Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 113: Yang Erxi and His Companions
This ambush against the grassland cavalry was a complete victory. When cleaning the battlefield, Yang Erxi, who killed three enemies and injured two, was qualified to choose the first trophy on the dead enemy.
The wealth plundered by these cavalry will naturally be left to the court to deal with it uniformly. The so-called spoils are nothing more than armor and weapons.
It was just the leather armor used by the grassland cavalry, in the eyes of these once regular Tang soldiers, like a ragged fig leaf. No one was interested, so the target was only those swords and arrows.
Yang Erxi wanted to change a knife.
The pitchfork was sharply ground and could kill people. After many battles, he had used it very easily, but after all, it was a farm tool used to weed, so it was still a bit inconvenient.
Before leaving the military camp, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could use their years of military service and daily merits to receive the glory of bringing their carry-on weapons home. No one would be willing to leave the weapons they had been with for many years. Most people would choose to exchange them and eventually became the Tang army.
A tradition of
Yang Erxi is famous for his good shooting skills in the army, so he chose to bring the boxwood hardwood bow back to his hometown and leave his sword in the army. Now he finds that his companions are all holding the swords he brought home from the barracks, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable.
So he wanted to change his knife.
The two grassland cavalry who were shot to death at the beginning were left with no idea where the swords beside him were left, so he asked his companions to leave the last person to him.
Yang Erxi bowed to his understanding companions, picked up the scimitar from the corpses of the grassland cavalry and tied it up. Although he was still a little uncomfortable, he felt that it was much better than a pitchfork.
With the sharp knife, the pitchfork was a bit rough and ugly when he looked at it again, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't bear to throw it away, so he continued to carry the pitchfork to his shoulders and walked into the forest.
A moment later, he walked out of the woods, and a black thing was swinging on the pitchfork. After a closer look, he realized that it was the wax pig legs he brought when he left home, and only the pig's hooves were left.
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After watching for a few days, my companions finally couldn't stand it anymore. They teased and said, "I said Erxi, you either stewed this poor pig's trotter to eat, or throw it away, and why do you do on the pitchfork all day long?"
Yang Erxi would not listen to them and said, "I ate it slowly because my wife gave it to me. I added a lot of salt when pickling it. I used pine and cypress branches when soaking it. I am not afraid of bad things."
The companions laughed, and absolutely no one was interested in the poor wax pig's trotter.
Yang Erxi felt something was moving around him, so he turned around and saw a little hand gently pulling the corner of his clothes. It was the little girl who had almost been hacked to death by the grassland cavalry before.
Looking at his dirty little face, he remembered his daughter and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, we will drive all the bad guys away tomorrow."
The little girl was not here to talk to him, and there was no look of fear in her eyes, but she was shining with a luster, and a translucent saliva flowed down the corners of her lips.
Yang Erxi followed her gaze and realized that she had been staring at the wax pig's trotters hanging on the pitchfork.
The little girl's longing eyes kept moving with the swing of the wax pig's trotters, cute and pitiful.
After thinking about it, he took off the pig's trotter and stuffed it into the little girl's arms.
The little girl smiled happily, wiped off the saliva from her mouth, bowed to him and expressed her gratitude, then jumped over to grandma, shouting something while running.
A companion walked to Yang Erxi and said, "The whole family was killed, and only the grandparents and grandchildren hid in the cellar and came to live."
Yang Erxi looked at the little girl's back and said nothing.
They left half of their food rations for the refugees in the village, and then drew a simple map and told them that there was a temporary yamen of the court 17 miles southwest, which was responsible for gathering refugees and retreating.
After doing these things, they pulled more than twenty uninjured horses and left the village.
Early the next morning, these retired Tang troops met with the main force.
"Yang Erxi, OK, I got a knife so quickly."
A cavalry looked at him and said.
Yang Erxi said proudly: "This is nothing. It's mainly because I took some effort when killing the three barbarians. Speaking of which, if it weren't for my lack of competing for me, the two seriously injured by me should have been counted on my account.
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The cavalry laughed and said, "Chengcheng, I will not forget to report to the commander to remember you."
"Don't forget, I am the border army in the second year of Apocalypse. What's your attitude?"
Yang Erxi smiled and cursed, carrying a pitchfork, and following his companions to the mountains and forests.
The cavalryman gently clamped his horse's belly and followed another road to a hillside, came to the commander's pedestal, and whispered to the military information he had just obtained.
Liu Si, the commander of the Knight Camp, nodded solemnly, raised his hand to signal the rover to leave, then looked at the middle-aged man beside him and said, "Longqing has accelerated his speed and just missed it with us."
The middle-aged man was dressed in blue and had a quiet expression. He looked particularly eye-catching among the hundreds of iron cavalry in the cavalry camp full of murderous aura, and it was Chao Xiaoshu.
He said to Xiaoshu: "Longqing seemed a little anxious, and the defenses of the prefectures and counties were too weak."
Liu Si said: "The prefecture and county wing army is good for infantry battles. There is really no way to deal with the grassland cavalry that has been through the battlefield for many years. They fought miserably and tried their best."
He said to Xiaoshu: "I don't mean to blame. The soldiers in the prefectures and counties are actually worthy of Gushan County. The general manager of the three prefectures' military affairs is not bad, but most of his soldiers are
We were transferred to Beidaying to resist the Golden Tent's Royal Court, so we can't count on him."
Liu Si was a little depressed. He followed Chao Xiaoshu with eight hundred elite cavalry in the Cavalry Camp and left Chang'an to Dongjiang. He was in a difficult and dangerous way and fought several battles with the grassland cavalry, but he was unable to fundamentally change the situation.
Because their number was too small, they didn't even dare to meet Longqing's main cavalry.
He said to Xiaoshu: "Don't think too much. Although he can only harass and pursue, at least he can prevent those barbarians from being too presumptuous, and the people in the East Xinjiang can also suffer less poison."
After saying this, he looked at the righteous soldiers who were walking towards the mountains and forests and gradually disappeared, and said in admiration: "If it weren't for them, the situation would be really uncontrollable."
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There are many people like Yang Erxi.
Many farmers left the countryside, left their homes, took their travel expenses, luggage, and the knife or bow and arrow that they brought back to their hometown from the army to the distant eastern border.
At that time, before the imperial enlistment order arrived at their hometown, they set out early. This practice was not rational because they had no organization and didn't even know where the battlefield was.
But this war is different. It is a war related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the news of foreign invasion is military orders, conscription orders. I met a person on the road and in the mountains and forests, and saw an old knife on his waist or
Lao Gong can confirm that he is a companion, so he can organize it to become a powerful force.
As for where the battlefield is? Where the enemy is, where is the battlefield.
This is what Yang Erxi thinks, and what his companions think.
According to post-war statistics, there were more than 20,000 retired Tang soldiers in the central prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty alone. Before the recruitment order arrived, they spontaneously joined the war against invaders in the Eastern Xinjiang.
These earliest and most lovely counterattackers from the Tang Dynasty were able to return to their hometown in the end.
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