Chapter 216: Calm the Army's Heart
"Sour Xiucai, na, give it to you, put it in your arms, and it will be much better." Zhou Fugui said after putting an animal skin water bag into Li Qing's arms, and then draped his fur coat on his body.
Zhou Fugui and nearly 200 other Yan troops set up camp at the foot of the snow-capped mountain, intending to cross the snow-capped mountain early the next morning.
At night, the weather is even colder, bitterly cold, and the bitter cold wind is blowing "whirring", as if it is about to be blown into human bones.
Zhou Fugui and other physically strong people, of course, the situation is better, and they can barely endure this extremely cold weather, but Li Qing, a weak scholar, can't stand it.
Since leaving the snowy city, on this road, fighting, fleeing, marching, and starving, everyone has long been exhausted, and when encountering this snowy weather, Li Qing and other weaker people can't stand it.
After Zhou Fugui and the others came out of Xuelin City, it seemed that they were caught by Rin Yue in the past few days, and they lived the most comfortable life...
Li Qing was cold and hungry, frightened in the swamp quagmire, and at this moment, wrapped in Zhou Fugui's fur coat, he was still shivering, his face was pale, and his lips were purple, but a bag of hot water entered his arms and warmed his heart, and he felt much better.
"Sour Xiucai, let's eat something." Zhou Fugui sat next to Li Qing and said after handing him a piece of horse meat.
Li Qing shook his head silently.
Li Qing is not a pampered person, but such dry, hard, astringent and sour, uncooked horse meat is difficult to swallow.
"Hurry up and give it to Lao Tzu, otherwise military law will be involved." Seeing this, Zhou Fugui feigned anger and said, "If you don't eat, how can you climb over the snowy mountain tomorrow?"
Li Qing had no choice but to take the horse meat, lick the horse meat, tear it off with his teeth, and barely ate some.
"That's right." Zhou Fugui was a little relieved when he saw this, took out another piece of horse meat, and chewed it with relish, eating it so sweetly that Li Qing was speechless when he saw it.
"Fugui..." Li Qingshi couldn't swallow the horse meat like Zhou Fugui, so he could only tear and eat it a little bit, take the horse meat in his hand, and call Zhou Fugui to say.
"Huh? What's the matter?" Zhou Fugui asked after swallowing the horse meat stuck in his throat hard.
"How many horses are there?" Li Qing asked.
"What is this, you ask?" Zhou Fugui glared at Li Qing and replied, "It's not much, about a hundred horses."
What is a horse? The horse is the legs of the cavalry, the comrade-in-arms of the cavalry, the life of the cavalry, and everything of the cavalry.
But what can Zhou Fugui do at this time? They can only kill the horses with tears to satisfy their hunger, otherwise they will freeze to death and starve to death in this Netherworld.
When killing horses to satisfy hunger, Zhou Fugui and others were bleeding.
The two hundred cavalry had two hundred war horses, and most of them fell into the swamp quagmire, and some were eaten by Zhou Fugui and others, leaving only more than a hundred war horses, and some people were damaged.
When crossing the snow-capped mountains, some people and horses may be damaged.
"Well, that's why nearly half of them don't have horses to ride." Li Qing sighed when he heard this: "Rich, in such a wild place, it is difficult to move an inch without a horse, but there are many fierce and auspicious ones."
Zhou Fugui nodded silently when he heard this.
"Fugui, am I going to die?"
The two were relatively speechless, the cold wind was blowing, and after a long time, Li Qing wrapped his fur coat, looked at Zhou Fugui and asked.
"No!" When Zhou Fugui heard this, he replied categorically: "We are not dead in Xuzhou, we are not dead in Guangling County, we are not dead in Niuzhuji, we are not dead in Luyi, and we are not dead in Youzhou, will we die here?" Zhou firmly believes that there is no endless way to heaven!"
Zhou Fugui firmly believes that even if he is about to die, as Li Qing said, his divine mentor Huo Qu will come to save him, otherwise he will not pass on his gun and soldier to himself.
"Fugui..." Li Qing pointed to a short distance away and sighed, "You don't have to comfort me, the current matter, Shou'an Junxin, you better comfort and comfort them first."
A group of Yan soldiers are warming up around the fire.
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"What the hell is this grandma's place?" Xu Mancang bit a piece of horse meat and shouted loudly.
"If you have meat to eat, what do you care?" Xue Wentai also munched on horse meat and said with a smile: "It's a pity that there is no wine, there is wine and meat, and the Sprinkle family has a beautiful life anywhere."
"You're at ease." Pan saw the ghost and said in a strange way: "This is the Netherworld Valley, there is a Netherworld Valley that has no entry or exit,"
"What are you talking nonsense, old ghost? Isn't he leading me out of this valley?" Hearing this, the blind man Wei said angrily.
"Get out? Hum! Can you get out?" Hearing this, Bai Mawu, a member of the Di tribe, snorted coldly: "Listen to me earlier, why is this so?"
Bai Ma Wu persuaded Zhou Fugui to return to Xuelin City, but he did not accept it.
"Brother Bai Ma Wu is right." Hu Gujin, a Qiang people, also said angrily, heartache and chagrin; "In the end, the horse was killed and eaten, but it was still wandering around in this valley of death, and then it went down, and I see what you eat?"
