"What does that mean, General Zhennan? Governor of Jingnan? What year was this? Yan Liang asked grinningly.

Xu Sheng spread his hands and expressed the fact that he was completely unaware of the situation.

Dian Wei is still calm, for his thick nerves, these are not important, the important thing is whether it can pass, although he has gradually matured after many years of fighting, it has become a one-line thinking.

"I'll ask." After thinking for a moment, Wang Xu frowned, took two steps forward and shouted loudly: "Brother in front, Zhennan General Wang Xu has been promoted many years ago, and now he is the general of the Great Han Wei and the king of the Chu State!" We are his army. ”

There was silence for a long time, and the arrow tower of the stockade was full of people, as if they were discussing something, and after a while, one of them replied loudly: "I am waiting for the order of General Zhennan, Jingnan Governor Wang Xu, to garrison Qingyun Mountain Road here, for fifteen years, if there is no document from the General's Palace, no army is allowed to pass through here!" ”

Wang Xu's brows became tighter and tighter, and he asked Xu Sheng beside him, "Wen Xiang, do you know what's going on?" ”

"Fifteen years!" Xu Sheng chattered to himself, his eyes were far away, and he seemed to be caught in a memory.

After waiting for a long time, his eyes widened suddenly, and he exclaimed, "No! How is it possible that it has been here for so many years? ”

"What the hell is going on?" Wang Xu asked.

"Lord!" Xu Sheng came back to his senses and arched his hand and said, "If this army is not lying, it is very likely that it was the troops that were dispatched when the lord was still in Jingnan. ”

"Am I dispatched? Run off at the mouth! Wang Xu was shocked, shook his head and said, "I am also this southern expedition to Jiaozhou." I didn't know that there was this Qingyun Mountain Road, but I didn't know it in my early years, how could I send troops here? ”

"The lord still remembers. When the lord was the general of Zhennan, he sent the then soldier Cao to engage, and the current Guiyang Taishou Gong was called the transfer of troops to guard the main roads to Jiaozhou? Xu Sheng asked softly.

"Huh? It's possible! Wang Xu was stunned, and then exclaimed: "Could it be that this is the soldier sent back then?" ”

"If the other party is not lying, then it should be!" Xu Sheng nodded.

"It's been more than ten years, why are they still here? Has Hyocao never been transferred? ”

Wang Xu exclaimed. It's hard to imagine what it's like to stay in this place where birds don't lay eggs for more than ten years.

"This ...... The last general is not very clear! Xu Sheng shook his head and said.

"I'm going to call a few people down and ask!" Dian Wei finished speaking directly, and shouted directly to the cottage: "Do any of you know our Dian Wei?" Come and say a few words! ”

There was a quick movement on the arrow tower. It's just that after all, it's too far away, and there are many things blocking the view, maybe it's not clear to see, and it didn't take long. The door of the village squeaked open. Out came a man with gray hair.

As he got closer, the old man's pace grew faster and faster, and he ran down the slope, the excitement on his face clearly visible.

"General Dian! It's really a general! ”

"General Xu Sheng is also here, General Xu Sheng is also there!"

With his trembling and cheering voice, the stockade was silent, until he saw Wang Xu, who was slightly blocked by Dian Wei and Xu Sheng, and then suddenly stopped. After a moment of careful scrutiny, tears flowed out instantly. "General Wang. General Wang is here! General Wang really hasn't forgotten us! ”

I don't know why, hearing this, Wang Xu felt a panic in his heart, and the urge to turn around and leave.

With the voice of the stockade, there was a sudden earth-shattering shout.

"The sky has eyes, General Wang is finally here!"

"Hahaha, General Wang is here!"

The noisy screams did not last long, and in the meantime there were loud and loud cries, which made people's hearts tremble.

The gray-haired man looked to be not young, but his body was very nimble, and he quickly ran to the front of the crowd to salute.

From his trembling appearance, it is not difficult to see the excitement in this person's heart.

Wang Xu hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and asked gently and suspiciously, "Brother, what's going on?" Why have you been here for fifteen years? ”

"General!" The gray-haired man wept bitterly, and just straightened up and fell weakly, hammering the ground under his feet with his fist. "You're finally here, you're finally here!"

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he was weak, Wang Xu couldn't help but squat down, frowned and asked, "But you can tell the truth, and this king will be the master for you!" ”

"General, oh! No, King Chu! "The gray-haired man may have been too excited, and his mind was a little scattered." We are the soldiers who were ordered to be stationed here back then, from the four counties of Jingnan! For so many years, we have been here as ordered, and we have never allowed any army to pass through it. ”

"This king knows, this king knows that it is not easy for you!" Wang Xu was infected by his feelings and was very emotional.

It is conceivable how miserable it was to stay in this uninhabited mountainous area for fifteen years, when the young people became middle-aged, and the middle-aged became old people, lonely and helpless.

"You sue me, why are you here for fifteen years, and the tribes and generals to which you belong?" Wang Xu asked.

