Three Kingdoms King of the North

After the sword and shield soldiers around dispersed, Hei Xiong came to chop Huashan with all his strength, trying to split Dian Wei into two pieces with an axe.Dian Wei had just fought against the black bear, and knew that the opponent should not be underestimated, so he quickly exerted all his strength and used his double halberds to block the opponent's axe.

Although Dian Wei's martial arts is slightly better than Hei Xiong's, but the opponent is desperate to fight at the moment, using moves that will hurt both sides, which makes Dian Wei a bit unable to use them.In this way, you fought back and forth for more than [-] rounds, and the two still did not decide the winner.

When Dian Wei and Hei Xiong were competing, Han Zhan and Guo Jia led the people through the dense forest and came to the front of the mountain road.Seeing the topography here, Guo Jia couldn't help saying with emotion: "Your Excellency, you see, the location of this village is good. As long as you build a wall of more than ten feet at the end of the road, even if you have thousands of troops, don't worry about it in a hurry. It is also difficult to break into the room."

Seeing Han Zhan and Guo Jia coming on horseback, a sword and shield soldier standing at the mountain pass ran over quickly and knelt down on one knee in front of their horses: "I want to report to the envoy, Mr. Guo, the Dianjunhou has led people to charge Into the cottage."

Han Zhan waited for the other party to finish speaking, and immediately asked nervously: "How is the battle going?"

The sword and shield soldier shook his head, and replied, "The villain doesn't know."

"Brother Feng Xiao," Han Zhan saw that Dian Wei didn't greet him at the mountain pass in person, so he guessed that the battle in the cottage might not be over yet, and he absolutely couldn't let Guo Jia go in and take risks at such a time. He turned his face to Guo Jia Said: "You lead the rear team slowly, I will take a few people in first to have a look."

Regarding Han Zhan's arrangement, Guo Jia did not refuse, but said with concern: "If you want to go to the cottage, you should be more careful, and don't take risks lightly when you go."

When Han Zhan entered the cottage with dozens of strong crossbowmen, he happened to see Dian Wei Zheng and Hei Xiong standing on top of each other.He called the head of the strong crossbowmen over and asked, "How is your arrow technique? Within thirty steps, can you hit the bandit who is fighting with the Dian army?"

The head of the village glanced at the field, and replied with a relaxed expression: "If you return to the envoy, your subordinates can do it."

"Okay," Han Zhan nodded in satisfaction when he heard the chief's answer, and ordered, "Immediately shoot the bandit leader to death. Even if you can't kill him, make him powerless to fight again. Do you understand? "

"My subordinates understand." The head of the village agreed, and ran forward with a few of his subordinates.Stopping at a distance of [-] steps from Dian Wei and the others, they all raised their crossbows and aimed at the black bear who was fighting Dian Wei on the field.

Following the commander's order, five or six crossbow bolts flew out like lightning.These crossbowmen, like the head of the village, were all sharpshooters. The crossbow arrows they shot passed Dian Wei's side and pierced into the black bear's body impartially.

Hei Xiong was also hit by an arrow in his arm, and as soon as he let go, the Xuanhua ax fell to the ground with a bang.He covered the part where the arrow was hit with his hand, and yelled unwillingly: "A stab in the back hurts someone, what a hero!" Then he sat down on the ground with a plop.

Dian Wei turned his head and was about to get angry at the crossbowmen who were shooting arrows, but saw Han Zhan standing not far behind.Knowing who gave the order to release the arrows, he sighed helplessly, and came to salute Han Zhan: "I have met the envoy!"

"Dian Junhou is free!" Han Zhan hurriedly stepped forward to support Dian Wei, and said in admiration, "Dian Junhou should be the first to break this stronghold today!"

After the black bear was tied up, the officers and soldiers began to search the cottage, looking for the treasure hidden in black.The first thing I searched was the horseshoe-shaped building. On the front was a living room and four bedrooms, where the village owner and his family lived; the five rooms on the left were for ordinary cottages, and the five rooms on the right were kitchens and woodsheds. , utility room and the like.

