The thunder was rolling, the rain was pouring down, the soldiers stood motionless in the rain, and the atmosphere was about to collapse.

Lan Qianjun walked up to the fish male horse and said:

"Father-in-law, the killing is ominous, and I also ask my father-in-law to write to the emperor again to explain the situation, and my brothers also wrote to the emperor to explain the reason......"

After hearing this, Father-in-law Yu whipped Lan Qianjun in the face and scolded:

"Little bunny, are you going to rebel?"

Hearing this, Lan Qianzhen stopped the horsewhip in his hand, looked back at Gonggong Yu and Taichengwei, and turned his face to Maoren,

At this time, a young woman with a child in her arms broke free from the defenders.

There wasn't much clothing wrapped around her, and this struggle almost **** had to kneel at Lan Qianzhen's feet

"General, General! I beg you! If you kill me, please let this child go, he has only been born for a few days! ”

As he spoke, he stuffed the swaddling clothes into Lan Qianzhen's arms.

Lan Qianzhen couldn't figure out why he took over this child at that time,

Although the child is still young, he does not seem to be frightened by the soldiers.

On the contrary, he smiled and stretched out his little hand to Lan Qianzhen, which made people can't help but want to tease,

Suddenly a flash of lightning struck, and thunder roared,

Lan Qianzhen subconsciously took the child into his arms,

And the child's hand grasped his garment,

also peeked at this Lan Qianzhen, laughing while watching.

Looking at the child in his arms, Lan Qianzhen trembled, and couldn't help but let out a wheezing sound in his throat,

Everyone present was silent, the border soldiers and Taichengwei slowly pressed their hands on the knife, and Yugonggong also dragged his horse and slowly retreated to Taichengwei.

Lan Qianzhen's face was bloody, and he saw his mother praying at his feet,

saw the Mao captives who survived,

I saw my brother and sergeant waiting for my next order,

saw the decisive fish father-in-law,

Lan Qianzhen's wheezing sound became louder and louder, and finally turned into a heart-rending scream,

His eyes were blood-red, and he jerked up the baby in his arms and slammed it to the ground.

The mother at her feet screamed in despair,

Lan Qianzhen grabbed his mother's hair, pulled out his waist knife, and yelled:

"Come, I'll reunite your mother and son!" A knife through the heart, and then kicked the corpse away,

Lan Qianzhen still couldn't stop trembling, and he squeezed out two words from between his teeth:

"Slaughter the city!"

And Lan Qianjun gritted his teeth so that he didn't shout, he regretted leading the troops this time, such a military feat is indisputable.

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(The night before)

The night was so dark that it almost obscured the light of the torches,

The sky that had just rained was like pushing clouds of rain to the ground

In fact, if there were no fog clouds in the woods, it would really come down

It is not appropriate to say that it is a forest, because this radius of hundreds of miles is densely packed with trees that cannot drill rats

One after another, one branch after another, one leaf after another, one leaf tired of one leaf,

I can't see the end, I can't see the light, only the rain that comes here several times a day,

If there were people in the cracks of these trees, the rain they got must have been a day ago, because it was still falling on the trees today

Don't say it, there are really people in this hellish place, and it's not one, it's a group

It's not just a group of people, it's a group of soldiers who are encamped

Although the whole camp was in the forest, it was looking for a piece of high ground

At the edge of the heights, a man-high fence was erected, and at regular intervals there were arrow towers, and the outside of the fence was filled with sharpened stakes for antlers, and a moat was dug outside the antlers, and the water was drawn from a nearby creek and several drainage canals in the camp, and the forest was cut down nearly a hundred paces wide

In and out of the camp can only go to the south of the walled gate, and the gate of the walled gate is also built to make a drawbridge,

At this time, it was the second half of the night, and there was no light in the other tents except for the boss's tent and lights.

There was no sound in the camp except the footsteps of the night patrol sergeants, dreams, grinding teeth, the groans of the wounded, nothing was heard,

From the outside, no one could tell that this was a camp with an army of 20,000 people

It can be seen that the commander in the army is by no means an idle person

Of course, some people can make a sound, and the officers also turn a blind eye, because these people can easily fall asleep and not stand on duty if they don't find something to do

No, the two guys on the arrow tower on the side of the gate are chatting happily

"Hey, look at what those two guys are doing on the tower opposite."

One soldier elbowed the other, and the two looked towards the other tower of the gate, and in the dim light of the fire, one soldier on the tower lowered his voice and babbled and sang, while the other jumped up and down, stamping his feet to the beat

"Groove, he's a guy, there's really that Yaxing, singing in the middle of the night is not afraid to lure the ghost over"

"Don't say it, there are two brushes for pole singing, last year we went to Tianfu Road to suppress bandits, and the local opera troupe sang so well. It's good to listen to, but it's weird, and that tone is very difficult to learn. At that time, 8,000 brothers learned the pole together. ”

"He'll hum those two sentences, and he'll be done with it."

