War is an act of violence that forces the enemy to submit to our will.

The Theory of War, The Nature of War

The first snow of early winter fell from the sky scattered on this day, and it was white in the distance, and nothing could be seen clearly, the soldiers were still training normally, and Kong Ming was ravaged by the old headhunter after the routine battle formation training, and a piece of fighting energy gushed out from the tip of the sword, slashing towards a small tree ten meters away, the small tree kept swaying, as if laughing at Kong Ming. The old hunter was still sitting on the stone as usual, squinting his eyes and drinking a little wine. Kong Ming knew that alcohol was not allowed in the barracks, but he didn't know how he managed to get so much alcohol. The old headhunter was wearing a shabby military uniform, but it was very cleanly washed, and the contrast was very big with Kong Ming. Kong Ming hadn't taken a shower for days, and his body was covered in a thick layer of sweat with many tiny cracks, and anyone who saw him would think he was an orc and not a human. The old headhunter "snapped" a whip on Kong Ming's body, "Slacker, hurry up, yes, hurry up and !!" Haha laughed and took another sip of wine. At this time, a sergeant who was delivering a message in the distance galloped to the center of the barracks, the old headhunter's eyes darkened, and he said weakly to the air: "Don't practice, pack up your things, quickly!"

Kong Ming looked at the old headhunter strangely. This is the old hunter for so long, and the only thing he said to him was not a monster. There was a slight blankness in his eyes. Seeing Kong Ming like this, the old headhunter knew that he didn't understand, sighed, and said: "Boy, if I die, remember to give me a little more wine to drink on my sacrifice day every year!!" Seeing Kong Ming's more dazed appearance, he added another sentence, "It's important to save your life, don't be so desperate, go quickly", the whip hit again, and Kong Ming immediately ran quickly. Entered the tent, while calling, "The old headhunter asked everyone to hurry up and pack up their things, hurry up!!" When everyone saw Kong Ming running in, they paused for a moment, and after hearing it, they finally reacted and immediately packed up their things, although it had been half a year of training, but everyone was still in a hurry when cleaning up, and it took a while to clean up. At this time, the order to send troops and pull out also came down. Everyone was stunned by the sensitivity of the old headhunter. At the same time, I also felt the helplessness of an old headhunter, a veteran who had experienced war. Because the time seemed to be relatively short, after a simple mobilization, the army began to move towards the destination, but Kong Ming and their grassroots soldiers did not know where the army was going and who to fight, so they had to follow the army.

As the army marched, there was no way to see the edge, and Kong Ming was caught in the middle of the procession with his sword on his back and his pitiful little salute. In the middle of the procession was a two-horse cart drawn by a squad of tents and some large and heavy supplies.

"Old headhunter, where are we going?"

"I don't know. ”

"Any news?"

"Don't ask so much, I heard that this time I went to fight against the Harvey Empire, but it seems that there is news that it is fighting with the Empire!"

"Is it true?"

"Who knows! Shut up, alas! It's for his damn broken throne, after so many years of preparation, and finally there will be a civil war, I don't know how many people will survive!"

"Have you fought a lot of battles?" asked Kong Ming cautiously.

"It's only a few times, but I don't know how many people have died around me, and they are all numb. It's good to be alive, remember that saving your life is the main thing. ”

"Then why don't you run away?"

"Escape ?!! only by moving forward on the battlefield can you survive, and if you retreat, you will die. Unless everyone quits together. Alas, more people died!"

In fact, everyone knows very well that the prince has been thinking about the day when he sat on the throne since he lost the battle for the throne, and after he came back, he was even more armed, and he didn't want to relax for a moment, and he didn't dare to relax. The two brothers, the emperor and the prince, knew very well that whoever let his guard down would become a corpse, the difference was the difference between active and passive, and war became a way to solve this situation, although not the only way, but this way was the most violent and decisive way. For the emperor, if he wins the war, he will lose his brother, this is secondary, the war will cause great turmoil within the empire, and many social problems will make him uncomfortable for a while, of course, only for a while, and if he loses, he will lose a qiē, including his own life. It's the same for Prince Tangke, the thirst for power makes him have an innate hatred for Emperor Tang Feng, who has been inferior to him since he was a child. In the essay on martial arts, Tang Feng is not as good as himself, and since he was a child, Tang Feng has been called a "fool", compared with Tang Ke, who is called a "genius", it is like a world of difference. How could Tang Ke, who was loved by thousands of people, tolerate a person who was inferior to himself standing on top of him? However, the facts are still facts after all, and they have already been decided. Just because of the old emperor's words: "Tang Feng, filial piety and harmony." What Tang Ke didn't know was behind the old emperor's words to him: "Tang Ke, wolf ambition, if you are the emperor, you will die in the future." "War is an act of violence that forces the enemy to submit to our will. Only through the guò war can Donk get back what seemed to have belonged to him. He doesn't even account for the consequences of a qiē. This time I think it was also a war between the two brothers, but it was just a common life like Kong Ming, and in the prime of his youth, he was captured as a soldier and used as cannon fodder. No matter who wins or loses this war, it will only be the common people who will suffer. The one who died was a captured strong man, of course, Kong Ming can only be regarded as a small ding.

