Chapter 9 A Thousand Miles Walk Exhausted

Marched thousands of miles to the capital, heavily armored and undressed

Live at night, Xiaoxing, Tianxingjian, hungry, thirsty, and anxious

The feet are blistered, the walking is firm, the center of gravity is tired, and the stomach is hungry

Crossing the mountains and climbing the mountains, bitter and happy, tempering people's hearts

The next day, at three o'clock, the marching cannon sounded, and all the soldiers dressed up and ran to the playground. This time I went to Beijing, led by General Li Yan, and there were more than a dozen generals and soldiers who joined the army.

The officials all came to the school first. All the tall horses are neatly draped. All the soldiers are standing in line, the lineup is neat, and they are all in high spirits. The following is led by each captain, four people in a row, a team of 100 people, a total of five teams.

Yu Jia and more than a dozen of them have horses, and they are in a separate column, and at this time, they all look quite mighty. Li Yan was in front, sitting on his horse and shouting: "Soldiers, today we are going to travel far and rush to the capital. This march, led by the general, will wait for a few days of rest in Beijing, and then go to the frontier, bravely kill the enemy, and defend the country. This march has a thousand miles to go, and the risks on the road are unpredictable. Ladies and gentlemen, each of you is now a soldier, and all actions are under command, and those who violate orders will be killed! Do you understand?"

The crowd shouted in unison, "Understand, understand." Li Yan shouted again: "Let's go!" Everyone changed from the rear team to the front team, and rushed out of the city, heading in the direction of the capital city of Pingcheng.

This walk is a thousand miles. Most of the team were infantry, and it was very hard to rely on two legs. On the first day, I still had some strength and walked 100 miles.

None of these recruits had ever been out of the door so far, and many of them were soldiers, and their feet were blistered and their teeth were grinning. At this time, it was late autumn, and the evening breeze was still very cool. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Yan ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot, find a shelter, set up camp, and bury the pot to cook.

The commander arranged the various posts, took local materials, and the soldiers simply dealt with them, and they were set up camp. Yu Jia dealt with a few soldiers with blistered feet, medicated them, bandaged them, and tomorrow they would be fine and they could continue to walk.

Other teams also had medical officers who treated soldiers with foot wounds. After that, Yu Jia borrowed a few bows from the captain, and went to the depths of the mountains with Wushuang and Zhang Jie, preparing to make some mountain goods and improve the food of the soldiers. After a while, it was not bad, Yu Jia hit a goat, Wushuang beat a few rabbits, and Zhang Jie got a few pheasants. Own team, more than 100 people, this little thing, how can it be enough. But something is better than nothing, take the prey back, hand it over to the man, and help the man clean up, Yujia took everyone back to the headquarters.

This team has game and can't enjoy it alone. Naturally, I have to send some to the general who leads the team. After it was cooked, a soldier brought Li Yan a big bowl. Li Yan saw that there was game, and after asking about the situation, he knew that it was a small soldier of Team A, and Yu Jia and a few people were fighting on the mountain, so he took the bowl and went to Yu Jia happily. When I came to Yu Jia's place, Yu Jia and Wushuang were eating, and when they saw the general coming, they immediately got up and saluted: "General"

Li Yan saw that several people looked a little restrained, so he waved his hands and said: "Feel free, don't be so restrained, your own brother, when you are marching, you don't have to be so polite."

"Big brother!" the three said in unison.

"Okay, okay, that, you three are good, I want to get you some game"

Yu Jia hurriedly said: "Watching the brothers marching, they are all very hard, so I want to improve the food of the soldiers. If you eat well, you will have the strength to travel tomorrow, maybe you can walk a few more miles, and you can reach the capital a day earlier."

After hearing this, Li Yan nodded and said, "Yes, these hundreds of people, the daily food is also a problem." So, starting tomorrow, you organize a team of more than 20 people, and when you rest in the evening, you go to the mountains and come back from hunting some game. Big brother sent a message, you can choose some people from each team, you can just look at it, and these 20 or so people will be under your control, how about it?"

