Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 2 The World
The battle came suddenly and ended very quickly.

Not many people from the party attacked, and there were only dozens of cavalry. Under the strong blocking of hundreds of well-trained Tiande soldiers, they were devastated and had to retreat temporarily.

Bandits, they only like to pick up soft persimmons and pinch them. As for the hard bones that have to pay heavy casualties, they must be weighed.

After a short and fierce battle just now, they had already laid down more than forty cavalry, and the main force of the cavalry was damaged, and they no longer had the ability to continue the attack.

And what about the infantry?
Again, the people of Fengzhou are relatively poor, and the party members of Fengzhou are even more impoverished, which has led to their generally poor equipment.Relatively cheap leather armor has a low penetration rate, let alone iron armor.

This beggar family is already very good with some horses, bows and knives, and many other tribes are not as good as them.Otherwise, after entering Toyosu for nearly 40 years, they can still be suppressed by the German army whose number is no more than 4000?
Compared with the Shannan Dangxiang in Fengzhou, the party members in the Yinxia area further south are slightly richer and more formal.

At least, their leaders are more ambitious, the clan is more cohesive, and they have trained a certain size of army, which is not comparable to these scattered tribes in Fengzhou.Not to mention that there is still a grudge between them. For decades, they have been attacked and killed because of their wealth, pastures, farmland and even food, and they have never been tied together.

In fact, since the Zhenwu Army entrusted Liu Mian to recover Fengzhou during the Huichang period of Tang Dynasty, the main enemies of the Tiande Army have always been the scattered Uighur tribes on the grassland north of Langshan and the Hexi Dangxiang who have repeatedly violated the border.

Shannan party item?Unfinished things are even less harmful than the Black Mountain Party Project and the Hexi Party Project in the east of Zhongshoujiang City.

"Leader of the team, in the battle just now, five brothers died in battle, and one was seriously injured. It looks like it won't work." Just after the battle, Shao Shude didn't dare to disarm and was sitting in a carriage to rest when he suddenly heard Upon hearing this news, my heart suddenly became heavy.

He knew everyone on the team, talked to them, and even knew their home addresses (if any). "Take me to see it!" He immediately jumped out of the car, limping. He was hit by a horse in the battle just now, and it still hurts a little.

Li Yanling, who came to report, reached out to help, but was thrown away by Shao Shude.His eyes were fixed on the grass in front of him, where the bodies of several dead soldiers were lying, and the wounded were lying nearby, and someone was giving him water.

Shao Shude walked faster and faster, and when he got close, he pushed the person in front of him away, first glanced at the five dead soldiers, and then turned his eyes to the side.

"Liu Gou'er!" He squatted down and looked at the man fixedly.People's emotions may become numb when there are more battles in battle, and Shao Shude is the same.

"Bring a pen!" he said to Li Yanling who was following behind him.

Li Yanling is in his thirties, has been in the army for nearly 20 years, and has seen too many people and things.He has been weather-beaten in society and has abandoned all fantasies and lives only for himself.But in the face of this situation, he still couldn't avoid some mood swings.

"Alas!" With a soft sigh, he turned to the car beside him, and carefully took out the pen and ink from a package.He held it up gently, as if there was something sacred in his hand.

Perhaps it is out of awe for the symbol of reading, or out of pity for the dead and wounded Paoze, who can tell?

When Li Yanling arrived, the wounded soldiers were no longer able to do much, and only heard Liu Gou'er say intermittently: "My parents have gone, there are still younger brothers and sisters at home, all of them are young, I am afraid that they will have nothing to support..."

Shao Shude nodded, and said: "Your pension will not be short of a single penny. In addition, you fought bravely in this battle and beheaded two levels. One of them was a thief. According to regulations, you should be given 22 bolts of silk, a total of [-] match."

The surrounding sergeants listened silently.

This Liu Gouer was knocked and flew out the moment the enemy cavalry rushed into the formation, and he never made any gains.

The two beheadings were attributed to team leader Shao Shude and his two accomplices, Saburo and Li Yixian.The thief who wore the chain mail had a high status in the Qi Dang family. According to the reward set by the imperial court, he could be rewarded with [-] pieces of silk as a lieutenant general.But the Tiande army was not rich, so it would be nice to reward twenty horses in the end.

Since Shao Shude is willing to contribute the credit for killing the enemy, and his two little followers have no opinion, then everyone will naturally have nothing to say.Qian Shousu was caught in the middle of the soldiers, looking at all this with a complicated expression, seemingly puzzled and enlightened, and finally lowered his head and muttered to himself, not knowing what he was talking about.

Lu Huaizhong was walking around on the grass. He was extremely embarrassed in such an occasion, but he admired Shao Shude's handling.

When he was serving in the Wuchang Army that year, he fought because Shangguan embezzled Pao Ze's pension.The boss of the ten generals was born in a local local tyrant and wanted to punish him for his crimes. Fortunately, the military governor of Wuchang, the observation and disposal of Eyue, and Liu Yunzhang, the prefect of Ezhou, appreciated him very much, so he was spared.

