Wugao Pass, heavy snow like cover,

In order to celebrate the defeat of the official army in Luodu, I have just been invited to a miscellaneous banquet in the city. In the characteristic tent deliberately enclosed at the head of the city, while guarding the furnace and enjoying the snow, he had a good drink with the generals led by Xu Qing, the deputy commander of the deputy capital.

Therefore, until the next day, the breath I exhaled was somewhat alcoholic. Of course, it is said to celebrate the success of the Northern Expedition, but it is more like a gathering of frustrated people who have been excluded.

Therefore, as the only participant who is more detached in terms of identity and status, I listened to a lot of them whether I wanted to or not, and they were excluded from the glory and exploits that were easily attainable, and they were extremely lost and discouraged, and all kinds of complaints and grievances of true and false, fake wine and pretending to be crazy.

At the banquet, some people raised their bowls and drank bitterly while reminiscing about familiar people and things, and suddenly cried for no reason. There are also people who seem to have drunk their heads, and they are indiscriminately facing the people who no longer have zài in the hallucination, and they are talking excitedly with their hands and feet, and some incoherent things are suddenly out of force.

Then there were people who drank one sip after another, drunk themselves without saying a word, and fell to the floor without a sound.

The rifts and divisions that were becoming more and more distinct in the armies of the Eastern Front had already appeared among them without concealment. It's just that after breaking Luodu, in the celebration of slashing to death, it was also deliberately suppressed by the superiors.

In this faint atmosphere of mourning everywhere, I also reached an outsider alliance in a sense with Xu Qing, who was still quite sober. Although most of them have suffered heavy losses, the basic rank and status are still there, and they will still be useful to me in the future.

Under the neighborly entrenchment doctrine of "fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-assault" from the friendly forces on the front line, I still have some regrets that I didn't get the opportunity to enter Luodu, after all, this is probably the closest I have ever had to Luodu.

The original vow and determination are only a small part of the initial fulfillment.

Then, my troops officially entered a state of some kind of low-intensity recuperation.

Cui Tuzi of the Huotou Army and Qian Shuining of the Baggage Battalion, under the guidance of the Ziji Office, began to select and calculate the livestock that were relatively weak and might not survive the winter, and then carried out targeted preparations before feeding and slaughtering.

After all, even in the battlefield before the army, the soldiers still have to celebrate the New Year. No matter how limited the conditions are, one or several oily and watery military banquets can be a good reward and a high position, these soldiers who are far away from their homeland and full of toil and fatigue.

The destructive power and subsequent impact of this war were much stricter than the previous drought in the north, which was thousands of miles away, and many places were already directly deserted.

Therefore, it is only in the places where the army is stationed that there are relatively self-sufficient material reserves. In the absence of large-scale military operations or high-intensity offensive and defensive operations, the per capita daily eclipse of wheat and rice in the battalion was halved, while the large animals in the stables were all fodder, beans and three liters, and the war horses were more than one liter of fat and fine material.

In this case, my outer guard post found a team from outside the Wujiao Pass, as well as an unexpected visitor who came with the team.

"I'm really frozen into a dog......

The other party was covered in snow powder and a thick coat, like a fluffy polar bear, a little clumsy and kept stomping and shaking his body, muttering.

"This winter in the Northland is terrible......"

Looking at this person, I almost didn't recognize the dead fat man who went up the river to do business with me in the first place.

There are probably two dead fat people I know, one is Zheng Zhou, who is happily working as a human trafficker in Jiangdu, and the other is this Tianzhu merchant named "Fat Kong", Xiao Contrinoa, who is also one of my smuggling activities

Of course, he also has a dynasty-style Chinese name, called Yuwen Christ, which is relatively little known, or because he claims to be the ancestor of the Duke of Seth, and the mysterious creature of my family, who was a family eight hundred years ago, and specially reported his family.

Now that he is frozen to a blue and purple color, and even the fat on his body has shrunk a lot, it is really difficult for this foreign businessman who has lived in the subtropical region for a long time and is active between the southwest land and sea.

As the first batch of additions I received from the rear after the winter, I naturally welcomed him quite warmly and set up an additional banquet to entertain him.

After talking in detail, I realized that it was not so easy for him to come all the way, in addition to the terrible weather and bad road conditions, there were also human factors.

Even if there was the military's defense and trust, and the regular army order to protect them, they were still attacked by several armed forces suspected of being chaotic along the way, coveting and tentatively attacking, but they were only thwarted.

Even during the period of waiting to spend the Huaishui in Haozhou, there was an officer and soldier stationed in the grain yard, who planned to swallow them together with their materials and equipment. It was only discovered in time that he quickly set off to get out, but he failed to succeed.

