"For example, Mrs. Zhe, who is eighty years old, blocked my guard of honor when I left Beijing and asked me to give you a message. Shouldn't you write a letter to say thank you?
"
"It should be..."
"..."
After Kou Ji finished writing the letter, Chen Lin scolded Kou Ji for a long time before leaving Kou Ji's camp and went out to find someone to send Kou Ji's letter back.
He did not find the soldiers who carried the message in the army, but recruited the messenger soldiers from the post station closest to their military camp to send the message back to Bianjing City.
As for why he didn't find the soldier who sent the message in the army, Kou Ji didn't ask more about the specific reason.
Probably to highlight his status as a military supervisor.
Facts have proved that Chen Lin is indeed a good slave.
The next few days.
From the time when Cao Wei's army came forward to the time when the army passed through Zhending Mansion, Chen Lin never asked about the military affairs in the army. He followed Kou Ji closely, and every three days, he reminded Kou Ji to write to Zhao.
Zhen.
It is estimated that in his mind, how Cao Wei struggled in the army was not as important as Kou Ji's letter to Zhao Zhen.
He remembers the official affairs of the court with his ears. Whether he can remember them or not is hard to say.
But he remembered Zhao Zhen's instructions carefully and implemented them meticulously.
After Cao Wei led his soldiers and horses to Zhending Mansion, other armies from various directions had also arrived.
After the 400,000-strong army gathered together, Cao Wei lectured the generals and then began to divide the troops.
The Liao army moved south in two groups. Naturally, Cao Wei could not gather his troops together and swarm them forward. He also needed to divide his troops.
Cao Wei divided his troops into two groups, with 250,000 troops and horses led by him. They came out of Zhending Mansion and met the main force of the Liao army coming south from Youzhou City.
Along the way, 150,000 soldiers and horses, led by Yang Wenguang and several regiment training envoys, entered Yanmen Pass.
After the division of troops.
The army did not stay at Zhending Mansion for long and immediately started marching.
It is said that the soldiers and horses adjacent to Youzhou City have already faced off against the Liao army. They were retreating steadily under the attack of the Liao army.
If the army led by Cao Wei cannot arrive in time, they will most likely be wiped out by the Liao army's attack.
Cao Wei led the army to march out, and Kou Ji followed the army.
Cao Wei originally wanted to send Kou Ji to serve as a supervisor in the Left Army led by Yang Wenguang, but Chen Lin had to stay with Kou Ji life and death, and Chen Lin, the supervisor, had to stay with Cao Wei, the commander-in-chief, so in the end Kou Ji
Ji Ye was left with Cao Wei.
Cao Wei led 250,000 troops to Baozhou and caught up with the Baosai Army stationed in Baozhou and the Liao Army who were fighting fiercely.
Cao Wei did not say any unnecessary words, nor read any oath to send troops. He led his troops and horses directly out of Baozhou and fought fiercely with the Liao army.
After finally repelling the Liao army's attack, he led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield and set up camp under the Baozhou city.
Kou Ji and Chen Lin, leading a group of clerks, began to record the merits and demerits of the soldiers who had just come off the battlefield.
Looking at the soldiers who were missing arms and legs, Kou Ji's mouth twitched.
The ferocity of the Liao army far exceeded his imagination.
The misery of the soldiers of the Bulgarian Army was far beyond his imagination.
A group of warriors who fought for their lives with the Liao people in nine cold days wore cotton-padded clothes filled not with cotton but with weeds.
All of them were covered in sores from the cold, and they told Kou Ji with a smile that cotton, a foreign product, was far less warm than the weeds in the Song Dynasty, and it was not as considerate as the weeds in the Song Dynasty.
Kou Ji knew that they were telling lies, and he also knew that they were covering up for those who drank the blood of soldiers behind them.
But he couldn't curse or get angry, and he still had to coax them into wearing the sheepskin jackets he sent out.
The sheepskin coat he handed out was too good and the fur was too smooth, so the soldiers did not dare to accept it.
Seeing Kou Ji stripping off the documents, supervisors, and judges that came with him, and sending all the cold-proof clothes they were wearing to the hands of the soldiers, the soldiers did not dare to accept them.
The soldiers all knew that these officials were here to record their merits and demerits. If they were frozen and caught the wind, they would suffer.
All they have to do is move their hands on the notebook that records their merits and demerits, and they can be killed.
Kou Ji had to coax them, saying that he would not harm them in the notebook that recorded their merits and demerits, so that they dared to accept the sheepskin jackets that Kou Ji handed over.
Just like that, after they got Kou Ji's sheepskin jacket, they handed it to the children in the army.
Kou Ji looked at an old soldier and put the sheepskin jacket that Kou Ji had given him into the arms of a boy about thirteen years old. He couldn't help but ask: "Is he your grandson?"
