On the tenth day of February in 1003, the sting had just passed. The silence of winter begins to revive.

The grass around Yunwai Fort began to turn green, revealing a smell of prosperity. However, this is a grassland, and the real spring has not yet arrived, at least until Qingming or Gu Yu will slowly warm up.

For example, today, although the sky is clear, large clouds have been piling up in the sky, and the old shepherd knows that this day, it is not sure when it will start to rain.

As soon as the military horn sounded, Shen Yun got up from the bed, first put on the inner lining, then put on the lining made of silk, the outer garment woven of cotton, and finally the armor and protective gear. As soon as the helmet was put on, Shen Yun's entire momentum came out.

"What a handsome young man! Come on, let my brother kiss it! ”

Next to him, Zhong Lisi came over with a salivating face, and Shen Yun lifted his stinky mouth, and scolded with a smile: "Come on, you're still learning from me." Didn't you wear the silk lining as an inner lining today? ”

Zhong Li Si salivated and said: "How can it, the commander has been taught, I have a good memory!" ”

In the beginning, all newcomers were taught that the silk lining was to be worn close to the body, and in case of being shot by an enemy arrow, the barbs on the arrows would not penetrate too deep into the flesh and could be easily pulled out.

However, the Flying Cavalry solemnly told all the cadets that if they wanted to fight in the Northland, especially in the cold Northland, it was best to wear a linen lining in silk, and even cotton underwear should not be worn close to the body. The reason is very simple, the weather in the north is extremely cold, the silk is shady, and if you wear it close to your body for a long time, it is easy to cause the silk to cool when you sweat, and when the time comes, the outside will freeze, and the inside of the clothes will be icy, not to mention the war. If you don't freeze to death, it's a great creation! Cotton underwear is also a nature, it is easy to absorb sweat, and then it freezes when it is blown by the cold wind, which is not suitable for close wear, and can only be used as cold-proof clothing!

These are all the experiences gained by the soldiers of the Flying Cavalry through actual combat. So now, every cadet soldier will wear silk and cotton clothes with a linen lining inside to prevent frostbite and freezing to death.

The soldiers were tidyed up, and the trumpets for breakfast sounded. After three months of training, everyone was well organized and slid down the toilet drain. He quickly fed the horses the fodder and trotted to the canteen to get food.

All the cadets in the cafeteria had arrived, but Liu Zhen walked to Shen Yun's side with a plate and sat down to eat and drink. The others didn't say anything when they saw it—they were used to it.

Since Shen Yun fell on his back that day, Liu Zhen discovered Bohai Hou. However, he was also very vigilant and did not reveal his identity on the spot. Instead, he called Shen Yun aside with a smile and chatted privately for a long time.

And then later. Shen Yun's identity became erratic. Although Liu Zhen was not overly enthusiastic about Shen Yun. But unconsciously, Liu Zhen will still take special care of Shen Yun, for example, during training, Liu Zhen's confidant Zhu Neng will often be by Shen Yun's side to teach him how to domesticate the "lame rabbit"!

"Lame Bunny", oh. I can't call it that anymore, I should call it "Rui Beast"!

The "Rui Beast" has now grown to two meters and one four, weighing six hundred and seventy pounds, which is like a giant horse. Speed is even more useless. At least among all the cavalry in Yunwai Castle, not a single horse could outrun it! And it is extremely fierce, when it encounters a horse that runs in front of it, it will bite its legs and kick it for a while, and it must knock the other party down.

After two races with the Flying Cavalry and the defeat of five war horses, including Zhu Neng, he got such a nickname.

"This horse breed is called 'Rui Beast'," Zhu Neng got up from the ground grinning at that time, but his eyes were full of greed and desire when he looked at Rui Beast - just like seeing his deceased wife, "The reason why Rui Beast is Rui Beast is the most important thing is the beast word in the back, this kind of horse is not easy to learn, but once it learns, it can be as fast as lightning, and the good horse and sweat and blood BMW are not its opponents!" Obediently, you've found a treasure! ”

From Zhu Neng's words, it can be seen how much he admires this horse. However, Shen Yun will never cut his love.

