Before dawn, Shi Feng of Guishanzhi County had already mobilized 8,460 taels of silver and 950 stone of military rations from the city, in addition to coarse clothes and linen and other clothes for heating and some weapons and armor. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the amount is not large, it can also meet the urgent needs of the moment.

Shen Xi personally led most of the soldiers and horses to be stationed outside the city, and before dawn Shen Xi asked people to escort money, food and materials to the camp, while he himself waited until after dawn before leaving.

Shen Xi stayed in the city of Huizhou for a day and two nights, and suddenly killed when he came, and then opened the court to solve the case, and the trial was concluded after twists and turns, and finally beheaded Song Kuang and the mountain bandits, and also made people panic in the banquet of Guishan County, but when he left, he was much more low-key, no one sent him, and he just took a carriage out of the city.

Even when he went out of the city, he had just fallen asleep and made up for sleep in the carriage.

The sky was overcast, it was a March day, and there was more rain on the ground in Guangdong, and the army had not yet left the boundary of Guishan County, and it began to rain in the spring.

This is also the difficulty that Shen Xi expected before the expedition, he did not personally go to crusade against the mountain bandits of Elephant Head Mountain, but it only took two hours before and after to break through the cottage, if it encounters a rainy day like today, it is possible to spend ten days and half a month.

The large team followed the official road and prepared to pass all the way through Pingshan and Ebu Ridge to Haifeng.

Shen Xi knew almost nothing about the situation of the sea fleet, and when he arrived at the agreed Haimen Station, Shen Xi's infantry and cavalry could not contact the fleet, and the fleet would try to avoid war with the bandits.

If there were really a large number of bandits entrenched in the coastal mountains and small islands along the way, Shen Xi would divide his troops to attack after taking Nanao Island.

Among the people who accompanied the army, some were very special.

Not to mention Yu Niang and her entourage, there is also Jiang Liwei, who has become a prisoner, and the brocade guard he brings.

Jiang Liwei's subordinates were not guilty, because they were not involved in corruption and bribery, and it was only Jiang Liwei, the chief official, who was guilty, and the evidence was conclusive and he could not deny it.

Even Yu Niang only pleaded for Jiang Liwei, not exonerated him.

Jiang Liwei was locked in a prisoner car and escorted out of Huizhou City, and went north with the army. In the end, it was Shen Xi who showed mercy and asked people to find a canvas to cover the prisoner car, but as soon as the wind blew, Jiang Liwei had to find a place to drill, even so, his body was quickly soaked, and on a cold March day, the only thing that would end up soaking his whole body was to quickly catch the wind cold.

On the ninth day of March, in the evening, the rain finally stopped.

Ordinary soldiers were rarely treated as horse-drawn carriages, and after a day's journey, they had to camp in the wasteland outside the post house, and the conditions were extremely difficult.

After the tent was lowered, the ground was wet, and even if it was covered with oiled paper and canvas, it still could not completely isolate the rain, and the night was unusually wet and cold.

Shen Xi, as the commander of the three armies, can sleep in a post house, which is also the benefit of the land march, taking the official road, and even if the fleet docked during the previous southern expedition, it was a barren place, after all, the Ming Dynasty forbade the sea, and it was more difficult to find a complete residence by the sea than to ascend to the sky.

After settling down, Shen Xi came out of the room, and at this time the post house was busy inside and outside.

The army with more than 100 households will open a small stove in the post house, and the soldiers in the camp will set up camp tents and start to bury the stove and make a fire, and at the same time, the officers and soldiers with duties will have errands to do, such as feeding the horses and digging and building special latrines according to Shen Xi's words.

Although it looked chaotic, it was orderly in the chaos, and the officers and men performed their duties, even if they did not have any errands, they all hurried into the tent and slept with their heads covered, because they had to keep vigil in shifts at night.

