In a valley in the mountains of western Liaoning,

The traces of a short but fierce battle have been mostly cleared and turned into a stopover for the follow-up troops.

Although it was early summer, the wind in the mountain gorge was still a little cold.

Therefore, taking advantage of the leisure time to rest in place, the veterans and non-commissioned officers began to supervise and inspect one by one, those soldiers who had traveled a long distance, the equipment and equipment on their bodies. Avoid blowing wind due to sweating and soaking through your robe, as sudden cold and heat will cause wind evil to enter the body.

In this Shiri, the Japanese auxiliaries who were in charge of miscellaneous work had already used oil-soaked coal as a primer to make a fire, boiled a large pot of boiling water, and then crushed the concentrated tea cakes in the gongzhong, and added them together with small pieces of coarse sugar to make a pot of tea soup, and then collected the wet boots that had been taken off and put them on the side of the fire to be turned upside down and baked.

It didn't take long for the pale yellow tea soup to roll again, and then each person could get a large spoonful, and open their portable lunch box, revealing a number of red bean rice balls that had become hard overnight, and poured down with a slightly sweet and bitter tea soup, gradually becoming full and soft.

The aroma of grains and beans that permeated his mouth and nose gave him a somewhat useful expression.

After eating the red bean rice that had been soaked hot and soft in three or five bites, he only felt that his stomach was empty and thirsty, and it was finally replaced by a feeling of fullness.

Otherwise, the veteran Shi Chang and Xiaoqi will severely stop and reprimand him, and according to the rules of the army, in the case of a possible encounter with the enemy at any time, he will eat a round stomach and rush into battle, which is tantamount to giving up half his life first.

The costs and penalties for violating the rules and military orders are also quite severe; At least he didn't want to lose the opportunity to serve in the military. After settling in Huaidong, he was a recruit who was added as a child of Tunzhuang.

Although it is not easy or even quite dangerous to be a soldier there, compared with other places under the control of the national dynasty in and outside the mountains, it is generally necessary to grasp the errands and forcibly apportion them to replenish the army;

So much so that there is a widely circulated joke in the south that many foreign officials returned to Beijing to report on their work, and they all praised the improvement of public security along the way, because the local scoundrels, loafers, and even able-bodied beggars were all arrested and defrauded to join the army on errands.

It is also said that in the taverns and tea shops of many famous cities and towns, there are special nurseries in the army, but if there are local young children, as long as they are a little greedy, they will be persuaded to get drunk and press the deed, load the car and send it to the barracks.

Serving as a soldier in Huaidong and eating food is a very cautious thing, and the followers are enthusiastic and there are many monks and few porridges. Not only are the limbs complete and the body is healthy, but also honest and obedient.

It is necessary to settle down for a certain number of years, after a multi-faceted selection based on the household/factory, have the qualifications of the corresponding local labor, service and garrison, and know the most basic rules and orders, before they can be selected;

Although daily life is particularly hard and tedious, it is very strictly restricted; Even if you don't fight, you have to participate in rigorous training, or take turns to take on heavy military duties, but the corresponding treatment and benefits are generally higher than the standard of living of the people.

For example, free clothes, hats, shoes, socks, quilts, soap and other utensils, there are all kinds of canned rations outside the march, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish are eaten every once in a while, medical and health care does not cost anything, regular military entertainment and cultural and sports competitions, and even various special commodities and rare things in the army are exclusively supplied within the supply and marketing cooperatives;

As a result, many people's military salaries are basically useless, and they can still be saved as capital, or to support a family of five or six people.

And this is only the standard of ordinary soldiers, what he pursues is the qualification that only veterans can have, and people can dream of granting fields, although they can only get the placement of the corresponding military fields after retiring or transferring to the locality; But it also means that in old age, there is a minimum of food and clothing.

You must know that his biggest luxury before was just to eat a whole taro meal without restrictions. As for the people who may die, in this chaotic world, there are still few people who die for no reason.

Only war, and its related exploits, can get him everything he wants. And he also heard that if he could get this large piece of good land across the sea this time, he would have to set up hundreds of armies in the future. Waizi, the military field of thousands of soldiers.

With such vague longing and longing, he poured the last bit of soup in the iron lunch box into his mouth.

