Chapter 129: Together Management (15)

Tongxin City was filled with joy again, with 463 brides and grooms tied their knots.

According to Qian Xiangnan and Zhao Pu's plan, in order not to let the marriage affect the troops too much, the marriage between the soldiers and Dangxiang women was completed in three batches. However, in the battle against Guyuan, dozens of high-ranking soldiers who were qualified to get married died on the battlefield, which greatly stimulated Hou Dayong. He made up his mind to let the soldiers marry the remaining 477 brides.

Generals such as Hou Dayong, Shi Hu, Jiang Hui, Hu Li, Kuang Cao, Qian Xiangnan, Zhao Pu and other generals sat on the platform at the military site, watching the soldiers select wives with interest while chatting casually.

After some selection, only nine Dangxiang women were left in the military yard, and the soldiers unanimously refused to select the remaining Dangxiang women. Zhao Pu was the one who hosted the wife selection activity. No matter how clever he was, the last fourteen marriages could not be completed as they wished. Zhao Pu could not, so he only received a report from the high platform.

"These soldiers stayed in the military camp for two or three years, and their interest in women is not a little bit. Moreover, they signed up voluntarily, so why would there be such a thing as a person who would rather be single than marry?" Because the platform was full of trusted generals, Hou Dayong spoke without any scruples and asked Zhao Pu directly with a helpless look on his face.

When he heard Hou Dayong say this, Shi Hu, Jiang Hui, Hu Li, Kuang Cao and others laughed intently.

Zhao Pu also laughed. He was a staff member for many years and knew the best of the rules. The governor could talk and joke around at will, but he could not speak nonsense. Therefore, Zhao Pu explained seriously: "The remaining nine women are really ugly. The soldiers covered their faces and fled after seeing them."

Hou Dayong's curiosity was aroused, and he turned to several generals and said, "Let's go down and see how ugly these ugly women are, which scared our brave and warlike soldiers into Liu Xiahui who was calm and unwilling to be careless."

Jiang Hui used to be a famous general in the Shu army. He had the courage and humor of the Shu people. When he walked to Zhao Pu, he squeezed his eyes at Zhao Pu and whispered: "What are you afraid of if you are ugly? When you enter the bridal room, put out the candlelight. The Seven Fairies and the Unsalted Girl are not the same. No flower grows under anyone, and no one will grow fangs under him."

Zhao Pu walked behind Hou Dayong and smiled knowingly at Jiang Hui, but had no contact.

Hou Dayong came to the remaining nine Dangxiang women, and when he saw it, he immediately understood the thoughts of the soldiers. These women were so ugly. Hou Dayong remembered a book from the 20th century called "The Siege". There is a section in the book that specifically describes the problem of ugliness. I can't remember the original words clearly. The general meaning is this: the ugliness of Chinese women was a mistake made by Nuwa when she created humans, while the ugliness of foreign women were a prank played by God when she created humans.

These nine women of Dangxiang are God's pranks.

Hou Dayong said to Zhao Pu: "These more than 600 women with Dangxiang look pretty pretty, with graceful figures and positive facial features. Look at the noses, they all have a very straight look, even a flip nose and a slump nose. However, the eyes are black and not brown, and a very few have blue. But how can these fourteen women grow like this? From the perspective of a man, I would rather be a bachelor than marry such a wife."

Zhao Pu looked back and forth at the women and said calmly: "Since it's useless, just kill them."

When Zhao Pu said this, an ugly woman with an ugly Dangxiang glanced and took a step back. When Hou Dayong heard Zhao Pu's speech, he happened to stare at these Dangxiang women. The ugly Dangxiang woman's gaze and her retreating movement were clearly seen by Hou Dayong. Hou Dayong's heart moved: This woman could understand the words of Zhongyuan.

Hou Dayong comes from modern society. Although he has commanded the Black Eagle Army to kill people in the past year, he has asked him to massacre the unarmed Dangxiang women. He still can't do it. Hou Dayong said to Zhao Pu: "These Dangxiang women are ugly, but they are also women. The ugly things they give birth to are not their fault, nor are they enough to be a death sentence. Let's do this, let these nine people gather together and set up a washing room to wash clothes for us. Those personal guards are always unable to wash clothes clean, and sometimes the washed clothes are dirtier than not."