You must know that there is only one way to let the Rui Beast learn to walk and run, and that is not to be afraid of falling, just throw the whip and press the spurs when you ride it, and let the Rui Beast run hard, and run and run......

However, in this process of "running and running", Shen Yun did not suffer less, and was forced to do "front flips" and "back flips" on the horse several times, and almost gave up his life! In this process, the bruised nose and swollen face were still light, and Shen Yun dislocated his wrist alone eight times, and once he was almost crushed by this horse-shaped giant beast...... If one of the ten Rui beasts can be trained, it will be considered earned.

After such a hard training in exchange for today's results, how could Shen Yun give it up?

Zhu Neng believes that the physique of the Rui Beast is indeed more suitable for heavy riding. Shen Yun even gritted his teeth when he heard this: "Then Lao Tzu should be heavily ridden, no one should want to rob Lao Tzu's Rui Beast!" ”

After gritting his teeth, Shen Yun asked Zhu Neng again: "By the way, you said a beast, how do you explain the word 'Rui'?" ”

Zhu Neng saw that Shen Yun didn't have the idea of transferring, so he didn't want to say anything, and said for a long time: "Let's study it yourself!" ”

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Liu Zhen's care for Shen Yun is obvious, but the Flying Cavalry Army's care for female soldiers is not far behind. For example, at breakfast today, Zhou Hui led her good sisters Situ Xiaoyue and Fang Xiaorou to squeeze over - it seems that Shen Yun's table has always been the most crowded during this time - Liu Zhen did not allow it.

"Platoon Leader Zhou, it doesn't seem right for you to do this, you will let other robes have opinions about us!" Shen Yun saw that Zhou Hui was crowded around him again, and he was busy with his face.

"What's the opinion?" Zhou Hui glanced at him and said disdainfully.

Pang Tong stuffed a mouthful of steamed buns hatefully on the other side of Shen Yun, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as you have female soldiers to accompany you to eat, I have a lot of opinions!" ”

Zhong Lisi was diligently bringing breakfast mare's milk to Situ Xiaoyue, and when he heard this, he said directly: "Your opinion can be reserved, we should not have heard it." ”

"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed in unison.

In the Imperial Army, it was forbidden for male and female soldiers to discuss marriage between each other. Of course, if there are male soldiers harassing female soldiers, once they are reported, it will be absolutely a catastrophe - in the land of China, the strong/traitorous no matter which dynasty or time and space they are in. It's the most despised!

However, if a male and female soldier wants to get married, they must abide by the following points: first, they cannot have sex together during the expedition, and they must strictly follow the military schedule, and they will not be treated preferentially because you are husband and wife; Second, two people can serve in the same unit, but they cannot be subordinate to each other; Thirdly, if one of the two loses a military operation because of his personal feelings, he must be punished more severely than normal!

It can be said that the military laws of the empire both took care of the feelings between men and women. It is also necessary to take precautions against delaying major events because of feelings.

So here, female soldiers are definitely the most popular group of people. Even those who already have wives at home can't help but be nicer to female soldiers.

Of course, those who have wives are not allowed to have emotional entanglements with female soldiers, otherwise they will be expelled from the army. In serious cases, there is also a prison sentence - the marital status of both men and women is public, and there is no fear that someone will hide it.

However, there are concubines in the family like Fang Cheng. Shen Yun has a sweetheart like this. The army is not recorded, and the army will not take care of it. After all, neither the concubine nor the sweetheart are considered wives recognized by the laws of the empire.

