Zhou Rui smiled slightly, this information was obtained without any effort, it was obvious that the purpose of this Maidno army to go to Jiezhen was to replace the defense of the South Shore Army, and then let the South Shore Army attack the port of Zhancheng. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info [Latest Chapter Reading] But this news was too simple, he didn't believe what the old sergeant said, "This old brother, don't fool me, I'm a hundred households now, I can't be afraid of war, you see those Maidno people, all of them are full of energy, well-armed, and they all dare to fight, how can they not go to war?" ”

"Hmph, just those bastards!" A few soldiers next to him were obviously a little disdainful, "It's just a matter of robbing the people's girls, and they have to be ruined to death one by one, it's really a lack of morality, every day when we pull out the camp, we have to bring out more than ten dead women, such people go to war, it's really cheap for them not to die in the hands of the enemy." "That is, we help them carry things to build a camp every day, and we don't even arrange a place to sleep, and we have to help them build a camp before they can build a place to live for themselves, and often there is no place to sleep when it gets dark." "We didn't have much to eat, so we would whip us in the back when we worked, and leave us behind when we had something to eat. He's a hundred households better, we did everything, and he even escaped, it's really funny. ”

Zhou Rui nodded secretly, it seems that the grudge between this group of Annan soldiers and the Maidno people is not a little bit, and it can be used. Just as he was about to speak, Dawn had already trotted all the way back. "My lord! My lord! Just ahead, just a mile away, there was a clearing, and they let us set up camp there......"

Zhou Rui glanced inadvertently into the distance, and sure enough, he could see a handful of gray cloth clothes in the woods - the liaison officer who followed behind was indeed not left behind. He looked around left and right, the old sergeant was still sitting aside to rest at this time, Zhou Rui walked over and arched his hand at the old sergeant, "Then it's troublesome brother, Ben Baihu has just taken office today, and he doesn't know what to do, so please give me some advice." ”

The old sergeant looked flattered, "How can the old man make the hundred households condescend, what do the adults need, just say it, it's really torturous to the old man." Saying that, he hurriedly stood up and gave Zhou Rui a salute, "The little one is the only one who is new, and the adults of the hundred households are looking forward!" ”

Zhou Rui had learned a lot of psychological things when he was under Ren Xuefeng, and he mobilized an old sergeant in just a few words, and then turned to these soldiers in front of him and said, "Although Zhou is not talented, he bought this hundred households with money, but he also knows that if the brothers in the army want to move forward together, they must first share the blessings before they can share the difficulties." As he spoke, he took out two or three silver coins from his pocket and handed them to the old sergeant, "Please also ask the elder brother to help me and distribute it to the brothers below to buy something to eat. ”

Although it was a joke to say that these hundreds of people divided these two or three silver coins, but this was also a good thing, and some scud soldiers took it to buy wine, and the hundreds of soldiers here were excited, and under the command of Zhou Rui and Liming, they excitedly carried their respective things and poured into the area where the camp was built, and began to build the camp in a noisy manner.

"These Annan people are really interesting, they used to always push back when they did things, and they also procrastinated, why are they so hot now? Did you know that you were about to arrive at Boundary Town? A staff officer looked at this hot situation and felt incredible, and couldn't help but muttered to himself. Russell on the side originally paid no attention to these Annan people, but now he was talked about by this staff officer and looked at it curiously. This sight startled him, and there were more than a dozen Annan soldiers digging trenches in the ground with hoes.

