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Chapter 50 History of War, Punctuation

Walking out of the governor's gate, Chen Zhong and several guards were waiting here. Zhang Cheng took the reins of the horse and was about to get on the horse when he heard Chen Zhong say: "Master, the general will wait for you when you return to the tent, and let you go over there for a while." trip."

Zhang Cheng agreed, got on his horse, and without making a sound, rode the horse and headed for the east gate of Changping.

Riding his horse out of the east gate, and outside the city, he heard faint sounds of people neighing from the southwest of Changping City.

It is estimated that the generals of Guan Ning who camped there are setting up their camps and preparing to go to Lugouqiao and other places with the commander's army to garrison.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help stopping his horse, and heard the neighing of people over there. After a long time, he snorted, raised his whip and made a crisp sound in the air, and the group of people galloped like lightning, urging their horses to the Xuanzhen camp. and go.

After entering the camp, Zhang Cheng went straight to his uncle's tent.

Zhang Yan had just returned from his camp tour, and his nephew and uncle met together outside the military tent. Zhang Cheng got off his horse, threw the reins to Chen Zhong, walked up to Zhang Yan, and called out, "Uncle."

Liang Song, the infantry commander of the Zhenbiao Right Wing Battalion, caught up, put his arms around Zhang Cheng, and jokingly said: "Lu Duchen, leave you alone, is it another treasure for you?"

Zhang Cheng glanced at him, stretched out his hand and took out the silk cover, waved it in front of his eyes, and said, "Look, Baoqi is a fun thing that you idiot has never seen before."

Liang Song took it with both hands, carefully opened the silk cover, and took out the binoculars. His eyes were full of surprise, and he put it in front of his eyes, facing the distant shaft gate, and kept watching.

He said in his mouth: "Hey, brother, this is the mirror, I'm good."

Zhang Cheng looked at him, smiled, and said to Zhang Yan: "Uncle, what do you think about the division of troops?"

"Hmph, without the Guan Ning army, I, Xuan Da Jingqi, dare not fight the Tartars anymore?" Zhang Yan said with a stern face.

At this time, Qianzong Liang Song had put the binoculars back into the cloth cover, handed it back to Zhang Cheng, and said, "My dear, good guy, it's really not bad, it's still made of brass, it's really clear."

Zhang Cheng took it with a smile, and said to him: "Brother Liang, I'll save a jug of the good wine that Yang Junmen gave you. Come over in the evening for the hour."

Liang Song was overjoyed when he heard the words, then glanced at Zhang Yan, winked at Zhang Cheng and said, "No, we will move the camp tomorrow morning, and I will patrol the camp in the evening."

Zhang Cheng naturally understood what he meant, so he didn't say any more.

He followed his uncle Zhang Yan into the military tent, Zhang Yan sat down in the first case, looked at Zhang Cheng in front of him and said, "Sit down."

"Uncle, Cheng'er sees that Duchen Lu is constrained everywhere. Since he can divide his troops today, he might run out of food tomorrow." Zhang Cheng tentatively asked Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yanhu stared, and said in a deep voice: "My generation has joined the army. I should be loyal to the king and serve the country. discuss."

"What uncle taught, Cheng'er has memorized it." Zhang Cheng replied with bowed head and brows.

He raised his eyes to see that there was no anger in Zhang Yan's eyes, then smiled and took out the binoculars that Lu Xiangsheng gave him, handed them to Zhang Yan with both hands, and said, "Uncle, this is a gift from Master Yang Tinglin of the Imperial Academy, Chenger I think you are more useful, Uncle."

Zhang Yan reached out to take the silk cover, took out the binoculars, took a closer look in his hand, and then said to Zhang Cheng: "Looking at the workmanship and material of the binoculars, Master Yang Tinglin should be planning to give them to the governor. It was the governor who shirked it, so Master Yang gave it to you."

As soon as Zhang Cheng heard his uncle's words, his guess was similar to his own, so he asked: "Cheng'er also thinks the same, do you want to send it back to the governor?"

To be honest, Zhang Cheng was really reluctant to return such a good telescope to Lu Xiangsheng, but his uncle had already said so, and he always wanted to be touched and expressed.

Sure enough, he heard Zhang Yan say: "That's not necessary, Duchen Lu is not a hypocrite, his old man has high expectations for you, and the Hanlin master Yang also appreciates you very much, you should be more honest. Be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and you must not disappoint Duchen Lu's expectations."

Zhang Cheng had always admired Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Tinglin, such upright and capable officials. These days, they have met many times, and their admiration has been regenerated. Now they both have high expectations for him, and they even gave him a binoculars. To show encouragement, how can we not move his heart.

Standing in awe, he clasped his fists and said, "Cheng'er will live up to the expectations of his uncle and the ministers. He will be loyal to the emperor and protect the country, drive out slaves and bandits, and protect the people."

"Okay, this is Hao Erlang from my Zhang family. You should go back early and make arrangements for moving the camp tomorrow morning." Zhang Yan looked at Zhang Cheng in front of him with a look of relief.

Zhang Cheng bid farewell to his uncle Zhang Yan, and got up to leave the military tent. As soon as he got outside, the cold wind blew past him, and he couldn't help shivering.

Chen Zhong was chatting with Lin Zhiyi and Liang Song when he saw Zhang Cheng leaving the military tent, he rushed over and asked, "Master, go back to the camp."

"Back to the camp." After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he walked towards Liang Song and Lin Zhiyi.

