While Feiqian was improving fabric equipment, the military camp north of Yinshan ushered in the first winter rain this year.

The weather in Yinshan is very interesting. With Yinshan as the boundary, the north is often accompanied by wind and snow, and strong winds are howling, while the south side of Yinshan is calm and the climate is mild.

Of course, if you read some geographical knowledge, you will know what this is. However, for most people of the Han Dynasty, including the Hu people, they just think that the south of Yinshan is a place protected by heaven and a treasure land.

The Yinshan North Military Village has no special name, it is called "Northern Army Village". Because this military village is the northernmost military village north of Yinshan, there seems to be no big problem with this name.

The Beijun Village was just a checkpoint at the earliest, and then it was built into an outpost one after another, and finally became a military camp today. It witnessed the changes in the Han army in Yinshan over the years, from small to large, from temporary to fixed.

The Beijunzhai is like a tentacle of Yinshan, extending out lonely and tenaciously, and like a thorn needle, piercing it into the grassland that originally belonged to the Yinshan Xianbei, and no one can get around it.

As winter comes, it is OK to the south of Yinshan Mountain, and it will rain lightly occasionally, but the climate north of Yinshan Mountain is very bad. This time, the winter rain is intermittent and sometimes heavy, and it falls for several days. By noon on the third day, heavy snow fell from the sky, and the sky and the earth suddenly turned white.

As the snow came, the world seemed to be vast.

The vast mountains in the distance are like jade-covered ice dragons, appearing and disappearing in the wind and snow all over the sky, as if they have come alive, roaring, swimming at the edge of the wind and snow, and then disappearing.

In comparison, the Beijunzhai is like a small hedgehog, curled up between small valleys.

The Beijun Village in the snow was as quiet as a piece of ruins.

There is only one road in the village. The snow on the road has long been covered with ankles, and there is no sign of anyone moving. A skinny black cat poked his head out on a dirt wall. Because the reflection of the snow made its pupils harvest into a line, shining with a slightly strange light. Then it was like a black ghost rushing across the street, disappearing behind the dirt wall opposite in an instant, leaving a few small footprints in the snow.

In military villages, they usually keep dogs and cats. It is not to prevent the soldiers guarding the village from being lonely. Well, it may also have this effect, but it is more because dogs call the police, and cats can protect the originally small amount of food in the military village and avoid being harmed by mice.

Outside the village, there is an almost dry riverbed, already covered with snow, like a white snake, winding southward and gradually hidden behind the mountains.

This river flows in summer and stops in winter, which is also the lifeline of this military camp, and even the breeder of surrounding animals and plants. She is like a thin mother. Even if she is in a weak body, she will try her best to ensure that the surrounding creatures can survive.

At dusk.

The heavy snow continued, but it seemed to be a little smaller, but it was also very small.

In the valley on the south side of the Beijun Village, a figure of forty or fifty cavalry suddenly appeared.

These cavalrymen who came from the wind and snow were struggling in the snow. The helmets on their heads and iron armor were wrapped in sheepskin with hairless to avoid being able to pull them off by accident. The iron tools on their bodies were basically the same. They were either wrapped in broken leather with hairless or wrapped in various ragged variegated cloth strips. Even horses had some ragged leather or linen on their necks and faces to prevent the cold wind from blowing.

The ragged leather of various colors and rags are indeed not good-looking and not neat, just like beggars who escaped from where they don’t know where to go. But in fact, those who know how to do know understand that such people are veterans in the northern desert and can truly be able to move freely in the cold desert.

In the wind, the slender three-color flag danced like a spirit snake.

This is the Yinshan cavalry.

It is not that the equipment of the Yinshan cavalry is poor. In fact, their equipment is the same as that of the three auxiliary cavalry in Guanzhong. However, in the desert, if they are dressed neatly and brightly, some kind of iron helmets and armor, or if they don’t know how to wrap cloth strips on the hands of the weapons, they are afraid that they will be defeated by the cold weather before they encounter the enemy.

