choke element

Chapter 511 Small Matters

Du Shisheng was very happy.

Monk Luo was also very pleasant.

These two people, one is the cunning staff who were in charge of the secret means under the powerful ministers back then; the other is the generous and heroic general on the battlefield.

Perhaps it was because neither of them had ever regarded themselves as big shots.

No matter how much Du Shisheng had contacts with high-ranking officials and nobles in the court, what he really relied on were always those old friends he had known in Zhongdu for decades.Most of the identities of old friends can't be put on the table.

For example, in a certain market, the petty officials who guarded the force and supervised the transportation found a side door for Monk Luo to escape.The father of this little official had received favor from Du Shisheng in his early years.

Another example is the old man with his donkey's bridle and leaning on his own cart, looking at the thin Du Shisheng and the fat monk Luo from the corner of the courtyard, chuckling lightly.This old man is a chess friend Du Shisheng has known for the past few months.

As for Monk Luo...

Whether he was fighting in the army, occupying the mountain in Tangluo, and being the king, or sitting in the center of the Dinghai Navy and acting like a deputy commander, he himself always regarded himself as the wine and meat monk in Xuanzhong Temple.So, at this moment he laughed and said:

"The officials of the Song Dynasty are all poor, thieves and birds. It took a lot of effort for the Sa family to follow them all the way north! Believe it or not, Lao Du, he gave a mouthful of meat along the way! Just one mouthful! Come on! , what do you have to eat, hurry up and take it out to fill your stomach!"

Du Shisheng laughed so hard that his old face was about to bloom, and he said repeatedly: "This is a trivial matter, master, just wait!"

Although there are only a few people living in his courtyard, some decent food is indispensable.Immediately asked the servants to light a fire and heat up some wine and meat to eat.Monk Luo couldn't wait, so he went up and picked a piece of meatloaf. After thinking about it, he took another piece and stuffed it into the hands of the servant leading the way and the old man with the handlebar.

"You guys are working hard too, come, let's eat together, we'll be full!"

Although the old man with the handlebars had no knowledge, from Du Shisheng's posture, he also knew that the person he had secretly carried was of extraordinary status, so he waved his hands and stepped back halfway with a smile.

That servant was Du Shisheng's confidant, and he didn't even dare to say anything.

Monk Luo made a silent gesture, pulled the two of them to sit by the stove, and said cheerfully, "They're all from our own family, don't be too polite!"

If outsiders saw his relaxed and happy expression, they might really think that he was here to visit relatives and friends.

But Du Shisheng just watched with a smile.

When he first found out that Monk Luo came here, Du Shisheng was a little worried, fearing that Monk Luo's drastic style of action would not be suitable for lurking in Zhongdu.

But at this moment, he found that Guo Xuanshi's understanding of his old friends was really better than his.

Monk Luo looks rough and bold, but in fact he is as careful as a hair.As soon as this monk got out of the guild hall, he had already begun to get acquainted with his companions and prepared for the next task.

Chen Ran was also very happy when these three or five people enjoyed extra meals in the courtyard.

In the eyes of outsiders, he led his troops halfway, but was forced to retreat by the court soldiers and horses, and failed to achieve the goal of entering Jingqin King, but Chen Ran understood that as long as Mr. Jinzhi did not make any mistakes, the mission has been successfully completed... And Mr. Shinzhi is a person who handles affairs extremely properly, and he will not make mistakes.

Therefore, when he arrived at Zhigu Village in the early morning of the next day, he specially notified the quartermaster to provide extra meals for all the soldiers, and made a secret celebration at home.

This group of soldiers and horses went back for a journey, leaving five military villages and seven or eight hundred soldiers along the Lushui River. At this moment, there are only more than 200 people who have returned to Zhigu Village.However, there are still more than 1000 people who have gathered the troops who had stayed behind and some armed Tsunado people.

When the gang leaders lit the fire and cooked, bursts of aroma drifted to the bottom of the high ground, causing many people to raise their heads and look up enviously.There were also a few subordinates dispersed, and the eyes of the court officers who had to be taken in temporarily by Ding Haijun were all red, because Ding Haijun didn't invite them to the camp to eat, and their teeth itched with anger.

Liu Ran was not angry, but had a toothache.He just finished eating his own two grain dumplings.The composition of the dumpling was very rough. When he bit it, his teeth hurt, and he held his cheeks hard for a long time.

This kind of dumpling is a product of several kinds of coarse grains and wild vegetables mixed together, steamed, dried, and kneaded.Probably a child has big fists, and two of them can manage a meal.As long as the weather is not hot, the dumplings can be kept for a long time.