"Okay, okay, I'll do it tomorrow morning," Yu Jia said happily.

"It's a big night, the night is so long, if only there was wine to drink, it would be good!" Li Yan said with emotion.

After hearing this, Yu Jia hurriedly answered: "Big brother, do you really want to drink?"

Li Yan said: "Isn't this nonsense?" At this time, as soon as Yu Jia turned around, as if doing a trick, an extra jar of wine came out of his hand and handed it to Li Yan. This jar of wine has to have 4 or 5 catties to say the least, which is a lot.

When Li Yan saw the wine, his eyes lit up, he hurriedly took the wine, quickly opened the mud seal, picked up the wine jar, and raised his neck to take a big sip, which is called a word, cool, and then handed the jar to Yu Jia, and said: "Come, brother, you can also speak"

Yu Jia was embarrassed and said: "I won't drink, big brother, this march, you are not allowed to drink"

After Li Yan heard this, he opened his mouth and said: "My order, you still don't listen to it?" Here, I am the boss, don't worry, if I say it's okay, it's okay."

Seeing that Li Yan said this, Yu Jia also let go, and said with a smile: "That, you can drink this altar, I still have it here" said and took out another altar like a trick.

In this altar, the three of them drank it, and Li Yan himself drank it. Eating game, drinking wine, and eating dry food, in this environment, I am also full of happiness.

Li Yan smiled and said, "I said you kid, where did you get the wine?" Zhang Jie listened, and said heartlessly: "The second brother has a lot of wine on him, big brother, if you want to drink, just ask the second brother for it."

When Li Yan heard this, he hurriedly stood up, walked a few laps before and after Yu Jia, and got started again, touching around Yu Jia, but he didn't feel the wine, and he didn't feel a little strange.

Seeing this, Yu Jia said with a smile: "If the eldest brother wants to drink, he can take care of it, but the younger brother will not dare to guarantee anything else along the way, this wine is enough." ”

After hearing this, Li Yan was happy: "Okay!" I don't study where his wine is, anyway, if you have wine to drink, it doesn't matter where he comes from.

On this day, the brigade came to the edge of the Yellow River. There are more than 500 people, and it will take a long time to cross the river. Besides, there aren't that many ships.

Requisition of large and small ships along the coast. At last more than 500 people, even horses crossed the river. On the other side of the river, it was getting late. There was no way, Li Yan ordered the soldiers to find a higher place and set up camp along the river.

Yu Jia took about 20 people to borrow some harpoons from the boatman, made some of them herself, and went fishing along the river.

It's all river beaches, and there are no big beasts, so you can only catch some fish. At that time, the ecological environment was good, the population was small, and there were still many fish in the Yellow River.

It didn't take a lot of effort, good guys, more than 20 people got hundreds of catties of big carp in the Yellow River. The small ones are three or four pounds, and the big ones are seven or eight pounds. Zhang Jie was even more violent, and got a more than 20 pounds up. More than 20 people, harvested a lot.

In the marching camp, five large stoves were set up, and the men of each team began to stew fish. The dry stewed fish was not enough to eat, and the soldiers went to the field to dig up some wild sweet potatoes and wild vegetables. Rinse it with the Yellow River water and put it in a pot to stew together. Not to mention, the taste is really good.

In the past, when marching, how could there be so much attention, and there were pottery bowls and clay pots on their backs, and some of them were prosperous anyway. Go to the tree and pluck two willow branches, and if you get it, it's chopsticks.

At this time, Yu Jia contributed a few jars of wine, and ate happily with the eldest brother Li Yan and the younger brother.

Li Yan said to Yu Jia with a happy face: "It's great to have you on this march! Brethren, there are many sins."

