Chapter 482(1/2)
Rescue turned into a party.
The soldiers on Qin Fenglu were very happy about this result. The Yan'an Prefecture has seized too many cattle and sheep, but there is no winter grass, so it can only be slaughtered and let the soldiers eat openly.
Early in the morning, Qin Fenglu soldiers who came from afar saw cows and sheep dismembered by Ku Ding and turned into dark red beef and mutton.
It didn't take long to freeze.
"What's going on? Why not still in the pot?"
The anxious soldiers were very dissatisfied with this slow approach. Especially when they saw the chefs still boiling their bones in the big pot, the aroma of meat drifted in the camp along the heat from the lid of the pot.
"Why don't this uncle put the meat in the pot?"
An anxious soldier came forward to ask, and the chef chuckled and said, "It's cold, make a bite of hot food for your brothers. It's going to snow. You can't wait for the brothers who come from afar."
"You can eat a bite of hot meat in a pot, and you can also eat hot soup. Isn't it good?" The soldier said that he was very confused about the kitchen.
"Have you heard of hot pot?"
"Hotpot? What kind of delicacy is this? Is there meat?"
"Radish, ginger, tofu base, bone soup, and boiled meat slices. The meat slices are raw. Use a planer to flake into thin slices. The chopsticks are placed in the pot and then gently burn them. The plump taste and the deliciousness of the juice are so delicious that it makes people unable to extricate themselves. With the aroma of sesame paste, I will never forget it for a year after taking a bite!"
"Don't leave for a year, I want to eat now."
"I can't eat it now, I have to noon, but I can eat a bowl of bone soup."
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Only after a long wait for food can people have more expectations. If the taste is wonderful and the taste can be kept fragrant, for people of this era, the greatest happiness in life is this.
Hotpot can satisfy 30,000 people at the same time, without being unable to serve because of insufficient kitchens.
At noon, there were smoke curling cooking fires everywhere in the camp, and there were snoring of eating and drinking. Although the sound was indecent, they were all military men and they didn't care much about it.
"Why is this brother looking at life?"
Lu Da sat in the crowd, like the Qin Fenglu soldiers around him, holding a bowl, eating meat and drinking soup in small sips. After a while, his forehead was sweating. He suddenly remembered that he was coming with a task, not a scoundrel who came to eat and drink freely. If the hot pot was not too fragrant, he would have forgotten what Li Kui told him for a while, he would never have been so forgot about the food. Even an outsider, he ate more than his master.
Seeing the dozen Qin Fenglu soldiers around him glaring at him, Lu Da smiled and said, "I forgot to introduce it. Someone is the commander of the Tiger Camp in Beijing. There is no other meaning to come here, just to invite brothers to eat and drink."
That being said, the question is, you eat more than everyone else. What does it mean?
Who can believe that this is the host who is here to greet guests?
"My name is Lu Da, a native of Weizhou. Now he is working in the Beijing Camp. I wonder where the people come from?"
The soldiers on Qinfeng Road naturally came from Qinfeng Road. Lu Da's identity as a fellow villager in Qinfeng Road is also considered a member of Qinfeng Road, and it is easy to gain favor.
"We are from Qinzhou."
"From Longyou."
"I'm from Weizhou too."
"Oh, I'm a fellow villager!"
Lu Da greeted him warmly, and at this time he looked like a host. Of course, he was dressed casually, not even wearing armor in the army. Although he had reported a command position, what command was he? He didn't even have the etiquette of commanding. Among the Song army, the commander was the leader of 500 people, that is, the officer who managed 500 soldiers. Not small, he was a serious military officer. He was promoted to a general and was only two levels. He was envied by the lower-level soldiers and the senior generals would take a look at the lowest middle-level officer. However, Lu Da's current identity is still a servant hired by Li Kui. As for saying that he was a commander, he was not talking nonsense.
On the way, Li Kui and Cheng Zhijie reminded him that not only him, but also other low-level officers from the Beijing camp were sent.
There is only one purpose, recruiting people.
The recruitment system is good!
Because the original military households were really useless, and the soldiers in the northwest suffered great losses, they had to adopt a partial recruitment system during the Shenzong period. It can be said that most of the troops in Qinfenglu are recruited by recruiting soldiers. After recruiting soldiers, contracts are generally signed.
But...most of the recruitment contracts in the army have expired.
A well-trained army, or able to go to the battlefield, will need more than one year to train soldiers. In addition, the marching is stationed, and it will be gone in two years before it even goes to the battlefield.
When you can go to the battlefield, you have to wait for the opportunity, right?