However, in the first year of Qianfu, Liu Yunzhang, who admired him, was ordered to move to the town and served as the left-behind of Dongdu.Wei Chan, the newly appointed military governor of Wuchang, did not like him very much, so he was bribed by local tyrants, and he was accused of being assigned to Fengzhou.

Of course, if this really has to be studied carefully, it may not be a bad thing for him, because in another two or three years, in February of the fourth year of Qianfu, Ezhou will be captured by Wang Xianzhi, and in the second year, it will be captured by Huang Chao's army Once again, if Lu Huaizhong was still serving in the Wuchang Army, the end would not be too good.

After traveling all the way to Fengzhou to become a "thief's army", Lu Huaizhong still did not forget his original intention. He hated those who drank the blood of soldiers, and at the same time admired the officers who treated their soldiers kindly.

Shao Shude can be sympathetic to his subordinates. Lu Huaizhong feels that it is good, and he is willing to work under such people. Although he used to be a lieutenant, Shao Shude is still only the leader of the team.

"Thank... the leader of the team!" Liu Gouer's tears flowed out, but the complexion on his face was getting worse and worse.

Shao Shude took out a piece of cloth from his arms, took the pen and ink handed over by Li Yanling, and seriously wrote Liu Gou'er's name on it, and then added the Arabic numeral 22 at the back.

When he finished writing, he saw that Liu Gouer had just swallowed his last breath, and his eyes were full of nostalgia and reluctance.

After closing Liu Gouer's eyelids, Shao Shude got up and checked the other corpses.

He knew all these people, and after carefully writing their names on the cloth, he stood up and scolded the surrounding sergeants: "What are you doing here? Go back to Lao Tzu to sort out the equipment. Before I go far, give me some inspiration. There are still two days to go from here to Xicheng.”

The soldiers immediately dispersed, arranging their guns, knives and bows separately.

After Shao Shude circled the neighborhood for two laps, he went to the neighboring team to take a look. Fortunately, this time, there were not many casualties, and there were only dozens of people in total.It's not bad to have such a performance against the cavalry, not to mention that the enemy attacked first, and it was inevitable that one's own response would be a little hasty.

"Leader of the team, what should I do with this armor?" After seeing everyone disperse, Ren Yuji jumped out of the shadows, pointed to the blood-stained chainmail under the carriage, and said with a sinister smile: "Some Dilapidated, but if it is properly repaired and wiped, it can also be of great use.”

"Yeah." Shao Shude replied vaguely and nodded slightly.Generally speaking, the innocuous things captured on the battlefield are ignorant of the soldiers, and the Shangguan will not really pursue them.

But things like iron armor are more expensive to be honest, and they still have to be handed over and distributed uniformly.Of course, Shangguan will convert the money and silk to you, but to be honest, they are all soldiers fighting. If there is a choice, who will ask for the money and the silk?Iron armor can save lives, money and silk can't, it's that simple!
Seeing this, Ren Yuji understood and immediately knew what to do.

He is a southerner and has always been shrewd. He was born in the town of Luzhou, Huainan, and has been assigned to Fengzhou for several years.With a gloomy personality, apart from a few acquaintances, he doesn't like to talk much, but Shao Shude trusts him very much, and leaves him to do some things that are inconvenient to appear in front of others.

This pair of armor, he is ready to be ignorant, and he believes that Yuji has a way to deal with it.

After the army ate some water in batches, the trumpet sounded again.

Soon, the sentry galloped to each team, ordered to pack up, and continued on their way.At this time, the sky was getting dark, and it was not difficult to walk.

The Dangxiang barbarians have disappeared, and even the corpses of the enemy cavalry in the distance have been taken away. There is no way for them to fall nearby, and the Tiande army will bury them.

The good horses left on the battlefield were collected by the grain officials, and the injured horses were slaughtered. Fengzhou was not rich, and so far it has relied on the imperial court and other towns for aid, and everything that can be used must be used.

The discomfort in Shao Shude's feet has eased a lot, and it is no longer a hindrance to walking.

He followed behind a carriage that contained the bodies of the six soldiers killed in the battle.It was midsummer, and the sun on the eastern horizon had already risen high, but it could not provide even a trace of warmth to the troops walking alone on the grassland.

The ten generals, Sun Ba, rode their horses to the front and back.

He was a short-tempered man, a typical domineering soldier, but he was quite pleasant to Shao Shude, who had been his personal soldier.

When passing through their team, he deliberately stopped and laughed and chatted a few words.But once he went to other teams, he was covered in thorns again, and he shouted loudly about the things they didn't do well last night.

Shao Shude knew that one of Sun Ba's younger brothers died in battle when he joined the pirates in Hexi Dangxiang, which made him particularly irritable when faced with matters related to Dangxiang people, so much so that when Shao Shude recruited several poor party members to join the army, he was also arrested. He scolded his head and face for a full hour.

But he was a good man, harsh to officers, but caring for his soldiers, loyal to the court, and brave in battle.It is said that good people do not live long, but Shao Shude sincerely hopes that Sun Shi will live well and lead everyone to struggle to survive in this troubled world.

This requirement sounds simple, but it is actually very difficult.

The world of dog days!
(End of this chapter)