At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the Acropolis of Datong Mansion has gradually become hot and dry, and Lu Huizhong's short body has been tattered and dirty, and after being wet with sweat, the sweat sticks to his body, and he is sour and smelly when he is far away. After all, he is a rich son, and he has never suffered from the march, even when the thieves are in trouble, the rebellion is for the purpose of occupying Taiyuan for a long time, and he has not done anything to the vast majority of the rich gentry in the city, and most of the officials are martyred or fleeing, or killed, but he escaped by hiding in his uncle's house, so he did not suffer too much.

This time it was different, Lu Huizhong went north with the field service team for hundreds of miles until this small populated acropolis, all with two legs, and the blisters on the soles of a pair of feet did not know how many times, and none of the bloody ones were intact, until the pain was numb. But his innate pride made him persevere, and he endured the pain on the road, without shouting or giving in.

After several days of rapid marching, more than 30 members of the field service team were formed, and only about 20 people were left to reach the final acropolis, and the rest either fled halfway or disappeared. Among them, Mi Yan successfully arrived at the Acropolis, although he was the only one among the jury members who did not participate in the fraud, he still joined the field service team without hesitation and suffered the hardships of this march with everyone.

Although the Acropolis of Datongfu belongs to the same Shanxi province as Taiyuan, the living environment and the food are very different, looking at the mushy porridge made of I don't know what it is and the yellow vegetable leaf soup, some people are dissatisfied with the rice bowl on the ground, shouting for beef, want mutton to eat.

How do you know that the guards in charge of the food gave them a blank look, and said angrily: "A group of thieves with the army, full of what a son?" If you like to eat or not, you can put down what you don't eat, and you still have this kind of meal at night......"

The hard-hearted members of the field service team originally wanted to eat it, but when they saw that the words of this group of people were difficult to hear and deceived people too much, they threw the clay bowl in their hands on the ground in protest.

The two sides quickly quarreled, and even used force, the field service team is all rich sons, and they are all pampered on weekdays, where are these guards who grew up in the north, and they were soon beaten to the ground.

Lu Huizhong curled up on the ground with his head in his hands, and he couldn't count how many feet were on him, until someone came to shout to stop the group fight, and the nightmare kicking and beating was over.

Hearing the sound, it was Lu Jiu who came, and I saw him with a gloomy face, scanning the guards and field service team members who had not yet had time to separate.

"You've got a lot of skills, huh?" Lu Jiu pointed at everyone, angry. "Seeing that the Mongolian Tartars are coming, you have the ability to rush to the Tartars!" Hearing that the Tartars were coming, everyone present couldn't help but shiver. Lu Jiu saw a sneer in his eyes. "Look at your cowardice, the fight in the nest is more ruthless than the other, and when I heard that the Tartars came, they were all like sheep in the pen......"

After a while, Lu Jiu ordered the guards to leave, and did not announce which side to punish, glared at the people of the field service team fiercely, and said coldly: "You should eat, eat, sleep, and sleep, hurry up and take care of your spirits, and drive to Xinping Fort before sunset!" ”

Then Lu Jiu added lightly. "The Tartars are coming!"

It was this sentence that made all the life of the field service team who was originally going to make a fuss suddenly tense their spirits, and their indignant arrogance suddenly became shorter, they were not ready to fight with the Tartars, after a long and arduous march, all they hoped for was to have a good meal, and then sleep comfortably, but it was not that they were going to fight with the Tartars before their butts were hot.

Looking at the stunned beings, Lu Jiu was rambling again.

"Don't be too nervous, there are soldiers in front of you in the battle, and you won't be sent to death before you go into battle until the soldiers can't support it!" Maybe Lu Jiu's words were to comfort the nervous feelings of all beings, but who knew that it backfired, I heard that there were times when even the soldiers couldn't support it, so wouldn't they be sent to death if they went up again?

Lu Huizhong felt that he was about to collapse, when is this kind of day the end, before arriving at the Acropolis, he had been deceiving himself that they were all members of the field service team who came voluntarily like the official statement, but until Qiu Ba of the guard station didn't give them a good face, and shouted a thief with an army, he completely woke up to the fact that everyone in the field service team was waiting for the crime to be dispatched, and there was no other choice. There is only one thing they can do, and that is to endure and bear and endure.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Mi Yan with an indifferent expression on his side, once upon a time, although he was devoted to befriending this person, he always had a sense of superiority in his bones, and he was always a lofty posture in front of Mi Yan. Now, he can join the field service team without hesitation and carry out self-exile, which he never has the will and confidence.

At this moment, Lu Huizhong, who has been confident and open-minded since he can remember, has low self-esteem!

"Brother Zi'an, drink this porridge quickly, there is nothing in your stomach, and it is feasible at night!"

