Yang Ze said that he wanted to fight three hundred military sticks, which was definitely the rhythm of beating people to death, and anyone could understand this, but it was better than directly beheading the head, but it was only a little stronger.

But if these 300 military sticks are written down first, and later there are merits that can be offset, doesn't that mean that even if they make meritorious contributions, they can only offset this military stick, that is to say, they have to make two great merits before they can report to the imperial court and reward their merits, which is too difficult.

And if he didn't make a meritorious service, but angered Yang Ze, then this military stick was really going to be beaten, and they couldn't say anything, didn't this mean that his life was already in Yang Ze's hands, at least during the period of the expedition, none of them could have the slightest resistance to Yang Ze, and no matter how dissatisfied they were, they could only hold it in their stomachs, even if they wanted to retaliate, they could only talk about it after returning to Beijing.

However, Yang Ze's methods are so tough, even if they return to Beijing, they will have a chance? This is obviously impossible!

Whether it is the imperial guards, or the students of the Guozijian, they all feel that Yang Ze is too terrible, and no one dares to make any more thorns, but the students of the Guozijian regret it, why should they listen to Meng Zhengtian's stupidity, they have to be late, and the handle fell into the hands of Yang Ze, and the imperial guards felt even more wronged, they didn't think about being late, they agreed to arrive later after receiving the students' money, now it's good, let Yang Ze catch the handle, there are no good days, they don't dare to resent Yang Ze, Instead, they resented the students.

They all wanted to stay away from Yang Ze, but Yang Ze liked them a lot, and didn't want them all to dodge, but called the imperial guards. Let them be responsible for vigilance and reconnaissance, let them walk in the front of the army, act as a vanguard, and repeatedly emphasize that this is the trust of the imperial guards, if the enemy is found, they don't need to fight, as long as they come back to report the news, usually only need to open the road in the mountains, and build a bridge in the water. At most, it is a body lì work. Don't be desperate, this is his General Yang's thoughtfulness to the imperial guards!

The captain wants to cry without tears, and the enemy is in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast, as long as he is out of place. There can be a fart enemy. Didn't Yang Ze call them like stupid boys? He regretted it even more, he had a good relationship with Yang Ze before, but because he and Guozijian's students "shared money." have a good relationship", so Yang Ze held a grudge, which was too wronged!

Yang Ze didn't let go of those students, didn't you come out of the Guozijian, counting us are still classmates, the literary style must be excellent, so, he asked the students to write a march diary every day, everyone had to write, and he also evaluated who wrote the best, and if he wrote well, he would use it directly and report it to the Ministry of War, maybe he could let Empress Dugu see it, and if he didn't write well, he wouldn't beat the military stick, but punished the last ten who were not allowed to eat, as an alternate civil official, if he couldn't even write a diary, what else could he do?

Not only that, but he also asked the students to wander around everyone, to check the terrain, and to draw a map, but also to understand the local people, saying that this is to train them, and after graduating from the Guozijian in the future, go out to become magistrates, can't these be used, this is for their good!

These tasks are assigned, almost all the students in Guozijian are about to faint, Yang Ze is even more ruthless than their teachers in Guozijian, he even leaves them homework, or homework that must be completed every day, and they have to be evaluated, and the last ten are not allowed to eat, why are they needed, do you need to repair them like this!

In order to show that it is not embarrassing for them, everyone is a classmate, Yang Ze also specially called Meng Zhengtian to his side, saying that in order to let him recuperate from his injuries and return to the National Prison, he was given a glorious and arduous task, which is to evaluate the marching diaries written by the students every day, of course, he doesn't need to comment on the good writing, that is what Yang Ze himself has to do, Meng Zhengtian wants to evaluate the ten diaries that are not well written every day, who he evaluates, who can't eat at night, this task is quite arduous!

Meng Zhengtian was about to be repaired to death, after hearing the task given to him by Yang Ze, he almost lost his breath on the spot, such an offending task, why should he be handed over to him, and kept saying that it was for his good, could he not be so good to him!

In the evening of this day, Chang Chenggong sent people into the city rushed to take Jiao Shuquan and escorted Jiao Shuquan, Yang Ze did not allow Jiao Shuquan to take sick leave, and ordered him to follow the army to fight, and his comrades still "cared" about him so much, so Jiao Shuquan could not come, if he dared to say a word, then Yang Ze would really cut off his head.

Yang Ze was still very considerate, let him and Meng Zhengtian live together, and also privately said to the two of them, let them supervise each other, if anyone finds out that the other party has the intention of rebellion, then even if it is a great achievement, Jiao Shuquan can no longer be held accountable, and Meng Zhengtian no longer has to comment on the students' diaries!

