Chapter 4 Out of the Stopper
This is a time when Lao Gao has put a lot of thought into it, and the knives he has made are all high-grade knives, but he has not carved those flashy carvings. Zhao Fu secretly said that the people of this era should not be underestimated, the craftsmanship of the Tang knife has long been lost, and most of the knives made by knife merchants in later generations are just in vain, as for the steel or steel clamping technology, most of them are just gimmicks made to sell at a good price, where can ordinary people tell the difference?
Zhao Fu didn't expect Lao Gao to really get a few Tang knives for himself in such a short period of time, and he didn't care about his image under ecstasy, holding several knives in one hand, and leading a horse to turn over and run straight to the school field.
Although Zhao Zhenshou is gone, the officials sent from the capital to Lanting are stubble after stubble, but the soldiers here seem to be unaffected, the training is still trained, and the veterans will be replaced with new recruits when they retire, except that they have not fought outside the country in the past few years, everything is the same as when Zhao Zhenshou was in the past.
To be able to form such a situation, it is not unrelated to the prestige accumulated by Zhao Zhenshou, and it is also inextricably linked with Zhao Fu's efforts over the years, almost all the troops stationed around Lanting were brought up by Zhao Zhenshou, although Zhao Zhenshou is no longer there, but in the eyes of those veterans, "Little Zhao Zhenshou" lives up to his father's prestige. Zhao Fu would go to the military colonel field every once in a while to ask the veterans for combat skills, and at the beginning, those veterans were willing to touch Zhao Zhenshou's only son, for fear that something would happen, so they didn't dare to let go. Later, they found that Zhao Fu's strength was not under them, and they were also happy to see that Zhao Fu was better than these veterans who fought on the battlefield at the beginning. I was not discouraged, and after being abused with blood a few times, I went home to recuperate for a while, and it didn't take long for even those veterans to be helpless with Zhao Fu.
Later, Zhao Fu took a group of recruits and veterans to form a battle formation to compete, and they lost but did not lose the battle, and those veterans who had followed Zhao Zhenshou sighed that Zhao Zhenshou had successors, and the recruits were even more convinced by Zhao Fu.
"The town guard is here!" I don't know who shouted first, and almost everyone who heard it stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction from which the sound of horses' hooves came.
"Zhao Zhenshou!" The recruits also stopped their training and shouted affectionately, although the current northwest town guard was still in a temporary position - the imperial court was happy to pay less in peacetime. But everyone believed that Zhao Fu would definitely take over his father's position as the town guard in the northwest, so the older generation liked to call him the town guard, and the people of this generation simply called Zhao Zhen guard first. Of course, Zhao Fu will not mind this title, but this is also what he hopes, in the troubled times, no matter how high the reputation is, no matter how thick the family background, it is not as reassuring as holding military power.
"The town guard is here, the town guard is here!" Many recruits were still being reprimanded by the veterans, and when they heard that Zhao Fu was coming, they became bold and took the opportunity to slip out.
"You're here, Wang Da'er is too unreasonable, he actually punished me for going around the school ten times when I returned to the camp a little later yesterday! Go and teach him a lesson! At this time, a recruit who was closer to Zhao Fu came out, and he was also the child of a veteran, Lanting originally existed as a military town, and most of the residents were actually the families of the children of the army, but it was only later that the war calmed down, and Lanting gradually developed into a semi-commercial city, attracting a large number of profiteers who came to the border to do business.
"Dog, don't be unreasonable to your seniors!" Zhao Fu gently tapped the head of the recruit, whom he called a dog, with a scabbard, "Orders and prohibitions are the most basic requirements for soldiers. ”
The dog didn't plan that Zhao Fu would come forward for him, but Zhao Fu's reprimand was more effective, and he immediately put on a look of reform that had not been changed for ten laps, but this look didn't last long, and he became clever again, "Otherwise, let's form a battle formation to fight Wang Bingtou, last time you weren't with us, but you were taught a miserable lesson!" ”
Zhao Fu smiled secretly, this dog is angry with Wang Bingtou.
"yes, yes! Call and dial! Godan's suggestion was quickly echoed by the recruits.
"Okay!" Zhao Fu agreed very lightly, and the recruits around him soon let out a cheerful roar, as if they had already won, and even the veterans watching from a short distance couldn't help but have the idea that they were young and terrifying, the future of this town is limitless.
"It's just...... We don't fight a fake war today. Zhao Fu continued: "Today, let's go out of the plug!" ”
The crowd that was still noisy just now suddenly quieted down, and leaving the fortress is a special word for the soldiers, unlike the caravan going out of the city to the north, the soldiers going out of the fortress means that it will be a battle between two peoples, a bloody exchange, and an out-and-out gamble on the death of one side to stand and one side to fall.
