Outside Liaocheng, behind the nameless low hill close to the Taizi River,

In a nest covered by a tarpaulin full of hay, a little curling smoke blew and dissipated in the trench dug on the side.

Lu Fang, the head of the stabbing horse team, was also crouching on a bushy tree on the hill, carefully observing the situation in the river crossing in the distance with a six-fold long monocular close mirror.

Lu Fangnai is one of the few people in the army who was born in Huaidong. It is a side child of a local Xiao Haoqiang surnamed Lu, and he is known for his bravery.

It's just that after the Wu Fort, which he barely relied on, was broken by the large group of hungry people who came over, his personal courage became useless, and in the end he could only let himself escape with his life; As a result, he has become one of the people who are displaced and on the way, and are dying.

Therefore, after being forcibly retracted by the foreign Imperial Left Army, he became one of the most positive few models of that kind of performance and transformation; Therefore, from the initial quarantine camp, labor camp, administrative area, Xuzhou tunhu, township patrol team, county garrison regiment, etc., all the way through the complete experience;

only because of the second expansion of the Huaidong Army and entered the army; Therefore, he started relatively late in the army, and he has only achieved a long time so far.

He crouched for two or three hours, until his body was sore, and he smelled the smell of some kind of hot food coming from the ground nest beside him, so he gave an explanation and walked down, giving up his post to another deputy and little flag.

Inside, there is a Japanese auxiliary soldier wearing a bowl on his head, who is making miso soup and rice, which is fast food in the battlefield;

A pot of soup is made with spicy tempeh and salted vegetables stir-fried in oil and a piece of soybean miso. Then pour it over the fire-grilled air-dried multigrain rice balls, and it is a hot and quick meal.

The standard of the non-commissioned officers is to open an extra canned of choppy or add a slice to dry the blood sausage in the soup.

Today's Huaidong Army is full of such miscellaneous military servants who are appointed by the Japanese people; Although they were generally short and thin in stature, they were not suitable for frontal combat; However, with little demand, hard-working, risk-taking and easy-driven temperament, he was able to work in the army in general.

The treatment and standard given to them is only half of that of the second-line garrison battalion, and it is less than the standard of the garrison regiment.

For example, this Yinji, who was transferred from the Japanese camp, although he still has a bit of a stutter when he speaks, but he has the ability to cook with one hand, no matter what miscellaneous things come into his hands, he can concoct decent food.

And he is particularly fond of sweet things, and whenever he has spare time, whether it is the corn and sorghum straw left over from the field, or the reed roots dug up in the ground, he can have a delicious taste in his mouth.

What he talks about the most on weekdays is that after he has saved enough money in Huaidong, he returns to his hometown to pick up a woman named Kagura and settle down.

After scraping the bottom of the pot in three or two mouthfuls, and after using up his own weight, Yinji kept checking the mules and horses tied behind the slope, carefully cleaning the saddles, and combing the manes on the horses, which looked like they were diligent and idle.

Lu Fang, on the other hand, was slowly pacing while feeding, burping, and slowly eating, while looking at the wildness behind him, and the outline of Liaocheng was in the faint horizon.

It's a pity that the square area on the outskirts of the city has long been burned down by repeated turmoil, and it has been completely demolished and turned into a part of the dilapidated suburban camp.

In the wilderness, apart from the intermittent and feeble chirping of insects in the scorching sun, there was a dead silence.

What a waste of soil, he sighed in his heart as he watched the crypt dug out and filled on both sides, looking like a layered shade of earth.

As the earliest human settlement and farming area in the northeast, the Taizi River valley in eastern Liaodong has become rich and productive after countless generations of watering and reclamation.

It's a pity that they are now all deserted, and show signs of hardening and cracking;

If it is Huaidong, the fields at this time should be full of lush crops, as well as people wearing straw hats or bamboo hats, bending over to work;

From time to time, you may see a few rotating waterwheels and overturned trucks in the fields, constantly pouring more water from the bottoming mud.

In recent years, however, there seems to have been a new thing, and that is a roar that can be heard from all over the country, 'swallowing coal and water that are almost worthless, but drawing waterfall-like springs from the river with great elevation differences.'

This big guy alone is enough to withstand the relay of hundreds or thousands of people in turn, or a large group of livestock carrying water back and forth to irrigate, and the effect of a whole day's acres of land.

And the river ditches and ravines that have been repaired everywhere, and the river embankments that extend in all directions, so that even if God is in a bad mood and rains more, there is enough place to vent and accumulate into a pool.

Therefore, even if the wind and rain were not so smooth in the past few years, under the joint efforts of the military and the people, the output was not reduced much, and there was still more than enough in the tunzhuang.

