Chapter 176: Alone in the Depths
At dawn on the second day, Lan Yu suddenly beat drums in the big tent of the Chinese army to gather generals. Zhu Quan, Zhu Di and the others made trouble for him until midnight last night, and at this time, the good dream was in full swing, and when he heard the sound of the drum, he had to beat his spirits and quickly rushed towards the big tent of Lanyu.
In the handsome tent, Lan Yu was pacing back and forth with a horsewhip in his hand, his eyes were slightly bloodshot, and it was obvious that he had been busy arresting people last night and had not slept at all.
With a rush of footsteps, Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, Wang Bi, Guo Ying, Geng Zhong, Sun Ke, Cao Wenbin and others came to the tent one after another to wait.
Lan Yu's two awe-inspiring eyes swept over them, and suddenly waved the horse whip in his hand in the air, making a sound of "swish" breaking the air, and coldly ordered: "Immediately let all the hundred households in the army, and the thousand households lead the war horses to gather under the city wall." ”
Half an hour later, 100 and 1,000 households of the 150,000-strong army gathered under the city walls. While looking up at the commander Lan Yu and several generals on the city wall, he secretly cursed in his heart last night for those soldiers and guards under the command of Lan Yu who rushed into the barracks to take people around, making the noise so that people couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night.
Lan Yu looked at the Ming army standing in a solemn line below at the head of the city, and suddenly turned his head to the peace of the city and ordered: "Bring those who were captured last night to Ben Shuai." ”
After a while, dozens of Ming soldiers who were tied up with five flowers and shirtless came from the barracks in frustration and under the push of the pro-soldiers. All of them have blue noses and swollen faces, and it is obvious that when they were arrested last night, they suffered a lot from punching and kicking.
Wang Bi looked at the soldiers under the city, couldn't help frowning, and secretly thought: This time our army is on an expedition to Mobei, which is extremely risky. General Lan's move to set an example for chickens and monkeys is also a helpless move. Thinking of this, he was silent and did not say anything to persuade him.
It turned out that the right deputy general Wuding Marquis Guo Ying, the governor Geng Zhong and Sun Ke were also the generals of the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided important town who were in charge of the military power alone. In particular, Guo Ying, who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the past, made many military exploits, and after following Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, to pacify Yunnan a few years ago, he was named the Marquis of Wuding, and his little sister was Concubine Ning, the concubine of Emperor Hongwu, and Zhu Tan, the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Lan Yu glanced at Guo Ying, Geng Zhong, and Sun Ke on one side, and said to the peace under the city wall: "Drag those ordinary soldiers to the ground for me, and beat them with twenty military sticks." ”
With Ping'an's order, Wang Erhu and other wolf-like sergeants rushed forward, dragged most of the bound ordinary soldiers to the ground, lined them up in a row, waved the military stick in their hands and slammed them down, beating dozens of tortured soldiers to the point of blood flying, screaming again and again. After the twenty military sticks came down, Rao is soldiers had thick skin and thick flesh, and many of them fainted in pain.
Seeing that the execution was over, Lan Yu pointed to the remaining officers of more than ten hundred households and thousands of households, and shouted fiercely: "Last night, the commander passed down a military order, so that all soldiers were not allowed to strip and remove their armor, and you and others have already committed the crime of disobeying the military order as an official." Speaking of this, his right palm slashed down in the air like a blade, and he turned his head to Ping'an and said in a deep voice: "Behead these remaining people in public to Ben Shuai to show the public, and use the military law to correct the law." ”
Those hundred households, thousands of households thought that they would receive ten more blows and twenty beats of military sticks at most, but when they heard that the boss Lan Yu was going to behead himself to show the public, they suddenly trembled in horror and panicked.
Guo Ying, Geng Zhong, and Sun Ke couldn't help but be stunned when they heard that he was going to take someone's head for such a trivial matter, and they were about to speak under the look of each other, only to see Lan Yu's right hand suddenly raised, and said solemnly: "This marshal is the general of the conquest personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, holding the runes and axes personally awarded by His Royal Highness the Prince, and has the right to make decisions on the spot, first cut and then play." These people do not obey the orders of the commander, and it is not a pity to die, what do you have to say? ”
Guo Ying, Geng Zhong, and Sun Ke couldn't help but be speechless when they heard him say this, and they were silent with a secret sigh in their hearts. Lan Yu's possession of the Jieyue is tantamount to having the privilege of being outside the general and not being subject to the king's order. Don't say that killing these more than ten hundred households and thousands of households is that he has violated military law, and it is natural for Lan Yu to cut off his head, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Zhu Quan looked at the column below that knelt on the ground, trembling with horror, and looked at Wang Erhu, who was standing behind a person waiting to be tortured with a steel knife in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. Since the last time he and Lan Yu's army were attacked by the Yuan army under the command of Hailanda, he has a personal understanding of the role of military orders for an army, and at this time he naturally understands that Lan Yu is seeing that most of the 150,000 cavalry under his command are not under his command, and he has the intention to take the opportunity of rectifying military discipline to integrate this army to form the most powerful combat force to meet the upcoming Northern Expedition and fierce war..com Therefore, in his heart, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Lan Yu's ruthless Liwei move, so he was silent.
Yan Wang Zhu Di secretly sneered in his heart: It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince read it to Lan Yu when he was "sending the generals", Wang Wei's "Youth Xing" is really not small, Lan Yu, this kid is sincerely tempered this 150,000 army into the tiger and wolf army of the great Han iron cavalry in the hands of the former champion Hou Huo Quai, and became famous all over the world in a battle.
