Chapter 55: On the topic of fear
Wang Shao was lying on the ox cart and looked at the blue sky boredly. The few clouds in the sky were floating in disorder, gathering into a ball, and then being torn apart by the wind at high altitude. In this process, some clouds disappeared. When he closed his eyes and took a nap and opened it for a while, there was no cloud in the sky, and the sky was as clear as a shining sky!
The sun in late summer became poisonous shortly after it rose, but Wang Shao liked the feeling of the sunlight shining on his body very much. It was not because it was cold, but because his whole body was itchy and he didn't dare to scratch the wound with his hands. The dead face doctor did not allow it. Now is the time for the wound to heal, and he dared not see water or touch it. So Wang Shao felt that the smell on his body was no different from that of salted fish.
However, he was in a good mood and his body was not in vain. He heard that Zhang Zhi was turned into a candle by the military inspector, so he didn't think it was wrong to suffer a little. Zhang Zhi was wiped out. This was the best result achieved by the Song army in fighting against the Xixia people. With Zhang Zhi as the candle at the bottom, everything in Qinzhou can be justified to explain to the court.
Wang Shao's courtesy name was Zichun. He was from De'an, Jiangzhou. He was a Jinshi of Jiayou and only served as the Jianchang Army for three years.
Since the military marquis of Wu Shengjun passed the Jinshi and were inserted into the army, it has been no longer a strange story for young new Jinshi to enter the military camp, and Wang Shao is one of them.
Different backgrounds and natural visions, he understood better than those pure military men that Zhang Zhi's military abolition of this military achievements to the Song Dynasty. This victory marked that the Song army had broken away from its simple defensive function and began to advance towards the direction of attack. It was just because the Battle of Luanshipo was the Song army that defeated the most powerful iron-armored army in the field.
This has a completely different meaning from winning the battle to defend the city.
As a new Jinshi, he was in his prime. Wang Shao heard a rumor in Tokyo that the Song Dynasty is now actively preparing to capture Hehuang. He even heard that someone wanted to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to win a worldly glory that would be immediately crowned king.
When others were sneering, Wang Shao carefully studied Hehuang. If it was not reliable to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, then it was not completely feasible to seize the Hehuang Prefectures. For this reason, he wrote a special article "Pingrong Ce" for the emperor. Wang Shao didn't know if the emperor had read the "Pingrong Ce" he wrote. Anyway, shortly after the book was published, he was transferred from the Jianchang Army to the Tongyuan Army of Qinzhou. Before he had time to get familiar with his subordinates, he fought continuously in Qinzhou until he was covered in wounds by the Xixia people.
The dead-faced doctor threw an umbrella over Wang Shao's head. The sun disappeared, and Wang Shao had no choice but to sleep. When he woke up again, he found that the wounded convoy entered a military camp. This military camp was not big. But the war horses in the military camp. Look at the long necks of these war horses and ears that were the same as bamboo pills, Wang Shao knew that these war horses were the best Western Xia war horses, and Yun Zheng's family was so good. This is famous in Tokyo. The fact that he deceived others from Western Xia back then had become a beautiful story in the scholars, and was even spread everywhere by some people as a model for the use of wisdom.
There are many scholars in Tokyo who can't ride horses, but they like war horses very much, because as long as they are literati, there is no skill in studying the skills of Saima. However, the horse in Tokyo really lacks good horses, so some merchants hit the Yun family's head, and some women even handed the words to Mrs. Wenxin, but was rejected by Mrs. Wenxin, saying that these horses are only suitable for galloping under the crotch of a samurai and should not be kept in a stable to waste time.
Therefore, whenever those scholars who were seeking good horses could not find any good horses when they saw the servants in the Yun family wearing green hats riding a strong war horse to the market to purchase, they would beat their chests and stamp their feet, saying that the horse would humiliate the slaves.
Wang Shao barely supported himself and sat up. He saw a 14 or 15-year-old boy lying on the side of the carriage and looking at a jade pendant on his waist. He asked with a smile: "Where is this?"
When the young man saw that he was peeping through other people's property, he immediately raised his head proudly and said, "This is the Junior Military Camp. You will be safe when you get here. I just saw that your jade pendant looks good and didn't plan to snatch it away, so you don't have to worry!"
Wang Shao laughed and took off the jade pendant from his waist loop and gave it to the young man, saying, "This jade pendant is inherited from my family, so I can't give it to you, but it's okay to ask you to see it."
The young man then took the jade pendant and started playing with it in a rare way. After a while, he seemed to remember something, so he untied a small copper pot from his waist and gave it to Wang Shao and said, "Take a few sips secretly, don't be seen by the dead face."
Wang Shao immediately pulled out the plug, was overjoyed after smelling it, and looked up and drank it up. The grapes made with honey were rare in Qinzhou.
