Chapter 97: The "Soldier of a Great Power" in Yang's eyes

With a gorgeous turn, Xu State became an allied army of Jin State. The news greatly relieved the captured Xu State soldiers. At this time, Yang's consciousness was slightly clear. Although he knelt in the wild all night and was extremely tired, his thinking became active, and he was thinking about how to contact his mother at home.

Sure enough, the Jin army's attitude towards Xu Jun was a little better. At dawn, the captured Xu Bing was allowed to stand up. Although he was still prohibited from walking around at will, the Jin people could not whisper... Then, the officers of Xu were selected and went to the military camp of Jin to accept orders. Later, the officers of Xu brought the chefs of Jin, who carried the strong hot soup and wafted out a strong fragrance, which made the hungry Xu soldiers unable to help but wriggle and spit.

I had heard that the Jin army was very rules, so Yang had learned that morning. When he saw the soup pot coming, the soldiers of Xu suddenly became turbulent. They rushed towards the soup pot in groups, thinking that the people of Jin were also distributing the soldiers' food according to the rules of Xu: that is, "Whoever grabs it first belongs to whom."

Unexpectedly, the group of Jin people killed without blinking. They cut off the first soldiers of Xu who rushed over without hesitation, and then rolled on the ground with the subsequent soldiers who were whipped with whips.

After the Xu people calmed down, the officers of Xu were asked to come forward to get their soldiers and then lined up to receive their own food. If there were any disturbers (traveling in a mess), the Jin people would be killed by military law. This group of Jin people had to queue up to eat.

Yang's immediate superior was still there, and he stepped forward to claim the "pirate" where Yang was. However, many soldiers who lost the officers were abandoned. They watched their companions come forward to collect food. Then, the people of Jin came. They sternly claimed that according to the military laws of the Jin army, the soldiers who lost the officers would be killed by lottery (according to the "pirates" and "brigades" of the officers), but before that, Xu people did not return to the Jin officers, they would bypass Xu people once... Then, the Jin people randomly appointed several officers among the remaining soldiers.

So, all the people of Xu started to queue up to eat.

It was Yang's turn. Yang moved his steps like a sleepwalking. When he was about to walk to the soup pot, someone stuffed a bamboo tube into his arms, a wooden bowl and a wooden plate. Yang walked to the chef of Jin in a daze. The chef stared at him with his eyes and shouted, "Why don't you hold it up?"

Yang was still in a daze. A soldier from Jin State next to the fellow chef grabbed his hands quickly and let his hands hold them flat, lifting up the wooden plate that was not so bad in his hand. He quickly unscrewed the lid of the bamboo tube, placed the wooden bowl and bamboo tube on the plate, shouting: "Remember, this is the guy you are eating in the future. Before making meals, unscrew the lid of the bamboo tube yourself and put it on the plate one by one."

Yang agreed and found that someone around him had heard this and had quickly sorted out his pallets according to the requirements of the chefs of Jin State. But some people still thought that they were immersed in sleepwalking as they had just now. They knew nothing about the requirements of the Jin people.

Next, Yang felt his hands sinking, and he quickly looked at the tray in his hand. A copper spoon was leaving his wrist. There was a pile of thick vegetable porridge in the bowl. The man shouted, "Next."

The person behind him pushed, Yang moved his footsteps away from the bucket. He quietly observed the surrounding situation as he walked. He found that the food supply of the Jin army seemed to be in units of "pirates". There were three large buckets in front of each bucket, and a chef stood beside each bucket and was responsible for making food. In front of all buckets, there was an idle man from Jin, responsible for guiding soldiers to follow the rules of making food.

When passing the first bucket, a thick porridge would be added to the soldier's bowl. The chef behind the second bucket would pour a spoonful of hot soup into the soldier's bamboo tube. The third chef would put two hot cakes on the soldier's tray...

The people of Jin were strict in their rules. The soldiers who had served the meal returned to their own queues, squatted on the ground to maintain their formation, and continued to eat. Yang held the food and returned to his own queues. The soldiers quietly commented: "It's broth, it's broth."

