The fighting ceased, with both sides completely disengaged.
The soldiers in the camp looked at the devout and frightened savages in the distance, then at their own camp on the verge of collapse, and finally at the colorful balloons floating above their heads, and they felt extremely lucky. And after feeling lucky, my mind was filled with confusion.
Zheng Rui was not the only soldier who had seen a hot air balloon.
In the past few months, the expansion and reorganization of the Ding Navy has been advancing rapidly, and accordingly, the scale of the military academy has also expanded a lot. Not only officers like Wang Bao'er, but many low-level generals and even ordinary soldiers with meritorious service were transferred to military academies for further training. They learned a few words, gained more knowledge, and learned the knowledge about the operation of the regular army, and gradually separated from the brave men. category.
In the process, they also learned that the military academy for serving warriors was only a part of the naval military academy. Another part is dealing with the orphans left behind after the soldiers died in battle.
These orphans obtained the status of soldiers after their elders died in battle, but the Dinghai Navy did not need them to fight in battle for the time being, but instead viciously forced them to go to school.
In that military school, in addition to practicing literature and martial arts, the orphans were also exposed to all kinds of weird miscellaneous subjects. Zheng Rui couldn't figure out what it was exactly. But every now and then, students like him in the military academy, and even soldiers in the military camps around Ye County, would see children having fun outside the city.
Basically, every time they were screaming, posing, and experimenting with some incredible gadgets.
There are iron plows that claim to be able to turn the soil deeper, but require two oxen to pull them; there are carts that are equipped with four wheels but cannot turn; there are small iron artillery pieces that fail to explode seven or eight times out of ten; there are also iron plows that claim to be able to A gun that spits out gravel to hit people, but breaks the barrel of the gun at every turn.
The young men have failed too many times, and the soldiers have also seen too many failures. Zheng Rui always felt that it was Guo Jieshuai who was kind and doting on these babies, so he allowed them to do whatever they wanted.
In particular, a group of teenagers led by Ado have been holding on to the hot air balloon, always saying that they want to build a big guy that can transport people to the sky. And the military government has been pampering them, constantly providing various fabrics and paints, and seems to have customized various special specifications of stoves for this purpose.
That's okay, the families of these children all died fighting for their country. Guo Jiedu is happy to pamper them, so what? Most warriors will die in battle one day. Who doesn't want their family and children to be treated generously and favorably by the commander?
It's just that there are a few more colorful big balls floating in the sky in Yexian County, and they will fall down soon. The soldiers and civilians just looked at it to relieve their boredom, it was not a big deal.
Zheng Rui just didn't understand that even if those weird things yielded results, so what? Take a hot air balloon as an example. When a person goes to the sky, isn't he still a person? Could it be that those who have ascended to heaven have become something else, and their lives on the ground will never end?
Just now when the war was in crisis, Ado proposed to use his newly made hot air balloon to scare the savages. Zheng Rui also thought it was ridiculous.
He didn't even know that Ado had brought this beforehand!
This group of people came to Liaodong for business. What's going on with this guy bringing a hot air balloon? That thing is not small, it takes up half a big car! If there is some space, wouldn't it be good to install a few more armors and swords?
What's more, what's so scary about this hot air balloon? How can it scare people? This Ah Duo would come up with such weird thoughts because he was frightened crazy by the savages!
If the situation wasn't really dangerous, Zheng Rui wouldn't have allowed him to do this fifty or a hundred times, but would have forced the kid to fight on the battlefield with a knife.
But the idea actually worked.
How can it be?
Why are savages so stupid?
Zheng Rui thought about it blankly, and suddenly remembered that when his family saw the hot air balloon for the first time, they made the same fuss. The balloon that time was half the size of the current one. I heard that before taking off, the commander himself came up with the idea and painted a huge eyeball on the balloon, as well as the whites and red eye sockets.
As a result, when the big eyeball took off, half of the people in Ye County and many newly recruited soldiers were frightened. Some people stood on the roof and beat gongs, hoping to scare away the monsters with the sound of the gongs. Others stretched their bows and arrows to shoot, but were scolded by the officers.
