Chapter 22: Chen Dahei
"Hun Xuan, go, tell the soldiers to spread out a day's dry food and distribute it to the people in the village," Li Siye said, paused and added, "Take an extra portion from my dry food." ”
Hun Xuan hesitated and whispered, "General, we only have three days' worth of dry food." ”
"Bastard! Don't you have parents, wives and children? Li Siye said coldly.
Hun Xuan hurriedly bowed his head, "The last general is ashamed!" The last will be ashamed! This is what I will do! After saying that, his face was full of shame, and he went out to give orders.
"Brother, this big brother is so scary," Xiaohua saw that Li Siye was angry, and was so frightened that she quickly hid behind Chen Wenzhou.
"Don't be afraid, Xiaohua, although this big brother looks a little ugly, his heart is still good."
Li Siye's old face darkened when he heard this.
Li Siye said to the old man again: "I still have to bother the old man to notify the villagers and neighbors and go outside to get dry food, and they will definitely not believe it when we come forward." ”
The old man was grateful, and kept sneering at Li Siye and Chen Wenzhou, "Little Lao'er thanked the general for the neighbors of the whole village!" Notify the neighbors and leave it to the little old man! Xiaohua, just play with this military master here, don't run around. ”
Xiaohua nodded.
Under the persuasion of the old man, the only 20 or so people left in the village crept out of the house and received dry food, and they believed that the Right Front Army was a good person, and everyone said that they would let their houses go to spend the night for the officers and men of the Right Front Army.
"Alas, the people of my Datang are so simple, as long as you give him a grain of rice, he will return you a bowl of grain!" Li Siye sighed.
Chen Wenzhou nodded, "Water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, the people are the foundation of the country, and if the people can't survive, the country will naturally be in chaos." ”
That night, the Right Front Army was stationed in the village, and since the soldiers had committed no offense against the villagers, everyone let down their guard and cleaned up the rooms for the soldiers to move in.
Li Siye asked the old man about the situation nearby, but what about Chen Wenzhou? I've been playing with Xiaohua.
"Xiaohua, how old are you?"
"Hee-hee, Xiaohua won't tell you."
"Oh, and how old is your birthday?"
"Six."
"Then do you think my brother is handsome?"
"Brother, what do you mean handsome?"
"It's just pretty."
"Brother, I think you're just like my big black, and Big Black often plays with me."
"Who's the big black?"
"Daddy's big dog, but then it died."
"Uh, okay."
"Brother, will I call you Da Hei in the future?"
"This, let's call it brother, it's rude to use someone else's name."
The others laughed.
Childlike innocence is the most perfect and clear thing in the world.
The two played everything they could in the yard, playing hide and seek, catching stones, fighting roosters, and finally Chen Wenzhou simply played horseback riding with Xiaohua, and the yard was full of Xiaohua's cheerful laughter.
Chen Wenzhou felt a sense of home after a long absence.
The old man smiled: "This military master is rare to have a childlike heart, Xiaohua hasn't been so happy for a long time." ”
Li Siye laughed and said in his heart: This child named Da Hei is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
And Hun Xuan, Nan Jiyun and others glanced at each other: it turned out that Chen Dahei, who was like a ghost, still had this side.
Since then, Chen Wenzhou has bid farewell to the days without nicknames, so that many years later, the people of the Tang Dynasty are still talking about an epic legend: the fire-headed general - Chen Dahei!
Coaxed Xiaohua to sleep, Chen Wenzhou came to Li Siye's room, there was an oil lamp and two broken bowls on the table, Chen Xingui and Li Siye were talking.
"Wen Zhou is here, Uncle Chen, this is Chen Wenzhou, the military advisor of our army, you are still from your own family," Li Siye introduced.
Chen Xingui was taken aback, and quickly stood up and saluted, "The little old man is clumsy, he has seen the military advisor!" ”
He really didn't expect that this childlike young man was actually a military advisor!
Chen Wenzhou helped Chen Xingui up, "Uncle Chen is polite, let's sit down and talk." ”
Li Siye said: "Uncle Chen is the leader of the village, and he knows a lot about Youyucheng, and he also asked Uncle Chen to give advice. ”
"Where do you dare to be? The little old man must know everything and say everything. ”
So Chen Xingui gave a detailed account of the situation in the vicinity and what he knew about Youyu City.
Guantun Fort faces thirty miles to the southwest, is the right guard post, located in the south of the mouth of the tiger, and is also the only passage to enter the right jade city.
The official post was occupied by the rebels, and there were thousands of soldiers and horses.
Twenty miles further south of the right guard post is the right jade city, where the base camp of the Jingbian army is located, originally stationed about 15,000 people, and later divided the troops to kill 7,000 people in the tiger's mouth, so there are still seven or eight thousand people left.
According to Chen Xingui, there was a group of soldiers and horses hurrying through this place from the north in the middle of the night last night, looking like deserters who had lost a battle, and this group of deserters numbered about seven or eight hundred.
To the southeast of Guantun Fort is Zuoyun City, Zuoyun is the western barrier of Datong Yunzhong Mansion, the rebels stationed do not know how many people there are, Zuo Yun is Gao Xiuyan's old nest Yunzhong Mansion in the east.
After listening to it, Chen Wenzhou digested the information again before asking: "Uncle Chen, when we first entered Guantun Fort, we found that the wheat in the field was harvested before it was ripe, it seems that this year's annual harvest is not very good?" ”
"Alas," Chen Xingui gritted his teeth and shook his head, and said hatefully: "I don't know anything about the main book." Originally, this year's annual harvest was good, but if the wheat was ripe, there would be no problem in making ends meet. Who knew that the rebels of the heavenly gods were collecting grain everywhere, and the wheat in our village was robbed by those beasts before it was fully ripe! ”
"Oh?" Chen Wenzhou's fingers lightly touched the table, and after a while he asked, "Then is the grain they collected going to Youyu or Zuoyun?" ”
Chen Xingui recalled, shook his head, and said with a little shame: "This little old man is not clear. ”
Chen Wenzhou smiled, "It's okay, thank you Uncle Chen." ”
After saying the situation, Chen Xingui saluted the two again before returning to the room to rest.
"Wen Zhou, as you expected, then Ling Kun must have fled back to Youyu City," Li Siye said.
Chen Wenzhou shook his head, "I heard that Gao Xiuyan is irritable and never treats his subordinates well, Ling Kun is timid and cautious, this day than Lao'er knows that he has suffered a defeat, and he is afraid that Gao Xiuyan will punish him, so I speculate that this old thing does not dare to return to Youyu City for the time being, and there is a chance that he will pack up the remnants and defect to the defenders of the Right Guard Post." ”
Li Siye nodded, "That makes sense." Although Ling Kun didn't dare to return to Youyu City, he knew the strategic significance of our breakthrough through the Cangtou River - it would make the rebels who killed the tiger's mouth suffer from the enemy. So this old thing will definitely send someone to Youyucheng to report to Gao Xiuyan, I think we have now become the prey of the Jingbian Army. ”
"Not bad. We have not only become the prey of the Jingbian Army, but also the number one target. Although the main army is the main combat force of the Shuofang army, it is now blocked from the mouth of the tiger, and it is difficult to pose much threat to Yunzhong Mansion and even Hebei for a while. And although we only have more than 1,000 men, we have already entered the hinterland of the Jingbian Army. To the east, you can threaten Zuoyun, and to the west, you can fight with the main army to kill the tiger's mouth. Gao Xiuyan definitely can't sit still, so I expect that two groups of people are already rushing towards us," Chen Wenzhou said.