There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

"Pursuing thieves and rebels! I swear to kill the country's thieves!"

The corner of the potter's mouth raised. These people shouted loudly.

"Everyone, I don't know if you have any opinions on this hunt for thieves. Why don't you tell me?"

Among the crowd, a school lieutenant surnamed Wu stood up and saluted the army: "My lord, according to the opinion of the last general, the journey of this alliance is far away, not to mention that the expedition will cost money and labor the people, and Dong Zhuo's subordinates are full of soldiers. The mighty Xiliang Army, Bingzhou Army, and the Luoyang Central Army, which have experienced hundreds of battles, are far from being comparable to the Xuzhou Army, so it is better to pretend to fight against them, sit back and watch the alliance succeed or fail, and accept it as soon as it is good, that’s okay.”

After Wu Xiaowei finished speaking, he saw that the people below were discussing a lot, and they all nodded their heads in agreement.

Tao Shang smiled slightly, and said: "Lieutenant Wu's words are reasonable, but when Inspector Tao issued the military order, he didn't ask for this expedition."

Lieutenant Wu raised his head and held his chest up, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Although the military order of the governor is so, he will be outside, and the military order will not be accepted. His subordinates have followed General Cao for many years. According to the general, there is really no chance of winning this western expedition."

The pottery merchant lightly played with the wine cup, and said with a smile, "It's good that every time you are in battle, you don't hesitate to give advice. According to Wu Duwei's opinion, General Cao's ability should be higher than that of Tao Cishi?"

Captain Wu was not frightened, but raised his neck instead.

In his eyes, the pottery merchant is just a young child, and he himself can be regarded as a person who killed people before the battle, so why be afraid of him?

"The last general didn't say that. Tao Cishi is the head of Xuzhou, and he has the ability of Tao Cishi, but when it comes to military affairs, General Cao is number one in Xuzhou."

Pottery merchant heard the words, and said slowly: "Lieutenant Wu said just now that he will not accept the military order abroad, but do you know that the military order is like a mountain? The governor's military order has been issued, how can we not obey?"

Captain Wu said sternly: "Your Excellency insists on going his own way, if he insists on doing this, I'm afraid that the five thousand soldiers will all be buried in a different place. It's a small matter. If the army is forced to fight, the morale of the army will be unstable, and it will be difficult to control the mutiny! "

Difficult to control?Mi Fang felt uneasy when she listened to it, why did the words become more threatening the more she listened to them?

Thinking of this, Mi Fang looked at the potter in a daze, but saw that the face of the potter had already become indifferent.

"If you don't go out and talk nonsense, how can the morale of the army be unstable?" The pottery merchant stood up slowly, and there was already a chill in his eyes: "You are a soldier, and it is your duty to obey military orders! It is you What is your bounden duty! If you are afraid of death, why would you come here to serve as a soldier if you are at home holding your child and your wife? Jump in, you have to jump in! Talk about life and avoid death, fear of powerful enemies, how dare you talk to me about military spirit? With people like you, how can there be military spirit!"

After finishing speaking, the potter raised his foot and kicked over the table.

Everyone at the scene couldn't help being shocked when they saw this, they never expected that this seemingly gentle and young young man would have such a violent temper.

The potter kicked over the table and quickly winked at Mi Fang. Mi Fang understood and shouted: "Come here!"

The guards outside the tent walked into the camp almost instantly, as if they had been arranged long ago.

The pottery merchant pointed at Captain Wu: "Pull it down for me, and I will punish the forty army sticks!"

When Colonel Wu heard this, he became anxious immediately: "My lord! I am loyal from the bottom of my heart, you can't hit me!"

The Tao merchant raised his neck: "I am the supervising army, who can't beat me? The old lady who beat me doesn't even know him!"

The personal soldiers came up, one left and one right, held up Xiaowei Wu, and dragged him out forcefully.

Lieutenant Wu was in a hurry. While kicking and struggling vigorously, he shouted angrily: "I am the captain directly under the left army of General Cao. You can't do this. You, you, you have no right to fight!"

The pottery merchant sneered, "Tell me someone to scare me? I'm sorry, I don't like that! Beat me into scum, so scum that General Cao doesn't know!"

He dragged Xiaowei Wu out from left to right, and after a while, he heard the sound of clattering castanets coming from outside the tent, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of castanets, and the sound of painful shouts.

Facing everyone's surprised and uncertain eyes, the pottery merchant sat down slowly, looked around at other people, and said: "I am ordered by the governor to supervise the army. I only recognize military orders and do not recognize human feelings. This time the Western Expedition, the commander of the army It's General Mi, not General Cao! The battle is imminent, and you should obey the orders of the army. I hope you have a sense of balance in your hearts. You need to know who is leading the army, and you should listen to what he says!"

After a pause, the potter said quietly, "What I mean, do you understand?"

At this time, if you don’t understand, how much do you have no eyesight?What's more, the expedition wine and the meeting wine are clearly a premeditated Hongmen banquet!

The remaining three school lieutenants, three captains, and fifteen princes stood up one after another, expressing their loyalty with one voice: "No! The last general is waiting for the supervisor and General Mi to follow!"

"Okay!" Tao Shang continued: "As a military supervisor, although I say that military law is the top priority in everything, I also know the difficulties you have. The generals are out in the field, eating and sleeping in the open, and bathing in blood for the country and the people. One is not good. , Even if the shroud of horse leather is returned, you must be fair in your actions, and if you have worked hard, you must be rewarded accordingly.”

