Chapter 359: The Vicissitudes of Life are the most unbearable
With the repeated victories of the Huns, coupled with the recovery of Heshuo, the defeat of the Xiongnu Right Xianwang Department, under the great military exploits, a small county hussar battalion in Shanggu County has finally achieved positive results, becoming a hussar army that is almost a household name in the Han Dynasty, and the establishment of 30,000 people made Qin Cheng, the general of the Hussar Army, smile from ear to ear.
At this time, the hussar Hou Qin was standing on the podium of the hussar battalion of the northern army, calm on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely proud to look at the boundless hussar soldiers in front of him.
One of the six generals of the Northern Army in the past, in just half a year after arriving in Chang'an, he became one of the two supreme commanders of the national army. In more than three years, the hussar camp has grown from 10,000 to 30,000, which is also the place where Qincheng is most proud.
Now the Northern Army system is actually a little embarrassing, Li Guang is named a lieutenant of the Northern Army and commands the Northern Army, but the two Northern Army generals to which he belongs, Qin Cheng and Wei Qing, have now become the left and right generals of the Han Dynasty, which makes Li Guang unable to find his position for a while. Among the 100,000 troops of the Northern Army, is it he, Li Guang, the lieutenant, who is the head, or Qin Cheng and Wei Qing, the two generals, who are the heads?
However, this embarrassing situation did not last long, in the autumn, Li Guang set off from Chang'an with an army of 30,000 to conquer the Hun Hun evil king and Hutu king in Hexi, and estimated that Lieutenant Li's wishful thinking was very clear: when Lao Tzu set foot in Hexi, come back and let His Majesty give a big general or something, and then Qin Cheng and Wei Qing will be included in his subordinates and everything will be fine. As a result, the 30,000 Han army, with the stimulation of Qincheng and Wei Qing's victory over the Xiongnu, embarked on the journey of Hexi.
Qin Cheng looked at the 30,000 hussar soldiers under the platform, shook off the thoughts in his mind, and began to think about the actual problem at hand. Although the hussars now have 30,000 soldiers, the heavy cavalry still has only 6,000 men. It's not that Qin Cheng doesn't want to expand the strength of the hussars, but the financial strength of the Han is really limited now.
Heavy riding is not better than light riding, to feed it will consume a huge cost, with the emergence of the power of heavy riding on the battlefield, its importance has risen a lot, which makes the training and equipment demand for heavy riding also increased, this situation is nothing more than the already high cost of heavy riding increased again. At the moment, the Great Han can only feed these 6,000 heavy horses.
Let's just say that Wei Qing has been coveting the heavy cavalry of the hussars for a long time, but he has not fished out a place for heavy cavalry until now.
Perhaps, after the implementation of the cultivation and warfare system that Qin Cheng said to Liu Che, Wei Qing can have some heavy cavalry, but it has little to do with the hussars.
"Deputy General Liu Mu, heavy cavalry commander Ma Dashan, Shanjia, light cavalry commander Le Yi, Ji Zhu, Li Dang ......" Qin Cheng recited the positions of all the generals of the hussar army, and then turned to Qin Qingzhi: "Qingzhi, now I will appoint you as the captain of the light cavalry, leading two thousand troops." Questions? β
"Subordinate...... Yes, sir! Qin Qingzhi, the previous pro-soldier team, sighed lightly and hugged his fists.
"No problem, get out!" Qin Cheng came into contact with Qin Qingzhi's resentful eyes, and couldn't help but tremble.
"No!" Qin Qingzhi responded, turned to Wang Er on the side and said, "Second brother, in the future, the sacred duty of guarding the safety of the general will be handed over to you!" β
"II...... Brother" Qin Cheng heard this title, and at that time he wondered if he should change his own personal team.
"Don't worry, general, I will swear to defend the general!" Wang Er patted his chest and said.
"Hmm." Qin Qingzhi nodded, as if he was very satisfied with the first time someone called him a general, and after glancing at Qin Cheng, he silently walked off the platform.
"Training!" Qin Cheng waved his hand.
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Zhishui Restaurant is located on the Zhishui River, is a large-scale liquor shop, in the huge and prosperous Chang'an City, this small building by the Zhishui River is not famous, but the environment is elegant, the wine is also authentic, suitable for some elegant people to drink in the river, sigh some innocuous idle things.
Qin Cheng stood outside the Zhishui Restaurant and glanced up at the restaurant, then showed a faint smile and walked into the restaurant.
The reason why I came here was because Qin Cheng received an invitation. Recalling that when he returned to the General's Mansion on vacation yesterday, Bai Xinxin handed over the two invitations, Qin Cheng couldn't help but laugh. One of the two invitations was handed over by Liu Ling of the Xingping Pavilion, which is interesting to say, since Qincheng arrived in Chang'an, but whenever the people of Qincheng did not go out in Chang'an, Liu Ling must post it every day and invite her to meet. It's just that Qin Cheng has always ignored this.
The owner of the other invitation is the person Qin Cheng is going to meet in this Zhishui Restaurant today, when he saw this invitation, Qin Cheng did not hesitate, and naturally accepted it, because whether it was emotionally or intellectually, Qin Cheng couldn't find a reason to refuse at all.