Zhao Pu wanted to kill these women mainly to prevent these women from exposing the situation in Tongxin City. Although the situations that these women knew were not confidential, making the enemy a deaf person is an important responsibility, ability and task of an excellent staff member. When Zhao Pu heard Hou Dayong's arrangement, he understood the purpose of Hou Dayong's arrangement, that is, not to kill people easily, but to control these women of the Dangxiang. Zhao Pu thought to himself: It is really easy to deal with smart people. In a few simple words, the problem was solved.

When Hou Dayong was speaking, he was observing the reaction of the ugly Dangxiang woman. Seeing her breathing a long sigh, she concluded that she could indeed understand the words of Zhongyuan. Hou Dayong pointed at the Dangxiang woman and said, "You come out."

The woman could indeed understand the words of Zhongyuan. After Hou Dayong finished speaking, she raised her head, walked forward a few steps, came to Hou Dayong, and raised her ugly face high, as proud as a beautiful princess.

Seeing that the woman's expression was not at all cumbersome, her eyes were faint sky blue, clear and flexible, Hou Dayong was stunned for a moment. He carefully observed the edge of the woman's face and found no traces of wearing a mask. Moreover, the woman's skin was normal, but her facial features were moved to look extremely ugly, so he asked, "What's your name? Why can you understand the Central Plains dialect?"

The woman glanced at Hou Dayong and said, "My name is Lushui. My mother is from the Central Plains. Of course, she can understand the Central Plains dialect."

"Your mother is from the Central Plains! Where is the person? Why should she marry Dangxiang people?"

Lushui showed a mocking expression on his face and said, "My mother is from Weizhou. The reason why she married Dangxiang people is the same as the sergeant of these Dangxiang women who married your sergeants."

When Zhao Pu heard this, he shouted, "Rareless."

Hou Dayong's mind was very fast. According to common sense, Lushuidi's father would not go to Weizhou to grab an ugly monster. Lushuidi's mother would definitely not be too ugly. This only means that Lushui's father is an ugly monster. When people were eating green food by the Qingshui River, they all grew up tall and strong. They had good facial features and few ugly people. This Lushui was really unlucky and had an ugly family. He was in a ugly family and was a father.

Hou Dayong tried to say kindly: "Lu Shuai went to the washing room to be a team leader, and you will manage these women. However, the washing room has the rules of washing room. If you want to be safe, you must work in the washing room honestly."

Lushui lowered his head and said, "We are all miserable women, and we will be content with a bowl of rice."

After the last nine ugly girls were placed, the good show of ordering the military field ended, and the soldiers in the fun were dispersed.

Dabu sat in a corner of the military field with three hundred Tubo soldiers, watching the Great Zhou soldiers leading, carrying, holding, and holding the Dangxiang woman out of the military field. Thinking about the upcoming wedding battle, they all burst into blood and their body temperature rose.

Dabu said to Zhexiong who was sitting beside him: "I used to think that men are all pedantic and incompetent people. It seems that we are wrong. These men are quite heroic and look like our brave and invincible Tubo men."

Zhexiong was Drepung's brother. When he came to Songfan from Shazhou, Drepung had already died in the battlefield, so he took over his brother Drepung's position. He became Dabu's close comrade. When he first came from Songfan, he had not fought with the Black Eagle Army. Zhexiong was very unaware of Dabu's surrender to Hou Dayong, the governor of the Xiongsheng Army. In Zhexiong's mind, the Central Plains army was vulnerable. However, after Zhexiong participated in the battle of the Northwest Alliance to siege Guyuan City, he saw the experience of the coalition forces, especially the Black Eagle Army. He no longer dared to be arrogant and firmly supported Dabu's strategy of relying on Hou Dayong to strengthen his strength.

Zhexiong was strong. When he was in Shazhou, he lived with the Uighurs, and his beard had the common style of the Uighurs. His right hand habitually held the short sword with silver edges in his waist and said, "I know a Tubo merchant. He has been to many places in the Dazhou. According to his observation, there are two types of elite soldiers in the Dazhou City. One is the Central Imperial Army in Daliang City. It is divided into two departments: the Palace Front Office and the Guard Office. The total number is more than 100,000 people, and the other is the army of the border town. Each town has a small number of people, about 10,000 people. These border troops are also quite combat-effective. As for the army troops in mainland cities, their combat power is really not very good."

