Chapter 224: Spring Soldiers
Since the beginning of the first month, there have been several heavy snowfalls in Yueliao one after another.
During this period, Yueliao County promulgated a spring military order, and it was not yet over, and it was sent in advance to send such a disappointing news, and other people's plum berries did not know.
Anyway, their family is unhappy.
This spring military order is actually military service.
On the border of Yanzhou, especially in the north, a group of militia will be recruited every spring and autumn to prevent the Tartars from accidentally breaking through the Yanping Pass in the south during the Spring and Autumn Period to deal with the problem of insufficient troops in the rear.
Don't ask why the troops are insufficient, first, the imperial court does not have so many troops to support those soldiers, and the junction line of the Yanzhou grassland is very long, and there are several places where battles may occur, and the troops really have no choice but to distribute them to the rear.
Rather than hoping that the rear will also be well arranged, it is better to all fight on the back of the front.
"Oh my God, what does that mean...... If the situation on the front line is not good, we can still go to war? ”
When learning about the Spring Military Order, the Mei family was rather confused.
When they came over last year, the autumn military order had just ended, and they didn't encounter it, which is good, as soon as the spring began, the spring military order was promulgated, not to mention that there was an autumn military order in the autumn.
Hey! There's no peace anywhere.
"No, people organize militia only for the consolidation of city defense, and after the later training, they just patrol in shifts every day, so they won't send people to the front line.
Even in case, in case the Tartars come, the rear will not be slaughtered. ”
Xue Lao seemed to know a lot about this, looking at the sad faces of the two big men in the family, he only said: "Don't worry, Gu and Gu Hou have been guarding Yanping Pass for more than ten years, and the number of times Tartar has crossed Yanping Pass is very small." ”
"Very little, that is, there is more?"
As soon as Mei Berry said this, Xue Lao almost didn't hold back.
"Occasionally! The old man said, it's occasional! After that, I will run back quickly! How can there be such a victory in a war?! ”
"I know...... People are already very powerful, but am I not worried and afraid? ”
Mei Berry was glared at by Xue Lao and wanted to explain a few more sentences, but when he turned his head, he saw Mei You thinking there.
"What do you think?"
Mei Berry asked with a wave of her hand at Mei You.
"This spring military order doesn't say that the militia is male."
"Huh?"
Mei Berry was stunned, what is Mei You paying attention to this?
And Xue Lao, who was on the side, suddenly laughed when he heard Mei You's concern: "The militia does not restrict men and women, because this levy has not been changed since more than 20 years ago, when the condition of 'fifteen to fifty men' was deleted. ”
"Why did you delete this more than twenty years ago?"
Both Meiberry and Meiyu are interested.
"At that time, Dacheng and the steppe Tartars fought very fiercely. I don't know how many soldiers died on the battlefield, and the strong men who were directly recruited in Yanzhou went to the front line and sacrificed a lot of people.
In many families, there are only old and weak women and children left. In order to hold Yanzhou, the choice in the final order was deleted. In those years, not to mention the militia, it was the norm for female soldiers to appear in the army. ”
"Why is that like this?" Miao was also surprised when he heard this, and he didn't know what to say, "Why don't you ......?"
Probably realizing that what he said was wrong, Miao immediately shut up.
Sure enough, in the next second, Xue Lao was already excited, and said, "Step back, step by step!" Dacheng's land is naturally not an inch of land! Otherwise, how can you be worthy of the soldiers and generals who once sacrificed for this land?
How can you be worthy of the people of Yanzhou who died tragically because of the Tartars?
Do you want to let those who sleep here forever be at peace, and the ground above their heads will be trampled by those Tartars?! ”
Everyone who was said by Xue Lao was ashamed.
"Well, it's only been more than 20 years, and it looks like it's a lot better."
Mei Berry looked at everyone and lowered their heads in shame and didn't dare to speak, she looked up and saw that Xue Lao was still suddenly angry at that age, for fear that he would be angry, so she opened her mouth to change the topic.
"Yes, if it weren't for the generations of the Gu family for more than twenty years......"
At the mention of this, Xue Lao's face was a little pale, but he didn't know where he thought of it, and his face turned black for a moment.
There was a muttering curse.
I didn't hear the specifics of Mei Berry, but how could she sound like she was talking about who was stupid here?
"Gu family?"
Mei You sensitively captured a key word in Xue Lao's mouth.
Mei Berry saw Mei You suddenly ask this, and her heart jumped.
Does the heroine already suspect the relationship between Gu Pingyu and this Gu family?
Xue Lao didn't know Mei Berry's psychological activities, and when he heard Mei You ask, he nodded and said, "Yes, the Marquis Gu family of Jingbei, their family has been guarding Yanzhou for generations.
