Early the next morning, Li Laiheng woke up to a burst of cold air. He got out of bed, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw a lot of snowflakes covering the courtyard. It was only early November, and it started to rain in Longju Village.
It snows. Houses, cottages, city walls and roads are all white as far as the eye can see, and the sky after the snow is as blue as the sea.
It was quiet in front of several huts, with the firewood doors ajar and a little sparrow standing on the bamboo fence and chirping. The snow on the slope of the house melted quietly when the sun hit it. Although there was no dripping water from the eaves, there were ice strips hanging down.
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If you look carefully every once in a while, you will see that the ice strips are slowly lengthening and enlarging, shining with silver light, and milky white smoke is rising from the sunny mountain tops, lingering, transpiration, and forming clouds, one after another in the blue sky.
Floating into the distance in the sea of color.
Uncle Qing and Aci, the girl that the Little Tigers took in last night, swept the small courtyard clean. The snow they swept away was piled on the fence. They also swept two paths outside the firewood gate, separated to the left and right. Aci
Standing in the middle of the road, holding a broom in her hand, she stretched. Her figure was extremely slender, and she showed an excellent figure when she stretched.
Li Laiheng heard someone knocking on the door outside the house, and walked out of the hut, which scared the little sparrows away. When Li Laiheng went to bed, he also took the tiger head waist knife given by Li Shuangxi with him. He put the knife behind his back and signaled
Uncle Qing and A Ci stepped out of the way and walked over to open the firewood door.
There were several visitors outside the door, the leader of whom was wearing an armored suit, no beard on his lips, and a handsome appearance. He looked about the same age as Li Shuangxi, and probably not much older than Little Tiger. The few people behind him should be from Laoying.
The people were all very old, and one of them had a hand disability. These people carried a large bag of pickled meat and vegetables together, which made Li Laiheng feel hungry early in the morning.
The heroic leader gave Li Laiheng a fist and said: "I am the old commander, Gao Yigong of the Chinese Army. The commander and my sister are both worried about you, little tiger, because you are not strong. It happened that General Liu came from the cellar of a few gentry houses.
, they brought a lot of preserved meat and vegetables from the cellar, and my sister asked me to bring them to you so that the little tiger can replenish himself."
Li Laiheng was flattered. He knew that Gao Yigong was the younger brother of Li Zicheng's wife, Mrs. Gao. He was the elder brother-in-law and had a high status in the camp. Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao asked Gao Yigong to personally deliver bacon and vegetables.
It can be regarded as special love and care.
"Why don't you bother the senior management team to send it over in person? Just tell me next time and I will go and get it myself."
Li Laiheng hurriedly called Uncle Qing to come over and help move things into the woodshed. Seeing that A Ci was thin, he didn't ask her to help, but A Ci took the initiative and glanced timidly at Gao Yigong and other strangers.
, he still stepped forward and helped Li Laiheng and Uncle Qing carry meat and vegetables.
"Little Tiger, she is...?"
Because Li Zicheng himself only had one wife and was not fond of women, other people in the camp did not dare to overstep their bounds and rob women without permission. Gao Yigong was naturally very surprised when he saw a girl in Li Laiheng's camp.
He knew that the boss admired the little tiger very much, so he asked with a hesitant question.
"Uh..." Li Laiheng was also a little embarrassed. He hadn't figured out how to explain A Ci's matter to Chuangying, so he had to tell Gao Yigong everything that happened last night.
"This child's parents were killed by the rebels, and our little tiger team occupied her house. Uncle Qing and Wai Qi saw that she was homeless and might freeze to death on the roadside, so they felt compassion and wanted to help.
Help... Senior management team, I don’t know if this violates the military discipline of breaking into the camp, but I think, after all, we have taken over other people’s houses, and we really can’t bear to see the children freezing to death on the roadside.”
Gao Yigong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. If Li Laiheng kidnapped the girl, the matter would be serious, and even his adoptive father Li Guo would be implicated. Gao Yigong waved his hand, relaxed and said with a smile: "That's okay, little tiger.
If you really can't bear it, I think it's better to send this child to the old camp and let my sister take care of it."
Li Laiheng knew that after breaking into the camp to rest for a few days, he would have to evacuate Longju Village before the army returned to encircle and suppress them. When the time came to march and fight, he would either leave Aci in Longju Village or put Acituo in the old camp.
A Ci had lost her parents, was alone, and had good looks. If she were left alone in Longju Village, Li Laiheng felt that the outcome would be very bad.
Just as he had written before, the old camp had been greatly reformed. The old camp with mixed personnel was divided into clear teams, and the women were gathered together, under the control and command of Mrs. Gao, and named the daughter camp. If A Ci was allowed to enter the daughter camp,
There shouldn't be any risks in the camp, but I don't know if she is willing or not.
Because A Ci was shorter than Li Laiheng, the little tiger bowed down, put his head close to A Ci, and asked: "A Ci, the little tiger team will leave here in the future, will you be willing to go with us then?
?If we just walk together, it must be very difficult to be exposed to the wind, frost, and wind and dew."
Li Laiheng moved his head too close, and the hot breath he exhaled when he spoke was almost touching A Ci's face. The little girl shrank her neck a little ticklishly, and she slightly raised her eyes to look at the little tiger.
, hesitated for a while, and then nodded.
"That's good."
