Chapter 251: The Observation Mission Comes to Ship
After getting back on the road, Mo Jiale and the others did not encounter any large groups of fierce beasts along the way, and those scattered fierce beasts were directly packed up by those members who were scouts, and they had no chance to hit the large army.
So Ma Qiancheng easily followed the army through an armed march, and by noon the army had arrived at a small village, where they had repaired and fed.
This village is very simple, and the only defense facility is just a wooden fence, which is only about three meters high, and the fierce beasts with strong bounce power may be able to jump directly into it.
There are only a dozen families in the village, and most of the adult men seem to have gone out to work, leaving only a few women, children, and old people in the village.
Seeing Mo Jiale and them coming, an old man with white hair immediately opened the door, welcomed the group in, and warmly invited Mo Jiale and them to eat at home.
Mo Jiale naturally refused with a firm attitude, after all, he knew very well that these villagers' families were not too wealthy, and now they had barely solved the problem of food and clothing, so he was naturally embarrassed to go to the other party's house for dinner.
In addition, once he agrees to the other party's request, then it is tantamount to a bad start, and it is likely that more soldiers patrolling here will come to the villagers' homes to eat and drink in the future, and even some soldiers will rely on force to forcibly eat and drink, this kind of thing has not happened on their Orlan Star side, so Mo Jiale has always been very clean, and he has really done not take a stitch from the people.
Ma Qiancheng is also a human from Aura Star, so it is naturally not strange for Mo Jiale to do this, and what really surprised him was that the other team members did not raise any objections to this.
From these details, Ma Qiancheng can also be regarded as surmising that Guo Dafu should indeed not be a faint king, otherwise the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and the soldiers below cannot be so disciplined.
After finding a relatively clean open space in the village, Mo Jiale and the others moved some stones to use as tables and chairs, and sat around to eat the compressed dry food they carried.
Naturally, the taste of these dry foods is not too good, after all, their biggest purpose is to be able to store for a long time and be easy to transport, so this thing will compress a large number of meat and vegetable ingredients together, and then dry them and put them in a bag for vacuum preservation.
For these military compressed dry food, which is as hard as a brick, Ma Qiancheng is really a little unbearable, after all, the ones he ate before were at least freshly cooked meals, even if the cooking techniques were rougher, and the condiments were not as complete and rich as the big restaurants in Oranxing, but he could always eat some of them by gritting his teeth.
But in front of him, Ma Qiancheng took a bite of this piece of military compressed dry food, and almost broke his teeth.
In the end, it was the squad leader Mo Jiale who saw Ma Qiancheng's embarrassment, so he went to borrow an iron pot from the villagers, put the military compressed dry food into it, added some water and boiled it.
After boiling, although these things no longer need to be bitten by teeth, they look very much like Yoneda Ko, and Ma Qiancheng eats them with his eyes closed and an expression of pain like torture.
The other team members couldn't help but laugh when they watched the performance of the eldest young master.
And the laughter of the crowd soon attracted several children in the village.
What made Ma Qiancheng a little sad was that these children didn't even have a decent piece of clothing on their bodies, they only had a big vest made of snakeskin bags, and they were only wearing a pair of simple straw sandals on their feet.
"Why don't you get a decent dress for the kids?" While eating the paste made from the dry food, Ma Qiancheng asked the white-haired old man who had brought the iron pot.
When the old man heard this, he replied with a bitter face: "Where did you get so much money to buy clothes for these little cubs!" At the age of growing up, I basically have to buy a new set of clothes every year, who can withstand this! They're not going to leave the village anyway, and it doesn't matter if they don't wear clothes! ”
Ma Qiancheng listened to the old man's story, and finally understood why Mo Jiale said that the current feudal system was the most suitable for the Blue Dragon Empire.
For this group of people who have not even completely solved the problem of food and clothing, I am afraid that they will not have any money left over to learn knowledge, so it is purely funny to want these people who do not know a single word to understand what human rights and freedoms are.
After Ma Qiancheng asked about the previous life of these villagers, and found that the previous life of these villagers was really miserable, the old man named Wu Hanting, had a total of six children, four boys and two women, and as a result, five of them were starved to death, and now only one second son is still alive, but unfortunately due to malnutrition when he was a child, he seems to be very thin, and he is not qualified to join the army at all, so he can only stay at home to farm.
And after being ruled by the Blue Dragon Empire, their father and son were at least able to eat a full meal, and sometimes even a meal of meat, which was really a good day that the father and son had never dared to think of before.
In the chat with the other party, Ma Qiancheng also learned that in order to enable these civilians under his rule to solve the problem of food and clothing, Guo Dafu not only sent a lot of agricultural experts to guide the cultivation and distribution of seeds of various high-yield crops in various places, but also distributed various grains and beast meat to the people from time to time as welfare.
