Chapter 46: The opportunity for a long face is here
In the transport camp, Lao Fan dragged Su Lu into the tent.
"Brothers, please sit down. You're welcome. Please sit down."
Lao Fan invited everyone to sit down, quickly poured a glass of wine, drank it all, and gestured to everyone with the clean glass:
"As a token of respect, I would like to thank you all on behalf of the tens of thousands of brothers in the Chinese army camp. Your food came in time. The gang leader army will soon have no food to cook."
Su Ping snatched the wine jar from Lao Fan, filled each glass with wine, and scolded Lao Fan with a smile:
"Old Fan, Old Fan, when we were moving food just now, I heard from the brothers in the baggage camp that you, Old Fan, have another chance to drink without violating military law."
Lao Fan chuckled and said in the negative: "No, no, no, I, Lao Fan, have always been forced to drink. I drank to accompany you. I was forced to drink. To be honest, I, Lao Fan, don't like drinking.
Yes, I don’t like it very much.”
"Tsk, it smells so good."
Lao Fan smacked his lips and turned to Su Lu: "Captain Su, may I ask how you passed through the Erlong Mountain area? There are so many bandits there, many of them even collude with the Thule people, and they cause us trouble everywhere.
If not for the confrontation with Tule, the commander would have defeated them long ago."
Su Ping said happily: "Of course it was beaten out. Lao Fan, you don't think it was the bandits who sent us out, do you? Let me tell you, in the battle with Erlong Mountain, blood flowed everywhere, dead bodies were everywhere, and the rain washed away
One night, the blood on the ground was not washed away."
Several officers from the transport battalion who were drinking wine suddenly became interested: "Really? Can such a large-scale war happen in the rear? Tell me quickly, are the bandits in Erlong Mountain powerful? I heard that many of the guards fell into their hands.
More than a dozen guard camps were destroyed at the foot of Erlong Mountain."
Su Ping became interested, so he simply dropped his wine glass and began to brag.
Su Lu ate something casually and then left the camp. He looked at his soldiers and civilians. Meals had been arranged and the packhorses had been fed with fodder. Then he took two steamed buns with mixed noodles from the kitchen.
, filled a bag of cold boiled water with a water bag, found a random place to squat down, and started eating.
The multigrain steamed buns were a bit hard, and the rough grains stretched across the throat, causing a burning sensation. Su Lu drank a few sips of water, but it didn't relieve him. Just as he was coughing, a bowl of vegetable soup was handed over to him.
"Take a sip of vegetable soup and wash it down."
Su Lu took it and took a sip. The vegetable leaves in the vegetable soup were wrapped in rough steamed buns and flowed into his stomach. The warmth pressed against the intestines and stomach, which was very comfortable.
"Thank you very much, Brother Lao Wang."
Su Lu returned the bowl to the civilian husband Lao Wang and squatted with his back against the pillar.
Lao Wang gnawed on steamed buns with mixed noodles, drank vegetable soup, and said naggingly: "Captain Su, why don't you go to the camp to eat? All the officials have gone to eat this like us civilians. Are you stupid?"
Silly."
Su Lu smiled and said nothing. He was indeed a bit silly. This mixed-noodle steamed bun was really unpalatable, hard and bitter. It was no different from the steamed buns he would eat in later generations. He had to think of a solution when he went back. The grinding plate used for grinding the noodles was
How to make it.
"Don't you like their waste? I can't stand it either, but what can I do?"
Lao Wang drank vegetable soup and continued to talk.
"We can't even get enough of this vegetable soup, but officials like them can hide in the camp, drink wine and eat meat. It's a waste. There are tens of thousands of soldiers in such a big camp, and they have a meal
The waste is enough to feed hundreds of sergeants."
Su Lu glanced at Lao Wang in surprise. He didn't expect that he, a man driving a pack horse, would have such knowledge. It was not easy.
Seeing Su Lu's interest, Lao Wang immediately became interested, crossed his legs and said:
"Let me tell you, Lieutenant Su, I, Old Wang, have been used to hardship since childhood. It was much harder in those days than it is now. The people of Tule were seducing me. They were attacking Beizheng, not Suozibao, but Beiyang. Don't
If you say you are full, your life may be gone anytime soon.”
