Jinglin City, the border gate of Beibi County, as one of the largest cities in the northwest of the Daqing Dynasty, the Lingdong garrison was set up in this city. Jinglin city splits the mountain and builds, the left side of the late twilight peak, the right side of the Chaoyang front, the city height is nearly 100 zhang and the twin peaks are flush, the Xiongguan Avenue is like iron, ten thousand people do not open.

On the hundred-zhang high city wall of Jinglin City, the wind is cold and steep, and the wind blows on people's faces like a knife. Hu Qingyun tightened his body, and the big ao on his body carefully held the battlements to observe the patrol route of the Yunlong Dynasty rangers on the opposite side, and silently remembered in his heart that in the distance was the barracks of the continuous Yunlong Dynasty's expedition to the south.

A group of rangers roared on the frozen ground, Hu Qingyun found that there was a team of rangers with the banner of the Jingbei camp, only a hundred feet away from the Yunlong Dynasty rangers, the two teams of rangers turned a blind eye to each other, each went their own way, but the rangers on the side of the Yunlong Dynasty whistled and sighed.

After the Ranger team of the Daqing Dynasty completed a week of inspection around Jinglin City, the gate of Jinglin City was opened, and the cavalry team entered the city slowly, and Hu Qingyun found that the leading cavalry captain was Wei Zhuang who had saved him. The cavalry team of the Yunlong Dynasty is only a hundred and ten zhang away from the Jinglin City where the city gate is wide open, and a charge can reach the city gate, as long as the Yunlong follow-up reinforcements arrive for a small half an hour, Jinglin City, a Xiongguan city that has never been breached, may change hands, but those Yunlong Dynasty rangers stood in the distance and watched coldly as the horsetail of the last ranger of the Daqing Dynasty disappeared into the city hole, and the huge Jinglin City Gate slowly closed, and the Yunlong Dynasty's rangers continued to patrol with a roar after the city gate was closed.

Hu Qingyun carried a pot of burning knives to Wei Zhuang to drink, both soldiers and generals in the Jingbei camp love to drink this kind of burning knife wine, the wine is as its name, take a sip, spicy like a burning knife down the throat to the stomach, Hu Qingyun drank this wine with Luo Jinnian for the first time, choked snot and tears, and was laughed by Wei Zhuang and his boss Luo Jinnian for a long time, and then gradually got used to it and didn't feel that this burning knife was unpleasant.

Hu Qingyun once asked Luo Jinnian privately why everyone in the barracks loved to drink this kind of worthless and not very delicious burning knives, according to Luo Jinnian's words, those things that can fade out of the mouth can be regarded as wine? It is said that there was a certain Beijing official who served as a soldier under Luo Jinnian, and later went to the capital to enjoy happiness with his military exploits, and asked someone to give Luo Jinnian a few jars of good wine that is said to have been treasured for hundreds of years.

Wei Zhuang was washing his baby horse, Hu Qingyun's visit made him very happy, handed the reins to the soldier beside him, asked him to help take care of the good life, and asked the room to get two additional snacks, and took Hu Qingyun to the barracks.

Hu Qingyun looked at Wei Zhuang's living place for a while, his clothes and armor were neatly arranged, a huge horse Shuo was placed on the weapon rack, in addition to the saber and the crossbow. A small wooden box with something to be found next to the couch, and an open book on a wooden table on the side, the whole room looked clean and tidy, not as dirty as many soldiers' barracks. Hu Qingyun nodded slightly, Wei Zhuang seems to be rude, but in fact he is a careful person, just from the position where Ma Shuo is placed and easy to use, you can see one or two.

After Hu Qingyun and Tu Shu separated, they had the will to die, but they didn't know that once he left Lanshan County, the power of the Huaizhong Zhao family would be beyond their reach. Then Hu Qingyun saw that his life was worry-free, so he went all the way to the north, and if he could not protect the people, what could he do if he could live in a temple? Unconsciously he arrived near the Jingbei camp, and after encountering several days of heavy rain, she was caught by a patrol of rangers after fainting on the ground in a hurry, and when she woke up, she was already in Jinglin City.

The captain of the rangers who saved Hu Qingyun was surnamed Wei, his name was strong, he was unusually tall, his tendons were shiny and black, and he was as strong as a calf.

The rangers are under the command of Luo Jinnian, the right vanguard captain of the Jingbei camp, Luo is a big old man this year, he has been in the army for decades, and has made countless achievements, he is brave and good at fighting, and he is a good hand at breaking the formation and attacking the city. It is said that Luo Jinnian should have been promoted to the rank of general a long time ago, and it is more than enough to be a cavalry lieutenant, and he is still a pioneer lieutenant for so many years because he has no ink on his chest.

