Section I

In the fourth year of the revival of the Han Dynasty, before the beginning of spring, the situation in the northwest war underwent earth-shaking changes. A piece of news quickly spread all over the country. The lord of Simon led 10,000 wolf cavalry to raid the 30,000 black armor army, and both were defeated. Both generals were seriously injured and their lives are currently unknown. Wu Ming united with the Bailing Sect, took advantage of the gap to capture the granary of Fengtai, and distributed grain in Fengtai to attract the hearts of the people, and the Bailing Sect gained momentum for a while. The news came so suddenly that everyone was a little surprised.

After Li Tie received the news, he jumped like thunder, slapped the table almost upside down, and even scolded the "rice bucket". However, scolding and scolding, there is a mess in the northwest, and we have to find a way to solve it. So he dispatched troops and prepared to open up the northwest supply line as much as possible, in order to make up for the loss, and it was not too late. While he was in full swing of preparations, another piece of news completely cut off his dream of occupying the northwest.

On 13 February, after a few months of rest, Nanhan finally relented. After obtaining Nanning's consent, Sun Yunlong personally led 20,000 elite elites of the Southern Han Dynasty through the Kodir Desert, appeared in the northwest battlefield, and began to attack the city. The Northern Han Dynasty's control of the northwest was already unstable, coupled with the fact that Fengtai was broken, there was no hope of supply, the army was panicked, and there was still a fighting spirit there, and the 20,000 troops almost did not encounter any resistance, and they recovered most of the northwest. After going around for a long time, they went around to the west of the camel pass, ready to go, and made a posture of joining the defenders inside and outside, and attacking Zhao Wucan.

When the Southern Han army swept through the northwest, Zhao Wuneng received Li Tie's warrant and asked him to retreat immediately regardless of the remnants of the army. However, Zhao Wuneng was unable to hold a large number of troops, and was still unwilling to fail, and attacked the camel pass endlessly for five days, but still failed to get out of the city. At this time, the 20,000 troops of the Southern Han Dynasty finally shook to Zhao Wuneng's side.

On the third day of the first month of March, 20,000 Southern Han reinforcements arrived at Camel Pass, won the first battle, and launched a counterattack hand in hand with He Xiaotian. This example was immediately uploaded to Nanning University and taught to students as a classic example. It is compared with Wu Ming's previous Tsushima series, Zhixia Nanban, Surprise Attack on Tingya, and Skillful capture of Fengtai, which is known as the fifth classic battle example of the Guards Battalion since the Western Expedition. However, although this battle was won by less, Sun Yunlong was quite cunning, because He Xiaotian had withstood the overwhelming attack of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Zhao Wuneng was inconvenient to supply, there was not much food and grass, morale plummeted, and the three armies were exhausted. In addition, the Black Armor Army has been disabled, Li Yuan is even more seriously injured, and the cavalry is very weak. It is reasonable that this battle was won. However, Zhao Wucan's nearly 100,000 people, and the Southern Han reinforcements and the defenders of Huoguan added up to 50,000 at most, and it was commendable to defeat the enemy with one enemy and two.

In this battle, Sun Yunlong adopted Yang Yijian and first got in touch with He Xiaotian. The strategy of luring the enemy deep and attacking from both sides was set. 20,000 reinforcements took advantage of the night to touch the back of the enemy and launched a night attack, but Zhao Wuneng had already prepared, and the two sides fought a fierce battle, and the Southern Han pretended to be invincible, and retreated while fighting. The irascible Zhao Wuneng really fell for it, thinking that he had seen through the night attack strategy of the Southern Han Dynasty, and he was not afraid of deceit, and personally led more than 10,000 cavalry troops to chase after him. At this time, a gong sounded at the camel pass, the city gate was opened, He Xiaotian personally led more than 10,000 camel elite horsemen to kill at night, the Northern Han was caught off guard, and Zhao Wuneng led the army to attack, and they were not under control, and they were suddenly in chaos. The camel spirit rode through the enemy camp, entering and exiting several times, killing heartily. The Northern Han troops left behind were all infantry, and they could resist there without preparation. Seeing that the resistance was fruitless, he had to throw away his armor and flee in a hurry. He Xiaotian followed and killed, chased all the way, and collided with Zhao Wuneng, who returned to rescue, both sides were hot-tempered, and now that the enemies saw each other, they were even more red-eyed, and it was another big battle. The fierce battle was in full swing, and the Southern Han army, which was "fleeing from the wolf", turned back to kill, and one of the two was attacked, and Zhao Wuneng was attacked before and after, and was immediately defeated.

