The dark night is dull and the breeze blows from time to time, adding a lot of coolness to this autumn day.

Zhou Xian tightened the red mandarin duck war cannon on his tight body, wore a yellow-green thin copper trouser, and a blue-gray iron mesh boot under his feet. He held a long knife on his waist and walked out of the tent.

This is the usual dress of a low-level general in the late Ming Dynasty, and most soldiers in the army were like this. Of course, there are some special ones, such as the Jinyiwei, whose low-level guards were wearing flying fish uniforms. A slightly higher-level one, such as Wang Weidong, who has been promoted to Qianhu, is now wearing bullfighting uniforms.

Patrol three times during the day and five times during the night. Yu Zhenlong and Zhou Xian were reversed and rotated day and night. This is what Zhou Xian has to do most of the time. It is like this every day, and never changed at all. The task is easy and casual. Tonight, it happened to be Zhou Xian's turn to patrol the battalions. When he walked out of the tent, Li Kai and the four guards had been waiting there for a long time. Zhou Xian nodded slightly to them and waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

Li Guoqi led 3,000 Qin soldiers to Sichuan with Wan Ji. After arriving in Wushan, he was divided into three units: front, middle and back by Wan Ji. 1,500 front troops were responsible for external defense and garrison, 500 rear troops protected food, and 1,000 central troops were stationed in the camp. The place where Zhou Xian wanted to patrol was the camp where 1,000 central troops were located. The area was large or small, and it took only two quarters of an hour to walk.

In fact, in addition to Zhou Xian and others, there were other patrol soldiers in the central army. However, the tasks of the two were different. Their patrols were worried that thieves would infiltrate, hurt the generals or steal intelligence. However, Zhou Xian and their patrols were mainly supervised to investigate whether any soldiers in the army violated discipline.

After Wan Ji came to Li Guoqi's army, he formulated a series of rules. For example, banning soldiers from gambling, prohibiting night noise, prohibiting walking at will after nightfall, etc. These little rules did play a good role in restraining soldiers, but one thing was that they were easy to offend people, especially for Zhou Xian and others who came to supervise them.

Li Guoqi led all Qin soldiers, and most of them had a rebellious personality. Although the army led by Li Guoqi was slightly better than the one led by his fellow villager He Renlong, it was only a little better. Yu Zhenlong had a straight personality. At first, he saw soldiers gambling in the army, and he actually tied up several soldiers and beat them fifty military sticks according to Wanji's handling method. At that time, he quit when he had a good relationship with those soldiers and directly pulled out a knife. If Wanji and Li Guoqi had not arrived in time, they would have almost caused a war.

Since that incident, Wan Ji has made some adjustments. He has only implemented his own rules among the thousand people in the central army and has no longer cared about the other two units. Moreover, every once in a while, some soldiers in the central army can also rotate with the front or rear army. In this way, the pressure on implementation has been much less. In the past half month, few soldiers have easily committed fouls.

As a result, Zhou Xian's mission was much easier. Tonight was as usual, except for the footsteps of the patrol soldiers. About two quarters of an hour later, Zhou Xian completed the inspection. Seeing that the military tent where Wan Ji was still flashing, he asked Li Kai and the others to go back and walk there.

"Mr. Wan, you haven't had a rest yet!"

"Oh, it's Zhou Xian! Have you gone to patrol? But what's wrong?"

Zhou Xian took off his head and smiled faintly: "Since Mr. Wan formulated such severe punishment measures, how could there be soldiers who dare to commit crimes against the wind? Don't worry! It's very stable."

Wan Ji nodded and waved his hand to signal Zhou Xian to sit down. He had gone to the teapot next to him and poured Zhou Xian a cup of tea ceremony: "It is not suitable to drink tea at night, but you are responsible for patrol tonight, so it's okay to drink at all."

Zhou Xian and Wan Ji have been together for a long time, and know that he has always been casual and is not polite to him. He picked up the tea cup and drank it in small sips, and savored it carefully. The fragrance was fragrant and mellow. He looked at the tea in the cup again. The soup was clear and crystal clear as green. He couldn't help but sigh: "Good tea!"

Wan Ji smiled and said, "This is the authentic Qingcheng Xueya when he met Governor Shao. I still have half a pound left here. If you like it, take it away together!"

Zhou Xian shook his head and smiled, "Mr. Wan, let's forget it! I like this taste, but I can't taste tea. Such fine tea leaves are completely wasted."

Wan Ji did not persuade him anymore, and he talked about the gossip with Zhou Xian without saying a word.

Zhou Xian saw him frowning and asked, "Mr. Wan, are you worried?"

Wan Ji sighed and said, "Governor Shao is unaware of military affairs, but he is stubborn. Although he finally followed General Qin's advice this time and went to Dachang City to reorganize his soldiers. However, Zhang Zixianzhong and Luo Zirucheng were in Guanyinyan, fifty miles away from Dachang City, facing Deputy General Shao across the river. Once our army moves lightly, they may take this opportunity to attack fiercely. Once this happens, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "There is indeed such a risk. But at this time, our army's troops are dispersed. If we do not integrate quickly, we will be defeated by the bandits. Although Governor Shao is not aware of the military affairs, he did not change the front-line troops where Deputy General Shao is located. There are nearly 3,000 soldiers there, and the terrain there is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it should be fine."

Wan Ji raised his eyebrows slightly, picked up the water cup and drank it, "I hope so! Governor Shao can no longer count on him. My only hope now is that General Yang will come to Shu as soon as possible. As long as that happens, all problems will not be a problem."

"Mr. Wan, where is the Supervisor now?"

"The letter from two days ago said that the Yidao had passed. If it goes well, the army will arrive in half a month."

Zhou Xian frowned slightly and said, "Mr. Wan, it will take some time for the army of Yang Commander Yang to arrive. At this moment, General Qin is far away in Chengdu, while Deputy General Zhang is still in Chongqing. Although I don't think any changes will happen, just in case, one of these two elite troops should be transferred to the Dachang front line. Otherwise, if there is an accident, they may not arrive in time."

"I have also advised Governor Shao on this matter. But he believed that the front line was already solid and there would be no accidents. Zhang Zhexianzhong has always been tricky and sent many small troops to the hinterland of Sichuan. Governor Shao even thought that the threat of these small thieves' troops was greater than that of the thieves' troops in front of him. I advised him many times, but he did not agree."
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