First Blood (3)

Zhang Jianliang waited by the corpse all night, but no one came.

There was only a small stray dog with him, and he didn't go, and neither did the dog.

At dawn, the dog did not lick the blood on the ground or touch the two palms that fell on the ground, except for staying by Zhang Jianliang's side.

It's a good dog!

Zhang Jianliang picked up the dog, left the bazaar, and returned to the post station.

After spending the whole night outside, he was covered in dust.

Bathing is a must, because this is the toughest regulation in the army, when the army gathers in the Western Regions, even if the water is not enough, every soldier can have a teapot of water to wash his face, brush his teeth, and take a bath!

When people are cleaned, dogs naturally have to be clean, and in Daming, the cleanest group of people is the military, including everything related to the military.

Dogs are very thin, and when their fur is wet, they look even thinner, which can be called skinny and bones.

After finding an old toothbrush to brush the dog's teeth, Zhang Jianliang took the dog to the canteen of the post station.

Today, there are no slave girls in the yard.

Only a few post house men stood scattered in the courtyard, all of them looking at Zhang Jianliang with bad intentions, but when Zhang Jianliang looked at them, they turned around.

In the canteen in the post station, there is actually nothing to eat, but fortunately, the mutton is still enough.

With naan cakes, Zhang Jianliang and the dog ate very much.

Seeing that the servant woman had taken away the dinner plate, Yi Cheng sat down in front of Zhang Jianliang and said, "Brother Tai is the sheriff?" ”

Zhang Jianliang shook his head and said, "I'm just just taking revenge." ”

Yi Cheng smiled: "Whether you are here to take revenge or to be a sheriff, there is no problem now, just last night, the sword master left Jiayuguan, he didn't want to provoke you, and before leaving, he asked me to leave you two hundred taels of gold." ”

As he spoke, a heavy backpack was placed on the table.

Zhang Jianliang looked at Yi Cheng and said, "You are a disgrace to the officials under the command of the Lantian Imperial Court!" ”

Yi Cheng spread his hands and said, "Have I ever neglected Da Ming Yi's delivery?" ”

Zhang Jianliang frowned and said, "I haven't heard of this." ”

Yi Cheng said again: "That's it, I am Yi Cheng, the first thing to guarantee is the major events of the post delivery, as long as there is nothing wrong with this item, why do you think I am the scum among the officials?"

As for my business with these scum, if I put it elsewhere, it is naturally a big crime to kill my head, but it is a good thing to be rewarded here, don't believe it, you go to the bedroom and take a look, Lao Tzu is the best post man for three consecutive years! ”

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said: "The best post man to open a kiln, Lao Tzu has seen it for the first time." ”

Yi Cheng snorted and said, "This is the way to survive. ”

Zhang Jianliang looked at Yi Cheng and said, "Did you persuade the old knife away?" ”

Yi Cheng said: "The old knife is still a reasonable person. ”

Zhang Jianliang said: "I want to skin him." ”

Yi Cheng sighed and said: "The outside of the post station is full of characters like old knives, each of them is a guy who should be killed, I don't know who you want to avenge you, anyway, if you kill a skinned person, it will be regarded as revenge for your brother." ”

"I'm alone, since the old knife is the leader here, why is he running?"

"The fastest people who have died in recent years are all carrying the handle, and the old knife is just a relatively old thief, so he was praised by everyone as the head, Jiayuguan has a thief who is more ruthless than the old knife and stronger than the old knife, the old knife is just the boss on the bright side, and they are the ones who really control Jiayuguan."

Zhang Jianliang sneered: "Since you are so familiar with them, then tell them that the boss here will be Lao Tzu in the future, and Lao Tzu will ask them to chase dogs, and they can't chase chickens." ”

Yi Cheng looked at Zhang Jianliang puzzled and said, "Why? ”

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said, "Those who don't obey - die!" ”

Yi Cheng opened his mouth wide and said to Zhang Jianliang again: "Why? Huh—the army is coming? This can be well arranged, so that these people can go a little further west. ”

Zhang Jianliang stopped making a sound, leaned over and picked up the puppy lying at his feet and gnawed on the bones and left the post station.

This time he came to the tall city tower of Jiayuguan.

Since the status of Jiayuguan military city was abandoned, this city will be annihilated sooner or later, Zhang Jianliang is a little reluctant, he still remembers when the army came to Jiayuguan, those ragged Ming soldiers were so happy.

Although it was a traitor and a new dynasty who came to accept Jiayuguan, those soldiers still handed over an intact Jiayuguan to the army, a city, an urn city, and the Great Wall of Loess that stretched for a full 160 miles.

In troubled times, those yellow-faced and yellow-muscled pawns can hold the city in their hands, and there is no reason to give up this meritorious city when the prosperous era has arrived.

The imperial army is indeed strong in the Western Regions, and has occupied seventy percent of the territory of the Western Regions in three years, but no matter how strong the army in the Western Regions is, Zhang Jianliang does not feel that Jiayuguan should be abandoned.

He knew that the traditional borders of the empire had now been extended to the Hami generation, where the land was fertile and the water was abundant, and it was more suitable for development into a single city than Jiayuguan.

