Chapter 205: Moving forward - Burning Macedonia

Although this team seems safe now, it may not be. Although Liu Honggang is very close to him on weekdays, who knows whether he will have any bad ideas at this time? Even if these people outside know about this, it is hard to say whether they will have a different intention. Before they have absolute trust, they must not hand over their safety to others.

What's more, Li Yeling was a little uneasy and couldn't tell what it felt, but there was a shadow in his heart.

In this way, you must not stay in the team.

Li Yeling thought for a while, and suddenly smiled on his face: "Qingyuan, I remembered a place where it is absolutely safe! There is nothing, it is more trustworthy than them."

The team moved slowly, and Li Yeling came to Liu Honggang's car again.

"What? There is something important and you need to leave the team for a while. Can you tell me what it is? " Liu Honggang stared at Li Yeling sitting opposite him and said slowly.

Li Yeling smiled: "It's true that some private matters need to be handled, but Director Liu is worried that it doesn't take long. I'll go out for four or five hours, and it'll be a little more than half a day, and I'll be able to come back tonight at the latest. However, I'm afraid the team will not be able to leave this afternoon."

Liu Honggang then breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "If this is the case, then you can go early and come back early, try not to delay. Without your care, you can't get on the road in the afternoon, but it's okay, I'm busy rushing for a while and I'm exhausted. It just so happens that I'll stop and repair it this afternoon."

Li Yeling smiled and said, "I'll feel relieved. There is another thing. This time I have to use the half-body armor that I beg Aunt Liu to make. I wonder how Aunt Liu is doing?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Liu Qing’s voice next door: “Don’t worry, wait for another half an hour and it will be completed.”

At 10:30 in the morning, Li Yeling got this half-body armor.

The half-body armor, which is more than two feet long, can just cover the crotch when worn on the body, and it is very integrated. The style of the armor is very simple, with a large scale in front and a piece in the back, embedded on the leather. The inside of the large scale is lined with thin leather, which is extremely comfortable and close to the body. The whole set of half-body armor is very simple and elegant, with a golden light flashing on the scales, which looks extremely majestic. The large scale is very light and the leather is treated by Liu Qing, so the armor is extremely light. Li Yeling weighs it, and it weighs about five or six pounds.

She wore it tightly against her body, taking up almost the same space as a T-shirt. Li Yeling put on the combat suit outside, and there was no sign of wearing an inner armor.

Li Yeling only wore an inner armor and asked Yan Qingyuan to shoot at him. Yan Qingyuan refused to do so, so he had to put half of his armor on a stone, and then took out a bush of flowers. As expected, the 9mm bullet of the flower gun, which was powerful in melee, could not penetrate the hard scales at all. After a sound of gold and iron, the shell fell to the ground, and the half-body armor was still light enough to see people. Only a little copper chip was left on the scales, and there was no trace at all with one touch of the hand.

Everything was ready. Li Yeling also heard a cheer from outside. Liu Honggang sent an order to camp early today and rest on site for a day, adding 30% of each person to the dinner.

Li Yeling nodded with satisfaction. After dressing neatly, he took Yan Qingyuan to say goodbye to Liu Honggang, and explained some things to Qu Wenli. The two of them went to the way they came.

When crossing the Langan River, the traces of fighting with the Shuilan Demon Carp yesterday seemed to be there. It was only a night of coldness. The ice cave had been frozen solidly. A large piece of red ice was distributed here in the snow-white area, which looked particularly strange.

After crossing Langan River and walking south for about five kilometers, Li Yeling had already seen the large continuous palace from afar. Li Yeling looked at his watch. It was just 11:20, and the two of them had a very fast pace. It only took half an hour to go along the way. The place Li Yeling chose for him to spend the virtual battlefield is the Mausoleum of the Western Qin Emperor. What kind of friends are more reliable than the skeleton soldiers who have no desires? As long as they are humans, even saints, they always have desires. As long as they have desires, they may do some unwise things under the tendency of desires. These skeleton soldiers who have been in the soul for thousands of years and have become dead bones will not be like this. Moreover, Li Yeling was given a bronze cauldron by the armored skeleton soldier before. Although he has not yet studied it, he also knew that it must be a peerless treasure and an ancient treasure.

If you can give such a treasure to yourself easily, what can you covet it with?

