At the end of November, it was Su Ce's turn to take a rest. Guan Yi and Su Ce were going to the Beiyuan camp in the afternoon. They left a little early. They made an appointment to go to Desheng Tower. Chang'an City was prosperous, but not extravagant. They had been fighting for hundreds of years. Endless, although we are no longer fighting overseas, the war has never stopped.
The two of them went to the Desheng Tower and found a seat by the window on the second floor. Speaking of mutton, there were many places in Chang'an that made delicious mutton, but the favorite place for military personnel was the De Sheng Tower.
There are three specialties in Desheng Tower: mutton, singer, and veteran.
Mutton, no spices, singer, singing gracefully, veteran, rough and heroic.
Speaking of singers, according to common sense, they are all pitiful women with low status, but the singers in Deshenglou have the heroic spirit of the military in their singing voices.
There were both male and female orphans of the soldiers. Most of the boys lived in Beiyuan, while girls were admitted to Jiaofangsi. Jiaofangsi does not sound like a good place, and it often makes people think of the female relatives of the prisoners, but the orphans of the soldiers were special. The old ladies in the school will teach piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so that these girls can have skills.
When he is eight years old, he will come to the Shenglou Tower to play. If the rough guys in the army like him, he will sing for you.
If the man is affectionate and the concubine is interested, a reckless man in the army will report it to the Ministry of War, and the palace will give the woman a dowry in the name of the queen.
Su Ce and Guan Yi came here not for fun, but because life in the military is boring and boring, and they want to relax their tense nerves, maybe they can have some fun today.
The two of them were eating mutton, drinking a bottle of Baiguo craft beer that Su Ce brought from home, and chatting about the captain and brigade marshal in the army. At this time, a young colonel wearing a full set of brand-new armor came up from the stairs. Su Ce held the wine glass and looked at it with half-squinted eyes. The young general was young and dressed in light green. He was obviously a seventh-rank officer in the army.
Su Ce blinked at Guan Yi, raised his chin, and motioned for Guan Yi to take a look.
The people sitting around the table also looked at the small school. The armor was brand new, but the tutu was missing its pheasant feathers.
"I'm afraid he's here to ask for a wife!" Guan Yi whispered to Su Ce, who nodded with a smile on his face.
The two of them were not talking. There were obviously many guests at the tables around them who were dressed as if they were from a small school. The lack of Tushita pheasant feathers was not a sign of improper military etiquette, but a request for marriage.
The waiter from the Desheng Building ran upstairs and took a look around. It was full!
An old grandma was holding a musical instrument, and a girl in red, about eight years old, followed her to the center of the second floor. Her face was covered with a red gauze, and her appearance could not be seen clearly, but she had a good figure.
A sound like a silver bell appeared on the second floor of the Victory Building.
The young lady glanced around during the performance, then suddenly stopped playing, took the pheasant feather from the grandma's hand, walked up to the soldier who was wearing brand new armor, and put the pheasant feather on his tutu.
"I am Chang Anbei, the commander of the military academy on your right. I have been given a feather by the girl. I will live up to her in the future."
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Old ladies are constantly bringing their young ladies with them, sending out pheasant feathers one by one. Gifts of pheasant feathers cannot be refused. When a woman chooses a husband, she is entrusting her life to one person. If she refuses, it is contempt.
If people who come to Deshenglou eat and drink, they will eat their own food and drink their own wine. If they come to ask for a wife, they will have to pick off the pheasant feathers on Tushita. But they can't pick, these little girls. My mother-in-law's family is the queen of the family, so I can only let these young ladies choose on their own.
The meal took a long time. Guan Yi touched the pheasant feathers on his tustu in the middle of the meal. He sighed and looked like he was getting married too early. Su Ce gave him a sideways look.
The selection of husbands in Deshenglou is because the Queen feels pity for these poor girls. These girls can only marry but cannot accept them.
It can be said that these young ladies were "raised" by the queen, and their education, etiquette, and posture are much better than those of ordinary girls. Therefore, these women are undoubtedly the best choice for the rough guys in the army.
