Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 531
boom!
boom!
A huge boulder with a diameter of five feet was thrown towards Fuyu City, smashing a deep hole in the city wall.

Everyone was shocked by the might of the original magic cannon. Fuyu City was not strong at all, and the Fuyu people's city building technology was far inferior to that of the Central Plains. Even the city walls of the Central Plains could not withstand the original magic cannon, let alone Fuyu City.

One hundred original cannons smashed continuously for a day, and by the evening, half of the south wall of Fuyu City had collapsed. According to this progress, only two or three more days of smashing could take Fuyu City without injury.

A large number of ships transported polished cobblestones from the quarry not far away. Watchtowers were built around the barracks, with lanterns and bonfires everywhere. There were patrolling soldiers leading hounds in the camp, and moats and stone walls were everything.

In the middle of the night, the Goguryeo people in Fuyu City couldn't bear it anymore. They couldn't just watch Yan's army smash their city walls down from a long distance.

Therefore, after discussing with the nobles of Goguryeo, they decided to launch a night attack on Yan's military camp.

Inside the stone wall of the barracks, Huang Zongxi's team was assigned to patrol at night.

He is holding a military dog ​​in his left hand, a spear in his right hand, and a curved knife hanging from his waist.

Suddenly, he heard a slight abnormal sound.

On the watchtower, the sentinel saw a group of people sneaking around in the night on the flat ground below. This group of people was laying a wooden bridge on the trench.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The sentinel hurriedly rang the gong, and at the same time shouted downward:

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

If you want to become a sentinel, you must not have night blindness, have good eyesight, and be not afraid of staying up late, and each watchtower will have three sentries on duty in turn.

Huang Zongxi, who was patrolling the outer circle of the barracks, immediately became vigilant, and then saw a group of Goguryeo climbing the stone wall.

Those subtle and strange sounds just now were made by these Goguryeo people when they laid the wooden bridge.

"kill!"

Huang Zongxi plucked up his courage, rushed forward, and stabbed a Goguryeo man in the eye who was climbing a stone wall with a spear.

"what!!!"

The bright spear pierced through the eye socket of the Goguryeo man, and when it was pulled out, it was already covered in blood, and an eyeball was stuck on the spear blade.

The Goguryeo man fell under the stone wall and rolled on the ground clutching his hands, his miserable wailing resounding through the sky.

The rest of the team members also mustered up their courage and stabbed the Goguryeo people who were climbing the stone wall with their spears.

After a while, more and more Yan soldiers came and defeated the Goguryeo people who attacked at night.

The Goguryeo people dropped hundreds of corpses and fled back to Fuyu City in a hurry.

Another hour later, it was someone else's turn to watch at night. Huang Zongxi took off his armor and clothes, wiped off the stinky sweat on his body with a wet towel, and then while his comrades were sleeping, he read the "Nanhua Sutra" under the oil lamp.

In recent years, more and more scholars are no longer limited to studying Confucian classics, but read a lot of books. They want to find their favorite ideas from the classics of various schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and then according to their own needs, Make some modifications.

They did not dare to refute the authoritative mainstream face to face like Lin Zhi, so they expressed their thoughts different from the mainstream in a roundabout way, expressing their core thoughts in the guise of the literary thoughts of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The failure and massacre of the Yan court in the black plague made more and more people believe that the Spring and Autumn Period was an era of prosperous thinking, and they shouldered the great responsibility of reviving the culture, art and ideological trends of the Spring and Autumn Period.

But in fact, the revival of cultural and artistic thought is just a cover, in order to avoid direct confrontation with authority, after all, Lin Zhi has already been beheaded for public display.

The real purpose of using the revival of the culture and art of the Spring and Autumn Period as a cover is to oppose the mainstream authority of the Yan State and the dominance of Confucianism.

Huang Zongxi is also in this trend. Although his teacher has always taught him the way of a sage, he is more interested in the learning of Laozi and Zhuangzi, especially the "rule of inaction" in it.

