Liu Ce slept for 3 hours, and when he woke up, the sky was completely dark, and the snoring in the tent came and went, except for the one named Xu Hui, the rest of the people slept to death, especially the guy Feng Chou Nian, who snored like thunder. Liu Ce touched his belly, opened his army cloth bag, took out two dry and hard baked cakes, and casually took them to the campfire at the entrance of the camp tent and roasted them with cold water.

Due to the shortage of grain and grass, and the corruption of the officers, the ordinary soldiers in the battalion only had two meals a day, mainly a large bowl of gruel, plus two sorghum rice balls, one in the morning and one in the evening. Soldiers like Liu Ce who have military achievements will also carry a dry food bag with them, which contains steamed bread and fried rice and other dry food to eat for two or three days, and the newcomers or those with low military achievements have nothing, only to eat half full twice a day with the mainstream. Smelling the aroma of baked cakes, Xu Hui couldn't help swallowing his saliva, he had hardly eaten a day since he was a soldier for a few months, and he had almost no resistance to this kind of dry food. Liu Ce finished eating a piece of cake, looked at Xu Hui who was shrunk by the mat, tore off most of the remaining cake and threw it to him, Xu Hui took the slightly warm cake and glanced at Liu Ce gratefully, then hid in the corner and devoured it.

Liu Ce shook his head and didn't say anything, although it was in a camp tent, but the people in the camp didn't communicate much at all, every time they started a war, everyone picked up their weapons and went to their own array, Liu Ce vaguely remembered that he was assigned to this camp for almost a year, except for the names of each person, he didn't know anything, sometimes he wouldn't say a word for weeks and months, including Captain A Zeng Yanyan, and didn't communicate much with the people in the camp. This situation is not only in Liu Ce's camp, but even in the entire Thunder Army, and even the entire military camp of the empire. The reason is that each battalion is assigned to a different array, including an archer array, a sword and shield array, a spear array, and there are also cases where the same class has different jurisdictions. According to some veterans, this is done to prevent a camp from being too sad when the battle is attritional, but Liu Ce feels that this is pure, and there are only two possibilities: mutual supervision and prevention of chaos.

After Xu Hui finished eating the cake, he slowly walked to Liu Ce's side and said, "Thank you Brother Liu for the gift of the cake, Xu Hui will remember it in his heart." After finishing speaking, he made a deep sigh again.

"Sit." Liu Ce looked at this delicate face, pointed to the side and motioned for him to sit down, "I see that you are young and beautiful, and you don't look like a child from a poor family, why did you come to be a soldier?" ”

"Don't hide it from Brother Liu, the younger brother's family was originally rich, his father has been in business for decades, and he has earned hundreds of acres of land, and there are two cloth and satin villages in Luyang County. After a pause, he continued: "It's a pity that I offended the local gate lord clan because of trivial matters, all the fields and cloth villages were copied, my father was beaten to death by the government instructed by the scholars, and the whole family was reduced to slavery. After saying this, Xu Hui sighed again, as if he felt unfair about what happened to him.

"Then do you think the bowl of rice in the barracks is worth eating?" Liu Ce didn't ask who framed Xu Hui, because there is no need to get to the bottom of this relationship now, and even if he asked, he was not qualified to do something for Xu Hui.

"Brother Liu, junior brother, I know that my skills are low, and it is child's play to kill the enemy with you and the brothers in the tent, but the younger brother has nothing to do now, there is nowhere to go, since he has joined the army, he can only resign himself to fate."

"Go to bed early." Liu Ce wiped the tip of his gun and waist knife, and placed it on his side steadily, "Tomorrow may be another Shura field, and only the living can get out of this hell." After speaking, without waiting for Xu Hui's reply, he fell asleep again, what the spy said to Deng Jiao during the day has been imprinted in Liu Ce's mind, as expected, tomorrow will be another vicious battle.

At this time, outside Zhu Song's tent, many soldiers were fully armed and on standby in the school field......

"Everyone is here?" Zhu Song was dressed in a white fish-scale iron armor and sat majestically in the tent.

"General Hui, all of them are here, and there are a total of 2,000 and 7 people in each battalion, counting the personal guards of the adults, it is exactly 2,400 whole." The whispered return of the officials around him.

Zhu Song narrowed his eyes and said, "Is there any objection from the deputy general flag?" ”

Deng Jiao hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency, relax, the last general has already greeted the Deputy Chief Banner, and as soon as the war starts, he will take advantage of the chaos to bring his cronies to the direction of Caizhou City to meet your lordship."

"It's a pity that this time it cost him five thousand taels of silver and two thousand stone of military rations to let him do this." Zhu Song secretly complained in his heart, feeling sorry for those belongings, although these were only the tip of the iceberg of his corruption. "Give the order to go down, and then you can march, and in an hour I will see the army enter the city."

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