The cold wind blew, the grass and trees were withered and yellow, and the Liao marsh was desolate, and there were no birds and no traces of animals. The scene of mosquitoes and flies in the sky in July and August has now disappeared.

Li Wo, who didn't accept Baihu, was lying on the top of a mound at night. Looking at the scene in front of him, he suddenly felt a little relieved.

It is extremely uncomfortable to pass Liaoze in summer. Not only is it muddy, but the mosquitoes and flies that are everywhere in the big lake, whether people or horses, will be bitten to the point of suffering.

Now it's better. Although it's still autumn, the weather has turned cold. The grass is dry and the water is cold. Mosquitoes and flies are gone. Although people who are still suffering from mud, life is much better when they bite by mosquitoes.

Li Wo looked around with the Qianli Mirror for a while, but saw that he looked vast and there was no figure. He put away the Qianli Mirror, took the map handed over to study it carefully.

He studied the map on the mound. In the woods next to him, several people were digging smokeless stoves at night to prepare for evening food.

Build a pot to make rice in the wild, and the smoke rising from the cooking pot can easily be exposed to its location and attract others' attention. Especially in this deserted waters, the smoke rising from the cooking pot is more conspicuous and will attract danger.

But cooking without setting fires, it is easy to have diarrhea by just gnawing cold dry food and drinking cold water, so you need to dig a smokeless stove and make hot food and soup while ensuring that the location is not exposed.

This smokeless stove has two stove pits. The stove pit is square, which is enough to lie down one person. It is used to pile dry firewood to make fire. Because the stove pit is located under the ground, the fire will not be seen.

Then dig a circular stove pit B at the back end of the stove pit A, and connect it with flue to form a "string". The size of stove pit B can just put a pot, and then fill the gap between the pot and the stove with soil to prevent fire and smoke from coming out.

Behind the stove pit B, dig three diverging flue channels and cover them with branches. This is the scattering flue, dispersing and emitting smoke from cooking to avoid condensation into smoke columns, so that others can see it from afar.

For those who stay in the open all year round, it is very simple to dig smokeless stoves with a small portable iron shovel. Each group of five people dig ten smokeless stoves, and one incense pile can be completed in one batch.

Next to it, there were more than a dozen other people who were dealing with the hunted prey. When the smokeless stove was ready, they had to put them in the pot and put them in water and make some boiled meat.

There were other people scattered around, carefully guarding them to prevent the camp from being touched by the enemy and to catch them all in one go.

Their location is the northern edge of Liaoze, the boundary of Wangping County during the Han Dynasty, and it is also the only way to the north and south roads between Liaoze, east and west. Goguryeo originally built a city in the former Wangping area, but it has been broken by the official army and turned into ruins.

However, the government army did not set up a stronghold here, so Goguryeo would make a comeback. Now that the cold winter is approaching, the government army has withdrawn to western Liaoning. So when looking at the situation of pacifying the old place, the Ye Bubuyan led by Li Wo came to visit the whistle.

Not being collected at night is considered a nickname for the life-catching team. Its main responsibility is to reconnaise the enemy situation. Because it is necessary to detect outsiders day and night, it is named "not being collected at night".

As the guard of the emperor's residence, Li Wu now did not accept "hundred households" at night. He stationed in Yingzhou and obeyed the orders of Yang Ji, the general manager of Yingzhou. Like other hundred households, he led his subordinates to the enemy's territory, slept in the open air, and was active in the northern border of Liaoze. He was always paying attention to the dynamics of the Donghu tribes.

This task is very arduous, because in the northern border of Liaoze, there is no stronghold of Zhou State, and the team will attack again without taking charge at night. Each team has a maximum size of more than 100 people. It is necessary to operate in this deserted place, with arduous conditions and dangerous conditions.

They have to face the cavalry of Goguryeo and have to fight their lives from time to time. In addition, they will also encounter sporadic troops from various divisions of the Khitan. These Donghu are neither enemies nor friends, and it is easy to be unlucky if they are not careful.

