Volume 1 Little Yuanba Chapter 62 Confronting Fengqi Pass
"I'm afraid I can't forgive him. After all, this man has violated military regulations." Li Dan sneered.
"Please let me go. Lian'er is willing to stay and atone for his sins. I can wash clothes, cook and mend with the army. Anyway, I can't go back as a slave in the village!"
As she spoke, she began to cry, her voice low, but very sad.
Looking at her sobbing and choking back, Zhang Bo became a little anxious and whispered:
"You, you, don't cry, don't cry! He's asking defensive questions. Just listen to what he has to say. Don't cry yet!"
Lian'er then gradually stopped crying, sobbed and wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and kowtowed to Li Dan again.
Alas, why do people in this time and space love kowtowing so much, or is this how it should be in this historical period?
"Zhang Bo, do you know your guilt?"
Zhang Bo trembled in his heart: "I am aware of my guilt."
“Where is the sin?”
"Subordinates...should not leave their posts without permission, and should not focus on themselves and forget about their brothers.
Also, there are many more that I can’t remember at the moment, so please correct me. I, I will definitely change them!” Zhang Bo said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"You guy!" Li Dan was so angry:
"As a team leader, you should always keep the mission and the team in mind. If you do this, they will follow your example. How do you lead and manage the team?
Suppose I go to Gu Da tomorrow, and he is also looking for his wife to get married. The next day, I go to Yang Yi, who is also busy with this matter. How can we fight against the bandits?
Do we still want everyone to go back alive to see their fellow villagers?
What should I say when I see you, saying that we are too busy looking for a wife for ourselves and have forgotten all the things that are beneficial to the country and the people?
When the mother of her deceased son asks you if you tried your best to protect him, do you also tell them that you are busy getting married?
You're fooling around!"
"Be on guard, be on guard, be on guard against anger, I, I was wrong, Zhang Bo was really wrong! Zhang Bo didn't dare to ask for grace, I..."
"Shut up first!" Li Dan knew what he was going to say and waved his hand to interrupt him.
"I entrust the lives of a team of dozens of people to you, not to let you do whatever you want!"
Li Dan stood up and walked back and forth a few times. After his anger subsided, he sat down again and continued:
"From now on, you will be dismissed from your position as team leader. Before a new team leader takes office, you will first act as team leader of the original team. The salary will be calculated and paid according to the length. Do you have anything to say?"
"I don't have any subordinates!" Zhang Bo didn't expect that he could still lead this team. He was stunned for a moment and quickly shook his head.
"This is a punishment for not fulfilling your duty as a team leader. You failed to complete the task and left your post without permission. You should have been beheaded to warn the entire army.
But it is not appropriate to destroy one’s morale in the current war. I’ll mark this down for you, you are such a loser. In this battle, you will have to sacrifice your merits. Is this feasible?”
"Okay, okay!"
"However, although the death penalty is exempted, the living crime is difficult to forgive. Go to Song Zhenfu and get yourself thirty military sticks! Are you convinced by my sentence?"
"Uh," Zhang Bo licked his lips and secretly glanced at the girl next to him. "Well, the defense judgment is very fair. But I have a small request, and I hope it will be granted."
"What?"
"Can you change the place to receive your sentence?" He grinned: "Well, I'm afraid it won't be good here, right?"
"Hmph, you know that being ashamed means you still have a sense of shame. You can still be saved. There's nothing wrong with it. I think it's great! Someone come!"
As soon as Li Dan greeted him, Song Xiaoniu and three or four governors lifted the curtain and got in. Song Xiaoniu and another person both carried a stick in their hands.
A-Lian was startled and quickly tried to hide. Li Dan told her not to leave, but to stand behind him and watch the execution.
Only then did Zhang Bo realize that something was not right and that he was serious about it, so he hurriedly begged: "Sanlang, Sanlang, considering our long-standing brotherhood, can we change to someone else?"
He knew that Maverick was very strong, but the head of his stick was only slightly inferior to Li Dan.
"Well, this favor can be done."
Li Dan nodded, Xiao Niu suppressed a smile and handed the stick to someone else, then pulled down his pants. A Lian said "yeah" and covered her eyes with her sleeves. Zhang Bo hurriedly called for a stop.
