Chapter 52: Daredevil
The next morning, when the first ray of sunlight shone on Chen Ying's face, Chen Ying woke up. Chen Ying got up and finished washing up in a hurry. He looked up at the outer room and unexpectedly found the stubborn figure, still kneeling there.
"Did she keep kneeling here yesterday?"
"Report to the general, this man kneeled all night!"
Chen Ying was also secretly surprised that as a woman, she had such a tenacious personality.
Just as Chen Ying turned around, Tang Liuniang was very discouraged.
Tang Liuniang is from Zitong County, Shizhou. She is ranked sixth and has five brothers on it. Although she lives in this era of superiority and inferiority of men, due to their special circumstances, Tang Liuniang has been loved since her birth. Three of her brothers have already started a family and started a business, guarding dozens of acres of thin fields, working from sunrise to sunset. Although life is very hard, Tang Liuniang feels very happy.
However, this quiet and peaceful life was completely destroyed with the arrival of the rebels of the Bangqidi. The rebels of the Bangqidi looted the village she was in and slaughtered the entire village. In order to cover her escape, the father who loved her the most was cut off by the rebels. She would never forget that when her father died, he left his last words, "Run Liu Ya!"
Her five brothers were killed by rebels one after another, and even her three-year-old nephew was not spared. In just a few days, a family of more than a dozen people were separated by heaven and earth. Tang Liuniang suffered the cruelest torture in her life. She wanted to survive, avenge her parents who died tragically, and avenge her innocent brothers who died in vain.
She knew that her power was too small, and the rebels were not only numerous, but also fierce. If she wanted to take revenge, the only way was to surrender to the Tang army.
"That white-faced general is so hateful. He even disagrees with this request!" Tang Liuniang thought angrily.
Suddenly, she found a pair of black boots in front of her. When she looked up, she saw that it was the white-faced general who looked very beautiful but was not very annoying.
"Have you been kneeling enough?"
Chen Ying said expressionlessly: "After kneeling enough, get up!"
Tang Liuniang was overjoyed when she heard this and hurriedly got up.
"oops……"
Tang Liuniang was just about to get up, but she forgot that she had been kneeling all night, and her legs and knees were already sore and weak.
Chen Ying was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and reached out to stop Tang Liuniang's waist and lifted it up.
Tang Liuniang's eyes were filled with fierce lights, she stared at Chen Ying fiercely, and covered her chest with her hands.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in Ma Gan!"
It took a long time before Tang Liuniang realized that Chen Ying was actually disgusting her small breasts.
Tang Liuniang looked down at Xiaohe's chest that had just exposed her sharp corners, and her little face turned red with anger.
"I'll bite you to death!"
Tang Liuniang threw herself on Chen Ying's arm, opened her mouth and bit her.
It's just a pity that Chen Ying was wearing armor at this time, and he was also a general-level Mingguang armor weighing 23 kilograms. Not to mention teeth, even the light bow used by the cavalry could be ignored outside thirty steps.
Although his mouth was bleeding from the blades of Jia, Tang Liuniang was still unyielding.
Seeing Chen Ying being bitten by Tang Liuniang, the guards around him immediately raised their swords and guns.
"Everything comes back!"
The guards retreated in disappointment after hearing this.
Chen Ying sighed inwardly and said, "If you don't give up, I will not accept you as a soldier!"
"oh!"
Tang Liuniang then let go of her mouth and stuck out her tongue at Chen Ying.
Chen Ying ordered his personal guard to take Tang Liuniang to have dinner.
Tang Liuniang said stubbornly with a worried look on her face: "I'm not hungry!"
"If you don't eat, you won't accept you as a soldier!"
"Oh!" Tang Liuniang reluctantly followed her guard to the kitchen to get food.
"General, did you really accept her?"
"Otherwise, what should I do?"
"But... he is unknown!" Liang Zan said with a worried look: "Who knows if she is a spy from the rebels?"
"Is there such a spy? Is it a human or a ghost? I can still tell the eyes of this general!" Chen Ying said disapprovingly: "Let's go and see how the recruitment is done!"
When I walked to Chen Ying's tent, I met Wei Wenzhong with red eyes, like a rabbit.
"How are you recruiting?"
"Better than I thought!" Wei Wenzhong rubbed his face and cheered up his spirits: "They are all elite soldiers, with more than 1,200 people."
The so-called elite soldiers, in this era, specifically refer to elite soldiers, meaning young and strong men from the age of sixteen to forty-five. Chen Ying was secretly surprised. The entire Xi County was just a middle and lower county. The so-called middle and lower county meant that the number of households was less than 2,000 households and more than 1,000 households. A middle and lower county in Xi County could recruit more than 1,200 soldiers, and almost all the men in the entire county were drained.
From this aspect, we can also see the signs that the prosperous Tang Dynasty could dominate the world. The whole nation was martial, and the court responded to it with a hundred responses. No wonder it could swallow the whale and swallow it in all directions.
Chen Ying said: "Distribute these new recruits immediately, and first fill in the four regiments of the Xun First Regiment, Xun Second Regiment, Sound Shooting Group and Xun Guard Group. As for the Yueqin Group, we don't have so many horses, we'll just be empty for the time being!"
Wei Wenzhong took the account book and said, "General Chen, the Yue Cavalry Group can be fully loaded now. The gentry and celebrities in Xixian donated 57 horses, and more than 100 people were carrying horses to join the army. The Yue Cavalry Group was full enough!"
Chen Ying was overjoyed and said, "Then we will be assigned to the old generation and the new ones, and we will marching and training. When we arrive in Shizhou, these new recruits can also go into battle!"
Wei Wenzhong said hesitantly: "Just..."
"Just what?"
Chen Ying looked at Wei Wenzhong curiously and said, "Old Wei, we are all brothers of life and death who are asking for food in a spoon. What do you need to hide if you have anything to say?"
Wei Wenzhong said: "It's just that we don't have enough weapons. The Xixian Treasury has no decent military equipment at all. It only has twenty pairs of leather armor and fifty spears. It's all crippled by insects, so there is no way to use it!"
Chen Ying said without thinking: "Without weapons and armor, we will build them ourselves, gather the blacksmiths in the city, collect iron and pig iron, and create armor and weapons!"
"But it costs money to buy iron!" Wei Wenzhong said with a sad face: "There are less than 30 yuan of oil and salt money on the books of Xun's second mansion. You can't buy iron with these oil and salt money from your brothers!"
"Is there any money in the Xixian Prefecture's treasury?" Chen Ying said in confusion: "Even if Xixian is poor, it will not be enough to have a penny, right?"
Wei Wenzhong said in aiyi: "There are, there are, and there are a lot, more than two thousand coins!"
"It's easy to deal with if you have money. Two thousand stagnants are enough for us to buy iron to build weapons and armor!"
"However, it's all autumn taxes. Those who want to be relieved from Chang'an and embezzle national taxes privately is a serious crime to behead!"
"Hmph!" Chen Ying said: "If there are no weapons and armor, would we expect to go to the battlefield to suppress the rebellion with wooden sticks? That is almost the same as death. If something happens, the general will take over the money in the Xixian Prefecture Ward first, and at all costs, he will do his best to acquire nearby iron tools and pig iron to create weapons!"
"But what if the court asks for guilt?"
Chapter completed!