At the foot of the mountain, there was a camp on the side of the official road, and the big banner with the word Chen on the flagpole fluttered in the wind, but the defenders in the camp suffered heavy casualties, and a soldier fell beside the beacon tower, with several feathered arrows stuck behind him, and the one on the back of the head hit the point.

He had lost his breath and the torch he was clutching in his right hand had been extinguished, apparently shot as he was about to light a beacon to warn him.

Two Zhou soldiers in black uniforms stepped forward and lifted them down the blood-stained steps, where there was a morgue outside the camp where the bodies of many Chen soldiers had been parked.

"Hey, it's a man, he was hit by a few arrows and struggled to run up, if it wasn't for that arrow hitting the vital point, I'm afraid he would have really set him on fire." The soldier walking in front said, and the soldier walking behind also nodded when he heard this.

"Ah Guo, what do you say is happening to Yanji now?" The soldier in front said again, and the soldier walking behind was distracted, and only after the other party said it again did he come back to his senses and say that Yanji was fine.

"It's not that we haven't seen the camp of the official army in Yanji, do you think the Chen army can attack it?" The soldier smiled and added that he was the same Zhang Xutuo who had been bent on joining the army and now got his wish.

Zhang Xutuo Ziguo is a recruit recruited by the Hulin Army this year, and he is also one of the few newly recruited soldiers who have words.

Zhang Xutuo made a small profit with this extra income, and saved a lot of money along with the military salary in a few months, and finally brought it home to subsidize the family.

"That's it, last time I waited for the Chen army stationed in Yanji to beat the attacking Chen army to the ground, it's really nice to think about it!" The soldier in front said with a smile, "I hope that after the war here is over, I will go back and have a share to guard Yanji." ”

The two walked to the morgue while talking and put the body on the ground, next to more than a dozen people were digging pits to prepare for the burial of the dead, they were the surviving soldiers of the Chen army, so they were working as coolies under the supervision of the Zhou army, and they could be regarded as doing their last part for their comrades.

After the battle between the two armies is over, the victorious side will clean up the battlefield, and most of them will dig pits to bury the dead in battle, mainly to prevent the corpses exposed to the wilderness from decomposing and smelling, attracting mosquitoes and flies to form a plague, and secondly, out of mercy.

No one wants to expose the corpse to the wilderness and die without a place to be buried, although it is a joint burial pit, but it is finally settled, and the body is spared the pain of being bitten by snakes, insects, rats and ants.

Zhang Xutuo and his companion Liu Hulu stood on the edge of the pit and watched, looking at the corpse with a hideous face and a bloody smell but there was no discomfort, they had been in the army since the beginning of the year to now it has been seven months, but since participating in the first Nandu operation, they have grown into qualified soldiers after the baptism of war.

The training of the Hulin Army is very tiring, and the intensity of training for three days and one day off is rare in other armies, even so, they have only been soldiers for more than four months when they first crossed the south, and the loss is that the mode of combining the old and the new has not collapsed, and the Chen army is not very good at fighting with the army, so the recruits quickly adapted to the battlefield.

On the bloody battlefield, watching the living people howling and waving their weapons rushing towards them, watching them die under their own guns, watching their comrades being shot by stray arrows and splashing their faces with blood, everyone has become accustomed to it after bloody scenes again and again.

"Fighting instead of training" This is what Yuwen envoy said at the conference, and the actual effect is really good, after the first time he went south to fight, he repaired for a period of time, and when he went south for the second time, everyone was reborn and no longer timid, and all the skills that were practiced weekdays could be played normally.

Soldiers who died in battle were given undiscounted pensions, meritorious soldiers were given real rewards, and soldiers who violated military orders were punished exactly what was right.

Zhang Xutuo read the historical records when he knew that the Qin people were happy when they heard the war during the Warring States Period, although the Hulin Army had not yet reached the point of fanaticism, but it was a fact that the soldiers were not timid when they heard the battle, and Yuwen Envoy Jun commanded the army to take advantage of the boats and ships to attack and harass the Fengsui Sentinel Fort of the Chen Army in the south of the Yangtze River, and there was a vague effect of cavalry raiding and disturbing the battle.

In particular, the three clever seizures of Wuchang and then retreated, turning Wuchang into a trap for the Chen army, not only their own losses were small but also captured a lot, the first thing that the thousands of captives assigned to Bazhou did was to dig ditches and repair water conservancy, if it was according to the division of the state government, if it really became a place, then the area of arable fields would be doubled.

If there is land, there will be grain, and if there is grain, there will be soldiers, and if the soldiers have made meritorious contributions in the war, they can divide the fields, so they are not afraid of war, and if they win the war, they can capture more prisoners to repair water conservancy, and if there is no flood, they can open up wasteland, so there is more land.

Thinking about the young Lang Jun who should be the same age as himself, he can train so much and raise soldiers like this, Zhang Xutuo is very admiring and eager to participate in the war, the rewards and punishments of the Hulin Army are clear, and the promotion is based on military merits, although his merits have not yet reached the point of being promoted, but the period is not far away.

Yuwen envoy Jun kept looking for opportunities to let the Hulin Army have a battle, a battle means that the opportunity to make meritorious service is indispensable, not to mention the reward after meritorious service, just the division of the field is fascinating, so the problem also follows: the more meritorious people, the more fierce the competition for promotion.