Goodbye to the Mausoleum of the Western Qin Emperor, it was a different scene than two days ago.

Looking into the eyes, it was covered with snow. Countless skeleton soldiers were working hard here. The tall wall of the Xiqin Emperor Mausoleum, which was originally dozens of miles long, has collapsed and turned into small mounds one by one. Now, these skeleton soldiers seem to want to rebuild this city wall.

The former site of the city wall has been completely flattened, and some places are still laid foundations, but some areas are relatively fast. They have started to install heavy wooden boards around and rammed earth into the middle of the wooden boards.

The city walls of the Qin and Han dynasties have not yet developed into later generations with rammed earth and bread bricks, but are entirely dominated by rammed earth. Countless skeleton soldiers of all sizes are carrying loads on their shoulders, and the loads are filled with loess transported from afar. Li Yeling's eyes shrank, and these loads are filled with soil, each of which is less than 500 kilograms. However, these skeleton soldiers are not panicked when they are carrying. Such power is really terrible.

Not to mention these skeleton soldiers have flea-like agility.

Yan Qingyuan said in horror: "What do they want to do?"

Li Yeling shook his head and said lightly: "First build the city wall, then lay the foundation, and start building various buildings inside. Look at this, these skeleton soldiers want to rebuild the imperial tomb."

"Reconstructing the imperial tomb? Reconstructing the imperial tomb? What are they for?" Yan Qingyuan savored these words carefully, his eyes becoming a little confused.

Li Yeling sighed and said, "Yes! These old and young men from the Qin Dynasty were killed here a thousand years ago and turned into dry bones, but now they are reborn. After a thousand years of dreams, there are no more people and things they are familiar with in this world. Even the Emperor of Western Qin who they killed was turned into dry bones. They wanted to rebuild this imperial tomb, perhaps to find the things that they feel familiar with and to find their memories again!"

Li Yeling smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. We haven't done our own business yet. How can we have time to worry about others? Let's go and go in."

As soon as he entered the area of ​​the city wall, Li Yeling was stopped by a group of skeleton soldiers. This group of skeleton soldiers had about thirty people, and was organized by a team, with more than ten spear soldiers, five halberd soldiers, and several skeleton soldiers holding swords. Behind the team, Li Yeling found several figures holding large bows and strong crossbows. Far attack and incoming marriage, with clear levels. The division of labor of this skeleton soldiers team is extremely reasonable and the weapons are equipped very strong.

Li Yeling smiled at them, took out the bronze cauldron from the ring, and said, "I am familiar with your leader. This bronze cauldron was given to me by him. Please take me to see him."

The skeleton soldiers looked at Li Yeling in a daze, and the red light flashed in their eyes, and I don’t know if I understand it.

After a while, the skeleton soldiers suddenly turned around in unison and walked towards the inside of the cemetery. Li Yeling and Yan Qingyuan looked at each other and smiled: "It's done."

The group walked farther and farther inside, Li Yeling was becoming more and more surprised along the way. As they walked along, they were like walking on a large construction site, and there was a bustling look around them. Countless palaces had begun to lay foundations, and the prototype of the foundation had appeared. Countless skeleton soldiers walked along, carrying their shoulders and carrying their hands, using the most primitive methods and the most basic tools to build this cemetery.

More than ten minutes later, Li Yeling and the others arrived at the museum where the battle occurred that day, and saw the armored skeleton soldier in the main hall of the second courtyard. The main hall should be the location of the main hall of the museum. There are many glass cabinets inside, although they have become dilapidated, and the exhibits inside are missing.

The armored skeleton soldier saw Li Yeling come in and stood up from the chair. His eyes were red and he looked quite happy.

Li Yeling smiled and said, "I need to borrow a place here in your place, I wonder if I can do something?"

The skeleton soldier thought about it and walked out the door. Li Yeling and the others followed him. He went out and turned right and came to a side hall. Li Yeling opened the door. There was a suite inside. The outer room was enshrined with the military statue of the Emperor of Western Qin, and the inner room inside was a quiet room. The side hall was paved with green bricks, which was extremely spacious and high, and looked very bright.

Li Yeling nodded: "Thank you, this is a good place to go."

The skeleton soldier also nodded and turned around and went to the main hall.

Li Yeling smiled and said, "That's it. There is no safer place around the millions of skeletons than here. Unless the country suddenly launches nuclear weapons, we will just rest assured."

