Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 7
Bang bang bang!
The dull drum sound seemed to be beating on everyone's heart, and everyone at the long table stood up quickly with serious eyes.

"Go to the school grounds!" Liu An took out a handful of meat and threw it to the proprietress who ran over: "This is our wine money!"

According to the military law of the Tang army, if the Santong Gubi can't arrive in time, the military law must be followed.Wang Wenzuo walked up to Sancho, who was still a little confused, and kicked lightly: "Go back and clean up, there is going to be a war!" Then he ran quickly to the school grounds.

There was clanging and chaos in the barracks.Servants carried bundles of feathered arrows, sandbags, and spears to the city walls; craftsmen were busy repairing armor, bed crossbows, and shoeing horses and mules.The iron leaf armor was put into a wooden barrel filled with sand and rolled along the ground to remove the rust on it, and the women accompanying the army were busy mending the tunics and cloaks.All buildings near the city walls were demolished so as not to be targets of arson; soldiers carefully polished their weapons, and archers waxed their bowstrings.The horses neighed and panted, the officers gave orders, and the soldiers cursed at each other. The whole city of Sibi was like a huge beehive, extremely noisy.

Liu An was the first to leave the city. He was riding a red horse with a copper-colored mane the same color as his cloak, like a burning flame.The women accompanying the army watched him leave, some women were sobbing softly, and more people watched the soldiers silently, without saying a word.

"If it was me, I wouldn't wear it so conspicuously! There are many good archers in Baekje!" Wang Wenzuo looked at Liu An's back and thought to himself.The soldiers lined up in two rows and filed out, the cavalry in front, the infantry and archers in the rear.The target this time is the Baekje rebels in Jinhyeonseong, but the news is very messy. According to the information sent, there are many rebellious Baekje counties. Obviously, the seeds of the rebellion have already been sown. There are even rumors that Goguryeo in the north has sent The army has restrained the Silla people, which is not a good sign.

"Saburo, Saburo!"

Wang Wenzuo raised his head and realized that it was Liu An who was calling him. He quickly kicked the horse in the belly and urged the horse to come to Liu An: "What's the matter? Captain?"

"Sanlang, look!" Liu An reined in his mount and pointed at the mountains in the distance with his whip. The breath of men and horses intertwined into a steaming white mist net in the morning air, and the cold wind swept over their heads. The general's flag was fluttering, and the mountains in the distance showed a gloomy blue-black color. No one knew what was hidden there, no one knew.

"Do you think it's dangerous for us to go directly to Zhenxian City like this? Dongyi are all locals and are familiar with everything here, but we know very little! It's like, it's like—" Speaking of here , Liu An stopped, and began to think about how to express it more appropriately.

"A blind man rides a blind horse, facing a deep pool in the middle of the night?"

"Yes, that's a good analogy!" Liu An looked at Wang Wenzuo in surprise, "That's right, we are like blind people now, and we don't know when we will fall into Dongyi (the scornful name for Baekje in Tang Dynasty at that time) The ambush, that would be bad, what can you do?"

"I have a way!" Wang Wenzuo thought for a while: "How about this, isn't there a lot of Sanhan soldiers in our army this time? We can gather them together, distribute weapons, and let them serve as the vanguard. They know the local conditions very well!"

"Is this okay?" Liu An hesitated: "Will they work hard? Will they run away in all directions, or even collude with the Baekje people?"

Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Although blind people can't see, they are better at listening to tunnels when defending the city than those with normal eyes. It depends on how we use them!"

"It seems that you have already made up your mind!" Liu An twitched the short beard on his chin, and said with a smile, "Since this is the case, then I will leave everything to you!"

"Yes, Colonel!" Wang Wenzuo didn't refuse. The army couldn't tolerate so much politeness, so he turned around and rode his horse to the rear.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the military system was still based on the Fubing system. The empire set up a total of 634 Zhechong Mansions in the key points of the provinces, states, and counties in the world. Yi Duwei has one person each, Biejiang, Changshi, and Bingcao Junjun each; below the mansion, 1000 people form a regiment, and the regiment has a school lieutenant and a brigade commander; 800 people form a team, with a team leader and deputy;Farm if you have nothing to do, and send troops if you have something to do.

Of the more than 285 Zhechong mansions, [-] are located in Guannei Road (that is, the Guanzhong area) to ensure the absolute military advantage of Guanzhong over the Quartet.The second is Hedong Road. Liu'an was originally a branch of the Liu family in Hedong. After the Northern Qi was destroyed in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the ancestors migrated to Shandong with the army and worked in the military government for generations.This time Su Dingfang crossed the sea to expedition to Baekje, almost all the athletes from Zhechongfu in Shandong were recruited.This time Liu An led two regiments to help Zhenxian City, and there were more than [-] slaves of the Sanhan army assigned to each battalion.

The road is long and there is no end in sight.

As the people and horses got farther and farther away from Sibi City, the wind became stronger and the surroundings became more and more silent.On the southwest side of the road are raised hills, and you can see watchtowers on the top of the hills, which are fortifications for the Baekje people to defend against the attack of the Silla people from the northeast.On the west side, this is a gentle wilderness. Until the end of vision, you can see smoke rising from time to time. It is the village of the Baekje people. But as time goes by, the farmland becomes less and less, and the roads There are no pedestrians in sight.

Wang Wenzuo jumped off the horse, and felt a tingling pain in the inside of his thighs. It seemed that this short period of peaceful life in Sibi City had made him weak.He looked around, and the soldiers were busy erecting antlers, lighting fires, feeding animals, and setting up tents around the camp.He pushed away the hand of Sancho, who was about to take the reins of his horse, and said in a low voice: "Bring my crossbow, call two men, and lead the mule, and go for a walk in the woods with me to see if you can get it. Order fresh meat!"

Sancho grinned excitedly, he prefers hunting to chopping firewood and feeding animals.Soon he disappeared behind the tent, and when he reappeared a few minutes later, he held a broken crossbow in his hand, a bag of crossbow bolts, and a short bow on his back. Behind him were two soldiers, all of whom were wrapped in black cloth. Holding a short spear and an iron fork in their hands.

Wang Wenzuo took a look and felt that both of them were still in good spirits, so he nodded.He moved his horizontal knife to the back to avoid hooking the crossbow trigger by mistake, and then a group of people walked down the road and walked along the stream to the depths of the woods.

Sanqiu had a good eye for picking people. Wang Wenzuo was satisfied to find that the two soldiers who came with him walked lightly, stepping on the forest land full of fallen leaves, but did not make a sound. The sound of a stream came from not far away. , Wang Wenzuo made a soft sound under his feet, he stopped, squatted down, and when he stood up again, he had a cracked dried walnut in his hand.

(End of this chapter)