After the battle, it was not quiet in the camp of the Ming army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There was no alcohol in the camp, but a lot of food and meat were seized from the village, although it was not enough for the Ming army of hundreds of people to eat a full meal, but compared with the big bread that could tear the throat every day, it was obviously a good meal - the man chopped the bacon and mixed grains and cooked a pot of thick meat porridge, with dry and hard flatbread, so that the Ming army feasted on it.

It was the night after the victory, the officers turned a blind eye to all kinds of frolicking of the soldiers, and in the mountains of Guizhou in May, the night breeze was full of coolness. The soldiers, who were rarely well fed and drunk, crowded around the campfire to talk and laugh, and a few of the soldiers who were bold in the past few days hummed a vulgar tune, and from time to time the laughter came far away, and even those who could not get up seemed to feel that their wounds were a little less painful.

But in Chen Xianda's tent, the atmosphere is far from relaxed. The double-decker cowhide tent seemed to keep the joyful hustle and bustle far apart. Chen Xianda and Yizi sat in relative silence, just before the soldiers came in, sent food and water, the father and son ate a few bites silently, Chen Mingjiang came out of the tent and called the soldiers to take away the dishes and chopsticks, and when he turned back to the tent, the stepfather Chen Xianda sat on the horse with a strong cup of tea and was stunned, heard the movement and turned his head to see that it was the righteous son, he greeted: "Mingjiang, come here and continue." You are the one who saw the Li family's guard that night? ”

"Yes." Chen Mingjiang sat on the horse opposite Chen Xianda, thought for a while, and continued: "Later, as Zhongguan'er said, sure enough, the thief was taken down in one fell swoop. The expression on his face was indescribable, and the butter candle cast a shadow on his handsome face, "The son can't say it well, but I just think that it is the father-in-law's personal soldiers, and compared with the guards of Zhongguan'er's family, it is not as good as it." It is also the essence of other people's firearms," Speaking of this, Chen Mingjiang was interested, and he described Chen Xianda with a gesture: "As today, the guards fought three rounds of firearms, and the thieves fell a lot, and then three or five people for a while, all made four or five foot guns, taking care of each other, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and no one was their triple enemy!" ”

His face turned red, he couldn't sit still on the maza anymore, he stood up suddenly, and described to Chen Xianda with foaming at the mouth: "Father-in-law, I joined the army since I was a teenager, and I thought that if I talked about the strong army in the world, there would be no one better than the border army, but unfortunately I was born late and never saw the Qi family's army, but that night, my son thought that if the Qi family's army was resurrected, it would be just those guards!" ”

"You have said a little too much." Chen Xianda coughed and taught Yizi a lesson: "No matter how well Zhongguan'er is trained, he is also a militia!" Not for the official and military! No matter how powerful it is, it can be compared to the Qi family's army?! You're talking nonsense! Speaking of this, Chen Xianda suppressed his voice and said with a calm face: "It's also to bring trouble to Zhongguan'er!" ”

In the faint candlelight, the deep wrinkles on the thousand-year-old face were tightly twisted together, and they could not be stretched. He sighed, asked Chen Mingjiang, who was at a loss, to sit down, and eased his tone before he said earnestly to him: "Mingjiang, how old have you been, practiced martial arts and studied, and you didn't dare to relax for a day, but I detained you to be a pro-soldier leader by your side, but I can't be the general, I know you're a good boy, but sometimes I still think I still treat you as a child, right?" ”

Chen Mingjiang snorted a few times, and the bright red color spread from his face to his ears and neck. He stammered, "Son, son doesn't dare ......," the last few almost whispered sounds.

Chen Mingjiang snorted heavily, seeing Yizi's face blushing into the bride's hijab, he felt funny in his heart, but his face was not obvious, and he still spoke to him with a straight face: "You don't dare, it's not that you don't want to!" Chen Mingjiang almost buried his head in his chest before he changed his tone and said earnestly: "You are a good boy, just like your father and me, you don't have much heart, and you have a tendon to the end." But Mingjiang, this temperament can go to the battlefield, but it can't be a good official -- many years ago, your mother consulted with me and wanted to give you the ...... of the world."

"This is not possible!" Before Chen Xianda finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Mingjiang, whose face had changed greatly, he took a breath, calmed his breath, and tried not to make himself look too anxious, but as soon as he spoke, Chen Xianda still heard the eagerness and sincerity in his heart: "Father-in-law's move must not be!" The stepfather and mother raised their son so that the son would not be displaced, if there was no stepfather and stepmother, Mingjiang would have been starving on the road......" He looked at Chen Xianda fixedly, and his eyes were unconsciously red: "Even now, my son occasionally dreams of that night......"

