When Ho Tai woke up from his dream in a daze, there was silence around him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he first woke up, he was still a little confused, and suddenly thought that he was still in the valley that was now named Wubao Mountain, in his own small and comfortable room. But the next moment, the humid air and the cold morning mist hit his face head-on, and He Tai finally remembered that he had been in the unfamiliar mountains of GZ hundreds of miles away, with the sky as the quilt and the earth as the bed, and the embers of the bonfire around him were still slowly exuding warm residual heat. The sky above is still a deep navy blue and the stars are twinkling, but before long, the sun will dispel all dark shadows and bring light back to the earth.

There was still a while before he got up, but He Tai couldn't sleep anyway. Unlike the ordinary Ming army, there is not much difference in the welfare of the officers and soldiers in the D team. In addition to the difference in the amount of money and food, when the army was on the march, officers above the rank of officer could have a separate tent, a sentry officer with two people, and below the rank of sentry had to share a room with the soldiers.

At first, Ho Tai was not used to it. When he was in the Li family, he was nominally Li Yongzhong's brother and a subordinate, but Li Yongzhong brought him up like a parent because of his respect, and treated He Tai like a sibling, and his food and clothing were no different from himself; Later, Li Yongzhong built a team of guards, except for the initial period of time, He Tai and those newly recruited guards crawled together, eating and living together, in the following time, he has always lived alone in a small room, just because of his childhood problems, easy to insomnia and night terrors. Even Li Yongzhong lived with the guards, enduring the ubiquitous body odor, grinding his teeth, snoring, tossing and turning in his dreams, and He Tai's big bed was soft and had a good night's sleep.

However, now he slept on the uneven, damp and cold ground, with only a thin mattress under him, and shared a tent with his nine brothers, but he never lost sleep again, and slept sweetly at night. Occasionally, He Tai thinks about it himself, and he can't help but sigh that people are really cheap in their bones, a good life is full of problems, and they can't live a good life, but they are smooth everywhere.

He turned over lightly on the awkward mattress - he was on duty last night, and in order not to wake up the others, he simply hugged the futon and slept next to the campfire, and now that he woke up early, it was rare to think about it for a while. But they found that they couldn't lie down, and turned over twice like pancakes, but finally got up, wiped their faces, and resigned themselves to packing their bedding and luggage—they still had a long way to go today.

He Tai moved quickly, and it didn't take long to tie the mattress and luggage with ropes. took a cloth towel and willow branches—when he went out, he was not as particular as at home, from Li Yongzhong to ordinary soldiers, and he relied on a peeled willow branch to rinse his mouth—and threw the cloth towel over his shoulder, and the willow branch was inserted in his belt, and He Tai did not call anyone, so he walked lightly to the position of the stream, he remembered that this stream had a small backwater inlet, and the water flow was slow, just for washing.

There was a milky white mist wandering back and forth between the mountains and forests, and the surrounding was quiet, only the footsteps of He Tai Sha, occasionally mixed with the crisp click of stepping on broken branches. The stream was some distance from the camp, and he walked half a pillar of incense to get there, and before he could get closer, he saw someone squatting by the stream. He Tai was startled, and was about to hide behind a tree, when he saw that the man suddenly shouted as if he had eyes on the back of his head: "It's Atai, right?" How do you get up now? ”

It's Lee Yong-jung.

Hearing the man's voice, He Tai let out a breath, patted his chest, and strode towards the team officer. As he walked, he complained: "Why is Zhong Guan'er here alone? It's better to be outside, not more casual than at home, and you have set your own rules and regulations, and you have to bring personal soldiers when you go out. ”

Li Yongzhong smiled and didn't speak, and stood up from the water's edge, and He Tai saw that he was shirtless, and his inner robe and outer clothes were thrown on the ground. Li Yongzhong saw He Tai looking at him vigorously, and also looked down, and said with a smile: "I just practiced marksmanship, and my body is full of sweat, which is really uncomfortable. ”

He said it with a relaxed and uncaring look, but He Tai couldn't help but worry that he would catch a cold when he saw the wind, so he hurriedly came over to help, but Li Yongzhong waved his hand and refused: "This is done, don't be busy, you don't pay so much attention to it outside." As he spoke, he put on his clothes in two clicks, and he couldn't see the shadow of the little young master of the salt merchant back then.