"What's wrong?" Maverick asked dissatisfied.
"Sanlang, she is too young to see blood, so we should ask her to get out." Zhang Bo begged.
"This can't be done."
"Why?"
"She is the one who suffers. If you touch someone else's body, you will be punished by beating her." Li Dan answered seriously.
"I..." Zhang Bo couldn't think of a reason to object.
Li Dan asked him: "Who told you to marry her regardless of the circumstances, otherwise you wouldn't have suffered like this.
Let me ask you, do you still want to marry this Chu Lian'er now? If you marry her, then beat her in front of her; if you don't marry her, drag her out to find a place where no one is around and beat her!"
This is a bit convoluted, but this Slender King Kong has a stubborn temper, and the more you scare him, the more he will fight against you.
"Marry her, of course! If you don't marry her, why would I bother carrying her down the mountain to find you?" Zhang Bo shouted with his eyes widened.
"Hey, you heard clearly just now. Lian'er's family is very poor. Her old father is ill in bed, and she has a younger brother to take care of, and she also has to farm the land that she received from the tenants.
If they don’t have a dowry for you, you have to think carefully about it!”
"These are not serious problems!" Zhang Bo gritted his teeth and said harshly: "At the worst, I don't want to pay him, and I will leave all the seizures and rewards to his family. After the war, I will take her and her family to Yuqian.
It’s not like my family can’t support anyone, so why bother leaving my father-in-law to work here as a coolie? You hurry up and fight, I have to go back to the team after the fight!”
"Now do you remember that you are the leader of the team?" Li Dan snorted:
"You are always good at acting like a rogue, and you will find excuses two days later, saying that someone has been robbed, and then find a way to get rid of Lian'er. Who dares to believe you?"
"Are you going to hit me or not? That's a lot of nonsense!" Zhang Bo's bare butt was teased and he was so angry:
"If I regret neglecting her in the future, I will become a bastard after my death and lie in the mud for three lifetimes without ever being born again!"
"Okay, let's fight then!" Li Dan winked at Mavericks, then quietly turned to Lian'er amidst Zhang Bo's cries of pain and said:
"This kid is very shameless. If I ask him to get slapped in front of you today, I guarantee you will be able to use these words to manipulate him in the rest of your life!"
Lian'er secretly looked over from above her sleeves, looking at the young adult in front of her in disbelief, thinking that he had gone around for a long time and ended up here.
At this time, the cry of pain became louder and louder. Li Dan leaned over and asked:
"Does it hurt? If it hurts, why don't you stop, send me back, keep some money, and don't mention getting married?"
"No!" Zhang Bo gritted his teeth and forced out a smile: "As long as I can marry Lian'er, I will bear it no matter how painful it is!"
"Then...continue!"
The cry of pain started again, and Alian wanted to cover her ears and close her eyes, but finally couldn't help it, and she didn't care about the "male and female defense" anymore. She ran out and threw herself on Zhang Bo's lower body, waving her hands and shouting:
"Please, sir, don't hit him. If you hit him again, he will die!"
"How is this possible?" Song Xiaoniu said: "My master still expects him to lead the team to fight, how can he fight with all his strength? Don't worry, Alian!"
Alian was stunned, and suddenly found that her hand was still on Zhang Bo's waist. She shrank her hand with a "Oh!", turned around and squatted on the ground, covering her face and not daring to raise her head. A blush spread across her cheeks, from her ears to the back of her neck, which made her irritated.
Everyone laughed.
Li Dan waved, and Song Xiaoniu and the soldiers carried sticks, lifted the curtain, and walked out quietly.
"You didn't really fight, did you?" Li Dan asked as he walked.
"A beating, of course a real beating." Song Xiaoniu replied stupefiedly.
Li Dan stopped, raised his hand and tapped the iron helmet he got from somewhere with a wrench.
Song Xiaoniu straightened his helmet, grinned, and said aggrievedly: "I am the governor appointed by you, how can there be any reason to pretend to fight? There are no such rules!"
At night, the brigade began to go up the mountain and set up defensive positions. The movement finally alerted the bandits camped on the other side.
