Cottage, in the courtyard of Xi Zhicai. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xi Zhicai has always had a habit of being busy, no matter what he has, his work will be completed after dark.

When he finished his work, he would make himself a pot of medicinal tea, drinking it while looking at the sky, whether it was windy, rainy or clear, it was the same, and it rarely changed.

"Young Master, what are you looking at?"

This was a familiar scene, but today Ah Fu couldn't help but ask.

"Look at what? yes, what am I looking at, maybe it's fate. ”

Xi Zhicai was a little dazed, smiled half-loudly, withdrew his gaze from the sky, and looked at Ah Fu: "Something?" ”

He knows Ah Fu very well, and in his eyes, Ah Fu is a person who can't hide his thoughts, and of course, there are very few people who can hide his thoughts in front of him.

After Xi Zhicai came to Lu Haikong's cottage, Lu Haikong ran to him a lot, and Ah Fu, who came and went, became familiar with Lu Haikong.

I have to say that the confidence and vigor of Lu Haikong is very charming, at least for a person like Lu Haikong, Ah Fu has gradually had a good impression from the initial rejection, not to mention, Lu Haikong often does a thing of sending all kinds of tonics to Xi Zhicai for three days and two days.

So now that Luhaikong's cottage is encountering this situation, Ah Fu can't help but mention that Lu Haikong is worried: "Young master, aren't you going to help the owner of the village?" The imperial court has already been encircled and suppressed by a large army, and the next round of encirclement and suppression is coming soon, shouldn't you help him at this time? ”

Xi Zhicai seemed to have an expectation, so he didn't answer first, but took a sip of tea, frowning slightly.

"No matter how many times I drink it, this tea is always so bitter."

Although Xi Zhicai's answer to the question made Ah Fu confused, he also knew Xi Zhicai's temper after following Xi Zhicai for so long, so he honestly waited for Xi Zhicai's next step.

"I didn't drink this tea before, not because it was expensive, but because it was bitter, and I didn't seem to have a reason to drink it, but after I came to the cottage, I started drinking it, because I had a reason to drink it."

Ah Fu is still confused, Xi Zhicai seems to be in a lot of mood at this time, this is a rare situation before Xi Zhicai did not come to the cottage, but I don't know why after arriving at the cottage, this situation is a lot more.

Ah Fu could obviously feel that his young master liked this place very much, but he couldn't understand that his young master would have such an expression.

"I can't accompany him to the end, so I can let him go on his own."

When Xi Zhicai said this, he seemed to suddenly come back to something, the loneliness on his face stopped, and a gentle smile was revealed: "Don't worry, he'll be fine, this guy is always lucky." ”

After speaking, Xi Zhicai continued to drink tea, looking at the sky, his expression was the same as before, but it made Ah Fu feel a kind of loneliness, and he seemed to be a little unwilling.

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Lu Haikong has been getting busier and busier recently, and he used to go over almost every day when Xi Zhicai was there, but he has been going less and less recently.

There is no way, there is already news coming, Ding Yuan's side has reached Qiangyin, and the soldiers and horses of various counties have also been gathered one after another, and this big battle is estimated to come soon.

As soon as Ding Yuan and the others arrived in Qiangyin, some members of the Huozi Battalion mixed in with the county soldiers and entered Ding Yuan's barracks to inquire about information.

For this aspect, Ding Yuan didn't have much vigilance, and he couldn't be vigilant, Ding Yuan only did one thing, that is, drilling, very ruthlessly training the county soldiers who had just been handed over to him.

The members of the Huozi Battalion were mixed in the county soldiers, and they didn't get any information at all, but they were trained enough.

In fact, it can't be said that there is no gain at all, at least I know that Ding Yuan really has two brushes in military affairs, and in just a few days, those county soldiers let him train well.

In addition to the Fire Word Battalion, the Ghost Shadow Guard also began to investigate Ding Yuan.

Compared with the roundabout route taken by the Fire Word Battalion, the Ghost Shadow Guard infiltrated the opponent's military camp with a single knife.

As a result, the ghost shadow guard was more unlucky, dozens of them went in, only a few came back, and the rest all died, fortunately Ma Poor himself didn't go in, otherwise whether Ma Poor himself could come out is really a matter of two words.

The failure of the Ghost Shadow Guard's operation was also expected by Lu Haikong, but I felt a little sorry for those dozens of Ghost Shadow Guards, and it was not easy for those guys to cultivate.

And when the land, sea and air were testing others, Ding Yuan also sent a large number of scouts to investigate the situation on the side of the land, sea and air cottage while training the troops.

Although he already knows a lot about the terrain on the land, sea and air side, the war still has to be considered according to the actual situation, so every day there are a large number of scouts outside the land, sea and air cottages, and some people even grope into the two mountains outside the land, sea and air cottages, trying to find other offensive routes.

For these scouts, Lu Haikong was completely unrelenting, and directly sent members of the Fire Word Battalion, but whenever they found it, they were killed on the spot.

In this confrontation between the two sides, after five days, when Ding Yuan's side finally trained the 50,000 county soldiers handed over to him, and those trebuchets and siege engines were almost ready, they began to drive the army to the cottage by land, sea and air.

While Ding Yuan was making preparations, the preparations on the side of the land, sea and air were basically in place.

In addition to the conscription of the systematic barracks, the atmosphere of the imminent war in the cottage not only did not cause panic, but on the contrary, triggered a frenzied upsurge.

Countless young men and women have stood up and asked the land, sea and air to recruit troops again, and they will also fight for the land, sea and air for the cottage.

Under this kind of craze, Lu Haikong once again recruited 2,000 young people, but this group of people had not been trained, so after they were recruited, Lu Haikong handed them logistics tasks.

There is no way, although the people's will is available, but the land, sea and air can't let them die.

In addition to the increase in troops in the cottage, various defensive facilities in the cottage have also been erected, the focus of which is the fifteen trebuchets snatched from the Zhangjia army, as well as the Gongsun crossbow machine that was produced during this period of time.

At present, there are a total of 20 trebuchets in the cottage, as well as 15 Gongsun crossbow machines, in terms of city defense, it is stronger than before, I don't know how many grades.

With both sides fully prepared, this big battle finally began.

After Ding Yuan's soldiers and horses were in place a few miles outside the wall, a cavalry took the lead to kill the man who was holding the Fang Tian painting halberd, and shouted under the wall of the cottage.

"I am Jiuyuan Lu Fengxian, who dares to fight with me?"