Daming kill

Chapter 95

On the second day in Xiangyang City, Li Ping got up very early.

Since most of Zhao Jin's troops were training in Li Ping's old camp outside the city, the camp in the city was naturally much empty, which also gave Li Ping a place to take a walk.

Li Ping was in a different mood when he revisited the "old place".

While wandering around, Zhao Liang, Zhao Jin's personal soldier, came to look for him suddenly, and reported that the general soldier had sent his personal soldiers to look for him, and was waiting in General Zhao's main hall.

Li Ping hurriedly followed Zhao Liang.

Entering the front yard of Zhao Jin's residence, I saw a soldier in padded armor and a white felt hat standing in the main room holding a waist knife with the back handle, and Zhao Jin was also standing beside him.

Seeing Li Ping enter the yard, Zhao Jin inside the room muttered something, the soldier in padded armor immediately went out of the room and bowed to Li Ping: "But guerrilla Li Ping, General Li?"

After getting an affirmative answer, the soldier continued to politely say: "I am ordered by the commander-in-chief, please guerrilla go over and talk."

"Now? How could it be so early."

Li Ping was a little surprised, and unconsciously looked at the loose robe he was wearing while talking.

Seeing Li Ping's bewildered and surprised expression, Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers smiled and said, "There is no hurry, general. My general heard that after you recovered from your injuries yesterday, he went to take orders from Deputy General Zuo, and I have a few words to tell you. Separate. But I was afraid that you would leave early today, so I ordered the younger one to come here early to find you. You can go after breakfast. It is not convenient for the general to go now. Don’t worry, I will wait here .”

When Li Ping heard this, he also felt relieved, thinking that this kid is not a boss, so he explained it clearly at once.

Taking a closer look at Zuo Liangyu's personal soldier, one can see that his beard is relatively light, he should not be very old, and he is quite handsome, without any sense of weather, no wonder he speaks so kindly.

Therefore, Li Ping said more politely: "Little future is so early, and I haven't eaten even when I think about it, why don't we have some food together?"

"That's good. The little one doesn't dare to break the rules. The two generals asked someone to get two buns for the little one, and the little one can eat it by himself." Zuo Liangyu's personal soldier hurriedly said.

At this time Zhao Jin interjected: "They are all soldiers, and they are not delicacies from mountains and seas. There are so many rules, and we are simple and strict. We just eat together, otherwise we will look down on our brothers."

When Zhao Jin said this, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers could not say anything more, so the three of them went to eat in a side room next to them after a few more polite words.

Breakfast was very simple, porridge, small pickles, and a few steamed buns with meat. Zhao Jin and Li Ping ate happily and casually, and Zuo Liangyu's soldiers also ate very happily.

After eating breakfast, it was convenient and convenient. After changing into yesterday's outfit, Li Ping rode a horse and followed Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers to Zuo Liangyu's new residence in Fancheng. Hu Zhongshan and others also followed.

On the way, Li Ping tested it out, and Zuo Liangyu's personal soldier surnamed Zhang seemed to have disappeared, and he no longer called Zuo Liangyu the commander-in-chief, and said happily: "The commander-in-chief praised the guerrilla soldiers many times. Let us follow guerrilla warfare as an example! He also praised the general's way of running the army, saying that he is very old-fashioned."

Hearing the excited chatter of this little soldier, Li Ping was a little curious about what Zuo Liangyu was going to say to him?
After crossing the river and entering Fancheng, Li Ping began to notice the fortress nature of this city. This was the second time he entered Fancheng.

When he entered Fancheng again, he might be used to seeing Xiangyang's grandeur and delicacy, and Li Ping's impression of Fancheng was even more dilapidated.

Along the way, I saw neither high-rise mansions nor street scenes worth looking at. Instead, there were obviously damaged pavements everywhere. It was extremely depressed and shocking.

There are no normal pedestrians to be seen on the road, only soldiers with knives and guns in twos and threes and groups of emaciated civilians who have been driven together to eat all kinds of coolies.

This is completely different from the homework that Li Ping did specially: "Go west to Xiangyang for a hundred miles, buy a boat to buy drunken Fancheng" and "Fancheng where merchants in Quxiang, where there are no Hans" are completely different. It shows that any prosperity is fleeting in the face of war. cloud of smoke.

