Chapter 4 fourth quarter

His father, Ma Bao, resigned due to illness. According to the rules of the Ma family army, the position of battalion commander was replaced by his son Ma Buying.Ma Buying bid farewell to the Imam, and rode a big gray horse into the Ning Haijun camp. My cousin Ma Bufang has already become the brigade commander. The brigade commander told him to wait for arrangements.His battalion commander is almost like a soldier. He walks his horse and feeds himself every day. It is very hard work, not like an officer.Kema Battalion Commander's uniform was neat and his boots were shiny. Winter is here, and before it snows, his father sends a message to let him go back.He rode alone, without even a guard, and he entered the village only when it was dark in the wilderness.

His father told him: "According to Ning Haijun's rules, you have to hunt with bare hands after it snows. You have the upper hand than a knife. Hunting is a group activity, so be careful and suffer losses." "Who remembers what happened three or four years ago." "Your son is young and you don't understand the morals of the world. Your uncle is paving the way for your son. He treats your nephew as a black tiger star. You must be careful when you are hunted in a few days. Either you don't go and rest in the house for a few days. " As soon as the door curtain was lifted, A Niang said, "I'm raising a son, not a girl. A good man can conquer the world with his bare hands. He doesn't expect you to grow up, and he doesn't expect himself to grow up!" A Niang turned and left after speaking.

The father suddenly stood on the ground, "You didn't leave any family fortune for your baby in your life, and you can't do anything earth-shattering. You still have a sigh of relief when you are young, and there is nothing mad about being a stepping stone for your baby." Ma Bao, a retired officer, is very ordinary in the camp in Xining, but he still has prestige among the people in Zhuangzi.He invited more than a dozen capable young men from neighboring villages to ride big horses and go hunting in the wild.This is an ancient tradition of Hezhou people, regardless of the Han people back home, they like to take this risk.According to the old rules, pheasants and hares are easy to catch after it snows. Since Battalion Commander Ma wants to take a bigger risk, everyone is a hot-blooded man.

First, gallop the horse and drive the pheasants and hares out of the grass nest.In the Hezhou area, there are deep ravines and ravines, and the cliffs are high and steep. The strong man rides a strong horse and rushes down the cliff, and then up the cliff, straight up and down, the more he runs, the stronger his heart is. Crazy, like playing drums.The horse's hooves pounded the ground, and the heart beat the human chest. The pheasants and hares were terrified, and desperately burrowed into the corners and into the crotch of the earth.Those are places with extremely dangerous terrain.For thousands of years, the wild animals living in the Hezhou area have been cultivated. When there is any movement, the response is extremely sensitive, and the place where they settle is so clever that they cannot be pulled out with iron hooks.The galloping rider leaned down in an instant to catch wild animals, almost desperately, whether it was a ditch or a cliff, a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire, he didn't care about anything, and rushed straight up.How many strong men have prey, and people have become disabled.More people collided together, horses or people died, and the blood was soaring to the sky, showing the heroic spirit of a man!People in Hezhou have to play their lives every winter.

The prey that is flying is still brave, so it cannot be caught. The prey must be exhausted and well hidden, so that the rider can snatch it. Ma Buying's saddle was full of prey, and everyone embraced him and went home. The father returned empty-handed. The father was not the only one who returned empty-handed. There were many people, and everyone followed behind the winner with their heads downcast. Back home, neighbors, family members all gathered in Ma Buying's house, talking and laughing loudly.Father hid in the cold house and sighed. The next day, Ma Buying sat in front of the small kang table in the upper room, and A Niang brought tea and rice. From now on, he will be the head of the family.

He wanted to go back to the army, so he walked into the yard and shouted, "Daddy, I'm leaving." He left.He knew the rules of Hezhou people, he couldn't look up at his father, and when he went out, he burst into tears. The hunting of the army is even more brutal.On the hunting ground, there is no distinction between officers and soldiers, whoever is the most powerful is the king.The most capable officers of Ning Haijun stared at Ma Buying.The miraculous big gray horse cooperated with its owner and knocked over the strong men and horses rushing towards him, knocking over five in a row, and two of them died on the spot.Ma Bufang rushed up, and his mount was kicked by Ma Buying's big gray horse to kneel down, throwing Ma Bufang tens of meters away.Ma Bufang rolled over, limping a little.