After the military physician cured Hu Qingyun, Hu Chen originally intended to join the army, Luo Jinnian inquired and saw that Hu Qingyun had an extraordinary bearing, and a good hand was a silver hook iron painting, and he couldn't help but feel good. Luo Jinnian learned that Hu Qingyun had made a name for himself, and now he was even more admirable when he wanted to join the army alone, mainly because literati and scholars have always despised ordinary soldiers, and there is no precedent for taking the initiative to join the army to start from small soldiers, after all, carrying a knife and carrying a pen are two different things.

Luo Jinnian was overjoyed, so he worshiped Hu Qingyun as the military counselor Lang and Luo Jinnian's personal adviser, from the ninth grade, mainly responsible for the compilation of some documents in the army, there is an assistant lieutenant named Zeng Li in the Jingbei camp and Luo Jinnian at the same level, relying on his chest A little ink and yin and yang weird mockery Luo This year is coarse, Luo Jinnian wants to use Hu Qingyun to disgust the Zeng Li with eyes and nose facing the sky.

Hu Qingyun's work was originally a civilian job, after knowing that outside Jinglin City was the Yunlong Dynasty's southern camp, Hu Qingyun consulted the archives and learned about the earth-shattering battle between the Yunlong Dynasty and the Daqing Dynasty a hundred years ago, Hu Qingyun knew that sooner or later there would be a war between the two dynasties. Although he was a small clerk, he often secretly touched the hundred-zhang high city wall to observe the deployment of the Yunlong Dynasty's army, drills, patrols, etc.

The wine was thick, Hu Qingyun raised his glass and said: "Brother Wei, I fainted in the rain, if you hadn't rescued me, I'm afraid I would have already returned to the underworld, Qingyun has not officially thanked you, a glass of water and wine, Qingyun will do it first as a respect!"

Wei Zhuang hurriedly raised his glass and said, "Mr. Hu, don't say that, saving you is a matter of convenience, and it's not worth mentioning." Da Zhuang is a rough man, and he admires a knowledgeable person like Mr. the most, but at that time, his family was poor and he didn't go to school at all, if Mr. Hu really wants to thank me, he will teach me to read and hyphenation!"

Hu Qingyun picked up the book on the side, the crooked handwriting on it was dense, most of them were commonly used words, and there were many digital annotations, it seemed that Wei Zhuang did not recognize many words, otherwise he would not have made some marks that only he knew like a child.

Wei Zhuang saw Hu Qingyun pick up the book next to him and watch, his big face turned red, scratched his head and said with a smile: "Mr. Hu, here, I don't know a lot of words in this book, and there are few literate people in the barracks, so I made a lot of marks, but there are still many things I don't understand, let Mr. read the joke." ”

Hu Qingyun gently shook the book in his hand and smiled: "Brother Wei, don't be presumptuous, it's great if you have this heart." Don't worry, as long as you have time, I can explain it to you, and I believe that the intelligence of the Ewei brothers will not need to be like this soon. ”

Wei Dacheng was overjoyed, and he wanted to perform the gift of worshipping the teacher, how Hu Qingyun was willing to accept it, the two were called brothers, and Hu Qingyun was a few years older.

Hu Qingyun asked about the Daqing Rangers and the Yunlong Dynasty again, and when Wei Zhuang heard it, his voice became louder. Energetic and high-spirited.

The Yunlong Dynasty has always been known for its cavalry, thanks to the Hanlimu Grassland, the largest grassland in the mainland. The cavalry of the Yunlong Dynasty are all skilled in horsemanship, and they are still good at projection. Hundreds of years ago, the cavalry projection of the Yunlong Dynasty made all the dynasties on the mainland frightened, and they did not dare to resist, even now, the first-class iron cavalry demon armor Xuanqi of the Daqing Dynasty encountered a team of cavalry of the Yunlong Dynasty in the wild, and they did not dare to say that they would win.

The rangers were originally unique to the Yunlong Dynasty, because the grassland lacked iron and salt, and the heavy armored cavalry was only a few, and most of the grassland cavalry belonged to the rangers. After the founding of Daqing, he fought a few battles with the Yunlong Dynasty, and neither country wanted to win a battle, so for both sides, it was insignificant.

Daqing unbearable border harassment also set up a ranger to target, but at the beginning of Daqing's rangers against the Yunlong Dynasty rangers are like cats meeting tigers, can not run away can only be eaten alive, until a hundred years ago after the Chen family stationed on the northwest border, by Chen Mengde as the general of Jingbei before the situation improved.