"The two sentences are also a play, don't you see him every time he snorts, the girls and girls in the camp are fascinated."

"Alas~! You call it a pot that doesn't open and which pot you don't mention. If this is in Luoyan Pass, even if it is out of the jam as a scout, the labor and management are at home. This, what the hell is this place, labor and management I am the border army iron cavalry guarding the five towns of Beiting, what are you doing here after walking 3,000 miles to the south! Where did Linan's town army go? ”

"you, you think it's just homesickness? If this would be in Houyingtun, the labor and management would have eaten my mother's stewed meat and slept with their daughter-in-law in their arms. However, when he said that he ran so far this time, I heard that the southern army was bought, and it was unreliable, so the emperor personally ordered the military aircraft department to transfer the soldiers of the five towns to the south, and the general of our Jialan was appointed. ”

"tired, buy it? You didn't see these Mao people who were caught by us a few days ago, all of them were colorless, dressed like flowers, and they were happier than seeing their grandfather when they picked up the leftover garbage we ate. If you really have the money to buy off the entire town military government, why don't you spend more money to prepare more dry food? I don't have to rob it! ”

After speaking, the military master spat on the ground, and then said:

"But when it comes to General Jialan, that's this!" As he spoke, he stretched out his thumb, "A month ago, I received the order to march south, first send the quartermaster out, hand over the defense of Luoyan Pass to General Nangong, point up 20,000 strong, one person with three horses and run to the south, ten days to travel 2,000 miles, along the way the horses are short of horses, people are hungry to feed, and the supply of grain and grass has not been broken." ”

Here's another interjection to:

"I slept on horseback for ten days! General Lan is really a god, there are people to answer wherever he goes, the grain, grass and horses are all ready, and my three horses have all been changed. ”

"I was on horseback for ten days! How else can I say that General Lan is the first general of my Taizheng Dynasty? Sent quartermasters in advance, let the post station and the state capital be equipped with supplies along the way, and marched two thousand miles in ten days to Zhongzhou City, and the Zhongzhou Taishou thought that the north was coming, and he was so frightened that he slipped through the south gate, hahaha! ”

"Hahaha, I heard that the bachelor of the Military Aircraft Department directly played the emperor and beheaded that Taishou. This group of people in charge usually bullied the people, but they didn't see a battle, so they were scared to death, they deserved it! ”

"When I arrived in Zhongzhou, the people of Marshall did not stop, lifted two legs and climbed across the plank road, entered Tianfu City, and then immediately took a boat to the south, and arrived in Linan three days in advance."

"Thankfully, it arrived early. At that time, I also scolded Linan for raining a lot, the weather was hot, like a steamer, now I think about it, I was fortunate to sleep for those three days, there are girls in Linan City, which is like this ghost place, every day except for rain is rain, the bow can't be used, and the glue is all open! ”

"The guns can't be lit, and the gunpowder is all wet into fire mud."

"Fortunately, General Lan asked the military department in advance to allocate five thousand steel crossbows, that thing is not easy to find, there is almost a jiazi no one to use, if we don't have these things, we can really only go out with knives to cut people. You said that our Five Towns athletes were originally cutting in the north, why did they fall here? ”

"What are you talking about, what is the meaning of chopping, labor and management are a meow!"

"Okay, you, your father followed that kind of king twenty years ago, just moved into Houyingtun, your land will be assigned to my house, you know all day long to come to my house to steal fruit to eat, if it weren't for my mother's kindness, I would have broken your leg a long time ago." You said you were a whooper, okay, the last time you hit the Iron Department, you rushed into the crowd first, the number of captives is one of the best, and you robbed a girl, you are really not soft. ”

"Your mother is good to me, I can remember clearly, I can give your family a cow after beating the iron, and I can make clothes for your mother in the imperial city silk of thousands of households. Don't say it, when I was a child, I didn't feel anything about being with cattle and sheep all day long, but the last time I went into the tent to grab something, I really vomited the smell. ”

After speaking, both of them laughed loudly, attracting several arrow towers around them to look over, and the two immediately lowered their heads, and whispered:

"Don't laugh so loudly, stand guard!"

"You laugh so loudly that you attract people, but you blame me?"

"Cut. Alas, let me tell you, the girls are really good, the bottom is tight, the back is warped, and the top is fat, how about grabbing one back next time you hit you? ”

"Don't talk about it, I have a mother-in-law at home, if you really dare to grab one back, your sister-in-law won't tear me apart."

