On the first night of December, east of Jianchang County, Nankang Prefecture, in Nanchang Prefecture, Liulin Village. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the outbreak of the war in Jiangxi, the village has been as deserted as the surrounding villages. Those who could escape had already fled, and those who did not have time to flee and those who did not want to flee all died in the war, leaving only an empty shell of a village, which had not been populated for more than half a year.

Tonight, with this village as the center, the wilderness was brightly lit. Countless lanterns are dotted with stars, like the Milky Way in the sky reflected on the earth. More than ten miles to the north, there is also a brilliant light, which complements each other here, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

In Liulin Village, in the Central Military Headquarters of Huguang Town, Pang Yue finally reviewed the battle plan, and took advantage of this rare leisure time to sit in the candlelight and look at the letter from home that he couldn't get enough of.

The letter was written by Liu Bing'er himself, and it was just delivered a few days ago, and the letter told Pang Yue a great news that he was a father. Although Liu Bing'er revealed a little guilt in the letter, saying that she failed to give birth to a son for her husband, Pang Yue was still so happy that she couldn't help herself. As a traverser, he didn't have that kind of vulgar concept of patriarchy, and when he first learned the news, he really wanted to fly back to Chenzhou immediately. But in extraordinary times, I can only imagine the cute appearance of my daughter through the description of my wife in the letter.

Looking at it, Pang Yue couldn't help but show a happy smile on his face. After reading it several times, I put away the letter and put it in my pocket as it was, and the anticipation in my heart became stronger and stronger. If you can win tomorrow's battle, your return home will probably not be far away.

The war in Jiangxi has been going on until now, and the general trend of the world has already changed dramatically. Affected by multiple factors in the outside world, whether it is Huguang Town or the Qing army, they have no time and patience to continue to consume, and the final decisive battle is finally close at hand.

If Huguang Town wins this battle, not only will the entire Jiangxi return to the Ming Dynasty, but also the Imperial Court, which is worried about internal and external troubles, will not be able to regroup and go south in the short term after losing such an elite heavy army group, and the Ming Dynasty will usher in a precious period of recuperation. And if the Qing army wins, then the Longwu court will lose the most important battleable army, and the result can be imagined.

But no matter which side wins, after tomorrow's decisive battle, the previous wars and disputes will be completely over. Needless to say, the winner will also sleep forever, and no matter how worry-free and troublesome it is, everything related to it will come to an end.

After trying to calm down the surging emotions in his heart, Pang Yue breathed a long sigh of relief. At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Zhang Yunli walked into the Central Military Department.

In the evening, the Central Military Department was rotated by the chief military officer, the general staff officer, and the chief supervisor officer, and Zhang Yunli came to change Pang Yue's class.

"You go and rest first, Dashuai, I'll call you again if there's anything." Zhang Yunli said, "Tomorrow is a crucial battle, you are the commander of the whole army, but you have to cultivate enough spirits." ”

"There's no hurry, it's still early. Just in time you're here, I'll leave it to you. I'll go to the camp below. "Pang Yue has always had the habit of patrolling the camp at night, and tonight is no exception.

"Then I'll go with you?"

"No need, the Central Military Department must always be manned. Lao Shi is also tired enough these days, and he can't let him bear it. Pang Yue put on a big coat to protect him from the cold, walked to the door and remembered one more thing, stopped and turned around and said: "Zibin, if we win tomorrow, after waiting for the class teacher, do you have to think about something?"

"What's the matter?"

"What else could there be? Do you really plan to fight a bachelor for the rest of your life? ”

Zhang Yunli was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Pang Yue also laughed, and after laughing, he turned around and went out.

Outside the door, Wei Yuan had already led a team of personal soldiers waiting, and the patrol lights of the Central Military Department were also played.

"Marshal, which battalion to go to first?"

"Let's get into camp."

"Yes."