The faint smile on the faces of the veterans after hearing this suddenly turned into nervousness, many veterans had already rushed over from afar, and the more far-sighted veterans had already asked people to bring a message to their superiors. But the reaction of the recruits is diametrically opposite, most of them are the children of the previous generation of veterans, many of their fathers and brothers died in the hands of the Hu people, they were only a few years old in the army, many of them are baby soldiers who grew up with Zhao Fu, they have been holding back for so many years but can only form a battle formation in the barracks for a long time, and today they heard that the town guard was going to take them out of the fortress one by one is cheering.
"Out of the stopper! Out of the stopper! ”
"What a quarrel, what a quarrel!" At this time, a war horse stepped into the crowd with its head held high, and immediately a middle-aged man in armor "Zhao Fu...... You're too messy. ”
There are not many people who dare to call Zhao Fu's name directly in Lanting, and Ma Xiong's commander is one of them, as Zhao Zhenshou's descendant, Ma Xiong is also one of the most qualified people to discipline Zhao Fu.
"Uncle Ma is here." Zhao Fu rode on the horse and said hello to Ma Xiong, but he didn't have the idea of stopping the plan to get out of the plug, he called the dog to him, and said a few words in his ear, the dog nodded happily, but it didn't show it, but instead changed the normal and began to pick people up, "It's all scattered, don't make trouble for the commander and the town guard!" There were also a few alert people in the crowd, who immediately understood, and after a while the recruits dispersed in piles.
"The town guards ...... It's not the old man who said you, it's too dangerous to get out of the plug. Ma Xiong frowned, he was also a veteran who had been with Zhao Zhenshou for a hundred battles, and he hadn't dealt with the Hu people for several years, and even he didn't know how powerful the Hu people were, so his worries were not unreasonable.
"Uncle Ma, you can't train a hundred warriors in the barracks, you should know this truth better than me." Zhao Fu did not retreat, the imperial court obviously did not intend to let the Zhao family guard the northwest for generations, from Qin Shangxi's relocation, it can be seen that the new successor of the little emperor is not as relieved as his father to throw such a big authority in the northwest. But Zhao Fu must stabilize this northwest.
"It's natural, but even then the town shouldn't be put in danger!" Ma Xiong still stands by his opinion.
"Yes, yes, yes." Zhao Fu nodded and said, "I originally wanted to go to the General's Mansion to visit Uncle Ma in person, but Uncle Ma came over by himself, I asked Grandpa Gao to fight this knife, how about you take a look?" Lao Gao shot a total of three knives this time, Zhao Fu carried two in his arms, and one was in Cao Zhongqing's place, and now he threw one of the knives into Ma Xiong's hand.
The knife is only three centimeters out of the sheath, and the cold light is flashing, it is a good knife! Ma Xiong is naturally a person who knows the goods, and he is naturally happy when he sees a good knife, not to mention that the whole knife has been pulled out, and the sheath is also a good sheath The knife was silent, of course, almost everyone present was attracted by the shape of the knife, Ma Xiong on the horse was originally more eye-catching than the people present, and when he pulled out the knife, the light reflected in the sun became the focus of the audience, so that most people forgot that Zhao Fu had quietly left.
Not long after Zhao Fu left, someone ran panting and sent his life: "Oh no, no, no!" The horses in the stables have been taken away! ”
"What?!" Ma Xiong was furious: "Who dares to lead our war horse? ”
"Yes...... It's a gang of recruits......"
"Who's in charge of the stables?" Ma Xiong looked around but found that Zhao Fu was gone, and the secret path was not good.
“…… The stables are all guarded by recruits who have been in the army for two or three years. "The person who came to deliver the order was a little embarrassed, and the heart commanded you so that you wouldn't be in a bad brain, I don't remember this.
"Oops! Go to the city gates! Ma Xiong then remembered that there were not many veterans guarding the city gate, so it was very simple for Zhao Fu to want to get out of the city gate.
And Goudan and the others had already rushed to the city gate in batches to gather, and when they saw Zhao Fu coming from afar, they shouted "Out of the stopper!" Out of the stopper! ”
Such a large formation has already attracted a lot of people, although they are all recruits, but it is still quite shocking for hundreds of people to shout together, not to mention how long has it been since I have seen such a battle in Lanting City, Xiao Zhao is about to go out of the fortress? As soon as the word spread, people didn't care whether these people were recruits or not, let alone the number of people, they only knew that our army was out of the jam again! And this time the leader is Xiao Zhao Zhenshou!
Zhao Fu was also like Ma Xiong, pulled out his sword and rode a horse from the central street to the city gate, "Queue!" ”
The recruits who had been in a bunch of people who had been in a mess just now immediately returned to their respective positions, allowing the onlookers to admire the neatness of the army.
"Uncles and aunts, I think everyone has heard that the Hu people in Beiting have been dishonest again recently, and they have invaded the territory of my Lan River several times in the south." It is also true that autumn is a good season for the harvest of the Lan River, but it means that the grass in the north is gradually withering and yellowing, and it has become a habit to sweep the south for both the Hu people and the Lan River people. This year we will take the initiative! ”
Zhao Fu paused, "Don't disgrace your father's majesty, let's get out of the plug!" ”