Chapter Seventy-Five: The Yellow Sparrow is Behind

Chengdu

Chengdu garrison pioneer battalion

The crowds of people coming in and out of this campsite, which was not very large, were overcrowded. The sergeants who came and went, some with steel knives in their hands, and some with bags of grain and grass, seemed to be making preparations before the expedition.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zeng Hanru, the commander of Sichuan, wore a purple and gold lion helmet and an iron armor with fish scales, and sat on the first seat in the big tent, and there was a golden tiger wing gold boring on the weapon rack next to him.

"Lord Commander, this is the situation, Young Master Zeng used the tiger talisman to take away all the people of the guard battalion and the middle military camp, and now there are only more than 1,300 people left in the pioneer battalion, all of whom are waiting here."

The pioneer battalion put Pei Zhenfeng, the commander, on one knee under the tent and reported to Zeng Hanru, the commander of the capital.

At the same time, sitting on both sides were Jiang Yun, the head of the Chinese military camp in armor, and Zhu Zongchen, the envoy of the Jin Dynasty, who was wearing a blue silk robe and a crane on his chest.

Zeng Hanru's face was pale, he pointed at Jiang Yun very dissatisfied, and said angrily: "You are also the commander of a battalion, he took away the soldiers and horses of a battalion under your command, you didn't even ask, and you didn't know to report to me in time!" ”

Jiang Yun was also aggrieved in his heart, Deputy General Liu of his Chinese military camp was originally the wife and brother of the former Chengdu garrison general, although Xia Ang fell later, but this kid climbed Zeng Ziren's crooked neck tree again, and in the entire Chinese military camp, where is he still the chief speaker?

Although Jiang Yun thought so, he couldn't shake out all these pickled things in front of the political envoy, how could he say that Zeng Ziren was also the son of the old commander, so he didn't make a fuss, and in the end he still took the blame himself.

Thinking of this, he got up from his seat, leaned over and knelt beside Pei Zhenfeng, and stopped speaking.

Of course, Jiang Yun's stuffy gourd obviously failed to make the old commander "enjoyable", and he raised his beard and glared at Pei Zhenfeng on the side.

"Pei Zhenfeng! You are also a general, and the other two battalions under the same government have been transferred, don't you have any vigilance? ”

Pei Zhenfeng was even more bitter, this Zeng Ziren took the tiger talisman, which battalion to transfer or not to transfer which battalion is a military order, how can he ask more?

But who let Zeng Hanru be the commander, Pei Zhenfeng and Jiang Yun, the two generals, were scolded like this in the morning, but they all chose to bow their heads and be silent.

The initiator Zhu Zongchen sitting on the side couldn't stand it anymore, he was not fighting for Jiang Yun and Pei Zhenfeng, but worried that the two generals were always in the army, don't scold and scold people can't help but say to the old commander, Zeng Hanru is angry and bloody, and he will delay this expedition again.

"Master Zeng, I think the two generals are also a little unspeakably distressed, and now our top priority is to support the Huling side as soon as possible. According to the report, more than 30,000 people of the Wugu Sect have already started a battle with the official army yesterday, and I am afraid that after a long delay, I am afraid that there will be changes. ”

Although it is said that in this military camp, the commander is the largest, but in terms of this grade, the political envoy of the third rank is half a level older than Zeng Hanru from the third rank, so Zhu Zongchen's words still have some weight in his ears.

Zeng Ziren snorted heavily, and said to the two kneeling on the ground: "You two get up, quickly go to the hour to get good soldiers and horses, and at three o'clock in the morning, all the soldiers of the pioneer battalion will gallop to the aid of Huling Fortress." ”

"Yes!"

The two said in unison, and hurriedly walked out of the Chinese army's tent without looking back.

