Three poisons

early morning.

Huo Xian stood on the stage with his hands behind his back, with an indifferent expression and a resolute face, looking down at the soldiers holding spears in their hands for drill——

At the end of Maoshi, the regular army got up to train at a quarter of an hour, and these recruits from outside were of uneven quality. They got up at Maoshi and started a day's training before dawn.

In all likelihood, Huo Xian would accompany them.

There were tens of thousands of people in the audience, all of whom were full-blooded men, and the sound of dancing guns and boxing was loud and majestic.

Hundreds of Huo Xian's personal soldiers stood at the forefront. After nearly a year of training, they have changed from crooked melons and jujubes with wretched faces at the beginning, to now each of them has a strong body, bright eyes, and full of energy, as if reborn , they are role models for the people behind;

The militiamen who were forcibly recruited later, some of them are stupid in martial arts practice, Huo Xian did not force them, let them stand behind and make gestures with the people in front, the first time they are born, the second time they are familiar...

Those who practice better are at the front.

Unknowingly, people who are willing to conscript or not, have tacitly regarded it as an honor to be able to stand in the front and change positions... and also regard the soldiers who can move from the last few rows to the front row as the spiritual leader's vane——

For example, Xie Sanlang.

At the beginning, she was thrown in the last few rows because of her thin body and lack of strength to restrain her. Later, after training again and again, Xie Sanlang is now standing on the far right of the first row behind Huo Xian's soldiers.

Compared with those tall and strong men around her, her height and shape are naturally not on the same level, but she is full of agility in stabbing and lifting the spear in her hand, not to mention she is also light as a swallow regardless of immediate skill, and she is the fastest learner.

Huo Xian patrolled and adjusted the soldier's movements with his hands behind his back, and when he came to her and saw her fair side face under the light of the bonfire, it was indeed not as gentle as ordinary men, and then he remembered Ji Lianyue telling him before that "Xie Sanlang is a woman" if--

The silver-headed gun in front of him stabbed out, because the shoulders of the gun-holder leaned forward, and his strength was insufficient.

When a soldier in front was in the same situation, Huo Xian passed him, held his shoulders and waist with his big hands and straightened them, and commented coldly: "Hunchback."

Arriving at Xie Sanlang's place, he glanced at her with the same question, and was about to reach out to hold her shoulder, when he thought of what Ji Lianyue said while grabbing his sleeve in the morning...

After a pause, he stretched out his hand, clamped the silver gun head with two fingers and pushed back: "Shoulders back, waist strength."

His voice was flat, and after finishing the review, he kept his eyes on the next one.

Xie Sanlang was stunned for a moment, his eyes unconsciously followed the man who passed by her, and he always felt that Huo Xian treated her differently today——

more indifferent.

Thinking of the swaying weeds when she took a bath yesterday, at first she thought it was just a passing wild fox or other animals, could it be that someone really saw it?

Xie Sanlang panicked in his heart.

……

The love between children is all about small fights, and the war on the northern border continues, and everyone is in danger.

The city that Huo Xian and the others are guarding right now has just been taken back from the foreign allied forces. They have a clear picture of the terrain in the city. In addition, there are only [-] imperial soldiers and [-] militiamen left in the city. The combat power is considered weak. With a comeback, this is probably their breakthrough point.

Huo Xian knew this very well, but he didn't say anything after being asked to stay, and stayed without saying a word——

The people of the aristocratic family want him to die in battle, Qin Mingyue appreciates him well, but when the city is captured, there will always be someone to guard it, not to mention he also wants to see if this Huo Xian is really useful.

These days, people from the Maotan tribe send a small group of hundreds of people to harass the surrounding area from time to time, so that the passing caravans dare not take this official road anymore, and would rather take a detour than venture into the city... Xiao The small northern border town became an isolated city in Huangsha, and the people complained a lot.

Qin Mingyue saw that this was not an option, so she ordered Huo Xian to at least push the front line back ten miles to ensure the normal passage of the caravan. In the tent where the war is discussed, when you close your eyes at night, there are border defense maps.