The snow was still falling in the sky, and the road after tens of thousands of troops had become muddy, Kong Ming was wearing a piece of cold iron plate armor, which was wearing three layers of clothes of general thickness, and if he didn't move, he could barely defend against a little cold, carrying his own package on his back, which contained a military coat and a few changes of clothes, as well as two magic books that Kong Ming brought out from the old mage, the long sword was between the plate armor and the package, and he was wearing a pair of boots made of something that could be waterproof, the boots were very hard and heavy, which was very inconvenient for Kong Ming's activities, and the number of Kong Ming's feet was one size larger, which also affects the movement of Kongming from a certain point of view. Kong Ming put a few layers of thick insoles in his boots, because the old headhunter said that the most critical thing when traveling long distances is the human feet, if you don't know how to protect your feet, sooner or later people will suffer a big loss because of foot problems, and now it has been more than ten days since leaving the camp, Kong Ming in addition to being a little uncomfortable in the first few days, now he is also fully adapted to this kind of daytime march, night camp life, and is also used to lying in the snow to sleep days, but the most reassuring thing for Kong Ming is his own feet, now there are several people in the class with blisters on their feet, and Kong Ming is one of them, listen to the old headhunterThis is often the case during the march, as long as the thread is threaded with a needle, passed through the blister, and then a piece of thread is left in the blister, and the two ends of the thread are outside the blister, so that in the process of marching, the water in the blister will flow out of the place at the end of the line, if not, the water will accumulate more and more in the blister, and after there is more water, the blister will become larger and larger, separating the skin and flesh of the person, so that the person can not walk. If the water flows out after the thread is crossed, although there is a little pain at the beginning of the march, after this period of time, the person will become numb to the wound and it will not hurt. Although Kong Ming didn't understand the old headhunter's words at first, he also did it, but because Kong Ming's feet were flat feet, Kong Ming, like several other people, had blisters on the soles of his feet. Now Kong Ming is enduring the pain, dragging his tired body, and marching with the army, the old headhunter is not far behind Kong Ming, and Liu Cheng is in the middle of the whole class march, constantly urging the people in the class to keep up, otherwise once the people in the class fall behind, it will be difficult to keep up with the team, but they will fall farther and farther, and finally they will break away from the army, so once they find that someone is out of the army, the rear soldiers of the army will not hesitate to kill those people, and several such things have happened along the way. The army is always very boring on the march, so Kong Ming often asks the old headhunter for some common sense of marching and fighting, if nothing else, even to pass the time.

"In the process of marching, the army must send forward soldiers and scouts or scouts, these people are responsible for exploring the way in front and understanding the enemy situation in front, if there is an enemy situation, it is necessary to quickly notify the generals of the army, so that everyone is prepared, if not, it is also necessary to come back within a certain time to report the situation, in case there is an unexpected situation. On both sides of the army, left and right guards should be sent to ensure the safety of the left and right sides of the march, and a certain number of personnel should be left in the rear as rear guards to ensure the safety of the rear. The old headhunter said slowly.

"How far do those people usually go, and what if they find out about the enemy?" Kong Ming asked suspiciously.

"How far do I know?" said the old headhunter angrily, "but it shouldn't be too close, otherwise we won't even have a little time to react?" As for what to do after discovering the enemy, that's not a question we should care about, why do you ask so much, you're not an officer, boy, wait until you become an officer that day to care about this kind of thing, now you still care about when you finish this journey, and the future will be later. The old headhunter obviously couldn't answer such a question, so he could only avoid it by changing the topic. Kong Ming obviously didn't understand what the old headhunter meant, but when he saw the old headhunter's angry appearance, he knew that he would go crazy if he asked someone again, so he wisely closed his mouth and walked silently.

