Devil’s Advent

"Can you move your back?"

"Look at what you said, my lord, I, Xue San, really don't pay attention to this little weight."

"Tell me what you can't bear."

"Okay, my little one, thank you Lord for your compassion."

Zheng Fan's armor and some clothes were prepared by Feng Siniang and put in a box, which was carried by Xue San.

There is also a knife, which was also tied to him by Xue San.

It is obviously so heavy, but this small body still walks easily after being carried on its back.

Liang Cheng was wearing his own armor and holding a knife in his hand.

Originally, Si Niang planned to buy a horse for each of Zheng Fan and Liang Cheng, but Blind Bei refused directly.

The reason for the refusal is very simple, now that I have armored soldiers on my side, I can probably be a small manager in the civilian husband's team, and put on a guard when transporting grain and grass.

But if you really even have the horses ready, you might be taken up and sent to the battlefield as an auxiliary soldier.

Blind Bei said that it would be good for his master to go out and see the world, but he didn't want his master to sacrifice his life for the Great Yan Kingdom for no reason...

At the same time, the armor and weapons bought by the inn were bought as usual, and they didn't think about inlaying any fancy things, and they were as low-key as possible under the premise of conditions.

The farewell breakfast was extraordinarily rich. Blind Bei asked Zheng Fan for instructions and said that he just reorganized the land in Hutou City while the Lord was away. The first step in Toucheng.

However, these are all things in the future.

Especially when the three of Zheng Fan walked out of Hutou City and came outside the barracks, looking at the crowds of people inside, Zheng Fan really felt as if he had passed away.

A few days after being reborn in a different world, he was about to go to war.

call……

There is a big tent at the entrance of the barracks, and there are clerks inside who are responsible for counting the civilian husbands who have come one after another.

Poor people or those who are not the kind of people who drag their families with their families have already been taken into the baggage camp when the register of people was counted yesterday, while those who have families, people or property are reserved for one day. preparation time.

It's not easy for the latter to escape. If you can escape, the monk can't escape the temple, right? If you escape, your property will have to be confiscated.

When registering, the clerk seemed very dissatisfied with Xue San, but when Xue San said that he could feed the horses and had prepared dry food, he didn't say anything, and let Zheng Fan and the three enter the supply camp.

There are soldiers guarding the entrance of the baggage camp, and a troop of cavalry can be seen cruising around.

After entering, he saw three men with ragged flesh tied to the first three wooden stakes behind the gate of the camp.

The three tried to escape last night, but were caught and whipped and punished, and now they are tied here to make an example to others.

In fact, the country of Yan had certain rules in the early days of expropriation of civilian husbands. For example, one household per family, four draws for one or three draws for one, no matter how serious it is, two draws for one.

But because there are many clans in the Yan Kingdom, each clan has its own property, its own servants and its own private soldiers. These clans are like leeches attached to the body of the empire, sucking nutrients from the empire. Gradually, the taxes that the imperial court can collect and the people's power that can be collected become more and more limited. When encountering this sudden military operation again, in a hurry, they can only use this method of fishing from the lake to carry out the transfer of civilians.

It's no wonder that the contemporary monarch of the Yan Kingdom has been devoting himself to centralizing power and cutting down feudal vassals since he succeeded to the throne, because the empire looks powerful, but it has actually been hollowed out.

Fortunately, although the Qian State and the Jin State are not full of powerful families, their scholar-bureaucrat class has long been decayed and the tail is too big. Especially the Qian State, which is located in the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, has developed commerce and trade, but the Qian State court has not been able to accept it. Business taxes and finances have always been very tight, and often even the frontier soldiers stationed in the north of the empire to defend the Yan State's iron cavalry have to pay in arrears.

Because "Old Zheng's family" is considered to have a property in Hutou City, and Liang Cheng's appearance after wearing armor is really good, he is considered the captain of the army in the civilian camp, and five people make one army, so three civilian husbands were added.

Why add three people? Because Xue San is not considered a human being here.

After a lot of tossing, the tent was set up and the things were put in place. It was already afternoon.

The three of Zheng Fan were sitting outside the tent, eating cakes.

The scallion pancakes are filled with oil and meat, and the taste is really good.