Zuo Liangyu's General Military Mansion is located in a very ordinary mansion, the grandeur in front of the gate and the scenery inside the courtyard are far from those of his son's.

If it weren't for the fact that there were more well-dressed soldiers at the entrance, it would be hard to imagine that there were hundreds of thousands of troops living here, and I would think it was just an ordinary young general's mansion.

Moreover, most of the guards in this mansion have no rules. Anyway, in Li Ping's opinion, they are standing or sitting, chatting, yawning, standing with their guns, doing anything, and some even squatting and standing. Stand and walk around.

Li Ping, who was very nervous at first, soon relaxed, and a trace of contempt rose unconsciously from his heart.

After turning left and right, Li Ping came to a large courtyard, and saw from a distance in a spacious living room directly opposite, a slightly old-fashioned burly man wearing a dark robe sitting in the center.

Li Ping recognized this person as Zuo Liangyu.

This is the second time that Li Ping has met this warlord who has been criticized a lot in history. Although the last time we met was not long, and most of the time he kept his head down, he did not dare to look carefully.

But such a character is enough to remember with a quick glance.

A few young and middle-aged generals also dressed in various robes sat beside Zuo Liangyu.They are all in a casual state, and it seems that they are not discussing very formally.

The reason why they can be seen as generals is because of their skin color, because of their vicissitudes, and because of their stamina, because they have no literati spirit at all.

At this time, Li Ping had stopped looking left and right. He adjusted his posture and checked the direction of the waist knife.

Hearing Zuo Liangyu's soldier surnamed Zhang softly said "the general can go on his own", Li Ping immediately took off the iron helmet and handed it to Zhang's soldier, and then hurriedly walked into the hall with his knife in hand.

As soon as he entered the door, Li Ping immediately knelt down, saluted and signed up loudly.

Since entering the door, Li Ping's weapons have not been taken away, which surprised him very much.He also whispered to the soldier surnamed Zhang who brought him here, but he learned that Zuo Liangyu had already said, "You don't have to do this for trusted people."

Li Ping took off his helmet out of respect, and carefully checked the orientation of the knife handle on his waist.You must know that in this era, the orientation of the hilt is very important. Facing the hilt forward is conducive to drawing the knife, which belongs to the preparation for attack and is a taboo.

During a quarrel between Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji in the Qing Dynasty, on a whim, he made a small movement, turning the handle of the saber at his waist forward.

This is a preparatory action before drawing the knife, which can draw the knife out of the sheath more conveniently and quickly. For the general Mang Gurtai at that time, it may be just a habitual action.

But his younger brother De Gelei immediately reached out and punched him, saying: "Your behavior is really out of place."

The rude Mang Gurtai didn't know why, so he scolded his younger brother: "Why did you punch me!" He said that he was going to draw his sword against his younger brother (not Huang Taiji).

Dege was sober, and immediately stepped forward to push Mangurtai out.

At this time, the Dabeile Daishan who was present couldn't stand it anymore, and blamed: "It's better to die than to be so chaotic."

The unique taboos and etiquette of the cold weapon era, the orientation of the hilt is not an ordinary thing, which is why the hilt is generally facing backwards in the paintings of that era.

Although Zuo Liangyu allowed Li Ping to enter with a knife, Li Ping didn't want to be confused about the details.

As soon as Li Ping's loud registration ended, Zuo Liangyu's hearty voice immediately sounded in the hall: "It seems that this is a good injury! He really is a general!"

"Thanks to the general, the minor injury is completely healed, no problem." Li Ping continued to answer loudly with his head bowed.

"Very good! Well, get up." Zuo Liangyu also continued to speak heartily.

Li Ping got up, and when he raised his head to look up, he found Zuo Liangyu was staring at him.He was a little unnatural, but he continued to straighten his head and look at Zuo Liangyu peacefully, trying to appear calm as much as possible.

But for some reason, Li Ping always felt that his legs were trembling, and his heart was also a little inexplicably nervous. His eyes were still unable to focus on a certain place, but fortunately, the cotton armor with iron lining made his body much harder.

"Judging from your accent, it seems that the Liao accent is very heavy?" Zuo Liangyu asked kindly although his eyes were still fixed.

