Zhao Xingde, who was staying in the camp, was awakened by the sound of soldiers running and making noise outside. He felt the firelight was dazzling and he hurriedly put on his clothes. After hesitating for a moment, he took out the chainmail vest given by Song An from his bag and put it on inside.

Wearing his helmet, he picked up his sword, bow and arrow, opened the curtain and went out of the tent, only to see soldiers running around, some holding torches, and some holding swords. In the absence of the commanders of each army,

The commander of the Shaoying Battalion, He Dutou, took the initiative to lead people to support the nearest large camp wall. This is also a common practice in the Hebei Army. According to military regulations, it is strictly forbidden to ride on foot or gallop in the camp at night. However, when the enemy is riding at night,

In the event of an attack, guarding the perimeter of the camp is more important than anything else.

Compared with the armies marching in Hebei Province, the Zhenbei Army has the best military discipline. After putting on their armor, most of the soldiers formed a team in the open space next to the camp and all headed to the camp commander. Everyone was drowsy, a little inexplicable, and anxious.

They asked the camp for countermeasures and reluctantly captured the soldiers. Some of them were dispersed by friendly troops as soon as they lined up, while others were pushed to the roadside.

Zhao Xingde ran towards the village wall with the soldiers. He passed one camp after another, and his ears were filled with military orders shouted in various Hebei dialects. From time to time, cavalry passed by, and some officers rode on and shouted:

"Everyone returns to his base camp and is not allowed to move without permission!" More officers were shouting: "The barbarians have stolen the camp!" "Reinforce the wall!" "Arrange in armor!" "Get ready to go out!"

Arriving close to the village wall, Zhao Xingde saw outside the tent of the doctor who was accompanying the army, several soldiers wounded by arrows were being bandaged. The Klie people's arrows were not smooth and had insufficient penetrating power, but it was more troublesome to take them out.

Generally speaking, the poison has been quenched. There are strips of cloth wrapped around wounds scattered on the ground, and the pot for boiling medicine nearby has not been boiled yet. Some soldiers can't bear the pain and begin to moan and scream, and even curse. Zhao Xingde did not dare to stay.

, hurriedly followed the other soldiers and ran towards the wall of the village, only to see clouds of flames flying in the sky. These were thrown by the Krei cavalry as they rushed forward. It was nothing if it was stuck on the wall of the village that was covered with wet mud. It was nothing if it was stuck on the tent.

It's more troublesome for soldiers and soldiers.

The soldiers in the camp were all hiding behind the walls and carriages, and were in a state of embarrassment. "Why didn't you shoot the arrow?" Zhao Xingde asked a soldier with a kinder face.

"The commander-in-chief has an order. No arrows are allowed until the barbarians rush in! Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!" A horse soldier holding an order arrow carefully reined in his horse outside the range of Klie's troops and shouted loudly, "This has already happened."

It was the sixth messenger who got the order. His shouts attracted the hostile looks of the camp soldiers hiding behind the village wall and the carriage. The horse soldiers did not dare to delay the order. After roaring twice, they immediately turned their horses' heads.

Run somewhere else.

"Bah--" A Hebei soldier beside Zhao Xingde spat on the ground, pulled out a steel knife, and used a whetstone to make a sharp sound.

Arrows were flying in the sky, and Zhao Xingde leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. The wall was made of wooden boards inserted on rammed earth mounds, which was quite simple. The Hebei camp during the Wuzong Dynasty had some

It is simple and crude. The government is mobilizing Xiang troops and civilians to renovate it. The Hebei army will move in in about ten days. Therefore, the current camp is considered temporary, and no trenches have been dug. It was originally located in the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, and there are three dangerous passes to the north.

No one thought how solid it was to build a temporary camp.

Xingde could hear the curses muttered by Hu Qi through the wooden board. It can be imagined how close these arrogant Hu Qi rushed when there were no archers in the camp to fight back. The Xing camp gathered on the inside of the wall

There were more and more soldiers, and some of them were hit by stray arrows. The situation became a bit chaotic for a time. The Zhenbei Army and the capital deployment office had to send more manpower to suppress the soldiers marching in Hebei. I heard that the wall they were leaning against was killed by Klei.

The arrows fired by his subordinates made a loud bang. Zhao Xingde couldn't help but recall the night when the caravan was besieged by horse thieves. A feeling of shame and humiliation came to his heart. Xingde took out five arrows and inserted them into the soil next to him one after another.