Maybe it's because I haven't experienced war, maybe it's because it's still a long way from the battlefield, and there is no sense of imminent battle in the entire army, just endless walking, and the laughter of officers on horses. Vaguely, Kong Ming also heard some officers talking, which roughly means that it is winter, and no one will move troops in this kind of weather, because the problem of support cannot be completely solved, as for what is support Kong Ming is not clear, as a small soldier, he can understand and understand too few things at this stage, and ask other people, they are also not very clear, and can only use some words similar to seem, should and so on to answer some basic questions about the army like Kong Ming. As for asking these basic questions to the officers, Kong Ming did not dare, because it would only be exchanged for a beating, and the relationship between the officers and soldiers was really too bad.

The winter night came very early, the sky was darkened all of a sudden, people could only see the road clearly by the light of the snow, the army set up barracks on both sides of the road, as soon as the officers stopped and dismounted, they leaned on the side of the carriage, where the wind could not blow, and continued their high talk, only a few were dividing the station, arranging sentry posts and patrol detachments, etc., these troops usually had to be used to ensure the safety of the army, Kong Ming took a shovel from the carriage and set up tents with the people in the squad, they had to set up two tents, one for the officers and one for themselves。 Liu Cheng divided the work into several parts, Kong Ming and the other five people were responsible for emptying the place, he and the other three unloaded the tent from the carriage, and several people quickly set up a tent together, of course, that was the officer's, those officers saw Liu Cheng and they couldn't wait to go in after they set up the tent, the wind outside and the snow was indeed too cold, and Kong Ming They set up their own tent after the officers went in, after they finished, Kong Ming and they dug a small drainage ditch around the tent, and also dug a shallow ditch on the side of the tent, waiting for the fire ash to go down after eating, mainly to prevent some insectsThis is still useful in the summer, but it is redundant in the winter, when it is so cold, how can there be bugs? But the officers still stubbornly demanded it, saying that it was just in case. After eating, everyone went to sleep, and Kong Ming stood at the first post.

Kong Ming stood in the snow, surrounded by some people standing guard, and the sound of questions and answers was constantly heard. Passwords are a basic measure for the army to distinguish between friends and foes at night, generally two words, and when necessary, there will be one or more special passwords, the number of words of these passwords is not fixed, it may be two, four words, or it may be a poem or some nonsensical words, but these are corresponding, the answer can be their own people, otherwise they are enemies, this is a way to prevent spies from getting in. However, these things are often stolen by the enemy, and there is no way, after all, the people who know it are every officer and soldier, and it is almost impossible not to leak it, so the general password will only be used for one night, and it will be invalid after expiration. Kong Ming walked around the post, looking at some posts where several people who were adjacent to each other gathered together around the fire, those who were not far from Kong Ming, Kong Ming looked at it, also walked over, sat down in front of the fire, several people were together, the probability of finding the enemy was also a little greater, and it was easy to deal with what happened. Everyone is an acquaintance, and there is nothing inconvenient, Kong Ming took off his boots, liberated his feet from his boots, and roasted them by the fire, which is a way to protect his feet, after all, after walking for a day, the most tiring thing is the feet.

"Here," a soldier next to him stretched out a pot in his hand to Kong Ming, it was a small iron pot, and the small pot looked like it had been roasted by a little fire, "something, mysterious." Kong Ming took the pot while looking at the soldier who was smiling at him, and took a sip into his mouth, a fragrance came from the pot, and a hot stream spread from his throat to his stomach, spreading all over his body, "Good wine." Kong Ming said unconsciously, and when the man heard this, he hurriedly stretched out his middle finger to Kong Ming, put it to his mouth and "shh The complaining whisper said that the "wolves" were those officers. "Look at your bear-like look. The people around him were laughing at him, but he didn't care. "Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. "After leaving the original barracks, there was a ban on alcohol, saying that as long as they found it, they would not be spared, and they also cut a few, but they were all soldiers, not a single officer, and many officers from the day they left, as long as they had a little free time, they were also inseparable from wine, and most of the drunk were officers and nobles, but none of them were recruited, at most they said a few words that were not painful, and the wine that the soldiers drank was also obtained from the officers, otherwise how could the soldiers have the right to buy wine? Wine can be said to be an indispensable thing for the army in the winter march, during the march, if you drink a sip, you can drive away the cold on your body, and the same is true for standing guard and taking a sip before going to bed, but if you drink it, it is different, it is a bad thing, because there are not a few people who make mistakes because of drinking, so the prohibition of alcohol was promulgated above, but it is only against the bottom, it can be seen how Cary's army is.

Everyone whispered about some of the news they had heard recently from the wind from above, and they felt that the war was really coming, and their mood was much lower, and they were pressed in everyone's hearts like a mountain.

