Go to war
Zhao Shi was born in the northeast countryside in the 70s in his previous life, and before graduating from junior high school, his parents died in a car accident.
Then the uncle's family coldly let him board the train to the south, and after doing chores for a year, he followed the famous pickpocket Huang Mou, who was arrested in the late eighties and squatted in it for five years.
I went out to do a small business for a few years, and I went to Myanmar with my friends to think about pouring jadeite, but who knew that the water inside was deeper, and it was costed. can only follow a group of scammers to continue to deceive people.
Finally got a huge piece of jadeite rough stone, cut out the green that I had never seen before, just thought that I could live freely from now on, but then someone jumped on the head with a shot, and before he died, he took this iron ring cut out of the jadeite.
There is no time for darkness, and Zhao Shi feels like he has been in this dark space since he died.
I don't know how long it is, but anyway, intuitive time can't be calculated in years.
When he saw the light again, he had come into the world, holding the ring in his hand.
Zhao Shi was choked by the water, his head was a little broken, there was a dirt slope on the side, and there was a river on this side, so he should have fallen and fainted.
Zhao Shi looked at his twelve or thirteen-year-old body and was confused for a long time before he fused the memories of the two brains together. If he hadn't entered this body, the original owner of this body would have choked to death.
Daddy is a bachelor, and he picked it up by his father.
Fortunately, this cheap dad is an extremely wooden person, and he can't say two words a day, and he doesn't see anything wrong with Zhao Shi at all. In this way, Zhao Shi followed the cheap dad for almost two years.
Zhao Shi put away the ring hanging around his neck, got up and drove the sheep back.
There are only three of these sheep in his family, and the rest are from the same village, and when they go out to help herd, each family will give some grain every month, which can be regarded as a supplement for the family.
Zhao Shilai has been really good in the past two years, the wind and rain are smooth, the batter can always be drunk, even in the spring, the Lele belt can get through,.
Zhao Shi came into his adobe house after sending the sheep back to his house, his father was boiling the batter, while pulling the picked wild vegetables into the pot, after a while, he picked up a clay pot on the side, and carefully shook a little salt into it.
Then the two of them each had a wooden spoon and drank it in a big gulp. After eating, his father said: "Tomorrow, the lord of the city will come to collect grain, and if there is a rich one, I will pull a robe for you, and I will come back early in the morning, and you can give more salt if you are respectful to the lord."
Zhao Shi agreed and lay down on the kang.
Zhao Shi knew that the country he was in was called Northern Xia, and it was a dynasty that was driven over from the south three hundred years ago.
In addition to knowing that the emperor's surname is Ning, he stayed at the border of Northern Xia.
More than 100 miles to the south is the continuous Yandang Mountain, and the southern dynasty is connected by a small road, the mountain pass is the border pass, called the North Longkou Pass, but it is the border pass of the southern dynasty, and there is no border pass in the Northern Xia.
Zhao Shi thinks about it, this place is vast and sparsely populated, what do you want, what do you want, what do you want to guard.
It is said that in the past few years, the Southern Dynasties also came out to sweep twice a year, mainly to rob people and slaves.
Now for hundreds of miles here, all the people who can be found are the old, weak, sick and disabled, so the army that came out of the Southern Dynasty does not stop here.
I heard the old people in the village say that the past two years have been better, and in the past, they didn't need to come from the south to catch up with the disaster year, so the young people ran directly to the south.
Although he will become a slave for the rest of his life as soon as he gets a hot mark on his face at Longkou Pass, he can finally eat and live.
At dawn the next day, as soon as Zhao Shi finished drinking the batter, he heard a noise outside, and then heard the village head slamming the door outside and shouting: "Come out, come out and go to the east of the village."
After hearing this, the two hurriedly packed up and went out, and when they arrived, they saw that the seventy or eighty people in the village had basically arrived.
There were seven or eight soldiers in front, wearing tattered gowns, and a circle was printed on the back, and there were no words in it. Each man had a gun, but it was iron-headed.
This Northern Xia lacks iron, there is a shortage of iron, and the plowshares in Zhao Shi's house are all wooden, and the two sickles are the only iron tools in the family.
The old man who received the grain was helping an old man to get off the donkey cart, and the bags on the donkey cart should be salt, but much less than every year.
After the old man got out of the car, he took out a yellow silk cloth from his arms and read: "Xia Huangning Wang Qianyu, Nan Zhou has offended me several times..."
The old man's voice was not loud, and he couldn't hear what Wen Zou Zou was reading, and after a while, he leaned on the donkey cart beside him.
