Chapter 42: The Soldier's Heart
"Training?" Cheng frowned and was a little worried, she knew that Zhao Yun and Xu Chu were recruiting troops in Danyang at this time, but she didn't know how many people Long Jun planned to recruit, and the five hundred soldiers that Xu Chu brought back in the afternoon had already shocked her. And now that Long Jun is going to Qingzhou to train his troops, how many soldiers and horses has he recruited? If there are not many soldiers and horses, why do you need so much money? Why did the dozens of guards have to leave Guangling?
The more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and I sighed with worry and asked, "Jun'er, tell Wei Niang, how many armor soldiers have you prepared?" ”
Knowing that the Cheng family would understand this matter sooner or later, Long Jun could only tell him.
"Mother is on top, the child does not dare to hide it, this time to recruit troops, I want to recruit two thousand soldiers, although we left Guangling, but at this moment it is still a place for us to collect money, and we have to guard against some small people. Tongjiabao is our base camp inside, and there are bandits on the outside, so we also need to protect it. If there are now homeless people and bandits everywhere, the light of the chaos is undoubtedly revealed, if the strength of the Long family is insufficient, we can only be swallowed by those who covet it. ”
Long Jun's explanation made Cheng's mind a little more stable, they had talked about the current world more than once before, and they all understood that what Long Jun said was true, it was only two thousand armor soldiers, which was too much and too eye-catching.
In order to completely reassure Cheng, Long Jun could only continue to explain and analyze the general trend of the world that will happen to Cheng. Today, His Majesty favors the Ten Standing Servants, which is well known, above the court, relatives and eunuchs compete for power, there is a lot of corruption in the localities, the army does not think about war, except for the border army, the local troops have long been rotten.
Outside the imperial court, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Yanzhou were in great drought, and the people's livelihood withered, and the Taiping Road that appeared from Jizhou has now appeared in Xuzhou and other places. Faith is a double-edged sword, an auxiliary tool for those in power in times of peace, and a sharp blade hanging over the heads of those in power in troubled times. Long Jun had no evidence to show Cheng that Taiping Dao must have been a rebel, but according to the pre-Qin theory, the belief in Taiping Dao was not much different from the belief of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms during the Qin period. According to the current power of Taiping Dao, as long as Taiping Dao revolts, the local army will definitely not be able to stop it, and at that time, according to the temperament of today's son, coupled with the policy of Jiupin Zhongzhengjushi, it will only allow the local heroes to arm themselves against the thief army.
After listening to Long Jun's analysis of the world situation, the worries in Cheng's heart did not decrease but increased, Xiumei frowned, and asked softly, "Then are you sure?" You must know that leading soldiers to fight and planning for a living are not colleagues, you have never been in contact with these matters, and you really don't worry about you! ”
"It's okay, mother, Meng Qi was born in a family of military horses in Liangzhou, and the matter of leading the troops to fight is quite clear, in addition, I also have Zilong Zhongkang and two people by my side, plus Meng Qi and me, the four of them join forces, even if there are thousands of troops, it is difficult to stop me!"
Long Jun punched the package ticket, Cheng's worry was slightly reduced, and he said slowly, "Okay, you have to pay attention to safety!" Jun'er, how are you going to place these two thousand soldiers and horses? How to arrange the grain and grass armor? ”
"This son has already thought of a way, there is a group of bandits from Jiujiang outside the fort, and now Zhongkang has captured a prisoner, as long as they find their nest after interrogation, we can directly attack it, and place two thousand soldiers and horses here, as far as the problem of food and grass for soldiers, I want to secretly return to Guangling during this time, let Meng Qi prepare, he now has fifty men and horses in his hands, although there are not many, but you can use Dongcheng Winery to do a good cover, get the approval of the county guard, and strive to create a batch of weapons and armor!"
"Well, now that you have an arrangement, you won't say much for your mother, just be careful!"
"Yes, mother, the child retired first!" After speaking, Long Jun got up and left Cheng's house, and on the way back, he smoothed out his thoughts. Now that the problem of soldiers and horses has been roughly solved, the only thing left is the safety of Guangling and Tongjiabao after they leave, both places are on the bright side, open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, who knows if anyone will continue to fight the idea of the Long family.
A few minutes later, Long Jun walked to Tong Yuan's courtyard and saw that Tong Yuan was also practicing martial arts, and with a flash of inspiration, he shouted, "Senior brother is also practicing martial arts?" The junior brother came to disturb him, please forgive the senior brother! ”
Seeing Long Jun coming, Tong Yuan put away the spear in his hand, turned his head, looked at Long Jun and said with a smile, "Senior brother is here?" What's the matter with finding a brother? Let's go, go into the house with my brother and talk about it! ”
"No need, senior brother, I'll tell you more about it here, it's not a big deal! It's that after a while, I plan to lead the troops out to suppress bandits and train soldiers, and there will be two hundred soldiers left in the fort, I think these people will be handed over to the senior brother, and the trouble is that the brother will personally train and guard the fort! ”
"It's not a big deal, you can win for your brother, and you can rest assured that your brother can rest assured!"
