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 people beside him. The one with the most severe injuries 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 down the slope and fell into a ravine filled with pebbles, where he 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 brought 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.
His subordinates once had an archer who could penetrate the Yangtze River with a hundred steps and was famous in the army. One day before the battle, he strung his strong bow and tested the center of gravity of the arrow shafts one by one. Unexpectedly, he was startled by something next to him. The arrow suddenly left the string and hit his instep. 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. 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 injured people suffered flesh wounds, one on the arm and one on the thigh. The wound looked long and ferocious, with the flesh on both sides violently turning out and bleeding a lot, but it was not life-threatening. The two of them cleaned the wound with special liquor and bandaged it. They just rested quietly and drank slowly from 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 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 they were really like killing gods.
Under 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 high. Excluding those who escaped under the cover of night, there were about four to five hundred 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 are composed of fleeing local soldiers. Among the prisoners present, there were more than thirty soldiers, some of whom had even done inspections. They have more or less experienced some military training and have been exposed to the principles of fighting in large military formations.
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. .net
A few soldiers even cooked a large pot of porridge, distributed it to the meat stamps, and then asked about their hometowns one by one. The accents of the locals near Fuzhou are very different from those in the north, and communication between the two sides is very painful.
bitter.
Shi Tianni noticed this situation and pointed to the prisoners. The few people he pointed out were the ones who had begged for mercy in Mandarin during the commotion just now. The Mandarin of the Southern Dynasties is still different from the Yanyin of the North, but with these people explaining it, it's not like chickens and ducks talking.
Seeing that cleaning the battlefield was about to be completed, Shi Tianni stood up.
He said solemnly: "This place is too close to the city and cannot be used. 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 seized . As for the crew members, they will be placed under separate custody from their families first, and when our subsequent manpower arrives, 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. They were immediately taken aback when they saw the mess inside and outside the cottage, with hundreds of people kneeling under the firelight. The horseman dressed as an official tightened his reins subconsciously, obviously 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 Benzhou was ordered by Master Hu, the governor of the state, 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.
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 here. He had already hosted a banquet behind the Yamen's back to cleanse the Marshal of his troubles and discuss the matter of the two families' joint efforts to deal with the pirates." .”
Shi Tianni chuckled a few times.
It was agreed upon by the two Shanghai leaders in Qingyuan Mansion that the two families should fight against pirates together. But when it came down to it, 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 opinion, this way they can continue to consume Dazhou's financial resources through conflicts at sea, right?
Just as the Great Zhou Dynasty used sea trade to contain the Song State, the Song State could also use sea trade to contain the Great Zhou Dynasty. This containment was 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 stern face: "Wrong! I don't know about Marshal Shi of the Zhou Kingdom! I've never heard of this name! I'm 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 hurriedly asked: "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."
