Chapter 2 The Liu Brothers and Zhang Yunwen
A large banner embroidered with the word "Zheng" flutters gently at the head of Luoyang City. The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the city walls, making this thousand-year-old capital even more magnificent.
Outside the city, along the woods and rivers, there are camps. On the fluttering big sleigh on the camp, a big "Tang" character is clearly written. From the top of the city, you can clearly see the horse-horned deer erected at the entrance of the camp. Several towering watchtowers in the camp are also looking at the situation in Luoyang City.
Now it is the fourth year of Tang Wude and the second year of Dazheng Kaiming.
In the second year of Wude, Luoyang Wang Shichong abolished Emperor Yang Tong, claimed that the emperor ascended the throne, Jianyuan was enlightened, and the country name was Zheng. In the third year of Wude, Li Shimin, the king of Qin in the Tang Dynasty, was ordered to attack Zheng and defeated Wang Shichong in Qingcheng Palace. The latter shrank in Luoyang, on the one hand, relying on the tall and thick city walls of Luoyang, and on the other hand, he asked for help from Dou Jiande in Hebei.
In Luoyang City, in a military camp in Dazheng, the two sat on the edge of a bed, looking at the young man lying on the bed, and talking to each other.
"Second child, the doctor said that the third child would wake up in seven days, but this is the seventh day, why don't you say the third child has woken up?"
"You don't even know how I know! Uh, don't stare at me, it's useless to stare at me! ”
"Don't talk to you, rammer!"
"Aren't you a rammer yourself?"
"What, what did you say?"
"You are only allowed to talk about me, but you are not allowed to talk about you, what is the reason!"
"Lao Tzu is your eldest brother!"
"My father won't do it!"
Just as the two rammed goods were about to stir up, a faint voice came from the bed.
"Uh-huh—"
The two rammed goods glanced at each other, "snorted" at each other, and looked at the bed at the same time.
I saw that the young man on the bed was pale, his eyes were half-open, and he looked at the two people in front of him with empty eyes.
"Hehe, the third child, you're awake! Tsk, that doctor is really god, saying that you woke up in seven days, and you really woke up, what a fucking god! Don't you say, dick! ”
"Oh God! Damn, the next time I see that doctor, I'm going to give him a pig thigh to thank him! ”
The young man's eyes slowly turned to a hint of color, and he looked at the two people in front of him, slowly recalling. They are their neighbors, the two sons of a butcher surnamed Liu.
But why did I know them? Am I not Lang Shan? Where is this?
As soon as I thought of this, the answer came to my mind.
Closing his eyes, the young man recalled carefully, and recalled all the bits and pieces of his growing up in Luoyang, as if he was standing in front of a picture, watching "himself" study hard, filial piety to his parents, make friends, and be forced to join the army, and finally was injured by the ** stray arrow, hit his head on the wall, and fainted.
Slowly recalling, I also saw a teenager growing up in a military family, studying in the Soviet Union, participating in the Vietnam War, and finally dying under a shell due to a two-minute error.
Who the hell am I? The boy opened his eyes suddenly. Am I Zhang Wenji, who died in the Vietnam War, or Zhang Yunwen, who defended the city for four years in Wude?
Looking around the barracks, I saw three beds in the camp, three long knives standing on the weapon rack in the corner, and three helmets and leather armor thrown on the ground at will. Outside the door curtain, there was a commotion from time to time.
Turning his head, he met two pairs of concerned eyes.
"Third child, what's wrong with you? Don't you recognize your brother? ”
Zhang Yunwen saw that it was Liu Yong, the boss of the Liu family. The person next to him is Liu Wu, the second child of the Liu family. The names of these two men were taken by their fathers. Liu Tu, who was illiterate, listened to his father's casual name, and thanked him for his kindness and gave him a pig's head, which made his father very embarrassed. Of course, these anecdotes were told by Liu Tu to Zhang Yunwen when Zhang Yunwen was twelve or thirteen years old.
"Liu, Brother Liu Yong!" Zhang Yunwen shouted with some difficulty. In fact, in his heart, there is still some rejection of the current identity, this is a communist young man who was born and grew up under the red flag, and he is not suitable in this evil feudal society.
"Hey, the third child, you usually shout back and forth, how polite now!" It was Liu Wu who spoke.
"Well, it used to be before, everyone was still young, and the eldest and second called didn't make people angry. It's different now, you have to call the eldest brother and the second brother to show respect! Zhang Yunwen rolled his eyes and immediately thought of a reason.
These reasons are far-fetched, but they are enough for these two brothers.
"Hey, the third child, you can say whatever you want! Anyway, Daddy said, the third child, you are a scholar, and our two brothers have to listen to you! ”
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but be stunned, this sentence is equivalent to these two people putting their lives in their own hands. What a responsibility!
Zhang Yunwen's mood couldn't help but feel a little heavy, looked at the two of them, and slowly sat up: "I'm so thirsty!" Big brother and second brother, which of you can help me get some water? ”
Liu Wu ran out with a smoke: "I'll go!" ”
Liu Yong reacted at this time, looked at Zhang Yunwen sitting on the bed, and asked, "Well, third child, you have been hungry for so many days, do you want to eat something?" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Yunwen suddenly felt hungry in his stomach, and immediately said: "Okay! But some porridge and something like that! ”
"Okay!" Liu Yong also went out of the house.
When the two went out, Zhang Yunwen's face suddenly sank. Just now, when I was sorting out the memories in my head, I found a big problem.
Now where the three of them are is Wang Shichong's Zheng Jun. After a defeat a few days ago, the turtle shrank into Luoyang City, and outside, Luoyang was surrounded like an iron bucket, it was the army of Li Shimin, the king of Li Tang and Qin.
According to historical records, not long after, Dou Jiande led 100,000 soldiers and horses to save Luoyang, but was defeated by Li Shimin in the Tiger Prison Pass, and he was also captured alive. Then, Wang Shichong surrendered, and the city of Luoyang was broken.
At the beginning, Zhang Wenji admired Chairman Mao, and the song "Cherish the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and slightly lose the literary talent; Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors, slightly less coquettish" made him excited, and in his spare time, he turned over and over again the historical books that recorded the deeds of Qin Emperor Han Wu and Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors, such as "Historical Records", "Book of Tang", and "Zizhi Tongjian", and he was almost familiar with his chest.
Now, following the clear memory left by reading history, Zhang Yunwen has a deep understanding of the future trend of the world.
Now what? Is it to go out of the city to surrender to Li Tang, or wait for Wang Shichong to surrender and be dismissed or co-opted after being **?
At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and the Liu brothers came back at the same time.
"Come on, third child, I've got you something to eat!" The boss of the Liu family held two large bowls, one bowl of porridge and the other bowl of steamed buns.
"Third child, the water is here!" The second child of the Liu family effortlessly lifted a bucket of water and said to Zhang Yunwen.
"Come, eat porridge first!"
"Come, drink water first!"
A sea bowl and a scoop were handed to Zhang Yunwen at the same time.
The Liu brothers glared at each other and did not give in.
Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but pat himself on the head, these two brothers are too muddy!
Take the sea bowl with one hand and drink porridge, and take the water scoop with the other hand and drink cold water. Now the two of them won't make trouble.
After drinking half a bowl of porridge, Zhang Yunwen put down the bowl, got up from the couch, walked two steps, and moved his body. He slowly ate the porridge again.
In the end, when Zhang Yunwen finished eating three big buns and washed his face with water, he also made his own choice.