After the storm subsided, in the Ming army's camp, there were countless soldiers covered in frost. Groups of them huddled tightly together, gritting their teeth to resist the biting cold in the north.
Suddenly, a steaming fragrance floated in the wind. After a brief moment of astonishment, the soldiers began to make noisy noises.
"Don't move, everyone has it!"
The officers' shouts came in unison.
But the soldiers did not restrain themselves, but instead became more noisy. In the black night, with only a few lights, the fire-headed soldiers came out from the commander's central army carrying buckets of boiling hot soup.
In fact, the broth in the army is not soup at all, it is just minced meat boiled in water with more salt. Sometimes even the blood foam is skimmed off, giving it a fishy smell. But at this time, these people were tortured by the wind and snow.
In the eyes of the soldiers who were going crazy, it was like a treasure.
"Don't fucking move, everyone has it. I guarantee that each person will have a big bowl of hot food with meat and soup!" The captain of the army stood in the wind and shouted at the top of his voice, "Cao Guogong just wanted to give everyone a bite to eat."
Hot, he ordered more than 20 mules and horses to be killed directly, but the old man didn't even hide a piece of good meat, and all of it was cooked by his brothers!"
At this time, the fire-headed soldiers in front began to feel soup.
The soldiers didn't care to listen to the officer's chatter, and crowded forward. The soldiers in the distance who didn't know what was going on also came over as if to join in the fun. Seeing that the camp of more than 20,000 people was about to be in chaos.
This is what we are afraid of in the military camp, especially at night. If it is not handled well, a good thing can turn into a bad thing. The soldiers are almost stupid because of the cold. He doesn't care what kind of prince you are, if he says to blow up the camp, he will blow up the camp.
"You must love your soldiers as your own sons, but you must also kill without blinking an eye!"
Looking at the soldiers swarming in, Li Jinglong's mind suddenly rang with the words his father taught him back then.
"Command, be quiet!"
As soon as Li Jinglong finished speaking, a hundred soldiers around him opened their throats and shouted in the wind and snow, "Suppress the platform, the whole army is quiet, anyone who makes a loud noise or leaves the camp without authorization will be killed!"
"cut!"
"cut!"
"cut!"
Dozens of "Zhan" characters fell, and the military camp became slightly silent. The firelight allowed them to see clearly that their commander Li Jinglong was standing in front with his soldiers. The soldiers' hands were all sharp swords.
Military discipline and law temporarily defeated their desire for hot soup and made them calm down.
But there are also some stupid people who start snatching without hesitation.
"Who let the mother-in-law rob me?" a fire-headed soldier yelled.
"Straight bitch, I just had a bowl of hot soup after being frozen all day. Damn it, you guys, you guys, hid it secretly!" A few stupid young people got more energetic after drinking the broth and started to grab it.
"There are only so many people under the command of Zhentai, who dares to hide them!"
"Bah! Officials all give birth to sons without buttholes. They are well fed and drink enough to survive the cold. Men in this wind will lose a few handfuls!!"
Hearing the noise over there, the muscles on Li Jinglong's face trembled a few times.
"Catch him and kill him!"
Li Laowai agreed, took his son Li Xiaowai, and rushed over with his soldiers. Those stupid young men who were still grabbing the broth, after a few brushes, moved their heads away.
"Commander's order!" Li Laowai said ferociously, "Those who don't abide by the rules will be punished!"
The blood that had just spurted out immediately solidified and turned dark red. When the noisy soldiers saw that those who made such a fuss were beheaded on the spot, they immediately retreated and stopped making noise around the hot-headed soldiers.
"The soldiers in Zhentai have made broth for you. It's okay for you not to be grateful. Why are you making noises and blowing up the camp?" Li Laowai continued to shout, "Anyone who makes noise again will be beheaded!"
Li Jinglong held the knife on his waist and walked slowly to the scene of the incident.
"The most difficult thing about leading troops is not fighting, but how to manage these big soldiers!"
Thinking about this in his mind, Li Jinglong's face became more and more gloomy. In addition to his own soldiers behind him, there were hundreds of musketeers from the firearms camp, following him with muskets.
The military morale of his men is now at a critical point.
Ping An left more than 20,000 of them here. After working hard, these people not only did not see the Tatars, but saw a white-haired blizzard. The people were almost freezing to death, and there was a lack of firewood, so everyone felt angry.
The anger of so many people can become a powder keg when aggregated.
"The heads are passed to the back, and everyone in each team has to look at them!" Li Jinglong shouted, "The law enforcement team began to patrol the camp. Anyone who makes noises or instigates discord will be executed on the spot!" As he said that, he looked at Fengxuezhi.
The soldiers in the middle walked to the hot soup bucket, wiped the blood off the wooden spoons, took out a bowl of hot soup and handed it over, "Next!"
A soldier slowly stepped forward and carefully took the hot soup from Li Jinglong's hand. In this soldier's opinion, Cao Guogong was such a high-ranking person that he could never get close to him on ordinary days.