Dabu used his hand to sort out his curly hair, licked his chapped lips with his tongue, and said, "When we were besieging Guyuan, there were Yongxing Army, Baozhou Army, Qingzhou Army, Lingzhou Army and Black Eagle Army. These troops were not weak in combat power. However, the most dangerous place was the Black Eagle Army. Each of them carried a crossbow to shoot on the Mercedes-Benz war horse. This move was too terrible. When we were fighting with the Black Eagle Army, many Tubo warriors were shot off the horse before they even got close to the Black Eagle Army. It was unconvincing to think it was too."

Zhexiong suggested: "Then we will also equip some crossbows and arrows, so that we will not be afraid of the Black Eagle Army."

When Dabu saw Hou Dayong and others coming over, he stood up and said, "We, the Hunmo clan, do not have good craftsmen to make crossbows. We made a few of them based on the Black Eagle Army's crossbows. The range and accuracy were not as good as those of the Black Eagle Army's crossbows. The Black Eagle Army controlled the crossbows extremely strictly, so we had to save some money and buy some private goods from the merchants."

Hou Dayong led Shi Hu and other generals to the front of the Tubo team. Dabu and Zhexiong bent down and saluted. Hou Dayong sermoned to Dabu: "This morning, the soldiers hunted a few wild sheep outside the city, and roasted the whole sheep tonight. I have some things to eat and chat with you."

After Dabu arrived at Tongxin City, he was left aside by Hou Dayong for two days. When he heard Hou Dayong invite him, he knew that he would definitely talk about the important things at the dinner party, so he respectfully said: "Thank you for summoning the governor."

Seeing Dabu bent over and retreating aside according to Tubo etiquette, Hou Dayong felt a little accomplished. He thought about how rebellious Dabu was, a Tubo man, at the beginning. He was like a fierce horse without a saddle on the grassland. No one could subdue him. But now he was finally put on a cage and became an obedient war horse. Hou Dayong said: "See you next night. Everyone have a good drink at the dinner party. I still have some things to do. You guys go back and rest first."

After saying this, Hou Dayong waved his hand imposingly at Dabu. Hou Dayong became the governor, especially after he was recruiting recruits from the northwest camp, he liked to use gestures more and more when he spoke. With his hand waving, countless people would either move forward or retreat with the gestures, as if these hands were full of magic, which could guide everyone to victory after victory. Hou Dayong himself also realized this problem. He remembered that he learned an article called "White Waves" when he was a child, and now he finally felt the feeling of waving.

After Dabu left, Hou Dayong said to Shi Hu: "Today's wedding ceremony is over. Let's go and see the people in Nancheng District. They came from Guyuan to Tongxin City, and they must have complaints."

Shi Hu often chatted with these Guyuan people along the way, and knew a lot about their feelings, saying: "As the saying goes, it is difficult to leave their hometown, and gold and silver nests are not as good as their own doghouses. They lived in Guyuan for generations, and they were reluctant to live in the place where they had lived for decades, even if this place was poor or hard."

Hou Dayong suddenly changed the topic and asked, "I heard that Shi Lang has recently had a nickname called Shi Buddha. Do you really believe in Buddhism?"

Shi Hu was silent for a while and said, "Since I joined the army, killing people is common. In the past two years, the officials have become bigger and bigger, and the fewer people have died directly at my hands. However, I commanded the battles between Yizhou and Guyuan, killing more than ten thousand people. One general succeeded and ten thousand bones were bleak. This sentence makes so reasonable. During this period, I often had broken arms and limbs and bloody corpses in my dreams. Only by reciting a passage of Diamond Sutra in my sleep can these nightmares be driven away."

Hou Dayong did not expect Shi Hu to say this. When he was in the special forces, Hou Dayong specialized in battlefield psychology. Under the pressure of high intensity and continuous combat, many veterans would have psychological problems. Hou Dayong thought to himself: It seems that Shi Hu is becoming more and more anxious under high pressure. However, Shi Hu is in a high position and needs to keep the calmest in front of his generals and sergeants. The long-term suppressed anxiety is reflected in his dreams. Reading the Diamond Sutra is actually a good way to relieve anxiety in his heart. Shi Hu had this psychological problem and did not know what other sergeants are doing. It seems that he should also pay attention to adjusting the psychological problems of the sergeants in the future.