The two were talking and laughing, but they didn't know that on the snow about a hundred steps outside the cemetery, a white cat with a fur that was whiter than snow and the size of a tiger was staring at the tightly guarded cemetery.

Time passed minute by minute, and the distance was getting closer and closer. Li Yeling sorted out his equipment, inner armor, and combat uniforms on his body, and all the weapons under the box were in the ring.

Li Yeling smiled at Yan Qingyuan and whispered: "Life and death are fate, wealth is in heaven, don't worry too much."

After saying that, he closed his eyes and calmed down. After a while, the majestic and empty voice of the Lord God sounded in his mind: "The countdown to enter the third virtual battlefield. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! Enter!"

This is a desolate plain with yellow sand everywhere, and the ground is barren soil. The fine sand and yellow soil are mixed with a lot of gravel. When you step on it, the soles of the shoe are just a layer of thin cowhide and suddenly feel a thorny pain.

Rogge spat hard on the ground, kicked the little stone that had hurt him just now, and a lot of sand was poured into his shoes. Rogge looked up at the scorching sun that was still hanging high in the sky, and cursed, "This kind of ghost weather has to fight, so that people will not live anymore. The people above don't know what they think. We are doing well in Macedonia, grazing and drinking every day, how comfortable it is. Why do we come to this damn East and fight with these barbaric and backward Persians? Their land is so barren, and their women are dark and ugly. What can we do if we win?"

While complaining, Roger walked towards his tent.

Around him, there are countless tents of large and small sizes. Each tent is made of felt mixed with cowhide, and looks gray outside. If you look from a distance, you will find that there are thousands of tents here, and you don’t know how many tents there are, and you can’t see the end at first glance.

There were quite wide open spaces between the camp tents, and some thick soldiers wearing simple cloth clothes and knee-length short cloth skirts were chatting in groups of three or five in the shadows of the camp tent. The damn Eastern sun was very vicious, as if it could dry people's skin, especially at noon, the camp tent was as hot as a steamer, and I couldn't stay there at all.

Roger sighed and walked towards his camp. He was glad while walking. He was very grateful that thanks to the fact that he and Hogles were from the same tribe, and the two of them had a bit of blood relationship with their ancestors, he could live in the same camp with him without having to squeeze a dozen people like that, which was so hot that it was so hot that ordinary camp.

You know, officers like Hogles, who are platoon leaders, enjoy the treatment of living alone in a tent. He is already very tolerant of being able to live in. Thinking of Hogles' spacious and cool tent, Roger accelerated his pace again.

Li Yeling slowly opened his eyes, and directly above his head was a gray felt cloth, covered with patches of all sizes, making him look extremely dilapidated.

Li Yeling only felt that his head was so heavy that it was extremely heavy. A large number of memories were as if they were forced into his head. A large amount of information, useful and useless, filled his mind, as if he wanted to burst his brain.

Li Yeling quickly closed his eyes again, took a long breath, suppressing the piercing pain, and his brain, which had become dizzy due to the pain, began to slowly move, slowly combing out the memories in his mind.

The mind kept rotating and combing, like a comb, sorting the complicated and chaotic memories according to rules and regulations. Li Yeling was surprised that his ease of control of these memories took a long time to sort out the important, general and common ones were blocked one by one, selected and used at any time. However, those useless, complex, and scattered ones were buried in the deepest part of the memory, buried deep, and if nothing unexpected happens, they would never remember them again.

His current name is Hogles, and he also has a dark hair and dark eyes, which looks exactly the same as Li Yeling. Three years ago, Hogles was an ordinary Macedonian herder, living the day of working at sunrise and resting in the sun every day. He grazed his own flock on the grassland every day, and danced, sang and drank with his friends around the bonfire at night. But such days have passed a long time ago.

Since three years ago, the great king of Macedonia, the sergeant under Alexander, sent a conscription order to his tent. Hogles put on the armor and sword left by his grandfather, rode the most majestic horse in his herd, and came to Alexander's royal city with his tribe's companions, and then followed the great king all the way south, south, and south!

"We are rushing all the way to greet us by flowers and glory, and with the blood of the dirty Persians. We will defeat them on the battlefield and defeat them spiritually. Enter their cities, kill all their men, ravage their wives and daughters, turn their children into our slaves, and let these dirty Persians serve our Macedonia for generations! This is their greatest glory, and my greatest tolerance for them."

