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Before dawn, the rain began to fall. The troops, who had been ordered to leave the station a few days ago to follow a group of rebels nearby, had to make a temporary stop in a pine forest. The soldiers and their companions complained about the terrible weather here, and while they wrung out each other's clothes as much as they could, the officers came together for a while and decided to rest on the spot for half a day. Thanks to the oil-rich pine trees everywhere, it would have been difficult to light firewood in such humid weather.

As the supreme commander of this unit, Chen Xianda naturally does not have to be as busy as ordinary soldiers. The clever soldiers used a few handfuls of pine branches to build a small shed to temporarily shelter from the rain, opened the mazah, lit a bonfire, and hoisted a small copper pot to boil water and prepare to make tea. If it weren't for the march, I was afraid that I would have to wait for Chen Xianda to unload his armor, so I would be relieved for a while.

He slowly sat down on the matza, and immediately let out a low sigh of comfort. The tense and sore muscles of the whole body slowly relaxed, and the tortured joints seemed to be less painful as a result. Chen Xianda hammered his thigh, remembering that it was only in the same weather a few years ago that he followed Shangguan on the expedition, but he was able to fight in the wind and rain for a day, and he was neatly dressed at night and led people to patrol the camp, and it was common for him to stay up all night. After only six or seven years of hard work, the strong body of the year has aged unconsciously, and he is not aware of it at home, but now he is leading the troops, and he is already too tired to bear it after only walking for three or four hours. Chen Xianda sighed deeply in his heart, the hero is in the twilight, although he is not a hero, but the truth is probably like this.

A wild bird sheltering from the rain rested on the Masson pine tree in front of him. He squinted for a moment, as if it were a thrush. But the birds paid no attention to human prying eyes, and only single-mindedly combed their rain-soaked feathers with their sharp beaks. He watched for a while, remembering that many years ago, in order to please his young daughter, he personally went to catch a thrush, put it in a cage and gave it to Pei Pei, and the bird was also as seen today, calmly combing its messy bird feathers, but it was only beautiful and aura, but in the end it was released by his daughter......

He frowned, and withdrew his rambling thoughts. What's going on? Why do you suddenly recall such a long memory? Chen Xianda took a sip of the hot tea brewed in the hands of his soldiers, lowered his eyes, and suddenly a thin shadow swept through his heart, but when he looked carefully, he found no trace. He laughed self-deprecatingly, the older he gets, the less courageous he is, when he was in Liaodong, the people around him died and the light was pure, but he still struggled to climb back from the pile of dead people. Now I just saw a bird, but I was shocked like something.

After drinking the tea in one gulp, he threw the teacup to the soldiers and dogs, and ordered: "Tell you Chen to come and look for me!" After thinking about it, he said: "There are still a few hundred households, all of them are called to me!" ”

He sat down for less than half a moment, the sound of boots was swaying, and before anyone arrived, the voice came first: "Chen Mingjiang has seen thousands of households!" "But it was his own righteous son, Chen Mingjiang, the leader of the pro-soldier team, who came over first. He didn't look tired, he looked usual, but the movement around him was not small, Chen Xianda took a look, he was an old soldier, and he understood the key at a glance, and immediately smiled: "The weight of your armor is really not light." Can you afford it? ”

Chen Mingjiang raised his arm and moved his shoulders a few times, nodded calmly and said, "This weight is good!" Otherwise, it's too light, and I always feel dangling! ”

"Good boy!" Chen Xianda stood up and hammered him the chest, so happy that his eyes were smiling. He liked the majestic appearance of such a handsome man as Yizi, pointed to Mazha next to him, and said succinctly: "Sit." He sat down first, and a few hundred households who were a little farther away also rushed over, not daring to make a mistake, and bowed his head and clasped his fists five steps in front of him in a regular manner, and said unevenly: "See a thousand households for humble duties." ”

He put away the smile on Fang Cai's face, and said with a straight face: "You are also tired people, now that you are in armor, the weight of dozens of catties, don't stand up for the rules, sit down." He also instructed his soldiers to serve hot tea to a few hundred household officials to drink, and Chen Mingjiang also greeted the hundred households, although he was Chen Xianda's righteous son, but after all, it was only the title of the general banner, and he jumped up and avoided it when the general dispatch and the hundred household officials greeted Chen Mingjiang.

After a moment of scrambling, he finally sat down. General Chen Xianda looked left and right, coughed lightly, and took the lead in speaking: "It has been two days since our army left the camp on April 29. Except for fighting, there is no way to rely on a few of us, even if each person has the most hands, they can't defeat the Yi people all over the mountains. Therefore, how about the soldiers, this is the first thing to keep in mind, how are you talking one by one, how are the sons and daughters now? ”

Zhou Qian, who was the first to sit on Chen Xianda's left, followed Chen Xianda when he first returned to Sichuan, and he was really a few henchmen, and he was also good at fighting. This rough man can't say anything about the official face of the crepe, and said straightforwardly: "Qianhu rest assured, every time we go to a place, we will release sentinel patrols, this is nothing to say, but now there is one very important, this rain is endless, and several of the dozens of people under me have been infected with the cold, although they have taken some medicine to deal with the past, but looking at the weather now, it will rain when they are specified, and I want to ask what the charter of Qianhu is?" Shall we continue to wander around the mountains, or shall we return to camp as soon as possible? ”

As soon as he said this, the other hundreds of households nodded secretly. This weather is indeed a big problem, too much rain, the soldiers complained again and again, Guizhou here is a land without three miles of flat boundary, Yi people love to drill into the forest, these two days, the battle did not lose a few, but the march fell to death several people! More than those who died in battle!

