Xia Shuang is a member of the royal family. She still remembers the rigorous training and careful training she received since she was a child. No matter how amazing Su Le's talent is, he does not have a powerful martial spirit, and the hope of becoming a warrior is really slim.
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Despite Xia Shuang's indifferent appearance, her heart was shaking strangely at this moment. She had some expectations in her heart, but she couldn't tell what the expectations were. She just subconsciously thought about her brother.
You’ve rewarded this little guy, shouldn’t you come up with something?
Xia Yanbing's meeting lasted all night. Except for the previous episode, everything that was said later was about the defense of Tongde Pass.
Although Tongde Pass has not been lost in so many years, it is one thing that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, when marching and fighting, no one can make a foolproof promise. An arrogant army will be defeated. Therefore, Xia Yanbing emphasized the importance of the caravan team.
It is coming fiercely, everyone must be extremely vigilant!
The city wall of Tongdeguan is fifty meters high. The walls are made of black iron rock. Black iron rock is not a particularly strong rock. The characteristics of this rock are very strange.
If you press it hard with your hands, you will find that this kind of black iron rock is actually soft. However, if someone wants to cut a piece of black iron rock in half, it will be very difficult.
Precisely because of its softness, this kind of black iron rock is very tough. Even if you hit it with a sword, it will only be embedded in one piece. After you pull out the sword, it will automatically close the gap after a short time.
Therefore, even if a large stone weighing 100,000 kilograms and Wu Zu's cannon fodder hit it, it would only make a big hole in the city wall, but the entire city wall would not collapse.
In fact, according to the characteristics of black iron rock, it should not be called black iron rock. The locals have a more appropriate name for black iron rock. They call this kind of black iron rock refractory mud. This is because many people dig out this kind of black iron rock.
Basite is used to make the inner chamber of the furnace. Because Basite is not afraid of fire and will not be damaged after being burned for decades, the locals call it this name.
The fifty-meter-high city wall is thousands of meters wide. From a distance, the thick city wall of Tongde Pass looks like a huge black monster lying between two mountains. It only needs many frontier soldiers to see it.
You can feel the weight of history in this city wall.
This wall helped Daxia resist countless foreign invasions. For so many years, no army of any country has been able to cross this wall by half a foot.
The tents of the merchant army were erected ten miles away from Tongde Pass. The dark brown tents were spread out on the plain. Looking from the city wall, they looked like a pack of wolves crawling on the ground, ready to attack Tongde Pass at any time.
Launch an attack.
During this period, the merchant army was still gathering troops, with no intention of retreating. Their intention was very obvious, and they would definitely attack Tongde Pass.
On the city wall, the security has been strengthened. Vulcan crossbows have been set up one after another. In addition to the Vulcan crossbows, several armed artillery battalions are also on standby every day. In the siege battle, the armed artillery is the first echelon.
In a wave of attacks, the use of weapons and artillery from both sides is very important.
The Kaishan Battalion was not sent to the city wall. Su Le was ordered to have all the cannon fodder battalions on standby in the city. In the battle between the siege and defenders, it was not the cannon fodder battalion's turn to intervene. However, if the city wall was breached, all the cannon fodder battalions would be on standby.
Each battalion must assist the elite battalion and start street battles with the merchant army.
Compared with the murderous atmosphere at Tongde Pass, the atmosphere in Tongde Pass is much gentler.
Ordinary people in Guanzhong have already left everything that should be left. Those who have not left are very optimistic people. These people also have reasons to be optimistic. Tongde Pass has blocked countless troops since its construction. They fully believe that this time, Shang
Even the army cannot cross the wall of impossible contribution.
After Su Le received the bounty from Prince Yan Bing, he distributed half of the bounty to all the soldiers in the battalion. Su Le did not distribute the remaining five thousand taels of gold. He wanted to use the gold to purchase a batch of weapons.
The Kaishan Battalion cannot be compared with those elite battalions. The soldiers of the elite battalions use specially customized weapons, and each weapon is not cheap.
The soldiers of the Cannon Fodder Camp use standard long spears. Although Xia Guo's standard long spears are always good, they are only good. If you want to fundamentally change the Kaishan Camp, weapons are an important item, so Su Le plans to use
The gold purchased a batch of long guns. As for the remaining expenses after purchasing the long guns, Su Le temporarily redoubled military expenditures to prepare for emergencies.
After entering Tongde Pass, Kaishan Camp's training did not stop. After replenishing the troops lost in the last battle, Kaishan Camp began to intensify training again.
Although most people are very optimistic about Tongde Pass and believe that the merchant army will definitely be defeated by the impregnable Tongde Pass, Su Le's prediction for the future is not like this.
The Shang Army was very determined and ambitious. Since the Shang Army knew that Xing Long was stationed in Tongde Pass, and now Xia Yanbing was in charge, if the Shang Army dared to attack Tongde Pass under such circumstances, then the number of people who came
There is definitely more than one Li Buyi among them, and it is very likely that even An Ruyi will come in person.
