The world outside the cave has fallen asleep, only the cold wind is still raging, constantly stirring the mountains and the earth, and also stirring the lifeless Great Tomorrow and the vigorous new king of Woniu Mountain.

Lu Shi listened attentively to the movement outside, and then carefully picked up a hot steamed bun and handed it to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing bowed again, and after respectfully thanking him, he slowly ate with water.

"Is there anything else?" Lu Shi asked in a low voice while fiddling with the charcoal fire.

"Strategist, there's one more urgent matter to report to Strategist."

"Say." The charcoal fire was stirred up, and the warmth was palpable in the room.

"It was the report of the sergeant brothers who rushed back at noon today, when they went, there was no change in the township warriors and poles along the road, but when they came back, that is, in the past few days, the township warriors in various places began to strengthen their vigilance, and the strong fortresses of the landlords in various places began to be strengthened and heightened, and there were soldiers in the city as if they were facing the enemy, and some poles began to move, but the pole's impatience was definitely not aimed at those heroic fortresses."

Lu Shi's hand couldn't help but tremble, and the fire chopsticks in his hand pulled a piece of raw carbon out of the brazier, rolled it on the ground, and extinguished it.

Zhao Xing saw Lu Shi's small action, and he was silent, and continued: "The most important thing is that in our fortress township north of Woniu Mountain, there is no such sabre-rattling appearance. ”

This is the key, the south side is showing that they are waiting for the enemy, while the north side is business as usual, that can only show one thing, that is, the township Yongwei in the south may have known about our strategic transfer and southern expedition, whether it is for self-preservation or to curry favor with the officials, they have begun to prepare, and those poles are also sharpening their knives, maybe they are angry at the seized silver money and goods in Woniu Mountain, thinking of the same room to rob while the fire is fired.

But it's no wonder that his strategic transfer can only be announced in the cottage and begin to prepare, and he will definitely adopt a secrecy and unassuming attitude to the outside world.

After deciding on this strategic direction in Woniu Mountain, he began to block the news outside, and the people in the cottage absolutely only entered and did not leave, the purpose of this was to catch the officers and soldiers off guard, but under such strict monitoring, the news could leak so much?

Lu Shi tilted his head to look at Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing's face turned red rarely, and his tone became a little higher: "My brother who is a sergeant will definitely not leak anything, and I and Brother Geng Kui dare to vouch for this with our heads." ”

Lu Shi turned his head and continued to stare at the brazier with his eyes for a long time before he said, "Could it be the archers?" ”

There is such a suspicion because in this section, only the archers and the overseers go up the hill.

Zhao Xing shook his head and said cautiously: "No, the archery team goes out, and they go through the deep mountains and old forests, and they can't meet outsiders at all, not to mention, they didn't choose the direction of action in advance before they set off, and they were all random." ”

That's weird, so where could things go wrong?

The two fell into contemplation together, and for a long time, Zhao Xing opened his mouth again and again.

Lu Shi didn't look at it, but he also felt Zhao Xing's actions, and said without raising his head: "Say, there are only you and my brother here." ”

Zhao Xing swallowed his saliva fiercely, then stood up cautiously, walked to the door of the inner room, gently lifted the corner of the curtain, and saw the two children sleeping soundly, and there were bursts of whispering from time to time, it seems that even thunder will not wake them up now.

Zhao Xing quietly lowered the curtain and walked back to his seat, still looking left and right, and then leaned into Lu Shi's ear, and said softly: "That day, when the merchant was receiving the ransom outside the cottage, Deputy Commander Zhao Dahai suddenly broke away the two guards beside him, and talked a lot on the hillside with the representative of the shopkeeper who was in charge of the handover. ”

Seeing that Lu Shi only frowned slightly, Zhao Xing swallowed his saliva again and continued: "Although Deputy Commander Zhao Dahai didn't reply to the shopkeeper's words, nor did he see his expression opposite the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper suddenly knelt down, and then Zhao Dahai dropped the shopkeeper and went down the mountain. ”

Lu Shi still didn't speak.

"Later, the shopkeeper came to the cottage with a few truckloads of supplies, but the cottage has rules and is not allowed to come in and contact with people, so he was picked up by Deputy Commander Zhao Dahai in Xiaozhai, so twice."

Lu Shiji couldn't get away with this matter, so he didn't take it to heart, so he asked: "What kind of materials were the two times later?" ”

"It's all untenable stuff, and the gunpowder material we really want is the same as fine iron."

Silence, death-like silence, even the cold wind whistling outside the window seemed to stop at this time, and there was only death-like silence between heaven and earth.

The charcoal fire has begun to be close to extinguishing because no one has been playing for a long time, the temperature in the cave has plummeted and become cold, and the flickering oil lamp reflects Lu Shi's rickety figure on the wall, which is even more tired, and Zhao Xing's figure covers half of the wall, but it looks gloomy.

