Chapter 4 Rogue
Sun Zhi's actions were very fast. After listening to Luo Zhixue's report, he directly ordered his confidant soldiers to bring Fang Ada over.
"Be careful when doing things and don't disturb others."
Since the other party was planning to poison Luo Zhixue, Luo Zhixue came to find Sun Zhixue early in the morning, it was difficult to guarantee that Fang Ada and others would be vigilant and then run away directly.
In order to avoid the long nights and dreams, Sun Jian directly asked his personal soldiers to arrest people.
When Sun Jian sent his personal soldiers to arrest people, Sun Jian asked Luo Zhixue to take Lin Yuer to have breakfast with him.
This happened a long time ago. Before Luo Zhixue and Lin Yuer had time to eat, they immediately started eating without hesitation.
As soon as he finished breakfast, Sun Zhi's personal soldiers came back and brought back a Fang Ada who fainted.
This man was obviously knocked out by the bed and was wearing a midi.
Sun Jian glanced at Fang Ada who was still on the ground and immediately ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Wake him up."
Immediately, a personal soldier brought a basin of cold water to directly aim at Fang Ada's veil, and Fang Ada woke up slowly.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Sun Jian with a fierce look in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, he saw Luo Zhixue standing behind Sun Jian and squinted his eyes.
At this moment, Fang A suddenly felt something was wrong.
Could it be that the matter has been exposed?
Sun Zhi didn't give him too much time to think about it, and immediately asked, "Tell all your accomplices, I can spare your life. If you don't say anything, hum, you know what will happen!"
Fang Ada also tried to resist stubbornly: "General Sun, you misunderstand, what accomplice, I don't know what you are talking about..."
But Fang Ada's crying and crying for wrongdoing was useless. Sun Zhen directly gave him a few cuts. After cutting a few pieces of meat, the man told him all about the corruption of the baggage.
After getting the name he wanted, Sun Jian smiled and then took Luo Zhixue out. Before leaving, he said to his personal soldiers: "Band him up, so he won't die and die without a proof of death. If you look back, you will have to ask the general to interrogate him."
Immediately afterwards, Sun Zhen asked his personal soldiers to arrest several people in a row. After interrogating one by one, he had basically touched the corruption of the military'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 that Sun Cheng can handle alone.
Sun Cheng thought for a moment and then said, "Let's go and see the general!"
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Luo Zhixue and his group were stationed in an abandoned village. Most of the houses were dilapidated or simply burned down and collapsed, leaving only a few houses that were barely intact.
Li Tonglin and his personal soldiers lived in the best house in the abandoned village. It used to be the house of a small landlord in the village.
But it is said to be the best, but in fact it has collapsed most of the time, leaving only a few rooms intact for living.
After Sun Cheng took Luo Zhixue to find Li Tonglin, Sun Cheng first stepped forward to Li Tonglin's ear and whispered a few times.
After a while, Li Tonglin looked up at Luo Zhixue, then waved his hand and turned his back.
After the others left, Li Tonglin spoke: "There is a problem with the accounts? Are there insufficient food storage?"
Immediately, Luo Zhixue: "When his subordinates checked the food yesterday, they found that the food was stored for less than ten days, and the gold and silver in the army were only 6,000 taels of gold and silver. The subordinates thought there was something wrong here, so they looked up the original account book and found that the food consumed in the army was not normal. The food we consumed every day was enough for 3,000 people, but we only had a thousand five hundred people."
Li Tonglin has always listened to Sun Zhixue's theory. It was fine when he heard that there was corruption in the army, but when he heard that Luo Zhixue's theory that the grain reserves in the army was less than ten days after the food was stored in the army, Li Tonglin suddenly stood up:
"When we were outside Luoyang City, we emptied three farms, which was enough for us to eat for at least a month. After only a few days, there were only less than ten days left? They were so brave!"
Luo Zhixue lowered his head slightly and did not answer the conversation.
Sun Jian, who was standing by, stepped forward and said, "General, although we have not completed a comprehensive investigation, the food in the army is indeed insufficient. According to the explanation of Fang Ada and others, they exaggerated the daily consumption of food and grass, and sold the extra grain to fill their personal pockets."
The more Li Tonglin listened, the darker his face became.
Luo Zhixue knew the severity of food shortage, and Li Tonglin, a member of the army, knew even more.
Why did Li Tonglin and the others mutinate and rebel?
It was not because there was no food in the army that Li Tonglin and others were forced to steal a gentry's granary, and they ended up being someone they shouldn't have been offended, and they were forced to mutiny and become rebels.
The shortage of food in the army is very serious.
Li Tonglin took a deep breath at this time: "I'm talking about why the food in the army has been eaten so quickly in the past few months. It turns out that there are many big rats around him who are stinging inside and outside."
When Li Tonglin spoke, he gradually controlled his expression and his face began to calm down.
At this time, he glanced at Luo Zhixue again:
"Thank you, Mr. Luo. This time the inspection was done well. If it weren't for you, Mr. Luo, I wouldn't know that there were so many mice around me, and even the food in the army was less."
"In the future, Mr. Luo will suffer a lot. He will help Lao Sun and become a deputy logistics officer, and will be in charge of the registration and distribution of supplies, grain and grass."
Luo Zhixue immediately showed an excited expression and said, "Thank you for your kindness, your subordinates will do their best to manage the baggage, food and grass under the leadership of the general.
