Li Jingzhong raised his hand to wipe the water droplets that oozed from under the chain mail turban, but he forgot that he also had a knife in his hand.

Poof! The short blade fell into the thick moss of the stone pavement, and the dull noise seemed abrupt among the ugly quiet Tunpu paths, but in an instant it was swallowed up by the overwhelming humidity......

Immediately afterward, a rustling sound broke through the night's envelope and came from several places not far from him, during which some people could not hold their breath and yawned softly.

Li Jingzhong pinched his thighs hard, he knew that his three partners who were lurking in the shadows must have been frightened by this "thunder".

He slowly bent down, fumbled his way to pick the knife out of the moss, clamped the back of the knife tightly with the crook of his elbow, and rubbed his damp hand vigorously against his equally damp trousers before carefully regaining his grip on the hilt.

When he had done this, he pursed his lips once more, blowing away the droplets that were about to flow into his eyes, as if this disturbing night dew was his most difficult opponent tonight.

Even though this place is located in the hinterland of Qiangui, even if it is the late spring shift at this time, the weather like this night is still a little too damp.

The air is filled with fine moisture, is it rain? Is it a dense fog? Or is it the moonlight that is bewitched by the night?

On nights like these, certain desires of man always seem to be in motion, such as lust, such as ......

At this moment, the swollen killing intent was burning in Li Jingzhong's body, and he stared at the path in front of him, looking at the figure who should be lustful in the plan.

Although this path is not winding, in the flowing night, only a shadow can be seen seven or eight paces away, and those flowing down the chain mail turban...... I don't know if it's rain, fog, sweat, or all three, which makes his already blurry vision more and more confused, and his already restless body more and more tormented......

Li Jingzhong gritted his teeth and clamped the steel knife again. This time, he took off the chain mail turban that he had been wearing for an hour, carefully smoothed it, folded it in half, and carefully carried it into his arms.

"That guy didn't carry a long knife with him when he stole his mother-in-law, so why should I wear this Rausch thing!"

This chainmail turban, which has been passed down for three generations in the Li family, was a trophy captured by his ancestors during the battle against the Wei Wu people in the north.

Li Jingzhong still remembers that when he was young, he hid in the dim light of his house, watching his father put this piece of iron armor into a sand bucket, and used the fine sand in the bucket to polish it repeatedly in the ring lock. Day after day, the crunch of the grains of sand as they jumped between the rings gradually melted into his childhood memories.

According to the law of the Daning Dynasty, if you privately possess the fourteen-style armor contained in the "Wubei Zhi", you will be punished with a cane, and the two leaders will be exiled, the three leaders will be beheaded, and the five leaders will be confiscated.

However, Wei Wu iron net shirt, Wakou Guzu, Fulang machine plate armor, and high-quality paper armor are not among the fourteen-style armor made by Daning officials.

Therefore, those military families who have been stationed at the key points of the Nine Sides for generations have more or less stored some armor. When the army goes into battle, they will mix the private armor with the official armor to make up for some loopholes in the official armor.

Li Jiazu was a frontier soldier stationed in Xuanzhen, and since the day of the opening of the Daning Dynasty, he has been fighting against the Wei Wu people in the north inside and outside the Great Wall all year round, fighting to the death.

The northern captives once relied on bow horses to dominate the world, not only seized the Central Plains to establish a dynasty, but also swept all the way along the desert grassland, until the territory of the Fran machine man stopped the iron hoof.

But although the saber and hard bow can win the world, it is really not very easy to use when guarding the country. Therefore, its national glory was only a hundred years before it was scattered overnight.

It has been more than 200 years since the founding of Daning since the Taizu of this dynasty swept away the universe and drove the northern captives out of the country. In the past 200 years, although there has been little time for the Beiyu to be particularly peaceful, its momentum has seen a decline day by day.

Even in the Jingsheng period, the iron cavalry forced the Son of Heaven to hunt in the north, and the soldiers once pointed directly at the capital, but in the end, they just ran back into the desert after a futile hustle and bustle.

Deserts and grasslands are becoming more and more barren...... In the Longqi Dynasty, the imperial court ordered the opening of the horse city to trade with the Wei Wu people in the north, and specially set up four guards to recruit and reorganize the Wei Wu people who were willing to naturalize the Holy Dynasty, and placed them in Liaodong, Lulong, Xuanda, and Miyun.

Since then, although there will still be captives and cavalry from time to time to commit border crimes, it can be seen from the center of the imperial court to the border soldiers that these iron horsemen who were invincible in the past have completely degenerated from thieves to thieves...... As for the thunderous sound of iron hooves in the north, it gradually faded in the nightmare of the Ning people, dispersed, and far away......

In that year, the ancestor of the Li family, Sanju Gong, as a chariot camp ranger, met with a group of Beiyu narrow roads fifty miles outside Xuanzhen, and the three foals urged the horse to dance the knife, and after stabbing the enemy's member Xiao Cai, he peeled off a good ring iron armor from the opponent's corpse, including this turban.