After seeing the envious eyes of the other three people in Tongwuli, Zheng Fan gave each of them a pie, and they happily took it and thanked them repeatedly.

Liang Cheng didn't say anything about this, he just sat there silently observing the Yan country cavalry who occasionally passed by around the camp.

"What are you looking at?" Zheng Fan asked.

"Looking, our future opponent."

"..." Zheng Fan.

A neuropathy, hesitated for a moment, but did not say it.

Although Zheng Fan didn't have any sense of belonging to this big Yan, and he didn't have a good impression of him, but he didn't think of rebellion just a few days after he first came to this world.

But obviously, these demon kings under him have long been caressing in their hearts.

In short, today is like a picnic for Zheng Fan. He goes to the wild to set up a tent and then falls asleep watching the stars at night.

However, when the bugle sounded in the early morning of the next day, the original leisurely moment was broken.

One by one, the soldiers came over with whips and urged everyone to leave quickly. The messy civilian camp started to mobilize in a messy way, and then... went on the road in a messy way.

The army should be in the front, while the civilian husband camp is responsible for transporting food and grass in the back. The army started a day earlier than here.

Except for stopping for a quarter of an hour at noon, they have been escorting food and grass all day long.

The more he entered the desert, the stronger the wind and sand became. To Zheng Fan's surprise, he thought he would not be able to hold on, but he gritted his teeth and survived without asking Liang Cheng and Xue San to help.

When the night fell into camp, Zheng Fan still had enough energy to help Xue San pack up the firewood and light up the bonfire.

The small iron pot was set up, and the water was boiled. Xue San took out the flour he brought with him, and started kneading the noodles to make noodles.

In terms of logistics support, Feng Siniang made the most complete preparations. After all, with Zheng Fan, the big guy really didn't feel that he would be reluctant to spend money.

At the same time, including Zheng Fan, everyone actually has no idea of ​​"saving money for retirement" in their hearts, especially after the route is determined, the ending of that kind of person is either to prosper on the way of doing things, or to be doing things. Kill yourself on the road.

Tong Wuli and Passerby A knelt beside him, drooling.

After the noodles were put into the pot, and seeing Xue San take out another portion of precious spices, the three passers-by were even more excited.

"It's out!"

Xue San yelled, first filled a large bowl for Zheng Fan, then filled another bowl for himself and Liang Cheng, then pointed to the rest of the pot, and said:

"You guys split up."

Three passers-by immediately went up and started to scoop up noodles, and finally finished the noodle soup without a drop.

After dinner, he was sluggish, but when Zheng Fan was about to go back to rest in the tent, Liang Cheng called him over.

"What's wrong?"

"There's a problem." Liang Cheng looked around and said.

"what is the problem?"

"My lord, during the escort today, I checked the food and grass we escorted."

"How to say?"

"A little less."

"few?"

"Also, it stands to reason that the army should be in front of us, but when we walked over today, we didn't see any traces of the army marching."

Civilian camps do not have the right to know. In fact, even ordinary soldiers in the regular army can hardly know what the real strategic goals are during a war. As for civilian husbands, they only need to escort food and help build camps. If the situation is not good, they may have to be forcibly driven up to serve as cannon fodder troops.

"The most important thing is, my lord, this is too hasty. From the recruiting of the civilians to the departure of the army, there is no news or preparation in advance."

Where is the target of the attack? do not know.

How big is the army ahead? do not know.

How big is the enemy army? do not know.

Is it a blitzkrieg or a protracted war? do not know.

At this moment, Xue San leaned over, lowered his voice and said, "How about I grab my tongue?"

Others scratching their tongues meant going to the other party to grab their tongues for questioning, but here Xue San was obviously planning to attack the officers guarding the civilian camp on his side.

There are two centurions in the civilian camp, one is in charge of commanding and marching in the camp, and the other is in charge of leading a cavalry marching nearby.

There are more than two hundred regular troops and two or three thousand civilian husbands in charge, which is about the same.

Liang Cheng shook his head and said, "Let's wait and see in two days."

On this matter, Zheng Fan was just a novice, and he didn't express any opinions. Most importantly, he believed that Liang Cheng and Xue San, if there were no accidents, it would be fine for everyone to go back safely after the battle, but if If something unexpected happens, if I want to survive, I still have to rely on the two of them. Zheng Fan still has this force.