Yu Jia answered: "This is all the little brother, what he can do, small things, not enough to worry about"

After hearing this, Li Yan said with a straight face: "Brother Xian's words are wrong. It's not a trivial matter for this army to march and eat. When you arrive at the border pass, you will know when you enter Mobei. How difficult it is to have a hot meal," the brothers chatted while eating.

It was already late at night, leaving a few groups of men to stand guard. The others have rested one after another. After days of marching, the soldiers were very tired, and after much success, snoring began in the camp.

After all, Yu Jia is a cultivator, so she didn't fall asleep immediately, so she got up and walked around to see if there were any problems. After making a round, I came back and sat next to Wushuang and started thinking about things.

Along the way, I witnessed the soldiers, marching so hard. This hasn't been to the battlefield yet, that's it, really going to the battlefield, facing the soft iron cavalry, how many of us can really come back alive?

What kind of method must be used to quickly make this unit form combat effectiveness? Soldiers, without war horses, armor, and sharp weapons, how can such a team win the battle? Thinking about such a question, Yu Jia unconsciously closed her eyes and fell asleep.

In a daze, I heard someone shouting: "All up, start to hurry." Teams pack their things, hurry!"

Yu Jia woke up excitedly, hurriedly pushed the people around her, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and go." The soldiers got up one after another and cleaned up briefly. In fact, there is nothing to clean up. Quickly stood in formation, and under the leadership of Li Yan, the soldiers continued to hurry.

Every customs report on the customs clearance documents, all the way smooth. Within a day, he came to a place a hundred miles away from the capital city. At this time, the army had already traveled more than 900 miles. It took almost 20 days. Fortunately, in this march, there was not a single casualty, and not a single one was left behind. The group came to the foot of a hill with a stream and clear water.

Li Yan grabbed the reins of the horse, turned around and ordered the herald: "Inform the teams, camp on the spot and rest" The herald turned around and urged the horse to report. The teams searched one after another, and camped in a relatively flat place with a high place facing the sun, burying pots and cooking.

After the camp was set up, Li Yan ordered the soldiers to be assigned to bathe in the creek and wash all the military uniforms on their bodies. In August, the water is already a little cold, there is no way, the military order is like a mountain. Some of the soldiers did not take off their clothes, and they went into the water with a poof.

For more than 20 days, the army marched for days without bathing, think about what it was like? The soldiers all went down to the river one after another to wash. Yu Jia went out and continued to benefit the warriors and hunt. Today, maybe it's a good mood, maybe it's good luck, it didn't take long to shoot a lot of prey.

The mountains and forests in this area are very dense, there are no villages nearby, and there are few hunters on weekdays. So in this forest, there are really a lot of prey.

Wild boars, elk, pheasants, hares, young and old. More than 20 people, in groups of 6 people, hunted in the hunting ground, set traps, and got javelins or something. It didn't take much effort to get 3 wild boars, 4 elk, more than 20 hares, and more than 50 pheasants.

Along the way, these 20 people have experienced a hundred battles. Of course, it is dealing with prey, but I also cooperate tacitly and learn a lot of hunting skills.

And the people were rejoicing, and they came back with their prey, and divided them among the five quarters. Lay down the prey, and the team did not rest. Under the leadership of Yu Jia, they went to the mountains again, picked up some dry wood, cut some branches and came back, and everyone set up several rows of crossbars and piled up several bonfires by the stream.

For many days, there was no bath, and the soldiers inevitably spent a long time. When the clothes were washed, the bonfire on the shore was already burning very strongly. Yu Jia and his party came ashore, spread out their wet clothes, put them on the crossbar, and baked them on fire.

Yu Jia took out a few sets of clean clothes from her own small world and handed them to Wushuang and Zhang Jie respectively. After the three brothers were dressed neatly, they went to the room to help.

Some soldiers had a change of clothes, some did not. If you don't have it, keep warm by the fire. Still as usual, Li Yan still eats with Yu Jia. Follow Yujia to drink.

