choke element

Chapter 320 Life and Death

The fighting stopped and the two sides completely disengaged.

The soldiers in the camp looked at the pious and terrified savages in the distance, then at their camp that was on the verge of collapse, and finally at the colorful balloons floating above their heads, they felt extremely lucky.But after rejoicing, his mind was full of confusion.

Zheng Rui is not the only soldier who has seen a hot air balloon.

In the past few months, the expansion and reorganization of the Ding Navy has progressed rapidly. Correspondingly, the scale of the military academy has also expanded a lot.Not only officers like Wang Erer, but many generals at the grassroots level and even ordinary soldiers with meritorious service were transferred to military academies to learn a few words, gain a little knowledge, learn the knowledge of the operation of regular troops, and gradually leave the ranks of brave men. category.

In the process, they also learned that the military academy for active military personnel is only a part of the Ding Naval Academy.Another part is facing the orphans left behind by the soldiers who died in battle.

These orphans obtained the status of soldiers after their elders died in battle, but Ding Haijun did not need them to fight for the time being, but forced them to go to school viciously.

In that military academy, apart from practicing literature and martial arts, the orphans also come into contact with all kinds of strange miscellaneous knowledge.What exactly it is, Zheng Rui doesn't understand anyway.But from time to time, students like him in the military academy, and even the soldiers of the military camps around Ye County, could see those children having fun outside the city.

Basically, every time they yelled, put on a pose, and pulled out some weird gadgets to experiment with.

There are iron plows that claim to be able to dig deeper, but they have to be pulled by two oxen; A musket that spouts gravel and hits people, but doesn't move and blows the barrel to pieces.

The teenagers have failed too many times, and the soldiers have also seen a lot.Zheng Rui always felt that Guo Jieshuai was kind and doting on these dolls, so he let them mess around.

Especially a group of teenagers headed by Ah Duo, who have been holding on to the hot air balloon, always saying that they want to create a big guy who can transport people to the sky.As for the military mansion, they have been used to them all the time, constantly providing various fabrics and paints, and seem to have ordered various special-sized stoves for this purpose.

That's okay, the families of these children all died fighting for the country.Guo Jiedu is willing to pamper them, so what?Most warriors will die in battle one day, who doesn't want their family and children to be treated leniently and generously by the Commander-in-Chief?
It's just that there are a few more colorful balls floating in the sky in Yexian County, and they will fall down in a short time.Soldiers, civilians, and common people just take a look at it, just to relieve their boredom, it's not a big deal.

Zheng Rui just doesn't understand, even if those weird and weird things come to fruition, so what?Take a hot air balloon as an example, if a person goes to the sky, isn’t he still a person?Could it be that people who have passed through the sky become something else, and their lives on the ground will never be the same again?
Just now when the war was urgent, A Duo proposed to scare those savages with his newly made hot air balloon, which Zheng Rui also found absurd.

He didn't even know Hodor had brought this beforehand!
A group of people came to Liaodong on business, so what's the matter with this kid bringing a hot air balloon?That thing is not small, it takes up half a big car!If there is such a place, wouldn’t it be good to install a few more armors and swords?

What's more, what's so scary about this hot air balloon, how can it scare people?The reason that Hodor came up with such a weird idea was because he himself was frightened crazy by the savages!
If it weren't for the dangerous situation, Zheng Rui would not have allowed him to do this fifty or a hundred times, but instead used a knife to force this kid to fight on the battlefield.

But the idea worked out.

How can it be?

Why are savages so stupid?

Zheng Rui thought about it blankly, and suddenly remembered that when he saw the hot air balloon for the first time, he made the same fuss.The balloon at that time was half the size of the current one; I heard that before taking off, it was Jie Shuai who came up with the idea and drew a huge eyeball on the balloon, as well as the whites of the eyes and the red eye sockets.

