Hou Liangzhu paced back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his back, and his close aide Liu Zhou sat on a horse and drank tea with gusto. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Junmen turned around and came back, seeing Liu Zhou's leisurely appearance, he laughed, and he also picked up Mazha and sat down on the side, and ordered his soldiers to bring him a tea cup, and the boss unceremoniously snatched Liu Zhou's good Xiaguan Tuo tea.

Liu Zhou watched painfully as the old soldier took out a large handful of tea leaves from the tea can, and saw that he was splashing and sprinkling everything outside the tea bowl, and finally couldn't help but snatch it back, and said angrily: "Military Gate!" The tea leaves in this bowl of yours are almost on the lid! ”

"You literati are stingy, what about eating a few of your tea leaves?" Hou Liangzhu snorted, and while lifting the kettle simmering on the fire pit and pouring water into the tea bowl, he did not forget to defend himself: "This Tuo tea is heavy in taste, you see that the clear soup in your bowl is a bowl of white water, what is the head?" ”

Waiting for the tea to overflow out of the bowl, Hou Liangzhu stopped, put the kettle back to the fire pond with one hand, and half rested the tea lid on the tea bowl with the other hand. ”

"Ten taels of silver for a tea cake, can it?" Snorted angrily, Liu Zhou simply splashed the residual tea in his tea cup, and also imitated Hou Liangzhu to brew it thickly, and for a while, the tea was fragrant, and neither of them was speechless. After a while, Hou Liangzhu put down the teacup and asked Liu Zhou thoughtfully: "Mizhi, have you read the report document sent by Liu Xinwu a few days ago?" ”

Liu Zhou took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the small pestle, and nodded in response: "Yes." Is the military gate suspicious of that document? ”

"Not really." Hou Liangzhu shook his head, he frowned and said: "A few days ago, along with the documents, there was also a captured and headed, I personally inspected it, it was all really barbaric, not a good killing, and I asked the soldiers to whom the thousand households belonged, it should be true." However, after reading it, the doubts in my heart have not diminished a little. ”

He didn't sell Guanzi either, stroked his chin beard, and after a pause, he continued: "This attack is said to be a very useful thousand households under Liu Xinwu, who was transferred back from Liaodong a few years ago, and Mizhi is afraid that he has also heard his name, and his name is Chen Xianda." ”

"It wouldn't be strange if he were." Liu Zhouzhong said pertinently: "This Chen Xianda is said to have a few tricks in the training of soldiers, I heard that every time Xu Nanwei reads, his soldiers are the most brilliant, and the empty salary is not very serious, and it can be regarded as a first-class strong soldier in eastern Sichuan." ”

Hou Liangzhu laughed twice and said: "Chen Xianda is a good man at leading troops and using soldiers, but if you say that the dozens of heads and seizures sent were laid down by his family, he can't hide it from me." He curled his fingers and tapped on the small pestle, "One, I've seen all the heads, and many of them are called medicine to beat up the mess!" When Chen Xianda was attacked that day, he didn't bring a single firearm out of the camp, so how did the wound on his face come about? ”

Liu Zhou brought the kettle to refill the tea for him, and said to him slowly and methodically: "The military gate is an old army, so there is no need to talk about it in detail, but this military affairs have always been confused. The military gate has to be exhausted, although the people below are not good, if something embarrassing is found, the face of the military gate must not look good. ”

"Don't I know that?" Hou Liangzhu said disapplausively: "Everything is clear and clear like this, what else can the people below do?" Only those rotten Confucians who read dead books speak brilliantly one by one, and they don't even know the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, what can be done? ”

He complained a few words, and only after he finished saying that he said sincerely: "It is said that there were five or six hundred barbarians that day, and they were able to match the captured heads. Chen Xianda is said to have brought less than half of the people out, and one or two hundred people were killed or injured when they came back, and they could still pay the first seventy or eighty levels? There's no catty here? There must still be a force of people! ”

Hou Liangzhu is worthy of being an old soldier who has accumulated years, and his eyes are so vicious, just looking at the number of heads, he can infer that there must be another strong army hiding on the side. After he finished speaking in one breath, he took tea to moisten his throat, and said: "This group of people wants to be friendly with my officials and soldiers, but they are not from the government, the biggest possibility is estimated to be on Chen Xianda's body......"

Liu Zhou cautiously asked: "Do you want to summon Chen Xianda and ask him?" ”

"No, you don't." Hou Liangzhu shook his head, as if he remembered something, squinted his eyes and smiled, and said, "Since Chen Xianda didn't say anything else when he reported his merits, let's just ignore it." This military feats have never been too little, not too much. Secret," he instructed his staff: "You write another letter to Zhu Zhitai on my behalf, and send it to Dafang early tomorrow morning along with the documents that report the victory." Write another good news, and the old man will hand it to the court. ”

"Yes." As soon as Liu Zhou responded, he thought about it and reminded Hou Liangzhu: "The military gate, the matter of the excerpt, I'm afraid I still have to sign it with Zhu Zhitai, no matter how bad it is, I have to report it to the Taiwan." ”

"Then you can do it." Hou Liangzhu said casually. picked up the tea bowl again, took a sip of it, and said secretly in his heart: "That Zhu Xieyuan has always been a soldier of Guizhou Province, and Xu Chengming won a battle in April, so that he said that until now, he will mention it when he returns, although this capture is not as good as Xu Chengming, but it is a little-known thousand households of our Sichuan soldiers, and it is more glorious than Xu Chengming." ”

The recruitment office of the Ming army in Bijie was set up not far from the city gate, not only local Bijie locals could go to sign up for the army, but also recruits sent from other places must register here before entering the camp. However, Li Yongzhong took people directly to the barracks -- Chen Xianda had already greeted Liu Xinwu in advance, and he had a conversation with the people who were preparing for the military in southern Sichuan.