It was a service, Li Sanju beheaded two levels, rewarded 32 silver officials and promoted one level to the general flag officer, and then Emperor Longqi returned to heaven, the new emperor was young, and Zhang Wenzheng, the minister of the cabinet, took charge of the power to open up the wind of innovation, and set up a liuguan in charge of the distribution of salt and iron and financial taxes in the land of Qiandian inhabited by barbarians in the southwest, which provoked the rebellion of Xiyi, and the southwest defenders were peaceful for a long time, and the Xiyi miscellaneous places were long, and relied on smuggling salt and iron to Xiyi to obtain heavy profits. Therefore, not only is the combat effectiveness low, but the thieves release water from time to time, resulting in the slow progress of the center's strategy of "returning salt and iron to the stream" to "changing the land and returning to the stream".

Zhang Wenzheng transferred more than 5,000 Xuanda border troops to Anpingwei, an important border town in the southwest, to garrison in this thorny bush, and Li Sanju was one of the officers and soldiers who went south. After the rebellion gradually extinguished, he was stationed in Yunshan Tunpu, southeast of the Anping Acropolis, married a local woman, and was the fourth generation to Li Jingzhong.

For more than 80 years, the four seas were peaceful, and the border troubles gradually subsided, although there were Japanese pirates from the Fuzhou State who made a fuss near the southeast coast of the empire for a while, but compared with the northern captives who used to jump inside and outside the Great Wall with tens of thousands of iron horses, those boats of bare-ass Japanese pirates were really not worth mentioning.

In the bitter cold land of the extreme north outside the Liaodong Pass, the Daning Zhushi and the general soldier Lin Chengdong guarded Liao for 30 years, and controlled the Dongnusu people who lived in the northeast snow field and the remnants of the northern captives who wandered to Liao.

In recent years, Lin Chengdong has helped his righteous son, the commander of the Xianzhou Left Guard, and the leader of the Zhenjin family "Bison Skin" to unify the Xianzhou Suya tribes. "Bison Skin" ordered the subordinates to learn the customs of Sinicization, merge the small department, dismantle the majority, and strictly dominate it.

Judging from the palace newspaper issued by the imperial court, since the "bison skin" took power, the various departments of Xianzhou Su Ya gradually stopped such retrograde actions as crossing the border to hunt, digging ginseng, and entering the Kou to plunder, and became more and more deferential to the Daning Dynasty, and the troubles in the eastern Liaodong border were also decreasing day by day.

Since the Xuanda border soldiers were stationed in the southwest border area, and the "salt and iron returned to the stream" until the gradual "land was changed and returned to the stream", the Miao people, Yao people, Zhuang people, and Gelao people were generally educated, and the hereditary Tusi was given the title at the same time, and gradually handed over the real power to the "liuguan" Tongzhi sent by the imperial court.

The Zhuyi of the two provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan, who first heard that the Confucian saint Muhua, not only rarely rebelled, but also participated in the major battles of the Celestial Empire to conquer the southwestern vassals as the main soldiers, and attacked all the way into the capital of Linfan.

"I was born in the wrong way!" In those mornings and mists filled with green smoke and mist, some descendants of the Northland Frontier Army, who were from the same background as Li Jingzhong, would often look at the mountains outside the fort, wiping down all kinds of ancestral ordnance, and at the same time let out a long sigh.

Li Jingzhong has always scoffed at these people.

There are two kinds of descendants of the northern border soldiers stationed in Anpingwei.

Some people, day and night, look forward to the heroic years that their ancestors experienced, "slashing the long knife into the lonely smoke of the desert, raising iron hooves to crush the sunset of the long river".

"What's in it for this southwestern frontier? The mountains are not able to gallop horses, and the humidity is forcing people to let go! Do some patrolling through the mountains and forests all day long, and have a tune with the monkeys of Qianling Mountain! ”

The other part of the people love this warm countryside that is located in the southwest, but comparable to the "mountains and the south of the Yangtze River". Soft air, beautiful mountain streams, and charming maidens.

Although there are not many opportunities to cut off the head and get promoted to the official in exchange for silver, but Anping Wei is the throat of Guizhou and Yunnan, compared with cutting the head of the Dongnu and the Northern Captives to exchange the money for the official position, guarding this key post road connecting the mainland and the southwest, as long as the brain is alive...... On the contrary, there are more opportunities to make a fortune, and there are fewer risks!

These two kinds of people account for about half and half of Anpingwei, and Li Jingzhong belongs to the latter.

Daning Dynasty Tianqin three years, and the Celestial Empire across the sea of the projectile island country of Fuzhou "Guanbai" rebellion, sent 70,000 Japanese soldiers to invade the Celestial Empire's subject country Gaoxian, within a month Gaoxian the entire territory of the eight states were captured by the Japanese soldiers seven, Gaoxian King in Ninggao border on the side of the cry blood on the table to ask the heavenly soldiers to help the war. After hearing the news, the Celestial Empire quickly dispatched tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers to rescue them across the mountains and seas.

