In the days that followed, Zhou Huaian, who returned to Guangfu, was like replacing a rusty and worn-out part with a machine that was so large and clumsy that it was almost falling apart, and then refilled with lubricating oil, and it turned into operation again. Smooth and run like flowing water.
A few more days later, a ragged team also arrived outside the city of Canton; someone immediately set up a temporary camp for reception. Because, they are the long march athletes who belonged to the Grand General's Mansion this time, that is, border soldiers from Guizhou, Guanzhou, Huzhou, Leizhou, and even Annan.
If you look at it from the outside, the team’s outfits are too tattered, covered in patches and shabby areas, it looks like an army of beggars; it’s not even as good as most of the remodeling and preparations. After the volunteers.
Compared with the turbulent vassal army in the central plains, or the northern frontier army in Youyan in Heshuoguan, they have been forgotten and ignored by the court for too long; so many people The original three-year and five-year service periods have exceeded more than ten years. After such a long period of time, many people have forgotten what the family situation is like, and some simply married and had children locally. And take root.
However, the supply cost of the corresponding imperial court was far away from the long-distance financial support, and now it is completely cut off and is no longer sustainable. This was the reason that, under the persuasion of the rebel envoys, the chief officials and generals who were stationed were killed as a certificate of fame, and Kaizi spontaneously formed an established act of surrendering and surrendering to the Cantonese government.
For the native soldiers and regimental trainings from those places, these homesick foreign visitors are also unstable factors and hidden dangers in a certain sense, just like the cause of the Pang Xun chaos in the past, they have not been left behind for them. A painful memory; and from this, with the opportunity of discussing peace with the Cantonese government and giving it away at a paid price, it is the best choice.
Therefore, as these Long March athletes/frontier guards, the exchange conditions and costs for eventually changing their hostile positions and turning them into their own use, in addition to the basic treatment and shelter provided by the rebels, is to satisfy the majority of people ( Hit) The desire to go back home. Zhang Dong, covered in lice and dirt, is obviously one of them.
He belongs to the frontier defense order under the command of the Jiedu Jie Du of the Jinghai Navy; this is also a fairly young military town, but it was only when the famous Gao Ling recruited the Nanzhao Man to be under the assistance of the Annan Duhu Mansion at the right time. It has only been established for more than a dozen years; compared to the town’s navy ambassador, which sits on the rich and prosperous Jiangdong with only one word difference, it can be described as a typical representative of the local abuses and the poor.
Although there are more than 20 states under the rule, except for the plains where Jiaozhou is rich in rice and wood, they are almost all typical of poor mountains and bad waters, and there are many places; except for some special local tribute products and applications. In addition, most of the limited output each year is used to maintain local native soldiers and regimental training expenses to ensure deterrence and vigilance against the natives in the mountains; it is difficult to provide any decent assistance to the Annan Protectorate itself.
In fact, he feels that no matter how much rice and fresh food in Jiaozhou eats, it is still dull and tasteless and there is no smell of hometown wheat rice and coarse wheat bran cakes; after a thousand miles away from home for more than ten years, there are news and news from hometown and relatives. Circumstances; it became his one of the few spiritual pillars and hopes in his long, arduous, boring and monotonous frontier career.
He was born in a butcher's house and used to be a loafing rascal. Then because he knew a few words and said big words, he was drunk and tricked into the army by his former comrades, so he became a long march sergeant; and luckily, after surviving in previous battles, he was considered a man for years. The old man.
He has also seen all kinds of Shanyi barbarians, but most of them are mobs who are vulnerable to a single blow and are only good at sneak attacks. The most difficult thing to deal with is undoubtedly the elite "Luojuzi" of the Nanzhao Wu barbarian, Chaoyu. The damp local phenology is simply their best cover; if you accidentally or slightly slack off, the head of the guard will be touched by someone.
