Chapter VIII Joining the Army(1/2)
The mount was still a little inferior. Although Chen Yingliang spent more than half of the copper coins he got from selling his engagement jade pendant to buy the horse, the time was still up when he rushed to the gate of Dongdu City at the risk of running away the horse.
At noon on June 11, the new city of Dongdu was under martial law, and the inner and outer city gates were closed tightly, blocking Chen Yingliang from entering the city to join the army.
After finally arriving here, Chen Yingliang certainly refused to give up. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Yingliang made a small circle around Dongdu and arrived at Anximen in the northeast corner of Dongdu. Judging from the buildings outside the city, Anximen should be
The people could enter and exit the city gate, so they dismounted and walked, leading the horse to slowly approach the city gate. As soon as they got close to the moat, and before they even had time to step onto the stone bridge of the moat, a loud shout came from above the city gate, "
Stop! Are you blind? You didn't see that the city gate has been closed. What do you want to do on the bridge?"
Chen Yingliang followed the sound and saw that the person shouting to him on the city wall was a Sui army general wearing Mingguang armor. At the same time, a row of bows and arrows were displayed behind the arrow stack on the city wall. Chen Yingliang was still a little flustered.
After taking a breath, he shouted loudly: "General, don't get me wrong. Xiaosheng is from Daxing. I heard that the traitor Yang Xuangan was rebelling and threatening the Eastern Capital. So I came here to join the army and serve the country to kill the traitor Yang Xuangan.
General, please take it in!"
"Design to the army?" Chen Yingliang's answer made the Sui general stunned. He looked at Chen Yingliang condescendingly, and then asked loudly: "How old are you this year? Are you twenty-one years old?"
"Xiaosheng is seventeen years old this year." Chen Yingliang answered truthfully, but at the same time he was a little confused, thinking, "Why are you asking me my age?"
"You bastard, are you entertaining me?" The Sui army general was furious and roared: "The law of this dynasty states that soldiers must be at least twenty-one years old. What is a seventeen-year-old kid doing here to stir up trouble? Get out!
If you want to join our Youwu Guard, please wait until you are twenty-one years old!"
"Is there such a rule for soldiers in the Sui Dynasty?" This time it was Chen Yingliang's turn to be dumbfounded, because Chen Yingliang really didn't know that the Sui Dynasty army had such a rule.
"Get out of here! Otherwise, the arrow will be fired!" The Sui army general was impatient and urged: "If you want to become a rural auxiliary soldier, go to the old city of Luoyang. This is the Imperial City of the Eastern Capital. If you don't accept rural soldiers, get out now!"
"Master Jun, can you please let me come forward and speak?" Chen Yingliang begged, wanting to come forward and show Fang Xuanling's letter of recommendation to see if there was anyone knowledgeable in Dongdu.
"Stop talking nonsense! Get out!" The Sui army general did not pick a fight with Chen Yingliang and shouted: "The east capital is under martial law and no idlers are allowed in or out. If you want to serve as soldiers and get food, go to the old city in the west, or go to Baisima Ban.
There’s a war going on there, maybe they’ll take you in!”
"There is a war in Bai Sima Ban?" Chen Yingliang was overjoyed and asked hurriedly: "General, how to get to Bai Sima Ban? Xiaosheng is willing to go to the front line to serve!"
"Hahahaha! He is really a boy who is not afraid of death!" The Sui Army general laughed, and the Sui Army officers and soldiers next to him also burst into laughter. - There was no way not to laugh, you know, just yesterday Dong Dong
When Fan Zigai decided to send troops to meet the enemy, all the generals and soldiers in Dongdu City were afraid of being selected for their own team. As a result, everyone who was not selected to go out to fight was overjoyed, and those who were selected to fight were all crying.
Wiping away his tears, Chen Yingliang was now confusedly asking where the battlefield was and where to go. The Dongdu garrison who was lucky enough not to be sent to the battlefield couldn't help but laugh.
After laughing, the Sui general actually showed Chen Yingliang the way to the Baisima Ban battlefield in the hope of watching a good show. He also kindly told Chen Yingliang that the general who led the army to suppress the rebellion was Henan Zanzhi Pei Hongce. Chen Yingliang was very happy.
Thanks again and again, he immediately mounted his horse and rushed to the east battlefield. Looking at Chen Yingliang's happy departure, the Sui generals and soldiers on the city wall\u4e2
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They leaned forward and backward, laughing, but their joy brought sorrow. Just when they were laughing extremely happily, a majestic shout came from behind them, "What are you laughing at? Why are you losing your composure when you are on duty at an important place on the city wall?!"
