first blood (3)

First Drop of Blood (3)

Zhang Jianliang waited next to the body all night, but no one came.

There was only a small stray dog ​​by his side. He didn't leave, and neither did the dog.

At dawn, the dog stayed beside Zhang Jianliang and did not lick the blood on the ground, nor did it touch the two palms that fell on the ground.

This is a good dog!

Zhang Jianliang picked up the dog, left the Bazaar, and returned to the inn.

After staying out all night, he was covered in dust.

Bathing is a must, because it is the toughest regulation in the army. When the army gathers in the Western Regions, even if the water to drink is not enough, each soldier can have a tea jar of clean water every day. Use it to wash your face, brush your teeth, and take a shower!

When people are clean, dogs must also be clean. In the Ming Dynasty, the cleanest group of people are soldiers, including everything related to soldiers.

The dog is very thin, and when its fur is wet, it looks even thinner, making it look like a skinny dog.

After finding an old toothbrush to brush the dog’s teeth, Zhang Jianliang carried the dog to the canteen of the inn.

Today, there are no female slaves in the yard.

There were only a few couriers standing in the yard, looking at Zhang Jianliang with evil intentions. However, when Zhang Jianliang looked at them, they turned away.

In fact, there is nothing delicious in the canteen in the inn. Fortunately, there is enough mutton.

Just eating naan bread, Zhang Jianliang and the dog were very full.

Seeing that the servant girl had taken away the dinner plate, Yi Cheng sat down in front of Zhang Jianliang and said, "Brother, are you the peace officer?"

Zhang Jianliang shook his head and said, "I just want revenge. ."

Yicheng smiled and said: "Whether you are here to take revenge or to be a peace officer, it doesn't matter now. Just last night, Mr. Dao left Jiayuguan and he didn't want to provoke you. Before leaving, you asked me to leave you two hundred taels of gold." As he spoke, Yi Cheng placed a heavy backpack on the table.

Zhang Jianliang looked at Yi Cheng and said: "You are a shame to the officials of the Lantian Imperial Court!"

Yi Cheng spread his hands and said: "Have I ever neglected the Ming Dynasty Post? "

Zhang Jianliang frowned and said: "I haven't heard of this."

Yi Cheng said again: "That's it. I am Yi Cheng, and the first thing I guarantee is that Yi Delivery comes and goes. It's a big deal, as long as there is nothing wrong with this, why do you think I am a scum among officials?

As for the matter of me doing business with these scum, if it is put elsewhere, it will naturally be a serious crime of beheading. It is a good thing to be rewarded here. If you don’t believe it, go to the bedroom and see that I have been the best eunuch for three consecutive years!”

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said: “The best eunuch in the kiln. This is my first time."

Yi Cheng snorted and said, "This is the way to survive."

Zhang Jianliang looked at Yi Cheng and said, "It was you who persuaded him to leave.Lao Dao? "

Yicheng said: "Lao Dao is still a reasonable person. "

Zhang Jianliang said: "I want to skin him. "

Yicheng sighed and said: "There are people like Lao Dao outside the station. Every one of them is a guy who deserves to be killed. I don't know who you want to avenge. Anyway, you can just kill a skinner." , just think of it as revenge for your brother. "

"I am alone. Since Lao Dao is the leader here, why is he running? ”

“The people who have died the fastest in recent years are those who are responsible for it. Lao Dao is just an older bandit, and only then was he promoted as the leader. There are many in Jiayuguan who are better than others. Lao Dao is ruthless, a bandit stronger than Lao Dao. Lao Dao is just the boss on the surface, they are the ones who really control Jiayuguan. "

Zhang Jianliang sneered: "Since you are so familiar with them, tell them that the boss here will be me from now on. If I want them to chase dogs, they can't chase chickens." "

Yicheng looked at Zhang Jianliang in confusion and said: "Why? "

Zhang Jianliang laughed loudly and said: "Those who don't follow - die! "

Yicheng opened his mouth and said to Zhang Jianliang again: "Why? Hey - the army is coming? This can be carefully arranged to allow these people to go further west. ”

Zhang Jianliang stopped talking, picked up the puppy lying at his feet and gnawed bones and left the inn.

This time he came to the tall tower of Jiayuguan.

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Since the status of Jiayuguan Military City was abandoned, this city would be annihilated sooner or later. Zhang Jianliang was a little reluctant. He still remembered how happy the ragged Ming soldiers were when the army came to Jiayuguan. .

Although the people who came to accept Jiayuguan were rebels and the new dynasty, the soldiers still handed over a complete Jiayuguan to the army, a city, a urn city, and a total of 160 people. The ten-mile Great Wall of Loess.

In troubled times, those yellow-faced and muscular soldiers can defend the city in their hands. There is no reason to abandon this city gate with many achievements when the prosperous age has arrived.

The imperial army is indeed powerful in the Western Region, and has occupied 70% of the territory in the Western Region in three years. However, no matter how powerful the army in the Western Region is, Zhang Jianliang does not think that Jiayuguan should be abandoned.

Nowadays, the old Ming Dynasty. The imprints are quickly fading, and new things are rapidly filling the Ming Dynasty's vision and mind. Sooner or later, Jiayuguan will disappear from people's memory.

