The fighting stopped and the two sides completely broke away from contact.
The soldiers in the camp looked at the devout and frightened savages in the distance, then looked at their own camp on the verge of collapse, and finally looked at the colorful balloons floating above their heads. They just felt extremely lucky. And after feeling lucky,
, and my mind is full of confusion.
Zheng Rui was not the only soldier who had seen a hot air balloon.
In the past few months, the expansion and reorganization of the Ding Navy has been progressing very quickly. Correspondingly, the scale of the military academy has also expanded a lot. Not only officers like Wang Bao'er, but also many grassroots generals and even meritorious ordinary soldiers have been able to
He was transferred to a military academy for further training, where he learned a few words, gained a little more knowledge, learned the knowledge about the operation of the regular army, and gradually escaped from the category of a brave man.
In the process, they also learned that the military academy for serving warriors was only a part of the naval academy. The other part was for orphans left behind by soldiers who died in battle.
These orphans obtained the status of soldiers after their elders died in battle, but the navy did not need them to fight in battle for the time being. Instead, it viciously forced them to go to school.
In that military academy, in addition to practicing literature and martial arts, the orphans were also exposed to all kinds of weird miscellaneous subjects. Zheng Rui couldn't figure out what they were exactly. But every now and then, students like him in the military academy, and even the military camps around Ye County,
The soldiers of the army could see the figures of the children having fun outside the city.
Basically, every time they were screaming, posing, and experimenting with some incredible gadgets.
There are iron plows that claim to be able to turn the soil deeper but require two oxen to pull them; there are carts with four wheels that cannot turn; there are small iron artillery pieces that fail to explode seven or eight times out of ten; there are also iron plows that claim to be able to
A musket that sprays gravel to hit people, but breaks the barrel of the gun at every turn.
The young men have failed too many times, and the soldiers have also seen it too many times. Zheng Rui always felt that it was because Guo Jieshuai was kind and doted on these children, so he allowed them to do whatever they wanted.
In particular, a group of teenagers led by Ado have been holding on to the hot air balloon, always saying that they want to build a big thing that can transport people to the sky. However, the military government has been pampering them and constantly providing them with
Various fabrics, paints, and various special specifications of the stove seem to have been customized for this purpose.
That’s okay. The families of these children all died fighting for the country. So what if Guo Jiedu is willing to pamper them? Most warriors will die in battle one day. Who doesn’t want their family and children to be able to
Received leniency and favor from Commander-in-Chief?
It's just that there are a few more colorful big balls floating in the sky in Ye County, and they will fall down soon. The soldiers and civilians just looked at them to relieve their boredom, and it was not a big deal.
Zheng Rui just doesn't understand, even if those weird things have yielded results, so what? Take a hot air balloon as an example. If a person goes to the sky, isn't he still a human being? Does it mean that people who go to the sky become another person?
A thing whose life on the ground will never end?
Just now when the war was getting serious, Ado proposed to use his newly made hot air balloon to scare the savages. Zheng Rui also thought it was ridiculous.
He didn't even know that Ado had brought this beforehand!
This group of people came to Liaodong for business, so what's the deal with this kid bringing a hot air balloon? That thing is not small, it takes up half of a big car! If there is a little space, wouldn't it be good to put in a few more pieces of armor and a few more swords?
What's more, what's so scary about this hot air balloon? How can it scare people? The reason why Addo has such weird thoughts is because he himself was frightened out of his mind by the savages!
If the situation wasn't really dangerous, Zheng Rui wouldn't have allowed him to do this fifty or a hundred times, but would have forced this kid to fight on the battlefield with a knife.
But the idea actually worked.
How can it be?
Why are savages so stupid?
Zheng Rui thought about it blankly, and suddenly remembered that when his family saw the hot air balloon for the first time, they made the same fuss. The balloon that time was half the size of the current one. I heard that the commander himself had the idea before taking off.
A huge eyeball was painted on the balloon, as well as the whites of the eyes and red eye sockets.
