When Xu Xiao was in Yi County, he had heard of the 'bad reputation' of the Snowy Camp. He thought that a place where a bunch of prisoners stayed must be dirty and messy, and the prisoners inside must be 'foul mouthed, irritable, and irritable.' Otherwise, it would be despair and depression amidst the lifeless atmosphere.
Xu Xiao had already calculated in his heart. After entering the Great Snow Camp, if anyone dared to pick a fight with him and wanted to bully a recruit like him, he would use his casserole sized fist to tell those 'heroes' that they could not afford to offend this recruit called Xu Xiao.
But after arriving at the Great Snow Camp, Xu Xiao discovered that this place was actually completely different from what he had imagined in his heart previously.
The camp was clean and tidy. Before the snow stopped, someone came out to clear the road.
In the military camp, the tents were scattered in an orderly manner. There were both soldiers and officers among the people sweeping the snow and clearing the roads. Especially those from the military palace, who were actually carrying brooms and shovels to work with the soldiers. The officers did not put on airs towards the soldiers, and the soldiers were not afraid of the officers.
"Drink a bowl of wine and take a piss. The men of the Great Snow Camp will put on their robes (that one, ha, put on the robes).。。。。。。”
The officers and soldiers cleared the snow together while shouting "chants".
Inside the camp gate, the officer who brought Xu Xiao to meet the commander of the Great Snow Camp told Xu Xiao that they were singing the military song of the Great Snow Camp.
Xu Xiao didn't feel the slightest despair or depression from these legendary prisoners who had committed heinous crimes. He didn't encounter the insults and provocations that he had imagined. This made him, the number one hero of Yi County, unable to use his 'casserole sized fist'.
The officers and soldiers looked at him with a kind of comfort in their eyes-friendliness.
The officer brought Xu Xiao to the tent of the commander of the Great Snow Camp and asked him to wait outside the tent while he went in to report.
Not long after Xu Xiao waited outside the tent, the officer and a muscular man in black armor walked out of the tent.
The black armored man stopped in front of Xu Xiao and looked at Xu Xiao. His gaze paused for a moment on the sweaty towel tied around Xu Xiao's neck. Then, he took off the sweat coin from his neck and placed it in Xu Xiao's hand. He didn't say anything else and walked away. From beginning to end, his face was serious.
The officer told Xu Xiao that the man was the vice-commander of the Snow Camp, the military officer. In fact, he was a good person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Xu Xiao's sweattowel was new. It had not been 'washed' and would be very hard. When he wore it on his face to block the wind and sand, it was not only airtight but also suffocating. When the wind blew, it was especially cold, as if there was a piece of ice on his face.
The officer brought Xu Xiao into the military tent. The commander of the heavy snow camp was a middle-aged fatty called Hong Tao. He had a kind face and spoke without any arrogance.
As he put on the armor, he told Xu Xiao that he had seen Xu Xiao's military service disc. Now the camp had received a secret order from the commander to march overnight to meet a caravan outside the pass. When they returned, they would have a good chat with Xu Xiao.
He also told Xu Xiao that he, Lin Hujiao, and Ding Heng (Ding Huang's uncle) were old brothers. Xu Xiao hadn't even arrived when these two letters arrived. In the letters, Xu Xiao was praised.
Hong Tao instructed that officer to send Xu Xiao to the gang leader army first.
"At the recruitment camp, you have to verify your identity before entering it into the military file. You haven't eaten yet, right? In a while, the entire camp will set off and you won't have time to cook.”
Xu Xiao and the military officer were just about to turn around and leave when Hong Tao called out to them again. He threw out two pieces of corn cakes and a piece of braised pig's head meat for Xu Xiao to fill up his stomach first.
"Thank you for your concern, Commander. After eating, my body will feel heavy when I run, and it's easy to get sideburns. I chewed two biscuits that I brought in the afternoon, so I'm not hungry now.”