"Governance of inaction" advocates that the ruler interfere with the daily life of the people as little as possible and give the people greater freedom.

Huang Zongxi thinks it makes sense, because during the 40 years of the black plague, the imperial court of Yan State forcibly interfered with the normal life of the people and did countless stupid things. Moreover, for hundreds of years, it has been forcing the people to open up wasteland, causing countless people to be separated from their families, and countless people have been brewed. tragedy.

"The monarch's reckless actions are far more destructive than robbers and bandits." This is the truth that Huang Zongxi has realized over the years.

"Ah hey——" A comrade in arms woke up in the middle of the night, looked at Huang Zongxi who was reading under the oil lamp, and asked him, "Are you still reading at this late?"

Seeing that Huang Zongxi was reading "Zhuangzi", he laughed again: "So you also read Zhuangzi."

Among the conditions for joining the army in Yan State, knowledge of characters is the most basic requirement, so Huang Zongxi's comrades in arms may not understand the Four Books and Five Classics, but they can definitely understand the words in the books, at most they don't understand the expressions expressed in these words Thought.

Reading Taoist scriptures and Buddhist scriptures has gradually become a trend. Young people, regardless of whether they understand it or not, are trying to find a way to buy a copy and put it at home. Learned and talented.

"Just look around, I'm going to bed early too." After Huang Zongxi said, he blew out the oil lamp, lay down on the mat, covered it with a straw mat, and began to sleep.

After a good night's sleep, Huang Zongxi even dreamed about his first love.

Ring ring ring! ——

Clang, clang! ——

Some soldiers who specially urged the soldiers to get up kept beating gongs, drums and bells in the camp, shouting at each tent.

He rubbed his eyes, washed his face with cold water on a towel, rinsed his mouth with sea salt from branches, and then led a group of team members to the open space to queue up for porridge.

When I came to the open space in the center of the camp, I saw several long queues, many people were waiting for breakfast, and not far away, there were many officers competing.

Siege warfare is generally a very time-consuming thing, so the officers in the barracks will carry out some entertainment activities during the siege, so as not to be too boring.

Siege warfare lasted for a year or even two or three years, which was very common before the advent of artillery.

To capture a city, unless there is an internal support in the city, or a strong attack is difficult to capture, it can only be surrounded until the defenders in the city run out of water and food. This process takes more than a year.

Of course, military prostitutes are also a kind of entertainment, but military prostitutes are limited, and they are generally soldiers who have made military exploits on the battlefield, and the general will specially arrange military prostitutes for them.

Some military prostitutes were brought from the starting point, and they were specially recruited from institutions such as the imperial court's "Jiaofangsi" and "Nvlv". The recruited were often the female relatives of sinners.

This kind of high-ranking military prostitutes usually serves generals and high-ranking officers. In addition to the professional prostitutes brought along with the army from the starting point, there are also ordinary women from good families who are temporarily captured and captured at the battle site. These captured women Those who are not very good looking are usually rewarded directly to meritorious soldiers, while those who are not bad will be brought into the barracks to become low-level military prostitutes. The service targets are generally low-level officers who are ordinary soldiers.

More recreational activities are mainly Cuju, fencing, wrestling, tug-of-war, archery and so on.

clang!
"Ah!"

"Look at the sword!"

clang!
At this moment, two officers were having a swordsmanship competition, and many soldiers were sitting around, watching the officers' swordsmanship competition while drinking porridge.

Finally it was Huang Zongxi's turn, and the cook made him a bowl of porridge, which contained many cooked wild vegetables, and stuffed him with a big steamed bun.

This is the standard breakfast for Yan soldiers when they go out to fight. It may not look very good, but it is actually not bad. After all, in this troubled world, many people have nothing to eat.

If they were training in the native country of Yan, their food would be even better, for example, some minced fish would be cooked in the porridge.

(End of this chapter)