Chapter 192: The Cripple and the Fool
"General, he is a doctor, and it is far more useful to treat your soldiers than to send them to death. You stopped Ah Ning, who was about to get on the horse.
"I said it, deal with him according to the law, how can you change the order overnight?" Although You has a life-saving grace for Ah Ning, she is a principled person, just like her father.
You looked at the cripple, and he knew from his mouth that he was just a lonely old man.
It was this submissive old man who saved his life.
"General, I ask to be grouped with him. You stopped Ah Ning's war horse with a determined expression.
Ah Ning looked at the tall man with an ugly face: "You were kidnapped by bandits, I can help you transform your identity into a commoner, and you don't have to be a slave anymore." ”
"Yes, little brother, you are our general's savior, how can I let you be a military slave?" Xu Zihou also spoke, indirectly telling the soldiers on the side, why their general would be so patient with a slave.
"I just want to save his life and hope that the general will be fulfilled. You clenched his fists with both hands, and Ah Ning looked at him condescendingly on his horse, his face expressionless.
"Okay, General Xu, put this person and that bandit into a military slave formation. "Ah Ning is the commander of the Right Army, and she is not only responsible for the Right Army, but also for the entire White Country.
She can't trample on the laws of the white country at will because of her own selfishness.
"General, this ...... The last general commanded. Xu Zihou glanced at You helplessly, how could this person be like a fool, the military slave array, that is a place to die.
There are two kinds of slaves, one is ordinary slaves, which are the private property of various nobles and royal families, and the owners of slaves have complete decision on the life and death of slaves, and they have to do what they want those slaves to do.
Even if the slave owner killed the slave, it was not illegal at all. And the offspring born of those slaves are also the legitimate property of the slave's owner.
And the other kind of slave is the military slave, also called the war slave. They are all made up of prisoners, bandits, and so on.
In this era of food shortage, it is impossible to feed such people in prison, so once they are caught, they have only two options: death or war slavery.
Ordinary slaves are basically slaves for generations, and generally no one spends money to ransom a slave. Even if someone is willing to pay a large price for a beautiful slave, it is only a change of master.
And war slaves, as mentioned above. If you don't die after three wars, you can get a free body. Such a condition is not that the monarch has mercy, but that only by giving these war slaves hope can they burst into the military array to their maximum potential.
But the reality is cruel, very few people can survive three wars, and they can use the war of military slaves, even soldiers cannot escape death, let alone slaves with their bare hands?
"Thank you. "You clenched your fists again, it's better to have hope than nothing. As long as there is a little hope, he will never give up!
"You don't have to thank me, military law is ruthless, if you can survive, I will invite you to eat and drink. Ah Ning waved his hand, and everyone had to pay for their own choice
out of price.
She was in a trance, she was standing here, wanting to change all this, and as a result, step by step, she compromised with the way of the world.
She kept telling herself that sacrifice and compromise were for a better tomorrow.
But when she saw You, who had a firm gaze, she found that she had been deceiving herself, step by step, and became the kind of person she hated.
"If you hold this bronze mask, the people in the army will not embarrass you. Ah Ning pulled the reins of the war horse and was about to leave, when she suddenly remembered one more thing, she untied the grimace copper face hanging from her waist and threw it to You.
You Yi grabbed the hideous mask, and his hand was heavy, he knew that Ah Ning still wanted to help him.
"Pull out the camp and go!" shouted the centurions of the army, beckoning the soldiers to take their booty and prisoners on their way.
The military system of the White State from low to high is Wu, Shi, Pawn, Li, Army, five people in a army, ten people in a group, 100 people in a group, 100 people called a pawn, 1000 people into a li, 10,000 people cast an army, and the military ranks are Wu Commander, Shi Chief, Centurion, Deputy General and Chief General.
They first went to the right army garrison ten miles away to join the large army, and then set off for the capital of the White Kingdom.
Ah Ning was followed by three lieutenant generals, 3,000 soldiers, and the remaining 7,000, scattered in various places on the territory of the White State to suppress bandits, led by their respective lieutenants.
Xu Zihou was anxious, if Ah Ning became a nominal commander of the Right Army, her future road would be even more difficult.
All this was facilitated by Bai Yingwu, the commander of the left army, and the monarch of the White State was obviously not his own brother's opponent in terms of strategy.
So they must do their best to completely control the right army in the shortest possible time!
You supported the cripple with one hand, and at such a marching speed, the cripple could easily fall behind.
Even if those soldiers obeyed Ah Ning's order and stopped whipping him, they would never let him linger at the back of the team.
The cripple looked at You gratefully, if it weren't for him, just walking on the march, he might also be ruthlessly left behind.
He had always thought he wasn't a bandit, but in fact, he wasn't innocent.
