Shen Langgui

Shen Yue was ordered to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War, appointed General Fuyuan, and led the army to pacify southern Yunnan.

Due to carrying tens of thousands of agricultural tools, the march was quite slow, and it took nearly a month to reach southern Yunnan on November [-].Shen Yue ordered the soldiers and horses responsible for carrying them to set up camp on the spot, while he led three teams of light cavalry to approach the main force of the enemy army.

It was smooth when the ground was flat, and it was already cold winter in the north and south of the river, but the four seasons in southern Yunnan were like spring, and the soldiers took off their warm cotton clothes one after another.After entering the deep forest, the environment is suddenly harsh, with double eaves and overlapping peaks. He complained endlessly.

However, Shen Yue had put in a lot of effort in advance, and had already had a countermeasure against it.He ordered the soldiers to cut trees and cut sticks on the spot, and then wrapped one end of the stick with the fire cloth he brought, dipped it in oil, and lit it to become a simple ever-burning torch to drive away insects.

From time to time, they encountered enemy pawns patrolling on elephants or horses. However, these pawns ignored Shen Yue and his party and allowed them to approach the hinterland, cursing in broken Chinese:

"Han thief!"

"Cowards dare not fight!"

"Bite to death by insects!"

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If there are one or two full-blooded soldiers who want to fight, they will be stopped by Shen Yue: "What's the use of cleaning up these shrimp soldiers and crabs, it's better to save your energy and destroy their old nest, that's the real skill."

We finally made it to the last day of our journey, and we will arrive at Layong's lair 'sea of ​​clouds' tomorrow.That night, when the soldiers were about to go to bed, they were summoned urgently. Shen Yue ordered to attack the sea of ​​clouds overnight.All the soldiers were naturally at a loss.Shen Gao explained loudly:

"Do you know why Layong repeatedly sent pawns to provoke us, but he didn't confront us head-on?"

"Because Layong looks down on us, we are expected to be the same as the previous Han soldiers, and we will not be able to get out of this pestilent land. It is expected that the Han soldiers will lose this battle, but Layong will win without a fight!"

"Brothers, are you willing to be looked down upon?!"

With thousands of mouths open, they can say in unison at this moment: "I don't want to!"

Shen Gao held up the tiger talisman for mobilizing troops, and shouted: "Very good! Layong underestimated us, and it is estimated that the Han soldiers will not be able to move at night. Then let's catch them by surprise, and I will lead the team next! Take advantage of the night! Destroy the enemy's camp in one fell swoop! Brothers , dare?!"

"dare!"

Late at night, the mountains and forests are filled with thick fog, gloomy like a ghost house.Shen Yue distributed the medicine package and ordered the soldiers to use it to cover their mouths and noses to filter out the miasma. Then Shen Yue rushed into the deep forest as if he was a rabbit, and guided the soldiers with a compass.

When they got out of the dense forest, they saw that the bonfire was raging, and the soldiers had been scolded for many days, and they were already on the verge of an explosion. Therefore, Shen Yue gave an order, and the soldiers swarmed up to Layong's lair.Firstly, the Han soldiers were furious, and secondly, most of Layong's people were asleep, Shen Yue's move caught them off guard.In just over an hour, the soldiers with long faces and small eyes escorted the heavily tied Layong out of the camp to meet Shen Yue.

Shen Yue threw the blood-stained scimitar aside, and sat down on a big rock. He didn't pay much attention to Layong, but instead asked the soldiers who were escorting him: "Did you capture Layong?"

With a long face and small eyes, he stood at attention and said loudly, "Return to the general, yes!"

Shen Yue nodded: "Okay, what's your name?"

"Zhang Dazhuang."

"The name is quite similar to the person. Okay, I will remember this. I will reward you with 100 taels later!" After finishing speaking, Shen Yue took out a roll of paper from his arms, unfolded it, and placed it between the roll and Layong. Looking back and forth for comparison, he teased: "At first I thought Chu Yegong was just scribbling, but after a comparison, it really looks alike."

The surrounding soldiers came forward one after another, looked at the portrait, and then at Layong, bursting out laughing with a 'wow'.What I saw on the roll paper was a lion's head with fried hair, and Layong, who hadn't washed his hair and face before his eyes, was exactly what he looked like in this painting.

La Yong swept a circle around the people who laughed, and said angrily: "I can't laugh at you to death!"

The soldiers responded one after another:

"Why, your soldiers can insult us at will, so we are not allowed to laugh at you once?!"

"These barbarians are narrow-minded."

Only Shen Yue noticed the vital point and asked Layong: "Do you know Chinese?"

Layon turned his head: "Huh!"

Shen Yue was persuasive and persuasive: "After being arrested, do you have nothing to say?"

La Yong glanced at Shen Yue, and said bitterly: "Hmph! I have nothing to say, I just refuse to accept it!"

"Where are you dissatisfied?"

