"I..." Su Jingfang paused for a moment, then answered softly. "To be honest, uncle, I am actually tempted."
"But..." Zhang Xing responded jokingly.
"But..." Xiao Su said seriously. "Although my uncle and my master seem to be clearly superior to each other, I still have more faith in my mentor. He has taught me a lot and I am willing to follow him. And if my uncle really feels that one day my mentor is willing to do it for you, I will naturally I will come back with him, so why should uncle care about this moment?"
Zhang Xing thought for a moment, then nodded, "I mean to say you are naughty, but you are actually somewhat sincere."
"The words are nothing more than this, whether they are cunning or sincere, it all depends on how the boy behaves in the future. "Xiao Su is still confident in his words.
"That's okay." Zhang Xing nodded again. "Then where are you going to celebrate the New Year?" "I want to go back to Wu'an." Su Jingfang answered frankly. "I miss home, and I also miss my mentor.
"Then go ahead." Zhang Xing smiled. "Let's go to the camp of a leader named Fan Bao and ask for a letter from him..."
Su Jingfang thought for a while and asked "Fan Lihua" seriously
"Yes." Zhang Xing responded simply. "I asked your master to gather her from Qinghe, otherwise I don't know what trouble she would cause in Hebei."
"Famous people are not as good as meeting each other. After this experience, I am convinced by my uncle's ability." After saying that, Su Jingfang nodded, no longer hesitated, stood up and said goodbye, and walked away simply
Zhang Xing sat still and just continued to look at the sky.
After a while, another person arrived here with a little hesitation. Zhang Xing did not invite the other person to sit with him, but stood up, held his hands in his hands and smiled, "Sister Cao."
Cao Xi, who had just changed into new clothes a few days ago, was a little surprised. She raised her hands, which were destined to suffer from frostbite every winter, and offered them in return. However, she seemed to realize something in the middle and stopped her hands. She wanted to imitate the woman's slight bending and salute. , also didn't adapt, only ended up in embarrassment.
It was Zhang Sanlang who took the initiative to laugh, "Just give it up to Sister Cao. We will see each other more in the future, and you will have to work hard for some things... I heard them talk about what happened to Sister Cao in Gaojibo. It was really hard work and she was really capable." , so I want to ask Sister Cao to come out and take charge of all the family members in the military camp and the military market as the leader of the gang. Especially now, the military market is not only the nearby women and children who come to seek a living, but also the nearby women and children who come to seek a living. There have been some serious private market transactions... This kind of thing cannot be avoided, so why not control it seriously."
"Of course you should do things as they should. This is under Zhang Longtou's care." Cao Xi looked a little cautious. "I don't know how to manage it."
"It's nothing more than fair business. Try to help as much as possible. If the widow and the sergeant can get married properly, get married. If you can do business openly and fairly, do business... It's better to block it than to open it up, and then make it as fair as possible." Zhang Xing blurted out, and Pointing to the steaming barracks behind him. "For the specific situation, Sister Cao might as well go inside and ask Leader Dou. This is serious.
Regarding military affairs, I mainly ordered Sister Cao’s personnel appointments. You can discuss how to do it in the public office. "
Cao Xi nodded, raised his hands in salute, and then plucked up the courage to walk in. After a while, before he could come out, the third visitor arrived. "Sit." Zhang Xing raised his hand and pointed, more casually. "They all call you Dou Xiaoniang, but if you have a serious name, just call you Xiaoniang."
"If you reply to Mr. Zhang, please call me Xiaoniang." Xiaoniang Dou sat aside with her head lowered, fidgeting with her sword uneasily in her hand. The red ribbon on her head kept fluttering along her hair blown by the cold winter wind.
Zhang Xing nodded without wasting any time, "Then I'll ask directly, my dear, do you want to join the army, stay at home, or do other things within the gang, such as paperwork and logistics?"
"Of course I want to join the army." Dou Xiaoniang's tone suddenly rose. "Do you want to fight on the front line or defend locally?" Zhang Xing kept asking. "Frontline combat." Dou Xiaoniang didn't hesitate for a moment.
