Chapter 44: Smoke and Miasma
In the early morning of the next day, the remaining three soldiers from the Zhichong Prefecture, a total of 3,000, arrived one after another. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, there were already 4,000 people in the barracks, and it was very lively for a while.
Lu Chengkong hid in the camp tent, and he could hear the commotion outside, where could he still sit? hurriedly slipped out, wanting to take a look at the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
He walked around the camp a few times in his military uniform, originally thinking that he was already strange in military uniform, but he didn't expect that there were even thinner people than himself. At this time, there were more soldiers in the army, and the ground was even more chaotic. As soon as they reached the outside of a tent, there was a burst of shouting. Lu Chengkong was curious, stepped forward, tilted his head sideways, and only heard the voices of people inside, full of laughter and scolding, and for a while: "Hahaha...... Lao Tzu is pressed. ”
After a while, it was: "Hurry up...... Hurry up and open it for Lao Tzu! ”
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After a boo, someone shouted angrily: "This fucking bad luck, fucking lost again!" ”
"This ...... Is this gambling money? ”
Lu Chengkong opened the curtain and looked in secretly. Several people in the tent gathered around a wooden table with several large bowls on the table. One person's eyes lit up, he held the dice, and after blowing two breaths on his hand, he threw the dice into the bowl with words. The eyes of the people in the camp widened, and their heads swayed up and down with the rise and fall of the dice, and they all blushed and red-faced...... It's gambling money.
"How can there be...... Smelly of alcohol? Lu Chengkong sniffed, looking for the smell, it turned out that in the corner on the right side of the camp tent, there was another person who was falling asleep on the ground. He looked again, and saw that the man's face was red, and there was saliva on his mouth, and he must have been a drunken man. I couldn't help but wonder in my heart: "These drunkards and gamblers, aren't they going to die when they go to the battlefield?" ”
Lu Chengkong took a few steps back, but was tripped by a hard object and almost fell to the ground. He grinned in pain, looked down, and saw that what he had kicked was a large black iron cauldron. I had to rub my feet, and when I was about to leave, I saw that there seemed to be a Tang knife pressed under the pot.
The Tang knife is a precious thing, how can it be pressed under this big black iron pot? Lu Chengkong hurriedly lifted the iron pot, picked up the Tang knife, and thought: "Could it be that a soldier accidentally fell here, or a person who gambled money in the camp was left here?" ”
To say that a weapon is the soul of a soldier, it must not be discarded at will. Lu Chengkong knew this, so he shook his head helplessly, sighed, and wiped the plaster on the scabbard with his cuffs. It's just that the scabbard is stained with a lot of dust, and it took me a long time to wipe it before I saw its original appearance.
Lu Chengkong held the handle of the knife and wanted to pull out the knife to take a look, but who knew that he couldn't pull it out with all his strength.
"You...... What are you doing? I saw a man with a blue face walking out of the tent, and looking at his face, he must have just lost all his money.
The big iron pot outside the door is used to make rice in the army, this person is the person in charge of making rice, seeing that there is a gambling game, his heart is itchy, so he throws the big iron pot and the Tang knife he carries outside, and goes in to try his luck. Who knows, after less than a dozen rounds of betting, he lost all his money. As soon as he came out of the camp, he saw Lu Chengkong playing with his Tang knife, and after a few glances, he didn't know this person.
"I ...... I'm just looking. Lu Chengkong saw that this person's face was ugly, and quickly put down the Tang knife.
"What's so nice about this broken knife?" The man stepped forward and picked up the Tang knife, only to see that the scabbard that was originally dirty had been wiped clean, and he couldn't help but look at the knife carefully and wondered: "How did this knife become so clean?" Could it be that it's not mine? As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and pulled out a few times before he pulled out the knife with a "brush".
Lu Chengkong saw that the knife was rusty, how sharp was the knife edge? Not to mention hurting people, it seems that even the vegetables are constantly chopping, and I thought: "If you use this knife to go to the battlefield, I'm afraid you will kill yourself." ”
The man put the knife back into the sheath and scolded: "I thought I could pick up a good knife, but it turned out that it was still your broken knife!" As soon as he said that, he seemed to be in the spirit again, laughed, and said to himself: "Lao Tzu will use this broken knife to gamble a few more, maybe he can win back." After saying that, his face became smiling, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed into the camp to gamble again.
