In the north, reject Yi City.
This is a city built by the former King of the North. The location of the city is extremely remote, far north for the North. It can be said to be the frontier of Daqi. The three kings of Anxi, Beidi, and Dingliao built about a hundred cities like this on the northern border of Daqi. The purpose was to prevent the Beiyi people from plundering southward and increase the depth of the battlefield along the Daqi border.
As long as the Beiyi people go south, the three kings can organize their troops to fight and retreat around these cities. By the time they retreat to the three kings' domain, the Beiyi people's strength and morale will be almost exhausted. In this way, the people in Daqi and the San Francisco Land can be protected from being harassed. It can be said that it is well-intentioned.
In fact, it was not that the Beiyi people had not thought of destroying these cities directly, but they had just destroyed and razed the cities with their front foot. Once they retreated, the soldiers and civilians of the San Francisco area would load up the soil and fill the sand. In a few days, they could build another one that could withstand the attack. The cavalry gathered around the city. The northern barbarians were extremely troubled and destroyed.
One side is just for money, food, and silk, while the other side is to defend their land and live in peace. Naturally, Beiyi cannot afford Daqi.
In the city of Reiyi, the King of the North has just recruited a group of people. Together with the army of the North, they have stepped up the defense of the city and dug deep trenches to guard against the arrival of the people from the north.
Two strong young men were wielding pickaxes and shovels, sticking their butts out outside the city, digging trenches. They were used to withstand the impact of the Beiyi war horses and the crudely made siege engines of the Beiyi.
"Wu Dinggong, you are also a dignified Duke after all. Why do we have to do such rough work here?"
"Is it rough? Not rough! You see, this trench is also very particular. It cannot be too wide. If it is too wide, it will be time-consuming and laborious. Once the Beiyi people hide in the trench, they can also use it to avoid our army's arrows. ! It can’t be too narrow. If it’s too narrow, it means there’s no digging. If you jump over it, it won’t work..."
These two strong young men are Yi Xiaodao and Bai Xinglong who left Taiyi Peak. Somehow they were "caught strong" here.
Bai Xinglong looked at Yi Xiaodao with a bitter face: "Didn't you say that you came to Beidi to check out the movements of the three northern kings? But what we are doing now, isn't it...Mr. Wu Ding, do you have other plans?"
"No, I'm just free...Shh, be quiet!" A supervisor soldier walked across the ground. Yi Xiaodao quickly signaled in a low voice: "How many times have I told you, don't call me Wu Dinggong. If your identity is exposed, you won't be able to do it." Got it!"
Bai Xinglong was helpless, but he could only wave his pickaxe and dig hard. He didn't believe that Yi Xiaodao was here to help build the city for no reason. During this period of time, he had gotten to know Yi Xiaodao a little. This man seemed absurd, but he never did anything meaningless.
It's just that Bai Xinglong doesn't understand what kind of plan he has. Is he working so hard here just for the three meals a day and the little wages?
"Hey, everyone stop! Stop! It's time to eat. Everyone did a good job this morning. At this rate, we will be done in less than three days! General Wang has an order. In order to reward everyone, everyone will be given two pieces of meat at noon. Steamed buns! Stuffed with mutton!"
"Two for each person, do you listen? If anyone dares to snatch it, don't blame me for being ruthless! Laughing, what are you laughing at? I'll make you a death soldier!"
A slightly fat general wearing iron armor waved his whip and shouted to the civilians to stop work and have a meal. However, his fat figure and funny mustache made him look a little funny, and the people around him were not afraid of him, and some even boldly joked with him.
"I'm talking about Fat General, did General Wang give three to each of us, but you withheld one?"
"Yes, how come the warriors who are marching and fighting are fatter than my mother-in-law?"
"Don't mention my mother-in-law. When I saw these two buns, I missed my mother-in-law... Oh, I'm a little worried and I don't know how she is doing..."
"Can you please pull it off? You've only been out for four days and you miss your mother-in-law? All the men from the whole village are here, and your mother-in-law can't steal even if she wants to! Hahahaha..."
The people present were all ordinary farmers, rough guys, and their jokes were limitless. Fortunately, there aren't many women here, they're all just old men, it doesn't matter.
The fat general raised his whip and shouted: "I'll say it again! My surname is Pei! Pei Shuozhang! It's not fat! Who was laughing at me just now? Who!"
Yi Xiaodao and Bai Xinglong received their meat buns, stood aside and ate them slowly. Yi Xiaodao noticed that since he came here, General Pei's whip was often raised high, but never fell.
"General Pei, tell me, have the Beiyi people not been here for some time? It must have been half a year. Half a year ago, there were only about a hundred or so people, maybe a thousand at most, and there were not many of them. Why are we working so hard to strengthen this city?" A fair-skinned man asked. Among the crowd, his fair skin was particularly eye-catching.
Pei Shuozhang shook his head and started to show off: "You don't understand this, do you? Soldiers are deceitful! It's precisely because they come every time with too few people, which is against common sense. They just want us to relax our vigilance first, and then invade in a large scale." Uncertain. Your Majesty, this is nip in the bud!"
