6

Back at the camp, Mo Huan directly slammed his helmet on the bed, and A sat down at the head of the bed without being puzzled. Seeing that there was no one around, tears poured out of her eyes.

A strong sense of powerlessness swept over her, as if she was watching the fall of Jieshi City but could not do anything about it. Although he can be regarded as a general, the old fritters in the army will not take a stinky general made by a teenage girl in his eyes, and he is submissive to her on the surface, and it is Shi Zhi who secretly controls the affairs of the size of the stone. Even most people think that she is the three fires of the new official, holding chicken feathers as arrows. But what about her? If there is no obstacle to the stone, such a toss is her making a fuss and even using public favoritism. If something goes wrong with Jieshi, she can't afford to pay these people for her sin of delaying the fighter.

At the turn of autumn and winter, the cold wind howls at night, and the cracks in the window lattices make the wind make a playful sound. The candles in the house were unlit, and the cold color of the autumn moon was stained on the window paper, as cold as frost and snow. The darkness in his eyes reminded Mo Huan of his days in the orphanage, and for a while, the spirit and majesty of the general who made it in front of everyone made the night swallow up nothing.

In the orphanage, those children who are loved by the teacher will form a group and bully those children who are not valued or left alone, and often the mistakes made collectively will be blamed on one or two marginal children, and the teacher will gladly accept this shirk, so that his love for the valued children will not be affected by individual circumstances. As for the children who are used as scapegoats, the little black house is the best way to solve everything. Without rhetoric, without resentful revenge, loneliness and darkness will make all grievances powerless, and ultimately force marginalized children to continue to compromise with the group and reality.

"I'm not going to be a scapegoat for this!"

This strong desire rolled over and over again in her heart. She tried to think back to how Zhong Min was mixed up in a place like Xiacheng District, and how Yuan Xian commanded the Red Dragon Army, which was full of heroes, with her own strength, but she couldn't figure these two people on herself.

At ordinary times, Mo Huan, who had been tossing and turning all night, finally got up from the bed. Although the fire in the house was still burning and the bedding was filled with thick new cotton, she still felt the coolness outside the gate.

When I went out in armor, the blue-purple sky was still silent. Just as she was about to cheer up for today, she suddenly heard some rustling sounds behind the courtyard, and she didn't know who got up as early as her. She suddenly thought that the treasury in the city was next to the back of her courtyard, so didn't she enter the villain at this time?

She climbed to the roof through the courtyard wall, and saw two people in military officer clothes talking behind the treasury in the courtyard next door, one of whom she recognized at a glance as Shi Zhi, and the other she had never seen before, but she could tell from the clothes that he was the one who managed the logistics. Mo Huan looked at the trolleys and carriages parked around the treasury, and probably knew that this person should be an officer responsible for transporting supplies to the front line. Maybe I didn't have a chance to meet yesterday, but today I should rush to the front again.

"But what's the point of these two talking here?" Mo Huan was suspicious, so he saw Shi Zhi take out a heavy cloth bag and hand it to the quartermaster. And the quartermaster groped for something out of the bag, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a silver tael with white flowers.

7

After breakfast for the whole army, the supply convoy formed a long line. Just as he was about to set off, he saw Mo Huan with a team of men and horses intercepting him.

"General Mo Huan, what is this doing?" The quartermaster asked.

"Military supply is a major matter, I received an order from General Yuan Xian, to take care of the supplies along the way, so I need to check here to ensure that there are no omissions, so I hope to hand over the supply list to me for inspection."

The quartermaster frowned after hearing this, but Mo Huan was one level older than him after all, so he had no choice but to say: "Although I want to cooperate with the general to inspect, but the military affairs are urgent, and the supply content is complicated, it may be difficult to understand it for half an hour after the inspection." Moreover, the list has been inspected and sealed by the Shanhaiguan battalion, and the responsibility of delaying the hour and opening the envelope at will is not affordable for the lower officials. ”

"It's okay, before leaving, General Yuan Xian gave me the fire paint military seal for the inspection of military supplies. As for saying that the time is wrong, you can report my inspection to General Yuan Xian, and I will bear the blame. As he spoke, Mo Huan stretched out his hand in front of the quartermaster.

