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Chapter 584: Sortie

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the weather that had been clear for several days was again cloudy, and the whining north wind blew, giving people the feeling of being like a knife with a handle, directly piercing the bones, and in the second half of the night, first the snow seeds fell, hitting the roof tent, rattling, slowly, there were snowflakes falling down. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Today is the third year of the New Year, although the big war is imminent, but in Yizhou City, every household still hangs festive red lanterns and sticks up the Spring Festival, although because of the curfew, there is no excitement of the Chinese New Year's Eve of previous years, but every family closes the door, there is always to celebrate, one is to celebrate the arrival of another spring, the other is to celebrate the safety of Yizhou, the enemy can no longer pose a threat to Yizhou City, not long ago, hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Yizhou, the people said that they were not afraid that it was fake, the city head changed the flag of the king, beating around, It is always the common people who suffer the most.

The common people celebrate the New Year behind closed doors, but the officials and troops in Yizhou City do not have this luck, Li Qing's New Year's thunder plan is being carried out in full swing, in Yizhou City, all the official offices, military camps, are brightly lit, the voices are boiling, the heralds with small flags behind them are riding fast horses, shouting and shuttling quickly from the streets, fortunately, most of the soldiers who can walk on the streets now are soldiers lined up in neat queues, and there is no danger of hitting people.

In the barracks, it is a hot scene, in order to stimulate morale, but also in order to let the soldiers not be dissatisfied with the New Year's army, the Dingzhou Army and the Yizhou Army are a large amount of silver smashed down, each soldier has received the next year's military and New Year's bounty in advance, in the barracks, the huge iron pot is boiling dumplings, and each soldier even got a small glass of wine.

These wines are highly refined liquor specially transferred by Li Qing from Dingzhou, although a lot of water is mixed into it, but if you really want to talk about it, it is much stronger than the wine in other places, which is extremely rare for ordinary soldiers, although Dingzhou can brew this kind of high liquor, but because Dingzhou has been short of food, this kind of wine is only allowed to be used for medical treatment, less than a certain level, it is difficult to taste this kind of wine.

As soon as the wine arrived, it was naturally drunk in one go, and then Quan took advantage of the warmth brought by the strong liquor, took a large bowl, waited in line for the dumplings to be cooked, the tempting aroma wafted in the air, and in the barracks, you could hear the loud sound of swallowing saliva at any time.

"Rise to the pot!" Standing in front of the cauldron, the leader of the gang who waved an iron spoon of the boss was full of spirits, brandished the iron spoon, and shouted: "Stand up, line up, Luo Laosi, you turtle son, you are bullying Xiao Dingzi again, stand back and stand back!" ”

A sturdy man waved a big bowl and said in a rough voice: "Grandma, just your sharp eyes, when Lao Tzu was a soldier, this doll was still in his mother's arms, what is the big deal with me!" Having said that, he still honestly retreated, but everyone laughed loudly, and the little Ding Zi looked like a new soldier, with a red face and a bowed head.

In the midst of laughter, a large bowl of dumplings was distributed, everyone found a place at random, squatted down and ate it in a big gulp, although the food of Dingzhou soldiers was good, but there were not many days to eat dumplings, and today was the New Year, and there was a special meaning in it.

"The handsome man is here!" I don't know who shouted. Everyone stood up coarantically, but Luo Laosi was unmoved, still squatting there and eating a big mouthful, while laughing: "That ancestor is joking again, about to fight a big battle, the handsome man has a lot of opportunities, then you have time to come to us to see our little soldiers eat, you are fooled, haha, or Lao Tzu is smart!" After a few bites, he jumped up and rushed to the cauldron again, "One more bowl, one more bowl!" ”

Luo Laosi, who stretched out his arm and held a large bowl, suddenly found that there was something wrong with the look of the gang leader, and the long spoon stopped there out of thin air as if it had taken root, and the soup in the spoon was flowing down in a line. And there was a sudden silence around them, so quiet that you could hear the sound of torches burning in the air.

Luo Laosi turned back with some difficulty, his eyes widened suddenly, and he didn't know when there was a group of people behind him, and looking at the uniforms of these people, all of them were senior officers, and his own sentry commander, who looked a little white-faced, but was even more desperate than himself in the battle, followed cautiously at the end, looking at himself with a kind of hatred of iron and steel, that look, eager to cut himself a few times.

Luo Laosi is just a small soldier, naturally he has never seen Li Qing, and even most of this group of people he doesn't recognize, but his own sentry commander, as well as the one-armed battalion commander of his own horizontal knife battalion, naturally knows, at this time, seeing the one-armed General Guan standing behind a bearded young man in a cotton robe, he naturally knows who this person is. Although I haven't seen Li Dashuai, who hasn't bought a portrait of Dashuai on the market to hang at home in the veteran's family from Dingzhou!

is more handsome than in the painting, younger than the painting, but much gentler in the painting, and the handsome in the painting is domineering! In a panic, Luo Laosi actually compared the real person in front of him with the portrait at home.