Then, recovering to the sound of a trumpet, he put away his hot boots by the fire, put them back on, put them on again, and put them on a turban to dry in his hat.

The remaining tea soup in the pot was poured into the kettle or bag one by one by the Japanese auxiliary, as a backup before the next water source, which can not only quench thirst and fatigue, but also replenish physical strength a little.

At this time, the two dozen mules and horses belonging to the fire had almost finished chewing a round of forage, neighing with their mouths and noses with grass residue and soybean meal, and in the sound of the command of the ups and downs, they put on the load-bearing equipment again, and tied up the fish tightly and walked onto the potholed road.

Together with other standard carts drawn by oxen and horses, with tarpaulins and wagons, they were interspersed in a procession of fire in the order of several sequences.

After walking through the mountains for more than an hour, he heard again the call to stop the queue;

As the terrain suddenly opened up, a small city with three low walls standing against the mountain appeared in front of them. Flying above the city is the banner of a feudal family named Chu in the New City Alliance.

Several battalions and regiments that had arrived in advance sounded the horn of marching after gathering their troops in a rough formation to the beat of drums.

Standing in the queue, he was wearing a lock curtain and holding a long hammer, trying to blink his eyes so that the sweat on his forehead flowed, and his arms were also beating and shaking up and down with the slowly accelerating heartbeat and heavy breathing, making people feel almost sweating.

It was only the horse-drawn gun carriages that accompanied him, the thick and heavy round pipes and the dull metal texture, that could provide him with a little peace of mind and a sense of stability.

Whether it is an enemy formation or a strong base, in front of this big guy who spits thunder and flames, it is just some dirt chickens and dogs.

And after marching out of a distance with the beat of the drums and beats, the gap between them, the newly replenished team fire, and those old soldiers, was clearly exposed.

As the ground became uneven, these newly replenished queues were deformed and evacuated to varying degrees, which was caused by some people being impatient or panicked;

And those veterans still follow the beat step by step, unhurriedly moving forward to maintain a basic line, and from time to time someone elastically slows down or speeds up the pace to adapt to and maintain the overall smoothness.

In this way, they were divided into dozens of rows of horizontal formations diagonally towards the city, and with a certain momentum of silence and slaughter, they slowly pressed forward, and the muzzles of the guns on the march were also warped, ready to use platoon fire to carry out the first round of fire reconnaissance.

However, at this time, the flags at the head of the city suddenly fell one after another.

Smoke and a brief burst of noise began to rise in the city, and then the door was opened, and a group of people cautiously greeted them with white flags

And in the middle of Yaozhou

I also looked at a large sand table representing the entire territory of Yaozhou and Pingzhou in northwestern Liaoning, and on it a model representing the important cities and strongholds in the Daling River Valley, most of which had been planted with small flags representing occupation and control.

The Daling River, which flows between the mountains, runs from west to east, running through most of the population settlements in the two states. Although it seems to be a small place, and it is quite narrow, it is actually scattered in fragments, as many as nineteen small and medium-sized towns and large strongholds.

In the vicinity of these two states, there are several patches, representing the special colors of different forces such as the Raole Governor's Mansion and the Song Desert Governor of the Grasslands outside the mountains, as well as the Northern Princes' Alliance. At least judging from the map obtained from Kaiyi City, as long as you take the last two or three strongholds in the northwest and between the narrow mountains, you can complete the geographical closure of the two states to the north.

But it doesn't seem that simple,

Since the ambush at the bottom of the Nameless Valley and the defeat of the other side, killing thousands, the local resistance and enthusiasm of the two northern states seem to have been exhausted in this battle, and only a few sporadic harassments and wandering activities remain.

This is the domain of the grassland outside the mountains, has it intervened in advance; Or are they the people of the forest and the mountain people who took advantage of the opportunity to wander over, or are they simply some kind of backhand of the Northern Alliance?

Or is it the remnants of the local Xue clan who fought back, or the things that the newly feudal princes disturbed?

All of a sudden, the staff team around me was busy making suggestions on various possibilities, as well as corresponding plans and countermeasures.

At this time, the results of screening and torturing the prisoners in front of the front finally came out. ，

"Tell the town marshal, the opponent that this army has encountered this time ......"

Du Shiyi, who joined the army, reported to me.

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