Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 445 A New Atmosphere in Denglai

Generally speaking, the current situation in Denglai is that all wastes are prosperous, the grain is abundant, and the folk customs are aggressive... Especially women, they are extremely aggressive. It takes courage to find a wife here.No wonder it took only two months for the Denglei new army to recruit nearly 25 young men between the ages of [-] and [-]. It is more dangerous to dare to marry than to fight a war, and they all want to live a few more years.

After tossing and turning all the way, they soon came to the station of Denglai's new army.

Denglai recruits are not involved in the wheat harvest, they are training.After entering the barracks, they repeated two things throughout the year: preparing for war and fighting.Now they are training. Hundreds of soldiers are running out of breath in the deliberately muddy field carrying fifty kilograms of things on their backs. Some people keep falling down. All of them have become mud monkeys, and a guy who looks like an officer Carrying the same heavy thing and running at the end... It's not that he has the weakest physical strength, but he deliberately stays at the end, and when he sees who falls at the end, he kicks his ass and kicks him a lot: "Hurry up! !" The soldier who was kicked down got up and ran forward at a faster speed. After running about 100 meters, he was kicked down again, and then he shouted: "Hurry up!" After being kicked several times, the number 2 The soldier successfully surpassed the bottom No.3, and the bottom No.3 became the bottom No.2. Before he could accelerate, he kicked his ass with a big kick: "Hurry up!" Hearing the sound of kicking people, he ran The unlucky guy at No. 3 from the bottom couldn't help but staggered, probably because he was kicked badly, and he thought he was being kicked on a conditioned reflex.Everyone was running desperately, and the last one was definitely going to be kicked to death.

The red lady felt that she was in a panic when she looked at it!

On the other side, the good ground has been turned into a foul-smelling mud puddle. Rows of wooden stakes are nailed into the mud puddle, and wires are pulled. The wire is only a little more than a foot from the ground, barely enough for people to climb under. past.Below the wires was muddy water, in which there were all sorts of messy things, including rotten fruits and vegetables, rotten poultry carcasses, and feces that had just been pulled out. Crawling under the barbed wire, enduring the suffocation of the muddy water splashing on the face, enduring the nausea of ​​the dirt on the body, and crawling forward quickly, some people's eyes and noses were covered with muddy water, and they couldn't breathe, so they couldn't help raising their heads A little higher, and immediately let out a scream———The barb on the wire was hung on the scalp, and an opening was opened, and the head was bleeding immediately. If the movement was any bigger, the whole ear would be caught by the barb on the wire Dividing into two is not impossible.

Li Yan's eyelids jumped wildly, and the red lady couldn't help but stare at Yang Menglong, saying, "What's the use of such training?"

Yang Menglong said, "It's useless."

The red lady called: "Since it's useless, why do you train them like this?"

Yang Menglong said: "Because I ordered them to accept this kind of training, so they must train like this. If they can't even bear this kind of training, they'd better leave as soon as possible, and don't waste my money and food in the barracks."

The red lady couldn't believe it: "It's that simple?"

Yang Menglong said, "It's that simple."

The red lady said angrily: "Inhumane!"

At this moment, Qi Hu and Wu Sheng greeted him, Wu Sheng bent his knee, and Yang Menglong yelled: "Don't kneel!"Yang Menglong jumped off the horse, reached out and tapped his breastplate, and said helplessly, "When will you get rid of this old problem?"

Wu Sheng said helplessly: "I'm used to it..."

Yang Menglong said: "It's okay, you can get rid of this habit in a year." He gave him a bear hug, and then asked Qi Hu with a smile: "How are you doing in Denglai?"

Qi Hu said: "It's okay, the scenery here is pleasant, and the products are quite abundant. It's very convenient to eat some seafood."

Yang Menglong slobbered: "You are luckier than me, I can only eat dry goods in Nanyang..."

Wu Sheng said: "If you want to eat, just tell me and we will send it to you on a fast horse. You can reach Nanyang in a few days."

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "How much will it cost? I won't do it!" He pulled Li Yan over and introduced to the two of them: "Here, let me introduce to you. This is Mr. Li Yan, from Henan. A native of Qixian County, he is a natural chivalrous man with both civil and military skills... Well, his boxing and kicking skills are a bit sparse, but his ability to make plans and strategize is absolutely unambiguous."

Wu Sheng looked suspiciously at this Yushu Linfeng scholar, while Qi Hu looked Li Yan up and down with a smile on his face, a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, and said, "He is a talent who can stand on his own."

Yang Menglong said to Li Yan: "Master Li, let me introduce to you. This is Wu Sheng, the former Jinhua Staff General, now the Staff General of the Denglai New Army. He should have been the chief soldier, but unfortunately this commander-in-chief let me He was given a concurrent position, so I had to give him a hard time. This is Qi Hu, the chief of staff of our Heluo New Army. He trained the Heluo New Army, Tianxiong Army, and Denglai New Army all by himself."

Li Yan was startled, and bowed his hands to Qi Hu as a salute: "This junior has seen General Qi!"

Qi Hu supported him and said with a smile: "Young master, you don't have to be polite. In fact, General Yang takes the greatest credit for this military training. Without him, I'm afraid there wouldn't be these world-famous new armies."

Li Yan only thought that Qi Hu was speaking politely.As far as Yang Menglong's super unreliable temperament is concerned, he doesn't look like a talent for training soldiers.

