Chapter 85: Barbarians

Everyone, look at me and I look at you, no one answered his questions. Gu Changfeng felt as if he was hitting the soft cotton with a full force, and he was depressed.
From the time he decided to go to the frontier and inherit his father's last wish, he was ready to fight the enemy, so he did not hesitate to face the enemy. But these people have no such awareness at all. In the past few years, the weather in Daqi has been smooth and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Many people have forgotten the barbarians who looked at Daqi and murdered their compatriots cruelly with iron cavalry.
Gu Changfeng clenched his fists, his expression gloomy.
The recruits swallowed, preparing to endure his anger, but Gu Changfeng clenched his fists and then released them.
"Now the barbarians are just sending a small team to test. When the full-scale war starts, it will not be a small fight like this tonight. Everyone has to go to the battlefield. The sword has no eyes either you die or I live. We can't hide behind forever... …" Gu Changfeng's dark eyes looked at these recruits calmly, "If you don't obey the command and act arbitrarily like tonight, you may be the next to die."
"Laziness, weakness, cowardice, and unwillingness will only bring Hades closer to you."
"As soon as you succeed, I don't want you to be a stepping stone for anyone."
After that, Gu Changfeng no longer said more, but ordered everyone to clean the battlefield and then return to the camp.
Everyone looked at his hard and tough face with complex expressions. As the elder son of the town government official, Gu Changfeng has a valuable status, but he does not hold his own status to be special, but enjoys the same recruiting treatment as them, and the intensity of daily training is greater than them.
This person has never been on the battlefield before, but when facing the enemy calmly and decisively, this person is a natural soldier?
But he is a twin...
They are not as good as a pair.
On the way back, the recruits were not as excited and anxious as they were when they came. Everyone was silent and the atmosphere was a bit heavy. Gu Changfeng could see the confusion in their eyes.
The silence of the people just now really made him angry, but once again, except for a few who yearned for the military camp, most of the recruits were ordinary people with no lofty ambitions. They just want to make two more money, then marry a wife and have children, and live this ordinary life.
The concept of war is too remote for them. Although they have joined the army, they are not yet a qualified soldier in their mentality.
He felt a little weak, but the next moment he thought of Shen Yanbei.
His youth is flexible in mind and always has his own unique insights into things. If he encountered such a situation, he would not want to use the method of reprimand to force the recruits to change their mentality and correct their attitudes. Moreover, he could not change it.
What will he do?
Find out the contradictions of things? To solve it from another angle?
Thinking of this, Gu Changfeng's heart suddenly opened up.
There is no such lofty ambition to defend the country, it involves oneself
Shouldn't you be concerned about profit? Gu Changfeng felt relieved and felt that he had found the right entry point.
Back at the barracks, Gu Changfeng went to pay the job first. Just as Tai Qi asked about the night attack, Gu Changfeng truthfully reported and self-examined.
"Although they did not obey the instructions, I did not consider them well and conduct improperly."
Tai Qi had just finished listening, but frowned. He looked at Gu Changfeng with a serious expression: "Even if your martial arts are strong, you can fight on the battlefield not with personal force, but with the cooperation and assistance of various services."
"Once war starts, you can't care about everyone." Tai Qigang said solemnly, "Too much care about their lives and deaths will affect your command."
"Changfeng, there are people dying on the battlefield every day. You have to learn to look down on life and death."
"They are the soldiers you brought, but they are not your responsibility."
Gu Changfeng was taken aback.
"Go back and think about it." Tai Qi just patted his shoulder
"Yes." Gu Changfeng said dullly.
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The next day, when he went out for exercise, Gu Changfeng arrived at the school early as usual, but he didn't sleep last night, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked a little frightening.
Before the horn sounded, all the recruits lined up neatly in the school field waiting for the to roll their names. The drums rang and the recruits began to drill.
Gu Changfeng was patrolling the queue with a long whip in his hand. The always lazy recruit saw him with red eyes and a calm face, walking towards him, cheering up and repeating the action that he had practiced countless times. However, the recruits who formed the hundred-member team last night didn't know whether they were ashamed or awakened. They were very serious when they were practicing, and no one was lashed.
Gu Changfeng looked in his eyes, and the corners of his tight lips were slightly loose.
In the following days, barbarians continued to visit and harass, and the atmosphere in the Daqi military camp became tense for a while.
Finally in mid-July, a menacing cavalry appeared on the other side of the wasteland.
The dust is flying, covering the sky and the sun, and tens of thousands of horses are unstoppable as they drive thousands of miles like a raging sea.
Barbarian crime!
In the past, the barbarians had committed crimes after the autumn harvest, but before the end of this summer, the barbarians started. Tai Qi had just dispatched troops and sent troops to welcome him, and the military sent him to Yongjing City urgently.
At the same time, Shen Yanbei, who had just received the secret order, packed up his bags and ran away.