"How can you have a fire paint military seal?"

The quartermaster was about to have a quarrel with Mo Huan, when Shi Zhi walked out of the send-off team and said, "Since General Mo has given the order, you and I just need to obey." He gave the quartermaster a look when he bowed his head, and this look was noticed by Mo Huan, so that she had a bad premonition.

"In that case," said the quartermaster, pulling out a list from his sleeve, which opened with the dragon pattern fire paint of the Shanhaiguan camp. Mo Huan carefully opened the seal, leaving half of the fire paint on it, and then handed it to the clerk for transcription and inspection.

As the quartermaster said, the supply items were very complicated, and there were hundreds of items on the list alone. Looking at the chariots and horses, they lined up from the city gate to the treasury, and there were thousands of soldiers pushing the chariots and horses alone. After half an hour, the soldiers began to report the numbers one by one, and the clerk checked the numbers on the transcribed list one by one.

"Eleven thousand stones of brown rice."

"4,200 liters of polished rice."

"One hundred and fifty bundles of short bows and arrows."

"One hundred and eighty bundles of crossbows."

"Three hundred stone shells."

"One hundred and eighty incendiary bombs."

"Two thousand bridles."

……

Mo Huan stood behind the clerk, and when he saw that every item in the report came up, one item on the list was crossed out by the clerk. However, the more complete the items, the more anxious Mo Huan became. Early this morning, I clearly saw that after Shi Zhi talked with the quartermaster, three carriages had secretly driven out of the treasury, and the list was well painted, and there was no trace of fraud. Could it be that Shi Zhi thought of striking first because of yesterday's incident, so the two deliberately cooperated with a play to show her in the morning, in order to deliberately lure her to check the military quartermaster.

After muttering like this, another half an hour passed, and I saw the clerk draw a bar on the last item of the list, and Mo Huan's heart felt half cold when he clicked.

"General, the inspection is complete, and there is nothing missing."

Without waiting for Mo Huan to speak, the military quartermaster who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward first and said: "Since it is correct, please reseal the fire paint and exchange the list, I will leave as soon as possible." ”

However, Mo Huan didn't have any military seals at all, and she said that it was entirely because she was confident that she could find out the problem in this batch of supplies.

"How is this good, I said that I would make a move here, and I didn't want to be led by this ruffian as soon as I came. If I had violated the military rules for this, and I had been punished by the above, I would have lost the important land of Jieshi to me. On weekdays, Zhong Min encounters this kind of problem, and he is trying to find a way to make a deal with someone, but how can these two people trade, and what can make them feel profitable? ”

"General, please return my list as soon as possible." The quartermaster urged again, and at this time, Shi Zhi on the side was ready to watch the excitement.

Sweat flowed from the iron helmet, wetting the fine hair of Mo Huan's sideburns, and was blown cold by the howling north wind. She held the knife tightly in her right hand, and if it weren't for the hilt, she would have cut the palm of her hand.

"General Mo doesn't think there's anything else wrong, does he?" Shi Zhi couldn't help but say on the side.

"I ......" Mo Huan was hesitating how to save the scene, and suddenly saw her catch a glimpse of the city gate frame that was broken last night, and now she was standing there upright, but she always felt that something was more or less wrong. She looked at it more closely, and the more she looked, the more familiar it became. Suddenly, I saw her pick up the list and walk towards the convoy, and when she came to the car pulling the wood, she asked, "Is this car a stone cannon material?" ”

"General Hui, it is the framework of the Xiangyang cannon."

Hearing this, Shi Zhi, who was originally leisurely on the side, suddenly walked quickly, and before he could react, he saw Mo Huan lift the cloth cover and slash at the cart of wood. I saw a cart of wood broken in an instant, and the brush revealed a pink and white section.

"General, what is this doing?"

Mo Huan picked up a piece of wood chips, his face was angry, but his heart was happy. "Let me ask you, what should the wooden frame of this Xiangyang cannon be made of?"

Before Shi Zhi and the quartermaster who arrived came to come up with a statement, the soldiers in charge of transportation on the side spoke first. "Back to the general, when you use fir or pine soaked in cooked tung oil."