Soon someone woke up Lou Shifan, who was leading the army: "Third Marshal, please come out and take a look. There seems to be movement on Nanshan Mountain."
"What's the noise?" Lou Shifan was sleeping soundly, and it felt uncomfortable to be forcibly pulled out of his sweet dream.
He shouted impatiently: "Can't we just send someone to ask the police sentry on Laifeng Pavilion, or will anyone from them come down the mountain?"
"No, no one is going down the mountain."
"Trash!" Lou Shifan scolded: "Well, why are you panicking?"
"Mountain, there are torches on the mountain, and it looks like there are many people."
Now Lou Shifan stood up, quickly put on his clothes and came out to take a look, and sure enough he saw a few stars above. He looked up at the sky and saw that there were not many stars in the gloomy sky.
"What day is it?" he asked.
"The days of ugliness will pass."
"It's strange, if there was a move of troops, my father didn't notify me, right?" Lou Shifan muttered, stroking his loose hair behind his ears.
"Hey, Marshal, could it be an enemy attack?"
"Shit!" Lou Shifan glared at his subordinates: "Shanggrao is surrounded like an iron barrel. Over there in Guangxin there are Chow Tai Fook and Yi Cheng Jin with two thousand people blocking the door. Who can attack?"
"I know," said the other, clasping his hands together:
"Could it be the response team from the west? Didn't Lou Shuai say that he would send people to cut off the army food route first, and then come to respond to us? Then they must be here!"
"It makes sense, it makes sense!"
When everyone shouted, Lou Shifan also felt that it was right. He nodded:
"It's really possible that this is the case, so you didn't call the police when you saw one of your own when you came to Fengge, right?" After he finished speaking, he looked at the sky:
"It's cloudy today, I'm afraid dawn will come later. Keep watching, send people to patrol the river, and when it gets light, go over and ask them which way they are coming."
After saying that, he tightened his clothes and said, "It will probably rain in the next few days. Look, it's a bit cold today. A few people will come to Feng Pavilion tomorrow morning and pick up the little girl for me."
Hey, it's so boring to have no one to warm the bed!" After saying that, he retreated into the room.
Just as he was about to fall asleep, Lou Shifan was woken up again. He was so angry that he jumped up and wanted to kill someone with a knife.
The two confidants hugged him and yelled, finally making him understand.
"What are you talking about, there are officers and soldiers on the other side? This is impossible!" He was tall and strong, and he pushed the two of them down at once: "Where did the officers and soldiers come from, and how many are there?"
"Yes, there are thousands."
"They seem to be coming from the west. The spies looked over there and said that there was also an army camp there in the Western Mountains. It was bigger than here! There were at least a thousand people!"
"Ah?" Lou Shifan was confused: "Thousands of people appeared overnight, and even Xishan established a stronghold? You, what are you doing?"
"Third Marshal, don't worry. We have already sent people across the river to scout, and we will have results soon!"
Sure enough, as soon as Lou Shifan finished dressing, a sentry staggered back. "How?" several petty bosses urged.
When they heard that the officers and soldiers suddenly appeared behind them, they became very nervous. They all ran to the Chinese army to wait for the news. When they saw the sentry returning, they grabbed him and kept asking him questions.
"Yes, it's the army and regiment training."
"Did you see clearly?"
"The red flag has the word 'Sheng' written on it, the apricot yellow flag has the word 'Li' written on it, and there is an apricot yellow flag with the word 'Geyang Guards Training Defense Envoy' written on it," the sentry said with a pale face.
"There is no doubt that these are officers and soldiers!" someone said softly.
"Then, where are our people?" Someone asked anxiously: "Didn't we agree that a team would come from the west to meet us?"
"Chief, I'm afraid they won't be able to come." The sentry pointed to the Nanshan Mountain opposite: "They built a shoulder-high bamboo fence with many heads hanging on it...!"
"Stop talking!" Lou Shifan walked out of the door angrily: "Get off!"
He first blew away the sentry, then looked at the leaders, big and small, with a dark face:
"We won't attack Beishan today. You two and five hundred people will be trapped in Guanzhai to prevent the army from coming down.
Order 1,500 people to go to Nanshan, and drive out this group of enemies before they have a firm foothold!"