Chapter 31: What is there in this army but waiting for death?
How many are 100,000?
Or just a number, I can't see how many people.
Gu Nan understood this way before he really saw it.
But if you really see it, the person who can line up from one mountain to another will only know how small and pitiful a person is.
More than ten miles outside Xianyang City, 100,000 barracks were spread out, and Gu Nan rode on a horse to exhaust his eyesight, but he could only vaguely see the end of what seemed to be nothing.
This is the handiwork that King Qin has arranged a long time ago.
Zhao Guo changed generals and Wu An went on the expedition, which was already calculated.
These 100,000 people have been camped here for several days, just waiting for the white march.
got closer, but it was different from what Gu Nan expected, thinking that the military camp of 100,000 people would be a big scene.
But now in front of her was a military camp that was extremely silent, even if there was no noise, occasionally a few soldiers passing by, maybe chatting with each other, and the sound was quickly hidden in this huge camp.
"Click." The spears in the hands of several soldiers outside the barracks were set together, blocking Bai Qi and Gu Nan's way.
"Phew." Bai Qi grabbed the reins, the horse turned its head sideways, and its hooves stomped back and forth on the ground several times.
Gu Nan also patted Brother Hei's neck gently, and Brother Hei slowed down and stopped.
"Who's coming?"
Bai Qi didn't say anything, and took off a sign from his waist.
The soldier just glanced at it, then quickly put away the spear that was lying in front of the two of them and lowered his head.
"General."
"Hmm." Bai Qi was overdue, beckoned to Gu Nan, and urged the horse to walk in first.
The soldier's eyes swept over Gu Nan's face, and he was secretly surprised in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, just watched the two of them go in until he couldn't see them.
"Hey, did you just see that?" I don't know who asked.
Another voice replied.
"You're not talking nonsense, the one who followed General Bai Qi just now was a woman, right?"
"It's a woman, and she's really handsome, I almost couldn't take it back just now."
"Why did Wu Anjun bring a woman in?"
"Miss Gu······" I saw a soldier say in a distracted voice.
"Miss Gu?"
"Yes, just think about it, have you heard, Wu Anjun accepted a woman as a protégé, and the woman's surname is Gu."
"Ah, when you say that, you think of it, Miss Gu, according to legend, she is a rare talented girl. The poems are excellent, and the art of war is highly valued by Wu Anjun. ”
A veteran frowned: "The poetry is excellent? The battlefield is not a place for my daughter at all, and few of us men can save our lives and go back. ”
"Stop talking." The person who seemed to be the captain glanced at the person behind him: "These rumors, you keep them for yourself." If we were heard, we would not have any good fruit to eat. ”
The man in the back shrunk his neck, and no one spoke.
The camp tent of the main general is located in the middle of the barracks, and it took more than ten minutes to walk through the camp gate, and it took more than ten minutes to get to the center.
Along the way, except for the occasional couple of people who could have a few words of conversation, most of the soldiers looked like they were all the same, "waiting for death" faces.
It was indeed a face waiting for death, his eyes were blank, his hand holding the blade was weak, and the cloth robe and leather armor he was wearing looked like it hadn't been washed for a few days, and it had formed a layer of dirt.
To fight a war like this, or a nationwide battle like Changping, isn't it waiting for death?
Gu Nan walked on the road and looked at the lifeless military camp around him, his brows furrowed slightly.
Bai Qi seemed to notice this, and glanced at the soldier who walked over with his head down: "Think this barracks is very unsightly?" ”
After hesitating for a moment, Gu Nan nodded: "Such a mourning soldier, there is not one in ten combat power." ”
"And what do you think it should look like?" Bai Qi's rhetorical question stopped Gu Nan.
What should it look like? The spirit is vigorous, shouting for the sake of Daqin and the people? Look down on life and death, sacrifice life for righteousness?
Soldiers are human beings, too.
Most of these people came to join the army for a bite to eat at home and for the little money in the barracks. What's more, it is forced to conscript.
The people who come here understand that they are here to fight, to send them to death.
On this face, what else can there be besides waiting for death?
Bai Qi walked in front of Gu Nan: "The war every year, and these people, it's good." ”
As he spoke, Bai Qi looked sideways at the soldiers who were eating dry food that had been frozen hard.
Gu Nan looked at Bai Qi from behind, and the old man in front of him didn't say anything, but Gu Nan saw the heartache in his eyes.
It was fleeting, making Gu Nan even think that he had seen it wrong.
"Wu Anjun." A shout attracted Gu Nan's attention.
But in the distance, I saw a young general in black armor riding a white war horse and trotting all the way over.
The man's face was still a little immature, thinking that he should only be about twenty years old, which is rare for such a young man to be already a general.
Holding a halberd in his hand, the white horse under him is handsome and extraordinary, but in fact, riding a white horse on the battlefield is a bit unsafe.
After all, the white horse is too conspicuous, and it must be taken care of by the other party's arrows, and it is better not to ride it if it is not for self-confidence in itself.
The young general ran in front of Bai Qi and Gu Nan in a few breaths, looking at Bai Qi with a look of respect.
But he is a vigorous young man who is out of place in the barracks.
Gu Nan secretly glanced at his mouth.
To be honest, she still has a little envy of these young people's hearts, after all, they are still young and have a high heart, which can always make her feel old.
But there is no way, who makes himself already old, and in his last life, he was already a half-step middle-aged man who was nearly thirty years old.
It's a pity that Gu Nan didn't notice that the age of her current body is estimated to be seventeen or eighteen years old, but she is a few points younger than the young general in front of her.
"Wu Anjun, long time no see." The young general looked at Bai Qi excitedly: "I do have some answers to the questions I discussed with you last time, and I hope that in my free time, I will be bothered to give some advice, and Wu is grateful." ”