You should know that the iron in the north likes to eat skin. If you paste the hot meat, it will definitely be a layer of skin that will be eaten!

In the wind and snow, the sound of horse hooves and other sounds were covered up.

Therefore, it seems that the Beijunzhai did not find any people from the south, which seems normal, but as the group of people approached, the Beijunzhai still had no reaction, which made people a little confused.

The gate is closed at the south gate of the Northern Military Village.

This group of cavalry arrived in front of the camp.

A cavalry was separated from the army to drive forward, and when he arrived at the camp, he shouted loudly, but no one responded. The sound was like a few more sobs in the howling north wind, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The leader's eyes in the army were slightly cold. He used leather gloves to push the helmet wrapped in broken leather up a little, looking at the towering whistle towering in the wind and snow.

Obviously, there was no one on the whistle.

This is……

The soldier pushing the door in front shook his hands, indicating that the door was bolted inside and could not be pushed.

The general waved to the back and signaled.

Two or three soldiers stepped forward from the horse and grabbed the front of the village. Then they turned over and got off the horse, then took off the wall hook from the horse's back, waved it back and forth a few times before throwing it onto the village wall, and quickly pulled the rope and stepped on the wall.

It seems that these soldiers are crawling lightly, but in fact, only light cavalry like scouts can do so smoothly. It is not that scouts are stronger than ordinary soldiers, but that most scouts have light bodies, and focus on leather armor, and their weight is relatively small, so climbing is of course more convenient.

There are barracks in the Northern Military Village, but the barracks seem to be in a while. The two wooden doors cannot be closed anyway. Maybe someone is holding them back from the inside, but they are not careful about their heads and tails. There is a big gap left at the bottom of the door panel.

A gust of north wind whistled, drilling in and out of all the gaps, making all kinds of strange sounds, rolling snowflakes flying everywhere. A soldier walked to the gate of the barracks and bumped the door with his shoulders. Two sentries squatting at the door to take a nap in shelter immediately fell and chewed mud.

A sentry cursed his mother in a mess, got up and turned around, clenched his fists and was about to hit someone, but was frightened by the team of soldiers at the door. His breath was suffocated, and his heartbeat almost stopped in an instant. When he saw the general surrounded by soldiers, his legs and feet became weak, and he knelt down again with a thud, "Li...General Li!"

The sentry is lazy when on duty and follows military orders. Those who commit the first crime will whip ten times, and those who commit the second crime will be shackled for three days. If they do not change...

Then there is no need to change it.

Li Dian glanced at the two sentries and said, "Where is the governor of the garrison?"

"Tun...Tun, Tun...Tun..." a sentry was trembling, and after a long time of garrison could not come out, he came.

"Tun Chief, Tun Chief is sick..." Another sentry seemed to be smarter and took the opportunity to beg for mercy for himself. "General, the little one is a moment of negligence..."

Li Dian frowned, ignored it at all, and just stepped forward.

These two sentries have their own escort punishment, so he doesn't have to worry too much. He is more concerned about whether the military camp's chief is really sick or pretending to be sick.

The head of this Beijunzhai is surnamed Guan.

Well, it has nothing to do with Guan Yu, it’s just an ordinary little officer.

The soldiers in the barracks in the Beijun Village who had received the information ran out and knelt in the small school ground. Among them was the head of Guantun. He was carried out by someone, with a slightly unhealthy blushing face, and it really looked like he was sick.

Li Dian glanced at it and said in a deep voice: "What are you going to go out of the line!"

The five-ranked team came out.

"Who is the rotation today?" Li Dian asked again.

A long kowtowed, tremblingly, "Yes, it's a small one..."

Li Dian waved his hand, and immediately had a guard forward, dragged the leader and left, and soon there was a scream of being whipped under the gate of the military camp.

The reason why Beijunzhai neglected duty is very simple. After all, people are lazy. In recent days, winter rain has turned into heavy snow. On duty outside is obviously a painful thing. In addition, Tunchang is sick, and the few soldiers who should have stood up to act were lazy, so naturally the soldiers under his command were even more lazy.