Layong straightened his body and said with confidence: "You Han people love to cheat and take advantage of others' surprise to win by chance. If you lose like this, I will not accept it!"

The soldiers on the side couldn't help being annoyed:

"It's obvious that you barbarians are simple-minded. We Han people have a saying called 'Soldiers never tire of cheating'. You uneducated people probably haven't heard of it hahaha..."

"That's right, I've heard of 'the winner is king', no matter what you do, whoever wins is the boss!"

Shen Yue gestured to the soldiers to be quiet, and then ordered: "Untie Layong!"

Not to mention the soldiers, even Layong was surprised: "Huh?"

Shen Yue half bent over, with a serious expression, and said to La Yong: "Don't you think we won't be honored, so I'll let you go back. When you are ready, let's fire a cannon, and we will fight again."

In Jiangning City, the first heavy snowfall of this winter arrived as scheduled.Xianmian crossed the back mountain, the apricot tree on the roof of the thatched house had only bare branches, and the remaining snow piled on the branches were sparse.Indoors, all the clothes in the closet were rummaged out. After sitting in the pile of clothes for a long time, Yinzhang was finally discouraged and said: "My lord, I have searched the whole house, but I still haven't seen your two sets of clothes."

Xun He sighed helplessly.

Yinzhang got up and pushed Xun He to sit on the stool, made hot tea for his master, and enlightened him: "In the past, Master Shen thought you only changed a few sets. I think it's good to throw them away. The so-called 'don't remove the old ones'." The new ones won’t come’, it’s just over a month before the Chinese New Year, and it’s time to make two new sets, a new year with a new look.”

"Alright. It's just that I'm used to wearing those two middle clothes, and I suddenly lost them. I feel sorry. By the way, Yan Ru and I mentioned a good thing about you two, why don't you finish it a year ago? I want to have a glass of wedding wine as soon as possible. .”

Yinzhang blushed, and hesitated: "What... what a good thing..."

Xun He held on to the hand of the introduction, asked her to sit opposite, and said softly: "Why are you shy in front of me? Marriage in the world is ordered by parents, and the words of the matchmaker are only rare for you two. Fall in love with each other. It's up to me, and it's up to you two to make arrangements."

Yinzhang was so shy that he wished he could find a crack in the ground to get down, but luckily there was a human voice outside, it was the little maid who brought the two women up the mountain.Xun He remembered that these two were village women behind the mountain, Shen Yue used to buy fresh fruits and vegetables from their house from time to time.

The two village women knew each other very well, seeing that Xun He was alone, they asked, "Why is there only Xiaoqiu today, where is Boss Shen?"

Xun He was embarrassed for a while, but luckily Yin Zhang was quick-witted and replied on his behalf: "Master Shen is on a business trip."

"No wonder, I just said, Boss Shen hasn't picked melons and fruits in my field for a long time. By the way," the mellow woman took out a small jar and pushed it in front of Xun He: "This is the pot that Boss Shen used to pick. My home brewed apricot wine."

Another tall and thin village woman echoed, "My altar is the same."

Shen Yue has always been very strict with Xunhe wine tasting, why would he ask someone to make wine?Xun He was puzzled and asked: "Why did Master Shen learn how to make apricot wine from you?"

The tall and thin woman pointed to the top of her head, and replied: "In June and July, the thousand-year-old tree on the top is full of fruits, and we can see it from the opposite mountain. Most of the apricots in this area are not very tasty, they are astringent! Only you The tree in our house bears sweet fruits. We mentioned it to Boss Shen, but he didn’t expect Boss Shen to be so thoughtful, so he specially asked someone to make two baskets and send them to the village. Later, seeing that we used apricots to make wine, Boss Shen followed suit. , said Madam loves wine. He brewed these two jugs himself."

The round woman continued, "However, the strange thing is that Boss Shen left after brewing the wine, and didn't mention taking it back. We both saw that the year was coming to an end, so we simply sent it over."

Yinzhang covered his mouth and laughed, Xunhe was unclear, so Yinzhang turned his head and leaned close to Xunhe's ear: "Master Shen must be afraid to take it home, so you can't help but pour it all in three or two days. Stomach."

Xun He smiled helplessly.

The tall and thin woman pointed to Zhang Zhang, and asked Xun He, "Is this Boss Shen's wife?"

Yinzhang was stunned, with an embarrassed expression on his face, thankful that Shen Yue wasn't here at the moment, and Xun He couldn't laugh or cry: "Why do you ask that?"

The tall and thin village woman explained: "Don't be offended if you guess wrong. In fact, not only the two of us, but even the husband at home are also curious about such a thing. Since we met, I have always felt that Boss Shen is either rich or expensive. Logically speaking, he It should be a day when clothes come out, hands are eaten, and mouths are opened, but Boss Shen came to our farm yard every now and then to buy vegetables, so we thought, there must be a fairy-like wife in the family, so that Boss Shen can be called even. Disregarding his status, he served diligently."