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The breakfast of the Imperial Army was still very rich, with a glass of mare's milk (to be spiking, the mare's milk tasted really bad at first, and many people would vomit, but if you drink too much, you will get used to it). Four white buns or two bowls of rice, in addition to side dishes, mainly two vegetables, one meat and one soup. At noon and in the evening, it will be relatively hearty, in addition to the staple food, there are three vegetarian dishes, two meat and one soup. In addition, according to the intensity of training, the appropriate amount of meat supplementation will be added.

In this era, the food of the army of the Han Empire was absolutely envious of the soldiers of other countries around the world. This is also one of the reasons why the empire's military spending has surged all year round and remains high.

After eating, the gate of Yunwai Fort was opened, and all the cadets and soldiers set off for training again. During the two months in Yunwai Castle, they lived almost isolated days. Especially after the heavy snow closed the road last month, the horse team from Yunzhou to Yunwaibao rarely came.

If the estimate is good, there will be news from Yunwai Fort in the next two days, and at that time, the flying cavalry army may be transferred away with a paper order, and it is estimated that the cadet soldiers will also rush back to Zhaowu University for graduation distribution, so the cadet soldiers of each company have seized the time to learn more from the elite of the flying cavalry army.

But just as Shen Yun had tidied up the horse's belly belt and was about to ride the beast to set off, the watchtower bell that had not been ringing for nearly a month suddenly remembered.

"Phew...... Wow...... Wow...... Wow...... Wow......"

The continuous, hurried bell suddenly made everyone who had only heard two or three rings a little dazed.

"My goodness, five! It's so short, it's an army of 5,000! Zhong Lisi held the reins and sighed.

"Let's go, let's see what the 5,000-strong army looks like!" Shen Yun excitedly retied the reins of the horse, and excitedly pulled the other four people towards the castle wall.

When the bell rang, the city gate was about to be closed for the time being, and no one could get out, so many cadet soldiers also climbed the fortress wall, ready to catch a glimpse of the 5,000-strong army.

It is said that now in Yunwai Fort, there are only two or three thousand people when they are full. An army of 5,000 people, Shen Yun and they really haven't seen it. It is said that there are more than 10,000 people, all over the mountains, half of these 10,000 people, it must be very spectacular, right?

Shen Yun thought right, this army of five thousand people was indeed very spectacular, southeast of Yunwai Fort, along the straight road, a team with no end in sight was slowly coming.

It was a mixed group of infantry and cavalry, with the infantry marching in the middle and the cavalry on either side, about two meters apart between the cavalry.

The march in this era is not like the film and television works that Shen Yun watched in modern times, where soldiers hold their weapons high, as if they have inexhaustible strength.

In fact, when marching in the era of cold weapons, the army should pay more attention to the preservation of physical strength. In general, infantry only wore swords for melee combat, and other things such as spears, bows, and shields were placed on baggage carts.

The cavalry was even simpler, and the complex equipment was placed on the reserve horse and the baggage horse, and only the three types of equipment were left for themselves: bows, arrows and knives.

When marching, whether on foot or on horse, they will not beat their banners high, for fear that the enemy will not be able to see them, but will lower their flags, or even hang them at all. It's a bit of a dead end.

Shen Yun had learned all of these in military classes, so there was no need to say more.

After watching for a long time, most of this team finally entered Shen Yun's line of sight, and at this time, Fang Cheng suddenly sighed and said strangely: "They don't plan to enter Yunwai Castle, just passing by outside the fort?" ”

Really. The cavalry at the front of the team made a detour at the fork of the three-mile branch of Yunwai Fort, and went straight to the northwest, without any intention of entering the fort.

However, there were still more than ten horsemen who sped up their horses and galloped towards Yunwai Castle.

"Stop! Whoever comes is the same name! "On the walls of the fort, there were shouts from the garrison, and some soldiers had drawn their bowstrings, ready to shoot positioning arrows. As soon as the incoming cavalry did not heed the dissuasion and crossed the positioning arrow, the soldiers on the fort wall would attack.

