The ancient road of the long pavilion is barren and the grass is in the sky.

In the south wind, the smell of food is faintly heard.

The corn in the retort had already been steamed, and the soldiers took the wooden bowls and received the food one by one.

The food is very poor, and it may be mixed with chaff and sand.

There are no dishes, and it would be nice to have some tempeh and pickles to accompany it.

The bowls were also black, and there was a suspicious dirt on the bottom, but no one cared and devoured them.

Zuo Sima Liu Qia was a little worried, the number of soldiers brought over was nearly five hundred, but what kind of goods were they?

Before leaving, Mi Huang mentioned to him: "There are 490 soldiers, over 78 years old, 167 years old, more than 150 people; More than 200 people ......"

In short, one-third of children are under the age of 16 or seventeen, and more than 40 percent are in their sixties and seventies.

The quality of this soldier is so bad that it is boundless!

"Sima Liu." Supervising Mi Huang walked over, and after greeting Liu Qia, he said, "I'm going to enter Beijing tomorrow, how should I talk to Sikong?" ”

Liu Qia was stunned, and only after a while did he ask: "Mi Inspector, do you think these soldiers are useful?" ”

Mi Huang was straightforward, and said honestly: "There are 200 people above Ershun, who can only eat rice minc, and some people are even blind, deaf and faint, unable to see, unable to resist the Emperor, and can only be a rough police thief." As for the children, they can probably keep the birds away. ”

Liu Qia sighed.

The East China Sea Kingdom has troops, and the size is around 2,000 people.

The kingdom soldiers are divided into three classes.

The great power placed 2,000 troops in the middle and 1,500 in the upper and lower armies, for a total of 5,000 people.

The sub-kingdom placed 2,000 upper troops and 1,000 lower troops, making a total of 3,000 people.

The small country had only 2,000 men in the army.

These soldiers are all world soldiers, that is, military households, sons inherit their father's business, have been soldiers for generations, farming in peacetime, training in leisure time, and going out in wartime, which is equivalent to the Tutuan villagers and the like in the late Tang Dynasty - even worse, because they have fought less, and since the destruction of Wu, they have not gone out for many years, and their combat effectiveness has declined significantly.

Sima Yue, the king of the Great Jin Dynasty and the king of the East China Sea, was inconvenient to send the East China Sea soldiers into Luoyang, so he left the relationship and asked the governor of Xuzhou (also known as the governor of Qingxu) Sima Mao (mào) to help, sell him face, and recruit a soldier to come over to support the scene for him.

As a result, he overestimated his influence, he had no face at all with Sima Nan, and in the end, people sent such a batch of goods, which made Liu Qia and Mi Huang quite speechless - Sima Mao was too much, so he fooled Sikong like this, and he will definitely teach him to look good in the future!

After eating, Mi Huang assigned people to set up the camp.

With the quality of this building, it is impossible to go to the camp in strict accordance with military law, Mi Huang thought about it, and could only let people fence off the carriages and ox carts, and the nobleman lived in the middle, and he personally led people to protect them, and the rest of the people were scattered everywhere in teams.

After arranging all this, he came to a splendid carriage.

"Is it arranged?" The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a woman who looked to be twenty-two or three years old asked.

The maidservants gathered around the car and put down a few desks.

There are more than a dozen food utensils on the table.

Seven servants were arranged in a row, each carrying a bottle, a bowl, a bottle, a spoon, a spoon, a tikui, and other things, for the master to use at any time.

Another sat on his knees, holding the first course flat and eating and drinking.

Camping in the wilderness can only be "simple", you can't talk about pomp and circumstance, and you can make do with it.

"Don't worry, the princess has made all the arrangements." Mi Huang lowered his head and answered.

The woman nodded and lightly opened her lips: "Mi Jun has worked hard." ”

The woman is good-looking, Xu is pampered since she was a child, her skin is snow-white, delicate and lovely. At this time, the body leaned forward slightly, and the chest seemed to be unable to hold back, as if it was about to pour down.

As far as the waist, the curve of the body is constricted in an exaggerated arc, which can be called a Ying Ying grasp.

This woman has something.

Xu was bored, and the woman asked again: "Mi Jun has traveled all the way, and the generals have a lot of strategies, but I don't know how this soldier is?" ”

Mi Huang hesitated, and finally decided to tell the truth: "As the princess saw, it is too much to use." ”

The princess was silent for a while, and then asked, "Last year, the king recruited warriors from the country to enter Beijing, can there be anyone who can be used?" ”

"There are a few." Mi Huang replied: "There is a brave young man named Shao Xun, a person from Shu, fifteen years old, his archery skills are superb, and his skills of swords and spears can also be remarkable, or can be of great use." ”

"Who is this?" The princess asked with interest.

"This ......" Mi Huang paused and said, "Shao Xunzu has been a soldier for generations. ”

"It turned out to be Shixi." The princess's face returned to indifference and lost interest.

Shixi, the meaning of a soldier's rest.

Shao Xun's identity is too low.

If it's a family, you can have a good chance of cultivating, but it's a pity.

Seeing that the princess no longer spoke, Mi Huang saluted and said goodbye, and went to inspect the camp.

The night was getting darker.

The evening breeze blew across the camp and towards the distant villages.

In the decaying houses, ghosts and foxes are infested.

