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- Chapter 26: Massacre
Leaning on the carriage carriage, Fang Jie swung his legs and closed his eyes to rest, which seemed very relaxing. The big dog was sitting on the side driving the car, and from time to time he would take a piece of stewed but also frozen very hard dog meat from the oil paper bag on the side and eat it. This big bag of stewed dog meat, as well as the dozens of dog meat buns wrapped in the carriage, were specially made by Du Hongxian, the proprietress of Yunji. This was what she was carrying that night, and she planned to give it to Fang Jie to make on the way. Dry food, who would have thought that Fang could recover from his injuries and rest for a few days before making the trip.
But don¡¯t expect the food to spoil in the cold weather here. Once you heat it up in the stove, the aroma will immediately hit your nostrils.
Fang Jie¡¯s carriage was at the end of the convoy, and the seven carriages in front were filled with beautiful girls wearing red sleeves. The first car was the escort recruited by Hongxiu, the second car was for Aunt Xi and Xi Zhuxin, and the driver was the old lame man.
"At this rate, it will take about four months to walk to Chang'an."
Fang Jie, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, suddenly said something with a helpless tone.
"I won't miss your exam."
The big dog chewed the dog meat, but it was a bit laborious because it was already cold: "The examination of the Yanwu Academy is at the end of June, and it's only the first month now. Even if we leave for five months, we can't miss it. Every three years in the Sui Dynasty Yanwu Academy The exams are held once, and selections are started one year before the exams start. This is because Sui is too big, and the candidates from Yong County in the south will be on the road a year ago, and they will have to travel for at least six or seven months. "
"I'm always worried that I'll be delayed and have to go to the yamen of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of Personnel. I don't know if I will be made trouble for."
Fang Jie said with some worry: "I heard that the officials in the imperial capital are all very arrogant, and the people outside the imperial capital are the most looked down upon. It seems that the world of the Sui Dynasty was divided into two parts, one is called the imperial capital, and it is unattainable. . It¡¯s the same as other places.¡±
Big Dog advised: "You are a candidate in the army, so the Ministry of War will naturally not embarrass you. 50% of the students admitted to the Yanwu Academy are from the army, and 50% are from the civilian population. The Ministry of War hopes that all those in the military will do well in the exam. If you are recruited by the civilian It's embarrassing for them to steal the limelight from other candidates. Besides, Fan Gucheng has only had someone like you for decades. Shouldn't you be dismissed without taking the exam? Besides, don't we have money in our hands? At worst, every government office has stuffed it into our hands. Get a big red envelope of one hundred taels.¡±
"Bah!"
Fang Jie spat and laughed: "Do you think the officials in the imperial capital are country bumpkins who have never seen the world? Are you going to buy them for a hundred taels of silver?"
"How much money will it cost?"
Fang Jie thought for a while and said, "Why should it be three hundred taels?"
The big dog was suddenly frightened and couldn't help but cursed: "Do you want to drink human blood?"
The two country bumpkins, who had never seen the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty, started arguing over three hundred taels or one hundred taels, and their faces turned red. Mu Xiaoyao, who was sleeping in the carriage, turned over impatiently. He thought to himself that it was just money. At worst, just stuff it in. What would it cost to steal it back at night?
The same thing has never been seen in the world
"Big Dog, when you come to the imperial capital from now on, you have to call me Young Master."
Fang Jie opened his eyes, looked at the floating clouds in the sky and said seriously: "I also have to think of a meaningful word for it, Jue Xiao, Jue Xiao The one I thought of before was too tacky. I have to think of something more. Think of a more elegant name. Big Dog, help me think of itforget it, I know from your name that you can't help much."
The big dog chuckled and simply didn't answer.
After thinking for a while, Fang Jie couldn't think of a good name, so he opened the curtain and got into the carriage. Seeing Mu Xiaoyao sleeping, he sat over and shook her arm and asked, "Sister Xiaoyao, I want a cousin."
Mu Xiaoyao suddenly woke up and sat upright, looking straight at Fang Jie and said: "You want a bitch? I just saidyou can't go with the people recruited by Hongxiu!"