"Stop, stop!" Russell rushed over with a few staff officers, "What are you doing?" Ready to farm here? ”

"Huh?" The first soldier was startled, and hurriedly took a few steps back, but only promised, "This is our New Hundred Households' instructions." ”

"Lord New Hundred Households??" Russell keenly captured the word, "Why is it said that it is the new hundred households?" ”

"My lord, our former hundred households have sold us all to the new hundred households." The soldier's words startled Russell again, "Can the official positions of a hundred households still be sold?" However, seeing that these excited Annan soldiers in front of him did not look like they were faking at all, he hesitated slightly, "Call your hundred households." ”

Not long after, Zhou Rui was respectfully invited to Russell by several Annan soldiers, Russell looked at this person carefully, his face was white and beardless, obviously he looked like a scholar, wearing an obviously small military uniform, and a waist tag was hung on the red belt around his waist, which probably said official position, he thought to himself, and asked at the same time, "This hundred households, what are you asking the soldiers to dig this ditch in the ground?" ”

"Drain it!" Zhou Rui replied with a natural face, this calm expression made Russell feel a little strange, he has dealt with these Annan people a lot, when can any Annan people talk to him so calmly? However, he didn't bother to care about this, and just continued to ask, "Why do you need to drain water?" It's not dark yet, and there's still the sun in the sky, so why is it raining? ”

"Dawn!" "Here!" Dawn reflexively shouted, but immediately realized that he was in the Annan army, but fortunately, no one noticed his voice, and hurriedly lowered his head and ran to Zhou Rui's side, "Tell him why there is rain." ”

Dawn didn't dare to stand upright, but straightened his waist and said, "There are cumulonimbus clouds in the east, and we are on the seashore, and the wind blowing in spring and summer is the east wind, and the wind will blow the rain clouds, and if it is good, it will rain tonight." ”

From a distance, a herald on a horse was coming quickly, holding a red wooden sign in his hand, and the horse quickly rushed to Russell's side, and the herald did not dismount, but saluted on the horse and said, "Report to the general, report to the army that the salt bag is seeping, it should rain today." ”

Russell's face was full of surprise, he looked up at the two inconspicuous clouds in the east, turned to look at the inconspicuous dawn again, and looked at the equally inconspicuous Baihu, "Then you can go on." As he spoke, he turned to the staff officer beside him and said, "Transfer two squadrons of axes and guns and four squadrons of muskets to dig drainage ditches along the camp, they can't dig them all by themselves." ”

"General!" Seeing that Russell was about to leave, Zhou Rui hurriedly stopped him, "May I ask what we should do?" ”

"What to do?" Russell was stunned, he didn't understand what this new hundred households were doing, so he asked casually. Zhou Rui raised his head and asked, "If we help your army set up camp today, then we will inevitably not have enough time to build our own camp, and we will definitely be drenched in rain tonight, there are more miasma plagues in this place, if a large number of people fall ill in the rain, it will inevitably affect the speed of tomorrow's camp." As he spoke, he looked to the north, "I don't know how far we are from Jiezhen, if all of our people are sick and die, I guess the general's march will slow down, right?" ”

Russell laughed, he hadn't thought about it in the slightest, "You can get to Jiezhen tomorrow, but you're right, so let's go and set up your own camp now, we also have sappers here, let them do it first." But you'll have to come and help us as soon as you're done. ”

"Command." Zhou Rui gave a salute and turned around and walked away with Dawn, he quickly said something to a few sergeants, and saw that those sergeants had a look of joy on their faces, and hurriedly carried their tools and ran out.

"This hundred households are kind of interesting." Russell secretly laughed twice, "If only he were a Medno." As he spoke, he stopped looking over there, and began to inspect the camp with a few staff officers to supervise the construction.

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"......Boom" The rain outside was pouring like a scoop, and Liming was sitting next to Zhou Rui, and asked Zhou Rui quietly, "Brother Zhou, by the way, that buddy is out alone now, will he be drenched?" ”

"You don't have to worry about him," Zhou Rui said quietly, "We have all received these trainings, he should have started preparing for the night earlier, but I am a little worried that I will not be able to send out the information today." ”

At this time, several Annan soldiers in the distance saw Lord Xinbaihu sitting by the fire, and hurriedly walked over with the wine bowl in his hand, "Lord Baihu! We're in service today! ”

"Huh?" This sentence confused Zhou Rui, and he didn't know what it meant. The soldiers hurriedly said, "If it were normal times, I am afraid that we are still building a camp in the rain, but today Lord Baihu dares to directly argue with the people of Maidno, can let us build our own camp first, so that I and others will not suffer from getting wet, Lord Xie!" ”

