As the sky dawned, Hua Gou swallowed the dream saliva in his mouth and blinked his eyes when he woke up. He stole a lazy sleep, looked around, and rolled his eyes to look listless.
"Hey, madman, the night watchman didn't come in the middle of the night last night?"
"not coming."
"Huh? This is strange. Normally, there is one patrol in the first half of the night and one in the second half of the night. Why is it one less patrol?" It has been two years since Hua Gou came to Yubei Mountain Fortress, and this is the first time he has encountered a situation where one patrol is missing. He was confused, but as a soldier, he couldn't figure out the reason for these things.
Zhang Yan shook his head and said he didn't know. He didn't even sleep all night, and he had fought hard for a while before. At this time, he really couldn't bear it anymore, and his eyelids were fighting fiercely.
"Forget it, it's better if you don't come on night patrol. I can take a nap every day. Hey, don't squint. I'll change my post after breakfast is served. Go down and sleep again, so as not to be caught by the officials again. I'll whip you."
The flower dog patted Zhang Yan's back hard, with a loud bang, which almost knocked Zhang Yan out of breath, but Zhang Yan's drowsiness seemed to have eased.
Not long after, groups of auxiliary soldiers carrying barrels, bowls and ladles came up from under the city wall, delivering breakfast to the soldiers on night duty.
A bowl of thick porridge, a thick pancake, two pickles as thick as a little finger, and a piece of dried meat as wide as two fingers.
"Eh? Why is there still dried meat? Isn't it sent to the wrong place?" Although the flower dog was greedy for the dried meat, he didn't dare to eat it randomly. The rules in the military are very strict. If you are not careful and you get whipped, it will be light, and it is not worth it for such a trivial matter.
Hua Gou was an old man on the front line of the army. The auxiliary soldiers could not offend him, and most of them were familiar with him. So when Hua Gou was confused, he quickly replied: "Brother Li, this dried meat was brought back from the supply camp last night. There are so many different things this time. There will be marinated elbows at noon!"
"What? You've got pickled elbows? Darling! When did those gentlemen in the supply camp become so capable?" Hua Gou swallowed subconsciously. It’s not easy to preserve food in Bianjun. You basically don’t have to think about fresh meat. All meat is either smoked or pickled. Although it doesn't have the taste of fresh meat, it has a unique flavor when marinated properly, especially the marinated elbow, a delicacy that Chinese dogs often dream about.
Half a year or a year? Hua Gou can’t even remember how long it’s been since those losers in the baggage camp got something as hard as pickled elbows.
The auxiliary soldier looked around, then leaned closer and whispered: "Brother Li doesn't know something. Last night, General Manager Chen in the transport camp was replaced and a new one came. General Manager Chen left the fortress early this morning. Listen. He said that there was a lot of excitement in the General's Mansion last night, and it seems that it hasn't stopped recently."
"President Chen has been dismissed? Tsk tsk, hehe. Okay, you go and get busy." Hua Gou and the other party looked at each other and smiled, and didn't say much. We are all old-fashioned and just tacitly understood everything. That's right.
"Brother? What's wrong?"
"Hey, I'm afraid the fortress is going to change recently!"
"Um?"
"It's okay, let's eat. After eating, we can take a rest. Maybe there will be work to do again in the afternoon." Hua Gou didn't explain to Zhang Yanduo. He picked up his own small wooden basin and took a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of pancakes. Fast. However, he collected the dried meat and put it in his arms instead of eating it together.
After eating breakfast and waiting for almost a cup of tea, the soldiers on duty came up. Zhang Yan lined up with his spear and began to change defenses. After returning to the camp, I simply cleaned up the blood on my body, then fell down on my bunk and fell asleep. In the blink of an eye, snoring broke out in the camp.
After sleeping for three hours, Zhang Yan was woken up by his companions next to him. He blinked and looked around and found that most of the people in the tent were already up. Some of the bunks are already empty, and people may have gone out.
"Get up quickly, move around, and then go clean up your poop and urine. It's time to eat. It's time to go up the city wall again later."
It was still the flower dog greeting Zhang Yan. Because Zhang Yan was assigned to Hua Gou's group when he came here. Hua Gou was the group leader and had to look after the five or six people under him in everything.
"Huh? There's meat?!" After Zhang Yan took care of his own affairs, he rushed to the place where the rice was placed and took the rice basin. He saw pieces of meat in the dry rice, which mixed with the vegetable leaves and exuded an alluring aroma. .
"Hey, the pickled elbow is deboned, so that's nice!" Hua Gou squatted next to Zhang Yan holding a rice bowl. He likes this criminal soldier better. Although he can be crazy sometimes, he grows up very quickly after entering the battle. Based on his experience, this madman can live for a long time. If he cultivates a relationship, he may be able to save his life in the future.
"Brother, do you know where I can get cinnabar?"
"Cinnabar? I don't know, maybe there is some in the supply camp. What do you want that thing for?"
"Hey, I want to draw a peace sign, please live for two more days." Zhang Yan has been thinking about drawing the talisman since he woke up. The first choice is naturally cinnabar and yellow paper. Ask first if you can get it. If not, then think of another way.
"Peace cards? Are the peace cards over there painted with cinnabar? In this case, I will take the time to ask you, and if there are any, I will help you get some."
"Hey, thank you, bro."
"Don't be too busy thanking me. You'll know if it's done or not after you ask. By the way, don't bother with your safety card. Didn't you find anything different when you woke up?" HuaGou was scratching his head. While eating the meal, he asked Zhang Yan vaguely.
"Brother, what do you mean? How can it be different?"
"Here, look over there."
Following the direction of Hua Gou's finger, Zhang Yan raised his head slightly and saw the fortress flag erected. This...isn't this the same as before...wait a minute, this flag doesn't seem right!
"Ah? Change, change the flag?!" Zhang Yan finally saw something was wrong. In the past, there was a character "Liu" on the big flag, which represented "Liu Wen", the supreme commander of Yubei Mountain Fortress. Although the style of the flag has not changed, the characters on it have changed to the character "Song".
"Yes, General Liu has returned to the Imperial City in the morning to resume his duties. Now the person in charge of the Yubei Mountain Fortress is General Song Qinghe. This is the military report that came from the peak when your boy was still very sleepy. But don't worry, The ones who move this time are only those at the top here, so small soldiers like us will not be affected. However, General Song has brought a lot of supplies this time, so we can eat with him for a while."
Zhang Yan understood in his heart that the changes in the fortress would not have any impact on low-level shrimps like them, but they had no way to change it and could only accept it.
In addition, Zhang Yan couldn't help but look down at the carefree dog next to him. The dog had muttered "The situation is going to change" in the morning before, so he must have guessed the change of generals in advance. It seems that the other party is not as vulgar as he looks on the outside, and his mind is quite lively.
