There is no real army in the Hui tribe, so there is no decent military discipline. When fighting, it all depends on personal bravery. Those who can survive countless battles with the Xixia army are naturally first-class heroes. How can they be willing to
The Ming army was under the roof.
Seeing the law enforcement team with silver locks hanging around their necks surrounding them, the heroes who returned to their headquarters unconsciously stretched their hands to the muskets behind their backs. After just a few days of training, these archers who are good at using crossbows can already
Use a fire gun to hit a skin and water bag ten feet away. With a weapon in hand, you will be more courageous. If the Han people dare to play rough tricks, they would rather die than die.
The law enforcement members of the Red Shirt Army are all tough soldiers selected from each battalion. They have strong muscles, round waists, good fists and feet. Hanging around their necks are crescent-shaped dog-head tags made of sterling silver, with two official script characters for law enforcement engraved on them. Around their waists are
A black calfskin strap with a fanged dog head in the middle as a belt buckle. On the belt hangs a musket, saber, rope, whip, and a shiny black helmet buckled on the head. Guards and law enforcement within the Red Shirt Army.
They are responsible for everything, and are actually equivalent to the gendarmerie.
The Red Shirts are famous for their generous treatment, which is a propaganda method to attract people to join the army and a strategy to enhance the sense of honor of soldiers. In fact, what is not known to outsiders is the strict military discipline of the Red Shirts. The regulations are strict and rewards and punishments are clear. Military discipline is violated.
The most serious case was to be beheaded, the lightest case was to be punished with a military stick and then expelled from the army. Therefore, the usually arrogant red shirt soldiers trembled when they saw the silver dog tags.
Meng Dan and others had not long joined the Ming army camp, and they did not know how powerful the law enforcement team was. When they reached out for the fire cannons, the law enforcement team members had already taken out the short fire cannons at lightning speed.
Once the opponent's weapons were taken off their shoulders, he opened fire on the spot and killed the gang of troublemakers.
Huo Lingyao and Meng Dan grew up as childhood sweethearts, so they naturally know his temper. No one can stop this kid's temper. If they really get angry, all the sparks in Huibu will be gone. Moreover, the cooperative relationship he finally established with the Han people will be over.
It's over, so as the leader of the Hui tribe, she must stop this behavior.
"Stop!" Huo Lingyao shouted, stretched out her hand and grabbed Meng Dan's arm tightly, stared into his eyes and shook her head. There were too many things in her eyes, including helplessness, sadness, necessity, and more.
Most of them are worried.
The veins in Meng Dan's hands were exposed, and he had already grasped the walnut wood handle of the fire gun. In fact, he didn't understand the difficult situation of returning to his tribe. Now they have to rely on Han people for even weapons, horses, food and grass, so what capital do they have to cause trouble?
Well, but the Han people are not good people. There are conditions for their aid to return to the tribe. Then they will definitely get benefits that are countless times more than what they paid for! The most important thing is that Mengdan’s favorite Princess Xiangxiang is these benefits.
One of them is that as a dignified man, it is a great shame not to be able to protect his own woman. So after hearing that Princess Xiangxiang went to Liu Ziguang's handsome account, Meng Dan felt evil and brought a dozen people over.
There was trouble, and Princess Xiangxiang came out with a clean face. This made Mengdan even more angry. She didn't use the drinking water saved by the brothers, but she went to the Han people to wash her face. Although this was not a big deal.
, but for Meng Dan, it is equivalent to pouring a ladle of oil on the fire.
Surrendering is a very painful thing for Mengdan. I remember when he was unruly and broke the head of another child just to grab a few angustifolia. His adoptive father Hoxha whipped him more than ten times with a whip.
At only ten years old, he didn't even make a sound, which shows his fierce temper. However, under Huo Lingyao's gentle but firm gaze, he still collapsed. The hand holding the handle of the gun slowly loosened, but his eyes remained the same.
Burning with the flames of anger, he snorted coldly, stretched out his hands in a grand manner, and allowed the soldiers of the law enforcement team to tie him up with cowhide ropes. The other soldiers who returned to the army were discouraged when they saw that the leader Meng Dan had been captured without any help.