You also knew that carrying the lame oil bottle would become a great burden for him, but he knew that the sin of this old man was because he was born in this era.
The soldiers of the right army whispered on the march about the tall man with the grimace and bronze face, and no one had ever been so stupid as he did to take the initiative to send the slaves to their deaths.
A fool dragged a cripple at the very end of the procession, the sun rising higher and higher overhead, and the fool's sweat dripping on the road stirred up a cloud of dust.
After more than an hour, the marching party finally reached their temporary station.
Everything here has already been taken care of, and the heralds have already passed the order to leave for Baidu.
The other soldiers stationed there received all kinds of supplies from the bandits, as well as bandits who were used as military slaves, and in this temporary station, there were two or three hundred bandits in custody alone.
Looking at the mountains of various materials, Xu Zihou couldn't help but sigh: "These thieves don't know how many people they have harmed to earn these, these tumors are not enough to die."
Pity!"
"This is also the monarch's heart disease, if I can calm the bandits in the white country, this lord will really sit in the position. Ah Ning looked at You and the cripple in the distance, they were resting in the crowd, and You's sweat had soaked his front placket.
"Alas, how nice it would be if you were a man, how dare they ......" Xu Zihou was interrupted by Ah Ning before he finished speaking.
"Uncle, I won't let my father's right army be destroyed in my hands!" A Ning's voice was categorical, and the eyes of the world were already prejudiced.
Even her military exploits have been won from fighting in the military array again and again, although her efforts far exceed those men, but the world, after all, does not recognize her as the main general.
Even his uncle largely followed her because of his father.
She doesn't blame these people, if she does, blame this unfair world!
Why does she have to firmly grasp the military power of this right army? Because she wants to change this unjust world one day!
She remembered that when she was very young, she was a good playmate, and that the family had been forcibly reduced to slavery because they could not afford to pay the rent of the nobles, and that she had never seen that playmate since.
She had cried and begged her father to save her very good playmate, but at that time her father was not the commander of the army with military power.
Moreover, even if he were, he could not openly flout the king's law.
Ah Ning could only watch helplessly as her playmate was taken away, watching her home be destroyed overnight.
She doesn't want anyone in this world to become a slave, she wants to change all this!
So she practiced martial arts and followed her father to fight in the army, and she wanted to become stronger.
But along the way, as she became stronger and stronger, the more she could feel how weak she was in front of this world.
Even if she became the commander of the right army, she was still powerless.
She watched as You brought the lame man water to drink, and she couldn't take her eyes off it for a long time. You is only a slave, but he wants to change the fate of another slave.
In the eyes of others, he is a fool who does not measure his own strength, a person who has no strength and strength, and cannot change anything.
But Ah Ning quietly had hope in his heart, what if he could really do it?
A Ning's original intention has been dusted, and what supports her is her unwillingness.
But now, she sees hope in others. That hope was like a rain, bringing coolness and sobering her up.
Hundreds of bandits were strung together with straw ropes by the soldiers, they didn't have as many chains, and metal was also a scarce commodity in this era, and they were basically made into weapons.
You and the lame man had a grass ring around their necks, and the grass ring was connected to the long rope, and now they were grasshoppers on a rope.
The soldiers also wrapped heavily around their waists a few times, and even if anyone tried to escape, they would be pulled by if they couldn't run a few steps.
As long as the soldiers marched on either side of them, these bandits did not have the slightest chance of escaping.
The bandits in this area have been completely wiped out, and Ah Ning needs to bring these bandits and supplies to Baidu
Revenge on the monarch, and at the same time, she has to collect the rest of the right army.
A Ning has 3,000 soldiers under her command who are completely obedient to her, and Xu Zihou and the other two lieutenant generals are also loyal to her, but the other lieutenant generals may not.
They were all strong contenders for the commander of the right army, and naturally they were not convinced that a young man who was younger than them, who was younger than them, and who was still a woman who was younger than them, stood on their heads.
Ah Ning is most proficient in her martial arts, her martial arts are taught by a famous swordsman, and she has completely surpassed that swordsmanship.
Everyone knows that there is a female general in the right army, and she is not weaker than men in the charge, but the strength of the force does not mean anything.
In the eyes of the world, Ah Ning is just relying on her father's shadow and the name of the wife of her future monarch of the White Kingdom.
It is with this mentality that those lieutenants disagree with Ah Ning, in the final analysis, it is because she is a woman.
They may not dare to openly resist the orders of the monarch of the White Kingdom, but they will not be subject to foreign military orders, and this time they will not fight as quickly as A Ning.
And this is exactly what Bai Yingwu wants!
If Ah Ning wants to sit firmly in the position of the main general of the Right Army, he needs to first take those deputy generals of the Right Army who are close to each other, and he must face Bai Yingwu's wolf ambitions!
(End of chapter)