Not to mention anything else, Guo Dafu is indeed very good in treating these ordinary people, and he can be regarded as a benevolent monarch.
And just when Ma Qiancheng was in the process of joining the army, he learned little by little about the situation of the Blue Dragon Empire, and the members of the battlefield observation group who came with him boarded a cruiser with a transport formation after a few days of adaptation, and rushed towards the front line of the battlefield of the Blue Dragon Empire with this transport formation.
Boarding this kind of ironclad battleship, which was also an antique, for the first time, Miao Changjun and the members of the battlefield observation group were curious to look around, especially the inside of the turret with a very fantastic structure, they were obviously very interested.
Perhaps because these battlefield observation teams were all elites selected from various units, no one showed too serious seasickness symptoms after boarding the ship.
After visiting the battleship curiously in the morning, Miao Changjun and the others came to the dining room inside the battleship and began to have lunch.
Here, Miao Changjun actually met an acquaintance, but because the other party's image changed too much, Miao Changjun was a little afraid to recognize each other for a while.
"You are... Hemp stalks? ”
Hearing Miao Changjun's somewhat uncertain question, the big man who was gnawing on a meat bone turned his head and showed a smile at him, and responded: "Changjun, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect you to be a general now!" Congratulations! ”
"It's really you, hemp stick!" Unexpectedly met an old friend here, Miao Changjun was very happy.
At the beginning, he entered the recruit camp at the same time as the other party, and was also assigned to a recruit company for training.
The other party has been very good since the recruit period, and he is a soldier king level existence, although his birth is very ordinary, but because of his outstanding performance during training, many people in the army feel that his future will be very ambitious. And because the other party was tall and thin, everyone gave him the nickname of a hemp pole.
Miao Changjun's performance in the new barracks at that time was considered to be the bottom, and he would often ask him for tips on various exercises, and the relationship between the two was also very good.
It's a pity that not everyone likes hemp sticks, after all, his outstanding performance can be said to have stolen almost all the limelight.
So in the second year of his service, a recruit born in a family of Jiangmen took advantage of an ordinary conflict to fight with a hemp pole.
Although the last one was won by Ma Pole, and the general Huzi was beaten into a pig's head, Ma Pole also completely ended his military career.
After all, the grandfather of the general Huzi was the commander of their army, and he beat his grandson with a hemp pole, so it was naturally impossible for him to stay in the army any longer.
Miao Changjun also wanted to intercede with Ma Zhu at that time, even if it was to let the other party transfer to other troops in the area!
But in the end, he retreated because of the power of the other party's grandfather, after all, the other party was his direct boss at the time, and if he angered the other party because of this, his future would be ruined together.
Miao Changjun was very miserable for this, feeling that he was a coward and was not worthy of being a soldier at all.
Later, he heard that after Ma Pole was kicked out of the army, he could only go abroad to become a mercenary, earning a hard-earned money by selling his life.
It's just that I didn't expect that now the other party is actually in the army in the Blue Dragon Empire, and looking at the rank of the military uniform on the other party, he is already a major general.
You must know that he is a major general, but with the help of his family, he has gone through a lot of relationships, and he finally obtained it, and it took more than 20 years to maintain Miao Changjun in the army before waiting for this opportunity.
And as far as he knows, the Blue Dragon Empire has only been established for more than a year! This means that even if Ma Gong joined Guo Dafu's command from the beginning, it only took more than a year to become a major general!
In contrast, the speed at which his rank was promoted was completely turtle climbing, so the other party's congratulatory words sounded ironic to Miao Changjun.
However, Miao Changjun knew that all this should be his hallucination, after all, looking at the attitude of the hemp pole, the other party should sincerely congratulate him, and he did not hate him because he didn't help intercede back then.
After that, the two told each other about their respective experiences over the years, and Miao Changjun's experience was good. On the contrary, the experience of hemp pole is very ups and downs.
In the first ten years, he did work as a mercenary to support his family, but just three years before the Orlan Star Change, he was accidentally blown up by a mortar shell during a battle, although he was wearing body armor at the time, but his left hand and left leg were still dead on the spot.
After becoming such a cripple, he naturally could not continue to be a mercenary, so he could only return to his hometown after that, wanting to find another job.
It's a pity that because he has been working as a mercenary all these years, he has not mastered any other skills at all, and he is still a cripple, so no matter where he goes, he is basically driven out directly, and no one wants him to be a disabled person at all.
Disheartened, Ma Pole wanted to just wait for death, and during that time he was very decadent, wandering around the city like a walking corpse.
After knowing that two years later, one of his old comrades-in-arms approached him and said that someone was recruiting veterans with rich combat experience, even people with disabilities.
There was no other choice for the hemp pole, and after learning the news, he immediately went to apply for the job under the guidance of his comrades.