In the early morning of Xiaoyangchun in winter, slightly with a little warmth of yesterday, steaming up bursts of mist, in the forest in Shangluo Mountain, slowly drifting like a light yarn, a group of birds who don't know what their names chirped in the primeval forest, and were turned back by the distant peaks, which seemed more crisp, but these birdsongs, not only did not destroy the quiet of the early morning, but more and more set off the comfort of this early morning.

At this time, a slightly stronger wind blew, and the light yarn was lifted, and I saw that on the leeward side behind a big hugging tree, a man wearing a tattered pole and holding a cherry spear was hiding behind the tree with his neck bent and dozing.

This was the sentry post sent by the Bibi on the edge of the camp, and it was also the persistence of the night, and at this time it was true that he could not hold on any longer, so, when it was bright and it was safe to come, he took a nap, and then waited for his companions to come and change the guard.

There was a rustle of footsteps in the distance, and the sentry was not awakened, for he was too sleepy, and this comfortable morning was the perfect place to get some sleep.

A small leader of Li Zicheng's righteous army, wearing half of the upper body armor, with more than a dozen subordinates, walked out in the faint morning mist, and saw the lack of sentry last night from a distance.

The little leader who came was none other than Wang Xiaoshun, who had just entered Li Zicheng's personal army. Wang Xiaoshun should not have been on duty that day, but the old fairy Shang Jiong brought the bad news that Lu Shi was chasing after him with 10,000 cavalry, and this news immediately made Li Zicheng, the king of Da Chuang, and his brothers nervous.

Li Zicheng can ignore the dozens of poles around his resting place, and he can also despise the 30,000 officers and troops of Hong Chengchou who is squatting in Zhuyang Pass, Henan, but he definitely does not dare to despise the 10,000 horses of Lu Shi's thieves.

Yes, it is nervous, because, he is in Ji County, and he has already learned Lu Shi's combat power, especially in Ji County, what he is facing is not actually the real main force of Lu Shi's thieves, but the so-called garrison, that is, according to Shang Jiong's old immortals, it is the second-class military of Lu Shi's thieves.

After hearing the news, Li Zicheng was surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh.

Lu Shi's second-class military force is so strong, so if his so-called spearmen are taken out, what kind of combat power is it? And as we all know, cavalry is the most powerful force in this era, and Lu Shi brought all his cavalry at one time this time, if so, he will fight against him, what kind of situation will it be? Thinking about it makes my back cold, I lost myself at the beginning of the near future, and I have to discuss with everyone, in order to supply the army, in order to survive this difficult spring famine, I am ready to take 100,000 horses and send troops to Shaanxi, the only food in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and once again compete with Lu Shi for the foundation with the power of mourning soldiers. But now it seems that I have found the wrong direction and seen the wrong direction.

Don't give up the idea now, but he Lu Shi already seems to feel his threat to him, and he has always changed his passive defensive nature, and has become active in attacking, and this time Lu Shi's first active attack is himself, which is really going to kill people.

Now he has to make a decision, take these subordinates to find a way out, and before this decision comes out, it is necessary to spread the sentry to guard against the sneak attack of Lu Shi's cavalry, he knows that the cavalry can be hundreds of miles a day, and it is easy to kill himself by surprise.

So, before dawn this morning, he sent his henchman, Wang Xiaoshun, who was the most steady, to come out to check the sentry. Then he told all the big leaders to get together and continue with the agenda that had not been discussed yesterday.

Wang Xiaoshun received the personal order of King Da Chuang, and immediately crawled out of the hot bed, took his brothers, and came out to inspect regardless of fatigue.

Along the way, I saw that most of those sentries were quite dedicated, and they were sticking to their posts without slacking off, which made me very happy, and I couldn't help but be secretly happy in my heart.

Turning around a dozen big trees, I found that the pickled thing was lazy behind the tree, and I couldn't help but be angry, when is this, the big enemies on all sides are looking around, especially Lu Shi's thief has already gone out on the expedition, and he can't say when he will kill him, at this time, you still dare to be lazy, aren't you looking for death?

So, a few steps rushed forward and raised the whip.

This hurried and huge footsteps suddenly woke up the good dream of the sentry returning to the cage, and he looked up in amazement, but saw the black shadow of a whip and hit it on his head and face.

The sentry immediately realized that this was going to be bad, and it must be the leader of the patrol who had come, and it seemed that he was going to give an account of this today.

So, while covering his head and face with his arms, he rolled and wailed and begged for mercy, hoping that this little leader would be kind after whipping himself for a while, and not hand himself over to the king of Da Chuang to deal with, at this time the temper of the king of Da Chuang was irritable and ruthless, and killing people was simply commonplace.

The whip rained mercilessly on the lazy sentry, whipping the already shabby and unseemly cotton jacket even worse, and pieces of dirty cotton wool flew around with the rise and fall of the whip, but the sentry couldn't help but let go of a big stone in his heart when he saw the person coming in his cry, because after he saw the person, he knew that he was just being whipped for a while, and the consequences of cutting off his head would not happen again.

