There was nothing to do all night, and when Liu Cheng woke up the next morning, he only felt refreshed, and this was the first time he slept in bed since the crossing. After waking up, Liu Cheng didn't get up immediately, he touched the bulging deerskin pocket around his waist, looked at the mottled roof, and couldn't help sighing, it seems that this is not a dream!

Liu Cheng pulled the door and came out, almost tripping over something at the door, but when he looked down, he saw a big living person curled up in a ball. The man was also woken up by Liu Cheng, rubbing his eyes and standing up, Liu Cheng saw clearly that it was Du Gu who surrendered to him.

"You slept here last night?"

"Yes?" Du Gu looked as a matter of course: "According to the rules of the army, the soldiers are waiting outside the main tent, and it is convenient to greet them at night!" “

"The general? Pro-soldiers? Wait-" Liu Cheng pinched his temples that were a little painful: "When will you become my personal soldier?" When will I become your commander? “

"Didn't you lead the troops to defeat Du Ruhu's uncle and nephew the day before yesterday? Didn't I fall under your command at that time? You are not my general, who is my general? “

"But I'm not a general, and I don't have a single soldier under me."

"Put up the recruiting flag, and have your own food people. Are you afraid that there will be no soldiers? Du Gu replied with a smile: "Besides, with the credit you have made, there are at least a thousand households in the government at will, and you can be regarded as a small general, don't you need a few convenient people around you?" “

Liu Cheng was a little confused by the other party's logic, and hurriedly retorted when he heard the words "food eater": "I have no money or food, you have to think clearly in advance." ”

"Look at what you said, Master!" Du Gu laughed: "With your ability, just pull up the pole, isn't it a white-flour bun to eat?" Good wives to ride? In these years, the good man has a knife in his hand, is he still afraid of starving to death? ”

"Pull the lever? Just you and me? Liu Cheng was almost laughed angrily by the veteran soldier in front of him, feeling that he had not yet gotten rid of the charge of rebels, so he pondered becoming a bandit.

Du Gu thought that Liu Cheng was suspicious, so he looked left and right and lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, master, I have picked all of them, there are four people in total, all of them can fight, kill, walk and survive, they are all good men, as long as you release them all, they are their saviors, and they will never go west." “

Liu Cheng snorted coldly, but his heart was alive. Although the time traveled was not long, he experienced a lot of things, and it is clear that the accepted rule of this era is the absolute law of the jungle: innocent villagers will be killed like grass by the army, just to satisfy the soldiers' desire to get rich and plunder; And for their own safety, the villagers will also kill all the soldiers without any sense of guilt. If it weren't for a little luck and a little knowledge accumulated on the Internet in his previous life, I am afraid that he would have become an ambushed corpse on the side of the road. In such a world, whether it is to protect oneself or to make a career, you need to have great power, and there is no other way.

Du Gu saw that Liu Cheng was silent, and thought that the other party was still doubting himself, so he knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "Master, if you don't contain me, the villain will only have a dead end." “

Liu Cheng was still a little uncomfortable with a man older than himself kneeling in front of him, and hurriedly helped Du Gu up, and when he asked, he learned that according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers who participated in the mutiny would not usually be executed except for a few people led by him, but would be reorganized into the army, and Du Gu's previous betrayal had caused at least dozens of deaths and injuries of the town soldiers, and their relatives and friends were all over Yansui Town, I am afraid that Du Gu would not know how he died at that time, so his only way out was to become Liu Cheng's personal soldiers, Hold Liu Cheng's thighs tightly.

"Then why did you simply leave the army and flee to a place where you didn't know where you went and started over?" When Liu Cheng heard this, he asked puzzled.