The old man who collected the grain stood up at this time and said loudly: "Nanzhou has committed border attacks several times this year, robbing a large number of my people, and the eldest prince has ordered 50,000 soldiers to knock on Nanzhou.
All those over the age of 14 and under the age of 60 will go with the army. This year's official rations were used as military rations, and the salt exchanged for them was halved and made up after the war.
All the cattle shall be handed in, and each family shall be registered, and you will be given money after the war.
I will start to pay this year's grain, and those who are ordered below will go home and prepare three days of dry food by themselves, and set off tomorrow morning, and those who escape will be caught and killed."
After speaking, let the village head start the roll call.
Zhao Shiye and both of them were on the list, and Zhao Shi found that basically everyone who could walk was named.
After paying the grain in the morning, his father took him to start steaming the cakes in the afternoon, and did not hesitate to sprinkle a large amount of newly received salt into the noodles.
"Eat more salt, and you will have the strength to run on the battlefield, and most of the rest will not be able to eat again"
After saying that, he thought of something, and swallowed hard and foamed, "I knew that I would kill the sheep, and I would not lose if I ate enough meat to die."
Zhao Shi didn't say anything, but he thought that it was really boring to live in this ghost place, and he hadn't eaten anything else except batter for two years.
Early the next morning, Zhao Shiye and the others arrived at the entrance of the village with dry food on their backs.
I didn't see those people yesterday, so four soldiers took them dozens of numbers and pushed grain and began to walk south.
After walking for a day and a half, I met a marching army. It's a real army, with iron armor on it.
A pile of iron leaves strung together, like a shoulder hanging from his body, without a helmet, with a knife hanging from his waist.
Each team was followed by a large cart with spears chopping on it, which was very long, and could be three or four meters long. The horsemen on the side wore helmets, and their armor was much thicker.
Then I walked for another day and arrived at Longkou Pass, a majestic mountain in front of me was horizontal, and I could already vaguely see the pass of the mountain pass.
The group was separated, and the stronger ones were singled out to continue with the army, while the rest began to move eastward.
Zhao Shi and his father were separated, and his father didn't say anything after looking at him for a long time, only waving his hand.
A few miles to the east, I came to a slightly higher dirt slope, where thousands of people were building camps.
A simple fence was formed with dragged branches, and a deep trench was dug outside, with grain piled in the middle.
They were a fat black man in armor, riding a horse back and forth, followed by more than 20 armor soldiers, and more than 100 soldiers in sackcloth.
It wasn't until noon the next day that the camp took on its appearance. Although it was autumn, the big sun at noon was also very much.
The big black fat man's hot armor was also taken off, and he was wet, and he didn't dare to go out to find a cool place, and he was irritable to catch whoever whipped him.
Zhao Shi had the intention to please him, so he came to him and said, "My lord, do you want to get you a pergola?" ”
After hearing this, the black fat man scratched his head and asked, "Do you know?" ”
"Small meeting" Zhao Shi replied,
"Hurry up, call a few people, hurry up"
Zhao Shi responded, and the branch found a piece of linen cloth with tarpaulin.
Two long poles, the two corners of the sackcloth were tied to the top, the poles were nailed to the ground, and the ropes were pulled in opposite directions, and the sackcloth was pulled to the south and nailed.
It didn't take long for the pergola to be erected.
The black fat man stood under the pergola and was very satisfied, Zhao Shi hurriedly brought a grain bag, and the black fat man sat down with a golden knife.
Zhao Shi immediately picked up the pu fan and fanned it, "The small one can pinch the bones, and the military master will try the small one?" ”
"Yo he, it's going to be this, let's try it"
In his previous life, Zhao Shi always went to massage, and pinched it hard according to the cat and the tiger, and the black fat man was comfortable
"You're a very clever baby, just follow me these days",
"Okay," Zhao Shi replied happily.
Zhao Shi mainly wants to know as much about the world as possible, the countryside is too closed, most people have never left home for dozens of miles in their lives, and they don't know what to ask.
At night, Zhao Shi slept next to the black fat man's tent, and the black fat man threw him a blanket, and finally his treatment improved a little.
Through chatting with the black fat man, I learned that the Southern Zhou cavalry swept several times this year, and each time they robbed a lot of people to leave, but they didn't go to Zhao Shi's hometown.
It is estimated that this Northern Xia is really unable to save face, so he sent troops, saying that it was a knock, but in fact, he went out to demonstrate and let the Southern Zhou converge.
However, the black fat man said mysteriously that this time it was not impossible to win, and the prince invited the goddess of the Red Mountain.
It is said that the mana is boundless, and a palm can tear down a city wall, which is seen by the relatives of his relatives.
If you don't want to be a prince, then you can come? Don't you wait for someone to slaughter you?
