Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

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On the third day, Liu An arrived, and Zhang Mai saw that he had put down a big stone in his heart. After Liu An heard the eight instructions issued by Zhang Mai, he smiled and said: "This instruction is very good, but it is difficult for the foolish and simple people among the soldiers to remember it even if they memorize it." He asked Zhang Mai to spot check, and the result was a spot check of ten people, and it was only a day later, and sure enough, two of them forgot part of the content.

Zhang Maisu said: "It seems that we have to urge them to recite it repeatedly, and we must let them firmly imprint these eight instructions in their minds, coupled with strict law enforcement, in order to make our military discipline better." ”

Liu An asked him rhetorically: "Special envoy, why don't you recite it to me." ”

Zhang Mai was stunned, these eight instructions were summarized by him, and the articles were written, but at this time, he couldn't recite them on the spot, and it was difficult for him to memorize them word for word, Liu An smiled: "I can't complain about them, this kind of loose and sluggish thing is difficult to remember." ”

Zhang Mai heard the word "scattered", and his heart moved: "Ouch, how did I forget." So he went back and changed the "three disciplines and eight points of attention" and made a new song.

Before the Red Army, Yuan Shikai used this trick in his small station training, and before Yuan Shikai, Zeng Guofan had already done this, and Zeng Guofan's military law lyrics were changed from Qi Jiguang's creation, and it was difficult to verify Qi Jiguang before.

Since ancient times, the cultural level of martial artists, especially low-level soldiers, has not been high, so generals who can perceive people's hearts will usually compile military laws and even combat skills into songs to teach soldiers to chant, which is the first choice for them to quickly grasp and memorize.

Zhang Mai sang the new song to Liu An, Guo Luo and others, everyone applauded, and Liu An translated it into other languages, "Those who can speak Tang Yan can only learn to sing Tang Yan military law songs, and those who can't speak Tang Yan will learn to sing Tang Yan military law songs after learning to sing military law songs in their own language." ”

Learning to sing is easier than learning to speak, relying on the help of melody, a soldier who can't speak Tang Yan can quickly learn a Tang Yan song, which is also the first step for them to learn Tang Yan.

Several lieutenants and deputy lieutenants sang first, and then they taught the team to be the deputy captain, and the team was going to teach the fire chief and deputy fire chief, and then the fire chief and deputy fire chief taught all the soldiers, and after two days, the city was full of sound, not only the sergeants were singing repeatedly, but even the three-year-old children would hum when they heard too much.

Seven days have passed, and there is still no news from the Talas side, and the Tang army that is still in Kulan City is not in a hurry to leave, and Yang Yi sent reconnaissance horses to ambush in the sand, on the side of the avenue, and on the hills. Zhang Mai and Guo Luo took both the Longxiang battalion and the reserve battalion outside the city for training every day, and patrolled the city in shifts. The military quality of the soldiers of the Longxiang battalion is as strong as a day! The pace of the reservists gradually followed.

The sixty-four merchants were extorted by Zhang Mai and were on the verge of bankruptcy, and they all hated this gang of "Tang Kou" in their hearts, and when they saw that they had recruited additional soldiers in Julan City, many merchants couldn't help but want to cry, "These robbers seem to be planning to live here for a long time!" Turn Kulan City into their thief's den! ”

However, hatred is hatred, and the security of Kulan City has become better, and those reservists wear new clothes every day, and follow the veterans to patrol all over the city to show off, while singing military discipline songs, envying those who hesitate and those who have been eliminated.

"Robbers...... Karadin actually said that the Don Army was a bandit! Zheng Wei said to Meng You, Aqimu's housekeeper in Kulan City, and his old family Zheng Hao, "Can the bandit group have such discipline? ”

"But what are they if they are not robbers! They have been here for less than two days, but they have already looted all the merchants in the city! Even we won't let it go! Meng Yu said indignantly. He is not yet forty years old, and in the Zheng family, he is not as close as Zheng Hao, but he also knows a little about the Zheng family and Tang Jun. "I don't want to think about how our family treated them before!"