The old soldier shook his head and said, "Gua Wazi, who I just met today, rushed forward when he saw the Liao people. If he hadn't been pulled by the villain, he would have been shot to death by the Liao people's bows and arrows."
After saying this, the old soldier seemed to feel that he was not satisfied, and shouted at the giggling soldiers behind him: "You old guys who are stubborn, stop coaxing the babies to die.
If, old man, I see you coaxing the babies to die while you are hiding behind them, the old man will chop you up first."
After hearing this, the soldiers continued to giggle.
The old pawn turned around, looked at Kou Ji cautiously, and said in a low voice: "I'm telling you a joke."
Kou Ji glanced around and saw Zhang Yuan leading Mao Lu over, so he stepped forward and pulled off Zhang Yuan's sheepskin jacket and threw it to the old soldier.
"Put it on..."
The old pawn fumbled with his sheepskin jacket and said with a dry smile: "How can this be done? Let's give it to the dolls."
Seeing that the old soldier was about to hand out the sheepskin jacket in his hand, Kou Ji grabbed him, firmly stuffed the sheepskin jacket that the old soldier handed out into the old soldier's hand, and said seriously: "You have to wear it, and you have to wear it."
Stay alive. Only by living can you protect more dolls."
The old soldier was stunned, tightened the sheepskin jacket in his hand, grinned and said: "Old man, I listen to you."
Kou Ji stood up, looked at the soldiers who had no sheepskin jackets and were sniffling from the cold, and shouted: "Don't you covet other people's sheepskin jackets. In a few days, I will get a batch for you, and I will make sure that you can wear them every day."
One piece for myself."
When the soldiers heard this, they roared like a roar.
But Chen Lin pulled Koo Ji and reminded in a low voice: "Don't make blind promises in the army. You are the supervisor of the army, or the supervisor of the military affairs of Baozhou. If you say anything casually, they will take it seriously."
Chen Lin pulled Kou Ji and said in a deep voice: "You took pity on them and gave them your sheepskin coats, or even plucked our sheepskin coats and gave them to them. I let you do it anyway.
But you promised tens of thousands of sheepskin jackets in one go, but we don’t have any at all.
Even if I use my power to supervise the army now and draw troops from various places, I won’t be able to collect that many in a short period of time.”
Kou Ji turned his head, stared at Chen Lin, and said seriously: "Then watch them freeze to death? If they want to die, they should die fighting with the Liao people, not freezing to death in our military camp."
Chen Lin said angrily: "But we can't get so many sheepskin jackets at the same time."
Kou Ji said loudly: "If we can't make it together, we have to make it together. Even if we kill all the cattle and sheep in Zhending Mansion, we still have to give each of them a fur coat to keep out the cold."
"I am a supervisor. I can't charge into battle like them. But I have to find a way to keep them fed, drunk, and clothed warmly."
Seeing that Kou Ji was angry, Chen Lin pulled Kou Ji out.
"Let's talk about this when we get back."
Chen Lin took Kou Ji back to the military tent.
When passing by the military tent, I saw that the sheepskin blankets wrapped in the boxes on the carriage that came with Koji had been pulled clean.
Kou Ji frowned and asked, "Who did it?"
Kou Ji also wanted to use those sheepskin blankets to make some warm clothes to send to the soldiers.
Now that he saw that the sheepskin blanket was gone, Kou Ji was a little annoyed.
The guard of the Kou Mansion who was standing in front of the carriage said with a grimace: "All the doctors accompanying the army have been pulled out. The little people can't stop them."
Kou Ji threw Chen Lin away and shouted angrily: "I'll go find them and ask them clearly."
Kou Ji rushed to the military camp where the military officers were, but before he reached the place, he turned around and left again.
Chen Lin trotted to catch up. Seeing that Kou Ji did not go to the place where the army doctors lived to make trouble, she asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"
Kou Ji lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Nothing?"
Chen Lin abandoned Kou Ji suspiciously, ran to the residence of the military doctor, glanced left and right, and returned to Kou Ji with an unsightly expression.
Kou Ji said in a heavy voice: "Did you see it?"
Chen Lin said in a dull voice: "I saw... the frozen ears, arms and legs, coming out one after another."
Kou Ji clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said: "Those who drank the blood of soldiers should all die."
Chen Lin was silent for a moment and reminded in a low voice: "Those who dare to drink the blood of soldiers have good family backgrounds and backgrounds."
Kou Ji looked at Chen Lin and said seriously: "Can I afford to offend you?"
Chen Lin was stunned and said quietly: "If you can afford it... If you can afford it, I can afford it too."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "Then let's first send people to raid the homes of officials at all levels in charge of military supplies in Zhending Mansion. The clothes they looted will be sent to the soldiers to keep out the cold. The money they looted will be used to buy cattle and sheep.
"The cattle and sheep were killed, and the meat was used to make soup for the soldiers to drink, and the skins were used to make clothes for the soldiers."
