Chapter 40: One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither
After finding an open space to put down the bench, Du Chengfeng weighed the flag in his hand.
The flagpole of this flag is about eight feet long, the whole body is made of hardwood, the head of the pole is inlaid with the tip of a spear, the old flag has been brushed with raw edges, and even the flying fire phoenix embroidered on the flag has faded color.
"It's okay, it's okay."
Du Chengfeng secretly rejoiced.
He didn't know how to care for the textile flag, but it at least had a gun tip.
It's easy to have a spear tip, and then this thing can be sharpened.
So after pouring some water and moistening the whetstone, Du Chengfeng put down the entire banner and began to sharpen it.
As the saying goes, the halberd sinks into the sand and the iron is not sold, and it will be washed and recognized by the previous dynasty.
Wait, the future?
"Yo!"
Du Chengfeng couldn't help but feel a sudden feeling in his heart.
How can there still be a former dynasty general flag in the Jizhou arsenal, this Liu Dudu won't really want to rebel, right?
However, after continuing to polish in the future, Du Chengfeng knew that the previous dynasty was not the previous dynasty.
Now it should be Da Chen Yichao, this memory Du Chengfeng has seen it from Yang Fatzi's experience, and Da Chen Yichao was called Da Yu before, that is, the era when Yang Fatzi once lived - and this flag is from a much longer time.
It was the dynasty before Da Yu, known as Da Chu.
Different from the current popular troop arrangement and city fortifications, the Great Chu Dynasty took the lead. Rather than taking the time to engage the enemy, the soldiers of Da Chu were more willing to take the initiative to attack, and crush all the enemy's resistance with the momentum of burning the plains.
And at that time, the brave general at the forefront of the charge was holding this phoenix flag in his hand.
In the culture of Dachu, the phoenix is also known as the immortal bird, as the so-called "the morning starts in Tianjin, and the evening reaches the west pole." The Phoenix Emperor is full of successes, soaring wings", every Chu people believe that under the guidance of the fire phoenix, they will not die like this, and the immortal phoenix bird will guide their souls and take them to soar above the nine heavens.
Whenever the Phoenix Banner rushed into the enemy formation as the vanguard, all the Chu soldiers would fight bravely to be the first, follow behind this immortal bird, and kill all the enemies in front of them.
It is precisely because of this that the generals who can hold the Phoenix Banner are all fierce generals who ride a thousand.
Waving the phoenix flag, they will always rush to the front of the formation, using their inhuman bravery to open the way for the soldiers behind them. And after these fierce generals grow old, these phoenix battle flags symbolizing the vanguard fierce generals will be passed on to the next most powerful warrior in the army, and then these new generation of vanguard generals will replace the former veterans and continue to appear in the most dangerous places on the battlefield, bringing victory after victory to Dachu.
And under the victory after victory again and again, those Chu generals who held the banner of the generals also had a fiery desire to conquer in their hearts.
At that time, Jizhou was not called Jizhou, in the Great Chu Dynasty, it was also called Yuyang, and Long Yan, the commander of the Yuyang garrison at that time, had the courage of ten thousand people, and he was the champion of the three armies - it stands to reason that such a fierce general must be able to make contributions in the troubled times, but this Longyan caught up with a peaceful era.
At that time, Dachu had already settled down from the war, and it was the time when it was necessary to recuperate, and the commanders of the troops in various places were only used for garrison purposes, and no longer fought abroad. This is naturally a good thing for the people, but a fierce general like Long Yan, who is bent on expanding his territory, has no place for a while.
After all, there are no other forces in the world to attack, so you can't say that you can turn your troops and fight yourself, right?
It was at this time that Long Yan's eyes turned to the grassland.
Yuyang is located on the northern border, it is convenient to fight on the grassland, although those grassland people have always lived in pursuit of water and grass, and there is no fixed town to attack him, but as long as he fights all the way, it is not the same as expanding the territory?
If you really want to break the grassland royal court and capture Shan Yu alive, maybe you can still be a waiter and a great minister!
"Kill!"
Thinking like this, this Long Yan had already decided to let it go.
Requisitioning the people, reorganizing the army for war, Long Yan, as the commander of the troops, mobilized almost all the forces that could be mobilized in Yuyang County. And those grassland people are indeed no match for the soldiers of the Chu army who are like burning the plains, and they were beaten for a while, and they were afraid of the Chu army like a tiger.
However, at this time, the Mobei Royal Court, hidden in the depths of the grassland, moved.
It was the hardest battle Long Yan had ever fought, and it was clear that he was extremely brave, charging into battle like a tiger descending a mountain, but those cunning steppe knights did not confront him at all, but directly bypassed his blade from a distance, broke through the flanks, and slashed every soldier behind him.
As the battle continued, the soldiers who could follow Long Yan became fewer and fewer.
In the end, only Long Yan was left.
It was at this time that Long Yan realized what a huge mistake he had made, and he wanted to fly back immediately like the immortal bird on the flag, fly back to the Great Chu Yingdu, and tell those Chu generals that the tactics used by the Great Chu at the moment were extremely flawed - but it was too late after all, and the five cavalry spears had already pierced his body and nailed him to the ground.
And Yuyang County also fell.
As a trophy, this flag was left in the former military camp tent of the grassland people, and it was not until later that Dayu recovered the lost land of Yuyang and changed it to Jizhou, and this flag was put into the Jizhou arsenal and piled up with other old blades in case of emergency.
No one cares about this old flag, after all, without the vanguard general who carries the flag, this flag is just an old rag.
It is precisely because of this that this old flag will always sleep in the arsenal and be covered with dust.
"Hiss......"
Du Chengfeng, who had finished polishing, frowned slightly.
No, there was a bit of a problem with the feeling just now, this old general flag was not sleeping all the time, at least just before he entered the arsenal, the fierce momentum attached to this general flag......
"Wait?"
Du Chengfeng was suddenly stunned.
Glancing at the weapon racks with swords, guns, swords and halberds displayed beside him, and then at the general flag in his hand, Du Chengfeng already knew something in his heart.
The evil aura he felt before did not come from this flag
It is the integration of all the swords, guns, swords, and halberds in the No. 7 treasury of the first word, and all the swords and soldiers.
In other words, even though Long Yan, who once held this flag, has been killed, the flag itself has never conceded defeat.
It also wants to gather its troops and fight again.
Just like when you were charging into battle.