This time the balloon is bigger and the pictures are more realistic. It's natural to scare these savages, ahem, that's right.
Perhaps, it is not that the savages are too stupid, but that they are ignorant and cannot understand the reason why the hot air balloon can fly into the sky, so they can only attribute it to the theory of ghosts and gods.
People like Guo Jieshuai have always indulged children in playing with these odds and ends. Perhaps the key lies not in the odds and ends themselves, but in the principles behind them?
Zheng Rui fought bravely, but now he felt a little exhausted. He leaned against the vehicle and rested for a while. And Hodor was right above his head, laughing and yelling loudly.
"What is this silly boy yelling about?" Zheng Rui was not from Bohai and could not understand the words spoken in the Northeast. He could only sigh and asked a soldier next to him: "The hot air balloon is not strong, it is made of cloth! What if he talks nonsense? The gibberish made the savages angry... Whoever raises his hand and shoots an arrow can shoot down this balloon. By then we can still fight to save our lives, but this kid will be smashed into a meat pie first!"
"He just boasted that the picture on this balloon is a god who has come to the world. Anyone who dares to use weapons in front of the god will die without a burial place... Well," the soldier listened again and replied: " Now it is said that a man of God can live ten thousand years if he eats a flat peach."
Zheng Rui was surprised: "Didn't you realize that this silly boy is pretty good at blowing stuff?"
The soldier listened to a few more words and said, "It's the lyrics. He probably watched too many dramas and memorized the lyrics."
"Aren't the dramas these days all about us setting up a navy to defeat the Mongols? There are also stories about gods and monsters?"
"Yes, why not? What this boy is talking about is a section from 'Tieguai, Li Du, Golden Boy and Jade Girl'."
"Oh, I haven't seen it."
"It's very beautiful!" The soldier held the knife, sat down next to Zheng Rui, and said enthusiastically: "Let me tell you, this play is about the golden boy and beautiful girl who thinks about the world..."
The wild Jurchen is still outside. Are you talking to me about Sifan? Is it appropriate to be so relaxed?
Zheng Rui coughed twice and stood up.
After sitting for a while, he felt that his face and body were almost covered with dried sweat and blood, and patches of it were solidified on his beard and hair, which was very uncomfortable.
"Follow me." He said to the soldier: "Let's rearrange the car formation first."
The soldiers quickly followed up and, together with Zheng Rui, slowly dragged the crumbling vehicle back to its original position.
While they were working, a few dull groans could be heard from time to time in the center of the train formation. It was the medical officers in the team who urgently prepared salt water, took hemostatic drugs and clean coarse cloths, and were treating the soldiers.
At the critical moment when the vehicle formation was about to be broken, a sign leader led seven or eight soldiers, jumped out from the vehicle, and fought among the groups of savages. Only then did the vehicle formation maintain the gap that had been opened.
"Gene Era"
The head of this brand was one of the Jurchens who were about to go crazy from hunger in Tunbu, Haicang Town, named Wanyan Luqi. The soldiers said behind their backs that the surname Wanyan was forced upon him, but in fact he had nothing to do with the inner clan of Dajin with the national surname.
Only two of the soldiers who fought with Wanyan Luqi came back. Wanyan Luqi suffered more than ten injuries to his body, and his face was hit so hard that it was only three points away, and his whole face was about to be split in half. When he was snatched back by his men, he was already unconscious. The medical officers worked nervously to rescue him, but Zheng Rui did not have the courage to watch and simply went out to repair the camp.
Not long after, the medical officer came out chasing him.
"How is it?" Zheng Rui asked.
The medical officer nodded, then shook his head: "The bleeding has stopped, but whether he can survive depends on tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"That's good."
Zheng Rui breathed a sigh of relief. When he was about to speak, Aduo in the balloon shouted loudly: "Judge Li Yun and Li are back! And Wang Bao'er is back too!"