"I agree in principle." Zhang Xing used a word that Ms. Dou had never heard of before, but it didn't matter, she understood the second half of the sentence. "But you are not of age. I want your father's approval, and at least your adoptive mother's approval... You go in and ask."
Dou Xiaoniang was startled, obviously a little aggrieved and dissatisfied, but she still got up and walked in.
Zhang Xing only yawned and continued to look at the sky.
This is his boring Dalongtou daily work... But to be honest, Zhang Dalongtou thinks it is boring, but in fact, at this new year, the whole of Hebei
Trembling in the shadow of the great dragon.
Because so far, Bohai and Pingyuan have lost seven large and small forts in four counties. This new tactic is nothing from a tactical point of view, but from both inside and outside, internally it emphasizes military discipline, one battalion after another. With the demonstrative emphasis, the effects have begun to appear. The Dragon Gang gave up the city that was regarded as the lifeblood of the army and marched to the Wubao at the next level. It still established a practical strategic fulcrum and gained enough With more loot and control of rural resources, it is an extremely realistic expansion route.
For the officers and soldiers, it is difficult to imagine what will happen once all the forts within the territory are taken away, leaving only a few or a dozen bare county towns. Can troops be mobilized between cities? Are there still taxes? Can you control the countryside and summon effective combat power?
Whose resources and population belong to us?
As the tactics of the Deposed Dragon Gang became clear, not to mention Pingyuan and Bohai counties, which had just recovered from despair and were forced into icy water, even Qinghe and Wuyang counties, up and down. Panic and uneasiness began to arise - the Wubao women and children who were released by the Deposed Dragon Gang spread the tactics and attitude of the Deposed Dragon Gang early.
Dongdu and Hejian continued to receive direct requests for help from various counties, even counties, and even some related to the Lord of Wubao. Even several famous families were panicked and couldn't help but join in the conspiracy. Both Dongdu and Hejian actually know the power of the Deposed Dragon Gang, and they also attach great importance to Wubao's maintenance of the local area under the current situation. Therefore, it is rare for the two places, plus the local prefectures and counties, to reach a completely unanimous agreement. Attitude, they all felt that something should be done...but after thinking about it, there was no good solution.
Because the solution to military problems must ultimately fall on the military.
But with the snow covering the ground and the river frozen, they couldn't imagine how to provide support, how to send troops, how to walk deep into the river through the snow, and fight decisively with the twenty-five battalions and possible reinforcements from the Deposed Dragon Gang.
Ban County, where the Deposed Dragon Gang sits in front of Douzigang, has eight counties in the east at its back.
From this perspective, most of the plains and Bohai Sea seem to be strategically abandoned due to their geographical location.
"Pingyuan is about to be abandoned." As the new year approaches, a new round of snowflakes falls. Under a simple wooden shed on the top of Ande City, Pingyuan County, Lu Changheng puts down his wine glass and sighs with emotion as he looks at the flying snow in the sky. "This place is too close to the Deposed Dragon Gang, too far from Hejian. It is too close to Zhang Sanlang, and too far from Zhongcheng... But then again, if not, why would they send troops from here?"
"Do you know what I think?" Qian Tang, the general guard of Pingyuan across the street, took a sip of cold wine and looked calm. "I'm not afraid that they will abandon Pingyuan. What I'm afraid of is that after the spring begins, the Hejian camp will be reluctant to give up and hastily send out more troops. Come on, Dongdu is not willing to give up, and even sent people to help..."
"Indeed." Lu Changheng thought for a while under the wind and snow at the top of the city, and took it seriously. "But that would just get into Zhang Sanlang's favor. The army would come from afar and it would not last long. And if the Dragon Army were to shrink on their own initiative, they would be unable to start and would be out of order. When the time comes and they are mobilized here, if there is a flaw, only I am afraid that if the entire organic army is lost again like before, this place will become a place of blood loss for the Hejian Camp. And once the Hejian Camp is weakened as a whole, not to mention the plains and the Bohai Sea, the entire south of Zhangshui River will change. It will become the territory of the Deposed Dragon Gang. By that time...by that time, the Deposed Dragon Gang will not only have a foothold in Hebei, but will already have a chance to win."
