Chapter 66: The General of the Defeated Army, the Soldiers of the New Army (2)
Liu Yidao's hospitality, Zhao Liangdong is naturally not easy to refuse. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info In the afternoon, after finishing all the chores at hand, the two joined the crowd of people entering the city.
In normal times, the officers and men of the Yuezhou battalion were eating, lodging, and training outside the city, and their lives were quite boring. Finally, it's time to rest, and everyone wants to go into the city to have a good stroll.
In order to prevent overcrowding in the city, the General Staff Department deliberately staggered the rest dates of the battalions outside the city, and stipulated that the number of people in each battalion entering the city at a time should not exceed a certain percentage. Rao is like this, when it comes to rest days, the army rushing from the military camp outside the city to the city is still mighty and magnificent.
In the face of such a spectacular and prosperous scene, the happiest are of course the merchants of all sizes in the city.
The more people you have, the bigger the market. And many of these extra people are not ordinary people, but well-trained and disciplined officers and soldiers. In this way, the safety of the surrounding area is also greatly guaranteed. What is the most valuable thing in troubled times? Isn't it just a stability? As a result, most of the people who fled from the north regarded Chenzhou as their preferred destination. Even many gentry and wealthy merchants in Changde, Changsha and other places chose to build houses in Chenzhou, because they no longer had to worry about the harassment of corrupt officers and soldiers, nor did they have to worry about being looted by disorderly displaced people.
The more people gather, the more prosperous the people's commerce and trade will inevitably be. Today's Chenzhou has formed a virtuous circle.
Liu Yidao and Zhao Liangdong were sandwiched in the crowd of people entering the city all the way west, and in less than half an hour, the city wall was already in sight.
Outside the city, the first thing they faced was the "military market".
The so-called "military market" is a temporary shop built outside the city wall by some lively-minded merchants in order to grab the source of military customers entering the city as soon as possible. At first, it was just one or two, but then it became more and more gathered, and it became a "street". On days off, this "military market" is no less lively than in the city.
Since the "military market" provided convenience for the officers and soldiers, and to a certain extent, played a role in diverting traffic and reducing pressure in the city, the Metropolitan Yamen did not object to this, but only demanded that the merchants not occupy the road for business, not to build permanent buildings, and to withdraw immediately when they received a notice from the Metropolitan Division Yamen before the war.
As soon as I entered the military market, I looked up and saw almost all the officers and soldiers of Huguang Town wearing military uniforms. It was bustling and crowded.
Although it is not the first time to come here, Zhao Liangdong still has a lot of emotion in his heart.
Before he fought with the army in the south and the north, his vision was not narrow, but he asked himself, he had not seen such a peaceful and peaceful scene for a long time. Not to mention anything else, the people in other places almost avoided the officials and soldiers like mice and cats, where would they be like the small traders here, and still enthusiastically come forward to solicit customers?
The military market is bustling, but the theater is not here, but in the city. Zhao Liangdong and Liu Yidao didn't know how many traders they got rid of before they stumbled into the city.
"Lao Zhao, what do you say will be performed in today's play? It wasn't even written on this ticket. Liu Yidao straightened the crumpled military uniform that was pulled by the vendors and said.
Zhao Liangdong thought for a while and said, "I can't say this either." However, since the theater is so mysterious this time, there must be something new that we don't expect. It shouldn't disappoint us. ā
Liu Yidao felt justified and put his mind at ease.
The theater is newly renovated, although it is still relatively simple, but the area is not small, with two floors, which can accommodate two or three thousand people.
As a local, Liu Yidao's popularity is very good, and as soon as he entered the theater, many acquaintances greeted him.
"Lao Liu, it's quite energetic to wear this official uniform!"
"I said Lao Liu, you killed pigs well, why didn't you do it again? Could it be that killing pigs is boring, and you want to kill a few people to try it? ā
"Oh, Lao Liu, look at you, you're still the same person after changing your clothes. Is it under the hands of the huge handsome or in the line of killing pigs? ā
"Fuck you! It's uneasy to watch a play, and your skin is itchy again, isn't it? Liu Yidao glared at the bull's eye and said.
The people who were joking over there laughed.
Zhao Liangdong also smiled and said nothing.
Soon after, today's play began.
The wide stage is illuminated as day by multiple lanterns above. There is a low fence between the grandstand and the stage, but it does not interfere with the view.
With the sound of a gong, a curtain hung down above the stage, on which the title of today's play was written in a few big characters: The Change of Jisi. At the same time, several people on the side of the stage reported the title of the play in unison.
A change in one's own life? Isn't it the second year of Chongzhen? What happened this year? Zhao Liangdong recalled carefully.
Of course, rough people like Liu Yidao won't think about it so much, they just sit in their seats with anticipation and wait for the curtain to open, wondering if there are still a few beautiful little girls hiding behind it like last time.
After a while, the curtain slowly opened.
Hey? What is it? After Liu Yidao saw the scene on the stage clearly, he was both disappointed and a little curious.
I saw that the huge background on the stage was a typical northland scenery, the desolate mountains could not be forgotten at a glance, and the bright moon hanging high in the air could be seen to be at night, which made people feel like they were in the scene, and they had to admire the depth of the painter's skills. There is a big sign erected on the side of the background, which is also written in big characters: Chongzhen two years, Hongshankou in Jizhen Town.
