Chapter 587: The Day of the Army
In this month's time, Li Ling almost never went out to patrol, and as long as it was night, Meng Yao would take Li Ling to his boudoir to play for an hour, and a month of life would be spent slowly in such a leisurely manner.
In the middle of summer of the year, the drill ground is the sweaty drill of all the soldiers!
"General, tomorrow is the day to leave the army, I'm worried about ......" An elegant man dressed in white frowned.
"What is there to worry about?" Meng Yi looked at the elegant man and said.
"I'm worried that there won't be enough food for us to make it to the mountains." The elegant man is Zhang Huang, the military advisor of Mengyi.
"What's not enough for you this year?" Meng Yi frowned curiously.
"Because of the failure of the war every year, the king of Chu is too disappointed in us, so in terms of military salary, there are restrictions, and it is not as good as usual to be able to get as much grain and grass as usual!" The elegant man said.
"It was too much, and our soldiers shed their blood on the front line, but in the end, they couldn't even prepare the food and grass for the expedition." Meng Yi said angrily.
"This can't be blamed on the King of Chu, after all, it was also our disadvantage in the war, which made the King of Chu lose confidence." Zhang Huang sighed.
"Could it be that the King of Chu doesn't know that the barbarian mountain clan is powerful, although it is defeated every time every year, it can maintain the peace of the border for at least half a year, even if we have no merit, there is still hard work." Meng Yi said angrily.
"The general is angry!" Zhang Huang said.
"Zhang Huang, tell me, how many days can we last with our grain and grass today?" Meng Yi said.
"At most one month, at most we will reach the outside of Manshan." Zhang Huang said.
Meng Yi frowned. If there is only this bit of grain and grass, even if they can reach the outside world of the Barbarian Mountain Clan, the soldiers will be due to the lack of grain and grass. And if the physical strength is not enough, how to fight at that time, these will be the problems that Meng Yi has to consider.
"In that case, it's going to be a big problem." Meng Yi contemplated with his eyebrows, he couldn't solve the problem of food and grass, even if he could reach the outside world of Manshan, he would be wiped out due to lack of physical strength.
"Aren't there some fruits outside the Manshan Mountains? Those fruits should last for some time. Zhang Huang said.
"I hope so." Meng Yi said.
"Father!" Meng Yao came to the battlefield. He was followed by Li Ling, who was dressed in a black nursing uniform, and the two of them were one in front of the other.
"Meng Yao, why are you here?" Meng Yi has always loved this only daughter. He valued her more than his own life.
"Father, I miss you." Meng Yao smiled coquettishly.
"Good daughter." Meng Yi patted Meng Yao's head with the palm of his hand, doubling his care.
"This one looks familiar." Meng Yi looked at Li Lingdao behind Meng Yao.
"In Xia Li Ling, it was one of the nursing homes that was recruited a month ago." Li Ling knew that he had not only recruited one nursing home for himself.
"Oh...... I remember. Meng Yi looked at Li Ling calmly with a pair of tiger eyes.
"Father. Are you going to go on another expedition tomorrow? Meng Yao smiled with a wink.
"yes...... For the father, he is going to the army again. Meng Yi smiled slightly. I love my daughter very much.
"Alas, I won't see you for half a year." Meng Yao's face was sullen.
"My father will return from winning the battle as soon as possible, and this time I will return for my father, I will definitely bring more fun and delicious things for Yaoyao." Meng Yi has the image of a loving father.
"Well, father...... I would like to recommend you a person who will go with you in the army, and he will definitely give you some help. Meng Yao said.
"It's Li Ling." Meng Yi looked at Li Ling's words.
"Well, it's Li Ling." Meng Yao was seen through by her father, and immediately lowered her head shyly.
Meng Yi looked at Li Ling and bowed slightly: "It's okay to go out with the army." But you can only be a soldier, would you? ”
Li Ling said. No matter what strength you have in the army, you must rely on accumulating military merits to obtain a military position.
"Yes." Li Ling respects such a soldier, when he was on Earth, his quiet grandfather was an excellent officer, and seeing Meng Yi reminded Li Ling of An Lan.
"Good...... Tomorrow, when the army set off, Liu Guang took Li Ling to try on the armor. Meng Yi shouted to one of the generals who was supervising the drill.
The general said yes, and immediately ran over, and said with a calm gaze: "Yes." Li Ling, come with me. ”
Under the leadership of Liu Guang, Li Ling was taken to the armament warehouse, and tried on a well-fitting armor inside, and selected a two-meter spear.
Li Ling stabbed twice with the spear, and it felt quite fit, but it was a little light.
"How does it feel?" Liu Guangdao.
"It's a little lighter." Li Ling weighed the spear and said.
"The arm strength is good, this spear weighs two hundred catties, and you even say it's light." Liu Guang praised it.
Li Ling just smiled slightly, Liu Guang picked another spear and threw it to Li Ling, Li Ling caught it, and it was twice as heavy as the spear just now.