"It's not that simple." Qian Tang nodded and shook his head again. "Once the Deposed Dragon Gang takes over the four major counties south of Zhangshui, they will be flying side by side with the Eastern Territory, and the strategic situation will be completely opened. Whether they advance into Hebei or go south to Huaidong, they will be unscrupulous, and everything will be around them. Let’s take advantage of the situation.”
Lu Changheng thought about it again and could only nod, "That's true."
Qian Tang continued to speak, his face becoming more and more difficult, "Actually, what I'm afraid of is not defeat, but the fear of watching helplessly and being unable to do anything about defeat. What I'm afraid of is that everyone knows what is right and what is wrong, but is subject to the situation. But I can only follow the wrong steps step by step."
Lu Changheng looked at the person in front of him and noticed that the man who had just turned thirty
The other party already had white hair on his temples, but he had nothing to say.
He had also experienced this feeling of being determined to kill a thief but unable to recover, and it was even more obvious in Li Qingchen. Now it was the turn of the best among his former colleagues.
And this feeling, if you are not in some key positions, is difficult to detect.
The two were silent for a while. Qian Tang suddenly took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to the other person, "Look at it."
"If it were the leaflet written by Zhang Sanlang and sent out when Zhao's Wubao was destroyed, I would have read it long ago." Lu Changheng didn't pick it up at all. "There are transcripts all over the city, and I think Hejian and Dongdu can also see them... The key is how you read them."
"The first half is the truth." Qian Tang held the piece of paper in his hand and looked at it again. "The honest truth... The Wei Dynasty seems to have a lot to do at the state and county level, in the middle and at the local level, and there are many victories. At the very least, each has its own victory or defeat, but at the top and bottom But it failed miserably... Others don’t know this, don’t we?”
"Yes." Lu Changheng also became bitter. "The saint abandoned the world and continued to destroy people's hearts in the southeast. We originally expected Zhongcheng to clean up the situation in the east capital and reestablish a core of the Wei Dynasty. But Zhongcheng worked so hard, but why? They can't win the hearts of Guanlong people. Those people in Guanlong are just waiting for the Cao family to die and find another way out... So far, the strategy of letting the Jingantai children to run their own businesses has been considered a failure. We have simply failed. Instead of supporting Zhongcheng, Zhongcheng has to spend his energy on us."
Qian Tang just stared at the paper dancing in the wind and said nothing.
"As for the people's hearts underneath." Lu Changheng looked at the snowy field outside and sighed. "I originally thought it was just to repair the gaps in the Saint's Three Marches, but after half a year in the Eastern Region and then coming to Hebei, I had no idea... With this bare land thousands of miles away, and the vast expanse of white, how can I compete with Zhang Sanlang? Really think that he is little Zhang Shizhao Is his name fake? He can really stabilize the people in the Eastern Territory."
"These are all in the past and are established facts." Although Qian Tang was still reading the piece of paper, his tone calmed down inexplicably. "The key is the second half of his letter... He said that Xue Changxiong was a military leader. He had no ability to govern and had no vision of the overall situation. He only knew about the troops and horses in his hands and only cared about the interests of the Italian army. Therefore, in the eyes of Hejian Camp The only thing that maintains the strength of the army is the strong men, taxes, and powerful people. They have always used troops to deplete the people, fish in the lake, and lose the hearts of the people. They will never care about the local area and the people. Therefore, this time the Wubao was breached one after another, and in the spring, he We must not be able to withstand the pressure from the powerful military everywhere, and will throw ourselves into the trap. We local officials may seem to have not lost the city, but without the people under their rule, we have actually become bones in the graves, and we can only sit and defend. The isolated city has neither the intention nor the ability to do anything. Without local assistance and restraint, the Hejian camp will only intensify and act unscrupulously. By then, it will be like a fish without water, and will be easily defeated by their Deposed Dragon Gang... What do you think? "
"I..." Lu Changheng's face was a little confused, a little scared, and a little hesitant.
suspect. "I think it might really be like this. Even if he says this in public, it will still be like this."
