Anyondo, this is the name he gave himself after joining the army.
His hometown is in the Xi'an area. He doesn't have even an acre of land or a sheep. He relies on renting land from the landlord's family and helping the landlord to herd and raise horses to make a living.
Ever since Anyong could remember, he had been hungry until he was sixteen years old when he heard that an official was recruiting soldiers in the county: he needed to be young and strong, and he needed to be able to ride a horse.
Once selected, Anjia will not only be given food, but will also be paid monthly in the future.
He also said that this was a recruitment of soldiers, and there was no need to be included in the military household. After serving as a soldier for a few years, he could be disarmed and return to the field.
After Anyongduo heard the news, he went to apply without any hesitation. Not only him, but also several other young men from his hometown who could ride horses also ran to apply.
After all, they can't survive.
Of course, they also kept an eye on it and carefully inquired whether they really did not need to be listed as military households.
This is very important, more important than food and salary.
Anyongdo and the others don't want to be recruited as soldiers and then become military households inexplicably.
That is absolutely impossible.
The military households these days are very miserable. Even An Yongduo's family does not have an acre of land and relies entirely on renting the land from the landlord's family in the village and helping the landlord herd and raise horses. They are all looked down upon. Military households.
After all, for the rest of their lives, the children and grandchildren of a military household will have to be serfs to the officials and will not be able to stand up.
Not to mention being a serf, and if there is a war, you will be asked to bring your own food and use it as cannon fodder on the battlefield.
The most important thing is that even though you work as a serf and work hard, you still don’t have enough to eat.
Now in their hometown, even the poorest families are unwilling to marry their daughters to local military households.
This military household is absolutely undeserving.
After An Yongming inquired carefully with several fellow villagers and confirmed that this was a real recruitment, rather than using the name of recruiting soldiers to lure people into military households, he felt relieved to apply for the army.
When he applied for the army, he relied on his somewhat acceptable riding skills, which he had honed as a child herding horses for landlords. He was finally selected and became a cavalry member of the Yulin Frontier Army.
Later, he followed his superiors to the grasslands to fight Tatars, but more often he followed the officials to suppress thieves.
Especially after the current emperor ascended the throne, thieves appeared in endless numbers in the Shaanxi-Gansu area, and these officers and soldiers were forced to suppress thieves every day.
Not to mention how good this life was, it was still manageable. In the early years when food and wages were abundant, he even saved money to send home.
But starting three or four years ago, his cavalry unit began to be transferred to the hinterland of Shaanxi to fight. After being far away from the base, food and salary supply began to become difficult.
Starting last year, they followed the great master Hong Chengtao in his expeditions to the north and south to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang and other bandits.
The hard work and danger of fighting in the north and south is nothing. The problem is that food and wages are becoming increasingly scarce. By this year, they will not even have food...
It was precisely because of the lack of food that they robbed a gentry's granary to fill their stomachs. As a result, they got into big trouble, and the superiors wanted to investigate and kill them.
As a result, under the leadership of Li Tonglin, nearly two hundred people who participated in this incident immediately mutinied and became rebels...
An Yongming was also among them. He didn't say he wanted to be a rebel, but he just inexplicably changed from an officer to a rebel.
But this is not important. After all, being a soldier is just a matter of food. There is not much difference between serving as a soldier for the imperial court and serving as a soldier for Li Tonglin.
To be honest, An Yongming liked his life in the past few months, even though he was chased by the officers and soldiers behind him and had to run away from time to time.
But I can still have enough to eat and occasionally make a little money to spend.
The most important thing is that there is no longer the kind of official who would beat and scold them at every turn, or let them attack the rebel army with superior strength.
Although Li Tonglin and the other leaders are also leaders, in order to win over people's hearts, these people usually pretend that they are all brothers, sharing joys and sorrows together, and enjoying life together, so they treat the cavalry who followed the mutiny quite well. .
Therefore, these cavalrymen have fewer mountains above their heads. At least no one is willing to beat or scold them, forcing them to die as cannon fodder.
Two months ago, Fei Bingcai selected his personal soldiers. With his excellent riding and shooting ability, Fei Bingcai took a fancy to him and chose him to be Fei Bingcai's personal soldiers.
Whether Fei Bingcai is good to outsiders, whether he is ambitious or not is another matter, but the dozen or so soldiers under his opponent are still quite good, at least he has not treated An Yongming and others badly in terms of treatment.
This was also the reason why when Fei Bingcai gathered his troops for a confrontation and then left with An Yongming and the others, everyone chose to continue to follow Fei Bingcai.
An Yongming and the others couldn't care that much about other things, and they couldn't understand right from wrong, but he knew that if they followed Fei Bingcai, Fei Bingcai would not treat them badly.
Originally, he thought he would follow Fei Bingcai into the ravine, then run outside and continue living the same life as before.
