"The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden; The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed; ”

The commander of the Jingshi Jinyi Guard made Liu Qiao stand in the study, sighing at the line he had just written on the bookcase. Today, a decree was passed down in the palace to crown Liu Qiao as a general and a young guard. After receiving this will, Liu Qiao did not feel the slightest joy, but felt a burst of panic and uneasiness.

"My lord, Your Majesty has just been crowned as a young protector, isn't it a good thing?" Liu Yunzhen said to her father. His father was promoted to Shaobao and promoted to general, and Liu Yunzhen was also promoted to the Left Military Academy, but he didn't understand what his father's worries were.

"If it's just to crown me as the general of Shaobaojin, this is indeed a good thing." Liu Qiao sighed, "But my father heard the news, and His Majesty is preparing to be crowned king for Jiye." ”

"Crowned king?" Liu Yunzhen was so surprised that she couldn't help but shout. "Even if the third brother is the righteous son accepted by His Majesty, after all, he is only the righteous son who has given the surname. This dynasty has never had a different surname to be crowned a king, how is this possible. ”

"Yes, that's why the emperor wants to crown Jiye as the king. Today, Wang Zhixin secretly sent a team of fans out of Beijing to Hubei. I found out that they were ordered by the heart of the factory governor to pick up your sister-in-law and nephew and them into Beijing. ”

Liu Qiao didn't think that it would be a simple matter for the emperor to secretly send factory guards to Hubei to pick up Liu Jiye's wife, concubine and children into Beijing. If it's really a simple thing, then why do it so secretly.

"If you want to take it, you must give it first." Liu Qiao sighed, "Some things are not as simple as they seem. ”

Liu Yunzhen's face changed greatly, "No, everything the third brother has done today is all given by His Majesty." And the third brother was born and died for the court and His Majesty, fought in the south and the north, and made great achievements, how could he get to that point? ”

"It's a great achievement."

Liu Qiao sighed, "Think about it. The imperial court has been unable to defeat the Tartars for many years, but Jiye only used two towns in Liaodong to attack Liao, and one town remained behind, in fact, only one town of soldiers and horses, and the lone army went north, but it was able to kill the Tartar emperor and besiege the Tartar capital. Think about it, when a courtier has such an elite division in his hands, this army does not even rely on the imperial court for food and ordnance, and is all self-sufficient. It's you, can you feel at ease? ”

"Since ancient times, it is difficult for those who have built the master to have a good end."

When Liu Yunzhen heard her father say this, she could only remain silent.

After a while, Liu Yunzhen asked her father, "How is that good?" ”

"What else can be done, even if Jiye now dismisses himself from the army and retires to his hometown, I'm afraid that no one can be trusted at all."

"No wonder the third brother has been dragging his feet this time and refuses to enter Beijing immediately. It turned out that the third brother had already understood this. ”

"It's been delayed for the first day of junior high school, but it can't be delayed for fifteen, and it can't be delayed forever. Sooner or later, you have to enter Beijing, and that day will come. Unless "

He let out a long sigh. "This day has finally arrived, and I don't know if it's right or wrong to do this for my father, but I hope God will bless me and bless my Liu family."

Kyoshi in July. It should have been hot, but Liu Qiao felt a chill in his back.

Liaodong, Lushun.

Nicholas Liu Jinzhong has just received a new order. Ci promoted Nicholas Liu Jinzhong to the rank of right military colonel, and was transferred to the guerrilla general of the 1st Infantry Standard of the 101st Association of the Marine Corps of the First Fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Holding this paper promotion order, Nicholas Liu Jinzhong kept smirking, and the saliva in his mouth was about to run down. With the great merits made by Puhecheng when he was acting battalion commander, he jumped from the low-level military position of the original company head to the standard commander. Not only surpassed the company commander, but also the battalion commander, and was promoted to the general standard, which is far more than just a three-level promotion.

"Congratulations, Mr. Biao." Dong Fatzi congratulated him.

