Sun Chengli acted very quickly. After listening to Luo Zhixue's report, he directly ordered his close soldiers to bring Fang Ada over.
"Be careful when you do what you do and don't alert others."
Since the other party was planning to poison Luo Zhixue, and Luo Zhixue came to find Sun Chengli early in the morning, there was no guarantee that Fang Ada and others would not become wary and run away directly.
In order to avoid long nights and many dreams, Sun Chengli directly asked his soldiers to arrest people.
When Sun Chengli sent soldiers to arrest people, Sun Chengli asked Luo Zhixue to take Lin Yu'er to have breakfast with him.
When this happened early this morning, Luo Zhixue and Lin Yu'er started eating without any courtesy before they had time to eat.
Just after breakfast, Sun Chengli's soldiers came back, and they also brought back a fainted Fang Ada.
This man was obviously knocked unconscious on the bed and brought here, and he was still wearing middle clothes.
Sun Chengli glanced at Fang Ada who was still on the ground, and immediately ordered his soldiers: "Wake him up."
Immediately, a soldier brought a basin of cold water and poured it directly on Fang Ada's hijab, and Fang Ada woke up leisurely.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Sun Chengcheng with a stern look in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, he saw Luo Zhixue, who was standing behind Sun Chengli and squinting at him.
At this time, this scene suddenly made Fang A feel uncomfortable.
Could it be that the matter has been exposed?
Sun Chengli didn't give him too much time to think, and immediately asked: "Tell all your accomplices, and I can spare your life. If you don't tell them, huh, you know what will happen!"
Fang Ada still tried to resist: "General Sun, there is a misunderstanding, what kind of accomplice, I don't know what you are talking about..."
But it was useless for Fang Ada to cry and complain. Sun Chengli directly gave him a few knives and cut off a few pieces of meat. After that, the man told him all about the corruption in the baggage.
After getting the name he wanted, Sun Chengli chuckled, and then took Luo Zhixue out. Before leaving, he said to the soldiers: "Bag him well, so that he will not die without evidence, and the general will have to ask him when he comes back." It’s interrogation.”
Immediately afterwards, Sun Chengli asked his soldiers to arrest several people in succession. After interrogating them one by one, they basically found out everything about the corruption in the army's baggage.
But what Luo Zhixue didn't expect was that Fang Ada and the others were just middle- and low-level executors, and they also involved several leaders in the army.
And this is no longer something Sun Chengli can handle alone.
Sun Chengli thought for a moment and then said: "Let's go, follow me to see the general!"
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The place where Luo Zhixue and his group were stationed was an abandoned village. Most of the houses were dilapidated or had simply been burned down and collapsed. Only a few houses were still relatively intact.
Li Tonglin and his soldiers lived in the most intact house in the abandoned village. It should have been the house of a small landowner in the village.
Although it was said to be in the best condition, in fact most of it collapsed, leaving only a few rooms intact and suitable for habitation.
After Sun Chengli took Luo Zhixue to find Li Tonglin, Sun Chengli first stepped forward and whispered a few words into Li Tonglin's ear.
After a while, Li Tonglin raised his head and glanced at Luo Zhixue, then waved his hand and retreated.
After the others had retreated, Li Tonglin said, "Is there a problem with the accounts? Is there not enough food in stock?"
Immediately, Luo Zhixue said: "Yesterday when my subordinates and others checked the food and grass, they found that the food stored was less than ten days, and there were only six thousand taels of gold and silver in the army. My subordinates felt that there was something wrong here, so they checked again. The original account books revealed that the food consumption in the army was abnormal. The food we consumed every day was enough for 3,000 people, but we only had 1,500 people at full capacity."
Li Tonglin had always listened to Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue. When he heard that there was corruption in the army, he was fine. However, after hearing Luo Zhixue saying that the army had insufficient food reserves for ten days, the daily food consumption was far more than it should be. After counting, Li Tonglin stood up suddenly:
"When we were outside Luoyang City, we emptied three villages, which was enough for us to eat for more than a month at least. It has only been a few days, and there is only less than ten days left? How brave are they? !”
Luo Zhixue lowered his head slightly and did not answer.
Sun Chengli, who was standing aside, took a step forward and said: "General, although we have not completed a comprehensive inventory, the food reserves in the army are indeed insufficient. According to Fang Ada and others, they exaggerated the daily consumption of food and grass. The excess grain is sold and used to enrich one’s own pockets.”
The more Li Tonglin listened, the darker his face became.
Luo Zhixue knew the seriousness of the food shortage, and Li Tonglin, a member of the military, knew it even more.
Why did Li Tonglin and the others rebel in the first place?
Not because there was no food in the army, Li Tonglin and others were forced to rob a gentry's granary. As a result, they offended the wrong people and were forced to directly mutiny and become rebels.
There is a shortage of food in the army, and the consequences are very serious.
Li Tonglin took a deep breath at this time: "I asked why the army has been eating so much food so fast in recent months. It turns out that there are these big rats around us who eat everything in and out."
When Li Tonglin spoke, he gradually controlled his expression and his face began to become calm.
At this time, he looked at Luo Zhixue again:
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Luo. You did a good job in the inspection this time. If it weren't for you, Mr. Luo, I wouldn't have known there were so many rats around me, and even the army's food reserves would be so low."
"Mr. Luo will be more involved in the future. He will help Lao Sun and serve as a deputy baggage officer, responsible for the registration and distribution of baggage and grain."
Luo Zhixue immediately showed an excited expression and said: "Thank you, General, for your grace. I will do my best to manage the supplies and food under the leadership of the General."
