Chapter VI The Passage of Time
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Five hundred fine horsemen set up a simple village, pile up the soil in the village to build a tower, the military horse is tied to the north of the camp, there are soldiers to polish the arrow clusters, the bright sentry and dark sentry between the ranks march in an orderly manner, and all the arrangements are like wartime. The tall gate stands with a swallow-shaped banner, accompanied by the sharp birdsong in the forest, and there are soldiers with bows and arrows carrying the game from the suburbs back to the camp.
The camp had a solemn atmosphere, leaning on the shoulders of the gatekeepers under the gate, holding a strong crossbow in his spear and in his arms, and even the strings had been drawn and the short arrows were laid...... They went through a half-year attack and defense, and defeated two strong enemies one after another at the cost of half of the loss of their robes...... Those who can survive are already elite soldiers, not to mention being taken by General Yanbei by his side.
These 500 horsemen with big shoulders and round waists and strong bodies can be used as three on the battlefield.
The five hundred horsemen were light and simple all the way, and they didn't even bring the big tent of the Chinese army, and the whole camp was mostly tied to horse piles, thatched arrows and other temporary utensils in addition to the camp fence, and even the accompanying chariots were only double tens.
Yan Bei untied the big armor he was wearing, and piled it up against the tethered horse stake with the ring knife and the dough, moved his body a few times before he asked someone to bring the bucket, brushed the long hair of the mount and said to Gao Ran: "Call Koji Yi and eat something together?" ”
Gao Ran, who was sitting cross-legged on the side, put down the dried naan cake he had just taken out, wrapped it in leather and put it back into the horse's hip sac, and was getting up to look for Lu Yi in the camp, when he turned his head and heard Lu Yi's unique heroic voice that seemed to be poured into the throat of the yellow sand of the Northwest Desert and said: "General, look at this, your son is good at shooting!" ”
"I'm looking for you...... Hey, did you copy the boar's nest? Yan Bei turned his head when he heard the voice, and saw Lu Yi rolling up his sleeves, carrying a small mountain pig of more than 100 catties on his left shoulder, dragging a thick pig leg on the ground with his right hand, and a rough look at the big guy with 300 catties slowly walked over, and said with a smile: "No, I let the two teams of brothers go out at noon, thinking that it is good to open a meat at night with some rabbits, but I don't think that luck is good, more than 30 crossbows shot these two heads into a sieve, and some of the rest ran away." ”
Yan Bei put down the brush, rolled up his sleeves and pulled out a one-and-a-half-foot-long dagger from the outside of the iron boots, beckoned the sergeant to take a table and put the big mountain boar on it, licked his lips and smiled, first stabbed a few obliquely and pulled away the wound to bleed, and then wiped his hands and said: "It's just right, clean up this, and the brothers can share a few taels of meat to eat." Ah Xiu, send someone to the surrounding countryside to find a few big urns. ”
Lu Yi clapped his hands and smiled: "It looks like the general has good news to tell me, wait!" ”
"Yes, what, you want to hear it now?" Yan Bei walked to the bonfire with firewood and put it down, and asked Gao Ran and the others: "How do you want to eat, cook some meat soup, burn two slices of pork ribs, and then mix some sauce to make some soup...... Quick, let the light rider take advantage of the city gate to buy some tofu and vegetables, let's eat something good today. ”
Liu An, the emperor of Huainan during the first Han Dynasty, liked alchemy, and made brine tofu without paying attention to it, and after three hundred years, tofu has become a delicacy that enriches the table of Han people in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Gao Ran clapped his hands with a smile on his face, and turned his face and asked his cronies to ride his legs, but Lu Yi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I can't say it now, I can't say it now, there will be a courtesy meeting, if you don't have it, you can't do it, general." ”
As he spoke, Lu Yi leaned in front of Yan Bei with a shy face and said with a smile: "Today...... Shall we have some wine too? ”
"Drinking?" Yan Bei counted with his fingers, fought a long battle, defeated Meng Yiqing once, when he was kidnapped by Guan Yu because of the blink of an eye, Yan Bei had nothing to be happy about, and there was no wine at the banquet that day; defeated Gongsun Zhan, and was found by Wei Yu before he entered Yang Lecheng, and there was no chance to drink, Lu Yi smiled at a greedy word of wine, but it made Yanbei's thoughts drift out of the distance, and he clapped his hands for a while and said: "Ah Xiu, let my brother sell some wine, today I simply have wine and meat, and be happy!" ”
The reckless people who had to drink alcohol in every battle unknowingly have become generals who govern the army rigorously and do not drink alcohol.
Now that I think about it, Yan Bei is actually an ancient well without waves in his heart, and he has long been used to doing this.
In the blink of an eye, the blood of the boar has been exhausted, Yan Bei wrapped a piece of skin around his waist, and then carried a short knife to divide the pigskin, and dismembered half of the pigar skin in three or two strokes. ”
Yan Bei concentrated on cleaning up the big mountain boar, and said with a smile that he didn't care: "When he was young, his family was poor, Yan was not a good person, he always had to do some evil things to satisfy his stomach, his brother was brave and heroic, and the prey was usually fought back by him, San Lang is our brother's hope, and our brothers are counting on San Lang to read and know etiquette, and be a scholar!" This kind of peeling is naturally undertaken by Yan Moukai. ”
At this moment, the doorman in the battalion came over and reported: "General, high school lieutenant, Koji captain, someone outside the camp came to visit the general, it is Zhongshan Zhen." ”
"Brother Zhen is here? Please come into the camp. Yan Bei smiled when he heard the report, and when he saw two figures illuminated by the bonfire walking side by side into the camp from a distance, he laughed loudly: "Brother Zhen is so happy, Yan has the most abundant meal in the camp in half a year, so I asked you to catch up!" ”
The footsteps of the two side by side paused, but there was no response, and when they approached Yanbei, they found that it was not Zhen Yan who came, it was Zhen Yao and the Zhao Zijing that he saw this afternoon, and he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Eh, it's actually San Lang and Brother Zijing visiting...... Where did this Brother Zhen go? I haven't seen him for almost a year, Yan misses it very much! ”
What he said was not a lie, when he was in Jizhou, the person he was most grateful to was Zhen Yan. Although he knew very well that Zhen Yan looked down on him. But he is a person with clear grievances, Zhen Yan is 110,000 people who look down on him, and he can't help him as much as the grace of teaching literacy.