Just like them, veterans will also slowly disappear.

I remember that when His Majesty was organizing the army in Lantian, he was a powerful sword and shield wielder. When he was annihilating the bandits in Guanzhong, he fought bravely. When Guanzhong was pacified, he was already ten men.

But at this moment,The Lantian army was reorganized again, and he had to give up the sword and shield he had long been familiar with, and became a new recruit again. He picked up unfamiliar fire guns for the first time at the Phoenix Mountain Camp with many companions.

Having just become familiar with the fire blunderbuss, he had to begin to understand the individual weapon of grenades. When he carried grenades on his back and held a fire blunderbuss on the fortress grassland to fight against the slaves and the Mongolian Tatars, he was already a A real team leader now.

Just when he thought he could fight to the death in the army, the army left the fortress, returned to the Fenghuang Mountain Camp in Lantian, and began to reorganize again!

Zhang Jianliang thought that his marksmanship was good and his grenade throwing was excellent. After this reorganization, he would have a place in the new army no matter what.

Unfortunately, he lost the election.

He couldn't remember so many regulations taught by the instructor, couldn't understand the relationship between infantry and artillery, couldn't understand those maps full of lines and numbers, and didn't understand how to use the power of artillery. Play to the max.

He was unable to write a beautiful battle plan, and he did not know how to correctly allocate the firepower of his men, so as to maximize the firepower advantage...

He became a man again. Big-headed soldier... Not long after, he left the Fenghuang Mountain Military Camp with many others and participated in Lantian regiment training.

That time, Zhang Jianliang burst into tears. He liked his all-black military uniform and the golden ribbon on his dress, which he did not have in the group training.

There were only loose military uniforms in the regiment training...

Just when he was discouraged, General Duan began to recruit an expeditionary force during the regiment training.

Zhang Jianliang joined the army without hesitation.

Although he knew that General Duan's army could only be regarded as a ragtag group among the many legions in Lantian.

But it was this group of rabble-rousers who, after leaving Lantian, opened up the four counties of Hexi, regained Qinghai, and left Dunhuang and Yangguan. After two hundred years, the Ming Dynasty's cavalry once again set foot on the Western Regions. land.

In order to prove that these people are not trash, Zhang Jianliang remembered that during the years in the Western Regions, he had long regarded himself as a dead person...

For this tone, Liu Guomin He died in battle... Two hundred men fought against more than 8,000 people. After the ammunition was exhausted, no bones were left after being trampled by the cavalry. Among the ten urns carried back, Liu Guomin's was the lightest, because After the war, Zhang Jianliang only found one of his hands on the battlefield. If Zhang Jianliang hadn't known the sword held in that hand, Liu Guomin would have been dead.

For this breath, Zhao Dazhuang died in battle. He was killed by a huge stone thrown by a catapult... When Zhang Jianliang collected his body, he used a shovel to shovel it up bit by bit. After the 180-pound man was burned, there wasn't much ashes left.

Tian Yulin died in the battle, killed by the overwhelming arrows fired by the Mongolian cavalry... His father Tian Fu was lying on him at the time,However, how could Tian Fu's short stature protect Tian Yulin, who was a head taller and stronger than him...

When the father and son were burned and buried, their bodies were pierced by arrows. It was difficult to separate them together, so they were piled together and burned.

Zhang Jianliang first picked out four or five kilograms of barbed arrowheads from the ashes, and then put away the ashes of the father and son. As for which father and which one was the son, Zhang Jianliang really couldn't tell the difference. Clear, in fact, there is no need to distinguish clearly.

Zhang Jianliang actually didn't know how the other people died. Anyway, after a fierce battle, their bodies were neatly collected and put together, and their bodies were covered with linen.

After the deputy general Hou Ruyi spoke, remembered, saluted, and fired a gun, they burned them one by one.

In the battle of Tuoyun Ranch, Zhuote Babatur, the eldest son of Junggar Khan Batur Hutaiji, was captured alive by the general. All 38,000 people under his command were wiped out. Zhuote After all, Babatour was beheaded by the general, and a craftsman was asked to make this guy's head into a wine bowl. It was inlaid with a lot of gold and precious stones. I heard that it was intended to be presented to His Majesty as a New Year gift.

In this battle, there were so many people who were promoted that when it was Zhang Jianliang’s turn, the army’s Colonel Silver Star was actually not enough, and the bastard Deputy General Hou Ruyi actually issued him a pair. Armband, that's all.

He also said that he is a veteran and must let these young people...

Zhang Jianliang understands that it is not because he is old, but because he is incomparable in the eyes of the generals. Those young, good-looking, and literate graduates of Phoenix Mountain Military Academy.

The wind blew from afar. Even in the hot summer, Zhang Jianliang still felt cold all over. He hugged the puppy with little flesh at his feet... In autumn, the army will begin to reorganize again...< /p>

Maybe it was the sand brought by the wind that confused his eyes. Zhang Jianliang's eyes were filled with tears, and finally he couldn't help but sob.

"They are all scholars, I have no way to survive..."