Three hundred neatly dressed male infantrymen escorted five hundred ragged Han men along the south bank of the Maji River to the west.

Over a low mountain, you will see a boundary monument, half a person high stone monument, one side is engraved with "Dizhou Zhuhe", the other side is engraved with "Dezhou Pyeongchang", all with red paint color, although more than ten years of lack of repair, but still look clear handwriting.

A sly smile appeared on Natan's wrinkled old face.

He really didn't have a queen, and he secretly disposed of Li Huai and Qin Feng, as a male commander of Jia, killing two Han people's subordinates, this little thing didn't need to be reported to the marshal at all, and even to the Texas general Nalan Juehu.

If Du Shunnan will trouble himself in the future, he will say that the enemy army has not taken the road he is on at all, and the two servants you sent to me have escaped for some reason on the way.

At that time, even if Nalan Juehu believes in Du Shunnan and does not believe in Natanhun, Natanhun believes that Nalan Juehu will still not really do things to Du Shunnan, and will definitely turn big things into small things, and small things will be turned into small things, and in the end, it will be over.

At this time, he didn't know that Du Shunnan had been wiped out in the Mache River.

If he knew about this, I don't know how he would feel.

Mourn for the dead male soldiers?

Rejoicing in Du Shunnan's death?

Perhaps both emotions are in the heart, and the emotions are intertwined, making people happy with sadness, and happy with sadness.

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Yangxin City, in the low and dilapidated city walls, there are not a few families left.

After tossing all night last night, and walking for another day today, Tang Qi also looked quite haggard, as soon as she walked into Yangxin City, she found a place to rest. Let the prison army Ma Butong post notices everywhere.

But at this time, there were only more than 30 people left under Ma Butong's hands, and after several battles in a row, his prison corps was also hit many times, and later scared him so much that he didn't even dare to pick up the banner of the prison army, and no one cared about his flag anyway. But the enemy doesn't think so, Ma Butong's general flag and Tang Qi's general flag are both embroidered leopard flags at the level of Zhonglang generals, and the tail swing flutters in the wind, which looks very eye-catching.

Tang Qi had just been lying down for less than two quarters of an hour, when the scout broke in and said, "General Tang, the enemy general Natanhun led eight hundred infantry and went to Dezhou along the south bank of the Maji River. ”

Tang Qi sat up, "What about the dozens of women and children in the team?" ”

The scout said, "It's gone." ”

"Oh..."Tang Qi frowned and sighed lightly.

It wasn't until Tang Qi pulled the troops into Yangxin that he got the news of the enemy's 800 infantry. Due to the lack of people and horses, Tang Qi did not order the pursuit, and asked the troops to quickly enter a state of repair.

After resting for an hour, she got up and wrote a report to the Governor of the Recruits, Ma Bufang, asking for additional recruits.

At this time, Ma Butong, who had not been very active in combat, seemed a little proud, and he also wrote two strokes on Tang Qi's recruitment plan, which was quite mysterious and did not let Tang Qi see it, and then sent a person from his own guard to Luoyang with a letterhead.

At this time, Tang Yuan also led people into Yangxin, swaggering and giggling.

Find a couple of empty houses, temporarily "borrowed".

Tang Yuan was not polite, he chose a relatively large courtyard, pried open the gate and walked in with his head up. As a result, it was also found that several nursing homes and old envoys who stayed at home called their mothers-in-law, Tang Yuan ordered, not to hurt the people, not to mess with the master's things, and to live quietly. If any stinky boy has unclean hands and feet, then you are asking for bad luck, and Captain Bendu will never spare it.

Looking around, the original owner of this house must be a big family.

The regular courtyard of the three entrances can accommodate dozens of people, and it is not a problem to squeeze 50 people, and the division belongs to the second regiment, and a quarter of the people are crowded here.

In this battle, the second regiment made great contributions, as the main general, Tang Yuan was praised by Tang Qi, and at the same time promoted him to the third-level captain, and he was about to be promoted to the captain.