Under the city wall, Wang Erhu, who was standing behind the person who was waiting to be beheaded with a steel knife in his hand, saw the thousand households trembling in front of him, and his heart was also slightly unbearable, and his hands holding the knife were also trembling slightly. If the person in front of him was a Yuan army tartar, he would never frown even if he cut a hundred, but after all, the person in front of him was Brother Paoze, who also belonged to the Ming army, and he suddenly felt a little unable to do anything when he thought of this.
Lan Yu let out a long breath, stretched out his hand and pulled out the long sword on his waist, and was silent under the city wall, and the Ming army hundred households who were lined up to watch, Qianhu roared angrily: "I killed them today to let you remember one thing, under my Lan's command, from this time on, you must also have one eye open when you sleep, as if you are on the grassland, surrounded by wolves." After we went to the grassland, we had no guns, no cannons, no solid walls to rely on, and only victory could bring more brothers back alive. So next time, whether it is an ordinary soldier or an official, those who disobey military orders will only have a dead end. Speaking of this, he slashed the long sword in his hand diagonally, and shouted in a tone full of solemnity: "Behead Ben Shuai." ”
Wang Erhu heard the words of the coach Lan Yu, sighed secretly, hardened his heart and gritted his teeth, and slashed it with a knife, and the blood was immediately splashed all over his body.
Seeing that the execution was over, Lan Yu hurriedly walked down the city wall, came to the Ming soldiers lined up, and slowly paced to look at them one by one. Under his emotionless gaze, all the Ming soldiers were awe-inspiring. Zhu Di, Zhu Quan and others also followed behind Lan Yu in silence.
Suddenly, Lan Yu stopped in front of a hundred households leading horses, glanced him up and down at the war horse beside him, raised his hand and waved the horsewhip, and slapped him the shoulder.
The hundred households were caught off guard and gave him a whip violently, and he almost jumped up in pain, and his eyes looked at the corpses of more than ten tortured people in different places not far in front of him, so he forced himself to endure and did not dare to move.
Lan Yu snorted coldly in his nose and asked, "Do you know why Ben Shuai whipped you?" Without waiting for the other party to answer, he pointed obliquely at the hundred households with the horsewhip in his hand, and said, "Why do you want to be so fat?" ”
Seeing Lan Yu talking like this, Zhu Quan couldn't help but take a closer look, only to see that these hundred households had a round face, and his figure was indeed a little fat, and he secretly laughed in his heart: It's not a sin to be fat, right? The blue crab is really horizontal.
Baihu heard that Lan Yu's question was purely a bone in the egg, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and he couldn't make a sound.
Lan Yu pointed to the war horse on Baihu's side again, and asked sharply: "Your people are so fat, but the horses are so thin, how can you fight?" Ride a military horse for Ben Shuai and gallop back and forth a few times. ”
When Baihu heard the blue jade order, he had to turn over and get on his horse, and galloped back and forth under the city wall.
"That's enough." With Lan Yu's loud shout, Bai Hu rode back and came to Lan Yu and dismounted.
Lan Yu looked at the Ming soldiers who were still lined up on his side, and then at the Baihu and his mount, who were already slightly panting, and suddenly said: "You gallop back and forth twice like this, people and horses are too tired, if you meet a Tartar on the grassland, how can you fight with others?" ”
Zhu Quan's heart sank involuntarily when he heard this, and he secretly thought to himself: It seems that although this guy Lan Yu is arrogant, what he said is not completely unreasonable. Even if a knight only weighs more than ten or twenty pounds, but such a longitudinal horse galloping for dozens of miles, the physical exertion of the war horse is definitely much greater than that of a thin knight, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is completely dependent on the horses, and the horses are so tired that they can't run, how can they fight with the Yuan army who are good at riding and shooting?
Baihu looked at this extremely barbaric commander, and said with a wry smile: "Back to the big handsome, the younger one and the more than 100 brothers under his command are the men who are responsible for cooking, and there is less daily drilling, and there is less movement with war horses, so it is inevitable that they are a little thin. ”
"When the Tartars come and cut off your head, they don't care if you're a cook or not. So you have to play with knives more than with spatula. And your body has to lose weight for me within two months, and if you are still so fat after two months, I will use a knife to lose more than ten pounds of useless things on your neck. With that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the neck of the hundred households. Frightened, the man jumped and nodded yes again and again.
Lan Yu continued to walk forward, and said loudly as she walked, "From now on, your war horses are no longer the animals of the past, but your brothers and sisters, and you must take good care of them. After two months, if anyone is fat and thin, he will receive the ruthless military law of this commander. While talking, he also reached out and pulled out the war knives on the waist of the Ming army to check, all the blades were not sharp enough, or even a little rusty, without exception, they were all whipped on the head.
After making a round, Lan Yu walked back up to the city wall and roared at the Ming army below: "Always remember that the Mongolian Tatars you are about to face are more vicious than jackals, and you can only become a group of more ferocious tigers and leopards, and you must be ready to fight with the Tatars at any time when you sleep, so that you can get out of the grassland alive and come back alive." ”
Zhu Quan looked at the sky above his head, and secretly thought in his heart: The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty is only 150,000, but what we need to face is about 200,000 Mongolian cavalry, as well as the three hesitant tribes of Tuhuan, Guilichi, and Arutai. We can't carry firearms, artillery, and no strong city as a barrier, and there are no reinforcements when the lone army goes deep, which is really dangerous and unpredictable.
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