Li Yongzhong sat down on a piece of bluestone, threw away the big gun that could no longer see the color of the barrel with one hand, and gasped heavily, he was sweating through the heavy armor, he was really tired, and he couldn't even lift his hands, he laboriously untied the tie, took off the bulky helmet and threw it on the ground, Liu Xiaoqi, who had been inseparable from him, immediately untied the water bladder on his belt and handed it to him, and said in a low voice: "Zhong Guan'er, it's good to drink saliva." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

He silently took it from Liu Xiaoqi's hand, first poured it in one go, and then poured all the rest of the water on his head, drenching his head and face thoroughly, and his originally tired face showed a little energy. Li Yongzhong threw the water bladder back into Liu Xiaoqi's hand, straightened his back, and suddenly heard a crackling sound like popping beans-he smiled bitterly, this is really tired.

"How's it going?" Li Yongzhong picked up the big gun in his hand, and while picking up the water cylinder on his waist to clean it little by little, he asked Liu Xiaoqi lightly: "How are the brothers killed or injured?" What is the saying of the official army? ”

Liu Xiaoqi immediately replied very eloquently: "Our brother is mainly based on support, so the injury is not serious, but the brother who followed you to attack was injured a few, all of them are on the limbs, just take some time." Then he hesitated a little and lowered his voice: "It's the official army...... It seems that many of them are not lightly injured. ”

"That's no way to do it." responded lightly, and said: "They have hundreds of households said that they want to discuss, how long has it been?" Still up on a decision? "Li Yongzhong's face is quite ugly, now even the caravan is trapped here, and they were going to be generous! Therefore, the tone is also a lot heavier, a little more mean than usual: "Noisy and yelling, it's all waste snacks, I see what they can make a noise!" ”

The hundreds of households in the Ming army, who were ridiculed by Li Yongzhong as "waste snacks", still have real kung fu in their hands. Taking advantage of the gap in repelling the Miao people, the officers discussed it a little, and said that this was a place of death, and could not stay, and worked hard to gather the soldiers, and the whole army went to a river beach at the bottom of the mountain road under the rain of arrows and fought and retreated, and the Miao people made the Ming army kill to lose their courage, except for shooting a few rounds of arrows, they did not dare to stop it, which made hundreds of people withdraw smoothly.

After the temporary peace, there was something more subtle in the eyes of the officers looking at Li Yongzhong. Li Yongzhong was too lazy to deal with it, so he simply hid to the side alone under the pretext that he was too tired. As soon as he left, a few hundred households secretly breathed a sigh of relief -- now that Chen Xianda was seriously injured and had not woken up, the officials of the hundred households had their own set of explanations, and each of them was not convinced. Except for the implementation of the previous retreat plan, in the past half an hour, nothing has been achieved except for sitting and arguing with a blushing face and a thick neck.

Zhou Qian was seriously injured, and now he is being cared for by medical officers together with Chen Xianda and the wounded soldiers, and he has two general flags, one killed in battle and one lightly wounded, and many soldiers have also died. Zheng Guocai consulted with him once, and then temporarily commanded the remaining soldiers, so that he could be regarded as a hundred or so soldiers with full hands and feet, and among several hundred households, the fist was the largest. Therefore, when he speaks, others can hear a few words, whether true or false.

"Cui Wenwen of the Chinese Army, led two praise paintings to count the casualties." Zheng Guocai coughed, because he had studied in private school and could recognize some words, but there was no need for the copywriters to read it out for him. Stretching out his finger and dipping it in his mouth, Zheng Guocai opened the thin pages in his hand and read it word by word: "Let's talk about Zhou Cannon's team first, are there good people with good hands and feet, and there are twenty-one and two, which have already wrapped up the minor injuries that are not very serious, and the seriously injured, fifteen, are dead," he said with a heavy face: "Thirteen." ”

No matter how the officials of the hundred households get along with Zhou Qian on weekdays, no one looks good on their faces now - just after this battle, half of the people in Zhou Qian's team were injured and killed! And that's just the beginning! Now they are besieged on this river beach, and no one knows what the road ahead is!

"Feng Baoqun, twelve are dead, eight are seriously injured, and those who can still go into battle, oh, old Feng, you are luckier than Zhou Cannon, and there are forty-six." Zheng Guocai's face was a little relaxed, and he smiled at Feng Baoqun reluctantly. Feng Baoqun put down his hanging heart, slapped it on his chest again and again, and said fearfully: "In my team, most of them are relatives, if the casualties are too serious, how can I go back to see my hometown father!" ”

The officers comforted him one after another: "Old Feng, you are lucky, look at the Zhou cannon!" "It is inevitable that the work of being a soldier and eating food, tying his head to the belt of his trousers, and his life is placed in front of the Buddha and Bodhisattva!" "Look away! How many have you died? I'm so scared of thinking of my team! ”