After searching all the rooms, the soldiers brought over a dozen young women.When these women saw Han Zhan and the others, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed, claiming that they were rich girls living in a nearby village who were kidnapped into the cottage by black clothes to be their wives.Seeing this group of beautiful women, Han Zhan couldn't help but itch his teeth with anger. He said to himself that the emperor is still a bachelor, and you actually hide so many beauties in black clothes as the wife of the village. Life is worse than Ben's. Shi Jun is still unrestrained, I would have known that I would have smashed your corpse into thousands of pieces.

Han Zhan suppressed the anger in his heart and asked one of the women, "Do you know where the treasures in black are hidden?"

"I know." The woman nodded repeatedly and said, "It's in the cave at the back, and the servants can take the envoy there."

Chapter 0074 Treasure in the Cave

Han Zhan took Dian Wei, Guo Jia, and twenty sword and shield fighters, followed the woman, bypassed the horseshoe-shaped building, and headed for the cave where the treasure was hidden from the path behind the house.

On the way, Han Zhan asked Dian Wei, "Dian Junhou, how is the damage?"

"Responding to the envoy's words," Dian Wei quickly replied, "Killed 25 bandits and captured one alive. Our side killed 11 people, seriously injured eight people, and wounded 32 people." After reporting the casualty data, he added One sentence, "Of the number of people killed in battle, five were old brothers."

Han Zhan knew in his heart that the old brothers Dianwei referred to were the two hundred soldiers who followed him from Jizhou.After repelling the Yellow Turbans who attacked Sheguo County last time, there were only less than a hundred sword and shield soldiers left, and they were replenished by recruiting county soldiers.I didn't expect that this time, with the superior number of people and a strong general like Dian Wei, the casualties were still so heavy.

Seeing that Han Zhan's face was livid, Dian Wei guessed that he might be dissatisfied with the heavy casualties of the troops, and quickly explained: "Master, if there is no black bear, the number of casualties in our army will not exceed ten. Eleven brothers who died in battle , all died at his hands."

"This damn black bear." Han Zhan gritted his teeth and said, "We will cut open his heart later, pay homage to our fallen brothers, and then take his head back and hang it on the city gate for public display."

Led by the woman, a group of people came to the cave where the treasure was hidden.While his subordinates were lighting the torches, Han Zhan looked curiously into the dark cave.A gust of wind blew out from the cave, making Han Zhan, who was already sweating profusely, shiver.After the sword and shield soldiers lit the torches, Dian Wei cautiously entered the cave first, holding the torch in his left hand and the iron halberd in his right.

The cave where the treasure is hidden is very deep and the inside is very dark. Although more than a dozen torches were lit, the area illuminated is still very limited, giving people a gloomy feeling.After walking in for dozens of steps, the woman who led the way suddenly said to Han Zhan, "Master, here we are. The looted property in black is here."

After speaking, the woman stepped forward and lit the torch stuck on the stone wall.As the torches were lit one after another, the cave suddenly became brighter.With the help of the torch, Han Zhan could see clearly that there was a huge cave in front of him. Wooden boxes of various sizes were placed in a mess against the stone wall. On the ground was a mountain of money piled up with copper coins. It is more than one foot high.

Guo Jia took a torch from the sword and shield soldier next to him, walked to the wooden box, lifted the lid and took a look, without saying a word, opened the second wooden box, and after seeing the contents clearly, he Turning his head to Han Zhan, he said, "Your Majesty, there are some gold and silver utensils and jewelry inside. They probably snatched them from the outside." Then, he reached out and took out a string of pearl necklaces from the box, and brought them closer to him. After looking at it, he handed it to Han Zhan who had just walked over, "Master, look, the blood on it hasn't been wiped off yet."

Han Zhan took it over and saw that there was indeed dried blood on the pearl necklace. It seemed that the bandits snatched it from the owner of the necklace after killing it.

