Early in the morning, Wang Jingzhong woke up with a loud wake-up call. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Even if you don't sleep on a bed in the camp, your wake-up date will not change every morning.

Always the same, never the same.

Everyone woke up in the tent, and in the middle of the night the dew was so heavy that many people thought it was raining, and there was a lot of water falling on the tent, and there was some obvious dampness inside.

Seven people sleep in one tent, two tents are a squad, the tents of the squads are connected, squads and squads, then squadrons, then companies, and the large tent area is divided quite tightly and neatly, without the slightest possibility of causing chaos.

Even when they camped on the march, the perimeter was defended with spears, and there was a whole company of soldiers on night watch, and when the last guard came in with a yawn when the people got up, they had no time to rest, so they washed up and waited for dinner, and then continued their departure.

There may be a day to a day and a half away from the big convoy, no one says anyone, although it is difficult to get lost along the river, but the grassland is too vast, after a day of walking, looking back and the scenery at the time of departure has not changed, which is very frustrating.

The army was almost out of food, and the same was true of the prisoners, and the so-called breakfast consisted of boiling the dried meat or dry food, or canned food, collected from all the people, and then each person made a jar of this gruel, drank a belly of soup, and then began to march eastward.

In the evening, it was the same as in the morning.

Some people also thought about fishing in the river, but later found that it would take a whole day to feed more than 20,000 people, and the convoy may be a day or two away, and the sentinel has already gone to find the location in advance, so it is not wise to stop fishing, and if there is no definite news after a day, then it can only stop.

Wang Jingzhong felt tired, he believed that his face was not good-looking, his back and waist were numb, and he was also very sore, which was caused by not coming down immediately for ten or twenty consecutive days, and he could not eat enough or sleep well. His tent was crammed together with the soldiers of the squad, and although everyone respected him very much and tried to leave him as much space as possible, seven people crammed into a tent would not be able to sleep well anyway. In addition, it is sleeping directly on the turf, and the grass is very soft at first glance, but after a long time, you will feel the hardness of the land, which is far from being compared with sleeping on the bed.

Of course, all the words are actually excuses, Wang Jingzhong just feels old.

He is over forty years old, and when he was in his thirties, he and Wang Changfu voted for Hutchison, from the dart master to the commander of the brigade, with more than 1,000 people under his command, and a large amount of land share capital, and there is a considerable bonus every year. Wang Jingzhong's hometown is Baoanzhou, which is quite a barren place, under the jurisdiction of Wanquan Zuowei and Xuanfu Town, he grew up in poverty from childhood to adulthood, and he is already a proud son in the army when he does not collect the night in the border army, but because he is not the general's family, these skilled border soldiers can only ensure that they will not starve to death at most, and it is common for wives and children to endure hunger and cold. Such an army is certainly not cohesive and combative, in fact, several large-scale rebellions during the Chongzhen period, the border army soldiers in Shanxi, Shaanxi accounted for a large proportion, Zhang Xianzhong was a border army, Li Zicheng was also, many uprising leaders and generals were born in the border army of Shaanxi, Gansu and Jin, they practiced a skill, but never received due remuneration in the Ming court, so when they couldn't survive, they chose to take it themselves.

Wang Jingzhong was lucky to find the best path, in a few years he has achieved the position of commanding more than 1,000 senior officers, and the strength under his command is enough to become the general army of a town in the Ming border army system, at least the deputy general pattern. Yu Lu is the general soldier can't catch up, but he messed everything up, it is indeed quite rare for a senior officer like him to be demoted to the rank of soldier, and now he has just returned to the position of squad officer, to the rank of brigade commander, there are countless steps to climb.

While the team members gathered their tents and washed, Wang Jingzhong and his assistant went to the kitchen of the big stove of the gang leader to get the soup.

There was a small sloping field, dozens of stove holes had been dug, and the soup was already boiling in dozens of large iron pots.

Wang Jingzhong asked his assistants to line up, and it would be their turn soon, but Wang Jingzhong had no expectations for breakfast, the soup was almost thin and could see the figures, and he had not been hungry since he joined and Yusheng, this time it was really embarrassing.

Fortunately, no one complained, and they could still hear laughter as they walked through the food procession, and many soldiers were joking about their hunger, which was a novel experience after joining the merchant army, but it was also quite normal for their old lives...... Who hasn't gone hungry? The feeling of being hungry was far away a few years ago, and it was only a little more than a year ago, and most of these young men were poor families before they joined the army, and there were many displaced people from northern Shaanxi whose most reliable memory was that they were hungry, and they had no dissatisfaction with the current matter, and it was nothing to suffer for a few days after a big victory, and no one complained.

