When Yang Xi and the others escorted the secret weapon to the play, they found that the camp had expanded several times compared to half a month ago.

There was still a moment to ride from the Hongmen, and the group saw the pillar of smoke in the sky of the camp stove, which filled the air with a pale mist, almost obscuring the sky.

Then, as the voices came rushing through the farms, fields, and fields, as they approached like the call of the distant sea, and he could distinguish between the shouts of the conformity, the clash of gold and iron of the soldiers, and the neighing of the horses patrolling the chariots.

In order to make a long pole to carry the flag, an entire riverside forest in Weinan was cut down and lighted. Under the bright afternoon sun, countless spear tips shone with dark golden light, and nearly a thousand tents were like leather mushrooms drilled out of the ground, all over the wilderness.

This is the great scene of the gathering of 100,000 troops, not to mention the 100,000 people who go back and forth to transport grain, take care of livestock, and serve it.

It seems that almost one-fifth of the men in Guanzhong have responded to Heifu's call, and their camps are distributed throughout Hongmen according to the different regions, and they have their own banners, and the black dragon flag of the regent Xia Gong is flying high above the flags, located at the commanding heights of the camp.

"The real army is majestic, so as to approach the enemy, it is invincible!"

Yang Xi is full of confidence in this war.

After escorting Gongsun Yun and others into the camp and setting up the giant ballista, Yang Xi completed the task and returned to his cavalry lieutenant Li Bi.

Because of strict military discipline, not only could military prostitutes not enter, but even gambling and drinking were strictly controlled.

These days of waiting for departure, the day is fine, Yang Xi and they want to organize the soldiers to continue training, but once it is night, they have nothing to do, and in the days when there is no condolence from a hundred operas, they can only rely on sitting around the campfire, relying on small talk and stories to pass the long night.

When Yang Xi returned to the camp from his patrol, he found that several Simas were sitting by the campfire, and today's narrator was an old Sima in his fifties, with gray hair, a bronzed face full of furrows, and a messy beard, too lazy to take care of it.

But don't look at the sloppy appearance, this person is very skilled in combat methods, he is a highly respected Sima, and he is also the right-hand man of the captain.

Everyone calls him "Wine Father", because the old military officer loves to drink, probably because he has some money in the family, and he does not share it with others, and he also has a heartfelt word for this:

"It is sinful to drink in groups, but there is no fault in drinking alone!"

Since he didn't cross the line, the military judge didn't care much about him, but some military officials secretly brought wine to the wine man in exchange for the story he could never finish.

At the moment, the old soldier took a sip of light wine and talked about the past.

"The old man joined the army at the same age as this later life."

The old soldier pointed to Yang Xi, who had just come back: "Actually, I have just been a Fu and I am not yet twenty-one years old, so I can be a pawn, but it is too young to go to war." But the neighbors and playmates are gone, and I'm not far behind. At that time, my age was not recorded on the household register, only my height was measured, and I also enlisted in the army because of my height. ”

"It was the eleventh year of the first emperor, Wang Qian, Huan Qi, Yang Duan and attacked Ye, and took nine cities. When I arrived at the front line, just in time for the old general Wang to attack the army and, Luyang, all of them were an army, and the attack could not be broken for 18 days, so the old general let the fighting food and the following all return, and even selected two people to join the army, with elite soldiers to take the army, I missed the big battle because of the young knight, and as a result, the elite died two out of ten, but the war was also defeated. ”

"In the next few years, I followed General Huan Qi, and most of the young people now don't know him, but back then, he was more respected by the emperor than General Wang!"

"In thirteen years, I went out of the customs for the second time, attacked Zhao Pingyang with Huan Qi, killed Zhao Jiang, beheaded 100,000, and I also earned two heads."

"In that battle, I followed my fellow villagers, donated armor to the enemy, and also felt the joy of a left head and a right captive, but unfortunately my fellow villager was unlucky, naked was shot in the lower body by an arrow, and he refused to let him be cut, and soon the wound festered and died......"

Hearing this, Yang Xi couldn't help but say, "Warriors, it's a pity. ”

"It's a pity?" The wine man sneered, looked around, and said loudly: "He deserves to die!" ”

The people were amazed: "How can you say that......

"If you don't need armor, but you don't need to be brave, it's really stupid, you don't leave a useful body, and you fight and kill more enemies in the future, but you die in a daze, don't you deserve it? Do not imitate you! ”

The wine lord shook his head: "Of course, at that time, I was also stupid, thinking that enlisting in the army to fight was for the glory of the warriors and for the expansion of the territory of Great Qin." This is what my father taught me, and my eldest father and great-grandfather taught him in the same way. ”

"But in the fourteenth year, Huan Qi lost the battle, well, this incident is not recorded in the history books, and the defeat is not remembered, but that battle was really unjust, because the other party is Li Mu......"