Li Yan, of course, also had a change of clothes, and he was also wearing civilian clothes at this time. Yu Jia naturally offered good wine. Now, Yu Jia doesn't have much inventory on her, and there are more than a dozen altars. But think about it, you will be able to go to the capital tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and you will have time to replenish it, and you should drink it now, and you have to drink it.

Yu Jia left 3 jars of wine here, and gave 4 jars to his 20 brothers. Drinking alcohol can also keep out the cold, the brothers are very happy, and after thanking each other, they gathered around and began to drink.

Eating wild game and drinking wine, the hearts of the soldiers were not so sad.

The next day, early in the morning, the warriors got up. The clothes were baked overnight, and they were all dry, and everyone put on their uniforms one after another. Everyone looked extra energetic, and everyone worked together to extinguish the bonfire and begin to eat.

After a short time, breakfast was served, and the soldiers packed up and set off. Since there were still 100 miles to go, Li Yan was not in a hurry to let everyone recuperate. On this day, after 60 miles, Li Yan asked everyone to stop and camp. The troops began to get busy, and they were close to the capital, and everyone was looking forward to it, and everyone was very excited, and their mental outlook was very good.

Li Yan came to the soldiers and said with a smile: "Everyone has enough spirits, we will be able to arrive in the capital tomorrow, all teams should pay attention, safety first, don't poke any baskets out of this juncture."

After dozens of days and nights of marching, the soldiers were tanned and looked a lot stronger. Therefore, people still have to be tempered. Doesn't it mean that in twenty-one days, a person can develop a habit. Growing up in such an environment, everyone is really used to it and adapted. Walking dozens of miles a day, it's like playing, and I don't feel tired or bitter. Each is a scud, and the walk is like flying.

The work was not large, and the firehead army knocked on the rice bucket and shouted: "It's time to eat." Everyone stood in line to eat, and there were three things along the way: walking, eating, and sleeping. After the meal was finished, the officers and men sat on the ground in a pile of three or five and began to eat.

The meal was eaten quickly, and after eating, everyone found their own place and began to rest and recuperate. Tomorrow there are still 40 miles to go.

On the fourth watch, the Huotou Army began to cook, and everyone got up to eat on the fifth watch. This meal in the morning is very important, most of them are the fast march in the morning, and the physical exertion is also great, so in the morning, everyone eats more.

Because I'm not in a hurry, this meal is a little slow. Everyone ate slowly, and from time to time there were bursts of laughter in the team, and the atmosphere was very good. The soldiers had bright smiles on their faces. They are all young people, and they are all sunny at a vibrant age.

In order, Li Yan gave an order: "Departure" The large army marched in the direction of the capital. 40 miles quickly, at noon came to the city. When the gatekeeper of the capital saw that a team in the distance was waving a large banner, it was very neat, and when it was far away, he shouted: "The team in front stopped, where did it come from?"

Li Yan urged him to immediately reply: "I am, Huayin County, the general of the military department, Li Yan, on the order of the chief soldier, escorting the recruits into Beijing to report, there are customs clearance documents"

After guarding the gate and listening, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to open the city gate and go to get the customs clearance papers. The soldiers went out of the city gate, came to Li Yan, obtained the customs clearance documents, beat the horse back to the city, got the city wall, and handed the customs clearance Wendie to the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper opened it and saw that there were official seals stamped at various checkpoints, and knew that it was not fake. So the gatekeeper waved his hand and said, "Let it go."

Li Yanshuai and his troops, beat their horses through the suspension bridge, and entered the city.

When entering the capital, the generals must dismount and are not allowed to ride. When everyone entered the city, Li Yan bowed his hand, saluted, and thanked the soldiers defending the city. The group entered the city in an orderly manner and marched towards the Chinese army.

This is exactly what it is:

There is no danger to the capital, and the fatigue disappears and stands like a loose

The clean dress is sassy, and the swords and soldiers are shining

The vast wilderness road is sparsely populated, and the people are prosperous and prosperous

The shops are shouting along the street, and the shopkeepers are smiling and soft