Chen Xianda remained silent, and only asked: "Just one old cannon Zhou?" You don't have much to say? He looked around to the left and right, deliberately lowered his voice, and struck down heavily: "This thousand households are talking ahead, you can say anything at this time, don't say it now, but after that, you will mutter behind your back, carefully beat my ass with a military stick!" ”

When the hundreds of households heard this, they all laughed loudly and made fun of each other. Chen Xianda also smiled and stubbornly followed them for a while, and only then did a hundred households named Zheng Guocai straighten his face, pressed his hands to his knees, leaned forward slightly, and looked at Chen Xianda with his eyes intently and said seriously: "What Qianhu said is very true. The lowly position was bold and said it. What Zhou Baihu said is one thing, and the other is that in a few camps, we go out to patrol, and we are either going to this kind of mountains and mountains, or the wilderness, every time we are the first to go out, and the last to return to the camp; Third, the soldiers have complained a lot in the past few days, of course, those who violate the military law should be punished, but the lowly also thinks that what the sons and daughters say is not unreasonable-the court provides for us, we will do our best to sell a life to the court, this is nothing to say, but this military rations are ......"

Before he finished speaking, a hundred households who were friends next to him covered his mouth and pressed it, and only smiled and said: "Qianhu, this guy patrolled the camp last night, thinking that he was sleepy and insufficient, and he only talked nonsense when he was dizzy. ”

Chen Xianda's face was heavy, but he was not angry, he only sighed, waved his hand, and said lightly: "You let him go." After Zheng Guocai sat down breathlessly, he said to him in a deep voice: "How can I not know what you said?" But it is right to be a soldier to eat food and obey orders. As you said, if no one will do anything in fear of hardship, then what is the purpose of the people of the court to provide for us? I and other martial artists, the first thing we want to talk about is the word loyalty, what you just said, you said yourself, there is a very loyal and righteous to talk about? ”

Zheng Guocai's face was flushed, his fists were clenched tightly, and he stood up from the horse in the middle of the night, hugged his fists and bowed, and said in a loud voice: "Of course, what Qianhu said is right, but what are the Erlang eating now?" Flour cake with wheat bran! There are not a few pieces per person! Not to mention the vegetables and meat, even the food that accompanies the meal is not a bite! He raised his head suddenly, his eyes were so red that he almost wanted to cry, choked up, and said, "Thousand households!" This is our regular soldier! Good food and good weapons on weekdays, soldiers who have only been boiled out for several years! It's not those who are called Hanako Junding who have leftovers in the guardhouse! ”

There was no sound in the room for a while. Chen Xianda's chest rose and fell violently several times, and he stared at the resentful young subordinate in front of him, only feeling infinitely dry in his heart. The words of scolding came to his lips and were suppressed by him word by word. He let out a few long breaths and muttered to himself, "Unconscious bunnies." Only then did Zheng Guocai glare at him fiercely, and shouted: "You have the most reason!" Did you say that!? When it's all said and done, go back and sit down! ”

Zheng Guocai was stunned for a moment, and he was angry, and only after he finished speaking in a crackling breath did he realize what he had said. In the middle of his worry, he suddenly heard Chen Xianda scolding, he didn't think it was a pestle at all, but he breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly returned to Mazha to sit down, and immediately a friend pulled him over and scolded him in a low voice: "You don't want to die!?" This can also be said!? ”

Chen Xianda glanced at him and sneered, "Why can't you say it?" He is the only one Zheng Guocai who has great righteousness and wants to stand up for his sons, and our colleagues are all rice buckets! ”

This hat is too big, Zheng Guocai is not a fool, he was startled, jumped up from the maza at the moment and hurriedly distinguished, and said incoherently: "Qianhu, lowly duty, lowly duty doesn't mean that!" Fellow comrades, you know my ......" His mouth was stupid again, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, but he was sweating heavily.

Seeing that he was so anxious, the hundreds of households present found it quite interesting, and finally laughed, and some people teased him: "Brother Zheng, let's not be angry with you!" Big man, you can't give birth to anything! If you want to give birth, you can only count on your mother-in-law to give birth! ”

This witty remark was received really well, and everyone laughed and cried when they heard it, it was Chen Xianda, who also laughed, and the breath that was blocked in the bottom of his heart by this blue-headed second stunned man dissipated at once, and he felt quite comfortable!