Datang first village

Family book!

The sergeants of the Tang Dynasty have fought for the Tang Dynasty for many years, and no ordinary soldier has ever received a letter from his family.

Sometimes I don't know what's going on at home for two or three years.

There are even some people who, when they return home after the war, their home is no longer there, leaving only ruins.

A letter from home, some of which were written in crooked characters by half-grown children, all of which were small things in the family, how many loads of food the family harvested in the autumn harvest, and how many piglets the family sow gave birth to. how much tax.

In this army, only one of the captain's letters was not casually packed in an envelope, but in a wooden box.

Many people made fun of him when they saw the wooden box.

Even the generals came over: "Oh, my mother, this box of yours probably takes up the weight of more than a dozen letters from other brothers. Is it something good that your new wife brought you secretly? This is not good, you have to take it!" out of mind."

"Take it out and read it!" A few good deeds stopped him, and immediately a scribe came over to snatch the box.

The moment the box was opened, the scribe's hands trembled, and tremblingly he handed over the contents of the box to the chief general. The chief general looked at it and was stunned. Everyone saw this reaction, but they didn't understand what happened. Those who got up were also put down.That team actually forgot to grab the box in the past, and just stared blankly at the leader.

A palm-sized glass plate, surrounded by stainless steel, contained a photo inside.

This is not printed on high-gloss photo paper, but it is printed in color on ordinary white paper of better quality brought by Li Yuanxing from modern times, and eight photos are printed on one A4 paper.

It's not that Li Yuanxing is stingy, but that he can never go back to modern times. Before the development of technology in Datang, there was really no way to replenish the ink.

Many documents are no longer printed, but copied manually.

This photo is a small photo of a child who is wearing a green dress and is wrapped in a big red bag.

It is said that men do not shed tears lightly, and when they saw their woman, a one-month-old son, the team was crying like a child.The glass-encapsulated photo was passed around to the whole army, and everyone was as cautious as holding a real child.

The generals at the top naturally knew what Li Yuanxing brought to the soldiers of the frontier army.

The generals also knew the sound of crying in the barracks.

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a story. Sun Wu led troops into battle, personally wrapped wounds for soldiers, and even sucked pus for soldiers. It was said that Sun Wu loved soldiers like children, but one soldier's mother cried. She said that the general was treating himself Your son is good, but the general is asking for his son's life!"

The little story of the cabinet master stunned many generals.

Li Yuanxing lowered his head, he had no way to refute the cabinet master's words.

The cabinet master said again:

"Yuan Xing is also asking for the lives of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. He treats the soldiers well, and these soldiers will repay them with their lives in the future. On the battlefield, the Tang army is strong and brave even if it loses nine times!"

Emperor Xian was talking about King Qin, even if someone wanted to speak, it was inconvenient to speak at this time.

Even Li Yuan, even if he has countless things to say, he still has to keep silent at this moment.

"They are not fighting for me, Li Yuanxing. When generals go to the battlefield, they don't take the lead. Fighting is fighting for the Tang Dynasty. Fighting is also fighting for their own small family." Li Yuanxing retorted.The cabinet master shook his head lightly: "Yuan Xing, the next battle to be fought is not a battle to defend the homeland, but a battle to expand the territory to the outside world. For the Goguryeo people, our Tang Dynasty is an invader, and we It's the villains."

Li Yuanxing had no choice but to refute this, and diverted the words: "In ancient times, Qin unified the six countries, and there is no absolute in history between justice and evil. Grandpa cannot unilaterally draw conclusions!"

"Nonsense, I never said that I was a good person, I only said that I was right. What I mean is that these soldiers worked for Datang to expand the land for Datang. Whether they are generals or soldiers. With this money to buy their lives, military members are naturally higher than ordinary people!"

The master of the cabinet knew that Li Yuanxing's days as the king of Qin would continue, so he played tricks, bickered, and was very smart about politics.

Therefore, I don't plan to argue with Li Yuanxing again, and some topics cannot be discussed in front of the generals.

The Xianhuang has called himself Lao Tzu, so obviously there will be no more fights. It seems that King Qin has the upper hand.The generals also have something to say, anyway, it is better for the soldiers, if there are nine casualties, who will take some money and food rewards in their hearts, as long as they continue to fight with the king of Qin, lay down the land and have plenty of money.

Li Yuan took the words with a smile.

"Wulang's benevolence is unknown to everyone in the Tang Dynasty. The emperor and I are both soldiers, so it is a good thing to expand the territory. Treating the sergeants favorably, what the emperor said is very true!" Li Yuan laughed.

"I'm going to bed, and I'll actually patrol the border tomorrow!" Li Yuanxing finished speaking and ran away.

As soon as Li Yuanxing left, all the generals had already surrounded Master Gui. Some people had heard of that story, and some had not.After the generals gathered around, the cabinet master talked about the relationship between military spirit and morale.

In the previous art of war, although there are also things about the morale of the army.

