Chapter 52: Daring
In the early morning of the next day, when the first rays of sunlight hit Chen Ying's face, Chen Ying woke up leisurely. Chen Ying got up and washed up in a hurry, looked up at the outhouse, and unexpectedly found that the stubborn figure was still kneeling there.
"Did she kneel here all the time yesterday?"
"General Hui, this person has been kneeling all night!"
Chen Ying was also secretly surprised in her heart, as a woman, she had such a tenacious character.
At the moment when Chen Ying turned around, Tang Liuniang was very deflated.
Tang Liuniang is a native of Zitong County, Shizhou, she is the sixth in line, and has five elder brothers, although she lives in this era of male superiority and inferiority, due to the special situation of their family, Tang Liuniang has been loved since she was born. Three of her elder brothers have already started a family, guarding dozens of acres of thin fields, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Although the life was very hard, Tang Liuniang felt very happy.
However, this quiet and peaceful life was completely destroyed with the arrival of the rebels in the side of the enterprise. The rebels ransacked her village and slaughtered it. In order to cover her escape, her father, who loved her the most, was beheaded by the rebels, and she could never forget that her father left his last words when he was dying, "Liuya, run!" ”
Her five elder brothers were killed by the rebels one after another, and even her three-year-old nephew did not let go. In just a few days, a family of more than a dozen people, separated by heaven and man, Tang Liuniang suffered the most cruel torture in her life, she wanted to live, to avenge the tragic death of her father, to avenge the innocent death of her brothers.
She knew that her strength alone was too small, the rebels were not only outnumbered, but also fierce, and the only way for her to take revenge was to join the Tang army.
"That white-faced general is so hateful that he doesn't even agree to this request!" Tang Liuniang thought indignantly.
Suddenly, she noticed a pair of black boots coming out of front of her, and when she looked up, it was the white-faced general who was good-looking, but not very annoying.
"Have you knelt enough?"
Chen Ying said expressionlessly: "When you kneel enough, get up!" ”
Tang Liuniang was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly got up.
"Oops......"
Tang Liuniang was just about to get up, but she forgot that she had been kneeling all night, and her legs and knees were already sore.
Chen Ying's eyes were quick, and he reached out to stop Tang Liuniang's waist and hold him up.
Tang Liuniang's eyes flashed with fierce light, glaring at Chen Ying fiercely, and clasping her hands on her chest.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in hemp sticks!"
It took a long time for Tang Liuniang to react that Chen Ying was actually disgusted with her small breasts.
Tang Liuniang looked down at Xiao He's sharp chest, and her little face turned red with anger.
"I'll bite you to death!"
Tang Liuniang threw herself on Chen Ying's arm and bit it when she opened her mouth.
It's just a pity that Chen Ying is wearing armor at this time, and it is a general-level Mingguang armor weighing twenty-three catties, not to mention teeth, even the light bow used by the cavalry can be ignored thirty steps away.
Although her mouth was bleeding from the nail blades, Tang Liuniang still persevered.
Seeing that Chen Ying was bitten by Tang Liuniang, the surrounding guards immediately raised their knives and guns.
"Stand down!"
The guards retreated when they heard this.
Chen Ying secretly sighed and said, "If you don't let go, General Ben won't accept you as a soldier!" ”
"Oh!"
Tang Liuniang let go of her mouth and stuck out her tongue at Chen Ying.
Chen Ying instructed the guards to take Tang Liuniang to dinner.
Tang Liuniang looked worried, and said stubbornly: "I'm not hungry!" ”
"If you don't eat, you won't be accepted as a soldier!"
"Oh!" Tang Liuniang reluctantly followed the guards to the room to eat.
"General, do you really accept her?"
"Otherwise, what should I do?"
"But...... His origin is unknown! Ryazan said with a worried face: "Who knows if she is a spy of the rebels?" ”
"Is there such a spy? Whether it's a human or a ghost, General Ben's eyes can still tell the difference! Chen Ying said disapprerovingly: "Let's go and see how the recruitment goes!" ”
When I walked to Chen Ying's tent, I met Wei Wenzhong, who was red-eyed and like a rabbit.
"How's the recruitment?"
"It's better than you think!" Wei Wenzhong rubbed his face, shook his spirits and said: "They are all seedlings of elite soldiers, and there are more than 1,200 people." ”
The so-called elite soldiers, in this era, specifically refer to the elite soldiers, which means young and strong men between the ages of sixteen and forty-five. Chen Ying was secretly surprised, the entire West County was only a middle and lower county. The so-called middle and lower counties mean that the number of households is less than 2,000 and more than 1,000. Xixian County can recruit more than 1,200 soldiers in just one middle and lower county, and almost the entire county has been emptied.
From this aspect, it can also be seen that the Tang Dynasty can dominate the world, the whole people are martial, the court responds to every call, and the servants gather, no wonder it can swallow the Quartet.
Chen Yingdao: "Assign these recruits immediately, and first complete the establishment of the four regiments, namely the First Regiment, the Second Regiment, the Shooting Regiment, and the Honor Guard Regiment. As for the Yue Cavalry Group, we don't have so many horses, so let's just leave them empty for the time being! ”
Wei Wenzhong took the account book and said: "General Chen, now the Yue Cavalry Regiment can also be fully loaded, the gentry and celebrities of Xixian County have donated fifty-seven horses, and more than 100 people are bringing horses to join the army, and the Yue Cavalry Regiment is enough!" ”
Chen Ying was overjoyed and said: "Then quickly assign it, replace the old with the new, train while marching, and when we arrive in Shizhou, these recruits can also go into battle!" ”
Wei Wenzhong said hesitantly: "It's just ......"
"Just what?"
Chen Ying looked at Wei Wenzhong curiously and said, "Old Wei, we are all brothers of life and death begging for food in a horse spoon, what else do we need to hide?" ”
Wei Wenzhong said: "It's just that our blades are not enough, there is no decent armament in the Xixian Mansion Treasury at all, only twenty pairs of leather armor and fifty spears, and they are all moth-eaten, so there is no way to use them!" ”
Chen Ying said without thinking: "If there is no blade armor, let's build it ourselves, gather the blacksmiths in the whole city, collect iron tools and pig iron, and make armor and blades!" ”
"But it costs money to buy iron!" Wei Wenzhong said with a sad face: "There are less than thirty hangs of oil and salt money on the account of the Second Mansion, so you can't use these oil and salt money from the brothers to buy iron!" ”
"Is there any money in the treasury of the West County Government?" Chen Ying said suspiciously: "No matter how poor Xixian is, it won't even have a penny, right?" ”
Wei Wenzhong said: "Yes, there are many, and there are quite a few, there are more than 2,000!" ”
"It's easy to do it if you have money, two thousand guan, enough for us to buy iron to make blades and armor!"
"However, it's all autumn taxes, and those who want to be sent to Chang'an embezzle national taxes without permission are a big crime to kill their heads!"
"Humph!" Chen Yingdao: "If there are no blades and armor, do you expect us to go to the battlefield with wooden sticks to quell the rebellion?" It was almost like sending him to death, and when something happened, General Ben took out the money in the treasury of Xixian County and used it first, and at all costs, he made every effort to buy nearby iron and pig iron to build a blade! ”
"But if the court asks for guilt?"
"Then we have to wait for General Ben to come back!"