Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 277
Hu Cai and Zhao Qi, the commander of the Second Battalion of the Protection Army, walked together in the wild forest in front of Dulonggang, carefully observing Zhao Qi along the way.

Soon he became a little disdainful. He originally thought that the guard said that he must be some kind of brave man with such god-like combat power, but under his careful observation, the two battalion commanders in front of him disappointed him greatly.

Although this Zhao Qi had also practiced some martial arts, but just by looking at his skills and styles, Hu Cai could tell that this person was not a hero at all, he was just a stronger minion if he died.Compared with him, he is not an opponent of the same level at all.

Even such a person can become a hero passed on by word of mouth?Hu Cai couldn't help contempt in his heart.

He has more than 30 villagers under him, all of them are wearing light armor and holding high-quality steel knives, while the guards who act together look like they have more files, and one of them has more than [-] people but none of them. Wearing armor is just carrying that powerful musket on your back.

This time their task is to patrol the east side of the hill, and prevent Liangshan's bandits from breaking in from here.

At the beginning, Hu Cai had some disdain for Zhao Qi in his heart, but when he walked halfway up the mountain, Hu Cai felt that their journey was too smooth.

There was no road opened up on this hill in the past, if you usually want to walk from here, you have to suffer some hardships, but today, walking all the way down the hill, Hu Cai feels that he just walks forward without much effort. worry about what.

Hu Cai felt strange, so he looked around carefully, and soon found that along the way, Zhao Qi in front kept calling some guards who looked like small officials by his side and told them to go here and there. .

Looking around his body again, Hu Cai realized that they were just walking with their heads buried in their heads, but they didn't notice that these guards had a formation.

Along the way, there were about six people running at the forefront, looking for the direction for the big team, and behind them were the pioneers who kept chopping the thorns on the side of the road with machetes in their hands, because these people opened the way in the jungle. Out of a small path, the people behind can follow freely.

There are even sergeants guarding them on the left side and behind them.

Taking a closer look at Zhao Qi's arrangement is very reasonable, the people who are holding machetes to chop and slash will change from time to time, and they will also give the knives to their companions when they change, so that the machetes they carry are only six That's all, it won't increase the team's load, but it is very methodical to move forward slowly, and the speed is actually faster than ordinary mountain people walking in the mountains.

Hu Cai observed carefully again, and soon discovered that the roads they walked along the way were all on the ridgeline, and the land, towns and cities on both sides of the road they walked would be a little lower than their road. Next, as patrolling people, they can see the scene on both sides as long as they look left and right.

Hu Caiyue couldn't help observing and put away his contempt. Someone like Zhao Qi who had experience in arranging troops would definitely not be able to get out of it.

Originally according to Hu Cai's character, even if he knew how powerful Zhao Qi was, he would still be a little unconvinced, but since he was ordered by Hu Taigong to be imprisoned in Zhuangzi for half a year, Hu Cai's arrogance has almost been worn down, and now seeing Zhao Qi like this Nengwei also had some thoughts of stealing the teacher in his heart.

At noon, when everyone was cooking, Hu Cai followed Zhao Qi curiously.

The first time everyone sat down to rest, what Zhao Qi was concerned about was whether these soldiers had a warm place to sit. After instructing everyone to clear a warm leeward place in the snow-covered mountain nest, this guy went to see those The firehead army digs the stove.

Hu Cai was quite surprised. Zhao Qi, as a battalion commander with more than 100 sergeants, would be an officer at the rank of the army if he was among the officers and soldiers. Do you have to give special instructions when you go around and even dig the stove?
The stoves dug out by the guards were also really strange. They didn’t just dig a fire pit on the ground. They first cleared out a piece of land without ice and snow and dug a big hole, and then dug three fire pits along the big hole. Small ditches and ditches, and then the pits were covered with grass, and wooden branches were stuffed in the ditches, forming a very complicated structure.

Then Zhao Qi's behavior made Hu Cai's mouth open in shock. After watching everyone digging the stove for a while, Zhao Qi shook his head and said, "This stove is not good. How did you learn about the smokeless stove?"

Then he didn't continue to scold these soldiers, but went into battle himself, jumped into the pit and dug a stove for everyone by waving a small shovel.

Seeing that Zhao Qi had been busy for a long time before he patted the ice and snow on his legs and went to rest, Hu Cai hurriedly followed and asked: "You are obviously a battalion commander, why do you have to dig this stove?"

Zhao Qi said with a smile: "We are all brothers in the guards, the only difference is in rank. I am the battalion commander and they are soldiers. Although they have different jobs, there is no difference in status. Naturally, we have to help each other on weekdays. This is why our guards The rules in the Baojun."

