Chapter 18: Where did it come from?
"Stand up and say it!" When Li Kuan heard this, he looked in that direction from the humble point platform and spoke.
As his words fell, a soldier in dark armor walked out of the queue, and since he had offended the comrade who spoke out, he made a statement in front of the general. When the soldier came out of the ranks, he thought to himself.
"Soldier, what's your name?" Li Kuan stood on the stage and looked at the soldier, and asked, his voice without the slightest emotion, as cold as this cold weather. In the early winter morning, the cold wind blew the clouds in the sky.
"General, my name is Cheng Chao!" The soldier puffed up his chest and looked, the general asked his name, there is no general who does not like a soldier who listens to orders, and the opportunity to climb up by himself has come!
"Cheng Chao, now Ben will order you, take off the armor on your body, and then go back to where you came from!" Li Kuan's face was heavy, and a sentence came out of his mouth that surprised everyone.
"How is it possible, General, I came out to testify according to your orders!" The soldier was stunned, what the hell was going on? Why is this the result, isn't the soldier supposed to obey orders?
"What, weird? Then Ben will come to sue you, let you go clearly, there are so many people here, why are you the only one who stands up? Don't people know who said that? Li Kuan walked down the platform, then came to the soldier, and asked in a deep voice.
"But they didn't dare to tell the truth, and I only said it after listening to the general's orders!" Cheng Chao is still defending himself.
"Oh! After listening to Ben General's order, what did Ben General say? What I'm going to say is that if there is no one to testify, then sit together. Someone identified it so impunity! Yes and no? Li Kuan stared straight at the soldier named Cheng Chao, and his tone was as low as a dark cloud in the sky before a blizzard.
"Yes!" Cheng Chao was a little nervous by Li Kuan's approach. Lips trembled, and this said this.
"Well, Ben didn't say anything else. For what do you identify your comrades? Why? Li Kuan shouted violently, he believes that such a soldier is definitely not just Cheng Chao alone, there must be others, but this is the first to emerge, so he wants to take this opportunity to let everyone know that he will never allow this to happen.
"General, didn't you ask us to identify you?" Cheng Chao's face turned pale, looking at Li Kuan, who seemed to be about to choose someone to devour, and such a sentence still came out of his mouth.
"Haha...... What would have been for you to identify? I think you want to be free from punishment! Maybe you think you're listening to the general's orders. But do you know that the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, not to mention that I, a small general who is not yet the commander of you! A person like you will definitely die the fastest on the battlefield, because no one dares to give his back to you with confidence, you will not have a robe of life and death, no one wants to entrust his life to a person who betrays his brother in order to avoid responsibility, if you want to avoid death on the battlefield, will you stab your brother in the back? The words that came out of Li Kuan's mouth were like a heavy hammer, striking the hearts of the soldiers opposite him, and also resounding in the hearts of all the soldiers.
"It seems like that's really the case. Who wants to put their life in the hands of such a person? Isn't it possible to get stabbed in the back at any time? One by one, the soldiers asked themselves, and everyone realized that they really couldn't do it. They have all fought on the battlefield, and they all know how important it is to have a reliable comrade on that bloody battlefield. With one such brother, your chances of survival are twice as great.
"Now you know, right? I really doubt how you came back alive from the battlefield in the first place, those soldiers with you are really fateful! Li Kuan continued to sneer. He was so mean at this time, because he wanted to take this opportunity to erase such thoughts from everyone's hearts. Otherwise, the soldiers brought out in the future will still be invincible when fighting a good battle, but once the war is tight, it will definitely be destroyed by civil strife. It was definitely not the result he wanted. Even when he thought of someone betraying his brother behind his back for his life or for the sake of glory and wealth, he was angry.
Over the years, Li Kuan has had a deep affection for the Tang Dynasty, and he has his own ties here, so he has also begun to change his mentality towards this country, especially when he once led a small team to run thousands of miles, and even passed by the side of death several times. He knows that the soldiers of this era are a gang of murderers, but they are also a group of hot-blooded good men, if such a person dies because of such a villain, then it will be the greatest irony of this gang's blood.