He Tai agreed, squatted by the water, washed up in three or two, wrung out the cloth towel and stood up and walked quietly behind Li Yongzhong for a while, he couldn't help but speak: "Zhongguan'er......" Realizing that his name was inappropriate, he quickly changed it: "Team officer, how far are we from Baisasuo?" ”

"I remember you been, why have you forgotten now? Wait a minute...... Oh, remember the fork, remember the fork, it wasn't you who went with me that time......" Li Yongzhong patted his forehead absently, and then turned his head and said to him with a smile: "It's not very far, and if you go further, there is a place called Chenjiagou, and then over a mountain, it is the main road." Speaking of which, we took a shortcut, and if we follow the road, I'm afraid it will take two more days. ”

The conversation became more and more interesting, Li Yongzhong said that he was upright, and drew a map out of thin air to explain to He Tai: "This place is very close to Chishui, but dozens of miles away, if the legs and feet are convenient, you only need to walk for a day to reach Chishuiwei." Speaking of which, Bai Sasuo was originally the garrison of Chishuiwei. In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, the governor Zhang Heming once went to the imperial court, saying that the place where Baisa was originally owned by Chishuiwei, but it was occupied by Yongningwei, and asked Yongningwei to clean it up and return it to Chishui. Because of this incident, the relationship between the two sides has been stiff for a long time. ”

"And then?" He Tai was fascinated by what he heard and asked, "What is the next thing about this matter?" ”

"Confused lawsuit, what's next?" Li Yongzhong smiled, said nothing, but said again: "Later, in the second year of the Apocalypse, the rebellion broke out, and the defenders of Baisa were either killed or fled, and together with Chishui Wei, they were occupied by the barbarians for a short time. Speaking of which, it was only this time that Xu became famous and Xu Junmen sent troops to Chishui, so that the barbarians could be completely driven away. He added in his heart, and then the big war was about to begin.

He Tai hesitated for a moment, his forehead was sweating, his palms were also damp, his lips moved and moved, and finally he asked Li Yongzhong, "Team officer......"

Li Yongzhong's feet didn't stop, and he only tilted his head to look at him, "Huh? ”

"Team officer, my subordinates have a thought in their hearts, and they have always wanted to ask, but they don't dare." He Tai felt his chest thumping, he closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and whispered the question that had been stuck in his heart: "When the sentry officer was selected last time, the team officer chose Li Sentinel, and his subordinates thought it was ......" He paused a little embarrassedly, vaguely passed, and only asked: "Now my subordinates don't understand, why did the team officer choose Liu Sentinel and didn't choose his subordinates?" ”

He stopped in surprise, Li Yongzhong really didn't expect He Tai to ask him this. After all, it was a long time ago to select the sentinel, and at that time he was also ready that He Tai would come to him, but he didn't expect that the other party had not moved, but now, Li Yongzhong almost forgot about it, He Tai came to talk about it, and for a while, Li Yongzhong didn't know what to say to his milk brother.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yongzhong simply stood down and said to He Tai seriously: "In those days, I thought that you were going to come to me to talk about this, and I prepared a lot of words, but you didn't come, and now when I talk about this matter, I don't want to reply to you with the words I prepared that day - Atai, we grew up together since childhood, and we say that we are masters and servants, but we have brotherly affection. You are not a child now, and I don't want to coax you anymore, before the promotion, Cao Jinliang originally looked for me, first told you, and then publicized it, and the next day a brother came to give advice, but I personally rejected it. ”

He Tai was stunned, and he couldn't imagine that he didn't become a sentry officer, and it turned out to be Li Yongzhong's reason! He didn't know what it was like for a while, and he heard Li Yongzhong say in a daze: "On the one hand, it's for the rules - there is a rule in the constitution of our D team that it is publicized but not promoted, and on the other hand, I don't think Atai you are not qualified enough!" ”

Li Yongzhong's speed of speech was extremely fast, "Atai, for the hard work of the nurse, you grew up with me again, different from the feelings of others, in the past, I always thought that you were not very old, even if it was not important, I never said a word about you in many things, but everyone has a scale in their hearts!" Not to mention that in the escort formation, that is, after joining the army, Atai, you don't make big mistakes, and you keep making small mistakes, how can this be convincing!? ”

His voice smashed on He Tai's heart word by word: "I also asked you that day, if you are willing to return to Fushun, you are still the head of my Li family's guards, or my Li Yongzhong's brother!" As a result, you said you would like to follow me - I was really happy! But you can't change the frizziness in your temperament, it's okay in our own family, in the army, it's a fatal mistake! The soldiers reported you and made you unable to be a sentry, and you were depressed, but I was happy—you are still too tender! Gotta press! ”

Ho Tai didn't know how he had returned to the camp, but when he finally recovered from that drowsy state, the sound of the woke beep had already sounded, and the camp was bustling with activity, and the soldiers were making the final preparations before leaving. Liu Xiaoqi turned around and saw him, and hurriedly greeted: "He Shichang, after half a pillar of incense, we have to go on the road, but where did you go?" ”

"I ......" subconsciously wanted to say that he was in the same place as Li Yongzhong, and just wanted to open his mouth and closed it again, and said as lightly as possible: "I suddenly couldn't sleep in the morning, so I just walked around." He took two steps to find the duffel backpack he had packed, and then took the other people's bedding to help organize it.