Ji Lianyue didn't say anything about it, and every night he slept drowsily feeling that a corner of the quilt was lifted, so he closed his eyes and went up to touch the man's strong and strong waist, and continued to sleep on him contentedly.

The absurd thing is never done again.

About half a day later, Huo Xian began to organize the army. Although he didn't say it on the surface, everyone knew that he was going to fight for real——

This group of militiamen did not have time to go to the battlefield after they were forcibly recruited, and the reinforcements sent by the imperial court arrived. The battlefield was very close and somewhat distant to them, and the so-called casualties were just a general figure.

However, when the facts are in front of our eyes, facing the family letters with tears in our eyes, these people who were originally just farmers and farmers, the blood and righteousness of the family and the country that were cultivated with great difficulty, suddenly shrunk into a small circle. It's like the fuzzy dots of ink stained by tears on the family letter.

Three days before the expedition, seven or eight soldiers who fled the battle and tried to sneak away were arrested in the barracks.

These people were dragged to Huo Xian crying for their fathers and mothers. They were all old and young, but Huo Xian waved his hand and killed them all with military sticks. Afterwards, the pensions were arranged to be returned to their families according to the arrangements for those who died in battle.

——They all get a few ounces of silver after death. Do they want to be killed here with the army sticks while carrying the infamy of a coward, or go to the battlefield and fight to the death? Your head shines on your ancestors, you can choose by yourself.

After several waves of killing chickens and monkeys, finally before the expedition, the panic was calmed down a little.

On the contrary, Huo Xian, after killing those deserters, was actually not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

He was born in the Jianghu, happy to be kind, never took someone's life because of his timidity or caring for his family, when he shot the first deserter, he didn't sleep all night——

Closing his eyes, the thin soldier struggled and roared, "I'm fine at home, but you insisted on me coming, now I want to leave and live, what's wrong with me?"

The worst thing is, in fact, Huo Xian also thinks that this person is right.

The man hasn't slept well for days.

Ji Lianyue saw the thicker and thicker bruises under his eyes, but said nothing, and let Huo Xian choose to tangle up and lose sleep...

He watched the man with red eyes and shot deserters one by one until everything settled down.

The eve of the expedition.

Huo Xian rarely returned to the tent early.

Just as he was about to lift the curtain, he felt the figure of the soldier standing by the tent move—he was too tense these days, and seeing the strange movement, the man almost immediately put his thumb against the scabbard and wanted to pull his waist to match it. Jian, the aura all over his body suddenly became gloomy and cold!

Unexpectedly, the soldier looked up at him, but it was Xie Sanlang.

"Why are you?" Huo Xian said indifferently, and at the same time, a part of Xueguang sword had been sheathed.

"I'm on duty today." Her voice was deliberately lowered, "Tomorrow is about to go to war. Brothers see that the general has been working hard for the past few days, and he has worked hard to stabilize the army..."

She paused.

"We all see it."

Huo Xian was noncommittal, he knew that one of these deserters was Li Hei with a short stature, he was in the same tent as Xie Sanlang and the others, and he usually followed Xie Sanlang's buttocks, calling "Brother Xie" and "Brother Xie", and he had a good relationship with him.

He looked at Xie Sanlang coldly, wondering if he was going to collect debts from him?

"Since ancient times, fleeing in battle, being caught is death," Huo Xian said coldly, "If you want to blame them, blame them for being greedy for life and afraid of death, but even greedy for life is not good."

Xie Sanlang smiled wryly when he heard the words: "We know the general doesn't want to, the general takes good care of us on weekdays, and never pressures us with his status - the death of the army in front of the stick must be forced out of nowhere."

That's right.

She was right.

It's just that after being hit by her, Huo Xian's mood became even worse.

After a short silence, in the dark night, under the stars, I saw a woman dressed as a soldier standing in front of the tent lift up her plain white face, and the stars seemed to be reflected in her eyes, shining with firm light.

