When the heads of Zhao Xique and Cai Ba were brought to Shi Tianni, they both stared, as if they didn't believe they were dead.
Shi Tianni sat on the high platform with a golden sword, and only occasionally gave orders to urge a certain group of soldiers to speed up the search for loot.
There were only four or five wounded people beside Pei Zai. The most seriously injured one was injured when he broke in from the backstage of the village. At that time, he was on the outside of the queue, and his feet slipped inadvertently, and he rolled directly to the bottom of the slope. He fell into a ravine filled with pebbles and broke his arm.
After the war, everyone counted the soldiers on their side and found that one of the forty soldiers was missing. After searching for a while, they found him and carried him back.
The battlefield is what it is, and all kinds of bad things happen.
When Shi Tianni helped the soldier put a splint on his arm, he talked about what he had seen and felt to comfort him a little.
There was once an archer under his command who was very famous in the army. One day before the battle, he strung his strong bow and tested the center of gravity of the arrow shaft one by one. Unexpectedly, he was surprised by something next to him, and the arrow suddenly left the string. , shot the instep of his own foot. This arrow happened to be one he had dipped in gold juice. A few days later, carbuncle broke out, and the marksman died of suicide.
In comparison, missing a battle is nothing, as there are too many opportunities to make meritorious deeds later.
Having said that, the soldier himself felt resentful and was teased a few times by the other two wounded soldiers.
The other two wounded people suffered flesh wounds, one on their arms and one on their thighs. The wounds looked long and ferocious, with the flesh on both sides violently turning out and bleeding a lot, but they were not life-threatening. The two used specialized He cleaned the wound with strong liquor and bandaged it, then he just rested quietly and drank slowly from the salt water in the bamboo tube.
They were both veterans of the battlefield. Even though the smell of blood in the village was strong, it shouldn't have affected them. But the two of them might have been affected by seasickness. After taking a few sips, they suddenly vomited again.
Now it was the armless soldier's turn to laugh at them.
This scene, in the eyes of many people below the high platform, felt that these soldiers were completely unafraid of pain and looked like murderous gods.
Below the high platform, there were prisoners who were kneeling on the ground and did not dare to move, and there were seriously wounded pirates who were whining softly. The butchers who had been rescued from the shack at the back were hugging each other and shivering.
Compared with the high-intensity war in the north, this assault was like a frolic. The soldiers only charged once, and the pirates collapsed, so the number of casualties was not large. Except for those who escaped under the cover of night, they gathered in There are about four to five hundred prisoners here, half of whom are old, weak, women and children.
Because it was too easy to win and there were many other things to do later, the soldiers inevitably neglected something. After many prisoners knelt down and surrendered, they did not even confiscate their weapons and just let them gather together to finish the job.
But even if the prisoners had weapons, they did not dare to act rashly even if they were only facing Shi Tianni and a few wounded people.
Most of the pirates active in this area are composed of local soldiers who have fled. Among the prisoners present, there are more than thirty soldiers, and some have even done inspections. They have more or less experienced A little military training, exposure to the principle of fighting in large military formations.
Therefore, they were particularly in awe, because the skillful cooperation and mastery of offensive and defensive timing displayed by the soldiers in front of them in the fight exceeded the limits of their daily training. Many of the tips summed up after hundreds of battles were not in the military manuals.
The soldiers don't even know that only when they fight face to face will they feel the huge gap in combat effectiveness.
Even when searching for loot, these soldiers looked very professional.
They brought the big animals together, fed them to prevent them from running away, gathered the better weapons together, and ordered the prisoners to take out the food stored in the cellar, such as gold, silver, copper coins, silk, etc., and then carefully
Wrap them into packages and hang them on the backs of large animals.
The soldiers responsible for doing this did not hide it secretly, and the soldiers on guard from a distance did not pay special attention to it, as if they knew that their share of these trophies would eventually be inevitable.
A few soldiers even cooked a large pot of porridge, and then distributed it to the meat stamps, and then asked about their hometowns one by one. The accents of the locals near Fuzhou were very different from those in the north, and they communicated with each other.
Very painful.
