Chapter 189: A Solemn Funeral
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"What are they doing?" Chen Lu looked at from afar, only to see the twenty or so coffins escorted by the team.
"Are they transporting coffins?" Xu Dongxing asked on the side, he and Chen Yuqiang had reconciled yesterday, after all, the two had a friendship for more than ten years, and now Xu Dongxing has also surrendered to Lin Ze, and the friendship between the two will of course be restored immediately.
The two of them originally wanted to come for morning tea today, but as soon as they sat on the teahouse for a while, they saw horse-drawn carriages transporting coffins on the street, and they were immediately surprised.
"They sacrificed the remains of the soldiers after the battle with the wolf thieves a few days ago, and today is the day of burial. Chen Yuqiang said with a heavy heart.
"Brother Xu, we will also send them. ā
"Well, it's really supposed to be delivered. ā
The procession carrying the coffin was solemn and solemn, and there was no noise except for the sound of footsteps and salutation.
Infected by them, the people who were doing things on the street also put down their work and looked here.
Each coffin is a square strip, with no abruptness, and the whole shape looks very simple, but Hu Linhui knows that every size of these coffins is the result of careful calculation.
Under the lines of the golden section, the coffin with black and red tones looks very magnificent.
Hu Linhui is also a native of Qingzhou, and was affected by the Qingzhou turmoil, and was forced to leave Qingzhou with his family and come to Huangsha Town.
Note that Hu Linhui is not a homeless person, they have relatives in Huangsha Town, and his uncle's family lives in Huangsha Town, and their family came to join his uncle.
His uncle opened a coffin shop, and the store was average.
Because there is a big mercenary club in the town, and the mercenaries beg for a living on the knife every day, therefore, the business of the coffin shop is okay, not only can support the family, the uncle even married a concubine, and for Hu Linhui and his family to come to defect, the uncle is very welcome, and directly arranged Hu Linhui to the coffin shop.
There, Hu Linhui happened to meet someone from the security management team who was there to dispose of the soldier's body.
Each of these sacrificed soldiers has been wiped and cleaned by someone.
Every wound on their body had been cleaned of the congealed bruises, the wounds cut by the broadswords had been stitched up, every mark on their bodies had been wiped away from the yellow sand of the desert, every dirt had been washed away from their bodies because of the crawling, and even the dirt from the toe caps had been cleaned;
To Hu Linhui's greatest surprise, each soldier was dressed in a brand new armor that fitted well, and he carried a brand new knife or sword made of the best wood in the store.
"Is he really not an official?" Hu Linhui couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw the clothes of the soldiers in the coffin, looking at the color and materials of the armor on the soldiers' bodies, they were just the lowest soldiers.
Hu Linhui was a little skeptical of his judgment, but after being in the army for five years, he knew the rank very well, so he could confirm that the soldier in this coffin was the most ordinary soldier, not a general.
"No, he is a very ordinary soldier, but he is the best and bravest soldier under Lao Tzu, he is a hero. Xu Qiang, who was arranging the soldier's armor and matching his sword, said in a deep voice.
This soldier is Xu Qiang's subordinate, in the battle, killed two blue wolf thieves, and finally when he met a team leader whose strength was on the first floor of the day after tomorrow, he directly hugged the team leader of the blue wolf thief, and obtained the opportunity to kill the captain of the blue wolf thief squad for his comrades.
Hearing Xu Qiang's explanation, Hu Linhui was a little relieved, and only by obtaining such a feat, can he be worthy of such a good coffin.
However, the corpses of the two dozen or so fallen soldiers in the back were treated the same way, but this idea was overturned.
He couldn't help but point to the body of a recruit who was being sorted out and asked Xu Qiang, "What credit did he make?"
"Merit?" Xu Qiang looked at Hu Linhui, and quickly understood why Hu Linhui asked this, because if it was him, he might ask the same question, and the treatment of the soldiers who died in battle was really good.
Xu Qiang replied with a proud face: "He is also an ordinary soldier, he has not been on the battlefield for a few minutes, because he saw the large amount of blood sprayed when the blue wolf thief was killed, he was frightened, motionless, and was killed by another blue wolf thief next to him, it is a pity, he is actually ......."
Hu Linhui didn't hear Xu Qiang's words clearly, but his head was a little confused, he couldn't imagine that a recruit who had not made an inch of merit would be treated like this, and he also heard that these recruits had just been recruited from the homeless.
Hu Linhui heard from his uncle that the coffins used by these fallen soldiers were all custom-made according to the drawings. The wood is also made of green azusa wood.
