The six people dug a hole, buried the bodies of the three Japanese thieves, and then set off south. When they were about to arrive at "Yinghunting Town", Teng Qiang said: "I will recover from my injuries and sleep in the woods. The effect is good!". The five people said goodbye to Teng Qiang.
Qiang, took all the packages and returned to "Yinghunting Town".
It was already evening and the sun had already set. Most of the shops in "Yinglie Town" were not closed yet.
Although the six people experienced an extremely thrilling battle today and suffered serious injuries, they were all healed by Xinlian, and they also gained a lot. When they were in a happy mood, they wanted to find a good restaurant to spend some money.
So they first found a rather luxurious inn to store their packages. Then they went out to find an elegant restaurant called "No Hungry No Sit", where the waiter led them to a private room that opened to the street.
The decoration of the room is quite exquisite. All the tables and chairs are made of exquisite materials and exquisite carvings. The floor is covered with a thick and soft red-brown blanket. As soon as the five people sat down, a young waitress in dignified clothes brought teapots and bowls.
, smiled and poured fragrant tea for each of the five people. The tea was fragrant, and you knew it was top quality as soon as you smelled it.
Lu Jing looked at the waitress's not-so-pretty face and heard her say: "The fine Qinxiang Yunwu, please use it with caution." After saying this, he glanced at Lu Jing seemingly intentionally, and then exited.
Just after taking a sip of tea, a well-dressed, plain-looking young male waiter brought the menu and handed it to Tang Yi, who looked a little older. Several people took turns ordering seven or eight dishes, and then the male waiter left.
Got out.
After chatting casually for a while, Lu Jing looked towards the luxuriously decorated lobby outside the private room. There was a stage in the lobby twenty steps away from their private room, and no one was performing on the stage.
A very revealingly dressed, slim-figured, pretty-faced waitress walked towards them. Lu Jing's heart beat slightly faster and he thought: This woman must have come to our private room. But the beautiful waitress walked in close to them.
There was another private room not far away, and there were three male guests sitting in that room.
Shortly afterwards, the plain-looking and dignified waitress who had served him tea before walked into the private room where Lu Jing was. She held a large wooden sign with a faint fragrance in her hand, with various performances written on it.
The name of the program.
"Why doesn't that beautiful and scantily clad woman come to us?" Lu Jing thought to himself, "Isn't it because we don't have enough money?"
He looked at the private room again and quickly understood: "Yes, that room was full of male guests, so we let the beautiful and exposed female waitresses in to make them dizzy and order more expensive dishes.
We have two female guests here. If the beautiful woman comes, the female guest will be unhappy and order less food. Not only the beautiful waiter cannot come, but also the handsome waiter cannot come, because we have three male guests. If
When a handsome waiter comes, the store owner will be worried that the male customers will be unhappy and unwilling to order more expensive dishes." Thinking of this, he felt proud of his cleverness.
Lu Jing saw the female waiter smiling at him, so he took the big wooden sign in her hand, looked at it for a while, and casually clicked on a storybook called "Li Mu vs. Huns and Meng". The price was twenty copper coins.
Not long after the female waiter left, she saw two male waiters bringing out a table and a chair and placing them on the stage. Then a man in his fifties, wearing a green robe, sat on the chair and cleared his throat.
Start talking about books.
Because it was far away from the storyteller and there were many guests in the lobby, it was a bit noisy. The five people listened for a while and felt that what they heard was not very clear. Tang Yi said, "I'm going to ask if you can come to our place to tell the story."
After that, he walked out of the room and called a waiter to ask. After hearing this, the waiter nodded repeatedly.
Not long after, the storyteller, the old man in green robe, came to the private room and sat on the chair that the waiter had just moved in.
The old man in green robe took a small sip of tea and began to talk about the book:
"Speaking of which, the State of Zhao, since King Wu Ling's "Hufu Cavalry and Shooting" fifty years ago, has experienced great military strength and won successive battles..."