"Managed by the wife, each"

"Just your cow......"

Before the two of them stumbled over their mouths, they heard movement in the woods, and immediately set up a crossbow and sent a signal to the arrow tower next to them, and several people followed the firelight to watch closely at the place where the sound came from, only to see a group of people in the dark carrying more than a dozen large wooden boxes to the camp gate, and took the lead in shouting: "Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen!" Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows! We are the messengers of the Mao tribe, come to visit your general, don't let go of the arrows! ”

"Stand still! What's in the box? The soldier on the tower asked deeply

"It's a greeting gift for your generals! A few military masters, let's go in! ”

Such a loud sound has alarmed the hundred households patrolling the night, and the hundred households led the night patrol team to the gate of Dazhai, and the soldiers on the arrow tower made gestures to the hundred households, indicating that there were not many people. Baihu said, "Let them open the box and see what's inside!" ”

The soldiers on the turret shouted to the group: "Open the box!" ”

The leader of the Mao people's envoy nodded to the people behind him, and the boxes were opened one by one, and at that moment, even the dark clouds suppressed the sky were brightly found

The soldier looked at the box and muttered to his companion:

"I especially understand how the Southern Army was bought."

At this time, in the camp of the Chinese army, Lan Qianzhen was reviewing the documents sent by each battalion, and the lights were flickering, illuminating his face from time to time, making it difficult to guess his mood; His brows were tightly knit, and he was only slightly comforted when he occasionally approved some papers, Lan Qianzhen was not handsome, his face was thick but not stupid, his eyes were resolute, and he seemed to attack like an eagle falcon at any time. His younger brother Deputy General Lan Qianjun is very similar to him in figure and appearance, but there is less bloody spirit of fighting on the battlefield, and more composure in strategizing, at this time Lan Qianjun is standing behind his brother like a brown bear standing alone, looking directly at the map

"Third brother, we have been out of Linan for almost a month, and we have walked three hundred miles to the southwest, and it is becoming more and more difficult for Linan to deliver food, and if we go any further, I am afraid that the brothers will starve."

Lan Qianzhen put down the pen, rubbed his eyes, and picked up the copper needle to pluck the wick

"I'm more worried about the miasma in the south than starving, but fortunately, Tianfu Taishou has prepared medicine, and the brothers are unwell?"

"The injuries were within normal ranges, and there was no outbreak of the plague."

"Well, that's good. This time, the quartermaster and this Tianfu Taishou are very good, and I have already added their names to the list of meritorious heroes. What is the morale of the brethren? ”

"As long as you lead the troops, when has the morale ever been low?"

After hearing this, Lan Qianzhen stopped what he was doing, and a wry smile crossed his face

"My father was the same back then, but what was the result?"

Lan Qianjun turned around, patted his eldest brother on the shoulder, and said:

"Dad, he asks for benevolence and benevolence, and it is considered a place to die, we just need to take care of the current affairs."

"Hmm."

After being silent for a while, Lan Qianjun asked with a little doubt:

"I've heard that Mao people know witchcraft."

Lan Qianzhen replied without thinking about it:

"Tibetan scholars still say that Dajue teaches witchcraft to confuse people."

"No, big brother, I'm talking about the real demon law."

Lan Qianzhen glanced back at his brother, picked up the pen and continued to review the paperwork

Lan Qianjun saw that his brother did not express his disgust with this topic, so he continued to speak

"Brother, even at the beginning of my Dazheng Dynasty, there were only tens of thousands of people in a small Maoren tribe, and it has been almost two hundred years since Emperor Gaozu inherited the mandate of heaven. So many more savage and threatening tribes are not dealing with it, and they want to exterminate such a small Mao people; Such a small tribe has been hunted down by the imperial court for two hundred years and has not been exterminated, and there are still thousands of people left. Now that the emperor has appointed the eldest brother, you will lead the elite of the northern army to the south to exterminate it, this is not an ordinary military order! ”

"Qianjun, this only shows that our Lan family has finally been favored by God again."

"I'm just afraid it's self-inflicted."

"So what should I do?!" Lan Qianzhen threw down his pen and stood up from his chair, turning to stare at his brother

"So what should I do? Resistance? That way our heads move faster! ”

Lan Qianjun staggered his brother's gaze and sighed, "I just suggested that we use a more flexible way. ”

Lan Qianzhen also sighed, patted his younger brother's shoulder, and straightened his brother's clothes

"Brother, life is not something you can choose."

"But my brother ......"

Before the words fell, the guard at the door heard a voice: "My lord! The Mao messenger asks to see! ”

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled, and Lan Qianzhen immediately sat down on the chair, as if to say, "It's time to come!" ”

Then he shouted the order: "Messenger of the Mao people! ”