Fortunately, he captured as many prey as Ma Buying. This was far from calming Ma Bufang's anger. He called his confidants, "Destroy the big gray horse." In the dead of night, the big gray horse lay down in the stable, and there was a strange thing in the hay, which even the best horses could hardly discern, and put it down at once. A group of men moved the horses into the cart and pulled them into the field. The brigade commander said, "Leave it far away, and go to Qinghai Lake to feed the fish." A group of people pulled the car outside Xining City, it was like pulling a mountain.The chief ordered the top of ten thousand mountains.The confidants did not dare to slack off, they paid silver dollars to buy good horses from the Mongols, and a few good horses were loaded into the cart.Qinghai Lake was getting closer and closer, and his confidant wanted to make things perfect, so he didn't use a whip, so he secretly stabbed the Mongolian horse's hindquarters with a knife, and he wanted to throw the horse and its bones into the lake.The Mongolian horse spewed blood, roaring and jumping in. The water splashed so high that even a strong wind could not blow such a high wave.The confidant was full of joy, and reported to the brigade commander in detail, and the brigade commander kept patting him on the back.

On the day of the autumn exercise, the brigade commander took his soldiers to the edge of Qinghai Lake, shooting targets and stabbing, everyone was full of energy.The grand finale was at the back, performed by the officers.Battalion Commander Ma's mount is much worse than everyone else's, everyone wants to see him lively.The brigade commander knew that he was good at swordsmanship, so he didn't ask him to compete with swords, but asked him to try his horse skills.Battalion Commander Ma asked the Brigadier Commander to pray, and it was time for noon prayers. The Brigadier Commander could not object and allowed him to pray.

Battalion Commander Ma left the team, walked to the beach by the lake, and sat there cross-legged.And so a miracle happened, and the big gray horse spurted out of the pure blue sea, and its light surpassed the sun; the sun was as thin as paper, like the kites played by the children.The officers and soldiers put the brigade commander aside, hula all passed, and all knelt in the sea water. The bottom of the sea is full of horse bones. It has been thousands of years, and the bones are not scattered, and they still maintain a running posture.Veterans said that it was a horse ridden by ancient heroes.Wei Qinghuo Qubing Li Guangdou Xian of the Han Dynasty, Li Jing Xue Rengui brother Shu Han of the Tang Dynasty have all been here, as have the Western Xia King Li Yuanhao and Li Zicheng's subordinates.Qinghai Lake is full of their blood. After thousands of years, it has been fermented into a piece of pure green.The officers and soldiers watched as the horse's bones grew flesh, tendons and blood; its fur turned out to be gray, like the dusty white snow, like the snow peaks of Qilian Mountains, exuding desolation and sorrow from head to toe.The big gray horse came roaring from the sea, lay down next to Battalion Commander Ma, picked him up and ran to the shooting range.Battalion Commander Ma kept his hands empty. Everyone thought he was going to pull out the wooden stakes, but the stakes were all broken. The sharp light in the battalion commander Ma's hand was as fast as the wind, and with a flash, the wooden stakes were broken. up.It was only later that everyone discovered that Yingchang Ma was holding a Hezhou dagger measuring one foot five inches.

The brigade commander had a lot of worries, so he went back to find the guardian envoy, who also felt that something was wrong, he must not be allowed to lead the troops, he would be in trouble if he had soldiers.The guardian envoy couldn't think of any clever trick, so he rode to find Ma Buying's father, Ma Bao.Ma Bao is unemployed at home, and he is a brother of the same clan as the guardian envoy.The guardian envoy played haha ​​for a long time, and played the gong to listen to the sound. Ma Bao said, "Buying is your nephew and a subordinate. Don't ask me. Let Bufang arrange it; a fourteen-year-old baby, who will serve as the commander of the battalion. It doesn't matter if you don't bring troops." With these words, the guards were relieved, and they made Battalion Commander Ma a bare-bones commander on the grounds of his young age, only receiving salary and no soldiers.