A thin hand held a large stoneware bowl in front of him, and the inside was black and mushy, and the owner of the hand was Mi Yan. Lu Huizhong's eyes moistened, his porridge bowl was thrown to the ground and shattered in the previous chaos, and Mi Yan actually accosted him for the first time after the trial.

"Brother Yuan......" Lu Huizhong's voice choked, but he couldn't say any more.

Sure enough, the army set out again before sunset, and the Acropolis was not the end of the city, and the field service team also hit the road. The journey was bumpy in the mountains, and they finally arrived at Xinping Fort in the middle of the night.

Although he had been mentally prepared, Lu Huizhong was still surprised by the dilapidated and simple castle in front of him, the acropolis was simple enough, this Xinping Fort could no longer be called a city, except for the rammed earth foundation of one person, which was tied with all wood and nailed to the city, it is not an exaggeration to say that he was a stockade. Can such a stockade withstand the Mongol Tatars?

Who knew that early the next morning, Lu Jiu sent another general, and the situation changed again, and the army was going to move out of the border wall to the periphery of Xuanfu Wanquan's right guard. And this time, the AFS students said that they didn't want to go anymore, they had reached the limit of what they could bear, they couldn't walk, and they didn't dare to go!

Lu Jiu's face was grim and he couldn't see the change in his feelings, so he didn't force it anymore, only let the auxiliaries leave enough weapons, ammunition and food, and even specially allocated 500 auxiliaries to stay as a countermeasure.

The cavalry battalion, the grenadier battalion, and the auxiliary battalion plunged headlong into the vast mountains outside the side wall in three echelons.

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As the weather gradually became hot and sultry, the city of Taiyuan seemed to have swept away the haze caused by the two scourges of the winter plague and the thieves.

Since the lifting of the city ban, the population of Taiyuan City has increased significantly, and small vendors have also appeared on the bustling streets, as if the war has gone away and the peaceful situation is coming again. However, Li Xin, who was in the barracks, was very distressed, and in the last confrontation with the county lord, he was completely defeated because of his soft-heartedness, which gave the world a wrong signal and made him difficult to argue. The county lord seemed to be chasing after the victory, and sent people to bring him daily necessities every day, from his coat and robe to food and water, and even some inconspicuous things, such as the net cover of his hair, were carefully selected.

Li Xinshou is not either, nor is he not, so he simply no longer wears civilian robes, but wears the unique red and black military uniforms of the Three Guards anytime and anywhere. Soon, Li Xin didn't care about his troubles, and rode a fast horse into Taiyuan City from north to south, and the sudden sound of horses' hooves startled a piece of passers-by on the side of the idle street, and the riders were covered in dust and made them smell a trace of war, and the ominous premonition seemed to be like a plague, and it only took an afternoon to break up in Taiyuan City.

The next morning, the newspaper office opposite the bell temple was already crowded, and they were all waiting for the noon door to open and buy a newspaper to find out what news had been brought back by the fast horse that had come from the north yesterday.

The newspaper is called "Taiyuan Afternoon News", which is a new trick made by a trading company, just like the imperial court's newspaper, but it is better than the things contained in it are the first-hand news of the moment, from the imperial court to the local major events, as well as the rare and strange things in Taiyuan City, and even whose daughter-in-law stole the man's son and so on. This fully satisfies people's curiosity, so it has been launched and sold out in a few moments after it opens every day.

The first person to snap up the newspaper was a talented man over forty years old, who had gone through all the pages up and down, left and right, and had not seen any news about the fast horse of yesterday. People can't help but feel uneasy, there must be a big deal going south quickly, what is the big thing, so that this customs declaration with the background of the general military government is silent?

The tighter the news, the more important it will be, and there are many good people in the city, but this time, no matter how much the river relations are used, nothing will be obtained.

There is indeed a big event, yesterday Qian Tai sent a fast horse to report, after Lu Jiu left Xinping Fort, the Mongols suddenly attacked, but the bad thing is that the field service team did not set off with Lu Jiu, Xinping Fort fell, everyone in the fort is nowhere to be found, and it is already more auspicious than lucky. The Mongol Tartar army drove straight into the acropolis, but fortunately, the city walls had long been repaired, and there were cannons in the town, so the Tatars could not gnaw this hard bone for a while and retreated north.

However, this time the Tartars' invasion was very suspicious, neither looting the livestock nor attacking the city, as if there was another goal, and it is not clear what this goal was.

Li Xin and Tian Fuzhen were discussing the strangeness of this matter, but they saw Lu Sizhen pushing the door in, looking panicked.

"The general is in charge of Sizhen, and Lu Jiu declares his personal vendetta and harms ......"