There are countless generals in the world, and they all say they are willing to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and go to hell together.
But how many people actually do it?
Isn't that just because you don't say anything about the title of marquis? One general's achievements lead to thousands of bones drying up?
In the end, those are just words to boost morale.
As soon as they said that, the soldiers just listened.
But now, Li Chongyi really eats, lives, wears and fights with the soldiers.
An elderly veteran took the lead in singing loudly: "If the motherland is invaded, passionate men should strengthen themselves."
"After drinking this bowl of hometown wine, the strong man will never return."
"The rolling Yellow River, the surging Yangtze River, give me life, give me strength."
"Let the blood stain the most beautiful flowers and sprinkle them on my chest."
"The red flag is waving, the bugle is sounding, the sword is unsheathed, thunder and lightning are flashing,"
"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Move forward, move forward, move forward..."
This is Li Chengqian's song to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
It is also the song that Li Chengqian taught the old soldiers in Liangzhou.
The old soldier's hoarse voice soon infected the other zombies.
Everyone also sang along.
The song was sung over and over again, becoming more and more passionate.
People seem to have forgotten fatigue, forgotten the cold, and forgotten everything.
They only remember that they are a soldier of the Tang Dynasty.
Listening to the singing and looking at the young faces, Li Chongyi was deeply moved.
Likewise, he also loved the Tang soldiers under his command from the bottom of his heart.
Next, he did not ride a war horse and advance on foot like ordinary soldiers.
How could Li Chongyi like this not let the soldiers below follow him to death?
On this day, while the army was marching as usual, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from ahead.
When the surrounding soldiers heard the sound, they were startled and picked up their weapons to prepare to defend themselves against the enemy.
Li Chongyi waved his hand and said: "Put down your weapons, it's our own people who are coming."
Not long after, a war horse galloped over.
The person who came was none other than Ba Tianlei, who was sent out by Li Chongyi.
After the man dismounted, he hurriedly came to Li Chongyi to report.
"General, good news!"
"What? Are we finally going out of the mountains?"
Li Chongyi raised his eyelids and looked at Ba Tianlei.
"That's not..."
Ba Tianlei scratched his head and said, "But we found a Xi clan tribe in the northeast. We can rest there tonight."
Hearing this, Li Chongyi was also shocked.
He raised his head and looked to the northeast. All he could see was a vast expanse of white snow, and no trace of the tribe could be seen at all.
But he also knew that Ba Tianlei would not dare to joke with him about this kind of thing.
He shook his head and chuckled: "There is really no end to the road. You can even find a place like this. I wonder if we are lucky, or the people of the Xi tribe are too unlucky!"
Who would want to suffer the cold in this freezing wilderness when there are tribal tents to live in?
Li Chongyi immediately walked to his horse and faced the surrounding soldiers as he mounted.
"Everyone obey orders!"
"Before sunset, I will make tea and soup among the tribe to warm up."
“By the way, let’s have a whole sheep feast for everyone!”
After saying that, he didn't care about the soldiers around him and just started galloping on his horse.
When many soldiers heard that there was a place to rest and a feast of whole sheep, their eyes almost glowed green.
One by one, they followed Li Chengqian's footsteps and rushed towards the Northeast tribe.
There is indeed a tribe to the northeast of them.
But the tribe was not large in size, with only about twenty tents. It looked like it was a small tribe with a hundred or ten people at most.
Judging from the style of the tents, we know that these people live here temporarily and prepare to go hunting in the mountains in winter.
But they probably couldn't even dream of it.
The nightmare came quietly.
Nearly five thousand Liangzhou soldiers rushed towards the camp like lightning.
But because they made too much noise, they alerted the people in the camp before they entered the camp.
Many people's curtains were opened, and there were even children looking here with curious faces.
The camp is isolated from the rest of the world.
None of the villagers had seen Tang people or Tang soldiers.
At this moment, when they saw these Liangzhou soldiers in armor suddenly breaking into the camp, they didn't realize what was going on.
There were even some stupid people who walked out of the tent and looked at this place with their feet raised.
Seeing this scene, Li Chongyi shook his head helplessly.
These people living in the isolated mountains and forests are really innocent and cute...
Li Chongyi turned around and made an encircling gesture towards the general behind him.
Then, under the command of the general, Liangzhou soldiers spread out and surrounded the camp.
At this time, a middle-aged man who looked like a patriarch walked out of the crowd.
He took two steps forward, faced Li Chongyi and asked, "Who are you? Why did you come to our tribe?"
He spoke the language of the Lin tribe, which Li Chongyi could not understand at all.
In the early years, due to the influence of Chinese culture in the Northern Desert, Chinese began to be spoken in the southern and eastern parts of the Northern Desert.
It is true that the Khitan and Xi people have their own languages, but they basically all speak Chinese, and only a small number of people speak their own languages.
Although Li Chongyi couldn't understand what he said.
But he made a move that was enough for anyone to understand.
He rode up to the middle-aged man, then raised his knife and chopped off his head.
The latter still had a look of surprise on his face, but his head had already bounced into the air, and the blood sprayed out dyed the white snow crimson.
Li Chongyi took back his sword and said with a stern face: "Tie up everyone here and keep them under strict supervision. No one is allowed to let go."
"Anyone who dares to escape will be shot without mercy."
Following his order, five thousand Liangzhou soldiers rushed forward.
There are not many people in the village, and they are all hunters. They have never been on the battlefield. How can they be the opponents of these old soldiers from Liangzhou?
Not long after, all the men, women, and children in the camp were tied together and thrown into the ice and snow.
The old Liangzhou soldiers didn't care about anything else and hurriedly got into the tent to keep warm and rest.
This miserable tent contained nothing but a charcoal brazier.
But at this moment, in the eyes of these soldiers, this place is more like heaven than heaven.
Li Chongyi came to a relatively small tent.
Two Liangzhou soldiers walked in first and checked inside.
After confirming that there was no one inside, they all exited the camp and handed over to Li Chongyi: "General, you can go in."
Li Chongyi nodded and stepped into it.
He went straight to the stove in the camp and added a few firewood nearby to the fire.
While rubbing his hands, he said to the soldiers beside him: "Go find something to eat, preferably something warm."
"Yes, General."
The two agreed and walked out of the tent to look for food.
Li Chongyi shook off his frozen hands, took out the map Li Chengqian gave him from his arms and spread it on the ground.
The map was drawn by Li Chengqian himself, and the description above is obviously much more detailed than ordinary maps.
And even if Li Chengqian asked Li Chongyi to go to the Beimo Grassland to rest, he was not idle at all.
Every day, he would send Ba Tianlei to the Xi tribe to investigate the situation and further complete the missing areas on the map.
Li Chongyi stared in the direction of the King's Tent of the King's Tribe and narrowed his eyes: "Just wait, I'll be here soon."