"Drink something warm to sleep!" Li Jinglong said softly, "Drink slowly, don't burn it!"
A soldier came forward. Li Jinglong gave him a full shot, but he still looked pleasant and said, "I have wronged my brothers these days. When the battle is over, let's see what I, Lao Li, do!"
Gradually, the soldiers formed a long queue in front of several pots. A brave soldier asked Li Jinglong, "My lord, your old talk is not enough. Can you tell us that after the battle, Qinhuai River will take us on a trip?"
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"Beat your sex!" Li Jinglong scolded with a smile, "Then I have to win the battle before I take you there!" He said with a bad smile, "It's not a big deal to take you there. I'm afraid that your kid will be pinched out by others.
What we have lost is all our troops!"
As he said this, he, a dignified prince, actually held his voice and imitated the lady's emphasis in the opera, "Oh, those men who have fought with the Tatars, they are so lively and vigorous, but who knows, they have silver-like gun tips, just like that
A few times, it’s soft!”
"Ah ha ha ha!" The surroundings erupted into roars of laughter. The man who had called just now turned red and pale from laughter.
"My lord, please kill me!"
"Don't worry, kid. As long as we win the war, I will definitely bring you happiness!" Li Jinglong continued to drink soup, "But before the war, we brothers have to get through these difficult days together!"
"There is not much firewood in the army. From now on, all firewood will be used to boil water for brothers to cook. From me on down, no officer is allowed to withdraw it at will, let alone keep the fire at will!"
"From me on down, the food is the same as the big guys!"
"There is not much fodder for bean cakes in the army. Those animals are killed every day to make hot soup for the brothers!"
"We came out to fight. Brothers work together to defeat the Tatars. Only by working together can we defeat the Tatars!"
"I guess it's time for the Tatars to come up once the wind and snow stop."
"Cheer up, everyone, and whoever gives in will have his head chopped off!"
As Li Jinglong spoke, he distributed broth to the soldiers who lined up.
Suddenly, he saw a young soldier coming in front of him, only fourteen or fifteen years old at most, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Which battalion are you from? Why did you become a soldier at such a young age?"
The young soldier was a little timid and hugged his job, "I am in the infantry, my family is a military household, my brother died in the battle, I want to take over!"
Li Jinglong put down the spoon and asked, "What is it called?"
"Li Dawang!" the young soldier replied.
"Hey, it's still my family!" Li Jinglong laughed, looking at the opponent's jacket that was torn by the wind and snow, "Where did your brother die in the battle? Where was your father?"
"My father died in the battle first, in Datong. My brother died in the battle in Goryeo!"
Suddenly, Li Jinglong felt sour, "Where are the other people in the family?"
"There are also sisters-in-law and nephews!" Li Dawang smiled shyly, "My mother died a long time ago, and my father helped me and my brother. We won rewards and fields from the war, married my brother a wife, and gave birth to a baby. When I get here, I must
Patch, otherwise the fields will not be retained!”
Li Jinglong was surprised when he heard that some of his soldiers were safely left behind, most of them were soldiers and horses from the Beijing camp. Even if his family members died in the battle, they would not be able to take back the fields.
"Who are you??" Li Jinglong asked again.
"I am Shandong Yin!" Li Dawang said.
Immediately, Li Jinglong understood. This young soldier was a military household brought into the capital camp by outsiders. He might also be a military household who committed crimes against the people, or his family committed crimes and was exiled to the army. Such military households are better regarded in the army than those who have been fighting for generations.
per household, which is much lower.
At this time, although the Ming Dynasty had a certain atmosphere of raising troops with high salaries, many families of soldiers who were exiled from the army were not living a good life.
"Dawang, what a name!" Li Jinglong gave the other party a bowl filled with bones and hot soup, "Eat more, you will be strong enough to kill Tatars!" As he said, he continued to ask with a smile, "Dawang, what a name?
If you win a battle and get a reward, what do you want to do?"
Li Dawang put his frozen hands on the soup bowl to warm them, and said with a simple smile, "Take it home and give it to my sister-in-law!"
Li Jinglong smiled and said, "A sister-in-law is like a mother, and that's how it should be!"
Suddenly, Li Dawang felt a little shy, "When I came out from my hometown with Baihu, my sister-in-law said that she would wait for me to go back to live my life!" As he said, he lowered his head and sipped the hot soup with a sip of hot soup, his eyes full of yearning, "My sister-in-law
As I said, after I go back to live my life, my nephew is my son, and our home is still home. No one will take back the land at home, and I am still a hard-working person. I won’t beat her or scold her.”
His voice carried far away along the wind.
This time, no one laughed at him.
Li Jinglong looked at this young man and said, "From today on, you will be my personal soldier. When you go home, I will give you a big gift!"
"Ah?" Dawang raised his head dullly, not knowing why.
