Chapter 9: There are women to serve
When everything was ready, the troops decided to move, because Zhang Guanghua's status as a military advisor was consolidated, Li Da decided to arrange a few guards for him as well, and at Zhang Guanghua's request, he was arranged for young men in their twenties.
After Zhang Guanghua and his guards got acquainted with each other, they found that one of them named Lu Yishan turned out to be Lu Guangfu's nephew, and it seemed that Li Da and Lu Guangfu were indeed quite concerned about his safety.
The results of the four-day rest and recuperation training conducted by the "Li Lu Army" in Anxi County this time were obvious, and at least the soldiers could understand the orders of their superiors. Although in the eyes of Zhang Guanghua, a military advisor, the discipline of these quasi-professional soldiers is not as good as that of college students who have just completed military training, it is estimated that the current Yuan army is not much stronger, and it is more likely that the Yuan army will be defeated if it really wants to fight. What's more, the righteous army also recruited more than 3,000 young and strong men into the army this time, and supplemented hundreds of cavalry and firecrackers, and there was no shortage of swords and armor. The most important thing is that there are two large barrels of gunpowder, which are Zhang Guanghua's secret weapons. During the Yuan Dynasty, the people did not understand what confined space blasting was, and they always thought that gunpowder could only be used to fire guns for a long time in the future, and they would definitely give the Yuan army a big surprise when the time came.
Before leaving, of course, you still need to leave a reliable army to defend the city, or you will not wait for yourself to fight fiercely in front, but the rear will be served by other rebels, which will make people cry and laugh. Lü Guangfu's younger brother Lü Guangxin took on this task as a matter of course, and he was the father of Lü Yishan, a guard under Zhang Guanghua.
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In the early morning of the eighth day of the seventh month of July 1354, more than 10,000 troops rushed vigorously to Xianyou County under the leadership of Li Da, and the rear of the yellow dust was closely followed by five or six thousand heavy auxiliaries. In order to take care of the baggage along the way, the large army estimated that it would take two days to get to Xianyou.
Zhang Guanghua looked in front of him and behind him, and a team of riding or walking in the distance was not spectacular! However, the soldiers in the middle of the line did not feel this way, and there was a large bright yellow mass in the cavalry in front of them, which seriously ruined the beauty. We zoomed in closer, and it turned out to be an open-top front-wheel drive carriage (nonsense, can the carriage be rear-drive), and it was the huge yellow-topped sun umbrella in the center of the carriage that made the entire cavalry team present a sense of disobedience.
And our protagonist Zhang Guanghua is sitting in a carriage with his two "maids", eating melon seeds and chatting and joking. In fact, the two women in the car have nothing to do with Zhang Guanghua, fair-skinned, quiet and beautiful Li Xinlan is the granddaughter of the village chief, Zhang Guanghua slept in her bed on the night she fainted outside the village chief's house. Lu Zhen, who has a pink carved goose egg face and a big grin, is Lu Guangfu's daughter, and Lu Guangxin has a son and a daughter, and now they are all by his side.
Although Zhang Guanghua knew that there were two beautiful women in the rebel army from the casual chat with Lu Xian when he was working as an accountant in the cave before, today is the first time he has seen it. Originally, Li Da did not allow women to go with the army, but the two women's pleas let them follow Zhang Guanghua, after all, Zhang Guanghua did not need to go to the battlefield as a military advisor, and it was the safest place in the army.
In the carriage, Li Xinlan and Lu Zhen were chatting idly, and Zhang Guanghua was holding the lime chalk that he had made yesterday and was writing and painting on the blackened wooden board. Occasionally, in a flash of inspiration, he used his homemade charcoal pen to write down in detail on the paper, and his hands were black and white. Although his business empire is already working on arquebuses, he still has to prepare for the future.
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When the red sun reached noon, Li Da ordered a one-hour lunch break.
Zhang Guanghua also jumped out of the car and exercised his arms and legs. Seeing that Lu Yishan and several other guards beside him were obviously energetic, trying to wrestle in the open space, he suddenly had an idea and kicked them all back.
With the method of leading by example, he began to teach them to stand in a military posture, march and salute, stand upright, take a break, walk in unison and walk in steps, looking at Lu Yishan and others who are not even as good as primary school students, Zhang Guanghua was so angry that he wanted to kick people several times.
Among these movements, the most difficult to teach is turning left and right, and the ancients really didn't distinguish between left and right. Zhang Guanghua, who really had no choice, had to think of a way to let them wear shoes on their left foot and not wear their right foot, and every time they gave an order, they "turned left with shoes" and "turned right with bare feet", so constantly repeating and memorizing finally made them form a conditioned reflex to the order.
An hour's rest time passed quickly, Li Xinlan and Lu Zhen, the two naughty and cute girls, Zhang Guanghua was completely free, he was too busy with so many things of his own, and he didn't bother to care about them.
The team started again, Zhang Guanghua didn't take the carriage anymore, and trained with Lu Yishan and walked together.
