"Well... I accidentally fell off my horse during training yesterday and hit a wooden stake!"
Xuan Jia Army, at the firewood pile outside the kitchen of Wuzi Camp, facing Bai Shanhai's question, Ding Dali thought for a while and replied.
If someone had asked him how he was injured yesterday afternoon, he would have complained about the new training methods and Li Zexuan. But last night, Li Zexuan personally patrolled the camp, visited the injured soldiers, and even checked his injuries. This made Ding Dali feel sorry for Li Zexuan. The feeling is much better!
Therefore, at this time, he did not tell the complete truth to Bai Shanhai.
"Accidentally fell off the horse?"
Hearing this, Bai Shanhai's eyes flashed, and there was a hint of disdain at the corner of his mouth, but he quickly covered it up and asked in an "incredible" tone:
"Dali, who are you kidding? When we were in Zuowuwei, your riding skills were among the best in our camp. You told me that you accidentally fell off your horse. How is this possible? ?What's wrong? Now that we're in the Xuanjia Army, you don't even want to tell me the truth? We were all in the same battalion before, so why don't you stop recognizing me as your brother if we change places?"
When Ding Dali heard this, he was so anxious that sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead. He put down the bowl and chopsticks and waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no! Bai Langjiang, uh, Shanhai, I'm not going to lie to you, my injury is indeed from the horse." I fell off my back and was injured. Yesterday afternoon when our battalion was conducting battle formation training, Li Shenjun ordered us to charge forward on horseback. We couldn’t stop unless he shouted stop, so my team ended up rushing directly into it. The stakes are up! But we were all wearing iron armor at the time, so the injuries are not serious, and we will be fine in two days!"
"What? Is there such a thing?"
Hearing this, Bai Shanhai deliberately made an expression of extreme surprise on his face. He said "in disbelief": "I heard that Li Canjun has always been a peaceful and calm man. How could he deliberately let you get hurt? Could it be that you offended him somewhere? ? So he is waiting for an opportunity to retaliate? "
Before last night, Ding Dali actually thought so, but after experiencing the scene last night, he changed his mind now. He shook his head and said: "Shanhai, don't talk nonsense! Li Canjun did this for our good. He said that if we want to become stronger, we have to work harder on the training ground!"
When Bai Shanhai heard this, he immediately sneered: "Ha! He has made you like this, and you still say that he is doing it for your own good? Dali, your brain is not broken, right?"
After that, he couldn't help but put his hand on Ding Dali's forehead. Ding Dali pulled his hand away, and then said angrily: "General Bai Lang, you are not allowed to say that about Li Canjun! I said Okay, the injury on my leg is just a minor injury, it will be fine in two days! Li Canjun is not to blame for this!"
Bai Shanhai didn't expect that the honest man in front of him would be so protective of Li Zexuan. Before he came from Yizi Camp, he didn't expect that Ding Dali would be such a hard nut to crack. No matter how hard he talked, the other party was actually indifferent. In his heart He couldn't help but feel a little discouraged and a little annoyed. He was annoyed that Ding Dali didn't know how to appreciate him!
"Hmph! You Ding Dali, you and I have been brothers in Zuowuwei for so many years, and now you are talking to me like this because I just joined the Xuanjia Army a few days ago! I came here today to see you. I was worried about your injury and came here specially to bring you medicine, but I never thought that you didn’t care about our friendship for so many years!”
In any case, Ding Dali used to be Bai Shanhai's subordinate. Seeing that his former soldiers were so ignorant of promotion, Bai Shanhai couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, but he was worried that he wouldn't be able to do the job if he went back like this, so he took out a He gave the porcelain bottle to Ding Dali and said:
"Take the medicine for the wound. This is the best holy medicine for treating trauma. You may not regard me as a brother, but I can't ignore our friendship for so many years! Remember to apply the medicine for the wound every day, otherwise your leg will fall off. The root of the disease is that you will be useless for the rest of your life! Farewell!"
After that, he turned around and left without looking back!
At this moment, Bai Shanhai was so majestic, so affectionate and righteous, even he was a little impressed, let alone the always honest Ding Dali? The tough guy felt that what he had just said was a bit harsh. His face was full of shame, and he quickly stood up and chased:
"Hey! Shanhai, don't go! I...I just said the wrong thing, don't be angry! I apologize to you!"
