Xue Boti, leader of the vanguard group of the Jingsai Division, stood on the hill, looking at the distance slowly becoming faintly visible under the dark blue sky.
It's almost dawn, which is when people are most sleepy, and it's the best time for a night attack.
Xue Puti came from Baima Village in Yizhou.
The place in Yizhou belongs to the area behind the mountains. Since the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, it has been a place where various forces have fought. Then it became the front line of the Song and Liao wars. Over the past two hundred years, the people there have become brave, adept at fighting, cunning and tenacious.
Because the weaker ones were eliminated by the flames of war.
Therefore, Yizhou also became an important source of troops for the Northern Liao and Han armies.
Xue Boti casually pulled out a piece of grass. In the hazy sky, he quickly pulled out the core of the grass and held it in his mouth. The sweet and refreshing taste, with a slight grassy smell, filled his mouth.
The Mobei rebels? I heard they are an alliance of the frustrated and downtrodden. In Xue Puti's eyes, they are just a bunch of dead dogs. He is thirty-seven years old, but he has been fighting for twenty-three years.
It's a coincidence that Xue Boti was sent to Mobei the first time he signed a contract.
At that time, Mogusi, the leader of the Tatar Kelei Tribe, was roaming across Mobei, killing and wounding countless Khitan nobles and soldiers. The Northern Privy Council had no choice but to issue a group of Han troops from Yanyun and other places and sent them to Mobei to suppress the rebellion.
Xue Pu mentioned that he still didn't understand why the Khitan and the Xi people were not sent to Mobei to quell the rebellion. They had to dispatch the Han army and the Bohai navy, which could not be defeated with eight poles.
After thinking about it, it may be that Mobei is too bitter and too far away. Khitan and Xi are delicate and expensive, so they are not willing to go.
Xue Puti followed the army out of Mobei from Fengsheng Prefecture, and fought several fierce battles with Basimu and Dalidi who were robbing the army of food and supplies. Before they passed through the Monan Gobi, news came that Mogusi had been captured by Tata'er.
When people are killed, the world becomes peaceful again.
Although he did not go to Mobei, Xue Boti became a member of the Han army of the Liao Kingdom. He rushed to the Northeast to aid the Northeast, served under famous generals such as Xiao Wuna, and fought against the Jurchen, Shiwei, Tieli and other rebels.
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Later, during the Yahe Incident, Emperor Tianzuo was killed and the Liao Kingdom fell into chaos. Xue Puti just followed his followers everywhere and did not fight twice, trying to escape for his life.
In the end, he followed the generals and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
In fact, in his heart, Xue Boti respects the Khitan people and despises the Song people - people who survive in harsh environments naturally respect the strong and despise the weak. In the history of hundreds of years of war, the Liao Kingdom won more and lost less, but the Song Kingdom
Quite the opposite.
Therefore, when selecting elites to join the Song Army's cavalry force, Xue Boti resisted in his heart. They were all dogs anyway, and he only wanted to be a dog for the strong, not the weak.
But he found that he could do nothing but fight and kill people. If he was not a soldier, he really didn't know how to support his family. When he was twenty years old, he met a woman from the Tieli tribe and recognized her at a glance.
Then he went to great lengths to marry her and make her a mother-in-law, and settled her in his old home, Baima Village.
In more than ten years, my mother-in-law gave birth to four sons and two daughters to Xue Boti, and they had a large family to support. I also heard that if you join the Song army, you will have land to divide. With some salary, you can hire some people to farm the land and do some work.
A wealthy landowner.
Xue Puti's idea is very simple. Why is he working so hard in this miserable world? Of course, he wants his family to live well.
So Xue Puti once again put on the bravery and became a member of the Song Dynasty's border army.
He was in his prime. He had been proficient in riding and shooting since he was a child. His years of experience in mountains of corpses and seas of blood had long since tempered him into an excellent officer. Soon, he became a platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, and then to the vanguard regiment of the Jingsai Division.
For a long time, Xue Boti has been walking all the way.
"Old Xue, Old Xue!" A breathless voice interrupted Xue Puti's thoughts. He didn't need to look back, and he knew that Su Wenshu, the Marquis of Tuanyu, also known as Granny Su, was here.
Su Wenshu was also born in the Han army in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, but his experience is somewhat legendary.
He was from Lulong in Pingzhou, and he was signed into the Han Army at the age of fourteen or fifteen. However, he had the opportunity to study for several years since he was a child, and he knew some words and some principles. That year, the Song Dynasty caravan went in and out of the Liao Kingdom.