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And so repeatedly, two days passed. The team finally arrived outside Xianyou City in the evening of the next day. In the evening, after Zhang Guanghua had finished teaching his guards, he immediately went to make his secret weapon, a sharp weapon for siege of the city. Tomorrow morning is the battle, and this weapon should be used on the spot.
Infinite busyness, but the most important thing is fulfillment.
The moonlight was dim, and the gusts of night wind made people feel a little cold. Because he didn't have a watch, Zhang Guanghua estimated that he was busy until ten o'clock in the evening before going back. Walking outside his tent, he was surprised to find a bonfire next to it. Because everyone went to sleep, except for the soldiers who were on guard, the whole camp was very quiet, and the crackling sound of the firewood burning was even more noticeable.
And the most attractive thing is not the burning flame, but the girl quietly plucking red coals around the bonfire. Take a closer look, isn't that who Li Xinlan is? At this time, she was facing Zhang Guanghua sideways, and from Zhang Guanghua's perspective, she could just see her silhouette depicted by the bonfire. Her long hair was not tied up like it was during the day, but spread out evenly behind her. Through the firelight, you can just see the delicate outline of her face, although in the daytime, you can inadvertently find two cute little pimples on the side of her face, but at this moment, Zhang Guanghua feels that her face shape is particularly perfect. Joan's nose and cherry mouth, as well as his long eyelashes, were secretly stirring his nerves. Because Li Xinlan did not sit on the ground in order to stir up the flames, but leaned forward with her legs bent slightly, from Zhang Guanghua's angle, you could just see his full chest trembling with the swaying of his body, and the seductive curves of her waist, legs and buttocks made Zhang Guanghua instantly think about it and couldn't help himself.
"Why didn't I find out that this little girl was so hot before, it must be that she was wearing a chest wrap that was too tight, and now it's night, isn't she wearing ......" Zhang Guanghua thought infinitely obscenity in his heart.
At this time, Li Xinlan also happened to turn around and see Zhang Guanghua and smiled at him. Zhang Guanghua thought about it, but walked over and sat beside her.
"Miss Li hasn't slept so late?" Zhang Guanghua touched the back of his head and broke the charming atmosphere with a non-nutritious opening sentence.
"Yes, didn't Zhang Gongzi sleep either?"
Seeing the slightly open and closed cherry mouth under the erect Qiong's nose, Zhang Guanghua lost his mind instantly, and had an urge to kiss the past. But when he noticed that Li Xinlan was glaring at him with her big blinking eyes, he smiled wryly, took the wooden stick in front of Li Xinlan, and pretended to make a bonfire.
"I have a lot of things to do, although I am only a military advisor and don't need to go to the front line to fight, but I need to worry about the strategy of attacking the city, the logistics of the army, and how to manage the city after it is captured. And for the sake of future development, I have to come up with all kinds of ways to make money, and I also have to improve our weapons. I'm so busy that my feet don't touch the ground, so it's normal to go to bed late. After two rounds of firewood, Zhang Guanghua began to answer the previous question. After speaking, he looked at Li Xinlan again: "It was you here that surprised me." ”
"Humph! It's not yours alone, of course Miss Ben can come if she wants. Actually, it's not because I know that you are very busy, I specially boiled a little porridge for you, who knew that I didn't see you at all after I came, so I was hot. After speaking, Li Xinlan pouted at the fire, Zhang Guanghua followed her gaze, and sure enough, she found a simmering clay pot next to the fire.
Seeing Zhang Guanghua's excited face (chicken movement?) Li Xinlan blushed suddenly, and she didn't dare to look at him. After thinking about it, as if she was afraid that Zhang Guanghua would misunderstand, she said again: "This porridge is a thank you gift for giving me and Zhen'er a ride in the carriage, and you have prepared so many delicious foods for us, I should also care about you a little." After speaking, she brought the crockpot to Zhang Guanghua's side with a cloth, and then said softly: "Hurry up and eat, I'll pack it up and take it back after eating." ”
At this moment, Zhang Guanghua's heart was full of inexplicable emotion, the people around him didn't understand what he had been doing, sometimes they would look at themselves like a neuropath, although they didn't show dissatisfaction with themselves, but this sense of alienation still made them very depressed. And Li Xinlan's heartfelt concern for himself today made him feel that all his efforts to the righteous army were worth it. Sensing that there was a tendency for tears to roll out of his eyes, Zhang Guanghua hurriedly took the spoon, sat on the ground and scooped up the porridge and drank it.
Li Xinlan squatted on the ground, supporting her chin with both hands, silently watching Zhang Guanghua gobble up there, with a smile on her face. As if feeling that he was eating too fast, Li Xinlan began to chat with him again: "Brother Zhang, I always think that you are a little special, you know a lot of things that others don't know, were you really a monk before?" ”
"It's a monk, I'm not just a monk, I'm also a Taoist. As for why I know so much, it is entirely because of my two masters, two old men, who when they were young, traveled all over the world, and as far south as they sailed through Ryukyu Luzon to a place full of kangaroos, and the people there used utensils. ”
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1. "Messy Hundred" refers to the trademark of Messy Encyclopedia, a lump of golden stool.