Chapter 3: Ups and Downs (Part I)
After leaving the team far away and making sure that no one else could eavesdrop, Zhang Xiucai slowly took the war horse. "What about your brothers? Where did they go? His first sentence made Zhou Daniu overjoyed. Whether he can be promoted as soon as possible and whether he can become General Li's personal soldier are all very important to Zhou Daniu. But its importance pales in comparison to the fact that he rescued his companions from the prison group as soon as possible.
"Back to the captain, Lord Captain, a few of them are still in the Torture Regiment. Yes, I brought them together to join the army. Entering the Torture Prisoner Group, too, a few of us are also together, and we are going in together! Zhou Daniu couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and stammered in reply. Yesterday's words from Captain Zhang completely freed him from the sea of suffering. If Zhang Xiaowei can fish out his partners today, then it is worth it for him to be a cow and horse for the other party for a few years.
The Prisoners are not a place for people, and the dirtiest and most tiring work in the army is undertaken by the prisoners who have made mistakes. They go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and there will be no merit. And once the war does not go well, it is often left behind by the main general. Thinking about the hardships he has endured in the past two months, Zhou Daniu's eyes immediately turned red, and he rolled from the horse to the ground with a "plop", and kowtowed frequently to Zhang Xiu.
"Get up, get up, what are you kowtowing for? I'm just asking you a few words. Didn't I tell you about the things on the road and not pursue them! Zhang Xiu misunderstood the other party's meaning, thinking that Zhou Daniu was afraid that he would take revenge for personal gain, so he explained with a smile. Originally, he was not a person who liked to hold grudges, and at present, Xuzi was lacking a lineage, and a person like Zhou Daniu, who had no foundation and a heavy sense of fame, was actually a good candidate to cultivate as a cronie.
"Thank you, General Xie Li and Lord Zhang are gracious, but I, my brothers are still in the prisoner group, beg, ask Lord Zhang to help me think of a way!" Zhou Daniu paused and begged. Although he likes to brag and sometimes daydreams, he has no less eyes than anyone else. Now that we have the opportunity to reach a "top," we must work hard for the brothers. If you don't succeed, you have to give it a try, anyway, the brothers have already fallen into that situation, even if Captain Zhang refuses to agree to help, there will be no loss for them.
"Get up, get up, I've got to figure out the situation first!" Zhang Xiu did not immediately agree to Zhou Daniu's begging, but asked the specific reason why the other party entered the bitter prison camp. It's not that he doesn't have the power to help, but that he needs to be fully aware of the other person's situation. Now is the time to employ people, in yesterday's battle, nearly half of General Lang's personal soldiers were killed. The loss was great, but it also gave him the opportunity to build his own guard team.
"We didn't mean to make trouble, when we first came to the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp, General Li hadn't come yet. Several generals and lieutenants in the camp disagreed with each other, and a brigade leader surnamed Cao promised to let me be a team ......leader," Zhou Daniu knelt on the ground and talked intermittently about what happened to him after entering the Xiaoguo camp. It turned out that before Li Xu was appointed by the emperor as a general of Xiongwu Lang, several core figures in the Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp had been fighting openly and secretly for the position of general Lang. Everyone has a background, and it is difficult for anyone to come forward in person, so they secretly co-opted a group of descendants, and their brothers came forward to make trouble instead of the boss. There was a lot of trouble, and Wendou evolved into a full-martial arts, and people fought in the barracks every day. Zhou Daniu and others once attacked too hard and seriously injured the other party, but promised to "give him a face even if the sky falls!" Cao Lulu couldn't stand it, so he and several brothers were sent to the bitter prison group after being beaten with a military stick.
"Later, where did the surnamed Cao go?" Zhang Xiu listened to Zhou Daniu's words, and asked with his eyes wide.
"After General Li came, he ruled the army with a hot hand. Governor Wang, who was good friends with Cao Lurate, was transferred, and Cao Lurate also left the Xiongwu camp with him! Zhou Daniu gritted his teeth and said hatefully. If he hadn't left early, I would have had to clean him up when I got out of the prison group and risked my life! ”
"Just your stupidity, I'm afraid you'll be killed before you get out of the torture group." Zhang Xiu shook his head and stepped forward to give Zhou Daniu a kick, "You get up, and when you are on the road later, take me to the Bitter Prisoners Group to recognize your brothers." If the mistake is not serious, I will say hello to Qin Senjun! ”
"Alas, alas, thank you, thank you, Lord Zhang!" Zhou Daniu took advantage of the momentum to roll backwards, continued to kowtow to Zhang Xiu, and then happily got up. "In the future, Zhou's life will be an adult's, the adult said east, I will never go west, come in the wind, go in the rain, even if it is a sword mountain and a sea of fire, frowning is counted as my seed!"
"Don't be busy gambling first, the first thing I saved you is to see that you are quite big, and you don't look like an unrighteous person. Second, it is necessary for you to work hard to serve General Lang in the future, and he has no intention of pursuing the crime of intercepting and killing the court officials halfway. If you kid have a bad conscience in the future......" Zhang Xiu looked Zhou Daniu up and down and said coldly.