In addition to the arduous training, Su Le also gave the soldiers a day off so that the entire battalion could relax.
Although the lives of those low-level warriors are not valuable, they are still living people after all. Su Le will not really treat them like lifeless puppets. Moderate vacation adjustments will have certain benefits for combat effectiveness.
The soldiers who got the leave took their army passes and went to the military affairs office to exchange silver coins, and then poured into the large and small markets in Tongde Pass to enjoy themselves.
Because they have been living a life hanging on a thread for many years, the low-level warriors spend a lot of money. They can often spend all their money in less than a day.
It is precisely because of this kind of consumption that the wine shops, brothels, and markets in Tongde Pass can develop to such a prosperous level. Even when the army is approaching, businessmen still risk the city to do business with these soldiers.
Su Le had stayed in the military camp for a long time and was willing to go out for a walk. On his day off, Su Le took Xu Niu, Li Zhu and others out of the camp.
In Tongde Pass, in addition to businessmen, most people are soldiers. During this period, due to the return of troops from outside Western Xinjiang, business has become even more popular. This is understandable. Originally scattered in
More than 200,000 soldiers from Western Xinjiang poured into Tongde Pass. So many people always need to eat, drink and relieve themselves. Although there are military discipline restrictions, they are not allowed to leave the camp under normal circumstances. However, during ordinary holidays, the number of soldiers is also very large.
It's impressive, and business is naturally booming.
After walking around the market twice, Xu Niu touched his belly and said, "Boss, I'm hungry. How about we go find a restaurant to eat first?"
"Over there, over there!" Hou Shun pointed to a shop and said, "That Tongde Noodle House is very famous. The beef ramen they make tastes...bah," Hou Shun licked his lips, "It doesn't taste good.
Said!"
"Oh! Monkey, I let you wander around Tongde Pass a while ago, and you ate a lot of good things!" Li Zhu pointed at Hou Shun and said with a smile.
Hou Shun chuckled: "That's right, it's just for the job."
They were all soldiers. As soon as they entered, there were four large bowls of ramen with large chunks of beef, long slices of chopped green onion, and fresh crispy red peppers. The four of them started eating.
While eating, Xu Niu sighed: "Boss, it would be great if I could have such delicious beef ramen every day from now on."
Seeing the three brothers eating so happily, Su Le also lamented that life in the military was really too difficult. Although the situation was much better after he was promoted to camp leader, it was still not comparable to the food in the city.
When fighting in Western Xinjiang, it is good to have meat to eat. Most of it is the meat of those monster beasts. It is so tough and tough that you want to tear out your teeth, but even so, not everyone can eat it.
In the future, if I achieve something, I will definitely give these brothers endless glory and wealth, Su Le thought to himself.
They each ate four bowls of sea food. Just after they finished eating, a song suddenly floated in. The song was soft and melodious, as if melted into the bones.
"This song is soft and very pleasant. Where did it come from?" Xu Niu asked.
Li Zhu smiled and said: "There must be some singers nearby. The song they are singing is "The Ballad of Apricot Blossom". The tune is nice, but the content is a bit kitsch. Usually brothel singers like to sing these songs."
"Thank you for analyzing so much!" Hou Shun laughed and pointed, "There is such a big brothel across the street. Zhuzi, you think we are blind. Boss, can we go over there and listen to a little song? Anyway, today is the holiday.
Rest.”
Su Le did not object. Among all walks of life in Tongde and Guanzhong, if restaurants are the largest, then brothels and brothels are the second.
Soldiers are all men and have urgent physiological needs to be solved. This problem is very practical.
It is said that some elite battalions even have their own camp prostitutes. This does not mean that the soldiers are arrogant and licentious. It is just that marching and fighting are a life-and-death struggle. The pressure in the process is not small. In addition to eating meat and drinking, women are also a channel to vent stress.
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Faced with this kind of request, Su Le didn't want to refuse. He kept his head high and worked hard. Who knows whether he will be buried in the loess tomorrow?
So a group of four people walked into the brothel opposite.
As soon as they entered, the madam greeted him very warmly, served tea and poured water, and finally said: "Gentlemen, do you want to listen to music? Or do you want to beat your back?"
"Let's sing a song, just the girl who sang "The Ballad of Apricot Blossom" just now!" Hou Shun came back and realized that the song he sang just now was really beautiful.
The old madam smiled and said: "Master Jun really knows how to listen to music. The girl who just sang "Apricot Blossom Ballad" is named Qinglian, and she is the number one in our Xiuchun Garden. You wait, I will call her over."
The madam got up and called for someone, and not long after, he led a girl down from the second floor. The girl also had a handsome appearance, she was wearing pink clothes, she walked very gracefully, and her figure was also very good.