When the Ming army was vigorously armed, far away in the inconspicuous wooden house with ashes in the city of Yachi, it was still cold and refreshing in the hot summer, and a few barefoot and wrapped earth soldiers knelt on the ground, carefully tending to the fire pond. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe sunlight shines through the bright tiles of the roof, casting two bright rays of light.

"Last time, you said that you moved a few villages, and several leaders believed in you very much, although you are Han, but Bao Weng and Chaha Tou people treat you as brothers and introduce you to our people!" In the gloomy main hall, the fire pit burned slowly, and the middle-aged man sitting in the middle with a blue and blue bunker on his head was dark-faced, his eyebrows were mediocre, and only a pair of eyes seemed to be closed, and there was a dark and deep light flashing between the opening and closing.

He faintly spit out two cyan smoke rings, glanced at the guests sitting on the straw mat across the fire, lowered his head and took a puff of cigarette from the big bamboo chimney, and said calmly: "But since King Liang said that your general is a guest of the Yi family, I don't care about those things in the past. Through the green smoke, the middle-aged man opened his eyes suddenly, his gaze wandered directly on the guest's face, and said in a thick accented Chinese dialect: "But, Ah Er, so many clansmen have died, you still dare to come to my Yi family's territory?" Young man, should I praise you for your courage, marshal, or should I say that you are not smart enough? ”

The guest laughed twice in a strange tone, as if he didn't take the threat of the middle-aged man to heart, buried his head in a cigarette, skillfully spit out two eye circles, and said slowly: "Marshal Grasshopper, don't be scared when I am Ah Er." In that battle, my own brother also lost everything. If I had listened to my second brother that day, that bright dog would have been slaughtered a long time ago! How did the two leaders, Bao Wong and Chaha, escape with their lives? It is my brothers who died in vain, who gave their lives to pave the way for them! ”

Grasshopper is one of the so-called generalissimos under An Bangyan, responsible for guarding the defense line of Yachi and Sancha. At present, most of the main forces of the native soldiers are gathered in the direction of Chishui, but the front line of Zunyi, Luguang, Yachi, and Sancha is still the top priority of the defense of the two people. He originally thought that in the plan to attack Chishui, he must be the vanguard of the whole army, but who knew that King Liang wanted him to guard the rear. This order made this general, who regarded himself as the first warrior of the Yi family, extremely dissatisfied, and this Han who did not know where to go, and was stuffed by King Liang was extremely cunning.

This Han man was the second brother of the day. That day, he escaped with his life alone from the Ming army and the Li family's guards, and he traveled for a long time before returning to the general. Originally, he thought that if he failed the general's expectations this time, he would be punished heavily, but the general comforted him warmly and sent him a heavy responsibility!

Since then, the second brother has been dead set on the general, risking death to cross the Ming army's defense line in the hot weather, with a three-inch tongue, and re-established contact with the Yi people, and An Bangyan, who was the king of Liang, did not know what considerations he had, and actually agreed to his plan to borrow troops, but there are also words in advance, and now there is only a surplus of troops in his hands Only Marshal A Grasshopper who is responsible for defending Yachi and Sancha, this person is moody and stubborn by nature, if the second brother wants to borrow troops, he must convince him himself, otherwise everything will not be mentioned.

"Ah Er, I'm just a person who earned my life in the mud, and if the marshal sees me as an eyesore, I will never complain if Lisuo cuts me. But before that, Ah Er, I still want the marshal to listen to me. The second brother put down the cigarette tube, lifted the kettle hanging on the fire pit and poured a bowl of water for himself, and leaned over to Ah Grasshopper to fill it for him. Only then did he sit down again, picked up the cigarette holder and said slowly in a hoarse voice: "This time, King Liang ordered troops, and more than 100,000 troops went north to Chishui together, and they must have killed Ming Dog without leaving a piece of armor." King Liang said before, in the future, he will speak by merit, marshal, according to the words of the Han people, the military merit is the greatest, but there is a lot of attention in this military merit. ”

A grasshopper's brows jumped timidly, and a pair of calloused hands rubbed a few times on the cigarette tube, but his face said quietly: "Han people are very exquisite!" This credit is credit, how much more should it be divided?! Can a head be cut in half? ”

"Hehe," the second brother said with a strange smile: "Marshal, among the military merits, there are the merits of capturing the flag, the merit of climbing the city and trapping the battle, and the merit of defending the territory and defending the frontier!" Among the merits of Naming Dog's etc., the first level of seizure is the largest! Even if you work hard and guard the back road like iron armor, when you talk about merit, you still can't compare to those good men who fight in front of the battle! ”

