"If I had to choose one word to describe my own military career in the Chu State before October of the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty, the most appropriate word would be: muddy.

Because he was forcibly arrested and enlisted in the army, he has been unable to deal with his superiors after enlisting in the army, and he has never contributed in battle. So, after seven years in the army, I am still a soldier at the grassroots level. There is only one credo for the survival of my army: it is better to die than to live!

Therefore, after the destruction of Yiyang City, I was one of the Tanzhou soldiers who fled with the army in a hurry, and after the destruction of Tanzhou City, I was the first to escape from the Vermilion Bird Gate and turn around and hide in my country home; A few days later, a soldier from the same village came to me and made an unbelievable offer: join the Tang army!

It's a new thing! In the blink of an eye, you can become a soldier of another country? What's in it or not? That's what I blurted out at the time.

The brother who has played with him since he was a child has a lotus tongue, boasting that the Datang special forces are unparalleled in the world, and he will bring the policies promised by Lin Feng one by one. At that time, when I thought that my family had no money to spare and I didn't know how to make a living, and being a soldier was a good way out, I was also a little moved.

Finally, when this brother promised to divide the two pieces of money he received with 500 yuan, I finally nodded and agreed! Actually, my bottom line at that time was only 200 Wen!

On the third day of participating in Datang, for the first time in my life, I regretted that I was not active, because I was blinded by lard for a while, and I didn't sign up for the selection race of the Chutang United Elite Force, and my physical strength was very good! Not to mention that I was envious of the ten yuan paid by the selected people on the spot, that is, those who participated at that time but were not selected, after coming back, they were also looked down upon by the lieutenants and heads of the army, and several former soldiers in the army were promoted to deputy heads!

I seem to understand a little, in the Tang Army, under Lin Feng's hands, it seems that I don't care too much about whether I will be a senior official, but there are various opportunities for you to show your ability!

In the next few days, I followed Master Lin Feng to sweat and train on the school field, although I was very tired, but I was really moved to watch a special envoy of a great country complete various training actions with each soldier at the same time; Later, when I heard that there was a child next to Lord Lin who was His Royal Highness the Ninth of the Tang Dynasty, I was completely woken up by a basin of water, and every emperor and nobleman trained so hard, I couldn't be so lazy anymore!

On the sixth day of my re-enlistment, I boarded a warship bound for Guizhou and headed to Lingnan, where I had never been in my life. All the way south, the scenery is more and more different from the scenery of my hometown, and I have no intention of appreciating it, and every day I just think about what the battle of Guizhou will be like.

November 12th, a day I will never forget, was held on that day when the pledge meeting that influenced many brothers was held.

Killing an enemy will be rewarded with money, killing an enemy will be awarded a medal of honor, and after death, I can receive a thousand pieces and can be sent to the memorial cemetery, every time I hear Lin Feng say a condition, my heart will be hit hard, and these invisible impacts completely shatter my past thoughts. It turned out that as soldiers under Lin Feng, we were really regarded as a person, a real soldier, a soldier who was respected and recognized.

After the oath meeting, when the soldiers in the tent were excitedly discussing the money, honor, and other content they heard today, what was in my mind was the other words that Lin Feng said: The state of Chu is the state of Chu for everyone...... No one has the right to take pleasure away from us...... This is our land, this is our homeland......

A question that has never existed in my mind has never arisen, what kind of money and honor did I join the army for? Or for the sake of the homeland, for the sake of the country?

While everyone was chatting and talking excitedly, our head opened the curtain of the tent and entered, followed by a military magistrate and a clerk holding a large plate of paper and ink.

As soon as we all spoke, we were all stunned.

Lord Lin said that although it is a taboo to talk about what happens after death before the war, in order to leave your name in the annals of history and ensure that after everyone is brave and battled, the pension can be distributed to their respective families smoothly! Now, according to Lord Lin's request, every soldier must write a special suicide note, first of all, write your name, your place of origin, the names of your parents, wife and children, and your personal unfulfilled wishes! At first, the brothers around me looked disgusted, but later I noticed that their expressions had unconsciously changed to emotion.

My heart was hot, and I stood up first: 'Give me a piece of paper, I'll come first!' Dutou gave me a strange look and teased, "Yo, when will we all be the most slippery people volunteer?!" Come on, you don't recognize a few big characters, so let the clerk write it for you! There was a loud laugh all around, and I had to grab someone and punch him twice, but for a moment I didn't move at all, and calmly approached the clerk and asked him to help me write my name and wishes.

Looking at the young clerk's serious handwriting, I felt very calm at this time, and even looked forward to tomorrow's big battle!

Perhaps, this is the feeling of seeing death as home!

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——The above is excerpted from "The Brilliant Military Brigade of a Small Soldier", the Tang Army's "immortal soldier" Hu Yan Chengrui dictated when he was fifty years old, when the soldiers in the camp were excited to talk about the swearing-in meeting, Lin Feng apologized to Liu Renzhen, Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng and other generals in the big tent of the Chinese army, the reason is that there is an important ritual missing at today's oath meeting, that is, to introduce these important generals to all soldiers.

Liu Renzhen glanced at Lin Feng, pretended to be angry and said, "Lord Lin, you are the best at sensationalism on the spot!" Where do we dare to steal your limelight! ”

Zhou Xingfeng was in a relaxed mood, and he also laughed at Lin Feng: "Our strength is still wrong!" In terms of stimulating the morale of the army, Lord Lin alone can reach tens of thousands of soldiers with one mouth! ”

The other generals in the tent couldn't help laughing, Lin Feng bowed his hands again and again, please forgive your sins, you will definitely have a good drink after the war!

Just when a group of people were laughing, the person Lin Feng was waiting for finally appeared, and Feng Jingyun, who was searching for enemy reinforcements, finally rushed back.

Seeing Feng Jingyun's extremely serious expression, Lin Feng immediately dismissed the irrelevant personnel in the tent, leaving only a few special soldiers such as the senior members of the army and Li Congqian.

Feng Jingyun drank two cups of tea in succession, and then said solemnly: "The three of us are divided into two routes, water and land, and carefully search along the enemy's approach. Huzi and I were on the land route, and at last I heard the neighing of horses and elephants, and we sneaked up to them, and found that the enemy had a large number of soldiers and horses hidden in a valley fifty miles behind. After a day and a night of observation, the number of men and horses should be 15,000 to 18,000! ”

In this way, the enemy army has 35,000 to 38,000 men, and there is still a certain numerical advantage.

The atmosphere in the tent was very calm. In the past few days, everyone has deduced countless times on the sand table, and at most they have imagined how to deal with the enemy if there are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses.

"What is the mix of enemy forces?" Liu Renzhen asked.

"About three hundred cavalry, fifty elephants, basically all infantry! By the time we set out, some of the enemy soldiers had already begun to pack their tents, and it was expected that they would arrive at the enemy camp by the evening; Huzi is still spying on the enemy soldiers. Feng Yunyun replied.

"Brother Feng has worked hard! Take a good rest, I'll have you to help tomorrow! Lin Feng patted Feng Fengyun's shoulder and sent him away.

Back in the tent, Lin Feng and Liu Renzhen adjusted the red flag and villain representing the enemy, and once again discussed how to change and deal with it.

At the ugly hour that night, Lin Renzhao finally rushed back to report, and after he "escorted" all the Southern Han reinforcements along the way into the opponent's camp, he made a long detour to rush back.

Lin Feng fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and continued to discuss the troop arrangement with Liu Renzhen, and after fine-tuning, he went to sleep with his clothes.