"See, every soldier knows that it is fir or sylvestris pine soaked in tung oil, and you are good, that is, the surface of the red pine wood that has just come down from the mountain is painted. I thought it wasn't going to be a cut of corners in the first place! ”

"This, the lower officials don't know, the lower officials don't know." Seeing that the evidence was conclusive, the quartermaster hurriedly said that he didn't know, but the pale color on his face and the cold sweat on his face had made it clear that he had nothing to do with the matter.

"Don't say anything, you know everything in this team, why don't you know it here? Or is there anyone in this city that you dare not provoke? Mo Huan took advantage of the situation to ask, but even if the knife had to be on his neck, the quartermaster still refused to spit out a word. Someone," Mo Huan then instructed, "examine this material carefully, and see how many things are shoddy." In addition, the person's personal belongings will be thoroughly investigated, and if there is anything you don't understand, it will be reported immediately. ”

After a while, I saw a soldier find a burlap bag from under the car, which looked heavy, and Mo Huan went up with a knife to see the white flowers and silver rolling all over the ground.

"These silver taels are yours?" In the face of Mo Huan's questioning, the quartermaster was so frightened that he couldn't say a word. Immediately after another soldier reported that the arrows of the crossbow were mixed with wooden poles, she asked the crossbowmen in the city to check the arrows under their hands and in the warehouse, and sure enough, they found that there were many new arrows mixed in, no more than no less than the number of wooden poles added.

At noon, all the inspections were over, and Mo Huan put the results in front of everyone and said at the same time: "Today, when I checked the military supplies, I found that many of the materials that should have been on the original list were shoddy, and these materials appeared in our garrison. After careful investigation, I found that the number of materials replaced did not coincide with the city defense materials I asked for a few days ago. I would like to ask my brothers, who in this army can do this? As she spoke, she threw her gaze to the side and pretended to be calm.

"Actually, I won't hide it from you, my inspection today was not a sudden idea, but in the early morning I saw the quartermaster conspiring with this person, and then a carriage drove out of the treasury."

"I'm afraid the general's words are empty words, how can you prove that the silver was given to him by me?"

Mo Huan suddenly smirked, "When did I say that you bribed the quartermaster with silver in exchange for him selling the supplies to you?" ”

"This, this is not just the silver that was found out......"

At this time, the brothers must have also understood. Bribing officials and buying and selling military supplies without permission is punishable in the event of an emergency in military affairs. ”

As soon as Mo Huan's words came out, Shi Zhi immediately jumped up, "You don't dare to kill me, my uncle is a ...... of the White Dragon Army."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Mo Huan's hand raise and fall, and Shi Zhi's head rolled on the ground. "It doesn't matter who your uncle is, the general will not be subject to the order of the foreign monarch, how can you strictly enforce military law if you don't behead it?"

Her move instantly attracted the cheers of the surrounding Red Dragon Army, and they all talked about it, as long as it was from Yuan Xian's account, even if she was a young lieutenant general, she was a ruthless character who could afford to let go. However, the people in the rear camp of the Canglong Army were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and the quartermaster had already collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud.

Mo Huan wiped the blood from the tip of the knife and leaned in front of the quartermaster. "What's so terrible about you, you don't restore the original after three months? However, you are still indispensable in this mission to transport military supplies, and you will be taught to make up for it. If I can make up for the general's needs and reach General Yuan Xian smoothly, I will all attribute today's affairs to Shi Zhi. ”

Just when Mo Huan thought that everything had been solved and he could smoothly take charge of things the size of the Jieshi, so as to keep the grain road steadily, an alarm suddenly sounded from the tower on the sea side. The moment the alarm bell rang, it seemed that everyone was stuck in what had just happened, only Mo Huan rushed straight to the tower in the southeast of the city.

She climbed the tower in three steps and two feet, and saw that the noon sun was shining, and a gray and black shadow appeared at the end of the sparkling sea level, and the stars were dotted together, about hundreds. When she looked closer, she saw that the sails were blue and white.

"It's the fleet of the Northern Front!"