But there is no such detailed analysis as the cabinet master, how to improve the cohesion of a team in the army, how soldiers have different ideas about the relationship between Datang, the imperial court, the Ministry of War, and their superiors, and how to improve the army's sense of honor. .

The generals of the Tang Dynasty actually had a major problem, which was to separate the soldiers.Just like Lao Cheng said, during the war, he was the general of Youwuwei, and he led Youwuwei to participate in the war, but Youwuwei was a government soldier when he was in the reign of Wude.They are only recruited during the war, and the recruited soldiers do not know the low-level officers.

As for the low-ranking officers, they were also assigned to the regiments and did not know the senior officers.

If we have been fighting for two years in a row, this is still recognition.But it was just a temporary team. What Lao Cheng really felt reliable was the standing army in Chang'an, and Lao Cheng had no idea about the rest.

This is also the reason why Lao Cheng had to take the lead in fighting in the battle of Shuofang.

If he didn't rush forward, didn't bring his own guards, and led the most reliable group of people forward, once the front line was unstable, the whole army would be defeated, but even so, the battle damage of You Wuwei was also high. It was scary, and his old Cheng almost lost his life.

The generals couldn't understand what the cabinet master said, but they had a kind of yearning.

The next day, the three flying boats returned to Chang'an with a large amount of cotton compacted with wooden planks and the slaughtered meat.And Li Yuanxing's Hangzhou ship started a border patrol trip, which is the real border patrol.

The border of the Tang Dynasty was tens of thousands of miles away. In addition to the important border towns, there were also three towns: upper, middle and lower.Further down, it is further divided into upper, middle and lower guards.The smallest one has only three groups, like a frontier outpost.

Three hundred miles to the northwest of Yizhou and three hundred miles to the west of Shazhou, in the northeast corner of the Taklamakan Desert, the only way of the Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty, there is a row of buildings on the deserted sand sea , A fence was built with all kinds of messy things outside, including tree trunks, stones, and many bones.

It was shattered to pieces by the wind and sand, only the banner of the cloth was shaking in the wind.

Just to find this border post that was ordered to be garrisoned by Izhou No. [-], the flying boat searched for a quarter of an hour in the air.It wasn't until the observation eyes were sore that they found the westernmost garrison in the Tang Dynasty in the vast sand sea.

When the flying boat approached, I saw a group of rags on the roof suddenly move.

It was a person, who was sitting on the roof as a sentry. The man quickly jumped off the roof and rushed into the house: "Head, yes, yes..." He was so excited that he couldn't speak out.

The five big and three rough, with a scar on his face, are biting a wooden stick and cursing: "Hurry up, this place has only ghosts and no one in the past two months. If you have to worry about it, go be careful about our inventory. Just let the wind blow away."

The rest of the sergeants didn't even raise their heads. It's very cold here, and any extra activities will consume a lot of energy.There is only so much food, and the resupply delivery will not be until the spring of next year, that is, in the next three months, only money-grubbing businessmen will risk their way, and the rest will not come.

Even Tuyuhun, or Turkic will not send troops in this season.

"Head!" The man forcibly pulled the captain, who cursed helplessly: "Go out with you and have a look, if there is no ball, you can add another hour."

Outside the door, a huge flying boat is slowly landing. The new type of flying boat doesn't make too much noise, or in other words, the sound of the flying boat is not as strong as the wind in the sand sea.

The huge monster of hundreds of feet was slowly falling down, and the team was stunned.

The door of the flying boat was opened when it was in the air, and the team was looking at it clearly. The blue water-patterned armor, the dragon-headed horizontal knife hung on the waist, the flying winged dragon helmet on the head, and the snow-white cloak on the body, covered with gold thread. Embroidered with a golden dragon.

In the whole world, there is only one person who can own such a suit of armor, not to mention the golden dragon and the azure blue water pattern armor.

King Qin of the Tang Dynasty.

The team couldn't believe their eyes, people would see hallucinations in the sea of ​​sand.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, and slapped himself seven or eight times. The team saw King Qin standing in front of the barn door raised his hand and performed a military salute of the Tang Dynasty. The sound of the fist hitting the armor was like Knock in the heart.

"Humble general, the seventh and third garrison of Yizhou from the ninth rank to accompany the captain of the army!"

The team was making a lot of noise, and he couldn't yell out the next words. He felt as if his throat was blocked by something, and he stared blankly at King Qin of the Tang Dynasty walking towards him.

Li Yuanxing lightly patted the captain twice on the shoulder: "Thank you."

Hula, everyone in the room rushed out.

"The whole team!" The team was shouting loudly.

30 people, ten soldiers, ten auxiliary soldiers, one person is not bad.

You must know that in ancient times, the border posts were never full, and many of the farthest posts were empty. Even if people were forced to pass by, the people at the border posts would escape.

If it weren't for Li Yuanxing's kindness to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in the past two years, their families would have enough food and warm clothes.I'm afraid that he will escape cleanly as well.

On the flying boat, Li Yuanxing had already made a decision. Even if there were only a few people in the outpost, or if it was empty, he would never blame anyone. Moved. (To be continued.)