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"His grandma, I bumped into this useless commander, and fought a useless battle!" An old soldier next to him suddenly burst out with a curse, because Xingde was wearing the uniform of a newly issued officer, this old soldier

He even glanced at Zhao Xingde provocatively. "What a coward!" "I've never been so cowardly!" the soldiers below complained.

At this time, Xin Xingzong, the commander of the First Army in Zhenbei, was ordered to go out of the stronghold to appease the Kelie cavalry. He came to the back of the archery tower on the stronghold wall. The general who was familiar with the barbarian language had a hoarse voice, so Xin Xingzong found three people with extremely loud voices.

The soldiers shouted together: "Listen up to the First Army of Zhenbei outside. Marshal Tong has an order. If you come to avenge General Keremachus, go back to the camp and rest for the time being. Marshal Tong will definitely do it for you."

Wait for the decision!"

The general words were more complicated, and the three microphones were not accurate. The people of the Kelei tribe were riding and shooting, and they could not hear clearly, so they continued to shoot arrows.

He went out to die, but he didn't dare to go back to recover his life. The Hebei soldiers next to him had some knowledge of barbarian language when patrolling the border. At this moment, they just watched the joke with cold eyes.

After waiting for a while, the rain of arrows outside the camp was no longer sparse. Xin Xingzong was heartbroken and asked the general and three loudspeakers to shout out Tong Guan's comfort. He originally wanted to explain this to the people of the Zhenbei First Army in person.

Yes, it's also a favor. "Shuai Tong took pity on me and donated 5,000 pieces of cloth to pay tribute to Lord Kled."

When the Kelie tribesmen were on the grassland, people would come to collect mink, cattle, sheep, animal skins and other items. The main material for trade was cloth, so the word "cloth" was very accurate, and the number five thousand was also heard.

It must be clear, and the rules on the grassland are that the defeated party can provide cattle, sheep and supplies to the victor to seek peace. This person from the Kelie tribe came out of the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, and the patriarch died. He originally had no intention of returning alive. He vaguely heard

When the Han people came out and wanted to pay tribute for peace, the arrows became sparse. Several small chiefs discussed it with the clan leader's son, Hu'er Zhahus. The war horses galloped for half the night, and it was time to rest for a while, so that the Song people could move out the tributes first.

Say it again.

The general translated the request of the Kerei people to Xin Xingzong. Xin Xingzong was immediately overjoyed and ordered his soldiers to send the cloth out of the camp quickly. Five thousand pieces of cloth was not a small amount, and it required more than a dozen subordinate officials and subordinates under Zhou Dingcheng, the secretary-general, to handle it.

The general arranged for the adults to take care of it in person, but it was extremely rare to do an errand without oil and water, so the efficiency of the work in the baggage camp was by no means high. It took about half an hour before the five thousand cloths were loaded into the truck and delivered to the gate of the camp.

During this half hour, the Klei cavalry outside was resting on their horses, and many soldiers in the Hebei camp also relaxed and crowded near the village wall. Many people poked their heads out from behind the wall and looked outside curiously.

They were the cavalry of the Fifth Army in Zhenbei. Although the general was assassinated, it was really rare for them to be so domineering and dare to attack the army of the main camp.

Xin Xingzong was waiting impatiently. When he saw that five thousand cloths were finally delivered, he said to his soldiers in a hurry: "What are you still doing? Open the camp gate and hand over these gifts to the outside."

The ground winch turned and the gate of the camp opened. More than 150 soldiers of Zhenbei's First Army, some driving mule carts and some pushing wheelbarrows, filled with cloth, slowly left the camp, not far away.

, more than two thousand horsemen mounted their horses one after another, forming a sparse formation, and watched vigilantly at the approaching Southern Dynasty soldiers.

Zhao Xingde was behind the wall of the village and saw from a distance that the convoy carrying cloths was approaching the cavalry of the Kelie tribe. The officer in front was with the general, making gestures and drawings, as if he wanted the barbarians to check the cloths on the spot. He was good

Went back to deliver the errand. The leading Hu Qimen just looked at the cloth casually and babbled without knowing what to say. Then the officer delivering the cloth started arguing with them. Soon, the officer waved his hand and ordered his soldiers to leave the carriage and wheelbarrow behind.

