Zhu Jinzhong's bed made a lot of noise, making the guards outside the room drool with envy.
But they are not bad either. Although they don't have the glamorous stuff from Tanzhou, it's not hard to find prostitutes worth three to five dollars.
For someone like them who is the coach's personal companion, it's definitely not okay to sleep with their arms around them all night, but it's still okay to go out and have a good time.
This is because there were a large number of women accompanying the Chu army.
Moreover, these women were not forcibly recruited or even plundered. Most of these women came here on their own initiative.
There are Han people and barbarians from various streams and caves. The common characteristics are that the family will be extremely poor.
In such troubled times, people's demand for morality is not that high.
Of course, no one dared to approach the Khitan and some Jiedu Ya soldiers in the Central Plains, whose army relied mainly on robbery, not to mention military pay, for food and grass. However, in Ma Chu, soldiers were paid.
Moreover, Chu State may seem large, but its essence is actually located on the Dongting Lake Plain, which is dominated by Tanzhou (Changsha), Langzhou (Changde) and Yuezhou.
Therefore, even if Ma Chubing went out to fight, he would still do relatively little looting and other actions. He was surrounded by fellow villagers, and most people would not be ruthless.
This is why a large number of women follow these soldiers. After three years in the army, sows compete with Diao Chan. Especially when there are many men and they have some military pay in their hands, it is easy to impulsively spend all that money on women.
There are quite a lot of poor women who don't even have enough to eat and are willing to do this as long as the soldiers don't kill or rob.
This is also the reason why Ma Xi'e is so unpopular, because he recruited a large number of Xidong barbarians from Wuling Mountains to loot Tanzhou and broke the rules of Ma Chu Kingdom.
. . . .
The direction Yuan Yougong took Guo Rong and others chose was a small village where a large number of women lived, because this direction was the rear of the entire Ma Chu army and the defense was the loosest.
At this time, it was still very taboo for women to appear on the battlefield, so these women all lived in the rear slightly far away from the Chu army.
The Chu army also believed that this was the safest place, and both officers and soldiers subconsciously relaxed their vigilance in this direction.
Another reason is that there are only some noises in this direction, which will not arouse the Chu army's vigilance too much.
Because on the surface, the generals of the Chu army still have to restrain the soldiers and will not let them fool around with these women openly.
The soldiers often choose to have a refreshing time when it is getting dark or dawn, and even many sentries come here to escape the cold wind at night.
Yuan Yougong looked at Guo Rong seriously, "General, you must make it clear to the warriors under your command that the past two villages here are full of prostitutes. If you want to have fun and be happy, you must defeat Zhu Jinzhong.
If you can't help but have dirty hands and feet now, commit adultery and plunder, and alarm the surrounding You Yi army, all your efforts will be in vain. "
In Yuan Yougong's view, the biggest danger in this trip was not to attack Zhu Jinzhong, but to pass through these two villages full of women.
Most of these prostitutes are young women. They have been in the sex business for so long and they always have some money on them. In the eyes of Zhou Jun, a foreigner, this must be a very good target for robbery.
Woman, rich, weak in resistance, all three.
Guo Rong grinned silently. He waved and summoned a soldier who looked ordinary and somewhat honest, but had already chopped off the heads of eleven Khitan people.
"Zhao Chang, there is a small village in front of you where prostitutes live. You go up and bring trouble to them, and all the money you rob will be yours."
The honest and honest Zhao Chang's eyes suddenly widened. This kid was a bit confused and often couldn't tell whether others were joking or telling the truth.
So when he heard what Guo Rong said, he immediately became anxious. Although he was a little afraid of Guo Rong, he still said with a pinched neck.
"General, what are you trying to do to harm me? I want to make more military exploits, and I will go back to Yunzhou as a patrol officer in the future. I won't go!"
"Still so stupid!" Guo Rong smiled and patted his head, then asked a man next to him who looked a little lanky, but could actually wield five or six pounds of bone and fight for half an hour.