Gaoxian is a mountainous country in the north, and most of the soldiers in eastern Liaodong are cavalry, which is not conducive to mountain siege and foot warfare. Lin Chengdong Yizi, the commander of the Xianzhou Left Guard, made the "Bison Skin" take the initiative to ask for help, and sent more than 3,000 Su Yan soldiers to enter Gaoxian to help the battle with the Daning Heavenly Soldiers.

"Gao Xian and Su Yan are the enemies of the world, and Gao Xian people are evil Dongnu, especially the Japanese Kou! In addition, Su Ya is an impermanent villain, this time it is expedient to allow Su Ya soldiers to help the army in the battle, and it is advisable to quickly adjust the 3,000 elite soldiers of the good mountain foot battle into the high fresh bullet suppression balance. ”

Born in the north, he has fought bloody battles with the north for many years, and has been stationed in the mountainous land of the southwest for a long time. The so-called "good mountain foot battle" soldiers in the mouth of the central cabinet officials refer to the descendants of the Xuanda border army stationed in the Anping Guard!

A paper dispatch order was immediately transmitted from the capital of Daning to Anpingwei.

Anping Wei in the mountains of the show, the post road to Yunnan Yun naturally formed a horseshoe shape with the mountain in its governance, the horseshoe-shaped post road will surround the Acropolis, along the road there are six forts in the dangerous places, the seat has a husband when the pass is not open, the transfer of the army into Yunnan, the business travel along the easternmost Yunshantun of Anping to the westernmost Yunlongtun to leave the country takes three days. The Anping Acropolis is only connected to Yunlong Tunbao City by a dangerous road.

If an enemy army from the interior wants to capture Anpingwei, it is necessary to capture six dangerous mountain cities one after another, and there is no other way. However, from the Anping Acropolis to Queensland, the capital of Yunnan, there is no other Xiongguan Pass.

Therefore, Anpingwei has been known as "Yunnan lock throat" since its inception. However, after a long period of peace, there were actually less than 4,000 soldiers in Anpingwei, and among the six forts, there were still formed soldiers stationed in the city, only the easternmost Yunshan, the westernmost Yunlong, and the three forts of Yunba near Yunlong.

Anping went to Gaoxian for more than 7,000 miles, and it was rumored that the Japanese soldiers were fierce and abnormal. It has been more than 60 years since the last large-scale army was launched. The guards had two completely different attitudes towards the aid of the vassals.

After hearing the news, half of the soldiers were gearing up to cut off some of the beheads to get promoted, while the other half of the soldiers talked about the change of color and prevarication in every way, and even had a tendency to mutiny!

In order to happily gather as many soldiers as possible to help Gao, the commander of An Pingwei could only send a list and recruit the righteous soldiers in the defense to take the initiative to sign up.

"Yu Yu came from the north, Li Ma climbed the high embankment, and the name was compiled as a strong man, and he must not take care of himself!"

The soldiers of the "High Aid Faction" vigorously reported their names at the bookstore. In one day, more than 2,000 dings were gathered. The commander mobilized more than 600 soldiers of the "land defense faction" with grace and might, and allocated all the Franky cannons, tiger squatting and running, and three-eyed guns that could be used in Weili to the army that went out to fight.

On the day of the expedition, the commander gave wine to the battle, and after three cannon shots, the "three thousand" mountain soldiers who came to the aid of Gao Xian slowly left the city.

Li Jingzhong, the general banner, and other soldiers who stayed in the fort stood solemnly in the school field, practicing for the comrades of the "Aid Army". When he was solemn, Li Jingzhong heard Bai Zhigang, a hundred households in his team, muttering inappropriate words faintly on the side.

"Today with the mountain ghosts, the remnants of the soldiers cry Liaoshui! Hey, this group of yellow-mouthed children, don't you know that in the battle of 'Three Expeditions to Gaoxian' more than 800 years ago, the Central Plains Imperial Court successively surrendered nearly 200,000 troops in Gaoxian?

If you believe in history so aggressively, why don't you still take it as a lesson from the past? Wait, it won't be long before someone will pull out the 'Death Song of the Dead Waves of Liaodong Waves' from the pile of old papers, and quietly sing it to the four corners......"

Yunshan Tunbao has 1,200 soldiers, more than 700 people are actually stationed, and in this battle, nearly 300 officers and soldiers of Yunshan Tun "volunteered" to help Gao, and the originally empty Tunbao became more lonely in an instant.

The days should have passed, and after the army went north, everything in Yunshan Fort was still as usual.

Until the battle report came from the front line.

Under the leadership of Lin Rufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen and the eldest son of the Lin family, the reinforcement of Gao Tianbing regained the northern town of Gaoxian with the momentum of devastating and decaying.

It was a battle, the Anping guards drove 3,000 Su soldiers to storm the first commanding heights outside Pingxiang City, Peony Peak, and finally occupied the peak after the Su soldiers paid the price of more than 100 casualties, and the Liaodong border soldiers set up a Fran machine gun on the Peony Peak to bombard the city, and the army took advantage of the situation to kill the city wall, and Pingxiang City has been restored since then.