Liu Ran and the others fled to Pingzhou, and after they signed their military status, they ate this kind of military food most often.

Some people didn't even have to eat dumplings, so they had to light a bonfire and bake the wild wheat they picked up along the way to stick their lips.This kind of wild wheat can grow in saline-alkali soil, and the taste is astringent and bitter. When chewing, it will also have a moldy taste.

Ding Haijun did give some rice noodles, but the amount was far from enough. Liu Ran honestly and unceremoniously made the decision, and divided it equally among the wounded and the weak.

A few men who were accustomed to relying on the sea to eat the sea couldn't bear the hunger, so they went directly to the direction of Xin'an Haiyan, trying to dig some big shellfish on the mudflat after low tide to eat.

Someone did manage to bring back some strange and weird things, and the fishy smell was frightening.Moreover, the muddy water brought by them when they walked made the originally dry ground in the tent semi-dry and semi-wet, and it suddenly became cold.

Zhang Pingliang couldn't stand the environment, so he crawled out of the tent.

But there is no place to go around. In the legendary Zhigu Village, only the military fort on the high slope behind it remains. village.Occasionally, a figure can be seen shaking in the ruins, it is a wild dog eating a corpse.

Most of these dogs are domestic dogs raised by people in the cities and villages around Zhongdu.After those cities and villages were destroyed, the dogs fled to the wilderness and lived in groups by hunting. For them, eating dead people was probably a big meal.

The dogs patrolled around the camp, confronted the humans a hundred paces away, and then retreated slowly.

Zhang Pingliang felt the biting cold wind more and more.He turned his head to see that the soldiers of Ding Ding Navy in the high place were still sharing food, and the aroma of the food was tempting.

He swallowed, and resentfully said: "It's nothing more than setting up a navy."

Liu Ran held the almost untanned animal skin and slowly applied the oil on the surface of the animal skin to his hands.Hearing Zhang Pingliang's complaint, he chuckled lightly: "Why not?"

"Brother Ran, we have thousands of people here, half of them have been soldiers and have seen blood! Now that the Mongolian army is suppressing the border, it is time to employ people. If the navy gives us a little bit of sweetness, we will help! As a result, they Look down on us so much?"

Zhang Pingliang threw out a handful of burnt wild wheat and hit the weeds and reeds with a rustling sound.

"You are wrong."

Liu Ran shook his head.

"The officers and men of the Ding Navy are very different from our military men who only want to eat. They not only have food to eat, clothes to wear, and excellent weapons, but also, do you pay attention to their words and conversations? They have Home, wife and parents are supported, so morale is high, well-trained, everyone is willing to fight to the death for their commander. But we..."

Liu Ran smiled self-deprecatingly: "We are not familiar with Dinghai's fighting routines, and we don't know where we came from. Why do they want to use us? We want to make a living, so we have to behave well. "

Zhang Pingliang was a little dissatisfied.

"Brother Ran, in wars, after all, more people take advantage. When we fought against the surrounding alien races in northern Xinjiang, when did thousands of people go to battle? The elite fought with swords, and the old and weak filled the trenches, isn't it the same? coming?"

"Did you win?" Liu Ran asked.

"what?"

"Have we defeated the Mongols? Haven't we been beaten to the ground and fled without our homes?"

Liu Ran smiled wryly and said: "Don't talk about the Mongols, the people who are now relying on the Mongols are all elite soldiers. Once they get ruthless, they can easily take over ten times and a hundred times more people than us. To deal with them, relying on our messy miscellaneous soldiers to fight like a swarm of bees, it will definitely not work!"

Zhang Pingliang was frustrated, and he sat down motionless regardless of the wet and dirty snow and ice on the ground.

Liu Ran's own emotions were also a little agitated, and when he said the last few sentences, his voice was very loud.

Chen Ran, who was standing in the barracks at a high place, heard it. He looked down and asked the lieutenant beside him in a low voice, "This kid, is the one who killed three Tatars with three arrows on the day I arrived at Zhigu Village?"

"Exactly." The lieutenant replied, and then continued to fight with the food in his mouth.

Dinghai's food is very good in the eyes of the defeated soldiers, but in fact it is not much better.The staple food is multigrain dumplings, but they are pressed more tightly, and each person has a little pickle.What made the rout soldiers feel so fragrant was mainly the bacon left in the Zhigu village.

That thing is a serious war preparation, but because it was inexperienced when making it, several pieces of meat were infested with worms. When it was boiled into salty soup, there were white worms floating on the surface of the soup.

However, hot soup is always a good thing, at least it relieves the sharp confrontation between the cheek muscles and the firm pancake.

