choke element

Chapter 57 Knowledge

Guo Ning drew his saber and slashed twice in the air, and asked, "Ni Yi, what do you think of my martial arts?"

"Excellent courage." Ni Yi said from the bottom of his heart.

"Then, the generals I appointed, such as Master Huifeng, Li Erlang, Wang Shixian, Han Xuan, Qiu Huiluo, etc., how about their martial arts?"

"They are all brave and admirable."

"These guys are all from rout soldiers scattered in Hebei provinces. Now we have gathered 500 Hebei rout soldiers, and most of them are people who have seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood and dared to fight to their death. Then, What was it like when these people fled from the back of Monan Mountain and all the way to Hebei from Xijing Road?"

Guo Ning leaned down and stared at Ni Yi: "Do you still remember the situation at that time? How did we come to Hebei? Did we defeat the Mongols along the way?"

The tragic scene at that time still lingers in Ni Yi's nightmare until now, waking him up again and again, making him covered in cold sweat!Ni Yi had too many words, but he didn't know how to answer. He just raised his head to look at Guo Ning, showing a smile uglier than crying.

And Guo Ning continued: "The defeated soldiers who were able to flee to the Hebei states were only a tenth of the troops stationed on the northern frontier trench defense line. In the third year of Da'an, from the three states of Chang, Huan, and Fu to Xuande Prefecture behind , Dexing Mansion, and the land of five prefectures, there are hundreds of thousands of elites gathered from the three commanding divisions. In the first year of Chongqing, the troops who rescued Datong Mansion in Xijing even claimed to have gathered a million soldiers from all over the world."

Guo Ning squatted beside Ni Yi, and sighed: "There will only be more brave men like me, Master Huifeng, Li Erlang and others in the hundreds of thousands of people! That day, the army was full of glory, and the banners covered the sun. I believe you have seen it before! So, did we win against the Mongols? Did we win at Wushabao? Or did we win at Wuyue Camp? Or, did we win at Yehuling or Migukou? "

Ni Yi fell to the ground, almost trembling.

"Didn't win, the battle was lost..." He lowered his head and muttered slowly: "Everyone, everyone is running away, and then, they all died."

Guo Ning grabbed the skirt of his shirt and asked him to raise his head.So he saw his bloodshot eyes, and the grief and hatred in his eyes that had nowhere to vent.

"Why did you lose?" Guo Ning asked in a low voice, "Is it because we don't have swords and guns in our hands? Is it you or us fighters who didn't try our best? Is it because we saw the Mongolian army and were afraid that our legs would go weak?"

"Of course not!" Ni Yi argued with tears all over his face, "I also killed the black tartar! I did! By the way, it was because of Hu Shahu! It was because he ran away and killed everyone!"

"What if Hu Shahu doesn't run away? Those of us are just fighting the Mongolian army year after year on the boundary trench, and keep fighting? Can we win in this way?" Guo Ning continued to ask.

Ni Yi wanted to say that he could win, but he couldn't say such absurd words.He thought of the food that his father and brother would never be able to wait for when they were guarding the boundary trenches, the harsh daily exploitation, the armor that would break if they broke their hands, the fewer and fewer and thinner horses, and even more and more Lower morale.

If you can't win, don't mention the fierceness of the Mongolian army. Such an army can't win the battle.

Ni Yiyi felt chills all over his body, but there was a poisonous fire burning in his heart.

The flames grew hotter and hotter, almost to the point of exploding his chest, and finally made him explode: "I can't win! No one can win! Because the Dajin court is rotten, and the Dajin country is rotten! Those Jurchens The high-ranking officials and nobles are all rotten! They never take our lives seriously, and they killed us all!"

After shouting a few words, Ni Yi suddenly felt happy.He thought about it resentfully, and said again: "That Hu Shahu is really not a good thing. We are in Fanyang City, if we can kill him, that would be great!"

"Isn't that clear?" Guo Ning patted Ni Yi's head with a smile.

"You see, when we gather together and hold the swords and guns in our hands, no one can bully us. But this is not enough, things are not that simple. On the battlefield, we need to fight smarter and command more accurately; and Outside of the battlefield, we need food, supplies, better weapons, more horses, more companions and even the support of the common people. These cannot come from swords, but from books.”

"Liu Lang, what you said..." Ni Yi raised his face and blew his nose: "If we can read, can we have it?"

"Of course!" Guo Ning said categorically: "After a person can read and write, he will have knowledge and the ability to do many things well. This will allow us to have more companions and better weapons."

"Then can we defeat the Mongolian army?" Ni Yi asked again.

Guo Ning knows better than anyone how unstoppable Mongolia's rise is.Therefore, this question is really a bit complicated, Guo Ning thought about it.

He was thinking about what to say when he heard the commotion of many teenagers from the direction of the backyard.Several people shouted joyfully: "It's flying! It's really flying!"

Those who shouted were the young attendants who were listed with Ni.

In the past few days, they have been using their spare time to tinker with some new gadgets.It's just that Ni Yi, the leader, was so overwhelmed with the new words to be recited that he was so dazed that he didn't distract himself from asking.

"Fly?" He asked in amazement, "What is flying?"

Guo Ning grabbed his arm, made him stand up, laughed and said, "Of course it's something new!"

Before the words were finished, a dark, chubby, strange thing about the size of two people hugging each other jumped out from the courtyard wall.

There seemed to be a stove hanging under the strange thing, and another stone fell from the bottom of the stove.The stones were tied with thick ropes, and they swayed and smashed on the wood at the top of the meeting hall. With a muffled "boom", several pieces of bark and sawdust were knocked off and fell into the backyard crackling.

Ni suddenly shrank his head subconsciously, and the strange thing flew higher and higher with the stove and stones, spun around with the wind, and kept flying towards the direction where the setting sun was about to set.

"Catch up! Catch up!" Another boy yelled: "The fire won't last long, it will fall right away!"

Ni Yi stared blankly at the strange thing, then asked, "Is this a Kongming lantern? Can the Kongming lantern be so big?"

"This thing is called a hot air balloon." Guo Ning said with a smile: "Remember what I said half a month ago, when Pangu opened the sky, the clear air rose and the stale air fell, but what we usually see is that the hot air rises and the cold air descends. The power of steaming is enough to push heavy objects. So, everyone took the time to make this hot air balloon to verify it.”

"It's really fun!"

The hot air balloon flew farther and farther, and the black silhouette gradually merged with the twilight.Ni Yi's two eyeballs were almost attracted by the hot air balloon, he subconsciously moved two steps outside the side hall, trying to catch up and take a closer look, then thought that he was right in front of Guo Ning, so he must not be rude.

He turned back quickly, but Guo Ning passed by him, stood in the hall with great interest, and kept staring at the hot air balloon as it disappeared.A few reckless teenagers ran straight from the backyard, trying to chase the hot air balloon directly through the chamber.Suddenly seeing Guo Ning standing in the courtyard, they hurriedly saluted, and then moved forward close to the edge of the courtyard.

"Once a person reads well and has knowledge and insight, he can create. Ni Yi, this is the result of creation." Guo Ning looked back at Ni Yi and smiled.

"Can this thing be useful for fighting?" Ni Yi's temper was a bit stubborn.

"Not yet, but it will be soon." Guo Ning is full of confidence.

(End of this chapter)