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"Huh~Huh~~"

Elk Plain, now renamed Jizhou Plain, a four-zhang high, stretching for eight miles on the huge stone military fortress city wall stands in a forest of flags, swaying in the wind, the bright red flag makes a burst of slapping sound.

Under the banner of the Jingwei Battalion, Chen Qing, who was the commander of the flag regiment and concurrently served as the highest operational commander of the Northern Hebei Group Army, was accompanied by his personal guards, holding a speculum and looking at the cavalry and infantry training outside the fort.

When Chen Qing and the surrounding lieutenant generals were pointing out the key points that needed to be paid attention to in the exercise, Mu Feng took Luo Hu to his side and bowed his hand together: "Subordinate Mu Feng, see the commander to make the ......."

Chen Qing hurriedly put down the speculum in his hand and turned back to Mu Feng and said, "Patriarch Mu Feng doesn't need to be polite, I didn't expect that Lord Jun Governor would let you run in person." ”

Mu Feng said with a smile: "It's all for the military governor, and the subordinates are just running errands, anyway, they have been idle in the past few months, and it's good to come out and slip around." ”

Chen Qing nodded, and looked at Mu Feng carefully, now Mu Feng has completely lost the strong alien atmosphere when he first met, and he is completely unharmed with the military and civilians of Jizhou, especially the fluent Central Plains dialect that he can't hear from the tribe at all.

Mu Feng was uncomfortable when he was looked at, and hurriedly took out the secret letter in his arms and said: "Commander Chen, don't look at it, this time the military governor ordered me to send a detailed report on the strategy of the northern Hebei attack, please take a look." ”

Chen Qing took the secret letter, opened it and glanced at it, and immediately said to the deputy general behind him: "Deng Ling, order to go down, let the defenders stationed in various parts of the plain gather here within two days, and if you don't meet the deadline, you will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

Deng Ling shouted excitedly, and from Chen Qing's words, he had already heard that he was about to make a move against Hunu in northern Hebei, and he couldn't help but walk quickly towards the city.

Not only Deng Ling, the fact that there has been no war for a few months is making these elite veterans who have been accustomed to bloody wind and rain all the way idle and are about to rub their eggs, and now when they hear that there is a big move, it is estimated that it will not take a day for those generals stationed in various parts of the Jizhou Plain to gather and pounce on the military fort like crazy.

"There are still ......" After Deng Ling left, Mu Feng took out a thick document and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is the list of recruits transferred from various battalions in Jizhou, all of them are soldiers who have passed the preliminary actual combat and inspection, and the military governor means to let them go on the Northern Expedition with the army and grow up as soon as possible." ”

"Hmmm......"

Chen Qing took the dispatch book, opened it and closed it again, just about to speak, but when he saw Mu Feng's expression, he couldn't help but wonder: "Patriarch Mu Feng, what's wrong with you?" What is there that I need to help? ”

Mu Feng glanced at the guards around, and then pulled Chen Qing to the side and whispered: "Commander Chen, I also want to participate in the Northern Expedition this time, and I have already allocated 5,000 cavalry, you can help me write a dispatch document, and I will go back and hand it over to the military governor......"

"Patriarch Mufeng, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?" Chen Qing said, "You now have more than 70,000 people in the clan who need you to sit in charge of affairs, and you dare to go out with the army, what should the clansmen do?" ”

"Help......" Mu Feng said with a bitter face, "My younger brother is almost crazy, and he was already very dissatisfied if he didn't take him on the last trip to the grassland, so you promised to do it this time, not to mention what can happen?" Of these 70,000 or 80,000 women, children and children, they account for 60 percent. ”

Chen Qingqi said: "Why don't you talk to the military governor? ”

"Anyway, the Governor didn't agree or refuse, just let me come and discuss with you." Mu Feng said with a sad face, "Brother Chen, we are also a lifelong friendship with the military governor from birth to death, just nod, my five thousand herdsmen soldiers will definitely obey your command......"

"Let me think about it......" Chen Qing knew that this was the power that Liu Ce gave him, and he had to carefully consider the benefits and harms, and he couldn't agree casually.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Qing said to Mu Feng: "Come back to the military hall with me, and you can tell me carefully about the situation in your clan......

"Good ......" Mu Feng suddenly felt a joke when he heard it, and immediately agreed, and then walked down the city wall with Chen Qing and walked towards the newly built military hall of the military fortress.

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"Eat~~"

On the newly built avenue in the Jizhou Plain, 6,000 officers and men of the New Army marching to "Jingsai" to participate in the Northern Expedition in the winter began to line up in an orderly manner to receive meals under the supervision of the wave of shouts and blows of the copper whistle of the gang leader.

"Shaoyun, you follow me closely, and I'll ask that old Ji to serve you more ...... when the dinner is served later."

