Wu DaCai lay on the bed, moaning occasionally in the room, and felt a burning pain in his buttocks, but he knew that the pain would be cured in two or three days.
Sticks, whistle sticks, bamboo sticks and leather whips. The shape of the whip has been changed three times. The injuries are getting lighter and lighter, and the pain is getting stronger and stronger.
The other members of the team were also lying on the bed, and some were talking in low voices. The lights hadn't been blown out yet, and it would usually be training summary time. Wu Tachai was in no mood today, because as the person who led the fight, he was deducted another month's pay.
, the others only received whips.
"Hahaha!"
There was a sudden burst of laughter in the dark barracks. Everyone turned their heads to look when they heard the laughter. It turned out to be the blacksmith flag general at the door.
"What are you doing lying down? I'm just beating you with a bamboo stick."
The blacksmith flag general limped in and watched as he walked, "The Zhenfu Division is quite interesting. After the unification, they posted a notice. The first division had seventy-nine injured, and we have seventy-one. The second division won, haha."
Everyone started talking excitedly, and Mr. Blacksmith Qi said proudly, "I went to Mr. Wang just now, and Mr. Ba said that as long as he wins, it will be fine. If he loses, he will impose additional penalties.
We in the flag team all fought well, so let’s talk about how miserable the person you beat was.”
Everyone in the team became excited, "Report it to the flag general, I will knock out one of his teeth."
"Knock one out."
"His nose is bleeding."
"His clothes were torn."
"I threw his shoes over the camp wall."
Ng Tak Choi shouted, "The crooked face is even crooked!"
After shouting, he couldn't help but feel proud, his crooked face was beaten by him and the three people, and the side without missing teeth was swollen. Thinking of that look, Wu Tachai felt comfortable all over.
"I brought down three people from the first division."
The blacksmith laughed and said, "That's okay. When those soldiers beat me, they injured my hand." There was a burst of laughter in the room, and Wu Dacai quickly shouted, "The flag boss is mighty!"
Others followed suit, and the blacksmith waved his big hand again, "The soldiers of the Zhenfu Division have no strength, and the whip can't even hurt.
I'm a blacksmith. What does blacksmithing mean? You have to be harder than them all so that you can do the job. The other blacksmiths have applied for a break tomorrow. Our flag team will all attend morning exercises tomorrow. You can finish it for me as well. The day after tomorrow
Practice as usual and let the grandsons of their first division see if they are ranked first if they are called the first division."
The whole room responded in unison, and the atmosphere was very warm. Wu Tachai felt that the wound was not so painful anymore.
The blacksmith turned and walked toward the door, cursing as he walked, "Your team is not bad, and our flag team is not bad either. Thirty-four to thirty-three, it's a shame to have a fucking grandson."
Someone asked, "Who is it?"
The blacksmith slammed the door, "I'm afraid I'll be a useless soldier in the war."
..."My dear, if you're afraid of war, you have to join the army, otherwise you won't be able to afford food next month."
In the shack in the southeast corner of the city, Tang Ershuan sighed, "You have done evil."
The daughter-in-law was lighting a fire outside with a big belly, and some smoke drifted in. After hearing this, she said happily, "You should have gone a long time ago. You see, Qu Mazi has only been there for two or three months. He has already moved to the city to rent a house. He
We are still in the preparation camp, and we only have one tael a month, and in the next moment we have two taels, which is an incredible amount of money."
Seeing that his wife didn't care about the war, Tang Ershuan was a little disappointed. He originally thought that his wife would be worried to death.
"You only need money, but you will die in war."
The daughter-in-law skillfully folded up a handful of dry straw and stuffed it into the hole of the stove. She picked up the cattail leaf fan and fanned it inside for a while. The smoke came out thicker and the fire started to rise. Then she put a piece of wood in.
"What's there to do in the navy? Rogues are running around on the shore. If you join the navy, when the rogues come over, we two can follow and get on the boat and run away."
The daughter-in-law clapped her hands and wiped her nose with her sleeves, "I will be the third mother next month, right?"
Tang Ershuan looked at his wife's belly and giggled twice, "You know what? When I went to see the recruiting officer, there was another person in front of me. The officer asked him how many dependents he had in his family. Do you know the dependents?
In addition to the number of wives and children he wanted to support, he said he wanted to raise three, but the recruiting officer let him go and said he wouldn't want any more than two.
When we got here, I said there were only two. Anyway, the second one didn’t give birth, haha.
This counts the first step, and the next step is to swim a hundred steps into the river and come back, stretch the fibers one mile, lift the stone lock, and raise the sail and palm. I don’t know how to hold it up on the ground.