The morning passed without a disturbance. What He Tai was thinking Liu Xiaoqi didn't know, but Liu Xiaoqi was very keen to find out what he was different from before, not that He Tai was not easy to get along with before, but now it is more natural and smooth. In the past, it was either held or overly polite, but now it has a very down-to-earth and sincere taste.

Because of last night's farce, after going on the road today, there is a distance of several miles between the Xianzi Battalion and the Xiangzi Battalion, if it is not for the fear that Hou Yonggui will fight after going back, the wicked will sue first, and the officers of the Xianzi Battalion have a little bit of the idea of directly throwing the Xiangzi Battalion here, although this proposal was finally rejected by Mr. Qian, but the officers looked at the Xiangzi Battalion with eyes that were still not very good.

For the sake of secrecy, the two battalion leaders did not choose the main road when they went to Baisasuo, but boldly detoured a small road, walked through Chenjiagou, and passed in the direction of Pokantu. Here after walking a few miles, it is out of the territory of Chishui, and behind it is Shuixi City, the base camp of the two of them, and the people of Baisasuo would never dream that the direction that they thought they would sit back and relax would actually touch a Ming army!

This plan was set by Hou Liangzhu himself, and if the two battalion leaders were close and cooperated tacitly, even if the number of people in Baisa was doubled, I believe they could deal with it calmly. But the Xianzi Camp and the Xiangzi Camp first had a quarrel because of the pathfinder, and there was another trouble last night, at this moment, I believe that each other is more wary of looking at each other than looking at the White Lotus Sect, how can they work together according to Hou Liangzhu's intentions?

"We can't count on the Xiangzi Battalion." Although Zhou Qian has a nickname for Zhou Cannon, he is still delicate in the battle, and he hit the nail on the head at this moment: "Don't talk about us, the reputation of the Xiangzi Battalion in the past was not very good, relying on the fact that the military gate of the Chinese military camp was born as the head of the battalion, he would only be a little low in front of the military gate, and if he left the military gate, that is, he oppressed his comrades and was overbearing!" Look at it, when we desperately subdue the White Lotus Sect, the bastards of the Xiangzi Camp will definitely jump out, and they will also be called Zhuquan! ”

Zheng Guocai also nodded and said, "Zhou Dacang's words are not bad at all. We don't know the situation of Baisa now, so we have to go to reconnoiter first. If Bai Sasuo's humble position is not mistaken, it was originally the garrison of Chishuiwei, and later the people who asked Yongning to borrow it, and there was a lawsuit on both sides. ”

"This matter was in the forty-eighth year of Wanli." Li Yongzhong said thoughtfully: "Since it is a garrison station, most of them have built a walled city, if this is the case, it is really troublesome." When we came out this time, we brought some large tiger squat cannons and the like, that thing is completely useless to attack the city, since ancient times, even if the besieging side is five times more than the defenders in the city, it can't be easily attacked, not to mention...... "His face was gloomy," there was a laggard behind him. ”

The officers' faces immediately sank.

At about the same time, the Xiangzi camp was also discussing the battle in Baisasuo. Although Hou Yonggui is only an officer, even President Liu Degui is polite in front of him, and he never dares to treat him as a subordinate, let alone other officers at the same level, who have long been regarded as subordinates by him, and he will be beaten and scolded if he is not in passing. The Xiangzi battalion relied on Hou Yonggui to be strong in front of the other battalion leaders, and when he came to him, he had to pay the price for such a dependence-

Hou Yonggui's eyes swept away, and everyone everywhere he went was silent, eager to shrink himself into the soil. He was not happy in his heart, and now there was a fire in his chest, and seeing this situation was like adding fuel to the fire. Because on the march, there was nothing to beat him, only a horsewhip in his hand, as soon as his eyes were raised, he locked it on someone opposite, whipped it indiscriminately, and shouted angrily: "Sun Da, are you dumb? Can't you hear this official ask you?! (To be continued.) )