The remnants of the sun were like blood, and the grasslands were littered with the corpses of fallen men and horses.

The defeated Northern Yuan cavalry, who were lucky enough to be alive, had fled north in a hurry. This time I came out to fight the grass valley, not only did I not harvest anything, but I suffered heavy losses, and in the next few days, Kaipingwei and the nearby Tunwei should be able to live in peace.

Although, the time may be short.

At night, the corpses of the dead Ming army have been collected, the dead war horses will not be wasted, and the taste of horse meat is not good, but it can be regarded as a meaty meal.

Doctors in the army and in the city were called, and wounded horses were cared for better than wounded soldiers.

People are not as good as horses, it's funny, but it's a fact.

Meng sat by the fire, Ma Zongqi died, and he personally brought Ma Zongqi's body back from the battlefield. Several of the border soldiers who once laughed at him at the head of the city are now only two still alive.

This is the cruelty of war, the life of the side.

Confusion and helplessness did not bother Meng for too long, and the brain, which was accustomed to thinking, once it calmed down from the fear of death and blood, would begin to analyze and then make a decision.

The fire flickered, and a large piece of roasted horse meat was suddenly handed over, Meng turned his head and grinned, he was half an acquaintance in front of him, and he was the archer who made fun of him in the city before.

"Eat."

The archers stuffed the horse meat into Meng's hands, and handed him a dagger by the way, and lived in Biansai all the year round, and his habits became a little different. Many border soldiers were no longer accustomed to using chopsticks, but often carried a dagger.

Such a border army is the most ferocious, even the Duoyan Sanwei under King Ning may not be their opponent when it comes to fighting alone.

Crawling out of the sea of corpses and blood, they are no longer used to competing with people normally, once they do it, they are fighting for their lives.

Half of the horse's meat was charred and blackened, sprinkled with a little salt, and it smelled good, and when it was cut with a dagger, wisps of blood could be seen.

Meng lowered his eyes, inserted the dagger into the ground with his backhand, and bit it fiercely, like a wolf cub who had tasted blood for the first time, and tore it viciously.

For him to survive here, he has to adapt to everything here.

Smart, cunning, and tricky, in the face of absolute strength and toughness, he cannot guarantee his life 100%.

There is a word called "Three Provinces and My Body", and Meng thinks it is quite suitable for his current self.

While eating the meat, a rusty smell kept rushing into the nose, and I don't know if it was uncooked horse meat or the blood left on my hands that had not been washed.

The archer looked at Meng until he had eaten all the whole piece of horse meat, and suddenly Da Lu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Cheng, you are the only one who can survive here." ”

Meng smiled, sincerely. The slightly childish face unconsciously carried a hint of indescribable charm.

The archers suddenly remembered the steppe foxes they had encountered outside the city, their oily and slippery fur, and the steppe wolves were hungry, but they were still full.

Shaking your head, you're thinking too much, right?

"Speaking of which, you kid is also a good life. The first time you encounter a Tartar, you will basically not die so early if you survive. "The archer-pull-up-was Meng-inserted-the dagger on the ground, and stood up," Ma Zongqi is unlucky, and the next general banner does not know which grandson Lu Dao is. ”

Meng listened to the nagging of the archers, and did not interject halfway, he knew that the man in front of him just needed a listener.

A brother who picks up rice in a pot is gone in a blink of an eye, and in the years of Biansai, I don't know how many days like this will have to go through.

In the middle of the moon, the archers got up and patrolled the city with a few foot soldiers of the same banner, Meng remembered his name, his surname was Gao Mingfu, a very common name, but Meng remembered it very well.

At this time, he remembered that he didn't know the name of General Banner of Lu Daoma.

Isn't it funny?

He just wanted to cry.

With his hands behind his back, he took a long breath and spit it out, but his chest was still blocked.

simply closed his eyes, opened his mouth, used all his strength, and roared: "You are mighty and majestic...... Man, you are mighty and majestic...... Majestic ...... Majestic ......"

Don't blame him for the stereo playback, because that's all he can say.

After the roar, Meng Shu was relieved, no wonder depressed people always like to find a place where no one is there and roar two throats, it is indeed comfortable.

More than thirty paces away, a slender figure leading a horse stumbled, almost stumbling on his left foot and falling to the ground with his right foot.

A few border soldiers passing by with torches looked at each other, and a question arose in their hearts at the same time, which rabbit cub didn't sleep in the middle of the night and learned to howl wolves?!

The next day, a fast horse galloped to the post station before dawn, and the knight carried a report from the commander Xu Zhong, which stated that more than 600 enemy heads were killed, more than 180 war horses were captured, and more than 50 centurions were captured.

At the end of the report, Xu Zhong specifically mentioned Shen Xuan, saying that he was extremely brave in this battle, leading the crowd to ride out to fight, taking the lead with one horse, and beheading no less than ten enemies.

King Yan of Beiping Mansion also got the news, and when he played against Monk Daoyan, he praised again and again, "My brother's son, Qilin'er." ”

The elder brother in King Yan's mouth is not his own brother, but Shen Liang, the righteous son of Emperor Hongwu.

Emperor Hongwu had twenty-six biological sons, sixteen daughters, and more than twenty righteous sons, which added up to almost two rows.

Shen Xuan's father, Shen Liang, is one of them, and before he reached the age of confusion, he made great achievements in battle, and also saved the life of King Yan. should have been rich and glorious, lying on the bed counting silver to watch the beauties grow old, but I didn't want to be impeached by the imperial history many times for life style problems, and I almost had something to do with Lan Yu's rebellion. Emperor Hongwu was furious, and although Shen Liang saved his life, he lost his sacred heart, was cut off to the first-class marquis, and was sent far away to Biansai.