"We will not blame the general for this, and we will follow the general until the last battle of the war or the last second of life."

Her voice was low—

"In front of the battle and behind the enemy, never be a deserter, and follow to the death."

……

The woman in front of her swore her oath loudly, and the firm declaration made the general feel hesitant before setting off for the battle.

Huo Xian stopped and continued talking, his brows and eyes were slightly calm, anyway, he really thanked Xie Sanlang for watching what he said today, which somewhat had a comforting effect.

Although not much.

Opening the tent and stepping in, he saw that Ji Lianyue had already turned his back to the tent door and seemed to be asleep. He sighed softly in his heart, thinking that after all he was pampered and carefree.

With so much to and fro in his mind, he washed and undressed unavoidably lightly.

He just lifted the quilt and got on the couch, but the person whose back was facing him turned around, and put his soft hand on his lower abdomen... Huo Xian was stunned and lowered his head, only to find that the person leaning on him His eyes were clear, and he looked half asleep.

"Not asleep yet?" The man's voice was low and hoarse.

"No," Ji Lianyue said lightly, "And I also know that you haven't slept much these days.

Huo Xianwei was surprised, but soon he returned to normal. Ji Lianyue has always loved creating things out of nothing. If he doesn't have this observation ability, he naturally doesn't have the ability to upset people.

Naturally, Ji Lianyue heard the "affectionate confession" outside the tent, and she almost rolled her eyes in her heart, wishing she could find a basin to hug and vomit.

But he knew that these words were not harmful to Huo Xian, so he turned over and approached the man's chin. He stared at the red eyes of the man who had been staying up all night for a while: "Well, General Huo's entangled heart, but put your head down." The hearts of the soldiers have calmed down...then I am eager to show my loyalty to you."

Hearing what he meant, Huo Xian thought he had kicked the jar of jealousy again.

Frowning slightly, he pushed him impatiently: "Let's go to war tomorrow, go to bed early."

Ji Lianyue yawned, kissed him on the chin, and followed his strength to lie back on her side, and lay down until Huo Xian felt slightly sleepy because of the snuggling warmth beside him ...

Only then did I hear people around me.

"Don't listen to those people's nonsense, you don't need anyone's understanding, because you didn't do anything wrong at all."

Huo Xian was taken aback by the cold voice that sounded in vain.

"Fleeing in front of the battle, which dynasty has been put to death since ancient times, why? Because these cowardly bastards have shaken the morale of the army."

Huo Xian's eyes moved slightly.

"Once you escape, you don't have to die, so naturally I want to escape too. After a start, everyone thinks about trying to survive. They don't think about how to fight and only think about how to escape with their lives. "Ji Lianyue put her hands on her belly and stared at the top of the tent with calm eyes, "A sword has no eyes on a battlefield, but the death talisman can't tolerate half-hearted people, and more people will die at that time."

On the battlefield, only those who have no way out and desperately fight for survival can really survive.

Huo Xian suddenly had an epiphany in his heart, sat up, and clasped the shoulder of the person lying beside him: "Ji Lianyue..."

"I didn't say it a few days ago, just because I felt that if your compassion can impress these people, it would be good to make them willing to use you. After all, you can't convince people who haven't read a few pages of these books and expect them to understand these things. reason."

Ji Lianyue patted the back of his hand reassuringly——

"Now that the expedition is imminent, you don't have to bear these anymore... Those people deserve to die, and you are not wrong."

There was a trace of indifference in his calm voice, but it was more convincing than any comfort or oath with personal feelings.

It was the first time Huo Xian heard Ji Lianyue speak like this.

It was also the first time that she was willing to be persuaded by him.

—You did nothing wrong.

My heart suddenly became clear, as if the boulder that had been continuously pressing on my chest was finally moved away mercifully by a pair of hands.

This was the first time in five days that Huo Xian slept soundly. In his dream, there were no more tears and cries from those deserters, and he slept peacefully all night.