Chen Xianda's face was heavy, he patted Yizi's arm, and sighed lightly: "Where is the loess that doesn't bury people?" "The way of the world," he shook his head, not wanting to talk about the topic any more, "after all these years, people will have to look forward after all, and we will not talk about this today." ”

"That worldly position, I really thought about giving it to you, but don't care about anything else, Mingjiang, you are a good man who dares to fight and rush, a good son, but you can't be the master of an army. Don't talk about you, it's your father and me, if it weren't for the commander who is a reasonable person, I wouldn't have been able to eat this bowl of severed head rice. At my age, I say that I know the destiny of heaven at fifty, and your father and I are not much different from the age of knowing the destiny of heaven...... In the past few days, I have seen Zhong Guan'er, and I have a thought in my heart. ”

He beckoned Chen Mingjiang to approach, and whispered in Yizi's ear: "You say, if I give the world position to Zhong Guan'er, what about it?" ”

Almost at the same time, on a slope not far from the camp of the Ming army, the guards of the Li family were stationed here.

Compared with the camp of the Ming army, which was quite well-arranged, the Li family's caravan was not very large, so it did not pay so much attention to it, only drove a few carts to the outer circle, and the groom unloaded the reins of several Jianchang horses that pulled the carts and took care of them, and the rest of the guards scattered around a few bonfires, quietly doing their own things - some of them were oiled and scrubbed, and some were sorting out bullets and other things, since the beginning of this year began to use paper shell bullets, the original horn gunpowder pot and other things are no longer used, which is much more convenient than before, However, the debris of the paper shell is also easy to get stuck in the barrel, so maintenance should be more careful.

After visiting the guards who had been injured in the previous battle, Li Yongzhong and Cao Jinliang walked towards their resting place while talking: "Fortunately, the Miao people mostly use bamboo arrows, and the brothers are not seriously injured. Otherwise, this time it will be a big loss. He said with palpitations: "I can't really see it behind me, my heart is really hanging in the air, and I feel uncomfortable." ”

Cao Jinliang was also hit by an arrow in his arm, but the bamboo arrow did not penetrate deep into the flesh, so he sprinkled some gold sore medicine to stop the bleeding, and he didn't even wrap a bandage. Listening to Li Yongzhong's words at this moment, he smiled on his face and comforted him: "What did Zhong Guan'er say, what is this?" What kind of big scene can it be? It's just some barbarians who don't accept the king, if you talk about a strong enemy, you can't even score three points of the Tartars in Liaodong. ”

"No matter how powerful the Tartars are, they are not in the southwest, not in Guizhou, we are here now." Glaring at Cao Jinliang, what Li Yongzhong was afraid of was that his arrogant thoughts would spread among the soldiers, and it would really be a disaster, "It's nothing if you want to be a barbarian, but you have to be extremely cautious when you are about to fight!" It is better to fight the lion than to be big, you must know that our capital is not thick, and we can't do loss-making transactions. ”

Cao Jinliang heard him say that he was still very decent, and then he came up with strange businessmen, and secretly laughed at himself, the general, who was really born with the seeds of business, and it was a militaristic economy, which could also make him full of philistine. He was very open in front of Li Yongzhong, and he was not afraid to laugh, so he smiled and said: "Zhong Guan'er is so careful!" However, we really have to act as Zhong Guan'er said, that is, we must be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years! ”

Li Yongzhong nodded and said, "That's it." At this time, he had walked back to the bonfire where the two of them were, he sat down first, and then pointed to the position next to him and said: "Today you are also a tired person, sit down quickly, I have ordered the things to follow, and the wounded are also taken care of one by one, you have to rest well, tomorrow you have to travel a long way, today is the end of the battle, father-in-law and they are afraid that they will go directly to Bijie." ”

"No, we have to go along." Cao Jinliang took off the folded felt hat on his head, took a coarse linen towel with his bare head and dipped it in the water in the gourd and wiped it a few times, sighed comfortably, turned his head and glanced in the direction of the wounded, his face was a little heavy, and sighed: "It's okay to say that the lightly injured ones are a few seriously injured, but they can also be raised, but it is a pity to break a few brothers!" ”

Li Yongzhong also thought so in his heart. He now has only more than half of the people in his hands, among which there are twenty or thirty generals who will be trained, which are completely useless, and the rest are all veterans who dare to fight and dare to accumulate years, who can read and write, and their combat skills are also first-class, and countless money and food are supplied! Whoever died, he was so distressed that his heart was bleeding!

"How can there be immortals in war?" Li Yongzhong cheered up, not only to comfort Cao Jinliang but also to comfort himself, "If you don't go through the fire of war and don't see blood, where can you train a good soldier?" What kind of good soldier is an army if it is just circling around the training ground, not daring to pull out, and not daring to face the enemy with a white blade? He casually threw a piece of dry wood into the fire, watched the sparks fly in the night, and said lightly: "What I want is not a model goods, but a team that can withstand the pressure and grinding, and can also afford to win and lose, and come out of the blood and fire." ”

Cao Jinliang looked at him stunned for a long time, and then burst out laughing, laughing so hard that he almost broke his breath, and coughed again and again before stopping. While panting and rubbing his chest, he pointed at Li Yongzhong and said breathlessly: "Zhong Guan'er, I originally thought that I was a person who dared to think about anything, but I didn't think about it, but you dare to think more than me!" Look at this world, where is there such a martial artist!? He coughed a few times, the smile on his face gradually subsided, and he looked at the blazing bonfire in a daze, and muttered, "That's the king's master......"