Although Luo Zhixue did not say that he wanted to follow Li Tonglin as a bandit all the time, but now that he had just traveled through time and was deep in troubled times, it was okay to hang out with a rebel leader like Li Tonglin first.
Since I plan to hang out first, it would be a good thing to be an official and a part-time official.
After all, after you have a slightly higher status among the rebels, you will be able to sneak into the running team when officers and soldiers attack!
Luo Zhixue saw very clearly that in the thousand-man rebel team in front of him, apart from the more than one hundred core cavalry, the other more than a thousand young men worked as hard labor on weekdays, and when necessary, they were cannon fodder and abandoned sons.
If there is really an encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, and when nothing can be done, Li Tonglin will most likely just run away with the more than a hundred cavalry. As for the more than a thousand young refugees, they will probably become abandoned.
As for Luo Zhixue, he will let himself become the abandoned cannon fodder. He will become one of the more than a hundred people who ran away.
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After receiving reports from Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue, as well as several witnesses who had spoken, Li Tonglin personally interrogated Fang Ada and several people, and after personally confirming the truth of the matter, he began to investigate the three generals involved one by one. called over.
He also ambushed more than ten soldiers in the house.
After a while, the three leaders involved were arrested, and then they were tortured and interrogated in person. It didn't take long for the matter to be understood.
The matter was very simple. The three leaders just wanted to make money, so they instructed their subordinates to collude with Fang Ada and others who managed the baggage to fabricate expenses and collect food and even ordnance for sale.
In the afternoon of that day, there was a commotion in the rebel camp.
Luo Zhixue listened to the noise outside and immediately said to Lin Yu'er: "Be good, Yu'er, stay in the house and don't come out. I'll go out and take a look!"
Lin Yu'er raised her still thin face and glanced at Luo Zhixue, then nodded with a sweet voice: "Well, the fish will be very good."
Luo Zhixue looked at Lin Yu'er, who was about the same age as the little girl next door, and immediately reached out and touched her head and smiled.
Lin Yu'er didn't dodge and let him touch her head with a smile on her face.
Although he is young, Lin Yu'er can still feel the goodness of Luo Zhixue as a big brother during these few days!
He always gives himself plenty to eat!
These past few days have been the best days for her to eat since she can remember!
Luo Zhixue came out and saw a group of people gathered in the middle of the camp. When he got closer, he saw that Sun Chengcheng was also among the crowd, and he immediately leaned over.
There was a small wooden platform in the open space among the crowd, and there were a dozen or so tied people in front of them, including Fang Ada.
Seeing Fang Ada, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly towards him and smiled!
This is the smile of a winner!
When Fang Ada on the stage saw Luo Zhixue smiling at him, he looked ferocious and wanted to say something, but unfortunately, his mouth was blocked by a rag and he couldn't say anything.
Soon, he couldn't even look at Luo Zhixue.
Because Li Tonglin had already personally carried a machete and beheaded the corrupt people on the stage one by one!
Among them was Fang Ada. His head rolled off the stage and rolled all the way to Luo Zhixue's feet. Luo Zhixue lowered his head and glanced. Fang Ada seemed to be unwilling to die with his eyes open.
Li Tonglin stood on the wooden platform with a machete still stained with blood in his hand, and stepped on the head severed from a corrupt general.
Just listen to him speak loudly to a group of people gathered: "These damn bastards, how dare they line their own pockets and sell off the food that the brothers have worked so hard to grab, bastards, this is what the brothers eat." They actually dare to sell food for survival. If we don’t kill them, we will starve to death sooner or later..."
Li Tonglin was still talking loudly, while Luo Zhixue looked at Li Tonglin on the simple wooden platform and felt that this person was not simple.
It would be easy to kill Fang Ada and the others all at once, but it was obvious that Li Tonglin wanted more than just killing a few people.
He also took the opportunity to use this incident to boost morale and directly transferred the conflict over the lack of food in the army to Fang Ada and others, arousing the common indignation of the soldiers!
Although Li Tonglin's words were more straightforward and contained a lot of swear words, the soldiers below were obviously aroused, and many of them were extremely angry and yelled.
After Li Tonglin sprayed a lot, he said again: "These bastards sold a lot of grain. Although the money they sold was found, the grain can't be returned. But it's okay, we still have it on hand. I have enough food to last for more than half a month, and I will take you to grab a village in two days and I will be back."
As he said that, he deliberately made a wicked smile: "I asked around. The one who took those bastards and embezzled the military rations was Sanlin Village. It's not far away, just over 20 miles to the north. Listen, They say there is a lot of money and food there, and we will take over that village in one go. By then, our food will still be ours, and their food will also be ours."
"And not only the food, but their money and women will be ours!!"
"Hey, if we do well this time, we can make our belly full."
When the lowly soldiers heard this, many began to shout: "Grab it!"
"Grab the food!"
"Grab the money!"
"Grab women!"
"Sanlin Village is still a big village, and there must be many pretty little ladies there. Hehe... I'm going to play with ten or eight of them this time."
Luo Zhixue was thoughtful when he heard the almost crazy words of Li Tonglin and the lower group of soldiers.
A few days ago, I didn't think there was anything special about this group of thieves. It was just that the personnel, equipment, and combat effectiveness were a little worse. I didn't think these people were that bad.
But looking at this group of people today, Luo Zhixue knew.
This group of people is not a serious rebel army, they are just a group of very simple bandits.
Maybe, he should consider other paths. If he continues to mess around like this with them, I don't know whether he will become as dehumanized and crazy as they are for robbery, but sooner or later he will definitely die.
Because this group of people is destined to fail and will be killed by officers and soldiers sooner or later!
