This is Jianghu

Chapter 370
In the middle of winter and the twelfth lunar month, outside the Great Wall, the north wind was blowing hard, and it was extremely cold, but this place was still full of wars every year.In the camp of a small group of soldiers and horses who were scattered by the Central Plains army, a guy who ran from the south to outside the Great Wall mixed in.

This small group of soldiers is a team of 50, the captain is a battle-hardened soldier, although he is only in his early thirties, but he has been outside the Great Wall for almost ten years, his name is Xu Bao.Xu Bao has a very accurate eye for seeing people. It is not easy for him to see the young man named Zhang Liheng at a glance. It is not because the young man always has the sword in his hand when he comes, but Xu Bao's own intuition. It shouldn't be wrong to take in this young man.

The recruit Wang Goudan was at the innermost part of the camp, but his body was closest to the fire. While breathing for warmth, he kept looking at Zhang Liheng, who never left his sword, and asked, "Hey, what's your name?" What is it called, look at my memory, I forgot again."

Zhang Liheng smiled slightly and replied, "My surname is Zhang, and my name is Zhang Liheng."

"Zhang... Liheng?" Wang Goudan raised his head and thought for a while, then smiled at Zhang Liheng and said, "I don't know these three words."

"Come on, Goudan, besides recognizing your king Goudan's name, don't you know other words!" Someone in the middle joked, and after that person said, the other people in the tent burst into laughter.

Wang Goudan scratched the back of his head, smiled embarrassedly at Zhang Liheng, and said, "My family is poor and I have never studied."

"I'm just like you. My family is poor and I haven't read a book, but I can read a few words." Zhang Liheng was not wary of these soldiers from outside the Great Wall in this camp, because these people guarded this place, so they changed their minds. A period of peace for the people in the Central Plains.

"You can read?" Wang Goudan seemed to have found a treasure. Seeing Zhang Liheng nodding, he immediately leaned towards Zhang Liheng, picked up a piece of burnt charcoal and scratched it on the ground. Said: "Then show me, is the word 'king dog egg' written like this."

Zhang Liheng saw the three characters written crookedly by Wang Goudan on the small area, and said, "The first two characters are correct, but the third character is not written like this, it is missing a horizontal line." When he said that, he helped Wang Goudan to make up the horizontal line.

Wang Goudan was very excited when he saw it, and he kept shouting: "Yes, yes, that's it. That's what the fellow in the village next door wrote for me, but after a long time, I kind of forgot That’s how it was written. Thank you Zhang Liheng.”

At this time, several people came to Zhang Liheng's side, asking how to write this character and that character. Among these soldiers, ninety out of a hundred were big characters, and they didn't know a few. Met a Zhang Liheng who could read and write, so they would join in the fun when they had nothing to do.

When captain Xu Bao saw Zhang Liheng join his team of 50 and only 30 remained, his low morale was lifted a bit, and his face that had been stern all day finally relaxed a little.Xu Bao walked up to Zhang Liheng and sat down, patted Zhang Liheng on the shoulder and asked, "Little brother, by the way you look, you should be eighteen in a few years."

"Brother Xu, I just turned [-], not too long ago." Zhang Liheng always had that honest smile on his face.

Xu Bao nodded after hearing this, but he didn't feel any surprise, but Wang Goudan jumped up suddenly, and shouted: "Zhang Liheng, you said you are already twenty?"

Zhang Liheng looked at Wang Goudan strangely and nodded. Wang Goudan's face suddenly turned into a mournful one, and he said, "I thought that after you came, this place wouldn't be my youngest. How do you count? Two years older than me!"

"Wang Goudan, are you only this year?" Zhang Liheng was somewhat surprised when he saw Wang Goudan's face that was at least 25 years old.But Wang Goudan nodded helplessly, and said, "I have been counting on my fingers since I was five years old, and it happens to be eighteen this year. Why are you twenty?"

Xu Bao said to Zhang Liheng: "Wang Goudan has been with me for two years. It is indeed eighteen this year. You can't tell a lie. Brother Zhang, you are from the south, so you don't know. If you stay here for two years outside the Great Wall , take care that you look older than Wang Goudan!"

Xu Bao's lukewarm words also caused a burst of laughter from the dozen or so people in the tent, and Zhang Liheng also laughed along with them, but when he looked at these foreign soldiers who were at least ten years old with a face mask , but my heart is a little sad.

Zhang Liheng had been outside the Great Wall for three days. On the second day of his arrival, he met a team of 50 people who had been dispersed by the barbarian army.There were only less than 50 people left in the 30-man team, and with seven or eight skinny horses and two camp tents, Zhang Liheng joined the team as a walker.

Before leaving, Ji Mingxuan gave Zhang Liheng a token and a secret order. Zhang Liheng never showed these two things. Identify themselves.