But fortunately, since Gao Linggong successively frustrated Nanban and regained Jiaozhou in Jiannan and Annan; Nanzhaoman is now in chaos in the country, and officials, warchiefs and kings have no time to care for him, only a few are left. The spontaneous offense of the Shanyi tribe; that's why they had the opportunity to breathe from their lack of food and clothing to follow the fatigue of the Long March soldiers.
With a certain residual vigilance, Zhang Dong numbly walked into a temporary sub-camp, but fortunately, worrying things and scenes did not happen. The soldiers who came in came in a little leisurely, sitting on a patch of grass, talking and chatting quietly; except for a few tents that obviously couldn't hide too many people, they were in the broad vision in the fence. There are no pre-ambush swordsmen or crossbow positions.
Then, after more than a hundred people gathered in this camp, amidst a certain uneasy mood and voice, the door was suddenly closed; after another embarrassing moment, he suddenly appeared at the other side door. Pushing the cart inside, Zhang Dong suddenly smelled a familiar aroma and taste, as well as the sound of surprises one after another.
"There are steamed cakes, as well as boiled wheat rice and chestnut rice porridge..."
"It's gourd soup and miso soup..."
It was the grass thieves who organized many cooks and fires from the north among these shelter camps, and cooked a batch of foods full of characteristics of various places; although they were all packed in car baskets and vats, people Things that can only be collected in line, but also attracted most people's attention, and gave birth to many expressions and feelings such as nostalgia and aftertaste.
Therefore, many people can't help crying or weeping inexplicably while eating. In this case, it will somewhat dilute the original tension, solemnity and life, and even vigilance and worry.
Then there is the most basic personal hygiene and cleaning, and then there is a doctor who is guarding the house to check their physical condition and treat the existing injuries, mainly to prevent local diseases and other diseases from being brought to Canton.
After this series of combined measures, the results were quite good among them; it was like a swell of rocks in a stagnant pool, leaving them suffering from lack of food and clothing on the edge. The pawns had a great response.
"Damn it, if the grass thieves eat so much better than ours, then be an officer with a dog ball..."
"There are still people who take care of the injuries and wash them cleanly. Is this still a grass thief with a mud-legged rebellion? Who is the officer and army in the end..."
"It seems that the grass thieves who occupy the outside of the ridge are afraid that they will become a climate..."
"Isn't my hard work and desperation for more than ten years been in vain? I was blindfolded at the beginning, so I just followed these grass thieves to rebel..."
After eating a good meal and washing his body, Zhang Dong, after putting on a coarse cloth shirt, was waiting for the consultation, and he also saw a face that seemed to be familiar.
"Zhao Qi Team?"
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At this moment, Zhou Huaian, the actual person in charge of these crowded camps, who was standing on the city wall and looking at the crowded camp, also just sent out some kind of feelings of "I deserve to be the athletes here, let me fall into my heart!"; for this he took the initiative The purpose of asking to be responsible for related affairs, and deliberately come forward to brush up on the sense of existence, is for this near water platform to be an opportunity for self-help.
This is the Long March athlete from the frontier army of this era, who has been torn out with the southern wasteland for many years to prepare for the frontier guard; although it is not comparable to the highly valued veteran fighters and famous masters in the north, it is also in the cold weapon war of this era. The elites who are naturally eliminated from the long battle; their experience in battle formation organization and military training, with a little guidance and indoctrination, can completely become one of the seedlings for increasing military construction;
Of course, Zhou Huaian's mind was not big enough to expect to be able to rely on his own family, so he annexed these relatively savvy former officers and soldiers; in fact, as skilled soldiers for thousands of years, most of them have long been led by the rebel generals. Stared at it.
But as long as you can select hundreds to thousands of people through the preliminary process of storage, accommodation and reorganization, without any bad habits and psychological problems, people who are enterprising and easy to accept new things are the best harvest. During the encirclement, he specially arranged those soldiers who were also former officers and soldiers to leave these camps to pull sheep in disguise. (End of this chapter)