The people around him nodded thoughtfully. In fact, after hearing these words, no one bothered to study the truth behind Pei Shuozhang's words. On the other hand, the sentence "Soldiers are deceitful" sounds like a very powerful and cultural sentence. There are not many people here who have read books, and the rough guys are thinking about when to show off this sentence.
"Pfft, these five words are probably what General Pei has learned in his life." Yi Xiaodao couldn't help lowering his head and joking with Bai Xinglong.
It can be summed up in one word: "arrogant soldier strategy". To put it in such a crude and straightforward way, you still have to pretend to be in front of these common people who don't know a word of Chinese.
Pei Shuozhang seemed to have very good ears. As soon as Yi Xiaodao snickered, he noticed it and walked over: "I said, you two are working so hard! It's been all morning and you haven't even drank a single sip of water. Your body is very strong." Yes! Here!" As he said that, he dropped a leather water bag, which was bulging. It looked like he didn't drink much.
Yi Xiaodao took the leather water bag without being polite, pulled out the cork and drank it in a big gulp. After drinking until he felt comfortable, he handed it to Bai Xinglong and drank it again.
Pei Shuozhang licked his dry lips: "I said, you are not locals, are you? Look at you, you guys with thin skin and tender flesh, are you from Donglu?"
"Guess again, general." Yi Xiaodao pretended.
"Chu Xiang? No way. Isn't Chu Xiang at war with the imperial court? You are quite big, and you can't be from Sichuan and Shu... Nanhuai? That's far away..." Pei Shuozhang talked to himself, but he didn't feel bored at all. I guessed one by one.
"General, we are all from Dingliao! Why can't you guess it? However, we are also close to Donglu. We are from Tangcheng! We don't look like people from the north?" Yi Xiaodao imitated Qin Qian. My cousin, Han Shi’s accent.
Pei Shuozhang raised his brows slightly and said with a smile: "Oh, is that so? My mother is from Nagada too! Fellow fellow, come for a walk and come to the tent with me for a drink. I haven't been to my grandma's house for five or six years. "
Bai Xinglong handed back the water bag. Seeing General Pei's sincere invitation, the two of them did not refuse and followed him to the military tent.
As soon as they entered the military tent, before the two of them spoke, they saw General Pei turning around and retreating. His movements were so light that they were not commensurate with his chubby body.
"Hmph! You still dare to lie to me? You clearly have a Donglu accent, but you say you are from Tangcheng? Although Tangcheng is sandwiched between Donglu and Dingliao, the accent is not like either one. Tell me, are you here to reject the barbarians? What are you doing? Who sent you here!" As soon as Pei Shuozhang finished speaking, dozens of soldiers flashed out from both sides, all holding shields, guns and crossbows. It seemed that he was confident that the two of them would confess.
Bai Xinglong turned a blind eye to the soldiers around him and looked at Yi Xiaodao with interest. He also wanted to see what medicine was sold in Yi Xiaodao's gourd.
"General, you have unjustly sentenced me to death! It's true that I am from Tangcheng, but I also grew up in my grandma's house! I am not from Beiyi, so what are you doing? My mother said that I am weak, so let me I'm participating, but I'm afraid of fighting and getting killed, so I and my brother..." Yi Xiaodao looked aggrieved and kept making up his origins.
Pei Shuozhang gently tugged on his mustache. He was used to looking at people and thought he was very accurate in identifying people. He instinctively felt that the boy in front of him was not a good person. If one of the ten words he said was true, he forgot to make it up. But it is true that he is not from Beiyi. There is nothing wrong with the work these days, he is working very hard...
"Maybe he has something to hide. It would be a bit hasty to punish him just for concealing his origins..." Pei Shuozhang thought to himself, and after a while, he waved his hand to signal the soldiers to retreat.
"I'm just trying to scare you so that you know that nothing can be hidden from my eyes! Only by working honestly can you have food and money, so don't be petty to me!" Pei Shuozhang said with a tigerish expression on his face. Good sound.
Yi Xiaodao nodded repeatedly: "Thank you, general, thank you, general. Then we two brothers will go back to work!"
Pei Shuozhang nodded and said, "Well, go ahead."
Before the two men turned around and left, Pei Shuozhang rushed over, raised his knife in his hand, and struck the two men's necks with a sweep, as if he wanted to chop off their heads.
Bai Xinglong paused for a moment and was about to turn around to fight, but Yi Xiaodao grabbed his shoulder and pulled him forward forcefully: "Brother, I told Xie. I will get my wages in two days, Xie When you go to Xiuer's house to propose marriage, you have to dress well! I also have a pair of shoes..."
Pei Shuozhang's sword stopped about six or seven inches away from Yi Xiaodao's neck. His technique could only be controlled so far. If he stopped later, he would not be sure of his strength.
"It seems like I'm really overthinking..." Pei Shuozhang looked at the leaving figures of Yi Xiaodao and laughed at himself.
A junior colonel ran out from the Chinese military tent: "General Pei, General Wang has invited us."