The war lasted from the night of the first day to the hour of the next. Seeing that he was invincible, Zhao Wuneng had to lead a few thousand remnants of the defeated army to break through to the east. Knowing that He Xiaotian has been beaten by him in the past few months, there is Kenyi, personally led five thousand elites, and chased him with his ass unrelentingly, and the two sides chased and fled, from Nanping to Shazhou, and then from Shazhou to Liante, until Tu Peng, the governor of Liante Province, led reinforcements to help, and He Xiaotian collected his troops in a huff.

This way, Zhao Wuneng panicked, and was afraid that Wu Ming of Fengtai would lead his troops to intercept his back road, so he went to the wasteland desert in the south of the sandbank. He Xiaotian's camel is already good at endurance, and it is more suitable for this kind of climate than horses, but now Zhao Wuneng suffered a big loss, and when he got rid of the pursuit, there were only two hundred soldiers left beside him, and everyone was skinny and unkempt. Zhao Wuneng looked up to the sky and sighed: "To deal with people like He Xiaotian, you can only kill with one blow, otherwise you will not die if you fight the snake, and you will be devoured by it." ”

In fact, Zhao Wuneng is a little soldier, and Wu Ming at this time is opening a warehouse in Fengtai to release grain, and he is very busy. The Guards Battalion is already understaffed, even with the addition of the Shali Flying Division, there are only about 1,000 people. For the more than 300,000 refugees, this is really not enough, but fortunately, the Bailing Sect has a very large mass base among the refugees, and many people automatically jump out to maintain order. Otherwise, these refugees would have rushed up to divide up the grain stored in Fengtai, and it would be his turn to point fingers here. Therefore, although Wu Ming also cared about the war in the northwest, he was already powerless to intercept Zhao Wucan. On the contrary, he was really afraid that the remnants of Zhao Wu's army would rush to Fengtai and disrupt his great cause of relief.

After the battle of Camel Pass, Wu Ming breathed a sigh of relief. One victory in this battle, the situation in the northwest was settled, and between the two Han Dynasty in the north and south, the shape was reversed, and the offensive and defensive situation changed. The Northern Han Dynasty no longer dared to start a war against the imperial court.

Fengtai's grain was distributed by the Bailing Sect. After the end of the war, He Xiaotian also returned to Shazhou, although the three northwestern provinces are still full of devastation, but the tribes and towns have begun to appear officials, and it is obvious that political affairs have begun to recover. At this time, the benefits of a religion are revealed. The refugees received relief, brought food seeds, and returned to their hometowns one after another under the guidance of the Bailing Sect. Although spring planting is already late, planting some fast-maturing crops is still expected to be harvested this year. If you're lucky, you'll have no problem making ends meet. As for the steppe tribes, as long as they return to their hometowns, they have their own tribes to take care of them.

Seeing what happened in Fengtai, He Xiaotian sent a letter asking Wu Ming to go to Shacheng to see him. Putting aside the identity of the other party's Governor of the Northwest, just referring to his marriage with He Yi, Wu Ming did not dare to snub this cheap father-in-law. So I packed my bags and headed for the sandbank.

The blue sky, the white clouds, the golden sun.

It's May. The mountains in the distance are green, the river water near is clear, and next to the river, there is a green grassland, and all kinds of unknown small flowers are dotted in the meantime, adding a bit of interest to this moving landscape painting.

On the green grassland, a long line of tents grows like white mushrooms. At this time, Wu Ming and Jian Feiyang, the three of them were staring at a beautiful woman in the tent in a daze.