"That's the right weight." Li Ling danced with a spear, and the wind whirred loudly.
"Good...... You go back to rest today, and tomorrow, you will quickly come to the training ground of the General's Mansion to gather, remember, before the hour. Liu Guang said to Li Ling.
"Understood." Li Ling replied loudly, for soldiers, Li Ling has always respected from the bottom of his heart.
The next day, the hour of the hour!
On the training ground of the General's Mansion, 10,000 troops were gathered on the field, and Li Ling was arranged among the thousands of people led by Liu Guang!
"Today is the day when we will go out again, some of them are veterans, some are new soldiers, but whether they are veterans or new soldiers, I hope that you will be like a man, not afraid of the strength of the enemy on the battlefield, and move forward bravely, bringing a trace of peace to the border." Meng Yi stood on the podium and said.
"Yes...... We are willing to pay the greatest price for the tranquility of our borders, even at the cost of our own lives. The soldiers were all enthusiastic, raising the spears in their hands, and shouting in unison.
"Okay, out of the army!" Meng Yi gave an order, and the mighty army marched out of the general's mansion in a straight line, and marched from the widest avenue in the capital of Chu State.
And above the city tower, a golden-crowned man in a green dragon robe watched the mighty army come to the city gate to gather.
Meng Yi waved his hand to stop the army, looked at the golden-crowned man on the city tower, and said respectfully: "King Chu, the army is ready, and you can go to the Barbarian Mountain Realm immediately." ”
"Good...... General Mengyi, I hope you return victorious. King Chu smiled slightly, and said with a full of anger.
In the army, Li Ling raised his eyes to look at the king of Chu, the king of Chu was wearing a green robe, and there was a green dragon mark on the green robe.
"With the auspicious words of the King of Chu, Mengyi will definitely live up to expectations." Meng Yi saluted the king of Chu above the city tower, and then waved his hand to let the guards guard the gate and open the gate, which opened the north gate of the capital of Chu, and it should be all the way to the north.
When the army of 10,000 people left Chudu, they walked on a spacious avenue, and after a day's journey, the avenue gradually narrowed and became a trail that few people walked, and then there was a few days of travel, and finally there was no trail, and the whole army was passing through the mountains and mountains.
At noon one day, everyone rested on the mountain and ate dry food.
Li Ling took out a handful of dry food and began to nibble, the dry food was very stiff, biting it and chewing it in his mouth, it was difficult to swallow, if he didn't swallow it with water, it was simply difficult to swallow.
"General, we have been out for ten days, and most of the dry food has been used up, and the road behind must reduce the supply of dry food, and distribute it in an appropriate amount, and it may be necessary for two people to eat one person in the future." Military advisor Zhang Huang sighed slightly.
Meng Yi looked at the open mountains and rivers, frowned deeply, and sighed slightly: "Distribute dry food normally, let the soldiers start hunting from today onwards and stock up on dried meat." ”
After all, Meng Yi is a battle-hardened general, and there are still some ways to deal with such a thing.
"Yes, General." Zhang Huang bowed slightly, and went down to tell the generals about Meng Yi's plan.
After the generals discussed together, they issued the order of Meng Yi, and after receiving the order, all the soldiers began to look for some small beasts to hunt in the mountains and forests.
"The general is true, he didn't bring enough military rations, so he let us hunt some wild beasts like this, not to mention the physical strength, and besides, the danger level of activity in this mountain forest is not low." Some of the soldiers complained. But complaining is complaining after all, hunting still has to be fought, and besides, the strength of these soldiers themselves is not bad, and ordinary beasts can't help them at all.
Hunting beasts has a personal number of tasks, and each person must hunt a certain weight of meat in order to meet the requirements, and soldiers who do not meet the requirements will be given less food because the weight of the hunted meat is not enough.
Wild boars, hares and other animals were hunted in this mountain, and after they were killed, they cleaned up all the fur of those wild beasts, and then handed them over to the generals to count and record.
"Zhang Wang...... Ten pounds of meat. ”
Li Si...... Twelve pounds of meat. ”
After the record is completed, the meat will be distributed to everyone according to the contribution value.
Marching is a very difficult thing, not to mention in the wild mountains and rivers, walking in the middle of this, often encounter some large monsters, but after all, there are many people, can be combined with the strength of everyone to kill it, the meat of monsters is generally very smelly, few people will eat.
In the two-pronged combination of hunting and military rations, the army always came to the junction of Manshan and Chu, where there was a relatively barren earth city, and there were tens of thousands of people in the earth city, and everyone lived a very difficult life.
The city lord of Tucheng was also wearing tattered clothes, and immediately came out to entertain the Mengyi army.
"The general has arrived, everyone is welcome quickly." The city lord was an old man with a wrinkled face, and immediately went out of the city gate to meet Meng Yi. (To be continued......)