The winter in the cool land is far colder than in Guanzhong, but after a raging, with the arrival of the fifth year of Jian'an, it will eventually drag its tail and leave.

Right now, it's the days of the tail of winter.

Taking advantage of the daytime when there was no snow, the hundred people took Wang Mi and Jiang Mo out of the camp with the sergeants and laborers of the army, and entered the woods to collect firewood.

Although the chaos set off by Xiding Ling and Lu Shuihu caused some soldiers, many people still did not take these two rebellious Hu people to heart, at least in the new army of Kansai in the cold, many soldiers regarded this campaign as a large-scale hunt.

The prey, of course, is the rebellious Hu people.

It's just a pity that the 10,000-strong army spent more than a month and traveled a long way to Xuanwei, and this battle never began.

On the contrary, it was the generals and guards on the upper floor of the cool ground who quarreled.

Wuwei Taishou Zhang advocated sending troops as soon as possible, taking advantage of the undecided next plan of the Hu people who rebelled in winter and the fact that the tribe's war horses were weak and weak, the three lieutenants cooperated with the Wuwei soldiers to attack Lu Shuihu in the capital and suppress Lu Shuihu in the capital, and wiped out the rebel Hu leader Yi Jian's prostitute and Zhiyuan Duo.

However, the third lieutenant was unwilling to let his men and horses walk on the snow, and accompany Wuwei Taishou, who wanted to sweep away Jing's rule as soon as possible, and they moved out of the Anxi general Yang Feng's previous experience, and were only willing to lead the army to move forward to Xuanwei City to station, to prevent the Lu Shuihu people who captured Wuwei City from going south to plunder, and then confronted Lu Shuihu's cavalry, while patiently waiting for the spring farming, Zhang Ji disbanded the county soldiers who would compete with them for merit and returned to their hometown.

Yang Feng, the general of Anxi, who returned to Zhangye Senei and re-collected several remnants of Pang De's troops, acquiesced in the military action of the third lieutenant.

He had just led his troops and horses to quell the rebellion of several Qianghu tribes, and he was well aware of the impact of the cold winter battle on the morale of the army and the weakening of the combat strength of the Han soldiers.

Rather than letting them venture to attack in the cold and snow, it is better to wait until the spring flowers bloom, and then send troops to suppress the rebellious Lu Shuihu.

It's not that Yang Feng is not in a hurry to quell the rebellion in Hexi, it's just that he knows in his heart that after the previous battle, he would rather be safe and time-consuming than have another defeat.

The game of high-level decision-making was out of reach for Wang Mi and Jiang Mo, but the delay in the war made their life in the army more and more boring.

By waging war and winning victory, they will be able to trample on their lands, plunder their wealth, feast on their food, and even feast on their wives and daughters.

This is a fiery desire that cannot be extinguished even by the cold of winter.

But now, they can only complain in private, leading the soldiers and laborers in the army out of the camp to collect firewood for heating and cooking.

Although they all knew it, there were also many people in the army who were privately glad that they didn't have to brave the ice and snow to fight the barbarian Hu people who could endure the cold.

"Tell me, what are the generals, captains, and guards thinking and doing?"

Moving his fingers hidden under the clumsy deerskin gloves, Wang Mi blinked his eyes, blew up his beard, and exhaled white gas to ask Jiang Mo.

Although Wang Mi was born as a disciple of Liangdi Wuzong, in terms of it, Jiang Mo beside him is the real Hanyang surname.

The four surnames of Jiang, Yan, Ren, and Zhao are the four surnames of Hanyang. After Yan Xing pacified Yongliang, he served the Hussar General's Mansion, Jiang Mo's subordinate brother Jiang Xu is now the Peng Shi of Liangzhou Assassin Jia Xu, and Jiang Yin, Jiang Yin and others of the same clan also served in Yan Xing's army.

"I don't know what these big guys are thinking, but I know that they don't have to go out of the camp to do such time-consuming and laborious rough work in the winter like us."

Jiang Mo said with self-deprecation.

"That's just as well." Wang Mi smiled and said unwillingly:

"Why do you think this kind of rough work always falls to our brothers?"

"Don't complain about these useless things, instead of comparing with those big people, it's better to look at the present, isn't there someone who is more in a worse situation than you?"

Jiang Mo pursed his lips and raised his whip to point at the edge of the woods, dragging lame legs to collect firewood, while looking around at the hard work of the army.

Wang Mi followed the direction of Jiang Mo's horsewhip and saw clearly the hard labor in thin clothes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and asked:

"How could it be him? It's only been so long, and I almost don't recognize it. ”

"Huh." Jiang Mo sneered, "There is a way to quell the rebellion, and there is a way to be a hard servant." No matter what the Ma family said, they were once dominant for a while, and they also had some friendship with Captain Yang, who had been entrenched in stability, and this time they followed the counterinsurgency army to take the opportunity to make some credit, wouldn't they be able to take off that coat soon. ”

"That's just as well." Wang Mi touched his beard and said with a sarcastic smile: "It's a pity that it's freezing now, and the battle can't be fought. ”

"If you had said this before, and you were met by the people of the Ma family, I am afraid that you will inevitably be beaten in private."

