[Cehua] The wind and rain are like dark

Li Jin walked all the way in the direction of the camp, it was almost evening, and the streets were empty but no one was there.He followed his boss to the government office before, the city has a population of [-] to [-] people, which is not too small, if it is on weekdays, the market must be lively and people come and go, but now there is only silence around.This kind of atmosphere is very familiar in Li Jin's memory, it is the kind of atmosphere before the battle is about to rain.

It was almost dark when he returned to the camp.Not on duty today, the garrison in groups of three or four had just finished training in the evening and were going to the kitchen for dinner.Li Jin searched around, but couldn't find the brothers under his command. As soon as he turned around the training ground, he saw Yao Jun running over in a hurry and called him loudly.

"Brother Jin! Lieutenant Lin has been looking for you for a long time, go!"

Li Jin nodded at him, turned around to look for someone without saying a word.When I arrived at Lieutenant Lin, I was told that General Zhou Shousong was looking for him.

When Lin Xiaowei said this to Li Jin, his eyes were a little puzzled and mixed with curiosity and contempt.After all, Li Jin was just a small corps leader, so it was strange enough to be called by the general directly to find him.Li Jin just pretended not to see it.Zhou Shousong was their immediate boss, the general who led their strategist army into the city.He didn't come directly to call Li Jin, but conveyed several layers to tell him to go, which is considered thorough, but it is still inevitable to be criticized.Li Jin thought of self-deprecating and smiled.

A single lamp was burning in the room, and the surrounding area seemed to be deliberately darkened.Zhou Shousong sat behind the table, Li Jin closed the door behind him silently, bowed his head and said, "General Zhou."

Zhou Shousong held a roll of battle report in his hand, waved to Li Jin and said, "Sit."

Li Jin chose a side seat and knelt down carefully. He sat very restrained, with his hands clenched on his knees and his head lowered. Zhou Shousong seemed to want to say something when he looked at him. Still sighed first.

"General Zhou, what do you want me to do?"

"I just received a battle report from the spies. The Spike Army is only a few tens of miles away from here. They are not advancing too fast because they have collected military rations along the way, but the war will only happen in the past few days."

Li Jin didn't say a word, just waiting for Zhou Shousong's next words.

"Li Jin, you are a man from Tiance Mansion. Although there is no shortage of generals in the army, you obviously..." Zhou Shousong sighed, and the red and white crown feathers on his head shook slightly with the movement of sighing, "Those things in the past , don’t think about it anymore, you are a corporal leader now, it’s a waste of talent, this is a critical juncture in the war, what you want is..."

"General Zhou," Li Jin stood up, clasped his fists and saluted, "You are too famous, Li Jin doesn't think it's a so-called humiliation, and he doesn't have the ability to lead troops to fight. At the critical moment, you can't act rashly."

Zhou Shousong looked at him.Under the dim light, Li Jinqingjun's slightly desolate face was lowered, and the raised eyebrows also showed a humble and respectful meaning at this moment.This was just respect, not obedience. Although he spoke politely, he was clearly resisting Zhou Shousong's proposal.This is not beyond Zhou Shousong's expectation. In the past few years, he has mentioned this matter countless times, and Li Jin's attitude has always been the same.

"If you are like this now, if your father knows, I'm afraid he will blame me for not taking care of you."

Li Jin's eyes flickered, and he said: "The late father was an upright person all his life, but I was not doing business all the time, and I was ashamed of the late father. Later, I was lucky enough to enter the Tiance Mansion, and now if I can be promoted to a military position as General Zhou wished, Naturally, it is a good thing, but even though Li Jin is only a small corps leader, he is still serving the Tang Dynasty, and his deceased father will be just as happy to know about it."

What he said made people unable to refute for a while, Zhou Shousong was silent, after a while he could only sigh, and said to Li Jin: "Go."

Li Jin saluted, turned around and took two steps, but then backed up and said: "Li Jin understands that General Zhou has put in so much painstaking efforts, but what the general wants, Li Jin can't catch it with his strength, and I will ask General Zhou...don't look for it again in the future." Li Jin is here." After saying all this, he lowered his head and cupped his fists again, then turned and walked out.

The cold wind outside did not know when it was blowing, and the weather seemed to be suddenly cold.When Li Jin returned to the barracks, his brothers were already getting ready for bed.Li Jin came in wrapped in a cold wind without saying a word, and then he heard Yao Jun laughing and asking: "Brother Jin! What did Lieutenant Lin ask you for? Is he going to give my brothers some trouble again?" Haha, is it an errand? Brother Jin, you are the most eloquent, have you pushed for my brother?"

When Xu Shengbin heard this, he raised his head and said, "Brother Jin, tell the truth, are you going to be promoted?"

"What kind of promotion is there? There will be a war in a few days. If you have time, you can be glib here. Let's protect yourself from death first! Brats, get out, get out!" Li Jin laughed and cursed angrily as he pushed Xu Shengbin away, Just walked aside.