"Rejoicing and rejoicing, Mr. Dong Qian." Nicholas Liu Jinzhong hurriedly gave up, Dong Fatzi turned out to be the quartermaster of Nicholas Company, and participated in the defense of Puhe City together, at that time he was the only officer in the city with the same rank as Nicholas, he took the initiative to give command to Liu Jinzhong, and concentrated on the logistics of defending the city, which can be regarded as a great achievement. After the war, he was promoted to battalion quartermaster.

"Where's Lao Zhang?"

"Old Zhang Sheng is the commander of the artillery battalion, I don't know where to be happy now."

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

Johansen Zhang Jingde's face was flushed, and he ran over excitedly as if he had drunk wine.

"What are you two doing here, come with me."

"Where are you going?" Liu Jinzhong asked.

"Of course, it's to tattoo the nine-headed bird, we are now officially a nine-headed bird, and we can tattoo the nine-headed bird mark." Johansen Zhang Jingde said excitedly.

When Dong Xian heard this, he shook his head and said, "That can't be tattooed, only the oldest team member is qualified to tattoo." Since the nine-headed bird set up Yunyang Town, it has no longer pierced this mark. ”

The veteran members of the Hydra have tattoos on their bodies, the most senior members have a Hydra mark tattoo on their chests, arms, and left hands, and many of the less senior members have only the tiger's mouth, some only on the chest, and some only on the arms.

The number of tattoos and the position of the tattoos represent seniority in the Hydra Army. But later, after the official opening of the town, the nine-headed bird no longer pierced the mark of the nine-headed bird. Not long after Dong Xian first entered the nine-headed bird, the son of a military attache in the town outside their barracks felt that the nine-headed bird tattoo was very good, so he asked someone to tattoo one, but the matter was known to the old team members in Dong Xian's camp who had this tattoo, and they arrested the guy back, and used a red-hot iron to brand off the nine-headed bird tattoo on his arm.

Even in the Hydra Army, it is also not allowed to tattoo privately, let alone tattoo the mark of the Nine-headed Bird, which is an honor, and only belongs to the glory of the veteran players.

"You don't know yet, Duke Chu has spoken, the three towns of Liaodong and the Beiyang Naval Division, whether they are new or old, as long as they are willing, they can be tattooed with the nine-headed bird mark."

Dong Xian was stunned for a moment, "Really?" Can we too? ”

"It's okay, it's all fine, except for our four towns, in Huguang Town and Tuan Training Army in the two lakes, it is said that you can also tattoo a nine-headed bird. Let's go, there's a long queue over there, and I've chosen a guy with great tattoo skills, let's get a tattoo on him. Lao Tzu didn't want to be qualified to stab the nine-headed bird at the end, but in the end, the nine-headed bird stabbed into a small house finch. ”

The sudden release of the tattoo order immediately boiled over in the barracks of the towns of the Nine-Headed Bird System. In the army of the nine-headed bird, the tattoo of the nine-headed bird has always represented the old bird and glory in the past. Those soldiers who don't have a nine-headed bird tattoo. Even if he is in an official position, in front of those old birds, sometimes he can't be tough.

Those old birds with tattoos, usually like to do the most is to often deliberately put the tattoos on display, and even some guys, even in the winter, often deliberately bare in the barracks during rest, just to show off the nine-headed bird tattoos on their bodies.

I don't know how much these actions have stimulated the officers and soldiers who don't have nine-headed bird tattoos. Especially in the summer, when everyone sees Chu Guogong and other high-level Nine-headed Birds, all of them have Nine-headed Birds tattooed on their bodies, don't mention that kind of envy.

It's a pity that for a long time, the Chu army has forbidden tattoos again.

Everyone didn't expect that Chu Guogong opened this ban at this time. Although he didn't force everyone to stab the nine-headed bird, he just let those who were willing to stab him, but who wouldn't want to?

Tattoos are actually very painful, after all, they puncture the skin on the flesh and blood. No anesthetic is available. But everyone values the glory that the tattoo represents, and everyone wants to paint their flag on the bugle.

