Chapter 186 Zhang Ninety-Four

It was already very cold in the early morning of November, but in the swamp more than 30 miles southwest of Shijiabao, there was a team of about 6,000 people braving the biting cold wind, one foot deep and one foot shallow. Most of the people in the team wore only a single coat, and only a few had a leather armor or a snatched silk jacket to protect them from the cold. However, for the weather at this time, the silk jacket and leather armor can play a very limited role in keeping warm, so the sound of wiping snot and coughing has become the main theme that permeates this team, endlessly, endlessly.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem!" Commander Li Bosheng rode on an old horse that was almost losing all his hair, and coughed constantly as he walked. His beard was covered with saliva and snot.

A few pro-soldiers next to him looked like the same wolf bèi as his main general. They are also coughing and snotty. One of them, unable to even walk on the road, saw one stumbling and planted it directly into the mud puddle by the roadside.

"Little Seven!" Li Bosheng was quick with his hand, leaned down his right arm from the horse, and tightly pulled the soldier who was in a semi-comatose state. Then he jumped off the mount with his legs, quickly untied a water bag from behind the saddle with his left hand, and shouted loudly while pouring his head into the mouth of the unconscious man, "Little Seven, Little Seven, don't sleep." Don't sleep, it's going to Xinghua soon. When you arrive in Xinghua, brother, I invite you to eat big meat slices, palm-sized meat slices, enough to be full! ”

"Seventh, seventh, hold on, hold on, it's going to Xinghua soon, it's going to Xinghua right away!" Several other pro-soldiers around him also gathered around, helping Li Bosheng rub his chest while being unconscious, while shouting loudly.

However, it was too late. Although Liu Qi, who was in a coma, opened his eyes, dark black blood slowly flowed out from the corners of his mouth. "Li, Brother Li, Xinghua, Xinghua is really coming?" Swallowing a mouthful of cold water with difficulty, his eyes full of unwillingness in exhaustion.

"It's here, really, you hold on, I, I'll let you ride my horse!" Li Bosheng nodded vigorously, but tears fell out in large pieces. Liu Qi, a personal soldier, was not the first to fall, in fact, since he left Shijiabao last night, at least hundreds of brothers have died of exhaustion because of the rapid march in the cold wind. There were also six or seven hundred people who broke away from the main army while walking, and it is not known whether they voluntarily became deserters or became starving corpses.

"Thank you, thank you, Brother Li-!" From the expression on Li Bosheng's face, Liu Qi, a pro-soldier, knew that everyone was comforting him. He grinned with difficulty, revealing his blood-stained teeth, "And, brothers. You, you better put me down, and put me down. Don't, don't drag everyone down! ”

"No, I took you to join the army at the beginning, and I said that I would get rich and noble immediately!" Li Bosheng felt a great pain in his heart, wiped away his tears, and roared loudly, "You are not allowed to die." The surname Liu, you have to climb to Xinghua for me today! Lao Tzu is your commander, Lao Tzu's orders, you must listen! ”

"Brother Li, Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi can't stand you! cough, cough" Liu Qi coughed violently and responded with difficulty. Every time he opened his mouth, black blood overflowed from his mouth, "You, hurry up and rush home with everyone!" Don't, don't go to Xinghua. I went, I went there, I still had to run. Zhu Butcher, Zhu Butcher"

"Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi, don't sleep. Don't sleep! If you don't go, you won't go, let's go home, and we'll go home immediately! Li Bosheng held his pro-soldier Liu Qi with both hands and shook it vigorously. lest as soon as his movements stop, the pro-soldier Liu Qi will not wake up for a long time.

"Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi, don't sleep. Don't sleep. We, we've got money. Also, you have to buy your own boats to sell smuggled salt! Several of the other soldiers also wept and shouted loudly.

Although they are now nominally Li Bosheng's personal soldiers, in fact, two months ago, they were still boiling brine and salt together. To each other, they are not like brothers but like brothers. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to watch Liu Qi die in front of his eyes.

"No, don't sleep!" Under the call of everyone in unison, the pro-soldier Liu Qi reluctantly opened his eyes again, and responded with difficulty, "I, I don't sleep." Brother Li, Brother Li, don't go to Xinghua. We, we're not, we're not Zhu Butcher's opponents. This, this officer and soldier, we, we are not appropriate, we are not right-poof!"

Another mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth and nostrils against his breath, staining Li Bosheng's leather armor red. The pro-soldier Liu Qi struggled for a moment, his eyes instantly opened up, and he died of anger.

"Little Seven, Little Seven!" Li Bosheng shook desperately, but he couldn't stop the fact that the corpse in his arms was getting colder and colder, and his heart was inexplicably sad and angry. Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, he gritted his teeth and handed the body to another personal soldier beside him, "Lao Xu, Lao Zhou, you two go and find a sunny place and bury Xiao Qi." Others, follow me to find Zhang Jiusi! ”

"Yes!" The pro-soldiers mustered up the last spirit in their bodies and agreed in unison.

Looking for Zhang Jiusi, naturally it will not be to talk to him about how to go to Xinghua City to continue to work for the imperial court. Instead, they divided the money and food that everyone should have received, and then went back to their respective homes. This Zhu butcher, who is willing to fight for the imperial court! Lao Tzu doesn't have that ability, Lao Tzu went home first!