Unexpectedly, Bai Shanhai ignored him and left quickly.
In fact, Bai Shanhai wanted to look back at this moment. Ding Dali finally felt guilty for him and let down his guard. It was a good time for him to "brainwash" him. How could he not want to look back? It's just that Ding Dali's voice is too loud. As soon as he shouted, the entire Wuzi Battalion's sergeants turned their attention here. If he went back now, he wouldn't dare to say anything to Ding Dali, otherwise he would definitely Exposed!
Instead of doing this, it is better to leave first and come back when you have a chance to eat in the evening! At that time, it was easier to use Ding Dali's guilt to incite his hatred towards Li Zexuan!
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"Join the army, this is the map the general asked me to give you!"
At about the end of the day, a soldier came to Li Zexuan's tent, holding a roll of parchment in his hands, and bowed to Li Zexuan.
Li Zexuan knew that this should be the map of Niushou Mountain. Duan Zhixuan promised to give it to him in the morning, so he stepped forward to take it in person, and smiled and said: "Well! Good work!"
The soldier quickly clasped his fists and said: "It's polite to join the army! If there is nothing else, I will leave!"
After saying that, after a moment of pause, he saluted Li Zexuan and turned to leave.
The afternoon training in the camp usually started at noon, so Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin were both resting in the camp tent. The arrival of the soldier just woke them up from their dreams. Cheng Chumo sat up from the couch. He rubbed his eyes and said, "Xiao Xuan, did General Duan really give you the map of Niushou Mountain?"
During lunch, Li Zexuan told Sun Zhiping about the map in front of Cheng Chumo, so when the guy saw the yellowed parchment in Li Zexuan's hand, he immediately guessed that Duan Zhixuan had sent someone to deliver the map.
"Hmph! How can it be false?"
Li Zexuan snorted, and then said to the two of them: "It's almost midnight, why don't you two get up and prepare for training?"
"Hey! Get up! If you go late, you will be punished by Colonel Sun!"
Although Cheng Chumo was reluctant in every way, but thinking of the punishment in the army, he quickly got up from the couch. He glanced at Li Zexuan and asked casually: "Xiaoxuan, are you going to train with us at the school field in the afternoon? "
"I'm not going! Now that I have the map, I have to make the sand table quickly... huh? Is this the map of Niushou Mountain?"
Li Zexuan shook his head, but when he opened the map in his hand, he was stunned. He saw that there was no scale on the parchment, let alone contour lines. There were only some twists and circles, just like ghost drawings. , what kind of map is this?
When Cheng Chumo saw this, he quickly stepped forward. After glancing at the map in Li Zexuan's hand, he couldn't help but said with a strange look on his face: "That's right! This is the map of Niushou Mountain!"
"Can this also be called a map?"
Li Zexuan pointed to the parchment in his hand and said with an expression as if he had seen a ghost: "How do you expect this ghost-drawing thing to fight?"
Cheng Chumo's face suddenly showed a rare and strange expression. He curled his lips and said: "Don't all the maps in the army look like this? This is already good. Xiaoxuan, you have never seen some of the former dynasties of the Ministry of War. Our maps are even rougher than this! Don’t compare these with the maps in our school’s geography textbooks. Do you think everyone knows as much as you do?”
In fact, most ancient maps are very rough, and it is difficult to be as detailed and accurate as modern maps. On the one hand, ancient times did not have a complete and unified set of rules and requirements for map drawing. They did not know the scale, let alone the contour lines. On the other hand, the main purpose of the maps of this era was to tell people where there were mountains and rivers. As for how high the mountains were, how wide and long the river was, you couldn't tell it from the map at all!
"...Chu Mo, Baolin, are you two familiar with Niushou Mountain?"
This reality made Li Zexuan feel helpless. After a moment of silence, he looked at Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin and asked.
"It's familiar! First of all, there is Sizhuyuan twenty miles to the west. Princess Pingyang used her army to guard this place, blocking tens of thousands of Sui troops. In the past, Baolin, Huaiyu and I had nothing to do. When I was young, I often went hunting there!”
Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes, and suddenly he seemed to realize something, and he quickly replied excitedly.