Jiang Mo laughed wickedly.

When Jiang Mo said this, Wang Mi's beard blew again, and a wildfire rose in his heart when he was bored, and he sneered unconvinced:

"In the past, he thought he was the champion of the three armies, and there was no one in his eyes, but that was before, and now he is just a lame hard laborer. Under my command, I won't look at the face of the Ma family, lazy hard labor, according to the law of the army, it will be a whip! ”

After saying this, Wang Mi kicked the horse's belly, drove the horse close to the hard soldier in the army that Jiang Mo had just pointed to, and said loudly:

"Let's go, let's go see our Captain Ma!"

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"Smack!"

Wang Mi's whip made a crisp sound on Ma Chao's head with hair and clothes, and then he saw a pair of eyes as cold as ice to look at him, which made the unexpected Wang Mi's heart a little hairy, but he still sneered, looked at Ma Chao and said sneeringly:

"Ma Chao! Do you still think that you are a great general in the army, now you are a hard labor with a crime, do a good job of bowing your head to Naigong, don't look around. If you dare to be lazy, you will be allowed to eat a meal of the whip of a hundred generals! ”

At the end of speaking, the proud Wang Mi couldn't help but laugh. But Ma Chao, who seemed to be shivering from the cold, ignored this, and didn't even look at Wang Mi's face, but turned his gaze to notice the horn bow and Hu Lu on the side of Wang Mi's saddle.

"This is your bow?"

Wang Miyan looked at his bow and arrow in surprise, and immediately showed a sneer.

"What, you want to use a bow?"

In the next moment, Wang Mi's whip had already whipped Ma Chao's body fiercely, directly tearing through the thin clothes, leaving a blood mark on Ma Chao's upper body, Ma Chao snorted and knelt on one knee. Seeing this, Wang Mi scolded with a smile:

"What kind of character do you think you are, a hard servant, and you dare to look at the bow of this hundred generals, I'll let you see it!"

As he spoke, the secretary of the king had already continued to whip Ma Chao. The other soldiers and laborers who followed the sound and looked at this side were ordered by Jiang Mo not far away to continue cutting trees and collecting firewood, so they turned their eyes to the trees in front of them again.

Jiang Molema was not far away, looking at this scene indifferently, and a smile slowly appeared on his lips.

He didn't want to humiliate and bully the down-and-out Ma Chao, nor did he want to stop Wang Mi's majesty, he didn't even want to get closer, so as to avoid having anything to do with these two people at this time.

He just smiled quietly and watched. He knew that the bored Wang Mi shook off the whip at Ma Chao at this time, and his heart must have been very happy, but for some reason, watching Wang Mi's whip "snap", the whip sound that made the hard servants in the army tremble, actually made Jiang Mo, who was also bored, feel a perverted pleasure in his heart.

"Whew-"

Wang Mi, who was stared at by Jiang Mo, began to gasp for breath, this cold day, riding on horseback condescendingly whipping a soldier who fell to the ground, and whipping down a few times, it was really quite laborious.

At this time, Wang Mi, who exhaled a long breath, was already a lot more happy in his heart, and the whip in his hand also stopped, he laughed, looking at Ma Chao who fell to the ground and shrunk into a worm, where is there still the unbeatable arrogance in the past.

"Haha, lazy dog slave, after eating the whip, are you convinced?"

Before the laughter stopped, Wang Mi noticed a detail, Ma Chao, who was knocked to the ground by a few whips from himself, seemed to be still unconvinced, he had a few more scars on his body, and he was still holding the short axe of cutting trees tightly in his hand, his lips were closed one by one, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito.

"What, you still have something to say?"

Wang Mi said with a sneer, but looking at Ma Chao, whose lips were still opening and closing, he quickly changed his face again.

"Are you scolding Naigong, huh?"

Ma Chao didn't answer, his voice was so small that he couldn't hear it clearly, but his fingers holding the short axe moved.

"Do you still want to kill Naigong, ah?"

Wang Mi sneered, the horizontal flesh on his face relaxed again, turned over and dismounted, and wanted to catch Ma Chao, who had fallen to the ground like a puddle of mud.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that at the moment when his legs touched the ground, that puddle of mud, no, Ma Chao, who fell to the ground, suddenly flew up like wings, and the short axe in his hand was not sharp and slashed at his neck quickly.

"Huh?" Wang Mi snorted, with a little incredible look in his eyes, and his body fell to the cold ground.

Before Jiang Mo, who was watching from the sidelines, heard a neighing of a war horse, as if a person had changed suddenly, Ma Chao turned over and got on the horse, left the woods like a gust of wind, and rushed out quickly.