Chapter 145: Winter Clothes

At the beginning of the Tangyue, an unexpected heavy snow fell in Lingguo. It took several days to stop and the weather was cold.

The detective reported that he saw a team of officers and soldiers escorting the convoy towards Rizhaoguan.

Gu Du thought for a moment and asked, "How many people?"

The whistleblower replied: "Five hundred guards, more than a hundred laborers."

Gu Du said: "Select two thousand soldiers, no matter what it is, it will be robbed."

Feng Jiu responded and went out to order troops. Dongfang Xia Lan asked in confusion: "There are only six hundred people, why are you going to order two thousand soldiers?"

Gu Du replied: "Dispose the body and carry the goods."

Dongfang Xia Lan blinked and Gu Du said, "Go and stay with Mo Xuan."

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "I want to go into battle!"

Gu Du asked, "Do you dare to kill someone?"

Dongfang Xia Lan asked back: "Do you raise waste?"

Gu Du said: "You are the princess and can be regarded as the supervising war on behalf of the emperor."

Dongfang Xia Lan mocked: "You are now in power, who dares to supervise you?"

Gu Du said: "Put on armor."

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "No, please give me a gift."

Gu Dugang looked at Gongsun Yan. As soon as Gongsun Yan covered her stomach, she yelled with an exaggerated expression, turned around and ran away.

Gu Du put armor on Dongfang Xia Lan, and Gongsun Yan came back with a smile. Gu Du glanced at her and said, "Go to my box and take out the soft scale armor given by the emperor to put it on."

Gongsun Yan asked in surprise: "Put your disciples?"

Gu Du replied: "Yes, you have the worst martial arts skills, you wear them."

Two thousand people went down the mountain and surrounded the escort team. Gu Du said, "Those who surrender to me live, and those who do not surrender die."

The leader drew his sword and shouted: "Kill!"

Five hundred officers and soldiers raised their swords and guns together, and Gu Du took the lead and rushed forward.

After a melee, all the officers and soldiers were wiped out. Gu Du said to the laborer again: "Those who surrender to me live, and those who do not surrender die."

Someone cried and said, "Sir, let me go. I have parents, wife and children at home..."

Gu Du waved his sword and the man fell into a pool of blood.

Dongfang Xia Lan was so shocked that she opened her eyes wide and scolded angrily: "Why did you kill him? He is just a laborer!"

Gu Du ignored her and said, "Those who surrender to me live, and those who do not surrender die."

The workers didn't say anything, they all knelt on the ground and cried. Gu Du said with cold eyes: "Kill."

"No!" Dongfang Xia Lan screamed, but no one listened to her, and all the workers were killed in an instant.

Dongfang Xia Lan grabbed Gu Du's clothes and stared at him and shouted: "How can you be so cruel?"

Gu Du said calmly: "As long as you leave a living mouth, someone will know that there is an army stationed in Hu Xiaoshan, and there are 200,000 troops in Lingguo. They disdain to suppress the bandits, but if they learn that there are troops stationed, they will come to encircle and suppress them immediately."

Dongfang Xia Lan was stunned, and Gu Du said again: "This is how war is. It will always hurt innocent people. I must do my best to ensure that my people are safe. If you can't bear it or can't understand it, then go back to Mount Danyuan."

Dongfang Xia Lan looked at Gu Du in a daze. Gu Du pushed his hand away, walked away two steps, and ordered: "Cleaning the battlefield, covering up blood, moving the body and goods back to the camp, letting the horse go, burning the cart, burying the ashes."

Back at the camp, Dongfang Xia Lan returned to her room silently. Gongsun Yan followed her in, grabbed her, and asked while undressing her, "Are you okay?"

Dongfang Xia Lan refused to respond. Gongsun Yan took off her armor and pulled her to sit on the bed, saying, "Master is right. You can't leave a living. Even if they don't want to tell them, the government will interrogate them. By then, the army will surround the mountain and the master's foundation will be finished."

Dongfang Xia Lan looked at her and asked, "Will you all do this in the future?"

Gongsun Yan replied, "This is how war is. Do you think we will have a way out if we fall into their hands? You are the princess of Zeguo. Do you have mercy on the enemy and are you worthy of the soldiers who fought for you in blood?"

Dongfang Xia Lan argued: "They are not enemies, they are just laborers."

Gongsun Yan said: "They worked for the enemy and farmed for the enemy. What is the enemy? Are they relatives? Will your relatives support the enemy? Besides, the master said that those who surrendered live, those who do not surrender die. If they do not surrender, who will blame?"

Dongfang Xia Lan pondered for a while and asked, "Is the soft armor comfortable to wear?"

Gongsun Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "Sooner or later it's yours, so I'll lend it to me first."

Feng Jiu came to Gu Du with a winter clothes and said, "Master, they are all winter clothes."

Gu Du smiled. It turned out to be winter clothes. Wu Renxiong told him that the border guards changed their winter clothes every two to three years. This time, if they robbed the winter clothes, the defenders in Rizhaoguan would be frozen. Even if they could cut down trees and burn firewood to keep warm, they would have to waste more energy.

More energy consumes more food, and with the cold, you will eat more. You will have enough food for a year, but you will be finished in a month.

Gu Du said: "Distorize it, each person will save the extra ones."

"Yes." Feng Jiu responded, but did not leave, looking at Gu Du's desire to speak but stopped.

Gu Du said: "Xia Lan is still young, she has never suffered, and she has never been through a battle formation, and she is not even familiar with the world. I understand all these things, but I have to figure out many things by myself. I can tell her, but it is better to let her figure it out by herself. If she can't figure it out, even if I understand it now, it will be repeated in the future. We are fighting, not living at home."

Feng Jiu replied: "Disciple leaves."

Tang Shuo, the Rizhao Guardian, waited for three days, but the winter clothes were still not delivered, so he sent a provocate to check it out. In the end, he reported that he had not seen the transport team at all.

Tang Shuo sent someone to Lingzhen County for investigation, but he reported that the transport team had passed by seven days ago.

Tang Shuo led a battalion of soldiers and went to Lingzhen County to inquire. The county magistrate Zhao Kuo swears that the team had indeed passed by seven days ago, and said that he could ask people in the county at will, and many people saw it.

Tang Shuo frowned. He also looked at it carefully on the way he came. He did not find any abnormal situation. The transport team must be at least 500 people. How could it disappear in vain? Moreover, the bandits dare not rob the 500 army.

Tang Shuo had no choice but to return to Rizhaoguan and report to the Military and Political Department for investigation.

After Tang Shuo left, Zhao Kuo asked the chief clerk Wu Tong: "Isn't it that the man surnamed Gu was robbed?"

Wu Tong frowned and said, "It shouldn't be true. There are hundreds of people. Does Gu have the ability?"

Zhao Kuo said, "He got three million taels of silver, so he can't recruit people?"

Wu Tong shook his head, narrowed his eyes and said, "How many can we recruit? It's only a few months, even if we recruit some, we can't defeat the official army. Besides, how could a team of hundreds of people not be seen?"

Zhao Kuo frowned and pondered for a while, and asked, "Did he defect?"

Wu Tong shook his head again and said, "I can't say it well, this is too strange."
Chapter completed!