Holding a torch, Guo Jia walked around the mountain of money, returned to Han Zhan, and said to him, "Master, according to Jia's estimate, there are at least [-] coins in this mountain of money. How are you going to deal with it?"

One hundred thousand strings? !When Guo Jia said this number, Han Zhan felt a little dizzy. He felt that he was dreaming. Not counting the gold and silver utensils and jewelry, there were [-] copper coins alone. There will be money to recruit soldiers and horses.

Seeing Han Zhan staring at Qian Shan in a daze, Guo Jia thought he hadn't heard his question, and quickly repeated the question just now: "Master, what do you plan to do with the money?" After a short pause, he asked again Asked tentatively, "Should some of it be used to reward those who have meritorious service?"

Han Zhan naturally knew that there must be brave men under heavy rewards. Hearing what Guo Jia said, he immediately stated: "The officers and soldiers who went out this time will be rewarded with ten coins each; the wounded will be rewarded with five coins more; As for the brothers who died in battle, each person has fifty coins." However, he considered that the reason why the money in this era is called "five baht coins" is because each copper coin weighs five baht coins, which is about 6.5 grams, and one thread is one thousand. One copper coin is 6.5 kilograms. If the money is rewarded now, it is estimated that the soldiers will not be able to carry it on their backs for dozens of miles of mountain roads, so they added: "First transport the money back to the city, and then reward it uniformly."

Hearing that the envoy said that everyone would be rewarded with ten strings, the sword and shield soldiers who followed him into the cave suddenly cheered.I don't know who yelled first: "The envoy is mighty!" Then, everyone shouted in unison: "The envoy is mighty!"

The officers and soldiers outside the cave looked at each other when they heard the cheers coming from the cave, not knowing what happened inside.Until a sword and shield soldier who entered the cave came out and told everyone the good news, the whole cottage suddenly became a sea of ​​joy, whether it was officers, soldiers or civilian men who came to pull things, they all shouted at the top of their voices: "Make the king mighty!" !"

After everyone cheered, Dian Wei directed his subordinates and civilian husbands to move the copper coins from the cave to the wheelbarrow outside the cave.And Han Zhan and Guo Jia came to the living room of that house to discuss how to use the treasure.

Guo Jia said emotionally to Han Zhan: "My lord, with this batch of property, at least tens of thousands of recruits can be recruited, so that you will have enough strength to protect yourself."

"Brother Fengxiao." Han Zhan waited for Guo Jia to finish speaking, and immediately shook his head and said, "It's not enough to have tens of thousands of recruits. We also need enough weapons and armor to arm them. Also, relying solely on Sheguo County It is very unrealistic to feed tens of thousands of soldiers with the money and food income from one place, so we need to find a way to buy food elsewhere."

"What the envoy said is very true." After seeing the wealth of the cave, Guo Jia unconsciously placed himself in the position of Han Zhan's military adviser: "After recruiting new soldiers, we also need to provide them with weapons, armor and Although the cost of food is huge, the wealth in this cave is enough to solve this problem. I plan to take people to nearby counties to buy food after I return to Sheguo County. It may be difficult to buy ready-made weapons and armor. We can only buy some pig iron and ask artisans to process it when we come back.”

When the two were discussing, Dian Wei came in from the outside and asked Han Zhan for instructions: "Your Majesty, the soldiers and civilians are carrying copper coins. I don't know if we should rest in the cottage for the night, or go on the road overnight?"

"Brothers have been walking for a day, and they are exhausted, so let everyone rest here for the night, and go on the road tomorrow morning!" Han Zhan looked outside and saw that it was getting late, so he ordered Dianwei: "Dian Junhou, although this cottage It's easy to defend but hard to attack, but we still need to strengthen our defenses, and we can't let bad guys get in."

After Guo Jia and Dian Wei left, they thoughtfully said to Han Zhan: "Master, the terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Besides, there are a lot of property in the cave. It cannot be moved in one or two trips. How about Leave a team of people here to guard, and take this cottage as your own. I don't know what the envoy wants?"