Watching the two of them go out, Zhu Zongchen pretended to be concerned and asked, "Boss, the tens of thousands of people of the Wugu Sect, even if you add the pioneer battalion, the officers and soldiers of the Fox Ridge Fortress are only more than 8,000 people, isn't it too risky?" Do you need to inform the Long'an Garrison Office and send troops to respond? ”

Zeng Ziren listened to his words and stroked the white beard on his chin, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about the political envoy, the old man has been crisscrossing the territory for decades, and those homeless thieves are like grass mustard in my eyes, and there is nothing to be afraid of." ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled up the tiger wings and gold boring, which weighed two hundred pounds, from the weapon rack, held it in his hand, got up and straightened the hem of his clothes under the armor, and then bowed his hand to Zhu Zongchen, strode out of the Chinese army's tent, and rushed to the front of the camp.

"Boss, be careful!"

It wasn't until Zeng Hanru was far away that Zhu Zongchen's concerned expression gradually disappeared, and was replaced by an expressionless look, and then sneered at his back,

"This old fox is cunning and ruthless."

Zeng Ziren stole the Tiger Fu and privately mobilized the two battalions of soldiers and horses of the garrison office, saying that it can be big or small, but in fact, it all depends on the two thin mouths of Zeng Hanru, the commander of the army.

The old commander Zeng was not full of confidence in the soldiers and horses under his command, but did not want more people to participate in this matter.

If it is really dealt with in reality, one of their father and son is stealing tiger talismans, transferring officials and troops without permission, and has bad intentions; One is dereliction of duty, loss of tiger talismans, trapping the people and the court in danger, losing the black yarn, telling the old man in advance, and killing the army at the worst, which is not alarmist.

Therefore, Zhu Zongchen said that Zeng Hanru was an old fox, on the surface, it seemed to be contempt for the Wugu Sect bandits, in order to raise the prestige of the army, but in fact, he smashed the silver teeth and swallowed it in his stomach, not to mention 30,000 people, that is, 60,000 people, 90,000 people, as long as there is a glimmer of hope to save the two battalions of men and horses to retreat, he Hanru will not call a soldier of Long'an Mansion.

Zhu Zongchen walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army, and then beckoned to the chief of the guard who he had brought and was just guarding the door, and whispered in his ear: "Don't go back to Chengdu with me, go to Huling immediately, and tell Ning Protector that the people have already set off, and none of the people who should stay are allowed to be released back to me!" ”

After hearing this, the head of the guard arched his hand towards Zhu Zongchen, and then said with both index fingers in his mouth at the same time,

"Whoa—"

With a crisp and sharp whistle from his mouth, a big black horse galloped in.

The captain of the guard ran quickly in the direction of the horses without hurrying, gradually approaching the big horse, and then jumped up, turned over with his feet in the stirrups, and landed steadily on the horse.

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The western slope of Fox Ridge

Middle military camp

Deputy General Liu has been fortifying the western slope with his men and horses for almost a day, except for the basic camp tent has been built, the other guard towers and camp fences that should have been there have been no trace at all, only a few random wooden horses, in the direction of Huling, placed horizontally and vertically.

Whenever the chief flag officer below came to inquire about relevant matters, he was always impatiently prevaricated by Vice President Liu.

Obviously, he had already received Zeng Ziren's letter, so he thought that he would not be able to stay here for a long time, and if the Wugu Sect came to the north slope to resist the enemy first, he was on the west slope, as long as he pretended.

The few chief flag officers under him are not the masters of the unsighted world, otherwise they would not have put the chief Jiang Yun aside and turned around to pat the general ass.

After mentioning this matter once or twice, I saw that Deputy General Liu didn't care much about this matter, and none of the several chief flag officers were so blind to ask again, so they just slapped a few jars of old wine, and accompanied Deputy Liu to clean up the general camp and drink until the sky was dizzy, and then stopped.

At this evening this evening, it was also a coincidence, a few sentry soldiers hit a lost and lonely sika deer.

As soon as several soldiers summed up, they hurriedly sent the sika deer to the front of the chief flag officer, and the chief organ saw this big game, and it was not ambiguous, and after rewarding the two soldiers with wine money, they directly carried this big meal to the camp tent of Deputy General Liu.

Deputy General Liu and his brothers drank vigorously at noon today, and when they saw the fresh game in the mountains, they suddenly moved their index fingers, and hurriedly beckoned a few guards, lit a fire and set up pots, and asked these general flags to call all the brothers who are usually good and have an open-air feast in the camp.

