Quan You led his comrades to walk on the snowy streets, they had just finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and were now going to the front gate to replace the shift, and today was Chinese New Year's Eve, and they were on duty at night to let the comrades of the previous shift go home and reunite with their families.

Snowflakes fell like catkins, and a group of people carried lanterns with their backs to the cold wind and stepped on the snow on the street floor to make creaking footsteps, because they were wearing boots, so their feet did not feel cold, and the clothes on their bodies were very warm so that the cold wind could not penetrate and make people feel cold.

"This is much better than last year," thought Quan You, these poor military households, who had their military salaries deducted from their salaries on weekdays, and owed a lot of debts, not to mention that they had enough to eat, and even their military uniforms were in tatters.

It's okay on a hot day, it's really not good, just bare-chested, if in winter, especially when it snows, you have to stuff some straw in your military uniform, you have to stuff some straw into it, and you can brave the wind and snow to travel, and every winter night on duty, I don't know how many state soldiers give frostbite.

The new Yuwen envoy sent Yang Sima to rectify the state soldiers, and all the generals who deducted the military pay and drank the blood of the soldiers on weekdays were dismissed, and the uniforms and boots were all newly made, and the materials were sufficient, and there was no cutting corners, so the state soldiers were finally able to warm up and spend a winter.

Quan You and some of his comrades were promoted to manage the soldiers, thanks to the grace of Yuwen Envoy, his family and all other military families got rid of debts that had not been paid off in several lifetimes and lived a good life, in view of this, he decided to be loyal to his duty to repay the kindness of Yuwen Envoy Jun and Yang Sima.

Chinese New Year's Eve is a day for the whole family to reunite, although it was arranged to guard the city gate, but Quan You has no complaints, the four city gates in the southeast and northwest of Xiyang City, except for the south gate, the other three city gates are guarded by Yuwen Envoy's soldiers tonight, only this south gate is in charge of the state soldiers led by Quan You, this critical moment is entrusted with a heavy responsibility, which shows that Yang Sima trusts him very much, so he must live up to his trust.

After a handover, all have and their colleagues smoothly took over and began to be on duty for the night, and from now on they will not be able to go home to rest until tomorrow, although it is harder, but the double 'night fee' has been sent to everyone in advance, so no one has mentioned it anymore.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has been eaten anyway, there is nothing to do, stay up one night and have double the night fee, what is bad about that, sleepy is sleepy, but go home tomorrow to make up for sleep!

"Come, come, come. This is what I brought from home, and everyone tastes it. "Quan You took out some cooking cakes and pickles from the food box and distributed them to the soldiers, although everyone ate Chinese New Year's Eve before coming over for shifts, many of them may not be able to eat anything good because of their family constraints.

This is the pickles that were just distributed today, only the team is above and above is eligible for points, and they all thought that everyone was working hard tonight, so they mixed their share and distributed it together with the cooking cakes to the comrades who were on duty together.

When everyone was eating cooking cakes and pickles in shelter from the wind, three people walked slowly on the street in front of them, two of whom seemed to be carrying something, and when they were about to send someone to ask, they saw clearly that the lantern in front of them was holding a lantern with the Bazhou Prefecture Government written on it.

"It seems that the king sent someone to treat us?" A soldier expressed his opinion, and he called Liang Ding and Quan Youjia three households apart, which is considered an old acquaintance. Quan You frowned, looked at the carriage slowly approaching the city gate, and after a moment of silence, he motioned for a few people to come forward and ask what was going on.

"Everyone be careful, the state government didn't say that it would send someone to reward the army at this time."

Liang Ding said that it must have been arranged by Sima Yang, and there are often 'big surprises' such as surprise inspections and emergency gatherings on weekdays, and it seems that there is a real big surprise tonight.

Seeing that his comrades were a little lax, he couldn't help but feel uneasy, tonight is a special city defense that can't tolerate a trace of slackness, Yuwen Envoy Jun doesn't know how many people he has offended during this time, just to prevent the other party from counterattacking.

Some big families in the city must have grievances in their hearts after being rectified, and the patriarch of the Natian clan outside the city is no better, if the other party comes to meet on this Chinese New Year's Eve, I am afraid that something big will happen.