"The young one was originally from Penglai, Shandong. Both of his parents died when he was young, and he was exiled to Liaodong with the villagers. He lived in Liaodong for several years, so the Liao accent is heavier." Li Ping said.

These words were discussed by Li Ping and Zhao Jin a long time ago. The two have been in the army for many years and have already gotten used to Mandarin. Nope.

The accent in many parts of the Northeast, especially in some cities, is still quite close to Mandarin, because the majority of the population are immigrants, and the accents in Hebei, Henan and Shandong are mixed, which greatly weakens the unique strong local accent.

In addition, in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, according to Mao Zedong’s instructions, when the Northeast was the priority to build the Northeast as China’s industrial base, a large number of knowledgeable and skilled people poured in, especially in the South, and the accent became more chaotic. Putonghua became the basic common language in many emerging cities and industrial areas. Heavy accents like Zhao Benshan's are not common, at least not in cities.

Fortunately, Mandarin is mainly the official dialect of North China in the 20th century, and the Mandarin in North China is closer to the Liao dialect of the 15th century due to the entry and rule of the Qing Dynasty. This explains Li Ping's accent problem well.

In fact, Li Ping also realized early on that it might be his accent that confuses the man named Huang Chengdong when he rescued Liu Xiaohui, or frightened Huang Chengdong a little.

In this southern land, most of the people who speak Liaoyin are Zuo Liangyu's direct descendants, and after Zuo Liangyu wiped out his troops in Zhuxian Town, there are even fewer people in his army who still speak Liaoyin. Huang Chengdong really didn't How dare you not give a person who speaks Liaoyin any face.

Therefore, Li Ping had to write a script for himself.

In this time and space, because only Li Ping and Zhao Jin are in the same army.In order to be cautious, they also told Shi Ming and others. When someone asked about their backgrounds, they only said they didn't know much about them.Otherwise, it is not normal to really understand anti-anti.

But Zhao Jin's script probably has been announced long ago, after all, he is under Zuo Menggeng's eyes every day, and he has to tell others without asking him.It's just a little strange that no one touched Li Ping's bottom?Or don't bother to touch it at all?
"Then why did you go to serve as a soldier with Governor Yang?" A general next to Zuo Liangyu suddenly interjected and asked, his face was full of curiosity.

"The battle was so fierce that we couldn't find a safe place to stay. The villagers who went with us died or scattered. In the end, we had to follow the remaining brother from the same village to Baoding Mansion, but we still couldn't find a way to survive. Finally, we When people fight for food, they are favored by a hundred households, so they can eat." Li Ping also made a bow to this person, and then continued to speak according to the script.

But after all, it is not my own personal experience, and I am still a little unfamiliar and a little stuck.But none of the generals in the hall seemed to care, maybe they just thought Li Ping was nervous.

This script is definitely completely different from the experience of the original owner of this body, but what Li Ping wants is to make himself as reasonable as possible, otherwise no matter how chaotic the world is, it will be difficult for a person who cannot justify himself to gain the trust of others.

"It turns out that he is also an orphan!" Zuo Liangyu stroked his beard and sighed for a moment.

When Li Ping designed his own script, he really didn't think to fit Zuo Liangyu's experience, it was a coincidence.

"I heard that you know a little bit of literature? Your family background was pretty good, but in this world, alas! Have you ever read military books?" Zuo Liangyu asked again.

"In my little memory, it seems that my family was fine back then, with meat to eat and books to read. But at that time, I was too stubborn, and I couldn't read the Four Books and Five Classics. Instead, I read a lot of miscellaneous books. It seems that I probably read the book of war, but It was all blind reading. At that time, I didn’t know enough words, and I didn’t remember anything about the name. I just watched some excitement. Now I really regret my stubbornness back then.” Li Ping made himself look very annoyed while talking.

"Hahaha, that's right, kid. At a young age, he is loyal and courageous, and he is proficient in writing and ink. He also knows how to train soldiers. He is indeed Qi Wuyi's fellow countryman! He is indeed a young hero!"

Zuo Liangyu applauded loudly, and several people around him also nodded to Li Ping frequently.

Notes:

Qi Wuyi: Qi Jiguang, posthumous posthumous Wuyi, from Penglai, Shandong.

(End of this chapter)