Lu Chengkong looked at the smoky military camp in front of him, which was 108,000 miles away from the 'Tiger and Wolf Army' he imagined in his mind, and couldn't help but panic in his heart: "How can you go to the battlefield with these soldiers?" ”
Pang An was carefully wiping the Tang knife he was carrying in the camp at this time, and when he saw Lu Chengkong walking in dejectedly, he asked, "Chengkong, but you feel bored in the army and want to respond to the county?" ”
Lu Chengkong sighed, sat aside, and told Pang An what he had just seen, "I don't understand, how can a soldier in the army be like this?" ”
Pang An regarded the Tang knife in his hand as his life, and at this time, while rubbing the blade with oil, he asked, "Then what do you think the army should look like?" ”
Lu Chengkong sat up straight, took out the book "Lu Sheng's Art of War" in his arms, and came to his senses again, and said: "You asked well, this "Lu Sheng's Art of War" is recorded, then I will tell you, 'The art of war has clouds, so it is based on five things...... One is the Tao, the second is the sky, and the third is the earth...... All these five will be unheard, those who know will win, and those who don't know will ......win'" Lu Chengkong was halfway back, but he saw that Pang An and others didn't dare to be interested, so he stopped.
Pang An was most afraid of listening to Lu Chengkong's rambling about reciting the art of war, and when he saw that he was about to start reciting again, he lowered his head, turned sideways, put the Tang knife aside, and prepared to wipe the scabbard. In normal times, as soon as Lu Chengkong memorized the art of war, he would talk endlessly, and he just stopped after reciting two sentences just now, Pang An only felt incredible, turned his head and asked, "You...... That's all you have to say? ”
Lu Chengkong sighed, looked lost, and said: "I originally thought that soldiers in the army should have strict military discipline and forbidden, but I didn't expect it to be so lazy. ”
Xu Li, Liu Shi, and Tianlu all laughed after hearing this, thinking: "Nerds are nerds, how can reality be what it looks like in books?" ”
Pang An said: "Do you think that the soldiers in the whole world are as majestic as they are said in the book? As he spoke, he also sighed, and said helplessly: "Now the military system of our Tang Kingdom is in jeopardy...... There was no war for many years, the soldiers did not practice the battle formation, and they joined the military government just to avoid taxes. ”
Lu Chengkong said: "In this way, this reality is really different from what is written in the book. ”
Xu Li looked at Lu Chengkong's stupid appearance, and couldn't help but snicker in his heart. But after thinking about it, he is a powerless scholar, he can worry about the country and the people, and instead of participating in the imperial examination, he came to the army, if you want to say that this 'stupid energy' is worth admiring, so he said: "There are crises everywhere on this battlefield, and if you are not careful, you will die." Let's learn this desperate skill, not for anything else, just to save our lives. Lu Gongzi, these **** have seen enough in the army, so let's respond to the county. ”
Pang An said: "What Xu Li said is that Chengkong, there is no war at this time, and it is still too late to go." ”
Lu Chengkong said perfunctorily: "I...... I know. But he made up his mind in his heart: "If you can't make military achievements, you will never go back!" Seeing that Pang An, Xu Li, Liu Shi, Tianlu and others were meticulously preparing weapons, he thought to himself: "Looking at Pang An and Xu Li's serious appearance, maybe they can really become generals in the future." Even if I return to the future in the future, looking back on today, it will not be in vain to be able to fight side by side with the great generals of the ancient times. ”
It wasn't until the afternoon that Zhao Mo got up from the bed and walked to the barracks leisurely, asking all the generals to come to discuss the matter.
The three generals of the Zhichong Mansion were: Zhang Junshu, Ling Zong, and Li Zhen. Several people, together with Ao Hong, Luo Tian, and more than a dozen deputy generals, came to the Chinese army camp to see Zhao Mo.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhao Mo leaned lazily on the seat, deliberately put on a stern posture, and asked, "How many soldiers are there in the army at this time?" ”
Ao Hong replied: "General Hui, there are four thousand people at this time. ”
"Good!" Zhao Mo was overjoyed and said, "Cui Xiliang only has two thousand, and we have four thousand, so we will definitely be able to defeat him in one fell swoop." ”
At this time, Lu Chengkong, Pang An, Xu Li, Tianlu, Song Qiang, Liu Shi and others gathered outside the camp, waiting for Zhao Mo's order. Hearing Zhao Mo's words, Lu Chengkong couldn't help frowning, and thought to himself: "How can this battle be more than the number of people, and the more people there are, the more people will definitely win?" I don't know if this General Zhao is really confused, or fake?
Zhao Mo saw that the victory was in hand, yawned, and ordered everyone: "You wait to go down and prepare first, and then discuss ...... tonight" After speaking, he ran back to the camp tent to sleep.