Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 17
"Well, you handled it quite well this time. When you go back, you will submit the letter of credit, and I will ask for credit for you!"

"Thank you for the cultivation!" Liu An bowed and bowed again, backed up to the door, turned around and left the house, hurried out of the Dudu's mansion, and then exhaled a long breath, and the heart that was hanging in the air fell to the ground.

"Captain!"

"Head!"

"Goro!"

When the people waiting outside saw Liu An coming out, they hurriedly gathered around and asked indiscriminately.Liu An waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Don't even ask, I'm so nervous inside that I'm dying, who has water for me!"

"I have it here!" Cui Hongdu hurriedly untied the water bag from his waist, and handed it over, Liu An took a sip of it, and said with a smile, "Okay, this water is really good, when I was waiting for Tongchuan in the Duhu mansion, I wondered in my heart if I could drink any more water!"

"The head of the group is joking again, you just came out after a while, how could you be so thirsty?" Cui Hongdu laughed.

"What do you know!" Liu An said with a sneer, "I'm not thirsty, I'm obviously scared. If the general protects me from being cowardly before the enemy and causing the city to fall, I'll just push it out and behead me. I still have water to drink." Is it? Thanks to Wen Zuo, who thought up the answer for me, and passed this level!"

Everyone's eyes turned to Wang Wenzuo again, and he smiled: "Lieutenant, I have already inquired. Almost all of the city fell, and all the reinforcements sent out except ours were defeated. If the general guard punishes you again, it will be defeated. If we are alone, if the morale collapses, the consequences will be disastrous!"

"I see! No wonder you were so sure, Saburo!" Liu An suddenly realized: "Then why didn't you tell me, let me worry for nothing?"

"Lieutenant, let me tell you first. If the guard finds out, what will he think? It's better to let you scare him. It will be better in his eyes!"

"That's true!" Liu An said with a smile when he thought about it: "Just now the guard said he would ask for credit for us!"

"really?"

"Then Goro, aren't you going to be Colonel Guoyi (the deputy chief of Zhechong Mansion)?"

Seeing everyone smiling, Wang Wenzuo just stood aside with a smile and said nothing.Liu Renyuan's approach is completely in line with the principle of "Happy Funerals". The more unfavorable the situation, the more it is necessary to set up heroes and models.The current situation of Tang Jun in Baekje can be said to be extremely bad. As long as Liu Renyuan is not a fool, he will not hold on to these trivial details. Let alone Liu An and the others won the battle, even if they lost the battle, they should be well praised Give it a go, and show the rest of them a look.But this is also a good thing, after all, no one wants to fight under the command of a fool.

"Sanlang, why don't you look very happy?" Liu An, who had recovered from his excitement, saw Wang Wenzuo standing aside, and said with a smile: "Could it be because of credit? Don't worry, who is credited for this incident?" Everyone knows that you must be the first one on the credit list!"

"Brother Liu, that's not what I'm worried about!"

"What's that? We all came back alive, so what's there to worry about?"

"Brother Liu, Zhenxian City has now fallen into the hands of Baekje thieves, and the land passage between Sibi and Silla has been cut off! We are now surrounded by enemies and helpless! I am worried because of this! "

Everyone fell into silence. Although these few were only mid-level and low-level officers, they all knew that the Tang army came to attack Baekje at the invitation of Silla. For a lone army in a foreign country, failure is only a matter of time.

"Then just give up Sibi City and go to Silla for food!"

"No, the land route to Silla has been cut off after the fall of Zhenxian City. If we go to Silla and fail to capture Zhenxian City, and retreat without a stronghold to defend, wouldn't it be suicide?"

"Then why don't you get on a boat and cross the sea to return to Denglai?"

"It's winter right now, and the sea is very windy. Crossing the sea by boat is courting death!"

"Yes, and this is considered a runaway. Even if I go back, I can't escape the punishment of the military law, and my family will be implicated. I would rather die here, at least I won't implicate my family!"

Everyone was chattering and arguing endlessly, but no one could convince the rest.In the end, everyone turned their attention to Wang Wenzuo, looking at the captain like a sailor in a stormy sea.

"It's not up to us to decide what to do next. After all, it's up to the Governor and Chang Shi!" Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice, "But there is one thing we can do!"

"what's up?"

"Raise money!"

"Money?" Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and after a while Liu An asked: "Wen Zuo, the situation is so critical, why do you need money? In my opinion, it's more important to find a way to get more food first. The food is enough for the army's morale." It's safe!"

"Food is of course important, but we don't need to worry about it!" Wang Wenzuo replied: "The Duhu and Changshi are not fools. Next, they will definitely gather all the food in the city, and then calculate the distribution of food. Some food will still have to be handed over in the end, why bother to waste this effort?"

"Then why raise money?"

"Pay the army! Pay the soldiers monthly!"

payment?Everyone present was confused. It turned out that the military system in the early Tang Dynasty was originally established by Yu Wentai, a power minister in the Western Wei Dynasty. At first, it imitated the tribal military system in the early Xianbei period of the Northern Wei Dynasty.Yuwentai gave the 99 surnames of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty to his subordinate generals respectively, and the soldiers followed the surnames of the generals they belonged to, forming a relationship similar to that of family soldiers.

Afterwards, the system changed. Generally speaking, the soldiers of the Fubing came from the middle and upper classes of society. They were exempted from the labor tax of their families and prepared their own horses and weapons; The rations are given corresponding rewards according to military merits.In the hundreds of years from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of the army was like this. When it was said that soldiers had no military pay, everyone naturally did not understand what Wang Wenzuo said.

"It's the reward!" Wang Wenzuo explained: "Brother Liu, your family is going to harvest wheat. If you don't have enough manpower, ask someone to come to your house to help. Why don't you give them a bucket or two of new wheat?"

"Of course I have to pay!" Liu An replied: "But the soldiers are all servants, do they have farmland at home, and they are exempted from labor tax, so why should they be paid?"

(End of this chapter)