"My friend Sun Xiaodan, who grew up with me, had an older brother. When the Tule people passed by outside, he clamored to go out to poop. As soon as he ran out of the hall door, he was snatched away by an arrow flying in from outside the courtyard.
Die."
"Emperor Daxing is so powerful that he beat out these grandsons. Our life in Beiyang has become better. We can have enough to eat and don't have to worry about being shot to death in our own yard."
Lao Wang was very talkative and did not notice that the vegetable soup in the bowl was cold.
Su Lu asked for a ladle of hot water from the kitchen and added it to Lao Wang's vegetable soup. After Lao Wang thanked him profusely, he suddenly stood up.
The sound of horse hooves was rapid and the earth shook, as if there were groups of horses charging across the grassland.
"Enemy attack"
Su Lu blurted out and shouted.
If there is such a dense sound of horse hooves, it must be a large group of Thule people coming to attack.
"Prepare for war"
Su Lu stuffed the multigrain steamed buns into his satchel, turned around, pulled his horse, jumped on its back, and carefully observed the Thule army in the distance.
Various arrows appeared, pointing out the attack direction of Thule's army formation, but the guards had not yet left camp to fight. Even if there were weaknesses, Su Lu could only stare.
Soon, the camp gate opened wide, and a group of cavalry came out of the city to meet the galloping guard cavalry.
Su Lu couldn't help but be disappointed with the general who commanded him. Now that the Thule cavalry was only a stone's throw away from the main camp, and now that they were out of camp, the cavalry couldn't gather momentum at all. Before they could charge up, they were about to start fighting. How could they fight?
As expected, the guards who came forward were no match for the Thule cavalry. As soon as they met, they were cut through the military formation. The battle formation was divided into two halves. In the blink of an eye, they were divided and destroyed. Only ten percent of the people who escaped were able to escape.
Twenty-three.
"Why are the Guards so useless? They can't even defeat the same number of Thule people."
Such voices came from among the people.
"This is not the first time that the Guards have lost a battle. I really miss Emperor Daxing's style of leading troops."
"The current Guards are no longer good."
The civilians lamented that they could only go back after the Guards defeated the Thule people. If the camp was breached by the Thule people, these people might not even be able to return home.
Lao Wang squeezed next to Su Lu again and muttered: "I can't die, I still have three daughters to raise, and there is a blind old lady above me. If I die, no one will take care of them.
ah."
"The sky is spirited, the earth is spirited, please God bless me to show my spirit."
Su Lu patted Lao Wang on the shoulder and pointed to the camp gate: "Two more teams of guards have gone out. They will definitely be able to solve the siege of this group of Thule people. Lao Wang, just keep it in your heart."
, we will win.
Before Su Lu finished speaking, the two guard camps were divided and surrounded again. With the same tactics and the same neat moves, the two teams were quickly killed.
The dead thing is in my stomach.
Three groups of guardsmen came out of the camp and were again divided and defeated beautifully.
Lao Wang's nagging voice was filled with tears. He was the backbone of the family. If he died, there would be no hair in the family, and all three daughters might be sold.
"If I die, our family will be ruined."
Lao Wang cried and complained to Su Lu.
Su Lu patted Lao Wang on the shoulder: "Don't worry, Lao Wang, you will be fine as long as I am here."
After tidying up his clothes and armor, Su Lu took the soup bowl from Lao Wang's hand, took a sip, turned around and walked towards the Chinese army camp. He had to moisten his throat in advance as he was not going to have a verbal quarrel later.
After watching the battle just now, the Thule cavalry were now covered with various arrows representing their weaknesses. Su Lu was very confident that he could kill this group of Thule cavalry as long as his patrol battalion took action.
A piece of cake.
Well, this is an opportunity to save people, and it’s also an opportunity to look good.
The opportunity to grow a good face has come. Go and ask for a job in the Chinese Army.