As a result, when the big eyeball took off, half of the people in Ye County and many newly recruited soldiers were frightened. Some people stood on the roof and beat gongs, hoping to scare away the monsters with the sound of gongs, while others stretched out their bows.
He went to shoot the arrow, but was scolded by the officer.
This time the balloons were bigger and the patterns were more realistic. It was, ahem, reasonable to scare these savages.
Perhaps, it is not that the savages are too stupid, but that they are ignorant and cannot understand the reason why the hot air balloon can fly into the sky, so they can only attribute it to the theory of ghosts and gods.
People like Guo Jieshuai have always indulged children in playing with these odds and ends. Perhaps the key lies not in the odds and ends themselves, but in the principles behind them?
Zheng Rui fought bravely, but now he was a little tired. He leaned against the vehicle and took a short rest. All the while, Ado was right above his head, laughing and shouting loudly.
"What is this silly boy yelling about?" Zheng Rui is not from Bohai and cannot understand the words spoken in the Northeast. He could only sigh and asked a soldier next to him: "The hot air balloon is not strong, it is made of cloth! What if he talks nonsense?
The gibberish made the savages angry... Whoever raises his hand and shoots an arrow can shoot down this balloon. By then we can still fight to save our lives, but this kid will be smashed into a meat pie first!"
"He just boasted that the picture on this balloon is a god who has come to the world. Anyone who dares to use weapons in front of the god will die without a burial place... Well," the soldier listened again and replied: "
Now it is said that a man of God can live ten thousand years if he eats a flat peach."
Zheng Rui was taken aback: "Didn't you realize that this silly boy is pretty good at blowing?"
The soldier listened to a few more words and said, "It's the lyrics. He probably watched too many dramas and memorized the lyrics."
"Aren't the dramas these days all about us setting up a navy to defeat the Mongols? There are also stories about gods and monsters?"
"Yes, why not? What this boy is talking about is a passage from 'Tieguai, Li Du, Golden Boy and Jade Girl'."
"Oh, I haven't seen it."
"It's very beautiful!" The soldier held the knife, sat down next to Zheng Rui, and said enthusiastically: "Let me tell you, this play is about the golden boy and the beautiful girl who thinks about the world..."
The wild Jurchen is still outside. Are you talking to me about Sifan? Is it appropriate to be so relaxed?
Zheng Rui coughed twice and stood up.
After sitting for a while, he felt that his face and body were almost covered with dried sweat and blood, and patches of it were solidified on his beard and hair, which was very uncomfortable.
"Follow me." He said to the soldier: "Let's rearrange the car formation first."
The soldiers quickly followed up and, together with Zheng Rui, slowly dragged the crumbling vehicle back to its original position.
While they were working, a few dull moans could be heard from time to time in the center of the train formation. It was the medical officers in the team who urgently prepared salt water, took hemostatic drugs and clean coarse cloths, and were treating the soldiers.
At the critical moment when the vehicle formation was about to be broken, a sign leader led seven or eight soldiers, jumped out from the vehicle, and fought among the groups of savages. Only then did the vehicle formation maintain the gap that had been opened.
The leader of this brand was one of the Jurchens who were about to go crazy from hunger in Tunpu in Haicang Town earlier. His name was Wanyan Luqi. The soldiers said behind their backs that he was the one who forced the surname Wanyan. In fact,
He has nothing to do with the Dajin clan.
Only two of the soldiers who fought with Wanyan Luqi came back. Wanyan Luqi himself suffered more than ten wounds on his body and a severe blow on his face. He was only missing three points and his whole face was about to be split into two.
He was half dead. When he was snatched back by his men, he was already unconscious. The medical officers worked nervously to rescue him, but Zheng Rui didn't have the courage to watch and simply went out to repair the camp.
Not long after, the medical officer came out chasing him.
"How is it?" Zheng Rui asked.
The medical officer nodded, then shook his head: "The bleeding has stopped, but whether he can survive depends on tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"That's good."
Zheng Rui breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to speak, Aduo in the balloon shouted loudly: "Judge Li Yun and Li are back! And Wang Bao'er is back too!"