Chen Mengde's training methods are unique, one is to recruit good horses in the Daqing Dynasty to enrich the cavalry, and then acquiesce in smuggling Daqing's salt and iron in exchange for horses of the Yunlong Dynasty, and often pull the army to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests, and the strength of the cavalry team in Daqing has improved significantly after a few years. Chen Mengde took the initiative to attack again, and after several encounters with the rangers of the Yunlong Dynasty, no one was able to get benefits, and then it evolved into the patrols of the two countries met, each going their own way and not interfering with each other.

As for why the rangers of the Yunlong Dynasty let the city gate open and did nothing, it was because the rangers of the Yunlong Dynasty had done this, but unfortunately they were secretly ambushed by Chen Mengde, and after being fooled twice, they never thought about it again.

Wei Zhuang drank a little too much, and when he talked about his two brothers in the end, he looked yearning, he hadn't seen them for a long time, and now Xiao Duo'er should be able to run around, An Ping didn't know where he was, he hadn't heard them call him eldest brother, and now the eldest brother was guarding the border, hoping that they would all be healthy and safe!

Hu Qingyun leaned on the edge of the table and watched Wei Zhuang talk to himself in his hometown, telling about the joy between him and his two brothers. Hu Qingyun has a lot of thoughts, I don't know what happened to Li Yu and Hu Chen's mother now, whether they went back to Huaizhong to find him and were in a hurry? This road, he just walked alone, some burdens could only be carried by him, and he didn't want to implicate Li Yu and his wife, if he could have the slightest news about them, Hu Qingyun would feel better.

The farther north they went, the more volatile the weather became, and Zhang Sanfeng and Hu Chen and his entourage had been on the trail for more than a month. There is no shortage of food in the mountains in winter, all kinds of wild fruits, melons and vegetables can be found as long as you want to find them, and the fatty fish in the creek are even more stupid and can be easily obtained without bait, and you don't have to worry about eating. Unfortunately, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the three of them who are thinly dressed often wake up from freezing several times at night, even if they light two bonfires at night.

Zhang Sanfeng sighed when he touched the stubble that pierced his hand, he didn't need to go to the river to take a picture to know that his face must be like the weeds of the wasteland, these are not problems, the biggest problem is that the shoes are worn out, the clothes of the three of them can't resist the cold wind, and if they don't go into the city to add clothes, even if they won't be caught, they may be frozen to death one night, and they shivered while thinking about Zhang Sanfeng.

Hu Chen and Little Tail lay on a boulder near the river to bask in the sun, the stream is not deep, it is almost crystal clear, and occasionally a fat fish the size of a palm flashes by. Zhang Sanfeng and Hu Chen stopped the water upstream, and ate a whole fish feast at noon, now those fish have learned to cheat, no longer in groups, and no longer take the initiative to come forward when they saw Hu Chen's feet at the beginning. You must know that Hu Chenle was bad at that time, and after catching a fish for so long, I have never seen such a stupid one, and I still gather on people in groups, and I am afraid that you will not be afraid to eat you, this fish is afraid that I don't know how fragrant it is.

Zhang Sanfeng thought for a while and came to Hu Chen and said, "Hu Chen, do you still know me now?"

Hu Chen looked puzzled, touched Zhang Sanfeng's forehead and said with a smile: "Brother Sanfeng, you have a fever, what nonsense are you talking about? How can I not know you, you are now becoming those fish, I can point it out to you from the fish." ”

Zhang Sanfeng slapped Hu Chen's hand away and said: "Don't make trouble, I mean that my current appearance is not very different from what I looked like a month ago? In this case, even if there is a portrait of us posted on the notice board of the city gate, we can get through the customs in confusion, and we will freeze to death if we don't go into the city to buy clothes." ”

Hu Chen looked at Zhang Sanfeng carefully, nodded and said: "Don't say it, the difference is really big, if you put aside your current appearance a month ago, I will definitely treat you as a bad person, and I won't go with you if I am killed." ”

Zhang Sanfeng had an idea, and the three of them prepared to enter the city in disguise, not so much in disguise, but not in disguise, but without any changes. Zhang Sanfeng's beard is unshaven, there is no need to disguise it at all, and Hu Chen smeared some yellow mud on his face, but the little tail ingeniously made two huge black moles on his face with leftover fish eyes, which can make Hu Chen and Zhang Sanfeng laugh crazy, the little tail was also laughed at by his own appearance, a huge fish eye fell from the face of the little tail, and Zhang Hu and the two couldn't stop holding their stomachs.

The crisp laughter spread all over the mountains, startling countless forest birds, and the three of them laughed happily like fools like the sun overhead.