The robe brothers of the former capital team all stepped forward to congratulate, and then expressed regret, saying that they would go to the Houdu team to eat rice in the future, Zhang Xiaowu laughed: "What do you want to eat in the future, come to me, brother will arrange for you, whether you want to drink the northwest wind, or want to drink the southeast wind, it is all a matter of brothers." ”

The crowd uniformly stretched out their little fingers in disdain.

Compared with the neat front capital team, and in the future, the capital team can be said to be dismal, there are only about 60 people left in the entire capital team, Zhang Xiaowu's team only has two subordinates, a man named Min Erlang and a thin man named Mo Qing, both of whom are illiterate, and the chief can't be promoted even if he wants to. Even Zhang Xiaowu found that this Hanzi named Min Erlang could not communicate normally, and it was still inferior to the Hanlang before he was crossed. Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu's team was soon replenished with two more people, a fifty-year-old man named Tao Tao and a fourteen-year-old boy named Tao Wang.

Zhang Xiaowu inquired about them and learned that these two people were a pair of grandchildren and grandsons, and they were merchants who rode horses around the various tribes of the wasteland on weekdays, and made a living by selling salt tea and sheep and horses in the wasteland. In this war in the north, the people of the Northern Tartars wantonly hunted and killed the Han people, and the grandson fled into Tucheng, but he did not expect to be trapped here until he was arrested yesterday Ding Chongjun and became Zhang Xiaowu's subordinates.

Zhang Xiaowu saw that Tao Wang's eyes were eager to try, and knew that the young man didn't know the severity, so he asked him to sharpen the knife for everyone and sharpen his sharpness, and the rest of the people tried to save their physical strength and move less. Tao Wang happily accepted the order, and in one morning, he sharpened everyone's waist knives, short knives, and spears to be extremely sharp, and reported them to Zhang Xiaowu as if he was invited to take a look.

Zhang Xiaowu's impression of this enthusiastic sunny boy suddenly improved a lot, and asked, "Do you like to be a soldier?" ”

"I'm going to kill Inuyi."

"Why?"

"My grandfather (father), my uncle, and my uncle were all killed by the dogs, and my aunt and grandmother were also taken away by the dogs." Tao Wang's eyes were full of hatred.

Zhang Xiaowu didn't expect Tao Wang's family to have such a big hatred with other races, he looked at Tao Old Man, Tao Old Man sighed, and said for a long time: "Our family was originally a tea merchant, specializing in trafficking tea bricks from the south to various tribes in the north, once my family trafficked tea bricks with a large caravan, and encountered horse bandits at night, the child's uncles and his grandfather were killed by horse bandits, and the women of the caravan were also plundered. We have been working as merchants in Saibei for so many years, and we are looking for the mother of the child everywhere, alas...... It's a pity that it has not been found. ”

Tao Wang clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "I must take revenge." ”

Zhang Xiaowu touched his chin and said, "There are many opportunities." ”

On the third day of the fifth month, Shi Jing, the commander of the 27th Regiment, suddenly ordered that the military camps in the city should have two meals a day, and the people would have one meal a day. It occurred to them that there must be a shortage of food in the city.

The four subordinates looked at Zhang Xiaowu with blank eyes, Zhang Xiaowu said helplessly: "Look at me, there is no extra food for you to eat, in addition to gerbils on this grassland, there are rabbits, do you want to eat rabbits or gerbils?" ”

"Bunny!" Tao Wang said with interest.

"Catch it yourself."

Zhang Xiaowu's speculation was quickly verified, and rumors came out of nowhere that the military rations could last for a maximum of thirty days, and the general had ordered the forcible confiscation of the grain stored in all the grain stores in the city. Even the girls in the Red Moon Mansion have no strength to serve the man. Several grain merchants took their men and family members to Tucheng County to beat drums and voice grievances, but Shi Jing ordered the beheading of the person who was headed by Shi Jing to show the public, which immediately frightened the merchants and gentry in the city to listen honestly and send them.

A day later, people found that the Tucheng County Commander had brought his whole family to the enemy, and the people were even more panicked, and many wealthy businessmen also had the intention of surrendering.