There are more monks and less porridge, and now everyone in the team has made contributions, not only receiving heavy rewards, but also eyeing the position of the chief, the chief and the deputy are veterans who will be promoted sooner or later, so everyone is holding back the strength to make meritorious contributions and strive for promotion, thinking of this, he is also cheering for himself.

Zhang Xutuo was distracted and had returned to the camp with Liu Hulu, according to the instructions of the chief and other comrades to inspect various places to prepare for the deployment, they were originally stationed in Yanji and then rotated back to Jiangbei to rest, seeing that the Chen army had signs of a large-scale invasion of Yanji, they were waiting for reinforcements to Yanji, but they did not expect to be transferred east to Qizhou Prefecture to help Qichang.

After arriving at Qichang City, they found that they had a large army stationed, and everyone felt that the existing troops were enough to force the Chen army to be unable to attack the city, so they wondered, and as a result, they came to a night march to the east, but fortunately, the Hulin Army often practiced night marches on weekdays, so it was not difficult, and Yuwen personally led the troops, so everyone's morale was high.

The other army in the same group was led by Zhou Envoy Jun of Hengzhou Assassin History, which was Zhou Envoy Jun's troops, and he also marched at night without hesitation, and the two sides marched together not only did not pull each other's hind legs, but fought bravely to be the first, and the marching speed was increased a lot under the competition with each other.

The official army arrived at this Chen army camp in the early morning, and suddenly took the stronghold that the other party had just taken from the Sui army in one fell swoop, leaving some people to guard the camp after the main force continued to move forward non-stop, according to the guide, this is the last camp before going out of the mountain, and after leaving the mountain is the Jinzhou boundary.

It was the territory of the Hezhou Governor's Mansion of the Sui State.

"Could it be that you are going to fight the Sui army?" A soldier asked, and was immediately laughed and scolded and said that he was afraid that he could not do it, and that last year's decisive battle at Lianghekou was the same as the decisive battle of the imperial army that was still the Zhou army at that time, and it was won after a bloody battle.

"I'm scared, I just think it's weird!"

Because everyone already knew that the Zhou State and the Sui State were in full swing, but the Huangzhou Governor's Office did not need to send troops north to fight the Sui army, so many people had some doubts about the purpose of this march.

Chen Jun had already run in front of him, and he was still in the mood to provoke the Sui army, and the soldiers were a little puzzled by Yuwen Envoy's approach, of course, they just couldn't figure it out, they didn't think that Yuwen Envoy would be confused.

Since the formation of the army, under the command of Yuwen Envoy, the Tiger Forest Army has fought bloody battles and won many victories, and no one in the whole army has any doubts about Yuwen Envoy's judgment.

"In my opinion, something big happened in Jinju, and the officials and soldiers are trying to fish in troubled waters." Zhang Xutuo expressed his opinion, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him expectantly, he coughed dryly.

Jinju is located east of Qizhou, a narrow strip of land north of the Yangtze River and the southeastern foothills of Dabie Mountain, and together with the prefectures under the Hezhou Governor's Office and the Jiangbei Prefectures of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, it was Chen's territory three years ago.

At that time, the Zhou army sent a multi-way army to attack Jiangbei and Huainan states and took them in one fell swoop, and all the states and counties north of the Yangtze River in Chen Guo were lost, but it was not expected that two years ago, Emperor Tianyuan of Zhou suddenly controlled Bintian, followed by large-scale civil strife, the Huangzhou Governor's Office at the western foot of Dabie Mountain was under the rule of Anzhou Governor, and the Hezhou Governor's Mansion at the eastern foot was on the side of Yang Jian, the prime minister of Zhou and Sui Guogong at that time.

At the beginning of this year, Yang Jian usurped the throne to replace Zhou with the Sui Dynasty, and the Hezhou Governor's Mansion became the border of the Sui State.

"In my opinion, it was the Chen army in Jiangnan who went north to rob and rob the state governor to take over." This is Zhang Xutuo's judgment, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he wants to gallop on the battlefield in the future, and his horizons are much broader than ordinary people, and he also has his own opinions on current affairs.

He saw everyone looking at him blankly, smiled bitterly in his heart, coughed dryly, looked around, and then said in a low voice: Jinzhou is in the north of the Jiang, and the south bank on the other side of the river is the Jiangzhou of the Chen State, where heavy troops are gathered to guard it on weekdays, but now the Hezhou Governor's Office is busy dealing with the Zhou army in the north, and it is inevitable that it will be overwhelmed and easy to be taken advantage of by the Chen army.

"What does that have to do with our army?" Someone asked, and the rest of the people also nodded silently, they couldn't understand what the war on the territory of the Hezhou Governor's Mansion of the Sui State had to do with Huangzhou, and the officials and troops were busy dealing with the Chen army in Yingzhou, where did they still have the leisure to worry about the territory of Jinzhou.

Yuwen Xingtai is gathering the main force to fight with the Sui army at the boundary of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and he will not be hot-headed and run to the easternmost Jinzhou to grab territory, just relying on the strength of the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion to deal with the Chen army in Yingzhou is still sufficient, if he provokes the Chen army in Jiangzhou, I am afraid that it will be overstretched.

Zhang Xutuo saw that he was a little anxious about playing the piano with the cow, but he couldn't explain it too clearly, lest his colleagues become more confused the more he listened, and finally thought of a more appropriate and easy-to-understand statement after holding it for a long time:

"Well, Chen Jun wants to climb over the wall to steal the widow next door, and Yuwen is in a hurry to catch the traitor!" (To be continued.) )