Chapter 146 Life is a process of constant choice

Yun Zhao did not kill Niu Jinxing in the end, but sent someone to send him back to Liaodong.

After the matter was dealt with, people quickly forgot about the existence of these people.

The spring of the Ming Dynasty has begun to spread from the south to the north, everyone is busy, everyone wants to plant their own hope in the new era, so there is no time to pay attention to what is happening in distant places.

Spring in Liaodong came very late, and a group of people who were abandoned by the big ethnic groups were still struggling in the ice and snow.

No one realizes what a cruel thing this is.

Even if someone thinks of this, they will deliberately forget it.

After all, Li Dingguo's army was at the front, and Shanhaiguan was at the front, and these two passes blocked all the tragic things out of people's sight.

Zhang Song, the leader of the team at the forefront of Motianling, never realized that he actually had the power to decide life and death.

Under his gun, there will always be groups of black people squirming towards the Motianling Pass.

Like stupid roe deer exposed to the snow, they turned a blind eye to the muskets that were close at hand, and squirmed resolutely towards the mountain pass.

"Bang!"

Zhang Song's musket rang out, and a man wrapped in a flower robe fell to the snow, no longer moving.

The rest of the people seemed to have long been numb to this scene, and still firmly advanced towards the mountain pass.

In front of them were a group of thinly dressed women, whose waists were straighter than those of the black-cut thieves as they marched toward the pass.

After entering the narrow mountain pass, the women saw several female officials, with thick stacks of winter clothes piled up behind them, and the women, under the guidance of the female officials, shivered and put on their winter clothes, and lined up over the high fence, and then disappeared.

The thieves who followed the woman had to drop a few bodies to the sporadic sound of muskets, and finally came to the fence, where they were tied up with ropes and escorted into the fence.

From the time they got within range of the musket until they entered the fence, less than one-third of the thieves were alive.

Zhang Song put away the musket with satisfaction, he was a little merciful today, and there were three more thieves than yesterday.

In fact, it is not easy for these thieves, not only to steal out some women according to the orders of the general of Dingguo, but also to accept the killing orders of the front-line generals, whether they can survive or not depends on the will of heaven.

Most of the people who carry out this task are soldiers who are replenished from Shuntianfu, they are not the regular army of Lantian, they belong to the auxiliary soldiers, if you want to become a regular army, you must go to the Phoenix Mountain camp for training before you can have a formal military rank, as well as a directory.

The auxiliaries from the capital hated Li Hongji's group of thieves to the core.

Therefore, when they carry out this inhuman military order, there is no psychological barrier.

When the firehead soldier came up, he picked two large baskets of buns.

The bun is stuffed with cabbage and pork vermicelli, and the meat is very fat, and every bite is full of oil.

Zhang Song reached out and grabbed the basket, but was hit by the dry tobacco pole of the fireman.

"Wash your hands, wash your face, there's a plague here, you want to kill everyone?"

Zhang Song smiled awkwardly, patted his chest and said, "I'm strong." ”

Huotou Bing is a veteran of Lantian, and when he heard Zhang Song say this, he couldn't help but snort and said, "You are so strong, why didn't Li Hongji know how to fight when he came?" Look at what those girls have become. ”

Zhang Song's face was flushed by the firehead soldier's words, and as soon as he lowered his head, he took soap and went to wash his hands and face.

After washing his hands with ice water, his ten fingers looked like carrots, and he finally wiped them with white snow, and then went to the firehead soldier with his food box.

The buns are as delicious as ever......

It's just that Zhang Song looked at his companion who was also gobbling up, but a nameless anger rose in his heart, kicked away a companion, found the driest place to sit down, and ate steamed buns angrily.

The companion who was kicked gave Zhang Song, the team leader, a humble smile, and moved aside.

"That's why Lao Tzu was laughed at by the firehead."

Zhang Song sighed, picked up another bun and took a bite hard.

At this time, the sky is covered with snow on the Sky Ridge, and on the right is the undulating sea, and there are only some seagulls flying on the sea that are not afraid of the cold, and the sky is gloomy, and it looks like it is going to snow again.

After asking for a bowl of hot water from the firehead soldier, Zhang Song carefully approached the firehead soldier and said, "Big brother, I heard that your family is very rich, why do you still come to the army to fight these salaries?" ”

The firehead soldier sneered and said: "Just because Lao Tzu is fighting outside, the people in the family can farm and work and do business with peace of mind, who the hell wants to mix His Majesty's military salary, you see, even if there is no military salary, Lao Tzu still treats this big soldier as a taste." ”

Zhang Song shook his head and said: "When Li Hongji came, Emperor Ming once threw silver on the street to recruit people who dared to fight, but unfortunately, at that time, the silver was hot, I wanted to go, but my family didn't let me."