Fortunately, he has a very good relationship with King Yan, and King Yan has twice commanded the northern expedition to the desert, and this righteous brother is in the army. Unfortunately, in the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, during King Yan's second northern expedition, this righteous brother relapsed from his old illness and died in the army.

Shen Xuan inherited his father's military talent, at the age of seventeen he made military exploits in the Northern Expedition of the Great Army, and at the age of eighteen he entered the left guard of Yanshan, which is the prince of Yan's army. A year later, he was ordered by King Yan to serve in Kaipingwei.

Shen Xuan is a Yanwang faction with strong roots, although his father was robbed, he still has the status of righteous relatives with Emperor Hongwu.

Kaipingwei commanded Xu Zhong and Zheng Qianhu to know that he was a hot potato, but they still had to follow.

After that, you must take a good look at it, and you can't make any mistakes, after all, Shen Xuan's father left him a single seedling, and King Yan also regarded him as his own nephew, he really had a good job, and he couldn't afford to pay it!

Unexpectedly, Shen Xuan encountered the Tartars shortly after he arrived, and he personally led the cavalry out of the city to fight.

Xu Zhong smacked his tongue, this is a tiger cub!

Zheng Qianhu's head is big, fortunately, Shen Xuan's force value is amazing, and he came back uninjured and full of beards, otherwise, he should consider whether to find a rope to hang himself or find a brick to shoot himself, and if he can't die, he will be disabled.

Now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, only the credit of Shen Xuan, who is a big book, can be regarded as an explanation to King Yan.

As the saying goes, it's not too late to make amends.

Regardless of whether it is appropriate for the occasion or not, in short, the meaning is probably the meaning. They are all rough people, and it is quite good to be able to hold back such an elegant word.

After the report was sent out, outside Kaiping City, white flags were raised on a wasteland, and the yellow paper money was blown away by the wind, carrying unburned sparks and black debris.

A yin and yang sheng read aloud the sacrificial text that Meng couldn't understand, and he could only vaguely hear two sentences from the elongated tone, "Soul Xi...... Return ......"

The north wind carries desolation, the white flags dance wildly in the wind, the grassland still leaves stains of blood, and between the white clouds in the sky, there are eagles singing.

Meng, along with the other border troops, stamped the ground and shouted words that he didn't understand at all.

All the anger, sadness, confusion, and fear seemed to go away with this roar.

Ten years later, a hundred years later, no one will know that there is such a group of people in the border land of the Ming Dynasty, such a funeral, such a roar as if to tear the earth apart.

What I remember may only be the wind blowing through the grassland, the border cities eroded by the yellow sand, and the white bones buried in a foreign land.

After returning to the city, Meng finally remembered to report to the city experience division, and officially settled in Kaiping Wei'an.

Experienced in the investigation of the office, the assessment of soldiers and the cashier's documents, etc. There is a person with experience, surnamed Liu, who is the only "civil official" in the health center.

Liu Li stood up after the years, looked very scholarly, had a very easy-going attitude, opened and closed his mouth, and was a "wonderful" in the Kaiping Guard, which was full of burly men and powerful killers.

Meng felt that Liu Shi was a good person, and if he didn't immediately show a "no way" expression when he heard that he was beheaded two levels, Meng would be happy to be friends with Liu Shishi.

But now, that possibility is infinitely approaching zero.

Leaving the Experience Division, the tooth card on Meng's waist is no longer the original one, from the big head soldier to the small flag, with ten people under his command, it can be regarded as a qualitative leap?

Meng Xiaoqi was not on duty today, and when he got home, Meng Hu and Meng Qingjiang were banging and fighting. The house they live in now is in the west of the city, and some of the wood on the doors and windows of the two-entry loess house has rotted, so it should have been unoccupied for a while.

This is not difficult for Meng Hu and Meng Qingjiang, but after two days of hard work, the doors have been changed, the windows have been replaced, and even the roof has been repaired.

When Meng came back, the two were working together to make a wooden bed, while plugging the cold at night, sleeping on the ground would give birth to illness sooner or later.

"Tjushiro is back."

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Meng Hu raised his head and smiled heartily, Meng Qingjiang was silent, but he didn't raise his eyebrows at Meng Heng like a few days ago.

"Well, it's hard work for the fourth and fifth brothers."

Meng walked to the side of the bed that was about to be completed, stretched out his finger and tapped, and just wanted to tell about the granting of the field, he heard that someone outside came to report that Shen Baihu was invited.

Meng stood up and shook his head, Shen Baihu?

I remembered that half of the ten people under him were recruits, and the other half were convicts and their families, and the former military department Arsenal Shiro was now under his command. And his small banner is under the command of Shen Baihu in the west of the city.

In the military system of the Ming Army, the small flag is the lowest officer, the general flag is the superior of the small flag, and the top of the general flag is the hundred households.

Meng couldn't guess the reason why Shen Baihu summoned him, and the only possibility was probably that after he was promoted, he took the initiative to ask to guard the lookout platform outside the city.

But this is not a big deal, and it is worth calling a hundred households?

What's more, he is so thoughtful, he should have a better chance of being praised?

Meng went out in a daze, not knowing at all what was about to happen and what kind of impact it would have on his future life.

If he knew the truth...... He still has to go, many things are destined by God, and there is no need to discuss them at all.

All Meng can do is open roads in the mountains and stack bridges in the water, even if the mountains are the Himalayas and the water is the Mississippi River.