Nowadays, the old imprint of the Ming Dynasty is fading rapidly, and new things are rapidly filling the vision of the Ming people, as well as the mind, Jiayuguan will sooner or later disappear in people's memory.

Just like these veterans, they will slowly decay.

I remember that when His Majesty was reorganizing the army in Lantian, he was a strong sword and shield hand, and when he exterminated the bandits in Guanzhong, he fought bravely, and when Guanzhong was pacified, he was already ten people long.

But at this time, the Lantian army was reorganized again, and he had to give up the sword and shield that he had long been familiar with, and became a new soldier again, picking up the unfamiliar firearm for the first time in the Phoenix Mountain camp with many companions.

He was just getting acquainted with the firecracker, and he was about to begin to understand the grenade as a single weapon, and when he carried the grenade on his back and held the firecracker in the steppe to fight with Jiannu and the Mongol Tartars, he was already a real squad leader.

Just when he thought that he could fight to the death in the army like this, the army left Saishang and returned to the Phoenix Mountain camp in Lantian to start the reorganization again!

Zhang Jianliang thought that his marksmanship was good, and his grenade throwing was also superior, and after this reorganization, he could have a place in the new army no matter what.

Unfortunately, he was defeated.

He couldn't remember so many rules taught by his instructors, he couldn't understand the relationship between infantry and artillery, he couldn't understand the maps full of lines and numbers, and he didn't know how to get the most out of artillery.

He didn't have the means to write a beautiful battle plan, and he didn't know how to properly distribute the firepower of his subordinates so as to maximize his firepower advantage......

He became a big soldier again...... Soon after, he left the Phoenix Mountain military camp with many people and entered the Lantian regimental training.

That time, Zhang Jianliang cried bitterly, he liked his all-black military uniform, and he liked the golden ribbon on the dress, which was not in the team training.

In the regimental training, there are only loose military uniforms......

Just when he was disheartened, General Duan began to recruit expeditionary forces in the regimental exercises.

Zhang Jianliang did not hesitate to join this army.

Although he knew, General Duan's army could only be counted as a rabble among the many legions in Lantian.

But this group of rabble, after leaving Lantian, opened up the four counties of Hexi, recovered Qinghai, and left Dunhuang, Yangguan, after a lapse of two hundred years, the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty once again set foot on the land of the Western Regions.

In order to prove that these people are not waste, Zhang Jianliang remembered that in the past few years in the Western Regions, he had long regarded himself as a dead man......

For this breath, Liu Guomin died in battle...... Two hundred people faced more than 8,000 people, after the ammunition was exhausted, the bones of the cavalry trampled by the cavalry were gone, and among the ten urns carried back, Liu Guomin's urn was the lightest, because, after the war, Zhang Jianliang only found one of his hands on the battlefield, if it wasn't for the war knife Zhang Jianliang held in that hand, Liu Guomin really wanted to have no bones.

For this breath, Zhao Dazhuang died in battle, he was stoned to death by a giant stone thrown by someone's catapult...... When Zhang Jianliang collected his body, he used a shovel to shovel it little by little, and after a 180-pound man was burned, there were not many ashes left.

Tian Yulin died in battle, from the overwhelming feathered arrows fired by the Mongol cavalry...... His father Tian Fu was lying on his body at that time, but how could Tian Fu's short figure protect Tian Yulin, who was a head taller than him and a strong circle......

When the father and son were burned, the bodies of the father and son were pierced together by feather arrows and could not be separated, so they were piled up and burned.

Zhang Jianliang first picked out four or five catties of arrows with barbs from the ashes, and then put away the ashes of the father and son, as for which father and which one is the son, Zhang Jianliang really can't tell the difference, in fact, there is no need to distinguish clearly.

Zhang Jianliang is actually unclear about how the rest of the people died, anyway, after a fierce battle, their bodies were cleaned up and put together, covered with sackcloth.

Adjutant General Hou Ruyi spoke, remembered, saluted, and fired shots, and then burned them one by one.

In the battle of Tuoyun Ranch, the eldest son of Dzungar Khan Batur Huntaiji was captured alive by the general, and the 38,000 people under his command were all wiped out.

In this battle, there were too many people who were promoted, so that when it was Zhang Jianliang's turn, the colonel in the army was actually not enough, and the deputy general Hou Ruyi, the bastard, actually issued him a pair of armbands, so it was improvised.

What else do you say that he is a veteran, and must let these young ......

Zhang Jianliang understood that it was not because he was old, but because in the eyes of the generals, he was not as good as those graduates of the Phoenix Mountain Military Academy who were young, good-looking, and could read and hyphenate.

The wind was blowing from afar, and even in the scorching summer, Zhang Jianliang still felt cold all over his body, and hugged the puppy that didn't have much meat under his feet...... In the fall, the army will begin to reorganize again......

Maybe it was the sand brought by the wind that blinded his eyes, Zhang Jianliang's eyes fluttered down tears, and finally he couldn't help but smoke and sob.

"All of them are scholars, Lao Tzu has no way to live......"