, surrendered obediently one by one.
The captain of the law enforcement team said loudly: "I am reporting to the commander-in-chief. Anyone who gathers a crowd to cause trouble in the army should be beheaded according to law. The leader of the army should be punished with a hundred military sticks. Please give the commander-in-chief an order."
Meng Dan was shocked when he heard this. He thought that no one was killed, and he could just hit some military sticks. But he didn't expect that Liu Ziguang actually found this reason to kill someone, so he jumped up on the spot.
, the blood vessels suddenly appeared on his forehead, and his tiger eyes shined red: "Despicable Han people! I have already seen your conspiracy. Your goal is to annex us back to the tribe!"
As soon as Meng Dan jumped up, he was held down by three big men from the law enforcement team. Although the young man was not very big, he was quite strong. It was difficult for the three sturdy men to hold him down. The law enforcement team leader listened to him insult the big man.
Shuai, just about to swing the water and fire stick, was suddenly stopped by Huo Lingyao. She said anxiously: "No! General, please show mercy and let Meng Dan go."
Liu Ziguang said: "Everyone is equal before military discipline. Even I can't trample on her at will. Besides, who does the princess belong to? Why should I ask for extra mercy from me?"
Liu Ziguang's words were serious, but his tone was not so serious. Huo Lingyao knew that there was hope, so she didn't care about anything. She blushed slightly and said: "Anyway, I am the general's fiancée. That's all it takes, right?"
Liu Ziguang laughed loudly and said: "Since it is my fiancée who is begging for mercy, I will be lenient. Although Meng Dan and others gathered to make trouble, they are not members of the Red Shirt Army, so military discipline is not appropriate for them, so let it go.
, the law enforcement team will escort them back to the camp and ask the princess to reprimand them."
Although the Hui people were arrogant, they were friendly forces after all and involved ethnic relations, so they couldn't be killed. Liu Ziguang simply sold his favor to Princess Xiangxiang, and also teased the little girl, which made him feel good.
Very, but when these words fell on Meng Dan's ears, it felt like a knife digging into his heart.
"Kill if you want! You can't even blink your eyes as a man who has returned to the army. Don't think that you can win people's hearts like this! We who have returned to the army remember your kindness, huh, the water tanks in the army are filled to the brim, but you still have some
You tried your best to deprive us of drinking water when we returned to the headquarters. You can deceive others with your conspiracy, but you can't deceive me!" Meng Dan said bitterly.
This was a shocking secret. Huo Lingyao trembled and looked at Liu Ziguang in disbelief. This Han man was so vicious. He actually deliberately deprived himself of drinking water in this hot summer. Just now, he tempted himself with a basin of clean water. It was a pity that he still believed it.
His nonsense and entrusting the future of Huibu to him are really blind.
Liu Ziguang smiled coldly: "I don't need to explain to you, I will escort you back."
The law enforcement team dragged the people who returned to their headquarters to their barracks. Huo Lingyao also followed back with a cold face, but was stopped by Liu Ziguang. Huo Lingyao was completely disappointed with Liu Ziguang, but she still had to maintain the necessary respect for him.
, she stopped and said coldly: "What else can you do, General?"
"Come in and show you something." Liu Ziguang said.
Huo Lingyao walked into the tent pointed by Liu Ziguang expressionlessly. When he went in, he saw a large copper kettle stewing on the stove. The water inside had obviously boiled. The lid of the copper kettle on top of the steam kept rising up, and there was a puff of steam.
White mist emerged and quickly disappeared into the air.
Huo Lingyao did not pay attention to the copper pot, and made up his mind that no matter what nonsense Liu Ziguang said, it would go in his left ear and out his right ear. After escaping, he would lead his tribe to find a way to escape from the camp, and from then on he would be completely separated from the Han people.
Liu Ziguang didn't say anything, he just looked at the big copper pot with its frame rattled by the steam. Huo Lingyao didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, so she looked at the big copper pot without saying anything in boredom.
