The person who came was Hu Damao, the bandit leader on the original mountain who was elevated by Zhu Yan's power, these days he has been thinking about Zhu Yan is twilight, many times he wants to lie outside her window to peep and peep, fortunately, it is the strict tour of the female soldiers on the mountain, he has repeatedly failed, this time the thief's heart is not dead, while outlining what this girl looks like without clothes, while touching the platform, and came to Zhu Yan's house, there is no movement in the house at all, but you can still see the faint candlelight, he looked around, the patrol female soldier went elsewhere, he smiled, The cat took out a knife to pick the wooden latch, but with a slight push, the door opened, and even he was startled, it turned out that the door was not closed.

Hu Damao tiptoed into the house, went inside to see, was busy in vain, there was no one inside, just about to leave, but found that there was a piece of paper on the table, he didn't know a big word, put the paper to his nose and smelled it, there was still a residual fragrance of fat powder on the paper,

There was a silent thief laughing, and he took the paper into his arms, turned around and went to the back room, put his head on the bed covered with brocade quilts, and sniffed greedily, until there was a sound of female soldiers patrolling outside, and he was reluctant to leave.

Early the next morning, Hu Damao pulled Xiucai Zhang Liuzi and came to the mountainside.

Hu Damao smiled, "Xiucai, I heard that you are literate?" ”

Zhang Liuzi snorted, "What is literacy, Ben Xiucai has read poetry and books since he was a child, a subset of scriptures and history, and all poems and songs are incomprehensible, and none of them are ......."

Hu Damao didn't have time to listen to him brag about the scalper, "Yes, I didn't even get in, come, help me take a look, what's written on it?" ”

Zhang Liuzi looked disdainful and took the paper. Swept his eyes and said casually. "A Broken Poem"

But immediately he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and his expression became nervous. His voice was a little unnatural, and he shook the paper and said, "This, where did this come from?" This is slander against the court, where did you come from? ”

When Hu Damao heard this, he was immediately stunned for a moment, but immediately smiled and took back the paper, "My dog-headed military advisor wrote it." Gotcha, let's go, this thing, keep it secret, ah, keep it secret, another day I'll get a girl to give you Lele"

Zhang Liuzi was confused, and his mouth was still silently reciting:

There are 100,000 people in Hanjia, and Yangzhou has no merit.

Three thousand peach blossoms. The fragrance is full of Liaodong.

He read it several times in a row, and he always felt that something was wrong, this poem should be written by a woman, and he didn't say anything about the sarcastic court. It also implies in the poem the meaning of the female soldiers in the mountains 'peach blossoms', and then think about it deeply, the meaning of the whole poem is not to scold the male soldiers of the imperial court for working in Yangzhou in vain. If you want to become famous, you have to count on 3,000 'peach blossoms'. And they have to set foot on the land of Liaodong.

Who is this? is so bold, is it a big boss or a snow girl? No, it's not a disaster, if it weren't for the two of them, who would be there, who else on the mountain would be able to write this.

"Hey, what are you muttering" Hu Damao turned back again, slapped Zhang Liuzi on the back in a daze, and said fiercely, "Tell you, this matter is kept secret, otherwise not only will the girls not, but Lao Tzu will have to kill you"

**

Elephant Mountain, located in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, about 50 miles away from a small hill, is not famous, not very tall.

Half a year ago, Xiangshan was just a simple place name, and no one took him seriously for the Ming Dynasty, until Wang Lanping selected him as a base for the adaptation of the champion army, and the word Xiangshan has become a place that can influence the lifeblood of the Dynasty.

Emperor Zhu Yousong heard the word Xiangshan brain pain, Wang Lanping led troops into Beijing for the first time, it was from this Xiangshan to raise troops, and then in the name of 'Qingjun side', besieging Nanjing's seven provinces governor Fuhe and the general army, one by one after getting the high-ranking officials and Houjue, also took root in Xiangshan, nominally in Gongwei Beijing, in fact, is monitoring every move of the imperial court, as long as the imperial court has any trouble, the nearby Xiangshan will be able to make countermeasures immediately.

Tens of thousands of people from the champion army, escorted and escorted by 50,000 imperial court troops, had no choice but to return here again, and this time, the champion army was no longer the protagonist of Xiangshan.

The entire imperial court officers and soldiers of 150,000 were stationed here, and the camp covered a radius of more than 20 miles, while the champion army was placed in the middle of the entire large camp, completely under firm control.

On all sides are tall and stout timber erected by other barracks, the champion army is suppressed in the middle, and the field that can be used to camp is also very small, almost the size of the urn city in Yangzhou North City, sixty acres of land, there is almost no place for free movement, entering this is like entering an open-air cage, not only that.

