Chapter XXXVIII
Weinan is just a county, but it is an important town, and it is a key traffic point.
Because it guards the Weishui River, it is one of the main routes from the north to the south to Chang'an, so the merchants gathered, which became apparent when Dalang and the others left the dock where they had disembarked and walked a few miles to the west.
This is another wharf, bigger than the previous wharf I don't know how many times, more than a dozen berths on the wharf are full of boats, and outside the berth, there are dozens of ships waiting, some of the ships are two stories high, the third son is not without pride to the big lang to show: "Little fairy, this is still Weishui, and it is the dry season, if you go to the river, the boat is bigger, there are six or seven zhang (one zhang is about equal to the current three meters), if you count below the waterline, I am afraid that there must be more than ten zhang." ”
"Is more than ten zhang very tall?" Da Lang replied lightly, "If you see a hundred zhang high ship, don't you be scared to death?"
The little fairy laughed, how can there be a 100-zhang high ship? It is the largest building ship, only 30 zhang, and it can only sail in the area of Jinling Yangzhou, but it can't reach Guanzhong. The third son looked incredulous, and when he saw that Da Lang smiled and didn't answer, he asked cautiously, "Little fairy, is there really such a big ship?"
"I've seen it, in a dream. Da Lang smiled, "More than once, not only the big ship, but also the iron bird, people can be in the belly of the iron bird." ”
"Oh, yes, the little fairy must have seen it from above. "The third son is very automatic to make up for his brain, that's it, that's in the sky, where there are immortals, it's not a wonder that the iron bird can fly, even if he is told that he can travel thousands of miles a day, he also believes it. After thinking about it, he continued to ask, and saw that Da Lang had already turned his head to look at the red-bearded bearded people who came down from the boat, so he couldn't help it, the things in heaven were not something that ordinary people like him could inquire about, and it was said that if he knew more, he would have to lose his life.
The merchant porter on the dock saw such a group of hundreds of soldiers wearing bright and new armor uniforms, and couldn't help but look at them with curiosity, there are often soldiers wearing new armor, but those are basically new soldiers' eggs, a good armor uniform, tinkering can be passed on for several generations, so so many new armor clothes together, then nine out of ten are recruits, but the murderous aura on these people is so strong, looking at the heart from a distance, they will beat drums, how can it be a recruit? It is clearly a fierce soldier with countless blood on his hands.
"Ah, it's a brocade-bellied snake. Someone shouted in astonishment when he saw the flag raised high in the ranks, "I saw it in the north in the early winter of last year, when a group of them went directly to the Uighur battalion, and burned the Uighurs to cry for their fathers and mothers, and the flames could be seen rising to the sky from a dozen miles away. ”
"Yo, they are fighting, can you still see them? Could it be that you are also from the brocade-bellied snake?" someone next to him quipped, but he didn't believe it.
"Really, a certain was a businessman, missed the night, and set up a camp in the field, and did not think that he was set up not far from the battlefield, in the middle of the night more than ten miles away the fire, a certain was young and vigorous at the time, and he didn't know what to call him afraid, and he went to see them early the next morning, and saw them brocade-bellied snakes cleaning the battlefield, good guys, there are several large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, and a lot of fat cattle and sheep, and a certain remembered the style of their flag at that time, so it is clear at a glance. ”
"If so, it is not uncommon to dress well, and this is what they have paid for with their lives. But the old and the young in that team don't know where they came from, so why do the brocade-bellied snakes seem to be so respectful to them?"
"But I don't know, Xu is a certain noble family Xiaolang, otherwise how can there be such a majesty, you look at the red lips and white teeth, snake and tiger steps, and only in a high position since childhood can have such momentum. The old one, like a housekeeper and an elder, can't see through it. ”
"You don't know this, it is said that this Xiaolang is escorted by the brocade-bellied snake all the way from the north, but I don't know what the way to come, the Tang Dynasty four elephants and one iron guard know, right? The prisoner car at the back, it is said that the prisoner in the car is the iron guard, and the prisoner car is his iron armor, tsk, I didn't expect the brocade-bellied snake to be as strong as this, but it's a pity, if the three elephants and the iron guard belong to the imperial court, how can I fall to the point of being bullied by domestic slaves?"
The house slaves mentioned here are the Uighurs, as early as the Zhenguan period, the Uighurs have been naturalized, but after the Anshi Rebellion, most of the Uighurs began to move again, and every winter they have to make a name for themselves in the north, and the Tang Dynasty can't get out of Gyeonggi because of the government decree, and the Jiedu envoys on the border have the idea of raising their own respect, so they have no way to get back the Hurs.
These words were all heard word by word Guo Zhongda in their ears, they were all smiling, smug in their hearts, humming, from then on, the name of the brocade-bellied snake has overpowered the Red Tiger Red Shark, as for the iron guard, there will be no more.