Hugujin is a herdsman, after joining the Yan army, he is a cavalry, and his horse was killed and eaten, but it is much more painful than Zhou Fugui, Xu Mancang and others.
"Well, it's long overdue to listen to Big Brother Bai Mawu." The Turkic Tang Simo also nodded and said, "I am sincere for meritorious service, but I can't joke with the lives of my brothers."
"What are you kidding?" A few Rong Di were full of complaints, and the target was directly aimed at Zhou Fugui, which made Xu Mancang angry and said, "You Di thieves, what kind of tongue are you chewing there? Has my brother treated you badly? My brother is so kind to you, but you have no conscience, is your conscience eaten by dogs?" :
"Black Charcoal, who do you call Di Thief?" When Bai Mawu heard this, he was also furious and said, "Is it good to lead us into this valley of death, which is called heaven and earth and spirit? It's just great, hahahaha."
"Dog Di, dog thief, the one who screamed is you, the one who has lost his conscience, and who will go to hell with his tongue after death." Xu Mancang roared angrily.
"Black charcoal thief, Han dog, cheap donkey who can only grind, can you scold again?" Bai Mawu was scolded by Xu Mancang so that his face was red and his neck was thick, he was annoyed and angry, jumped up and pointed at Xu Mancang and yelled.
When things go well, of course, everyone is happy, and the military spirit is stable, but once it comes to adversity, all kinds of contradictions will emerge, and the military spirit will be unstable.
Before they began to cross the snowy mountains, the Yan army began to fight among themselves, and a fire was about to happen.
"White Horse Uga team, full of you chaos, close the beak of the bird's beak for me!" When the grumpy Xu Mancang waved his fist and was about to fight with the white horse Wu, Suo Da grabbed the two of them one by one and scolded.
Suo Da and Xu Mancang are fellow villagers, and the two are like brothers, so after Xu Mancang was grabbed by Suo Da, he didn't struggle, but just glared at Bai Mawu with angry eyes, but Bai Mawu struggled desperately, but after being held down by Suoda, he couldn't move.
"White Horse Oab!" Suoda shook off the white horse Wu who was blushing from struggling and reprimanded, "Who dares to disobey the order of the Grand Governor? Zhou Pi also acted on his orders, how could he blame him? And in this time of crisis, in this desperate situation, our brothers and I should work together instead of complaining and blaming each other."
"And you, Mancang, your stinky mouth just lacks a door." Suoda then pointed at Xu Mancang and reprimanded.
Suoda became Zhou Fugui's deputy, strong in martial arts, steady, and didn't talk much on weekdays, but once he spoke, he hit the key.
Xu Mancang also returned it, and it didn't matter if his brother said a few words, but Bai Mawu wanted to refute, but he was a little afraid of Suo Da, who was strong in martial arts and tall and strong.
A group of Hu people are still talking to each other, discussing in private that they plan to leave on their own, and some people are still tense and want to merge with Xu Mancang and others.
In Zhou Fugui's team, most of them are Hu people, but there are many Han people in the army, and the Hu people are already dissatisfied.
"That's what I'm saying!" At this moment, Zhou Fugui and Li Qing walked over together, and Zhou Fugui opened his mouth and agreed loudly.
"General Zhou!"
Whether it's Han Chinese, or Hu
People, after seeing Zhou Fugui coming, immediately quieted down, turned their heads to look at him, and were uneasy, especially Hu Ren.
No matter what, Zhou Fugui is the commander of this team of men and horses after all, and he is the general of Hu Yansheng, the governor of the border pass, that is, these people must obey his orders, at least they dare not disobey on the surface.
The Hu people were afraid of Zhou Fugui's revenge, so they were all uneasy.
"Sit down, sit down." Zhou Fugui nodded, squeezed into the crowd, and greeted everyone.
Zhou Fugui then sat beside the fire, picked up a pot of hot water melted by the snow and said with a smile: "Brothers have worked hard, today Zhou should have used wine to honor the brothers, but where is there wine where this bird doesn't?" Therefore, Zhou had to replace wine with water and toast the brothers with a bowl to thank the brothers for their unabandonment."
Zhou Fugui had a warm smile on his face, and his speech was witty and humorous, even a little vulgar, but it made the Hu people feel a little relieved, and they all sat down by the fire, eating horse meat, drinking snow water, and silently listening to Zhou Fugui's story.
"I've been thinking about one thing." Zhou Fugui continued, "Why did I come to this place?"
"Isn't it the military order of the Grand Governor? It's hard to disobey the military order, Tuesday Lang, what do you mean by that?" Xue Wentai asked when he heard this.
"It's a military order..." Zhou Fugui nodded and said, "Before leaving, the Governor of Huyan told me that the generals can not be subject to military orders abroad, which also means that outside of Xuelin City, especially here, there is no military order to restrain me from waiting, and Zhou can take any time to deal with anything."
"So, can I go back later?" Bai Mawu asked when he heard this.
Zhou Fugui smiled and nodded.
Get back? At this time, everyone wants to go back, but how to go back? How can you get out of this valley of death unharmed?