Chapter 30: The Yellow Sparrow

When there was a glimmer of light on the horizon, the forest was still dark. Under the effect of the biological clock that had already been formed, Li Yaobao and others woke up one after another.

At the same time, more than a dozen unkempt guys carried axes, saws, ropes and other things, rubbing their sleepy eyes, and walked out of the auxiliary barracks in the east outside Yan'an City.

They didn't know what medicine Captain Guo Qinglin had taken wrong, and last night before going to bed, he committed a magic obstacle as if he had to break up the original group and form a new team, and kicked himself awake so early. But there was something that made them happy: each of them received two big meat buns! Everyone whispered and speculated, while munching on hot buns, sticking to the city wall and walking towards the official road outside the north gate.

In order to facilitate the reception of timber and the manufacture of rafts, the auxiliary barracks were stationed outside the eastern gate of the city, where the Jin-Mingchuan, Yanshui, and Xichuan rivers converge and make a large bend of nearly 90 degrees, turn to the east, and join the Yellow River in Yanchang County. Half a mile upstream, there are more than two dozen boats moored on the shore, where the timber is stopped. Soon, the boats would be moored in the water, and the auxiliaries would use long poles with hooks to drag the timber that had drifted down the water to the nearby workshop. Here, the trunks of the trees are planked into planks and made into rafts.

When this small group of logging auxiliaries came to the north gate of Yan'an Mansion, they were startled by the scene in front of them, and their sleepiness disappeared.

A small contingent had already been assembled here: more than fifty knights, led by well-saddled horses, began to form at the front. In the middle were one hundred and fifty soldiers with swords lined up in three columns, and another fifty men lined up barehand in another way. The experienced old guy in the death squad proudly whispered to the novice: "Tsk, your baby doesn't understand, right?" See, it is the knife player who straddles the sword, and the pikeman who is empty-handed. You Wamo see that everyone is not wearing armor, and there must be a few carriages in the city gate behind, and the spears, armor, and round shields are all on them! ”

"Why?" The listener whispered.

"Why? Are you stupid? Dashuai, this is going to war! Wearing a body of iron weighing dozens of pounds and walking dozens of miles, do you still need to fight? I'm tired to death! ”

"War? Who is the big handsome going to fight? ”

"Who is the big boss going to fight? Eh, he's not handsome, how do you know! Does your baby look handsome? If you're handsome, I'll be the first to kill you! Hahaha. Hmph, look at this battle, someone has to lose their lives today anyway......"

"Get out of the way!"

The ostentatious preaching was interrupted by Guan Jianlin's loud shout. Immediately after that, several horses passed by the side of the auxiliary team, gradually accelerated to a trotting state, and galloped along the official road in the direction of Ansai to the north, raising a round of dust, and the guys of the auxiliary team covered their mouths and noses with their hands, coughed softly, and no one spoke anymore.

Luo Shifan had to follow to see the excitement, in fact, this is also what Luo Yonghao meant. Master Luo knew that his lone seedling had a very bright brain. But the sad thing is also here: I fell into bad luck with the wrong person, and my son's future was delayed - needless to say, the road of the imperial examination is basically hopeless: the big plan once every three years, Shenmu County has been "forgotten" twice, which just shows that some people and some things, adults have not forgotten at all, and have been remembering it in their hearts! Now that the father and son are on the ship of Guan Shengyun, it is far from enough to be smart, if they want to survive in the den of thieves, the son must be a little "bandit". This kind of actual combat with four or five times the absolute superiority of the unprepared troops, there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle, and it is a great opportunity for the baby son to experience it, so he specially greeted Guan Shengyun. Guan Shengyun knew that Xiao Luo and Guan Jianlin were going to be very good, and if he confessed, Guan Jianlin naturally had nothing to say. Gu Baihua was already very impressed by the respect and admiration of the two masters, so he specially assigned three good hands, who did not need to participate in the battle, and wholeheartedly protected the safety of the little master.