As a result, it caused the consequences of Yan zhòng, although Jiao Shuquan and Meng Zhengtian lived in a tent, but they never spoke, the two of them were like enemies, staring at each other, and even wanted to find some clues of rebellion from each other's dream words, it is estimated that the whole march road, they will be so tired, unless they reconcile in private and discuss how to deal with Yang Ze together, but this situation will basically not happen, if either of them dares to say anything to deal with Yang Ze first, then the other one will have to make meritorious contributions. told Yang Ze, so neither of them dared to say anything about reconciliation first.

After Yang Ze dealt with the potential danger, he concentrated on marching with the army, all the way to the northeast, about half a month later, he went out of the Great Wall, came to the prairie, according to the normal marching route, walked on the prairie for another month or two, it will be from west to east, into the edge of the northeast, and after walking for half a month, you can enter the deep mountains.

Of course, this is a normal expectation, but Yang Ze ordered that the march must be accelerated, and he didn't want to delay time, so he ordered that there was no need to cross mountains and mountains, which would delay time, but when he encountered mountains and rivers, he walked around, and tried his best to run on horseback.

But in this way, there are tribes of the Sudden Awakening people in the passing places, although they are all small tribes, they are marginal tribes in the Sudden Awakening, but the danger factor has increased, and they often encounter small groups of horse thieves, but the right Shenwu army of more than 10,000 marches, and any small group of horse thieves are afraid to approach, so in the initial marching process, it is still smooth, and there is no war!

On this day, when the army marched to a mountain pass, the imperial guard who acted as the vanguard in front sent someone back, wanting to ask Yang Ze, is it still necessary to bypass the mountain peak in front this time?

Yang Ze saw that this mountain is not high, in fact, in the prairie, to say that there is really no real mountain, at least not on the way to the army, the mountain in front of him is not too high, a bit similar to the higher hilly landform, in addition to a main peak, there are some continuous hills, this landform wants to drive the horse It is impossible, you can only slowly turn over, and the speed of the armed carriage is slower.

Yang Ze asked the imperial guard who came back to report the news: "How many miles is the radius of this hill?" If you flip it over, how many days will it take? ”

The imperial guard said: "The radius is not wide, it is only forty or fifty miles, if you turn over, you can set off in the morning, and you can turn it over the next night." ”

He paused, knowing that Yang Ze was unwilling to climb the mountain, so he said again: "Just now our captain personally went up the mountain and looked around, if you go around this hill, then you have to walk a hundred miles more, but it is all plains, and the time spent is about a day more, not too much, but it has to cross a river, the river is far away, about seven or eight zhang wide, it should not be deep, except for this river, there is no other obstacle to detouring." ”

Yang Ze nodded and said, "It's better to take a detour, safety first!" Although he didn't want to waste more time, but in a day, he could still stand it, after all, it was too troublesome to climb the mountain, and if a carriage loaded with armaments overturned on the way, it would be even more troublesome, after all, it was not easy to replenish the offerings on the prairie.

The imperial guard added, "If you take a detour, you may encounter a tribe, just now when the captain was on the mountain, I saw smoke in the distance, although I didn't see a flock of sheep, but it still means that there is a tribe in the distance, how big it is not clear, if you take a detour, we will send people to explore." ”

Yang Ze nodded and agreed, although the imperial guards were all soldiers, and they were very lazy when they were in Beijing, but during this period of time, they could do everything they should do, which was quite good, at least their own work, they didn't dare to delay.

The imperial guard turned his horse's head and ran to the mountain pass again, and told the captain to turn around and take a detour.

This kind of detour has been encountered several times, the captain has come down from the mountain, listened to the report of the imperial guard, and said with a smile: "I know that he is going to make a detour, and it will save us trouble, even if this General Yang is shrewd, he can rush to the road, and he must listen to us!" ”

The imperial guards around him laughed together, and they all said that the captain was wise, so Yang Ze was actually very deceiving!

It turned out that this hill was not like the royal guard reported to Yang Ze, there was absolutely no radius of forty miles, but there was no mountain road, and it was relatively steep, if you want to climb over this mountain, it is necessary to build the road first, at least to find a safe place for the carriage to pass guò, for the imperial guards, this is too hard, it is better to take a detour, although you have to walk more, but you don't have to do physical work on a horse!

The lieutenant asked, "Did you tell General Yang about the smoke in the distance?" ”

"I said, I reminded him under the mark, but I don't care too much about his appearance!" The royal guard who reported the news said.

The lieutenant nodded and said, "It's good to remind you, so that we don't have to bear any responsibility." In fact, it is estimated that there will be no danger, on this grassland, there should be no Tujue tribe who have dared to move ten thousand troops! ”

He left the pass with the imperial guards, made a small circle, and began to act as a vanguard again, finding a suitable place for the army to camp, and their task was completed.

That night, Yang Ze led the army and set up camp a few miles away from the hills, and there was nothing to say in the first half of the night, but when the moon was in the sky, something happened! (To be continued......)