The lieutenant gulped down the hot soup and said with a smile: "This kid is very useful. The day before yesterday and yesterday, the Mongolian army came to disturb him. He led dozens of people to fight with him, and he did a great job. I plan to stay with them for a few more days." ,Then……"

Before the words fell, the sound of drums and horns suddenly sounded from the depths of the reeds.

"Here it comes again!" The lieutenant continued to swallow the food casually.

In the past few days, the Mongolian attached army would come to harass him every now and then, and the lieutenant general was used to it.

And Chen Ran raised his head and looked at the watchtower on the top of the camp.On the watchtower, some soldiers were violently waving two-colored flags.

"The Mongolian army is not a fool. We made this trip with great fanfare, and they will definitely block the Caohe passage with all their strength. Therefore, this trip is for real...At least four camps in the upper reaches of Lushui River have been attacked! Lao Tian, ​​let's get ready for war!"

The lieutenant turned his head to look at the watchtower, bowed and said, "Yes!"

He turned around and waved his hand, the arrows flew into the air, and several horns rose and fell one after another.In the camp, at first there were stranded merchants poking around in the courtyard, and then soldiers rushed out of the many camps that were requisitioned.

These warriors have long been used to vigilance. They don't remove their armor when they live, sit and lie down, and they also carry weapons and bows with them, so they act immediately after hearing the order.And Alixi carried several huge leather bags, which contained spare weapons.

After these few days of continuous harassment, there will always be a fierce battle.I just don't know who the enemy is.At this time, many soldiers who had experienced many battles looked dignified. On the contrary, it was the recruits who slapped their armors, feeling the heavy and sophisticated weapons in their hands, and couldn't suppress the excited expressions on their faces.

To the north of Zhigu Village, the station of the Wuqing Inspection Department, which was designated by the Navy as a water transportation node, has been breached.But not every offensive went smoothly.

"The king of the county, the three camps in Xianghe County and Wuqing County have all been captured. Only the camp in Huyin County is said to be extremely strong. Boke suddenly attacked four or five times, killing and wounding many soldiers. He said, Please ask the king of the county to send another 1000 people, as long as [-] reinforcements, at the latest tomorrow, he will definitely break the city wall."

At Zhigu Village, our side has not yet made a move.The four-way soldiers are in horses, but this one is blocked.Bo Kehu is a man. I am afraid that after the surrender of Genghis Khan, he is a little slack because he thinks he has a grassland tribe background.Shi Tianying pondered for a moment, then raised his voice and asked, "Central officer?"

"exist."

"You take 1000 people to assist Bo Kehu. If you take the city before dark tomorrow, you will return. If you can't take it, behead him and return the troops."

"Yes."

The officers and men of the Ding Navy stationed along the Cao River obviously did not have the idea of ​​dying with the city. Once they found that the enemy was overwhelming, they retreated towards the river and boarded the fast boats moored in the harbor to leave.

This rapid retreat means that Dinghai can return at any time.And even if the soldiers of the Black Army can destroy the camp, what can they do with the ships that are running across the water?

So this kind of victory did not make Shi Tianying happy.

On the way to the central capital, Shi Tianying's performance was praised by Genghis Khan many times.His black army also continued to expand with each victory.But the greater the strength, the more cautious he is. Along the way, he tried his best to collect all kinds of information about the enemy through various channels, in order to know himself and the enemy, and win every battle.

Restricted by the chaos of war, a lot of information overlaps or contradicts each other. Fortunately, after reference and comparison, some decent results can always be obtained.

For example, in the past few days, the Ding Navy, surrounded by envoys from the Song Dynasty, rushed to Zhongdu in one breath, and Shi Tianying is now more and more valued.Through communicating with experienced Mongolian hundreds and thousands of households, Shi Tianying can confirm that the nature of this army is exactly the same as that of Jinzhou's black army, and that they are all the private belongings of a certain hero.

It's just that they have already occupied more than half of Shandong and Liaodong, and they are indeed a strong enemy of Mongolia. They can even affect Genghis Khan's grand strategy through violent tactical victories.

This kind of performance made Shi Tianying a little envious, but also a little particularly disgusted.

What I envy is that they walked ahead and accumulated strength earlier, so they can stir up the situation.And the disgusting thing is that they were able to defeat the powerful regime that Shi Tianying had to surrender several times... This kind of record is simply a mockery of everyone!
Shi Tianying said in a deep voice: "The key lies in Zhigu Village. Ding Haijun will not let go of that place easily... Just let me see it!"

　I'm exhausted, I haven't driven long distances for too long, and now I can't even open my eyes... Let's do this for today, sorry, sorry.

　
(End of this chapter)