Section 13 Border City Month

The auxiliary soldiers are the most unqualified soldiers in the Tang Army, saying that they are people, they are armed with weapons, saying that they are soldiers, they have no money and food, their weapons are their own, their clothes are their own, and even the food they eat is their own.

It stands to reason that they should be a group of stragglers, vulnerable to a blow, who would have thought that they were more ferocious than wolves on the battlefield, although they died without mercy, they often fought to the death on the battlefield and did not retreat are the Tang auxiliaries. Although they also need to bring their own weapons and armor, they have an advantage, that is, the whole family does not have to bear the rent of the imperial court, most of them are good families, well-equipped, and the most basic military force of the Tang Dynasty.

What the auxiliary soldiers ask for is nothing more than military merit, some family members have committed crimes and need military merit to be exempted, and some are purely hot-brained, wanting to rely on a body of martial arts to spell out a rich road, poor families can't be government soldiers, they can't afford to buy expensive clothes and armor, and they can't afford to buy war horses, only relying on the army, dreaming of one day being able to cut off the enemy's head and return home with wealth and wealth.

They rely on the surrender to get supplies, there is no money and food without fighting, once there is a siege, death and other high-risk battles, they are the first choice considered by the generals, life and death are commonplace, this is their own view of life, indifferent and helpless.

Years of war have created a large number of poor people who only know how to hold knives, and the output in the fields cannot support a big family. With a broken knife on his back, he left home and began his most brutal tour of auxiliaries.

Yun Ye suddenly remembered Zhang Cheng, the first person he saw when he first arrived in Datang, honest and bold, strong and kind, he still remembers it clearly. When the cavalry attacked, he pushed Yun Ye and the two women into the woods, and he himself ran into the military formation and shouted to the death.

Now he is already the lowest-ranking officer in Datang. He discovered himself, and he made merit in making salt, and he was rewarded with three turns. This is already the most rebellious of the auxiliary soldiers, and I remembered what Cheng Chumo said to himself: Zhang Cheng learned the good news and deducted your head for a morning, every time it was real, and the blood on your forehead stained the ground red.

What happened to the honest peasant who carried an inedible piece of salt in his arms and treated him as a treasure? Yun Ye missed it a little.

Now there stood two hundred and forty-seven men in front of him, some over fifty, some under fifteen, old. Their hair was gray and scarce, and there were soft hairs at the corners of their lips, and they stood straight, and the cold wind peeked through the holes in their clothes. But no one paid attention to it, because there was a marquis standing in front of them, a noble man they had only heard of and had never seen.

When did the auxiliaries have a marquis commander? The sensitivity they have developed over the years of conquest makes them feel that a big deal is coming!

Life and death are commonplace, as long as there is an opportunity to earn military merits. Life, not worth much!

"From today on, I am your commander, my name is Yun Ye, let you know the name, not to be in awe, but to sue you, come to me if you are in trouble, it's fair, I will go to you when I am in trouble, because I can't fight, I rely on you on the battlefield, so you can rely on me under the battlefield, I found you a captain, he will manage you on weekdays, if any of you have the courage, you can find him to try, I am not good at martial arts, just look for him."

Yun Ye said it very casually, just like pulling a family routine, and telling the truth, so that the auxiliaries looked at each other, not knowing what to say, but they had doubts in their hearts, Hou Ye is like this? Dressed in very fine armor, he yawned a lot, as if he hadn't woken up, let alone a young man, and there was a buzz on the school ground. …,

Niu Jinda's pro-soldier leader stood up and shouted: "Silence! Which of you is the head? ”

An old auxiliary soldier stood up and clasped his fists and spoke: "Little Nie Da Niu, temporarily commanding the auxiliary soldiers." ”

"Okay, Lao Tzu is now the captain, now, you are the vice captain, now elect twenty-five more squad leaders, you choose by yourself, and give you a pillar of incense time." Lao Niu's personal captain is also a military rank at the rank of captain in the army, and it is naturally more than enough to manage hundreds of auxiliary soldiers.

Seeing how things went smoothly, Yun Ye was about to go home, he thought about it all night last night, and now he was so sleepy, just after walking a few steps, a little soldier who was only fourteen or fifteen years old rushed over, and before he could get to him, he was pressed to the ground by Lao Zhuang and them.

"Master Hou, I only want a pair of shoes, I only need a pair of shoes." His head was pressed against the snow, still struggling to say what he wanted.

Yun Ye asked Lao Zhuang and them to let go of the little soldier, only to see that he was wearing a fat dress, his hair was messy, and his face was full of mud, he didn't wipe it, he just looked at Yun Ye deadly, his eyes were full of longing, he had a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and his black feet were full of blood that had been frozen by the cold wind, like a small mouth, he was embarrassed to retract his feet, and he lowered his head helplessly, his face was flushed.

"Your feet are as big as mine, so wear my shoes,"

Yun Ye always has two pairs of shoes in his horse bag, and the shoes of the Tang Dynasty can't help but be worn, and it won't take long for the toes to be exposed, so grandma specially prepared two pairs of shoes for Yun Ye, ready to change them at any time.