『I remember...』 Li Dian sat on the military camp and looked at Guantun Chief, "Are you a veteran who fought against Bai Bo with the lord? If I remember well, the accumulated honor fields you have accumulated and cashed in is 200 acres, which is also a family of abundant yields..."

Guantun Chang lowered his head, and his chin was so eager to pierce it into his chest. He didn't dare to breathe it. His spine was cold. Needless to say, it must have been soaked in cold sweat.

『Do you know what Kotoshi means?』

Li Dian said slowly, "Many people think that with honor fields, not only the Zhuanghe field in the land, but also the opportunity to shine the family lintels. In the future, their children can wait and learn from their studies, take exams, etc., and even if they have some sins, they can reduce their sins and eliminate disasters... But how many people remember that in addition to glory, this honor field is actually a responsibility, an obligation, and a responsibility!"

Li Dian looked at Guantun Chief, "I thought no one would come here in such a cold weather, so I was lazy? Do you know that if you were lazy, the people below you could be lazy for five points, and when you arrived at the soldiers, you would throw all the responsibility! Today there were not even people on duty at the gate of the village gate tower! If it weren't for me, but the Hu people, you would all die here!"

"There are you guys..." Li Dian turned his head and said to the remaining few longs, "No need to say much, being a soldier is just on the belt! If you want to be lazy and feel comfortable, don't eat this military salary! You are greedy for military salary and don't want to suffer this kind of suffering. What's the good thing?!"

"…" The head of the town and a few heads knelt down and did not dare to say anything.

Because the Beijunzhai is small, there is no special military judge, so it is inevitable that it will become the "one-man hall" of Guantun chief. Over time and over time, it will be easy to regard this place as one acre of three-part land. In addition, it has no personal qualities and is a dirt path, so arrogant and slack are naturally inevitable.

Li Dian thought for a moment and called a leader who came with him, and then appointed him as the chief of the fake township of the Beijunzhai, immediately took over the relevant matters of the chief of Guantun and was responsible for arranging and rectifying military affairs.

Why did Guantun Chief be demoted? When Li Dian returns, he will go back.

The reason why the Guantun Chief was not punished or killed on the spot was because the Guantun Chief was indeed sick and was very ill.

At the same time, I was a little weirdly ill.

Before Guantun Director got sick, before this heavy rain and snow, he found some traces of scattered horse thieves, so he took some men to pursue and check...

From this point of view, Guantun chief is not all lazy and lazy in Beijunzhai.

Of course, perhaps the military rewards of General Husband have always been very attractive?

Anyway, the Guantun Chief found some traces of horse thieves, but during the tracking process, several people were inexplicably sick, vomited and had diarrhea, so they hurriedly retreated. Fortunately, the sanitary regulations implemented by the cavalry had formed a certain habit. In addition, the temperature was low, and the diseases of Guantun Chief and others did not infect other people.

『You drank "stagnant water"?

Li Dian immediately thought of the matter mentioned in the military strategy before, which was also emphasized among the soldiers on the frontier. Any corpse and debris in the spring water is "stagnant water" and cannot be drunk.

Guantun Chief denied that he was also a veteran, so how could he not know how to distinguish between "stagnant water"? And he had carefully checked it, and there were no animals or human corpses.

So, this is very strange.

Li Dian sent someone to investigate the place mentioned by Guantun Director, and finally he caught a living!

His hair was disguised and his lips were pursed. Even if he was thrown to the ground and touched the wound, he just groaned, then stared at Li Dian with a pair of triangular eyes as if he was staring at his enemy.

Li Dian observed this living mouth.

The naked ones are shriveled and dark skin, dirty and loose hair, and broken leather robe.

"Have you been interrogated?" Li Dian asked.

"Before I had time, the snow was heavy again and the wind was tight. I caught it and came back quickly." Li Dian's subordinate replied.