Next, because it was infantry, the Anping guards did not participate in the "Battle of Qingyuguan" that started soon after outside the capital of Gaoxian Wangjing, which was besieged by more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers because of the reinforcement of the Gao army commander Lin Rufeng led two thousand Liaodong iron cavalry to light the enemy's advance, and was besieged by more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers......

Entrenched in Wang Jing's Japanese soldiers in the grain and grass was burned after the hasty withdrawal of the army, Anping Wei reinforcements with the army, all the way to sweep the Japanese army, when the battle, there was a Su Yan army to drive, and then Liaodong iron cavalry as a strong reinforcement, this battle was also a smooth sailing.

Now, the heavenly soldiers have driven all the Japanese into the three cities located on the southern coastline of Gaoxian, and attacked the three cities day and night.

Whenever the battle report came back, the families of the soldiers in the fort would gather together to celebrate happily. Listening to the triumphant songs coming from other people's homes, the hearts of the "local" family members couldn't help but feel sour, and intentionally or unintentionally, they also began to shake their faces at their own family.

"Fate is not good, why is this widow so unbeaten? Cheapened this group of reinforcements for nothing! ”

One day, just as the comrades who stayed in the fort sighed after hearing the military report, Bai Zhigang, who was sitting on the side, smashed a pottery teapot at the person who spoke.

"You know a dick! The country of Fuzhou has been on the board for a hundred years, and it is not easy to talk about how easy it is to win the last battle against the soldiers of Fuzhou for a hundred battles! ”

Li Jingzhong secretly bowed his head after hearing this, he was different from those big-headed soldiers, he was the general banner, and he had studied private school for a few years, and in his spare time, he would occasionally flip through the books, and he couldn't read the four books and five classics, and he didn't have an appetite for the art of war and war books, but he was still able to pay for reading a few pages of the history books of the past dynasties.

He knew that in all dynasties, the southern and northern expeditions were often small victories and then big defeats, and winning and winning put their lives into it! This is like a spell, which has plagued the southern soldiers for thousands of years, what about Anpingwei's reinforcements?

Like himself, he has not fought a hard battle since the last three generations of his ancestors, and he is familiar with protecting the smugglers on weekdays...... It seemed to him like something out of a dream.

Taking a step back, even if this aid is destined to be a great victory, he doesn't want to join in the excitement, his daughter-in-law has given birth to three babies for him in the past few years, and when he is not on duty, he takes his two sons to hunt in the mountains, and then goes home and lets his daughter beat his waist with a small fist, waiting for the Hun family to fry the pheasants and hares with dried chili peppers, drinking soju and counting the tributes paid by salt sellers and tobacco dealers on time - compared with going to war, this is his Li Jingzhong's favorite life.

What's more, Bai Zhigang once told him in private that the world of the Daning Dynasty in recent years has been a little silent, which is not a good sign. In this kind of silence of the whole country, great turmoil is brewing if it is not even. There are not many people who are loyal to Li Jing, but Bai Zhigang, the official of this team and the hundred households, is the first one!

Time flies, and Li Jingzhong has gradually become accustomed to the empty echoes of the bluestone winding paths in the fort when he is walking alone.

Every year before Chinese New Year's Eve, there will always be a few days when the weather suddenly becomes extremely cold, and the winter rain will be drenched, and it will condense into a sky of broken snow, silently staining the various bunkers in the mountains into plain danqing ink.

At this time, the highest Yunlongtun Fengsui Mountain Pass will inevitably be interrupted due to heavy snow blocking the mountain, and business travel will not work. The whole guard will also enter a leisurely place. Familiar soldiers sat in front of the fire, boiled a pot, dipped in water made of folded ear root and paste chili peppers, and drank wine around the stove, tasting the silence of the winter night.

It was on the twenty-second day of the lunar month that the herald of the commander of An Pingwei knocked on the gate of Yunshan Fort. The soldiers came from Yunba to step on the snow, and the mandarin duck jacket they wore had a layer of heavy ice armor.

"Nursing Yunshan Fort thousands of households, is a hundred households Bai Zhigang obeys the order!" ——Because Li Xingran, who was in charge of thousands of households in Yunshan Tunbao, did not return with the reinforcement of the Gao army, the thousands of households in the fort were temporarily taken care of by Bai Zhigang.

"Marked in"

"The commander has an order, in addition to the general flag of the star on duty to strictly guard the pass, the military academy above the general flag of Yunshan Tunbao will immediately go to the Acropolis to discuss matters!"

Bai Zhigang did not dare to slack off, and immediately led one hundred households in the fort, one tried one hundred households, and nine general flags braved the snow to rush towards the Acropolis.

It's strange, what emergency military situation can there be under the root this year? The unstable subject country in the southwest was almost destroyed by the Yunyun Mu family twenty years ago, and it is rumored that it will not have the strength to fight again for fifty years; Although Zhuyi still lived separately from the Han people, they were taught by the king and Taoism, and were controlled by Han officials on salt and iron, and they had no intention of rebellion unless they changed greatly. Could it be......

Thinking of this section, Li Jingzhong's heart sank, and he walked a few steps to Bai Zhigang's side, and before he could open his mouth to ask, he heard Bai Zhigang say: "I don't know if the white grey cloth in the batik shop in the castle is stored enough......