Chen Lin nodded and said: "It should be so. You draft the official document and I will seal it. I will send someone to keep an eye on it and make sure that every copper coin they hide is dug out."
The two of them do whatever they say.
After returning to the tent, Kou Ji drafted an official document, and Chen Lin used the governor's seal. Then they sent the soldiers and guards who followed them, mounted their horses, and ran out of the military camp.
No one expected that after the two supervisory troops arrived at Zhending Mansion, they did not first find trouble among the troops, but first attacked the officials in charge of military supplies in Zhending Mansion.
It's night time.
The sound of the wind reached Cao Wei's ears, and Cao Wei rushed to Kou Ji's military tent in the snow.
As soon as he entered the tent, he shouted: "Kou Ji, have you sent people to search the house?"
As soon as I entered the tent, I saw Kou Ji and Chen Lin, holding needles and staring at a pile of smelly sheepskins and cowhide in a daze.
He was also stunned.
"What are you doing?"
Chen Lin put away the needle, curled her lips at Cao Wei, and said: "Our little ancestor has a kind heart and wants to make sheepskin jackets for the soldiers of the Bulgarian Army, but he still drags me to make them together.
But I’ve never used needlework before, so I don’t know how to start.”
Cao Wei frowned, looked at Kou Ji, and whispered: "Kou Ji, what are you kidding about? First, you sent people to search the house, and then you are here to mess with the stinky sheepskin."
Kou Ji put down his needlework and said to Cao Wei: "The reason why we sent people to search the house is because those people deserve to die. The reason why we are messing with the stinky sheepskins here is because the soldiers need these stinky sheepskins to keep out the cold."
Cao Wei frowned and shouted: "You arrested and killed me in Zhending Mansion. The magistrate of Zhending Mansion has already found out about me, and you said you would write a letter to impeach me. Aren't you causing trouble for me?
?”
Kou Ji frowned.
But Chen Lin said slowly: "I'm afraid it's not the matter of the Zhending Mansion's magistrate, right? It's the stewards of the noble families who stayed in the Zhending Mansion, and they found your head, right?"
Cao Wei raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth, and said nothing.
Obviously, Chen Lin is telling the truth.
Chen Lin said calmly: "Cao Wei, whatever mischief I have with Kou Xiaozi is a matter between the two of us. The two of us have given you enough face by not interfering in your military affairs.
But you have overstepped your authority by taking charge of both of us?"
Chen Lin straightened up slightly, raised her voice a little higher, and shouted: "I, Chen Lin, are the Military Supervisor of Zhending Mansion, and have the power to kill first and then report. Even if I kill hundreds of people in Zhending Mansion, I will kill everyone in Zhending Mansion."
It's not something you, Cao Wei, can do anything about killing an official.
Manage your military affairs and fight your battles well.
Don't trouble me for a few heads or a little money from other people's homes.
What I want now is just the heads of the few stewards they left in Zhending Mansion.
If they make me angry and I return to Beijing to investigate the matter thoroughly, they may not be able to keep their heads."
Cao Wei sighed, raised his hands, and exited Kou Ji's military tent.
After Cao Wei left.
Chen Lin sighed and said, "Kou boy, your hot head has caused me a lot of trouble."
Kou Ji picked up a clean sheepskin and started sewing it. While sewing, he asked doubtfully: "Are you afraid of this kind of trouble?"
Chen Lin shook her head.
Kou Ji curled his lips and said, "If you're not afraid of this kind of trouble, then what use do you think it has?"
Chen Lin was stunned and speechless.
He stared at Kou Ji sewing the sheepskin jacket. After a long time, when he saw the sheepskin jacket taking shape in Kou Ji's hands, he said in astonishment: "You actually know how to be a girl?"
Kou Ji threw down the sheepskin jacket casually and rolled his eyes at Chen Lin, "Children from poor families can do anything. Have someone take out the sheepskin jacket I sewed and ask the women in Baozhou to sew it according to this pattern."
Time is running out, so we have to make do."
Chen Lin took the sheepskin jacket sewn by Kou Ji, looked at it carefully, and said: "It's already very good..."
The next few days.
The Liao army did not attack.
Cao Wei was busy in the army reorganizing the army and planning how to take the initiative to attack Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu severely.
Kou Ji and Chen Lin were busy distributing sheepskin coats to the soldiers of the Bulgarian Army.
Facts have proved that compared to the Forbidden Army, the Xiang Army is really a stepmother.
The Forbidden Army soldiers were wrapped up one by one and wandered around the barracks like polar bears.
As for the soldiers of the Bulgarian Army, some frequently froze to death in the military camps.
This seems to be a common occurrence among the Bulgarian Army. After the soldiers froze to death, no one even cried out. Their companions would only carry them out of the military camp, find a place, dig a hole and bury them.