Chapter 184: Feast and Return to the Heart (Text)

"Are you interested in further serving the dynasty in the official army......

The high pet, who was dressed in military uniform, was unloading his armor under the service of his own soldiers, and seemed to be in a good mood, and he did not shy away from the left and right and went straight to the point.

"I intend to recommend you as a firearm in front of the enemy, so as to train and manage the genus of firearms in the army, and to implement the method of gunfire warfare in your department."

"When it comes to this place, there must be a head of the main army battalion, or the background of the lieutenant general......"

"Thank you for your love, but I don't dare to ...... it"

I was surprised, but out of some self-knowledge, I refused.

"There are too many obstacles behind me, and I can only repay the kindness of the system in the future......"

"That's a pity......"

Gao Zhong seems to be quite deep in the city, and there is not much disappointment and dissatisfaction.

"However, until the end of the fighting, my promise was valid...... I hope you can think about it again."

After talking to me a few more words about Yan Gong's past and recent situation, he let it out.

Back at the camp, I still had some confusion, and could only tell that it was some kind of favor and favor, or that it meant to pre-delineate a position for me.

Although I have some faint regrets about his kindness and conditions, I put them under some kind of calm and objective rule. As the saying goes, people are self-aware, and I accepted the replenishment and deployment of the officers and soldiers before, and I can slowly digest and absorb it.

But if, therefore, I entered the system of the regular army, many things would be different, and I had painstakingly created a basin of water with a strong personal color, and if I really wanted to pour it into the big pool of water of the official army, it would be nothing at all.

In contrast, many of my personal things and initiatives will inevitably be exposed to the high level of attention and criticism in front of everyone.

I don't want to be a scapegoat for someone else's extraordinary work, or a victim of the highest priority in a dispute. After being a maverick for a long time, I can still feel that there are benefits outside the system.

Besides, the conditions he promised were certainly tempting, and Chen Junhou might have considered one or two things before he secretly told me the inside story, but in the context of sufficient risks and the general situation in the future, it was a little disrespectful.

After all, I haven't completely pinned my fate and future on a certain sense of gratitude from a certain superior. Perhaps it will change after more contact and understanding.

However, as the saying goes, "if you lose the mulberry elm, you will reap the east fence", with the news sent by Chen Junhou the next day, the bayonet problem that I had been thinking about finally took a turn and a breakthrough, but it was an accidental discovery from the local arsenal.

With a batch of high-quality betel iron from Tianzhu (Uzi steel?) ), created a batch of multi-functional daggers for the soldiers of the Shenji Army, and these daggers were sent to the army, but they were not very popular and received bad reviews.

Because although its material is good, but in the design and shape is very unpleasant, as a dagger is too long, inconvenient to carry and use, as a short sword and too narrow and too thin, not conducive to chopping, single as a daily cutting tool, but also a little hinder, pick up hand-to-hand combat, and light fluttering slightly not forceful, not as good as a horizontal knife.

Therefore, in the end, it became a four-like, four-unreliable failure product returned to the warehouse, but it is a ruler long just on the blade, with a thick back with a double blood groove, which looks quite difficult to break, and the single edge of the oblique triangle also has enough penetration and sharpness, because it is Tianzhu iron, although it has been dusty for a long time, but only a thin oxidation, take it out and wipe it to shine up.

As long as I went to the wider gauntlet and truncated the excess part of the handle, it was a living modern bayonet, and then I had to design a kind of embedded double collar that would allow the "long bayonet" to fit firmly under the barrel and form a support point for the straight thrust block with the handguard.

I thought about it, and I found a gold craftsman in the army to make a row of serrations on the thick surface of the sample, which could be used as a simple cutting tool, and the center of gravity of the bayonet and the whole bar also changed, so I added a grinding stone at the bottom of the butt as a counterweight, which could also be used to sharpen the sword or repair the metal edges and corners.

This will allow ⊥ Soldier to reduce the weight of one amulet and carry other things. Although the style is still crude, there is still room for improvement, but at least my soldiers don't have to rush to fight the enemy with sticks.

With the return of most of the officers and soldiers one after another, I finally escorted the return, and by the way received a notice of the celebration banquet of the officers and soldiers, and then changed into the regular clothes of the military that I had not worn for a long time, and went to the old state office.

The celebration banquet held by the upper echelons of the army is also a simple self-service style popular in Guangzhou.

More than a dozen long tables made of rough wood are covered with plain silk cloth, and locally collected bowls, cups and plates are placed, and clay pots with seasonal flowers are inserted, and the four curtains are surrounded by a circle, which is considered the main field of the banquet.

Only high-ranking officers and generals above the rank of General Lang are eligible to participate, and I, as the head of one of the parties and the head of the department, were also invited to take a few deputy deputies to attend as observers.

Although the battlefield is simple because of its ugliness, it is still as delicate and hearty as possible. Although there was no shortage of hard-working soldiers in the Southern Dynasties, for most officers and generals, they would not treat themselves lightly, which was also the privilege and patent of the class. ,

The one who provided the utensils and personnel was the only lord of the Nuo clan who cooperated with the officials and the army.

His name reminds me of an electronic product that is claimed to be used as a murder weapon, which is said to be because after naturalizing the Tang Dynasty, he was given the name of Liang Gong, and he has been named after it for generations.

The so-called Nokia XV, known as Nokia XV, also known as Nokshan, was born with a rich and noble appearance full of brains, and only showed his face at the beginning, said a few words of flattering and funny scenes, and then retired.

He is also one of the biggest beneficiaries of the official army after the pacification of Anyuan, so he is full of some expectations and enthusiasm, and uses all his resources to co-organize this celebration banquet.