This promotion speed is simply staggering, the veteran Zhang Nudu said, you kid is lucky, General Tang Qi appreciates you, after so many years of fighting, I have never seen you promoted faster. Even if it's Qi Dongyang, it's not good.

Of course Zhang Nu didn't know, at this time, Tang Qi received a reply from Tang Xiao, the seventh son of the Tang family, which said: You can use Bai Ke with confidence, and it doesn't matter if you attribute him to you, anyway, you are also our Tang family. In addition, Tang Xiao also specifically mentioned Tang Yuan in the letter.

Asked Tang Yuan if he was a member of their Tang Clan, and why he couldn't find his name in the genealogy.

Tang Qi and Seventh Brother were no big or small, and they sent back a letter saying: You were a family five hundred years ago, if you want to find him from the group genealogy, go to the genealogy of the previous dynasty, and maybe you can find a relative in Dengzhou.

After replying to the letter, Tang Yuan was promoted to a third-level lieutenant. Zhang Nu, Chen Bao, Tang Hu, Nalan Xin, Liu Zhan and others were also promoted, but the promotion range was one or two grades lower than Tang Yuan.

Lang Nalan Xin, the secretary who was awarded the rank of first-class captain, came to Tang Yuan with a bandage on his head and a waist board, and his exclusive servant.

Tilting his head, he looked at Tang Yuan with his nostrils.

Tang Yuan sat in the chair, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Are you going to die?" ”

The atmosphere was immediately ruined by Tang Yuan, Nalan Xin felt so faceless, and coughed lightly: "I said Chief Officer Tang, in front of my subordinates, can we save some face?" ”

Tang Yuan looked at Nalan Xin's servants, they were all men who were defeated in the Maji River this time, they were going to die generously, but they were persuaded by Nalan Xin and became his subordinates, this team has seventeen people, and the captain is the seventh-rank shooter Nahetutu.

Nahetutu knew some Chinese, and knew that the conversation between the two chiefs was sarcastic to each other, and he felt a little embarrassed, so he simply pretended not to understand and looked around.

"What are you looking for me for?"

"About betting."

"A bet?" Tang Yuan thought for a moment, "Oh, I remembered. yes, bet I won, and you haven't given me the money yet. ”

"Huh? Tang Yuan, we can't open our eyes and talk nonsense! ”

"What's the matter?" Tang Yuan squinted his eyebrows and glared: "Where did I talk nonsense?" ”

"You made three bets, and according to the actual situation, you won one and lost two."

"You come less, I won two."

The two young generals were arguing in the hall, and in the end, neither of them could get the silver.

"The two generals don't fight, Zhonglang will summon a meeting!" The herald stood in the doorway.

What's the matter with this person, so unruly, standing at the door and shouting?

Tang Yuan saw that he was still an old acquaintance, Hu Dagui's nephew Hu Yong.

Seeing his fellow countryman, Tang Yuan didn't blame Hu Yong for his rudeness, walked to the door, patted Hu Yong's shoulder and said, "Your kid has a big life." I heard that you were wounded while crossing the river and fell into the river. Later, when you hit Huang Zhi and were hit by a horse, you survived. ”

Hu Yong smiled embarrassedly: "Yes, God favors you." Later, my cousin found someone else and transferred me to the scout team. Now a communications herald. After a pause, he said, "Oh, my cousin is now at the blacksmith's place, repairing armor." ”

There is something in Hu Yong's words, and he means: My beautiful cousin is not with the general now, if you want her, go to her now.

Tang Yuan's expression was blank, the corners of his mouth twitched, he didn't know what to say, he couldn't say it directly: Do you think your cousin is a baby? Anyone likes her?

