Chapter 30 Yellow Bird
When a ray of dawn appeared on the horizon, the forest was still dark. Under the influence of the already formed biological clock, Li Shaobing and others woke up one after another.
At the same time, a dozen unkempt guys carrying axes, saws, ropes and other things walked out of the auxiliary barracks to the east outside Yan'an City, rubbing their sleepy eyes.
They didn't know what kind of medicine Captain Guo Qinglin took wrongly. Before going to bed last night, he had to break up the original group and form a new team, as if he had a devilish obstacle, and kicked himself out so early. But there was something that made them happy: everyone received two big meat buns! Everyone was talking and speculating in low voices, munching hot buns, and walked along the city wall to the official road outside the north gate.
In order to facilitate the reception of wood and manufacture of rafts, the auxiliary military camp was stationed outside the east gate of the city - the upstream Jinming River, Yanshui River and Xichuan River merged here and made a nearly ninety-degree bend here, turning to the east. And merge into the Yellow River in Yanchang County. There are more than twenty small boats moored on the shore half a mile upstream. This is where the timber is stopped. Soon, these small boats will be parked in the Yanshui, and the auxiliary soldiers will use long poles with iron hooks to drag the wood that the logging team has drifted down into the Yanshui to the adjacent workshop. Here the tree trunks were planed into planks and then made into rafts.
When this small group of logging auxiliary soldiers arrived outside the north gate of Yan'an Mansion, they were all startled by the sight in front of them, and all their sleepiness disappeared.
A small team has been assembled here: more than fifty knights leading the saddled horses started to form the team at the front. In the middle were one hundred and fifty warriors with swords on their backs, arranged in three columns, and another fifty with bare hands arranged in another line. The experienced old guy in the death team proudly showed off to the newbies in a low voice: "Tsk tsk, don't you understand, don't you? Look, the one who is crossing the sword is the sword player, and the one who is empty-handed is the spear player. Don't you think that everyone is naked? A, there must be a few carriages following the city gate behind them, with horses, spears, coats of armor, bucklers, etc. all on them!"
"Why is this so?" the person listening asked quietly.
"Why are you like this? Are you stupid? The commander is going to fight! Wearing a suit of iron weighing dozens of kilograms and walking dozens of miles, do you still need to fight? You will be exhausted!"
"A war? Who does the commander want to fight?"
"Who is the commander going to fight? Well, he's not a commander, how do you know! Does your child look like a commander? If he were a commander, I'd kill you first! Hahaha. Huh, look at this battle, anyway. Someone has to lose their life today..."
"Step aside!"
The showy preaching was interrupted by Guan Jianlin's loud shout. Then several horses passed by the auxiliary corps, gradually accelerated to a trot, and galloped along the official road to the north in the direction of Ansai. They raised a cloud of dust, and the guys in the auxiliary corps covered it with their hands. Mouth and nose, he coughed softly, and no one spoke anymore.
Luo Shifan insisted on following him to watch the excitement. In fact, this was what Luo Yonghao meant. Master Luo knew that he was a very smart person. But here's the sad thing: I got into bad luck with the wrong person, and my son's future was also delayed. Needless to say, the road to the imperial examination was basically hopeless: Shenmu County was "forgotten" twice in the triennial plan. "" It just shows that adults have never forgotten some people and some things, and they have always kept them in their hearts! Now that father and son have boarded Guan Shengyun's boat, intelligence is not enough. If he wants to survive in the den of thieves, the son must have some "bandit" nature. This kind of actual combat with prepared versus unprepared troops and an absolute advantage of four to five times the force, there was no suspense about the outcome. It was a perfect opportunity for my precious son to experience it, so he specially said hello to Guan Shengyun. Guan Shengyun knew that Ronaldinho and Guan Jianlin were very close, so Guan Jianlin naturally had nothing to say if the explanation continued. Gu Baihua already had great respect and admiration for the two masters, so he specially appointed three more good soldiers who did not need to participate in the battle and devoted themselves to protecting the safety of the young master.
Luo Shifan looked at the team, tilted his head and pondered for a while, suddenly remembered something, and murmured a few words to Gu Baihua, then he pulled Guan Jianlin, and a few horses rode out of the crowd, heading towards Ansai County first.