"The water is almost dry. Your army has plenty of fruit." Huo Lingyao finally couldn't help but sneer.
"Yes, it's almost boiling dry. But if I add some water, the frame on the top of the kettle lid will pop again after a while. I wonder if Princess Xiangxiang has ever thought about why the kettle lid opens when the water boils.
But it won’t happen when it’s not boiling?”
Faced with Liu Ziguang's childish question, Huo Lingyao sneered: "Of course you have to put a lid on the water when it boils. Even a three-year-old child knows that."
"But what's the point here? Is the water at the top or the water vapor at the top? What will happen if I block both the spout and the lid?" Liu Ziguang continued to ask.
This time Huo Lingyao couldn't answer. After all, she was not as knowledgeable as Liu Ziguang, who had gone to high school. Although she understood what boiling water was about, she couldn't explain it in scientific terms. Seeing that she was speechless, Liu Ziguang said: "Because water
After being boiled, it turns into gas, and the volume increases a lot. The original space cannot accommodate so much gas, so it will naturally look for a breakthrough, and the lid will be pushed up. If the lid and spout are sealed,
, then this copper kettle will eventually explode and even blow up the tent. This is the power of steam."
Huo Lingyao was smart and immediately understood the principle of water vapor mentioned by Liu Ziguang, but she did not understand the purpose of Liu Ziguang suddenly telling her these things. Liu Ziguang opened the door curtain on the other side of the tent, revealing a row of mechanical mules behind it, pointing at
Referring to those huge locomotives, he said: "These iron cylinders are actually large furnaces for boiling water. Coal and kerosene are used to boil the water in the water tank, turning it into steam to push the piston, and the piston drives the crankshaft to move. Finally, the whole
Only a large chariot can move, charge into battle, and win a thousand-mile victory. Yes, there is a lot of water in the camp, but it is all prepared for the chariot. Without this water, our chariot cannot move. What else can we do?
Fighting with the Xixia people? I don’t know how your subordinates saw the large amount of clear water stored, but they immediately thought that I treated them harshly, instead of looking at the lips of the red shirt soldiers, in order to save water in this vast wasteland.
, our officers and soldiers only receive half a bottle of water every day, so giving one bottle to your returnees is already a special care."
Huo Lingyao was shocked. It turns out that there is still some truth to this. In the Ming army, it was not only people and horses who drank water, but also machines, which were big users of water. It seemed that Liu Ziguang had been wronged by the troops.
"Why didn't you explain it clearly to them, but you had to explain it to me alone?" After hesitating for a long time, Huo Lingyao still asked this question.
"This is an army, not a school. I am the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, not a teacher. I do not need to explain to every soldier. A real soldier will not ask questions, but will only obey orders unconditionally. This is
As for why I explain the difference between our two armies to you alone, it’s because you are my fiancée, and I don’t want you to have any misunderstandings about me.”
After listening to Liu Ziguang's words, Huo Lingyao fell silent. She bit her lip gently with her teeth and said after a long while: "I will explain to them for you."
Liu Ziguang chuckled, knowing that his simple physics education had worked. For a fierce-tempered alien girl like Princess Xiangxiang, it was useless to play hard, and she had to convince people with reason. The intermarriage with Princess Xiangxiang was originally just a simple matter.
Political transactions, but Liu Ziguang is still very interested in this woman who exudes a strange fragrance, and men have the desire to conquer. This kind of conquest does not mean getting married and having sex, but capturing the heart of a girl is the real conquest.
, Liu Ziguang is like this, he wants to conquer Princess Xiangxiang’s spirit and body.
But Huo Lingyao is obviously not so easy to conquer. Just because the water problem is solved, it doesn't mean that she will fall in love with Liu Ziguang immediately. Liu Ziguang just wanted to say a few more touching words. For example, his drinking water must be restricted. Today's face wash water is
When he was lying about the quota that he had been saving for several days, Huo Lingyao bowed slightly and drifted away, leaving only a faint fragrance in the air.