Chapter 1273 Death in battle is not the only choice
The students at Chang'an Military Academy were tortured very uncomfortable.
Every day before dawn, they are urged to get up.
When you get up, you not only need to quickly put on your clothes, but also make your own bed.
And this is only in a very short period of time.
The key is that as soon as they leave the dormitory, Li Ke will take someone to check their internal affairs.
Once it was discovered that the housekeeping was not handled well, a quilt was thrown out of the dormitory.
Over the past few days, almost no student's cup has escaped Li Ke's clutches.
These are nothing.
I got up at 9:00 a.m., just after washing up, I had to go to the school grounds to gather.
Cheng Chumo showed up at the school grounds every day without hesitation, under Cheng Chumo's angry gaze.
Everyone has to start daily training and run five laps of the school field.
Some students were not in good health. After running twice, they fell to the ground and fainted.
Even so, students from the Military Medical College will be waiting aside at this time.
After checking, if you really feel unwell, you will be taken away for treatment.
If he was just pretending, he would have been kicked by Cheng Chu silently and he would have run back crawling and rolling.
After five days, every student lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But the energy and spirit have also been significantly enhanced.
At least now it seems that everyone is holding their heads high and chest out, walking outside, they are different from ordinary people outside.
Five days have passed, and Zhao Chen has not appeared on the school grounds.
As the dean, he is busy with many things.
Such as arranging the teaching of Li Jing, Niu Jinda and other generals, such as the college's expenses, such as the college's daily repairs.
These all need to be reviewed by Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen felt that he had been deceived, and he wanted to be a free and easy-going man.
Why is it that he is the most tired now?
After leaving the dean's office, Zhao Chen came to the east side of the college.
At the moment, students are listening to Niu Jinda's class in the classroom.
"Songzhou City had already fallen into the hands of the Tibetans at that time, and our three armies of the Tang Dynasty were unable to recapture Songzhou City."
"At that time, the reinforcements were still far behind."
"If the Tibetans are allowed to settle down in Songzhou City, Songzhou will be the front line for Tibet to attack the Tang Dynasty."
"Think about it, if it were you, what would you do now?" Niu Jinda was talking about the Tubo attack on the Tang Dynasty.
At that time Niu Jinda was the marshal of one of the three armies.
Faced with this problem at that time, there was actually no other solution.
But the most important thing for them at that time was not to retreat under any circumstances.
Once they retreated and the Tibetans gained a firm foothold in Songzhou City, the Tang Dynasty would have to face a sudden attack from the Tibetans at any time.
The classroom became quiet.
Not everyone knows about this. What many of them know is that the Tang Dynasty fought a war with Tubo.
In the end, the Tang Dynasty won and drove the Tubo people out of the Tang Dynasty.
"The Tubo people want to use Songzhou City as the frontline to attack the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, we cannot do what they want."
"Even if all the soldiers died in battle outside Songzhou City, the Tibetans would never be allowed to gain a foothold."
The person who spoke was Pei Xingjian.
He had also heard Su Dingfang talk about this war before.
I also know that in the end, it was Zhao Chen who came up with such powerful weapons as the sky-blasting cannon and drove the Tubo people back.
Although he had never seen the sky-blasting cannon, Pei Xingjian was full of curiosity at the moment.
"Death on the battlefield is the highest honor for a soldier."
"But many times, fighting to death is not our only option."
"In the face of difficulties, we must be determined to die, but we must try our best."
"In the future, many of you will go to the front line, and you will have many soldiers from all over the world under you."
"But today, I just want to tell you one thing. They are also sons, fathers and husbands of their respective families."
"Don't throw away their lives at any time." Niu Jinda said to a group of students.
As a general, there will be many people who do not care about the lives of the soldiers below.
In the eyes of many people, the soldiers who died in battle are just an ordinary number among them.
This will never work.
All the students fell silent.
They know that when they leave Chang'an Military Academy in the future, they will not be the lowest-level soldiers.
Even if you don't have the idea of being superior to others, it is difficult to consider the soldiers at the lowest level.
"I am telling you this because I hope you will study well in the academy."
"If possible, through your talents, your soldiers will not have to lose their lives." When Niu Jinda said this, he waved his hand to signal everyone to take a rest.
Seeing Zhao Chen standing at the door, Niu Jinda walked out and looked at Zhao Chen with a smile.
Although Zhao Chen asked him to come here to teach, Niu Jinda also understood many of the reasons.
This is a good place for him to comfort himself.
"Boy Zhao, are my lectures ordinary?" Niu Jinda and Zhao Chen laughed.
"Everyone knows that Uncle Niu loves our soldiers."
"And just like Uncle Niu said, everyone is raised by their mother and father. No one can be superior to others. It is also for their own good to warn them." Zhao Chen said with a smile.
Niu Jinda nodded.
In this Tang Dynasty, perhaps only Zhao Chen was the one who cared least about the identity of others, and did not rely on his own identity to boss around.
"It would be great if everyone in the Tang Dynasty were like you." Niu Jinda sighed.
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Leaving the classroom, Zhao Chen went to the west side of the college.
This is the logistics location of Chang'an Military Academy.
Zhao Chen had to go see brothers Zhou Hei and Zhou Bai. He didn't know how their previous pulley crossbows were progressing now.
When you arrive at the west side of the college, you will see medical students in training.
Although it is not necessary to train like the three hundred students on the east side, some basic training is still necessary.
Medical students are basically young girls in their teens.
They all come from ordinary families around Chang'an.
At first glance, only a few of them are men.
Everyone also wears uniform clothes.
Changsun Chong is in charge here.
When he saw Zhao Chen, Changsun Chong wanted to come over, but Zhao Chen waved him away.
He went to the workshop, not to watch the students train.
After turning a corner and passing a few more paths, I heard a tinkling sound coming from far ahead.
Looking from a distance, I saw several shirtless craftsmen surrounding a blacksmithing platform.
On the blacksmithing table, Zhou Hei was banging a piece of iron hard.
"Dean!"
"Dean!"
Seeing Zhao Chen coming, the craftsmen hurriedly said hello.
Zhao Chen nodded and walked to Zhou Hei.
"Dean." Zhou Hei and Zhao Chen took the initiative to shout, but there were embarrassed looks on their faces.
"What's going on now?" Zhao Chen looked at the thin piece of iron in front of him.
"Reporting to the dean, the iron sheet has been hammered thin enough, but there will always be burrs on it."
"If these things are not removed, it will be easy to tear the bowstring of the crossbow."
"But, we still can't think of a way to remove the burrs on this iron piece."