The guy in the restaurant took Qin Cheng to a private room on the second floor, and then retreated, Qin Cheng didn't knock on the door, opened the door and walked in.
It was no one else sitting in the private room, but Yi Xue'er dressed as a Han person. The window of the room was open, and Yi Xueer sat behind the desk, and before Qin Cheng came in, Yi Xueer kept looking at the clear Zhishui River outside the window, stunned.
"General Qin doesn't have the habit of knocking on other people's doors when he enters them?" Awakened by the sound of Qin Cheng opening the door, Yi Xue'er turned around and glanced at Qin Cheng with disgust, her thin voice was a little lazy.
"As I stood outside the door, the first thought in my mind was to open the door and come in, without even thinking of knocking. With that in mind, I simply did it. Qin Cheng sat down behind the desk opposite Yi Xue'er and smiled easily, "Doesn't this also save you the effort of getting up and opening the door?" β
"So, General Qin is still thinking about me?" Stripped of her battle robe, Yi Xue'er's whole person naturally looks more feminine, like honey-peach first ripening, like green lotus after rain, like white lotus in the snow mountain, but at the same time, it also lacks a little bit of heroic female sassiness and the powerful aura of a princess.
Qin Cheng shook his head, "That's not counting, it's just a thought." β
Seeing Yi Xue'er take off the robe of the Xiongnu princess and wear the show dress of a Han woman, Qin Cheng knew that there had been a hostile relationship on the battlefield between the two for more than three years, and it was gone forever. Now Icher is no longer the princess of the Huns, and the rival relationship between the two no longer exists. Thinking like this, Qin Cheng was suddenly a little stunned, he couldn't tell why, maybe he simply lost a valuable opponent? Or, without the confrontation on the battlefield, now that the two are sitting opposite each other, they are a little unaccustomed?
Now in each other's eyes, what is the identity of the other party? Acquaintance? Friend? Enemies of yesteryear? Half of today's colleagues?
Maybe the two of them couldn't say it clearly for a while.
The most difficult thing in the world to resist is that the vicissitudes of life are wrong, and it is also the most unbearable.
"It feels a little strange to see you wearing the costume of a Han woman today." Qin Cheng looked at Yi Xue'er and said, "But it has a different charm." β
"Oh, really?" Yi Xue'er stretched out her hand and brushed the hair on her sideburns, but she didn't look at Qin Cheng like Qin Cheng looked at her, there seemed to be an inseparable entanglement between her every move, like filaments surrounding her body, "I used to wear it when I was in the Central Plains, but I went back to the grassland, and after staying in the desert for a few years, I was a little unaccustomed to coming back." I don't wear it much on weekdays, but today I somehow put on this one. It's probably what you just said. β
This time, Icher used "you" instead of "general".
Qin Cheng groaned for a moment, but he didn't follow Yi Xue'er's words, he said, "It will take a long time to stay in Chang'an in the future. β
"yes, it's long." "For a lifetime." β
"Your Majesty didn't arrange an official position for you?" Qin Cheng asked, he still had the shadow of Jin Riyan in his heart.
"I'm a subordinate, what official position do you say Your Majesty will arrange for me?" The smile on Yi Xue'er's face was indissolvable, like self-deprecation, like self-pity, or just a sigh, "It's already very good to be able to give a liege." β
Qin Cheng smiled, and felt that he was thinking too naΓ―vely, and he unconsciously equated Yi Xue'er and Jin Riyan in his heart, could it be that he expected this in his heart? Qin Cheng shook his head, the heart path should not be, this seems to be a matter of no reason.
"Don't talk about that." Qin Cheng poured himself a full bottle of wine, and said in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "If you ask me out today, you should always have something to say, right?" β
Yi Xue'er smiled lightly, and finally showed a relatively pure smile, "It's nothing, it's just that I've been in Chang'an for a long time, and I'm not used to doing nothing all day." Thinking about it, you and I are also people who have caused a lot of trouble for each other on the battlefield, and I called you out today to get rid of those boring days for a while. Saying this, he glanced at Qin Cheng, "But ......"
"But...... After meeting people, I found that the past was gone, and those things that passed away were gone forever, and I couldn't even find the feeling back. Qin Cheng subconsciously answered, inadvertently pulling the tone of this conversation a little heavier.
"You may be able to find the feeling of the past, but it shouldn't be in the people of the present, but in the memory." Yi Xue'er raised the wine bottle and gestured towards Qin Cheng.
Qin Cheng and Yi Xue'er drank to the fullest, and when they put down the wine bottle, Qin Cheng sighed: "It is a contradiction to find the memories and feelings of the past from the people of the present. β
After taking a sip of wine, Yi Xue'er's face turned a little redder, and after listening to Qin Cheng's words, she softly agreed: "Yes, this is a contradictory thing. β
"But......" continued Ixelle, as if she were already drunk, "what else?" β
Qin Cheng stopped there for a moment, not knowing how to answer Yi Xue'er's words.
yes, what else could you do?
Just today, the two of them met.