Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 657 An article in the special issue of Da Ming Pao, this generation is really a villain!
This picture shows a rammed earth side pier, which is not big, the kind with a diameter of less than a hundred steps.

Its outer wall is covered with traces of arrow clusters, lead bullets, and shells. In some places, there are still broken feather arrows, and some places have collapsed. It is easy to imagine how tragic it was here. fighting.

There is a small line of text at the bottom of the photo-'Maomutoudun, Yisuo, Gansu Town, 33 miles from the Great Wall'.

Next to it is a piece of vernacular article written by the chief reporter of the Ming Pao and a very well-known reporter in the news circle of the Ming Dynasty-"My What Is Longer than My What".

Vernacular articles have now become the new darling of the literary world of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention young people like Tang Datao, even some traditional literati who are talented and famous, are reviewing and studying vernacular articles.

Therefore, Tang Datao immediately found a roadside tea stand and read this "My What's Longer than My What's".

The article is written from the perspective and tone of Zhang Erquan, the new commander of the Gansu Garrison.

Before the Oirats invaded the town, Zhang Erquan was just an ordinary soldier in Maotoudun.After that battle, he became Shichang, and is currently in charge of leading a Shishi garrison to garrison Xin Maomu Toudun.

The fact that Zhang Erquan was able to become a leader all of a sudden was due to Zhang Erquan’s contribution in that battle—according to what Zhang Erquan said, he did kill several captive cavalry in that battle, but the greatest contribution should be to the pier and stone wall behind. Fort report.

His merits are indeed not small, and he can serve as a senior in the border guards.

But he insisted on staying in the garrison and continued to guard Maotoudun in rotation.The reason is to accompany the nine comrades who died with him.

In the article, Zhang Erquan introduces the nine comrades one by one in a tone as if ordinary people are chatting, and also accompanied by pictures of the interior scenery of Maomu Toudun and the surrounding neighbors and deserts.

Therefore, this article "My What Is Long My What" has a lot of words, occupying nearly two pages of newspapers and periodicals!
It was also at this time that Tang Datao suddenly remembered that today is the second day of February, which is not the time for the publication of Da Ming Pao.

He turned to the cover of the newspaper again, and sure enough, he saw a line of bright red letters: To commemorate the sacrificed border guards, today's special issue!

He turned to the last few pages of the newspaper and found that it was all related to the battle at Zhenyisuo.As the cover says, this is a special issue, so it doesn't follow the habit of publishing every five days.

Then, Tang Datao began to read this article carefully——

"In order to make it easier to watch the night at the pier, Ermenshi divided the nine soldiers other than the head of the pier, including the corporal leader, into three groups, and they took turns to guard the pier wall.

Let’s talk about the Er group first. Besides Er, the other two are Qi Sanyuan and Wan Dagui.

Dagui, like E, is a native of Gansu. It is said that his ancestors migrated from the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi during the Hongwu period.

Dagui is 23 years old, but he has been a soldier for five or six years.In the past, I often didn't have enough to eat, and I looked thin, black and old, and looked like a person in his thirties.

But after being selected as the garrison, the salary was greatly improved, and the military salary was paid in full, so life suddenly became easier.

I heard that the family has already told him that he has a daughter-in-law, so they are waiting to get married next year.What Dagui likes most is to say how handsome her wife is, but everyone knows that he has never seen that girl..."

"Qi Sanyuan is from Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. He was originally a border army in Yulin Town. Later, because he was not paid enough for the army all year round, his mother starved to death and his daughter-in-law ran away with others. He became a deserter in a fit of anger, and later joined King Chuang's army. team.

Under King Chuang, he has been following General Li Guo and fighting everywhere for more than ten years. At first he wanted to have a good life, but later he didn't know why he fought.

Qi Sanyuan must be 35 years old. After his wife ran away, he never thought about marrying a daughter-in-law.On weekdays, he likes to brag about the thrilling battles he has experienced and show off his scars all over his body.

It's just that sometimes after talking too much, he would suddenly be silent for a while, saying: "Unfortunately, most of these scars are left from fighting with the government and the army, not from fighting against Qing and Bei captives."

Well, I know that Shili is the one who is most satisfied with the life of the garrison now, because he has experienced too much, and he knows how rare a good life is now.

Therefore, although Qi Sanyuan is usually like a soldier, he is not in tune, but he is very attentive whenever he is stationed on the pier wall.

By the way, he is best at firing tiger squat cannons. That day when the Oirats invaded, before I went to report, fifty Oirat scouts attacked, and at least a dozen of them were killed by him with tiger squat cannons.

It's a pity that I couldn't join him in the subsequent battles. I don't know how many hundreds of Oirat cavalry he killed with the tiger crouching bombardment. Maybe even a group of people..."

In this article in Zhang Erquan's tone, each of the soldiers of the garrison stationed at Maotoudun at that time became extremely vivid and vivid on the paper.

Each of them has their own story, but in the whole army, they are extremely ordinary.