Yuchi Baolin also nodded in agreement: "Yeah! We used to go hunting there often!"
"Well! Then leave one of you two and help me make a sand table based on this map in the afternoon!"
After thinking for a moment, Li Zexuan said to them.
Just relying on the extremely rough map sent by Duan Zhixuan to make a sand table will definitely have many inaccuracies and errors. This is not acceptable! He had to deduce tactics with Sun Zhiping based on the specific terrain of Niushou Mountain. If the sand table was wrong, then the tactics they deduced would be useless in actual combat!
So he planned to let Cheng Chumo or Yuchi Baolin also participate. In this case, many mistakes should be reduced!
"Hey! I'm coming! I'm coming!"
Hearing this, Cheng Chumo's eyes suddenly lit up, and without any hesitation, he said first: "Xiaoxuan, although my grades in the academy are not very good, my ability to memorize directions is not matched by many people! No! I, Old Cheng, will tell you, as long as I have been to a place, I can walk the right way even with my eyes closed the second time I go there! If you stay, I will help you make the sand table, and I will make sure that your sand table is beautiful! "
Although this guy usually looks naive, he is very clear in his heart. As long as he can stay with Li Zexuan to build a sand table, doesn't it mean that he doesn't have to go to the school field for training in the afternoon? How could he let go of such a good job?
"Uh! Chief Shan, Brother Chou Niu is indeed better at remembering directions than me. You'd better let him help you!"
Yuchi Baolin didn't have as many tricks as Cheng Chumo, he scratched his head and said.
"Dong dong dong~!"
At this moment, there was a burst of intensive drumming outside the camp. This is the drumbeat for the afternoon assembly, which means that the afternoon training is about to begin!
"Okay! Then Baolin, you go to train. By the way, tell Zhi Ping that Chu Mo has something to do in the afternoon. Please take half a day off and make up for it later!"
Although he knew what Cheng Chumo had in mind, making the sand table was still the most important thing at the moment, so Li Zexuan could only give in to this guy's wishes for the time being, he explained to Yuchi Baolin.
"Ang! Then I'm going to train!"
Yuchi Baolin responded, and then ran quickly outside the tent.
"What's that? Xiaoxuan, what do you mean by taking the time to make up for it? Do you still have to make up for the half-day leave you asked for this afternoon?"
Cheng Chumo looked confused. He stared at Li Zexuan and said.
"Of course! You kid still wants to take this opportunity to be lazy, no way!"
Li Zexuan glanced at Cheng Chumo and said angrily: "Go! Go get some sand from the camp!"
"oh!"
Cheng Chumo was reluctantly pushed out of the tent by Li Zexuan. He was a little depressed at this time. He thought he could escape the training for half a day, but it turned out that he was still too young!
"Eh? That's not right! Xiaoxuan said that he would make up for it later when he has time, but this military camp does not have two days off every week like the academy. The camp has to train every day. Where can I have free time? This Doesn’t it mean that we will never have to make up for this half day?”
Suddenly, Cheng Chumo figured it out, and a proud smile suddenly appeared on his bitter and resentful face, "Hey! Make some sand!"
Cheng Chumo, who was originally wilting, suddenly became full of energy, just because he could finally be honest and lazy!
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"Sir, this is today's "Datang Daily". Chang'an seems to be quite busy recently!"
Qizhou, Yong County, the backyard of the governor's mansion.
Leng Yuyao came to the study room with the latest issue of "Datang Daily", put it in front of Wang Renbiao, and said.
Qizhou is only two to three hundred miles away from Chang'an. If you ride a fast horse, you can get from Chang'an to Qizhou in half a day. Therefore, at noon every day, the people here in Qizhou can see the latest issue of "Datang Daily"! As for the states and counties further away from Chang'an City, you have to wait a day or even longer to see the latest "Datang Daily"!
"Oh~? What happened?"
Wang Renbiao was reading a book. As the wedding was approaching, he couldn't calm down in his heart. Only by reading, he could barely calm down. Hearing this, he put down the book in his hand, picked up the newspaper on the table, and asked softly.
"The Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce is holding a fund-raising meeting to help the imperial court raise military funds! It's on the first page of "Datang Daily", sir, take a look!"
Leng Yuyao pointed to the headline of "Datang Daily" and expressed to Wang Ren.
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