Li Dian nodded, and then suddenly jumped in his heart when facing this surviving look that seemed to be full of hatred.

"Do you know me?" Li Dian frowned, "No... it should be that you know us..."

He stared at Li Dian fiercely, like a lonely wolf injured on the grassland. Even though he was embarrassed and wounded, he still showed cruelty in his eyes.

"Xianbei people?" Li Dian asked, "or is Dingling?"

After staying in Yinshan for a while, Li Dian also speaks something about Wu.

The survivor turned his face.

"Take it down and ask carefully."

Li Dian smiled, and it seemed that it was, so he waved his hand.

Li Dian speculated that the so-called sporadic horse thieves encountered by Guantun Commander may not be real horse thieves. It is more likely that this small tribe is not known to be a Xianbei or a Dingling.

It is said that Zhao Yun had launched a war against the Dingling people before, and achieved good results, defeating the Dingling people's royal court. There was no tribal alliance in the desert that could threaten the Han people. This military achievements really made Li Dian envious, and he wished he could be present at that time and gained more or less some merits.

But now, Li Dian suddenly realized that perhaps the merits were right in front of him.

Because this desert is too big.

Although Zhao Yun set up a camp in Changshan and extended his tentacles to the entire northern desert, it does not mean that he can control every inch of land and manage every tribe.

Especially when the area expands, it often becomes uncontrollable.

Especially as the surrendered army under Zhao Yun, Gan Feng and Zhang He, just like the head of Guantun in the Northern Army Village, if no one is watching, they will inevitably become lazy and tired.

Not long afterwards, Li Dian's subordinates came back to report.

It was indeed the escaped Dingling.

I don’t know because Dingling didn’t know much, or he was weak, so he didn’t get any very important information. He just knew that he followed the tribe’s people to this neighborhood, but when asked about the specific location, he just said that he was in the north...

north?

The north is larger.

But it seemed to arouse Li Dian's fighting spirit even more.

Li Dian climbed the watchtower of the Northern Military Village.

The howling north wind seemed to blow away all the small watchtower, the roof and racks, and the thick wood also squeaked like overwhelming in the wind and snow. The cold snowflakes were flying in the wind and rushing towards us, like a handful of small knives scraping on the body, as if they were about to wipe out all the heat of a person, leaving only endless coldness.

"Is this a target to Yinshan?"

Li Dian muttered in a low voice and sneered.

Although Li Dian could not see clearly what scenery was in the north of the wind and snow, but it was just a white and chaotic area, he seemed to be able to see people and horses shaking, tents trembling in the cold wind, and perhaps some corpses frozen in the wind and snow, unwilling to extend their hands like dry claws toward this place...

His eyes calmly glanced back and forth from far to near, and light flashed in his dark pupils.

If a dog is anxious, he will jump over the wall, and if a person is anxious, he will also go crazy.

The Dingling people were broken up, but not to say they were wiped out. The Dingling people, who were divided into pieces, fled in all directions in the desert, like cockroach nests with sheltered open. Even if they stomped and beaten, they could not kill all the cockroaches. In addition, the Xianbei tribe north of the Yinshan Mountains had been wiped out long ago. At this stage, only a small number of people from the Southern Xiongnu were basically empty. These Dingling people found a gap to escape here, which was not an impossible task.

The abundant Yinshan Mountain is like a piece of scented with an attractive aroma, squeaking roasted and carrotted with burnt yellow flesh, attracting these hungry Dingling people.

And combined with the inexplicable illness of Guantun President...

This is even more interesting.

Most of these guys have mastered what poisoning methods that Li Dian didn't know very well could make people sick, so he wanted to make a gap in Yinshan, take a bite, and make a fortune!

Of course, it is also possible that these guys have reached the end of their lives and can only fight for their lives. If they cannot be replenished, they are likely to die in the desert?

But whether it is the former situation or the latter possibility, it represents the same thing.

A sudden battle is right in front of you.
Chapter completed!