"what is the relationship?"
Fang can¡¯t understand it.
"If you want a bitch, don't you go to the carriage in front and ask for it yourself? What did you say to me when you got in? There are at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in your package. No matter how noble the woman recruited by the red sleeves is, she can still pay for it with tens of thousands of taels. Can¡¯t buy a bitch? Leave me alone! I want to sleep!¡±
Fang Jie said in surprise: "Don't I just want a nickname? Why is it so popular?"
"You need to go wherever you need to go! Stop bothering me!"
"How tacky is it to ask me to spend money to buy a surname?"
Fang Jie murmured something, turned around and got out again. Behind him, Mu Xiaoyao said angrily: "Bitch, you don't need money, why are you planning to get it for free?!"
Fang Jie was thinking about cousins ??and names in his mind, but he never thought that Mu Xiaoyao would get it wrong. I thought that I wouldn¡¯t be able to act too shabby when I arrived in the imperial capital in the future.It would be better to be more elegant. Although he has memories of two lives, he has no understanding of this strange world. He didn't even know that the names in this world were different from the history he was familiar with. In this world, only the father can choose the first name of his child, not even the teacher.
"Forget it, my cousin Jue Xiao is a member of the military. I can't change it even if I want to."
He sighed, and then asked the big dog beside him: "How about I call myself Xipo layman?"
"Why is it called Xipo?"
"Because there is a very famous person named Dongpo. Besides, we do come from the west. The Langru Mountains to the west of Fangu City is just a slope in my opinion. From the west of Sui Dynasty, Come and ask the lay people from Xipo to take advantage of the occasion."
"You are suspected of plagiarism!"
"Plagiarism He plagiarized from the east and I plagiarized from the west?"
"What else?"
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Fan Gu
On the fourth day after Fang Jie left, a group of about 200 elite cavalry rushed along the official road to the east gate of Fan Gu. Although the armor on this team of cavalry was covered with a layer of dust, it could still be seen that it was exceptionally well made. Not leather armor, but actual chain armor. Not only the chain armor, but also a layer of iron armor that is not too heavy but is extremely strong inside the chain armor. This piece of armor weighs at least sixty or seventy kilograms.
The knights on the horses are mostly tall and sturdy men, which shows that the horses they sit on are not ordinary things. Those knights were strong and tall, and none of them weighed less than 150 pounds. Coupled with the heavy armor, weapons, luggage, and clothing, if it weren't for a really good horse with such a heavy burden, it wouldn't be able to run at all!
Heavy armor, Mo Dao, iron helmet, red cloak.
Coupled with the golden yellow embroidered dragon war flag of the Sui Dynasty that glowed under the sunlight, this group of cavalry looked particularly majestic and solemn. Although the number of people is not large, they have a majestic aura like thousands of troops.
It was not easy to see a pure cavalry team in the Sui Dynasty, and it was even more difficult to see such an elite heavy cavalry. Due to the blockade of the Mongolian Yuan Empire, not only the tribes on the grasslands were not allowed to sell war horses to the Sui Dynasty, but even the small countries in the Western Regions were not allowed to have a war horse circulated to the Sui Dynasty. Although the Great Sui Dynasty had a vast territory and rich resources, it just lacked horses and horses, which made successive emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty want to scold their mothers.
So since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, cavalry has been the dream of all generals.
The Sixteen Guards of the Sui Dynasty each had about 50,000 soldiers. Even if the garrison of Chang'an City is now transferred, among the more than 300,000 elite soldiers known as the Sixth Army of the Emperor, Zuo Zhenwei, You Zhenwei, Zuo Wuwei, Right Wuwei, Left Leading Army Guard, and Right Leading Army Guard, There are not 20,000 cavalry.
If the light cavalry is like this, there is no need to talk about the heavy cavalry, which is extremely difficult to build.
In the entire Sui Dynasty, apart from the Sixth Army of the Emperor, only the Youxiao Guard had a heavy cavalry force of 500 people. Even this mere 500 troops took General Li Yuanshan of the Youxiao Guard almost five years to build. The Sui Dynasty was not short of money and food, so it was not difficult to build heavy armor. The difficulty was finding five hundred horses that could carry heavy cavalry in battle.
