Chapter 57: The King (1)

After the sweltering heat, heavy rain washed away the entire barracks, and some houses built of mud were washed out by the rain with chisel lines of different depths. The top of the roof has partially collapsed, and the craftsmen always use wooden barrels to pick up the mud and paste the collapsed part with mud, and add cut reed grass to the mud to prevent it from being washed down by the rain again.

Because of the heavy rains all year round, the unstable parts will always be broken after a rain, many mud walls and observation towers will be patched countless times, and countless small holes will be washed out on the roads of the barracks, and the dirty water will flow downhill with the slope, causing a lot of silt accumulation on the roads here.

At the high tower of the barracks, as early as the hot season came, they built a shady place above the top of the platform, erected pillars in all directions, and put small poplar branches in the sky, and under the pergola was the place where they took a cool place.

That's right, when the rainstorm passes, the heat will always permeate the entire border army and the barracks, "The wind in the air must be very hot, ten times warmer than the temperature of the tent." Nalan said to the physician.

"Your wounds have healed early and gradually, so you don't have to worry about what the hot weather will do to you. "I won't be able to see it long, and all the scales will fall off, and new skin will grow." ”

Nalan gently pulled up his sleeves, and the place where the fish scales grew gradually shortened and became smaller, which was the effect of enduring the soju treatment for more than a year, and all the pain and tribulation before had passed, and he had to thank Angel's father. "When I was desperate about the world, it was Angel's father's treatment that opened my desire to survive, and now my benefactor is imprisoned, and I can't lead the army to rescue me myself. Nalan lowered his sleeves and looked at the barracks, "This is a regret that I can't make up for in my life." ”

"You are not entrenched in the barracks now. "You need to stand firm for a long time to have the qualifications to order everyone, and now it seems that it is best not to act rashly." ”

"That's right. Nalan nodded, "I need to put down roots here." He knew that if he agreed to his father's appointment this time, he, a scholar, would become the commander-in-chief, and if he wanted to get along with all the armies, it would be like walking on thin ice, even an abyss. But he seems to have the only way to go, as his father said, he needs a strong team to protect himself, so he can be entrenched among all the princes of the royal court, and not be insulted by His Royal Highness, even the wizards dare not do anything to me. Fortunately, what did not happen to the extreme is that from beginning to end, his father was like him, "Now it seems that only with a strong team can you protect yourself and the people around you." He turned his gaze back to the troops trained in the city, watched their sword postures and shouts, and walked straight into the spacious clearing, followed by Tingqi and Bei Liang.

The sound of swords clashing aroused the longing in Nalan's heart, although the days of the Heavenly Tower were dark and never peaceful, but every day was very simple, and the carefree year spent in the castle of the royal court was also terrifying to think about. Now that he is in the barracks, he clearly remembers that when he first came to the border army, Bei Liang introduced him to everything in the barracks. The team that just came into view of the team was composed of twenty-four chiefs, the highest commander was called the commander of ten thousand horses, with a team of 10,000 people, and below the commander of ten thousand horses, there were teams such as thousands of commanders, hundreds of chiefs, and even chiefs. They each trained their own troops, each led their own troops to fight, and the outstanding officers continued to be promoted, adding glory to the ranks.

There was also a group of more than 2,000 men, armed with silver armor and silver helmets on their heads, and holding shields and spears, and like the slave training camp in the royal court, the young and strong men were captured, castrated, beaten, and trained, and their faces were all engraved with a black square, which proved that they were loyal child servants and would be brave warriors who would charge into battle on the battlefield.

Nalan's left-hand team is more than 200 rangers, the most elite of all the Red Fang army, it will take four or five years or more to train a ranger, and after they are trained to be indestructible, they will walk and patrol the Xizhou grasslands all year round. Beiliang has been a ranger for ten years and is a veteran of the entire ranger team, but he is often trapped in the Gobi Desert or the Gobi Poplar, and he can't find a way back and forth for more than a year. During this period, the whereabouts of the Rangers are unknown, and there are still twelve Rangers who have not been heard from to date.

There are also more shady scenes, they burn and loot all the way during patrols, attack herdsmen, bring back a lot of looted finances and slaves from the outside world, and some even secretly enrich themselves. There was once such a veteran Ranger who relied on his high morality to establish his own team and set up a small tribe, and since then he has nothing to do with Red Fang. He robbed countless herdsmen's girls, domestic slaves and connections, and there were more than 30 sons alone, and the number of daughters was unpredictable, and such a person has lived to be more than 80 years old, but his body is no different. Some rangers are said to have met love on the way, betrayed the ranger's oath, and since then lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, living a life of male farmers and female weavers. It is said that some joined the ranks of bandits or savages, and since then cut off contact with the rangers, and the few rangers who were captured would endure unprecedented suffering, depending on the degree of wrongdoing, some were beaten and maimed, some were amputated, some were stripped of all their fingernails, and some even skinned people, and their bodies were hung in the mountains and forests to warn future generations. In short, there are all kinds of versions and legends in this, but no matter what kind of legends, the only thing Nalan has to do is to rectify the military discipline, not only the rangers, but also the knights, including all the teams and child servant troops of the 10,000 cavalry and below, need to relist the military discipline order and rectify it well.

More often than not, Nalan found that these 10,000 cavalry commanders and knights, who owned their respective ranks of the army, didn't seem to take him seriously. Bei Liang said that they are all veterans for more than ten years, and they were personally promoted by the previous commander, and since the heroic death of the previous commander, these people have also been promoted to knighthood, which has improved their sense of honor.