Soft sheep purse, jade version of sole fat, golden silk belly, three crispy soup, stewed shrimp mushrooms, etc., abalone stewed short ribs, sugar crispy fruits, all kinds of rows are lined up with each long case, let people use it at will.

There are about two or three hundred generals present, and according to the color and shape of the uniforms, they can be roughly divided into three parts:

The largest group is represented by the Wuqing army's rule of Gao Pet, from the eastern part of Annam Province, the military state and the defense town soldiers, accounting for about forty percent;

Secondly, the so-called Second Route Reinforcements formed by the former rebel army and the follow-up troops sent by Guangfu from the land of Tiannan, who formed several groups according to the subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates, with loud voices and no one around, which was also quite eye-catching.

Then the remaining two percent are our local troops such as regimental training, which are basically soy sauce people who have no clear stance and tendency and go with the flow.

Anyway, most of them don't know each other, maybe they are mixed in the crowd, and there are few opportunities to meet each other, so I just need to take a few of my men and do my best to deal with the sumptuous food on the long table of the banquet.

Since arriving in Anyuan Prefecture, the daily level of food has dropped several grades, and foodies like me have eaten canned food so much that their mouths are about to fade out, so I will make up for this opportunity to come back a little more.

Of course, Xin Jiaxuan was an exception, he walked through the gaps in the crowd, trying to listen to the speeches and topics of each small group, and he was a little untimely and serious.

Of course, eating and drinking to relax is secondary, as the highlight of the celebration banquet, it should be a reward for meritorious deeds, the banquet is half full, and the wine is slightly drunk.

With the arrival of the troika of military scholars, lieutenants and imperial historians, the crowd spontaneously gathered, waiting for the propaganda roll call with a look of anticipation.

So-and-so has merit in asking for the enemy, so-and-so is brave in blocking the enemy, so-and-so is victorious, and so-and-so is brave to take the lead.

Set up in the inner hall in one breath, more than twenty names were pointed, and there were seven or eight waves of people who were called in, but the straight singer put away the silk cloth and re-announced that the banquet would continue, and everyone drank to their heart's content.

Although I was a little mentally prepared, I still couldn't help but have a certain gap and regret, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, we were really deliberately forgotten, this is the so-called friendly army, a few faces around me or expectation, even more collapsed or became dim.

Although the atmosphere of the banquet that has been reopened since then has become more noisy and lively, several people around me have not been able to get rid of some depression and depression, especially in Xin Jiaxuan, there is a kind of persistent and persistent thing, and the illusion of being shattered.

I can only convince them that they have to rely on themselves in everything, and that they cannot expect too much from others and the like, and promise that even if the officers and soldiers cannot give them any honors and rewards, I will do my best to give them the rewards and compensation they deserve.

"You've all been affected by me......"

Speaking of which, I sincerely apologize to them.

"If I hadn't insisted on coming here, everyone would have been recuperating in Tiannan......

"No, no, it's my generation who is too taken for granted and rash,"

Xin Jiaxuan interrupted with some excitement

"You're right, the so-called war is dangerous, and anything can happen......"

"On the contrary, virtue has provided us with this rare opportunity for experience and hands-on practice......"

"But no school or office can preach and comprehend"

"Thank you for your continued shelter and thoughtfulness......

"It's ridiculous that I was still suspicious of you, whether you were jealous of your allies and selfish"

In this forgotten fringe and corner, our small community, which is beginning to take shape, is now more united and united than ever.

Then under my leadership, they turned their grief and loss into appetite, and doubled down on those new bamboo noodle soup, ginger pepper rice, bad crab, fire dumplings, nectar soup, cut noodle porridge, and pork skin cake dishes.

As a fun and after-entertainment program for meritorious deeds, the head of the Nuo family, who is half a landlord, also personally brought people to serve food, the most conspicuous of which is the super dish "moxibustion set box" brought in by six strong men, a big tapir roasted to golden brown and fragrant,

"Moxibustion box" was originally a court dish of the previous dynasty, specially used for the banquet of the dynasty, but with the decline of the authority of the heavenly family, and the diaspora evolved a variety of versions and variants, and after the improvement of local conditions in the Southern Dynasty, it became what it is today.

I saw these shirtless strong men, wielding knives like snow, dismantling the roasted tapir into eight pieces, but revealing a red-cooked fat deer wrapped in fascia; Then they continued to work with knives, and continued to unravel the limbs along the muscle texture, revealing the crispy suckling pig in the body of the fat deer again; Under the suckling pig, a fat bamboo chicken was cut out with a knife; The bamboo pheasant hides a quail inside; Finally, inside the quail, there was a golden roe filled with steamed eggs.

It is said that the ingredients and cooking techniques used in each layer are slightly different, as the saying goes, one dish is eaten in several ways, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas are exhausted. The most essential inner three sets are naturally given to those big people to enjoy.

The rest of the meat dishes that were dissolved were then sliced into thin slices and allowed to be eaten freely, which suddenly set off a wave of scramble. Not to be outdone, we formed a team to fight into it, broke out of a bloody road, and we didn't know how many feet we stepped on and were trampled on, and how many punches we beat and beat before we grabbed a large piece of fat deer loin.

Finally, looking at each other's hands full of grease, the stains on their faces and the marks of being torn and wrinkled, they suddenly laughed heartily, and the previous gloom and dissatisfaction seemed to be swept away.

Tomorrow we will go back and leave this place as fast as we can. I secretly made up my mind.

At this moment, a staggering figure fell in front of me with a thud. Well, someone got drunk so quickly.