You Xiaowei has been running the northwest for so many years before he collected these five hundred fine war horses from various channels. Even at the risk of being blamed by the imperial court for causing a war, four years ago, the envoys from the Tusi Kingdom in the Western Regions who came to see His Majesty the Sui Emperor were robbed. Elite soldiers of the Youxiao Guard pretending to be horse thieves kidnapped the envoys and threw them in the official road. On one side, hundreds of war horses took away all the horses without even a hair remaining.
Li Yuanshan did this, and he knew it was impossible to hide it from the emperor. In fact, the emperor understood what was going on after listening to the cry of the Tusi prince. He was comforted and given a lot of satin porcelain. Then His Majesty the Emperor wrote a personal letter scolding Li Xiaozong. After reading it, Li Xiaozong laughed instead of being frightened.
"Idiot! I finally deceived several envoys from small countries in the Western Regions to come to see me. The first one I came in was kidnapped by you. How dare the others come in? You idiot, won't you wait for them to leave? Another robbery?"
These five hundred heavy cavalry are the personal soldiers of You Xiaowei General Li Yuanshan.
Therefore, when the defenders of Fan Gucheng recognized these heavy cavalry, they immediately opened the city gate to let them go, without even looking at the token that they took out for the first captain. Because the Mongolian and Yuan Empire lacked iron weapons, they were reluctant to build heavy cavalry. Besides, the grassland people have always believed that cavalry should be fast. Although the cavalry in heavy armor is amazingly powerful, it cannot compare with the light cavalry in terms of speed.
The cavalry captain who led the team didn't bother to talk to the defenders at all, and went directly into the city to the general's mansion.
When they arrived at the gate of Li Xiaozong's general mansion, the soldiers guarding the gate immediately stepped forward to stop him. The captain was too lazy to answer, casually threw his badge to the gatekeeper, dismounted and strode towards the gate.He walked into the military mansion. A heavy cavalry captain has become so arrogant and domineering. The rumors that all the members of the Youxiao Guard are unruly seems to be true.
Li Xiaozong heard the voice coming from the study and gave the captain a cold look: "Even if you are a captain under the general, have you forgotten the military discipline of the Sui Dynasty? Why don't you give a military salute when you meet this general? ? Before the punishment from the imperial court comes, this Fan Guchengya general will still be me."
The captain was stunned for a moment, and then he snorted and casually performed a military salute: "Back off, the general is here in person."
Li Xiaozong was shocked and his heart suddenly tightened.
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The stove in the study was removed because what General Li Yuanshan disliked the most was the floating charcoal ash. There is something wrong with his nose and he will feel uncomfortable if he smells this smell. This problem was not common when I was in the imperial capital. After arriving in the northwest, it became more and more frequent due to the cold weather. But I can't smell the charcoal ash, and I'm in a dilemma.
Li Yuanshan, who was wearing an ordinary heavy cavalry soldier's uniform, looked at the layout of the study room with a hint of dissatisfaction on his brows.
As a general of You Xiaowei, he must be held accountable for leaving the camp without authorization. Although he is domineering, he is by no means reckless.
"Do you know why I came?"
He looked at the picture of a tiger descending the mountain hanging on the wall and asked in a calm tone.
"Because Wu Peisheng is dead."
Li Xiaozong, who was kneeling on the ground, answered simply, but this sentence could already represent all the trouble. What corruption, what military opened casinos, these things are nothing compared to Wu Peisheng's death.
"That's not right."
Li Yuanshan looked back at Li Xiaozong, with a hint of anger in his tone: "It's because you are not clean enough! Since Wu Peisheng must die, he must die completely! There are so many people in the army who know about this, why don't you kill him ? And Fang Jie, why don¡¯t we get rid of this evil?¡±
Li Xiaozong smiled bitterly: "I have lost my military morale."
"The military morale of eight hundred people is nothing!"
Li Yuanshan snorted and asked, "Do the people in the city know the truth?"
"I don't know."
"That's okay Massacre is a bit troublesome after all." - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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