Zheng Wei shook the "IOU" in his hand, which was written to him by Zhang Mai himself, and wrote clearly what Tang Jun "borrowed" in Chinese characters, and also marked that there would be interest. All the merchants who had been "borrowed" by the Tang Army had such an IOU in their hands, but many of them tore the IOU in angry cries - in their opinion, it was just a piece of waste paper.

"Why hasn't Talas reacted for so long, is Secan really planning to let this gang of Tang Kou go?" Samuel and Karadin complained, unaware that their men had been intercepted.

From the reaction of the residents, it can be seen that Guo Shiyong's arrangement is very successful, although Guo Shiyong, an old stubborn, sometimes makes Zhang Mai feel that he is conservative, but this veteran has a real hand in dispatching personnel and materials, in less than two days, almost all the materials knocked by the Tang army in Kulan City have been emptied, and the residents have not yet realized that the Tang army is actually ready to withdraw from Kulan City at any time.

Among all the merchants, Zheng Wei was the first to know the news, and that day Zhang Mai came to invite him, and when the Dao Po Tang Army was about to transfer again, and asked him to go with him, Zheng Wei refused.

"Our Zheng family and Xin Xiaye are not so cooperative." Zheng Wei said: "The Zheng family is still the father and brother in charge. Without the consent of my father, I dare not change the rules handed down by my ancestors. ”

"Rules?" Zhang Mai laughed, he didn't think that this Zheng Wei was a very well-behaved person, and through GuΓ²'s contact these days, he found that although Zheng Wei was young, his mind was quite clear, and his cultural cultivation was much better than Guo Luo's, not only proficient in Han culture, but also the doctrinal allusions of Tianfang Sect and Buddhism came out of his mouth, and he seemed to be very skilled in business travel. At present, the Anxi Tang Army is in great need of such talents. What's even more rare is that he is still a descendant of the envoy of Khotan Town, and has a deep relationship with the Tang Dynasty, which is really worthy of Zhang Mai's friendship.

But Zheng Wei always deliberately kept a certain distance from Tang Jun, Tang Jun borrowed food from him, he was obedient, and Zhang Xiang showed favor to him and pretended not to understand, which made Zhang Mai see the young man's thoughts: "It seems that he doesn't want to join us, he just wants to protect himself." ”

Do you want to forcibly take him away like you did with Nairshahi?

The idea popped up in my mind, but it was quickly rejected.

If someone like him is forcibly taken away, I'm afraid he won't really contribute. Maybe he will try to escape or even make trouble, and during his return to the east, Tang Jun can't stand the fact that there is one more person who can cause big trouble. And for the Zheng family, it is not suitable to use such a means as "hostage-taking".

"Brother Zheng, you have to think clearly." Zhang Mai said: "I can pat my chest and promise you, if you don't go with us, when the army of Talas arrives, your Zheng family will be unlucky." Then, Zhang Mai briefly told Zheng Wei about the experience of the people in the Tibetan Tablet Valley.

Zheng Wei hesitated for a moment, but still did not change his mind: "My Zheng family is not from the Zangbei Valley, we have settled here, and we have received direct promises from the two Great Khans. ”

"Two Great Khans?"