Have a safe night.

On the second day, the civilian husband team continued to move forward, and continued to camp at night like last night.

On the third day, it was still calm.

At dusk on the fourth day, Minfuying camped again. This time the camp was in a good location, next to a river, with slopes and valleys on both sides, which could shelter from the wind and sand.

After camping, many folks went to the river to wash themselves. In fact, they traveled northward in the past few days, and their bodies seemed to have been covered with layers of sand. Before, there was no condition, but now they must tidy themselves up at night. Get a good night's sleep.

Those three passers-by fetched water, those who collected dry firewood packed dry firewood, and those who pitched tents set up tents. Xue San was only responsible for cooking.

There is food in the camp. After all, most of the peasants do not have such good conditions as "Old Zheng's family", but the food in the camp, compared with the small stove here, can only be regarded as pig food.

Zheng Fan took a bath in the river, and when he went ashore, he saw Liang Cheng standing on the bank.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Fan felt for a moment that the princess was taking a bath in the wild and the general was in charge of guarding and guarding outside.

Naturally, it is impossible to express these thoughts, even as a joke, it is too disgusting.

However, Liang Cheng obviously wasn't in charge here. When Zheng Fan came up, he took the initiative to walk to Zheng Fan's side, and said very seriously:

"My lord, something will happen tonight."

"What's wrong?"

"How does the Lord feel about this camping position?"

Zheng Fan thought about it carefully. He didn't understand ancient warfare, and he was not a military fan in his previous life. Therefore, he could only analyze from his own perspective and thinking:

"Here, firstly, the water source can be guaranteed, and secondly, camping in the canyon can reduce the defense area. If there is an enemy sneak attack, it can also defend better, and the enemy will not be afraid of cutting off the water source."

"The Lord is wise."

Zheng Fan felt that these people had learned badly, and the insincere flattery seemed to be free of money. Moreover, Zheng Fan knew that this flattery was just a foreshadowing, and there must be something below...but.

"However, the Lord may have overlooked one point, that is, if there are 3,000 sergeants camping here, even if they are not elite field soldiers, as long as they are regular sergeants, they can rely on the favorable geographical conditions to achieve results.

However, my lord, there are only two hundred soldiers here, and there are more than two hundred people with armor and weapons like us, and the rest are basically ordinary civilians.

It only takes a few hundred riders to attack from one side and then attack from the other side, and the entire camp will surely collapse. "

Zheng Fan has also seen the quality of these peasants. According to what Zheng Fan said, once there is a sneak attack, it is obviously impossible for most of these peasants who do not even have weapons to suddenly turn into predators. Become the key to bombing the camp, directly causing the camp to collapse from the inside.

"Have you talked to the army chief over there about this?" Zheng Fan asked.

Liang Cheng shook his head, pointed to the cavalry in the distance, and said: "Also, there is one thing that is very strange. It is normal for cavalry to be used to escort the food and grass team, but this cavalry did not disperse to serve as sentry cavalry. In the past few days, they have been huddling together in an organized way, rather than saying that they are escorting the food and grass team, it is better to say that they are more like monitoring the peasants."

"right."

Liang Chengyi said that Zheng Fan also discovered this phenomenon.

"Have you ever fought in a war before?" Zheng Fan couldn't help but be confused.

Liang Cheng's eyes showed nostalgia, and he replied: "In ancient times, I fought."

"oh."

Is it in the extra chapter of "Zombie Liang Cheng"?

Zheng Fan couldn't remember these details clearly.

At this time, Xue San's voice suddenly came from behind the two of them, like a ghost.

"My lord, I found something very wrong."

When Xue San spoke, Zheng Fan only felt a chill coming directly from the back of his spine, making himself gasp.

But at this moment, Zheng Fan could only resist the aftertaste of being frightened, and asked:

"What's wrong?"

"When I was just cooking, my subordinates thought about going to the grain cart to get some food. After all, who knows how long it will take to go back. The food we brought with us can save a little bit.

In order not to be discovered, the subordinate deliberately chose the grain bag at the bottom of the grain cart, who knows..."

Xue San spread out his palm,

Pebbles fell from his palm...