Li Laiheng also took a breath. He was a little worried because the little girl was unwilling to leave with Chuangying. Li Laiheng saw many similarities with his young mother in A Ci, but You Ci was a You Ci, and she was not
She is not a young mother, but she has a completely different temperament from that of a young mother.
The death of his young mother made him heartbroken, but the appearance of A Ci seemed to comfort Li Laiheng a little. The troubled times prevented relatives from seeing each other again, but it also brought some people who did not know each other together.
"Executive team, I need you to do me a favor and tell Mrs. Gao. After we break camp and leave, let A Ci follow the old camp..." After Li Laiheng obtained A Ci's consent, he asked Gao
Yi Gong requested that after leaving Longju Village, Aci could join the daughter's camp led by Mrs. Gao and go together. He added, "Aci... her name is Youci. She was attacked by rebels before.
She was so frightened that she couldn't speak for the time being, and she didn't know her last name. Wai Qi and the others called her A Ci."
"Okay, it's not a problem, just leave it to me." Gao Yigong agreed. He spoke and acted neatly, which was completely different from Li Shuangxi's way of always talking nonsense, which made Li Laiheng feel very relieved.
"Let me tell you something more serious." Over there, Uncle Qing and A Ci had already helped Gao Yigong's men move the meat and vegetables into the woodshed. Gao Yigong saw that everyone else had gone away, so he moved the meat and vegetables into the firewood shed.
The conversation turned to the military aircraft, "Before leaving Shangzhou, the commander is planning to sweep all the other small towns and villages in Shangzhou except the state headquarters, and collect as many supplies as possible."
Li Zicheng's plan had already been mentioned during the previous meeting, and Li Laiheng was also very aware of it. He heard some meaning from Gao Yigong's words, "Well, this is natural. The boss has already arranged the tasks of the Little Tiger Team.
Yet?"
"Yes, the commander is planning to let me and you, Little Tiger, raid the Shanyang County area together."
Shanyang County is located in the southwest of Shangzhou. There are many mountains and rivers in the county. There are Liuling in the north, Juanling in the middle and Yunling in the south. It is known as "three mountains and two rivers". The mountains and ravines are deep and the terrain is steep. The people and fields are
They are relatively small, and it is a difficult place to chew with little meat and hard bones.
During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, when the imperial court strengthened its rule over the Shangluo and Yunyang areas, the Fengyang Inspection Department of Shang County was relocated to Shanyang County. The area was quite barren, but the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the folk customs were relatively good.
Strong. When they entered Shang from Yun before, they did not attack Shanyang County, but directly bypassed it and invaded the richer Shangnan territory.
"Are we the only two teams?" The Little Tigers had just been established. Although the Yongdu from Mizhi Township had been trained for a long time and had received a large number of new equipment from Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zongdi, Li Laiheng still had little power over the Little Tigers.
I'm not particularly reassured. Although Gao Yigong is part of Li Zicheng's central army, and his men should be relatively elite, Li Laiheng estimates that there won't be many of them.
Relying on the soldiers and horses of the Little Tiger Team and Gao Yigong, it is estimated that there are less than 200 troops. To sweep a county with steep terrain and strong folk customs... this task is still very arduous.
"That's not true. Our two troops combined are only two hundred. It would be difficult to capture Shanyang County." Fortunately, Gao Yigong rejected Li Laiheng's conjecture, "Brother Liang...is Liu Fangliang. He leads
The soldiers are collecting food and fodder in the Manchuan area. Then there is your adoptive father, Brother Guo, who is leading the troops to be stationed at Zhulin Pass. After these two groups have completed their mission, they can come over to support us. We just need to fight the first battle."
"Hey, with Sai Lanling and my adoptive father here, it won't be a problem." Li Laiheng casually called Liu Fangliang Sai Lanling. Seeing Gao Yigong's confused look, he quickly explained, "Sai Lanling
…I’m talking about General Liu Fangliang. His martial arts skills are like those of King Lanling in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, so our little tiger team calls him Sai Lanling.”
Gao Yigong suddenly realized it, but he probably didn't know who Li Laiheng was talking about, King Lanling. He just thought he was a powerful character in the story of Water Margin and Three Kingdoms, so he praised him a few words.
"Then little tiger, you should prepare here. I will go to my sister's place to talk to her about the young words. After that, we will wait for my brother and the others to set off, and then we will go out of the city together."
When Li Laiheng saw Gao Yigong calling his adopted father Li Guo "Brother Guo", he thought about it again and felt that since he was Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, he was indeed older than him. Although they seemed to be about the same age,
But I still decided to call Gao Yigong "Uncle".
"Okay, Uncle Yigong, it's settled then."
But when Gao Yigong heard Li Laiheng's name, his expression was very subtle. He suppressed a smile, but he couldn't help but broke out and laughed loudly, "Hahaha, don't call me uncle. We are different in age.
There aren’t many, so just call me brother. Let’s call me by age, not by seniority. Shuangxi is the adopted son of the director, and he and I are considered brothers.”
"This...how can this happen? You and my adoptive father are also brothers. Wouldn't it be confusing the seniority?"
"Ha, what's wrong with this? That's it. Let's talk about our own things. You call me brother and I call you nephew, okay?"
Now it was Li Laiheng's turn to look subtle. It was all because of the two uncles and nephews, Li Zicheng and Li Guo, who always treated each other as brothers, which caused a lot of confusion among the people in the camp.
"Okay, anyway, I don't want to call Brother Shuangxi uncle, so let's just talk about it ourselves!"