Chen Mingjiang accompanied Li Yongzhong to complete the procedures, and then went to the Chinese officer to bring the officers' things, and while introducing him to the barracks, he pointed out: "In the future, this tooth card must not be lost, if it is lost, the Chinese officer will tell you to know greatly." Brothers' military uniforms and equipment," he paused, and said with a smile, "But I was wrong, Zhong Guan'er just went straight to the military uniform, and you can't look down on the tattered knives and guns made by the official." ”

There were a total of eighty-seven guards who followed Li Yongzhong to join the army, Chen Xianda reported the number of 100 people to him, and the Chinese army also recognized it, this is the norm nowadays, and he didn't care about it everywhere, and the Chinese officer also kindly reminded him: "You can also report more, otherwise your team is newly built, if there is no military exploits, it is difficult to raise soldiers." ”

Li Yongzhong smiled at Chen Mingjiang, "Thank you Brother Mingjiang for your advice." Since I entered the camp, I still don't know what to do, if it weren't for Mingjiang to follow, where would I know the doorway inside? I want to come to my colleagues everywhere to treat me politely, mostly in the face of my father-in-law and Brother Mingjiang. ”

"When I go back in a while, my father-in-law must have issued a document to transfer me and a few brothers to Zhongguan'er's team, and in the future, Zhongguan'er, you will be my Shangguan, and we will give military salutes in the army, and the upper and lower levels will not be abolished, and Zhongguan'er will be too polite to others. Just call me by name. Chen Mingjiang smiled heartily, "In the future, we will be colleagues who eat in a pot, and Zhong Guan'er will be more comfortable." ”

The two talked and laughed, and then turned back to the camp where Chen Xianda's department was located. Because of the relationship between the enemy and the loss of a lot, there was a lot of open space, and the guards arrived here early in the morning and set up their tents by themselves. In the morning, the copywriter recorded his name and surname one by one, gave him a waist card, and brought military uniforms and all kinds of things, which was even busier than Li Yongzhong.

When Li Yongzhong finally came back, what he saw were his subordinates who were still dressed in new clothes -- now, they can no longer be called guards or militiamen, but serious registered officers and barracks, only Li Yongzhong can not lead a battalion alone, and there is no battalion head name, and the official title on the roster is "Li Yongzhong, the commander of the Daming Sichuan Southern Soldier Preparation Dao Xianzi Battalion Commander."

At this time, the Ming army wore felt hats or turbans, but the guards wore folded felt hats, lined with new purple cloth long body armor, and the inside was a big red mandarin duck jacket, and the figure was straight, so that people would praise a good soldier when they saw it! Unlike the Ming army, the Li family guards are extremely thick, especially after the start of training, the meat and eggs are non-stop, and the long-term sufficient protein supply makes these new soldiers in the camp ruddy and thick, and they usually wear deep indigo and straight, but now they have changed their military uniforms, which is really full of spirit! Anyone should look twice.

Chen Mingjiang looked at the soldiers, turned his head with emotion and said to Li Yongzhong: "The brothers under Zhongguan'er are really good soldiers!" In our battalion, what can be compared to it is the father-in-law's personal army. Among the remaining hundred households, only Zheng Guocai and Zhou Qian can barely compete with each other. ”

Li Yongzhong was also satisfied, but smiled modestly at Chen Mingjiang: "Mingjiang's words are too exaggerated. We are new to the camp, and we don't understand anything with black eyes, and there will be more places to be taken care of by our comrades. Qianhu's subordinates are all strong soldiers, what can I be here? ”

Chen Mingjiang, who is now under Li Yongzhong's command, was very satisfied with Li Yongzhong's humble attitude, he nodded secretly, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Since he knew that Chen Xianda was going to transfer him to Li Yongzhong, Chen Mingjiang didn't say anything, but he was very worried in his heart, he was afraid that Li Yongzhong would be young and frivolous, and when the time came, he would offend people all over the place, but he would not be able to clean up the mess.

Although such worries are too cautious in his own opinion, Li Yongzhong's performance obviously makes Chen Mingjiang look up to him again. Since entering the camp, whether it is facing small soldiers or officers, Li Yongzhong's attitude can be said to be neither humble nor arrogant. There are naturally a lot of people who are used to patting horses and whiskers in the army, and it is not for nothing that the eyes grow on the top of the head, both of which are annoying, but Li Yongzhong is like this, he treats people sincerely and politely, and refuses to take it easily, maybe he can't show anything at first, but those who can go to the end in the army are often such people.

Chen Mingjiang was suddenly full of expectations for his new life in the barracks in the future. (To be continued.) )