The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 99: One day without sealing the sword

"Hey!" A sound of stopping the horses sounded.

Fifty horse bandits plus Tang Cheng had arrived about 300 meters in front of Lijia Village. At this time, Tang Cheng reined in his horse and looked forward. He was slightly shocked. Although Tang Cheng was a straw bag, even if he was a straw bag, When you see the village of Lijiacun in front of you, you will feel a little surprised.

The village of Lijia Village is different from other villages. As you can imagine in other villages, a village gate surrounded by fences or earthen walls is a luxury.

Basically, the village is just thatched houses connected into a piece, nothing more, without any technical content, but the Lijia Village in front of you is different, that is very different. This Lijia Village was first built with bricks and wood, without grass. Secondly, although it has no walls, the backs of its houses are all built outside, forming a city wall more than five meters high.

Large houses of blue bricks and wood are built around the center of the circle, densely "squeezed" together.The whole village is like a big house, and a big house becomes a village.

Even a fool knows that this five-meter-high city wall is not something that ordinary people can break through.

Just when Tang Cheng was a little surprised, the horse bandit Xiaoxing came to Tang Cheng happily and said, "Mr. Tang, are you a little surprised? You feel like there is some knowledge in this village?"

"Yes!" Tang Cheng quickly looked at the horse bandit Xiaoxing: "Xiaoxing, why does it feel like this Lijia Village is not easy to attack? Look at the houses they built with their backs facing the outside. You can see the whole village from the outside. , there’s not even a window, it’s like a turtle shell with no place for its mouth.”

Tang Cheng had some brains and knew how powerful Lijiacun was.

However, our horse bandit Xiaoxing soon said hehely: "Mr. Tang, if the construction of Lijia Village is completed, it will be exactly as you said. It will be like a turtle shell. We people want to eat this turtle." The shell is still a bit difficult.

But now Lijia Village is still under construction, so Mr. Tang, please take a look...! "

The horse bandit Xiaoxing pointed to a gatehouse in front and said with a smile: "Mr. Tang, please look at these gatehouses. There are ten gatehouses like this in Lijia Village. These gatehouses should be the gatehouses where villagers go in and out every day."

After they are built, these gatehouses will be guarded by special personnel. However, Lijia Village has not yet been built, and these gatehouses are not guarded. We can only ride along the gatehouse and ride in, directly to the village, and chop down everyone we see. Cutting off the money for Li An's residence, Mr. Tang, how difficult do you think this is? "

"Ah!" Tang Cheng finally smiled happily after being fooled by the horse bandit Xiaoxing.

"And!" the horse bandit Xiaoxing continued: "There are many good things in this Li family village, money, women, and the method of rock sugar. They are all good things. I suggest that Mr. Tang, you should be the second echelon to kill them and kill them. If Mr. Tang holds these two things under control, Mr. Tang will definitely impress Mr. Tang."

"Yes, yes..." Tang Cheng looked at Xiaoxing in surprise: "Yes. Xiaoxing, you are right, hehe. As long as I can hold the method of rock sugar in my hand and present it to you, then your husband will definitely reward me greatly." of.

At that time, Xiaoxing, I will definitely not treat you badly. "

"Thank you very much, Mr. Tang. Xiaoxing is willing to give Mr. Tang the back seat and protect Mr. Tang's safety." Xiaoxing quickly handed over.

"Okay!" Tang Cheng shouted enthusiastically: "Then what are you waiting for? Go ahead!"

With a loud shout, Xiaoxing immediately issued an order: "The first echelon charge, as long as they enter Lijia Village, the knife will not be sealed for a day."

As soon as these words were said, the thirty horse bandits rushed to Lijia Village excitedly without looking back. You must know that not sealing the sword is a big reward, and this encouragement is to encourage the fighting power of all the horse bandits.

Such encouraging tricks are used in the army.For example, there are 300 spearmen standing in a row, and the general is riding a horse, drawing his sword and knocking the sword on the spear while running, which means I am with you!