In the forest dozens of miles away.
Last night, the auxiliary soldiers drank every bit of the bone soup and refilled it with stream water. The embers in the stove kept the iron pot at a suitable temperature. In the dim light, everyone urinated at night, and then stuffed as much dry food as possible into their stomachs with hot water. When the auxiliary soldiers removed the iron pot and shoveled a few shovels of earth to extinguish the remaining fire, the soldiers came to the creek, filled their own water hyacinths, then arranged their equipment, put on their half-armours, picked up their weapons, and laughed and laughed. let's go. Traveling through the forest is much more difficult than walking on the official road. You can walk more than ten or twenty miles on the official road in an hour. In the same time, you can travel up to four or five miles in the forest and mountains, and the physical exertion is greater.
The infantry soldiers were very happy: although most of them were originally soldiers, but in Changchun, how could there be any elite soldiers in a small and broken county? Being pulled out and sneaking behind enemy lines is just a rush to get on the shelf! But things are different from now on: even though my hands were shaking like shaking in the past two days, and then I vomited all over... Now I have the look of a soldier who has seen blood and even killed people with my own hands! After I go back, at least I'll have a good time, and maybe I can become a general manager. Not only will he be superior to others in the camp, but he may also be able to eat horse soldiers' food...
Setting off early, just after Tatsushiki (7 to 9 a.m.), the auxiliary troops arrived at the designated location: about five or six miles south of the hill where the ambush was discovered, there was a trail winding toward the forest to the east. An auxiliary soldier muttered that the captain of the country had just listened to a few words from some guy and decided to designate this position. His own group just came yesterday! It is indeed very close to the official road and the river bank, but the few mature trees were all cut down and pushed into Yanshui yesterday. The rest is not even thick enough to eat at the mouth of a bowl. To find suitable aniseed ingredients, you can only go a long way inside. But if you don't obey, you will be starved and whipped. You can only bite the bullet and go deeper, cursing in your heart.
No one noticed that there was a lonely boat tied more than half a mile south of the opposite bank.
If you look down from the air, you will find that there are also three or five small boats parked sparsely on the long stretch of Yanshui in the north. Four or five miles further south, just out of sight, the cavalry and infantry teams outside the north gate in the morning had already moved up. The soldiers who had already put on armor were sitting quietly on both sides of the official road. Waiting for orders.
At the same time, on the beach near the Yellow River in Yanchuan County, Zhao Ergou, who figured out how to distinguish the left and right feet and triggered a fight, took over Li Shaobing's job and was cursing and training the new recruits. The riding whip in his hand hit them from time to time. The unlucky man whipped him in the face.
In Yan'an Mansion, Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao were chatting and waiting for news.
It is true that Guan Shengyun was literate and hyphenated, but after all, he had not received systematic formal education. He only knew some things but did not know what they meant. Suddenly a question came to mind and he asked: "Master, as the saying goes, 'Is it the king in the world who leads the land, or is it the king's ministers'. It can be seen that the master of the world was the king in the Spring and Autumn Period. Guan also heard about Zhou The title of Emperor. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, Ying Zheng claimed to be emperor in order to distinguish himself from other countries. What is the significance of these two words?"
In ancient times with strict hierarchical concepts, when people talked about the emperors of the past dynasties, they rarely called them by their first names. They often referred to them by their reign names or temple names. However, Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng and his second son Hu Hai are rare exceptions because they are cruel, stupid and short-lived. (Another exception is Wang Mang, who said all the nice things to pretend to be sensible when he was not in power, and did all the bad things after he took office).
Luo Yonghao was startled when he heard this. He does know these contents, but this topic is a bit too sensitive. If you accidentally step over the edge, you will be in disaster. This is the first time that you have talked about it so unscrupulously! Then he smiled self-deprecatingly: He was personally involved in such a serious clan crime as open rebellion, and he was still a core member. So what if he said a few words about the emperor?
So he said: "Commander, there is a lot of emphasis here. Do you know the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors we usually talk about?"
