The sergeants of the Tang Dynasty have fought for the Tang Dynasty for many years. Who among the ordinary soldiers has received a letter from home?
Sometimes I don't know what's going on at home for two or three years.
Some people even returned home after fighting, but their home was no longer there, leaving only ruins.
A letter from home, some with garbled characters written by half-grown children. It was all about small things at home. How many loads of grain were harvested at home during the autumn harvest, and how many piglets were given birth to by the sow at home. This year they are exempted.
How much tax.
In this army, the letter from one of the captains was not just put in an envelope, but in a wooden box.
Many people laughed at him when they saw the wooden box.
Even the generals came over: "Oh my mother, this box of yours probably accounts for the weight of more than a dozen letters from other brothers. Is it some good stuff that your new wife secretly brought for you? This won't work. You have to take it."
Out of mind."
"Take it out and read it!" A few good-hearted people stopped the person, and at that moment a scribe came over and snatched the box.
The moment he opened the box, the clerk's hands trembled and he handed the contents of the box to the general. The general looked at it and was stunned. Everyone saw this reaction and didn't understand what happened.
The people who got up were also put down. The team actually forgot to grab the box and just stared at the leader blankly.
A palm-sized glass plate, surrounded by fine steel, contained a photo.
This was not printed on high-gloss photo paper, but was printed in color on ordinary white paper of better quality brought by Li Yuanxing from Hyundai. Eight photos were printed on one A4 paper.
It's not that Li Yuanxing is stingy, it's that he can never return to modern times. Before the technology developed in the Tang Dynasty, there was really no way to replenish the ink if one was used and one was missing.
Many documents are no longer printed, but copied manually.
In this small photo, there is a person wearing green clothes and wrapping a child who has just turned one month old in a bright red bundle.
It is said that a man cannot shed tears easily. When he saw his woman and his one-month-old son, the team was crying like a child. The photo encapsulated in glass was passed around to the whole army, and everyone seemed to be holding a real child.
Same, cautiously.
The generals at the top naturally knew what Li Yuanxing brought to the soldiers in the border army.
The generals also knew the sound of crying in the military camp.
"During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a story. Sun Wu led the troops into battle, personally bandaged the soldiers' wounds, and even sucked the pus for the soldiers. It was said that Sun Wu loved the soldiers as much as his sons, but one soldier's mother cried. She said that the general was treating her
My son is fine, but the general wants his life!"
This little story about the cabinet master stunned many generals.
Li Yuanxing lowered his head. He had no way to refute what the cabinet master said.
The cabinet master said again:
"Yuan Xing is also trying to kill the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. He treats the soldiers well, and these soldiers will repay with their own lives in the future. On the battlefield, even if they suffer nine losses, they will make the Tang army strong and brave!"
Emperor Xian is talking about King Qin. Even if someone wants to speak, it is not convenient to speak at this time.
Even Li Yuan, even if he has countless things to say, must remain silent at this time.
"They are not fighting for me, Li Yuanxing. When generals go to the battlefield, they are not taking the lead. Fighting is for the Tang Dynasty. Fighting is also fighting for one's own family." Li Yuanxing retorted. But the cabinet master said softly.
He shook his head: "Yuanxing, the next battle we are going to fight is not a battle to defend our homeland, but a battle to expand our territory. To the Goguryeo people, we, the Tang Dynasty, are invaders, and we are the evil ones."
Li Yuanxing had no way to refute these words, so he said: "In ancient times, Qin unified the six countries, and there is no absolute between justice and evil in history. Grandpa cannot draw unilateral conclusions!"
"Nonsense, I never said that I was a good person, only that I was right. What I meant was that these soldiers worked for the Tang Dynasty and expanded the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Whether they were generals or soldiers, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to
With this kind of money to buy a life, military members are naturally one level higher than ordinary people!"
The cabinet master knew that Li Yuanxing had been the king of Qin for a long time, and he was very clever in playing tricks, bickering, and politics.
Therefore, I do not plan to argue with Li Yuanxing anymore, and some topics cannot be discussed in front of the generals.
The wise emperor calls himself Lao Tzu, so he obviously won't fight anymore. It seems that the King of Qin has the upper hand. The generals also have something to say. Anyway, treat the soldiers better. If there really is a brave army with nine losses, who can be rewarded with just some money and food?
I will keep it in my heart, as long as I continue to fight with the King of Qin, I will have plenty of money by conquering the territory.
Li Yuan took the words with a smile.
"Everyone in the Tang Dynasty knows how kind Wu Lang is. The emperor and I are both soldiers, so it is a good thing to open up new territories and expand the territory. Treating the sergeants favorably is what the emperor said!" Li Yuan laughed and said something wrong.
"I'm going to bed. I'll actually patrol the border tomorrow!" After Li Yuanxing finished speaking, he ran away.
As soon as Li Yuanxing left, the generals had gathered around Master Cabinet. Some people had heard the story, and some had not. After the generals gathered around, Master Cabinet told a story about the relationship between military spirit and morale.
In the previous art of war, there was also talk about military morale and the like.
But there is no such detailed analysis by the cabinet master on how to improve the cohesion of a team in the army, the different thoughts of soldiers on the relationship between the Tang Dynasty, the court, the Ministry of War, and their superiors, as well as how to improve the sense of honor in the army.