Zaji Chongweng and Shi Tianbao did not dare to neglect, and saluted Qi Hu respectfully.In the army, what they heard the most was: "You can offend anyone, but don't offend the old man—in fact, even if you offend King Yama, it is better than offending the old man!" There are too many, in the army, it can almost stop children from crying at night, no matter the recruits or veterans, they all look scared when they mention him, and secretly turn around to wipe a handful of bitter tears. Of course they dare not offend such a powerful character.Qi Hu helped the two of them up, and said to Yang Menglong, "That's right, we recruited another two thousand enemies."

Yang Menglong said: "In what age is he still the enemy of ten thousand people! Even if Lu Bu kills him, a volley of guns can make him die straight, and he is still the enemy of ten thousand people!"

Zhaji Chongweng and Shi Tianbao looked somewhat unnatural.They have always thought that they are superior in martial arts, that they are rare to meet opponents, and can gallop on the battlefield, but after seeing the crossbow array of the Heluo New Army and the queuing and shooting of the Tianxiong Army, they were very frustrated to find that no matter how strong their martial arts skills were when they encountered such an army Ten times is also death, either being shot into a sea urchin or beaten into a broken fishnet, even if it is a hand-to-hand fight, it will be tied into a meat skewer by the forest of spears... The army has never been a place for individual bravery. An army that relies on individual valor to win has no future.So they tucked their tails obediently, and willingly became little guards, and they no longer dared to flaunt the prestige of being an enemy.

Wu Sheng stared at the two boys and drooled, wondering if he should recruit them to be his servants.His servants had been broken up and incorporated into the new army as early as the reorganization, and he also knew that the servants were useless now, but the habits formed over the years were not easy to get rid of in a short while, and few The servant followed, he was not used to it.Before he could decide how to speak, Yang Menglong yelled: "I'm hungry! I want to eat seafood!"

Wu Sheng called several logistics soldiers: "Go, buy some seafood and come back."

Yang Menglong swallowed his saliva and said: "When choosing, keep your eyes peeled. For salmon, you should choose one that weighs exactly two catties. For lobster, you should choose one that weighs one or two pounds. Any heavier one will be old and not tasty... It's best to get it." When you order sea cucumbers, if you have whale meat for sale, weigh it for me. I haven’t eaten whale meat for a long time. Also, bring me some mussels. If you have fresh swimming crabs, don’t miss it——Remember , must be fresh!"

What a foodie!

Angry and funny, the red lady pinched his face and pulled her to both sides: "Eat it, eat it, look at your face, it's so round, eat it!"

Yang Menglong slapped her hand off, and said: "If you don't eat now, you won't have anything to eat when you go to the battlefield... Be a man, don't treat your stomach badly!" He waved his hand majestically, and said: "Go , I invite you to eat seafood!"

Wu Sheng shouted: "I paid the money, okay?"

Yang Menglong stared: "I treat guests, you pay the bill, do you have any opinions?"

Wu Sheng was helpless: "No..."

So, in the large dining hall of the military camp, Yang Menglong invited Hong Niangzi, Li Yan, Zhaji Chongweng, Shi Tianbao and others to taste a sumptuous seafood feast, including braised lobster, spicy swimming crab, whale meat steak, Stir-fried mussels with black bean sauce, braised tuna, pan-fried halibut, roasted sea cucumbers with pumpkin... Oh, and there are also sea urchins and jellyfish, which are not very eye-catching but are indeed delicious. There is a table full of them.The red lady was stunned when she saw it: "What a sin, you have eaten up a well-off family's entire year's income with this meal!"

Wu Sheng curled his lips and said: "Eat whatever you want. This thing is very cheap. If you just take out a little bit of broken silver, you can buy a big basket."

The red lady was very surprised: "It's so cheap!"

Wu Sheng said: "Yes, it's very cheap. Every day, fishing boats come into the port and unload loads of seafood. They can't finish it. Many soldiers feel sick when they see sea fish... In fact, sea fish is easy to handle. , It can be made into salted fish or canned food if you can’t finish it, but mussels, scallops and other shellfish are not good, so I have no choice but to retting them as fertilizer.”

The red lady and Li Yan looked at each other, both dumbfounded.The people in Henan are so hungry that they are chewing tree bark. Here they actually eat seafood until they vomit. Is there any reason for this?
The actions of Wu Sheng and Qi Hu proved that they were not lying: these two looked disgusted, and they didn't touch seafood at all, but picked vegetables vigorously...

This was also Yang Menglong's fault. His first order after taking control of Denglai was to lift the sea ban, allow fishermen to go fishing at sea, and provide subsidies. The enthusiasm of fishermen to go fishing has greatly increased, and the waters around Denglai are very rich in seafood. As long as your luck is not particularly bad, you can come back with a full load.The brave ones specialized in catching whales. One whale hunted was enough to feed a village for two or three months. Soon, the seafood market in Denglai area was oversupplied.Immigrants from Denglai eat fish porridge for breakfast, boiled mackerel noodles for lunch, and braised fish with rice at night. If they are not full at dinner, they have wolf fish boiled noodles as a late-night snack. At first, they were happy with it, but soon they couldn’t stand it anymore. , I feel like vomiting when I see fish...

(End of this chapter)