Chapter 202: Mouth sores, depression and anger, children of the family of the time.

Chu Ziling closed the roster in front of him, his face not looking good.

He has been in the primus battalion for two months, and in the first day of his entry into the primus battalion, he received a military order from General Shi, immediately start, all the way to buy horses, the more the better, to a border town camp, recuperation.

Although there was no war in the barracks, there was no time to relax.

Chu Ziling was busy until dark every day, with a myriad of military chores, as well as arranging for the training of horses, which left him smelling like horse manure.

Even if a resident near the camp lost a donkey, he would come to the camp to make a fuss, saying that the Northern Government Army had taken it away.

Dealing with these bare-knuckle people alone is enough to make Chu Ziling's life difficult.

He again thoughtful and smooth, more than ten years to deal with the nobility and celebrities, those who deliberately come to seek trouble to beg for food of the stragglers, will not listen to his set.

And to make it even more unbearable for him ......

"...... Senator Chu."

Another senator named Cen opened the tent curtain and called out to Chu Ziling, who was counting the horses, "There aren't enough ink spindles in the tent, bring some."

Within a primus battalion, there were often a number of senators with different duties. Some of them were in the tent to discuss and draw up strategies; some of them were to arrange food and grass, and to take care of miscellaneous affairs; some of them were to be the chief writers of the books, and to report on the good and the bad, and so on and so forth.

Chu Ziling was shocked when he was first appointed.

He always thought, everyone called him "vice general", he has long been worthy of the name, but who would have thought, the foam is gone, he is still a worthless boy.

And when he shook his spirit, thought he would at least become the shogun's counselor, that in the past refused him to join the northern government army, and today has inexplicably become his top boss of the black tower of the big man Lu Dayuan, even arranged for him to do the management of the miscellaneous affairs of the Counselor!

He had personally heard Lu Dayuan say to the main pen senator who advised him to take more care of himself: "Yes, he Chu Ziling is the red man in front of the young general right, but he is new to the country and does not know the core military affairs of our primus battalion, so letting him come to give him guidance is not just a blind man feeling an elephant, what kind of way can he feel out? Besides, he used to do chores beside the Young General, so it's not bad to start with something he's familiar with. When he has an understanding of the Primus Battalion, it won't be too late for him to move up then."

Word for word it's true, but it's also word for word disgusting.

Chu Ziling swallowed his full of grievances, piled up a somewhat scribbled smile, and turned around to fetch the ink spindle.

Along the way, he was constantly asked by junior officers for advice on miscellaneous matters, either when the next grain levy would be made, or where to hold a suspected scout captured by the patrol squad.

He didn't get a brief moment of peace and quiet until he entered the army tent where the miscellaneous items were kept.

After quickly picking up a side of poor quality ink ingots in a dry mess, Chu Ziling didn't even want to go outside.

He sat down in the tent, holding his head, full of ears is still "Chu Senator", "Chu Senator" inquiry sound.

Chu Ziling buried his face in his palm and cursed silently.

Chu Ziling left Shi Tingyun and came to this border town to drink the wind and sand for more than three whole months.

He no longer had a kitchenette to share with Gong Zi, no clothes to change daily, no separate sheepskin tent, even having to use the same one with another soldier, and the trusted people he had cultivated in the main camp and several main cities were all cut off from him.

Gong Zi did not tell anyone to take care of Chu Ziling.

This was indeed Shi Tingyun's temperament, acting in a dashing manner; if he were to give this and that advice in a maudlin manner, it would be inconsistent with his style of behavior.

But Chu Ziling has learned what it means to worship the high and step on the low in just two months.

People like Lu Dayuan, who is straightforward in nature, will not care about Gong Zi's favor to him, and treat him like a normal senator; while those who are interested in flattering him, after pleasing him for a while, and found that Shi Tingyun has no intention to take care of Chu Ziling, then they suspected that he was offended by Gong Zi, and was promoted to the nooks and crannies of this place for doing hard work, and gradually alienated him as well. He suspected that he had offended Gong Zi and had been thrown into this nook and corner to do hard work, and gradually alienated him.

Well, he brought the carrier pigeon with a bit of gray on its neck.

After a moment's reprieve, Chu Ziling fished two sheets of letter paper out of his pocket, plopped down between a pile of wooden boxes, took out a bald pen, and continued to write his letter.

His letter with the Southland must not be broken.

