The first drop of blood (3)

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

There was only a small stray dog ​​by his side, and he didn't leave, nor did the dog go.

At dawn, the dog did not lick the blood on the ground except staying by Zhang Jianliang's side, nor touched the palms of the two hands that fell on the ground.

This is a good dog!

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

After staying outside for a whole night, his body was covered in dust.

Bathing is a must, because it is the toughest rule in the army. When the army gathered in the Western Regions, even if the water was not enough, every soldier could have a tea jar of clean water for washing his face, brushing his teeth, and taking a bath every day!

When people are cleaned, dogs naturally need to be clean. In the Ming Dynasty, the cleanest group of people were soldiers, including all things related to soldiers.

The dog is very thin, and after being dipped in water, it looks even thinner and can be called skinny.

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

Today, there are no female slaves in the yard.

There were only a few post stations standing scattered in the yard, each looking at Zhang Jianliang with malicious intentions. However, when Zhang Jianliang looked at them, they turned their bodies over.

There is actually nothing good to eat in the canteen in the inn. Fortunately, there is enough mutton.

Zhang Jianliang and the dog were full with the naan bread.

When the postmaster saw that the servant took away the plate, he sat in front of Zhang Jianliang and said, "Brother, is the sheriff?"

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

The Yicheng smiled and said, "No matter whether you are here to avenge or to be a sheriff, there is no problem now. Just last night, Master Dao left Jiayuguan. He was unwilling to provoke you. Before leaving, he asked me to leave you two hundred taels of gold."

As he spoke, a heavy backpack was placed on the table by the postmaster.

Zhang Jianliang looked at the Yicheng and said, "You are the shame of the officials under the Lantian Imperial Court!"

The postmaster spread his hands and said, "Has I ever neglected the delivery of the postmaster in Daming?"

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

The official secretary said again: "That's it. I am the official secretary. The first thing I guarantee is the major matters of the official transactions. As long as there is no problem with this item, why do you think I am a scum among officials?

As for the business I do with these scums, putting it elsewhere is naturally a serious crime of beheading, but it is a good thing to be rewarded here. If you don’t believe it, go to the bedroom and take a look. I am the best postmaster for three years!”

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said, "I have seen you the best postmaster in the Kiln, the first time I have seen you."

The Yicheng snorted and said, "This is the way to survive."

Zhang Jianliang looked at the Yicheng and said, "You persuaded Lao Dao to leave?"

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

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

The Yicheng sighed and said, "There are all old swords outside the post station, and everyone is the guy you should kill. I don't know who you want to avenge. Anyway, you just kill someone and skin it, just treat it as avenge your brother."

"I am alone. Since Lao Dao is the leader here, why did he run away?"

"The fastest deaths in recent years are all leaders. Lao Dao is just a bandit who is older, so he was praised by everyone. Some bandits in Jiayuguan are ruthless and stronger than Lao Dao. Lao Dao is just the boss on the surface, and they are the ones who really control Jiayuguan."

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

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

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said, "Those who do not follow - die!"

The official secretary opened his mouth wide and said to Zhang Jianliang again: "Why? Huh--the army is coming? You can arrange it well so that these people can go west more."

Zhang Jianliang stopped making any more noise, leaned over and picked up the puppy lying beneath his feet and left the station.

This time he came to the tall city tower of Jiayuguan.

Since the status of Jiayuguan Military City was abandoned, the city would sooner or later be destroyed. Zhang Jianliang was a little reluctant. He still remembered how happy the Ming army was when the army arrived in front of Jiayuguan.

Although the rebels and the new dynasty came to accept Jiayuguan, the soldiers handed over a complete Jiayuguan to the army, a city, a urn city, and the Loess Great Wall that extended a hundred and sixty miles away.

In troubled times, those yellow-faced soldiers can defend the city in their hands. There is no reason to give up this meritorious city pass when the prosperous times have arrived.

The imperial army was indeed powerful in the Western Regions. It had occupied 70% of the territory of the Western Regions in three years. However, no matter how powerful the army in the Western Regions was, Zhang Jianliang did not feel that Jiayuguan should be abandoned.

He knew that now, the traditional border of the empire has been implemented to the Hami generation, where the land is fertile and the water is abundant, and it is more suitable to develop into the only city than Jiayuguan.

