The muscles in Chen Xiaomu's whole body slowly tightened. Li Gui, who was lying not far away from him, quietly wiped his neck with his hands. Chen Xiaomu shook his head gently. The Chu Army soldier named Brother Qian suddenly turned around in front of Chen Xiaomu. Turn around and walk toward the Tianquan County City Wall.
Chen Xiaomu nodded to Li Gui, and immediately got up from the ground and two black figures bowed and silently followed Brother Qian!
At this time, there was another clatter, and the sound of armor plates rubbing against each other when walking on the body was heard. A patrol team consisting of about eight or nine people came over with spears raised, led by a low-level officer who looked like a school captain. , the second soldier who was originally standing guard immediately straightened his back with his gun in hand and stared at the patrol team passing by.
The captain who was walking at the end of the patrol team glanced at the second-in-command and suddenly asked, "Isn't this a two-man sentry? Why are you alone?"
The second brother quickly lowered his head and clasped his fists, "Report to Centurion, Commander Qian had a bad stomach tonight and just went to the tub!"
The centurion nodded and called to the last soldier walking in the patrol team, "You stay and wait for Captain Qian to come back before returning to the team." After hearing this, the soldier quickly stood next to the second son with his spear in hand.
The patrol team gradually walked away, and the second child breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his hands, and breathed hot air on his hands, "Brother, what is your name?"
The soldier left behind by the centurion hugged his fists and said, "My surname is Wang and Xiao."
"Oh, it turns out to be little brother Wang, come and meet me, my name is Feng Erdan!"
Wang Xiao heard the sound and bent down and saluted, "Brother Feng, this is a new student. If there is anything you can't do, I hope that Brother Feng will not hesitate to teach me."
Feng Erdan was stunned, "Brother Wang, you sound like you are a scholar?"
Wang Xiao waved his hand hurriedly, "Brother Feng, please don't mention studying. I, Wang Xiao, am a scholar in vain!"
"Oh, what do you mean, little brother Wang?" Feng Erdan blinked, suddenly interested.
Wang Xiao sighed, "I'm not afraid of your second brother Feng's joke. I, Wang Xiao, have failed in the scholar examination for four consecutive years. I can't use my talents to earn food and serve as a soldier."
"Oh, little brother Wang, my brother is not talking about you!" Feng Erdan clapped his hands and sighed, "If you don't pass the exam, you can take the exam again. This matter of eating food and serving as a soldier is really not something you scholars can do. You can't lift it with your hands. If you can't carry it on your shoulders, won't you die in vain on the battlefield?"
Wang Xiao smiled and said, "Brother Feng, to tell you the truth, I came to be a soldier just to gain fame!"
Feng Erdan was startled and said with a wry smile: "For someone like you, I'm afraid your life will be gone before you get fame!"
Wang Xiao shook his head, "No, no, I heard from my brother-in-law that in order to encourage scholars to join the army and serve the country, our emperor specially issued an imperial edict. Any scholar who has made meritorious service on the battlefield can be awarded the title of scholar according to the size of the merit, and the title of the same scholar. So I came to be a soldier!"
Feng Erdan laughed dumbly, "You nerd, do you think that you can achieve meritorious service on the battlefield? You have to pay for it with your life, and you can still perform meritorious service with a small body like yours! It's good to save your life!"
"No, my brother-in-law said that he would help me with meritorious service, and he would do great meritorious deeds, so that the emperor would really grant me the same birth certificate as Juren!" Wang Xiao argued stubbornly.
"Oh, your brother-in-law is quite capable! It's good to have done meritorious service, but I also want to help you do great meritorious deeds. Come on, tell me who your brother-in-law is!" Feng Erdan's eyes widened in surprise. Even the tone of his voice changed.
"My brother-in-law's surname is Gao Mingqi, and he is the deputy general of the right vanguard battalion!" Wang Xiao raised his head with a look of contentment on his face.
"Oh, it turns out that little brother Wang is actually General Gao's brother-in-law. How disrespectful and disrespectful!" Feng Erdan suddenly realized and flattered him again and again.
But Feng Erdan was puzzled again, "Brother Wang, how comfortable are you staying with General Gao? It's so late at night and it's so cold. It's so hard to come to our patrol camp. You're not allowed to sleep at night!"
Wang Xiao rolled his eyes, "Do you think I want to come? Isn't it true that General Guo wants to attack Tianquan County with all the vanguard battalions tomorrow? He said that he is trying to capture Tianquan County in one fell swoop and capture Zheng Zheng in the next two days. Emperor Su Chengxuan then returned to annihilate the squad of Princess Su Xingran of the State of Zheng who attacked our Chu army camp last night! My brother-in-law was afraid that something might happen if I participated in the siege. After all, swords and arrows don’t have eyesight, so he transferred me overnight to tomorrow. There is no patrol battalion coming to join the siege.”
"That's true!" Feng Erdan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Look, that's my brother-in-law." Wang Xiao suddenly pointed to a tall, bearded military commander who was dismounting in front of the tent door and said to Feng Erdan excitedly.
Feng Erdan asked with confusion on his face, "It's so late, what is your brother-in-law doing here?"
Wang Xiao said proudly: "My brother-in-law said that General Guo will convene the generals above the general in the camp here tonight to discuss the attack on Tianquan County tomorrow!"
Feng Erdan patted his forehead, as if waking up from a dream, no wonder the security here was so tight tonight.
As if to verify Wang Xiao's words, many generals on horseback came to the tent door one after another. Chen Xiaomu, who was lying on the ground, counted them briefly and found that there were nearly a hundred people!
Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but feel that maybe a great opportunity was in front of him. He quietly crawled to Li Gui and asked Li Gui to leave the explosives and the porcelain bottle containing gasoline. He immediately returned to the camp to join Lu Yi and collect all the explosives and soldiers. Bring them here, including Zhong Xin and Ximensong who are recovering from their injuries, and prepare to fight to the death, otherwise they will never have any chance to break the siege of Tianquan County at dawn!
After Li Gui left, Chen Xiaomu began to think about how to deal with the Chu army sentry in front of him. Originally, he wanted to use the quantum knife given to him by the old skeleton lady to kill the Chu army sentry in front of the tent, but when he thought about it, he was afraid that the movement would be too big and the people in the tent would be disturbed. The general of the Chu army ran away.
After a while, the two scouts who followed the sentry who called Brother Qian to the tub quietly crawled to Chen Xiaomu. Chen Xiaomu glanced at them, and the two of them wiped their necks with their hands and nodded slightly!
At this time, the rolling door curtain of the big tent in front of Chen Xiaomu was suddenly lowered, and two sentries were added to stand in front of the door. This time it became much more difficult!
Chen Xiaomu silently counted in his mind at the speed of the next generation, calculating the time between each visit of the Chu Army patrol team. After two verifications, each time when the count reached about 1,500, the Chu Army patrol team came. Come here once, which means that the Chu Army patrol team passes by the tent in front of them every twenty-five minutes or so. After confirming the time, Chen Xiaomu quietly told the two scouts lying next to him about the plan he had thought of to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Let them pass it on quietly.
When the Chu Army patrol passed by him again, Chen Xiaomu crawled two steps to the side, then slowly stood up and walked towards the two Chu Army sentries in front of him, because he had already entered the Chu Army camp. He put on the armor that Li Gui bought from the soldiers of the Chu army, so he was not afraid that the sentinels of the Chu army would find out his identity at once.
"Who, tell me your name!" Chen Xiaomu heard a soft shout and recognized Feng Erdan's voice.
At this time, Feng Erdan had already held the hook gun in his hand flat against his chest, with the tip of the gun pointed at Chen Xiaomu, who was walking towards him.
Chen Xiaomu quickly clasped his hands and chuckled, "Don't panic, it's me!"
Feng Erdan put away the Goulian gun and looked in front of Chen Xiaomu's face. He didn't recognize him. He hurriedly took a step back and picked up the Goulian gun. "Who are you? This is a restricted area, leave quickly!"
Chen Xiaomu pointed at Wang Xiao, who was standing next to Feng Erdan, shrinking his neck from the cold, like a puppet, and said softly: "I came to him on the order of General Gao.
"Looking for me?" When Wang Xiao heard the words "General Gao", he suddenly straightened his neck and looked at Chen Xiaomu with suspicion.
"Who are you? Why don't I recognize you? Besides, my brother-in-law just entered General Guo's tent. How could he let you come to me?"
"Oh, it's like this. I was originally a soldier of General Meng Dameng. Later, General Meng died in the battle. I was not divided for the time being. Because tomorrow I have to attack Tianquan County across the board, I was temporarily transferred to General Gao as a soldier. Keep him safe!"
"Oh," Chen Xiaomu's self-introduction seemed quite reliable to Wang Xiao, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"What did my brother-in-law ask you to do with me?"
"Well, it's like this. General Gao temporarily transferred you to the patrol camp. He was afraid that you wouldn't be able to endure the hardship for a while, so when he came out, he asked me to come and see you!"
"Hey, my brother-in-law is like a mother-in-law. He already said it when he came here, but he still doesn't trust me!" On the surface, Wang Xiao was complaining that his brother-in-law Gao Qi was not doing things well, but in fact he was so proud that he almost laughed out loud. Voice.
He looked at Chen Xiaomu and said, "You tell my brother-in-law later that I can still hold on here, but the weather is too cold here. When the matter is over, ask him to transfer me back quickly."
Chen Xiaomu nodded, turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly he seemed to remember something, "Oh, by the way, General Gao told me just now that he had a fur coat in his tent and asked me to bring it over to keep you warm. Look at my hurry. I forgot about it when I was busy. Otherwise, I would stand guard for you while you go to General Gao's tent to get it. You can also move your body and keep yourself warm.
Because in the era when Chen Xiaomu traveled through, cotton had not spread, so generally wealthy people and officials would prepare a few or even a dozen fur coats every winter for their families to go out to keep out the cold. Therefore, Chen Xiaomu concluded that people like Gao Qi A senior official of the fourth rank will definitely have fur clothes in his hands!
"This!" Wang Xiao looked at Feng Erdan who was standing next to him with some embarrassment. Although Feng Erdan was a big boy and didn't know a word, he was quite aware of current affairs and had the ability to adapt to the changing circumstances. , now that he finally had the opportunity to curry favor with Gao Qi, how could he let it go so easily!
When he saw Wang Xiao looking at him, as if asking for his opinion, he felt happy and said hurriedly: "Brother Wang, your body as a scholar can't withstand the cold. Go back and warm it up quickly. This brother will help you." I think I can stand guard."
Chen Xiaomu raised his thumb at Feng Erdan, "This brother is a good friend. When I see General Gao later, I will definitely put in a nice word for you in front of General Gao, and then ask General Gao to transfer you to him." Go, we brothers will drink and eat meat together every day."
Feng Erdan was so praised by Chen Xiaomu that he almost grinned to the base of his ears. He bowed to Chen Xiaomu and gave a big gift, "Brother, if I, Feng Erdan, weren't on guard right now, I would immediately make a kiss with you and become sworn sworn brothers." Become brothers!”