"My lord, there are the last generals and others watching outside, so you can go and rest first. This ghost weather doesn't look like a spring in March, but like a cold winter wax moon! Jing Yue came over and said with concern.

Shen Xi waved his hand: "This officer is leading the troops outside, how can he only care about his own enjoyment and ignore the life and death of the soldiers of the three armies?" Go, follow me to the camp! ”

Jing Yue took his own soldiers and entered the camp with Shen Xi.

When the officers and soldiers saw the presence of the Governor, they all stood up and saluted.

There are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, the camp is not very large, the soldiers do not have the conditions to bathe and change clothes, and they are dirty all day long, but no one pays attention to those at this time, and it is not easy to have food to eat and hot water to drink on the way out.

"Don't get up, do your thing."

Shen Xi was saying this everywhere he went, and many soldiers couldn't understand his words, so someone needed to translate them.

This is also an inconvenient point when Shen Xi led the army to fight, the officers and soldiers under his command came from the three provinces, and the Chinese language has always been broad and profound, people on this side of the mountain can't understand what is said on the other side of the mountain, and the soldiers with the army rarely read, they don't know much, and they may not even understand the official language.

Shen Xi walked around the camp and finally arrived in front of Jiang Liwei's tent.

At this time, Jiang Liwei was still wearing shackles, and he had just been helped out of the carriage by the soldiers, and his whole person looked shriveled, and he didn't even notice Shen Xi's arrival.

Someone brought a crockpot of hot soup into the tent, Jiang Li didn't say a word, picked up the crockpot and began to pour "goo dong" and "goo dong" into his stomach, the appearance was so miserable that even Shen Xi couldn't help but look away when he saw it.

When the people were far away, Jing Yue said disdainfully: "It's also Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si Zhenfu, it seems that it's just that." ”

Shen Xi said: "That's because his bad luck fell into my hands, if he returns to the capital, even some high-ranking officials of the third or fourth grade in the court must give him three points of thin noodles, otherwise when the court cane, some officials will die at the palace gate." ”

Jing Yue didn't know much about the Daming factory guard system, he only knew that these people had a lot of power, but it was not clear to what extent. What Shen Xi said is the unique court staff system of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor sees which civil official is not pleasing to the eye, and can directly court the staff, and the executors are mostly Jinyi guards, and occasionally there are Dongchang factory guards to implement.

After Shen Xi finished patrolling the camp, he went to the main tent in the army and sat down, and ate some hot soup and rice sent by the leading soldiers, which can be regarded as sharing joys and sorrows with the soldiers. When he returned to the post house, Shen Xi couldn't help but have an itchy throat, coughed several times in a row, shook his head and sighed: "Unexpectedly, not long after leaving Guangzhou, I was sick. ”

Jing Yue said: "My lord, you have worked too hard, it is better to rest more." ”

Shen Xi nodded.

During the day, because of the rain and the cold weather, the humidity was heavy, and he was very uncomfortable at this time, so he wanted to go back to the room, and before he could reach the door of the room, he saw a jade girl in men's clothes waiting there, Shen Xi didn't give her a chance to speak, waved his hand, signaled to the idle Mo Ti, and wanted to excuse Jiang Liwei, but there was no door.

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Before dawn the next day, the army set out from camp.

Shen Xi dragged his tired body out of the post house, and actually heard the howl of a wolf coming from the wilderness in the distance. At this time, Lingnan was not thoroughly developed, and the policy of changing the land and returning it to the river led to the intensification of the contradictions between the government and the people, and even the official roads were not very peaceful, and the wolf was a trivial matter, and the biggest danger was the bandits, but even if the bandits were bold, they did not dare to fight head-on with the officials and soldiers.

The thieves in these years are very conscious, thieves are always thieves, and no matter how tough they are in the face of the army, they can only avoid it.