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The generals of the Tang Dynasty actually had a major problem, which was to separate their troops. Just like Lao Cheng, during the war, he was the general Youwuwei and led Youwuwei to participate in the war. However, during the Wude period, Youwuwei was
At that time, they were government soldiers. They were only recruited during wars, so the soldiers recruited did not know the lower-level officers.
The junior officers are also assigned to various regiments and do not know the senior officers.
If we fight for two consecutive years, we will still know this. But it is just a temporary team. What Lao Cheng really feels is reliable is the standing army in Chang'an. Lao Cheng has no idea about the rest.
This is also the reason why Lao Cheng took the lead in the battle of Shuofang.
If he does not rush forward, does not bring his own guards, and rushes forward with the most reliable group of people, once the front line becomes unstable, the entire army will be defeated. But even so, the battle losses of the right armed guards will also be high.
It was so scary that he, Old Cheng, almost lost his life.
The generals couldn't understand what the cabinet master said, but they felt a kind of longing for it.
The next day, the three flying boats returned to Chang'an with a large amount of cotton compacted with wooden boards and killed meat. Li Yuanxing's Hangzhou began a border patrol trip. This was the real border patrol.
The Tang Dynasty's frontier was tens of thousands of miles away. In addition to the important frontier towns, it was also divided into three towns: upper, middle and lower. Further down, it was also divided into three levels of garrison: upper, middle and lower. The smallest one only had three groups, just like the frontier ones.
outpost.
Three hundred miles northwest of Yizhou and three hundred miles west of Shazhou, in the northeast corner of the present-day Taklimakan Desert, on the only route that the Tang Silk Road must pass, there is a row of buildings on the traceless sea of sand.
, a fence was built outside using all kinds of messy things, including tree trunks, stones, and many bones.
It was torn to pieces by the wind and sand, with only the banners fluttering in the wind.
Just to find this border post that was ordered to be the garrison of Yizhou No. 73, Feizhou searched for a full quarter of an hour in the air. It was not until his observation eyes were sore that he found this big one in the vast sea of sand.
The westernmost garrison of the Tang Dynasty.
As the flying boat approached, a bunch of rags on the roof suddenly moved.
It was a man sitting on the roof who was in charge of sentry duty. The man quickly jumped off the roof and rushed into the house: "Head, yes, yes..." He was so excited that he could no longer speak.
The five-year-old team member with a scar on his face was biting a wooden stick and cursing: "Don't worry, this ghost place has only been filled with ghosts and no one in the past two months. If you don't have time to worry about it, be careful about our inventory."
Just blow it away in the strong wind."
The rest of the sergeants didn't even raise their heads. It was very cold here, and any extra activities would consume a lot of physical strength. There was only so much food, and it would not be until spring next year, that is, in the next three months, that we would have to send supplies again.
Maybe only the money-grubbing businessmen will take the risk, and no one else will come.
Even Tuyuhun or the Turks would not send troops during this season.
"Boss!" The man forced the team leader, who yelled helplessly: "I'll let you go out and have a look. If there's no ball, you'll have to whistle for an hour."
Outside the door, a huge flying boat was landing slowly. The new flying boat no longer made much noise. In other words, the sound of the flying boat was not as strong as the sound of the wind in the sand sea.
The huge monster over a hundred feet was slowly falling, and the team was stunned.
The cabin door of the flying boat had been opened when it was in the air. The team was looking clearly at the blue water-patterned armor, a dragon-headed horizontal sword hanging on the waist, a flying-winged dragon helmet on the head, and a snow-white cloak with gold threads on it.
Embroidered with a golden dragon.
In the whole world, there is only one person with such a suit of armor, not to mention the golden dragon and the blue water-patterned armor.
King Qin of the Tang Dynasty.
Team Zheng couldn't believe his eyes, people would see hallucinations in the sea of sand.
He rubbed his eyes hard and slapped himself seven or eight times. The team leader saw King Qin standing in front of the barn door raising his hand and performing a Tang military salute. The sound of his fist hitting the armor was like
Knocked in the heart.
"I'm a humble general, ninth rank of Yizhou's seventh-third garrison and accompanying Rong captain!"
The team was making a lot of noise, and he couldn't shout out the next words. He felt as if something was blocked in his throat, and he stared blankly at the King Qin of the Tang Dynasty walking towards him.
Li Yuanxing gently patted Team Leader twice on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work."
With a shout, everyone in the room rushed out.
"Team up!" the team shouted loudly.
Thirty people, ten soldiers, ten auxiliary soldiers, no one is missing.
You must know that in ancient times, border posts were never full, and many of the farthest posts were empty. Even if people were forced to pass, the people at the border posts would escape.
If Li Yuanxing hadn't been kind to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in the past two years, their children would have been well fed and warmly clothed. I'm afraid they would have escaped just as well.
Li Yuanxing had already made up his mind on the flying boat. Even if there were only a few people in this outpost, or it was empty, he would never blame anyone. But when he saw that there were thirty people here, and everyone was equal, Li Yuanxing was deeply moved.
I was so moved. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)