But the source of soldiers in the recruitment system is mostly because they lack money. It is said that heroes do not serve as soldiers, and they do not use nails to make nails. Choosing to join the army is definitely because they cannot live at home, and they have to rely on being a soldier to improve their family's difficulties. Soldiers of this era, especially in war zones like Qinfeng Road, who knows how long they can live in a soldier?
Therefore, it is impossible to sign a contract for ten or twenty years, so that you can only die in the army. Many soldiers have a contract deadline, but they find that they have no other survival skills except for being a soldier. As a last resort, they can only stay in the army. Such veterans can be used by them. If they can dig some, they will definitely make a big profit. It is much easier to use than soldiers sent from the capital.
Moreover, the men of Guanzhong were martial and also had blood and were very good at forming an army.
Lu Da came to recruit soldiers with the opportunity to entertain him. With his personality, Li Kui could not keep him by his side as a servant. This guy was not only drinking and causing trouble at home, but also practicing martial arts and sabotaging, and he had no value at home. In addition, Lu Da performed remarkably on the battlefield, so Li Kui simply gave it to Cheng Zhijie.
Cheng Zhijie originally liked to recruit talents, and Lu Da was the one who saved his life on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the soldiers in the Beijing camp are now suffering heavy casualties, including those who were injured and those who died. If you want to rely on the Beijing camp in Beijing to supplement it, you really don’t know when the horse will arrive. Li Kui thought about it and took the opportunity to welcome the friendly forces to try to poach the corner.
At that time, Lu Da was not very interested, but Li Kui's words made his wrong thoughts suddenly swell.
Li Kui said at the time: "If you can bring the soldiers from Qinfeng Road, one is counted as one, and there are five people, you are the commander of the sergeant. What are the commanders of ten people? Twenty-five people are two, one hundred people are the commanders of the sergeants, and five hundred people are the commanders of you."
Luda's eyes were red at that time. He could do it in just one day from a servant to a lieutenant. No matter how big the risk was, he had to take a try.
Staring at Li Kui, he asked, "This is what you said seriously!"
Li Kui was not afraid of trouble, so he agreed: "I am still the supervisor of the Tiger Camp. After this battle, the old man Hao Sui had already sent a secret report to His Majesty. In a few days, the Tiger Camp will be formed, with at least 7,000 troops expanding. As soon as the army is formed, Lu Da, and whether you can seize the opportunity depends entirely on your performance."
That's why Lu Da was hiding in the Qinfeng Road camp. As for the fact that people were brought in, it was easy to deal with. The civil servants came to understand the military affairs, and the generals probably could only swallow their teeth.
However, Lu Da is more powerful than being an official, but he doesn't have the temperament of an official, which makes people wonder.
"Lu... Commander, you don't look like it!"
"It's not that I don't look very much like it. Before, I was just my master's personal guard. I didn't expect that during the Battle of Jinming Village, I killed the head of the enemy general. The grace of my master made me command."
"Impossible, how could a personal guard be able to be promoted to level seven or eight after a battle? Are you fooling around?"
Everyone is a veteran in the army. Unreliable promotion method like Lu Da is unique in the army. Lu Da was refuted, but he didn't care at all. He pulled a ball of meat from the pot and sent it into his mouth with oil flowing from the corner of his mouth, and had no image at all. But in the army, this behavior of not focusing on appearance will arouse the favor of the soldiers.
Lu Da held the chopsticks, but he was like a point of guidance: "Don't believe it. My grandfather is from a Jinshi master. He was the Zhimi Pavilion next to His Majesty. Now he has come to the northwest to serve as the military supervisor of the front army of Fuyan Road. But this alone is not enough to let me serve as the commander. However, isn't it enough for me to kill General Xiang of the Dang and Qiman in front of the formation? "
"Did you kill Eqiman? He is the deputy general of Tie Yaozi. I don't know how many robes we Qin Fenglu's brother died under his knife."
Everyone immediately respected Lu Da. The army admired the strong, and the strong people who could kill the enemy's generals would naturally be respected by the soldiers in the army.
Lu Da laughed and said, "It's shameful to say that Eqiman is not easy to deal with. If my elders hadn't killed him, it would be very difficult for me to keep Eqiman. Fortunately, this person met my military supervisor."
"You don't know that now there are cattle and sheep in our army, and we have no forage, so we can only eat meat every meal. Look, the roasted rice balls in my mouth are all eaten by meat."
After praising his achievements, Luda and Li Kui began to show off his military food.
I can’t finish the meat, this is just the beginning.
"You don't know yet? My general is the brother-in-law of Grandmaster Liu and the brother-in-law of Concubine Xian. His Majesty's previous senior official, Eunuch Hao, is the one in the palace..." As he spoke, Lu Da raised his thumb to show that Hao Sui's status was noble.
