In Pengchengzhi, Xuzhou, Yanguiyuan on the shore of Shigou Lake is holding a banquet of high specifications.

It's just that apart from the invited guests, neither the maids nor the servants in the garden can come within a hundred steps of the main hall of the banquet, Jiahua Xuan.

All the furnishings were delivered by the Yu Hou and the tooth soldiers who were on guard.

In Jiahuaxuan, which is all made of natural red giant wood inlaid arches in the south, and there is not a single iron artifact, all kinds of precious cups and cups inlaid with rhino horns, agate, jadeite and other jewels are stacked everywhere.

On the long case, those expensive and exquisite gold and silver pinched flower tableware, and the delicacies contained in them, were already too cold to be cold, but no one rushed up to replace one or two.

There were dozens of people present, young and old, young and middle-aged of all ages, and the only thing they had in common was their gestures, the kind of bearing that had been immersed in the army for a long time, and the habitual action of instinctively touching the sword at the waist.

They were all commanders, town lords or vassals who held the tribal in their hands, weighed one side, and had gathered here for a common reason.

The soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty Daliang had already reached Chuzhou on the other side of the Huai River, because no matter how much they had disagreements and discords, they did not know how not to come here under the auspices of Qingxu Town, which was the most powerful and appealing town, to discuss countermeasures and establish a defensive line along the Huai River.

It's just that the atmosphere of the banquet is not very pleasant, and even there have been many colds and disputes, and they all rely on the local representative of the host's family, trying their best to reconcile and suppress, so that they will not turn their faces and wave their sleeves away.

Mainly, there is a dispute over the strategy of the main clear field and the distribution of the main clear and strong walls, as well as the overall mobilization of a joint force for dominance and investment distribution, after all, under these own rules; It is one thing to lawlessly and recklessly exploit and oppress the people, but it is another thing to let them destroy their own territory and make a big contribution.

Several military towns along the Huai River are even more worried that they will bear the brunt of the attack and become cannon fodder and that the gains outweigh the losses, and they are also worried that the neighboring towns in the rear will have ulterior motives and take the opportunity to annex their own forces.

It was easy to reach a general consensus for the time being under the full guarantee of Qingxu Town, which was the convener, and under the pressure of coercion and coercion, and then it was difficult to hold each other because of the direction and position of the key blocking and resistance to the Southern Army.

The big sand table brought in for demonstration was overturned and disrupted again and again in the foaming foam and various fists and kicks, and the expressions of excitement and exhaustion alternated on the "big guys" of these separating sides.

Several heads that were loaded with large silver plates were presented, and they were Zheng Dingjun's military envoys, Haizhou observation envoys, and sailors who left to "rest" first.

Then surrounded by many armor soldiers, with it, there is also said to have retired the previous generation of Qingxu Jiedu envoy, the governor of Huaibei, and Du Guishen, who inspected the school Shangshu Zuocheng.

The bloody human head and the reappearance of the old town marshal made the rest of the people present suddenly realize, but they were terrified again.

The comeback of this old Linggong, who seems to be in good spirits, also means that the current one who stayed behind has no use for what he said. They almost instinctively used the actual actions of their bodies to distance themselves from the convener of the banquet.

In the end, there were only a few cronies and generals left around the other party with panicked expressions and at a loss, all of whom were the defense envoys he had brought to the states of Qingxu Town over the years.

Seeing that his prestige was still there, and seeing his son faintly isolated and pale, resentful and helpless, this former generation with white hair couldn't help but sigh

"Since you are here, please don't be impatient for the time being......"

Ignoring the present, such as the funeral of the present generation, Du Linggong was full of anger

"Let's listen to the envoys of the court, how to divide ......"

"Imperial envoys? ……”

A voice questioned cautiously.

"The army of the imperial court has passed through Mizhou...... Soon"

Some said in a smug and reserved voice

"So everyone, you can let go of your trust and resist the ...... of the south" ......

At the same time, a horse had just rushed into the Xiping Gate of Luodu, and then under the exclusive banner of urgent delivery, he drove straight into the Luodu Da Nei, bringing the following news to the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Dynasty

"The dust has settled on the battle of Chuzhou,"

"The Huainan armies claimed to be 100,000, and they fought against the 80,000 southern rebels for several days......"

"In the end, the Huainan coalition army was defeated and lost, and dozens ......of people from the Huainan Metropolitan Governor Zhu Mian were killed, left behind, interviewed, observed, strategized, defended, regimental training, capital knowledge, and town generals."

"Huaiyin. In the two places of Shanyang, since the political envoy below, the remnant official Zuo Kaicheng surrendered......"

"As of the date of the flood, the soldiers and horses of the southern rebellion have already begun to spend ......."

In Chuzhou,

On the shore of Baima Lake, where the Huainan Cao River flows, as one of the battlefields on the periphery of the Chuzhou War, embers are curling, corpses are everywhere, and flags and weapons are indiscriminately planted all over the ground.

A partial division from Zhongli Town, Haozhou, which supported Chuzhou, and the Ma army of 1,000 and the infantry army of 5,000 were all defeated on the bank of this ancient lake. But because in the process of trying to get closer, the horse army, as the vanguard, actually strayed into a large swamp that extended to the shore.