Nowadays, the old marks of the Ming Dynasty are rapidly fading, and new things are quickly filling the vision and mind of the Ming people. Jiayuguan will sooner or later disappear into people's memories.

Just like these veterans, they will gradually decay.

I remember when His Majesty was in Lantian to consolidate his army, he was a powerful sword and shield hand. When he wiped out the robbers in Guanzhong, he fought bravely. When Guanzhong was pacified, he was already ten people long.

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

He had just become familiar with the musket, and he was about to begin to understand the individual weapon of grenade. When he carried the grenade and held the musket in the grassland on the frontier, he was already a real squad leader.

Just when he thought he could fight in the army until he died, the army left the barrier, returned to the Phoenix Mountain Camp in Lantian, and started reorganization again!

Zhang Jianliang thought that his gunshot skills were good and his grenade throwing was also top-notch. After this reorganization, he could have a place in the new army no matter what.

Unfortunately, he lost the election.

He could not remember so many regulations taught by the instructor, could not understand the relationship between infantry and artillery, could not understand the maps full of lines and numbers, and could not understand how to maximize the power of artillery.

He was unable to write a beautiful combat plan, and did not know how to correctly allocate the firepower of his subordinates, so as to maximize his firepower advantages...

He became a big-headed soldier again... Not long after, he and many people left the Fenghuang Mountain Military Camp and entered the Lantian regiment training.

That time, Zhang Jianliang cried bitterly. He liked his completely black military uniform and the golden ribbon on his dress. This was not even available in the group training.

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

Just when he was disheartened, General Duan began to recruit expeditionary troops in the regiment training.

Zhang Jianliang joined the army without hesitation.

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

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

In order to prove that these people are not waste, Zhang Jianliang remembers that in the past few years in the Western Regions, he had long regarded himself as a dead person...

For this tone, Liu Guomin died in battle... Two hundred people fought against more than 8,000 people. After the ammunition was exhausted, the corpse was trampled by the other cavalry. Among the ten urns brought back, Liu Guomin's urn was the lightest, because after the war, Zhang Jianliang found only one of his hands on the battlefield. If it weren't for the sword that Zhang Jianliang held in that hand, Liu Guomin would really have corpse.

For this tone, Zhao Dazhuang died in battle. He was killed by a giant stone thrown out by a catapult cart... When Zhang Jianliang collected his body, he shoveled it up little by little with a shovel. After a man weighing 180 kilograms was burned, he did not have much ashes left.

Tian Yulin died in battle, and died from the overwhelming feather arrows shot by Mongolian cavalry... His father Tian Fu was lying on him at the time, but how could Tian Fu's short figure protect Tian Yulin who was taller and stronger than him...

When the father and son were buried, the bodies of the father and son were penetrated by feather arrows and were not easy to separate, so they were piled up and burned.

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

Zhang Jianliang was actually not sure how the other people died. Anyway, after a fierce battle, their bodies were cleaned up and placed together, covered with sackcloth.

Deputy General Hou Ruyi spoke, commemorated, saluted, and fired the gun one by one.

In the battle of Toyun Ranch, Zhuotbatul, the eldest son of Junggar Khan Baturhuntaiji, was captured alive by the general. His 38,000 troops were wiped out. Zhuotbatul was eventually cut off by the general. He also asked the craftsman to make this guy's head into a wine bowl with a lot of gold and gems inlaid. He heard that he was going to present it to His Majesty as a New Year's gift.

In this battle, there were so many people who were promoted that when it was Zhang Jianliang's turn, the army's school official Yin Xing was not enough. Deputy General Hou Ruyi, the bastard, actually sent him a pair of armbands, and it was just that.

Why did he say he was a veteran? He must make these young people...

Zhang Jianliang understood that it was not because he was old, but because in the eyes of generals, he was not as good-looking as those graduates of the Fenghuang Mountain Military Academy who were young, beautiful and able to read and write.

The wind blows from afar. Even in the hot summer, Zhang Jianliang still feels chills all over and hugs the puppy that doesn't have much meat under his feet... In autumn, the army is about to start reorganizing again...

Perhaps the sand brought by the wind made his eyes confused, and Zhang Jianliang's eyes burst into tears. Finally, he couldn't help but twitch and sobbed.

"All of them are scholars, I have no way to survive..."
Chapter completed!