After Han Zhan entered the cottage, he saw that the terrain was dangerous and the buildings in the cottage were not bad. It would be a pity if they were burned down, so he decided to keep soldiers here to guard them.Hearing Guo Jia's persuasion at this moment, he laughed and said, "Since Brother Feng Xiao thinks that this cottage should be left behind, I'll arrange people to guard it."

Chapter 0075

In the early morning of the next day, when everyone was preparing to leave, the head of the village who was in charge of guarding the village rushed up to Han Zhan, and said anxiously, "My envoy, there are two seriously injured brothers. Died in the middle of the night."

"What, two seriously injured brothers died?" Han Zhan couldn't help raising his voice when he heard the chief's report, "How did they die?"

Standing aside, Dian Wei shrugged his shoulders, and said with no surprise: "How else could he have died? At that time, they were too injured and they couldn't bear it, so they died like this."

This unexpected bad news disrupted Han Zhan's original arrangement.Originally, because he was worried that these seriously wounded people would not be able to withstand the long-distance travel, he decided to take only the lightly wounded back to the city, while the seriously wounded stayed in the cottage to recuperate.But at the moment, it seems that this is not a good idea. There is a lack of medical treatment and medicine in the cottage, and the seriously wounded stay here. It is estimated that the chance of surviving is not great.Since this is the case, it is better to bring them all back to the county seat, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

After making this difficult decision, Han Zhan ordered Dian Wei: "Dian Junhou, let the soldiers prepare some stretchers immediately, and carry the seriously injured brother back to the county for treatment."

"Stretcher?" Dian Wei repeated the word, with a confused expression on his face: "Master, I don't know what kind of stretcher you are talking about?"

"You don't know what a stretcher looks like?" Han Zhan was about to get angry when he heard Dianwei say this, but suddenly thought that stretchers might not have been invented in this era, so he bent down and picked up a branch, and drew a schematic diagram on the ground: "Find two thick wooden sticks or thick bamboo poles, stretch a rope or linen between them, let the injured brother lie on them, and then two people will carry them away. Do you understand?"

Because the pictures drawn by Han Zhan are simple and intuitive, and the explanations are very clear. After listening to Dian Wei, he immediately nodded and said: "Return to the envoy, I understand. This subordinate will arrange someone to make this stretcher!"

While Dianwei was organizing people to make stretchers, Guo Jia, who had been standing by the side without speaking, gave Han Zhan a thumbs up: "Your envoy is really clever. Using this kind of stretcher to carry the wounded on the mountain road, It couldn't be more appropriate."

Regarding Guo Jia's compliment, Han Zhan just smiled wryly.He was thinking in his heart that even if the remaining six seriously injured returned to the county safely and asked the doctor in the army to treat them, it was still unknown whether they would survive.The medical conditions in this era are too poor. For wounds such as knife wounds and gunshot wounds, doctors seal the wounds by directly cauterizing the wounds with red-hot iron bars. The wounded with poor physical fitness may be tortured to death. .

Fully armed officers and soldiers and civilian husbands pushing wheelbarrows were standing in the open space of the cottage, and six seriously wounded people were also lying on freshly tied stretchers.Everyone looked eagerly at Han Zhan standing in front of the team, waiting for his order to move out.

Han Zhan, who was riding on a horse, glanced over the soldiers and civilians standing in the open space one by one, raised his right hand high, and was about to give the order to move out, when he suddenly saw the head of the team of the lightly wounded. , there was a corporal with a wooden crutch.He quickly put his hands down, got off his horse and walked up to the corporal commander, looked him up and down, and asked, "Your leg is injured?"

The head of the corps quickly straightened his body, grinned, and said with a big grin: "Returning to the envoy, the little one was slashed by the thief on the leg. The injury is not serious, but it is a little inconvenient to walk. Please rest assured that the little one will not Left behind."