When I hid in the grass by the lake and brought back the news, I was stationed in the water station on the side of the Cao River, responsible for protecting the safety of the rear river channel, and immediately decided to take the initiative to take a bite of this experience gift package sent to the door.

Then, they were hidden in the grass swing by the guncorps, for a long time to shoot in a row, directly knocked out the sharp energy, and then I used the relatively poorly equipped skirmishers and the generals carried by the pro-direct regiment in the front, and Yang Zaixing did a good job of attracting the enemy's attention and attacking the enemy's target, and taught the regiment and the pacesetter regiment to be restrained in the flank horse movement, so that they did not dare to devote their full strength.

By this cover, I moved with the 1st and 2nd Battalions to the flanks and rear, and slowly approached several rounds of fire, and the white soldiers easily broke up the detachment of the labor division from afar, only to know that they had come to steal the grain.

Postwar

Rows of bloodstained, ragged captives were being washed away in the river, and at first they thought it was some kind of precursor to a disguised massacre, but they turned around and wailed for a while before they were pushed and shoved into the lake.

Then I realized that I would actually be wrong, and I suffered a frightened and unwarranted disaster in vain, but I cried with joy.

Gu Laosi, who watched this scene, was a little bored, knowing that he had been one of them before, and then turned his attention back to the hand.

He was carefully tending to a firecracker, although it was only an old long gun, but it was enough to cheer up the spirit, and disassemble, test and oil it according to the rules and details of the instruction.

Although his movements were a little clumsy and stiff, and he was still self-hypnotizing in his mouth, which was far from the neatness of flowing water, it did not prevent him from being diligent and able to make up for his clumsiness, and to use double his time and energy to manipulate this terrible thing and turn it into his own mechanical action.

Don't look at such a simple iron pipe, dismantling it is so fragmentary and fragmented about a dozen pieces, but it is more sharp than a strong crossbow, killing people in an invisible terrible weapon, as long as it is filled with a half-finger of medicinal powder, it can burst out with huge power and sound, with a small pill, please penetrate the armor or hand card dozens of steps away, and take people's lives with a hole.

And it is no more than the momentum of the bow and crossbow visible to the naked eye, it comes and goes without a shadow, and it is impossible to prevent it at all, which is the last thing that those veterans of the war are willing to face. Because if you are hit by this thing, even if you don't die immediately, you will lose half your life.

Because the sub-medicine is often deeply embedded in the flesh or even the bones, and there is residual poison on it, if it is not debrided and dug out in time, it will be difficult for the wounded sect to heal, but it will be deeply ulcerated or poisoned with the weather or activities, which is enough to make people die and come back from a good life toss.

But it's not so simple to take the wound, the lead is not as good as the arrow, just cut it off and pull it out, only the thumb-sized projectile, deeply embedded in the human body is soaked in blood and does not leave the hand, and it will also be translocated and deformed with the action or blood flow, and the ordinary knife and needle means are useless.

Therefore, in most cases, those helpless wounded can only use their fingers to probe the bleeding wound, touch the suspected lead, and then use a round-headed spoon to expand the wound and dig it out.

As for the recovery of injuries afterwards, it is still resigned to fate, and if the body is good, it may be able to survive it, but if it can't survive, it will die of wound ulceration.

There are even rumors that the people who are killed by this thing, even the souls are taken away by the guns, and become the ghosts of the tiger style, waiting to find the next ghost to replace the dead, and the more people killed, the better the head, and the more fatal it is to hurt people......

In this regard, Gu Laosi was very glad that he was able to change his career to become a gunner, and there was nothing more reassuring and appropriate than standing in a distance to kill and reap the lives of the enemy.

After dying and resurrecting several times, his bad luck seemed to have finally been reversed, first he was treated for his injuries, and then he became one of the more than a dozen lucky people who were selected to join the main general's direct group.

It's not a simple thing to join the pro-direct group, and there are some capable veterans in it, who are experienced in long and short attacks with guns and hand-to-hand combat.

As one of the newcomers, Gu Laosi thinks that he won't pull down too much, but with guns, it is a completely new thing.

But what bothered him even more was that as a member of the pro-direct group, he actually had to relearn literacy and simple arithmetic, which cost the life of Gu Laosi, who only knew how to fight all his life.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh, but the pins in his hands were all in the opposite position.

And the ones who are responsible for making up lessons for them are the marquis under the account of General Luo.

They are also known as instructors, and they are probably kept in the size of dozens of people, except for a few people who take turns to follow them, or serve as secretaries and clerks on the left and right, and at other times, they are responsible for the discipline affairs in the army.

That is, the unit that is temporarily distributed with the team and fire is within their scope to teach those newly replenished soldiers at the bottom to read and write, as well as the corresponding code of conduct, simple military concepts, and even to write letters to those soldiers, calculate salaries and booty income, and other chores are within their scope.

Of course, as the marquis of Yu, who is directly subordinate to the main general, it is said that they also have other responsibilities to listen to the voices and reactions of the soldiers under them and summarize them to their own officials. This is also a kind of disguised deterrent and restraint for those middle and lower-level team officers and fire captains, so that they don't have much opportunity to get up and down or act recklessly.

It is said that most of them are from martial arts classes and lack experience in real formations, but they have a certain level of education and military theoretical literacy, and they are also very respectful and obedient to their own officials, which can be regarded as some kind of use.