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Chapter 350 Zheng Xiaoqi

Time: July 23rd in the fourth year of Xuanhe.

Location: Anxi County in the north of Pingzhou Prefecture, which is also the Qianxi area of ​​Tangshan in the modern plane.

Under the bright sunshine, a 32-year-old man wearing a fire-red war jacket from the Song Army stood up on a big tree and looked carefully into the distance for a while.

Facing his new immediate boss, after crossing his hands from the Song Dynasty, the man respectfully reported to the group of people under the tree:
"Gedutou, if you're young, you're right.

Twenty or thirty miles ahead is the Great Wall left by the old age; if it goes a little further, it will be the boundary of Zhongjing in Liao Kingdom and Tanzhou of Dading Prefecture in the past. "

In the midst of such a report, the singer couldn't remember how many times he laughed and cursed:
"Zheng Xiaoqi, you bastard, haven't I told you many times that everyone will be a brother who stirs food in a ladle from now on, and you don't have to be so polite when talking to each other.

Well-mannered, with your rambunctious look on your face, don't you still want to pass the examination to be a scholar?From now on, I will speak more simply. If there is something wrong with me, I can just imitate Hu Biao and swear at the street. "

After hearing the vulgar words of the singer's satisfaction, the other people around burst into laughter on the spot.

"Okay, I have a headache when I listen to songs~" Scratching his scalp in embarrassment, the man called Zheng Xiaoqi immediately agreed so straightforwardly.

It's just that regardless of the cursing singer or Zheng Xiaoqi himself, both of them know that the next time they deal with each other, this guy will be so polite.

The reason is simple, Zheng Xiaoqi is a surrendered soldier.

In the first battle in Haiyang City, one first took refuge in the Jurchens, then fell into the hands of the Xuange Battalion, and then continued to join Hu Biao and the others who surrendered within ten days.

The reason for Hu Biao and the others to absorb these Liao soldiers is also very simple.

The remaining 400 people in the Xuange Battalion are still a little short of strength if they need to defend Haiyang City under the pressure of the Jurchens.

Therefore, it is quite necessary to absorb the 180 captive Liao soldiers.

It's just that these surrendered soldiers are basically placed in Haiyang City to serve as the city's defenders because of trust issues. Only Zheng Xiaoqi is special because of the situation.

For example: Not only is he good at riding, but he is also more familiar with the terrain of the Northland.

So after the task required, he was absorbed into the team that never accepts at night.

Because it has been more than 20 days since the day's battle away from Haiyang City. For some unknown reason, Hu Biao and others have not waited for the soldiers of the Jurchens to reach the city of Haiyang.

Originally considered seriously, this is considered a good thing, allowing them to have more time to prepare.

The problem is, why Hu Biao and the others are in their hearts, they are inexplicably flustered.

Under such a situation, Yu Hanfeng and Song Zhe, the principal and deputy of the Xuan Ge Camp, who were not recruited at night, were both heads, and they had an important task.

Specifically, each led a team and did not collect at night.

He went all the way to the north of Pingzhou, trying to find out what kind of plane Wanyan Loushi was doing. Could it be that the second son didn't avenge his revenge, and he didn't want the huge Pingzhou?
Under such a situation, Zheng Xiaoqi, a surrendered soldier, followed the Ye Bu Singer of the Xuan Ge Battalion.

After advancing for nearly 200 miles all the way, I came to the current boundary.

wrong!The above statement is not so accurate, because it seems that the saying that Yebushu did not start until the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, they were also called Tanma.

In fact, it doesn't matter what it's called, as long as you know what it means...

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Shaking his head, he estimated that it would take some time for Zheng Xiaoqi and his descendants to truly let go of the barriers in their hearts and fully integrate into the thoughts of Xuan Geying.

Looking up at the sun in the sky, it was already at the mid-heaven, and it was time for lunch.