There was a locust plague in Shangrao County. Early in the morning, he found an excuse to go to the county below Minzhou to check on the reconstruction situation after the disaster, and slipped away with the imperial army who had secretly followed.
"Lord, take the decree." The young eunuch, who was in the dust, looked at King Jinyang, who had froze like lightning strikes since he had read the decree, and reminded again.
King Jinyang's face changed from white to blue, from blue to red, and finally turned into gloomy black.
This imperial decree said that the national treasury was empty, and Shangrao County had another locust plague and needed assistance. The border training required a large amount of money, and the court could not provide one hundred thousand taels. The earthquake has been announced to the world, and the emperor’s relatives, officials, wealthy merchants, honors, etc. have been called on to donate money, rice, grain and other materials. The name will be announced to the world, and a pennant will be issued to commend the good deeds. Order him to pay attention to whether there is a donation, and be sure to register the name of the donation to the court!
Two hundred thousand taels are gone...
"Ah--" With a low roar, King Jinyang rushed over like a furious lion, grabbing the shirt of the little eunuch, and asked grimly: "You just said that the kid Shen Yan led the way in Linshui County. Yes?" The little brought two imperial edicts to the south, and one read when they met Shen Yanbei on the road!
"Yes, Lord Shen said that the situation is urgent, so he will not come back and bid farewell to the prince. He said that the remaining catastrophe silver will be distributed to the families of the victims as the funeral expenses of the people who died. They have been notified to the villages and the yamen will come tomorrow. Receive it. I also said that the details of the use of disaster silver have been posted on Changsheng Street for the people to check. The numbers are all right, so you can rest assured, Lord..."
The blood in his chest turned over, and King Jinyang was so angry that he almost vomited a mouthful of blood.
After dismissing the little eunuch, King Jinyang rushed into the crown and kicked Zhizhou, who was kneeling on the ground, with red eyes, and roared: "Chasing! Chase me! Catch Shen Yan's back and give me the corpse! "
"Yes! Yes!" Zhizhou sweating profusely ran out on the ground.
He smashed everything in the room like crazy, Jinyang Wang Hong with distorted facial features pulled out the sword hanging on the wall and rushed out. Seeing his disorganized demeanor without holding a sharp blade, the servants of the palace were afraid of being touched by the sharp sword, shouting and scattered in horror.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh for deceiving people!" King Jinyang roared at the sky.
Because there were so many victims in the disaster, he was forced to take out the other half of the hidden supplies to distribute, but now the 200,000 taels are gone, and the supplies are gone. What does he take to raise the hidden soldiers? Zhao Yu said that he was asked to organize wealthy officials to donate money, but the money to buy those materials was what he forced the wealthy officials and others to donate!
Shen Yanbei, who had pitted King Jinyang again, rode on the horse, listening to the noisy cicadas all around him feeling uneasy. In order to run quickly, he didn't even ride the carriage!
"Master Shen, there is a post in front. If you take a break, you will drink your saliva before leaving?" The sun was scorching, and there was no wind. It was very hard to drive in such weather. The leader of the Forbidden Army who accompanied Shen Yan's north face was flushed and worried. A civil servant could not bear it, so he spoke.
As the imperial army, their duty is to guard the imperial city. When they received an order from their superiors to the imperial mission to the south for disaster relief, everyone was not happy. On the one hand, it was really hard to travel long distances, and on the other hand, the Hanlin officials were so noble, and looked down upon them like martial artists. But along the way, Shen Yanbei subverted their perception of Hanlin officials.
Being approachable is their first impression of Shen Yanbei. When they met for the first time, Shen Yanbei clasped his fists and said that this time I had to go south, which really made them feel flattered. It is their duty to protect imperial envoys, so where is the hard work? Riding on the road day and night, often eating and sleeping, but this person didn't care, and showed them a hand from time to time, which was really surprising.
The second impression is talkative. These military attachés didn’t know one big word, and they brag and slapped their farts very vulgarly, but this person listened with a slight smile, he could catch whatever he said, and he could say one, two or three, with a peaceful voice and humor. He is proud of nothing.
But their deepest impression of Shen Yanbei is wisdom.
As an imperial commissioner, the young official showed his most striking aspect. He is extremely witty, calm, and well-founded. No wonder the emperor appointed him as an imperial envoy.
"Okay, brothers have worked hard too, let people serve two good dishes, two pots of good wine, everyone has a rest." Shen Yanbei smiled. They ran for so long, and King Jinyang couldn't catch up even if he exploded.
"Yes!" The ban leader greeted the brothers to dismount.
Drinking the slightly bitter tea, Shen Yanbei looked up at the high blue sky outside the window, feeling a little irritable. The summer is scorching and the heat is unbearable, his wife must have worked harder than him at the border.
Originally, he was thinking about asking the emperor for an errand to go to the border after the disaster relief, but he didn't expect a locust plague in Shangrao County.
The locusts crossed the border, no pellets were harvested, and there was no food to fight on the border. He could only think of a way to solve the problem before looking for his wife.