, traveling through the prefectures and counties without any taboos. Even the Han army where Su Wenshu was included was assigned by the powerful to protect a Song caravan.
During this period, Su Wenshu got acquainted with Liu Cunyi in the caravan, and was quickly developed into an insider and transferred to Wu Cunzhong. After the Ping Liao Dynasty, he was sent to the military and political school to study. After graduation, he became a military and political officer.
Xue Puti's partner.
Xue Puti spit out the tasteless grass core in his mouth.
An ordinary person would have thought that he was venting his dissatisfaction and anger against himself. But Su Wenshu had been with him for a long time and knew his temperament - he just thought highly of himself and had a sense of arrogance in his bones, and he always used this attitude unconsciously
To show one's arrogance - a knife-wielding man's disdain for talking heads.
Because of this temperament, otherwise Xue Boti might have become the Jingsai Master.
"Old Xue, why are you chewing grass roots when you have nothing to do? I have Gaochang raisins here, would you like some?" Su Wenshu said with a smile.
"Gaochang raisins? I can't afford such an expensive thing." Xue Boti replied in a strange tone.
"I don't know about your brother's family background. Over the years, after moving around and accumulating merit, the family has been allocated 110 acres of good land, and there are several rewards... your brother is much richer than me.
You actually have the nerve to say in front of me that you can’t afford these raisins?”
Su Wenshu said with a smile.
Xue Puti snorted a few times, "I'm too lazy to eat these snacks for children."
"When I was studying at the Military and Political School, the professor from Gewuyuan who was a guest lecturer said that eating something sweet can help eliminate irritability and calm the mood. So I always carry a bag of raisins with me and eat a few before the battle. Come on, eat.
Take a few pills."
Maybe he felt that he was really a little irritable and needed to command the troops to join the battle immediately. It might not be appropriate to be so irritable. Xue Puti took a handful of raisins from Su Wenshu's hand without saying a word, stuffed them all into his mouth, and started chewing them.
"It seems that you are indeed a little irritable and homesick?"
"I got a letter from home. My son is about to graduate from elementary school. He said he is going to apply for the Baoding Army Middle School in the south. I'm so angry."
"Baoding? Oh, it's Baosai City, Baozhou. Isn't this a good thing? It is a good thing for a son to inherit his father's legacy."
"Beautiful, you grandma bear! If you and I hadn't been desperate, why would we have become soldiers and done such a job of adding blood to the sword? Now I don't want to let you become a soldier again."
"Old Xue, times have changed." Su Wenshu said patiently. His tone was calm and unhurried, and his voice was like the sound of a piano in the night, which made Xue Boti calm down a lot unconsciously.
"When I was a soldier in the Northern Liao Dynasty, I was a scapegoat for the Han army, and a servant of the powerful family; in the Song Dynasty, I was also a thieves and assassins, and they were all unworthy of the stage. What now? Prosperity.
Death is grieved, rewards are given based on merit, and they are fair and just; their income and status are high, and they feel proud wherever they go. Even if they die in battle, the whole family will not have to worry."
"Old Xue, is it shameful to be a soldier like this? It's not shameful!" Su Wenshu said rudely, "After finishing Army Middle School, you can go directly to the Military Academy and become a non-commissioned officer. After two years of experience, you can be recommended to the Military Academy. Old
Xue, the eldest son of your family has studied more than you, and he may achieve higher than you in the future, and he may be awarded the title of general or marquis."
Xue Puti's expression softened a lot and he was willing to speak his mind.
"I have been a soldier for more than 20 years and have seen too many dead people. Back then, there were seven people who were issued certificates with me in Baima Village. Now I am the only one left alive... I was with the same team that went out to Feng Shengzhou together.
Pao, a brother in his thirties, moved to the Northeast for two years, and less than ten died. I have seen too many dead people, and I really don’t want my son to take this road..."
Su Wenshu knew that in order to completely untie Xue Boti's knot, he had to take his time, so he changed the topic to the war at hand.
"Old Xue, the intelligence passed down says that what we want to annihilate is a group of rebels."
Xue Puti's attention was suddenly diverted, and he vomited disdainfully, "The most indispensable thing these days is traitors!"
"I heard that this group of thieves intends to attack Helin City and disturb the Holy Master."
"What, these bastards actually dare to disturb the officials. They are really a bunch of thieves stalking the streets and alleys. I must cut the leading thief into eighteen pieces. If one section is missing, I will be like a donkey!"
Xue Puti said angrily. He was filled with murderous aura, like a devouring beast.
