"Crackle!"

The firewood pile with a few flames rising from the smoke suddenly exploded, and a few bright sparks splashed out in all directions, falling on the long dozen red, swollen and cracked rough hands stretched around the fire, causing the owners of these hands to slap again and again in a panic, like a hot spark burning, causing a low sound of scolding and laughter, and after a short period of noise, everything returned to its previous calm. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was a small marching tent.

From time to time, choking smoke rose from the small firewood pile, turning the already dim and small tent into a cloud of mist, and a low cough sounded from time to time. Behind a dozen or so frostbite or rough palms with cracks like a baby's mouth were seven or eight armoured soldiers sitting in a circle around the small pile of firewood.

The bean-sized oil lamp and a few wisps of fire on the firewood pile were the only light source in the entire tent. The yellow light of the fire reflected in the smoky tent, smearing everything with a red glow. You can vaguely see the wet ground, the messy bedding placed on the straw, the armor waist knife Teng Dun stacked horizontally and vertically in one corner, and a few soldiers wrapped in black and greasy cotton wool futons.

The few wisps of fire finally lived up to expectations, gradually grew larger, and finally jumped happily, making an excited hissing sound, injecting some warmth into the cold and damp tent. The whistling and terrible phoenix roar was tight for a while, making the few soldiers who had just felt a trace of warmth unconsciously wrap themselves in the tattered bedding on their bodies in a dull state.

"Whew!"

The originally closed tent was suddenly opened, and the biting cold wind squeezed in with a large snowflake wrapped in a white sturdy figure, and the sturdy figure that looked like a snowman flashed into the military tent, and quickly turned around and closed the crack behind him. The bitterly cold wind stopped abruptly.

Although it was only a short moment, the bone-chilling wind that suddenly rushed into the tent still blew away the little warmth that had just accumulated in the marching tent in an instant, making the seven or eight soldiers sitting around the fire shiver at the same time. The flames, which were still jumping just now, were crushed by the sudden cold wind.

"It's all back."

"I'm back at the right time."

"Come over and warm up."

"Quickly block the wind, don't blow out the fire."

"Hurry up and help the head get rid of the snow on his body, don't you have any eyesight?"

The seven or eight soldiers who were originally silent suddenly came to life when they saw the figure that came in in with wind and snow, and they all got up to meet them, slapping the thick layer of snow on the strong man's body with their hands and feet.

"This fucking weather is freezing grandpa to death."

The strong man took off the hat on his head, and the thick snow slid to the ground, then threw it aside, and stood in place with the help of a few soldiers to beat the thick snow covered by his clothes, and shouted and cursed. Soon the snow on the strong man's body was cleared, and with it several inches of snow at his feet.

Stiffly untied the robe that was stiffened by the ice, Guan Dutou muttered a low sentence and threw it at his feet. After finding a vacant seat to get out, Guan Du sat on the wet ground with his head and stretched out something that was also full of chilblains

As a few pieces of accumulated dry firewood were thrown into the fire, the flames of the firewood pile rose instantly.

"At this juncture, what news is there from the Commander? This god is not long-sighted, the snow does not stop, the weather is cold, the cotton jacket, bedding, food, firewood and everything is lacking, and it is not a way for the brothers to lie on this snow. An elderly man sitting next to Guan Dutou rubbed his hands, and finally couldn't help asking.

"What if you don't lie on your stomach? Now that there is a shortage of food and clothing in the camp, and the roads are buried by the university, how far can we go? The surname Guan tore the withered grass wrapped around his feet with his head, and he didn't raise his head.

"Moment, these days, the barbarians in Caizhou City are a little too active, these commanders must have received the news early, the heavy snow blocked our way, and the Mongolian barbarian cavalry can't be used, aren't those barbarians weak chickens when they get off their horses? If we wait for those barbarians to transfer all the foot soldiers, we won't be able to leave if we want to, the barbarians are much stronger in Caizhou City than in our snow nest. ”

"Yes, at this juncture, if you don't walk in this snow nest and lie on your stomach, it is a dead end, and if you go, you can't say that there is still a way to live."

"Li Dali, what are you arguing about? Can you think of a command that adults can't see? Will the handsome not understand? Guan Dutou took off the boots wrapped in withered grass on his feet, looked at the wisps of white smoke with a peculiar smell coming out of the soaked footcloth, and said in a muffled voice, "The commander said that the commander has sent the Zaoyang army and the Ningwu army to meet us in the snow, and we can rush to Caizhou City within two days." At that time, the three armies will join forces, and we will wait for food and drink before withdrawing our troops back to Xiangyang. ”

"Really? That's great! ”

"Finally the hell can get out of this damn place."

……

Hearing the words of the head of the surname Guan, several people in the marching tent were suddenly overjoyed.

"Don't be fucking yelling, hurry up and roast, and you will go to patrol the camp in a while, you also know that the barbarians in Caizhou City have been very active since the snow, and the commander said that they must be strictly guarded at night, so as not to be attacked by those barbarians." The surname Guan didn't raise his head and roasted his stinky feet that had been frozen and swollen into steamed buns, and scolded.

"Dutou, with such a heavy snow, people can't run, let alone those Mongolian barbarians who rely entirely on horses, you can rest assured, even if those barbarians dare to attack the camp, they will definitely be called back. The camp of my Xinyang Army is not so easy to attack. ”

"Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, and the tricks will show me bright spots, I don't want to die in this snow nest for no reason."

"Well, you can rest assured at the juncture, the brothers are all on the move."

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Endless darkness shrouded the crystal white earth, and the biting cold wind swept across the earth with a terrible whistling sound, and the endless snowflakes fell overwhelmingly, as if there was a great tendency to bury everything and never give up. The large camp that stretched for more than ten miles was crawling on the plain white snow, forming a silver dome. In the cold wind, except for the sentry tower and the "poof" sound of torches swaying in the cold wind at intervals of more than a dozen paces in the camp, and the occasional creaking of a group of soldiers patrolling like snowmen on the thick snow, there was no other sound, as if it were a dead land.

"Off... Close... Head, burning... Burn... Fire it. All three... After three watches, there will be no more barbarians. Cluck! ......" a few crisp teeth clicked, interrupting the rest of the words, "Off...... Head, the brothers can't stand it, cluck! If you don't light the fire, you will freeze to death here, at this juncture. ”

This is a snow nest only a few miles away from the Xinyang military camp, hidden in the leeward of the mountain col, a few branches full of ice cubes, covered with thick snow, if it were not close at hand, no one would have found that there was such a snow hut in this plain white mountain col, and there were such five or six soldiers hiding in the snow.

This is the scout arranged by the Xinyang Army battalion to cruise outside the camp to prevent Zhang Rou from being attacked by Caizhou City. And the snow hut exposed to the cold wind and snow like this is not only about the first few soldiers in the capital.