"The Iron Guard is still there. Coldly hearing Da Lang talking to himself, Guo Zhongda was startled, looked around, and quickly covered Da Lang's mouth, "Lang Jun, you can't say this, even Xianggong doesn't dare to say that he will build an army lightly, if this iron guard is the forbidden army in the DPRK, it will just be returned, but after all, the iron guard belongs to the place, and it is not up to you and me to recover, be cautious, be cautious." "The flags have all been confiscated, and this system will naturally be abolished, which is a common practice.
"I didn't want to build an army, I just talked about it, forget it, look at what you're afraid of. "Da Lang himself is not afraid, because he is white, and he will not be convicted for his words. No one takes it seriously. For example, if an ant says to a lion, I want to form a legion of 10,000 people, the lion will definitely not care, because the strength is too weak, but if a wolf runs and says, I want to form a group of 100 wolves, the lion will never dare to despise it, why are you forming so many wolves? Do you want to rebel? Yes, I will destroy you first.
Da Lang's original intention was that the iron guard must still be there, but it cannot be returned to the place, but to the forbidden army, but he himself knows his own weight, and the people are a little hairy child, who listens to him? So as soon as Guo Zhongda stopped him, he didn't say anything.
When the two were talking, their steps slowed down, and the prisoner cart behind them approached, but the iron guard, who had been sitting in a daze, heard Da Lang's words, and his mouth moved, but he didn't speak.
Along the way, in addition to letting him sit in the prisoner car, in fact, the brocade-bellied snakes did not embarrass the iron guards, the so-called each is its master, and it is also involuntarily, and they are all Tang soldiers who have fought side by side, there is hatred, after that battle, it has been over, so along the way, everyone has to eat whatever the iron guards eat. In fact, let him sit in the prison car or take care of it, a person who has lost his eyes, it is safe to sit in this kind of protection on all sides, but his identity is not good-looking, but his eyes are gone, so naturally he can't see the eyes of others, and out of sight is pure.
But it is said that in Weinan City at this moment, in a courtyard in the south of the city, the roe head rat with a big belly who appeared on the dock is respectfully reporting to a fat man lying lazily on the bed basking in the sun in the study: "...... This red bureaucrat is also hateful, if it weren't for Lang Jun's orders, he would have let Yu Saburo know about them, and they would all be arrested and thrown into prison. ”
"Oh, did he really say that? Hehe, I want to see what qualifications he has to say this, most of the people who are qualified to say this have already died, I have forgotten, I haven't seen a good show for a long time, just let them jump for a few days, and wait until that day comes, hehe, I am looking forward to it." You go down, tell the people below, don't provoke if you have nothing to do, even if you run into it, you will avoid one or two first, and then you will collect it with interest. The fat man squinted his fat eyes, stared at an ant who had climbed onto his bed at some point, stretched out his fingers, and gently swiped it with his fingernails, and the ant was struggling with only half of its body.
On the other side, Difu, the hunched man asked the white-eyed and black-haired old man puzzled: "Is this little guy really saying that?" Tsk, I can't see it, at a young age, oh, no, it should be old and refined, this adds up to more than forty, no wonder, he has seen more people and heard things than all the people in the entire Tang Dynasty combined, but he doesn't know whether it is a blessing or a curse to let him go down like this?"
"Hehe, I don't think so. Let's look at it, if this situation continues, I don't think we need to help anything, this guy will turn the world upside down, and you will also let the bull head and horse face them don't have anything to do to get old and go around him, revealing clues, and the previous efforts will be lost. The white-eyed and black-haired old man held a black tube in his hand, and looked left and right with interest, "What the hell does this little guy use?
But it was the black pipe that Da Lang used to deal with the iron guard.
At the same time, in a partial courtyard of the Chengde Military Town Government, a man who was wrapped in cloth strips and wrapped like a zongzi leaned on the couch, looking at the roof with blank eyes: "Is there really no way?"
"At that time, there was really no way, they even destroyed the iron guard, replaced by you and my son, I'm afraid it was not enough to see, and your subordinate son refused to listen to the orders of a certain family, and the white turtle was timid, so he had to have a team of hundreds of people from a certain family, how could he beat them who were like a rainbow? If you want me to say, if you were willing to hand over the red shark to a certain family to bring it, maybe it would not have succeeded. ”
"Hehe, are you a fool in the world? The red shark will be handed over to you? Don't say that you were unconscious at the time, even if you are sober, it is impossible to hand it over to you, and it will become yours in your hands, and what you Chihu eats in your mouth has never spit it out. The red shark snorted, without his men, no matter how powerful his red shark is, it is also two fists and two legs, how can he charge into battle? Where does the military merit come from? Retrain a team of men and horses? When you finish training, the daylily will be cold.
It takes at least three to five years to train a contingent that can fight well, and it has to be fought in actual combat, and the fittest will survive, and it will take a few more years before it can be called a brave army.