After finishing speaking, the potter pointed at Mi Fang and said: "Your general, I have prepared a gift for each of you. The school lieutenant and the captain are [-] gold each, and the Du Bo is [-] gold each. For the aftermath of the expedition, General Mi also promised that if any of you sacrificed, parents, wives and children, in addition to Xuzhou's supply and compensation, he would subsidize an additional [-] gold. Worry about the future."

After a pause, the potter said again: "Of course, if you don't want to, Captain Wu, the scumbag, should be your role model!"

Mi Fang got up and clapped her hands, and saw a row of guards taking several large wooden boxes into the tent, and then opened them. The neatly arranged gold leaf in the boxes instantly illuminated the eyes of everyone present.

Everyone has integrity and integrity, but for most people, integrity is far less important than eating.No matter how fierce the general is, he is still a human being, and no matter how desperate a soldier is, he has to support his family. Compared with the illusory slogans, money is the most real thing. Of course, money cannot buy everyone's loyalty, but it can buy the people in front of the pottery. Temporary loyalty is not a problem.

There were people with strength of character, but at that time there were very few people, and most of them were ordinary people.

Money is the most vulgar thing. The reason why it is said to be vulgar is that it is the most practical for ordinary people.

These captains, captains, and uncles look at me and I look at you. They all see deep longing in each other's eyes.

"If you want it, take it away! If you don't want it, go get the stick, and then be with the scumbag Lieutenant Wu." The pottery merchant said with a smile

When the words fell, everyone in the tent knelt down and shouted loudly: "The last general is willing to work hard for the eldest son!"

The pottery merchant could hear the cry this time, it was indeed from the bottom of his heart, completely from the heart.

"Wrong." The pottery merchant shook his head: "I am the supervisor of the army, and I am not in charge of fighting. The person you are going to serve is General Mi."

Everyone said in unison: "The last general is willing to follow the lead of General Mi!"

Chapter 10 The General Steals the Chicken

After reorganizing the soldiers and horses that went out with the army, the next day, five thousand Xuzhou soldiers and horses began to slowly march towards the land of Yingchuan.

Although he was prepared from the beginning, the potter still didn't expect that life in the army would be so difficult.

After sitting on the horse for two days, the potter felt a pain in the back and a pain in his back.

Riding a horse is different from riding a car. You have to keep a stable and upright body all the time, and your back must be even harder. The saddle also seems to be able to wear the skin off your inner thighs. The blood bubbles were worn out, and the lower discs of the two legs walked on the ground, and they couldn't close together.

It is said that there were no saddles and stirrups in the Han Dynasty. This is an unobjective statement. It is reasonable to say that there were no saddles and stirrups in the Qin Dynasty in China, but they existed in the Western Han Dynasty. However, the Han Dynasty experienced a battle with the Xiongnu, and the cavalry was already quite large, replacing the infantry as the main force, and many horse bows, and raids into the grasslands were unrealistic without saddles and stirrups. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing If the results of the battle were changed without stirrups and saddles, it was basically difficult to cross the grassland. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, stirrups and saddles must also be complete and common, but there is no proof whether the stirrups belong to single stirrups or double stirrups.

The potter's physique is not very good. After a few days, his bones are as crisp as they are. It can be said that he has suffered a lot, and the food he eats along the way is very poor. Chaos, so now he is still recuperating, Tao Qian ordered that the military rations should only be supplied with rice, and meat is not allowed for the chief general, so the three meals a day are basically gruel, and the side dishes are just some unknown wild vegetables.

After tossing a long distance, the potter felt that he had lost seventeen or eight catties.

On the other hand, Mi Fang is not much better, after all, he is from a rich family, even if he has dabbled in some military affairs, it is just a taste, but he has suffered such hardships, after a few days, he will still be moaning, pointing at his father and mother.

Tao Shang sometimes thinks, Tao Qian asked himself and Mi Fang, two hundred and five, to lead the army together. The generals of the East and West are like this, and the future of the Xuzhou Army is really worrying.

Five days later, the soldiers and horses arrived at Qiao County. According to the judgment of the potters, this place should belong to the territory of Anhui Province in later generations. land, you can reach your first destination.

Set up camp at night, and the soldiers sent dry food and vegetable soup to the potter and Mi Fang. Not at all, and the amount of salt is pitifully small, drinking it into the stomach is not much different from drinking plain water. To be honest, the potter feels that this vegetable soup may not taste as good as plain water.

"I can't take it anymore!!!"

Mi Fang drank a few sips of vegetable soup, and the depression of the past few days finally broke out in an instant. He threw the bowls and chopsticks heavily on the desk, and gritted his teeth, neighing: "It's okay if there is no oil! Even the mother's salt There are so few of them, and the tasteless ones are worse than horse urine! This general is also the General Zhengxi appointed by the governor himself, how can he eat the food of this animal every day?"

The pottery merchant glanced at Mi Fang calmly, and said: "Military life is like this. There is enough food and grass, so it's not bad. As for whether the food is good or not, I don't think you should pick so much, Brother Mi."

Mi Fang looked at the dry rations and vegetable soup in front of the potter who hadn't even touched a mouthful, and curled her lips inwardly, saying that it sounds nice, if you don't think it tastes bad, you eat it yourself?