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Xiashi Village was originally small, with only about thirty households living in the village. Like Shangshi Village, all residents were villagers surnamed Shi. But in the past two years, with the renovation and widening of official roads, Youzhou passed through Jizhou and then to Ping
The traffic in the prefecture is gradually prospering. Shangshi Village and Xiashi Village, two villages located at the junction of Jizhou and Hepingzhou and close to Guandao, have gradually become more prosperous. In addition to the houses of residents surnamed Shi in this village, many shops are in
Warehouses for goods transfer have been set up here, and some small merchants and hawkers have simply built a few wooden houses on the edge of the village to sell food and drinks to merchants." "Novel.
Li Xiaoxi entered the Shihou of Xiashi Village, which had become the outpost camp of the Volunteer Army. Many Volunteer Army sergeants were busy in the village. None of the people in the village were seen. Li Xiaoxi knew without asking that all these villagers must have been killed.
After the army is driven out, the old and the weak will wait in the nearby mountains and forests, preparing to return to their exciting homes after the army leaves. The young and strong will be recruited into the camp and become civilian husbands of the army.
After a war, perhaps the old, weak, women and children will starve to death or freeze to death, perhaps the young men who became civilian husbands will be killed by the army who are eager to serve, or they may be recruited as the first warriors and their bodies will be wiped out. Each family will be left alone.
After this defeat, those who survived by chance could start their families again after the war.
This kind of thing was very common in Hebei, and Li Xiaoxi had seen it too many times. Countless people had their homes destroyed due to a war, and the people were almost numb to it. This was considered lucky. When meeting a certain
When cruel generals lead troops, they often massacre villages in order to keep the secret of their march. This is the greatest misfortune.
Li Xiaoxi was originally quite numb to this, but after seeing the stability and prosperity of Pingzhou and Yingzhou in the past two months, looking at this village occupied by the army, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
The army occupying Xia Shi Village is part of the Right Wing of the Volunteer Army. The leading officer's surname is Liu. He is a battalion commander. Commander Liu's real surname is not Liu. He has taken the surname Liu since joining the Volunteer Army the year before last. Commander Liu is originally from the Right Wing.
Dutou, brother number 560, has met Li Xiaoxi several times, but is not familiar with them.
On the night of Da'an Mountain, when Li Xiaoxi launched a sergeant mutiny, most of the soldiers who participated were soldiers from the left wing, especially the Shanziying and Shuiziying battalions. The right wing was basically a "coerced" target, so they were rewarded afterwards.
Shihou. Commander Liu was rewarded with the shime reward. Commander Liu was promoted from the commander of a capital to the commander of the first battalion mainly in the past two months. The apparent reason for the promotion was that the army was expanding too fast and required a capable person.
Grassroots officers, but in private, everyone secretly speculated that it might be related to the purpose of Marshal Liu Shouguang to control the army more securely.
In the past two months, the left wing of the Volunteer Army, the main force of the Da'an Mountain Night Mutiny, has become a hot spot for promotion. Many officers who worked hard at that time have been promoted, but this promotion has a very strong shadow of promotion and promotion.
They were appointed as military and horse envoys, military city envoys, and guard envoys in various states and cities. They were all important officials of one party, and their brothers followed them to their posts.
However, according to the news coming back, these soldiers who were transferred from the Volunteer Army did not get the treatment they deserve. Under the superficially glamorous official positions and numbers, there were many wounded hearts hidden. It was said that not only
The army has been greatly expanded, and even the most basic money and food to maintain the army is quite scarce.
When Commander Liu heard about Li Xiaoxi's arrival, he hurried to the entrance of the village to greet him. The two exchanged greetings for a while and then entered side by side. Commander Liu was very interested in Li Xiaoxi's experience after being promoted to the Pingzhou Army Envoy. He wanted to confirm what he had heard in the past.
Are those rumors true?
Li Xiaoxi told the whole story about his exciting encounters. Of course, there were many things that he couldn't talk about. He used the Spring and Autumn style of writing for everything that needed to be concealed.
After learning about Li Xiaoxi's embarrassing situation, Commander Liu couldn't help but feel sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died. He sighed, not only because of Li Xiaoxi's injustice, but also worried about his own future future.
Looking at Li Xiaoxi's still very few troops, Commander Liu couldn't help but feel lucky that Zi Ji Mei was promoted to Shime Lao Shi Zi's military commander. He was filled with compassion and ordered his subordinates to boil water and rice, and treated Zi Ping well.
Li Xiaoxi's unit who returned from a long distance from Zhouzhou.
Li Xiaoxi asked Commander Liu about the situation of the Volunteer Army, and Commander Liu told him everything he knew without reservation.
The volunteer army is still on the road. The latest news is that it is still two or three days away. Commander Liu Shouguang is also still in the army marching with the army. Commander Liu arrived at Xiashi Village three days ago as an advance force and established a
After arriving at the advance camp, another commander Liu led another battalion head to Shangshi Village, three miles to the northwest. Shangshi Village and Xiashi Village relied on each other to implement warning and cover in the direction of Shicheng.
The terrain beside the stone stream to the west of Shangxiashi Village is relatively flat. That is the main camp chosen by the army. There is also Commander Liu who is leading hundreds of soldiers and thousands of civilians collected from nearby to build a Chinese army camp by the stone stream.
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In the Volunteer Army, most of the battalion and capital-level officers have the surname Liu, because in theory they are all Liu Shouguang's adopted sons. In the mouth of Commander Liu in front of him, Li Xiaoxi is still called Liu, but it is not "Liu".
"Liu Commander", but "Liu Bingma".