Xinlian interjected: "What the hell is "Hufu riding and shooting"?"
The old man was interrupted, but without the slightest displeasure, he smiled and said: "Don't worry, girl, I'm just about to talk about this. Let's talk about Hufu first. Originally, Zhao State liked to wear wide robes, both among the people, the government and the army.
The big sleeves made me feel chic. The Hungarian and Mongolian people in the north, who were called "Hu people", lived on the grasslands and were very good at riding horses and hunting. However, they wore tight clothes and trousers, which were considered ugly by the Zhao people.
."
"Which one looks better, a wide robe with long sleeves or a tight trousers, is a matter of opinion. However, it is an indisputable fact that wearing Zhao's clothes is far less convenient than the Hu people's tight trousers, whether working or fighting."
"There is also riding and archery. The Zhao State has many horses, which are used to pull carts, and people sit on the carts. But the Hu people just sit on the horse and shoot arrows, galloping back and forth, very fast. If
There is not much difference between the two methods of transporting goods, but when it comes to fighting, they are quite different."
"There are a lot of consumables to make a carriage, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The horse-drawn carriage is extremely bumpy, slow, and difficult to turn. It is far inferior to the Hu knights who come and go as fast as possible on the battlefield. Zhao's chariot soldiers often need five times as many
Only the barbarian knights can drive them away. If the manpower and material resources for making carriages are included, it would take ten people to deal with one barbarian knight!"
"Thus two points. Although Zhao's human and material resources were ten times that of the Huns and Mongolians, they were defeated repeatedly in battles. Every year they were robbed of a large number of livestock and property, and many people and soldiers were killed."
Xinlian nodded and said: "I see, many of us can ride horses now!"
The old man smiled and said: "It is true that we, the people who farm, started to advocate horseback riding and wearing tight and narrow clothes from King Wuling of Zhao State. This is called "horse riding and shooting in Hufu", which greatly reduced the number of people like us who farm.
The gap in combat power between the ethnic group and the barbarians on horseback.”
"After King Wu Ling of Zhao State advocated Hu Fu riding and shooting, the Zhao army's military strength became stronger. They won consecutive battles against Ting, Wei, Yan and other countries, and won a lot of land. But against the Hu people in the north, although they were not defeated at the first touch like before,
But we still lose more than we win, and suffer heavy losses in lives and property year after year!”
Lu Jing asked strangely: "Don't the Zhao army and the Hungarian and Mongolian people have the same clothes and ride and shoot? And there are many more Zhao people than the Hungarian and Mongolian people. Why do they always lose the battle?"
"This young hero doesn't know something." The old man explained: "Although Zhao soldiers can ride on horses and shoot arrows, they only start learning after they enter the army as adults, while the Huns and Mongolians treat bows and arrows as toys since they are young.
, I call my home on horseback, and my riding and shooting skills are of course far better than those of Zhao soldiers. This is one of them."
"Second: Only half of Zhao's adult men join the army. Most men, women and children are engaged in farming and manufacturing, and live in one place. They need the protection of soldiers during war. However, all the men of the Huns and Mongols are skilled in riding and shooting.
, everyone is a brave soldier, and all women, children, old and young can also ride horses, and the people who have no fixed residence need protection."
Lu Jing thought of something and interrupted and asked: "If the Zhao army has thousands of people from the "Tree Spirit" tribe who are as strong as vines, and they raise the rattan grass wall together, the horses of the Hungarian and Mongolian cavalry will be trapped.
Bar?"
"That won't work." Tang Yi said: "The "Tree Spirit" tribe has a very small number, less than a thousand people in total, and they are scattered in the forests all over the country. They are generally unwilling to join the army. Moreover, Teng Qiang can only use the existing Teng Qiang to
Grass and other objects become larger and thicker, hindering the enemy, and cannot grow vines and grass out of thin air, so they can only exert their combat power in woods and pastures, but in places with little vegetation, they are useless."