Yang quickly took a sip of the soup and found that the taste was indeed delicious. He was a little moved and could eat the broth after he had left his captive status. As the legendary, Jin State, an old overlord country, was very kind and righteous in doing things. In a trance, he remembered a story he heard not long ago. It is said that during the battle between Qi and Lu, Cao Gui, a wise man from Lu, once said angrily: "The meat eater is despised."

This sentence is full of sour taste. Even people like Cao Gui who have a good life are full of resentment for not being able to eat meat. This Jin people actually distributed meat soup to the prisoners just now, Xu people who became friendly forces a few seconds ago. This is outrageous.

A low whisper continued to come from beside him: "Sir-- Are we eating pretty good? Look at what the officers eat, there is a chicken leg on their plate."

Yang quickly looked up and found that the officer who was "soldier" they were also back to the group of soldiers, squatting there, holding the plate to eat. Sure enough, there was a chicken leg in the officer's plate...and so on - the officer not only ate one more chicken leg, but they also had a pair of chopsticks: a pair of metallic chopsticks with a metallic luster and shiny green (food chopsticks).

Although the Jin army sent plates, bowls and bamboo tubes to Xu Jun soldiers, it seemed that they forgot to give chopsticks to everyone. Many soldiers had to grab them with their hands, but the officers obtained a full set of tableware. The plates and bowls in their hands were obviously higher than those of the soldiers. They were all made of metal, but the metal material was vague. Yang's knowledge was slightly higher, so he could only be sure that the materials of those tableware were not bronze, but they were not evil gold (iron).

The officer found that the soldiers looked at him with aggrieved eyes, and he stopped chewing and tried hard to calm down: "You see, I eat well - dog! I just went to meet the people of Jin, and they had already said that what we were given was the treatment of auxiliary soldiers - auxiliary soldiers, which was one level different from the regular soldiers. I am the officer of Jin at most the same treatment as ordinary regular soldiers. I am a nobleman, and I actually treated me the same treatment as Xianyu (auxiliary soldiers). Jin really looked down on people."

The soldier's face became a little calmer, and the officer complained again: "As for this, the soldiers who died in the superiors are really lucky. An ordinary little soldier who was just pointed by the Jin people would become an officer. He enjoyed the same treatment as our "Gongsun" and was so angry."

Seeing the soldiers' eyes showing envy, the officer hurriedly took a few bites and immediately said, "Since we are friendly troops, the Jin army promised to take care of our family. Last night, most of the people in the city fled outside the city. The people who fled in our direction were intercepted by the Jin army, so we didn't know. According to the Jin army, the people in the city had completely fled, leaving only a few young men and their families.

The Jin army will come to a few clerks to register the soldiers' families. If you have relatives in your family, tell the clerks quickly. The clerks will send people out to search... But the Jin people also said that this is a chaotic time and a war. It is your luck to find relatives; there is no way to find relatives, so don't blame others."

Hearing the officer's explanation, the soldiers of Xu immediately remembered their families in the city. They were worried about their family's safety, and the soldiers of Xu hurriedly ended and then ate. After a while, the secretary of Jin State came. They took a very strange thing called paper and used lead strips to record the home address of each soldier. This was the case in the Spring and Autumn Period, and most people had no names. If they wanted to find the soldiers' families, they might only shout to the refugees: "Where is the family of a certain street, an alley, and a certain man?"

Yang was lucky. When the soldiers of Jin State drove away the people in the city, his mother hid at home because of timidity. The people of Jin saw that she was an alone woman and did not force her too much. As a result, Yang successfully found his relatives after returning to the city. Some soldiers suffered misfortunes and their families were lost. Later, their families might have been timid in the wilderness and did not dare to answer the calls of the people of Jin. As a result, many soldiers of Xu State had not found their lost family until they set out.

There are also some soldiers who are amused and laughed: they suddenly appeared as Chinese people who claim to be relatives. It would be better to have their relatives, but if they don’t find their true relatives, they have a bunch of strangers who have never seen or heard of, and cry and shout to recognize their relatives, that would be amused and laugh.