It was no longer a smooth battle, it was the first time that the old soldier felt the cruelty of the battlefield, he saw his comrades being cut down by the Zhao people one by one, and he had to face the charging Zhao cavalry.

And General Huan, who has always been brave and fearless, also disappointed them.

"As a result, after the war, Huan Qi fled in fear of crime."

The old soldier spat out: "The honor of the sharp soldier he preached with us every day has been left behind, and he has forgotten it completely!" ”

"Fortunately, we survived by luck, and the first emperor did not investigate deeply, and was placed under the command of General Wang."

Next, the story of the old soldier is more familiar to everyone, and it is basically accompanied by Wang Qian's crusade to the west.

Fifteen years, he went out of the customs for the third time, followed Wang Jian to Ye, and took Wolf Meng.

In the eighteenth year, the Daxing army attacked Zhao, and went out of the customs for the fourth time, and Wang Jian entered Taiyuan from Shangjun and went down to Jingcheng. In the nineteenth year, he seized Handan and destroyed the Zhao State.

But before he recovered and went home to rest, twenty years, with Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, another big conscription to fight Yan, the old military officials went out of the customs for the fifth time, and this battle was two years.

The old soldier raised his head and sighed:

"When I was angry and difficult in the bitter cold land of the north, I also did things that were not allowed by military law, robbing my peers' things, stealing chickens and dogs, killing cattle and sheep, putting my belongings in my sleeve, and fighting for too long, I couldn't take nothing home."

Yang Xi pursed his lips and wanted to condemn, but he was silent.

He remembered that among the trophies that his father brought back, there were also some things from the people of Kanto......

Probably from that war, the old officers felt tired.

Year after year of conscription, although he had earned some knighthood land, he had only half-healed from his wounds, and he had received new wounds, and his shoes had gradually disintegrated in the endless march, and though they could be replaced with new ones at once, the soles of his feet had formed thick, hard calluses.

At that time, he had completely shed his childishness and became a veteran oil, a villain in the eyes of the Yan people.

His voice became low, describing the sins he had done: "I even participated in the snatching of a swallow woman, raped her in front of her husband, killed her, and buried the husband and wife in the ground. The military judge also turned a blind eye to these matters. ”

"What's the difference between this and what the Six Nations bandits did in the West River?" Yang Xi couldn't help it and began to question the old soldier.

"yes, what's the difference."

The old soldier smiled and said: "When you go to the Six Kingdoms in the future, you can pat your chest and guarantee that you can control yourself and your subordinates?" After a year and a half in the army, when I saw that women were not even stiff, those who were eager to try were either eunuchs or saints! ”

"As for doing evil, you have a sword in your hand, and when you are in a place outside the law, it is easier to defeat than in Qindi, it is as simple as eating and drinking!"

He no longer paid attention to Yang Xi and continued: "From then on, I will no longer fight for any bullshit honor, but just perform my duties, and by the way, I want to get the first merit and let myself be promoted higher, because the higher the title, the less likely it is to die......"

But what happened next told him that even if he became a lieutenant, he would die if he was unlucky.

At the end of the twenty-second year, with Li Xinyi and Wang Jian as the generals, the old military officials went out of the customs for the sixth time, and experienced a major rout, and the seventh captain died.

In the twenty-third year, the king of Qin resummoned Wang Jian and raised him, so that the general would attack Jing, and the old military officials were also forcibly conscripted into the army, and they went out of the customs for the seventh time.

As a result, everyone knows that although this battle was fought for another two years, it was not until Wang Jian settled the south of Jingjiang and surrendered to Yue Jun that he was able to leave Huiji and return to Guanzhong.

"That was the last time I got out of the customs, and it was also the most difficult battle, this time, I managed the bottom, I didn't insult a Chu girl, but I couldn't control the top."

The old soldier pointed to his head.

He was tired, and what kept him alive was only a few rumors in the army.

"It is said that the first emperor said that after the destruction of Chu and the unification of the world, there will be no need to fight again, and you can enjoy peace forever!"

"I believe it." He shook his head and said:

"But the First Emperor lied to me." The old soldier stopped drinking, and his face showed a hint of pain.

"Later, because I got older, I became a country man again, so I really didn't have to go out of the customs."

"But my son and nephew are inevitable, and in the twenty-ninth year, my eldest son died in Saibei and followed Wang Li."

"Thirty-three years, my nephew died in Haidong, followed Fusu."

"Thirty-four years, my second son died in Lingnan and followed Tu Sui."

"In the thirty-sixth year, another nephew went to the West with Li Xin, and he has not been heard from since."