"Old white... Is it really that the reinforcement army went wrong? Bai Zhigang is three years older than Li Jingzhong, and the two are friends of the general horn, and they have been in the deed for many years, so in private, Li Jingzhong treats his direct official as a friend.

"You have also seen the chronicle of the high affairs of the two dynasties, that Gao Xian is a long and narrow peninsula, the land is barren, surrounded by the sea on three sides, my army of tens of thousands of soldiers Ding Tun Jian City has been more than one season, people eat horses and chew, and the daily consumption of 10,000 stones.

There are Liaodong Iron Cavalry, Zhejiang Army Mandarin Duck Soldiers, our Guizhou Army Mountain Foot Soldiers, Jizhen Car Battalion, Xuanda Artillery Battalion, and thousands of Su Ya Signing Army! They are factions with each other, fighting openly and secretly......

Staying under the fortified city of the Japanese army for such a long time, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no chaos! If the battle situation is repeated, then the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Jizhen Che Battalion are cavalry, coming and going calmly, still alive, and our Qianjun army is a foot soldier in the mountains...... In the future, what awaits us may be another day......"

When everyone left the fort, they put on a thick animal skin coat outside the mandarin duck jacket given by the official, and the skin was also covered with a coat and a hat, although the frost and snow were flying along the way, but everyone's body was still warm.

At this time, Bai Zhigang's words poured on Li Jingzhong's body like a basin of ice water, and the bone-chilling pain soaked his chest for a moment.

How is the hundred-mile post road to the Acropolis so long......

On the third day, the wind and snow gradually stopped, and the ice and rain rose again, and everyone entered the acropolis together with the Yunlong Guard. In the past, the generous and gentle guard commander of the emperor made an unprecedented breakthrough, and without letting the original subordinates take a break, he directly summoned everyone into the official office.

The wind gradually stopped, and a few rays of sunlight pierced the gloomy clouds, reflecting the old official hall flickering brightly and darkly.

The commander shrank in the Taishi's chair, looked around the crowd expressionlessly, opened his mouth slightly, and then closed it again, and after a long sigh, he threw a secret message of flying pigeons in his hand and a copy of "The Chronicle of High Affairs of the Two Dynasties" on the desk in front of the deputy Qianhu of Yunlong Castle.

The Daning Dynasty has always relied on carrier pigeons and post stations to transmit military information. Although the carrier pigeon is fast, it is less reliable. Therefore, it is often the carrier pigeon that carries the brief encrypted message first, and the official official document is transmitted by land through the post station, so as to ensure that the transmission of military information official documents is both fast and detailed.

The so-called flying pigeon secret message is also very simple. The 10 official scripture history cases in each guard house are numbered differently and rotate regularly. The pigeon news only contains numbers, and it is necessary to find the correct mother book according to the order of the code number on the pigeon news, and then translate a brief military information and order according to the text number recorded on the pigeon news.

Under the gaze of the officials in the hall, the speed of the brush became slower and slower, and then the tip of the pen began to tremble slightly......

"Read it!" Since everyone came to the official office to discuss matters, the commander opened his mouth for the first time. Compared to the past, the voice was hoarse.

"The heavenly soldiers converged to attack the city of Ulsan, and when they were defeated, the artillery exploded, igniting the medicine. The army retreated, and the army of Anping was supervised by Su Yingbing.

The Su Tatar army rebelled, and the bullets suppressed it, and both armies were gone.

The Heavenly Soldiers were mighty and strong, and they returned to attack the city and conquered it with one drum.

Now that the garrison of Anping is garrisoned, the armies immediately began to reorganize the military horses and equipment in preparation for the conquest. In addition, the Zhenyuan guards were transferred to Anping to defend the village, and the grain and grass camps were supplied according to the law. ”

After a short period of condensation, all the military academies jumped up from their chairs together, and wisps of dust fell from the beams of the official office.

"Gone? All of our people are gone?? ”

"Senhe-sama is gone? Zhu Baihu and Qin Zongqi can't come back? ”

Although the military academies are hereditary military households in Xuanzhen, in this southwestern place, there has been no great chaos since the fight against his grandfather's generation. On weekdays, in addition to planting and cultivating fields, we will conduct military drills twice a month according to the usual practice.

The actual combat experienced is just an occasional chase after a small group of bandits that have not become a climate. Of course, a few bold and vicious military households will secretly help familiar businesses to pretend to be bandits and intercept and kill merchants.

As for the kind of great battle with thousands of troops, for them, it was just a long and faded past that they listened to their grandfather talk about at night. This time, I suddenly heard that my comrades, who had lived with each other day and night and lived next to each other for several generations, had all disappeared in this light and clever few lines......

Everyone wanted to go crazy for a while, but they were cold and weak......

"That's it, this official doesn't have much square now, you wait until you return to the fort, immediately gather the scattered soldiers, secretly check a pair of ordnance, it seems that it is my turn to take my sons and daughters out on the expedition, since the beginning of the dynasty, this kind of thousands of soldiers martyrdom is too numerous to mention, even our ancestors have also experienced the martyrdom of Jinmubao.