The local greenhouses promoted by agricultural officials everywhere and heated by straw and peat charcoal stoves have also allowed all kinds of tunzhuang to have more thatched greenhouses everywhere, and at the same time, they can also eat fresh mushroom vegetables for the first time in winter.

Including him, he has also personally participated in the construction of hay greenhouses, collected manure from cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, and made it into a blank for planting fungi and hair cabbage......

Suddenly, a sharp whistle from the tree woke him up, and when he climbed the tree and took the mirror, he found that the ferry crossing of the Taizi River at the far end was already full of boats and boats.

"Shi Deputy took the two of them to ride back to report the alarm......

"The rest of us and I will continue to stay on guard and stand by...... ......

Hebei Road, the sun is like fire,

"As long as you hold on to it......"

Zhang Dekun, who was sweating, gritted his teeth, looked at Jizhou City, which was already in his field of vision, and shouted those two words after struggling in his heart for a long time.

"Collect ......"

This whole spring, he took advantage of the continuous famine in the eastern part of Hebei Province to suppress and appease, pull and fight; and used the accumulated resources and the famous weapons granted by the imperial court to coerce and induce and divide and disintegrate; Only then did they eliminate the peripherals and henchmen who were gathered around his old rival Zhang Bangchang one by one.

In the end, the influence and control area of the so-called "Hebei Xingtai Metropolitan Governor" was also squeezed into the territory of Jizhou. Seeing that it was the tens of thousands of troops he pulled out, the soldiers came to the city of Jizhou to do the thing of destroying this dynasty.

There were already people in the city who were busy sending out letters of repentance and secret letters who were willing to repay their sincerity, and at this time, 100,000 anxious envoys from Luodu poured cold water on his head in the summer heat.

Because, the Southern Dynasty Liang launched the Second Route Northern Expedition from the Xiangfan Line of Jinghu Road, which has once again swept Shanxi and Shandong Roads, breaking the dilapidated and unrepaired Wuguan Danger, and then the troops in Henan are threatening from the two southwest.

In this case, all the forces and resources that can be used have become the objects that must be included by the Luodu side at any cost and means.

As a result, Zhang Dekun, who was only separated from Duqian Road and across the three bridges of Heyang, became the first person to be recalled. Almost as soon as he received the urgent edict again, he found that he had lost control of the territory in the rear.

If he insists on refusing to return to the division, he will lose the support of the rear and the subsequent transportation of military supplies, and in the famine and withering central Hebei, he will not have much capital and barriers to sustain himself.

Either with this shaken tens of thousands of horses, it will become the dish of the Jedi counterattack of Zhang Bangchang and his party in Jizhou City, or even in the insistence of lack of food and clothing, the troops themselves will flee.

Of course, he also has a choice, which is to seize this opportunity in front of him, and break Jizhou City and obtain the grain, grass and materials hoarded by the other party in one go.

But after fighting for a long time, he still didn't have enough courage and confidence to make the decision to take everything and fight to the death.

In the midst of a demoralized army, he suddenly realized that if something could not be changed, no matter how much he did in private, no matter how humble he was to protect himself, it would be meaningless.

is not even as good as Zhang Bangchang, who is self-reliant and looks like he can be destroyed overnight......

After a day and a half of days, I finally got the exact news of the retreat from the city; Like an ostrich with its head stuck in the sand, in a pessimistic and desperate mood, Zhang Bangchang, the governor of Xingtai, who locked himself in the inner room and did not see anyone, even if he was happy to come back from the sky.

Feeling hungry and hungry, he shouted for the food to be served, and in front of a kind of summoned men, he feasted and gave orders on the other.

"Hurry up ......"

"Gather the ......"

"Copying all those who are familiar with foreign enemies......"

"As long as there is any suspicion, no matter the origin, status, civil, military and noble, don't let anyone go......"

"All family assets and dependents need to be handed over to 30%, and the rest will be used to reward soldiers......"

"Qin Ming ......"

"In ......"

"Your Perak Battalion is in charge of Dongguo ......"

"Guan Sheng......"

"No,"

"Your Broadsword Battalion is the host of Xiguo ......"

"Du Qian ......"

"No,"

"Your Door Gun Team Hosts the Beiguo ......"

"Song Wan ......"

"No,"

"Your King Kong Camp is the host of Nanguo ......"

"The inner city has its own, and I personally dispose of ......"

Zhang Bangchang finally concluded.

Then he called Zhang Qing, the general in front of the ya, and instructed him to go to the inner city and the big families with beautiful wives and daughters.