"Lord Ai Sha, Zi Ling has not written a letter to present his case this month, so I bow here to apologize. The accidental death of General Wu Yichun was not what I had wished for, so I pray ......."

At this point, Chu Ziling angrily puts down his pen, makes a big, ink-stained cross on the paper in annoyance, and then rubs the paper fiercely and stuffs it in his mouth.

This hero, he was really holding his breath!

In the battle of Fusui, he just killed a straw general who wanted to escape, not a great achievement on the side of the Central Plains, and got a position as a senator, which is indeed considered a great reward.

But in the eyes of the Southland, they lost two cities in a row, Fusui, Weiling, more than 10,000 combatants lost, a large number of food and grass fell directly into the hands of the northern army, and "Chu Ziling" in this battle after the fame, as if the success of this battle, all on him alone.

More importantly, this battle was indeed facilitated by him personally by sending a letter to the Southern Border!

Not he tipped off, small Fusui, surrounded also surrounded, never to take in a Wei Ling, and a whole grain army.

Black and white paper is there, he Chu Ziling have mouth also can not say, the whole thing combed down, it is like he is inside and outside, to help the northern government army to plan the southern border like.

He used to cooperate with the southern border, boasting a prince status, which is not with a hidden control of the overall situation of superiority, now out of such a thing, he himself feel weak, every pen to the letter, words and phrases are unconsciously short of a head, read their own feel slavishly, the heart of the nest is very angry.

And the past agreement to go to the letter and not return is causing him sleepless nights.

How would the southern border side view themselves?

Will they still believe in themselves?

But at that time the situation was urgent, that Wu Yichun was timid and fearful, he might not be able to confess himself in order to survive.

If you don't kill Wu Yichun, he dies!

Chu Ziling was so upset that he put down his pen, picked up his ink spindle, and got up to go out of the tent, intending to write another letter in detail.

It had taken him nearly ten years of light to easily gain trust with the Southlanders, and he couldn't afford to lose it like this!

When he exited the tent, he happened to collide head-on with Lu Dayuan's adjutant.

Chu Ziling, thinking about his mind, only gave a slight nod to the adjutant, rightly regarded as a greeting, and immediately staggered away.

The adjutant was a little surprised.

When he first met Chu Ziling three months ago, he was still a young man with a lot of ambition.

At first, the adjutant had a bad impression of Chu Ziling.

He would have thought that at Chu Ziling's age, having shot a Southern Border general with his own hands, he should be springing to life, not to say proud and forgetful, but when he met him, the adjutant found that he did not look very jovial, wrinkled his brow at times, and didn't love to hear others bragging about his feats, and was supposed to be a humble man.

In just three short months, the wind and sand of the border and the coarse diet had polished and roughened him up, leaving the corners of his mouth with prairie blisters, and just as the blister on the corner of his left lip had dried up and formed a dark brown scab of blood, the corner of his right lip bulged out again, crystallizing into a new mouth sore.

He was preoccupied and didn't like to talk to people, which didn't quite match up with the rumored talkative and smiley nature of him.

Zhan Yuan's adjutant is known as a soft heart, he shook his head, thinking, I heard that Chu Senator since childhood with Gong Zi grew up together, afraid that never separated for such a long time.

Besides, he was used to eating good rice and noodles and living in good tents, but suddenly he landed in this bird-like frontier and dealt with a bunch of stragglers all day long, so it was normal for him not to get used to it.

Thinking of this, he called out to Chu Ziling, "Ziling, come here."

Chu Ziling turned back.

The adjutant pulled him aside, "It's not that I'm asking you to work, it's a good thing. News just came from the top, our Primus Battalion, there's a battle to be fought."

Chu Ziling, who had developed a mouth full of blood blisters and ulcers as a result of his poor diet and a depressed mood, finally drafted a letter a few days later and put the pigeons into the sandy sky.

A few days later.

The letter had been tossed around a couple of times and was spread out on Pa Sha's desk again.

A pair of green eyes stared at the yellowed letterhead, their pupils somber, unable to tell what their owner was thinking.

Pa Sha's vice general was already extremely impatient: ''General! Do you still want to believe his bullshit? The tragic deaths of my uncle and General Wu one after another are not enough to wake you up?"

Pa Sha coldly said, "Died in battle? Wu Yichun died of stupidity."

He pointed to the top of the letterhead and said to himself, "...... Why is he still writing to Ai Sha?Doesn't he realize that Ai Sha is dead?"

