Chapter 2 Joining the Northern Army
"I don't know who you are. And isn't it the Hongwu Dynasty now, how can there be a war. ”
"Townsfolk Yefu, Emperor Gao has long since passed away, and now it is my Yan King who is crusading against the unscrupulous Emperor Hui. One of the lieutenants next to me waved his whip at me and said disdainfully.
"Xue Ren is presumptuous!" the general said suddenly, which startled me, "We have come to Nanjing to Jingjing, how can we become a crusade." If you are so open-mouthed, if something happens, King Yan will punish you for the nine clans, and I can't protect you. ”
That kind of posture of not being angry and self-authoritative is really powerful. Or maybe they're generals.
"Boy, don't you really know the current war? I'm Zhang Yu, and the 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry behind me are going to attack Jinan City. ”
Of course I knew, and as soon as they said it, I knew I was in time for the martyrdom. So they were going to attack Jinan, and then go south until they drove Zhu Yunwen out. This war was fought for three years, and it should have been 1400 when Jinan was hit. No matter what year it is, the final result should be that Zhu Di ascended the throne and drove Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen into the ravine.
I had to weigh it up, but fortunately I knew the outcome of this war, and at least I avoided being on the wrong side. Following such a thing as a war, which is not clear today, it is better to do less. But now I'm ready to go, and if I refuse somehow, maybe if I turn around, they'll kill me or cut me down.
Judging by the situation, their fight against Zhu Yunwen's troops was a bit like the People's Liberation Army fighting the Kuomintang, and as long as they did not participate in the battle of crossing the river, in fact, the hope of survival was quite great.
"Okay, I'll do it, but I can't ride a horse. "I really don't know how to ride.
"Emperor Gaozu was able to conquer the Ming Dynasty, but he relied on cavalry. I, King Yan, have been fighting in the north for many years, and I also rely on cavalry. Zhang Yu smiled, "Well, not every hero can ride a horse, you will be an infantryman, but what kind of blade do you have?"
Can I say that I can use a gun? I have been a soldier, I have used live ammunition, and the one I use is the 95 rifle, or the squad machine gun, and the 88 sniper rifle can also be used, but unfortunately they don't.
"Guns. "I'm talking about the kind of gun Yue Fei used, the so-called one inch long and one inch strong, if you hold a knife, you can only fight with others, and your arm will be cut off if you are not careful. If you use a gun, you can stab people from afar.
"Okay, someone will give him a gun and a set of military armor. ”
In this way, I put on a military uniform and became a member of Zhu Di's Northern Army. It was subordinate to the unit of the pioneer officer Zhang Yu.
Twenty thousand cavalry, it will take half an hour to walk past me. That Zhang Yu was still quite careful, and asked one of his guards to help me put on my clothes, and also sent me to the infantry team to be taken care of by a chief. According to the current establishment, the chief should be a squad leader. There are also captains, sentinels, and generals on it. People like me are temporarily recruited, and they are considered soldiers, and there is another category called the army, which is hereditary soldiers, just like the establishment of those state-owned units twenty or thirty years ago. However, because King Yan is now raising troops against his nephew, the soldiers recruited now are basically unprepared.
These are all told to me by my "squad leader" on the way to the march, that is, Zhang Huaishun, the head of the army. After all, I was introduced by their general, and he didn't dare to slack off.
Zhang Huaishun is a native of Yanjing, of course, from the suburbs. is also a peasant, his wife and children died when the north and south were fighting, and he had no idea of living if he escaped, but he didn't have the courage to die, so he became a soldier. Being killed on the battlefield may also be a relief. There are not a few people like him, the war has displaced them, and they are going to become cannon fodder for the war. Zhang Huaishun can be a chief not because he has combat experience, but because he is old and has a calm surname. There were also several teenagers and fifties in the team, and they were also forced to do so. After all, in the army, there are clothes to wear and food to eat. As for whether the military salary is paid or not, few people care.
Of course, there are occasional "troops" in the ranks, that is, the kind of soldiers with formations. It's like a civil servant and a career editor in a public institution. I guess I'm a contract worker at best. Thinking of this, I also realized that in fact, I didn't even sign the contract, and the person named Zhang Yu only let me have clothes to wear and food to eat, and as for the amount of military pay every month, he didn't mention it to me at all.
"Do you know what kind of magistrate General Zhang is?" Zhang Huaishun said to me, "He is a pioneer officer, a marshal of the Left Army. To my chief, it's a hundred or so bad. He calculates the salary with you, how can people have that idle time. "Knowing that I don't have any nepotism with Zhang Yu, I just met on the road and can afford it, so Zhang Huaishun is not so careful with me.
The momentum of the large army is always spectacular. A team of about a dozen of us gossiped a little, and no one would pay attention at all. Walking in this way, time passed quickly, and it didn't take long for it to get dark.