There is also the Lu clan in Bahe City on the east side of Xiyang, seeing that Yuwen made Jun move the Tian family, this strong man may not have the reason for the rabbit to die and the fox to be sad, if he comes to take advantage of the fire to rob, I am afraid it will make people anxious.

Therefore, tonight, the west gate, the north gate, and the east gate are the first to be guarded, lest anyone from outside enter the city. Outside the south gate is the riverside, and it is said that if the people outside go around, it is easy for the defenders of the city gate on the east and west sides to find out, but they still can't be taken lightly.

After the soldiers who came forward to interrogate and the person who came said a few words, Lu Xise immediately asked the other party to stop in front of the city gate, and the two who carried a flat shoulder carried a wine jar and said: "Yang Sima asked us to send it, this is just warm wine, everyone while it's hot!" ”

Seeing that the soldiers were looking forward to him, he was crying out in his heart, now it is the night of duty, how can there be a reason to send wine to reward, what if he is drunk and delays his business?

He used to be a big-headed soldier and didn't manage people much, but now he is in charge of the fifty people in the team, if he is loose, he is afraid that there will be chaos, but he is strict, everyone looks down on weekdays, and when he looks up, he is afraid of hurting the harmony.

I am often entangled in this matter, and now it is a dilemma: if I drink, I am afraid that someone will get drunk, if I don't let you drink, then it is freezing and I don't let my subordinates drink some wine to warm up, and it seems that there is something unkind.

"The whole team, if there is a token, it must be the wine sent by Yang Sima, and everyone will definitely not drink too much." Liang Ding said on the side. He saw that Quan You's tangled look and knew what it was for, and the rest of the people around him kept persuading: "The whole team." I'll just drink some later, and I won't make a mistake. ”

Seeing that several of them were saying this, and the soldiers also had an expectant expression, they couldn't be willing to be evildoers: "Then drink a little bit, don't overdo it." ”

"Not too much, not too much!" Everyone nodded yes in a hurry, and all of them pressed the knife to watch the other party open the wine jar.

A burst of warmth came out of the altar, and the person who delivered the wine quickly explained that the wine was specially warmed before it was delivered, after all, it was cold and frozen, and everyone had to drink it warmer, and it was a lot more troublesome.

Worried that the wine had been drugged, he let the other party try it, and stared intently at the man who scooped up the wine with a gourd and drank it all. After a while, there was no abnormality, and he asked another soldier to come forward and take a scoop and drink it, and after a while, he hesitated a little when he saw that it was fine.

"The whole team, this must be no problem, hurry up and let everyone take advantage of the heat." Liang Ding said on the side, and nodded a little to signal everyone to hurry over and drink the warm wine.

The sentries at the gates also came down and drank while they were hot. After a while, all the soldiers guarding the gate had warmed their stomachs with wine, and the last one wiped the corners of their mouths after drinking, but suddenly found two gourd scoops in the wine jar.

'There was only one gourd scoop when I tasted the wine, what was going on?' Quan You was about to say something but felt dizzy, and the surrounding soldiers staggered down one by one as if drunk.

"Wine has" Quan Youyou fell to the ground before he finished speaking, and when the three people saw this, they whistled, and then a group of figures poured out on the street in the distance. They hurried towards the city gate, and the clanging sound on their bodies was the sound of the collision of the nails.

"Hurry, hurry"

Before the man could finish speaking, all the people who had fallen around him suddenly got up and rushed towards the steps of the city, and before the three of them could react, he had already run five or six steps.

He had drunk but only half a scoop of wine, so although he was dizzy just now, he had not yet fainted, and when he found that his comrades had fallen to the ground, he knew that something was wrong and simply pretended to fall.

The other party did this nothing more than to seize the city gate, his comrades had already fallen, and he could only take advantage of the other party's negligence to rush up to the city tower to warn, as long as the gongs and drums on the city tower could be sounded. Or even just ringing that is a warning.

Yang Sima entrusted me with an important task, even if he died, he must not let the city gate fall silently like this!

Quan You's movements were very fast, and he saw that he was about to come to the bottom of the steps to climb the city, but he was knocked down by a person from behind, and then the two rolled on the ground and beat each other, he struggled to punch the other party down, and was just about to get up, but saw that the person turned out to be his comrade Liang Ding.

