All the soldiers surrounded Zhang Xiaowu, their eyes were full of eagerness and emotion, this is the commander of the sympathetic soldiers, I have heard it in the mouth of the storyteller before, but after joining the army, those generals from the scholar clan will never be like this, or our adults.

The most annoying commander of the soldiers is the person who only talks and does not do empty words, cannot share weal and woe, and only enjoys, such as Huang Sheng, who can only shout from the sidelines but never leads the troops, so no matter what he does or says, no sergeant listens to the order. And Zhang Xiaowu took the lead and thought about the soldiers everywhere, no one would say that he enjoyed it, which is also the reason why he won the hearts of the people in the dead soldier camp.

"My lord, how many people have you killed?" A bold soldier asked, and everyone craned their necks, and their hearts were even more curious, saying that the ghost will kill, but how many enemies have they killed?

"I can't remember, and I don't want to think back to the people I've killed and the things I've experienced." Zhang Xiaowu smiled bitterly twice and continued: "This time we will go back to Mucheng, I will take you to the kiln first, and sleep in the boudoir without a girl. ”

The soldiers laughed insolently, and the chief couldn't help but say, "Is this too much?" ”

"Is it excessive?" Zhang Xiaowu asked.

The soldier said, "It's excessive." ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed: "It can be more excessive." ”

The soldiers were completely relieved, and they smiled even more happily, sweeping away their previous gloom.

Zhang Xiaowu said again: "Let's go back to Mucheng and rescue our brother Pao Ze first, but we will never wipe the butt of the Sixth Regiment." The Qinglong Army ordered the Sixth Regiment to garrison Mucheng, and now that the Sixth Regiment has abandoned the city and fled, we don't need to hold this city for them, just go, but if the dog doesn't come, we are the masters of Mucheng. I have experienced the battle of holding on to Tucheng, and many of you must know the final result of Tucheng, after the city was broken, the whole city was slaughtered, and no one was spared. ”

A soldier hurriedly asked, "My lord, what's going on in the battle of Tucheng?" I heard that it seems that General Shi Jing disrespected the military order twice, and when he asked him to withdraw, he was greedy and stranded, and then Tucheng was trapped, and when he was asked to hold on and wait for help, he fled with his troops without authorization? ”

"yes, I've heard that too."

"That's too disrespectful for Shi Jing, for his own merits, he will trap the whole city and the Qinglong Army in injustice."

"The people of Tucheng had a chance to escape."

"Speaking of which, he is not as good as General Cheng, at least the Sixth Regiment will be returned to the people and protected the people from Mucheng."

"That's right, that's why General Shi was given death."

Zhang Xiaowu sighed and said: "This is the statement of the imperial court to shirk responsibility, I personally experienced the battle of Tucheng, and I only said everything I saw before and after, which is diametrically opposed to the rhetoric of the imperial court. Our 27th Regiment did not receive any news of the retreat or holding out from the Raven Mountain Battalion, so I could neither leave without permission, nor did I know how long I should hold out. All the brothers should know that no defender can leave their posts without receiving the order to withdraw their troops. And in the end, the city was not broken because the 27th Regiment gave up resistance, but there was no one in the city. In the last ten days of the Battle of Tucheng, some of the women had to climb the walls to participate in the killing of the enemy. ”

Everyone took a breath of cold air, and the women were going to war, and the men in the city were not ......

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the gray cloth on the roof of the shed, as if looking at his deceased comrades-in-arms, and said slowly: "In Tucheng, men between the ages of ten and eighty are almost dead, let alone soldiers? How did General Shi hold on? The destruction of the city is inevitable, and this is not a crime of war, but a crime of the dynasty. ”

Shi Chang said with concern: "That lord, you took over the garrison envoy leopard talisman, and if you want you, you will take us away, won't you end up with Shi Jing?" ”

"I'm a prisoner in the imperial court, and I don't care about these false names." Zhang Xiaowu said proudly, "If the old man of the court wants my life, he must be able to catch up with me, and then I will let you go, and then ride the black tiger and one horse to be a horse bandit in Saibei." My parents are long gone, and my wife is dead in Tucheng, so I have nothing to worry about, so I can be willful—naughty—"

Everyone laughed again.

Zhang Xiaowu said again: "But you are different, you have grandpa and aunt, and some even have wives and children, you can't break the order to defend the wooden city for anything." Defending the wooden city is guarding the wooden city, after all, there is everything possible when people are alive, and when people die, what is the use of fame. ”

The soldiers were silent when they heard this, it is true that everyone wanted to return to the Central Plains alive, but for everyone to live, Zhang Xiaowu was asked to bear the infamy, and everyone was grateful to this ghost general who loved soldiers like a son.

The wind outside the tent sounded, some sand particles rubbed against the ground as they traveled, bringing cold air, the wind direction tonight was more special, not the north wind, but the southwest wind, the ice particles that blew down from the West Yeh Mountain hit the tent from time to time, blowing the vertical beam in the middle a little shaking.

A cold air suddenly came in from the door, someone came in, Zhang Xiaowu immediately turned around, and saw that it was Chen Guanxi.

Chen Guanxi urgently: "My lord! Five miles away, our scouts found a large force of cavalry marching along the official road, at least two or three thousand or so. They were not moving fast because of the headwind, and the scouts said they would arrive at our camp in about a moment. ”

"All the team!" Zhang Xiaowu widened his eyes, stood up suddenly, and the sudden appearance of thousands of cavalry made his heart hang all of a sudden. The entire wooden city is only 800 cavalry in the Xiao cavalry battalion, and the dead soldier battalion is only 300 cavalry, so these thousands of cavalry also means that the Inuyi forward is chasing and killing!

The Inui forward cavalry still had a quarter of an hour to arrive at the camp, and Zhang Xiaowu had no more time to think, either to flee, to dodge, or to fight, in either case, the sergeant had to assemble in the shortest possible time. He immediately shouted: "All the soldiers are ready to fight in armor, and all supplies are abandoned except for water bladders and weapons." ”

"Whoa!"

The whole camp suddenly became busy, Zhang Xiaowu returned to the camp tent to put on his armor, and re-mounted his war horse, during which his mind was always thinking at high speed about how to respond, whether to fight or flee. Obviously, three hundred against a thousand cavalry, there is no advantage in the frontal hard shock. The biggest advantage for them now is that they have found their opponents, and their opponents have not discovered them for the time being.

While he was thinking, the rope of his waist knife suddenly broke, and with a snap, the waist knife fell to the ground. Wang Yijin hurriedly picked up the waist knife and handed it over, Zhang Xiaowu took the waist knife, and was suddenly attracted by the dry grass under Wang Yijin's feet, and hurriedly said, "You take a step back." Wang Yijin hurriedly took a step back, Zhang Xiaowu jumped off the horse, squatted on the ground, tried the density and dryness of the grass, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and a strategy to kill the enemy was gradually formed in his mind.

Wang Yijin also squatted on the ground and looked at the ground, but he couldn't see anything, and asked suspiciously: "My lord, what did you drop?" Is it a money bag? ”

"I've figured out how to fight this fight." Zhang Xiaowu's eyes smiled into a line, he turned over and got on his horse and ordered: "Assemble, prepare to meet the Inuyi cavalry." ”