"Ah Er, I have always heard that the Yi family is the most important hero, if there is a boy in the family but dies on the couch, it will be a shame for the whole family! Now the king of Liang with soldiers, it is a good man, a good army will emerge, the marshal, please think, after this battle, the original people jumped up, the mother-in-law in the house wore gold and silver, their own food and spicy drink, to live in the four sides of the cheerful blue bricks and tiles into the courtyard, to drink clear and cold fine wine, so that the slave called the maid, so unhappy! Originally, he lived downstairs on stilts, slept with the pigs, and ate in one place! When you meet a nobleman, kneel in the mud, and look up is a whip! ”

"If you have military exploits, King Liang doesn't rub sand in his eyes, even if he is a slave, he can be a superior person!" Ah Grasshopper took a few puffs of cigarette timidly, and slowly spit it out little by little, his face loomed in the cyan smoke, and even his voice was a little subtle: "Slave baby, if you want to live a human life, you have to suffer great hardships and suffer great sins!" ”

The second brother leaned on his back and sneered a few times in his heart, but he praised Ah Grasshopper's brainless words. He slapped his thigh and said loudly: "That's the truth!" The fertile land on the mountain is inseparable from the stupid ox, the gold and silver in the house are inseparable from the good man, and if the lowly slave wants to succeed, he must have a noble master! Marshal, you are now ordered to guard the Yachi and the three forks, this is related to the great cause of King Liang, and you must not dare to leave lightly. But the son of a good man must be a warrior, Marshal Grasshopper, don't you plan to let the children go out to see and see? ”

A grasshopper's timid face showed a little subtlety. He looked at the Han man on the other side with a calm face with heavy eyes, and when he spoke again, there was a little more politeness in his words that he had never noticed himself: "My children are naturally warriors, but they all have their own responsibilities. Ah Er, you said so much, you still think about the idea of borrowing soldiers, right? The Yi family is all straightforward people, Ah Er, don't make these false heads today, to be honest, if I agree to lend you troops, what good will I do? ”

"Benefits?" The second brother sneered, and the temptation slowly seeped into his words: "Isn't the gold and silver treasure in the head of the town a benefit?" Slave women are not good? This time I borrowed troops, I Ah Eryi should not capture them, all of them will be given to the marshal! This is even if it is the sincerity of my general and my family to the marshal, but there is one thing, although I don't want women, I want to be young and strong! Don't be in a hurry, the marshal," he raised his eyebrows at the opposite side, and the grasshopper with a fierce light in his eyes said timidly: "King Liang's battle is to defeat Chishui and open the passage to Sichuan!" How many Han Chinese are there? Marshal, how many Yi family members? How many Han families are there? You want a woman's wealth to be stable! Our generals are young and strong, but they are not used to work like pigs and cows, this is to be of great use, and it will also be a help for King Liang in the future! ”

Grasshopper stared at him timidly, as if trying to see something strange in this calm face, but in the end he didn't notice anything. The middle-aged Yi man took a few puffs of cigarettes, was silent for a moment, and asked coldly: "What kind of road is that general in your family?" ”

The expression on the second brother's originally unscrupulous face disappeared immediately. He sat upright, his eyes that were originally half-open opened suddenly, and the grasshopper on the opposite side was still cowardly on the battlefield for a long time, and he involuntarily leaned back under that cold and piercing gaze, he immediately reacted, and couldn't help but feel a little annoyed and angry, but saw that the second brother on the opposite side regained his expression, and only said slowly: "My general is the person who responds to orders, and the future master of the world, Ming Dog is afraid of the general, so I can't talk nonsense at will!" Now is not the time to speak, but King Liang believes in my general! Marshal, you can not believe me Ah Er, I'm afraid you can't believe King Liang, right? ”

"Hmph," Grasshopper let out a thick nasal voice from her nose, but she didn't say anything more, and the two of them left it behind as if it hadn't happened. He stretched out a slap, flipped it over the back of his palm, and said lightly: "If you borrow soldiers, there is only this number!" If you agree, take people away, but you have to decide what you want to eat! ”

"The marshal is so petty!" The second brother complained and bargained with him: "The grain is naturally our inheritance, and we will not let the marshal suffer!" But this 1,000 people are really less, the general wants to do great things this time, and we ourselves have to send 1,000 soldiers and horses, all of them are heroes, and the marshal has a thousand people, but we really have no courage. ”