"Master General, you don't know." Du Gu sighed and replied with a wry smile: "Since I joined the army at the age of fourteen, I have been used to grasping the handle of a knife in my hand, and I have never even touched the handle of a hoe. Besides, the Quartet is not peaceful at the moment, Shaanxi has been famine for three consecutive years, and there is no food to eat for many farmers. “

Hearing this, Liu Cheng couldn't help but be silent, and the image of the veteran ruffian in front of him became plump in his eyes. He stepped forward and helped Du Gu up: "I don't have any official status now, you don't call the master the master, you call all the people you said, if you agree, stay here!" “

"Yes, then I'll call you master!" Du Gu kowtowed, turned around and went out. Liu Cheng looked at the distant back, weighed the deerskin pocket on his waist, and suddenly smiled: "I knew that it would cost money so quickly, why didn't I ask for two more bags from Xu Hecheng at that time." ”

After about half a cup of tea, Du Gu returned, followed by four men, between twenty and thirty years of age, with skin dyed black and red by the wind and sun of the northwest, thick palms, and scarred skin, who were obviously frequent visitors to the dangers and hardships of their past lives. Seeing Liu Cheng's satisfied expression, Du Gu breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly led them to bow down to Liu Cheng.

"This is the man you are talking about?" A somewhat strange accent immediately turned Du Gu's head, and three of the four people who came with him knelt down, but only one person was still standing there straight, which was particularly glaring. He hurriedly shouted: "Toto'er, don't kneel yet?" ”

"I don't kneel, you see that he has a pair of hands with thin skin and tender flesh, I'm afraid he can't even draw a bow, why should he be the general?" The man retorted loudly, and then turned his head and walked outside: "Du Gu, this person is not honest, and he coaxes me!" ”

Du Gu hurriedly jumped up, dragged the man, and shouted: "Who lied to you, are you stupid again?" It's not appropriate to be a good soldier, and you want to go back to the courtyard over there as a prisoner? Those guys are going to hit the board when they get it back! ”

"What about playing the board? The old man is not afraid of swords and arrows on the battlefield, but he is still afraid of the board? If you make a mistake, you will lose the battle with the master, but you will lose your head. Natokh shouted as he walked outside, and the other three on the ground got up to help him, and then held him down. I saw that this man was of medium height, with looped legs, a huge head on his broad shoulders, and his neck could hardly be seen, and his chestnut hair was unkempt like a chicken coop, and he did not wear his hair in a bun like other soldiers; A large pie face with high cheekbones, and a pair of small eyes that shone with annoyance.

"He doesn't look like a Han person, right?" Liu Cheng looked up and down and asked.

"The master is really wise!" Du Gu hurriedly responded: "This guy is called Totoku Buhua, he is a Tartar, I heard that his father is still a noble chieftain, but the tribe failed to fight for power and ran to our side, riding and archery skills are outstanding, but the brain is a little confused, just a few more whips to understand!" ”

"Wait, you said his father is still a noble chief or something?" Liu Cheng asked.

"Yes!" Du Gu smiled: "Master, you don't know, this kind of chief is not valuable, hundreds of strong men on the grassland are a tribe, as soon as the old chief dies, several sons are happy to fight for the people, the inheritance of the family business that wins, the bad luck who loses the head loses, and the lucky ones escape everywhere, and there are many people who come to our side." Besides, it happened a few decades ago, and it wasn't because of his mouth, who knows if this ancestor is a poor man herding sheep! “

"Fuck you!" Na Tokbuhua had already stopped struggling, but when he heard this, he struggled violently, and the three of them used their knees to resist his knee joints so that they could hold it down.

"I am the bloodline of the Golden Family, a descendant of Genghis Khan Temujin, not a poor man herding sheep!"

"Let him go!" Liu Cheng suddenly ordered, Du Gu glanced at Liu Cheng with some doubts, and made a gesture after confirming that he had heard correctly, and the three of them hurriedly let go of the detachment, and the Mongolian man stood up panting, looking at Liu Cheng with some doubts.

"As far as I know, Temujin dug grassroots, caught rats, and was a horse thief, right?"

"Hmm!" Tokhtarbuhua nodded: "But that was when he was poor and poor, and he later became the Great Khan of all the Mongols, and the land under the blue sky became his pasture!" “

"Then what does it matter if your ancestor was a poor man herding sheep or not? Temujin has spared sheep, could it be that your ancestors are more noble than Temujin? Du Gu didn't say that you have been a poor man herding sheep all your life! “

"But, but—" Tokhtobuhua was choked by Liu Cheng's rebuttal, his face flushed, but he couldn't find the words to refute.