Hearing the scolding, everyone turned around and was frightened to death. They quickly stopped talking and stood at attention to salute. It turned out that the person who appeared in front of them was the Dongdu Remain Guard with a large number of supervising troops. He is now the highest military and civil affairs officer in Dongdu City.
——Fan Zigai!
Fan Zigai, who was nearly seventy years old, had a head full of white hair, but he still wore Mingguang armor weighing dozens of kilograms. The armor was neat and tidy. His old body stood as straight as a pine tree, with a majestic look and overwhelming momentum. He shouted: "
What happened? Why are you all laughing like this?"
"Reported to stay behind, there was a kid who wanted to join the army just now. He said he wanted to serve the country and kill the traitor Yang Xuangan." The previous Sui army general told the truth: "Because he was only seventeen years old, the last general did not keep him.
, it was said that if he wanted to be a rural auxiliary, he could go to the front line at Bai Sima Ban, but the kid actually went to the front line in a daze, and the brothers thought it was strange, so they all laughed."
"What's so funny about this?" Fan Zigai was furious and said angrily: "Look at their ambitions. They want to serve the country at the age of seventeen, and they want to kill the traitor Yang Xuangan. Then look at yourselves. In the end,
Who is more ridiculous?!"
All the officers and soldiers of the Sui army present were speechless, but Fan Zigai shouted: "Also, don't think that because he is only seventeen years old, he is destined to be unable to do great things! Let me tell you, Qijun Zanzhi Zhang Xutuo, this year
We have recently recruited a young general called Luo Shixin, who is only fourteen years old! Do you know how many enemies this fourteen-year-old general killed on the battlefield of Weishui? I will scare you to death if I tell you! After the battle of Weishui, he was the only one
We killed three rebel generals and twenty-five rebel soldiers!"
"A fourteen-year-old kid, so crazy?!"
After hearing this, the officers and soldiers of the Sui army took a deep breath, and some even screamed, but Fan Zigai snorted heavily and said: "Although I haven't seen the seventeen-year-old boy just now,
His people, but based on his ambition, I dare to say that you have missed someone\
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u624d! You will regret it in the future!"
"My lord who stayed behind, should I send someone to chase him back?" The previous Sui army general said timidly: "He just left. It's still too late to chase him now."
"No need." Fan Zigai shook his head and said: "Since he went to Bai Sima Ban, he must have gone to Pei Hongce. Pei Hongce faced the rebel Yang Xuanting there, which would give him a chance to show off his talents. If
This guy is really a talent, I will definitely see him again in the future."
The Sui army general agreed and stepped aside, but Fan Zigai turned his gaze to the east of the battlefield and murmured in his heart, "It should have reached the stage of fierce fighting, Pei Hongce, Da Xi has good intentions, you must not let me down."
ah."
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Let's turn back and see Chen Yingliang's situation. After bidding farewell to the Sui general who was guiding him, Chen Yingliang wanted to rush straight to the battlefield, but after running two or three miles, Chen Yingliang, who had been running for several days in a row, felt a little tired.
I can't stand it anymore, the speed is getting faster and faster
It was slow and started to foam at the mouth. Chen Yingliang had nothing to do. In order to prevent this cheating horse from exhausting himself, Chen Yingliang had to dismount again and lead the horse for a walk to save horsepower. Fortunately, the distance to Baisima Ban did not count.
It's too far, but you can reach it before dark on foot.
Thinking about how he should flatter Pei Hongce who led the army to suppress the rebellion, Chen Yingliang unknowingly walked seven or eight miles. Seeing that his mount had recovered a certain amount of strength, Chen Yingliang remounted his horse and prepared to continue riding eastward.
, but after mounting the horse, he has not started trotting yet.
Not long after, Chen Yingliang suddenly heard loud noises in front of him. A knight wearing Mingguang armor but no helmet rushed over on horseback, followed by a dozen cavalry with weapons, who kept shouting, "Chase."
!Chase! Capture him! Capture this official!"
"What happened?" Chen Yingliang was shocked. He subconsciously reined in his mount and quickly drew his sword.
"Hey!" When he was only about ten steps away from Chen Yingliang, the helmetless knight's horse suddenly hissed and fell to the ground with a thud. It was also at this time that Chen Yingliang saw the helmetless knight's horse wearing a
The horse's blood had already stained one leg red. At the same time, after the war horse fell, it also pressed the disheveled helmetless knight under the horse.
"Hahaha!" The cavalry chasing the helmetless knight laughed wildly and shouted, "Catch them alive! Catch them alive!"
"Little brother, save me!" The helmetless knight also shouted, begging in a tearful tone: "Help me, save me quickly!"