"Well, then it's troublesome for you, senior brother, the junior brother will retire first, and the senior brother will stay!"
Entrusting the security of the fort to Tong Yuan is the best solution at present, first of all, where is Tong Yuan's martial arts can completely deter Danyang soldiers, and secondly, Cheng's family is a woman, Long Yang is too old, and the people in the small mansion are all ordinary people who are not competent, only Tong Yuan is suitable.
After arranging all the tasks, it was not too late to see that the time was not too late, and he was going to interrogate the prisoners that Xu Chu had captured. Find Zhou Hai and ask him to lead him to the torture chamber in the fort (note: before the Northern and Southern periods, all villages with one surname would prepare two places, one for sacrificing ancestors, and the other for punishing the clansmen).
On the way, he inquired about the situation of the captives, and Long Jun, who was already preparing to interrogate him with the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in his previous life, heard that this guy had already confessed everything, and he was angry and beat his chest. In my heart, this person is definitely not a qualified man, but although he confesses, it is better to meet this captive in person for the sake of safety.
Zhao Laibao was originally a ruffian in Jiujiang City, because he gathered a crowd to gamble half a year ago, and after losing, he was not angry and injured a gambling officer, and he was afraid of a lawsuit and ran to Linhuai to take refuge in his cousin Zhao Li, who knew that when he arrived in Linhuai, he heard that Zhao Li was dissatisfied with the harsh military salary of his superiors, and led the people of the headquarters to fall into the grass. Knowing that he was also guilty of returning to Jiujiang, it was better to follow Zhao Li. After coming to Zhao Lijun, Zhao Linian was a relative of his family and gave him a ten-chief position.
Before attacking Gujiazhuang, Zhao Li felt that it was a matter of nine out of ten, and he sent half of his men to take it, but he didn't expect Gujiazhuang to resist desperately, but they lost more than a dozen people. How could such hatred not be reported, so he asked Zhao Laibao to lead the team to investigate, but before he could find out, he ran into Xu Chu who came back.
At this time, he was very sure that it was the first time he saw Long Jun, but he didn't know why, when this young boy looked at him, the look in his eyes was as if he owed him tens of thousands of taels of silver, which made Zhao Laibao hurriedly accompany him with a smiling face and a look of flattery.
Faced with Zhao Laibao's cowardly attitude, Long Jun pursed his lips and asked with disgust, "Say, apart from the wrong number of you, what else has not been explained?" ”
"Without a son, the villain doesn't dare to expire the son. If there is a concealment, the sky thunders. ”
"Alright, alright, swear that if it were useful, people like you should have been hacked to death. Tell me, would you like to help me persuade that cousin of yours to surrender? "Knowing that this kid was frightened by Xu Chu and didn't dare to expire himself, Long Jun also lost interest in him, anyway, he knew the situation where the bandit den was, and it was the best policy to surrender without a fight.
As soon as he heard that Long Jun didn't plan to deal with him, Zhao Laibao could still say that he didn't want to, he couldn't wait to leave here quickly and let his cousin surrender. With a growth of five or six hundred and a little fat man like a god-killing god, Zhao Li and their little people would not be the way to die if they attacked again. Of course, if he knew that Long Jun was more terrible than Xu Chu, he probably wouldn't even have the courage to leave Gujiazhuang.
After dealing with the prisoners, Long Jun returned to his room to prepare for tomorrow's training, and the remaining four hundred and fifty soldiers will not look at it differently because they are Xu Chu's lords, Xu Chu has used the bandits to show his martial arts, and the three thousand soldiers of Jiangdong led by Xiang Yu are the Danyang soldiers, so that the Han generation said that the Danyang soldiers are all in the world, and now he can just test it!
After breakfast on the second day, Long Jun walked to the martial arts arena, and he found that these soldiers had already gathered in the field, and on this point, Long Jun felt that the Danyang soldiers were not in vain. Because there was no training project, the soldiers all sat around to discuss things, and walked to the general platform with a smile, Long Jun beat the drum of the general, and all the Danyang soldiers present heard the drum, and all stood up and faced the general platform, pointing and whispering!
Taking over the big horn prepared the night before from Zhou Hai's hand, Long Jun put the horn to his mouth and shouted loudly, "Ahem, stop talking!" ”
When the soldier saw Long Jun's voice so loud, he was shocked for a moment, and looked at Long Jun in shock! Long Jun continued to smile and said, "I think you must be curious about what this thing is in my hand!" But I don't want to tell you! Hey..."
Everyone looked at Long Jun on the stage and was speechless for a while, they knew that this person was the lord of their entire army, but what they didn't expect was that this lord was not only not very old, but also had some problems.