Before Fei Kong came to the army with the team this time, in addition to all kinds of bulk daily supplies and other supplies escorted at one time, such as gunpowder and lead accessories and other equipment that were scarce before the army,

I also took the opportunity to return to Tianzhu in the first half of the year to recruit a large number of craftsmen from overseas with various backgrounds, including precision casters, basic craftsmen, and fine craftsmen in branches such as clocksmiths. Most of them stayed in Quang and Jiangdu.

There were only a few professional mechanics in front of the army, and they were the best at using the basic materials and appliances of metalworking by hand to build some small components and fragments, but they were equivalent to helping me a lot.

Although I am led by Kong Jiji and accompanied by various military craftsmen, it can be said that they are all integrated with battlefield R&D and manufacturing, but now I am doing the most repetitive maintenance work, which is inevitably a little trivial and complicated.

At present, there is no capacity to achieve the batch conditions of vocational and technical education, and it can only be practiced and learned by passing on the help and guidance. Therefore, although it is not easy to know the origin of these repairers, I am afraid that it is not simple, but I also accept it and use it first.

As for Fei Kong, on the grounds that the heavy snow blocked the road and it was difficult to walk back, he hoped to stay in the army for a while, and I naturally had nothing to do, and even allowed him to visit part of the open training process of our department

In the midst of the intermittent heavy snowfall, another group of people from Liangshan is also slowly walking towards the end of their journey.

Zhu Wu, the rear camp counselor alias "Shenjizi", is one of them, he is a person from Dingyuan County, Huaibei Province, his ancestral home is Fengxiang, and his ancestor is an important subordinate of Cui Guangyuan, the minister of power in the Yuan Fu period.

Therefore, the opportunity of the Demeng Guan Kuli book, in his early years, he was familiar with the books of "Sun Bin Law", "Wei Xuanzi", "Taibai Yin Sutra" and "Yin Fu Sutra". ”

From the name of the person, so in his heart, there is no little ambition to Fan Li, Zhang Liang, Wu Qi as a fan in ancient times, but unfortunately the reality is cruel, not waiting for him to practice martial arts, show the opportunity to show his talents, the benefactor he lodged, in the rebellion of his subordinates, fell down.

The staff members under the tent are scattered, and naturally no one can take care of his small cabinet guard. The newly appointed town marshal was surprised that he was a small official who adhered to his duties, but did not do any additional harm, and sent him to Mizhou, where bandits and salt lords were rampant, and he was the county lord for two years, which was also the darkest day of his life.

The Dengzhou Flying Tiger Army broke through the secret state, Zhu Wu was unemployed again, and even the last subsistence was lost, and then on the way out, he was coerced by the Liangshan people who went out to post food, and then he went to Liangshan after the Chongjiu Change, and only then did he gradually gain trust and use in a group of captives who had nowhere to go, and in the way of stooping to be thieves.

It's just that in his heart, there is a faint voice, his fate and future, he should definitely not live on this idle, embarrassed and embarrassed mountain, to be wasted.

Therefore, he was specially commissioned to come this time, but he took the initiative to volunteer and actively promote it, after all, this secret mission is not only the special reliance of the second general Luo Kedi, but also the survival and safety of hundreds of thousands of people on his mountain.

Therefore, loyalty and determination alone are not enough, there is enough flexibility and insight, and enough means to respond to the situation.

This would not have been a problem at all in the former Liangshan era when the leaders of Jiuyao were complete and the talents under his command were abundant, but in the post-Liangshan era when the Luo brothers were in power, Zhu Wujiu would inevitably become the tall man who was pulled out of the dwarf.

It's just that their secret search path is not smooth, because what they know and hear is outdated news more than half a year ago before the Northern Expedition began. Therefore, nature is everywhere, and there is no way to find it.

Mainly because of the other party's military number, because of the merit and reward, it has been changed many times, and it has been missed many times.

There was even a time when he was chased as a spy because he revealed his whereabouts because of inquiring about news in the army, and he lost several people before he escaped easily.

But as the so-called mountains and rivers are exhausted, there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, after arriving in Yunzhou, they are going to visit a local one, alias "timely rain" and quite well-informed local snakes, although they failed to find each other, this time they were lucky to meet, a small number of people who stayed in the rear of the local new army.

With the mentality of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, he finally found out that the other party he was looking for and the unit he was in had become the "right army of the imperial camp" directly under the base camp.

It was only then that the long search came to an end. He was wondering how to organize his words.

A few snow packs nearby, but suddenly moved, turning into a number of white soldiers with weapons in their hands, and half-surrounded them. The fire in his hand and the cold expression in his hand, as long as they outsiders moved slightly, it was to the point of blood splattering on the spot.

However, Zhu Wu was overjoyed, which also meant that they were very close to their ultimate goal.