After persuading for a while, Zheng Guocai coughed dryly, and everyone quickly shut up, and then he continued to read, nothing more than less joy and more sorrow, that is, the casualties were lighter, and the total number was about twenty, and in the end, there was a team of about 500 people when they went out, and now it was only in their early 400s, which was more than 200 percent! After listening to Zheng Guocai's recitation, the officials of the hundred households all turned blue and looked at each other, and one person said in a long time: "This ...... In this situation, how on earth are we going to go back? ”

Zheng Guocai was silent for a long time, looked left and right at the hundreds of household officials, and said with a solemn face: "In this situation, Lao Zheng, I have something to say, please listen to me." ”

The hundreds of households quieted down, and Zheng Guocai said solemnly: "Let's come out this time with a military order to suppress bandits and calm the people. It is true that we won the battle yesterday, but today one is not good, not to mention the reward for silver promotion, that is, whether we can save our own lives, it also depends on whether this thief is a noble hand. ”

"In today's battle, although we encountered an ambush, we can say in good conscience that our response is also incompetent! Those arrows, everyone has seen them afterwards, most of them are bamboo arrows, although the soldiers are not fully armored, but they are all old people, how can they be intimidated by these things!? In the final analysis, we lost our guard and told the barbarians to kill violently, and we were frightened! Now that I think about it, it's so dry-skinned! ”

His words were not polite, and he really made the officials of the hundred households hot. But now is not the time to say more about this, Feng Baoqun coughed, faced Zheng Guocai's burning gaze, and said stubbornly: "Zheng stubborn donkey, don't say these boring things, these words are back to Bijie, how to say it, but now what we want to talk about is how to act!" ”

Zheng Guocai glared at him, and although he was still not polite when he spoke again, his tone was much softer: "When I say this, I am not to save everyone's face, but to say something!" Now we have to be the same as before, don't think about breaking through, it's better to wash our necks and make people cut them more happily! ”

After saying so much in one go, Zheng Guocai was a little thirsty, licked his lips and said: "Now that Qianhu is seriously injured, the medical officer just said that although he went to the arrow, he was injured near the heart and lungs, and now the matter of life and death depends on God's will!" Now we don't have a backbone, how can we make it happen?! ”

He looked at the officials of the hundred households, and said in an accentuated tone: "I mean, we have to find a master general to come out first, otherwise everyone will take care of their own affairs, and there is no one who presides over the overall situation, how can we exert our strength!" He said neatly: "I'll say first, if it's usual, I'm willing to fight for this first." But my old Zheng knows his own family affairs, and I can't afford the current situation! Besides, I was originally the same title as you, but I used the title of a conductor, are you convinced? Therefore I refuse to command this! ”

The faces of the hundred household officials suddenly became delicate. They looked at each other, but neither of them wanted to be the first to speak. In the end, it was the good old man Feng Baoqun who had to get up and speak again under the eyes of his colleagues, he himself was extremely convinced of Zheng Guocai's ability, and when he heard Zheng Guocai say this, he had some intention of persuading him: "Zheng stubborn donkey, you are a little boring when you say this, everyone brothers, you are very convinced of your ability, now in this situation, if you don't come out, who else among us dare to stand up?" ”

Zheng Guocai smiled bitterly at Feng Baoqun and said: "Everyone is under the hands of thousands of households, let's scoop a spoon in a pot, who doesn't know who?" I know my own business, and I am not a man who can call people! Besides, if you fight a war, you will die, and when the time comes, I will arrange it, in case someone feels unfair and makes trouble, what should I do? That's why I said, I would never dare to take on the position of the main general! ”

He said it bluntly, and the rest of the officers couldn't help but nod secretly. Zheng Guocai is right, if he takes over the post of chief general, then someone will suspect him of preserving his strength and pushing others to die! Once this person's heart is dirty, there is really nothing that he dare not think about or say!

He took a breath, his expression became more solemn, and he said seriously: "Therefore, I have a thought. ”

"Since it's hard to decide, let's find someone of our own who is not our own person to be the main general. He has nothing to do with anyone, but if he really talks about it, he has something to do with everyone. He is not an official soldier, but he makes a big gun, and dozens of soldiers under his command are used, which makes thousands of households treat them as parents and children! He said one sentence after another, and gradually some people understood, so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and forgot to close them!

"What my old Zheng means is that I want Qianhu's son-in-law, that Young Master Li, to invite him to come out," he frowned, his eyes lit up, he looked around, the pressure in his eyes forced no one to look at him, Zheng Guocai said word by word: "Be the main general!" ”

Li Yongzhong had no way of knowing the plans of the officers, he finally came out of his fatigue, stood up and glanced at the hundred household officials gathered not far away, didn't bother to look at it again, beckoned Liu Xiaoqi to come over, and ordered: "Call Cao Jinliang to come over and bring me two more cakes!" Let the brothers have a good life to trim! Fortunately, there is still a river beach with bent river water, otherwise I would have died of thirst! ”