"When I get back, I will go with Governor Cao of Qinghe and write a joint letter to Xue Changxiong, asking him to be more cautious. After the spring plowing, the people will have a year to look forward to. He has also prepared his troops and horses. It will not be too late to come again." Qian Tang calmly said. right. "And if he listens to my words, I will fight tooth and nail to maintain the situation in this half-county for him, and do my part for him, Zhongcheng, and the court."
"What if he doesn't agree?" Lu Changheng asked urgently.
Qian Tang did not answer directly, but just looked at the palm of his hand holding the letter. Lu Changheng looked at the other person's fingertips and saw sparks suddenly appearing on the other person's fingertips. Then Lihuo Zhenqi exploded and burned the leaflet in an instant. .
"Then I'll surrender." Qian Tang shook off the ashes from his hand and picked up the wine. "Be my leader and see if Zhang Xing or Bai Changjian has the destiny of ten thousand times."
Lu Changheng was relieved.
The next moment, after Qian Tang finished the drink, he felt a little sad again, "It can be regarded as worthy of Zhang Gong's instructions before his death."
The wind and snow are getting worse outside.
Let's say that before the New Year, heavy snow swept Hebei again, and after a new round of simple snow clearing, even the Deposed Dragon Army camp in Ban County fell into a kind of lethargy.
Feeling relaxed and relieved, many of the Eastern Border soldiers had left, and some of the leaders also asked for leave to cross the river and go home.
The city gate of Ban County next to it was wide open. Although the supplies were poor, there were still simple goods such as red-headed ropes, fried dough, and safe money, including fortune telling and writing.
Letters are also common... People in nearby cities, Wubao, and villages begin to regain their vitality, and then the New Year shows the tenacity of life.
Of course, in addition to that, there are of course the iconic sports competitions in the camp that are profitable.
Zhang Longtou was not idle either. He, Wei Xuanding, Xiong Bonan, and Wang Shuyong, who had stayed in place of Shan Tonghai, visited several forts occupied by the front line, both for condolences and inspections. When they returned to Ban County, it was already It’s the night of New Year’s Eve.
Not to mention sleeping all night, it would be very boring at dawn on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
There will be a big banquet the day after tomorrow, but right now, Zhang Xing has nothing to do. He really had nothing to do. He couldn't hang a sword like Dou Xiaoniang and participate in competitions. He could use his cultivation level to snatch those profits from the sergeants. He couldn't gather together like Wang Shuyong and Dou Lide. A bunch of villagers cook meat porridge and talk about a better life... Most people are doing this. Even Wei Xuanding has his own fellow villagers who have come to join them and are selling acid in their barracks.
To be honest, Jia Yue was probably the only one who was as lonely as himself, and he happened to be from the same hometown, so it was time for him to have some porridge with him.
But in fact, Zhang Xing didn't know what to say to Jia Yue... talk about the customs of the North, talk about Black Emperor's beliefs, or ask him if he had any misunderstandings about him.
Unable to speak.
As a result, Zhang Xing became so bored that he left the military camp and used his zhenqi to practice leaping... Half a year after condensing the pill, he had somewhat mastered some techniques for releasing his zhenqi.
In his opinion, the two iconic Qi skills of the so-called Dan Condensation Stage, one
The so-called body-protecting zhenqi, one is zhenqi leaping. To put it bluntly, that's what it means. It is nothing more than treating the own heaven and earth energy in the Dantian as an engine or fuel storage device, which is released through the normal meridians and extraordinary meridians. .
Then according to the context, direction, and amount of release, some mysterious-looking things are formed.
Uniform, gentle, and comprehensive release is the body-protecting Qi. This is the simplest. Over time, it is easy to form muscle and vein memory, and it becomes a casual feeling like wearing clothes.
Taking several meridians under the feet as the main way to release true energy, with the main meridians as the main channel and the extra meridians as the supplement, if they are controlled and connected, you can jump easily.
