Chapter 1608: Oath
On the morning of the seventh day of June in the first year of the Great Zhou Jianxing, 120,000 people of the Luoyan Army and the Horse Infantry Army swore to march in the Beicheng campus. The wind was high and the clouds were clear, and the sun was shining. Emperor Guo Kun and almost all the ministers of the court were present. The scene was more enthusiastic than ever.
It is said that it is a pledge meeting of 120,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, the number of people participating in the review is as high as more than 200,000, and 80,000 people are logistics support personnel composed of ordinary people in the city. Some of these people volunteered to serve the Wild Goose Army, while others were hired to serve the army for a fee. Nearly 8,000 vehicles of various colors filled with supplies and equipment and covered by straw curtains were neatly arranged in the rear of the army, and the vehicles were loaded with supplies accompanying the army.
Some of these carts are large flatbed trucks pulled by mules, while others are flat carts with two wheels that can be pushed by a single person. In short, just as when the Luoyan Army went out to fight in Funiu Mountain, the Luoyan Army ensured that the vast majority of the small number of soldiers and horses were pure combat troops. The delivery of logistical materials, grain and grass and accompanying troops were handed over to the common people. All you need to do is send a small number of soldiers and horses to escort you.
At the swearing-in meeting, Guo Kun made some encouragement and mobilization, but he was also impassioned, and his head was the way. But the generals and the common people of the Falling Goose Army were obviously not interested in him, and his speech was only politely answered. But when Lin Jue came to the stage, the scene was very different. The voice of shouting Marshal Lin was deafening, and many people burst into tears when they saw Lin Jue. Needless to say, the soldiers of the Luoyan Army have always been the gods in their minds. For the people, Lin Jue has also become an idol in their minds.
The experience of Lin Jue has long been rumored in the city, and some things about Lin Jue have been picked up. Even the wives and concubines and children in Lin Jue's family have become talking points. There was no way, the people of the capital still continued their traditions, and when their days were a little more stable, they became interested in the affairs of the court and the gossip of the officials in the court. They are not like other state capitals, they only care about the secrets of the green building in the market. Lin Jue's legendary experience, like a hanging-like life, is worth marveling at, which is exactly what they are talking about.
Of course, the more this is the case, the more angry Guo Kun becomes. In fact, this was the case before, in the Falling Goose Valley, in the Falling Wild Goose Army, he was actually a marginal figure. There is a basic respect for him, but it is by no means a visceral one. Guo Kun also admitted it, after all, the Luoyan Valley of Funiu Mountain is Lin Jue's territory, and the Luoyan Army is Lin Jue's soldiers and horses, so it is reasonable for them to do so. Although my heart is not happy, I am not too angry and lost. However, when he arrived in the capital, this was no longer the Luoyan Valley of Funiu Mountain, and now even the people of the capital were so perfunctory to themselves and respected Lin Jue so much, which showed that Lin Jue's reputation in the Great Zhou was much higher than his own. Of course, this is infuriating, and the people have even forgotten that their emperor is on the stage, and their kneeling and kowtowing tears should not be for themselves? In their minds, the emperor of the Great Zhou is actually Lin Jue.
Guo Kun's heart was about to explode with anger, but he had a smile on his face. He knows that if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan. Now we have reached the crucial last step, which is to eat a piece of, and keep smiling and eating. Because Lin Jue and they are about to leave the capital. As soon as they left, the capital was their own world, everything had been arranged, and everything was ready for them to leave today.
When the sound of the mountain and tsunami stopped, Lin Jue slowly walked to the front of the stage, stared at the countless dense ant-like human heads below, and said loudly: "Soldiers, fathers and villagers. Today we are here to swear, in order to drive the Jurchens out of my Great Zhou, we will embark on the journey again, at this moment, my mood is very excited. In recent years, my Great Zhou has experienced hardships, social turmoil, internal and external troubles, and emerges in an endless stream. Our people are suffering, our rivers and mountains are being trampled down, and our wives and children are weeping. What a beautiful and peace-loving country I have in the Great Zhou, but it is full of devastation and calamities. In the past three years, to be precise, in the more than three years since Guo Xu usurped the throne, my entire Great Zhou has been like a curse, and disasters have been repeated. Recently, the Political Affairs Hall made a rough statistics, and in the past three years, the number of troops and civilians who have died in wars and famines in the past three years has reached more than 5 million. More than five million people, all living lives, have all disappeared in these three years. More than five million corpses are enough to fill the entire Bianhe River. Fill up the entire Northwest Lake. Think about it, what a tragic thing that was. The tragic death of more than 5 million soldiers and civilians of the Great Zhou Dynasty was followed by millions of families suffering tremendous grief and tens of millions of people suffering from the loss of their loved ones. Including the emperor, including me Lin Jue, there are also close relatives in our family who have died. As far as I know, almost every 200,000 households in the capital have had people die in the past three years. This is a catastrophe in the world, this is a huge catastrophe, almost ruining my Great Zhou. ”
The crowd was silent, the officers and soldiers of the Falling Wild Goose Army looked solemn, they remembered the dead comrades and brothers, since the Falling Wild Goose Army set out on the expedition, tens of thousands of soldiers have died in the battle, and the brothers who get along day and night have disappeared forever. Although the imperial court built a memorial monument in the city, and the emperor and Marshal Lin personally paid tribute to the heroes, the deceased will never return. The people were also silent, and some of them wept silently. The vast majority of these people are the people of the capital, and some people in their families died in this catastrophe of the Great Zhou, and they were aroused in pain and grief.