Li Yeling murmured to himself that this was the oath declaration made by the great Alexander before going to war. These words made countless Macedonian warriors boil as passionate as themselves.

After a while, Li Yeling smiled bitterly: "I really didn't expect that the wise and powerful Emperor Alexander, who was portrayed in history books, was essentially a bloody butcher."

It’s also clear to think about it. Which of these ancient kings was a fuel-efficient lamp? The so-called fighting for glory, glory is our lives. These brilliant slogans only exist in the fantasy of the European aristocratic girls in the Middle Ages. War was cruel and bloody, so where did so much righteousness come from?

Especially for Macedonia, a small country that has just transitioned from a loose alliance of clan society and nomadic peoples to a slave regime, the concept of state and nation has not yet been formed. There is no so-called nation in people's understanding. If the so-called country is letting them fight for the country, it is purely nonsense. Without a profound history and humanistic accumulation, how can there be a strong national cohesion?

Fighting for profit is real and true. From the words of Alexander the Great, Li Yeling can see that this monarch is definitely not a military genius as recorded in history books, but he is not good at dealing with relationships between people and is innocent and enthusiastic. At least, he does a good job in grasping people's hearts.

And Alexander, the great king, did bring generous rewards to his subordinates who followed him.

After moving south from Macedonia, there were a series of battles, including the Battle of Granica, the Battle of Shardy, the Battle of Efesu, and the Battle of Miritas. After these battles were introduced, the great king rushed to the southwest to attack the Mediterranean coast, and then, the Battle of Issus not long ago.

He has been fighting and winning battles all the time. After winning the battle, he naturally has to occupy territory, whether it is cities or villages. The great king is also very tolerant of his subordinates. Every time he occupys a place, he is allowed to loot for three days. It goes without saying that the Persian Empire has been established for hundreds of years, and it has always been considered as stable in the country and prosperous in business. Moreover, the current king Darius III was not a powerful king. He paid attention to rest with the people, so the people were very livelihood and the people were extremely prosperous.

The shops, shops, and the luxury houses of wealthy families in the city were all collected, including gold, silver, jewelry, precious utensils, and even their beautiful concubines and beautiful children. Although the countryside is a bit bad, the wealth accumulated by the big landlords in the country over the past few hundred years is also extraordinary.

Every looting brings considerable income to the soldiers.

Now, every soldier in the Macedonian camp, even though he sees it through the rags, everyone is very valuable. For an ordinary soldier, who can have dozens or hundreds of Shekels' gold and silver in his pocket?

(In the metrology system used by the Sumerians and Babylonians, 1 Tarrant is equal to 60 Mina, and 1 Mina is equal to 60 Shekel. This 60-carry system also appeared in ancient Greece. The actual mass of the Tarrant used by the Greeks is about 26 kilograms today, while the Greek Mina is estimated to be around 434 grams.)

And the officers are even richer.

As for Hogles, this new recruit three years ago was promoted to platoon leader because of his brave combat and his life as a riot in the chaos.

Note: (Usually 64 armored soldiers form a platoon, 128 people form a company, 256 people form a battalion, 1024 people form a regiment, and 4096 people form a division.)

Although he is a low-level officer, he is an officer after all, and he has power far greater than ordinary soldiers. And this Hogles is not a fuel-efficient lamp. In the past three years, he has accumulated a lot of value. The gold and silver he stored in the vault behind the army is already a shocking number.

Especially some time ago, after the Battle of Issus won a complete victory, Hogles led his subordinates to rob a small town and obtained more than a dozen trucks of property from the town.

It is worth mentioning that Li Yeling learned from his memories of Hogles that Alexander the Great's army had a very complete financial management system. All the spoils, except for taking out a copy of the great king and the commanding officer above, are all considered to be the personal private property of the soldiers. These property will be weighed and registered by special financial officers and will be managed in a unified warehouse. These property are usually stored behind the army or in a relatively safe place. When the army returns to the army or is preparing to station in a place for a long time, these property will be distributed to the soldiers.

Such a management model reduces the burden on the soldiers and inspires their desire to fight, because behind them is not only kings and glory, but more importantly, their treasures are found.
Chapter completed!