The group waved the patrol signal and left the Central Military Headquarters and walked towards the camp where the camp was trapped. On the way, Pang Yue saw some dazzling pillars of light in the wilderness in the far north from time to time dragging tail flames into the air, drawing a brilliant arc of light in the night sky, and finally falling into the brilliant lights farther to the north, attracting a faint commotion and the sound of gongs.

Pang Yue smiled knowingly. The rockets of the Agni Battalion were originally built by the craftsmen under his personal guidance, imitating the Congenave rockets of later generations, with a range of several miles, although not very accurate, but they can play a good role in harassing at night. It is very difficult for the Qing army to get those rocket soldiers of the Agni Battalion who are elusive in the wilderness without dispatching the main force, and as long as they receive a few shots every once in a night, they don't want to rest. Once the Qing army sent a large number of soldiers and horses out of the camp to drive them away, these soldiers and horses who were responsible for driving them also had no rest, and they also happened to fall into the hands of Huguang Town.

After walking for a while, before reaching the gate of the camp camp, the sound of shouting passwords came from the field on the side of the road. Pang Yue answered the order, and there was silence again. Soon after, the group arrived at the gate of the trap camp. The side door opened, and an officer on night duty routinely checked the waist cards of Pang Yue and others, gave a military salute and let them go.

Pang Yue generally does not take the initiative to summon the battalion commander on night patrols, and it is strictly forbidden for the battalion commander to leave his post to greet and accompany him. He is used to making random rounds so that it is easier to spot problems. It was the same tonight, Cui Shoucheng and the main generals of the trapped camp did not come.

Walking into the camp, you can see rows of tents neatly arranged according to the structure, giving people a sense of solemnity and order. From time to time, the supervisors and supervisors who walked by the patrol posts on the criss-crossed roads saluted after seeing the patrol lights of the Central Military Department and continued to walk without stopping.

Pang Yue randomly inspected several places, but found no mistakes. The state of the camp was very satisfying to him. These elite soldiers were recruited and trained by him, and they were a powerful help for him to realize his ambitions and ambitions, and he felt particularly relieved and proud at this moment.

"Dashuai, do you want to go to the tent to have a look?" Wei Yuan asked.

"Forget it, it's almost bedtime time, so don't disturb the soldiers' rest. The big war is coming, so don't put too much pressure on them. We'll go over there and go back. Pang Yue said. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the coach going to the soldiers to shush the cold and ask for warmth, but there are also points to score.

Wei Yuan answered and continued to lead the way in front.

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Just beside the road that Pang Yue had walked, in a tent of the First Division of the 1000th Brigade of the Trap Camp, a soldier was sitting on his bunks, making the final preparations before going to bed and before tomorrow's battle. Some are wiping armor, some are wiping weapons. And the blind man Chen had already prepared all the things that he should prepare, and he was sitting on the bunk at this time checking the suicide note handed in by all the soldiers. Different from the usual grinning and informal style, Chen Blind sat upright at this moment, his attitude was almost pious, and the pile of paper in his hand seemed to be more valuable than a thousand gold in his eyes.

The majority of the soldiers in Huguang Town are illiterate, and most of the suicide notes are written by someone else, and the length is not long, and some are only a few sentences. Chen Blind couldn't read many words, so he could only distinguish the names of all the people and know which one belonged to whom. But he knew exactly what these thin pieces of paper meant to each soldier, so he examined them very carefully, lest he miss someone.

After counting twice and confirming that there were no omissions, Chen Blind finally put his mind at ease and put all the suicide notes into a large envelope with the number of Benshifan, waiting for the supervisor in the bureau to collect them.