"Xue Cunyuan, are you willing to go?"
When Xue Cunyuan heard Guo Rong's question, he immediately stood up and made a cross-hand salute to Guo Rong, revealing an inexplicable reliability in his rigidity.
"General Lang, don't be ridiculous. According to the military laws of the Zhou Dynasty, those who plunder and fight ten times will be paid five times. Those who commit adultery will be rewarded five times with ten strikes. Those who plunder and commit adultery will be killed without mercy!"
Besides, a certain Xue Cunyuan was rescued from Anxi by a saint. If he violated military laws, how could he have the face to go back to see the saint? "
Xue Cunyuan was already ten years old when Zhang Gao sent Ma Zhaoyuan (Ma Yaozi) to defeat the army of Yu Supu, the governor of Karakhan's Kesai City, and rescued the last descendant of the Anxi Army in New Kucha.
For thirteen years, Xue Cunyuan trembled every time he recalled the afternoon he was rescued.
Because before that, he lived like a mule and horse in the wilderness, being hunted and killed by the Karakhanids and the Saman Persians.
After that, his life immediately became Rome. '
He was the third generation of the Donggui Sect who was the closest confidant of Saint Shaoming. He regarded Zhang Yan as a god. Xue Cunyuan would definitely not do anything that Zhang Yan said should not be done.
Seeing Guo Rong turn his attention to himself, Wang Jingcun quickly waved his hand and said, "General, don't ask the servant. If the servant does it, my brother-in-law will have to beat him to death without waiting for military justice.
Besides, the rank of Chengxinlang is hard-earned, so we must not let it go to waste like this. "
Wang Jingcun's brother-in-law is Zhang Cheng. He is the nephew of Wang's brother, the father-in-law of Shangxiabaima Village.
Zhang Cheng was not only his cousin-in-law, Zhang Cheng's father, the great man of the Zhang family, but also saved his life several times on the battlefield. Therefore, the person Wang Jingcun respected and feared the most was Zhang Cheng.
Wang Jingcun was able to talk to Guo Rong so calmly because he was from the Lanzhou Liugu tribe, the most orthodox Lianglan Liugu sect.
If Guo Rong had not served under Zhang Gao, who was still the king of Han, when he attacked Xiazhou, and had made military exploits by the Hun River, he would not be able to command such a senior Conglong hero.
Guo Rong laughed after hearing this, summoned the one or two hundred people around him, looked at them and asked.
"You are all my good sons and daughters, Da Zhou. Do you remember what the saint said when you entered the military camp?"
Everyone stood up and replied: "No adultery, no robbery, no indiscriminate killing. If you get fame from the horse, you will definitely be called the One in the World!"
After the soldier finished speaking, Guo Rong turned his head and looked at Yuan Yougong proudly, "Brother Yuan, have you seen it? The person in front of you is not a warrior who only knows how to kill indiscriminately, but a good man who is brave and powerful!"
Yuan Yougong immediately bowed his head in front of everyone, "It's a villain's heart. Today I know that there are real heavenly soldiers in the world who do not commit adultery, plunder, or indiscriminate killing. Zhu Jinzhong is dead!"
. . . .
Zhu Jinzhong was indeed dead. It was past Yin hour, and there were still a large number of soldiers wandering around in the village where these two prostitutes lived.
The whole village smelled faintly of wine, and Guo Rong even saw a fool who drank too much and slept outside, and was already frozen into a frozen fish.
It turned out that after Zhu Jinzhong summoned the soldiers to eat and drink yesterday, the soldiers below also started making noises, and Zhu Jinzhong had to order the cook to add rice and meat to the soldiers.
After the banquet, he hugged the Tanzhou prostitute and slept with him. The people below him lost their restraints. A large number of officers followed the same example and even stayed in the prostitute's home and never returned to the camp.
The officials were like this, and the soldiers were even more unruly. In addition, the Zhou army had been weak in attacking these days, so the soldiers regarded Lishui as a natural danger, and became more and more contemptuous of the Zhou army and acted unscrupulously.