As a result, when the big eyeballs took off, half of the people in Ye County and many new soldiers who joined the army were frightened.Someone stood on the roof and beat the gong, trying to scare the monster away with the sound of the gong, and someone drew a bow and set an arrow to shoot, but was severely scolded by the officer.

This time the balloon is bigger and the pattern is more realistic.To frighten these savages, yes, ahem, it should be reasonable.

Perhaps, it's not that the savages are too stupid, but that they have no knowledge and can't understand the reason why the hot air balloon can fly into the sky, so it can only be attributed to ghosts and gods.

A character like Guo Jieshuai has always indulged the children in tossing about these odds and ends. Perhaps the key is not the odds and ends themselves, but the reasoning behind them?
Zheng Rui fought bravely, and now he is a little bit out of strength.He leaned his back against the vehicle and took a short rest.And Hodor was laughing and yelling loudly right above his head the whole time.

"What is this silly boy talking about?" Zheng Rui is not from Bohai, and he couldn't understand the words of the Northeast, so he sighed and asked a soldier beside him: "The hot air balloon is not strong, it is made of cloth! What if he talks nonsense?" Nonsense, it annoys the savages... Whoever raises his hand and shoots an arrow can shoot down the balloon. We can still fight to save our lives, and this kid will be smashed into meatloaf first!"

"He boasted just now that the painting on the balloon is the god who came to the world, and whoever dares to use weapons in front of the god will die without a place to die... Well," the soldier listened again, and replied: " Now it is said that a god-man can live for 1 years if he eats a flat peach."

Zheng Rui was taken aback: "I didn't see it, this silly boy is quite good at bragging?"

The soldier listened to a few more words and said, "It's the libretto. He probably watched too many dramas and memorized the libretto."

"Aren't the dramas these days all about us setting up the navy to kill the Mongols? There are also stories about ghosts and monsters?"

"Yes, why not. What this kid is talking about is a passage from 'Tieguai Li Du Jin Tong Yu Dv'."

"Hey, I haven't seen it."

"It's very beautiful!" The soldier sat down next to Zheng Rui with a knife in his hand, and said enthusiastically, "Let me tell you, this play is about the golden boy and jade girl who thinks of the world..."

The wild Jurchens are still outside, you tell me Sifan?Is it so easy, right?

Zheng Rui coughed twice and stood up.

After sitting for a while, he realized that his face and body were almost covered with dried sweat and blood, which had coagulated in pieces on his beard and hair, making him very uncomfortable.

"Come with me." He said to the soldier, "Let's rearrange the formation first."

The soldiers hurriedly followed, and together with Zheng Rui, they slowly dragged the crumbling vehicle back to its original position.

When they were working, there were muffled groans from the center of the car formation from time to time. It was the medical officers in the team who urgently prepared salt water, took hemostatic medicine and clean coarse cloth, and were treating the soldiers.

At the critical moment when the car formation was about to break, a brand head led seven or eight soldiers, jumped out of the vehicle, entangled and fought among the savages, and only then maintained the car formation that had been opened.

This brand head is one of the Jurchens who were about to go crazy from starvation in Tunbao, Haicang Town, named Wanyan Luqi.The soldiers all said behind their backs that Wanyan's surname was given by him. In fact, he has nothing to do with Dajin's national surname.

Of the soldiers who fought with Wanyan Luqi, only two came back.Wanyan Luqi's body was wounded more than ten times, and his face was hit hard, only three points away, his entire face was about to be split in half.When he was snatched back by his subordinates, he was already unconscious. The medical officers rushed to rescue him, but Zheng Rui didn't have the courage to watch him, so he simply avoided to repair the camp.

Not long after, the medical officer chased him out.

"How?" Zheng Rui asked.

The medical officer nodded, then shook his head again: "The bleeding has stopped, but whether you can live or not depends on tomorrow, the day after tomorrow."

"That would be nice."

Zheng Rui heaved a sigh of relief, and when he was about to speak, Ado in the high balloon shouted loudly: "Judge Li Yunli is back! And Wang Haoer is back too!"

(End of this chapter)