Chen Xianda twisted his eyebrows into a pimple the size of a green grape, and his left hand unconsciously rubbed the shark skin on the handle twice, feeling the rough texture of the fish skin rubbing against the palm of his hand. What did our commander say when he left the camp? Three or five days in the morning, six or seven days in the evening, be sure to return to the camp, if you do as you say, you must send someone to sweep the surrounding area, and when will you return to the camp?! ”

The officials of the hundred households were not afraid of him - one of Chen Xianda's biggest benefits, he didn't care about how he contradicted him when discussing the right thing - only these hundred households had some big tongues, and they held back their words, but they still couldn't understand, and they were so anxious that their feet jumped: "Thousand, thousands of households, this, this, this place, doorways, too many doorways!" He took a breath and gestured, his face turned purple: "Yes, you have to send, reprimand, scout, scout has been carefully probed!" ”

"We have hundreds of people parked here, and there are mountains nearby, and when I look at it, I can think with my toes, and I can also point out a lot of places where soldiers are hidden. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Zhou Qian spat on the ground, and also had an opinion with Chen Xian: "We have no food in our hands!" can last another half a day and a day, but if it is delayed on the road, the soldier's stomach will be troubled, and he is not a trick! ”

The others were also ugly. The two roads in front of them had been roughly looked at by the scouts, but the results of the return were not very optimistic - one was dangerous, the other was easy to walk, but on both sides was a gateway mountain, and the mountain road would be sandwiched in the middle, and it would be a dangerous place in military science! Even if they wanted to explore it again, they couldn't afford to delay.

There are also hundreds of household officials muttering: "Why be so careful now? When we chased all the way, we walked the Dense Forest Beast Path, isn't it more dangerous than this? Haven't you had a safe journey and won another battle? You don't have to be so careful, this guts is gone! ”

Zheng Guocai sneered when he heard this, glanced at the person who spoke, and sneered: "You are so bold - why did you fall behind yesterday?" It's still your own soldiers to escort you back! We don't know each other here, and we don't even have a guide, do you think this is our eastern Sichuan boundary? Han Chinese villages and towns everywhere? I'd rather Qianhu be careful, there is no land in the gutter and the boat capsizes! ”

The person who spoke before was robbed by Zheng Guocai, and even more exposed, his face was a little unbearable, and he glared at him with red ears for a while, and said loudly regardless of it: "Let's go up and down the whole camp, just you Zheng Guocai!" You have the ability, why didn't you go up? Yes, I escaped, but it's better than some people who cowered around Chihu and became a turtle! ”

After he said this, almost everyone immediately looked at him with different expressions, and this person was stunned, his burning brain cleared up, and his face suddenly turned pale. Chen Xianda was not so annoyed, he only glanced at him lightly, retracted his gaze and didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said in a low tone: "Talking about business, don't talk about all the nonsense." ”

As soon as he spoke, the officials of the hundred households didn't care about anything else, and they all surrounded him in the middle, waiting for him to speak. Chen Xianda was not verbose, and said a few words concisely: "The soldiers fought yesterday, and today they rushed for half a day, and the road is dangerous, so I can't take care of it at this time!" Pass my orders! ”

The officials of the hundreds of households were stunned, solemn and bowed their heads, just waiting to obey the order. Chen Xianda took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Zheng Guocai, Zhou Qian, you two lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters as the forward, Feng Baoqun, Zhao Rong, Deng Jinmu, the three of you lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to the back!" The rest of the military academy generals, and I are the Chinese army! The three of us should cooperate with each other, and don't panic when encountering enemies! Calm down and fight for a while, the Miao people can't use the equipment at hand, most of them will disperse on their own, remember, poor Kou Mo chase! ”

The officers bowed and saluted, and shouted loudly: "Receive the military order of a thousand households!" Immediately dispersed and went to work. Chen Xianda squinted his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, and his own soldiers didn't dare to urge him, so he listened to his command for a moment: "Go to someone, call me the middle official in the caravan behind!" ”

Chen Mingjiang was on his left and right, listening to his orders, and immediately answered yes, and was about to turn over and get on the horse to find someone, but Chen Xianda stopped him and said, "Mingjiang, don't go, I have something to tell you." Seeing the opportunity, the soldiers next to him hurriedly took the reins from Chen Mingjiang's hand and rode quickly to find someone. Chen Mingjiang looked at Chen Xianda in confusion, stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Father-in-law, what's the matter?" ”

"I have a thought, I thought I would talk to you tonight, but I still have some work now, so I thought I would just say it now." Chen Xianda, who has always been a straightforward person, also hesitated rarely, but he still spoke: "I mentioned the matter of the world to Zhongguan'er, but he didn't reply, but I think he is most likely willing." If he takes up his post, he doesn't understand anything in the army, and I have to avoid suspicion here," he coughed twice, glanced at Chen Mingjiang, and said, "What I mean is to transfer Mingjiang to help ......him."

Chen Mingjiang was silent for a moment and said, "Since it is the meaning of the righteous father, then Mingjiang listens to the order." He bowed stiffly to Qianhu with a fist, turned around and left. Chen Xianda was thrown behind him, and he smiled helplessly for a while and scolded: "This little rabbit cub ......"