Zhen Yao and Zhao glanced at each other, and they both saw the embarrassment in each other's eyes. The smile on Zhen Yao's face also slowly solidified, and he silently put the grass chicken in his hand on the desk, and then arched his hand to Yan Bei with a disillusioned expression, and said in a low voice: "Yan Jun, brother...... My brother is gone. ”
For!
Yan Bei's brows slowly twisted, his clenched teeth made the submandibular muscles protrude slightly, the dagger was thrown at several cases, and the eagle stared at Zhen Yao for a few breaths, giving people the feeling of an angry tiger.
Zhen Yao was really afraid that he would hurt anyone by suddenly breaking out.
This kind of anger lasted on Yan Bei's face for more than ten breaths, and slowly faded. Yan Bei's eyes were red, and he tried his best to look up, and then he took a deep breath and said to Lu Yi calmly: "Find someone to clean up the meat, you can get it." ”
Lu Yi promised, knowing that Yanbei could no longer be interested in cleaning up the boar at this time, he beckoned a few soldiers who had been hunters to carry the case to a distance to pick it up, and glanced at Yanbei carefully, and then secretly scolded Zhen Yao in his heart.
This little bastard of the Zhen family, when everyone in such a camp is happy, he came to report what kind of mourning, bad luck!
Yan Bei untied the animal skin on his waist, cleaned his hands in the wooden barrel, and beckoned Zhen Yaohe: "Come with me." ”
took the two of them to sit down by the bonfire, Yan Bei picked up the firewood and picked the bonfire, and then asked gently, "Tell me, Brother Zhen...... How did you get there, and what is the current situation of Zhen's? ”
"Alas, last year, you led the troops north, and half of the counties in Jizhou had no garrisons, so the thieves in Montenegro went down the mountain to plunder. Hundreds of thousands of bandits wrapped around the homeless, so that the officials rushed to flee, Brother Zhong saw that the thieves were strong, so he asked his mother and his relatives to go north to Youzhou, saying let us come to Yanjun to avoid trouble. The elder brother guarded the ancestral business and dealt with the thieves who occupied Zhongshan...... Later, I heard that Zhen Shiwu caught fire and burned from the inside, Brother Zhong, Brother Zhong, he didn't come out. ”
Yan Bei was silent, he thought, why is Zhen Yan so stupid. How could hundreds of thousands of hungry and crazy bandits be something he could do alone? Is it really worth it to lose your life while guarding such a family business?
"The leader of the Black Mountain thieves is Zhang Yan, right?" Yan Bei asked, then changed the topic to Zhen Yao and asked, "Zhen, how is it now?" ”
Zhen Yao shook his head, and said with a lot of grievances in his words: "On the road, thanks to Brother Zijing who led the way for us since Anping, some of our belongings were abandoned by bandits on the road, and the family soldiers and slaves also died and left, and the clansmen were scattered, and when they arrived in Zhuo County, there were only two old slaves and a few people from the Zhen family. To Jixian County, people and land are both born, thanks to Yuyang Wangjun sent some slaves today...... We also walked east, and if we didn't have a household registration, we were homeless, and if we couldn't walk ten miles, we would be stopped by the pavilion chief. ”
"In the past two days, take out the courtyard and take the clan with me to Liaodong." Yan Bei gritted his teeth, how could he see Zhen in distress. What's more, the reason for the Jizhou Rebellion was that he transferred the garrison soldiers and horses of various counties, "Brother Zhen entrusted the clan to Yan, and Yan can't bear people." I built a fort for the Zhen family, bought a grange, and bought slaves...... Those pavilion chiefs won't stop you this time, everything is with Yan. ”
Without waiting for Zhen Yao to say anything, Yanbei had already arranged everything, and Zhengse said to Zhen Yao: "San Lang, when I was in Jizhou, Brother Zhen didn't treat Yan as rude, treated me like a mentor and helpful friend, taught me to read, and drank with me...... This kindness Yan will never forget, now that Brother Zhen has passed away, Zhen's is dusty, whether you recognize it or not, Yan will be your brother in the future, and Zhen's affairs will be borne by Yan! ”
Just when Zhen Yao didn't know what to say, a soldier from Yuanmen came to report, and whispered beside Yanbei: "General, the state capital Wei is here, and there are a few chariots." ”
"I'll take a look." Yan Bei confessed to Zhen Yao and Zhao that he had lost his sins, got up and said, "I'll go and greet you, wait for me." ”
Yan Bei had only walked a few steps, and then saw Wei Youli commanding the officials to push the cart into the camp at Yuanmen, and said loudly to Yan Bei from a distance: "General Yan, Liu Gonggan is tired of soldiers and horses, and specially ordered the state capital to give 500 horses, 50,000 yuan, and three pigs to comfort the general." ”
After saying it loudly, Wei You walked into two steps with a smile on his face and asked, "Is there any wine and food for Wei in the camp?" It's better to hurry up than to be in a hurry, bury the pot in the camp to make rice, and the general can give Wei a sip of sweet wine to relieve the suffering of the hanging river? ”