Chapter 4: The New Army?
There was no watch tonight, the moonlight came in from the small window and shone on Gu Changsheng in the corner, although the moonlight was like water, Gu Changsheng couldn't sleep a little. Gu Changsheng watched the people in a cell sleeping soundly, and felt envious, thinking that he had nothing to do anyway, so he observed the people one by one.
The first thing to look at was the white young man, although his father said that it was rude to judge his character, but hearing others call him "Yu'er", this name made Gu Changsheng laugh in his heart. But when I think about it, I think it might be a milk name, but I don't mean to make fun of it.
But the more I observed, the more I felt awkward, the young man named Yu'er, his sleeping appearance was so restrained and subtle, his eyebrows were clear, and he didn't look like a wanderer at all, although it was the first time to see an acrobatic craftsman today, but this Yu'er was too out of place.
Before he could think about it, an official opened the cell.
"Wake up, wake up, stand up for me, ready for arraignment!" After speaking, he swept his eyes and ordered people out one by one.
Gu Changsheng looked at the strong man who had taught Yu'er before, smiled and took something out of his arms and gave it to the jailer, and then the two of them smiled, and finally the jailer said a few words to the strong man, and the strong man waved his hand to the people in his own team and went out.
Now Gu Changsheng understood that he needed something, so he couldn't help but touch the broken silver in his arms, the silver ingot given by Brother Zhao was used when he was shopping, and it was all broken silver under him.
"Next"
"The one who stayed in the corner, yes, the kid was talking about you, come out." The jailer said in a somewhat impatient tone, he was not on duty today, but he was ordered from above, martial law today, all the interrogations must be completed, and he can't go back to accompany his mother-in-law at night.
Gu Changsheng touched his hand in his arms, his heart was certain, he leaned in front of the jailer, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he handed over a handful of small pieces of silver.
"Brother officer and soldier, the kid has just arrived, and he doesn't know what the situation is, you see?"
The jailer raised his eyebrows, looked at the broken silver in the kid's hand, and then took it and put it in his pocket with an indifferent face. Gu Changsheng also went up, and immediately leaned over to the ear, and the jailer spoke:
"Boy, when the arraignment comes, you will pretend to be dumb and be fine, as has always been the case in the past." After the jailer finished speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for Gu Changsheng to go out quickly.
As soon as Gu Changsheng raised his legs, a general in leather armor scolded:
"Stop! You just took a bribe from this kid! The general glared angrily at the jailer, who immediately fell to his knees in fright, trembling and incriminating himself.
Gu Changsheng's heart was cold, and this time he directly caught it, I was afraid that it would be a snake.
"Ask General Lin to surround me with my life, I also blinded my heart to lard for a while, and I beg the general to forgive me!" The jailer didn't say much, just begged for mercy.
General Lin asked the jailer to kowtow wherever he was, and ignored it, looking at the frightened Gu Changsheng, he was suspicious, the spies in the past were not without half-grown kids, but this kid only had uneasiness in his eyes, but not to the point of being a thief. After mentioning Gu Changsheng and leaving, he said to the jailer that he would not take it as an example. The jailer stopped begging for mercy and continued to scream for the next one.
Originally, Gu Changsheng thought that he was unlucky, but he didn't know that General Lin deliberately selected these half-sized boys, the purpose was to train a new army.
According to the general's point of view, the war is only in the past two years, and in order not to cause panic, it is impossible to recruit new people on a large scale. And although General Lin's approach violated the military order, he couldn't care so much about it, and the next new army was fighting alone, unlike in the past, the top has been pressing this proposal, and it may not be possible to establish it in this life if it drags on.
Gradually, Gu Changsheng was taken to a military camp, and there were already teenagers the same size as him, and the biggest feeling was that he was only in his twenties, and the youngest one might only be fourteen or fifteen.
Along the way, General Lin didn't say a word to Gu Changsheng, Gu Changsheng didn't say much, and when he arrived at General Lin, he turned around and left, and the military camp that was still chattering gradually calmed down.
After a while, the entire barracks were crowded, not to mention a hundred people, and General Lin brought a few more people in, and this time General Lin never left.
"Silence!"
General Lin stomped his feet, and the barracks, which was still a little noisy, completely quieted down, and everyone looked at General Lin innocently.