"Yes. The first is the founder of the Hui Dynasty, Qadir Khan, who publicly told us that he would treat all the tribes under his rule equally like the Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. The second, the Bogra Khan, who had captured the cities of Talas and Kulan a few years earlier, had promised us that he would act according to the laws of heaven that had been practiced before the Samamans. Although the city of Talas has changed hands several times over the decades, the new occupiers have not broken this promise. ”

Zhang Mai looked Zheng Wei up and down with his eyes, and looked at it for a long time, until Zheng Wei asked him what he was looking at, Zhang Mai sneered: "That's it, you believe in these promises?" Don't you think you're a little naΓ―ve? ”

Zheng Wei did not avoid Zhang Mai's sneering gaze, and said very seriously: "Not only did they say this, but they also drafted it into a clause and engraved it on a large bronze plaque, which was hidden in the Khan's mansion in Talas, so this is not only a promise, but also a law. ”

Zhang Mai sneered: "Even if it is a law, it has to be a law established by ourselves to have the premise of believing in it!" The law of the sword in the hands of others is not a law, it is a gift, and I do not believe in gifts. Never believe it! ”

Zheng Wei was silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "Special Envoy Zhang, let me ask you an abrupt word, if you can answer me positively with the word 'yes', I will go with you!" ”

"What do you want to ask?"

"Are you really from Chang'an?" At this time, there was no third person beside him, and Zheng Wei looked at the other party with burning eyes, just as Zhang Mai asked him if he was going to move the god card to Samarkand.

Zhang Mai did not evade, but he did not answer, and did not even take out the story of "westward travel from generation to generation". He just snorted softly.

"Okay, I won't ask that question." Zheng Wei sighed lightly, but said, "But Envoy Zhang, what do you want?" ”

"How's that?"

"What are you doing with the soldiers and civilians of the newly broken leaves?"

"What for?" Zhang Mai said as a matter of course: "Of course, it is to save the Tang people all the way, unite the forces of all factions, find a place where they can rest, contact the Tang Dynasty, and then restore the Western Regions." ”

This is the Tang Army's "grand strategy", but Zhang Mai is not afraid of being known, if someone runs to tell SΓΉ Bogra Khan that the gang of "Tang Kou" is going to do this, I am afraid that it will also be treated as a joke.

Zheng Wei's eyes flashed, and he seemed to think of many, many more quickly, but finally shook his head: "Special Envoy Zhang, you just said that I was a little naΓ―ve, but now I have to say that your thoughts are a little naΓ―ve." The current Western Regions is no longer the Western Regions of Ban Chao, and it is not invincible with thirty-six horsemen. ”

"Naive? I don't think so. Zhang Mai said: "The current Western Regions may be different, but as long as the Tang Army believes that we can succeed, we will definitely succeed!" Because we are all one, and there are no half-heartedness. His face was full of confidence when he said this, but Zheng Wei was a little stunned when he heard it.

"It's you," Zhang Mai said, "I see what you've done during this time, and I want to take care of this and that, but then I think you will not be able to please both ends, and you will be unlucky." At this point, I won't say more, and I will leave you one last sentence: No matter what happens in the future, as long as you don't do anything that is negative to the Han family, the door of my Tang Army will be open to you, and you are welcome to join at any time. As he spoke, he took out a scroll of maps: "I asked Arlo to draw this map overnight, and now I leave it to you, it is where we are stationed now, if you need anything, you can find us according to the map." ”

Zheng Weiqi said: "Aren't you stationed in Dengxia Valley? ”

Zhang Mai said with a smile: "A few years ago, the underground river of Talas was diverted again, and the well water under the Dengxia Valley also dried up, so I had to find another station. ”

After Zhang Mai left, Zheng Wei couldn't calm down for a long time.

According to Zheng Wei's analysis, unless the Central Plains sends a large army to respond, it is impossible for the Tang army to successfully return to the east, let alone "restore the Western Regions"!

But why did he waver in his judgment at that moment just now?

"As long as the Tang Army believes that we can succeed, we will definitely succeed!"

What kind of logic is Zhang Mai's sentence!

Zheng Wei is familiar with "The Art of War", has been trained in the Indian cause of enlightenment, and applies it to business affairs, and his mind is very clear.

Is it the "unrealistic" dream of my youth that is awakening?

Is it the yellow blood flowing in the body that is still working?

Datang ...... Datang ......

Why does that ancient and dreamy legend still have such a powerful power!

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