"Oh, boss, what's your name? You're trying to hide it. Tell me, even if you get promoted and don't take us to play, my brothers won't blame you." Yao Jun smiled and said to Chen Minghua who just walked in : "What do you say?"

"I think you are thinking too much," Chen Minghua folded his arms, smiling playfully, "Just thinking about good things, look at the face of the boss, you go out in the morning with a spring breeze, and when you come back at night, you are called away by Captain Lin, and now you come back dejected According to my opinion, [-]% of them went to find his good friend Mr. He during the day, and when he came back at night, he was scolded by Lieutenant Lin for not doing his job properly!"

As soon as he said this, six or seven people in the room burst into laughter. Li Jin raised his hand to strike, but his tone was smiling: "What? I'm going to find Mr. He, are you hot-eyed?"

"No, no, no, how dare we, the boss is handsome, wise and powerful, more than enough to match Mr. He!" Chen Minghua stretched out his finger and made a gesture of praise, but winked at the others.

Everyone laughed louder, and Li Jin himself laughed too.He knew about them, and although his lips were a little rough, his heart was good.And even though they joked about themselves and He Xiaoxiao, they just felt that the friendship between the two of them was better, and they didn't know the real relationship between themselves and He Xiaoxiao.

"What's the sound?" Xu Shengbin on the side was repairing his wristbands, but suddenly he seemed to be listening.

"...It's the wind." Li Jin listened for a while, "It's windy outside. Don't dawdle, just go to sleep."

After he said this, everyone packed up their things, lay down and went to sleep, and nothing happened in the middle of the night.In the middle of the night, everyone was suddenly woken up by the sound of knocking on the door.Li Jin was the fastest to wake up, jumped up and rushed to open the door. The messenger stood outside, and only said to him: "The Spike Army is here! Get ready!" After saying that, he rushed to other people. The barracks went.

Li Jin walked back with big strides, and lifted everyone up three times and twice: "You heard me! Get up!"

The expressions on everyone's faces became serious, and they quickly put on their clothes in silence.Now there is only vague information. The rebels may have just arrived at the city, or they may be several miles away, but they were only detected by spies.The camp was not far from the city tower, only the sound of chaotic running around the camp was heard here, and the flames flickered all around, and everyone got up.Li Jin listened intently, there was no movement in the direction of the tower, maybe he just couldn't hear clearly.However, the Spike Army had just arrived, and the large army still had to set up camp, so it was impossible to attack the city so quickly.But Zhou Shousong had told him before that the Spike Army might be here for a few more days, but who would have thought that it would arrive in the middle of the night today, which shows how ferocious the Spike Army marched overnight.This is not a good phenomenon. I am afraid that the next siege attack in the city will be very violent.Moreover, Li Jin knew that these days, although the people were not allowed to leave the city at will, the government and the army were still active in the surrounding states and counties, collecting military rations and transporting them to the city.Now that the rebels came, they lost a few days of preparation time.This city is an important pass, and it governs almost half of the Jianghuai region behind it, and a large amount of money, food and taxes are derived from it. Now that the Spike Army has arrived here, it is absolutely impossible to abandon this place.

In fact, Li Jin knew very well in his heart that it would not be a good thing to come to this city, and the battle to defend the city would be very difficult.He had secretly persuaded He Xiaoxiao before, telling him not to follow the army and go elsewhere.But He Xiaoxiao was unwilling to say anything, Li Jin was a member of the army, there were many inconveniences, some things were hard to say too much, and he needed to avoid suspicion, so he couldn't say anything more.Li Jin stood at the gate of the camp with his arms folded, and he saw soldiers gathering in the camp on the far side, probably the higher-ups asked to be on standby at any time to go up the tower.He listened to the sound of running and shouting in the surroundings, which were well-trained and orderly but chaotic because of the sudden incident, and felt a little uneasy in his heart.He thought, maybe He Xiaoxiao should have been persuaded to leave long ago, no matter what he said, he should have been persuaded to leave.

The vanguard of the Spike Army approached the city at night.The next day just after dawn, the flags of the Wolf Fang camp could already be seen fluttering in the distance from the city tower, and there were crowds of people, I don't know how many people there were.The spies have already been dispatched, and if there are no accidents, they will be able to find out the approximate number of Spike Army in the afternoon.

Li Jin and the others didn't receive any new orders for a whole day, they could only train in the camp as usual, he couldn't leave the camp for half a step, and he couldn't find He Xiaoxiao either.But in the final analysis, as a soldier of Tiance Mansion, he can clearly distinguish which is more important, He Xiaoxiao is in the city at this time, there is no danger at all.In the face of the current enemy, he will definitely not be half-hearted.

