Chapter 63 Loyalty to the Country
In the middle of the night, the cold wind blew on his face like a knife, and it hurt, Ma Yue sat against the one-foot high camp wall, looking up at the bright stars in the starry sky.
The melee during the day caused the atmosphere in the camp to be gloomy, and Ma Yue was not in the mood to care, since his rebirth, he has seen too many deaths, at first a few people, and then it became a dozen, dozens, hundreds. More and more death could not numb him.
Man is an animal with feelings, he is not the kind of pervert who kills for fun, the more human lives die in his hands, the more he is moved by life in his heart, and the awe of death. Maybe one day, the person who lies on the raft with his eyes closed and doesn't know anything will be him, and a rocket will burn through. A piece of clothing or a weapon with you will be delivered to your home, and the body will not be able to enter the ancestral grave.
Those who die in vain shall not be allowed to enter the grave of their ancestors. That's how it came to curse others and not die well.
Today's fighting did not hurt him in the slightest, but it terrified him. At this moment, there is no elder around him who can comfort him and solve his doubts. All along, he studied martial arts diligently and studied military books hard, in order to get ahead and go down in history. His family's bloodline gave him a powerful talent and a clear mind, and he occasionally considered himself a future prince in his heart. Vainly trying to lead the family to wear armor and be sharp in this coming troubled times, a bloody sense of superiority.
In the afternoon, half a hundred robes were killed in battle, and he commanded meritorious service when he broke the thief army, and he was called by Liang Hu to enter Longxian County to receive a reward, ten gold and three hundred silks, and he was promoted to be a military waiter, and he led a song of soldiers and horses.
On the way out of the city, I saw dozens of families in the county hanging white silk at the door of their homes, and the fifty-year-old father was wearing linen, and the child was wearing filial piety, crying for a while.
He took two retinues to distribute the rewards to each of the bereaved homes, kneeling for each parent, but his bright red military armor looked extremely dazzling at this time. The white-haired old man looked at him as if he was asking him: "You are so brave, why didn't you survive with my son?"
The soldiers were all from the common people, and the hierarchy of feudal society made them lose their sons, and they had to grovel to the officials who led their sons in battle. Looking at the bent backs of these old fathers and mothers who have been destroyed by the years, my heart is full of self-blame.
"How, how could I have survived without them?"
None of the families reproached him, and they all felt that their son had died in battle, on the battlefield against the thieves, full of pain but glorious that their son had been loyal to his country.
They are loyal to their country!
The old man who has been facing the loess with his back to the sky for thirty years does not know that what made his son pay for his life was the thousand horses in the horse farm, and the horses were the personal property of the assassin Shi Lianghu! These sons of the Han family who were recruited by the Han Empire gave their lives to protect a thousand horses, and the thousand horses of Lord Shi!
They paid for their lives, in Ma Yue's eyes, it was not worth it, it was not worth it! They were not the private soldiers of the assassin Liang Hu, but they were used as personal subordinates. But this is not Liang Hu's fault, let alone this Liangzhou, in the entire Han Empire, all the court officials, wealthy families, and five battalion generals, which one of them did not use the imperial troops as private soldiers?
The cruelty of the world lies in the fact that you hate a system, and if you want to change it, you have to step on the system you hate to climb to the top step by step, and then it is possible to change. However, when you step on this system and climb to the top, you go from an outsider who resents it to a vested interest in the system you hate. Will you still try to change at that time? Then you become the kind of person you spurned in the first place.
Little bastard, you broke the appointment, and you broke the appointment with yourself.
This is roughly the reason why the regime cycles for 200 to 400 years, and people themselves are selfish animals. Wise as Gaozu Liu Bang, he was initially dissatisfied with the tyrannical Qin and chaotic government, and rose up, relying on his knowledge and good use to attract heroes from all over the world to vote, and finally pacified the world is not the Qin system, in order to consolidate his Liu family, the heroes who followed him were not a rabbit, a dead dog, a bird, and a bow.
When you become a vested interest, it is difficult to maintain your heart.
Suddenly it rained coldly, and the cold rain hit his face, and Ma Yue shivered, and saw Gutar walking out of the military tent wrapped in animal skins, and draped him in a bear skin.
"Lord, it's cold outside, let's go into the tent and rest."
Ma Yue pinched the thick and soft fur on the bear's skin, looked up and asked Gutar with rain mixed with tears: "Gutar, why do you think I didn't survive with them?" ”
Gutar sighed, leaned on Ma Yue's side, let the cold rain wet his head, and said, "Lord, you have done a good job, because of you and us, so many people have survived." ”
"But fifty-five of our brethren died."
"You have nothing to blame yourself, if you hadn't discovered the enemy situation in advance, all the 200 people in the camp would have died, you saved all the people, you are just one person, how can you save everyone, there will always be casualties in the fight, and we will encounter more in the future."
Gu Taer looked at the poor Ma Yue now, there was no trace of Jincheng's martial arts performance, Ma Yue was still a child after all, he thought so, and then said: "Once upon a time, the tribe was in Wuwei County, I also used Wuwei as an official, Xianbei Mijia a Koubian, tens of thousands of cavalry surrounded Wuwei, the surrounding counties were full of smoke, 15,000 county soldiers were blocked in the city to defend the city is difficult, out of the city is a death, there is no power to rescue the surrounding counties, the lord can know that there is such a battle, less than ten years of Wuwei County counties ten rooms and nine empty, Three county towns were breached. ”
Recalling the scene, Gutar closed his eyes and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "At that time, the tribe was outside the city, and I didn't want to be trapped in the city, so I took advantage of the night to kill them, and when I arrived, most of the tribe had already been killed, even my five-year-old son was not spared. When I returned to the city, the county lieutenant accused me of leaving my post without permission and wanted to kill me with a rod, so I killed him and took the remaining brothers of the tribe to Jincheng. ”
Ma Yue was speechless after hearing this, he thought that Gutaer was just a down-and-out horse leader, but he didn't want to have such an experience under the honest appearance, he didn't want to evaluate right or wrong, Gutaer made a mistake but didn't die for a crime, and the county lieutenant really deserved to die.
"Don't worry, I'll go to Northland County next year, and there will be hope for revenge at that time."
"If we and other small people can take charge of the military power and fight abroad, I don't know what year and month, and how many robes will have to die." Gutar sighed, "My lord, do you know who killed my wife and slaughtered my son, but you are thousands of miles away, and you can't take revenge in this life?" Straight Sect Gutar is skilled in arching horses, but he is like a walking corpse like a wasted man. ”
Ma Yue was silent, and when they were crowned marquis, they really didn't know what year it was, if it was like that, Dong Zhuo said that revenge was still a possibility, wait, Dong Zhuo seemed to have said something!
"Brother don't have to be discouraged, Dong Zhuo once told the assassin Shi Liang Hu Xianbei that now that Tanshi Huai is dead, and the two sons are busy fighting for the throne, they will inevitably be greatly injured, and they may come to Liangzhou next year to plunder the people."
Hearing Ma Yue say this, Gutaer's gloomy eyes also lit up, and his face flashed fiercely, "It's okay if Xianbei doesn't come, if I come, I will cut off the dog's head!" ”