Wang Jingzhong also showed a smile on his face, he still had the feeling of a senior officer, and he was satisfied with the high morale maintained by these young men in front of him, but with his many years of experience in the border army, he also knew that if he was hungry for a few days, he would definitely complain, but the merchant army would not mutiny no matter what, and he had quite strong confidence in this.

The officers and soldiers around him also had a lot of respect for Wang Jingzhong, and the soldiers made way for the old commander to make way for him to pass through.

Some soldiers were looking at the former brigade commander, and at first this kind of gaze embarrassed Wang Jingzhong, but later he became calm.

This is very good, Wang Jingzhong comforted himself, everyone will know that he respects military law because of what he has experienced, as long as he makes a mistake, he will be punished like a senior officer, this time it is just a stroke to the end, and he was not expelled from the army, and the previous military justice department did not take it back, and the field was awarded because of his previous merits, and the punishment was a mistake now, which is still very clear.

When he walked to the edge of the stove, Wang Jingzhong felt the heat, and more than 100 gang leaders and assistants were busy, each stove was lit, and the fire was blazing.

In front is the group of captives guarded by the soldiers and soldiers, these captives will also come to get the broth to drink after the merchant army has eaten, their food is also consumed, they don't have much opinion on the thin broth, many herdsmen are often hungry when they are in transition, the Mongols have herds, but normally few people are willing to eat, most of the time they just eat a piece of cheese is considered high-quality food, more often they eat grain and kimchi, meat is never enough to consume, for these captives, the current treatment is not bad, And there's not much to complain about.

The captives were worried about what they would do if they were escorted to the ground, and Taiji and the generals were held in solitary confinement, and hundreds of people gathered together, all of them dejected.

According to the internal habits of the Mongols, it is rare to kill people, but it is not impossible, and now that they are captivated by the Han Chinese, the future is even more uncertain.

The ordinary herdsmen were also very worried, and their lives, as well as their families and herds, were all elated and high morale when they set out on the expedition, and when they found that tens of thousands of people on their side were crossed by people in one day, and captured like sheep, their spirits and spirits were all down.

Wang Jingzhong observed the group of captives with binoculars, hundreds of cavalry rode horses to patrol around the group of captives, but most of them were dragoons, the chassars had been ordered to continue the pursuit, capture as many people as possible, at least to keep driving away the herdsmen and nobles who had escaped, to occupy the city of Khan and the hinterland, and after the main force converged with the logistics troops, it would continue to divide a part of the troops and horses back to the west, so as to completely determine the occupation of the core area of the Chotu Khan.

Only then did the boundary line be determined and further orders from the upper echelons of the military division were awaited.

Wang Jingzhong saw the most central part of the crowd of people is the Tu Khan, the tall Mongolian Khan seems to be walking like a rickety, but there is good news, but the eldest son of the Tu Khan, Asarlan, did not die, he was injured and fell off the horse, as a result, everyone thought that the child died in battle, and then he was carried off the battlefield, unfortunately they were defeated, fortunately the casualties of the Shang Tuan Army were too small, which caused the military doctors to have time to treat the Mongolian wounded, otherwise no one knew the identity of the child at that time, Then we can only sit back and watch him die of his injuries.

Luckily, the child had already passed the fever level, and it was only a matter of time before he recovered.

There were so many captives that they almost blocked the horizon, and Wang Jingzhong turned the monoculars, trying to see all the scenery in his eyes and in his heart.

Maybe he doesn't have much of a chance to be involved in the kind of thing in front of him, and it feels good to call him that way now.

All the Mongols looked dejected, and Wang Jingzhong felt that their fate would not be bad, but no one would say such a thing to appease them now.

Fear and worry can make people weak, and if it is a mortal situation, it can make people rage, and it is good to call them both ends of the rat like this.

Wang Jingzhong kept watching, until a large number of flags appeared on the horizon, and the cold light of the tip of the spear and iron spear flickered, in the distance, these starry flashes were particularly conspicuous under the sun's illumination, almost in an instant, many people saw it.

The rapid sound of the trumpet sounded suddenly, and all the soldiers who were eating or preparing to eat were taken aback.

"There's an enemy attack?" He San, whose face had obviously lost a circle, jumped up and said loudly: "Everyone gather!" ”

"Enemy attack alert?" Qin Bosheng, who was not far away, was also taken aback, and hurriedly summoned his subordinates around him to stand up and assemble.