Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 116
It's two o'clock at five.

That is, at around [-]:[-] in the morning, the drums in the barracks rang.

The teenagers in the camp were driven away by the well-dressed instructors waving their whips. Last night, they had enough to eat and drink, and they had warm quilts. For many new recruits, this is simply the most comfortable place to sleep. one night.

It's a pity that the bed is still so warm, but I have to get up.

It is not yet light outside, but when the drums sound, one must get up.

Similarly, Kan Leng, who just joined the camp yesterday, had already woken up, almost at five o'clock.Yesterday he told foster father Luo Cheng that he would help lead the horse, so he would naturally take care of the horse feeding.

When the five-watch clapper sounded, he threw off the warm blanket and went to the stable to add fodder for his adoptive father's two horses.

Wearing the jacketed robe issued by his adoptive father, he felt much warmer.This robe is the same style as the youths in the regiment. It is made of white linen, with a hakama on top and large pleated trousers on the bottom.Because in winter, it is an interlayer, filled with cotton silk.

The shoes under my feet are high-top cloth shoes, which can be regarded as short boots. After wearing them, the soles of the feet are flat, and the bare feet are no longer cold.

The horse was fed once last night, but the adoptive father's horse was killed in battle, and what he ate every day was more expensive than human beings.

Weeds have to be fed at night, and weeds have to be fed early in the morning.

Walk into the stables, first clean the stables, remove the horse manure, and then replace the stable grass wetted by horse urine with clean ones.After doing this, you have to brush the horse.

He did it very seriously and carefully.

When the stables were cleared, he began to feed the horses.

The adoptive father has two horses, one is black with four hooves and white hooves, and the other is as red as jujube.

He didn't need to ask Luo Cheng for advice. He already knew how to feed horses. His father was a horse herdsman in a ranch in the Sui Dynasty. But something happened to their family. He inspected the Tianxia Horse Supervisor, but when the incident happened, everyone on the ranch was unlucky, and his father also suffered from the disaster.

When he was young, he raised horses with his father, so he knew that the amount of food fed to the horses was different in different seasons.

In autumn and summer, millet is halved.

In spring and winter, the amount of feed must be increased.

Kan Leng fed each of the two horses six catties of millet, and then some velvet.

Seeing the two horses eating the grain and wheat leisurely, Kan Leng felt a little envious.Horses eat a lot, especially war horses. Not only do they have a lot of food, they also have to eat several meals a day, and even add some other concentrates at different times.

Bean cakes, black beans, salt, grass, carrots, and sometimes even eggs for them to eat.

Much better than what people eat.

My father said before that the cost of raising one cavalryman can raise five infantrymen.It takes the rent of twenty farmers to support one infantryman.

According to this calculation, a cavalry needs the rent of a hundred farmers to support it.

In the cost of cavalry, although the equipment expenditure is large, it is not replaced frequently. On the contrary, the daily expenditure of the horse material is huge.

After the two horses had eaten their fill leisurely, Kan Leng took off the reins and led them to drink water for a walk.

At this time, the young recruits from the township regiment had already washed up and started queuing up to have breakfast.

When he came back from walking the horse, the teenagers had already finished their meal, so Kan Ling went back to his room and woke up Wang Xiongdan and the others who were still sleeping on the bed.

Wang Xiongdan and Ximen Junyi were still lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

They are Luo Cheng's adopted sons, not village soldiers, so they live next to Luo Cheng's barracks, and no one came to call him in the morning.

"get up."

Kan Leng looked at the two guys who were sleeping soundly, and finally lifted their quilts.

The bed is a simple cross bed, which used to be called a Hu bed. It was originally a kind of seat, and the real people used it for sleeping.

However, after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen wanted to restore the etiquette of the Han family and the system of the Zhou Dynasty, so he reformed everywhere.And when the son of heaven succeeded to the throne, he was even more taboo against Hu people.

The name Hu Chuang was not allowed to be called, and it was renamed Jiao Chuang.

Others include courgettes called cucumbers, etc.

"Brother Ling, are you awake early?"

Kan Leng said, "If you don't wake up, you won't have breakfast. The people in the township group have already eaten, so get up quickly."

As soon as they heard about the meal, the two teenagers, Wang Xiongdan and Ximen Junyi, quickly got up.

"Oh, I've had dinner so early."

"Do you think that you have to get up at five o'clock, and you can't miss the three o'clock o'clock. This is a military camp."

"What do you have for breakfast?"

"It's late, there's nothing left, get up quickly."

The two teenagers hurriedly got up, got dressed, and washed up carelessly.

The cousin Wang Huiniang over there has already come over with a basket.

"I knew you guys weren't up yet, so I brought you breakfast."

"Hui Niang, are you up so early?"

"My adoptive father got up earlier, he got up in the middle of the night to check the ward, and got up early in the morning to practice martial arts." Hui Niang complained that the three of them were sleepy.

"Brother Ling woke up early, it was the two of us snoozing, Brother Ling didn't wake us up earlier."

"Look at you sleeping soundly."

Breakfast is quite simple.

A large bowl of porridge per person, and then two steamed cakes.

"There are salt vegetables in the porridge."

"I still have a piece of meat in this porridge." Ximen was as happy as if he had discovered the New World.

"Hurry up and eat, you have to go on your way after eating, and the foster father will return to the county in a while." Hui Niang reminded the three of them.

The teenagers devoured the food hungrily, sweeping away all the food like a storm.

When they came to Luo Cheng's yard, Luo Cheng had already finished his kung fu practice. He got up in the morning and practiced hammering first, then archery, and finally horse lance.

Ma Chan was the one that Siye defeated Wang Bo that day and snatched it back from him.

A lance is a good lance, but after Luo Cheng practiced for a few days, he always felt that he was not very effective.

"Father."

Several teenagers come in.

"Well, did you sleep well?"

"Okay." The teenagers were a little restrained.

"Are you full for breakfast?" Luo Cheng asked again.

"I am full."

"Well, that's good. From today onwards, the three of you will follow me. As for Hui Niang, I will keep her in my house. Don't worry, my mother, younger sisters, and sister-in-laws will also treat her as a treasure if you stay at home." family."

After Luo Cheng finished speaking, he turned around and took down three horizontal knives from the saber and gun rack.

"I'll give each of you a ring-headed horizontal knife. This is a good thing from the county barracks, Jia Duwei. You should cherish it."

The three teenagers took the horizontal knife excitedly.

This is a standard military horizontal knife. The side scabbard weighs two and a half catties inside (about 1 kilograms for future generations). It is simple and unpretentious. Not bad.

In this dynasty, the Sui Hengdao represented the highest cutting tool forging technology in the world. The steel block used to make the horizontal knife needs to be folded and forged hundreds of times. Quenching and cooling make the blade part extremely hard, but the blade body is full of toughness, not as easy to break as traditional swords, but extremely sharp, and can be used for both walking and riding.

Can cut and stab.

"In troubled times, it is not others who can really protect you, but the sword in your own hand. Take this sword and practice hard. In the future, this will be the foundation of your life."

"From now on, you are my adopted sons, my attendants and guards, and also my messengers!"

(End of this chapter)