After hearing this, Zhao Shi was confused, saying that he didn't take it to heart when this goddess pushed the city wall, it was purely a nonsense, and he also knocked down the city wall, and it was almost the same as taking explosives.
But how can this master let the other party slaughter casually, what about these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses on the opposite side of Longkou Pass.
From the mouth of the black fat man, he knew that from the North Longkou Pass on this side to the South Longkou Pass on the other side, there were mountain roads for more than 100 miles.
When the army on the opposite side arrives in the Year of the Monkey, it is likely that it will not be able to attack and lose some men and horses.
Where is it possible that the lord will be dominated, but the battle two days later subverted Zhao Shi's cognition.
In the morning, Zhao Shi felt that the atmosphere was tense, and the black fat man put on his helmet and looked in the direction of Longkou Pass.
Zhao Shi also looked over, and the Xia army in front of the pass lined up a phalanx, a piece of black crows.
There was a high platform in the middle of the phalanx, and there were several figures on it, and a large flag was erected in front of it, and it was impossible to see what was written on it.
Zhao Shi is still complaining that thousands of people can go out of the customs to attack your tens of thousands of people?
But from a distance, I saw that the gate on the opposite side was opened, and thousands of cavalry rushed out to line up on the opposite side. Then I saw a black shadow floating out of the opposite side, and I couldn't see what it was from a distance.
But it must be drifting, or it should be called flying, but it is far away, and it doesn't look so fast.
Almost instantly, the black shadow drifted to the banner of the Chinese army, and then I saw the banner of the Chinese army, and it fell.
Zhao Shi's mouth forgot to close in surprise, and at the same time as the banner fell, the cavalry of the Western Zhou on the opposite side rushed over like a tide, bringing up dust several feet high.
Looking back, the black shadow drifted towards the high platform almost at the same time as the flagpole fell.
The canopy on the high platform flew abruptly into the distance, and there was a man in red clothes in the front.
Just when the black shadow was about to float onto the platform, Zhao Shi felt that he heard a muffled sound, not very loud, but Zhao Shi felt that his heart was tightened.
Then the high platform collapsed, and it was a mess, and it was impossible to distinguish it.
As the sand and dust rolled up by the cavalry spread to the phalanx, the phalanx began to deform, and after the collapse of the high platform, the shape was basically invisible.
In just one pillar of incense, the entire battlefield was surrounded by dust and could no longer be seen, which showed that the cavalry had broken through the large array.
Zhao Shi was dumbfounded, this is the end? He and the black fat man stared at each other for a long time.
At this time, a fast horse came roaring, shouting: "Take the token, burn the grain"
When I arrived at the walled gate, I didn't stop, threw in a wooden sign and played the horse and left.
"Quick, hurry up and burn the food," the black fat man shouted desperately.
A group of people began to fetch firewood in a mess, and after a while, thick smoke rose from the camp, and deserters could be seen running north one after another in the distance.
, that's it? Zhao Shi scolded, and while others were not paying attention, he found a piece of ragged linen cloth and slipped into the smoke.
Covering his mouth and nose with a wet cloth, he followed the direction of the smoke to the edge of the fence and turned over, but after thinking about it, he didn't dare to go south, and ran diagonally to the northwest.
Running until midnight, Zhao Shi felt that he should be far away from the battlefield.
When he came out, he had a dry biscuit in his arms, which had already entered his stomach, and now he was thirsty, hungry, and cold, so he found a small pit behind the dirt slope, and snuggled into it, and fell asleep after a while.
I was asleep and was woken up by the sound of horses' hooves, and I didn't dare to move, and slowly opened my eyes.
I saw a little girl dismounting in the moonlight, and the woman was dressed in red and wearing a red cloak.
The woman dismounted, and whispered, "How do you know I'm going this way?" ”
"There is a way of deduction in the Divine Religion, and it is slightly superficial below"
A deeper voice sounded on the side, and Zhao Shi was startled and didn't dare to move.
I rolled my eyes a little and found that there was a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the slope here, dressed in black, and his face was really white.
"If you can't hide, let's come"
The woman in red shouted and was ready to fight to the death, she was originally invited by Prince Ning to help with her fist.
I thought that a border guard would be able to do a lot of ability, but who knew that he would be seriously injured by the other party with just one palm.
Taking advantage of the chaos, he pulled his apprentice and fled, afraid of being pursued, he didn't dare to go north, grabbed a horse, and ran down to the northwest.
Who knew that people would block her here a long time ago, and there was a sadness in my heart, did I just come out of the mountain and die here? No wonder her master warned her to avoid encountering people from the Tongtian Sect.