An old man sat on the threshold, looking at the neatly dressed children, feeling very happy and worried.
After all, soldiers have to fight, and their children may not come back after they go to the battlefield.
"Pretty good!"
The young man who was eating smiled and knew what his father was worried about and said: "We just fought a battle and it was very relaxing. Your Majesty was considerate of us. We were all shot with cannons first. It's different from when you were a soldier, dad. One round
After the artillery fire, those people were all reduced to pieces, and I didn’t even catch their heads. I had no military merit, but I was so angry.”
Not only this young man, but also the infantrymen in the new army were very depressed. If I had known, they would all have become artillerymen.
You thought that as an infantryman, you could go to the battlefield and behead people to gain military glory, but this is what happened?
With a burst of artillery flying, those enemies are finished, and the military merit belongs to the artillery.
Who do you talk to about this?
The old man's eyes widened and he couldn't believe it, but through his child's description, he felt that his child had seen the battlefield.
That's true!
Is fighting like this now?
"This saves a lot of effort!"
"Saving effort means saving effort, but it's hard to get military glory!" said the young man.
The old man knocked the young man on the head: "Don't worry, in the end the battle will depend on the infantry. You should be careful and don't die outside. Our family is not short of money!"
"I know, I know, Your Majesty also said that if you can use cannons, use cannons, and if you can use guns, use guns. Human life is the most precious. Besides, I am not afraid of death. The court will give me hundreds of taels of silver if I die!"
"Bah!" The old man wished he could kill this guy. The emperor is powerful and his methods of winning people's hearts are too high.
"Be smart and don't go to the south this time when you come back!"
"go!"
The young man said: "His Majesty said that there was rebellion in the capital. We came back to quell the rebellion. After quelling the rebellion, we will go south. We don't know when we will get military glory."
After eating and seeing his family, the soldier immediately returned to the team and brought fruits grown at home for everyone to eat.
Just like this man, the local soldiers went home to see their relatives, which made the soldiers in the army less nervous than before the war.
Everyone is waiting for meritorious service. Only by meritorious service can these ordinary soldiers become a liangdang after retirement.
The people near the capital now have no shortage of money, so they pursue status, but if they want to become a small cadre, they need military merit.
If you have outstanding military exploits and can also serve as a royal guard or inspector, that will be very prestigious. As for the bad reputation of being the emperor's minion, no one cares about it.
In the past, they would not have dared to think about becoming an official. After the war, they would come back to farm and have been farmers all their lives. But now, those who died in battle would receive a pension from the court.
The emperor is not short of money, that's all it is, so generous.
"Why don't you fight, Your Majesty?"
"I guess they are waiting for the people in the city to start a riot first. These people are so cowardly, hurry up and make a fuss. If you don't make a fuss, there will be no military merit. As long as I chop off the heads of six people, I can become the village chief when I go home.
You can receive a monthly salary of five taels of silver."
"The village chief is not good, but the village chief is interesting!"
"I still want to join the Imperial Guard and the Inspection Department, but if they don't rebel, who will I kill?"
"It's pointless to fight against the Southern Tang people. Those in the artillery camp were so ruthless that they didn't even leave a single head for us."
"I just heard that His Majesty gave credit to the whole artillery battalion. One person is equivalent to three heads!"
"Damn it, the artillery camp has made a lot of money. If I had known I would have gone to the artillery camp."
"You know how to read? All the soldiers in the artillery camp know how to read."
"Can't I do some hard work? I can't move the shells and clean the artillery. I can also feed the horses!"
"That's right. I heard that the grooms in the artillery camp all took credit this time!"
The infantry soldiers felt even more unbalanced. It was all about their lives.
For the first time, I realized that I was at a disadvantage because I couldn't read. I couldn't even get into the artillery barracks. My strength was of no use, and I wasn't as good as feeding horses in the artillery barracks.
Seeing their captain and commander, the soldiers stopped him and asked when the battle would begin.
Everyone wanted heads and hoped that the people in the city would rebel quickly.
Everyone is very anxious.
The atmosphere in the army was quite good, and at night Zhu Youde nodded.
The entire army finally received the news of preparations.
Lin Man led his cavalry in a circle and deliberately set a fire at the gate of the capital city. The flames shot into the sky and made the defenders guarding the gate extremely nervous.
"The enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking, go and report to the military department immediately, the Southern Tang Army is sneaking into the capital!"
Lin Man looked at the panicked defenders on the city wall and hesitated for a moment. The deputy general on the side quickly said: "The general is calling."
"What a shout!"
The deputy general also hesitated, and finally nodded and said: "Shout, your Majesty said it's not good not to shout!"
Lin Man seemed to be encouraged and took a breath: "The Dog Emperor Zhu Youde has been defeated. If the people in the city don't surrender quickly, our Southern Tang army has already invaded the capital..."
Dog Emperor!
Your Majesty is really so cruel that he even scolds himself.
I hope I won’t have to settle the score with myself later.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow!"
Suddenly, a swarm of arrows flew towards the city wall, and half of the heads on the wall were immediately lost.
The messengers from the capital's garrison ran wildly and shouted in the streets.
"The army of the Southern Tang Dynasty is attacking, the Tang people are attacking, it's not good..."
The gatekeeper's face twitched!
Seeing the messenger running away, he was speechless. His voice was not loud enough and he was not embarrassed enough.
"Quick, let the brothers pretend to be dead!"
When the enemy outside shoots a round of arrows, someone will always die, and a few soldiers are selected to be the dead.
"General, we are not dead. If we die, we will have no military merit. Find someone else. General, look at how strong I am. Let me kill people alive."
The general was silent.
"The general is looking for someone else, let me go kill them!"
"Die quickly, you will behead the one who pretends to be dead!"
Still no one moved!
The general said speechlessly: "Three?"
Only then were there a few people who were willing to pretend to be dead. Just as they were talking, another handful of arrows were shot from outside.
The general was hit several times!
Looking at the arrow, the general cursed loudly, saying that Lin was full of shit, and then lay down: "I'm injured, come and bandage me."
"It looks a bit like it. There's some blood on your face and some on your clothes. What kind of blood is it?"
"Pig's blood!"
"Don't use it all and leave some for stew with tofu later!"
After a while, a group of dead people were lying on the ground at the city gate, and some men were leaning against the city gate as if they had half their lives left.
The entire city gate looked like a tragedy, arrows continued to fall from the sky, and military drums shook the sky outside the city.
The messengers called all the way over, but the passers-by on the road didn't believe it at all. This was the capital, the hinterland of Daliang, how could the Southern Tang people come here.
impossible!
Everyone continued shopping without taking it seriously.
The messengers ran all the way to the Bingma Division of the capital.
"The Tang people are coming and are besieging the south gate. Please rescue them quickly!"
In a courtyard in the capital, countless people were queuing up to receive weapons, when a man rushed in!
"President, the Southern Tang army has arrived and is attacking the south gate!"