Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The morning light shines into the main hall from between a row of window lattices in the Jinxiang Hall. The hall is bright and clean, and the sunlight makes the magnificent and luxurious hall resplendent and resplendent, as if in a fairyland. All civil and military officials below shouted together: "My emperor will live forever."

"Everyone is flat." Guo Shao sat on the dragon chair with his legs apart, looking down.

Then the eunuch on duty stepped forward to sing the lyrics, and all the officials played their speeches one after another.

Guo Shao was sitting, looking back at the officials of the Hanlin Academy sitting in a row on the left, each of them was writing vigorously. On the table covered with a yellow tablecloth were placed jade seals, edicts, etc., and the manpower and expenses for issuing orders in the main hall were all available. He felt that this place seemed to be a large ship, and he was the helmsman, and every adjustment would affect the direction of the entire country.

Some of the ministers praised the emperor's martial arts, and some praised the good weather and the good crops in various places. From time to time, Guo Shao tried to figure out the wording, and asked the officials of the department to persuade the farmers; anyway, if the country is a farming country, the imperial court will never make a mistake in attaching importance to agriculture.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry presented the plan to build the Yellow River, but the Prime Minister Fan Zhi had a different opinion, and the two argued on the spot in the hall.

Every aspect of governing a country is meticulous work. It is easy for civil servants to have different political opinions, and there are countless reasons to support their opinions. Moreover, everyone has issues of standing and standing. Governing politics is a very complicated matter.

Guo Shao's approach is to order them to write their own memorials and then make a decision... In fact, he is going to leave the dispute to the Zhengshitang to continue wrangling, and wait for them to make an ugly show;

He can clearly distinguish the importance. At this time, the most important thing in the Great Zhou Dynasty is still the key to getting rid of (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms), and that is military affairs!

Otherwise, no matter how meticulous the internal affairs are, once the country is faced with a war that shakes the country, or if there are military generals supporting themselves...it will be useless.

No matter what the ministers say about morality, Guo Shao knows very well in his heart: now the military system must be maintained and the sixteen prefectures of Youyun must be taken back; only then can the military power system be adjusted fundamentally.

...

After the Great Dynasty, the cabinet minister Zuo You left the imperial city. Seeing that it was still early, he went to the Huben Military Academy in Beicheng, Tokyo. It was a different scene there.

A large group of men stood in a row on the dusty muddy ground, wearing four pieces of plate armor and leather armor. The new armor gleamed in the sun, and everyone was sweating;

"Huo!" Everyone followed the spear | stabbing out, and shouted loudly.

General Zhou Tong came to Zuo You on horseback, and the two had followed Guo Shao to the north and south many times, and they were acquaintances. Zhou Tongdao: "All the divisions of the Forbidden Army were attrition when they attacked the Eastern Han Dynasty (Northern Han Dynasty). The Privy Council recruited elite soldiers from all over the country to supplement the source of troops."

Zuo You was a civil servant, so of course he would not rashly point fingers at the soldiers, so he immediately praised: "Everyone is a strong young man with a strong back and a waist."

Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "Most of the elite soldiers in the Central Plains have been concentrated in the Forbidden Army. It is very difficult to choose strong people with experience in martial arts. Some of them are farmers who have just put down their hoes."

After hearing this, Zuo You said in astonishment, "Can such a person be used?"

Zhou Tong said calmly: "No one is born to be able to fight. As long as you have a good foundation, you should be a miscellaneous soldier first, and go to battle to practice more. There will always be one elite soldier left out of ten!"

Zuo You was silent.

Zhou Tong said again: "Except for the magical arms and hands, other elites except for training are all piled up with human lives! The imperial court has a hundred thousand forbidden troops, and the number of children who have been killed or injured in the battlefield in the past few decades is more than a million?!"

At this moment, Zhou Tong frowned and walked up to a young man, and slapped him on the waist: "Your torso doesn't move, how can you be strong with your arms?"

Seeing the general staring at him, the man blushed and stood there bewildered.

Zhou Tong took the spear of a soldier next to him, stabbed forward for a demonstration, pointed at the man and said, "Follow my actions!"

The man gestured nervously, but Zhou Tong was furious, strode up to the man, patted his chest and shouted: "Stab! Stab here!"

The man's expression changed, he shook his head hastily, unable to even utter a word.

Zhou Tong said angrily: "If you are told to stab, you dare to disobey the military order? No one taught you the rules in the army beforehand? Stab!"

Zuo You didn't say a word, just stood outside the queue and watched the general Zhou Tong silently.

Zhou Tong picked up the spear shaft a little, it looked light, but it made the man scream out in pain. The man finally closed his eyes and stabbed at him, but Zhou Tong immediately caught him with one hand, and the spear was fixed halfway so he couldn't move it. Zhou Tong fired another shot, which made the man stagger and scream.

Zhou Tong said with a livid face: "With this little strength, if I hold a knife in the battle, your head will already be chopped off! There is only one chance to face each other, and everyone has nowhere to hide. You have to stab hard and pierce the opponent's armor. Either he or you will die!"