Wang Jingcun and Xue Cunyuan stood side by side. They were in the same situation.
Before Wang Jingchen and Zhang Gao came, the whole family had been herding cattle for the leader, and their life was extremely difficult.
His father's legs were broken by Dong Puqiong just because a wolf took away a half-grown calf.
In the end, because he lost his source of livelihood, Wang Jingcun's father refused to eat and starved himself to death in bed in order not to burden his wife and children.
Wang Jingcun still remembers that early morning, when his mother found a handful of wheat from nowhere, cooked porridge, knelt on the ground and cried and begged his father to take a bite, but his father pointed his finger at him, meaning that he wanted to keep the stutter. he.
Therefore, when Guo Rong asked him just now if he would go plundering, what Wang Jingcun really wanted to say was that even if he, Wang Jingcun, starved to death, he would not bully those weak women who were suffering.
It is his pursuit to kill all those cruel guys who are unkind for the sake of wealth and equally distribute the land in the world to the poor.
The same goes for Xue Cunyuan, who didn't wear any pants until he was ten years old. From the time he can remember, he has been following his relatives around, being chased around like wild dogs by various forces.
He had read a few more books than Wang Jingcun, and he could better understand what Zhang Yan often told them, the meaning of ending troubled times, rebuilding the dynasty, and returning peace to the people of the world.
The two Kushen walked forward side by side. Their armors were rolled up into cylinders and carried behind them. Their long knives and bones were rolled together. What they held in their hands was a long spear.
To be precise, this should be called a hook and sickle gun, and there is a small ring at the end of the hook and sickle gun.
In this way, when marching, the soldiers behind can hook the hooks of the gun heads on the rings at the tails of the soldiers in front, thereby ensuring the formation and reducing falling behind. Especially when passing through mountain roads, this often has a miraculous effect. .
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The Chu army barracks are distributed in a circle around Xiaodukou Town.
On the outermost layer were civilians and a small number of state and county athletes, on the inner layer were the Wu'an Army and barbarian soldiers from various Xidong barbarians, and on the innermost layer were the Langzhou Ya soldiers headed by Wuping Army.
Everyone walked until they were less than half a mile away from Xiaodukou Town, and then stopped.
The ten generals of each team began to take out a big bag from their pockets, and then gave each person a small dumpling.
This is a small rice ball. It is made of polished rice that has been repeatedly steamed and hammered, and then mixed with high-calorie foods such as honey, sugar, and lard. It can quickly restore physical strength. In addition to the rice ball, one person can also drink a sip of spirits.
The soldiers gnawed on the rice balls and drank the strong liquor in one gulp, and immediately felt that some strength had returned to their bodies.
They quickly opened the cotton armor that had been carried on their backs, then quickly put on the cotton armor, tied up the leather belt, and inserted the horizontal knives, bones, and bows and arrows on the leather belt or carried them on their backs.
Hundreds of people moved together, but there was only a slight sound of the friction of armor. Thinking that they walked for almost ten miles without holding coins in their mouths, Yuan Yougong felt that this was normal.
Guo Rong began to assign tasks. They were recruited from different units, so the original organization had been disrupted. The temporarily appointed general Yuhou could not fully control the soldiers.
In this kind of group of brave people, it is not uncommon for soldiers to disobey official matters, so Guo Rong must explain the details clearly and give sufficient authority to General Yuhou and even Shichang.
The defense plan drawn by Yuan Yougong was already memorized by everyone. Guo Rong decided to attack in three groups. The middle group went straight to Zhu Jinzhong's tent, while the left and right groups attacked the left and right sides respectively, set fire to them, and then joined the middle group to attack the enemy's tent.
Guo Rong looked at the seven generals Zhao Kuangyin, Murong Yanzhao, Wang Shenqi, Pan Mei, Lin Renzhao, Lin Renhan, and Yao Keshu beside him and said.