There is no specific time for a woman to choose a husband. It is fate that they meet each other. Su Ce is wearing a scarlet robe and is undoubtedly the highest-ranking person on the second floor. It is getting late at this time. Su Ce and Guan Yi are going back to the camp in the evening.
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However, when something like this happens, the person with the highest rank present needs to stand up and identify himself as a family member, either as an uncle or as an elder brother. Su Ce looked around and it seemed that only he and Guan Yi were wearing scarlet clothes.
As the person with the highest official position between the two of them, Su Ce couldn't pretend to be drunk and turn a blind eye. Besides, it was also a pleasure to be happy about such a happy event.
Su Ce picked up the wine glass, walked to the center, and looked around: "Su is a lieutenant general in the Shenwu Zuowei Front Army. He is favored by a beautiful woman today. Outside of war, he should take care of the family and bear the responsibilities of his husband. He should not do anything that is disrespectful to his heart.
If you don't get the pheasant feathers, don't be disappointed. A real man has no trouble without a wife.
Su has a lot of affairs in the army and there is no wedding wine. Waiter, please take the trouble to send the list of today's newcomers to the uncle's house in Jingyang County, Yonghefang. The etiquette is indispensable.
Tell the girls that if their husband's family neglects them in the future, they can look for Su. It has become the responsibility of Su's brother. You all can be witnesses and win the prize!"
"Drink victory!"
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Su Ce also didn't expect that after having a drink with Guan Yi, he would gain a bunch of sisters. There were sixteen women who gave away pheasant feathers this afternoon, which meant that Su Ce gained sixteen more sisters after having a drink with Guan Yi.
If in the future, any of these women is wronged at their husband's house, they will come to Su Ce, and Su Ce will have to send someone to administer justice. This sounds troublesome, but this is one of the most important things in the army.
Yi. Your children, I am your father and brother.
No matter when and where people live, fame and wealth are what people live for. This kind of thing is fame. Wealth and glory come from the military, which also means that there are some responsibilities that must be shouldered. Just like Li Sizhe gives gifts to the wives and children of his wounded soldiers every year.
Other nobles in the army are also doing things like a share of money and food. Honorable men come from the ranks of the military. Things that must be done to maintain the morale of the military must be done and must be done. Those who rebel against the army must attack them in groups. This is the great army.
The unspoken rules in.
Su Ce and Guan Yi drank and talked more. On the way back to the camp, they chatted and talked about some past military affairs.
Guan Yi has been in the army longer than Su Ce, and has encountered and heard more things than Su Ce. Although some things are heard from hearsay, they feel like exaggerations.
"I also heard what the veterans in the army said..." Guan Yi and Su Ce rode slowly.
This was the first time Su Ce heard what Guan Yi said. When it happened, Guan Yi didn't mention it. He only said that it was an old matter in the Anton Governor's Mansion.
It is said that one winter, it snowed heavily, and a group of border troops went to a garrison to garrison the border. The border troops who were originally garrisoning the fort were supposed to be transferred back to the Governor's Mansion for redistribution, but they were trapped in the garrison due to the heavy snow.
The heavy snow has been falling for a whole month. The food in the fort was only enough for one group of people, but the people in the fort who were supposed to be transferred could not leave. The two groups of people were eating the food of one group, and the snow did not melt.
No way can be found.
Distributing food and grass to everyone will undoubtedly not be enough to survive.
That's not the worst part, Shi Wei's knights always come to harass us.
Guan Yi made a point here: "General, do you know why corpses abandoned on the battlefield were disemboweled?"
Su Ce shook his head, he really didn't know why.
Guan Yi sighed, and then said: "Those are the prisoners captured by the whistle. Kill them and see what's in their stomachs. You will know whether there is a lot of food in this fort..."
"There were two regiments of Shiwei's cavalry. The fortress was towering and easy to defend but difficult to attack. The frontier troops who asked for help were caught by Shiwei's cavalry before they had gone two miles away. They dissected their stomachs and found that there was only
A pitiful handful of corn.