"Just talk about the past few days, there were too many Western Xia war horses seized in the army. Those who were not very good-looking and not strong in their bodies were given to the soldiers. Each person could get a war horse. Some injured people could recover as long as there were grooms who were good at raising horses. If such a war horse would have to be sold for at least a thousand guan in the capital. Unfortunately, the price was not available in Fushi City. The best one was only 200 guan, and almost had a hundred guan. Brothers sold the horses, and the money was opened for a while, and they could send fifty or sixty guan to their homes."
Gudong, I was so envious that I swallowed my saliva.
Without comparison, there is no harm.
The soldiers on Qin Fenglu wanted to put Lu Da in the soup pot jealously. After hearing this guy's words, can't they live the hard life in the future?
One of the most powerful men looked at Luda with a bad look and sneered: "Brother, what do you mean by saying this?"
"Brothers, the opportunity is here. My Tiger Camp wants to expand its army. As long as you come, there will be an official." Lu Da pointed to the strong man who spoke and asked, "Brothers are two elders, right?"
"No, Chief Soldier." The strong man who was in charge of the five people was very lonely, and he felt depressed that he could not raise his head in front of his fellow villagers. But what about the two seniors, but they were in charge of twenty-five people?
Luda patted her chest and said, "Isn't this abstaining from others? Brother, come to my brother, I'll give you a commander, how about it?"
The man was stunned. The commander of the pawnsman was in charge of a hundred people, and there was also a saying that he was called the commander of the centurion. This is already a rank and rank official in the army. Can it be obtained so easily?
Of course not.
Luda bewitched: "Brothers, listen to me. My commander is empty now. If you come, except for the commander, you can't give you any other official positions. One is counted as one, five people are the commander, and ten people are the commander. If one hundred people come, it will be a great deal to give a commander."
"Brothers, have you ever thought about it? How can you spend enough money when you serve in the army?
"It's not as high as your Beijing camp. The military pay of our Western Army belongs to the second level of the imperial guards, only two silos."
Lu Da slapped his thigh and suddenly said, "But do you know how much the salary of a soldier is for a month? There are twenty-five stakes in the Beijing camp! Brothers, people are going to the high places and water flows to the low places. I don't want to take a fight at this time, so when will I wait?"
The man was so excited that he was blushed by his twenty-five-ton salary that he lowered his head and seemed to fall into silence. Lu Da knew that only one sentence was needed at this time to make the other party feel moved: "If you follow the general, it would be better to become a general?"
A fifth-rank military officer can be regarded as the youngest general.
Such a family is simply disdainful to the aristocratic families that have passed on the family traditions of poetry and books. However, for ordinary martial artists who only have martial arts but have no chance to make a name for themselves, they have great new gravity. Moreover, Li Kui is still fanning the flames: "My general is a royal relative, and his military achievements are just a false reputation and not affordable. He can be rewarded as long as he makes contributions. My military supervisor is a Jinshi master. Although the civil servant looks down on us, he disdains to swallow everyone's military merits. There is also the eunuch around His Majesty, this eunuch who can write secret letters to His Majesty..."
"Okay, Brother Lu, stop talking. You know, my general is not easy to mess with. If someone goes to your military camp, if my general comes to ask for someone, I will be asked for it. When I get asked back, I will have to peel off my skin."
The man's tone was very strong, and he was obviously very worried that Lu Da was just a verbal trick. If he heard the instigation, he took his brothers to the Beijing camp without authorization, and in order to increase his military salary by several hundred liters a month, he would have to touch the thunder of military law. They would not have the courage. Or, it would be worth it at all.
Before coming, Lu Da had received a face-to-face instruction from Li Kui, and he proudly raised a finger: "Now Su Xiang is in Fushi, he is a senior of my military supervisor."
"Master Zhang is the elder of my military supervisor."
When the man heard the names of these two people, he was fine. In the northwest, no one could afford to provoke these two civil servants. Even the general Liu Yannian had to take a detour. He immediately made up his mind and whispered: "Sir, please see the commander!"
Lu Da trembled all over with a smile: "Okay, in the future, everyone will be the robes of brothers who will live and die together, so they are called brothers. But you guys, you should go and recruit people. Remember, when you go to the Tiger Camp, just report my name to the camp gate. It doesn't matter if you have too many people, maybe my elders will promote me. Even if I don't get promoted, I can't let go of my command. Don't worry, no one of the agreed official positions will be missing. You still have time to go, don't bring weapons or wear armor, and the Beijing camp is not short of this little money."
Qinfeng Road, there was just a meal in the camp. The camp officials looked at the fewer people in the front camp. After ordering Mao, the bad food was broken. The camp with 10,000 people was missing two thousand people.
There was nothing unusual about the central army.
Zuoying...
"Not good, Captain Wang, someone is recruiting people in the army."
To be continued...