Chapter 41: A mountain is still a mountain high
At that time, his father Guo Xiaoke was also a general with outstanding military achievements and made great achievements for the Tang Dynasty.
But later, because of the rebellion in the Western Regions, Guo Xiaoke was attacked by the rebels, although he fought to the last moment and fought to the death with his eldest son Guo Zhizhao, but he did not get the glory he deserved after his death.
When the news of Guo Xiaoke's death reached Chang'an, Taizong, who had always been known for his wisdom and martial arts, instead of rewarding him, deprived him of all his official positions, and even said in private: The reason why this person died in battle was purely self-inflicted, and it is not a pity to die!
Meritorious service must be rewarded and punished, this is Emperor Taizong's belief that he adhered to all his life, so he said that Guo Xiaoke's death was self-inflicted, so he must have suffered by himself.
If another person humiliated Guo Beifeng like Yun Chu, Guo Beifeng would have been crazy a long time ago, and he would definitely look for every opportunity to kill this person.
Yun Chu is different, he is from the Western Regions, from Qiuzi City, and it can even be said that the reason why Yun Chu encountered such a tragic siege battle is inseparable from Guo Xiaoke, the first generation of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions.
If he had obeyed the orders of the commander Ashina Sheer and pursued the rebels of the Western Turks with the army, there would have been no misery in Qiuci City, and there would have been no Ashina Sheer's expedition to the Western Turks and the halfway of giving up.
This made the four towns of the Western Regions everywhere, and there would be no Ashina Helu betraying the Tang Dynasty again, and more importantly, because Guo Xiaoke's father and son died in battle, the officials of the Western Regions did not have any promotion for five years.
But all the soldiers who returned from the Western Regions were resentful of Guo Xiaoke's father and son, and they could not be eliminated.
This is why Guo Zhifeng, after being humiliated by Yun Chu, only thinks about humiliation and humiliation, but can't take revenge.
What Guo Beifeng has to do now is to restore the glory of his Guo clan's Yangzhai County Duke as soon as possible, instead of asking for some money for his subordinates.
Since Yun Chu figured out his goal, after he had already proven his ability, he didn't have much interest in combat.
As he said to Guo Beifeng, he is not only a general of the soldiers under his command, but also a parent official.
In these two positions, Yun Chu is bound to be inclined to his parents, since he is a parent official, his thoughts are very different from the general's thoughts, the military exploits do not matter to him, the soldiers have destroyed the Yan Ministry, and now the four cities of Lianke Gaimu, Jian'an, Yincheng, and Beifeng, the military exploits in their hands are almost the same, no matter how high the merits belong to the martyrs, it is too difficult for the living to get them, so the soldiers will not be too keen on military merits.
In this case, it is naturally the best policy to get more benefits, after all, those who bring their own armor and blades to Goguryeo, the bitter cold land, are not just to be able to gain more.
When Guo Zhifeng withdrew from Beifeng City with his unwilling subordinates, Yun Chu opened his eyes and said to the soldiers around him: "Before sunset, this city belongs to us!" Thank you, General. ”
When the subordinates saw that the general drove Guo Beifeng away, they were in a good mood, responded with a response, and started their journey to fortune under the leadership of Yang Jing and the Wang brothers.
After listening to Guo Beifeng's narration, Gao Kan sighed slightly, and said to Guo Beifeng: "The soldiers are empty-handed, how can they fight continuously? ”
Guo Zhifeng said: "I have my own military merit reward." ”
Gao Kan said in a low voice: "Since there are such benefits, why didn't Yun Chu want it, but gave it all to you?" ”
Guo Beifeng said: "He is a civilian official, and his military merits are useless." ”
Gao Kan sat behind the table, kneaded his eyebrows with his hands and said, "Are you saying that Yun Chu doesn't like to be a marquis immediately?" ”
Guo Beifeng said: "The last general wants to accumulate more military merits. ”
Gao Kan reluctantly put down his hand, clasped the table with his knuckles and said, "For a general, the soldiers under your hands are the capital of your words." Now that our war has just begun, and the hard battle has not yet happened on the Yalu water, how do you deal with the fact that you have squandered all the soldiers and horses in your hands to the Yalu water at this moment? If you don't have enough troops, you will only be trained to be a deputy general in someone else's army, and what kind of great achievements can a deputy general make? ”
Guo Zhifeng was a little panicked, and hurriedly said, "Yun Chu lied to me." ”
Gao Kan let out a long sigh and said, "What did he lie to you?" The lord of Beifeng City took down Gao Yong by you, and he also sent you a message that he could make meritorious contributions, neither of which is fake, right? ”
Hearing Gao Kan say this, Guo Zhifeng gritted his teeth and said: "Since this is the case, let the last general ambush the reinforcements in Shicheng." Next time, after breaking the stone city, I will definitely not treat the soldiers badly. ”
After listening to Guo Beifeng's words, Gao Kan remembered what happened when he and Guo Xiaoke fought Xue Ju together, so he said in a low voice: "It's okay, this time I will find someone to help you share the burden." ”
Guo Zhifeng hurriedly said: "Don't Yunchu!" Gao Kan spread his hands and said helplessly: "He won't take the initiative to ask for help." ”
When Guo Zhifeng heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, for some reason, as long as Yun Chu was there, the pressure on him was great.
…… Of course, Yun Chu would not take the initiative to ask for help, and he would not go if it was beneficial, because it was just a Beifeng City, and his baggage camp had fattened the boss's circle.