A grasshopper looked at him timidly, his cheeks bulged out from time to time, obviously gritting his back molars and hesitating, he thought for a moment, and finally said decisively: "One thousand five!" At most, there is no more! King Liang instructed me to put away the three forks of the duck pond, and I couldn't do it if I didn't have 15,000 people! Don't talk anything about it, even if you promise food, but I think you're at most two thousand people's rations! Since the rich woman belongs to me, I am not stingy, and the children bring ten days' rations! Also," he sank his face and said word by word to the second brother: "I lent you soldiers because of King Liang's will!" But not for the sake of my own wealth! My children are all good, if it's like last time, Ah Er, you don't have to come to Shuixi again! ”

Ah Er sneered twice, and he didn't know whether to answer Ah Grasshopper timidly, or to tell himself: "If I lose again this time, I don't have to live, just die on the battlefield!" ”

After the beginning of autumn, the southwest is still a hot summer scene. The continuous mountains were not half alive under the sun, they were too hot, the branches and leaves were curled, and the bark was cracked, not to mention the large groups of men and horses walking on the mountain paths, and they had to wear armor, carry weapons, and carry bags. The weight under his feet became more and more heavy, and he couldn't lift his feet.

"It's almost August, but it's still so vicious." Zhou Qian grunted and complained. He was fat and the most intolerant of heat, and in the past, he undressed and shrunk in a place to sleep in the summer. But today is on the march, and don't think about sleeping anymore, it's the clothes, because of the status of the officer, it is not easy to untie it in front of so many people.

"It's really going to be hotter this year." Zheng Guocai also said a rare word. He hung his eight-petal hat and helmet on a belt, and wore a peasant hat on his head that he had found nowhere, and he sweated profusely. The surrounding soldiers are all hot and unbearable, and they just want the sky to open their eyes, and the rain will come, so that they can be relieved.

According to Zhu Xieyuan's order, the Sichuan soldiers began to leave the garrison Bijie the day before yesterday and marched towards Chishui. Along the way, except for the heat and dryness, there was nothing serious, and the road was calm. Just because the weather is too hot, every day there are soldiers walking and walking and falling down, although most of them suffer from heat stroke, but yesterday they actually died because of this! The medical officer said that he was weak, but Hou Liangzhu was so concerned about it that he ordered the hottest noon not to march, but to find a shady place to camp and rest, and wait for the sun to slow down before leaving.

Today's rest is over, but the fatigue that has accumulated in the body for the first two days is not so easy to dissolve. After walking for another two hours, the Ming army was forced to camp again - the soldiers complained incessantly, and the officers were unable to hold back their bullets. Hou Liangzhu is also a handful of age, his back is hot from the sun, he took the gourd handed by his own soldiers and drank two sips, thought about it, in the end, it is better to pass the order, repair it in place for a day, and then go on the road the morning after tomorrow.

The deputy general Deng Xi was bareheaded, wearing only a sleeveless gown, and his lower body was calf nose pants, so he was still sweating on his body. Although Liu Kexun, the deputy envoy of the prison army sitting opposite him, was still neatly dressed, only his hat was removed, he kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, and asked his own soldiers to hurry up and fetch some water.

"This weather!" Deng Xi did not shy away from it, wiped his sweat shirtless in front of Liu Kexun and Hou Liangzhu, and said while wiping: "The military gate, the supervising army, I am a rough person, so I will not pay attention to it." It's so hot that now there is a river pond, and it's like soaking in it, and never getting up again! ”

Liu Kexun was born as a civilian official, although he has been in the military camp for many years, he still has a bit of a literati reserve. Seeing that Deng Xi was almost stripped naked, he couldn't help frowning and said: "Deputy General Deng, this is in the army, you are a general, you still need some physique!" ”

Deng Xi immediately shouted to hit the sky: "Prison Army!" Dozens of pounds of armor are worn on the body in this town, and in this weather, even if you are an iron man, you can't stand it! I want to be decent, but this day the lord won't give it to me! "But having said that, in the end, it's a matter of putting on a robe indiscriminately.

Hou Liangzhu said softly to Deng Xi with a cold face: "Okay! Liu Jianjun is right, you are a person who is a deputy general, this is what you look like, let the sons and daughters see it, what do you look like?! Hurry up and get dressed! After a while, you will lead people to patrol the camp, and when you go out, you must be careful with everything! He put on a smiling face again, and said to Liu Ke very cordially and sincerely: "Vice General Deng is a straightforward person, and Liu Jianjun should not take it to heart." We are fighting and killing men, and there is a little less care about etiquette, Liu Jianjun looks at the general's face, and says a few words. (To be continued.) )