"Okay, don't mention this, tell me why you don't want me to be the general?"

"As I said just now, you guy with fine skin and tender meat will definitely lose the battle under your hands!" Tokh replied with a snort.

"Then let me ask you, who lost this time, and who won?"

"You won, but it's a fluke, change places and time, and it will definitely be us to win!" After dawn, he saw that it was only a group of villagers who had defeated them that night, so he was quite unconvinced.

"Hahaha!" Liu Cheng suddenly laughed, as if he had heard something very ridiculous, but he was a little confused, and he asked a little annoyed, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"I laugh at you for being stupid!" Liu Cheng sneered: "I ask you if I whip you, how many days will you be fine?" ”

"Hmph, what's a whip, that's just tickling!"

"Well, if I had them cut off your neck, would you still be alive?"

"Of course I won't survive!"

"In that case, I defeated you that day, and the people died, and I took away my weapons and armor, so why do you ask to do it again? Zamuha was defeated by Temujin, did he ask to come again? It's strange that you can live to this day if you say such a thing.

“

Liu Cheng's rebuttal was like a bucket of ice water poured on Tokhtarbuhua's head, and Zamuhe and Temujin became Anda (brothers in Mongolian) when they were young, and then turned against each other because of the struggle for the position of Great Khan, Zamuhe was finally defeated and captured, and when Temujin was ready to spare him, Zamuhe refused to forgive, but asked for a bloodless death, and was finally trampled to death by a horse under a woolen blanket. This story can be said to be known to women and children on the grassland, and it is no exception. Liu Cheng's meaning is very clear: war is not a game, it is not a sports competition, and there is no chance of coming back. If you don't have this kind of awareness, it's better not to go to the battlefield.

"You're saying that I'm stupid to say that." Tokhtobuhua fell to his knees: "The horse follows the head horse, the shepherd follows the chief, and I will surely become your faithful hound, tearing the chest of your enemies and presenting their hearts to you." ”

"Good!" Although Liu Cheng didn't quite understand the last part of the allegiance that was half chanted and half recited, he still knew the general meaning, and he stepped forward to help him up: "Take off and don't flower, you will follow me in the future!" ”

Time passed quickly, and Liu Cheng's speed of adaptation to life after the crossing was surprising even to himself, with rough food, loose clothes, shoes that didn't fit well, and a thatched latine always mixed with the smell of feces and grass, none of which became insurmountable obstacles. However, most of his time and energy was spent learning how to use weapons and ride horses with his few veteran ruffians. What surprised Du Gu and Totobuhua was that although Liu Cheng showed amazing ignorance in some very basic common sense, such as the holding of the sword and the basic posture of getting on the horse, he knew a lot in some aspects, especially the use of the bird gun, after more than ten fights, Liu Chengcheng was already very proficient in hitting the straw man seventy meters away, which was already a very good level in the Ming army. Like the vast majority of people in the lower classes at that time, Du Gu and Tokh did not spend much effort attributing all this to "providence".

"A zippo lighter, five dollar coins, a hardcover notebook, and a water-based pen (without a cap)—"

In the room, Liu Cheng chattered while carefully counting the clothes, shoes and other miscellaneous gadgets he wore when he crossed over, and these things were all sorted and stored. Liu Cheng knew very well that even the most inconspicuous gadget was more precious than the same amount of gold, because even in the luckiest situation, it was unlikely that he would be able to replicate the same thing in his lifetime.

"Is Mr. Liu here?" There was a knock on the door, it was Yu He's voice, Liu Cheng hurriedly hid all the half-cleaned objects, and then responded: "Here, Mr. Yu, come in!" ”

Yu He pushed the door in, took out a small package from his arms and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, everything has been done, they are all here, you can see if there is anything wrong." Author's words: Some readers in the discussion area said that the plot is developing too fast, and I also want to take it slowly, but the problem is that readers of online articles may not have much patience, so forgive me!