"Big brother, there is no need for this, when did the army lack food and clothing for us?"

Among the recruits who participated in the Northern Expedition, Xie Ping'an and Zhuo Shaoyun, who exterminated the Python Mountain bandits, were also among them. In the battle of Python Mountain, due to the outstanding performance of the twenty people in Xunshan, they were all selected into the recruit team of this expedition, which was commanded by Lu Yu and Zhang Lie respectively, and the twenty people in Xunshan were temporarily assigned to Zhang Lie.

After Xie Ping'an and others escorted Liu Ce's brigade back to Yong'an, Xie Ping'an and Zhuo Shaoyun were personally brought to the Military Governor's Mansion by Liu Ce to summon them, and praised them for their ability in front of the generals in the hall, which made them extremely excited in their hearts.

The day after returning to the Huaizi camp, Cao Yan, the commander of the banner, issued them an inauguration order in the army, allowing Xunshan to be twenty people as a first-class, Xie Ping'an was appointed as a first-class commander, promoted from corporal to sergeant, Zhuo Shaoyun was directly promoted to sergeant, appointed as the chief of the army, and allowed the two to not hand in the cuirass blade, and half of the gold and silver obtained this time were rewarded to twenty soldiers as a reward.

This result made Xie Ping'an and Lieutenant General A extremely excited, and secretly vowed to make new contributions, and when he learned that the battalion was going to transfer a new army to the front line, Xie Ping'an was the first to sign up, so that Cao Yan, who was the general of the banner, had extra face in front of Fang Jing and Yang Youhuai.

After receiving the meal, Zhuo Shaoyun sat in the middle of the armor with a sea bowl and kept stuffing the food into his mouth with chopsticks, and the same was true for other lieutenant generals and soldiers, who practiced weekdays, and consumed great physical strength, and the amount of food was naturally relatively large, after all, only by eating a full meal can they line up to kill the enemy, which is a consistent criterion in the army.

Xie Ping'an swallowed half a bowl of rice, sandwiched the fat in the wooden bowl again, and just put it in his mouth, he glanced at Zhuo Shaoyun, who was still gobbling up, and muttered: "I'm tired of eating meat every day these days, alas, I really want to drink some gruel, you clean it up for me, don't waste ......"

After speaking, he put the fat meat stained with sauce into Zhuo Shaoyun's bowl, Zhuo Shaoyun was not polite, he sandwiched the fat and nodded slightly to Xie Ping'an, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and the rest of the soldiers around him were not envious.

A soldier jokingly said to Xie Ping'an: "Captain A, since you want to eat lighter, why don't you give us a few of the meat in your bowl?" Hey hey ......"

"Get out!" Xie Ping'an laughed and scolded when he heard this, then moved the wooden bowl containing the meat in front of him, and then picked up a large piece of fat meat and put it in the sea bowl: "It's all distributed to you, I'm afraid I can only eat shredded meat, don't even think about it, eat it all ......by myself" After speaking, he stuffed the meat into his mouth, causing a burst of laughter.

"You are Xie Ping'an?"

Just when Xie Ping'an was talking and laughing at his meal, suddenly a group of new soldiers also surrounded him, led by a young man of about twenty years The armor on his body was exactly the same as that on Xie Ping'an and Zhuo Shaoyun, but there seemed to be some ill-will on his face......

Xie Ping'an looked at the person who came, glanced at the black wooden sign on his waist, and was also a captain like himself, so he put down the sea bowl and got up and asked, "Dare to ask who you are this captain?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a soldier next to the young man immediately said arrogantly: "You don't even know our captain? I'm afraid I'll scare you to death if I say it, but our Captain A is a distant relative of Lord Warlord......"

"......Slow down," Xie Ping'an hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the soldier and said, "Lord Governor is alone, where are any distant relatives?" Don't you want to bluff me......"

The black-robed armor chief laughed when he heard this, and then shook his head and looked around, with a look that he knew it was at a glance.

The soldier continued: "Our Commander A is the distant cousin of the Governor's beloved Lady Song, and his status is so noble, ...... you wait?"

"Okay, don't talk about it......" The young commander hurriedly patted the shoulder of the soldier who spoke, stretched out his finger and said to him with a happy face, "How many times have I told you, you should be low-key, don't do it, the soldiers of the whole battalion know, this will make the military governor and my cousin embarrassed, I don't know, I still think that I am the commander of the armor by going through the back door?" Hey, hey, hey......"

After finishing speaking, the black-robed young man bowed to Xie Ping'an and said, "In Xia Xiao Yu, I have seen Xie Jiachang, and I have also seen all my colleagues...... After speaking, he showed a cynical and disrespectful expression, which made Xie Ping'an and the soldiers around him feel extremely unhappy.