"Old eight, you sue Lu Zhen and Lao Pan, let them take their brothers to rest in place! Let's not go! Bury the pot in place to cook! I'd rather be caught up by the Zhu butcher than exhaust everyone to death! Now that he has made up his mind, Li Bosheng will not stop doing anything. He simply used the power of the commander to order all the troops under his jurisdiction to stop advancing.

"Yes!" The pro-soldier who was called the eighth promised to take the arrow, stumbled, and chased towards the front of the team. After a while, Li Bosheng's order was passed to the relevant personnel.

The whole march broke into two parts. Not only Li Bosheng's descendant thousand-person team, but also the two Yanding thousand-person teams that were wrapped by him, also slowly stopped. Some centurions and signmen in the team looked around like falling clouds. The ordinary soldiers, who were already so tired that they were about to vomit blood, immediately left the ranks with cheers as if they had been pardoned. Those who fetch water draw water, and those who eat dry food eat dry food, a pile in the east and a cluster in the west, like ants after a flood.

Li Bosheng himself, with Lu Zhen and Pan Yuanming, the commanders of Yanding, and more than 50 cronies and subordinates, walked through the "ant colony" and strode towards the front half of the team. Over there, it was the team of the thousand-commander Zhang Jiusi and his brother Zhang Jiuliu, as well as two other salt teams. Both the scale and the actual combat effectiveness are far higher than Li Bosheng's side. Therefore, even if the two sides can no longer fight side by side in the future, they should try to get together and disperse as much as possible.

Zhang Jiusi, who is also one of the Nine Tiger Generals of Gaoyou, obviously also feels that the situation is gradually out of his control. Therefore, without waiting for Li Bosheng to catch up, he took the initiative to stop the first half of the team. And with his younger brother Zhang Jiuliu, Yanding Qianhu Qu Qiming and others turned around to greet them, and from a distance, they arched their hands, laughed and said: "I just wanted to order the team to stop and rest, but I didn't expect you to go with me!" Come, come, come, while it will take some time for the meal to cook, you and I will quickly discuss what to do next! ”

"Next, aren't you going to Xinghua next?" Li Bosheng was caught off guard, and he couldn't say a word of the words he had prepared in his stomach before. I had to frown and ask very bluntly.

"That's just to make the brethren go a little better!" Zhang Jiusi's reaction was much more astute than Li Bosheng's. Shaking his head, he strode forward, "Bosheng, you also know that last night's situation cannot be delayed. If you and I don't leave with the brothers in a hurry, we will have to swallow it for Zhu Butcher! ”

"Uh-huh!" Li Bosheng was so suffocated that he could only gasp, but he couldn't say anything to accuse the other party. Fan Shuizhai is only more than 30 miles away from Shijiabao. If they didn't join forces last night to kill the main general of the color eye, Guoguotai, abandon the fort and flee for their lives. Once the Red Turban Army arrived, the consequences were indeed unimaginable.

"But, Bosheng, I'm afraid I can't go to this Xinghua!" Zhang Jiusi took a few steps forward quickly, stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Bosheng's arm, "You listen to my brother, it's not that my brother and I changed the hexagram, but that Zhu Butcher is too powerful." Think about it, a few months ago, he broke Huai'an, and it took him a day and a night. Two days ago, it only took one afternoon. Yesterday broke the fan water village, how long do you think it was? A stick of incense, a stick of incense? According to this rhythm, think about it, think about it, even if we stick to Xinghua, how long can we keep it? ”

"Alas!" Li Bosheng sighed weakly. Don't you need to count, everyone was in Shijiabao last night, didn't they just flee from the wind? Even with a flick of his fingers, he didn't dare to let the Zhu butcher waste it! With the current morale and strength comparison, even if you stick to Xinghua, how many fingers can you hold on? It's better to break up early and go home!

"I should have given everyone money and food, and everyone went back to their own homes!" seemed to be able to see through Li Bosheng's stomach, and without waiting for him to speak, Zhang Jiusi took the initiative to speak. "But," he sighed and shook his head, he continued to add, "Bosheng, my brother Bosheng, you really went home, can you still live like that?" After eating the last meal, I don't know where the next meal is? You have to kowtow when you see someone?! ”

"Huh? Alas! Li Bosheng's heart tightened when he was asked, and he couldn't lift up his strength at all. yes, go back, it's easy to go back. But can you still live the same life? Although the commander of these two months did not live up to his name, he also responded to the call after all. And there is a lot of living money flowing through the hands. Go back, go back and be a flat-headed citizen. Even if he used the money he had saved in the past two months to buy a ship to sell salt, and when he saw those country officials, would he still be able to bend his knees?

"I heard that the Zhu butcher only had more than a thousand brothers on hand before he went south to Huai'an!" Feeling the trembling coming from Li Bosheng's palm, Zhang Shicheng sighed again and continued, "And now, he is commanding tens of thousands of troops. Stomp your feet, and the banks of the canal are everywhere. Bosheng, my brother Bosheng, the soldiers and horses in your hands and I now add up to more than 6,000 people. It is much stronger than Zhu Butcher half a year ago. He can eat and drink spicy food, why are our brothers being chased like dogs, hungry and looking for to eat?! ”

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