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Chapter 22 The Fifth Grade of Military Merit

(Thanks to Li Luoqing, the small wind in the sky, the running homeless man, and the Jinchan Chenjin for the rewards for the children's shoes, thank you.)

The road was bloody, and in the end there was only the second leader of the Scarface who was tied. In the end, he was the only one left of the ten bandits. The scarface who had been cut by the ears seemed a little disbelief when he saw Li Jing and the others kill all the monkey cheeks and the others.

Li Jing pulled out a feather arrow from the monkey cheeks and walked towards him with a fierce look on his face. The blood of the boss was still dripping from the tip of the newly drawn arrow. The scar face, which had been tough, seemed to collapse, and the last bit of courage in his heart gradually disappeared.

Li Jing stood in front of Scarface, and Li Shitou and Qiu Sheng immediately pressed Scarface from left to right, kicked and knelt in front of Li Jing.

Scarface was trembling all over, looking up at Li Jing, and tremblingly said, "You actually killed so many brothers from our Xihuo Village and killed the boss. The brothers from Xihuo Village will not let you go."

"Will Xihuozhai let us go? Even your boss died at our hands. Do you think we will be afraid of the remaining minions?"

"It's not just Xihuozhai, but this time we received the heroes from Zhendonghai. Kill us and you will get into Zhendonghai. They will avenge us." Scarface had already guessed his ending, and at the last moment, his eyes were full of viciousness.

Li Jing held the straight blade with both hands, and the oblique tip of the knife reached the neck cavity of Scar's face. He used both hands to slowly insert the horizontal knife into Scar's chest cavity from top to bottom, and it ended up to the hilt of Scar's face.

Scarface was squeaking in his throat, and there was no complete sound. Blood kept gushing out of his mouth. His face turned red and his forehead was exposed. Li Jing pulled the horizontal knife upwards with force, and a stream of blood was spurted out. Scarface's full strength seemed to be revived and he pulled away from his body. His face was twisted and his body was weak. In the end, he lost all his strength and his hands were weak. The whole person fell to the ground, his eyes gradually became colorful, and only his body twitched from time to time.

After wiping the horizontal knife on Scar's face a few times, Li Jing put the knife back into the sheath, and snorted coldly: "No matter whether you are Xihuozhai or Zhendonghai, since you have met, you will be life or death."

When the horizontal knife was retracted from the scabbard, Li Jing's strength seemed to disappear. He sat on the ground, and felt a sense of powerlessness all over his body. In addition to being powerless, there was a little passion in his heart that could not disappear for a long time.

This kind of blood and sword killing was so heart-warming that it made Li Jing feel in ease. It seemed that he had been immersed in his long time and had been waiting for the power of awakening. Is this what he was looking forward to?

The others were not much better than Li Jing. Xiao Shitou, Qiu Sheng, Xigou and Xiaoshan were not injured, but the four of them were all sitting on the ground at this time, feeling their physical reactions after the first battle and the first killing.

The other people were in a much worse situation. Captain Wang was injured seven or eight parts, and he was lying on the ground and bandaged by Zhang Zuoli, who had only suffered minor injuries. The worst injured was Wang Liang, who was cut off one arm and an arrow wound on the other shoulder. The other four young people surnamed Wang were stabbed in one leg and a shot in the other abdomen, and the other two were only slightly injured in the arrow.

In this battle, Li Jing had already seen a lot of problems. The ten new recruits in Wangli Village were actually good. But at the critical moment, Xiao Shitou and his team followed him and did not run around, but they were not injured in the end, but also killed the enemy. Wang Liang and the others had no backbone of command at all. When they met bandits, they ran around and turned into a mess. If it weren't for the long-term resistance of the Captain Wang, they would probably have finished today.

When recalling this, Li Jing still felt that it was a bit miraculous for everyone to live to this day. An officer and a civil servant brought ten new recruits who didn't even have weapons. He was ambushed by ten bandits, but in the end, none of them died, but instead wiped out all the bandits. The result was a bit unbelievable.

