even though everyone didn't like the Tartars, they felt a little uncomfortable when they saw the corpses of the children.
"First, the children and women are buried separately."
Gao Jin led his friends to dig a new pit, buried the bodies of children and women in the pile of corpses and compacted the soil, and then chopped off the heads of other Tartar corpses to load them into the vehicle.
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When the moon passed by the middle of the sky, in the camp of Aji tribe, Sud looked at the soldiers who came to report, and said to Habadantel, who was beside him, "Let's go and have a look!"
Not long after, in front of the camp of Aji tribe, looking at the neatly arranged pile of iron ingots, Habadantel looked at Su De in a daze. He felt that Gao Jin was cunning and could not keep his promises, but these iron ingots could not deceive people.
"Let's go there and have a look."
Asking the soldiers to transport the iron ingots back to the camp to load the car, Sud said to Habadantel, then turned over and took his horse and only took a few confidants to the valley five miles south.
When the fire illuminated, Sud and Habadantel saw the messy headless corpse in the corpse pit, but the bodies of the women and children inside disappeared.
"They buried the person again."
Habadantel, who had dismounted, held a torch and found the place where there were traces of digging soil. He looked at the wooden monument on it with a complicated expression towards Su Dedao.
Su De did not respond. He looked at the slightly raised tomb and the wooden monument engraved with the "Tomb of Women and Children of Aji's Women and Children" and felt that this was Gao Jin's mockery of himself. "What do you know about the Southern Barbarians of Ming Dynasty? If I lose, my wife and children will end up even more miserable!"
In a low voice, Sud's face became distorted, but soon he took a deep breath, suppressed the inexplicable anger in his heart, and said to Habadantel coldly, "Burn them all, save people from seeing the flaws." Even if Wu Lihan is an enemy, he is the same clan after all. If he spread the news that he sold Wu Lihan and his head to Gao Jin, his rule in the tribe would be shaken.
Half an hour later, the flames soaring into the sky rushed from the valley, and even Gao Jin, who was already more than ten miles away, saw the flames reflecting the red sky.
In the middle of the night, Gao Jin led the team back to the camp. They brought back a total of 146 heads, plus the fifty-four heads in the camp, and just filled up two hundred Tartar heads. After applying a thick layer of the blood-stained heads with wood ash, all the heads were loaded and then covered with several layers with tart cloth.
Dong Bufang looked at him with his eyes shining. Two hundred Tartar heads were already a great contribution to the army. He still remembered that last year, the general Bingzhong defeated the Hetao Mongolian coalition forces at the middle of Shenmu. He only killed and cut off two hundred levels. The battle officer Bingzhong's five thousand official troops, plus the other two units of the military, the number of troops used by Camel City was over 10,000.
"Old Dong, Uncle Ma, you will set out tonight, and Mulan will lead you the way."
All the people in the camp were summoned, and Gao Jin told Dong Bufang and the horse army that after two battles, the servants were already decent and were enough to suppress the prisoners of the same number of officials.
"master?"
Mulan frowned. She didn't expect that Gao Jin would actually plan to stay and really accompany Su De to Guihua City, and go to Geriletu to help Su De and Su Nang's troops build a connection.
"Mulan, be obedient."
Gao Jin said before Mulan said that the relationship between Su Nang's tribe must not be broken. If he returns to the wall, he will not be able to go to Guihua City until the beginning of next spring.
"Don't worry, my grandfather, I will take all the things back steadily."
Seeing that Gao Jin handed over such an important task to him, Dong Bufang immediately said that any general who was pulling these two hundred Tartar heads could bring great wealth, but Gao Jin left it to him and the Ma Jun without thinking, which really moved Dong Bufang.
Ma Jun did not answer, but just stared at Dong Bufang's back. Although the two of them were in charge of their servants, the majority of the servants were still brought by him. He promised that if Dong Bufang dared to have any thoughts that should not have been made on the way, he would never let him succeed.
"I, Gao Jin, keep my word. When I get back to the wall, as long as I get things done, I will definitely let everyone go back. But if anyone wants to make trouble, don't blame me for being ruthless."
After ordering Dong Bufang and the others, Gao Jin looked at the group of prisoners of the official army. He wanted to take his companions to Guihua City this time, for fear that these prisoners would have some undeserved thoughts on the way, so he put down his harsh words, "If anyone escapes, then he will even take the seat. If someone escapes, no one will report it, and the whole team will be killed."
Seeing Gao Jin's fierceness, the prisoners of the government and army were all frightened. Several veterans took the lead and shouted, "Don't worry, Mr. Gao, I will never dare to be ungrateful. If anyone dares to escape, you don't need to give him instructions, let's do it first."
For this group of officials at Hekou Fort, even if they were to work as prisoners for Gao Jin, they could at least have enough food. Compared to when they were worse than being under Zhang Gui, they could still eat meat. If Gao Jin had not taken any more servants, they would have all voted for Gao Jin.
"Okay, then that's it. Old Dong and Uncle Ma, remember what they said. If someone escapes on the road, first take action against them."
Looking at the veterans, Gao Jin headed to Dong Bufang's horse army road. In the Hekou Fort official army, these veterans were not allowed to be used by Zhang Guizhong, but they were considered local tyrants after all. As long as they were controlled, they would not have to worry too much about other prisoners.
"Don't worry, Master, I'll look at them."
Dong Bufang looked at the veterans coldly and said sinisterly that when he was in the army, what he hated the most was these slippery guys who were brave enough to fight on the battlefield and ran faster than anyone else.
In the dark night, the officers and soldiers held each other with ropes, and then followed the cart toward the wall under the torch of the servants. Gao Jin did not say to the remaining partners around him until Dong Bufang and his team disappeared from sight, "Next, we are going to Guihua City. Are you afraid of this trip?"
"I'm afraid of being angry if I have my second brother here!"
Chapter completed!