choke element

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 team of soldiers to speed up the search for loot.

There were only four or five wounded in Pei's side.The most seriously injured one fell while breaking in from the backstage of the stockade.At that time, he was on the outside of the queue, his feet slipped inadvertently, and he rolled directly to the bottom of the slope, fell into a gully full of pebbles, and broke his arm.

After the war, everyone counted the soldiers of our side, only to find that one of the forty soldiers was missing. After searching for a long time, they found him and carried him back.

The battlefield is like this, all kinds of bad things will happen.

When Shi Tianni helped the soldier put a splint on his arm, he talked about what he had seen and heard to comfort him a little.

One of his subordinates once had an archer who pierced Yang with a hundred steps, and he was very famous in the army.One day before the battle, he stringed his strong bow and tested the center of gravity of the arrow shafts one by one. Unexpectedly, he was surprised by something next to him, and the arrow suddenly left the string and hit his own instep.This arrow happened to be dipped in gold juice by himself. A few days later, the ulcer broke out, and the sharpshooter died of suicide.

In comparison, missing a battle is nothing. There are too many opportunities to make meritorious deeds later.

Having said that, the soldier felt resentful, and was teased by the other two wounded.

The other two wounded suffered flesh wounds, one on the arm and one on the thigh.The wound looked long and hideous, the flesh on both sides turned violently, and there was a lot of bleeding, but it was not life-threatening.The two of them washed the wound with special spirits, and then bandaged it. They just rested quietly and drank slowly the salt water in the bamboo tube.

They are all veterans of the battlefield. Even though the smell of blood in the village is strong, it should not not affect them.But the two of them may have been affected by seasickness. After taking a few sips, they suddenly vomited again.

Now it was the turn of the soldier with the broken arm to laugh at them.

Such scenes, in the eyes of many people below the high platform, only feel that these soldiers are not afraid of pain at all, like killing gods.

Below the high platform, there are captives who knelt on the ground and dare not move, and there are severely wounded pirates who wailed softly.The butchers rescued from the shed at the back were hugging each other, trembling.

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 high. Excluding those who escaped under the cover of night, there were about 500 prisoners gathered here, half of whom were 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 would 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 have fled local soldiers as their backbone.Among the captives present, there were more than 30 soldiers, some of whom had even been inspected.They have more or less experienced a little military training, and have been exposed to the principle of fighting after the formation of a large army.

As a result, they were particularly in awe, because the skillful cooperation and timing of attack and defense displayed by the soldiers in front of them in the fight exceeded the limits of their daily training.Many tips that have been summed up after hundreds of battles are not in the military books, and the soldiers are even less aware of them. 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.

Some soldiers even cooked a large pot of porridge, and then distributed it to the meat tickets, and then asked them one by one where their hometowns were.The locals near Fuzhou have a very different accent from those in the north, and the communication between the two sides is very painful.Shi Tianni noticed this situation, so he pointed to the prisoner.The few people he pointed out were the ones who begged for mercy in official language during the chaos just now.The official dialect of the Southern Dynasties is still different from the northern Yan sound, but with these few people explaining it, it will not be like a chicken talking with a duck.

Seeing that the cleaning of the battlefield was about to be completed, Shi Tianni stood up.

He said in a deep voice: "This place is too close to the state city, it is useless. Prepare to set fire. The next step is to take over Wang Ziqing's two strongholds in Nanxiaoshan and Nannizhai and the private port as soon as possible. The ships must be detained first. .As for the crew members, they should be placed separately from their family members and guarded, and when our successors arrive, they will be identified and gradually divided and used."

Everyone had just taken the order when the companion on the mountain who was on guard suddenly pursed his lips and whistled.The soldiers immediately became alert and concentrated on being careful of enemy attacks.

After a while, Shi Tianni waved his hand, indicating that everyone should not be nervous.He heard it. The leader of the people coming down the mountain was riding a horse, and the rest were trotting to follow the hurry, without deliberately slowing down. From the direction, it was not brought from the southern coastal area, but seemed to come from Fuzhou City. .

A group of people ran along the road and arrived in a blink of an eye.Seeing the mess inside and outside the cottage, and the sight of hundreds of people kneeling under the firelight, they were immediately taken aback.The man on horseback dressed as an official tightened the reins subconsciously, apparently not expecting that the village was so fragile.

The official immediately noticed that Shi Tianni was watching from the high platform.Not daring to be careless at the moment, he got off his horse and quickly came to the stage 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."

This time, he was surprised to become Shi Tianni.It is not difficult to reveal that everyone is from the north, but it is not easy to figure out who is coming in such a short period of time.Shi Tianni's thoughts changed rapidly, and he immediately began to figure out where he had exposed his whereabouts.

Seeing that Shi Tianni had no words, Kongmu got up and crossed his hands and said, "My master Zhizhou was very pleasantly surprised to know that the Marshal is here. He has already held a banquet at the yamen to welcome the Marshal and discuss the matter of the two families discussing pirates." .”

Shi Tianni chuckled a few times.

It was agreed by the two leaders of the Shanghai line in Qingyuan Mansion that the two families jointly fought against the pirates.But when this matter came to fruition, the Zhou and Song families had their own ideas, and there was nothing to hide.

The State of Song not only wanted to take advantage of the ferocity of the northern warriors, but also relied on local advantages to draw the bridle and control the northern warriors going south.Perhaps in their view, this will continue to consume Da Zhou's financial resources through conflicts at sea?

Just as Great Zhou used maritime trade to contain Song State, Song State can also use maritime trade to contain Great Zhou. This containment is mutual.

However, there is one thing that people in Song Dynasty have not yet adapted to.That is, the warriors of the Great Zhou Dynasty are shameless and unreasonable in their actions, and they don't like to be restrained.Before this group of people went south, Guo Ning counted the number of the first batch of elites 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 sullen face: "Wrong! I don't know the Marshal Shi of the Great Zhou Kingdom! I have never heard of this name! I am not from the north either!"

It's really unscrupulous to speak like this with a full Yan accent.But Kong Mu was frightened by Shi Tianni's murderous attitude and did not 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's face was strange: "The man I saw was so majestic that I dare not look at him. He is really a hero. However, he insisted that he is not Shi Tianni, but a pirate who came from afar. Ali Baba. All the troops under his command are called Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."