Luo Shifan looked at the team, tilted his head and pondered for a while, suddenly remembered something, muttered a few words to Gu Baihua, and then pulled Guan Jianlin, and rode out of the crowd, and galloped towards Ansai County first.

Dozens of miles away in the forest.

Last night, the auxiliaries had drunk the bone broth to the point and filled it with stream water, and the embers in the stove kept the iron pot at the right temperature. In the dim light, they urinated in the night, and then stuffed as much dry food as they could into their stomachs with hot water. When the auxiliaries removed the iron pot and shoveled a few shovels of soil to extinguish the remaining fire, the soldiers came to the stream, filled their water hyacinths, then sorted out their equipment, put on their armor and took their weapons, and set off with a smile. Walking through the forest is much more difficult than taking the official road, which can walk more than ten or twenty miles in an hour, and at the same time, it can travel four or five miles at most in the forest and mountains, and the physical exertion is greater.

The infantry soldiers were very happy: although most of them were originally soldiers, but if they were extended, where would there be any elite soldiers in a small broken county? Being pulled out and infiltrating behind enemy lines is purely to catch ducks on the shelves! But after that, it was different: although the hands trembled like a swing for the first two days, and then vomited...... Now I've seen the 'soldier' who has even killed people with his own hands! After I go back, at least I will grow a fruit, and maybe I can become the president. Not only is he superior in the battalion, but he may be able to eat horse rations......

It was early in the morning, just after midnight (seven to nine o'clock in the morning), and the auxiliary corps arrived at its designated position: about five or six miles south of the hill where the ambush had been found, there was a trail that winded into the forest to the east. There are auxiliary soldiers muttering, the captain of the country doesn't know which guy's sentence and half a sentence, he wants to designate this position, his group just came yesterday! It is true that this place is very close to the official road and the riverbank, but a few of the big trees that have become talented have all been cut down and pushed into the Yanshui yesterday. The rest is not even thick, and you can only go deep into it to find suitable ingredients. But if you don't obey, you will be starved and whipped, and you can only curse in your heart and go deeper.

No one noticed that a small boat was tied alone more than half a mile south of the opposite bank.

If you look down from the air, you will find that there are also three or five small boats parked in the upper reaches of the long stretch of water to the north. Four or five miles to the south, where the eye could barely see, the horse and infantry teams outside the north gate had already driven up in the morning, and the soldiers who had already put on armor sat quietly on both sides of the official road, waiting for orders.

At the same time, on the beach near the Yellow River in Yanchuan County, Zhao Ergou, who had figured out how to distinguish between the left and right feet and caused a brawl, took over the job of Li Yaobi, cursing and training recruits, and the horsewhip in his hand was occasionally whipped at the unlucky ones among them.

In Yan'an Mansion, Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao were chatting and waiting for news.

Guan Shengyun is literate, but after all, he has not undergone systematic formal education, and some things are just known but not known. Suddenly thinking of a question, he asked: "Master, as the saying goes, 'The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king'." It can be seen that the lord of the world is the biggest king in the Spring and Autumn Period. Guan Mou also heard the title of Zhou Tianzi. After the tyrannical Qin unified the six countries, Yingzheng called himself the emperor in order to distinguish himself from the other countries, what is the importance of these two words? ”

In ancient times, when the concept of hierarchy was strict, people rarely called the emperors of previous dynasties by their first names, and often used the name of the year or the temple to refer to them. However, because of their brutality, stupidity, and short-livedness, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng and the second Hu Hai were rare exceptions. (Another exception is Wang Mang, who said all the good things when he was not in power, pretended to be very sensible, and became a bastard after taking the position).

Luo Yonghao was stunned when he heard this. He does know these contents, but this topic is a little too sensitive, and the slightest carelessness of taking a step beyond the thunder pool is a catastrophe, and it is the first time to talk about it so unscrupulously! Then he laughed self-deprecatingly: The blatant rebellion is all involved in such a major crime, or a core member, what can you do if you say a few words about the emperor?