When his father told him the details, he was not angry, "My soldiers just changed from air to water, and I painted them. When they have blood, they will be all my soldiers in the northwest." Father said: "From ancient times to the present, all the soldiers are in the camp. What nonsense are you talking about?" The son said: "I saw this in the Shenma Valley. The valley is full of horse bones. The mountain wind is so strong that it can't be blown down; the snow in summer is like the sea, and it can't drown them; they are all in the running posture when they were alive. , when they were alive, they were full of ancient heroes. The strong men carried the yellow sand, but their horses all went to the mountains. The great imam said that the horses did not come empty, they carried the souls of heroes. The souls linger , the war horse will not fall down. The bones of Shenma Valley are all galloping." Father said: "You are a baby, it would be nice to be a battalion commander." Ma Buying took off her military uniform and went out without saying a word.He drove his sheep to the northern plateau. The plateau was so desolate that the sheep could not find grass. It was the place where the loess was cracked. The sheep found grass roots and caught them one by one like fishing. very carefully.Later, he climbed over the girder and walked towards Qilian Mountain.There are few shepherds there, and the grass is high there, but it is a place where leopards come and go.Ma Buying insisted on driving the sheep there, but the sheep refused to eat the grass.It's not that the grass is not tasty, but that there are leopards lying in the deep grass.Leopards are like fire, bright and fierce. Ma Buying didn't bring a knife or a gun. He weighed two stones, just like primitive people.He and the leopard were fighting in the tall grass. The sheep were all lying on the ground, like hiding from a bomb on the plane.The leopard's whining sound is all in the sky, and the valley can't hold its roar, so it puts its majestic voice into the sky. Its voice is like a kite, turning fast and furiously. Then the kite disappeared, and the sky was completely blue.Ma Buying came out from the tall grass, her body was covered with wounds, and the blood was sticky and shiny like resin.He was carrying a dead leopard on his shoulder. The leopard's head was missing, and a sharp stone was stuck in its neck.The sheep started to move and eat grass. After all, sheep are sheep. They eat such good grass, but in the blink of an eye, their stomachs become big, and their breasts are red and bright.When Ma Buying carried the leopard back, the townspeople stuck out their tongues in fright, and the townspeople couldn't figure out how the stone was stuffed in.Ma Buying said: The stone has wings, and with one flap of the arm, it smashed the leopard's head, and the stone built a nest inside. One day, the kite flew down from the top of the source to catch chickens. Ma Buying picked up a piece of gravel and knocked off half of the kite's wings. These raptors all hide in the mountains and dare not come out.Later, he beat wolves, pheasants and hares with stones.A hundred paces away, the cunning rabbit was like the wind, unable to shoot with a shotgun, he swung his arm, and the stone seemed to have eyes, he pursued him desperately, he insisted on overtaking the hare, and smashed half of his head with a bang.The old man said: This child is like Deng Aishile, who can fly stones and hit people, and the soil on the plateau can be used as a weapon. In the future, the sons and children on the plateau will be his soldiers. When the news reached the barracks, brigade commander Ma Bufang was very nervous.The officers and soldiers were talking about it, and there might be an accident.Ma Qi, the guardian envoy, made a decisive decision, set up a new battalion, and ordered Ma Buying to take office.The soldiers in that battalion were all old, weak, sick and disabled, their guns were broken, and their horses were poor horses. The guardian envoy deliberately asked his son Ma Bufang to announce this decision at the officer meeting, and everyone looked at Ma Buying strangely.The guardian envoy was in a good mood, talked a lot, and spoke earnestly. As he talked, the old man talked about the past when they escorted Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager to "hunt in the west" in Xi'an. This was the most glorious thing in the old man's life. I held the rudder with my own hands, the wind was strong and the waves were high, the boat was swinging on the waves, and the Queen Mother, Lafayette, was sitting in the sedan chair, and when I went ashore, I lifted a sedan chair by myself." The officers in Ninghai Town discussed as usual, revealing Out of a very envious look and wonder.Nephew Ma Buying snorted, "Is it okay to carry the sedan chair for the old lady?" The guard's face fell, "What is nephew Ga talking about?" "Dear Ada, you were in your early twenties when you were escorting the Empress Dowager, you are a bloody hero, why didn't you kill that old lady Bao Guangxu?" Everyone turned pale with fright. Nephew Ga laughed, "When the Western Empress Dowager was visiting Xi'an, she was a child who was studying, so she dared to write a letter to the governor of Shaanxi, asking the governor to take the opportunity to remonstrate and kill the Empress Dowager Bao Guangxu. You old man is not as good as a Shaanxi child who is studying!" The guardian rolled his eyes in choking, and never mentioned that glorious history again. Battalion Commander Ma took a long vacation and went back to Shen Magu to see the Imam.The grand imam knew that he was buried in the dark clouds and could not see the brilliance of the silver moon. The grand imam said: "The prophet pointed out, the dark clouds dispersed, and the moon came out. It was the best time for the sea tide to move in and splash out. The Prophet sent capable people to the desert, and the dry sand was the dew of life. The people of the Prophet came to the dry plateau and lived in the most desolate place in the world; the more desolate and dry the place, the fresher the dew of life It's bright." Battalion Commander Ma went back without saying a word.During the exercise, he dragged the team into the desert and disappeared for three days and three nights. The guards thought he was going up the mountain as a bandit.On the evening of the third day, he led the team back to the barracks. The brigade commander was startled, only twenty or thirty of the three hundred people remained. The brigade commander asked, "Where are the others?"Battalion Commander Ma said, feed the sand.When the brigade commander asked again, he said that he was Li Guang, a general of the Han Dynasty, who couldn't catch the Huns and went the wrong way.The next time he went out to practice, he took the team to the desert; thirty people went in, and seven people left when they came out.The brigade commander said, Buying, you can be the squad leader. Seven people just fit into a squad.Ma Buying remained silent.The brigade commander asked the seven soldiers, are you afraid that battalion commander Ma will kill you?Those seven big cold bears roared in unison: Don't be afraid to ask for a life prison, the more you want, the more valuable it is. Those seven soldiers became Battalion Commander Ma's hardcore team.Battalion Commander Ma took them into the desert several times, from Qinghai to Gansu.People call them King Kong True Body.

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