"Is there anything else to say now? Maybe you will say that this is a big fuss, but Ben will dare to pack a ticket, the first thing you think of when facing life and death must be yourself, in order to survive you will do whatever it takes. Just like before, when Ben didn't even say how to punish you, you jumped out in a hurry, is this something that someone who is willing to block the sword with his flesh for the sake of his comrades would do? Li Kuan said impatiently, this guy is a villain at all, and he doesn't even want to disguise himself, as long as he hears something unfavorable to him, he immediately thinks of running away and avoiding it. It would be a disaster for such a person to be in his own ranks, and he might lose everyone's lives because of him at any point in the future.
"Okay, now you can leave, continue to return to Zuo Qianniuwei, and be your elite soldier, I can't keep you here!" Li Kuan said and pushed him out with a wave of his hand. Then he turned around: "Now the person who spoke just now consciously stood up, if he didn't stand up at this time, then all the people in this area would consciously take off the armor on their bodies and go back!" ”
"This ......" All the soldiers at the scene were panicked, they had been confused these days, and after winning from Zuo Qianniuwei's ring, they were brought here. Then after so many days of idleness, I learned yesterday that a new army was going to be formed, and it was directly under the command of Li Kuan, the king of Chu, which made these soldiers have a trace of understanding in their hearts that this was the prince's private soldier. They are all waiting for a good day of eating and waiting for death in the future, because as the prince's private soldier, then it is synonymous with leisure, as long as the empire does not reach the time of life and death, as a prince's personal arm, he will not go to the battlefield to fight.
But now I found out that it seems that this prince's private soldier is not so easy to be a soldier, isn't this just a combination, and he actually has to directly send back so many brothers, how many people can stay in the end? Everyone's hearts were muttering. They believe that this army must be the followers of the king of Chu for life, such a good thing The vast majority of people in the Tang Dynasty do not have such luck, after all, how can the emperor have children, there are only so many dozen or twenty princes, and if there are more, I am afraid that I will wonder if the emperor is not the only one in the palace. And how many princes can be promised by the emperor to train private soldiers? Therefore, the opportunity can be said to be very rare, no one is willing to give up such an opportunity, this is why there will be a flattering appearance like Cheng Chao, and there will be this restlessness now.
"Don't come out? It seems that you are also a black sheep! Li Kuan waited for a while, but still no one came out to admit it, and suddenly became even more angry in his heart, there was a greedy Cheng Chao who was afraid of dying behind his back and stuck a knife in his brother's 'ribs', and now he met a bedbug-like guy who wanted to drag all his brothers into the water for his own interests, and planned to coerce so many people to blackmail the main general.
"It's me!" Just when Li Kuan was about to break out, a person stood up, and the door-like body was also so prominent in this circle of tall soldiers, it seemed to stand out from the crowd. Li Kuan couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this person, it turned out to be him, this guy was Hong Li, who was beaten by him yesterday, and he had a lot of resentment in his heart.
"It turned out to be you, why do you think it would have been a big fuss?" Li Kuan saw that the perpetrator stood up, and he no longer embarrassed those soldiers, these people may not be very good, but they are definitely capable of most tasks and jobs, and the most people in the world are this kind of people. Therefore, Li Kuan neither expected too much from them, nor did he have any prejudice against them.
"It's just normal training, if there is really an enemy attacking the camp, then we will definitely not be like this!" Hong Li stiffened his neck and said, he also survived rolling in the pile of dead, and he is also very clear about these things on the battlefield, who will sleep so dead on the battlefield, and basically wear iron armor and sleep with a steel gun in his hand, and will wake up when he hears any wind and grass, and in that environment where he will lose his life at any time, who dares to be careless is to kick his head as a ball.
"In that case, why can't you do it on the battlefield but not at this training ground?" Li Kuan looked at the soldiers with the same expression on their faces and asked.
"Because you won't lose your life here! If you know that there is no danger, then who will maintain that vigilance? Hong Li said as a matter of course.
"Really? Then from tomorrow, we will restore the kind of environment on the battlefield, I will see what will happen to you, today for the sake of you standing up, I will not punish others, but you who are the culprit, Hong Li, you stand for me for six hours! Li Kuan said.
Hearing this punishment, all the soldiers sneered, what kind of punishment is this, standing for six hours is also a punishment? I thought I would beat a military stick! (To be continued......)