Lin Jue continued: "...... Some people say that all this is a natural disaster, a punishment from heaven. Punish me for being immoral and rude to the people of the Great Zhou, who only want to enjoy themselves and disrespect heaven and earth. This is complete nonsense. Everyone wants to live a good life, I work hard all over the week, create wealth with my own sweat, and enjoy life with my own money, what's wrong with this? This is a matter of course. And some people, who are so indulgent and hard-working, can't live their lives, so they covet the wealth of my Great Zhou, and they want to rob it. These people are the culprits, and they are the ones who should be punished by heaven. Yes, it is those people, the barbarians of the north, the barbarians who are fierce and cruel, who drink blood, and who have not yet been civilized. They will only loot and destroy, and will always live by robbing others and usurping other people's property. They don't care about the feelings of others, they don't know what reverence and respect are. The source of these calamities, in addition to some problems within my Great Zhou, is due to the inflated ambition and plundering nature of this group of barbarian evil clans. My own internal problems naturally need to be solved, but the first thing we need to solve now is these barbarian evil races that have brought us disasters. Because they are still entrenched in the land of our Great Zhou, they are still trying to die and trying to make a comeback. Millions of people in the northern regions are still suffering under their iron heels, and millions of displaced people have their homes occupied and cannot return to their homeland. You say, 'Can we sit idly by?' ”
"Can't!" Hundreds of thousands of military names let out a loud roar that shook the sky.
"So, what are we going to do?" Lin Jue asked loudly.
"Kill them all, drive them out." The 120,000 soldiers of the Luoyan Army waved their fists and let out a deafening roar.
"Well said! There is no reason to talk to the barbarians. Only when they are beaten with the weapons in their hands, break their bones, cut their throats, and beat them like lost dogs fleeing back to the barren mountains and mountains with their tails between their legs, then they will know and fear my Great Zhou Heavenly Dynasty. I was too merciful and tolerant before the Great Zhou, and indulged their ambitions. From now on, we can't treat these barbarians as human beings. Remember, this time, I will talk about military exploits for other things, and I want the head of the Jurchens. A Jurchen man has a first merit, and I want you not only to defeat them, but also to cut off their heads and show off to me. I don't want the kindness of a woman, and I have thrown all your compassion and compassion out of the clouds. For you are not dealing with men, but with wild beasts, wolves, tigers and leopards, and to be kind to them is foolishness. Do you understand? Lin Jue shouted loudly.
"Got it!" The soldiers of the Luoyan Army gritted their teeth and roared with hideous expressions.
The faces of the dozens of Chinese courtiers standing behind Lin Jue turned white, and they had never heard such a mobilization. The weak Prime Minister Lin actually said such a thing, and actually asked his soldiers and horses to cut off the enemy's heads to show off. Let them no longer have compassion. This Lord Lin is also a scholar, how can he be so barbaric and fierce.
Guo Kun fidgeted in the crowd, and he watched Lin Jue mobilize the emotions of the soldiers of the Luoyan Army, who were originally calm. They have gone from ordinary soldiers to irascible and bloodthirsty beasts. Guo Kun is actually not surprised at all, this is Lin Jue, this is his pre-war mobilization, he has the ability to mobilize everyone's emotions and turn them from humble gentlemen to bloodthirsty villains. This is the real mobilization. Compared to that, his previous generous statements were simply inferior.
"Good! There is a wrong, and there is a debtor. Everything has retribution. Causes must have results, and the retribution of the Jurchens is us. They will soon regret it, but there is no regret medicine in the world. All the soldiers listened to the order, immediately pulled out, smashed the enemy army, drank this wine together, and did not win or return! ”
Lin Jue picked up a bowl of wine handed by the guards next to him and held it high. Hundreds of thousands of famous generals have prepared wine bowls and raised them. Lin Jue drank the wine as soon as he drank it, and everyone drank it dry, and the next moment there was a burst of ping-pong, and the wine bowl shattered under his feet. The trumpets sounded, the men neighed and the horses screamed, and the army officially began.