When he was there, he turned around and walked away. After walking for more than ten steps, a Huqi behind him opened his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot an arrow straight into the back of his head. The officer didn't say a word and fell to the ground face up.

Almost at the same moment, all the soldiers standing on the wall of the camp and watching screamed in surprise. Just when the soldiers who were carrying them began to run desperately towards the gate of the camp, the barbarians behind them urged their horses, and some pulled out their horses.

They wielded scimitars, some raised their bows and nocked arrows, and the Klei cavalry made shouts unique to hunting and fighting. The sound of horse hooves was occasionally mixed with the screams of soldiers who were cut down or shot.

Many people fell to the ground with expressions of confusion and fear on their faces.

"Run!" "It's his grandma's!" "Hurry up and open the camp gate, let grandpa go out to fight!" The Hebei soldiers watching the battle on the wall of Daying Zhai burst out with curses. Although the world has been peaceful and peaceful for a long time, surrounding Junzhou Village along the border

The friction battle in the fort has never stopped. When did Hebei soldiers die so cowardly!

The commanders of other armies are still in their deployment tents. The commander of Zhenbei First Army, Xin Xingzong, looked pale as he watched his soldiers fall into the dust one after another, until the last one was more than ten steps away.

As he was trying to open the gate of the camp, Yiqi Ping came flying from behind with a scimitar in hand and cut off his neck without any suspense. The soldier who had been relieved just now fell to the ground with his headless body.

Hu Qi shouted excitedly, waved his machete at the Hebei army guarding the camp entrance as if demonstrating, turned the horse's head, and then drove away.

With the death of the last soldier outside the camp, the emotions of the soldiers gathered in the camp could no longer be controlled. Xin Xingzong's face was still pale. Zhenbei Fifth Army, no, the damn Kle tribe barbarians ate five thousand pieces of cloth.

Not to mention, the people who killed his first army must be reported to the commander-in-chief and severely punished. However, the excited rebels at the gate of the camp need to be controlled. Before the commander-in-chief’s military order to quell the chaos, what if these

The man rushed out and disturbed the situation, fearing that the commander would become angry and turn on him.

Thinking of this, Xin Xingzong rode on his horse and told the deputy general next to him: "Before the commander-in-chief gives the order, no soldiers are allowed to go out, and no arrows or stones are allowed to be fired at Hu Qi, otherwise the explanation will not be clear." Then.

Under the protection of dozens of soldiers, they squeezed a way out of the chaos and ran towards the commander's tent. The deputy general of the First Army who was responsible for guarding the gate of the camp was a confidant of Xin Xingzong. He fought sloppily but executed military orders very poorly.

Once in place, he immediately ordered the gate of the village to be closed tightly, and the bows and crossbows on the wall of the village were turned around, aiming at the angry soldiers who were about to rush out and fight the Hu cavalry for a life-or-death showdown.

Xin Xingzong had just left, but the situation behind him was out of control. The Hebei soldiers who had witnessed the entire incident became furious. The Zhenbei First Army, which was originally responsible for maintaining order, was demoralized because more than a hundred of its comrades had just been killed.

"His grandma's! It's not enough for anyone to live!" "Being a soldier and eating food is not such a shame!" "What a coward!" "It's all the fault of that eunuch!" "He is indeed a traitor!"

Get rid of Marshal Liu, and then let these barbarians do harm to us!" "Go to the camp and kill the handsome eunuch! Then go to the handsome eunuch to plead his grievances!" "Kill the eunuch!" "Kill!" "Kill!" "

kill!"

The anger of the soldiers who were unable to leave the camp finally changed direction. Liu Yanqing resigned and was forced to bid farewell to his family, leave Daming Mansion and move to Zhenhe. The Zhenbei Army's military pay was high while the supplies of other armies were getting less and less. The long-suppressed anger was here.

Suddenly, more and more soldiers blamed the new commander Tong Guan for the misfortune they suffered, and began to flock to the center of the camp one by one.

Zhao Xingde squatted under the crenellations of the village wall, looking palely at this scene happening before his eyes. Outside, the Klei cavalry roared wildly, running wildly with their hooves, arrows flying randomly, and the rebels inside had lost control.

, and even lost his troops. With no officer able to control these soldiers who usually used military methods to suppress them, "camp roar?" "Mutiny?" These two words flashed through Zhao Xingde's mind, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
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