The spies came back in the afternoon, and Zhou Shousong was discussing with the former generals and officials in the city.The spies reported that there were at least 10,000 people in the Wolf Fang camp, and the worst thing was that the follow-up troops were still pouring in, and the letters sent by the several cities that they blocked together did not respond. I'm afraid it's either already crumbling, or it's already been captured.Once the barrier is broken, the remaining Spike Army only needs to send a small number of people to stay in the city, and the remaining troops will gather here in large numbers.This is the most troublesome thing.Now there are so many people in the Langya camp, and there will be a large number of troops in the future. I'm afraid there will be at least 20+, and there will be as many as 5000 people. The original garrison in the city was only 10,000, and Zhou Shousong's Tiance army has less than [-] people. , the combination is only [-]. Although defending the city, it is still very difficult to fight against [-]+ spike soldiers.And now the only hope is the hinterland behind - the safety of the hinterland behind also depends on the integrity of the defensive barriers. In this way, the problem turns back to the remaining cities.

Looking out from the city tower, one could hear the noise of the Wolf Fang camp in the distance.Because of the distance, the sound seemed very soft, but extremely noisy.

Li exhausted their battalion and waited in the camp until evening, but did not receive any new orders.But as soon as it got dark, He Xiaoxiao came.His clothes were crooked and his hair was a little disheveled.Yao Jun saw him first and led him the way.He Xiaoxiao had been following Tiance's army before. Although he lived near the outskirts of the camp at this time, he also had a badge, so it was very convenient to enter and exit the camp.

"I heard that the Spike Army has arrived?" He Xiaoxiao's face was full of uneasiness and doubts.

"It's nothing, don't be nervous." Li Jin shook his head, "...Well, I don't know, the order from above hasn't come down yet, so just wait anyway."

The door of the barracks was locked tightly, and there was no order for a whole day. Although footsteps could still be heard outside, it was no longer as chaotic as the night before.As soon as Li Jin turned around, He Xiaoxiao hugged him from behind.

"Mr. He, you have seen a lot of things before, why are you still like this?" Li Jin touched He Xiaoxiaohuan's hand on his waist, and teased him with a smile, "There is nothing to be nervous about."

"You don't have to laugh at me," He Xiaoxiao buried his nose in Li Jin's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "I know, the ones I've seen before are nothing, this time it's different, isn't it?"

Just as Li Jin was about to answer, he heard Xu Shengbin shouting outside: "Boss, Lieutenant Lin is calling you to gather!"

He Xiaoxiao let go of his hand immediately.Li Jin nodded at him, opened the door and went out.Sitting alone on the edge of the couch in the barracks, He Xiaoxiao felt a little flustered, but seeing Li Jin's determined appearance, he felt for a moment that there was really nothing to be afraid of.The barracks was in a mess, and Li Jin and the others were called up in the middle of the night when they received the news, so they were in a hurry.He Xiaoxiao looked around, stood up simply, and cleaned up casually.

The cupboard containing a small amount of clothes and sundries was open, and a corner of the wrapping cloth fell out.He Xiaoxiao wanted to fix them up, but he was careless in his hands, and the package scattered all over the place.

It's Li Jin's stuff.He Xiaoxiao recognized the silver crown in the package.Now hold it in your hand and look carefully, although the silver crown is still shiny, but the crown feathers are really old, the red is dull, and the white is gray.The coagulated blood on it dried up and turned into a dark brown that looked quite old.He Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand to touch it, and due to the dried blood, the feathers were hard.He Xiaoxiao remembered that Li Jin had told him last time that the crown feather belonged to a dead old friend, so he also felt that it was inappropriate for him to touch it casually, so he wanted to put it away.But with such a movement, several other sheets of paper that were pressed in the package were also exposed. They were written on letterhead, and the paper was yellowed.

He Xiaoxiao is a disciple of Danqing, and he has always dealt with things like writing and ink. When he saw the words, he was curious, so he took it over and opened it involuntarily. It was a piece of letter paper with a few lines of poems written on it.

"In the past, in Chang'an, drunk flowers and willows, five princes and seven nobles shared a cup of wine. The air bank is far in front of the nobles, and the flair is willing to fall behind others. My master is beautiful, I am young, Zhangtai is walking around Phnom Penh. Articles are presented to the Qilin Hall, and singing and dancing are submerged in the tortoise shell feast."

It is a very popular poem.He Xiaoxiao was surprised.The handwriting on this paper is extremely beautiful, I'm afraid it's not much worse than that of Gu Zhong Shu Mo's disciple.But who actually wrote this?He Xiaoxiao thought for a while, then suddenly became stunned.He vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen Li Jin write his name once.Those two characters are very beautifully written, not like they were written by ordinary soldiers with little writing.He also asked Li Jin, and Li Jin said with a smile that he was not very literate, so these two characters were written better, after all, the name is a facade.He even laughed at Li Jin at that time, and it was fine when he finished laughing.But now that I think about it, the handwriting of those two words seems to be the same as the handwriting on this letter.

He Xiaoxiao dubiously opened another piece of letter paper below, which contained the exact same handwriting of Gong Jun.

"Wish to be Zhensong for a thousand years old, whoever talks about Fangjin's new day. Thank you for a hundred years and Xishan Day, and forever for thousands of years."