The mellow woman nodded repeatedly, and echoed, "That's right, I've been married to that bad old man for more than 20 years, not to mention cooking, he doesn't even bother to pick up the spatula in the kitchen, so, Mrs. Shen is really envious of us! "

Yinzhang poked Xunhe with his elbow, and said in a low voice, "Did you hear that! Come back and make up quickly!"

Xun He wanted to cry but had no tears, because he admitted his mistake and apologized, but Master Shen still held his breath and refused to forgive himself.

The two village women also brought some vegetables and fruits grown by themselves, put them on the table one by one, chatted for a while, and then went down the mountain.

Southern Yunnan, the third day of the twelfth lunar month.Shen Yue's team was on standby, and the enemy camp immediately took up arms to fight with the sound of a cannon.

But there was no movement from the other side's camp, only the continuous "sizzling" sound around them, but no foreign objects were seen approaching.The soldiers stood like pins and needles, afraid that they would die in the next second.

The unbearable moment was finally broken by a soldier's heart-piercing roar. Everyone looked at it, but saw a fist-sized purple-red pincer breaking through the ground, cutting directly through the soldier's shoe, embedded in the flesh, and the surrounding area was scarlet. One piece is full of blood spattered out.

"Help!"

Shen Yue fixed his eyes and saw that this person was Zhang Dazhuang who captured Layong alive. Shen Yue turned his head and shouted: "Quickly, climb into the cannon carriage, and sprinkle sulfur wine, white vinegar, and tobacco on the ground!"

The soldiers immediately climbed onto the chariot, and the insects that broke out of the ground were afraid of the smell of the medicine spilled on the ground, so they climbed out of the cannon cart one after another, curled up and wriggled on the ground, or burrowed into holes to hide.

Shen Yue avoided the caves along the way, jumped to Zhang Dazhuang's side and picked him up, pulling out the thing pinching his instep - it turned out to be a giant scorpion with thick and thin arms.

When Zhang Dazhuang saw the giant worm, he was overly frightened and fainted on the spot.Seeing that Zhang Dazhuang's lips were purple and black, Shen Yue guessed that the scorpion was very poisonous, so he made a decisive decision, cut off Zhang Dazhuang's right foot with a knife, and then jumped back to the cannon carriage with his men.

"Hahahaha..." The poison retreated with great difficulty, but a horrified laugh came from the front. The soldiers looked up and saw that it was Layong.Different from the last time, Layong at this moment is arrogant and arrogant. A mottled platypus viper with thick human legs is wrapped around his body.

Just listen to Layong laughing:

"It's just a few bugs, they scared you all into the car!"

"Hahahahaha..." The pawns around him also opened their mouths and laughed wildly.

"You Han people have always looked down on us as 'barbarians'. This time I will use 'the way of others to deal with others'. Your Confucius said, 'The right time and the right place for people'."

"The sky here has nurtured the Lamo people for generations, and the land here is the sweetest milk that feeds the Lamo people. You don't take advantage of 'time of day', and you don't have access to 'rights of land'! Han people have always loved infighting, 'people and 'Neither do you!"

"Today's battle, you will lose!"

Shen Yue rolled his eyes, if he hadn't been stopping Zhang Dazhuang's bleeding, Shen Yue would have liked to have chopped off this barbarian who dropped his bookbags with his mouth full.

With a whistle from La Yong, all Vipers circled down and swam towards the two cannon carriages. Shen Yue sneered and ordered: "Everyone jump out of the carriage!"

Shen Yue seemed to have expected it a long time ago, knowing that the soldiers would be suspicious at this moment, so he kicked all the people out of the car with a sweep of his legs, lit a match by himself, lit the lead rope, and with a loud 'bang', the burst of thick smoke In an instant, Layong's stockade was enveloped, and those crawling basilisks fled immediately.

Vice General Zhou sneered: "If you hadn't used such poisonous tricks to hurt my brother, General Shen wouldn't be able to bombard you! How about it? Layong, let's admit defeat now."

After a while, the thick smoke gradually dissipated, and then there were high and low coughing sounds.The black figure at the head staggered to his feet, and staggered towards the Han soldiers. The surrounding soldiers showed fear, but Shen Yue remained motionless.

When he got closer, he realized that this person was the leader of the Ramo clan, La Yong.

Layong's body was towering, a head taller than Shen Yue's.He walked up to Shen Yue and grabbed Shen Yue's collar: "The people here don't accept you, you arrested me today, and there will be tens of thousands of Layongs in the future, who will continue to disturb you forever."

Shen Yue patted away Layong's long armored claws like hooks, and said lightly:

"I know that. Therefore, in order to cure the root cause, the imperial court temporarily assigned an official title and sent me here."

"I've heard people say that the Ramo family is very hospitable. I'm very tired now. Go to your camp to drink some water, okay?"

This was beyond Layon's expectations.Make him tremble,

Han soldiers & Lamo pawns: "..."

Can General Shen say hello before he doesn't follow the routine?