The old soldier's words were already tinged with a hint of grief and indignation: "I went out of the pass seven times, fought for Daqin for twenty-eight years, and the number of scars on my body is uncountable, and finally I got this result?" ”

"I also thought, could it be the evil result of my evil deeds in Yandi? But I do know a few honest fellow villagers who have never violated the law, but they have also cut off their children and grandchildren, why? ”

"I finally understood, before fighting for the country, fight for yourself."

"So last year, Huhai conscripted troops, and I served as Sima and rushed to the front line with the young people of my hometown."

"I told them that military law can be ignored, and the most important thing is to save their lives. And in the Lantian rout, watching this descendant take the lead in crossing the river, I didn't hesitate at all, let my subordinates throw their weapons, chase after him, and surrender to the regent! ”

From the moment he led the crowd to surrender, everything that had been over twenty years collapsed.

him!

Go to his duty!

He's had enough.

"Then why fight this battle?" Yang Xi panicked in his heart and asked rhetorically.

"Can I not come?" The old soldier sneered:

"Now, I am the only one left in my family, my young son and me."

"The regency conscription, if I don't come, my son will come."

"I'm old, fifty years old, only one year less than Qin Shi Huang, I don't want to be white-haired, send black-haired people, I don't want my family to cut off incense."

"If you want to die, I'll die!"

"This will be my eighth exit."

The corners of his mouth showed a hint of mockery: "Compared with the past seven times, there is no difference, it is also the old pawn and the old official who are watching coldly, and the new soldiers are eager to try, but they don't know if they will lose their lives in Kanto." ”

"There was no one who enlisted with me back then."

He looked around and realized that all his friends and loved ones had passed away, and that he was surrounded by strangers and future generations, a group of young grass.

"Do you know how they died?"

"Pierced the belly, the intestines flowed out and died; was shot through the body by a crossbow arrow, and died of excessive blood loss; He was frozen to death in the land of Yanbei, accidentally fell off his horse and was dragged to death, trampled to death by his indomitable comrades in the rear, contracted a disease and diarrhea in the hot land of Jiangdong, and even died suddenly when he was asleep, and suddenly fell on the side of the road when he was marching, and he also died......"

Yang Xi couldn't bear it anymore and interrupted the old soldier's pessimistic words:

"This battle is not the same as it used to be."

"The regent said, this is the battle to rule the world again, so that the world is scheduled to be a battle!"

"More than ten years ago, the First Emperor said the same, and the result?" The old soldier laughed, and then his face was solemn:

"All I know is that this is a war, and for us, every war is the same!"

Going out again and again, being called up again and again, tired body, confused heart, all this, when is it the end?

A deep silence enveloped the campfire, stretching out until only breath remained, until the military judge, who had been standing behind him for a long time, spoke.

"Enough!"

"Wine man, come with me, as a Sima, don't praise the enemy again!"

The old soldier staggered to his feet, and everyone did not know how he would be punished for his words, but he just turned around and burped on the way away with the military judge, and said with a smile:

"Fang Cai is drunk, I'm just talking nonsense."

Then he continued walking, but he sang a song:

"How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are ...... with your son?"

"Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd, work with the son, work with the son......"

The ballad that should have been passionate is now sung by this old soldier, but it seems to have endless sentimentality.

Or maybe it's because his original comrades have all died, and only one person remains.

When there is only one lone goose left in the flock, it sings and mourns!

……

Fortunately, the wine lord was not punished too severely, but he was taught a lesson by Junzheng, and according to the new military law, he was confined - Captain Li Bidu was also very helpless, and when he arrived in Kanto, the old soldier who had passed the pass seven times was still of great use.

But it was a difficult night for the observers, and Yang Xi lost sleep, tossing and turning, reminiscing about the stories of others.

He also felt similar emotions during the Battle of Lantian, when he didn't care about any honors, titles, duties, and ideals.

At that time, he only hoped to finish the war early and go home early, as for who won and who lost, who was orthodox and who was rebellious, it didn't matter to him!

Of the 100,000 people here, it's pretty much the same.

As far as the Guanzhong people are concerned, after so much, deception, lies, civil war, wavering of the three views, surrender and reorganization, you let them be simple, soldiers who don't want anything? Continue to be a gray animal, brainlessly moving forward, to fill the ravine?

After young people are brainwashed, they may be able to be fooled again, but veterans?

How can it be!

When the soldier who only needs to obey the order begins to think, begins to wonder, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Yang Xi thought about it for a night, until the third watch, he fell asleep in a daze, and the next morning, he was woken up by the morning horn bells and drums of the assembly.

"Three sergeants, assemble out of the camp!"

"Before leaving the customs, Xia Gong has one last word, I want to say it to the second and third sons!"

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