Everyone is a military household! It is the garrison of the Daning Dynasty in the register! Don't think of yourself as an ordinary farmer just because you've been planting land for a few years...... The military order is hard to disobey, so go back quickly!

By the way, this military situation will be kept secret for the time being, and it will be announced to the families of the soldiers who are reinforcing Gao in the fort when the official court of the post station arrives..... In any case, this year, I still have to get by! ”

The rain and snow gradually stopped on the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, and in the sparse sound of firecrackers, a few fluttering colored lights lit listlessly in the dark stone alleys in the fort.

Although the military academies had been keeping the secrets they had brought back from the Acropolis, the families of the reinforcement army still seemed to read some strange messages from their frowning brows.

Anxiety and solemnity overflowed from people's hearts, silently overflowing the towering stone walls of each house, intersecting in winding paths, and covering the Tunbao between the peaks and mountains with a thick haze.

The New Year has finally arrived.

After the hour, all the officials gathered in the official hall of the fort, silently facing each other, silent for a long time.

"Lord Bai, do we really have to go to Gaoxian to fight the Japanese Invaders? Can you think of not going to Gao Xian? ”

After exchanging a look with Zhang Ziqiang, Lan Qi opened his mouth sullenly.

"Yes, those who want to go to Gao Xianbo for military exploits are now martyred, although it is a little miserable, but it can be regarded as seeking benevolence. Our brothers are different from them, I have never had the heart to fight since I was born from below! ”

The officials chimed in.

"I can't imagine that this widow is so violent! What are these brothers left behind? We all know it in our hearts - not as good as those in the previous wave! Now that they are all wiped out, then we will definitely not be able to win against the Japanese Invaders!! ”

"Wolver? Did you really ask us to go to Gaoxian to fight the Japanese invaders? ”

Bai Zhigang grabbed the head of a general flag and said coldly.

"This time the battlefield is in Gaoxian, not in our Daning territory or in Fuzhou country, after this battle, the Japanese will definitely not have the strength to fight again. Shangfeng sent us out on the expedition, probably to deal with Dongnu! ”

"Su Jinren? Amitabha, Su Tatar people are not easy to fight! ”

The Daning army has always recorded military merits with the first rank, and the head of the enemy army is also divided into high and low, from the founding of the country to the Longqi Dynasty before and after the opening of the horse market, the head of the northern captives is the most valuable. Cutting the level of an adult Beiyu male can be exchanged for a reward of 30 taels of silver or a half-level promotion. In the same period, a Southwest Barbarian head can only be exchanged for 5 taels of silver.

Later, when it came to the troubles, a true Japanese head could be rewarded with twenty taels of silver, but the number of true Japanese among the Japanese was always scarce.

In recent years, the most valuable head in Daning Yu is none other than the head of Dongnu Su. Moreover, the market has also been bullish all the way, rising from the original 15 taels to the current 30 taels and half a level. It can be seen that the head of this Dongnu Su is not easy to cut......

The hall was chaotic and noisy......

"His ancestors, I heard that people can freeze to death in the winter outside the gate, do you know what it means to drop water into ice? If you want to untie your hands in the field, you have to take a stick and knock it while untying it, otherwise your urine will freeze into a popsicle before you finish untying your hands! ”

"Hugh wants to trick us, according to this, won't Dongnu be frozen into a eunuch if he is not careful? Why are there no fewer people in these years? ”

"The Su Ya people are actually the female Zhi people of the Great Front Dynasty, there are not many people beating their ancestors, and there are clouds in the ancient books: The female Zhi is less than 10,000, and the 10,000 are invincible! I don't know how many dings there are in this millet now? ”

"Last year, when the military department came to Anpingwei to inspect the inspection, I followed the driver for a few days, Shangguan'er said, in recent years, many Han people have either because of bad years, or because they have committed crimes to avoid officials, have gone to the Su Ya land to survive, and over time, they have also become Su Ya people, and the head of this kind of person can also be worth 30 taels!"

"It's worth 30 taels and 50 taels for a fart! You have to have the ability to cut and have to have a life, no! There are one people who can fight in this fort, and they all went to help Gao, and now, the corpses are not kept in the high and fresh snow, and they are torn apart by wolves and dogs! ”

As soon as the words of "hiss ......" came out, the noise immediately stopped. Everyone's hearts were tight, and in an instant, the cold air in the hall seemed to be a little heavier.

Li Jingzhong roasted his hands on the fire pit and said:

"Whoever you like to go, Lao Tzu won't go anyway!" This sentence came out with a string of ha, and it was categorical. The long haze gradually dissipated in the firelight, but the aftermath still lingered.

"Mother sells skins, Lao Tzu won't go! There are so many guards in the world, why only transfer us to break through that ghost gate! ”

"When spring begins, Lao Tzu will still recruit relatives for the second boy, and Lao Tzu will not go to Liaodong!"

"Lao Tzu's daughter-in-law is more beautiful than your family, if you don't go, Lao Tzu can't go to death!"