"As expected of Yi County's famous hunter. Take it back and give it to your platoon leader. When you come back this time, you can open a small stove and let him add this meat to the wild vegetable soup. It can also be considered as a welcome party for a recruit like you.”
Xu Xiao didn't act pretentious anymore. After thanking Hong Tao with cupped fists, he left Hong Tao's tent with the officer.
On the way, the officer told Xu Xiao that Hong Tao was also from Yi County. A few days ago, the General's wife gave birth to a son for him and sent over two of the pigs that were about to leave the pen.
There were a total of four big fans of pork and offal. General Hong distributed three fans to the other battalions, stewed a fan of pork and offal for the soldiers of the Snow Battalion, and sent four pig heads to the commander and the other battalion commanders. General Hong had only kept this piece of pig's head meat for himself. He did not expect that before he could eat it, he would receive a secret order from the commander to go outside the pass.
Xu Xiao remembered that when he was in Yi County, whatever the commanders of the village army had to eat and drink, they would fart in their beds and take it all for themselves. He didn't expect that the situation would be reversed in the Snow Camp. The commander actually gave all the good food and drinks to the soldiers.
The officer brought Xu Xiao to the tent of the gang leader army and handed him over to Feng Yuan, the sergeant of the gang leader army, before bidding farewell and leaving.
After a brief conversation, Xu Xiao found out that Feng Yuan was the uncle of Feng Datou, whom he had met in the recruitment camp.
Captain Feng Yuan asked Xu Xiao to put his luggage on the innermost bunk in the tent. Xu Xiao knew that in the military camp, the innermost bunk was reserved for officers and veterans. Because it was far away from the door, it was windy and warm. The recruits usually slept near the door, where the wind was strong.
This Snow Camp was completely different from the rumors.
The general has a kind face and a kind spirit.
The vice commander had a cold face but a warm heart, showing concern for his subordinates.
The officers and soldiers got along well.
The environment was clean and tidy.
Everyone was so friendly.
There is no vulgar violence,
He didn't feel the despair and depression of being in a place where he was going to die.
An hour later, the entire Snowy Battalion set off. One thousand three hundred and sixty-one people secretly left the Jinzhou Border Army camp. He headed 130 miles outside the pass to pick up a caravan of about 200 people.
"Yo, to be able to keep up with the rapid march of our Great Snow Camp, you're not bad, kid.”
"Who did you offend outside?”
"Tell everyone about it."
"Us brothers will help you curse him a few times to relieve your anger.”
On the march, the captain of the gang, Feng Yuan, and several other soldiers saw that Xu Xiao, this new recruit, could easily keep up with the rapid march of the veterans. They could not help but have a good impression of Xu Xiao.
"Sergeant, how did you know that I offended someone outside?”
Xu Xiao didn't answer directly, but asked Feng Yuan instead.
"From now on, we'll be brothers stirring up trouble in the same pot. Even if I don't say it, you'll know sooner or later. In fact, those rumors about our Snow Camp losing 99% of their members are about us dying. The gang leaders of the Heavy Snow Camp were even more certain to die. These are all lies. They are all rumors that our marshal Yuan Hua deliberately spread.”
"It's true that all the prisoners in our Great Snow Camp are from the Convict Army, but we don't even have a single criminal who has committed crimes here. In fact, we are all heroes who have offended those rich and powerful families because we are too tough and upright.”
Xu Xiao believed Feng Yuan's words. Although he had only been in the Great Snow Camp for a short period of time, the feeling that the officers and soldiers of the Great Snow Camp gave him was that they were not ordinary soldiers. What word should he use to describe it? Righteousness! Yes, that was the word.
"Besides, we're not like the other military camps, which are full of boorish men who can't recognize all of them. There are quite a few scholars in our Great Snow Camp who are literate. When you entered the camp, you should have heard the soldiers who were sweeping the snow and clearing the road shouting 'chants'. That was a military song written by a scholar who had stayed here for the Snowy Camp. I heard that he had even won the top scorer.”