Looking back at his surroundings, he cursed angrily for a moment: "The imperial court gave you enough food and clothing, and gave you military salaries, not to let you dawdle here! If anyone doesn't care about it, just go to the camp and farm the fields. Damn, he can't even learn such a simple move!"

Zuo You watched for a while without saying anything to interfere, and after watching for a while, he bid farewell to Zhou Tong. He heard the "cracking" sound of firecrackers in the original place, and immediately got on his horse and led his people to follow the sound to change places to investigate.

The person who set the firearm was from Shenhuo Capital, where Zuo You met the military supervisor Zan Jurun, and the two talked for a while.

...Shenhuo has added some new recruits, some were killed or injured in the Northern Han Dynasty, and some new recruits were recruited. At this time, Zhao Hu was considered an old soldier. He had fought in battle before, so he was different in the eyes of the newcomers.

Those soldiers usually flattered them with their words, and some people even asked him in awe, did they hear that he had killed someone with his own hands?

Zhao Hu only said that killing or being killed on the battlefield is not a big deal, as long as you are in the front, it is inevitable. When asked how he killed the man, he didn't want to say more... He didn't want to recall those experiences himself, and felt that he had nothing to say.

However, after taking part in the battle, Zhao Hu was really different from the beginning, at least now he was not too dazed, he was very calm in the queue, he understood what the practice was useful for, and he also knew what he should do.

"Get ready!" All the heads yelled at this moment.

Zhao Hu picked up the firecracker with his right hand, clamped the wooden handle with his right arm, raised the cupping pot with his left hand, and bit open the cork with his teeth. His movements were swift and skillful. When I looked at the soldiers next to me from the corner of my eye, I saw that he was in a hurry, using his left and right hands and mouth together very disorderly, and he was sweating anxiously.

Dutou raised his saber and pointed at the target in front of him, shouting, "Let go!"

"Bang bang bang..." A row of explosions sounded in the smoke. Soon I heard the generals shouting and cursing loudly. There are always some soldiers in each row who cannot launch successfully due to various strange reasons.

At this time, the general ordered to rest, and everyone took their iron cups one after another, and went to the water tank beside the field to drink water. In the hot sun, everyone first went to drink water every time they rested.

Zhao Hu took a sip, the taste was still the same, a bit salty. This is boiled cold water, salt is added, so it is salty... As for why the salt is added, only the people above know, it is said that it is good to drink this after sweating. Salt in Tokyo is very expensive, but there is no shortage of salt in the army, because the reason why salt is expensive is because it is sold by officials.

Someone next to him muttered, "Can this thing really kill people?"

Another soldier turned to look at Zhao Hu and asked, "Brother Zhao, have you ever killed an enemy soldier with a firearm?"

Zhao Hu's mind recalled the battle scene, a row of more than 30 people fired guns, and they missed ten people, who knows who hit them? Then he said casually: "A row of salvos can always hit a few."

The soldiers discussed it a lot, thinking it was useless, and someone said: "This thing is really strange, how can the forbidden army use it?"

Zhao Hu remembered how he was nearly killed in a scuffle with the enemy soldiers, and said again: "The soldiers in our Shenhuo Capital are not good at martial arts, and they can't beat the enemy's elite soldiers in a fight, so we can get some bargains with this."

Everyone sighed.

At this time Dutou came over and talked to the soldiers while drinking water. Seeing that the general was in a good mood, Zhao Hu asked, "Dare to ask the general, should we attack Youzhou from now on?"

Dutou smiled and said: "You call me general, but I have no part to speak in the court. How do I know where His Majesty is going to fight?"

He paused and said: "However, according to the guesses of the brothers, Youzhou should be attacked. There are only Wuyue and Nanhan in the south. Wuyue is obedient to the Great Zhou. The Southern Han is so far away, and the force is not enough. Why should our forbidden army go all the way to conquer?

After all, Shenhuo is also a member of the left wing of the Huben Army, and most of them will fight with the emperor himself. "

At this time, another ten generals came and said in agreement: "The officials definitely want to take Youyun sixteen prefectures."

When Zhao Hu heard this, the fire in his heart immediately ignited again! He seemed to see the burned-out home, the unrecognizable old man, the broken women's clothes in the thatched shed in the courtyard of Xu's house, and the blood stains on the thatch... That was his little mother who was working hard to propose a marriage.

Zhao Hu was filled with shame and anger, he clenched his teeth tightly, and clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.

The ten generals looked at Zhao Hu in surprise: "What's wrong with you?"

Zhao Hu came back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "To fight Youzhou, I will definitely go to the front, and I will not be afraid of death!"

The ten generals patted Zhao Hu on the shoulder: "The army needs a brave man like you."

Zhao Hu said again: "Wang Ten must be good at martial arts, teach us when you have time. I think firearms are still too stupid, and people will always rush to fight in front of them."

The ten generals laughed and said, "Don't worry, let the newly recruited soldiers learn how to use firearms, and I will teach you how to use other weapons. We, Shenhuo, use firearms in the first place, we can't put the important things aside, Shangfeng will blame us."

Zhao Hu said: "As long as I can kill the Khitan people in Youzhou, I will not regret my life. Kill all the Khitan thieves in Youzhou!"