"What should I do?!" Without knowing anything about the situation, in the blink of an eye, Chen Yingliang made a choice that determined the direction of his life. "I would rather provide help in times of need than add icing on the cake! Save people! You will gain more than helping the winner!"
Determined, Chen Yingliang immediately slapped his horse and rushed forward. When he got to the side of the helmetless knight, he jumped off the horse and pulled him out of the horse, and then pushed him onto his mount. The pursuers behind him were furious when they saw it, and they all yelled, "Boy"
!You are seeking death! Stop! Stop! Don’t run!”
There were more than a dozen pursuers behind him. Of course Chen Yingliang would not run away. Without saying a word, he climbed on his mount and sat behind the helmetless knight. Together with him, he rode westward to escape for his life. The pursuers behind him refused to give up and continued.
In hot pursuit.
Logically speaking, the expensive dead horse that Chen Yingliang rode could hardly run too fast after carrying two people, but fortunately, the strength of the chasing horses behind may have been exhausted in the previous battle, so Chen Yingliang
Riding with the helmetless knight, they galloped for more than two miles before a pursuer
The soldier barely caught up to Chen Yingliang's side and slashed at Chen Yingliang with his sword. Chen Yingliang quickly swung his sword to parry, and used the army sword skills left in the memory of the dead ghost Chen Yingliang. He clashed with the pursuer with his sword and fought hard to drive away the pursuer.
Saber, the pursuer let out a cry, and without saying a word, he struck with the sword again.
"Damn it! Fight!" In the troubled times, Chen Yingliang didn't want to chop anyone, but he didn't want to be hacked either. Seeing that the pursuer was trying to kill him twice with two swords, and the pursuer behind him was getting closer and closer, Chen Yingliang also
He took the risk and neither dodge nor dodge. He roared and swung his knife directly to chop off the pursuer's head, using the rogue style of killing each other.
"What a fool!" The pursuer was beaten by Chen Yingliang's rogue tactics\
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u5413 jumped, and was looking forward to victory. He did not want to die with Chen Yingliang, so he could only quickly turn sideways on the horse to avoid Chen Yingliang's fatal knife. At the same time, his knife to slash Chen Yingliang naturally failed, and the helmetless man who controlled Chen Yingliang's mount naturally failed.
The knight took the opportunity to kick the horse's belly repeatedly, forcing Chen Yingliang's expensive horse to speed up and regain the distance between him and his pursuers.
"Stop!" Another pursuer approached and stabbed Chen Yingliang in the back with a spear. Chen Yingliang had no way to avoid it, so he could only turn around and slash the spear with his sword, shouting, "Death!"
There was a bang. What surprised Chen Yingliang was that when he struck the spear with a knife, his tanned steel horizontal knife, which could only be regarded as an ordinary good knife, actually cut off the spear handle. Chen Yingliang took a closer look and saw that
It was discovered that the spear shaft was actually quite rough. It was a spear shaft cut from ordinary miscellaneous wood. The quality was very poor. Naturally, it could not stop Chen Yingliang from using all his strength to cut with the knife.
"Well done!" The helmetless knight saw it from the corner of his eye and couldn't help shouting, "Brother, if all my soldiers were like you, I wouldn't have lost so miserably today!"
Chen Yingliang had no intention of understanding the words of the helmetless knight. He just shouted at a small forest on the roadside, "Brothers, come out quickly! I have attracted people, come out to kill people and grab horses! Quick! Come out to kill people and grab horses!"
Hurry! Brothers!"
"Is there an ambush?!" The pursuers behind were startled. They subconsciously turned to look at the woods. They slowed down their horses unknowingly, and were careful to be on guard against the ambush soldiers coming out of the woods. Chen Yingliang took the opportunity to use his knife.
The handle struck the horse's butt hard, causing the horse to neigh in pain and run wildly, once again widening the distance between it and the dozen or so pursuers.
I don’t know whether it was because Chen Yingliang succeeded in his deception or because the city walls and towers of Dongdu were already in sight. After seeing Chen Yingliang running away, the dozen pursuers finally stopped pursuing him again. They cursed and chose to turn around and return, looking back.
At this situation, Chen Yingliang and the helmetless knight breathed a sigh of relief, but they still did not dare to stop. They continued to gallop their horses, and together they risked their lives to escape to the east capital.
Perhaps it was fate that the helmetless knight controlled the mount and actually brought Chen Yingliang back to the army where he was rejected\u7
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684 Outside Anxi Gate, and less than a mile away from the city gate, Chen Yingliang's dead horse finally couldn't support such a violent load and ran wildly. He hissed miserably and fell to the road with foam at the mouth, carrying it with him.
To be continued...