Guan Shengyun said: "Well, Guan has read "Historical Records". The three emperors are the emperor of heaven, the emperor of earth, the emperor of Tai, and the five emperors are Huangdi, Zhuanxu (yin Zhuanxu), Di Ku (yinku), Tang Yao, and Yu Shun."
Luo Yonghao picked up the teacup and took a sip and continued: "The Marshal is right. This is where the two words "Emperor" come from. Taking it apart, 'Emperor means Da Ye, Zhong Ye and Guang Ye'. Supreme. "Emperor" refers to those whose virtues match those of heaven and earth. Before the pre-Qin Dynasty, these two words could not be called "kings" in the human world. They specifically refer to heaven, gods and humans, including the three emperors and the five emperors, who are all extraordinary people. In the human world, the greatest person is called "king". ', such as King Wen and King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty. The queen was called the 'Son of Heaven', the proud son of heaven, and the power of the king was granted by God. When the Zhou Dynasty declined and all the princes were called kings, the king's title gradually became worthless. Later, as a sign of For example, King Zhao of Qin claimed to be the 'Western Emperor', and King Qi Min claimed to be the 'Eastern Emperor'... The word 'emperor' fell to the mortal world and was no longer so supreme. After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, , there is also discussion about the title of emperor. Prime Minister Wang Guan, Tingwei Li Si and others persuaded Ying Zheng to call him "Emperor Tai". Gai, the end of the great, medium and light god is also the end of the god - the end of the god, but the extreme of the human. However, Ying Zheng felt that his contribution to unifying the world was unprecedented. He also sent Xu Fu to find the immortal immortal recipe, hoping to live up to his longevity and become one of the gods. However, he rejected it and used the word "emperor" together. He also wanted to pass it on to all generations, so he called himself "the first emperor". ', said: 'After generations can be counted, the second and third generations will be passed on to all generations, and will be passed down to infinity.' Unexpectedly, the second generation died, and after that, no one who has conquered the world can think of anyone who is both honorable and unparalleled and has evidence to test. He said, so the emperor called him down all the way."
Guan Shengyun stuck out his tongue: "Oh my God! I usually speak smoothly, but I didn't expect that there are so many details in these words..."
Near noon, Li Shaobing finally heard the sound of people and the sound of logging.
As expected, the thieves didn't pay any attention to the auxiliary soldiers who had not returned in the past two days. This place is so good, almost reaching the end of the dense forest where it is barely passable. Further east, there are dense vines and vines, which are tangled together and completely block the road ahead. And there are quite a few people listening to the noise - hehe, no matter how many people there are, they are still unarmored auxiliary soldiers. If you scare them with a few words, they will be killed like those guys the day before yesterday. With a wave of his hand, the infantrymen who had already put on their armor dispersed in understanding, and quietly gathered at a distance. Horses were not allowed to move in most places in the forest, and the horsemen were waiting along the edge of the forest. Li Shaobing came out of the forest, greeted everyone to get on their horses, and entered the trail one after another.
Not long after he entered the forest again, he heard a faint explosion in the air. Li Shaobing felt nervous and turned around to listen. Through the sparse branches and leaves, a trace of light yellow smoke was left in the southern sky. The wind blows away.
Li Shaobing was all too familiar with this kind of smoke mark: Although generals have their own habits and the meanings of fireworks are also different, there is no doubt that the only fireworks that can reach such a height are those specially used for military liaison!
Realizing that something was going wrong, Li Shaobing shouted loudly and called to his companions: "There's a scam! Run!" After shouting a few times, he turned his horse's head and ran back to the way he came.
Just as they were riding up the official road, they saw smoke and dust rising from the south in the distance: it was a cavalry team, galloping towards them!
Knowledge points in this article:
1. In ancient times, when marching, unless they were advancing on alert in enemy territory, and the Tangqi who were exploring forward were blocked by the terrain and could not spread out in a net, generally in most cases the soldiers were not wearing armor, and at most they were sword and shield soldiers carrying sidearms, and the baggage was carried by large troops. It can be transported by vehicle or simply carried by auxiliary soldiers so that the soldiers can maintain their physical strength at all times.
2. The origin of the title of emperor.
