Chapter 962: The partial teacher

Deng Fan's footsteps stepped on the muddy road and made waves of "puff puff". Every time he took a step, his boots would sink deep into the mud and he had to pull them out with great force.

He looked at the boots with some distress.

Generally speaking, contemporary people rarely wear leather boots, either by cloth shoes or by straw sandals. Deng Fan's leather boots originated from Liangzhou specialties sold by merchants in Yizhou two years ago. It is said that the Qiang and Hu people in Liangzhou like to wear this way. Later, General Lei thought this thing was very convenient, so he asked craftsmen to imitate its shape, with a tie on the mouth of the boot, and then a thick cloth was used to put iron palms as the base.

Then this kind of leather boots became a fashion in the Jiaozhou military. Even if you pay for customization, you have to wait more than ten days before you can get the physical item.

This northward battle was the first time Deng Fan returned to his hometown in Jiaozhou several years, and it was also his first time to participate in a war as a lieutenant. Although the people in Jiyang's hometown had long been moved to Yuzhou, he still specially selected particularly majestic military uniforms, with armor and even leather boots, he wore his favorite pair.

This soaked in water, leather boots are all done.

Deng Fan sighed, took off his leather boots, tied the laces at the mouth of the boots into knots, and hung them around his neck. Then he took off his feet and marched barefoot like other soldiers.

After walking half a mile further, you can see that the soldiers on your side are dealing with the bodies of the dead.

According to military rules, after the Jiaozhou army fought, the corpses of its soldiers should be collected. But at this moment, it was still in war, and even if it rained heavily, dry firewood could not be found to make fire to cremate. So everyone tacitly fooled it, and no one mentioned it much.

However, the bodies of the victims on their own side will be placed separately and then filled with soil; in addition, the items that the soldiers will be collected and brought back to Jiaozhou to pass to their families. As for the bodies of the enemy soldiers, they will push them to any trench and wait for the hawks and beasts to swallow them.

The troops of Ren Hui and Deng Fan were about 4,000 troops as partial troops. The combat mission was to penetrate between Lumen Mountain and Dahong Mountain, then quickly cross the water, threaten Cai Yang, Anchang and other places, and then block the troops of Xiahou Shang and Jiang Xia Wenpin of Sui County to ensure the safety of the flanks of the main force of the Jiaozhou Army.

Because of the heavy rain last night, they were blocked on a slope halfway. They didn't set off hard until noon today and marched northeast. However, after the heavy rain, many hills and slopes collapsed, and the road was covered by mud. I don't know if they took the wrong path or what happened, but for some reason, they accidentally bumped into a small village controlled by Cao's army.

Ren Hui immediately led his troops to attack, seized the small village, and killed more than a hundred defenders in the village. At this time, there were still black and red blood stains on the walls on the edge of the village, broken swords and corpses everywhere, as if they were trying their best to show the fierce battle to Deng Fan.

In front of the small village, a general was pressing his knife to look around.

But I saw that this man was about fifty years old, with a burly figure, straight nose, square mouth, and lush beard under the jaw, looking extremely majestic. Unfortunately, he was blind and had a little more ferocious spirit.

This general is Ren Hui.

Ren Hui was one of Lei Yuan's capable subordinates recruited by the mountain. Like Guo Jing, he was a subordinate of King Chen and Liu Chong at that time. Later in Yidu, he and Guo Jing were both teaching staff in the military academy. In the past few years, Ren Hui and Guo Jing fought against Jiaozhou together. The barbarian tribes on the Yizhou border not only made great achievements, but also won the reputation of the boss in Nanzhong, Yizhou.

However, in an encounter, he was shot on the face by a barbarian poison arrow, which was soaked in poisonous gas, causing him to blind one eye.

In recent years, there have been many old generals among the old members of the Lei family. Ren Hui has a deep experience and sufficient talent. Now he has become a senior general after Guo Jing, He Song and Ding Feng, and he is appointed as a general.

Seeing Deng Fan arrive, Ren Hui waved: "Where can the other troops come to the back team?"

Deng Fan shook his head.

"Where are the people we sent out? There is no reward?"

Deng Fan was Deng Tong's nephew, and Deng Tong entrusted him to Lei Yuan before his death. Lei Yuan ordered him to lead Deng Tong's old subordinates. For several years, he was responsible for opening rivers and canals in Jiaozhou, connecting the grain transportation between Jing and Jiaozhou, and later became responsible for military garrisons. His location was all made contributions. Jiaozhou gradually changed from a barbaric land in the border areas to a wealth of money, and was able to support tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Deng Fan made great efforts in it and was praised by Lei Yuan many times in person.

Two years ago, Deng Fan followed Guo Jing again, and Ren Hui attacked the barbarians. Ren Hui's troops were surrounded by barbarians. Deng Fan led elite troops to cross mountains and ridges to rescue him, otherwise Ren Hui would have lost more than just one eye.

Deng Fan was promoted to the lieutenant and became Ren Hui's deputy for his contribution.

After Ren Hui asked, Deng Fan replied: "The teams heading towards Jiming Mountain have not yet responded; the teams heading towards Baishan have encountered a large number of Cao's scouts. I don't dare to go deeper."

"Cao Army Scout? Paoshan?" Ren Hui frowned: "Yesterday we received the last notice that because Cao Xiu's troops went south, General Lei led the elite troops to attack Paoshan. If Cao's army had such strict precautions around Paoshan... Could it be... would it be..."

"No, no. In my opinion, General Lei must have taken Paoshan."

"How can I see it?"

"If Paishan is still in the hands of Cao's army, why are the scouts of Cao's army lingering around Paishan? Wherever the scouts are, the enemy will be. Obviously, General Lei has entered Paishan, Cao, Cao's army has launched a large-scale investigation and attempted to counterattack."

Ren Hui was still a little worried: "But I don't know how many soldiers and horses General Lei brought up the mountain. If Cao's army had full force to counterattack, our army would be blocked by heavy rain, and it would be divided. The subsequent troops could not reinforce for a while, which would be troublesome."

"No need to worry too much. With the general's wisdom and decisiveness, and dare to stand out in front of the enemy, how could there be no means of successors? What's more, even if Cao's army attacked the mountain, the general could compete with Zhang Liao with hundreds of remaining soldiers in the mountain. But I don't know how Cao Xiu was compared to Zhang Liao?"

After Deng Fan said this, Ren Hui felt much more relaxed. He glanced at Deng Fan with a slanted look: "How sure are you sure what you said?"

Deng Fan responded and said, "I am sure of my guess. I have 100% confidence in General Lei."

Ren Hui laughed a few times and said with satisfaction: "That's good. Haha, then let's march quickly and continue toward Caiyang and Anchang."

Deng Fan suddenly looked at the soldiers around him, but he wanted to say something, as if he had something to say.

Ren Hui saw it and asked actively: "What? What's wrong?"

Deng Fan hesitated for a moment: "General Ren, Lei, General Lei, what is the main purpose of letting our troops head north?"

"Of course, it is to restrain the superior forces of Sui County and the Jiangxia Cao army to ensure the safety of our flanks."
Chapter completed!