Shi Tianni noticed this situation, so he pointed out to the prisoners. The few people he pointed out were the ones who had used Mandarin to beg for mercy during the chaos just now. The Mandarin of the Southern Dynasties was still different from the Yanyin of the North, but there was this
Several people were standing by to explain, but it was not like a chicken talking to a duck.
Seeing that cleaning the battlefield was about to be completed, Shi Tianni stood up.
He said in a deep voice: "This place is too close to the city and is unusable. Prepare to set fire to it. The next step is to take over Wang Ziqing's two strongholds in Nanxiao Mountain, Nanni Village and the private port as soon as possible. The ships must first be detained
.As for the crew members, they will be placed and supervised separately from their families first. When our subsequent manpower arrives, they will be identified and gradually divided and used."
Everyone had just taken the order when the companion who was on guard on the ridge suddenly pursed his lips and whistled. The soldiers were immediately on guard and were concentrating on being careful of enemy attacks.
After a while, Shi Tianni waved his hand to signal that everyone should not be nervous. He heard that the leader of the people coming down the mountain was riding a horse, and the rest of them trotted to follow the rapid pace, without deliberately slowing down, coming up from the direction.
It is said that it was not brought from the southern coastal areas, but rather seems to have come from Fuzhou City.
The group of people ran along the road and arrived in a blink of an eye. They were immediately surprised when they saw the mess inside and outside the village and hundreds of people kneeling under the fire. The horseman dressed as a high official subconsciously tightened the reins, obviously not
I didn't expect this village to be so fragile.
The official immediately noticed that Shi Tianni was watching from the high platform. At that moment, he did not dare to neglect, got off his horse, and quickly came to the platform to kneel down.
"Kong Mu of this prefecture was ordered by Mr. Hu, the governor of the prefecture, to pay homage to Marshal Shi, the uncle of Yongqing County of the Great Zhou Kingdom."
The one who was surprised now was Shi Tianni. It was not difficult to reveal that everyone came from the north, but it was not easy to figure out who was coming in such a short period of time. Shi Tianni's thoughts changed quickly and he immediately started
Figure out where you have exposed your whereabouts.
When Kong Mu saw that Shi Tianni was speechless, he stood up and crossed his hands and said: "My Zhizhou master was very surprised to know that the marshal was coming here. He had already hosted a banquet behind the yamen to cleanse the marshal of his troubles and discuss the matter of the two families fighting against the pirates.
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Shi Tianni chuckled a few times.
It was agreed upon by the two Shanghai leaders who were stationed in Qingyuan Mansion that the two families should jointly fight against pirates. But when it came to the matter, the Zhou and Song families each had their own ideas, and they had nothing to hide.
The Song Dynasty not only wanted to take advantage of the fierceness of the northern warriors, but also wanted to rely on local advantages to control the northern warriors who went south. Perhaps in their view, this way they could continue to consume the financial resources of the Zhou Dynasty through conflicts at sea?
Just as the Great Zhou Dynasty used sea trade to contain the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty could also use sea trade to contain the Great Zhou Dynasty. This containment was mutual.
However, there is one thing that the people of the Song Dynasty have not yet adapted to. That is that the warriors of the Zhou Dynasty are shameless, not very unreasonable in their actions, and do not like to be restrained. Before this group of people went south, Guo Ning ordered the first A group of elite soldiers who went south half-jokingly gave them a new name and asked them to go ahead and do it without any scruples.
At that moment, Shi Tianni shouted with a stern face: "Wrong! I don't know who Marshal Shi is from the Great Zhou Kingdom! I've never heard of this name! I'm not from the north either!"
It was really uncouth to speak like this with a rich accent. But Kong Mu was so frightened by Shi Tianni's murderous attitude that he didn't dare to argue.
After half an hour, Kong Mu urged his horse to gallop back to Zhou Yamen.
Hu Ju and Xuan Zhen asked hurriedly: "How is it? What do you think of Shi Tianni? Is he easy to deal with?"
Kong Mu looked strange: "The man I saw was so majestic that no one dared to look at him. He was really a hero of Youyan. However, he insisted that he was not Shi Tianni, but a pirate who came all the way from Dashi. His name was Alibaba. His subordinates have a name, called Alibaba and the Forty Thieves."