They have some advantages, but they also have many disadvantages; they are also afraid of death, and often miss their families, but they are not afraid of fighting.

This ordinary and lively image is very different from the perfect image of heroes in traditional stories about loyalty to the emperor and serving the country.

Tang Datao read it, and for some reason, he felt very blocked in his heart, and even had a feeling of wanting to cry.

The last one Zhang Erquan introduced was his senior Qiu Huwei.

"Shi Long's name is very bluffing, but in fact he is the shortest one in the world, and he is dark and thin.

It is said that the reason why he chose the name 'Qiu Huwei' was because he could bluff people and get Shangguan to notice.

Shi Chang is a native of Henan. He was originally an officer and soldier. Later, he followed King Chuang in Henan.

After joining the new army and becoming the chief of the garrison, his favorite thing is to sit in the kitchen and drink tea, or drink tea on the pier wall when the weather is good.

It is said that life in the army is so good now, the oil and water to eat are a bit heavy, and drinking tea relieves greasy and keeps healthy.

Uh, I actually feel that life in the army is too good now, like uh, after becoming a garrison, it is actually ten or twenty catties heavier than before.

On Biandun's side, we eat three meals a day, and at worst we can eat Guokuimo.Uh, the oil and salt given by the Gansu Military Grain Factory Guokuimo is called a foot, and it is said that sugar is also given. "

According to Zhang Erquan, the staple food of the Biandun garrison, Guokuimo, seems to be a rare delicacy in the world.

But there is a photo next to it. On it, a soldier of the garrison is smiling happily under the background of the wind and snow, smashing a golden-yellow pot helmet on the stone anvil with a small hammer.

There is a line of explanatory text below.

'Today I was very fortunate to eat the pot helmet buns from the Gansu Garrison Army. The buns became extremely cold and hard in the snowstorm at the end of November. Throwing them from the top of the pier wall can make people's heads bleed.

Every day, the soldiers who are in charge of the food have to smash the pot helmet buns with a hammer in advance, boil them in water for at least half an hour, and wait until they become batter before they are suitable for eating. '

Then there is a photo of the batter cooked in Guokuimo, a sticky and gray pot.

People in Daming who can afford newspapers now have pretty good living conditions. Looking at such a pot of batter, it is hard to have an appetite.

Tang Datao was like this, so it was hard for him to imagine that in the hearts of the soldiers of the garrison, this was actually a rare delicacy.

It can be seen that although the salary of the new army has been improved a lot, the life of the soldiers on the border is still relatively hard and it is not easy.

After the introduction of Shichang Qiu Huwei, this [-]-character vernacular text is coming to an end.

At the end of the article, Zhang Erquan said again:

Although Er and Shichang have only been in the same robe for half a year, they have already formed a deep comrade-in-arms friendship, so Er wanted to stay and fight with them at the beginning, and even prepared to die together in Maomu Toudun.

But Shi Zhang ordered E to report the news of the massive invasion of the Oirats to the pier and stone wall castle behind, because at that time E was the soldier who was the most familiar with this area and the best in riding and shooting.

um started and was willing to go, wanted to stay.

Shi Chang told Er that this was a military order, and said, "Zhang Erquan, now that you are receiving a full amount of military pay, you have to take on the responsibility of the soldiers to protect your home and the country."Do you want to see the Oirats cross the border wall and loot the people of Gansu? '

After hearing this, the forehead led the military order and left.

Because when we join the new army for training, the first military order that we have to recite is that 'soldiers must obey orders as their bounden duty'.

Now, Shichang and the others have all sacrificed, so they didn't go to the border guards, but chose to become the Shichang of the garrison, and took nine soldiers to continue to guard Maotoudun in turn.

The purpose is to accompany Shichang and the others to continue guarding Maotoudun, and to fulfill our bounden duty as soldiers of the Ming Dynasty together...

This is the end of this "My What Is My Best", but on the second half of the second page of the newspaper, there is a personal comment by Liu Rushi recommended by the newspaper——

"In September last year, after my Da Ming News published the news that more than 100 soldiers of the Gansu Zhenyi garrison guarded the pier and sacrificed their lives, some people even questioned, thinking that more than 100 people died in battle, and none of them surrendered to Wala. possible thing.

I think these people probably think this way because they are "to judge others by themselves".

They are greedy for life and afraid of death. In order to save their lives, they can ignore their responsibilities, disregard their fellow villagers, and directly surrender to the enemy. The generation of the folks.

What they didn't know was that in the minds of these sacrificial garrison soldiers, they defended those piers that were bound to be breached, just to fulfill their duties, to be worthy of the military salary and treatment, and to protect the Ming people behind the side wall.

This requirement is not high in the eyes of the soldiers of the garrison who died, and it can even be said to be their duty.

However, when is it considered impossible to even do what is within one's duty, and even doubted whether it is really done?
Aren't these people who question the sacrifices of the border guards officers and soldiers judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?This generation is really a villain! "

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