Seeing that the atmosphere was like this, Kong Ming thought about it, stopped talking, put on his boots, walked to the side, pulled out his long sword, and began to practice sword skills, this is the only way to make Kong Ming forget about that kind of complicated things for a while, and it is also a way to improve his strength, rather than sighing on the side, it is better to be more realistic in this way, although the strength of Kong Ming's improvement is negligible to the army, because even if it is a swordsman of the seventh or eighth level or other mages of similar ranks, assassins, Knights will die in the war, but for Kong Ming, every bit is a guarantee for his life on the battlefield, and he must survive this war that does not belong to him. Time passed unconsciously, and soon Kong Ming was laid off, and when he returned to the wet and cold tent, Kong Ming fell headlong, put his sword aside, removed his iron armor, wrapped his body in his coat, and fell asleep. He was so tired. The few times Kong Ming woke up in the middle of the night, the tent and a coat could not completely block the cold of this early winter, and there were constant questions and answers from the outside, the dream and snoring of someone inside, and the uneven bumps on the ground, all of which woke Kong Ming up from his dream, but he fell asleep again in a blink of an eye, and he was really tired.

The next day, before dawn, the sound of the wake-up call came, and the soldiers began another busy day and embarked on the journey.

After more than 10 days of marching, the army finally reached the end of the march, the Qingyuan prairie, after setting up camp, the soldiers began to prepare for the battle, polishing their swords, shields, armor, checking every part of the body to see if it conforms to the appearance of their daily battles, setting up obstacles such as rollers and horse pits around the barracks, not daring to steal a little laziness, to prevent the enemy from storming the barracks. When setting up obstacles, Kong Ming saw that there was a military camp that was almost the same as them not far away, the old headhunter said that it was the enemy's military camp, their tent was the same as ours, and the armor and weapons were the same at first glance, but if you carefully distinguish them, you can see that the patterns on the front and back of the armor are not the same, and they are easy to identify, Kong Ming can even vaguely see a few enemy officers, observing them not too far away, the patterns of their armor are indeed different, and it is easy to distinguish between friend and foe. Not long after returning to the barracks, Kong Ming heard a burst of noise from the battalions, all kinds of different shouts kept coming, which was accompanied by the cries of some people, Kong Ming walked over there curiously, there were a lot of people gathered on both sides of the main road of the barracks, and the sound came from a few wounded soldiers. They were carried or carried into the barracks by several people, followed by a few horses, the ones that were on the frame seemed to be slightly injured, but they were mixed with blood, and the wounds on their bodies were simply bandaged a little bit with the strips torn from the clothes on their bodies, and the blood was still oozing out of it, and there was still a section of arrows with broken arrows on individual wounds, and several of them were seriously injured, two of them were cut off by people, and the other one was cut off by people, and the broken legs had passed out, and the real pain of the broken hands was unbearable, and the blood was constantly dripping from the stretcher, flowing everywhereThey were mixed in by a few guards and walked to the camp where the wounded were concentrated, where there were doctors and priests who could treat them. The soldiers on both sides were stunned, this is war, this is blood, human life is really worthless, they have been gone for a long time, but the people here have not dispersed, the smell of blood is still floating in the air, the heavy atmosphere is a little overwhelming, Kong Ming felt for the first time that death was so close to him, although he knew that it was like this before, but there was never anything more telling than being close at hand. Cold sweat continued to flow down his face, and his hands were unconsciously clenched into fists, but he didn't feel a little until a long time, when a gust of wind blew, Kong Ming realized that his underwear had been soaked with sweat, and his hands were a little cramped in the gloves, as if he was a little overforced, and his hands were full of sweat. After Kong Ming came back to his senses, he looked around, there were not many people around him, their faces were more strict, and there were a lot of stiffness, some of them had tears in their eyes, some of their faces were pale, they lost their bloody faces, they were pale and slightly cyan, and a few people were crying, constantly listening to the shouts to go back, and even one person went crazy after seeing such a scene, and kept talking nonsense, until an officer killed him directly with a sword, the few crying people stopped in fright, and the officer only said one word, "Those who disturb military discipline will be killed. Then he ordered the body of the madman to be taken away. Kong Ming didn't know what his face looked like, but he knew that he would never be better than others, this was the first time he had seen such a situation, and it was also the first time he felt that human life was really so fragile, it seemed that his life on the battlefield was really incomprehensible. I don't know how he walked back to the tent, but that scene kept flashing in Kong Ming's mind, and he shook his head, Kong Ming tried his best not to think about it, because Kong Ming knew that if he kept thinking about that scene, there would be only a dead end on the battlefield. After eating, Kong Ming went directly into the tent and used the mage's meditation to eliminate the grievances in his heart. It wasn't until a long time that Kongming's heart gradually calmed down.