This beauty seems to have just opened her eyes, and her eyes are still a little confused. She was born with a very individual, melon seed face, red phoenix eyes, and thin lips that she always loves to purse, and because of this, she adds a vigorous and heroic spirit to her charm. With a knife mark on her cheek, it forms a strange charm. Seeing that Sha Li Fei woke up, Jian Feiyang stammered a little: "Sha, Sand girl." Are you in good health? ”

Sha Lifei was not lightly injured, the arrow on her back was not only caused by the martial artist's blessing of true qi, but also the arrow was quenched with poison, so although Jian Feiyang was already alive, she was not good yet, although she was a little sober in the past few days, she was still a little confused.

Sha Lifei shook his head, and when he saw that it was Jian Feiyang, his eyes widened: "I can't die yet, I'm looking forward to the death of my mother." ”

Jian Feiyang still dared to talk back, and said with a wry smile: "During this time, my old Jane prayed every day, hoping that your old man would wake up, how could he hope that you would die." Speaking of this, he picked up the medicine bowl from the side and flew towards the sand: "Come, it's time to take the medicine." ”

Wu Ming smiled secretly in his heart, and said that the brine points tofu, and one thing drops one thing. Don't look at Jian Feiyang, who is usually a child, but he attaches great importance to affection. Jian Feiyang is like that, gentle and gentle, and there is still half a point of bohemianism, which is really gimmicky. is the so-called bystander Qing, he is standing in his old age, and he is no longer a love brother who is ignorant of the world. Although Sha Lifei stalked Jian Feiyang to the death, Wu Ming figured out a little bit about what he thought, so he treated the two of them equally in Huangsha Town, and each beat five military sticks. In this, of course, there are reasons why he knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger and rectified the military discipline of the sand bandits, but Wu Ming did not want to understand this matter, which made Jian Feiyang's guilt for Sha Lifei stronger, and achieved the purpose of Yucheng's matter.

Looking at his obscene appearance, it was obvious that he wanted to feed Sha Lifei, but the latter could stand it, so he hurriedly took it, tilted his neck, and drank a few times. After drinking the medicine, she touched her face abruptly and exclaimed, "Oops, my face? She looked frightened, as if something terrible had happened.

Jian Feiyang's eyes straightened, scratched his head and said, "What's wrong with your face, it's so beautiful." Wu Ming didn't care whether it was good-looking or not, and said straightforwardly: "Sand girl, people live for a lifetime, the emphasis is on being frank and open, and living with a mask all the time is not beautiful." ”

Sha Lifei lowered his head, and after a long time, he smiled bitterly: "General, how can I not understand this truth." But the scars on my face ......"

Wu Ming Zhengse said: "You are wrong, in fact, with your appearance, you can already be regarded as beautiful, so why bother to be presumptuous." ”

The word beautiful made Sha Lifei a little cramped, and her face turned red rarely: "Thank you for the kindness of the general, a woman with a knife mark on her face, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit shocking after all." ”

She made sense, Wu Ming was silent, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Jian Feiyang said suddenly: "What's wrong with a scar on your face, Lao Tzu just likes to have scars on your face." As soon as he said this, Jian Feiyang realized that he had a speech problem, and he said sneeringly: "I'm sorry, Captain Sha, I just remembered my little junior sister." ”

When the Qing Court broke the Jianghuan cavalry, Wu Ming had heard Jian Feiyang mention it, so he didn't feel abrupt. However, Sha Li Fei was interested, and said strangely: "Your little junior sister? Is it the same as me, with a knife mark on your face? ”

Jian Feiyang's expression darkened: "Yes, I must have known that Captain Sha already knew that I was also a bandit before. Speaking of this, his eyes were full of pain: "Actually, I am not only a bandit, but also an orphan, and my master picked me up in the mountains when I was an infant, so I became a little bandit." ”

Seeing that his face was full of pain, Sha Lifei didn't wait to ask, but driven by curiosity, she couldn't help but ask, "What does this have to do with your little junior sister?" ”

"When I was nine years old, our two gangs of bandits in Cuiping Mountain and Pimple Ditch were merged, and it was at that time that the little junior sister was scratched on her face."