But unexpectedly, as soon as he and Sun formed a gang and broke up, Scar couldn't wait to kill Fei Bingcai with a knife...
Fei Bingcai's death is nothing. Anyway, An Yongming doesn't have much loyalty to Fei Bingcai. After all, they are just a pure superior-subordinate relationship. If Fei Bingcai is still alive, An Yongming will naturally work for him, but Fei Bingcai was already dead, but An Yongming would not fight Scar just for a dead man.
At that moment, he even thought about it. Since Fei Bingcai was dead, he could just go to Scar's side.
You still have to live your life.
But the thought lasted only a few seconds before disappearing.
Because Fei Bingcai’s nephew killed Scar with another knife...
Well, now it's better, even turning to Scar is no longer an option.
What to do next?
Are you fooling around with a few other headless flies? Or should he simply run away and become a refugee alone?
This is not okay.
It's noisy outside these days, and food is hard to find. It's easy for them to starve to death just by hanging around outside...
You are more likely to starve to death if you are alone.
At that time, some people said that they would go back and join Sun Chengcheng again, and he followed the crowd and came back with the others.
An Yongming felt that he was just fooling around with Fei Bing anyway, and he was fooling around with Scar.
Similarly, following Sun Chengli was just a way of making ends meet.
He was not that particular, so he happily followed the others back to find Sun Chengcheng. After coming back, the dozen or so of them were first placed nearby. It is estimated that Sun Chengcheng and the others had to discuss how to arrange themselves. .
Don't worry about killing them, the big guys don't have any hatred. If people like me come back to join Sun Chengli, Sun Chengcheng won't have to kill them.
Moreover, everyone is also a sensible person. They know that Sun Chengcheng is short of people, and Sun Chengli is even more aware that he is short of people.
Not to mention that there were more than a dozen of them, but they were still a dozen or so people who were good at riding and shooting, and could charge on horseback with spears and sabers when necessary.
Sun Chengli had no reason not to want it.
So everyone waited with peace of mind.
Not long after this, there was news.
A good friend of Anyongduo came back and sat next to Anyongduo. He first grabbed a kettle and took a sip of water, and then said to Anyongduo: "I asked Xiazi Wang about it. We, this group of people, are going to separate." Send reinforcements to the left, right, and center armies, and then transfer people from the left, right, and center armies to complement General Sun's personal army."
Anyong said: "Blind Wang? Is he the one-eyed dragon under General Sun?"
"Yes, that's him. He is now the sentry officer of the general's personal army. Damn, we haven't seen each other for a few hours, and this blind man Wang has changed from a soldier to an official."
After hearing this, Anyongduo stopped arguing on this topic. Now that Sun Chengli is the leader, the status of several close soldiers around him will naturally increase. It is normal for Wang Xiazi to become a sentry of the soldiers.
Anyondo was even more concerned about his own fate: "You just said that the general wants to add us to the left, center and right armies?"
The companion said: "Yes, Blind Wang said it himself."
Hearing this, Anyongduo looked a little worried.
Don't think that he is just a big-headed soldier who doesn't know anything.
There were no secrets in this small team. He knew very well that Sun Chengli had roped in Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He, and had specially set up left, right, center and three armies for these three people.
Sun Chengli's close men became the pro-army, which was the same as Li Tonglin's pro-army in the past.
However, these three people are not Sun Chengli's old subordinates or confidants. In fact, their relationship is that of allies who were forced to reach a cooperation agreement in a short period of time due to reality.
What if they go to join the left, right, center, and three armies in the future? What if Sun Chengcheng wants to deal with Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He?
Is there another breakup or even a fight?
This is not fun.
Seeing Anyongduo frowning, the companion on the side added: "But I also asked about it, and it was said that Military Advisor Luo wants to select his own soldiers from among us first."
An Yongming said: "Commander Luo? Is he Mr. Luo who was rescued from Luoyang City? I remember that he used to be in charge of food and grass. How did he become a military counselor?"
The companion said: "That's all in the old calendar. Now General Sun has become the leader, and even a few of his soldiers have become sentry officers. And Mr. Luo is General Sun's confidant. This is a big deal." The title of a military advisor is quite normal."
"And you also know that Mr. Luo is a scholar and will not fight in battle like us rough guys. Now if he encounters officers and soldiers, someone must protect him, so he has arranged a few soldiers for him. It’s also reasonable!”
After hearing this, Anyong thought for a moment and then said: "Mr. Luo only chooses four people?"
The companion said: "Well, there are only four, not one more!"
The companion glanced at An Yongduo at this time, and then said: "Lao An, you have to work harder to be selected later. This Mr. Luo is not an ordinary person. Even though he is young, don't think he can't even swing a knife." , but let me tell you, Mr. Luo is very capable!"
"If you are really chosen to be his personal soldier, the benefits will be huge!"
