Battle of the Red Chamber Ring III

After going down the city wall to the middle courtyard, he saw Zeng Baijia squatting in the corridor with his head in his arms. He stepped forward and patted: "What's wrong?"

"Oh, I'm back, third brother, please help me deliver things these two days." Zeng Baijia raised his head in confusion and looked at Jia Huan, but his head was still full of chaos, and his head was a little hot.

Jia Huan saw Zeng Baijia's cheeks turned red, so he reached out to touch it: "It seems a little hot."

Zeng Baijia nodded: "Today, I was too reluctant. Just now, Deputy Envoy Jiang asked me to come out. Third brother, the news just arrived that the reinforcements will not come in another month. Do you think we can last until then? "

Jia Huan kept the most recent account books, so he knew the situation. Seeing that Zeng Baijia was no outsider, he said, "If there is no war, it shouldn't matter. It's just that the two meals on weekdays may need to be changed to one meal." Although one meal will not kill you, you will still be hungry. Long-term hunger is not good for soldiers who are going to fight.

Zeng Baijia lowered his head blankly: "Tell me, will they just abandon us like this?"

Very likely, for the garrison of only [-], with the cruelty of the general, it is estimated that he will not notice it at all.

But what he said was not like this: "Isn't there an army ahead, you have to pass the army's barrier at least if you want to come to our side, it's better if you don't lie down for a while, than blowing the cold wind here." Jia Huanla Zeng Baijia asked him to go back to the house.

Zeng Baijia let out an oh, got up and went back to the house.

Jia Huan watched him go in, and turned to Jiang Yan's house. After the Chinese New Year, Peng Lai moved to Jiang Yan's yard, and it was convenient for his subordinates to find two people to report to, but the waiters were all released now. He went out, so he had to do the laundry by himself. At this moment, Peng Qianhu should be kneading the clothes by the well with a wooden bucket in his arms.

But when they got there, Jia Huan guessed wrong. Peng Lai didn't rub the clothes. He was fetching water. The one who helped wash the clothes was Jiang Yan. Not afraid of the cold, he rolled up his sleeves, his arms were bare, and his head was sweating profusely. When he saw Jia Huan, he threw the wooden bucket aside: "Why are you here when you are free?"

Jia Huan is now working under Jiang Yan's hands, and all he does is run errands, so he doesn't have much time to do it. The problem is that Jiang Yan can call people, and Jia Huan can do it too. Let's get up, and increase the friendship points by the way.

"Is there something wrong?" Jiang Yan was obviously more competent than Peng Lai, seeing Jia Huan's first reaction was that there was something wrong with military affairs.

"Now we don't have much food on hand. Should we change the coarse grains into porridge? It's just that the porridge is not very hungry. I think the people below will have opinions." Jia Huan didn't care what Peng Lai said, and just returned to Jiang Yan wholeheartedly. if.

"How big are the potatoes we planted now?" Jiang Yan didn't let go of the clothes in his hand, but straightened up and asked Jia Huan after thinking for a while.

"The size of a finger." Jia Huan also followed Jiang Yan's train of thought and remembered.

"It can be raised for two more days, and the harvest will be harvested in another half a month. If not, let everyone look for the live poultry raised by the farmers tomorrow." Peng Lai frowned and said in a deep voice.

After Peng Qianhu spoke, Jia Huan followed Jiang Yan and naturally stopped thinking about it. Although they often ignored Peng Lai in life, they listened to Peng Lai for everything important in the military.Jia Huan nodded, thinking about finding some wild vegetables for everyone to eat, when two soldiers ran in outside, holding a carrier pigeon in their hands.

"My lord, it is an important matter in the army." One of them stepped forward and handed a small scroll to Peng Lai.

Peng Lai wiped his wet hand on his waist, and took it. It looked very small, but it was really not too big when opened, but Jia Huan glanced at it, and it was densely packed with words.

"Ge Laozi's bastard thing, one day after another, one day after another, dragged my soldiers to death, and let him NND pay for his life in the future!" Peng Lai grunted and handed the note to Jiang Yan who came over, Then he frowned and got angry.

After Jiang Yan looked at it, his face was serious. He glanced at the two messengers and asked the other party to retreat. After that, he silently washed the clothes in the washbasin, ordered Jia Huan to dry them, and then followed Peng Lai to the study. .

There are a lot of clothes, but it is very convenient to dry them. Jia Huan ran to the study after finishing the clothes. After he knocked on the door and entered, he found that Peng Lai had lost the rage just now, and only his frown showed his mood. bad.

Jiang Yan saw Jia Huan coming in, and ordered: "Go and tell the people below to carry water to water the city wall, starting from tonight, once a day, and water the city wall to the outside. Water some places where it freezes, and tell the army chefs to replace it with porridge from tomorrow, so that those who are not on duty should not waste their energy by moving too much."

It was planned to this extent, and it was estimated that the time of that month would change again, he sighed silently in his heart, and then went out.There were three people who got orders like him, and the other two were waiting for him outside.

Seeing Jia Huan, the person in charge of the north hurriedly stepped forward: "Brother Zeng, what do you think we should do this time? It's okay to water it, but everyone who eats and moves will rebel."

Jia Huan is Jiang Yan's confidant, so the west side that Jiang Yan was in charge of is now represented by Jia Huan.The one in the north was originally a hundred households, and they followed Peng Lai for three or four years without merit, and finally climbed to this position, but now they encountered difficulties. "

The mainland that has become the link to the east naturally does not need guards, and the old man under Peng Lai's subordinates in the south, but he has a little disdain for Jia Huan, and he doesn't know why a newcomer will be reused. Such a good attitude, so watching the other party come out, he snorted and left.