"Oh," Zhou Rui took the wine bowl and took a sip lightly, then handed it back, the soldier was stunned, "My lord, this is the little ones who respect the adults!" ”

Zhou Rui smiled, "When marching and fighting, it is not appropriate to drink, but although you are not wet, the temperature is not high now, drink two more sips to warm your body," said and quietly handed the wine bowl to the soldier. "Thank you, sir! Adults care about their subordinates, let them be convinced! From now on, the adults will tell the small ones to go east, and the small ones will never go west. ”

"What are you going west for? It's not going to Elysium, we have to advance and retreat together," Zhou Rui stood up and patted him on the shoulder, "I just want everyone to know that since Zhou is now your official, he will eat and live with your brothers, go to the battlefield together, be the first to arrive, and the last to leave!" ”

These words are not heartfelt words, but they have heard the tears of a group of uneducated soldiers, who have been regarded as the private property of the hundred households for a long time, driven by the hundred households at will, and today they are regarded as brothers by the new hundred households, and this kind of comradeship makes them feel that they are living like a person.

They are now in a framework made of wood, you must know that the tents carried by these hundreds of Annan soldiers can be said to be very few, after the priority supply of the Maidno people, there is not much left, if it is still according to the ordinary construction method, I am afraid that most of them will be drenched in the rain. But Zhou Rui came up with the idea of using felled wood to build a frame house on a higher terrain, digging drainage ditches all around, and then spreading the tent cloth one by one, laying it on the frame of the roof, and covering the tent cloth with the lush branches and leaves cut down. The rain that falls is first blocked by the foliage, and if it is not, it is quickly blocked by the tent cloth, and the water that flows down the sides will flow into the gutter, and it will not accumulate at all and cause the people who are sheltering from the rain to be everywhere. None of the hundreds of soldiers were drenched in many of these "field tents," and there was a fire in the big tent, and the soldiers sat around the fire, drinking, or gossiping, which was more comfortable than the Medenor people in the distant camp.

On the other hand, almost every man in Medeno had his own tent, but he didn't dig a drain and slept on the ground, and the rain soaked the ground, and it didn't take long for the clothes and equipment inside to get soaked. The sudden drop in temperature when it rains and the lack of fire make the Medeno soldiers miserable in the tent one by one, and although the ** woman is still tied up there in the "happy nest" that is usually crowded, no one is in the mood to go there to enjoy it, cursing the ghost weather one by one, and can only squat on the ground and wait for dawn.

Russell and his staff were one of the few Meedans who did not suffer that kind of hardship, and they lived in a large command tent with beds and stoves. However, Russell didn't feel happy at all, just looked at the staff officers who didn't dare to look up, "What are you staff officers doing to eat?" It was just a heavy rain that distinguished us from the group of Annan soldiers whom you looked down on from afar, and who were now drinking and having fun by the fire, but what about our people? Russell couldn't help but push a staff officer next to him who was blocking his way, "Our people are squatting in the muddy water one by one waiting for the rain to stop, if the enemy attacks at this time, even the fugitives of Annan can escape more smoothly than ours." ”

"General, there is a problem with this hundred households." A staff officer on the side was silent for a long time, and suddenly such a sentence came out.

Of course, Russell also felt it, "That's true, General Ben has been in Annan for so long and has never seen such an Annan official, especially the kind of spirit when he speaks, which is not something that ordinary Annan officials have." Not to mention his grasp of the morale of the soldiers, and his experience in camping," he rubbed his chin as he spoke, "and he speaks very decently, and he is quite skilled in grasping people's hearts, and I am afraid that I can't find a few such people even if I look through the whole of Annan." But it's really interesting that such a person is just willing to be a hundred households. ”

He said and walked around the tent twice, paced to the stove and stretched out his hand to feel the warmth, and beckoned to the group of staff officers, "Come here, it's too late to say anything, when the rain stops, we'll go to meet the hundred households, now bake the fire first." ”

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