Although Luo Zhixue did not say that he wanted to follow Li Tonglin as a bandit, now that he has just passed through and is in a chaotic world, it is okay to just follow a thief like Li Tonglin first.
Since you plan to get along first, it is a good thing to be a single official and a half position.
After all, after a little higher status among the rebels, if you encounter officers and soldiers in the future, you can get into the run-in team!
Luo Zhixue saw it very clearly. In the troop team of thousands of people in front of him, except for the more than 100 core cavalry, the other 1,000 young and strong men were usually hard labor, and when necessary, they were cannon fodder and abandoned their sons.
When the officers and soldiers really encircle and suppress them, when things are not done, Li Tonglin will most likely only take the more than 100 cavalrymen to run away. As for the more than 1,000 young and strong refugees, they will probably become abandoned sons.
As for Luo Zhixue, he would make himself a cannon fodder that was abandoned, and he would become one of the more than 100 people who ran away.
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After receiving reports from Sun Cheng and Luo Zhixue, and there were several testimonies that had already been spoken. After Li Tonglin personally interrogated Fang Ada and confirmed the truth, he began to call the three generals involved one by one.
He also ambushed more than ten personal soldiers in the house.
After a while, the three leaders involved were arrested, and then they tortured and asked in person. Soon after, they got the matter clear.
The matter is very simple. These three leaders just wanted to make money, so they instructed their subordinates to collude with Fang Ada and others to fabricate expenses and collect grain and even weapons to sell them.
In the afternoon of that day, a noise broke out in the rebel camp.
Luo Zhixue listened to the noise outside and immediately said to Lin Yuer: "Be good Yuer, stay in the house and don't come out, I'll go out and take a look!"
Lin Yuer raised his still thin face and looked at Luo Zhixue, then nodded in a slight voice: "Well, Yuer will be very obedient."
Luo Zhixue looked at Lin Yuer, who was about the same age as the little girl from his previous neighbor's house, and immediately reached out and touched her head and smiled.
Lin Yuer did not dodge and let him touch his head with a smile on his face.
Although she is young, Lin Yuer can still feel the goodness of Luo Zhixue, the big brother, during these few times!
He always gives himself a lot of food!
These days are the best days she can eat as long as she can remember!
Luo Zhixue came out and saw a group of people surrounding the middle of the camp. After approaching, he saw Sun Jian also among the crowd and immediately leaned over.
There was a small wooden platform in the open space in the middle of the crowd, and there were about a dozen tied people in front, including Fang Ada.
Seeing Fang Ada, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly at him and smiled!
This is the winner's smile!
Fang Ada on the stage saw Luo Zhixue smiling at him, and his face showed a ferocious look and wanted to say something, but unfortunately, his mouth was blocked by rags and he couldn't say anything.
Soon, he couldn't even watch Luo Zhixue.
Because Li Tonglin was already carrying a machete in person, he cut off the corrupt people on the stage one by one!
Among them is Fang Ada. His head rolled down from the stage and rolled all the way to Luo Zhixue's feet. Luo Zhixue looked down and saw Fang Ada seemingly dead with his eyes open.
Li Tonglin on the wooden platform held a machete still with blood in his hand and stepped on the head cut off from a corrupt general.
He only heard him speak loudly to the group of people gathered here: "These damn bastards dare to fill their pockets and sell the food they have worked so hard to rob. Bastards, this is the food they eat for their lives. They dare to sell it. If they don't kill them, we will be starved to death by them 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 is easy to kill Fang Ada and the others in one go, but it is obvious that Li Tonglin wants more than just killing a few people.
He also took the opportunity to use this matter to boost morale and directly transferred the contradiction of food shortage in the army to Fang Ada and others, arousing the common indignation of the soldiers!
Although Li Tonglin's words were a little more blunt and had a lot of swear words, seeing that the soldiers below were obviously inspired, many people shouted and scolded in anger.
After Li Tonglin blasted a lot, he said: "These bastards sold a lot of food. Although the money they sold was found, the food was not returned. But it's okay. We still have food that can be eaten for half a month. In two days, I will take you to grab a farm and come back."
As he said that, he deliberately made a smirk: "I'll ask, I'll collect the bastards and embezzle military rations. It's not far away, just over twenty miles north. I heard that there is a lot of money and grain there. We will take the farm in one pot. At that time, our food will still be ours, and their food will also be ours."
"And not just food, their money and nanny will be ours!!"
"Hehe, if we do well this time, we can fill our stomachs with a full belly."
When the lowly soldiers heard this, many people began to shout: "Snatch it!"
"Snatch food!"
"Grab the silver!"
"Steal a woman!"
"Sanlin Village is still a big village, there must be many delicate little ladies there, hehe... I will play with ten or eight of them this time."
Luo Zhixue thought about what he heard about Li Tonglin and the almost crazy words of the lower-level soldiers.
A few days ago, I didn’t think there was anything special about this group of thieves. It was just that the personnel were a little poor, the equipment was a little poor, and the combat effectiveness was a little poor, so I didn’t think these people were so bad.
But today, Luo Zhixue will know this.
This group of people is not a serious rebel army, they are just a group of very simple bandits.
Maybe it's time for me to consider other paths and continue to live like this with them. I don't say whether I will lose my human nature and go crazy for robbery like them, but sooner or later it will definitely be a word of death.
Because this group of people is destined to be in trouble, they will sooner or later be killed by the officers and soldiers!
Chapter completed!