Shi Jing was furious, but early the next morning, Inuyi actually tied up the whole family of the surrendered county commander in front of the battle, and then killed all the men, and the women were imprisoned as military prostitutes. Shi Jing also wondered, Inuyi is forcing everyone to fight to the death, and after that, the whole city is determined, and no one dares to mention the escape.

In the evening, Tao Wang came back with three rabbits, everyone was pleasantly surprised, Zhang Xiaowu stepped forward and rubbed Tao Wang's head fiercely, laughing: "You kid, we will hand over our extra meals to you in the future, and we will catch gerbils or rabbits when you are free." ”

Tao Wang laughed dryly, and everyone stepped forward to praise one by one, this kid finally found his position in the army, and even the captain ran over and forcibly took a rabbit back to fight for the tooth sacrifice.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Inuyi attacked the city again, and the Houdu team repaired and prepared in the city, and the sergeants filled sandbags, and after one person filled ten bags, they stopped loading. I only heard the sound of killing on the city wall, and the grandfather and grandson around me finally showed panicked faces, looked at each other, and didn't know what to say.

The old monk Zhang Xiaowu sat on the side, holding a tender grass in his mouth, looking at the birds in the sky and the sky from afar, thinking about when he would find a bow and shoot the birds down to eat meat.

Tao Wang suddenly asked, "Captain Wu, when will we go to the city to kill the enemy?" ”

"What? In a hurry to kill the enemy? ”

"Hmm."

"You're not afraid of Inuyi?"

"I'm not afraid."

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said, "Just don't be afraid, wait, we shouldn't be needed today." ”

Tao Wang asked again: "Why don't we fill more sandbags?" ”

"Ramming!" Mo Qing shouted to Min Erlang, "You tell him, why don't you reload more?" ”

Min Erlang said humbly: "If you throw too much, the wall will be short." ”

Zhang Xiaowu patted the wall and said: "It's a loss that the stones around this earth city are gone, do you know how this earth city was built?" Everyone shook their heads and didn't know, Zhang Xiaowu asked with a sly smile: "This earth city is surrounded by sand, where did the stone come from to build this strong city?" However, Tucheng is close to the Jialan River, and there is a strange rocky mountain in the upper reaches of the Jialan River called Yashan Mountain-"

Calculating the time, an hour later, Inuyi really retreated again. Inuyi besieged the city for more than 20 days, and actually attacked the city every two days, which was very regular, as if white-collar workers were clocking in and out of work in another world. Of course, it is not hard work to pay here, but the death of hundreds of soldiers every day.

Zhang Xiaowu stretched his waist, leaned against the earthen wall, found a comfortable position and half-lay down, taking advantage of the warm sun to bask in the sun. He took a nap, and suddenly thought of a news before the crossing, because the French army left a column of more than forty armored vehicles on the road because it was time to get off work, and told the commander that he would not work overtime, it is estimated that Caucasian people have this obsessive-compulsive disorder to get off work at the end of the day.

Zhang Xiaowu squinted his eyes and looked at the sun, and said with a smile to himself: "The dog on the opposite side also clocks in and out of work, one attack every two days, two hours at a time, no more, no less, really dedicated as a Frenchman." ”

"Captain Wu, what country is France?" The thin man Mo Qing stepped forward and asked.

"A country where the girls are particularly sassy, by the sea in the far west." Zhang Xiaowu said casually, and the others hurriedly surrounded him, looking shy, especially when he heard the girls, his eyes lit up.

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said, "What? Speaking of, are you all interested? ”

"Captain Wu, you talk about it, you talk about it." Mo Qing stared at the big eyes and said shyly, "None of us have ever married a daughter-in-law, do you have a daughter-in-law?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I have never married a daughter-in-law, but if the reinforcements come, when we defeat the dogs, I invite you to go to the Qinglou and let you choose the best girl!" ”

The sergeants cheered, and Mo Qing shouted, "I want three, no, four girls!" We want big milk, we don't want big milk! ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled and gave him a kick, and the young man Tao Wang asked Old Man Tao and asked suspiciously: "Ah Weng, what is Milk?" ”