Seeing that Wang Shao had endless drinking, the young man immediately refused to accept it. He stuffed Wang Shao's jade pendant into his hand, grabbed the copper pot and said angrily: "You are so unreasonable. I kindly invite you to drink. Why do you have to drink all of it?"
Wang Shao smashed his lips and said, "It's unreasonable that you are. You're kicking out the door halfway through the way."
The young man looked at Wang Shao and the copper pot, and finally reluctantly handed it to Wang Shao and said aggrievedly: "That's all left, it's the one I stolen from Uncle Peng Jiu. The young army's man is not stingy, you have drunk it!"
Wang Shao was overjoyed, took the copper pot again and drank the sweet wine inside, then wiped his lips and said, "Don't worry, I'll go to see Dashang in a while. Dashang will definitely pity me when he sees me being injured. Then I will ask for a can of grape wine to return it to you."
The young man laughed out loud and pointed at Wang Shao and said, "The Grand Marshal is eating beans all day now. There are no grapes for you. Even if there are, they will be given to the wounded soldiers. You want to find the wrong person to ask for wine from the Grand Marshal."
Wang Shao was stunned for a moment and asked quickly: "The army lacks food?"
The young man said sadly: "We were not short of food at first, and Uncle Cui transported a lot of food to us from Yinping Road. However, there were too many elderly, weak, women and children who retired from Qinzhou. The general distributed half of the rice and grain to the people and ate the beans sent by the court himself. The court was really true. The earliest ones they sent were broad beans, which later turned into soybeans. Now they were sent were black beans. The thing was fed to horses. People swelled and their stomachs always farted. The military doctor said that eating too much of that thing would damage the stomach and intestines and vitality.
Those civil servants are unreasonable. We want to go to the battlefield and always take us as animals to raise them!"
Wang Shao sighed and said, "Actually, it's not their fault. This year, not only the people in Xixia were affected by the disaster, but also our Song Dynasty was also affected by the disaster. There was no food in the grain warehouse. I don't know where the officials got these beans. My hometown Jiangzhou used to be a town of fish and rice, but this year, many fields were not harvested, so I can't blame them for this.
There are usually military disasters when droughts and floods occur. This time, the same is true. The Xixia people fought over to grab food, which increased the burden on the court. We are mortal enemies with the Xixia barbarians. At this time, no one will deduct our food and grass, and no one dares to deduct it. If we can't get the food, we can only say that they really don't have it."
The young man nodded and continued, "The so-called commander said, but our young army advocates self-reliance. Without horses, we will rob and deceive the barbarians. Without food, we will plant ourselves and hunt in the wilderness. We will not ask for help.
This year, there was no grass and no grass to feed the elephant. Uncle Cui sent the elephant to the battlefield and killed more than half of it. Today, two seriously injured elephants died. They were peeling and bacon. I like the elephant with a tooth. I didn’t want to see him being peeled and barbecued, so I came to the injured barracks. I heard that the Xixia people were eating people. Have you seen them? Brother Hu and Brother Bao and others had seen them."
Wang Shao nodded in pain and said, "I have seen that those people now not only eat us people of the Song Dynasty, but also their own people!"
After saying that, he saw the young man with a look of horror and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, they are going to run away."
The young man blushed and said angrily: "No, the instructor has said long ago that when you are afraid of a person or something, the best way to not be afraid is to solve the problem and kill the person who makes you terrified, otherwise you will not become a great warrior! We must not let them run away, we must kill them to become. If you kill them all, there will be no one who can eat people, and I will not be afraid."
Wang Shao looked at the young man in front of him in shock and said, "Are you afraid of being a man-eating demon? Can you still lift the knife?"
The young man gave Wang Shao a blank look and said, "I am a soldier when I go to the battlefield. Will the soldier be afraid?"
"But you were really scared just now."
"This is a military camp. I haven't been on the battlefield yet. If you arrive at the battlefield, you will see if I am afraid or not! I am a soldier!"
After saying this, the young man hurriedly left. He ran over again shortly after a while and stuffed the copper pot to Wang Shao and said, "It seems that you are an official too. If you want to drink, don't go to the general. You should go to the military supervisor. He has good wine there."
Wang Shao was holding a small copper pot in his arms and was helped off the ox cart by two wingmen wearing white cloaks, placed him in the most breathable and cool white tent, and brought him lunch.
The meal was not exquisite, but it was rich, with meat, vegetables, white rice, and even a cooked chicken. When he remembered what the young man said, Wang Shao started eating with a wooden spoon. The child was right, he was afraid of something and was no longer afraid after getting rid of it. He had to take it down. He believed that Yun Zheng would definitely not come to Qinzhou just to fight Wuzang Epang away.
Yun Zheng and Li Chang looked like chefs at this time than coaches and military supervisors. One was grinding soy milk, and the other sat in front of the big stove to add firewood to the stove. Today's soy milk looks good and seems to have hope of making delicious tofu. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!