"We used to be the direct subordinates of the King of Chu!" The white-haired man wiped his tears from his face, choked up and said, "I don't know why, for so many years, no one has ever come to order, and we once had a brother go to Changsha to find the general's mansion, but the general's mansion is gone." When we heard that we had moved to Xiangyang, we went to the Xiangyang General's Mansion again, but the officials said that there was no such thing as our establishment, and that we were lying and beating out with sticks! ”

As he spoke, he seemed to be afraid that Wang Xu would not believe it, so he took a breath and stood up from the ground: "King Chu, we are really your direct subordinates, when General Dian taught us martial arts, there were a few life-saving halberd techniques fused into the knife technique, we all can, now we will show it to the general." ”

As soon as the words fell, the man had already taken a few steps back, pulled out the old saber at his waist, and waved it vigorously.

Dian Wei only glanced at it, then nodded and said, "Lord, this is indeed what I passed down when I was in Jingnan, and after improvement, it is no longer used." Not many people know! ”

When the man heard this, he immediately stopped and threw his sword aside. knelt on the ground and cried: "General, we are really the direct subordinates of the year, but Xiangyang Bingcao doesn't believe it at all." I can't remember the first few years we stayed here, and our supplies never arrived, so Xu Sima later took us to the village to buy seeds, open up fields in the mountains to plant, and hunt. Captive livestock, this is how to survive step by step. ”

"At that time, many people couldn't survive anymore and wanted to go back to their hometowns to see their relatives. But after we go back, we are on duty sergeants in the township register, and if we go back for a long time. It will be a deserter. The culpability is severe. Under the rule of the general, the management of famous households was very strict, and there was no hole to drill, and many people secretly returned to their hometowns, and they were discovered by people they knew and reported to receive rewards. The brethren had no choice but to lie that it was a holiday, and then there was nowhere to go. Back here, back to the brethren. ”

"Fortunately, my relatives at home have a share of the land. It's okay, but after a long time, everyone will get used to it! But the brothers have changed from young people in the prime of life to men with scumbags on their faces, and we are even older, and there are still old people in the army who are more than 60 years old, and they should have returned to their hometowns a long time ago! The brothers are here, they are nothing, they can't go back to their homes, and the army is not organized, they are like lonely ghosts, begging the general to call the shots and find a way out for the brothers! ”

"How so!" Wang Xu was stunned, he was a little incredulous. "How can there be no staffing?"

"Lord!" Xu Sheng also listened to it with a sour heart, and stepped forward to interject: "The army has changed its structure several times, and the generals have long been dismantled and reorganized, I am afraid that it was left behind when the first reorganization was carried out many years ago. ”

"Alas!" Wang Xu sighed, feeling shameless in the face of these soldiers, and after a long time, he looked at the veteran in shame and asked, "Then why don't you go to other places as refugees?" ”

"Xu Sima is not allowed!" The veteran's feelings at this time had calmed down a lot, and he replied vicissitudes: "Xu Sima said that the land of Jingnan is stable, as long as General Wang keeps Jingnan for one day, the name and household registration will be sorted out sooner or later, if at that time, from the information of our hometown relatives, we find the military records of our people, and we can't find the corresponding person, then we will be suspected of defrauding military merits, dumping land and property, not only us, but even our relatives will be implicated, it is a major crime to kill the head!" Besides, he insisted, General Wang would definitely think of us! ”

"Where's your Xu Sima?" Wang Xu frowned.

He knows very well that this Xu Sima is a liar, since there is no compilation record, it is equivalent to death in the war, in the case of losing the military registration record in this way, he can completely let the soldiers live in a new identity, and even surrender to Jiaozhou, so there is no way to understand anything, let alone implicate relatives, the only thing lost, I am afraid that these people cannot return to their hometowns clearly.

"Dead!" The veteran shook his head bitterly: "When Xu Sima went to Xiangyang Bing Cao, he was beaten with a stick, his age was old, although he was cured, but he left a dark disease, and he died of depression in a few years. He also said that when the general pacifies Jiaozhou, or when the world is stable, the road from Jingnan to Jiaozhou will be rectified, and that will be the day we come out! ”

Speaking of this, the veteran raised his head, wiped his tears and said: "General, in fact, the brothers have long known that Xu Sima is deceiving, but everyone regards him as the closest person and loves him, he is a loyal and righteous person, and he would rather die than stick to his duties, how can we turn our backs, besides, General Wang treats our family well, and takes us to lay a pure land in the troubled times, and the brothers are also willing to be loyal, firmly believe that sooner or later, General Wang will definitely correct our name!" ”

Wang Xu is really ashamed now, his urge to flee from this place is really getting stronger and stronger!

But he still stood steadily, with guilt in his voice: "Then your Xu Sima hasn't looked for the county government?" The county government has seen you, so it should be able to play! ”

"Of course I have looked for it, when Xu Sima was alive, he first went to look for his past friends in the army, but almost all of them died in battle, and the rest could not be found. I wanted to see a few generals, but I had no way, so I wanted to follow those famous people to visit, but Xu Sima was illiterate at all, and he was not good at words, so he couldn't persuade those soldiers to report it. Later, when he first found the soldier, he was insulted and beaten with a stick, and he and his companions could not bear the humiliation, so they gave up. ”

"As for the county officials, they still suspect that we are bandits, but fortunately, when we took out the order of the year, the officials were not sure of the truth, but they only let us go, and didn't care about it! After this time alone, no one dared to report to the county government, fearing that they would be framed and killed. ”

The gray-haired veteran said this, looking quite helpless. (To be continued......)