I have to say that Jin Dacheng is really a good talent, especially in the matter of looting the people, not to mention the wind and water, and the efficiency is amazing, and the three brothers of Yang Jing and the Wang family quickly got together.
By the time Yun Chujun left Beifeng City, Gao Kan had nothing to gain except for a full granary.
When he returned to Yun Chu in the military tent, he saw that Wen Rou was constantly planning something, and when he looked closer, he found that he was cleaning up the financial accounts of Yun Chu's department.
Seeing that Yun Chu was back, Wen Rou put down his plan and said: "I asked Liu Renliang before, the navy will return to the state with three ships in a few days, and then will return to Youzhou with the envoy Jia Chunyan, and then take the river boat from Youzhou to Luoyang by canal, and finally take the waterway to Chang'an." Therefore, I think it is necessary to make a book of our harvest and distribute it to the soldiers, and then distribute it to every soldier's home by Hucao in Wannian County, what do you think? ”
Yun Chu said: "It's okay this way, the army can advance lightly, and the soldiers will have the motivation to fight again." ”
At night, Yun Chu's entire army sat in the field in the dark, only the general and Changshi each had a fire in front of them, shining their faces gloomily.
The roll call was a regiment, a regiment began, and every time the lieutenant shouted a person's name, the soldier came to the general or the long history with trepidation.
"Chen Youyi, right?"
"The subordinates are here. @_… j_h_s_s_d_c_o_m head. Hair. More. New~~"
"Well, let me see your seizures, a fox fur collar, two wolf skin robes, a copper pot, not bad, not bad, hey, and seven sheepskins, these should be the captures when you beat the Devil, alas? Women are dressed in two sets, what's going on? Are you fucking bullying women? ”
"General, no, these two sets of clothes were checked by my subordinates when they inspected the City Lord's Mansion in Yincheng, and they didn't do anything to bully women."
Yun Chu picked up the pen, added the number of 1,100 copper coins after his name, and scolded and said: "Get out of your mother's eggs, if you get sick and go back to your wife and baby, then go to the county government to cry and complain, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you, your military exploits are worth 1,100 copper coins, press your handprint here, and then I will find someone to send things to your house." ”
Xiaobing didn't know how to read, but he still looked at the account book very seriously, pressed his handprints, as if he could understand, and Yun Chu wanted to kick him. "Sanyu Niu" was called out with the names of one person after another, and one small soldier after another came to Changshi, or the general, following the same process, pressing the same handprints, and being scolded the same.
Originally, there was no need for such a one-on-one quality, but Yun Chu thought it was very necessary, because this thing was called a ritual. This thing is used to unite people's hearts, and it couldn't be more powerful.
For the soldiers, it feels good to share the spoils.
Especially it feels better to be able to share the spoils with the general, the county honor, the long history, and the imperial history.
It doesn't matter if you can't read the things in the account books, the county respect, the long history of millions of dollars is not in your eyes, so naturally you won't be greedy for your own things.
Originally, the soldiers who had finished the roll call could go back to the tent to sleep, but no one left, just sitting in the black hole and blowing the cold wind, watching the county lord and Changshi distribute things to other brothers, and there was no one to whisper.
The process is long, starting at dark and ending in the east.
Yun Chu stood up and stretched his waist, and said lazily: "Actually, there is still a pile of leftovers from the boss, but I don't want the brothers to get this pile of leftovers, because the rest are pensions." Those who died in the war can be divided into eight dollars, I plan to replace them with calves, you die, and the calves are raised for two years, so they can plow the fields for your wife and baby instead of you, anyway, you work hard, not as good as a cow, right? ”
"Hehe, the general underestimates his subordinates, and the small ones can not only plow the fields in the field, but also in bed."
"Hahahaha...... Fuck off your mother's eggs, and when you die in battle, the official will let you send the cow to your wife's bed, shut your stinky mouth, and listen well. ”
"If you have one less leg, you will have six dollars, and in the same way, you will be replaced by a small horse, which can pull you around."
"If you have less arms, you can buy a donkey with only four dollars, and it is estimated that you will not be able to marry a wife, and you will live with a donkey in the future......"
"What if...... Lao Tzu said that if ...... You all follow Lao Tzu to finish this battle well, go home alive, and then we will divide all this pile of money according to the head, and leave no one. I also take you to Jinchangfang to see the world, eat the big meat noodles there, beef noodles, cake and meat, braised pork, lion's head, a finger thick and a palm-sized braised pork slices, large pieces of sauce beef, buckets of donkey plate intestines. Watching the first part of the workshop dancing naked, diving, shaking your belly, when Lao Tzu is happy, maybe I will invite you to drink anti-poison......"
"The people of our Wannian County don't like to fight, the good days of the family have just begun, and the cotton in the fields has reached the time of harvesting, and selling it to the cotton spinning workshop is a large amount of silver and a large pile of grain. But why did we travel thousands of miles to fight, and so many of our brothers couldn't go home, but could only be burned to ashes and brought back, all for what? ”
"We are not actually in it for money, money, we can earn it at home, we are in order not to let others disturb our good life, we are in order to bring back the bones of the people who died here before. We want all the mongrels to see that Lao Tzu is not something you can afford to provoke, as long as you dare to provoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill you all, leaving no grass ......"
"Leave no grass, no grass ......"
When nearly 4,000 people roared together, even Gao Kan, who was in the tent of the Chinese army, could hear it clearly.
Thinking that there was a camp roar, he hurriedly got up and hurriedly asked, "Where is the noise?" ”
Left and right hurriedly reported: "General Dingyuan Yun Chu is training sergeants. ”