After a moment of conversation, he put away the previous hippie smile, and said in a cold voice, "I know what you guys are thinking, but what I'm telling you is that I'm not sick and I'm in good health, so why I don't tell you these things!" Speaking of this, Long Jun's voice became even colder, and he looked at the soldiers in the audience indifferently and continued, "It's because you are not qualified to know for the time being, although the world says that the Danyang soldiers are brave and brave, but in the eyes of this son, you are now a group of miscellaneous soldiers!" ”
A layer of stone stirred up a thousand waves, Long Jun's words made everyone below glare at Long Jun angrily, the reason why no one dared to question Long Jun out loud was just because Long Jun was now their lord's identity, and the food, money, and platinum were all distributed by this person on the stage!
Seeing the angry eyes from everyone in the audience, Long Jun slowly walked down the stands, pointed to a few sturdy people in front of him and said lightly, "Come on, you guys go up together, if you win me today, I will give you ten gold for each of you, and let you return to Danyang, but if you lose, don't put on a cynical expression for Young Master Ben in the future!" ”
"I'll wait until the time comes, just don't be too disappointed!" As he spoke, several people stood up, and the rest of the soldiers also took a few steps back and gave way to the open space in the field!
Long Jun smiled and said, "No problem! If you win me, you can turn around and leave! I don't think it's in the way! Then he turned his head and said to Zhou Hai, "Go, where is Uncle Shangxiang bringing a box of gold!" Show our warriors! ”
"Whoa!" After Zhou Hai finished answering, he turned around and walked in the direction of the Dragon Mansion, he had already heard from Xiangbo about the martial arts of the family master, so he was not worried about Long Jun's safety at all, and these horses had to rely on the family master to pay money!
"Come on, let me see your confident capital!" As he spoke, Long Jun put on an attacking stance! And those soldiers glanced at each other, and attacked Long Jun in unison with an angry shout, the moves were bland, the corners of Long Jun's mouth twitched, and he also snorted lightly! Dodge the fists and feet of two of them, knock down one person with a backhand, and then kick the three people with a roundabout leg, the two people who were dodged before just arrived with the second blow at this time, Long Jun jumped up and kicked directly with one kick!
Just when everyone was still surprised by Long Jun's skills, Long Jun clapped his hands, pointed at a few people, and continued, "Come, you guys!" ”
The people who were pointed out stood up and glanced at their companions and gave each other a look! was going to shoot together, but before they could make a move, Long Jun instantly knocked these people down with a thunderous momentum!
At this time, Long Jun glanced at it again, and the rest of the people felt that Long Jun's momentum was even more dangerous than Xu Chu that day, and at the same time swallowed a mouthful of saliva and took a step back!
Danyang soldiers retreated, but Long Jun smiled, he looked at these people with his mouth open and said, "Why can't this work?" ”
Danyang Bing heard Long Jun's ridicule, although his eyes were full of anger, but they were not stupid, even if they went a few more, what could they do? Originally, he lost face by fighting more and less, but now he was defeated by someone with one move, and there is only shame on his face!
One of them stood up and said angrily to Long Jun, "Since Childe is outstanding in martial arts, why should he humiliate me in front of everyone? ”
"Humiliation?" Long Jun shook his head and said lightly, "I'm sorry that my son is not that interested!" Instead, Long Jun said with sharp eyes, "I tell you, I came to see you today, just to see what the so-called Danyang soldiers are, but the result?" Then Long Jun shrugged his shoulders, his eyes skimmed over the soldiers who were still lying on the ground, pursed his lips, and shook his head with a look of disdain!
Danyang Bing looked at the people lying on the ground, lowered their heads that they once thought were arrogant, and these people who fell to the ground could be said to be the strongest among them! But they are not the enemies of a half-grown child, and they have nothing to say about it!
Glancing at the demoralized people, Long Jun's goal had been achieved, he was only afraid that these strong soldiers would not obey the discipline of a young man like him, so he would make this move, but what he didn't expect was that these people seemed to have been hit a little too hard by themselves!
Touching his forehead, Long Jun said helplessly, "Okay, don't look like that!" I look down on people who can't afford to lose! ”
Long Jun's words made Danyang Bing's heart feel a little relieved! They knew that this was just Long Jun saving face for them! But their pride tells them that they shouldn't just accept relief! I saw all the Danyang soldiers present kneeling on one knee and shouting in unison, "We are ignorant, please teach the lord!" ”
Knowing that these delicate soldiers had completely surrendered to themselves, Long Jun smiled even more at the corner of his mouth, and shouted loudly, "Brothers, please get up!" ”
"Whoa!"
At this time, Zhou Hai, who had just gone to collect the money, had already returned, and Xiangbo was still followed by those who came back! Long Jun nodded at Xiangbo and took the box from his subordinates! said to the Danyang soldiers present, "Here is a hundred gold, which will be distributed to the brothers who dare to challenge me!" Because I saw from them the courage to face a strong enemy! ”
"Whoa!"