But it is more dangerous, because landing requires skill and experience, as well as a lot of practice.
Including riding on a horse and releasing some true energy to resist gravity, it is actually a similar low-level skill variant. Correspondingly, the "Lingbo Weibu" displayed by Bai Yousi at that time was obviously a high-level skill. variant.
Theoretically speaking, Zhang Xing has practiced the "Yi Jin Jing", and the amount of zhenqi stored in it seems to be unmatched by ordinary Li Ningdan, so he should still have advantages in some aspects, but in fact, he is a bit stupid in this aspect. , it took half a year before I could barely master the leaping technique, but I didn't dare to apply it easily in actual combat, let alone "Lingbo Weibu".
But having said that, his true qi is to control the situation in large quantities, and this is something that others cannot learn from me.
Zhang Xing had witnessed with his own eyes that Cheng Zhili and Wang Shuyong, who had recently condensed the elixir, could not sustain high-intensity leaping and fighting for more than an hour, while the masters of the elixir
Zhuge Yang was even captured in one afternoon.
But so far, he has not tested the limits of his true energy release. To the south of Daying in Ban County is Douzigang, a hilly area mixed with salt-alkali swamps. At this time, it was already completely white, with only a few logging spots slightly visible at high altitude.
The time had not even reached noon, so Zhang Xing did not hesitate and continued to light up his energy and jumped over from one of the more obvious frozen swamp areas. At about noon, he arrived at the bank of the river.
Then he was startled.
Because the big river that usually looks like a watershed is now as frozen as a mirror, and there are even pedestrians and vehicles visibly walking on it as if walking on flat ground... Where is the need for Lingbo Weibu?
Zhang Xing's heart moved slightly, his expression was dazed, and then the ice energy under his feet was released again, and he suddenly jumped up, but he actually lit up the energy with his hands and headed towards the other side of the river in the southeast.
At this time, everything is white everywhere, the top of the head is blue, and there is no variegation.
After Zhang Sanlang crossed the river, his feet not only kept moving, but also accelerated frequently. He was heading towards Dengzhou along a slightly familiar road.
By the evening, we had passed Zouping and arrived at Jishui. We even saw Gaoyuan County on the other side of the river across the equally frozen Jishui.
At this time, Zhang Xing hesitated a little... Obviously, with this journey, it is impossible to reach Dengzhou tomorrow morning, and it will probably have to be the day after tomorrow. But in that case, the New Year's Eve banquet will be missed, and this When the time comes, there will be no delay in going back.
But he didn't hesitate for long before he jumped up again and continued to the other side of Jishui.
It was at this time that a golden light flew past in the distance, easily brushing across the Jishui River from a little further downstream... Zhang Xing was startled, and stopped in surprise on the embankment on the south bank of the Jishui River.
Immediately, the golden light also turned back, and after a moment, it landed in front of Zhang Xing.
"Why is Sanlang here?" Bai Yousi smiled with a rare smile. "I miss you." Zhang Xing answered simply, equally surprised. "Do you only want me alone?" Bai Sanniang rarely looked like a girl.
"No, when I was in the camp, I actually missed Qin Er, Li Si, and Yueniang." Zhang Xing responded frankly. "If they were here, I might be able to get past them, but not only are they not here, I can't find them even if I try to look for them... Therefore, today, within the four seas, between heaven and earth, except for you, I don't Knowing who I can still miss and who I can still look forward to, I walked to the river. When I came to the river, I couldn't suppress my longing for you, so I crossed the river directly."
Bai Sanniang nodded, walked forward, held the other person's cheeks with her hands, her eyes were filled with stars, and she exhaled, "Me too."
The poem says:
Kunlun is my home, Zhongzhou is not my home. He will return to pay homage to Father Dong, and he will surpass the quicksand in one fell swoop. When the wind blows and dances, it whistles and sings.
Gold and stone are solid and easy to damage, and the sun and moon share the same brilliance. Qi year and heaven and earth, ten thousand vehicles are safe and abundant.
PS: After a while, everyone will know that I am really not lazy, I just failed to hold on last night.
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