, I did more than a hundred in one breath, and the officer said that this soldier was good, and he didn’t understand what kind of army he would be in the Shuiying Army. Anyway, it was the Shuiying Army.”
"The man in our family is also a navy man. I heard that many people wanted to go but didn't choose. You said it would be great for a navy man to stay on the river. He is not afraid of bandits and doesn't have to look at people's faces at the dock. From now on, he will earn two taels of silver per month.
We can use it all."
The daughter-in-law's eyes were full of longing, and when she said this, she couldn't help covering her mouth and burst into laughter.
Tang Ershuan also laughed, and both of them seemed to see a pile of silver waving at them.
The wife dug out the grain bag in the shack and threw a small handful into the pot.
Tang Ershuan's mouth was flat and his stomach growled. When business was good in hot weather, his wife had to eat more rice, otherwise Tang Ershuan would not have the strength to work to earn money. During the off-season at the dock, Tang Ershuan's living standard took a sharp turn.
However, there was an epoch-making historical turning point in the family today. After thinking about it, my wife grabbed a dozen more grains of rice.
Tang Ershuan said tentatively, "We are going to the water camp tomorrow. If we can't eat at home, why don't you cook more?"
"That's even more impossible. Think about it, we'll start eating the food in the camp tomorrow. It's useless if you eat more today. It's better to eat on an empty stomach and eat the food that Pang Pang has for free."
"That's true."
The daughter-in-law smiled mysteriously and suddenly took out something from her sleeve.
Tang Ershuan's eyes shone. It turned out to be an egg. He hadn't eaten it for a long time. He pointed to himself in surprise, "Bought it just for me?"
The daughter-in-law whispered, "The hen of the Wang family laid an egg on the edge today and rolled out. I just happened to pass by there. Do you think our family is about to change its fortune? We must go to pay homage to those queen mothers tomorrow."
"Well, it's not good to just take other people's eggs."
"What are you doing? If the egg rolls out, it doesn't belong to him. It was given to you by the Bodhisattva."
The wife tilted her head, and as she spoke, she hid the egg in her sleeve, looked around outside the door, and then threw it into the pot with a bang.
Tang Ershuan rubbed his forehead, "Then let's eat his grandma's food. I'm from Shuiying, so why should I be afraid...I joined the Shuiying Army Corps, why don't you guys remember it?"
..."The water battalion marines will go ashore first, follow closely! Follow closely! Did you fucking hear that?"
Fifteen days later, at the pier of Songyang Town under Tongcheng City, Tang Ershuan, wearing a navy white jacket, holding a shield and a hatchet in his right hand, jumped out of the boat in a panic and stepped on the water plants on the riverside.
Walk to the shore.
On the river behind him, a long line of watercrafts filed in. Several of the boats that had docked were unloading army soldiers. The piers were buzzing, shops were closing in a hurry, and the bows of other merchant ships were shouting in panic.
, greeting the boatman to leave the dock.
Tang Ershuan didn't care about anything else. He followed the figure in front of him and found a road after crossing the water plants. When he reached the street above, there were already suppressing soldiers on the road. There were some silver ingots scattered on the ground. Tang Ershuan's eyes were always attracted to them, although
It was within reach, but he would never dare to take it. These silver ingots were scattered by the police team, and each one was numbered. So many of them had to be recovered in the end.
After being in the camp for more than ten days, there have been three trainings on spreading money. On the third time, someone couldn't help but steal a piece, and was beaten to death and expelled from the camp.
Therefore, the attractiveness of the silver ingot has been greatly reduced now, and it is far less distracting to Tang Ershuan than when he first saw it.
Dozens of marines advanced into the streets amid the captain's scoldings. Tang Erchuan was so disoriented that he could only follow the others.
He didn't know until he arrived at Shuiying that he joined the Shuiying Marine Corps. He still hasn't figured out why there are marines in Shuiying. Moreover, it seems more dangerous than the land camp. At least many of the front rows in the land camp are fully equipped.
Got the armor.
These marines did not have iron helmets or armor. Only the captain of each ship had leather armor. The others' defense was the white coat. Their weapons were all kinds of weapons, including javelins, hook guns, hatchets, spears, bows and arrows, etc.
The messy look is incomparable to the neat military camp over there.
Wang Zenglu watched the landing process on the pier. This exercise was a coordinated transportation between the land camp and the water camp. Although the warnings about the rogue bandits were becoming more and more intensive, and the garrison camp should be on guard in Anqing, Pang Yu insisted on doing it.
This time, a bureau was allocated from each division, with 70 marines, an artillery crew and 30 cavalry, and 19 water camp water boats. Pang Yu could not leave on his own, so he appointed Wang Zenglu to lead the team and asked him to pay attention.
