Chapter 321: The Consciousness of Sacrifice
Ten miles for the fort, five miles for the pier, this is now the Tang Dynasty's defense system.
The castle chief of Shilibao pointed to the snow-white flatbread, air-dried beef, and a jar of fine wine under his feet, and said loudly to the hundred brothers around him: "Everyone knows that the war between us and the people of Qin has reached the most critical time, in fact, everyone knows that in order to realize our beautiful Tang Dynasty and prevent our descendants from suffering from war and displacement, we must grit our teeth and persist and survive this pass." Now, there is an enemy out there who is spying on our reality, and we must not let him find out the news. Not only that, but I also want to show them that we have enough stamina. Therefore, Mr. Xu Jie brought us this batch of real delicacies. Mr. Xu Jie said, our lord is with us to eat shoddy cakes, but he provides us with such delicious food, which is to let us stick to this place and never retreat. ”
According to the rules of setting up this kind of guard post at the beginning, as long as the enemy's brigade is coming, as long as the beacon fire can be lit to give an alarm, the soldiers guarding here can escape immediately, which is different from the rules of other countries, and this is also the compassion of their own monarch for the soldiers.
The castle commander looked at the slanderous brothers and smiled miserably: "I know that you have not eaten such food for a long, long time, or you have not eaten a full meal, but I tell you that these are for the enemy, not for us. Then look at everyone's disappointed expressions, "Of course, Mr. Xu Jie told us that we can eat half of this place, which is our reward for going on the road." Then he took the bread and silently distributed it to the people.
A young soldier, only 15 years old, this is already the lower age limit for the Tang Empire's conscription, and there is no way to do it.
The young soldier sniffed the bread in his hand, and then threw him back into the grain pile: "Why should I eat this bite if I want to convince the enemy that we have enough food?" ”
With his words, the other soldiers sniffed the cake, and without hesitation, they threw the cake on the grain pile, and said with a smile: "Cheap those ghosts." ”
As a result, the castle commander smiled and handed out the bread to the brothers again: "Mr. Xu Jie has ordered, he is driving the enemy to our side with a large army, we must stay here, and at the same time, we must eat half of the bread." ”
"Why?" The young soldier asked.
The captain of the fort smiled: "Because this time it is the famous general of the enemy, he is a very careful person, when he occupies our fort, in order to find out the real news, he will definitely cut our stomachs." When he said this, he looked relaxed, and he easily scratched his stomach.
All of them were silent.
"By the way, there is another point that the gentleman ordered, those under the age of 18 and over the age of thirty must leave the fort now."
The young boy immediately stiffened his neck and shouted: "I am not afraid of death, I will pull a few enemies on my back." ”
The castle commander hugged him, touched his head and said: "This has nothing to do with your fear of death or death, this is to let the enemy know that we do not regard men over 15 years old and over 45 years old as soldiers, and we are still all young and strong." ”
Seeing that a few people resolutely did not leave, the fort commander had to give a serious order: "This is our king's order, the king said, this is not just to confuse the enemy, the most important thing is that leaving the children is equivalent to leaving our hopes, leaving the old man is equivalent to leaving our history, and the king is grateful to the old man and the child for their dedication." The king said that at this critical time, even if our strategy is exposed, we will definitely leave you at all costs, because only if you exist, Datang will be free of illness for ten thousand years. ”
All the people fell to their knees and wept, but this crying was not a thank you to the king, but a cry of joy for having a clear monarch for herself.
"Eat this cake, and then let us die willingly, eat this cake, and then you leave, but please remember, in case this Datang catastrophe is not recovered, you still have to fight to the death for the restoration of Datang, you should still sing for this Datang, so that people all over the world know that between this heaven and earth, there was once a Ming Jun who did not exist in ancient times and was dedicated to the common people."
With tears in their eyes, biting into snow-white cakes, the old man and the child slowly disappeared into the distant horizon.
Biting the bread, the fifty brothers returned to their posts, and by this time they had faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and saw the dust kicked up by the enemy cavalry.
Biting into the cake, everyone clenched their knives and guns.
Bai Qi was very aggrieved, because as soon as he came out of Bai Qianshan, he was blocked by the Tang army, and there was a death battle between the two sides. But fortunately, there were not many cavalry of the Tang army that surrounded him, and Bai Qi relied on the fierce fighting ability of the Qin people to break out of the encirclement and continue to assault the interior of the Hetao.
But his goal seemed to be unable to be achieved, and the Tang army, which had heard the news from all sides, surrounded him, and the call to kill Bai Qi was shouting everywhere, so that Bai Qi had to engage the enemy at any time.
And when he finally found the enemy's food team, he found that the feeling was just a huge trap left by the Tang army, and after a tragic battle, Bai Qi had to give up and run away in embarrassment.
But Bai Qi is worthy of being a future famous general, even if the Tang Army is surrounded on all sides, he can always escape safely. But there are not many of the 2,000 soldiers left in Baiqi.
Eventually, he saw a fort where the Don Army called the police.
"All the best food will be given priority to the front, and there will be no care for such a vigilant fort. At the same time, all the young and strong should also be sent to the front, and not placed here. Open him and we'll get all the news we want. ”
Therefore, Bai Qi decided to use all the remaining 500 men and horses, under the leadership of his own pioneers, to capture the fort where no one was alive despite the loss of 100 men.
The fifty men in the castle were all young and strong, and in their small warehouse were bags of solid flour.
All the soldiers of the Qin army are desperate, the Tang State is really too rich, and there are fifty young and strong people in a guarded fort, which shows that the Tang army's military resources have not been exhausted. And the bags of flour show that their food is still sufficient.
"That's not right." After Bai Qi checked it, he immediately found that something was wrong, so he did not hesitate to use a knife to cut open the stomach of a corpse, of course he saw this person's morning food, the cake that had not yet been digested, was still pure bread.
There is no need to do senseless fighting, the truth has been exposed by this dead man, and Bai Qi believes in the dead, because the dead will no longer make up lies.
"Our mission is accomplished, let's go back." Bai Qi's hand trembled slightly, and he gave such an order.
So, in the army encircled and suppressed him by the Tang Dynasty, Bai Qi gave full play to the wisdom of his famous general, rushed out of the Hetao with ease, and returned to the barracks.
Looking at Bai Qi who was gone, Zhao Xing was very regretful, very regretful: "My purpose is to only let a few Qin people go back, and take the opportunity to destroy this Bai Qi, but the result is that he slipped away under my nose, hey-failed." ”