Due to the hasty retreat of the champion army from the south of the Yangtze River, many military supplies were not brought back, and the camp outside the city meant to stay in the wilderness, but the materials used by the champion army to camp were far from enough.

There were more than 13,000 people working in the whole work, distributed according to the formation of each battalion, and the wounded soldiers were placed separately, and there were only more than 100 tents of all sizes, and almost every tent was crowded, and the soldiers were crowded together, and even some of the general officers, and the officers and generals could only be squeezed into one tent with the soldiers, the smell was mixed, and the humidity by the river was very large, which was really miserable.

Live, this is good, eat, it is really at the juncture of the exhaustion of the mountains and rivers, the champion army has been out of food, since the transfer to Xiangshan settlement, the military department has an order, transferred 20,000 stone grain, but, the military food did not fall into the hands of the soldiers of the champion army.

According to the decree of the imperial court, now the Nanjing garrison camp (champion army) is completely under the command of Ma Ming, the son of Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Ma Commander, but Ma Ming knows that this army and horses have almost become Wang Lanping's personal armies, and he cannot be moved.

Therefore, the soldiers of the champion army can only receive 800 catties of rice from the Xiangshan quartermaster a day, but 800 catties of rice, how can more than 10,000 people eat, then they can only boil it into gruel, and they can only eat one meal of this kind of clear and illuminating thin food a day, and they can't die, but for a long time, the whole battalion has to be tortured to the point that they can't be human, how can they still have the strength to resist.

This is not the most difficult, the most difficult has to count the wounded barracks, the whole army is seriously injured and lightly injured. There are 4,000 people, 800 catties of rice every day. Half of it had to be distributed to the wounded soldiers' camps, so the porridge for these wounded soldiers was a little thicker. But this fart is not used at all, a bowl of gruel is not enough to soak in urine, and the wounded soldiers are in urgent need of medicinal materials, but these are not at all, let alone no medicinal materials, not even gauze to wrap the wounds, and corpses can be seen carried out of the wounded barracks every day. Dig a pit in the barracks and bury it.

In this way, it has been ten consecutive days, and several commanders of the champion army have gathered in their tents to discuss countermeasures.

Song Dali patted his deflated stomach, he was weak, but he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and his temper of not admitting defeat was still there, but his voice was not as thick as before, "I said." Brothers, we have to think of some tricks, if we go on like this, we didn't die in Yangzhou. They all starved to death at the feet of the Son of Heaven."

Fang Guoan didn't even wear the bulky armor now, he was dressed in a light blue robe, and moved his butt to the door of the tent. Lifted the curtain and glanced out a few times, then turned his head to arrive. "Look, carry two more. Today, this, this is the eighth bar."

Song Xianzheng was leaning on the edge of a wooden pillar in the tent, and the knife in his hand was used as a toy, carving the ground irregularly, and said, "Since then, there have been one hundred and ten wounded soldiers playing with each other, plus the three just now, one hundred and thirteen, it won't be long before we are relaxed, and the wounded soldiers are all dead."

Song Xian said very helplessly, in fact, every time a wounded soldier died, he was heartbroken, they were all good on the battlefield, and when they arrived here, they didn't even have a straw mat when they died.

Zheng Sen is from a rich background, no matter where he is, he is neatly dressed, and his armor is wiped clean, but his spirit is a little sluggish, no wonder, what is wrong with the court, how can he treat the soldiers and corrupt officials like this, they are all caused by those corrupt officials who control the government, isn't this a smear on the emperor's face.

Zheng Sen used an Oriental knife that was as sharp as clay, which was different from other generals, he wiped the blade with a cloth and sighed, "The traitors in the court are in charge, and they are listened to by the saints, but we have suffered from them, and we have no rewards for our merits."

Before he finished speaking, Song Dali interjected, "I just can't get used to your appearance of a leisurely country and a leisurely people, and the emperor rewarded him, he is in the Forbidden City, he knows who you Zheng Sen is, you, Hou Ye wants to listen to my rush into Nanjing City early, how can we bear this crime"

Fang Guoan was sharpening the blade with a whetstone, and when he heard Song Dali talking nonsense again, he hurriedly knocked on the floor with a whetstone, reminding, "Hehe, here it is again, you can't control your mouth when you drink porridge every day, sooner or later you will have to be killed by your mouth."

Cao Dingjiao said, "Don't complain here, let's talk about what to do, do you go into the city to find Hou Ye to find a way, he can't just leave us here."

Chen Wanliang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Go out?" I was followed even by people who ran on the opposite hill to, how to enter the city, I don't understand, we are here, one is counted as one person, and that one is a dignified commander, and in terms of grade, it is also a third-grade military attaché, but he is so angry here, Hou Ye? Hou Ye entered Nanjing City, where can he think of us?"