"But Shangfeng's military order is about to come down, if you don't go, you have to go, if you don't go, it's a mutiny, it's a rebellion, and you want to cut off your head!"

"Isn't it also for Dongnu to cut off his head? I heard that the Su Ya people were poor, so they were reluctant to throw it away after cutting off the heads of our Daning officers and soldiers, and took the heavenly spirit cover as a wine bowl! ”

The crowd in the hall made a noise again.

"Don't make any noise! What's the use of the big guy saying these whining words, isn't it the same to go to that bitter cold place as wolf food? The snake can't be headless, who of these people in the castle is worthy of the word "hero"? Li Jingzhong stood up and yelled.

All the officials looked at Bai Zhigang, who was sitting on the main seat and bowed his head silently.

"Yes, in our Yunshantun, in Anpingwei, there are hundreds of white households that are outstanding people, and I, Li Jingzhong, believe in white hundred households!"

"Yes, Lord Baihu is a hero, and now I must ask Lord Baihu to take up the burden and make decisions for the people of the whole castle!" All the military academies responded one after another.

"Bai Baihu, although the old man is also a hundred, but over the years, everything has been for you, and when the Lord of Qianhu is here, everything big and small can only be decided after discussing with you.

Now, your eldest brother Zhang is old, and you don't want to take your nephew out of the customs to be wolf food, so you can think of a way for the whole castle! Baihu Zhang Ziqiang's hoarse voice sounded slowly like a blunt knife, with a rusty blade, slowly cutting the hearts of the military academies in the hall.

"Yes, Lord Bai, you have the talent of a general, our whole castle listens to you, where to go, you draw the line, is it a mutiny or a rebellion, I Lan Qi doesn't blink an eye!"

"It's up to the adults! The adults took us to mutiny and scattered into the mountains and fell into the grass, anyway, the court will not be able to spare troops to encircle and suppress us for a while and a half! “

"Mutiny is death, and going to Liaodong is also death, it's better to die at home!"

Everyone was enthusiastic for a while, and when they thought about it carefully, even the officers and soldiers of Anping Guard, who could only suppress bandits and pretend to be bandits, had become the elite of Shangfeng's heart, and there were really not many soldiers in this southwestern land......

"The whole world is not the king's land, and this rebellion and mutiny will never work...... We are the officers and soldiers of the Daning Guard, and our ancestors moved here from Xuanzhen in order to suppress the southwest Zhuyi by force for the imperial court and ensure the stability of the Daning country for all eternity. Now, Xiyi is honest, doesn't make trouble, doesn't rebel, so Shangfeng started the calculation of transferring us to Liaodong.

The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden! Our Anpingwei is known as the 'Yunnan lock throat' and is a real strategic location. But it is precisely because our ancestors are too brave that they have completely cleaned up the southwest barbarians in three strokes, and we have been able to live up to the name here over the years, and it is peaceful and peaceful......

But once it was peaceful, the second-pole civil officials in the court who could only write eight-strand texts forgot that we were also a strategic place...... On that day, the pigeon news of the imperial court said that the officers and soldiers of the town Yuanwei would be transferred to Anshun to assist in the defense......" Bai Zhigang interrupted everyone's words unhurriedly.

"Isn't it, this peak is really stupid, Zhenyuan Wei is the Qiangui Guard, and the Dong barbarians in our Anping Mountains have slashed each other for more than a hundred years, several generations of feuds, let them come to Anping to assist in defense, it is too ...... this world" Lan Qi said this, and suddenly stopped, "Lord Bai, could it be ......"

Bai Zhigang stood up and stabbed the flickering charcoal in the fire pond with fire tongs.

"This fire is still not strong enough!"

He casually threw a few pieces of new charcoal into the fire, and the flames that jumped in an instant reflected the smile at the corner of Bai Zhigang's mouth.

"Let's add some charcoal to this fire pit, and then stab it again!"

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, a stagecoach broke through the curtain composed of spring rain - the official document that Anping Wei had exhausted the entire army of Gao and transferred the remaining troops to Liaodong to assemble finally arrived.

The soldiers left behind by Anpingwei silently prepared military horses and equipment, and at the same time, Bai Zhigang of Baihu was promoted to the deputy leader of Qianhu and officially became the supreme governor of Yunshan Tunbao.

According to the Taji-chan - after the victory of Ulsan, the remnants of the Japanese army boarded the ship and withdrew to Shikiju.

At this time, the belated Daning naval army finally arrived at the battlefield, intercepted the Japanese army by sea, defeated the Japanese ship formation, sank a number of warships, burned and drowned the Japanese soldiers, captured 23 Japanese generals, and more than 700 Japanese soldiers......

In addition to leaving one army to garrison Gao Xiansui to do the aftermath, the rest of the armies successively divided into divisions, but these victorious divisions did not return to their original places of residence, but stationed in Kuantianwei, Liaoyuebao, and Kaiyangwei in eastern Liaodong.

