Chapter Seventy-Four: The Meaning of Life and Death
"No, General Zhao, we are in danger, the Mongolian cavalry is out of nowhere, and it's really hard to say when we will meet them. Now General Zhao, you are the master of the army, especially those craftsmen and masters, who were brought out by you, how can you risk going to Zhangzhou alone! Du Hu waved his hand again and again, never approving Zhao Tianyou to take risks, in his heart, Zhao Tianyou was completely different from the officials of the imperial court, and his obedience to Wen Tianxiang was completely different.
Zhao Tianyou is a convincing leader, fair, noble, caring for his subordinates, hearty personality, knowledgeable and so on, so that the people around him can't help but be close to him, like him and admire him, and regard him as a leader who can be entrusted with life.
Wen Tianxiang is another charm, he is honest and considerate of his subordinates, likes to share weal and woe with the people, drives the literati to serve as a military general, and has an unafraid spirit in the face of any difficulties. And for the loyalty of the Song court, it is greater than his cherishing of his own life, from another point of view, the Song dynasty is his highest faith, and the interests of the common people are lower.
Du Hu was impressed by Wen Tianxiang's loyalty to the imperial court, and he has been tying his fate to Wen Tianxiang since the beginning of Ganzhou. would rather be the last soldier in front of Wen Tianxiang, and he would not hesitate to block the knife for him, but this has many differences with Zhao Tianyou.
Du Hu will not tell Wen Tianxiang what he thinks in his heart, but he can tell Zhao Tianyou, the two of them can drink a few glasses without hindrance, and talk about some views on the court and expectations for the future at the wine table, and they can tell Zhao Tianyou without any scruples, and they will not worry about any impact at all.
"Everybody dies, it's just sooner or later, the only difference is how he dies, some die in a hospital bed, some die on the battlefield. What have you done in your time to live! Whether there will be many people who remember him, who are unhappy and tearful because of his death, depends on whether he lives to live better for more people, and to die for more people.
I don't want to die in a hospital bed, as a soldier, his final destination must be on the battlefield, but I still have a lot of things to do, and many people are waiting for me to kill them, so please rest assured, General Duhu! I'm not going to die anytime soon! Zhao Tianyou felt that after experiencing the slaughter of the city in Tingzhou, his thoughts were much simpler, first of all, he had to become stronger, seize Dong Wenshan, and torture him by all the means he could think of, so that he would regret surrendering to the Yuan Dynasty, regretting leading the troops to slaughter the city, and even regretting speaking out in this world.
Zhao Tianyou firmly believes that he has the ability to do this, no matter when, if he does not heal this wound in his heart, it will be difficult for him to think about other things, and the best elixir to treat the wound is to capture Dong Wenshan alive.
Legend has it that in the previous wars in China, there was a famous anti-Japanese general, General Sun Liren, who once captured hundreds of prisoners of war alive in the Burma theater, and these prisoners of war were the main force of the massacre of the old, weak, sick and disabled in Jinling City. Legend has it that General Sun once ordered that all those who had been to China would be shot on the spot, and all those who would do so in the future.
In modern warfare, there are international conventions that must be observed by each other for prisoners of war, and the killing of prisoners of war is strictly prohibited, but there are a few that are completely observed on the battlefield. As a professional soldier, Zhao Tianyou supports and understands these international conventions, which is in an era when all laws are relatively reasonable, and although it is not Ru Mao drinking blood now, but killing, especially the slaughter of foreign prisoners of war, is probably something that every force has done.
If you kill me, I will double the killing and return to you, this is the cycle of heavenly principles, and it is also the code of conduct pursued in this era, all the truth is on the side of the strong, and the big fist is always the formulator of the truth.
"What the general said was so reasonable, I was a little dizzy when I heard it...... Wait, I'll make a note of ...... again."
Zhao Tianyou laughed: "What I said casually, what do you remember, do you still want to publish a book for me!" ”
"Of course you can, the general is an immortal material, and he must publish a book and pass it on, but I go on a horse to fight, and the writing skills of writing books are much more superficial. However, General Zhao can rest assured that Du Hu will definitely pay attention to this matter, and he will definitely find a good literati for the general, and write a book that will be passed on for generations. ”
"Haha, okay, good thing, good thing! If it can really be passed on, it is indeed a great thing! ”
The scouts sent out returned one after another, and after hearing the news that there was no war in Zhangzhou and that the Yuan soldiers had returned to Quanzhou, Zhao Tianyou still decided to take people to Zhangzhou by himself. If Du Hu went to Zhangzhou with the Gan soldiers and saw that Wen Tianxiang belonged to the original owner, at this critical juncture of resisting the Yuan and defending the city, Zhao Tianyou could still open his mouth to ask for someone?
These Jiangxi soldiers followed Zhao Tianyou to fight a one-sided battle, and they had long been impressed by the power of the new weapons, and they all wished to manipulate the thunderbolt cannon to face off against the Mongolian cavalry, so how could they leave! Not to mention these ordinary soldiers, it is Du Hu himself, and the willingness to continue to follow Zhao Tianyou to fight also accounts for eighty percent.
Therefore, Zhao Tianyou sent an errand to Du Hu in the name of "Waiting", and he was ready to watch out for the passing ships, these four ships are my foundation, you have to show me well, there must be no mistakes. In this way, Du Hu and these Gan soldiers do not have to go to Zhangzhou to meet the old master, and they can avoid embarrassment and let Wen Tianxiang accept it, of course, gifts are indispensable, which is the biggest reason for Wen Tianxiang to accept it.
No matter what kind of psychology Wen Tianxiang had at that time, the first boat was replaced by Mu Chenglin, but more than 2,000 thunderbolts were sent back untouched, and there were also three warships and 800 warriors, which Zhao Tianyou took advantage of too much, so the gifts prepared this time were also heavy.
Zhao Tianyou divided almost half of all the firearms, more than five upgraded thunderbolts, more than 10,000 assault rockets, more than 100 bolt cannons fired from ballistas, plus three relatively mature gunpowder workshop craftsmen and thousands of catties of finished gunpowder. Although it is not said that the technology is fully revealed, at present, these three craftsmen have been able to take charge of themselves and help Wen Tianxiang establish a small firearms processing factory without any problem.
Zhao Tianyou took a team of more than 100 pack horses composed of pirates and sailors from the vicinity to Zhangzhou, which attracted hundreds of people to watch sideways.
The dirt road of just a few dozen miles made Zhao Tianyou extremely admired, whether it was war or life in this era, the importance of horses as a means of transportation was too great. These official roads are nothing more than wider and wider, and after a rain, the muddy and difficult to walk is not much worse than marching in the wilderness.
Thinking of this, Zhao Tianyou also understands a truth, the so-called blitzkrieg promoted by Genghis Khan is not how fast his cavalry troops are, but that other people's armies are too slow!
Outside the south gate of Zhangzhou City, a simple cloth curtain encloses, Wen Tianxiang and Deng Huaiyuan, the governor of Zhangzhou, are sitting around the table, waiting for Zhao Tianyou, a capable man in Wen Tianxiang's mouth.