"You wait until I have checked, the background is clean, and you are not guilty, as for why I brought you here, it is to give you a chance to make contributions!"
General Lin waited around for a while, and after they chatted for a while, he signaled quiet, knowing that letting them discuss it would ease the tension.
"I want to build a new army, a new army that has not yet been approved by the imperial court, so if you want to ask quickly!"
There was silence for a while, and a person raised his hand slightly for a while, and said:
"General, since it was not agreed, it is a bit inappropriate for the general to establish a private army?"
"This is not what you have to consider, no matter what the court says later, I will bear it!"
At the beginning of one person, many people began to ask questions.
"Jingjing, I will answer your questions one by one, but before answering your questions, I want to ask you, how is your hometown!"
When General Lin spoke, everyone fell silent, and it turned out that most of the people's villages had been ransacked by horse thieves. Among them, either they fled to the border city, or they didn't come to the border city with their families, and each of them had the road of the Great Wei.
"What if I told you that the horse thieves you encountered were all spies from Beiyan!" General Lin suddenly shouted.
The crowd suddenly exploded, they never thought that those horse thieves would be the spies of Beiyan, how many years have Great Wei and Beiyan been peaceful, I don't know how many Beiyan caravans come and go on this border, traveling teenagers, how could he Beiyan be so treacherous.
"What if I told you that this new army I want to build will be as useful as those Northern Yan spies!"
Although they are all teenagers, everyone understands that it is the other way to return the other.
Slowly, the teenagers quieted down, and General Lin's eyes flashed with satisfaction.
However, there were still some cowardly people who asked whether they could be allowed to go back, and said that they would not say a word about it after they returned. Those who wanted to go back looked at General Lin, whose face was gradually gloomy, and felt uneasy.
"But those who want to go come to the front."
Although there were few people who spoke out, there were many people who came out, and thirty people came out of a hundred or so.
"You can go, but you have to leave something behind before you go."
A young man who looked relatively calm boldly said:
"Whatever the general wants, just say it."
General Lin didn't answer, just yelled.
"Someone!"
More than a dozen guards immediately rushed into the tent and said in unison.
"General!"
"After interrogation, these thirty people are Beiyan's spies, and they will be decided!"
"Yes!"
For a while, both the thirty people and the seventy or eighty people left behind were panicked, and the thirty people kept shouting for mercy. But General Lin didn't listen to a wave of his hand, and the thirty people were dragged out, and then a scream was heard.
"Who else wants to go?!" General Lin was furious, and everyone's bodies trembled.
"That Beiyan invaded my rivers and mountains and killed my relatives, but they just wanted to save their lives, what's the use of keeping them! Who else wants to leave, now I can give you a good time! ”
Seeing that no one was silent, General Lin turned around and walked out of the barracks. Although Gu Changsheng was also a little uneasy in his heart, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that this matter was a bit strange, not to mention that his father had said in the past, this northern army was the first army of the Great Wei, and it was also a well-known benevolent and righteous teacher of the Great Wei, so he would never make such a mistake, no matter how great the pressure from the Northern Yan was.
The second suspicion is that if the thirty people wanted to stand up, why should they not be beheaded by the public, and why they should be dragged out so that we can only hear their voices. However, what was General Lin's motive, Gu Changsheng couldn't figure it out, so he didn't want to think about it for the time being.
Outside the tent, a personal soldier walked behind General Lin and replied:
"General, those thirty teenagers have been completely recorded in the record, and they will never leak the news, but will the general do this like this? Although the rest of the people are already afraid of the general, the reputation of you, the general, is afraid that it stinks in the hearts of this new army. ”
General Lin shook his head and said:
"It's okay, the time given to us by Beiyan is running out, this new army will be a stinger inserted in Beiyan by my Great Wei in the future, and its reputation will stink when it stinks, and I don't know if I can come back from the battlefield, what is the use of my reputation."
"General!"
"Needless to say, the spies who are mixed with Beiyan have reported that he Beiyan has silently gathered 600,000 troops to station outside my territory, I don't believe that they just don't use force all year round, and it's as simple as pulling them out and slipping around. There are only 200,000 soldiers in my northern border, which is three times the difference, and all those ministers are moths! Is it only when the army is overwhelmed that they are willing to act? ”
"The general is angry, my Great Wei Tiger Army will let them come and go!"
General Lin shook his head and just let out a long sigh.