Outside the fort, more than ten horsemen stopped, and one of them pulled out a flag from his arms and shook it, and at the same time said: "The military order of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty." The Supreme Commander of Yunwai Fort receives the order! ”

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It was still that conference room, Liu Zhen sat on the top with a solemn face, and in front of him was a military order stamped with the emperor's jade seal, the seal of the Privy Council, and the private seal of Duke Hu!

All the officers above the company level in the entire Yunwai Fort were present.

The atmosphere was a little solemn, and after the herald sent the order to Liu Zhen, Liu Zhen immediately ordered the entire Yunwai Fort to be blocked. At the same time, all officers at and above the company level were ordered to attend a meeting in the conference room.

Zheng Yingluo Oak, who originally had a hippie smile, felt that the atmosphere was a little different today, and sat at the square table. Wait for Liu Zhen to speak.

Gong Mao glanced at everyone present. guessed what the military order said, but without Liu Zhen's order, it was not good for him to pick it up and read it directly. After a while, he thought about it and said, "Ministry Marshal, this ......"

At this moment, Liu Zhen, who had been bowing his head and meditating, suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Spread Your Majesty's will." The congregation will take the order! ”

Everyone suddenly froze, and with a "whoosh", everyone stood up and saluted with their chests crossed. Qi Qi shouted: "The last general will take the order!" ”

"The Han is virtuous, rebellious and unreasonable. I am a great commander, and I treat him with sincerity and virtue, but he repays virtue with resentment, kills my Han people, and kills my people, which is unbearable or unbearable. I will punish him for his sins...... It is hereby ordered: In addition to the local garrison, the armies of Yunwaibao should be organized on the spot, march west with the army, enter Pingliang to rest and reorganize, and choose a day to quell the rebellion. Chin this. ”

Liu Zhen finished reading the letterhead in his hand, turned another page, and all the officers were still surprised, but he read it again: "Spread the military order of the Privy Council of the Han Dynasty: All the soldiers of Yunwaibao rushed to Pingliang to listen to the tune, this order." ”

"Spread the military order of His Royal Highness Hu Gong of the Han Dynasty: Yunwai Fort is a military registration department, and the students below the senior year will return to Yuyang immediately after receiving the military order, and there must be no mistake. The fourth-year cadets graduated on the spot, were promoted to school soldiers, awarded double tattoos, and rushed to Pingliang with the army before the first day of the first month of March, so as to wait for reorganization without delay. This order. ”

The decree of the Han Emperor was narrative in nature, while the military orders of the Privy Council and Duke Hu were much more concise, and the officers could understand them. Everyone shouted in unison: "Whoa! ”

Gong Mao hesitated for a moment and said, "Marshal, this Your Majesty's will is the same as the marshal's order, but the military order of the Privy Council seems to be contradictory, this is ...... How do I choose? Please show me! ”

Indeed, the emperor's decree and Hu Gong's military order was to send all the soldiers except the garrison to Pingliang, while the military order of the Privy Council was to let all the soldiers go. This seems to be a bit of a conflict.

Liu Zhen said solemnly: "We are Han soldiers, and Your Majesty is the supreme commander of the Han army, so naturally your Majesty's will shall prevail." What's more, isn't it clear how to choose between us and His Royal Highness Hu Gong? ”

Gong Mao was stunned, his heart was relaxed, and he said with a smile on his face: "Well, my subordinates will immediately prepare a burden for your robes." ”

Gong Mao was relieved, but others were not so relaxed. It is said that the imperial military order has never been ordered out of the three gates, and even if there is, it will not conflict with each other so much. What really happened during this month of isolation from the outside world? How could there be three military orders transmitted to Yunwai Fort at the same time?