Fortunately, the chaos did not last long. In the next few days, Xu's soldiers began to be reorganized, and Yang was lucky to be selected to join the ranks of Xu's soldiers. Because he received a good treatment: because the Jin people had to recruit auxiliary soldiers, these auxiliary soldiers would follow the Jin army. Although they did not receive any rewards, they would have no problem having enough food. Therefore, Xu's soldiers who were selected to become regular soldiers were allowed to recommend one or two of their relatives to be included in the scope of Jin's recruitment.

Yang reported his mother nervously, but unexpectedly, the Jin people didn't care that she was a woman, so they immediately issued a conscript order, and his mother was able to enter the Jin army to help the kitchen...

After his mother was settled, Yang no longer had any resistance to the strict military discipline and rules of the Jin people. He strictly followed the requirements of the Jin officers, queued up for dinner, walked, even lined up for the toilet, and had to be fixed. Xu soldiers who dared to urinate and defecate at will, were called "a whip" and could not get up the bed the next day.

If queuing is a characteristic of the Jin army, then the requirements of the Jin army for bathing are difficult to understand. Yang still remembers his first meal experience. At that time, the Jin army did not seem to have too many requirements, but then the Jin army's requirements gradually became stricter. They not only required washing their hands before meals and washing their dishes, but also required the bamboo tubes and bowls on the tray to be arranged neatly. After each meal, they also asked the soldiers to wash the tableware immediately and store them...

By the way, the people of Jin seemed to be almost paranoid about equipment. During the first meal, they sent a set of tableware to the captives of Xu State, and then they were constantly distributing things, sometimes a set of marching backpacks, sometimes a military blanket, and then shoes, military uniforms, towels... Of course, only regular soldiers can obtain military uniform shoes.

However, the soldiers' chopsticks were never distributed. It seemed that the people of Jin didn't care much about these gadgets. What made people itchy was that the metal chopsticks the officers were holding were swaying in front of people's eyes, which was really enviable.

Most soldiers can understand that washing hands before meals, after all, the nobles at that time also had this priority. However, it was difficult to accept that soldiers had to take a bath every few days, because burning the bath water required a large container and consumed a lot of fuel... Therefore, the civilians in the Spring and Autumn Period only took twice at home for their lifetime, once in their lifetime, once in birth and once in death. The rest was only convenient for jumping in the river in summer.

However, the Jin army did not seem to be afraid of trouble. At the same time, under the guidance of the Jin army, the former officers of Xu State were becoming more and more cruel. They would pull soldiers out of the tent with a whip every day, asking soldiers to run and do morning exercises. Every few days, they beat soldiers in line to take a bath. The bath water prepared by the Jin army for Xu Army was actually warm. They sprayed it down from a huge bamboo tube. Each soldier was allowed to breathe several times under the bamboo tube. During this period, the soldiers had to quickly rub their whole body with a towel and rinse it quickly...

Gradually, Yang adapted to the rules of the Jin army, and then they finished resting and fell into a long march. Everyone kept walking, from morning to night, and finally no longer had to walk, Yang was told that he had come to Chen State in the south.

During the days when Chen State was stationed, Yang always thanked himself for his luck. He was indeed lucky. Because he knew literacy, swordsmanship and physical condition were not bad, he was selected as the official soldier of Xu State. The official soldier mentioned by the Jin people were actually professional soldiers. Daily knowledge training did not require participation in city building activities that were day and night. In addition, after the daily training, he could also see his mother who was helping the kitchen in the kitchen.

My mother's nutrition has been around for the past few days, and her face has become rosy, and she has regained some of the charm of the past - according to her mother, a 50-year-old soldier in the auxiliary soldiers of Jin State fell in love with her and was showing her diligence these days. The old soldier said that he was a veteran of the Zhao family, and this service was about his last battle. After many years of military career, under the reward of the generous lord, he owned about 3,000 acres of land in the Jia family, and the edge of the land was a lake - the lake originally belonged to the lord's patent.