Tang Yuan called Zhang Nu, Chen Bao, Tang Hu, and Nalan Xin to go to the meeting together. Zhang Nu was very seriously injured, but he still asked people to carry him to the meeting, for which Tang Yuan also praised him twice, saying that the old general is not old, and he should be strong when he is old. As a result, Zhang Nu unceremoniously damaged Tang Yuan's two sentences, and the little boy made less fun of the old man.

Tang Qi sat on a tiger skin chair, the room was quiet and solemn, and all the captains, captains, and captains arrived one after another.

"We have three more days of food. Let's express our opinions and think of a way. Tang Qi didn't look anxious, and her tone was relaxed, as if she already had a solution.

The crowd was silent.

Because of the war, worried about the closure of the city, the people in the city have long been running away, although now the Liang army controls the entire Dizhou, but the people are still unwilling to come back, a large number of displaced people are rushing to cross the river, south to Shandong.

At this time, the food problem was still the biggest problem, and Tang Qi was worried all day long, but when he had a meeting, he pretended to be relaxed and asked the generals if there was any good way. At that time, everyone was speechless, but Nalan Xin said: "It is better to go to Texas and rob the enemy's grain, I know that their granary has at least three months' worth of rations." ”

Soon, Nalan Xin was drowned out by the sound of the crusade, and they all said: Are you crazy, Nalan has 30,000 horses to garrison Texas, and you let us have 2,000 people to fight Texas?

At this time, Nalan Xin said again: "It's better to go to Cangzhou, in Leling and Wudi, there are also enemy cobwebs." ”

Everyone scolded Nalan Xin again: Pucha Sujia's soldiers are no less than Nalan Juehu, what do you mean kid, are you the enemy deliberately breaking into our army's meticulous work, trying to lead us into the tiger's mouth?

At this time, Nalan Xin stopped talking.

Later, Tang Qi sent troops to fish in the river, go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, even if it is tree bark, he must prepare more in the city, in case the food supply is not available, eating these can deal with it for a while.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there is no food, and General Tang Qi has no choice but to come up with these bad ideas, stabilize the morale of the army, and hope that the logistics troops can send the food over as soon as possible.

After the meeting was dismissed, Tang Yuan first went back to the second regiment of the division to take a look, and there were still more than 100 cavalry and more than 90 infantry.

I went to the infirmary again and looked at the sixty or seventy wounded of the Second Regiment.

"The battle of the Horse Cheek River was fought badly." He sighed, went back to the courtyard, called a soldier, helped him carry his armor, and walked towards the blacksmith's shop.

Yangxin is a county seat in the end, although the local blacksmiths have fled the wilderness, but the houses are still there, the tools are also there, and it has now become a foothold for the army blacksmiths, and the three blacksmiths beat day and night, repairing armor, weapons, etc.

There are also some carpenters nearby, repairing and maintaining the baggage trucks, making tents in a hurry, and getting cloth everywhere, and they are very busy.

As soon as I walked to the blacksmith shop, I heard a clanging sound coming from inside.

As soon as he walked in the door, a female soldier came out head-on, both of whom were anxious and almost bumped into each other.

"Tang Yuan?" Hu Lanhua smiled and said, "It's such a coincidence, you also came here." ”

"Oh, my armor has been cut and deformed, come fix it."

"Show me it." Hu Orchid stretched out her hand.

Tang Yuan waved his hand, and the little soldier hurriedly handed over the armor. This little soldier, named Zhang Ga, was a little clever ghost who followed Tang Yuan all day long.

While unfolding the armor, Zhang Ga also said: "The general can fight, but he doesn't need to die in a war, you see this armor, there are a lot of injuries." Our generals were promoted quickly, and many people were still not convinced, but they didn't know that they were all exchanged for their lives. ”

"Ahem!" Tang Yuan coughed twice, signaling that Zhang Ga had spoken too much, and those blacksmiths and people who repaired weapons and armor listened to it, and the impact was not very good.

But Zhang Ga still reluctantly added two sentences: "I have to say cough, this is the case." ”

He looked rather aggrieved.