Shen Xi looked at the sky and saw the dazzling star in the night sky, proving that it would be a good weather next, the carriage had already rushed over, and Shen Xi waved his hand: "The weather is good, this official is riding a horse." ”

Jing Yue hurriedly came over to persuade: "My lord, you were sick yesterday, it is better to take a car." ”

"No, if you are sick, you should ride a horse, and after two days of bumping in the carriage, it is estimated that the bones will fall apart." Shen Xi said, let people lead the horse, jump on the horse, and walk with the soldiers of the three armies.

After riding a horse all morning, Shen Xi was sleepy, and had to return to the carriage honestly in the afternoon.

Yesterday it was rainy and rainy, but today the sun is shining brightly, and the temperature has risen sharply. By noon, the officers and men couldn't help but untie their plackets, take out the inner layer of clothes and put them into their baggage, but it didn't matter how much they wore inside, but the outer layer of military uniform leather was necessary.

It's still March, and the temperature is not too cold or too hot, and if it's really a cold winter or a dog day, the march alone will be a great offense, let alone a battlefield confrontation.

When it's hot, you have to drink water, the next day is basically along the Xijiang River, the soldiers can go to the river to fill water when they are thirsty, and when they break at noon, the Shenxi soldiers take turns to go to the shallows on the right side of the river to take a bath, it happens to be hot, and after washing, you can change into clean and refreshing clothes.

Of course, there was no way to do laundry at this time, because there was no place to dry after washing, but there was still the old soldier who washed his underwear, and directly carried a branch behind his back when he was marching, and hung his clothes on it.

By the afternoon march, many soldiers followed suit, and from a distance it did not look like a marching procession at all, but as a group of scholars carrying baskets of books to take the exam, and their clothes were colorful, most of them with patches.

In this era of extremely backward productivity, it is not a shame to have patches on clothes, the most important thing is that there are no holes, who has many patches on their clothes, and the sewing of needles and threads is a kind of glory, indicating that their mother-in-law and aunt are good.

The veteran oil likes to compare this, but those recruits will not, because many of them have not married a wife and had children, and if the clothes are torn, they either make up for them themselves, or the old lady of the family or sisters-in-law, sisters and other female relatives help, even if the sewing is good, it does not mean that they can marry a good female lady in the future.

Shen Xi is the best treatment here, he will not go to the river to take a bath, and the post house will provide him with a separate bath bucket and hot water when he sleeps at night.

There are no civilian officials in the army, and there are no eunuchs to supervise the army, Shen Xi has an outstanding position in the army, even if he is "corrupt", others will take it for granted, and after the war a few years ago, Shen Xi's status in the army can be shaken, even those generals and colonels have nothing to do with him, and they want Shen Xi to pay more attention to them, maybe they can be promoted and reused in the future.

On the night of the 10th day of the first month of March, the army did not camp around the post house, but stayed in the wilderness at night, and the soldiers cut through thorns and thorns to sort out the open space, in addition to setting up tents, they also had to dig toilets, drainage canals, and guard trenches, and set up tripwires and fences on the outer edges to prevent the enemy from attacking the camp at night.

The most lively part of the evening is the period between the end of the meal and the time before resting, when there are bonfires everywhere in the barracks, and the soldiers sit around the fire with weapons and listen to the old soldiers brag, mostly about women.

They also want to talk more about their experience on the battlefield, but it's a pity that even the veteran Youzi is just a smooth person, they don't have much experience on the battlefield, and the only decent resume is to follow Shen Xiping bandits a few years ago, which is what they are most proud of.

Shen Xi sat quietly in his big tent, feeling extremely lonely at this time, missing his wife and children at home, and missing the watery tenderness of Hui Niang and Li Jin, but the most lost thing in his heart was to be in such a closed era.

Shen Xi thought that he had adapted to the life of the indigenous people of the Ming Dynasty, but whenever he calmed down and was lonely, he still remembered all kinds of things in his previous life.

Although he was alone in that life, he was better than having developed information, learned a lot of knowledge, and had a full heart.

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