Xu Xiao recalled the so-called military song of the Snowy Camp and felt that the top scholar had written it.。。Err... It was quite down-to-earth.
The two of them chatted for a while. Feng Yuan told Xu Xiao that on the list of the Snow Camp, regardless of whether they were civil or martial, they were all men with unyielding bones.
The commander-in-chief had spread these rumors to make those nobles and influential families think that those 'sinners' who had offended them did not have long to live and would no longer think about continuing to harm them.
Even if there were really some 'narrow-minded' noble families who wanted to 'eradicate the weeds and uproot the roots', the prisoners of the Great Snow Camp would continue to live in the name of the other soldiers who had died in the border defense of Jinzhou.
In Liyang, when soldiers died in battle, the court's compensation would be settled in one go. After that, there would be no more preferential treatment. Their families would no longer be exempted from taxes and corvee because someone in their family had joined the army. The people of the Great Snow Camp lived in the name of the fallen soldiers, so their families could always receive preferential treatment from the court.
The commander-in-chief reported the names of these 'sinners' on the death register of the heavy snow camp, deceiving everyone.
Those scholars who offended the powerful and influential basically wrote their names on the military register of the Snow Camp. Some of them worked as secretaries and advisors for the commander, while others came to the Snow Camp to endure hardships and taste courage.
Usually, they would 'die' in about half a month. This was because the people these scholars offended were all 'big shots' who paid attention to eliminating weeds and roots.
The reason why the Big Snow Camp's gang leader was known as the most certain of deaths, being beaten, bullied, and doing hard work every day in the Big Snow Camp was to let those 'big shots' hear that these scholars had been 'banished' to such a bitter place, so that they could vent their anger.
This way, when news of their deaths spread, those 'big shots' would not bother to investigate in detail.
However, it was true that the losses were extremely high.
The commander-in-chief and the commanders of the various battalions risked losing their official positions and beheading to deceive the imperial court and those nobles for us 'sinner's sake. The men of the Great Snow Camp would not cower in battle.
No matter how hard the bones were, the Snow Camp would bite them down even if they had to break their teeth.
The more capable a person was, the more arrogant they were.
The people of the Great Snow Camp were the kind of people who would rather take things from the straight path than ask for things from the crooked path.'He was a straightforward man.
This kind of person was also the most hated person by those nobles.
However, they were also the kind of people who would repay a little kindness.
Not only did the commander of the Jin City border troops and the commanders of the various battalions save their lives at the risk of being killed, but they also recognized the righteousness and integrity that they insisted on.
A scholar would die for a confidant, not to mention that this confidant was his savior who risked his life to save his life.
Strictly speaking, the people in the Snow Camp were not the kind of people who were not afraid of death. They were a group of people who regarded death as the highest honor!'
In order to protect the righteous path in the human world that they firmly adhered to in their hearts, they were 'fearless of death'.
Xu Xiao told Feng Yuan half the truth, half the truth, that he had gambled with a Rank-2 Grandmaster martial artist in Yi County for a Forest Hunt. In the end, that person's neck had been slit. Although everyone knew that Xu Xiao, a Rank-4 martial artist, could not kill a Rank-2 Grandmaster at all, it was because of the Forest Hunt gamble that the other party had lost his life.
The Rank-2 Grandmaster who died had a big family and business in Jinzhou Prefecture. He was afraid of revenge, so he joined the army.
The book secretly stated that Xu Xiao was also very puzzled in his heart. How did the marshal know that he had offended a very powerful 'big person', and' banished 'him to the Heavy Snow Camp to be a' gang leader '?
Yuan Hua, the commander of the Jin Border Army, was not an ordinary person. Although he did not know the details of the feud between Xu Xiao and the Little Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, he could guess a little.
What kind of martial arts competition did a Rank-2 Grandmaster have with a Rank-4 martial artist like Xu Xiao?