Baihu in the north sighed helplessly, and shrugged at Jia Huan embarrassedly: "He just has such a temper, and he will get better after getting in touch with him more in the future. Please take care of me, little brother Zeng."

"Lord Lu is straight-tempered. If you want to take care of me, I need you to take care of me three times. If there is something wrong, I will ask the adults to point me out." Jia Huan returned with a smile.

Baihu felt refreshed when he heard it, and then he chatted with Jia Huan and left. He didn't really want Jia Huan's idea, but he just wanted to tell his superiors about his difficulties through Jia Huan's mouth.

In fact, Peng Lai's method is a little bad, that is, he is huddled inside, and he doesn't know what's going on outside. Even if he contacts the military headquarters, he relies on pigeons. There are more than 200 people, but the remaining horses left by the army for the border town are only ten horses, which are useless. If the infantry meets the enemy, they will properly send their heads to the rhythm.

The behavior of pulling on the hijab to pretend to be a grandson is actually very annoying, but no matter how annoying, the border town is the most important thing, and now I can only shrink in it, even if I am stupid and starved to death by the other party wrapping dumplings, there is nothing I can do about it.

After the orders from above came down, Jia Huan still paid attention to the situation of each team. Fortunately, a lot of gossip had been released before, and everyone knew something about the current predicament, but it was just a few days of hunger. This kind of thinking is nothing more than Yue, so everyone expressed their support.

The chef of the Sanjia camp had a sudden whim to put the tender leaves of potatoes into the soup pot, and after receiving unanimous praise from everyone, some inexplicable things began to appear in the soup pot in the army, such as snakes, mice, and lizards. Things like that, should be the sentence: "We eat everything that is alive, and we don't necessarily stop eating the dead!"

While everyone was happily comparing all kinds of novelty foods, their city was silently surrounded.

After the soldiers above ran to Jia Huan to inform him, Jia Huan was stunned for a moment, lifted his clothes and climbed up the city wall. From a distance, he saw a burst of loess flying, and the sound of thousands of horseshoes trampling collectively was deafening.The complexion of the thirty or so soldiers standing on the west wall was not good. Jia Huan glanced at Zeng Lu and found that he seemed to be very scared.

"What's wrong?" He asked closer.

"It's over, the main force is here. I saw them fighting from a distance eight years ago. It's not enough for ten to one. It's not something that our Green Forest Army can handle. At the beginning, the emperor sent Zhenghuang Banner and Xianghuang Banner After encircling and suppressing them together, they were driven out of Qinghai and a treaty was signed." Zeng Lu's face was pale, "These people are easy to recognize, just look at the decorations on their horse heads."

"Since you know, then the general should know too." Jia Huan put his hand on his forehead, and then with a pale face, he told Zeng Lu to go to Jiang Yan with his waist card, while he ordered people to prepare all military affairs. Utensils, waiting for the opponent's soldiers to approach the city, both sides are serious, just waiting for the opponent to beat the drums and wait for them to charge.

It's just that they didn't know that the opponent didn't attack immediately, but hundreds of people rode horses around the city wall, and then went back.

Seeing those cavalry go back and stand behind a leader, the leader took two steps forward, and the neat army behind them also took a step.

"Third brother." Jia Huan was being forced by the opponent's momentum, and Zeng Baijia arrived behind him. He closed his eyes for a while after taking a look from a distance: "It's an army of 5000 people, more than half of ours. what to do?"

Jia Huan looked back at Zeng Baijia, both of them were recruits, and the previous wars they participated in were nothing more than following others to attack, and that’s all. If you want to talk about commanding, it’s not enough at all, “Aren’t there generals and them, let’s listen to them Your orders are correct."

Zeng Baijia suddenly laughed when he heard this: "Brother, this is the first time you called General Peng, General, before there were always thousands of households, every time you called, General Peng would have a bitter face, haha. "

Regarding General Peng's official position, I don't know if he committed suicide. At least when Jia Huan came under him, he started to work. Of course, it has a lot to do with Chu Jiang back then. He took the position of general in exchange for grace. Although he is still Qianhu now, everyone is still used to calling him general. Only Jia Huan was deceived by his identity as Mr. Wei Qian at first, and then called him Qianhu desperately. .

The tense atmosphere disappeared in an instant, Jia Huan suddenly smiled and said: "I don't want to die on the same day in the same year, but I want to die on the same day in the same year, Baijia, today I will tell you my real name."

Zeng Baijia said ah, then looked at Jia Huan and said to him with a smile: "I was originally a concubine in the second house of Rongning and Rongguo in Duzhong, but now Jia's house has been confiscated, so I can come out to serve as a soldier." , my real name is Jia Huanwu, and I am sixteen now."

"You are actually a son of the Rongguo Mansion, hehe, why are you so overwhelmed?" Peng Lai's voice came from behind, he put on the general's iron armor, followed by Jiang Yan, who was also wearing armor, with an imposing manner .

"This subordinate has seen the general." Those who were nearby all knelt down, and Jia Huan also knelt down as soon as he lifted his clothes. Peng Lai gave a hum, and after calling everyone to get up, he looked at the army stationed in the distance.

"It should be the direct descendant of Luobu Zangdanjin who came, and it should be his left wing, but don't worry everyone, the Holy Lord has sent General Fenwei to Qinghai Lake, as long as we wait for them to come, it will be fine." Peng Lai took the lead to appease People's hearts, following his words, a large number of soldiers rushed up the city wall, pushing the protective equipment and placing them one by one.

"Now that their army is stationed by the Harai River, we are the first to bear the brunt, but it doesn't matter, as long as we hold on, the people behind us will not be in danger." Peng Lai said softly to the generals around him, and then The seven or eight people standing together looked at the opposite enemy, thinking about the timing of the opponent's attack.