Gu couldn't be surprised, he got up and was about to continue to run forward, but was surrounded by the three people who came later, the other party wanted to rush up with more people to subdue him, but he was knocked to the ground by three or two blows, all of them looked back and saw that the people who attacked the city gate were about to run in front of him, so anxious to pull out his legs and run, but he was pulled down by Liang Ding's legs again.

"Ah Ding, what are you doing! Why be their lackey! Quan You desperately kicked his feet and tried to kick Liang Ding away but failed to do so, he could shout, but the shouting alone could not spread far, only rushing to the city tower and striking the gong could play a warning role.

After such a delay, the three people pounced on Quan You, and Quan You looked at Liang Ding's eyes and shouted: "You dare to collude with thieves!" Are you worthy of Yuwen Envoy Jun and Yang Sima! Ungrateful, ungrateful! ”

Before he finished speaking, he was kicked by someone, his stomach hurt so much that his body curled up together, and he was finally relieved, but there was a person standing in front of him, looking down at him. The man's face was illuminated by the lantern by the city gate, making him recognize it as his old boss, the military lord Tian Yuansheng.

"Ungrateful?" After Tian Yuansheng finished speaking, he kicked all of them in the stomach again, "You are the ungrateful white-eyed wolf!" ”

Quan You was put up and pulled his hair and raised his head to look at Tian Yuansheng, he watched the group of people under Tian Yuansheng run towards the city gate, and was about to struggle when he was punched in the face: "Be honest!" ”

He looked at the chubby-looking old boss in front of him who seemed to be very kind, and he struggled to spit but was dodged, Tian Yuansheng immediately punched him in the abdomen: "White-eyed wolf!" ”

"Who borrowed the money when you can't afford to buy food on weekdays?" "Who forgives you when you can't afford to pay back the profits?" "Dare to help outsiders deal with me? Ungrateful! ”

Quan You's abdomen was beaten a few times in a row and he retched in pain, he barely raised his head and looked at Tian Yuansheng, and understood everything in his heart: one of the masterminds behind those who deducted military salaries and lent usury was this Tian Yuansheng.

You are in arrears of military salaries, forcing our family to have no rice to go to the pot and can only find someone to borrow usury, but the usury is what you did, how many people have been forced to ruin their families and what kind of kindness do they say!

When Yang Sima rectified the state soldiers, because he couldn't catch the big handle, he just raised Tian Yuansheng into the air. The other party is also very honest, and he readily accepts all the disposals, without complaining, and now it seems that this cunning snake is the worst person, just like a coiled poisonous snake, it bites people today!

One person pulled out a dagger and was about to wipe all his neck, but was stopped by Liang Ding: "Military master! There was a time when the lard was blinded, and please don't go to your heart. If he is gone, there will be no old ones in the house."

"If you are a bodhisattva, you can do it, so that you can spare him a dog's life!"

"How about letting him see how you teach Yuwen Wen?"

Tian Yuansheng looked at Quan You and sneered, and then signaled his subordinates to tie him up and stuff the cloth in his mouth, and there was a sound of metal hitting in the direction of the city gate, which was his subordinates splitting the lock, since Yuwenwen took office, the copper lock of the lock latch of the Xiyang City Gate has been replaced, and the previous key is useless, which is also to prevent some people from backing up the key privately.

Quan You was puzzled in his heart, he was thinking, the other party was going to open the city gate and bring Tian Zongguang in? But if the private soldiers of the Tian clan want to come over, they have to pass through the west gate, so they are not afraid of being discovered?

"Quick, go up to the city tower and send a signal!"

With Tian Yuansheng's order, several people carried a long lantern and ran along the steps towards the city tower, where the sentries who were originally on duty at night had all passed out after drinking just now, so the city was now empty.

'Signaling? What's the use of them signaling here? That's what I thought.

Just as he was puzzled, he was escorted and walked towards the city after Tian Yuansheng. A moment later he came to the head of the city, pressed against the battlements of arrows, and looked outward.

"Bazhou was originally the homeland of the Southern Dynasties." Tian Yuansheng, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke, "Yuwenliang led Zhou Jun to grab the territory of his surname Yuwen, and let his son do nonsense. ”

"Let Yuwenwen's family die tonight! Hahahahaha! ”

Quan didn't care about Tian Yuansheng's words, but was shocked by the scene in front of him: under the hazy moonlight, a black shadow on the river was full of warships sailing from the south bank of the river.

It's Chen Jun! (To be continued.) )