Hearing this, Hu Cai's mouth opened wide, and he really couldn't figure it out, "If that's the case, what's the point of being an officer? You have to take responsibility, and you have to suffer!"

Zhao Qi smiled, he had already received instructions from Luan Tingyu, this Hu Cai is not an ordinary person, he is Sun Xin's brother-in-law, so this time he came here deliberately to promote the benefits of protecting the army with Hu Cai, so as to help Follow Sun Xin to educate this kid.

Although the protection army often promotes the idea of ​​equality between officers and soldiers, and seldom beats and scolds soldiers as usual in the army, it is impossible to say that they are completely equal, and even Pei Xuan does not do this The requirements were not met under the ideological conditions of these years, but under Zhao Qi's deliberate description, the natural scene was ten times better.

"If it wasn't like this, how could our Lord Protector have the prestige we have today?"

"You must know that we are only 1000 people on the post today, but if you think about it, when we chased the Liang bandit yesterday, there were at least 2000 people who were repelled by our guards all the way. This is not on the battlefield. If the battle is officially launched, then Liangshan has an army of three or four thousand rushing up and we can defend it. It is this kind of discipline and friendship that can create a strong army! If you move, how about beating and scolding the soldiers? Can a strong army cavalry be produced?"

Hu Cai was dumbfounded by Zhao Qi's words. He used to be very stingy and strict with his dealers. Even those who had a good relationship with him would treat them like dog legs. How to make people afraid of listening to their own words?I never thought that my subordinates could manage like this.

After listening to Zhao Qi's words, Hu Cai was indifferent for a long time, and suddenly realized something in his heart, thinking about what happened to him in the past six months, if he had been able to have some kind of affection for the people around him like Zhao Qi, then even if he came back from poverty , these people don't see themselves as aliens, do they?

I want people around me to be loyal and admirable to me, but can my pretentiousness really make people around me a little bit loyal to me?
Scenes flashed before his eyes, from the disgust of his father, brother and his own sister, to the indifference of the farmers who had a good friendship with him in the village, Hu Cai couldn't help but be greatly touched.

For more than half a year, most of the setbacks he suffered came from feeling uncoordinated with the environment but didn't know how to repent. Gradually, the whole person became depressed, but at this time, after hearing Zhao Qi's words, Hu Cai suddenly felt that what he had thought before was still the same. It's too bad, I should also treat the people around me as real people, if not, how can they treat me well?
Hu Cai silently walked back to the team of farmers in Hujiazhuang, and saw a group of farmers nestling in the cold snow. Zhao Qi ordered not to light a fire to avoid revealing their whereabouts, so everyone could only nest there to suffer from the cold.

Thinking of Zhao Qi's words, Hu Cai suddenly took out a large bag of fine flour snacks from his bosom, put them on a clean stone and said to everyone: "Everyone is also tired, come and eat some."

The dealers all looked at Hu Cai in surprise.

This guy used to be a bully who hated dogs in Hu's family village, and his martial arts was strong because he was the son of Taigong Hu because no one dared to provoke him.

In the past six months, it was because this guy returned home from a down-and-out country, and Taigong Hu ordered no one to give him a good face, so everyone dared to openly ignore him.But no one dared to insult Hu Cai, most of them kept him at arm's length.

No one expected that such Hu Cai would take the initiative to make friends with them.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to reach out to take the pastry that Hu Cai put on the stone.

Hu Cai thought of the scene between Zhao Qi and his soldiers. He was an official who managed more than 100 soldiers, and his soldiers were friendly and even joked with each other, but he obviously didn't care much. Individuals, but all have eyes on their own way.

He suddenly felt like a clown.

Blushing, Hu Cai stretched out his hand to the stone, grabbed a handful of thin white flour steamed buns, and stuffed them into the hands of several farmers.

Everyone got the steamed buns, Hu Cai smiled at everyone, picked up a steamed steamed bun that was still warm, and gnawed on it.

All the dealers opened their mouths in shock, and after they realized it, they started to eat buns one after another.

Then someone handed a pot of water to Hu Cai and said, "If you don't mind the second young master, then use my water."

Hu Cai had never been treated so sincerely by anyone, and he looked at him in surprise, and then couldn't help but smile on his face.The farmer also smiled naively.

At this time, Zhao Qi and the others lit up the stove to protect Cai and the others, calling Hu Cai to come over to the fire from a distance.

Hu Cai and others went up to take a look, and saw that the flames were burning in the big stove dug two feet deep into the ground, and the surrounding area was warm, but all the smoke produced was led into by the several ditches. In the surrounding small pits, and then scattered by the branches covered by the small pits, finally only a very light smoke floated in the air.

From a distance, neither the fire nor the smoke can be seen, and the position will not be revealed at all.

Everyone was surprised, it turned out that the smokeless stove meant that.

(End of this chapter)