Commander Liu, who had just arrived, sent some guerrillas to serve as sentinels in the area between Shicheng and Shangxiashi Village. However, the guerrillas were expelled by the scouts of the Yingzhou Army after a short time of luring them. Now they can only defend Shangxiashi Village.
Two places to prevent being taken advantage of by the Yingzhou Army. The Yier Army and the Yingzhou Army were tempted to fight, but Liu commanded only a dozen horses in total. Facing the overwhelming cavalry advantage of the Yingzhou Army, they could only bow their heads.
Li Xiaoxi was tempted to stay too long in Xiashi Village. After completing her friendship with Commander Liu and enjoying a free lunch, she left here and followed the direction directed by Commander Liu to the flat land beside the stone stream. Countless civilians were there.
Under the pressure of the soldiers, there were busy workers, and many craftsmen were directing the progress of the project. The camp fence was almost completed, and a large open space was surrounded. There were also many civilians coming from a forest in the distance.
The woods that carry the truckloads of wood to the camp will disappear in the near future.
Another commander, Liu, who was supervising the work here, came over to meet Li Xiaoxi, said hello in a formal manner, and then pointed to a difāng and asked Li Xiaoxi to temporarily set up the tent there. After the Chinese army arrived, he would resume his duties according to his duties.
Adjust and allocate the garrison of each battalion, but in the eyes of Commander Liu, the "Liu Soldiers and Horses" with only about a hundred people may not attract too much attention from the Chinese army, so he pointed to a camp farther away from the big camp being built.
Far away, I just hope that "Liu Bingma" will not come over to cause trouble.
Li Xiaoxi was not impressed by Commander Liu's indifference. In the eyes of military people, official positions are not always regarded as superiors and inferiors. Only by being tough can you gain respect from others. Just stimulate your current strength and really don't put it in other people's eyes. This way
The treatment was too normal. On the contrary, Li Xiaoxi was surprised by the warm reception given by Commander Liu of Xia Shi Village.
The several carts Li Xiaoxi brought were filled with food, dried meat, weapons, and tents. He ordered his subordinates to get busy and set up a small temporary camp at the designated location. In one afternoon, a dozen tents were built.
Set up along the rocky stream, the brothers began to cut ice to boil water and cook dinner.
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the volunteer army finally arrived at the camp. Because the camp was not large enough to accommodate many soldiers, the only people who could really enter the camp were the five thousand people in the left wing and a few from the horizontal squadron of the Chinese army.
At the capital, they marched into the camp and set up tents according to the designated wèizhi; the right wing brigade continued eastward, divided into two parts, and entered Shangshi and Xiashi villages to station themselves.
In the past few days, governors, soldiers and horse envoys, military city envoys, and capture envoys from various states have arrived, and Li Xiaoxi has been stationed at his own camp along the edge of the stone stream. After seeing the middle army of the Yier Army move into the camp, these troops
The generals all went to the camp to see the commander, but the commander Liu Shouguang was "hard" on the road and needed to "recuperate" for two days, so no one saw the commander. Only Liu Zhiwen, the judge of Jiedu, met them one by one and comforted them with kind words.
After that, he sent people to lead the generals to camp at the designated location.
Li Xiaoxi was also received by Liu Zhiwen. Compared with that night at Da'an Mountain, Liu Zhiwen's polite and polite attitude showed a hint of superiority and inferiority. Liu Zhiwen was the superior and Li Xiaoxi was the inferior. The intimacy between the two of them that night was
There is an essential difference between them. The conversation between the two was the longest among all the people Liu Zhiwen met, because Liu Zhiwen asked Li Xiaoxi many questions about Pingzhou and even Yingzhou. Although the special treatment Li Xiaoxi received was the envy of others, he himself
Quite angry, because Liu Zhiwen's questions were full of irresistible compulsion.
"If I had known that you would treat me like this, I would have chopped you to death long ago, you little bastard!" Li Xiaoxi answered Liu Zhiwen's question respectfully, while secretly feeling cruel in her heart.
But the ruthlessness returned, Li Xiaoxi used Liu Zhiwen's trick to lure him. Liu Zhiwen was recognized as the second best person in Youzhou, and now he was even more vocal among the army. If he really wanted to chop off Li Xiaoxi's head, others would never dare to say anything.
Full of resentment, Li Xiaoxi left the Chinese army camp, looked up to the sky and let out a long breath, as if he wanted to spit out all the grievances in his heart. When he felt better again, he hurried back to the rocky stream and commanded his troops to move down.
camp.
The new camp is located among several hills a little further away from the main camp. On the hills, the masters have built several tall archery towers at some time, which can not only protect against enemies, but also provide warning. There is also a small small tower on each hill.
There are military camps guarding these archery towers. There are several luring barracks in the hills, but they are connected together by several trenches. The sides of the trenches are filled with deer fences and horse ropes.
From Li Xiaoxi's point of view, this kind of defense is much stronger than the simple fence surrounding the Chinese army camp. The fence surrounding and protecting the Chinese army camp is too fragile. Not only are the stakes not deep, but also the structure of the camp is too weak.
The wood of the fence is also quite thin. Compared with the thick fence of the Yingzhou Army under the stone city seen on the road, there is a huge difference in thickness. The fence built by the Yingzhou Army is made of three rows of logs!
Surrounded by rolling hills, there are piles of neatly stacked grain bags. Dozens of tents are surrounded in the middle of the grain bags. Outside the tall tent in the middle, there is a large flag with the word "zhou" standing on it. On the other side there are
There is a large tent with the same large flag, but the word "Zhang" is written on the flag.
Li Xiaoxi stared at the big flag with the word "zhou" in it, then looked at the big tent, and thought to herself, "This is the rightful owner." To be continued...)