The veteran fought for a lifetime and had children before, but later, in the "Xiagong Rebellion" Zhao's city defense battle, the veteran's children were killed and his wife died of sadness. Now the veteran has only 3,000 acres of land and about 60 servants, but no one has inherited the family business. He heard that the woman in front of him had a son like Yang, and was still in the battle sequence of Xu Guozheng's hand. He was happy that he could have an adult child to inherit the family business, so he told Yang's mother: As long as she married, he promised to treat Yang as his son.

The old man from Jin State also boasted: He is an old man from the Zhao family, and his son was killed in the defense of Zhao City. People like him are qualified to stop the lord's carriage and talk to the lord directly. As long as Yang's mother marrys, even if Yang is a member of the Zhao family, he will come forward to find the lord, transfer Yang out of Xu Bing's queue, and join the ranks of Zhao Bing. In order to show the preferential conditions, the veteran also secretly told Yang's mother that although the treatment of Xu Guozheng's soldiers is good, if calculated carefully, it is not as good as the treatment of Zhao's auxiliary soldiers.

Out of nostalgia for his father, Yang immediately gave a negative answer to his mother - although there was a pleading tone hidden in his mother's words.

However, in private, Li Yang couldn't help but guess: Now we can drink a meat soup every day, and eat fatty meat every full moon. Such treatment is not as good as the Zhao's auxiliary soldiers. So how good should the Zhao's regular soldiers be? Can they drink wine every day and hear singing and dancing like nobles?

Gradually, Yang began to care about the surroundings. As the surrounding cities gradually took shape, the soldiers Yang came into contact with were no longer limited to the new army of Jin. The coalition soldiers of other countries and the upper army of Jin also began to contact the people of Xu. Yang felt that the upper army of Jin seemed to be carved from the same mold as the new army, and their behavior was rigid and rigorous, but their training intensity was far inferior to the new army. For example, they did not run exercises in the morning, but only occasionally conducted queue training... And the only thing worth comforting is that the equipment and food of the upper army were not as good as the new army.

Yang did not dare to inquire about this difference. He looked for other coalition soldiers, such as the Guard Army that had fought side by side with the Jin army for a long time.

When the guards heard that Yang was training with the new army, they showed a sympathetic smile on their faces and asked, "Brother, have you suffered? Among the four armies of Jin, the Wei army and the Zhao army were the most rigorous in training. Among these two armies, the Zhao army had the heaviest training tasks. They had to run around the city every morning, and the horns were blowing loudly, and the whip made us unable to sleep... What, you are in the Zhao army, well, your luck is really bad...

However, the Zhao army had a good meal. I heard that their soldiers had a pound of meat every day. People were tired of eating meat, and they wanted to throw it away when they saw it... I also heard that Zhao Bing had the best equipment. Because the Zhao family was always poor and had the least population among several major families, the Zhao family looked at the warriors like their own eyes, and even put them in turtle shells on the soldiers. Therefore, Zhao Bing suffered the least casualties in previous battles, which is well-known among the nations.

If you stay in Zhao Bing, at least you don’t have to worry about your life. The leader of the Zhao family will never let his soldiers die in vain... Haha, don’t you practice running every day? People say that this is the ability to escape. Zhao’s ability to run, there is a joke about Zhao Bing’s speed, saying: When you chase Zhao Bing, you first think that the sword can cut the other party. But when you draw the sword, you will find that the distance between you must be achieved with a bow and arrow... But when you prepare the bow and arrow, Zhao Bing’s back can no longer be seen on the horizon."

Although the soldiers of the Guard Kingdom said mean things, Yang heard several messages from the soldiers of the Guard Kingdom: good equipment, hard training, good food, good luck in running away.

But these still cannot touch Yang's heart.

Subsequently, the logistics troops of Jin State arrived, and some of the logistics soldiers replaced the auxiliary soldiers who had expired. The Zhao veteran who was originally pursuing Yang's mother was among them. However, before leaving, the veteran found that Yang's rejection was no longer so firm. He happily went around the lord's tent and stayed. It seemed that he planned to continue working hard to fulfill his wish to convey his family business.

Subsequently, the tasks of the auxiliary soldiers of various countries became heavy. The territories responsible for each country were divided outside the city. The auxiliary soldiers were responsible for reclaiming farmland and sowing food here. The veteran said that this task was no longer the responsibility of the Sect Master of the Zhao family. The Sect Master of the Zhao family had handed over the logistics work to another general of the Jin State and turned himself to be responsible for new military tasks.

Yang didn't have much feeling about the work handover of the Jin people. If the veteran hadn't told him the truth, he would not have felt the difference at all. Later, Yang sighed in his heart: There are so many talents in Jin State. The Zhao Lord, who always smiled, could easily break the capital of Xu State. In Yang's opinion, this person's ability is at least greater than his monarch, but the Jin army seemed to have just found someone to replace him, and his grades were no different.

Many years later, Yang realized that the one who succeeded Zhao Wu was not a casual person, but a Shi Yi, the "second talent" of Jin State.

Yang could not feel the change because he was still in the new army - the fate of their Xuguo army had been decided and would be swallowed by Zhao Wu intact.

Therefore, Zhao Wu has gradually improved their treatment - 70% of the new supply troops in Jin State were Zhao Xianyu (supplementary troops) led by Dong Guoli. They brought sufficient supplies. Soon, Xu Bing also obtained new armor and weapons. Of course, Xu Bing obtained armor and weapons were both cheap goods, such as armor was just wooden armor.

The new armor weapon was obtained, which made Yang feel a sense of the coming of a war. He was nervous. The veteran Zhao family who was pursuing his mother went straight into Xu State camp, handed over the corresponding military talisman, and asked to take Yang away.

Yang was full of dissatisfaction, but he did not dare to lose his temper with a Jin man, so he had to follow the veterans through the camp, come to the high platform in the city, and come to the door of the Zhao clan's mansion to ask for the Zhao clan.

The Sect Master of the Zhao family lives on the first floor of the high platform in the center of the city, which also shows the Zhao family's position in the entire coalition. The second floor of the high platform is where the commander of the Three Kingdoms coalition and the deputy commander of the entire army live. Further up, on the highest floor of the high platform, there are the commander of the coalition, Xun Ying, his staff, and the fortune teller who accompanied the army.

It seemed that no one wanted to live on the lowest level, and even Wei Jiang was not willing to come to this level to work, so Zhao Wu and his staff occupied most of the space at the bottom of the entire building platform. The people coming and going here were basically Zhao's warriors.

A senior Zhao warrior who walked past Yang and saw the old man beside Yang, they seemed to know each other. The senior warrior greeted him: "Old He, are you waiting to ask for a meeting?"

After saying that, he looked at Yang beside Old He: "Have you found your son? Not bad, not bad, and in good health. However, I probably haven't eaten well since I was a child, and I'm so thin that I'm as thin as bean sprouts. If you want to be a samurai in the inner hut, I'm afraid there will be no hope in this life."

"Old He" is the veteran next to Yang. Yang only realized today that the old man's name is "He".

Mr. He smiled and pointed to the inside of the house: "The head of the family is discussing matters. I dare not disturb the head of the family for those little things, so I will wait for a while."

The warrior nodded and then walked into the house. At this time, the voice of a middle-aged uncle was heard in the house. Yang did not know that this voice belonged to the commander-in-chief of the coalition: "...it must be done within ten days. The news just came: After we left, the king of Lu (Duke Xiang of Lu) went to Xintian City to "speak to (wait for the overlord to arrange work)". He took the opportunity to ask our Jin State to agree to make the country his own vassal state.

At first, our king disagreed, but Meng Xianzi, the chief minister of Lu State, strongly requested, and the widow agreed. The people of Lu may think that they have made contributions to serving Jin State and hope to receive rewards. To be honest, they should also receive some rewards.

You know, the Sect Master's obligation to protect the vassal state. Once the vassal state belongs to the vassal state, our Jin State will no longer bear the obligation of asylum. But does the vassal state have the ability to protect the vassal state? Sure enough, this answer came too quickly——”
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