Chapter 208

Just when Yang Shangjing and the heir of Chengyi Bo Liu Ji were talking and laughing, Xu Hui, the unlucky imperial historian, was in the deep mountains and old forests on the border of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, looking at the green trees that Beijing would never have this month, and wanted to scold his mother with a depressed face.

The rain that lasted for dozens of days finally stopped, but the ability of trees to fix water was not given in vain, and in this year when there was no shadow of industrialization at all, the trees in the deep mountains were like the fierce wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, which were obstacles for human beings to know and understand the world. Therefore, even if he had two guards and more than a hundred cavalry with him and twice the number of regular soldiers, he still couldn't move an inch in the deep mountains and old forests.

Thanks to the fact that he is a native of Suzhou, he is also adapted to the climate, water and soil of Fujian, otherwise he would not wait to enter the mountains to suppress bandits, and he would have contracted dysentery.

If he hadn't known that there were some things to say and some things to say, he would have already said the words "why did the rain stop at this time?"

"Tang Yanshi, have you ever found the trace of a traitor now?" Seeing that it was getting late, Xu Huo couldn't help but ask the general beside him, Tang Enmeng, the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Division.

Speaking of the matter of suppressing bandits, it can be regarded as a major event in Fujian in the past few months, after all, that Ye Zongliu not only killed Fujian Senator Zhu Yuan, but also seriously injured the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Division, Liu Hai, until now, the former general Zheng Erpin, who had infinite scenery, is still lying in bed to recuperate, and his lifelong reputation has basically become a wisp of bangs that have been cut off.

So now the one who is responsible for suppressing the bandits is a commander of Tongzhi, and the one who is responsible for accompanying Xu Hui outside is a high-ranking Zhengsanpin commander, and the whole army of more than 7,000 people in the half-guard is surrounded outside the mountain, and while being responsible for guarding the silver mine of the official government, he is also responsible for monitoring the movements of the mine thief Ye Zongliu and others, once the other party has a plan to go out of the mountain, he will be ruthlessly surrounded and suppressed - after all, the government is not afraid of the honest thieves in Tuntian, but those who have fought thousands of miles.

Tang En glanced at Xu Huo fiercely, he swore that if it weren't for the Qin Cha in front of him who had a holy decree on his body and came to supervise the battle, he would have asked people to chop this goods into meat sauce, and it has not been a few days since he led the team into the mountain, this person has asked many times, if the special thief is so easy to find, he still needs the imperial court to send someone to supervise the war? Pingbai let his mind be impetuous.

However, Qin Cha, seeing that the official is one level older, plus it is said that this Xu Huo in front of him used to be a person from the Hanlin Academy, and he was close to the inner court, and he was very favored by Wang Zhen's father-in-law, he commanded all the affairs, and he was the adjutant of the third grade, and he was not a famous family, so he didn't even have the qualifications to stand in line, where did he dare to offend? So Tang Enmeng took a deep breath and replied patiently: "Xu Shiyu is a little restless, the people in the army who are good at detecting the enemy's situation in the mountains have all been scattered, and there will be news back soon, these people are specially recruited from all over the country, and the freedom is grown up in the mountains, if they encounter the main force of the thieves, they will definitely not let them lose their whereabouts again." ”

When Xu Huo heard this, he could only sigh, nodded and said: "The thieves have been wandering in the mountains for a day, and the money and food spent by the officials and soldiers are not calculated. ”

Well, singing high-pitched, benevolence, righteousness and morality, Hanlin Academy has been around for so many years, Xu Huo is also familiar with this, but these are in Tang Enmeng's ears, it is very piercing, and the heart says that you can't help if you have something to do, and you just leave it here every day to talk nonsense, you have the ability to pay attention to what is benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith to the mining thieves, and let them obediently go down the mountain to die.

Therefore, this Tang En violently suppressed the anger in his heart, and showed a reluctant smile: "What Xu Shiyu said is very true, the general has already let his subordinates fulfill their duties, and they dare not live up to Jun's grace." ”

While the two were talking, the red sun in the sky was already slanting to the west, Tang En turned around suddenly, and said to a commander beside him: "Lao Meng, let the men and horses under your command set up camp, bury the pot and make food, leave enough people to keep vigil, don't let the thieves seize the opportunity to sneak attack us." ”

Although the servants of the Dusi Yamen are the same as the commanders, they are all positive three grades, but because they belong to the nature of overall planning and management, they are half a level higher than the commanders, so the commander surnamed Meng heard this, and did not hesitate, and nodded directly: "I can save it, according to the scout's inspection the day before, the mountains here are acceptable, and there are many suitable places to camp. ”

I haven't eaten or drunk this year, the proportion of night blindness is quite high, and the bridge of the night battle attack on the camp is also a lot of fun in various romances, what "wrap the horse's hooves with cloth", "put the horse on the dragon's head" and other dramas sound cool, in fact, it is difficult to do it in reality, take hundreds of people to attack the camp, these hundreds of people themselves do not get separated and have to thank God, really hand over the fire, a little torch, and it is a mess, so find some help without night blindness on duty, it is also a manifestation of people's talents.

Seeing that the commander turned his head and began to give orders, the team found a suitable place, set up camp, and the men with the army began to bury the pot and cook, Xu Huo breathed a sigh of relief, he had been in Fujian for so long, he was guarding against possible plots all the time, especially when he was marching on the road, he almost lost his gray hair for this, after all, he really knew that the cat in the Fujian silver mine was greasy.

"This time, I only want merit, but I want no fault." Xu Huo looked at the sun that was gradually slanting westward, and then looked at the stars that were gradually lit up in the eastern sky, and planned to learn from the sincerity of the year, although the Ming Dynasty forbade ordinary people to look up at the starry sky, and there was no fish head staring at the sky with dead fish eyes on the big cake, but as a former Hanlin editor, he still had no problem stargazing.

"The world is peaceful, and there has been nothing wrong in the past two years, but I am ...... Alas. Xu Huo looked at the celestial phenomena and sighed, until someone over there came to tell him that the camp had been set up, then he lowered his head and silently walked over to eat the small stove that the cook had opened for him.