Because he failed to return after missing the deadline, the Duhufu sent two regiments of cavalry to investigate, and only then did they discover the corpses of the border soldiers.
Later, Shiwei's cavalry were driven away, and the two teams of more than a hundred people in the entire garrison were all skin and bones from hunger.
When I went to guard the border, I became the commander of the reconnaissance cavalry brigade. Behind the battlefield, the reconnaissance cavalry suffered heavy casualties. You can always see the disemboweled and abandoned corpses of both sides around the camp.
Those were prisoners caught by mutual sentineling, and the reason was the same as what happened at the fort when the goods were shipped. If you kill them, you will know how long the confrontation will last by looking at what is in their stomachs, and use this to deduce the time of the decisive battle.
One of the soldiers I brought out with my own hands was captured by Shiwei's cavalry, tied to a wooden frame and pushed to the wall of the stronghold. The beasts cut him with knives, forcing our army to attack.
The people of Shiwei are different from other countries. They are murderous and cruel. Even children cannot believe it. Several of my men were stabbed in the legs by these wolf cubs with arrowheads soaked in feces. The inflammation did not go away, so they had to amputate their legs to survive."
Guan Yi's eyes were red, and Su Ce did not say any words of comfort. There was no morality on the battlefield, and Daqian's soldiers were no different to the outside world. However, the soldiers still had humanity in their hearts, and no one would cross the bottom line between killing and cruelty.
Even though there was a lot of blood on the battlefield, there were not many cases of trapping, killing and surrendering prisoners in the Daqian Army. If he got angry, the commander-in-chief of the Daqian Army would not be pedantic and would not surrender.
The bottom line of being a human being is that we don’t want murderous people to appear in our army. Such people have lost their humanity and can no longer be called human beings.
Su Ce and Guan Yi stopped chatting when they arrived at the Beiyuan camp. Before entering the camp, the two could chat freely. After entering the camp, Su Ce was the chief general of the first army, and Guan Yi was the auxiliary general of the first army. The priorities were different.
It can't be like before.
Su Ce and Guan Yi returned to the former military mansion. What Guan Yi said on the way seemed to arouse sadness in the past, so he returned to his house early.
Su Ce went to the hall. Zhang Lang was sitting on the side of the hall handling today's military affairs. Su Ce went in and took out a piece of mutton wrapped in oil paper from his arms.
"Deshenglou's mutton, is there anything going on in the army today?" Su Ce handed the mutton to Zhang Lang, turned around and sat on the main seat.
Zhang Lang untied the hemp rope on the oil paper, loosened the oil paper, took a finger-thick piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing and shaking his head.
Su Ce nodded, as long as there was nothing to do in the army. Seeing Zhang Lang wolfing down the mutton, Su Ce suddenly had a plan in his mind. There are regular troops and auxiliary troops in the war army, but there are no regular troops.
In wartime, the auxiliary army consists of weak government soldiers and civilian soldiers, which is complex in composition. However, according to the war missions undertaken by the Shenwu and Shenwei armies, civilian soldiers are probably not equipped.
Now there are no auxiliary soldiers in the army, and the chores in the army are done by whoever has their turn. This is somewhat inappropriate.
Take the food in the army as an example. On weekdays, it depends on luck, but in wartime, the food can be guaranteed to be delicious. The root cause is the soldiers who are good cooks, and they are usually relegated to the auxiliary soldiers during wartime.
Su Ce suddenly had an idea, why not separate the main army and the auxiliary army on weekdays? As soon as the idea came up, it was out of control, but now Su Ce was just an idea, and the implementation was not perfect.
"It's dinner time now. After eating the meat, I went to bed early. After drinking in the afternoon, I went back to the backyard to sleep!" Su Ce stood up, said hello to Zhang Lang and went back to the room to rest, but he lay down
On the bed, Su Ce couldn't sleep, and the thought he had in the hall just now came to his mind again.