Liu Zhen said: "Gentlemen, this military order is not specifically transmitted to Yunwai Fort, but all the major castles in the south of Duxin Prefecture have this order, and the military post department only adds the name of the place of communication to each military order. As he spoke, Liu Zhen handed over the three military orders to the company commanders for reading, and after everyone circulated them and confirmed that the seals and fire signatures were correct, everyone responded with a bang: "Obey Your Majesty's will!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, this expedition is indeed a little unexpected, however, my generation of soldiers, since the day of the army, has always been ready to serve our emperor to death! The order came out suddenly, and I hope that the monarchs will clean up as soon as possible, start at three o'clock in the afternoon, catch up with the army in front, and before the first day of the first day of March, we must rush to Pingliang! Liu Zhen's sonorous words spread throughout the conference room.

All the generals sang in unison: "Oh, start at three o'clock in the afternoon, and you will arrive at Pingliang on the first day of the first month of March!" ”

Liu Zhen bowed horizontally, and all the generals also returned the salute.

I don't know what reason will make the cadet soldiers also suddenly go out, but no one present has any objections, as Liu Zhen said, since the day of the army, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty are ready to give everything for the emperor and the Han Dynasty, and the military order is sudden, but they have long been prepared.

The solemn and passionate atmosphere gradually spread.

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Shen Yun and Fang Cheng were still standing on the fortress wall and watching the seemingly endless procession.

"Why are so many troops going west, one, two, three, four, this is the fourth dial, right?" Fang Cheng raised his hand to cover his eyes, looked at it and said.

The sun was a little harsh, but the clouds in the sky seemed to be more and thicker, about to obscure the sun.

Shen Yun nodded: "Yes, their team doesn't seem to be very well connected, some are fast and some are slow, the front one is about to go out of ten miles, and this one has just passed." ”

The bells on the watchtower had barely been heard for an hour, and they must have rang every once in a while, and then countless armies were seen marching slowly westward. The first group had 5,000 men, and the rest of the teams were more or less, but they were generally between 1,000 and 2,000 men. There was a long distance between the ranks, and there were many wagons carrying them, as if the armies from all over the country were gathering in one place.

Shen Yun also specially asked a local garrison platoon commander, is this situation common in this assembly?

But I didn't think that the platoon commander was very excited and said: "I have been in this Yunwai Fort for ten miles, this kind of situation that stretches over the army, this is really the first time I have seen it, it is really his grandmother's magnificent!" ”

When Shen Yun heard the bell ring again and the fifth group approached from afar, he couldn't stand still.

"Teng Yu, I think the situation is a little weird!" Shen Yun whispered to the other party, "With this batch, it's a team of nearly 10,000 people, and a division of people!" This goes on and on to the west, and it seems that there is a big war in the west! ”

Fang Cheng thought about it for a moment, and immediately said happily: "But the imperial court is ready to launch a counterinsurgency in the northwest?" ”

Shen Yun couldn't laugh when he saw his happy appearance, and said secretly, I hope I guessed wrong this time.

But at this moment, the assembly horn sounded, and the fifth company had a cold face, and he couldn't see any expression, but there seemed to be a fire jumping in his eyes. I only heard him say loudly to the cadets of the fifth company: "The soldiers of the fifth company of Zhaowu University listen to the order, and according to the order of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the whole army immediately began to reassemble, and the destination is Pingliang City, Yinzhou, today is the tenth day of the first month of February, and it must be arrived before the first day of the first month of March!" This order! ”

"Obey the Emperor's will!" The soldiers replied in a neat manner. But after answering, there was a mixed stream of inquiries.

"Company commander, what are you doing in Pingliang?"

"Yes, but the Northwest Campaign broke out?"

"Company commander, let's go to Pingliang, what should we do after graduation?"

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The various questions made the face of the fifth company even more cold, and he shouted: "As a soldier, you should obey military orders at this moment, instead of asking about irrelevant matters." The details of the specific military order will be explained to everyone by Platoon Commander Zhang on the way. Now, I order, the whole army is ready and go! ”

"Whoa." More than 100 people in the fifth company saluted, and then immediately began to prepare.

Shen Yun stood at the back of the team, and this heart was getting more and more cold...... (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )