Chapter 501: The Beginning

"That doesn't seem to be a problem. Abu smiled bitterly and touched his nose, he was also from a poor family, and the scene of stabbing the hornet's nest, he couldn't be clearer.

"But ......" Qin Ke suddenly whispered into Abu's ear, "I always have a feeling that the Tang Army is so crazy, it's not like it's because we keep sneaking up and burning their grain and grass, and want to come to us for revenge, will it ...... Are they just trying to encircle and suppress Wang Xuanwei?"

Abu was slightly stunned, a little unsure of what Qin Ke meant: "Why do you say that?"

"Intuition. Qin Ke couldn't say the reason, he could only blame it on the ethereal thing like intuition, "I had this feeling when I rushed out of Jinzhou, and Xiang Chu, the leading general of the Tang Kingdom, seemed to be particularly interested in Wang Xuanwei. Otherwise, why didn't he sit in the rear and command the military formation, but he had to run to the front of the formation single-handedly to fight Wang Xuanwei?"

Abu was dumbfounded, but he didn't quite agree with Qin Ke's baseless speculation, "General Xiang...... As a commander-in-chief, you shouldn't be so rash, right?"

"Then who knows. Maybe the two of them were jealous of a woman in the past?"

Qin Ke snorted, in fact, he felt annoyed because he couldn't change the status quo, so he said such a conclusion nonsense, but he lowered his head and didn't notice that Abu's face suddenly turned pale, and his expression was so bleak that it was like someone had stabbed him.

He hummed a song in a low voice, held a stick, and pounded the fire.

The charcoal fire and the dry wood danced in his sticks and the red ashes of the fire, and the dancing flames swam in them like dexterous snakes, and then the light brightened, illuminating the cheeks of both men and driving away some of the cold of the night.

The territory of the Mo family is much colder than Jingwu, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and if it is in the depths of winter, the heavy snow will seal the entire mountain range, and it will be covered in silver everywhere. As soon as a person opens the door at home, the cold wind is like a knife, poking at the person's bare face, and every time it stings, it hurts unbearably.

And all the way north, and then to the grassland of the sea and even the boundary of the Great Wall, the cold is even more doubled.

Once the Great Wall in the far north enters the depths of winter, the entire Great Wall will be wrapped in frost, and I really don't know how those Great Wall and those people in Canghai survived in such a bitter cold place.

"This time of year...... It's time for stew. Qin Ke thought about the situation in the past with a little sadness: the small pot on the small red clay stove was full of wild vegetables and mushrooms that had been picked from the mountains and dried and stored.

In some years, the harvest is good, and those uncles and aunts go out to the mountains, maybe they can bring back a few slices of bacon, mixed with tofu in the clear soup, gurgling and churning, picking up a piece and eating it, the warm heat has been running from the throat to the abdomen, and people can't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"Abu, why don't you speak?" Qin Ke finally sensed that something was wrong, and turned his head slightly, just in time to meet Abu's stunned eyes.

He turned his head along Abu's eyes, in the silent night, Wang Xuanwei's whole body was shrouded in a black cloud, and his eyes were as deep as a bottomless cave, and at a glance, it seemed that he would fall deeply.

Qin Ke trembled all over, and immediately stood up, wanting to explain a few words, but he was speechless for a while, he guessed that what he had just slandered must have been heard by Wang Xuanwei, and suddenly a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

This guy doesn't have a good temper......

However, Wang Xuanwei only glanced at them lightly, and his voice was as heavy as a boulder, knocking on their hearts: "Come with me, I have something to explain to you." ”

Qin Ke and Abu glanced at each other, but Wang Xuanwei had already turned around and left, which made the two of them have to follow in a hurry.

In the next few days, the movements of the Tang army became more and more vast, perhaps because they felt that they no longer had to hide their traces, and the 120,000 Tang troops blocked the main roads from different directions at the same time, they also continued to close this encirclement towards the Mo cavalry.

And under such invisible oppression, the more than 10,000 Mo family cavalry also fell into a very subtle emotion.

Although up to now, most people still have absolute trust in Wang Xuanwei, believing that under Wang Xuanwei's command, it is impossible to lose the battle, but under these heavy trusts, there are still some different thoughts that have carefully emerged.

"Is the general a little confused?" Originally, Guo Kai's die-hard faction sent Wang Nan to the front and leaned towards Zhang Jiuxin's side.

At first, he was a little disdainful of Zhang Jiuxin, after all, ordinary soldiers didn't know about the "rebel general", but he couldn't be clearer.

But these days, he and Zhang Jiuxin have gradually abandoned their previous suspicions, and they have begun to exchange opinions on the march.

"The situation is already very clear, taking advantage of the fact that the Tang Army has not yet been completely surrounded and has an unstable foothold, we are not going to break through directly, how long will we wait?"

Zhang Jiuxin sat on the horse, looked at Wang Xuanwei's back from a distance, his eyes flickered, and he said faintly: "The Tang army marches, the formation is not chaotic, and when you sleep at night, you don't disarm yourself, and you sleep with a quiver and a knife. ”

Wang Nan's throat choked, and his face was flushed by Zhang Jiuxin's bland words, and he said after a while: "What are you showing off at this time? I am indeed inferior to you when it comes to leading troops to fight, but I'm not in a hurry!"

"It's rare for General Wang to be so soft?" Zhang Jiuxin showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, although there was no mockery, but it was still dazzling in Wang Nan's eyes at the moment.

"You ......"

"Wang Nan. Zhang Jiuxin interrupted him, "Since you admit that you are not as good as me in leading troops, why do you think that the general is confused......? In your eyes, the general is worse than me?"

"I didn't mean that. Wang Nan held the reins of the horse and said, "You should understand that I don't mean to slander the general. It's just that the general is over half a hundred years old after all, and you can see that his hair on both temples is gray, and he has been treated so unfairly in the court...... Since the march, I have worked hard every day, and it is difficult to ensure that my mind will not decline because of this......"

"Recession?" Zhang Jiuxin raised his head slightly, shifting his gaze from Wang Xuanwei's back to the sky, the goshawk hovering in the air, his figure was vigorous, but his eyes suddenly became brighter.

He turned his head and said solemnly, "Wang Nan." At this point, the general obviously has his own plans, and those of us who are subordinates can only obey and carry it out, unless ...... Do you want to do it again, like Lin Xin at the beginning......"

"No, don't, I didn't say that. Wang Nancai didn't have this kind of thought, and quickly shook his head and said: "I'm just worried, where do I think the opposite, I, where do I dare......?" It doesn't matter if you dare or not, my Lao Wang is not that kind of person at all, is it good! That's a general, even if he gives an order to take my Lao Wang's life, I won't say a word, I will wipe my neck by myself, do you believe it or not? It's just that this ...... who is not alive and dead at the moment?"

"I'm just saying that, General Wang doesn't have to be in a hurry to make a statement. Zhang Jiuxin smiled slightly, and then continued to look into the distance, his eyes wandering, "Actually, I haven't thought about what you think...... Do you think I'm not worried?"

Wang Nan looked at him suspiciously: "Then why are you ...... now?"

Zhang Jiuxin showed a slightly bitter smile: "But after thinking about it clearly, I feel that maybe this is the number of lives we have for the generals, and what is the way to change it?"

After speaking, he didn't wait for Wang Nan, who looked strange, to continue to ask, and suddenly grabbed the back of the horse and walked towards the front of the queue.

Maybe he was annoyed, or maybe he had already made up his mind to be loyal to the end, in that case, it was useless to say more.