So he said: "Dashuai, this is a big thing." We usually talk about the three emperors and five emperors, you know, right? ”

Guan Shengyun said: "Well, Guan has read "Historical Records". The three emperors are the Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of the Earth, and the five emperors are the Yellow Emperor, the Emperor Yu (Yinku), Tang Yao, and Yu Shun. ”

Luo Yonghao took a sip of the teacup and continued: "What the big handsome said is right. This is where the word emperor comes from. Taken apart, 'the emperor, the big also, the middle also, the light also', is the supreme. The 'emperor', the one who is in harmony with the world is called the emperor. Before the pre-Qin period, these two words were not human kings, but they referred to the heavens, the gods were humanized, and the three emperors and five emperors were all extraordinary people. In the world, the greatest one is called 'king', such as King Wen of Zhou and King Wu. Houzun is known as the 'Son of Heaven', the proud son of heaven, and the monarch is divinely endowed. When the Zhou family declined, all the princes were called kings, and the king title gradually became worthless. Later, in order to show their respect, there were people who claimed to be emperors in various countries, such as King Qin Zhao who called himself 'Western Emperor' and King Qi who claimed to be 'Eastern Emperor'...... The word 'emperor' landed in the mortal world, and it was no longer so supreme. After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, there was also a discussion of the emperor's name. Prime Minister Wang Xuan, Tingwei Li Si and others persuaded Yingzheng to be called 'Thai Emperor', cover, the end of the great to the middle to the light of the gods, the end of the gods, the extreme of people. However, Yingzheng consciously unified the world without the ancients, and sent Xu Fu to find the immortal immortal prescription, and the period Tushou and Tianqi became among the gods, but it was not, and the word "emperor" was used together. It was also passed on to thousands of generations, and then he called himself the 'first emperor', saying: 'The future generations are counted, and the second and third generations are as far as the eternal world, and the transmission is endless'. Unexpectedly, the second died, but after that, the people who won the world could no longer think of a reputation that was both honorable and well-documented, so the emperor called him all the way down. ”

Guan Shengyun stuck out his tongue: "My God! I usually say it is smooth, but I didn't expect there to be so many exquisiteness in these words......"

Towards noon, the Li Baked Cakes finally heard the sound of people and logging.

Sure enough, as they expected, the dog thieves didn't care about the auxiliaries who didn't return two days ago. The place was simply so good, almost to the end of the jungle that it was barely passable, and further east it was all dense with vines and kudzu, tangled together, completely blocking the way. And there are still a lot of people who listen to the movement - hehe, no matter how many people there are, they are still unarmored auxiliaries, and if they scare a few words, they will be killed like those guys the day before yesterday. With a wave of their hands, the soldiers who had already put on their armor dispersed in understanding, and quietly scattered far away. Most of the places in the forest could not be walked, and the horsemen were waiting along the edge of the forest, and Li Yaobao came out of the forest, beckoned everyone to get on the horses, and also entered the trail before and after.

Not long after entering the forest again, I heard a faint explosion in the air, and the broken Li Yao Cake tightened his heart, and turned back to follow the sound, through the sparse branches and leaves, leaving a pale yellow smoke mark in the southern sky, which was being blown away by the wind.

Li Yaobi is too familiar with this kind of smoke mark: although the generals have their own habits and the meaning of fireworks is different, there is no doubt that it can only be fireworks for liaison in the army to hit this height!

Suddenly feeling that something was wrong, Li Yaobi shouted loudly and beckoned to his companions: "There is fraud!" Come on! After shouting a few times, he turned his horse's head and took the lead in running back the way he came.

As soon as he galloped onto the official road, he saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the south in the distance: it was a horse team, galloping towards him!

This knowledge point:

1. In ancient times, unless the enemy territory was on guard and advanced, the forward Tang cavalry was blocked by the terrain and could not be spread out in a net, generally most of the cases were soldiers without armor, at most the sword and shield soldiers carried portable weapons, and the baggage was transported by carts or simply carried by auxiliary soldiers, so that the soldiers could maintain their physical strength at any time.

2. The origin of the title of emperor.