The few families did not dare to open the fire, and closed the door early so as not to get into trouble.

Luoyang's best place is already like this, pitiful and lamentable.

******

The next day, this "eye-catching" team drove into Luoyang City.

The people of the city were amused when they saw the old and small sergeants even if they were overwhelmed by life.

But if you think about it carefully, there seem to be a lot of old people and children stationed in and out of the city, but they are not as concentrated as the one in front of them.

In the military system of the Great Jin Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that military households under the age of 17 and over the age of 50 were not allowed to be conscripted.

But the law is one thing, it's actually another.

During the reign of Emperor Wu, the edict ordered veterans over the age of 60 to return home, which shows that in the actual implementation, the generals did not completely act in accordance with the laws and regulations of the imperial court, and they only had enough heads.

Under the world military system, the father dies and the son succeeds, and if you draw your family, you will have a man, even if you spend money to hire someone to serve on your behalf, you have to get someone for me.

In fact, not only the Great Jin, but Cao Zhi in the Wei Dynasty was once sparse, and bluntly said that among the conscripted sergeants, there were many children of seven or eight years old, and they were shocked to hear it.

But then again, Dajin has been recuperating for many years, so this kind of thing should not happen again.

The people recruited by Sikong should be the result of being dumped in the face. It is rare for so many elderly people to be concentrated in one building.

The descendants of the Sima clan are cannibalistic and detached, and the people who suffer are the people, alas.

The sergeants soon checked into an empty barracks.

There are more than 100,000 people in the Luoyang Chinese army, which is the most elite and most effective troops in the Great Jin Dynasty, among which there are not only world soldiers, but also recruits, that is, professional warriors, well-equipped and well-trained.

One thing to say, in this era, the Jin army's external record is still passable, not how strong the Jin army is, but the combat effectiveness of the Hu cavalry is too poor.

More than 20 years ago, Ma Long led 3,500 introns, under the condition of being encircled, without supplies, and cut off from news, marched more than 1,000 miles to Liangzhou, killing tens of thousands of Hu cavalry before and after, making the bald tree function cry without tears.

In front of the overwhelming steppe cavalry, the skilled and determined elite infantry is so arrogant.

But in recent years, the world has been in turmoil, and the Jin clan relatives have led troops and horses to fight repeatedly near Luoyang. The elite Luoyang Praetorian Guard was also divided into several factions, which consumed a lot in the civil war, so many military camps were vacated.

Shao Xun lived in the barracks at this time.

The world soldiers have a system of "separate rest", that is, they are not on duty and on duty at all times, and they take turns to rest.

The rest period can be long or short, as short as a few months, as long as several years, during which you can go home, but you need to return within the specified time, and the offender will be punished as a fugitive, not only the guilt himself, but also the whole family will be guilty of sin and deserve death, which is very strict.

At this time, he was in Luoyang, and it was impossible to go home on a holiday, and he would not have much time to take a break, so he was just waiting to be rotated with a few other people to guard Sikong Mansion - last year, the king of the East China Sea recruited forty world soldiers in the feudal country, which happened to be rotated in two batches.

After the newcomers entered the camp, it was noisy and messy.

Shao Xun looked at the dozen or so teenagers around him, and said sharply: "It has nothing to do with you, continue to read and write." ”

"Yes." There was a sparse sound around him, but it was the answer of the more than ten teenagers holding branches and practicing words on the ground repeatedly.

Shao Xun stood up and looked at the newcomers, young and old, a little stunned.

Several Wu Commanders and Shi Chiefs also walked over, equally dumbfounded, and looked at Shao Xun one after another.

"What a wreck." Shao Xun sighed.

Wu Chang and Shi Chang spoke one after another: "It is indeed evil. ”

Although Shao Xun is only a long man, and he is only fifteen years old, his skills are indeed exquisite, and he is strong, and it is not a problem to fight a few of them with weapons.

Your own family knows your own affairs.

The soldiers of the world, the soldiers of the generations, to put it nicely, in fact, most of the time in their lives, they are farming.

Someone doesn't know how to shoot an arrow.

Some people can only use spears, not swords.

Some people don't even know the Golden Drum Banner.

To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of farmers with military training.

Shao Xun's skills simply stand out among them.

Some people were puzzled, so they inquired in many ways, but in the end they didn't ask anything famous.

The old Shao family in Qu County seems to have suddenly emerged such a brave and unbeatable person, and his ability to fight can be called a godsend, which is enviable.

The bottom barracks is a very realistic place, and the comparison is who has a hard fist.

Shao Xun was so brave that the other three chiefs Zheng Gou'er, Yang Bao, and Qin San didn't dare to provoke, as for what he thought secretly, only God knows.

When Shao Xun proposed to take a break, he took those young soldiers who were not very old to read and write, and no one stopped him, but on the contrary, he was even more shocked - this guy actually knew how to read?

At this time, some people already wondered if the ancestor of the Shao family in Qu County was a Hansu family, and his family was backward and reduced to a military household?

Don't say it, there is still a market for this argument, and many people believe it.

Shao Xun didn't bother to care what they thought, and only looked at the new group of people at this time.

There are more than 100 children, most of whom are party ...... in Donghai Township

"Be a friend of time." It was a phrase that popped into his head, and it was kind of interesting.