Seeing that Luo Laosi was still there, the little white-faced captain was so anxious that his face turned even paler. Fortunately, at this time, Luo Laosi finally reacted, and his legs were weak, "Dashuai forgive me, I thought they were joking!" ”

Li Qing laughed, "True temperament, true hero, what a crime!" He got up with both hands, "Veteran? ”

"Yes, it's the marshal, I participated in the defense of Dingyuan, and followed General Guan on an expedition through Murowei!" Luo Laosi's voice trembled.

"Good man!" Li Qing praised, "My home is in Dingyuan, how many people are there in the house?" ”

"Back to Dashuai, there is still a father and mother at home, there were originally two brothers, one was gone during the Dingyuan War, a younger sister was married, and the younger brother was still young, and now the family is all run by his wife, and there is a ten-year-old boy!"

"Ah, in this way, can you eat enough at home, how are you doing?"

"Back to Dashuai, I am well fed, my wife is very capable, my father and mother can still go to the ground, plus my military life, the family is doing well!" After replying to Li Qing's words, Luo Laosi suddenly added, "My father and mother said that I entrusted the handsome Hongfu and bought the portrait of the handsome, and I offered it at home every day, three pillars of incense every day, and begged the handsome to live a long life, so that our days will be better and better!" ”

Li Qing's expression darkened slightly when he heard this, "I've been fighting all the time, I'm afraid that life won't be any better!" Prosperous people, dead people bitter! ”

"Dashuai said a word, I have always remembered the villain since I heard it!" Luo Laosi's courage slowly grew, the handsome man is very gentle!

"Oh, that sentence?" Li Qing suddenly became interested.

"Da Shuai said, let our generation finish the war, so that our children and grandchildren will no longer fight, and they can study and farm happily, I think it's very good, I will follow Da Shuai, kill all the enemies, and then my son will not have to go to the battlefield again!" Luo Lao Sidao.

"Well said!" Li Qing patted him on the shoulder, "We are fighting today precisely to stop fighting in the future!" He took the long spoon in the hands of the leader of the gang and scooped up a large spoonful of dumplings with his own hands, "Come, today I will serve dumplings for my heroic soldiers!" Whoever hasn't eaten yet, come here! ”

There was a bang, and there was a sound of quickly pulling dumplings down the stomach, and a few of them ate too fast and only rolled their eyes.

The first spoonful was naturally given to the veteran Luo Laosi, and after receiving the dumplings served by Li Qing himself, Luo Laosi couldn't help but burst into tears.

Scooping dumplings for the sentry soldiers, everyone was holding the bowl like a baby, Li Qing couldn't help but say strangely: "Why, didn't you say you haven't eaten enough just now, why don't you eat it?" ”

Guan Xinglong said with a smile on the side: "Dashuai, you have it with your own hands, they are willing to eat, but I am afraid that they will be put away as a treasure and say irregularly."

Li Qing laughed, "That's so precious!" As soon as he stretched out his hand, he said to the leader of the gang: "Do you have a bowl, give me one!" ”

The leader of the gang said in embarrassment: "Commander, I am the only one!" ”

"Bring it!" Li Qing took the bowl of the gang leader, reached into the pot, took out the dumplings with the bowl, raised the bowl, and said loudly: "Brothers, I will eat with you!" "I don't use chopsticks, I just stretch out my hand and eat it. Eating and gobbling up, it is no different from ordinary soldiers, and there is half a handsome atmosphere there.

Although they used to respect the marshal, they always felt that the marshal was too far away from them, and now the marshal is more like a living person, and a sense of closeness arises in his heart.

There was a sudden sound of gobbling in the field. After eating the dumplings, Li Qing returned the bowl to the gang leader, who immediately put the bowl into his arms and refused to take it out again.

Li Qing left, and behind him was the tsunami-like shout of "Dingzhou Army, Wansheng".

The New Year's bell rang, and in the midst of the bells, among dozens of military camps near and far, the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the melodious horns blew the trumpets of the assembled troops.

In an instant, fire dragons streamed out from the camps and converged to the predetermined assembly site, and the Dingzhou army began to assemble.

Operation Thunder has officially begun.

By the time the large force began to assemble, small groups of scout sentry horses had already galloped out of the camp and rushed to their respective designated reconnaissance areas. At this time, the snowflakes flying in the sky have become denser and larger.

At the same time that Li Qing's Chinese army began to act, the mountain-moving division, the Yizhou army under the command of Li Sizhi and Li Muzhi, also occupied the city from their respective assembly places on time, marched through the allows, and forced the three wings and three armies on the left and right sides of the Apocalypse army.