"Where are we now?" is my concern. I haven't asked. If I had asked Zhang Huaishun at the beginning, maybe he would have taken me for a fool. After walking for a long time and asking again, the effect is different.
"We're now in the south of Linyong. Two hundred miles further south is Jinan. Texas, you know, is on our northeast side. ”
"Then aren't you from Yanjing? Why are you so familiar with the boundaries of Shandong? ”
"I don't know, but we have someone here who can read a map. ”
"Who?"
Zhang Huaishun pointed to the end, and there was a big man at the end of the team who looked almost one meter nine. It's not accurate to say that he is a big man, at most he is a big child, ten years old. The chin hasn't started to grow a beard yet. That kid's name is Huang Zining, and he came to be a soldier despite his father's shortage. Their family is a military member, the kind that wants to be in the army for generations. The father died and the son made up for it. The eldest son died, and the younger son made up for it. He is the eldest in the family, and there is a younger brother and two younger sisters below.
Huang Zining definitely can't look down on us miscellaneous troops who have been temporarily recruited. Just like civil servants don't look down on temporary workers in a unit. He probably sensed that I was staring at him, and glared back at me. I could see the childishness in his eyes, and I smiled.
Let's walk, and my body will be warm. Except for the cold wind blowing on his face, his face hurt a little, but everything else was fine. After walking for another half hour, all of us were sleepy and tired, and the troops in front of us stopped and prepared to set up camp. At first, I thought there were tents, and the logistics had to keep up with the marching and fighting.
As a result, there was no bullshit, and dinner was just a piece of multigrain cake, plus a bowl of mush that I don't know what it was. You don't think the multigrain cake is that specialty, or the kind in the hotel. I'm afraid that you will eat too much oil and water, and you will be so tired that you will panic to make pasta. That's seventy percent of the bran and three percent of the cornmeal. When you swallow it, if you bite it too much, it will make your throat hurt. The bowl of mush was also dirty and sour, because I was hungry, and if I was not so unsociable, I forcibly sent half a cake to my stomach with that bowl of mush.
There are no tents to sleep in at night. It's not that there are none, and those officials above the rank of general have tents to live in. Those of us at the bottom of the bitter haha can only gather together to warm each other.
Usually two or three people in a group, everyone cuddles together at night and sleeps like this. Zhang Huaishun huddled with me because he took care of me. I saw that the half-grown man named Huang Zining was leaning on the trunk of a tree alone. Half of the people of his age were more proud. I think it's reasonable to think that the eldest and his second are the second.
But no matter how proud you are, you can't fight with God, after all, people are the boss. I saw him sitting there, and the temperature should be -10 degrees Celsius at night, and he shivered with cold.
"Why is that kid alone?"
"Leave him alone, he can't pee in the same pot as us. Zhang Huaishun is telling the truth, he is not in the same class as these new recruits. There are still differences in interests and values between them.
I couldn't stand it, so I walked over and pulled him up, ready for him to join us. He's fine, thinking that if I'm looking for his fault, he's going to start with me. I had been in the army and had modern military training. All these years have passed, and it has not been left behind. Knocked him down in two strokes. One leg pressed against his lower back, and he could be honest when he talked to him: "Come and sleep with us, or you will freeze to death tomorrow." ”
I subdued him, and he was honest, not as proud as before. Zhang Huaishun saw that I was good, so he didn't say anything. The three of them huddled together and went to sleep.
I can't sleep, when have I ever suffered such a sin? Not only the cold, but also the stench on their bodies. In addition, the people in armor have pain in their bodies, where can they still sleep.
"Do you miss home?" I know that Huang Zining didn't sleep either.
He didn't speak, and I knew he was definitely homesick. At night, no one cares about you, you can't sleep, you have to think wildly, and the most you think about must be your family.
"I'm homesick, I miss my mother, I miss my daughter-in-law. ”
I was really homesick. I still think about Luo Jia, although I have more breath and breath in than the dead, but I still have a soul to see her. I don't know if I can go back to the future. I fell asleep just thinking about it, the things of the past two days have been so weird, I don't want to calm down and sort it out. Because I'm so tired, I don't have time to think about it.
"The enemy is sneaking up, the enemy is sneaking up. "I was woken up by shouting everywhere.
My first movement was a carp that rolled over and fell to the ground. Reaching out to touch the rifle, he remembered that there was only an iron gun and a cold weapon beside him. It was still dark all around, and the torches waving randomly not far away seemed even darker around me. Huang Zining was already squatting beside me, holding the same iron gun in his hand. There was a soldier I didn't know next to me, and I was supposed to be in a squad. Sleepy-eyed sat up, not knowing what the situation was, and a stray arrow shot him through the middle. Before he could scream, he was brought to the ground, and his body moved because of the autonomic nerves, and it felt like blood was pouring out of his chest for a long time.
Is this a war?;