The tattoo was very painful, but Nicholas, Liu Jinzhong, Johansen, Zhang Jingde and Dong Xian were still very excited to get the tattoo. Nicholas tattooed a nine-headed bird mark on his left chest, right tiger's mouth, and arm. He even ended up using a good Toying knife to have the skilled tattoo artist tattoo a larger nine-headed bird pattern on his back.

At this time, it was the height of summer, and the Chu officers and soldiers who had tattooed the nine-headed bird mark began to be shirtless all day long. I wish I would never wear clothes from now on and leave my tattoos exposed all day long.

Liu Jun walked through the barracks with Fu Shan and other Chu army generals, and he was also naked. Expose the nine-headed bird tattoos on his body. Liu Jun's tattoos are different from everyone's, in addition to a few tattoos on his chest, arms, and tiger's mouth, he also tattooed a new full-color nine-headed bird on his back.

"Nine-headed bird!" Liu Jun shouted to the Chu Jun brothers who were also tattooed with nine-headed bird sashimi.

"Brother!" The Chu troops in the camp clenched their fists and waved their arms, striking the nine-headed bird pattern on their left chest with the nine-headed bird tattoo on the tiger's mouth in their right hand.

Nine-headed bird, brother. A short sentence, but it represents a group, a group of brothers who share life and death and fight side by side. Although he is not a biological brother, he is better than a biological brother.

Liu Jun looked at everyone's enthusiasm and excitement with satisfaction, this is the result he wants to release the tattoo ban. A few tattoos seem simple, but they pull the Chu army closer together.

"Fu Shan, Wang Qian, Cai Yuan, the three of you guard Lushun, Zhenjiang and Denglai, I will enter Beijing to face the saint to take office, and the Beiyang Navy Division will just escort a batch of grain and grass to Tianjin, and go along the way." Liu Jun confessed.

Wang Qian said to Liu Jun, "In the future, we will always be on high alert to ensure that we can be dispatched at any time to deal with emergencies." ”

Liu Jun nodded at him knowingly.

There are some things that don't need to be explicitly stated, but can be understood. With their coexistence in the past few years, this tacit understanding still exists.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, one morning at the end of July, Liu Jun was finally ordered to leave Liaodong and return to Beijing.

He was accompanied by a group of governors and ministers of Liaodong who went to Beijing to report on their work, and most of the military generals stayed in Liaodong.

Fu Zonglong stood on the dock, looking at the countless warships and transport ships in Qingniwa Port filling the military port, his brows were furrowed, he looked back and looked behind him, the dock was full of groups of soldiers and horses, they lined up in a neat queue, waving flags, and carrying backpacks.

At the front was the 30,000 newly formed Denglai Town Army that was about to go to Denglai, and in the back, there were also as many as 30,000 Beiyang Naval Division Marines.

"Does the Duke of Chu want to bring these armies into Beijing together?" Chen Zhenhui asked Li Chunjiang next to him.

Li Chunjiang's expression was solemn.

"The 30,000 Denglai Town Army is to be stationed in Denglai, and the other three are to accompany the ship to carry out the task of escorting the grain ship of the naval division, just along the way."

"To escort the grain ship, 45,000 people from the Beiyang Navy Division need to be dispatched together?" Chen Zhenhui chuckled, "Walk along the way, who can believe it?" ”

Hou Fangyu shook his head, "Gongji, Brother Jiye's move is playing with fire, why don't you persuade him well." At this time, with tens of thousands of sailors into Beijing, what is it that the court officials do not impeach him? ”

Mao Xiang slowly said at this time, "Is the sailor really only planning to send Chu Gong to Tianjin by the way, and after arriving in Tianjin, will they just go to Beijing by the way?" ”

Everyone looked at Mao Xiang like a ghost.

After a long time, Li Chunjiang said to Mao Xiang with an unhappy face, "You can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, Chu Guogong is not that kind of person!" ”

(Everyone has a ticket to support it!) (To be continued.) )