In the early years, the old Marquis of Jingbei was seriously injured and returned to the imperial capital, and his son died in the battle in his previous life, and now the Marquis of Jingbei Gu Yan Gu Marquis was just canonized as the son of the world and guarded here for his father, which is 20 years.
The old marquis died in the middle, and he didn't have time to go back to keep filial piety.
Although, before the old marquis died, he also said that there was no need to keep filial piety for him, and everything was based on the peace of the border pass, but who listened to it and who didn't sigh? Because of this, Yanzhou has gained 20 years of stability. ”
"Gu Houye...... Have an heir now? ”
Mei You narrowed her eyes, and when she asked this, she only heard Xue Lao's affirmative answer.
He said that Gu Hou had two sons, and then sighed and said that the eldest son had died in battle with Gu Hou.
Mei Berry listened to Xue Lao's words, turned his head to look at Mei You again, at this time, Mei You had lowered her eyelashes and looked at the ground as if she had fallen into some kind of memory:
"When I was a child, my father was not there, and only my grandfather, grandmother and grandmother accompanied me and my brother."
"Later, when my mother died, my brother went to find my father, and I stayed with my grandfather and grandmother."
"And then ...... My eldest brother died, my grandfather was gone, and my grandmother and I lived together......"
"My grandmother sometimes looked at me and didn't know who she remembered, and quietly cried behind my back.
According to the housekeeper, my grandmother misses my uncle, and sometimes she seems to miss my eldest brother......"
Mei Berry watched Mei You sit there quietly and motionless, until Mei Berry drank all the hot tea on her side, and she didn't move.
Suddenly, Mei Berry's mind sounded again-[Ding - Congratulations to the host for checking in the famous scene "Attitude Change (Part)", and the reward is 20 catties of miscellaneous grains Wotou ~ It has been distributed to the system space, please remember to check it ~]
Plum berries: ???
She didn't do anything, and she clocked in again after drinking a glass of water?
Mei Berry looked at Mei You, who had not yet come back to her senses, and expressed her doubts to the system, [I didn't do anything, what happened? 】
[She remembered the content of the chat when she was with the male protagonist before.] 】
[Ah, then I'm clocking in like this? 】
[Well, why don't you count?] Aren't you right next to the heroine right now? 】
Plum Berry: [......]
Originally, when she heard Mei You ask if the woman could join the militia, Mei Berry was worried for a while.
Generally, the heroine doesn't ask questions casually, but fortunately, Xue Lao talked about the Gu family in the past, which turned Mei You's attention away.
In the end, when Mei You remembered, both of them were men in the family and had already been reported.
However, Mei Berry was also a little worried about her father being recruited as a militiaman, and she found some heart goggles for her father to wear in the past few days, and also asked for a bunch of wound medicine from Xue Lao.
In this regard, there is no need for Mei Berry to say, Xue Lao will also prepare.
After the end of the first month, it is still very cold here in Yanbei, and Mei Youqian and Mei Youcai have to train at the assembly point every day before dawn because of the spring expedition.
It is not as good as regular soldiers who have armor and weapons, and all of them have their own weapons and clothes.
The flower-style, like Mei Youqian and Mei Youcai's long knife, originally seemed normal, but in a group of axes, nail rakes, and large shovels, it seemed very out of place.
No matter how many days he came here to train, Mei Youqian always suspected that this was not some kind of military service, but some kind of peasant uprising.
Especially when Gu Hou would send Gu Jiajun to cooperate with the training, Mei Youqian even had a sense that he was a thief and was about to be surrounded and suppressed at this time.
After training for most of the day, a group of people had to eat dry food brought from home at noon.
Dry food, that is basically the word "delicious".
In addition, there is no hot water on this cold day, so it is not good to eat cold water.
"Crooked day, it's so cold for thieves. I wore it so thick today, and I almost didn't freeze to death. ”
There were other people who were training and resting next to the two brothers, and they were more or less complaining about the fact that it was still so cold at the beginning of spring, and that they were training in this weather.
"I can't stretch out my hand with the basket, and I look at those soldiers who are also miserable! Those hands were covered with chilblains. ”
"What is chilblains? I heard my father say that many soldiers freeze to death every winter! Otherwise, why would you want us to do military service every year just in case? ”
Mei Youqian listened to it on the side, and rarely did not interject, but he took a bite of the miscellaneous grain nest he brought with him, and secretly scolded his unlucky girl in his heart.
He said that this kid was so happy this time, and took out a few sacks to make a nest head for him as dry food.
It's so hard to bite!
I'm really about to be filial piety to death.
Mei Youqian: The girl eats flower rolls at home, and the old father gnaws on the nest outside! It's so filial!
Plum berry: Actually, Wowotou is quite delicious when it is hot, and the taste is chewy.
Mei Youqian: I seem to have a place in Rewo!
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