Unexpectedly, this ice rain in early spring lasted seven or eight days. It was intermittent, but the mud of the road never dried.

Originally, the Han Wangzhong army expected that it would be able to complete the rest of the road and reach Guizhou City in six or seven days; But until the eighth day of the first lunar month, Liu Yingbu was still nearly 100 miles away from Guizhou.

In the afternoon of the same day, the army requisitioned a village, and the various divisions set up camp around it. All the houses and eaves in the village are crowded with people, but only a small number of people can live. Exhausted and muddy, they set up grass huts and tarpaulin tents on the camp, but they finally stopped.

After Liu Ying inspected the camps, although he could see the fatigue of the soldiers, he believed that the morale of the Han army was acceptable at this time, and the brothers could continue to endure it for a while without encountering enemy attacks.

It was already the seventh day after he parted with the king of Han, and it was only then that he remembered what the king of Han had said to him in hindsight.

In those words, Liu Ying understands the principles of not being greedy for merit and taking into account the overall situation, and the king of Han is just emphasizing the strategy again.

After the victory, he was given the title of Duke of the Kingdom, and Liu Ying could roughly guess it, after all, Fengtian attacked the crime and killed the traitorous ministers were just words, and the King of Han was fighting for the throne...... The king of Han does not fight for the throne, and everyone is still unwilling! If the king of Han becomes the emperor, it is impossible for his descendants to be without a reward.

For some reason, it was the old childhood events mentioned by King Han at the beginning that lingered in Liu Ying's mind. Those words are that King Han talked about going to his uncle's house when he was a child, and he was very happy.

Gradually, Liu Ying also recalled some things from his childhood.

At that time, Liu Ying rarely went to her uncle's house, but often went to her aunt's house. My aunt is also married to a hundred household officials, and her hundred households are more than ten miles away from Liu Ying's house, maybe twenty miles, so I can't remember clearly.

His aunt has a son, who is several years older than Liu Ying, and is his old cousin. Liu Ying went to her aunt's house to play, and often slept in the same bed with Lao Biao......

Thinking of this, Liu Ying felt that her face was hot, and she reached out and rubbed her cheeks. To this day, he doesn't know whether Lao Biao has a weird habit of liking boys, or because Liu Ying looked like a girl when she was a child.

However, Liu Ying thinks that he does not have this hobby, because he likes beautiful women now. When he remembered what his old watch had done to him, he felt very humiliated and angry; And some kind of fear! Because he occasionally has a curious idea and wants to try it again! But this kind of thing damages the face of the husband he has always cared about, so every time he has such a thought, he feels very frightened.

Liu Ying is a person who cares a lot about self-esteem and face. When he was a child, many people thought he was a bully and always teased him; At that time, Liu Ying will be very fierce, saying that although he looks like a mother, he has a brave heart!

But although he never wants to admit it, he can't deceive himself, he is a strong person in the middle. When he was a child, he fought, and when he grew up, the hereditary military generals fought, and he was very scared every time, and he was secretly a very cautious and cautious person.

Therefore, he was even more afraid that his brothers, especially his subordinates, would see through him, and his usual words and deeds deliberately showed his radical and courageous side, and he was not afraid of death. Even the King of Han believed that he was that kind of person.

Liu Ying scratched her head and heard a voice say, "Governor Liu!" "Meet Liu Dudu!"

When he came back to his senses, he saw a group of soldiers in front of him coming out of the grass hut and saluting this way.

"No excuses." Liu Ying held her head high and made a threatening look, but asked more kindly, "Brothers, can you still insist on marching tomorrow?" ”

A young military general hugged his fists and said: "Go back to Liu Dudu, this is a bad road, it's just tiring to walk, there's no problem!" ”

Liu Ying nodded with satisfaction, "What's your name?" ”

The young military general said: "The last general is the victory of Yunnan defender Baihu Yin." ”

Liu Ying looked back and said: "Brothers like Yin Baihu who are not afraid of hardships and dangers are the mainstays of the army. Yin Baihu worked hard to kill the enemy and made meritorious contributions, and he would have asked for merit and promotion for you. ”

"Governor Liu Du ......will forget about the last general," Yin Desheng said, "In the battle of the Taiping Field, the last general was almost sentenced to death by Liu Dudu, but fortunately your subordinates showed mercy." ”

Liu Ying was stunned for a moment, and vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a person, "You are the first to run on the battlefield in Nanhukou?!" ”

Yin Desheng hurriedly said: "Liu Dudu Mingjian, I really don't blame the last general, otherwise you won't show mercy!" Most of the people under the command of the last general are surplus soldiers, they can only farm the land, they can't do anything, they have never been on the battlefield, and they will collapse when they go up......"

Liu Ying felt very embarrassed, Fang praised this guy just now, but he mentioned that!

"Are you still in the same gang now?" Liu Ying asked.

Yin Desheng said: "There are a lot of soldiers. In the battle of Taipingchang, the team of 100 households under the command of the last general was first defeated, and then he was asked by President Qian to make up for his mistakes, and led the brothers to the front, and more than half of the casualties were killed. Later, when he came to Chengdu City, Shangfeng made up a lot of Sichuan military households for the last general, and these brothers were better than before, but they didn't speak very well. ”

"Military law is ruthless, rewards and punishments are measured! Hello for yourself! Liu Ying said. Then he immediately left this area and went on patrol elsewhere.