Throughout the process, record any problems that arise.
Wang Zenglu had been on a ship before. He thought that transporting troops would be a simple matter, but after getting on the ship, the situation continued. He discussed with several people from the nearby soldiers from time to time, and two clerks set up a table to record.
The progress of Luying's disembarkation was relatively slow because there were many ships docked at the pier in Xiacongyang, and the escaping ships blocked the channel, making it impossible for the following ships to dock for a while.
The landing of the Marines was different from that of the Marine Corps. They were transported by foot boats newly mounted on the canal ships.
Like most people in the Lu Ying, Wang Zenglu was confused about the Marine Corps. Since there was a Lu Ying, why were there still a separate group in the Shui Ying? After seeing their performance today, Wang Zenglu concluded that they were a ragtag group of people.
Another difference he saw was that the Pangda people seemed to hope that they could land anywhere along the river, instead of being limited to places with docks, so this exercise also used foot boats for transfer, which probably only had this little use.
"My lord, we are missing four boats now."
A soldier from the Janissaries nearby said.
Wang Zenglu looked around and found Ren Dalang's boat. His boat had a five-foot square red flag, and the others had triangular red flags.
The general of the water camp arrived at the shore early, but the fleet he led was not in formation. It was only so close from Huaining to Songyang, and three ships were lost on the way. Then the ships were at different speeds, and the order when they set off was
It was completely disrupted. When we landed, we couldn't get the crew together. Now within sight, four ships have disappeared.
Only then did Wang Zenglu realize why Pang Yu insisted on practicing. The fleet was indeed very different from his previous single-ship fleet, and transporting troops was not as simple as transporting passengers.
The person from the Guards Team said again, "Mr. Wang, although each flag team is a little crowded on one ship, it will be very fast to get off the boat and gather together. At least one flag team will be together, and we can form an array when we get ashore."
"You can record this..." Before he finished speaking, there was a loud crash under the pier, followed by a scream. Wang Zenglu turned his head and looked, and saw a horse falling from the springboard into the river, dragging the person leading the horse with him.
After falling, the horse was frightened and struggled desperately in the water, causing large waves to splash. The surrounding cavalry were busy helping.
"Let the writer record that the cavalry is slow to get on and off the ship. When boarding the ship, the cavalry should be the last to get on the ship. When landing, the cavalry should be the last to disembark. You must wait until the infantry array has completed its advance and there is room at the dock before allowing the cavalry to disembark."
After Wang Zenglu finished speaking, he looked around and asked, "Where is the cannon?"
Several soldiers were also watching. The cannons were all about the same length, and the decks were crowded with soldiers preparing to disembark. The view was blocked by the masts, so it was impossible to tell where the guns were.
A soldier next to him said, "Does the commander-in-chief mean that the cannon should be fired first?"
Wang Zenglu frowned. He had done this before, but this was his first time doing a landing. Should he let the cannon fire first?
The cannon was newly made, using an old iron mold from Bo Yu. It still weighed about a thousand kilograms. Getting on and off the ship was not an easy task. However, given the experience in Shucheng, everyone had a kind of trust in the cannon. Going ashore first seemed to stabilize people's hearts.
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Before he could think of it, several soldiers nearby started talking while pointing to the middle of the river. Wang Zenglu saw that it was a small sentinel boat with the small red flag of Shuiying hanging on it. Several oarsmen paddled towards the dock to see.
He looked very anxious.
Wang Zenglu secretly thought that something was wrong. He had good eyesight and saw that Guo Fengyou was standing on the bow of the ship. He would never leave Pang Yu's side. This small sentry ship would set off at most an hour later than them. He must have come in such a hurry.
Something happened in Anqing.
The small sentry boat traveled all the way and soon reached the shore. Facing this huge man's confidant, Wang Zenglu did not dare to show off and hurried to the bottom step to greet him.
Guo Fengyou was not polite enough, he raised his hand and said to Wang Zenglu, "The Pangda people urgently ordered, General Wang will lead the drill troops to Tongcheng to deploy defenses immediately, and they will be in place before noon on December 6. The Fourth Bureau of the Second Division will transfer to Beixia Pass, and it will be limited to ten
Arrive before noon on February 7th.
The water camp and the Marine Corps stayed in Songyang on standby, and recruited Songyang canoe-type ships, along with the boatmen. The remaining ships were limited to leaving the shore before dark on December 6, and were informed that they were not allowed to dock at any Jiangbei wharf. After all departments were in place, they would coordinate with the local
The yamen and the gentry will investigate all foreign accents and detain the suspects on the spot..."