After two days, Zhang Liheng has become acquainted with the 20 to [-] soldiers in this team, and he can almost call all of them by name.In the eyes of these soldiers outside the Great Wall, they didn't take Zhang Liheng's identity as a character in the rivers and lakes into their hearts. They regarded this fair and clean young man as a scholar, just because Zhang Liheng could read a lot of words.

In fact, Zhang Liheng himself is not considered fair, on the contrary, he often walks outside, and his skin is yellowish and black.But Zhang Liheng, compared with these foreign soldiers who lived in the wind and sand all year round, even calling him a little boy is not an exaggeration.

After walking for two days, the team still couldn't find the army of the Central Plains. It seems that the army of the Central Plains was defeated in the tough battle before.

In the same camp, the person who got close to Zhang Liheng the most was, besides the dog, Uncle Hao, who was the oldest in the team.Uncle Hao is very similar to Zhang Liheng, who was an uncle next door when he was in Zhangjia Village. He has a dark face and a row of yellow teeth when he grins. These days he likes to call Zhang Liheng "Amao, Amao".

In the past two days, nothing happened, neither the main force of the army was found, nor the barbarian army was encountered again.However, at noon on the third day, suddenly there was a sound of bull horns in front of him. When Xu Bao and his twenty soldiers heard the sound, all their faces changed color, and Xu Bao put on a stern expression again. The black face came.

Although Zhang Liheng had never encountered a war, he knew that he must have encountered an enemy.

"Captain, it's a barbarian, nine horses!" Zhu Sheng, who was sent by Xu Bao to inquire, rushed back and reported.Hearing this, Xu Bao's brows that had already been wrinkled into Sichuan characters relaxed immediately, a smile appeared on his face, and he immediately ordered: "Brothers, the barbarians have brought us delicious food, and they are all ready to go up and do it!" Turn over those nine savages, eat horse meat and drink horse soup today!"

Hearing this, the morale of the twenty or so people in this team immediately rose. They had suffered a lot in front of the barbarians before, but now they encountered a group of rangers with less than ten barbarians, and all of them suddenly became energetic.

There was another blast of trumpets, more than half closer than before.Before Zhu Sheng went out, Zhang Liheng had heard that Manzi had nine horses in total.He doesn't say.I wanted to see how this remnant of twenty people fought against the barbarians.

The boy Wang Goudan is usually simple and straightforward, but when he heard the barbarians coming, he immediately turned into a rabbit, holding a blunt long spear in one hand, rushing to the front and bending down.Manzi was tall, and their horses were even stronger than the horses in the Central Plains. Xu Bao's and his team's skinny horses were even more incomparable, so they didn't ride them at all.

Manzi's nine horses passed the first four, and the bridle rope was pulled up suddenly. One of the five horses behind was tripped, and the other two were frightened and ran wildly. The last two were far away and were not affected. Only then did the nine savages come to their senses, they cursed "Central Plains Dog", and pulled out all the scimitars from their waists.

But the twenty or so soldiers under Xu Bao were faster than them. At the moment when Manzi's horse stumbled and was frightened, all the ambushing soldiers jumped out, and first stabbed the man who fell from the horse with spears and short knives. The two horses were not spared, and three of the nine barbarians disappeared in an instant.

Although the soldiers in the Central Plains were not as strong as the barbarians, they used their brains more when fighting. Xu Bao first divided the barbarians into two groups, and then dealt with them in batches.

When Manzi saw that his three companions had been killed, they all screamed angrily, and rode at Xu Bao and the dozen or so of them with a machete in his hand and slashed wildly.It's just that it was useless, the barbarian rushed in, and was pierced through the stomach by two spears, and the scimitar in his hand only slashed the opponent's arm.

Zhang Liheng watched from a distance, Xu Bao and the others killed six barbarians at the cost of seven or eight people being injured, and at this time only three were left shouting behind.

Zhang Liheng could clearly see that the boy Wang Goudan was the fastest runner, and when he saw the last three savages on the other side were about to leave, he rushed forward and threw the spear in his hand, which happened to stick in the buttocks of one of the horses. The horse galloped wildly.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Goudan took the scimitar he had just snatched from the corpse of a barbarian, rushed to the back of the crazy horse, and killed the barbarian with one blow.

Just when Wang Goudan was triumphant, he didn't realize that the scimitar of a turning barbarian behind him had slashed down on his head fiercely.

"Wang Goudan!" Xu Bao on the other end roared angrily when he saw this, and wanted to remind Wang Goudan, but it was too late.When Wang Goudan grinned and turned his head, a ray of snow was sliding towards him!

With a crisp sound of "Ding!", Wang Goudan's head was not split in half, and the scimitar in the barbarian's hand was left with a handle. The next moment, the barbarian's head was stabbed by Uncle Hao who charged up. Transparent.

It was Zhang Liheng who broke the scimitar with a stone flying across the air and saved Wang Goudan's life.

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