The wine at noon has not woken up, and at night, Deputy General Liu, who has three or five bowls of wine, has already been dizzy and does not know the north and south, holding a bone in the pot, tearing off half of the deer's leg and gnawing it, taking two bites of three, the root of the tongue that has been paralyzed by alcohol is gone.

Holding the wine jar with one hand, he patted the heart shield on his chest with the other, grinning,

"Lao Tzu, the deputy general, bought it! My brother-in-law, the former Chengdu garrison general Xia Ang, hehe, but he was chopped by the old commander with a knife, and he fell! But I didn't! Do you want to know why I'm still in this vice-president's position? ”

Everyone glanced at each other, and hurriedly nodded to the drunken Vice President Liu, like a chicken pecking rice.

Deputy Liu always squinted his eyes and looked at the audience with great satisfaction,

"Because Lao Tzu knows current affairs! I know where the door of Young Master Zeng's house is opened, and I know which lady to send the silver ticket in my hand, so I can't drive away Lao Tzu if I kill ten guards in his mother's house! ”

"Deputy General Liu is always amazing!"

"Phew! Can you speak, what deputy general, in my heart, there is only one general Liu in our military camp! ”

Thousands of clothes are worn, and the sycophants are not worn, even if they are drunk, Vice General Liu is always praised by the sound of sycophants one after another.

He waved his hand, and his face was a little red and smiled for a while, but he couldn't tell whether he was being photographed a little modestly or drunk.

"In the past, my mother always said that I didn't read and didn't know what to do. If you want me to say, read his mother's ball, Lao Tzu doesn't know a few big characters, when he was guarding the tribute courtyard, those poor and sour talents, one by one, they still didn't care about me calling the military master? You juniors, all learn a little bit from me, and behave in the world, you must be that ..... That...."

For a while, the strength of the wine was surging, and there were some fragments,

"Be sleek!"

The voice of the crowd interjected,

"Yes, sleek, that's what you can do.... Evergreen in politics! Right! Evergreen! When Lao Tzu becomes the governor of the five armies, I will get one for you one by one..... Get a big general to do it! ”

"Good!"

"Let's pay tribute to Mr. Liu together... Oh no, Liu Dudu, a cup! ”

As he spoke, everyone picked up the wine bowl in unison, complimented Liu Fu and drank it all again.

The more this man lacks, the more he will show off. Don't you hear that poor and sour talent, who always likes to teach people to dance and write; The ragged beggar always wanted to get a decent outfit to walk through the streets; Zeng Ziren and Liu Fu are always this kind of person, they are already a petty official, but they like to instigate others everywhere The so-called "way of being an official".

The same is true in ancient and modern times, but there is an endless stream of imitators, which inevitably makes people laugh.

Everyone is laughing and talking,

suddenly

A stone fell from the sky and smashed straight into the pot of boiling venison in front of everyone, and suddenly the hot broth flew to everyone's faces and bodies.

The venison in the pot also went down the hole to the bottom of the pot and mixed with the ashes of the wood stove, and the loss of fresh and tender color became a mess.

"Smack!"

The angry Deputy Liu stood up, smashed the wine bowl in his hand, and scolded angrily around with the smell of wine: "Which bastard who doesn't open his eyes smashed Lao Tzu's meat!" ”

"My lord! My lord! ”

A soldier dressed as a sentry, waving his arms and shouting from afar, ran desperately towards this side,

Deputy General Liu was already angry, but when he shouted like this, he was even more irritable, and he took three or two steps to meet him, and kicked on the soldier's lower abdomen, so that the soldier who ran forward out of breath rolled out a long way.

"Howl and mourn! Lao Tzu is not dead yet! Say! This fucking rock, aindid you throw it! ”

Deputy Liu pointed to the soldier who had just turned over and climbed up on the ground, and hurriedly knelt down in front of him, and shouted angrily.

"Enemy.... Enemy...."

The soldier's mouth was "swooping" and panting, and the heaving chest made it difficult for him to spit out a complete sentence.

"What a deal! Lao Tzu's Yaxing has ruined you, what do you take! ”

Obviously, Vice President Liu's ears are not very easy to use.

"Enemy Attack !!"