The singer immediately issued a series of orders in his mouth:

"Now is the time when the sun is at its strongest, everyone rests for a quarter of an hour; go to two people to guard the perimeter, and the rest of the people hurry up to feed the horses and eat some dry food~"

Under such an order, all the scouts got busy.

Zheng Xiaoqi, who was quite familiar with all this, also skillfully led his war horse, which had already been sweating profusely from running for a long time, to the shade of a big tree.

First, I used a brush to brush away the sweat on it, and then fed a lot of water with a little salt added, so that the horse could cool down quickly.

Otherwise, if the war horse cannot heat up well, it will do great harm to the body.

In the following time, another small bag filled with soybean meal was hung directly on the horse's mouth, so that the horse could replenish its strength quickly.

It wasn't until Zheng Xiaoqi took care of his companion-like war horse that Zheng Xiaoqi began to take care of himself.

From a small bag hanging on the horse's back, he took out a dry biscuit that was bigger than his face, and began to eat and drink with plain water.

And the other people present, including Singer, the deputy head of Tanma, did the same.

The pancakes were very hard, and even in order to save the limited amount of food on hand, a lot of green wheat harvested from the muddy wheat fields outside the city was added in the process of making this pancake.

In short, after such a toss, people ate it in their throats, which made their throats a little rough.

But when eating this kind of unpalatable pancake, Zheng Xiaoqi felt quite satisfied.

On the one hand, the heavy rain at the beginning of the month is doomed that most of the crops in the Northland will be wiped out this year. I don't know how much the whole Northland will starve to death in winter.

Coupled with the chaos of war, there are wars everywhere.

As long as you can eat something without starving to death, it is already a great thing for the hard-working people living in the Northland, so how can you pay attention to whether it is delicious or not.

On the other hand, regardless of Zheng Xiaoqi calling this name, there are 6 older brothers and sisters on it.

But none of them could grow into an adult, and they died early.

Even Zheng Xiaoqi, who has been serving as a soldier since the age of 17 when the only mother in the family died of illness, can already be regarded as an old bachelor.

He originally thought that in this life, he was destined to hang around until he died.

Since joining the Xuan Ge Camp, he now has some hope of starting a family and carrying on the family line.

It was a woman called Widow Zhang in the city. When the Jurchen invaded Haiyang City, the man was knocked down by a galloping horse and trampled to death.

Tell the truth!The woman had big hands and feet and a pockmarked face. She was really not very good-looking, and she had a son and a daughter with her and two oil bottles under ten years old.

It's just that for Zheng Xiaoqi, it's good to be able to marry a daughter-in-law, so how can there be so many sayings.

Even when he thought about it, Zheng Xiaoqi couldn't help but feel warm in his heart when he could live a life of wife and children in the future.

Thinking about taking a good look at the Xuange camp, after saving the salary of his family Hu Xuanzan for three or four months, he married the widow.

Just for this, he is willing to offer his loyalty to Da Song and Hu Xuanzan.

The only thing he criticized was that the Xuan Ge camp had too many rules.

In the past when they were soldiers in the Daliao Kingdom, they drank water on weekdays. As long as no dead bodies of people and animals were thrown into the well, they would directly drink it when they came up with them.

Or just lie down on the riverside and drink like a big animal.

In the Xuange Camp, the medical officer A Li solemnly told everyone that they must maintain hygiene for the sake of that, unless the water must be boiled in an emergency.

If there is any violation, the first time you will be beaten with five army sticks, the second time you will be beaten with ten army sticks, and the third time you will be directly dismissed from the Xuange camp.

Zheng Xiaoqi, the army stick, had seen other Liao soldiers descended to endure it. After being beaten by the five army sticks, the hard-hitting man was lying on the bed and moaning when they set off.

Such a weird military discipline really made Zheng Xiaoqi, who was also considered a veteran, a little unaccustomed.

I don't even want to taste the taste of the army stick.

But apart from these, Zheng Xiaoqi was quite satisfied with Xuan Geying and Da Song; however, he soon realized that Da Song had more benefits...

(End of this chapter)