…… Yin Desheng stood in the mud with his fists clenched, and waited for the generals to stay away before he straightened up and looked at the general's back thoughtfully.

"I don't just farm, I can strike iron." A voice said.

Yin Desheng turned his head and saw that a man who was half a head taller than Yin Desheng and five big and three thick was standing behind, it was Liu Dagen. Everyone in the 100 households team called him "Old Blacksmith", Liu Dagen is not old, but very young, but he is too old and has a full beard like a middle-aged man.

"Why didn't you come to the Governor? It's good to recognize a relative. Yin Desheng said angrily.

Liu Dagen said seriously: "There are too many people with the surname Liu in the world, and Liu Dudu is afraid that he will not recognize me." ”

The soldiers around laughed "hehe".

Yin Desheng scolded Liu Dagen again, with an iron lump in his head, returned to the damp grass shed, and lay down on the thatch on the ground.

This time, Yin Desheng's right sentinel men, although the march followed Liu Dudu, they did not fight with Liu Ying. After they arrived in Guizhou, they stopped moving forward and waited there to prepare for the siege!

So Yin Desheng is still relatively honest, he didn't lie in front of the general, he really didn't think it was a big deal to trek in the mud for a few days...... Compared to the horrific scene in the city of Annandobang, it is indeed not a great thing.

It was still bright outside, but it was very dark in the low, haphazard hut. Yin Desheng trekked in the mud all day, then he couldn't stay tired and fell asleep carelessly.

I don't know how long later, someone called him in dialect: "Yin Baihu, 'bully' rice!" ”

Yin Desheng woke up suddenly, only to feel that his chest was as big as thunder. He answered, and walked out a little confused, and the Sichuan military household next to him asked again: "Hundred households have nightmares?" ”

Yin Desheng nodded, only then did he feel the chill of early spring and chills all over his body, but his head was full of sweat.

Outside, the sky had darkened, and fires were burning everywhere, and there were fires everywhere. Yin Desheng couldn't remember most of the scenes in the dream, but he still had the mountain of corpses in his mind, full of arrows and arrows, and the screams of stumps and broken arms.

Liu Dahan, a veteran who came out of Yunnan together, died on the battlefield of Taipingchang, but in Yin Desheng's heart, Liu Laohan's fate is good, there is a coffin and a grave...... The brothers who died in the city of Dobang were piled up as if they had been slaughtered.

Siege, this time again!

…… The next morning, the weather finally cleared. Liu Ying's troops pulled out of camp early in the morning, and the army walked on the official road for nearly half an hour, and the morning sun in the east slowly rose. After the rain, the sky is clear, the air is fresh, and the green mountains between the sky and the earth look clearer.

Yin Desheng only saw at this time that the treetops on the side of the road had sprouted, and although the weather was still very cold, the breath of spring had arrived unconsciously.

As soon as the sun broke, by the afternoon the roads were completely dry, and the march of the army began to pick up.

On the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, the former army units bypassed Guishan along the official road under Guishan; Soon after, Guizhou City appeared in people's sight. Guizhou City is located in the south of Guishan (between Wudang District and Dongfeng Town), so the name of Guizhou also comes from this mountain.

The forwards had already chosen a place to camp, and the group continued to walk east, detouring several miles north of Guizhou City; The various units marched in formation, but they were not attacked by the defenders out of the city, perhaps because Liu Ying's troops were far more numerous than the defenders of Guizhou City.

Yin Desheng's right post was to be stationed on both sides of the main road into Huguang Road in the east to eliminate the rear threat of the Guizhou defenders to the main force of Liu Ying's army...... Yin Desheng was born to prepare a hereditary hundred households, and he knows how to pay attention to marching and camping; But bad luck, most of the generals are on the rise, and he is still a hundred.

Yin Desheng now has an inexplicable fear of the city wall, but he can't help but look at the city wall of Guizhou. Seeing that the city of Guizhou is not as small as the big city in the mainland, it is not small, and the length of the four city walls may be nearly ten miles! Under the city wall, there is an estimated stone mosaic with a height of one zhang, and the top is an earthen wall, which looks like a castle built on stone from a distance, and it looks very strong!

The group arrived at the camp before noon, and the surrounding mountains were small and the line of sight was relatively open, making it difficult to be attacked. Yin Desheng's men and horses joined the Thousand Corps and continued to build a camp on a hillside; The strikers and the baggage men had already dug the trenches, and the men were to build earthen walls and fences, and to set up tents and camps.

The main force of Liu Ying's department rested for a while on the main road, and after eating, he continued to walk east.

Yin Desheng was on the hillside next to the official road, watching the queue on the road and the endless stream of people and horses. Liu Dagen's voice said again: "How far have we come? There are bubbles on his feet, and he finally doesn't have to go! ”

Yin Desheng turned his head to look at him and said, "I think that after a while, you will still say, 'I'd rather go for a few more days'." ”