What's even more amazing is that there is also a section of the "Great Wall" and a "beacon tower" on the stage. I don't know what it's made of, although it's smaller than the real Great Wall and the beacon tower, but it's very realistic.
On the "Great Wall", a border sergeant yawned and lazily patrolled back and forth. Several other border troops gambled cross-legged near the "beacon tower" and shouted loudly and excitedly.
Liu Yidao looked at it for a while, and finally reacted. At this time, I couldn't think about why there were no beautiful little girls, so I slapped my thigh and said a little anxiously: "How do these idiots keep watch?" What if the enemy is coming? Lao Zhao, do you know what kind of place this Hongshankou is? Does it matter? ā
"The Great Wall is the ......" According to the habit of the Ming Dynasty, it should be said that "the territory of the Tartars", but after all, Zhao Liangdong had served in the Qing army for several years, and he couldn't turn this corner for a while, so he only used another way to say, "The Great Wall is the enemy territory, and the enemy army may break through at any time." ā
"Huh?" Liu Yidao was even more anxious.
There were still spectators in the stands who were more anxious than Liu Yidao, especially some officers and soldiers from Huguang Town, who had already begun to shout at the stage: "Bet on your mother!" It's time to bet on the Tartars again! ā
Perhaps in response to their fears, it didn't take long for the background tune of the stage to change to a very tense tone.
A black shadow took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Ming border army on the Great Wall, quietly climbed up, tiptoed closer, and then got up suddenly, held down the border army who was already napping on the wall, and stabbed it down. The border soldier had already covered his mouth, and before he was "dying", he only snorted a few times and then remained motionless.
There was an exclamation from the stands.
The border troops next to the "beacon tower" quickly discovered the abnormality and hurriedly looked for weapons.
At this time, more black shadows climbed the "Great Wall". The spectators in the stands also saw their true faces: sturdy and heavily armoured, some of them without helmets, with bare heads and slender rat tails at the back of their heads.
"Tartar!" Many people in the stands shouted.
"It's the Tartar's Bayara!" Liu Yidao pointed out their identities more accurately. Although he had never fought with the Eight Banners of the Tartars, the recruits had cognitive courses after enlisting in the army, and they would have a detailed introduction to the various branches of the Tartars.
On the stage, the plot continues. More and more Bayala soldiers climbed the Great Wall, and the group of Ming border troops who gambled money just now were quickly killed. Some disheveled border troops rushed out of the beacon tower one after another, but under the panicked resistance, they were the opponents of the fierce Tartar Bayala, and soon no one was left.
The Tartars who had successfully captured the beacon tower waved excitedly to the other side of the Wall, as if there were thousands of troops coming towards it.
The curtain slowly closes, and this is the end of the first act.
"Damn! This group of waste, if we were in Huguang Town, how could we let the Tartars come in so easily! After the curtain was opened, Liu Yidao was still trapped in the plot just now and couldn't extricate himself, "Lao Zhao, did this Hongshankou lose like this later?" ā
Zhao Liangdong sighed and nodded.
Liu Yidao couldn't help but clench his fist and slammed it on his thigh.
After a while, the second act begins.
The scene of this scene is a small village south of Hongshankou, and the sky is already dawning in the background.
This time, the beautiful little girls that Liu Yidao had been looking forward to before also appeared. A beautiful little daughter-in-law sent her husband to work in the fields with the swaddling clothes in her arms, and the husband led the oxen and looked back at his wife and children reluctantly step by step.
There were also a few young children playing nearby, and an old man sat under a "big tree" and laughed and cursed the troublemakers next to him while weaving baskets.
Everything in the "village" is so peaceful and peaceful.
But Liu Yidao had an ominous premonition in his heart, and many people next to him were the same as him.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before the Tartars came.
The stands were full of exclamations and angry scolding. If the battle between the Tartars and the border army just now only made them lament their misfortune and anger them, then what the Tartars did this time really made them angry.
The raging Tartars laughed wildly, and they slaughtered the whole village.
By the time a meaty-faced baya smirked and stabbed the tiger gun into the little swaddling swaddle on the ground, the situation in the stands was completely out of control.
"Kill the Tartars!" A general manager of Huguang Town in the stands was the first to roar, jumped up from his seat, and rushed towards the stage.
"Kill the Tartars!" The echo was like a tsunami from a mountain, with officers and soldiers from Huguang Town and ordinary people. Crowds swept away the stage.
"the Tartars!" Liu Yidao also roared and joined in.
Zhao Liangdong was a little hesitant, but he was soon caught up in the crowd.
The fence in front of the stage was broken down in three or two clicks, and there was an exclamation on the stage, and the curtain was closed in a panic. A team of supervisors with white feathers on their helmets hurriedly blew their whistles and rushed out from behind the stage, hurriedly organizing the human wall......
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"Damn! What a bird play! Never look at it again! On the way back, Liu Yidao was still angry.
Zhao Liangdong fell into deep thought and didn't speak for a long time. The impression left on him by today's scene was too shocking, and it can be said to have violently impacted his previous cognition. However, what Liu Yidao said "never look at it again", he didn't think so. I'm afraid that new dramas like today's will only become more and more popular in the future, regardless of whether they are infuriating or happy after watching them. Because it really captures people's hearts.
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In this way, there are regular days day after day, which makes people feel very fulfilled and stable.
At the same time, another group of people in Jiangxi are in a different state of mind. (To be continued.) )