Liang Song came up to meet him, and said mysteriously, "How about it, we still have a leg of pork."

Zhang Cheng looked at Lin Zhiyi, and Lin Zhiyi tentatively asked, "Repair?"

"All right! Let's go back and make arrangements for the relocation. Come at night, we have wine, spirits." Zhang Cheng narrowed his eyes and squinted at the two of them.

At this time, Chen Zhong had brought back his horse, so Zhang Cheng got on his horse and rushed to his Qian headquarters camp.

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When Zhang Cheng returned to his camp, Chen Zhong hurriedly helped him take off his armor, and at the same time ordered two personal soldiers to immediately summon the chiefs of the sentries to discuss matters.

After a while, the four guards came to Zhang Cheng's tent, only to find a small pot set up in the middle of the tent, which was still empty at this time, and some temporary small tables were spread all over the tent.

Wu Zhizhong said with a smile: "Master, this is a good thing."

Hearing what Wu Zhizhong said, the other three people also laughed haha. Only the town governor He Biao's iron-faced face showed no expression. Shen sat down.

Seeing that everyone was sitting still, Zhang Cheng said in a deep voice, "Today, Father-in-law Gao Qiqian, Director of the Army, came to Changping and separated from Duchen Lu."

"Divide the troops? How did you divide them..."

"How do you divide it? Master..."

All the people in the tent asked Zhang Cheng for inquiries.

Zhang Cheng noticed: He Biao still remained motionless, as if none of this had anything to do with him, that's right, it really didn't seem to have anything to do with him, it was Zhang Cheng's business, and Chi He Biao just A town governor, just manage military regulations, military discipline, and military merit inspections.

"Calm down, what are you arguing about?" Zhang Cheng yelled to stop the crowd, and then said: "I declare Zhenqin Wangjun, and I am still led by Duchen Lu. I will set up the camp tomorrow and move to the east outside the Yongding Gate of the capital. For the garrison in the suburbs, as for the specific defense, it will be assigned by Yang Junmen."

Zhang Guangda said heartily: "Yes, stay closer to the tartars, and kill some more when you have time. Hehehe..."

"Huzi, last time you rushed to the front with the left whistle, this time it's time for us brothers to go up." Brother Hu said to Zhang Guangda, Chen Zheng and Wu Zhizhong both nodded, and Zhang Guangda blew his beard again. , and stared again.

Zhang Cheng waved his hand to calm them down, and then said: "For the transfer of the camp, the four of you should go back and make arrangements first, so that the sergeants can make preparations, and dinner will be served in advance tomorrow morning, so don't miss the camp."

"Oh, by the way, make arrangements for the relocation of the camp. Remember to come back. Mr. Liang Qian and Mr. Lin Qian will come to get together later, and you will all take care of them." Zhang Cheng added.

The four of them agreed, then got up and left the army tent, and each went to arrange the camp and move the camp. Zhang Cheng ordered Chen Zhong to prepare the fire and stew.

Only Zhang Cheng and He Biao were left in the military tent. Only then did He Biao speak: "Mr. Qian, the battle at Mafang has been recorded according to your request. Please take a look at it."

As He Biao spoke, he took out a small notebook, Zhang Cheng took it, and carefully flipped through it, carefully looking at each page.

After Zhang Cheng read it, he returned the small book to He Biao, and said to him, "He Zhenfu, I have to leave this job to you in the future. We are going to name it 'War History', how about it?"

"'Battle history'? Mr. Qian, every battle will be recorded after this?" He Biao asked.

Zhang Cheng patiently explained: "Yes, from today onwards, after every battle in our department, the book office will record the battle process in detail, compile it into a 'battle history', and summarize good 'battle cases', which can be As a tutorial, let everyone learn;

Summarize the failed 'battle cases', draw lessons from them, and avoid failure again.What do you think? "

After hearing Zhang Cheng's words, He Biao fell into deep thought. After a long time, he finally opened his mouth and said, "The general idea is to use today's affairs as tomorrow's teacher. He Biao admires how far-reaching things are."

"Haha, we didn't ask you to praise us and praise us, okay, this matter is up to you, don't worry." Zhang Cheng stretched out his hand and patted He Biao's shoulder, and continued: "There is also the matter of this symbol, Let's talk about it too, look..."

While talking, Zhang Cheng picked up the writing brush on the case table and began to write on the paper. He Biao sat and read at first, but then he stood up and bent over to read Zhang Cheng's writing carefully.

A short but detailed battle report, vividly on paper.

The difference in this battle report is that in addition to the commas and periods mentioned by Zhang Cheng before, there are additional semicolons and double quotation marks.

The writing style of scholars in the Ming Dynasty did not have punctuation marks. The whole article was written in one go without any symbols.

There may be no problem with this method in the world of scholars, but it has created difficulties in the popularization of characters and articles. In addition to learning characters and writing, one must also learn to punctuate sentences.

Zhang Cheng's idea is very simple, that is, to introduce the punctuation marks of later generations into his military camp, and then gradually spread them within the area under his control. In the future, they can be used to deliver military reports, and even carry out literacy in his army up.

He was afraid that He Biao would not be able to accept too much for a while, so he proposed these four longest punctuation marks temporarily, let He Biao and the book office get used to it first, and then considered whether to add new punctuation marks.

Here Zhang Cheng is explaining the shape and usage of punctuation marks to He Biao, while Chen Zhong is directing these soldiers to light a fire and add charcoal. From the pot in the middle of the military tent, the smell of meat gradually comes out... …

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