However, this situation is still not enough to "stimulate" the soldiers.

Soldiers are not fools, are you really with us?

When spiritual rewards are unsatisfactory, material rewards are indispensable. The food for soldiers during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was notoriously shabby. They usually dried rice in the sun, but during battles, heated it in water and boiled it with some salted pickles. This was the meal for soldiers at that time. meal.

Whenever there is a war, if there is an extra piece of meat in the soldiers' rice bowl, it will undoubtedly be the greatest incentive for the soldiers.

Just imagine, in the camp, the soldiers put the meat into each soldier's bowl, and the officers looked at the wolf-hungry soldiers and vowed: "Brothers! If we can win this battle, let the meat eat! "This encouragement can be described as beneficial, and it also benefits the soldiers very much.

In the Northern Expedition to the Daliao in the early Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty lost because it did not distribute material rewards to the soldiers on time, which led to a low morale.It can be seen that material rewards are a relatively intuitive way of motivation in ancient battlefields.

In addition to material rewards, there is also a very radical way to motivate soldiers, not only radical, but extreme, that is, ordering soldiers to massacre villages or even cities on the eve of the battle and after the battle.

This method seems too cruel and ruthless in the eyes of modern people, but in ancient times, many soldiers were sent to the battlefield as criminals. In addition, the troops usually lacked daily necessities and the living environment was strictly restricted. This method can effectively vent their anger. It is also a method to reveal the most obscure and darkest desires in the hearts of the soldiers.

If you don't seal the sword for a day, you will be allowed to toss around in Lijia Village today, killing whoever you want, and doing whatever you want. You say these horse bandits will move forward without wailing.

But after these horse bandits rushed into the gatehouse of Lijia Village, these horse bandits were a little panicked, because after rushing into the gatehouse of Lijia Village, although the road was made of blue bricks, it became narrower, how narrow it was. , it is only as wide as a carriage, and three people on horseback cannot ride side by side, so only two people can ride together.

There are also many forks in the roads in Lijia Village. When you think the lanes are connected, they are not at all. It is already the end, and you have to go back. When you turn around, the other horse bandits behind you will I have to look back, and I feel completely lost inside.

Just when these horse bandits wanted to move forward, they heard a 'whoosh', followed by a 'pop'. This was the sound of an arrow entering the body, and then a horse bandit who was staying at the end fell down directly from his horse.

"No. Someone has fired a cold arrow." An alert horse bandit loudly warned his brothers around him.

But such a warning was too slow. In an instant, ten Lijiacun guards with bows and arrows appeared from the roofs on both sides. One of them, a bearded man, laughed happily: "They are all here with us, they are all here." Our five teams are the luckiest here.”

"Old Du is yelling, let's start the killing. Brigade Liu said that no one will be left, kill them all. A horse bandit can eat and sell half a catty of rock candy." Lin Rang shouted with a laugh.

One tael of rock candy and two hundred coppers, five taels of rock candy and one coin, each horse bandit has one coin. There are thirty horse bandits below crowded together, just piles of copper coins. Qin Shi, the captain of the fifth team, smiled slightly and said: "Shoot! (Qin Shi is the deputy captain and the captain of the fifth team.)
I saw ten members of the Lijia Village Guards on the roof. Without saying a word, they drew their bows and started shooting.

"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"

After a while, the thirty horse bandits shot and killed less than ten people.

　Many people ask questions about Jin Kaiyuan. Kaiyuan is the reign name of Li Longji. How could it exist during the Zhenguan period? This is actually a coincidence. Kaiyuan Tongbao was minted in the early Tang Dynasty and was inscribed by Ouyang Xun himself. Ouyang Xun was the emperor of the early Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty figures, and Li Longji was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The two lived more than a hundred years apart. From a chronological point of view, it is impossible for Ouyang Xun to inscribe Li Longji's coins.It was purely a coincidence that Li Longji designated the reign name as Kaiyuan.

　　
　
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