Tang Yuan pretended to be impatient and said, "Okay, okay, you're talking too much nonsense, you go out, go outside and wait." ”

Zhang Ga left.

Hu Lanhua looked at the armor and suddenly pursed her lips: "Actually, it's not a big deal, compared to my last time, it's about the same." ”

After reading it, his eyelashes drooped, his eyes squinted, and he returned the armor to Tang Yuan. She seemed to be waiting for something.

But Tang Yuan behaved unkindly, didn't understand a woman's heart, his lips curled, he snorted lightly, ignored the orchid, and went to the blacksmith with his armor.

When the blacksmith saw that it was Tang Yuan, a third-level lieutenant, he smiled, and did not stop the work in his hand, and said, "Please wait a minute, Captain Tang is now repairing another Tang general." ”

There were several Tang generals in the Tang clan, and Tang Yuan didn't think it was strange.

Other people's blacksmiths repair armor for their own people, and they originally came first, so it is natural for them to wait for a while.

But at this time, Hu Lanhua came over and said, "Lao Wang, let's repair his shoulders first." The deformation is too severe, in case the enemy army is killed now, it will not be able to wear it. Seeing that the blacksmith hesitated, she added, "He still has a wound on his shoulder." ”

Wang Tiejun gave Hu Lanhua a lot of face, shook his head and smiled, threw the armor of General Tang aside, took Tang Yuan's shoulder armor, and said: "This knife is hard enough, it stands to reason that the injury on your shoulder is not light." Ordinary people, even if they have armor to protect themselves, the bones in their shoulders will be broken. ”

Tang Yuan looked at the door, there was a small soldier poking his head into the house, he should have sent the armor for the general and handed it over to the blacksmith to repair, but at this time, he was stuffed by Tang Yuan, and his face looked a little unhappy.

Tang Yuan waved his hand at him and said, "I only repair one shoulder armor, and after I finish repairing, I will repair your general's immediately." It won't take too long. ”

The soldier shook his head and pouted.

At this time, there was a shouting sound outside the door, and when he heard the tone, it was a general, "I asked you to come and repair my armor, why haven't you finished it in the past half a day?" ”

The soldier whispered something back.

Suddenly, a louder voice from the general came from outside the door: "What? Stuffed? You get out of the way for me, I want to see who else in the fourth division can add me to the plug besides Tang Qi! ”

This person's good tone is arrogant, and he doesn't even seem to pay attention to the prison army Ma Butong, the school captain Dianhan, the pawn owl, and Chen Duo.

At this time, Blacksmith Wang was a little panicked, and quickly put Tang Yuan's armor aside, grabbed the man's armor again, and struck it violently.

A short time later, a man dressed in brocade walked in with his hands in his belt. His eyes swept over Tang Yuan's body, he didn't care, he saw Hu Orchid again, and suddenly smiled with a smile on his face, and said, "Hey~, isn't this Captain Hu." I said, in our four divisions, who can add my stopper. Hey. ”

This person is Tang Xi, the captain of the first brigade and one regiment, the son of the Tang clan lord who is serious about eight hundred, and the son of Tang Xiao's second uncle, he can't fight, but the ten servants he brought, but the martial arts are not weak, if it weren't for those ten people who protect him at all times, it is estimated that he will die many times.

After several fierce battles, this kid was very scared, and he always shouted that he wanted to go home, stop fighting, and didn't want to mix military achievements in the army. But the family disagreed, especially the father Tang Zhong, who said, if your kid dares to run back, I won't recognize you as a son.

In fact, he didn't say anything big, in the fourth division of the temporary, except for Tang Qi, he really didn't pay attention to anyone else.

"Oh, Captain Hu, I won't tell you, even if Zhonglang is going to repair the armor, I think it should be behind me, because this armor is not mine."

"Whose is that?"

"The eldest son and grandson of the Tang family, the eldest young master Tang Qing."

"What?!"