"Don't worry, my lord, if someone Zhou is sorry for the general's cultivation, let me thunder and split, no matter how many sons I give birth to, I won't have an asshole, and the poop will all go out of my mouth!"
"Fuck you, don't swear by your son, who knows which leg your daughter-in-law is still spinning!" Zhang Xiu saw that the other party was really pickled, so he stepped forward and kicked it again, scolding with a smile. "You follow me first these days and learn how to look long. There is a shortage of clever manpower around Lord Lang, and if you learn well, I will give you a personal guard to do! If you don't fight yourself, Lao Tzu will send you to the Bitter Prisoner Group to squat for another ten or eight years to see if you have tasted enough horse manure! ”
"Hey, hey, hey, anyway, I won't disappoint the adults anyway!" Zhou Daniu cracked his mouth, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth. "It seems that Master Zhang wants to take me as his own soldier, and in the future he will be able to follow General Li into battle, if there is an enemy rushing from the left, I will slash like this, twist like this......" He began to daydream again, and his eyes were full of stars.
With an unbelievable feeling of happiness, Zhou Daniu accompanied Zhang Xiu around the front and back of the team. The other party is the personal captain of General Lang, so naturally there are people to help wherever he goes. After a morning of careful selection, in addition to a few difficult brothers and sisters of Zhou Daniu, Zhang Xiu picked out more than 100 other strong people at the bottom who had no background, and added them to Li Xu's pro-corps.
Because his life's future was staked on his cousin Li Xu, Zhang Xiu had to do everything he could to plan for his cousin. At the moment, except for Xuzi, no one can give him such a big trust. No one could get him promoted so quickly. This relationship is like that between a vine and a tree, if the tree falls, the vine will die no matter how high it climbs. Zhang Xiu knows where his current "roots" are, so he will not let go of all opportunities to build a more solid foundation.
Li Xu's original personal soldiers, except for the 100 people he brought out from the grain protection army, the rest were sent by several generals who vigorously promoted the rising stars after he became the general of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo battalion. The purpose of these people to send his own soldiers may be well-intentioned, but it cannot be ruled out that someone deliberately planted an ear around him. Therefore, Li Xu has not established a completely trustworthy pro-soldier team, and there are basically no secrets in the army. This was especially evident after he placed most of the brothers from the grain guard army at the bottom as officers. Whenever he convened key officers and staff members, some of his pro-soldiers looked very suspicious. Therefore, some private matters involving personal futures, Xu Zi did not even dare to discuss with Zhang Xiu and others in the Chinese military tent. Groups often have to pretend to be casual and walk outside the camp in order to communicate quietly.
If the task of being a general is only to lead the troops to fight, Xuzi can also look at the matter with an indifferent attitude. After all, the task of the pro-soldiers is to protect the main general, and in case the main general dies in battle, the pro-soldiers often have to be buried collectively after retrieving the body of the main general. So on the battlefield, no matter what mission these pro-soldiers come with, they will not fail to do their duty. But outside the battlefield, it's a different story. No one wants their every move to be watched by others, and the watchers themselves have bad intentions.
Yesterday, the spear that killed Eji Wenxing at a critical moment made Xuzi have to put the task of forming a team of his own soldiers on the agenda. At least twenty paces apart, a spear pierced through the enemy's main general, and even Li Xu himself could not guarantee such an accurate head and arm strength. But no one around the No. 10 pro-soldier and Xiaoguo noticed who threw the spear, and no one was willing to receive this first-class combat achievement.
The one who killed Eulzhi Wenxing must have been one of the pro-soldiers. Asahiko can guarantee that her judgment will not deviate too much. The Xiaoguo people are all here to seal their wives and sons, and they will not humbly give such a big credit to others. And the brave soldier who threw the key spear refused to admit it, it must have been to cover up something.
What exactly is he trying to hide? Could it be that receiving the credit for killing the enemy's commander will reveal his identity? But after revealing his identity, what harm will it do to this person and the person who secretly planted him in the Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp? According to the military regulations of the Great Sui, it is a great merit to behead the enemy's commander, and if someone under the door has made such a military exploit, the head of the family should happily promote him as an official, so why hide it, let him have miraculous merits but not be rewarded?
Lying on a stretcher made of spear shafts and arrowroot cloth, Li Xu was puzzled. The wounds on his body, large and small, annoyed him, and what made him even more irritating was his current situation. Since his first day under Tang Gong's command, he felt like he had broken into the depths of a thick fog. There were friendly calls all around, but it was as if there were traps in every direction.
Maybe it's because I'm already close! Looking at the flowing clouds in the sky, Xuzi let out a soft sigh. Summer was coming to an end, and those jet-black clouds, one in the east and one in the west, were wandering in the pure sky. The sun shines out behind the clouds, and it makes each of the dark clouds cross the gold rim, making them, which are black themselves, look full of temptation.
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