Chapter 146: The Battle of Jade Twin Mountains (16)
The weather from autumn to winter has gradually become shorter, otherwise, the light can be seen at four or five o'clock in the morning, and now, not only is there no light, but it is even more gloomy because of the heavy rain for days, and the coldest time of the day is also at this time.
Even Lin Feng, Li Xiaofeng and the others, who are physically strong on weekdays, are definitely a little unable to withstand the severe cold, and basically everyone can only hear their own heavy wheezing sound in their ears.
Every time you exhale a hot breath, a cloud of white gas will appear in front of you, and then it will be thrown away and quickly dissipated. Even the war horse seemed to feel a little tired, and every gasp made the soldiers on their backs feel that the war horse was breathing hard.
After all, it was a march under the torrential rain, not to mention that the war horses were not running on the vast plains, but in the muddy water with potholes, so the consumption of physical strength was naturally much faster than usual.
"Brother-in-law, take a break! Everyone's speed has slowed down, and it seems that the war horses are also tired! After Li Xiaofeng noticed this, he slammed the horse's belly twice and caught up with Lin Feng in front of him and shouted loudly.
Lin Feng naturally felt something, but he originally wanted to rest after dawn, but now that Li Xiaofeng had mentioned it, he simply nodded and agreed.
After Li Xiaofeng made a few gestures behind him, the order to stop the march quickly dispersed throughout the army, and then everyone slowly slowed down their horses, and then gradually stopped.
"Let's eat a little bit and eat more ginger to warm up! Rest for half an hour and continue on your way! After Lin Feng stopped on the side of the road, he jumped onto the grass on the side of the road as soon as he raised his legs, turned his head and shouted at the people behind him, and then leaned against the edge of a big tree and began to gasp.
The army of 10,000 men stopped in the woods on both sides of the road, and everyone began to take out the ginger pieces they carried with them and chewed them in small bites, and some of them began to stand on the side of the road and pick up the rain with both hands to quench their thirst.
Under the orderly command of the lower-ranking generals, the soldiers began to take turns leading their horses to drink the rain in the nearby potholes, and some of them took out two handfuls of horse feed from their bags to feed their horses, and the scene was harmonious.
"Brother-in-law! To give! After Li Xiaofeng finished arranging, he threw his miscellaneous horse aside to drink water, and walked towards Lin Feng with a handful of ginger, and also took out a piece and threw it to Lin Feng.
After Lin Feng took it, he opened his mouth and asked for a piece of it, and began to chew it in large gulps, when he swallowed it, he suddenly felt a warm current rise in his abdomen, and then quickly spread to his whole body.
The corners of Lin Feng's mouth suddenly raised a smile, his body leaned against the tree at will, tilted his head and said to Li Xiaofeng: "This thing is really good, it is estimated that they would not have thought that we would use this method to rush when they killed the Qi army." ”
"Haha. Yes, maybe they killed them, and they didn't understand how we marched in such a heavy rain! Li Xiaofeng also laughed proudly twice, and then threw a small piece of ginger into his mouth and chewed it.
Half an hour passed quickly, especially for those soldiers below, it was estimated that it would take half the time to take turns to line up to let their horses drink water to quench their thirst, and then solve the next personal problem, drink some water and eat some ginger or mutton, and it was already time to continue on the road.
By noon, it was already the third rest, but this time, Lin Feng arranged a little longer, an hour and a half.
In this way, everyone took out the tents that they had prepared a long time ago, looked for a suitable place in the woods to set up to cover the rain, and carried all the bags and other items they carried with them to use as small stools to sit on.
Half an hour later, basically there are not many people still standing or talking, after a long day's journey, everyone is tired, so they all begin to use all the conditions available around them to start resting, leaning on the tree, two people back to back, or lucky around a big stone can also lie down for a while. The soldiers, who had no conditions to use and did not want to be back-to-back with others, sat there alone, crossed their arms on their knees, put their heads on them, and rested for a while.
At noon on this day, there was an incident in the county government of Liangdang City, a woman wearing a set of light green clothes that was not gorgeous, wearing a hat on her head, stood at the door of the county government with a burden, when she said to the guard that she wanted to see the Marquis of Zhongwu, the guard told her with a regretful face that she was a step late, and in the early hours of the morning, the Marquis of Zhongwu had something to go out, and it was estimated that she would have to wait a few days to come back.
After the woman listened, although she was a little helpless, she had to nod, and then just when she turned around and just left a few steps, she heard a girl's voice behind her, driven by curiosity, she couldn't help but stop and turn her head to look a few more times.
Naturally, it was Xiao Qi who came out of the county office, without Lin Feng's control, Xiao Qi didn't eat today's lunch, and pulled a maid with an umbrella and hurriedly ran out of the county office, on the grounds that he had been in Liangdang City for many days, and he hadn't been anywhere yet.
When the woman saw Xiao Qi jumping out of the county office, because of the umbrella, although she only saw most of the side face, she still frowned slightly, and then stood in place and pondered for a while, before shaking her head and smiling as if self-deprecating, and then turned around and raised her feet and left the county office.
If Lin Feng was there, he would definitely be overjoyed to see this woman, because the woman in pale green clothes was the only female killer among the four holy beasts of the original Eagle Gate, Vermilion Bird.
Dongcheng in Liangdang County is the most prosperous, with all kinds of large and small shops and vendors gathering here to do business, and it can be regarded as a big local market.
After Suzaku inquired about it from passers-by, he decided to find a good inn there to stay for a while, and then go to the county government to find Lin Feng in a few days, not to mention that he came all the way, his body was soaked, and he didn't have time to eat lunch, and Suzaku at this time felt hungry and cold.
Although Liangdang City has been hit by heavy rain for many days, the shops in Dongcheng have basically not been affected, and even the vendors who set up stalls on the roadside continue to trade with large umbrellas, which is enough to prove the prosperity of Dongcheng.
Suzaku first picked out two sets of clean clothes at a medium-sized clothing store, and then went to Lan Kwai Fong, the largest restaurant in Liangdang City, by asking the shopkeeper.
It is said that the osmanthus wine brewed by the restaurant here is the best in the city, and the Suzaku who is a heroine in the women's middle school is naturally going to the name of this osmanthus wine.
"Guest officer, how many?" As soon as he entered the door, a guy with a smile on his face greeted him.
"One, an upper room, a pound of beef and mutton, and a jar of your osmanthus wine." Suzaku replied coldly, but casually put a silver ingot in the man's hand. Suzaku's head is slightly lowered so that the hat on top of his head can cover his face, a habit that has accompanied Suzaku for many years.