Brother, seriously, this world is the world of other emperors, what does it have to do with us little people? ”

The firehead soldier laughed angrily at Zhang Song's words, glanced at Zhang Song and said, "It is said that you people in Shuntianfu are shrewd, but it turns out that they are all such a shrewd method."

Lao Tzu heard that Li Hongji couldn't enter the city, but it was your group of people who opened the city gate to welcome Li Hongji in. Wine and food, and I heard that, and. Flowers are scattered from the second floor.

Seriously, what do you guys think?

If Li Hongji wants to enter our Chang'an, what do you guess will be? Except for swords, guns, swords, artillery, and muskets, we Guanzhong people have no other hospitality.

Let me ask you, what happened to the rich people who offered wine and meat in the first place? The who sprinkle flowers on the thieves. What happened to the sons?

Hey, hey, hey, you can't get on the big table. ”

Zhang Song stiffened his neck and said: "There are nine gates in the capital, and the government has opened three, and none of them beat Li Hongji, how can you let us small people fight?" ”

The firehead soldier filled the tobacco pot with tobacco leaves, lit the fire with a fire sickle, and took two puffs of smoke and said: "In this case, you have been troubled by Li Hongji, where do you have such a big grievance?"

The whole capital is like a place where the dead are buried, and everyone pulls their faces, as if we in Lantian owe you five hundred taels of silver.

Since you dared to let Li Hongji into the city, don't regret being miserated.

I look down on people like you the most. ”

Zhang Song was speechless when he was reprimanded, so he had to sigh and say, "Who would have thought that Li Hongji would make the capital like this." ”

The firehead soldier said with a smile: "Lao Tzu used to be a thief, and now I will tell you a truth, a thief is a thief, Lao Tzu's vocation is to rob, and it is delusional to expect wolves not to eat meat."

In order to transform our group of people, our majesty does not want an old thief in the new army, and even if there is, he can only serve as an auxiliary soldier, and Lao Tzu, the head soldier, is it, so as to ensure that our army is disciplined.

Those guys who haven't been reformed have not changed their fucking hearts until now. ”

Zhang Song was thoughtful and wanted to ask more about the Lantian army, but the Huotou army went back with an empty basket.

Several rafts suddenly appeared on the sea, and the rafts were full of people, and they rowed desperately towards the sea, and after a while they disappeared into the sea, and they did not know whether they were swallowed up by the winter waves or escaped.

Zhang Song thought that these people had little chance of escaping, just ten days ago, some iron-hulled ships appeared on the sea, these ships were very huge, and they also transported a lot of supplies to the garrison here in Motianling.

The pork vermicelli I ate today was delivered by these boats.

Those thieves want to escape by sea, I am afraid there is no chance.

At dawn the next day, when Zhang Song re-entered the position with his team, some black thieves came out of the forest in the distance, and in front of these thieves, there were two women.

Just as Zhang Song was preparing his musket and starting his day's work, a group of cavalry suddenly came out of the woods, brandished their swords, and easily hacked those thieves to the ground one by one.

Seeing that the cavalry was about to catch up with the two women, Zhang Song hurriedly got up from the trench, raised his gun, and immediately opened fire regardless of whether he could fight or not.

The black-cloaked horsemen turned their horses, gave up pursuing the two women, and retreated back into the woods.

"Guan Ning Iron Rider."

Zhang Song, who had emptied his gun, looked at the last cavalryman who had burrowed into the woods, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

Li Dingguo leaned back in a huge chair covered with tiger skins, sipping wine without a sip, the stove beside him was blazing, and Zhang Guofeng stood in front of a table, using a pencil to sit on it and mark.

A scout in a sheepskin jacket hurriedly walked in and said to Zhang Guofeng: "General, the Guanning Iron Cavalry appeared, chased and killed a small group of defecting thieves, and then retreated. ”

Zhang Guofeng said: "How is the combat power of the Guanning Iron Cavalry? ”

"They are strong and do not seem to be affected by the blockade," the scout said. ”

Zhang Guofeng said to Li Dingguo, who was napping in a chair: "It seems that Wu Sangui and Li Hongji's army logistics are not mixed together, you say, how long can they maintain this situation?" ”

Li Dingguo lazily opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Guofeng and said: "Since we have begun to hunt down the defected thieves, it means that Wu Sangui's patience with Li Hongji has reached the limit."

Next, he will have two choices, one is to take out his own food savings and share them with Li Hongji, which I think may be basically none. Well, there is only the second option, and they are ready to part ways.

There are two options for parting ways, one is to simply separate from Li Hongji, and the other is to defect to Jiannu.

Guofeng, which choice do you think is better for Wu Sangui? ”