Li Jing was still recalling and summarizing the battle, but Captain Wang, who had already bandaged him for a while, had already come over.

"Brother just now, I really turned the tide and helped the building fall! Great, not only did I have magical archery skills, but what is even more rare is my calmness. If it weren't for you today, we would have lost our lives here." Captain Wang limped over and praised him.

Li Jing quickly stood up, bent down and bowed, "Person Wang praised him, and he was humble and did not dare to take it."

"I'm polite. Brother, my surname is Wang, my name is Chong, the name is Jumei. If my brother doesn't dislike him, I'll just call him brother in the future." Wang Zhengwei said eagerly.

"How dare you climb up? You are the captain, and I am just a villager in the country."

"It's just a lieutenant from the ninth rank, a small official with a size of sesame seeds, which is not worth mentioning. Brother, you have made great contributions this time, killing five thieves with one man, and two are the chief masters of Xihuozhai and the second master. The brother of Xihuozhai has long heard of this. It is said that it is a group of elderly bandits in Fangdeng County who often robbed and plundered everywhere, but they did not expect that they are now at the hands of you and my brothers."

"The court has regulations on killing enemies and suppressing bandits. The united troops have the fifth grade, the first grade, 50 pieces of silk; the second grade, 30 pieces of silk; the third grade, 10 guan; the fourth grade, 5 guan; the fifth grade, 3 guan. Generally, one head of the enemy is the fourth grade, and so on. Brothers should be the first grade this time and reward 50 pieces of silk. And not only reward money, they must also be awarded the deputy lieutenant of the ninth rank of Rong. Maybe, they may be awarded a single lieutenant of the Rong school at one time, so we are at the same level."

In the late Tang Dynasty, the court and various vassal states had clearly marked the price of the soldiers' military achievements in killing the enemy. The price Wang Chong mentioned was only the price of the military merits of the Turkish Group. In fact, the price of the imperial guards and Guan Jian's military merits of the killing the enemy was at least twice the price of the Turkish Group.

Li Jing calculated in his heart that each piece of silk is worth 800 yuan, and fifty horses are worth 40,000 yuan. The money is still a trivial matter. What makes him most excited is that he may be promoted directly to an official position. You should know that although all the vassal states now use the Beituan group as professional army, the Beituan group is actually not a member of the local army. Therefore, the Beituan group generally does not have a formal official position unless it is a war.

Deputy Guard of Rong was from the Wusan rank below the ninth rank. It was not a real position, but a scattered rank at a clearly defined level. It was also the lowest level 30 among the 9th rank and 30th rank in the Tang Dynasty. But at least, this was a real scattered official rank. Li Jing's father worked hard all his life and was just a foreign county recorder. He had not even obtained the lowest level rank like the ninth rank. Now, Li Jing joined the army on the first day and killed five bandits. Not only could he get a reward of 40,000 yuan, but he could also directly be promoted to the scattered rank below the ninth rank. How could he be unhappy?

"All this is achieved by the fact that the lieutenant commands well, arranged properly, led us to fight to the death, and then to achieve such achievements. The young people do not care about their greed for merit, but everything is the lieutenant's credit." Li Jing said cautiously. Although he felt that lieutenant Wang was still a good officer, but he was still careful.

"Don't tell me these polite words. If it weren't for you, I would have lost my life. I wouldn't have time to thank you, so how could I steal your military merits? I remember your name is Li Jing, right? I don't know what the word "王" is?"

"The younger one is Li and Jing, and his name is Ji Yu. He is the third child in the family."

Wang nodded with a key point, "Ji Yu, it's such a good piece of uncensored jade. If it's time, it's impossible to limit the amount. Okay, let's clean the battlefield first and return to Chishan Town first, so as not to have any more accidents."

Li Jing was about to respond, but suddenly a burst of applause rang out, and then a thick voice slowly said: "It seems that a good show has just happened here, but unfortunately I am one step late, so why bother rush to leave!"
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