"Oh, I see." Sha Lifei's expression also dimmed, and he smiled a little unnaturally: "In this way, you and your little junior sister are also in love, and then got married?" ”

Jian Feiyang lowered his head, and said softly after a long time: "She, she died more than ten years ago. ”

Sha Lifei was moved, and after a while, she said softly: "General Jian, I'm sorry to mention your sadness." ”

There was silence in the room.

Sha Lifei looked at Jian Feiyang and then at Wu Ming. Suddenly: "General, you are right, people live for a lifetime, and what they should face must be faced after all, and I will take off this mask in the future, and live a frank life." ”

Wu Ming laughed and said with relief: "That's exactly how it should be." ”

He Yi had a pair of big eyes full of affection, took it back from Wu Ming's husband, and suddenly quipped: "Congratulations to Captain Sha, in that case, should you tell me your real name, Captain Sha always comes, Captain Sha goes, how bad." ”

Sha Lifei glanced at Jian Feiyang, and his face turned red again. suddenly leaned into He Yi's ear and said something quickly. He Yi's face was stunned, then he glanced at Jian Feiyang, and then looked at Sha Lifei, who seemed to be holding back a smile, and his jade face was swollen red.

Sha Lifei was out of danger, Wu Ming also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, got up and said, "In this case, Captain Sha, take care of yourself, I won't bother you more." ”

Sha Lifei lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and let out a soft "um". Jian Feiyang stood up a little helplessly, and Wu Ming said with a straight face: "Brother Jian, Miss Sha's body has just recovered, and her condition is still unstable, so you usually have to worry a little more." Jian Feiyang let out a "hey" and sat down at a loss.

When I walked out of the tent, the sun was blazing. Wu Ming couldn't help but look at the sky. In the sky, white clouds float across the sky like a song. Under the bright spring sun, the world is also warm. He Yi said suddenly: "It's good. ”

Wu Ming turned his head: "What?" ”

Under the sun, He Yi's eyes were smiling, and his cheeks like egg whites seemed to be transparent: "Brother Wu, you have tried your best, just to keep Captain Sha." If nothing else, if you succeed this time, even if it is not for anything else, for the sake of General Jian, it is impossible for Captain Sha to leave again. ”

Right. Xiaoyi knows herself very well and is very intelligent. How can I hide my own thoughts from her. Wu Ming nodded and said, "Yes, fortunately, the two of them are already interesting, otherwise, I really don't know what to do." ”

He Yi thought for a while, stared at him and said faintly: "If they are really boring, will you let Captain Sha go?" ”

Wu Ming was stunned, what would I do? Just let it fly away in the sand? Not necessarily, I'm afraid. After all, Sha Lifei is the biggest horse bandit, no matter how righteous he is, he is a horse bandit after all. But what if you don't let it go? The best outcome is nothing more than asking Sha Lifei to dismiss his subordinates, but with Sha Lifei's temperament, will she agree? Perhaps, Xiaoyi is worried about this. After all, with her relationship with Sha Lifei, she definitely didn't want to go that far.

I remember that four years ago, although I had a good impression of Xiaoqing, I was reluctant to accept her because I was disgusted with the prime minister's political matchmaking. But now, in order to keep Sha Lifei, he has the same means as the prime minister. Presumably, he took Xiaoqing's hand and shouted "husband and wife worship" when the master of ceremonies shouted. The prime minister's mood is the same as his current self.

But Jian Feiyang is not stupid, and it can be seen from his recent appearance that he may have a clear idea of his own thoughts. Maybe in his heart, he is also a little resistant to himself. It doesn't matter if he really likes Sha Lifei, or seven points of falsehood and three points of truth, but he always cooperates with himself, Sha Lifei has a great favor to him, he doesn't accept his own arrangement, what can he do? And himself, for the sake of Xiaoyi, it is difficult to make a move to cross the river and tear down the bridge for the Shali Feibu, if you don't do this, what else can you do?

He didn't answer his wife's words, smiled wryly, and walked forward on his feet.