Ye Bucheng has suffered a lot of casualties in the past few years. At the cost of his life, he roughly explored the situation in the northern Liao area, summarized it and reported it to the court.

It can be said that the mountains, rivers and rivers in Liao are all depicted with blood and tears when they are not taken away at night. It is precisely because of this that the treatment is generous, rewards for making meritorious contributions, double military pay, triple pension, and family members are exempt from rent and mediocre transfers, and their promotion speed is also fast.

This is why people who don’t accept the nights know that the risk is huge, but still go to the dangerous ground.

As the guard of the emperor's residence, Li Wu could have found a good appointment or as the guard of the princes, staying comfortably in Chang'an and enjoying life without any worries, but he chose to take risks in the border areas because he wanted to make a name for himself.

And fight for a breath.

Li Wo was born in a humble background and was originally a visitor to Caijiazhuang. Later, by chance, he became the guard of the emperor's residence. At that time, he had the opportunity to get the emperor's connection and became a marriage with Cai Zhuangzhu's daughter, Niangzi.

But the owner of Zhuang Cai refused this proposal because Mrs. Cai had a long engagement.

Li Wo has always been upset about this. He did not hate Zhuangzhu Cai, but he always wanted to prove to Zhuangzhu Cai that it was a mistake not to promise Madam Cai to him back then.

Miss Cai had already married a wife and took care of her husband and children, and Li Wo later became a family. He either missed Miss Cai, or wanted to fight for a breath and return home in glory, so that the owner of the village Cai knew that Li Wo was also a capable person.

Over the years, Li Wo has been working hard, going through life and death, and climbing up step by step with his ability. He originally thought he had achieved some success, but compared with Niang Cai's husband, it was pale in comparison.

That year, he went out to work in business and passed by Luoyang. He met Mrs. Cai who followed her husband to take office. Seeing that his husband was already the governor's official and his parents were the official, Li Wo felt that he was too far apart and was pale in comparison.

He also wanted to be a high-ranking official, but he couldn't do anything about his writing, so he could only rely on military merits to be promoted, become a general of the founding government, be the head of the government, have a subordinate, and then he was awarded titles for his military merits and his wife and sons.

At that time, he will return to his hometown with his wife and children to worship the ancestral graves, so that his relatives and friends in his hometown will know that Li Wo is also a capable person.

Let Zhuang Zhuang know that Li Wo is no worse than the son-in-law he chose!

All of this required him to fight his life, and Li Wo, who did not accept any households at night, took his subordinates to explore the enemy situation at the Liao Dynasty for a good future. Even if there were many difficulties and crises ahead, he would not hesitate.

Li Wo thought very clearly that the court would sooner or later recover Liaodong, and Your Majesty would inevitably let the King of Yan or other princes take charge. So as an old man in the secret residence, he had the opportunity to be appointed, so he needed to lay a solid foundation in advance, understand the situation in Liao, and wait for the army to be dispatched to serve the horse.

Li Wo has worked hard in Liao in recent years and has improved his skills in riding and shooting. He has also learned Marai, Khitan, and Goguryeo. He has led more than a hundred subordinates to wander around Liaoze and made many contributions.

Not only him, many soldiers from poor backgrounds are also trying to show themselves. In order to make a name for themselves, they join the team of Ye Busuo or Catching Life, licking blood from the knife and making a try.

Everyone is waiting to make military achievements and change their destiny.

Li Wo put away his thoughts, handed over the map to his subordinates, and used a thousand-mile mirror to observe the surrounding situation again. In order to prevent Goguryeo from jumping over the wall, he sent cavalry to attack Yingzhou while the Zhou army retreated. He wanted to use his subordinates to detect the enemy situation in this area as a witness and ears to observe the enemy situation.

I waited until the severe cold came and retreated to the frontier before the icy frost for thousands of miles.
Chapter completed!