The vice general only felt his head was as big as a bucket: "General, pardon my offense, I really don't know, why do you have such trust in that Chu Ziling?!"

"They say that in my last life I killed pigs and in this life I taught; I see that I killed in my last life and in this life I taught pigs." Pa Sha said, "If you really don't know, shut up. I don't have to account to you for what I think."

The Vice Admiral had to keep his mouth shut for a few moments in resignation.

A moment later, he still could not help, blurted out, "Then you are not difficult to listen to the words of the surname Chu, withdraw from the return of Ning?"

Pa Sha pointed out, and asked, "Do you really believe that the Beifu army would dare to raise a large army and cross the river to fight against Guining?"

The Adjutant General was slightly surprised, "You ......"

"The Northern Household Army fights Guining? Joke, Guining has a heavenly danger, separated from the Northern Army by the Cang River, is one of General Tie Muer's front line. Regardless of whether or not the Northern Household Army has the guts to fight us head-on, if we avoid their front line and withdraw before the battle, how will we explain ourselves to General Tie Muer?"

"But that Chu Ziling letter is also very clear ......"

Seeing Pa Sha so certain, the vice general was uneasy on the contrary: "...... said that the little thing surnamed Toki had secret tactics and would take advantage of the night to cross the river and seize the city, and also set the reward for your head in advance ...... "

One hundred gold to spare a string of Wang Ba, a specialty of the Cangjiang Shoal.

The reward sounds like a real firecracker.

"Ha." Pa Sha was not angry, "Just a little bastard, just showing off."

The deputy general said, "That Chu Ziling was very careful in his advice, telling us to avoid his front, withdraw to the east side of Inaccessible, merge with General Suo, make a gap, form a pocket formation, let that Shi Tingyun pounce, and then take advantage of the opportunity to join with the west side of the General Ge Ka's department, echoing east and west, strangling the Northern Household Army among them. ......"

Pa Sha's green eyes winked wryly, "Let me ask you, what if the Northern Household Army isn't aiming at me?"

"We and Changling's General Ge Ka and Inaccessible's General Suo, into a mutual wing protection of the zigzag shape, Changling and Guining are 200 miles apart, Guining and Inaccessible is 100 miles apart, each other to take care of each other, locking the Cangjiang River, it is an iron bucket. However, if the Beifu army is rushing towards Ge Ka to go ......"

The Vice General came to a realization, "Yes! The dogs of the Central Plains are really cunning! Ge Ka is in the west, right at the upper reaches of the Cang River, so the northern government troops don't need to cross the river, they can quietly go around to their back, surprise them, and attack the city and take over the land. The North government army is talking about crossing the river to cross the river, but where do they get the guts to fight with us on the river head on! If we listen to the words of this Chu, really withdraw to the nearest General Suo, is not it isolate General Ge Ka, and let him break our alliance?"

The more he said, the more he felt justified, "Indeed! That Chu is swindling the General!"

Pa Sha, however, said, "I think that Chu Ziling he is indeed deluded. Someone is afraid that he is being used to deliver false messages for us."

He ignored another question from his lieutenant and lowered his eyes in contemplation.

Pa Sha still believes that Chu Ziling would never rebel if he had a profit motive.

But both Ai Sha's death and Wu Yichun's death confirm one thing: someone is using Chu Ziling.

Then why doesn't he make good use of this layer of "utilization" to gain more benefits for himself?

The vice general said through his mouth, but did not see Pa Sha to Chu Ziling's "confidence" how to shake, so he could only sigh: "...... General, you say, how we do. "

"Don't ask him to pay any attention to what the letter says, if the Northern Household Army wants to 'come', then 'come'. Send more spies to monitor Changling's side. If any scouts from the Central Plains show up, don't startle them, feign ignorance and let them go back."

"I wonder if I'll hear from the two generals?"

Pa Sha laughed and said, "If I don't let the Northern army beat Ge Ka to death, General Tie Muer will not remember the merit of me leading the army to come to my aid. I will take the credit alone. I have a big appetite and I am not afraid of being overwhelmed."

Chu Ziling, this chess piece, is probably already ruined, so why doesn't he take this ruined chess piece and build a ladder of green clouds for himself?

At the end, he laughed and said to himself, "Little boy of the Shi family, the same trick that Wu Yichun hit, you still want me to hit it once? I will top this one hundred gold's head, waiting for a big ride."