Song Xian was not happy when he heard it, "What are you talking about, you can't hold on, you can go out, go out to find that Wang Yongji, you can also eat and drink spicy food every day, why bother to suffer with us here, what are you doing with Hou Ye, how do you know that he is not thinking of a way"

Chen Wanliang knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly explained, "Aren't I just complaining, I didn't say anything, you see that you are still in a hurry, I said, brothers, we can't wait, or find a chance to touch into the city, find Hou Ye to ask, I estimate that he is almost the same as us, he is being monitored, he is alone in the city, he is weak, in case there is any danger, we don't know."

Cao Dingjiao nodded, "It is very likely that Ma Shiying will never let him meddle in military affairs again, and the emperor is even more worried about him, maybe the Hou Ye had expected such an end before returning to Nanjing, but since he still chose to come back, then he must have a corresponding strategy."

Song Dali said, "There is a plan and a fart, we don't know, and you don't talk to us in advance, so that we can be mentally prepared."

Fang Guoan immersed himself in sharpening his knife, and raised his head and smiled when he heard the words, "I'll tell you, that's not all the battalion knows, Chen Wanliang is right just now, we should send someone to the city, ask Hou Ye to inquire, at least help us get medicinal materials and food, and when we are all trapped to death, what is the use of his best plan."

Song Xian stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go"

"I'll go too, by the way, I'll go to his Hou Ye to have a big meal, I have to eat him poor" Song Dali also came to his heart.

"You? You better forget it" Song Xian waved his hand at Song Dali, "It's too chaotic for you to go, I'll go alone tonight, and I'll be back in the morning when they click."

Song Dali was anxious, "Don't worry, this time I'll be with you, I'll do what you want me to do, okay?" ”

**

Across the wooden fence, a soldier of the Fengzi Battalion of the Champion Army, holding the fence with both hands, stared at the soldiers of the Seven Dingbian Hou who were sitting together eating meat and drinking wine on the opposite side, staring at the meat in their hands and staring at their surging Adam's apple.

Involuntarily, his mouth also closed one by one, as if it was himself who was munching and swallowing, adding white lips, swallowing saliva, and the envy and jealousy on his face.

A petty officer, with a jug of wine in one hand and a chicken leg in the other, approached him, and squatted down beside the soldier of the Champion Army.

"Boy, do you want to take a drink?"

The man shook his head, "No, I don't want to, alcohol is forbidden in the barracks"

The general smiled, "Okay, obedient enough, what about this, do you want to eat it?" He shook the oily chicken leg in front of his eyes.

The eyes of the soldiers of the champion army swayed back and forth with the chicken legs, and the people became excited, and even leaned forward, eager to get through the interval of the wooden fence.

"Think, think, thank you, give me, give me"

"Okay, come in through that door, talk to our leader, follow us in the future, and keep you having meat to eat every day."

"No, no, I'm the king's personal soldier, I, I can't betray him, give, give me a stutter"

"Then you deserve to be hungry, Wang Lanping himself is difficult to protect, are you stupid?"

"But we are still soldiers of the imperial court, the imperial court can't treat us like this, we have sold our lives to the imperial court"

"That's right, but the court can't hear it, let me tell you, as long as you break away from the champion army and come to our side, we will be brothers in the future, how about it, whether you come or not, if you can bring ten people, you are the chief, you want to bring a hundred people, that is the centurion, if you want to bring a battalion of people, our general will immediately let you be the thousand-president"

"I am a soldier of the Marquis of Dingnan"

"you die,, see how long you can get hard...... Come on, brothers, let's continue to drink, after drinking, the master will take you to the Qinhuai River street to have a good time."

This scene happens every day, and every day there are people who escape from the camp of the champion army in order not to starve to death, they just want to live, but more people choose to insist, maybe they don't know what they are insisting on, they are also soldiers of the imperial court, why divide each other, this may be the words in their minds, brave, loyal, benevolent, this is the core of the champion army, it is this that makes them still insist, they are convinced that Wang Lanping will not abandon them, definitely.

And at this moment, in the bustling Forbidden City, Zhu Yousong is still a delicacies of the mountains and seas, and he can't enjoy it endlessly, he didn't expect it, and he never thought that there would be such a Ming army that had just retired from the front line, so he thought that it was also how to get rid of these scourges.

As if the soldiers of the Ming army who died in battle under the city of Yangzhou should die in battle for him, the Son of Heaven is not benevolent and takes all the people as dogs.

Perhaps at this time, the soldiers of the champion army are silently shouting in their hearts: The champion army is not benevolent, and will use the Son of Heaven as a dog! (To be continued.) )