According to the official document, the Daning Heavenly Soldiers won all the merits in this anti-Japanese aid battle. However, the Holy Lord still ordered the transfer of the Suibian Army, the Guixi Wolf Army, the Zhejiang Army, and the Guizhou Army to quickly assemble in Liaodong, each with its own meaning, which is self-evident.

Bai Zhigang, the deputy Qianhu, visited the commander of Wei and took the initiative to take on the aftermath of Anpingwei's remaining armies. Because of his shrewdness, ability, and modesty, the commander ordered Bai Zhigang to contact the officers and soldiers of Zhenyuan Guard who had come to change the guard after the main force of Anpingwei set out for the battle. After the exchange is completed, he will lead the Yunshantun army to go out and join the main force of the guard on the way.

On the 26th of the first month, the Anping guards set off their cannons, different from the previous time, the team of the expedition was filled with a strong sense of sadness, in the rape flowers blooming on both sides of the official road, the team of more than 1,000 people actually fell out of more than three miles, and the commander made the military academy of his cronies directly under him wear faded cotton armor, riding on a small horse in Yunnan to patrol back and forth, and try his best to make the expedition team more compact.

If the soldiers with the intention of fleeing are scattered on the road, I am afraid that before Liaodong, the commander will become a bare-bones general......

At the beginning of February, the first batch of 200 Zhenyuan guards who changed their guards to this place were stationed in Yunlong, and by the middle of the month, there were Zhenyuan guards and their families passing through Yunshan Tunbao.

"Zhenyuan is really not bad, it is really a water and land thoroughfare, and it is so rich, you see that the Qiangui native soldiers from far away in this town are now better equipped than the border soldiers from our Xuanzhen!" Li Jingzhong and the others at the Yunshan Tunpu Military Academy sighed silently, while preparing and waiting......

Finally, this day came, according to the report of the exploration horse, tomorrow, the last batch of Zhenyuan guards will pass through the tunpu, most of the team is the family members of the army, only a sentry to escort.

And at midnight on this day, that person will come to the small alley of Yunshan Tunzhong Village as always, and a tent door will open for him, and inside, there is a scorching flame waiting to engulf him and burn with him......

In the smoke of the rain, Li Jingzhong led his men to hide in the shadows, holding the sword tightly, with the back of the knife facing outward, waiting for his arrival......

At this moment, he had been leading people to guard here for almost two hours, Li Jingzhong was hiding next to a broken stone wall, and his three small flag officers were hiding behind the firewood stacks, in the latrines, and in the ditches on the roadside.

The initial excitement was quietly drifting away from their bodies, the old battle jackets were already soaked with moisture, the red willows and green flowers in February, the spring was melting, but at this moment it was more deeply exposed, and occasionally a gust of cold wind blew, Li Jingzhong couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"I want to relieve my hands...... he put down the short knife in his hand again, gently took off his outer pants, and made it easy to face the stone wall. It's not much, why are you in such a hurry just now? ”

At this moment, a brisk footstep came from the depths of the path, and in the trance moonlight, the figure of a man was faintly recognizable.

"It's coming!" Li Jingzhong hurriedly put on his pants, at this time, if he leaned over and groped in the darkness to find the detoxification knife that he had just put down, it would definitely be too late, he immediately took the opportunity to casually cut off a fist-sized bluestone from the stone wall, and jumped out first!

However, the stone path under his feet was too slippery, and this time, the leap that had been brewing countless times in his mind finally turned into a fall...... Although it was unsightly, the actual effect seemed to be better--- Li Jingzhong, who slipped under his feet, just threw himself into the arms of the person who came.

Li Jingzhong picked up the stone in his hand and slammed it into the man in front of him, the man had already drawn a knife in his hand and was about to stab Li Jingzhong in the lower abdomen, but the force of this smash was amazing, only to hear a crisp sound from the man's shoulder blade, and the strength of his right hand was also discharged.

"Little Sanzi, Lao Gu, Luo Yanjia, you hurry up!"

Li Jingzhong shouted as he continued to wave the stone in his hand.

The men who were lying in ambush finally came to their senses and joined the battle group one after another, and everyone rolled to the ground like arhats......

"Hands, hands, grab his hands!"

"Lao Gu, don't pinch his neck, Qianhu wants us to catch him alive!"

"Little Sanzi, you are tying my hands!"

After a period of commotion, calm returned to the alley. The person who came has been tied up by five flowers, and is sitting under the little third son at the moment.

"You bunnies are so fucking slow! I've been fighting with him for so long, and you're on! ”

Li Jingzhong lay on the ground panting and counted his subordinates: "Little Sanzi, you sit on him lightly, don't let that fight ball!" And Lao Gu, thousands of households want to be caught alive, why did you use so much strength to choke his neck and strangle that guy to death? Hey, Old Valley? What about the old valley! Why is the old valley gone! ”

Suddenly, Li Jingzhong found that there were only two of his three small flags left at the moment, and he hurriedly got up, but felt a tingling pain in his lower abdomen.

"Lao Tzu is injured? Lao Tzu is injured! A wave of fear came at Li Jingzhong, and he trembled and tried to get up from the bluestone slab, but found that his strength was spilling out of his body little by little along the wound in his lower abdomen......