Would he be proud if he won?
Even if one did not think about it, they would know that the Rank-2 Grandmaster was definitely sent by someone to kill Xu Xiao.
Moreover, when he was in Yi County, he was chasing after Xu Xiao on the streets with a knife. When the incident happened, none of the village soldiers and bailiffs dared to interfere in this matter. After the incident, they 'didn't say a word' about it.
What did this mean?
This meant that the person who wanted to kill Xu Xiao could not only make a Rank-2 Grandmaster put down his dignity as a martial artist to kill a hunter with only Rank-4 cultivation.
He could even make Yi County county magistrate, county lieutenant, and commander of the village army pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Such a person was at least a third-grade official with real power.
There were only two officials above the fourth rank in the entire Jinzhou Prefecture. One was Yuan Hua himself, and the other was the Prefecture Overseer. However, this overseer was a famous scholar and had always looked down on those Jianghu people. He had never interacted with them. Did he need a Jianghu Martial Master to deal with Xu Xiao? Any random charge could have the Prefecture Overseer throw Xu Xiao into prison.
In other words, the big shot who wanted to deal with Xu Xiao must be from the capital. Otherwise, even if the other prefectures held real power, they would not be able to control the county government and the township army of Yi County.
Therefore, Marshal Yuan Hua concluded that Xu Xiao had definitely offended some big shot in the capital.
Thus, he 'sent' Xu Xiao to the Big Snow Camp's gang leader army.
Then there was Lin Hujiao and Ding Heng (Ding Huang's uncle), who jointly recommended Xu Xiao to Marshal Yuan Hua. After Grand Marshal Yuan Hua saw their detailed report, he also felt that Xu Xiao this brat was a promising talent.
The commander of the Snow Camp, Hong Tao, was popular but not powerful enough, and the military officer was too upright.
It was easy to break a tough bone. If Hong Tao, this 'good old man' hadn't been suppressing him these few years, the Great Snow Camp would have been in a narrow escape in the hands of this desperate Qi Wufu.
Grand Marshal Yuan Hua felt that Xu Xiao was a good seedling, and letting him go to the Heavy Snow Camp was also to let Xu Xiao train in the Heavy Snow Camp for two years, then take Hong Tao's position and become the commander of the Heavy Snow Camp.
The reason why Yuan Hua didn't talk to Xu Xiao about this in detail was that he wanted to personally observe Xu Xiao's performance in the Great Snow Camp to see if he was really as powerful as Lin Hujiao and Ding Heng said.
In addition, Yuan Hua had another concern, and that was the Fifth Grade Tongzhi Liu Ying in the military.
Although this 'Liu Tongzhi' hadn't caused any trouble these past few years, he was still a civil official transferred from the capital. This year, he had gotten above average in the merit test. If he got above average in the merit test next year, he would be able to return to the capital. Who knows what he might have in mind.
Therefore, at this time, it was best to wait and see. One could not have the intention of harming others, but one could not be without the intention of guarding against others.
PS: The problem with the title of the book has finally been solved. He consulted the management at the author's back office, used the mobile APP to provide feedback on the channels, and sent an email to Mr. Bao Jianfeng, the vice president of Yuewen Group. He had thought of all the solutions he could think of. To be honest, the old man was ready to give up. He planned to endure it for 60 days before changing the title back. He did not expect to find out that the problem had been solved when he went online that night.
He didn't know which nameless hero who had done a good deed had helped the old man relieve his worries. From five o'clock in the morning until now, the old man had only written about 1300 words because of the title of the book.
Thank you, thank you to the customer service manager in charge of the consultation, thank you to Gao Dabao for the feedback from the APP channel, thank you to Mr. Bao Jianfeng, thank you to the editor of the fantasy group. Although I don't know which of you nameless heroes who did good deeds helped me, I don't know if you're the one who helped me. However, my gratitude to you all comes from the bottom of my heart. I wish good people a peaceful and happy life.
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