Although it is widely distributed and produced in large quantities on Mt. Aomine, it is the most suitable tree for coffins.
For nothing else, the people of the surrounding families are all specially made of green azusa wood for coffins.
Although those sandalwood and purple nanmu are high-end, mulberry and azusa contain the meaning of hometown, so the meaning of using green catalpa wood as a coffin is very different.
Catalpa wood is an ancient coffin, the grade is not low, these coffins are also very handmade, the price is very expensive, it is actually used for an ordinary soldier, or the coffin of an ordinary soldier who has just been selected from the homeless, which makes Hu Linhui really a little puzzled.
With such a high salary, even when Hu Linhui was a soldier, the thousands of households in the army would not have such treatment.
"A soldier who died on the battlefield, he has completed his last mission at his post, which is to shed his blood to defend his homeland, and sacrificed his most precious life.
Regardless of whether he has military merits on the battlefield or not, and whether he is an officer or a soldier, every one of them deserves our respect. They traded their lives for our peace, defended our homeland with their bloody bodies, and all we can give them is respect and remembrance. ā
When Hu Linhui couldn't help but ask again, Xu Qiang was silent for a moment, and then recited a passage from Lin Ze.
When Lin Ze proposed a more grand funeral ceremony for the soldiers who died in battle, it attracted the unanimous opposition of Wang Ming, Qiu Kai and others, they thought it was too wasteful, and Lin Ze would cause reprimands from the higher authorities and provoke criticism, but Lin Ze's few words made those people silent.
Lin Ze didn't expect that the words he said were circulating among the soldiers, and many soldiers could recite them.
Since then, the soldiers in Lin Ze's army have been extremely loyal to Lin Ze, and even when they were in a desperate situation, they never thought of betraying Lin Ze.
Lin Ze's words completely conquered the hearts of all the soldiers.
After Xu Qiang recited this passage, he was silent and did not speak again, but covered the sacrificial soldier with the unique Linzi Eagle Banner embroidered in his hand, covering his young and slightly immature and serene face.
Each coffin was carried by eight soldiers in armor, who had little training, but surprisingly walked in unison, steady and steady as they walked, carrying the coffin from the barracks to the carriage pulled by two brightly colored iron hooves parked at the door.
Then, in the salute of the two soldiers guarding near the carriage, they slowly carried the coffin onto the carriage.
Each coffin was not stacked, and each coffin was laid flat, so each carriage could carry a maximum of two coffins.
This time, 24 coffins were sent to twelve carriages.
"They're soldiers? can't they?! Isn't this formation too exaggerated, even if a thousand households are killed, there will be no such battle. However, as far as I know, in this battle with the blue wolf thief, all the people who died were ordinary homeless, and none of the guards around the Lord Baihu died, in this case, hiss......" Chen Yuqiang gasped and smacked his tongue.
"They were all soldiers, ordinary soldiers, just selected from among the homeless. Xu Dongxing said with certainty.
Xu Dongxing had a very detailed copy of the information about the death, and it was precisely because of this information that Xu Dongxing made the decision to surrender to Lin Ze.
"Soldiers, ordinary soldiers?" Chen Yuqiang, who was interrupted, looked at Xu Dongxing next to him in surprise.......
At this time, Hu Linhui silently read the words that Xu Qiang had just recited, with a strange brilliance in his eyes, and he roared angrily in his heart: I also want this kind of treatment!
"Homecoming!" Xu Qiang shouted loudly in front.
"Homecoming!" shouted the soldiers behind him.
"Bang .....! Bang ......!" the sound of artillery rang out.
Then, Xu Qiang said again: "Return to the soul! Go home!" .......
And so, repeatedly, towards the cemetery......
Until Xu Qiang's figure gradually disappeared, and he couldn't see it anymore, Hu Linhui had been standing there in a daze, and at this time, all that was left in his whole heart was Xu Qiang's other sentence that Lin Ze had just repeated: "Today's king died for me, and he should be treated with national courtesy!"
"This is a national gift, the highest honor for soldiers. Hu Linhui kept churning this thought in his heart, and a certain thought in his heart became more and more firm: I also want to be a soldier under Lin Baihu!
There are many people who have the same idea as Hu Linhui, and everyone is looking in a certain direction with fiery eyes, which is where Baihu is located.
Every family in Huangsha Town has soldiers, so for such a grand funeral, these people are most touched in their hearts.
It was also from this day that Lin Ze truly won the hearts of all the people in Huangsha Town!
................................ (To be continued.) )