"The Zhonglu family was personally led by a certain family, and Pan Mei, Lin Renzhao, and Yao Kechou followed a certain family. We rushed and fought as fast as possible, rushing into the Chinese army to look for traces of Zhu Jinzhong.
Zhao Kuangyin and Lin Renhan took the left path, while Murong Yanzhao and Wang Shenqi took the right path. The pear gun must be strictly controlled and can only be used to scare the rebels at critical moments. "
. . . .
There were several dim oil lamps floating outside Xiaodukou Town, swaying in the cold wind, looking particularly eye-catching.
A dozen peasants crowded into a den, with some simple hay and some burlap towels from who knows where to cover it, which was a sleeping place.
A dozen civilians were crowded together because of the cold. The person sleeping in the most comfortable position in the middle was a tooth soldier from the Wuping Army. They were here to supervise these civilians.
The tooth soldier grunted, and the campfire beside the nest had long since been extinguished, making this early winter morning even more cold.
He didn't bother to get up, so he randomly hit the leg of a person next to him with the wooden stick in his hand.
"Go! Pick up some firewood and see which camp's fire is not extinguished. Go and light the fire."
The person chosen was a young civilian husband with a very thin figure and wearing only an even thinner linen garment.
He had been freezing when sleeping outside, and now he was even more reluctant to leave this slightly warm nest.
However, he was accustomed to obeying, but he did not dare to challenge the orders of this short and sturdy tooth soldier. He did not even dare to cough loudly, so he could only get up reluctantly.
However, he soon discovered that there seemed to be something flickering in the distance. Unfortunately, Minfu's living conditions were very poor, which caused his night blindness to be a bit serious, so he tried his best to squint, but he still couldn't see clearly.
"Brother Tuesday, what is that flashing thing outside? Did the guy from that camp go out to collect firewood so early?"
The young civilian husband hesitated for a moment, then asked the tooth soldier sleeping in the middle.
"You stupid idiot, you came back after you fucked your mother.
If you don’t hurry up and collect firewood for me to make a fire, you’ll be frozen to death, and I’ll skin you when you get up! "
The tooth soldier, who was called Brother Tuesday, didn't even raise his head and scolded the young civilian husband.
Because the direction the young man was looking at happened to be the village where the prostitutes rested.
Brother Tuesday naturally regarded the flashing lights as the torches held by the generals who had returned from their jobs in style, and naturally felt a little angry in his heart.
The surrounding peasants also echoed with low laughter. The young peasant stood up with some fear, and then prepared to collect firewood.
They live in the outermost areas and are not even qualified to enter the town. If there is insufficient firewood, they may freeze to death at night.
However, he had just taken two steps when he heard a strange sound, like a taut hemp rope suddenly rebounding.
And with this sound, a tooth soldier holding a knife not far in front of him suddenly fell to the ground.
The young man still couldn't see clearly what was going on. He turned around and wanted to ask questions again, but he was more afraid of being scolded, so he could only hesitate to speak in a daze.
Then he saw Brother Tuesday, who was sleeping peacefully in his nest, almost getting up in the air. The speed was completely beyond the imagination of the young citizen.
The villagers didn't know what the sound meant, but Brother Zhou, who had been licking blood from his knife for more than ten years, knew that it was the sound of a crossbow arrow. He suddenly got up and wanted to run into the town.
But it was too late, his figure was so clear on this quiet and cold winter morning.
Murong Yanzhao, who was known as a marksman, gently pulled the trigger and immediately shot the tooth soldier who was running like a wild rabbit on the spot.
The young civilian husband could see clearly now. He saw Brother Zhou being shot through the chest and abdomen with something.
Blood gushed out from Brother Zhou's waist, and he even tried to reach out his hand, hoping that the young man would give him a hand.
But the face of the young citizen suddenly showed the kind of confusion that he didn't know anything and was harmless to humans and animals.
He walked over with peace of mind, held Brother Tuesday's head down, and pushed his mouth that wanted to howl directly into the mud.
(End of chapter)