"Brother Xiaoshun, Brother Xiaoshun spares his life." The sentry later called the little leader by name and begged for mercy.

Hearing the sentry who was whipped by himself shouting his name and begging for mercy, Wang Xiaoshun's hand slowed down, and then carefully identified the person who was already covered in blood, only to find that it was a pole under his hand when he had not yet entered the Dachuang Wang's army as the leader, speaking of which, he was still very compatible with him, so he stopped angrily, but he didn't forget to go up and scold him. "You bastard, when did this happen? Does the enemy know at the moment? It is impossible to say that in the blink of an eye, the enemy has reached the left near, and you, as the farthest early warning post, are sleeping here again, if the enemy touches it, will you not kill everyone? ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The sentry knelt on the ground, and he didn't care about wiping the blood on his head, and kowtowed to Wang Xiaoshun again and again, "It's all small and bad, please Brother Xiaoshun, it's General Xiaoshun's kindness, don't hand me over to King Da Chuang." ”

Wang Xiaoshun took a breath, spat at the second son who was kneeling on the ground with hatred, and whispered, "Get up." Turning around and looking into the distance for a while, to see that his vision was either blocked by the dense primeval forest, or surrounded by the light mist, and he could no longer see anything beyond three zhang, so he could only give up, and looked back to see that the second son was still standing up, holding the cherry spear tightly with his cowering hands, but he let the blood on his face flow from the whip of his own horsewhip, and couldn't help but sigh and whispered: "Slack off military affairs, it should have been handed over to the chief whistle Liu Ye to send down." ”

Saying this, the two sons were so frightened that they almost peed their pants. If you hand yourself over to King Da Chuang, it will be just a pain, but if you hand yourself over to the chief whistle Liu Ye, then you must be worse than dead, because everyone knows that the chief whistle Liu Ye rectifies people, it is a combination of all means, and it will make people regret how they did themselves.

Looking at the frightened second son, Wang Xiaoshun frowned slightly, and said in a low voice again: "Look at your bear appearance, we are good after all, how can we do that?" Wipe the blood off your face. ”

After getting Wang Xiaoshun's assurance, the second son breathed a sigh of relief, quickly wiped a few handfuls on his face with his broken sleeves, and then said words of gratitude to Wang Xiaoshun again to please him.

It's okay if he doesn't wipe it, but he wiped it randomly, but he made a big face, Wang Xiaoshun saw it, and couldn't help laughing, along with Wang Xiaoshun's personal soldiers, they also laughed together, only the second son who didn't know why was stupid there, and laughed with hehe.

However, this smile eased the original solemn atmosphere.

After laughing for a while, Wang Xiaoshun took his mouth and blamed the second son: "You and my brother, I will spare you this time, but you are also an old man summoned by King Da Chuang, and you should know the dangerous environment we are in now, how can you be so slack?" It's okay now, if the enemy army sneaks up on us in your direction, the hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters in the valley in the distance will suffer, so be sure to pay attention next time. ”

Listening to the tone of Brother Wang Xiaoshun, who had already ascended the throne, the second son was even more relieved, so he muttered to himself: "Brother Wang, it's not that I'm lazy to sleep, it's true that I can't stand it." ”

"How?" Wang Xiaoshun asked casually.

"What's the matter, isn't it still difficult now?" The second son took a few steps forward with the cherry spear in his arms, and then muttered and complained.

"Every day, we soldiers have to gather together to practice as soon as the sun comes out, you don't look at the simple walking around, and the simple assassination, that step and two steps are nothing, easy and simple, but, most of the day you look at it, that is physical work, a day is like this, you can still persevere, but every day like this, who can afford it? At the beginning, our food was okay, and everyone could still hold on, but then it didn't work, and now, we can only eat a bowl of dry rice in the morning, and a bowl of gruel in the evening, how can this work? That bowl of gruel is just a matter of pouring urine, if you eat and sleep, you can still survive until dawn, and then let us go out to stay overnight, how can we stand this night with an empty stomach? ”

This is the truth, Wang Xiaoshun also knows that even his own personal soldiers who are the kings are only half full a day, not to mention these soldiers, if you look at the old and weak of those old battalions with the army, it is even more unbearable, even the bowl of dry rice in the morning is not allowed, alas-

"Okay, okay, don't complain, hold on for a while, as long as King Da Chuang comes up with the charter, our life will be better." Wang Xiaoshun waved his hand impatiently to interrupt the complaint of this former brother, and was just about to say something, suddenly, Wang Xiaoshun felt a tightness all over his body, as if danger was approaching him, and was about to shout to remind everyone, but saw countless short arrows flying out like locusts behind several huge old trees, Wang Xiaoshun just opened his mouth and didn't wait for a sound, and his whole body was immediately shot into a hedgehog.

"Enemy attack—"