Li Yongzhong was coming over at this time, Chen Xianda saw him at a glance, greeted him, did not say hello, and said straight to the point: "Zhong Guan'er, there is some peace ahead, you call the guards to move with my Chinese army, and the bulky carriage luggage and others follow Feng Baoqun and them." ”

"Yes." Li Yongzhong responded neatly, thought about it and asked cautiously: "Father-in-law, I don't know which path the official army chose?" ”

"East." Chen Xianda said succinctly, "The road to the west is too dangerous, the soldiers are tired of these days, and the food can't last long, so they have to hurry back to Bijie to repair." He paused and instructed Li Yongzhong: "I asked you to bring Erlang here, I didn't mean anything else, I just thought that if something happened, the two sides should take care of each other." A trace of hesitation flashed on his face, Li Yongzhong was about to ask, but Chen Xianda said: "For a while, you are good to follow Mingjiang, he has been in the army since he was a teenager, if you have any doubts, just ask him." After saying that, the nail leaves on his body rattled, and the person had already walked far forward.

Li Yongzhong was thrown by Chen Xianda in a group of Ming troops, and the glances at him were mostly subtle, and there were some unclear comparisons. He didn't bother to care, so he called Cao Jinliang to come, and the two discussed in a low voice for a while, and decided to keep their distance from the Ming army, after all, the two sides had no contact before, and it was just a fantasy to work together, so it was better to do their own thing, if there was something to support, it was. After discussing it to a certain extent, Cao Jinliang turned around and shouted at the escort team who was standing straight: "Liu Xiaoqi! ”

"In!" Liu Xiaoqi, who was standing at the end of the first row, immediately answered loudly, and then stepped out of the queue in one step, running in a posture that seemed awkward and stiff to the Ming army, but Li Yongzhong felt that the standard posture of heroism ran over - that is, a running posture that a military training student would be familiar with hundreds of years later - he stopped three steps in front of Cao Jinliang, bowed his waist slightly, hugged his fists and bowed his head, and said: "Please show Team Cao!" ”

"Liu Xiaoqi, you lead the army and the second army (the commander of the second army is unfortunately injured) to protect the middle officer, and the rest of the people, don't be careless, everyone listen well, put the gun on the shoulder, and present the army in a row!" Cao Jinliang finished his command in one breath, and asked Zhong Guan'er again: "What else do you want to order?" ”

Li Yongzhong shook his head.

Under the complicated gaze of the Ming army, the guards, who only had a few dozen people, were quickly divided into two teams, the front and rear, with Li Yongzhong tightly guarded in the middle of the Ming army, and the rear team was lined up in two columns, some of them carrying firearms behind their backs and holding a large gun five or six feet long in their hands. After a while, the whole team was finished, just waiting for the departure.

The guards didn't wait long, the Ming army was quite good this time, not long after, Chen Xianda rode over, looked back and forth, nodded with satisfaction, and shouted with full anger: "Let's go!" ”

The Ming army, which was originally two long columns, was divided into three parts and embarked on the return journey again. Unlike before, the laughter on the faces of the soldiers disappeared cleanly, and even the veterans couldn't help but be nervous - before they set off, they heard that the Ming army chasing the Miao people was lured into an ambush, and there were more than two hundred people, and only a dozen of them survived! Even if you are a soldier, you don't want to have a surprise when you can return to the camp right away!

The avenue on the east side is really easy to walk, not to mention wide, but also quite smooth. Li Yongzhong was a little familiar with the geography of this place, and immediately talked to Chen Xianda: "This road was quite difficult a few years ago, but at that time, the nearby Miao Village was very knowledgeable and close to the imperial court, so he discussed with several large caravans, and the merchants contributed money, and the Miao Village contributed to repair this section of the road, which was only a year or two ago." ”

Chen Xianda glanced at him and asked, "Among them, is there the Li family?" ”

Li Yongzhong smiled humbly and said, "Li Jiajing is just accompanying the last seat." ”

When Qianhu Guan heard this, he just smiled and did not speak.

In the southwest, there are two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, the situation is quite complicated, the government, the Yi people, the Han people, the guards, these are all mixed together, the people here are fierce, and the inland prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty are quite different. Since transportation has been difficult since ancient times, it is even more important for caravans to be able to connect several provinces across the country. Especially after the year of the Apocalypse, the post road gradually fell into ruin, bandits and bandits were rampant on the road, the officers and soldiers were weak, and the Yiren rebellion occurred one after another—the merchants who could survive in this environment and grow stronger were all famous and wealthy merchants in this remote place in the southwest.

Li Yongzhong said that it may be true that Li Jiajing accompanied the last seat, but being able to intervene in such a matter is enough to prove the strength of the Li family's caravan. You must know that a few years ago, the southwest seemed to be a little stable, but the situation between Yi and Han was the same, and the two thieves were powerful, and the guards a little farther away could be killed in just a few days!

Weng and his son-in-law fell silent. The sound of boots in the ears, the sound of hooves, the Ming army hurried away, and the sun gradually slanted westward, and this smooth road also came to the last section - different from before, the mountain road gradually narrowed, no longer straight, but turned out of the ileum sandwiched between the two mountain beams, the mountain is full of strange rocks and trees, swept away at a glance, it is under the blue sky and white sun, and it is also a piece of black hole!

Chen Xianda's face was rigid, and he knew that if there was an ambush, it would be here. He stood up on the stirrups, set up a pergola in front of him, and was about to give an order, from the hill on the left, in a condescending and inconspicuous place, a horned bow that was very different from the bamboo bow used by the Miao people was slowly pulled away—