A pair of boots with cowhide soles were placed in front of the little soldier, he wiped his hands, carefully held the boots in his arms, and said to Yun Ye seriously: "I'll help you on the battlefield!" ”

His words made a lot of people present laugh, they didn't think that Yun Ye needed the help of a small soldier, and what he said earlier was just a joke.

Yun Ye didn't smile, he said to the little soldier seriously: "Okay, it's decided, I'll give you shoes, you help me on the battlefield, but you have to heal your feet first, you go to the south gate to find Daoist Sun Simiao, ask him to give you some medicinal materials, go back and soak your feet, you can't help me on the battlefield with feet like this." ”

People's kindness knows no class, even the kindness given to you by a humble person should be cherished carefully, because this is the greatest gift God gives to everyone, we don't have many opportunities to accept the kindness of others in our lives, and Yun Ye will never miss such an opportunity.

The auxiliaries on the school field were still laughing, and the old auxiliaries came to a strong man who laughed the most, and raised his hand to give a loud slap, and the strong man who smoked was a little dazed, and he didn't know why the veteran would whip himself.

"The next time something like this happens, if you still laugh, I'll cut off your head with a knife." The veteran's voice was as cold as ice ballast, which made the strong man shiver, shrank his head, covered his face and said no more.

Yun Ye cleared his throat and said to the auxiliaries: "They are all raised by their fathers and mothers, don't look down on anyone, I, who is the marquis, is not necessarily better than you, everyone on the battlefield can only survive if they form a group, you help him today, maybe he will save your life tomorrow, this kind of account is not daring to calculate, and I can't count it, I just hope that everyone will go home with a lot of money in their arms, and don't throw their lives on this wasteland." ”

"Cheng Hou Ye Jiyan, the little one will definitely try to go back alive, and there are two children at home waiting for me to go back and bring them candy to eat." The veteran bowed to Yun Ye before replying.

"Oh? Look at your age, listening to the tone of your voice, is your child still very young? If you have a wife at home, why do you still lick blood on the knife? "It's very strange, the whole family is not hungry when the single person is full, and it is understandable to choose this road, and it is impossible to say that the head of the family ran into the auxiliary soldiers to fool around.

"Master Hou, you also know that this year's locust plague in the Guannei is rampant, and there is not a single grain left in the family's grain, and I can't survive, but fortunately, the court opened a warehouse to release grain, and the villain's whole family was able to live, but these grains are not enough to eat, counting rice grains all day long, this kind of day is not passable, the small one used to rely on knives to survive, and now the four seas are leveling, if you want to eat this bowl of knife-edge rice, can you go there if you don't go to Shuofang?" …,

The veteran is also a man in the pass, leaving food for his wife and children, and he went to Shuofang with a knife, but he didn't expect that Shuofang was as safe as Chang'an these days, there was no war, and the veteran naturally had no way to make money, so he was so down.

Most of the auxiliaries here were forced by locusts, and as soon as he thought of locusts, Yun Ye was full of hatred for Li Er, who connived at the occurrence of the locust plague.

In the matter of the locust plague, Yun Ye always felt that he owed everyone in the world, so he wanted to give them some compensation, not for anything else, but only hoped that he could sleep peacefully.

Xue Wanche went directly to Lingzhou, but the things returned to Shuofang, the portion was very sufficient, there were more than two hundred purple lambskins, and the bezoar also got back a hundred and ten catties, and even brought back a large number of cattle and sheep, but there was no gold and silver to be seen, it must have been privately hidden by Lao Xue, Yun Ye was not without malicious thoughts.

Now there is a very bad atmosphere in Datang, that is, the cellar of gold, silver and copper coins, large households are only in and out, small households do not have that condition, think about it, the brocade in the big households, I am afraid that the real thing is piled up, and there are countless women in the collection, these things are not easy to store, brocade is easy to mold, women will get old, the real thing will depreciate, only gold and silver is the king, didn't you say, the antiques of the prosperous times, the gold of the troubled times, although Li Ersan ordered the five Shen to warn the subjects, not allowed to cellar copper coins privately, But a few of them listened to him. There are still a lot of things that should be hidden, such as the Yun family.

Yun Ye has a pathological obsession with gold, which also affects everyone in the family, even Xiaoya uses her pocket money of twenty copper plates every month to exchange gold for her brother.

As soon as he thought of this, and then looked at He Shao with a sad face, Yun Ye felt interesting, on the one hand, the people of Manchang had no copper coins, so they had to use forbidden gold and silver, but Shuo Fang turned it upside down, people like gold and silver, not copper coins.

Yun Ye decided not to tell He Shao, the idiot, and planned to exchange the silver for thousands of copper coins in his hand, and then go to Chang'an, exchange the copper coins for gold and silver, and if he poured his hands, he would have thirty percent of the benefits to take, what was not satisfied? (To be continued) RQ