Zhao Xing saw that the military advisor just didn't speak, so he said cautiously: "Do you see if it's Zhao Dahai-"

Without waiting for Zhao Xing to finish speaking, Lu Shi subconsciously interrupted his words and said urgently: "No, absolutely not, we are brothers in life and death, I believe this." ”

Zhao Xing hurriedly explained: "The military advisor misunderstood, I just said that Deputy Commander Zhao Dahai inadvertently said something harmless, but under the analysis of someone with a heart, he figured out our intentions?" ”

Lu Shi nodded casually and didn't speak again, so the room fell into a dull place again.

For a long time, Lu Shi suddenly threw the fire chopsticks into the brazier, making a crisp sound, and the sound was particularly clear and piercing in this silent small cave.

Zhao Xing was shocked by this crisp sound, and the whispering of the two little guys in the inner room stopped, but in an instant, there was a sound of turning over and jumping off the ground, and then the two young people rushed out of the inner room with their upper bodies naked, and asked loudly with a guarded face: "Teacher, what sound?" Look at Lu Shi who stood up, and then look at Zhao Xing with a panicked face, the two children stood on Lu Shi's left and right guardedly, stared at Zhao Xing and said: "Wang Jian, (Zhang Xiao) See Deputy Captain Zhao." ”

Zhao Xing was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled with relief and said politely: "The two little brothers are exempt, and they visit the military division late at night to report things, and they don't want to disturb the two of them to sleep, hehehe." Seeing that the two little ones hadn't relaxed their vigilance, Zhao Xing laughed and said: "Don't worry, I've been here for two hours, and I've talked a lot with the military advisor, if I have bad intentions towards the military advisor, just you two little dead pigs, hehe-"

In this way, the two children were deflated at the time, and they drooped their heads one by one and didn't know how to speak.

Lu Shi saw a person patted on the head, and said with a smile: "Come on, hurry back, burrow into the quilt, don't catch a cold again, let's continue to dream about it." ”

Where did the two boys dare to sleep again at this time, so they hurriedly went back to the house to dress neatly, made the charcoal fire that was about to be extinguished a new one, and boiled a pot of hot water for the military advisor again, ready to ask the teacher to wash his feet before going to bed.

Seeing that they were busy here, Lu Shi smiled and said to Zhao Xing: "Brother Zhao, you have also been busy for a day and a night, see that the day is about to dawn, you hurry back, seize the time to rest, when we gather today, hold a meeting to study the information you got today." ”

Zhao Xing smiled, said hard, pushed the door out after giving a salute to the military advisor, Lu Shi also followed out to see each other, the two walked out more than a dozen steps, Lu Shi suddenly stopped, and Zhao Xing also stopped.

Lu Shi whispered: "What you said at the end of today, even when we didn't say it, no one heard it, it's good that you are a sergeant to do your duty, but don't do it all the grass and trees, it's not good after the matter is over, especially you, the sergeant, the key department, must control the scale." ”

Zhao Xing hurriedly saluted with sincere fear: "Rest assured, my brothers and I must grasp the balance and do our job well." ”

"Well, that's good, let's rest."

"Subordinate farewell." Zhao Xing saluted again, more respectfully, and then walked slowly.

As soon as he walked a few steps, he heard the military advisor say to himself: "It's time for the sergeant to expand." ”

Zhao Xing didn't stop hearing this, but his heart was already boiling, and the military advisor still trusted himself.

Back in the cave, the two children had already poured the foot-washing water, and waited for Lu Shi to finish washing his feet and go to sleep, Lu Shi sent them to continue sleeping, but he couldn't sleep at all.

I dare to seize the time to prepare for training in this Woniu Mountain, it is based on two reasons, the first is my own confidential work, I think it can be said that it is seamless, once I launch the southern expedition, it will definitely catch the government off guard, and when they react, they have already rushed over with a group of people, and they are sure that they can take the initiative.

The second is that he relies on the knowledge of future affairs, knowing that in December of the first year of Chongzhen, Guyuan border soldiers and Gao Yingxiang, Wang Jiayin in Wangfugu County will lead Yang Liu, Bu Mu, etc. will also launch an uprising next month, so that they can completely drag the border army back, or simply make the border army unable to fight, and the remaining guards and Xiangyong along the way who are not the slightest defense are not their opponents at all, and it will not be a difficult thing to turn to Weinan.

However, with the information just obtained, the government has already received the news that it will march south, no matter who leaks it intentionally or unintentionally, one thing is certain, the government has begun to mobilize the villagers and guards along the way to prepare for themselves and intercept them along the way, so the idea of speculative training for another ten days has become a stupid idea to cocoon itself and bury life.

Now, he must launch a southern expedition and kill him before the government is completely ready, or once the government is ready, then he will take tens of thousands of old and weak people into a dead place where there are pursuers behind and blockade in front.

The border army sent troops on the second day of December, and it is now November 15, and according to common sense, they still have at least half a month to ——— good.

Thinking of this, Lu Shi suddenly turned over and sat up, "The border army is fanfare all over the world to announce the date of dispatch, this is a fool who will see that it is a trick, then, now, maybe the official army has already been dispatched." ”

Thinking of this, the cold sweat on Lu Shi's back came down.

Dead, now I am in the place of death.