Invincible son

Chapter 288 287 [Knife Edge]

Kaiping five years, July [-]th.

According to the almanac, the grass died.

There is an official road in the southeast of Hucheng, which was built in the winter of the second year of Renxuan, that is, 14 years ago.In the autumn of that year, in order to recapture Hucheng, the Western Wu court sent a total of 22 troops to attack the city. With Pei Zhen personally sitting in Hucheng, they finally left tens of thousands of corpses and retreated in despair.

This official road started to be built after Liang Jun's victory. It started from the south gate of Hucheng in the west and went to Shanyang County in Dongqing Prefecture in the east, connecting with the official road in Lingzhou.Since then, a steady stream of military equipment and food has been sent to Hucheng through this official road, and day after day and year after year, the city has been built into the strongest city in the world, and then the Western Wu court's idea of ​​a follow-up storm was dispelled.

At a distance of nearly three hundred miles from Shanyang County to Hucheng, there are nine military villages scattered along the official road. This is the most important defense system for Daliang to restrain the cavalry of Western Wu.

As long as these nine military strongholds are not lost, it is impossible for Western Wu to directly attack Dongqing Mansion and Guangping Mansion in Lingzhou, because they cannot protect the food roads, and they will face the harassment of Liang Rui soldiers in the military stronghold at any time.

The most southwestern military village is called Daokou Village. There are 500 soldiers stationed there, belonging to the Guangping Guard of the Guping Camp.

Daokou Village was built on flat ground, which was a helpless move, because the terrain on the Gaoyang Plain is very flat, even if there are slight ups and downs, it still looks flat on the whole.Although there are mountains of different heights, but the number is very rare, otherwise the Tiger City built on the Dingjun Mountain would not be so important.

Since there was no choice in terms of terrain, the Daliang court had no choice but to find a way in terms of building materials, and built the city with bricks, stones, and sand, which was extremely strong despite the fire attack.The city wall of this village is six feet high, higher than the city wall of Linqing County. There are only two city gates on the east and south sides. The military city built by the enemy.

There are 37 similar military cities on the border of Lingzhou.

After this defense system was established, Wang Pingzhang once said: "Since then, if the cavalry of Western Wu dare to violate the border, they will never return."

Qi Huaijing was born in Shanyang County, Dongqing Prefecture. Her family was poor, her parents were farmers, and she could not read a single word.The reason why he has such an elegant-sounding name is that in the year he was born, Qi's father went hunting in the mountains and rescued a scholar.At that time, his mother was about to give birth, and the scholar gave him this name after giving birth to him.

It's a pity that the Qi family is too poor to hire a husband, nor can they send him to a private school, so naturally there is no hope of taking the imperial examination.Fortunately, he has been stronger and stronger than other children since he was a child, and he usually plays with wooden sticks at home a few times, looking good. When he was 15 years old, Qi's father gritted his teeth and sent him to Xiangjun Lingzhou Guard.

After joining the army, Qi Huaijing was finally able to eat enough to eat, and her body grew like the wind. In two years, she became an eight-foot man.

By chance three years ago, he was spotted by a young commander of the Guping Camp, who transferred him from the Xiang Army to the Frontier Army and stayed by his side as a personal soldier.

Qi Huaijing still remembered the scene of that day, the young general was full of heroism, the armor on his body was stained with blood, he had just returned from killing the Western Wu people at the border.The soldiers in the army were very excited, but Qi Huaijing was very depressed, because he was stunned when facing the enemy. Although he didn't show any embarrassment, everyone knew that he was afraid.

The general didn't punish him, but drove him to Daokou Village to be an ordinary soldier.

At first Cao Hu thought he was the young general's confidant, so he came here to experience some experience and was very polite to him.

Soon Cao Hu learned the truth of the matter, and never paid attention to Qi Huaijing again.

Time flies, two years in a flash.

Qi Huaijing was still an ordinary infantry in the Fifth Post of the Third Capital of the Fourth Quang Binh Guard Army.

His life in the army was not easy, because it was well known that the sentry officers were lukewarm towards him, and would often entrust him with the hardest and most tiring work.For example, let him repair the city wall with his husband in the winter, or stand guard on the city wall in the hot sun like today, the hottest time of the year.

Qi Huaijing never resisted, perhaps he had already accepted his fate, thinking that this was his life.

An ordinary peasant boy, with no relationship or background, and very timid, how can he have any future?
Even if he was favored by the young general, it was only a flash in the pan, and soon he exposed his true details.

The noon sun made people dizzy, Qi Huaijing persisted with perseverance, he was the only one standing on the wall stupidly, and his companion had already shrunk to the shade under the tower.That person has a good relationship with the sentry officer, and he is not worried about being punished at all.But Qi Huaijing couldn't do it, if he dared to leave his position, he would definitely face the most severe military punishment.

But Qi Huaijing didn't have any complaints, her own fate was like this, so what else is there to complain about?
"Huaijing."

A tired voice interrupted his thoughts, and when he turned his head, he saw a middle-aged man walking towards him with a water bottle.

This person is called Dong Da, and in Qi Huaijing's perception, he is a strange person, because he is still a pawn at the age of 40.The sentinel seemed to be a little afraid of him, and never arranged work for him, as if there was no such person in the team anyway.

"Uncle Dong." Qi Huaijing twitched the dry corner of her mouth, revealing an ugly smile.

Dong Da glanced at the soldiers in the shade in the distance, didn't say much, just handed over the water bottle and said, "Drink some water."

"Thank you, Uncle Dong." Qi Huaijing said sincerely, lifted the lid of the kettle and looked up, gulping down most of the water.

"Slow down, what's the rush?" Dong Da said indifferently, and after he had finished drinking, he said, "Leave the kettle here, and return it to me at night."

Qi Huaijing nodded.

Dong Da looked at his calm expression and slightly confused eyes, and suddenly asked: "Are you homesick?"

Qi Huaijing hesitated and said, "I don't want to."

Dong Da revealed a touch of curiosity: "Why don't you want to?"

After a moment of silence, Qi Huaijing said: "My father said that if you can't be an official, you should never go back for the rest of your life."

Dong Da then asked: "Then do you want to be an official?"

This time Qi Huaijing quickly shook her head and said, "I don't want to."

Dong Da looked at him intently, as if he thought this silly boy who was always dull was very interesting, so he simply sat beside him, not caring about the hot bluestone floor, patted beside him and said, "Sit."

Qi Huaijing looked around.

Dong Da shook his head and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, no one dares to punish you."

Qi Huaijing carefully sat down against the wall.

"You don't want to go home, and you don't want to be an official, so what exactly do you want to do?"

"Uncle Dong, actually I miss my mother very much, but my father said that, I dare not miss home. You know my past, I went to the battlefield with that general, I really dare not kill or don't want to kill, I don't Knowing why wars are fought, so I think it's fine now."

"I don't understand why there is a war."

Dong Da repeated this sentence, and said with a slight smile: "This sentence is very good, but many times there are always many reasons that force you to do it. For example, if people from Xiwu call now, can you run away? At that time, did you stick your head out and let others cut it off, or did you just dig a hole and bury yourself?"

Qi Huaijing remained silent.

Dong Da patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Actually, killing people is no different from killing chickens. When you kill a lot, you won't resist beheading others."

Qi Huaijing looked at him half-understood, and suddenly saw Dong Da's face became serious, motioning him not to speak.

The scorching sun is in the sky, and there are no clouds in the sky.

But there seemed to be faint thunder.

　Thank you Brother Jiang Ye for your support!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)