Hou Dayong asked: "Since the establishment of the Black Eagle Army, they have been fighting from Cangzhou to Tongxin City, the soldiers should stop and rest. Otherwise, the morale and combat effectiveness of the soldiers will be affected. The bowstrings are too tight and can easily break, and the spirits are nervous for a long time can easily go crazy. The Black Eagle Army is now firmly guarding Lingzhou and Tongxin, and there is no need to expand anymore. They will train and rest for a while."

Shi Hu felt relieved when he heard this and said, "The Black Eagle Army has not stopped since its founding in Cangzhou. Now he can finally be idle for a while. However, the trees want to be quiet but the wind does not stop. There are also Dangxiang heavy troops in Xihuizhou. They may not give us a chance to rest."

Hou Dayong had money to provide information about the various armies of the Xihui Prefecture Dangxiang, which was provided to the south, and had a basic understanding of Fangdanghanhai's land, and sneered: "The Fangdang army in Xihui Prefecture is a group of mobs. Fangdanghanhai has Fangdanghanhai's defeated army in his hands, and there are thousands of people who came to reinforce the Miqiumen and the Xifeng Division. However, as long as we guard Xiaoniu Pass, Fangdanghanhai's men and the thousands of reinforcements will not be able to move. The reinforcements came to Xihui Prefecture to assist in the war. After a long battle was useless, they would consume a lot of food and grass. In a short time, these reinforcements would overwhelm Xihui Prefecture. Fangdanghanhai would inevitably send these reinforcements away from Xihui Prefecture with politeness. We must always remember this view that fighting is actually a logistical battle, especially in the northwest where supplies are scarce."

Hou Dayong and Shi Hu talked while walking. Jiang Hui, Hu Li, Qian Xiangnan, Zhao Pu and others followed them about five or six meters. At this distance, they could not hear the conversation between the two men, and they maintained respect for the two coaches. This distance was intentionally or unintentionally instilled in the generals by Zhao Pu. All the generals were wise, and they could understand it at a glance. Only the desperate Wulang didn't pay much attention to these rules. After he came down from the high platform, he had no idea where he had gone.

Hou Dayong's analysis was basically consistent with Shi Hu's. Shi Hu nodded and said, "What the governor said is very reasonable. I have a suggestion that the team of Niuguandi should be adjusted now."

"Tell me what you think."

"Qingshui River runs north and south, high in the south, low in the north, and mountains on both sides of Qingshui River. Therefore, the defense line of Tongxin City is mainly divided into the southern line and the northern line. The end point of the southern line is Guyuan. Now it is occupied by Wang Jing's troops, so it is basically unprepared. The northern line is the focus of our defense. The coalition forces mainly rely on the confrontation between Xiaoniu Pass and Dangxiang Army on the northern line. The troops guarding Xiaoniu Pass include nearly 3,000 people in Wang Yanchao's troops and 3,000 people in Wu Songqian's troops. The cavalry of the Independent Army led by Guo Jiong is two miles away from Xiaoniu Pass, building a second line of defense."

"Keep talking."

"The Yongxing Army has always been the most loyal ally of the Black Eagle Army in the Northwest War, especially in the battle to attack Tongxin City, which made great contributions, but also suffered heavy losses. I suggest that Wang Jiang lead 3,000 Fengzhou Army to defend Xiaoniu Pass instead of Yongxing Army, so that the Yongxing Army can return to Tongxin City to rest. The new northern defense line has three lines of defense, the first line of defense is the Three Thousand Fengzhou Army and the Three Thousand Qingzhou Army to guard Xiaoniu Pass; the second line of defense is Guo Jiong's independent army, which is located between Xiaoniu Pass and Tongxin City, responsible for reinforcement of Xiaoniu Pass, and also undertake the task of encircling and suppressing Dangxiang's small cavalry; the third line of defense is the Black Eagle Army stationed outside Tongxin City, and they serve as strategic reserves."

Hou Dayong praised: "I fully agree with this plan. Yongxing Army died in battle outside Tongxin City, with more than 2,600 casualties now. There are only more than 2,600 soldiers. There are countless wounded soldiers in it. It is difficult for the resignation of Yongxing Army for so long. The Jiedushi Wang Yanchao has been withered for so long."
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