"Alright, tomorrow is a life-and-death battle between us and the Tartars. We Lao Chen can't read many words, and we can't tell so many big truths that the supervisor can say, so let's chat with the brothers casually while we haven't blown the bedtime horn yet. "Chen Blind, who has lost his pious coat, is half-lying on the bunk, "I heard the supervisor say that as long as we can win the battle tomorrow, not only can Jiangxi be fully recovered, but also for a long time to come, I am afraid that the Tartars will not have the strength to continue to go south, which means that we can finally take a breath and rest." At that time, what would the brothers want to do if they were still alive? ”

"I'm sure I'm going to go home and check it out first." Wu Changjiang Yidou took the lead in taking over the conversation, "My family is in Jiujiang Mansion, and when the whole of Jiangxi is recovered, I can also go home." When I went home, I gave all the money and bonuses I had saved in the past few years to my father and mother, so that his second elder was also happy. ”

Chen Blind suddenly felt a little bad in his heart when he heard this, when Tan Tai waved his army into Jiangxi, Jiujiang Mansion bore the brunt, and I don't know how many villages and towns were slaughtered...... But he wouldn't puncture Jiang Yidou's thoughts at this time, it would be too cruel, but responded with a smile: "Then you have to see!" Your iron rooster has saved a lot of money in the past two years, all of which will be brought back to your father, and the second elder will tell you that ten relatives are enough! ”

Laughter erupted in the tent.

"Chen Tou is right! Brother Yidou looks so energetic, he is the chief of Wu, and he has saved so much silver, he definitely doesn't have to worry about marrying a daughter-in-law. The soldier Shen Sanhe smiled, "I'm not as frugal as Brother Yidou, and I haven't saved much silver." But I'm not worried, when the time comes, I just need to say that I am a soldier in Huguang Town, and then wear this military uniform to show off in front of my father and fellow villagers, can I still find a daughter-in-law? ”

"Go ahead, just the virtue of you loser, earn a trick, whoever is blind will marry his daughter to you. Don't embarrass Huguang Town! Chen Blind scolded with a smile.

Shen Sanhe has always been heartless, but when he heard this, he smiled even more happily. The soldiers around him also laughed constantly.

With this beginning, the atmosphere in the tent gradually came alive. Everyone, you and I say a word, and the originally nervous ones have become less nervous.

And in this lively atmosphere, only Ding Liehu looked out of place, he didn't even smile, he just lowered his head and wiped his armor and weapons.

When Chen saw it, he wanted to enlighten him a few words, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only sigh secretly.

After a while, the bedtime horn sounded. The tents in the camp extinguished the candles one after another, and all irrelevant conversation stopped.

Ding Liehu was lying on the bunk, his eyes pierced through the deep darkness, and he seemed to have returned to Dingjia Village two years ago: the family was eating around the table, his father scolded him for being lazy while eating, his mother and brother quickly diverted his father's words and shifted them to the matter of kissing him, and the white and chubby little nephew in his sister-in-law's arms looked at him and giggled......

"Tomorrow, I will definitely avenge you......" Ding Liehu, who was in the dark, finally didn't have to put on that hard shell anymore, and two lines of tears burst out of his eyes.

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In one of the tents of the detachment directly under the 1,000th Corps of the Gangfeng Battalion, the soldiers had already slept, and the snoring was heard one after another.

Yan Zhan, who was the chief, sat cross-legged on his bunk, facing the northeast, and said in a voice that only he could hear: "Dad, second uncle, tomorrow will be our life-and-death battle with the Tartars." I can't sleep, so I'll talk to you for a while. When you left home to go on the expedition, I was not yet a year old, although I don't know what you look like, but I know that you are all great heroes, and our Sichuan soldiers are also good. You fought in the bloody battle of the Hunhe, although you were defeated, you still were glorious, and you played the bloody nature of the Han people, and I have always been proud of you in the more than 20 years of my life. Tomorrow's battle, compared to the battle of the Hunhe River back then, I am afraid that it will not be much more worried. If you have a spirit in heaven, you must bless me to kill a few more Tartars. Please also watch from the sky how I, and all the brothers in Huguang Town, have avenged you......"

After saying everything he wanted to say, Yan Zhan picked up the bowl of water beside him and drank it all.