Chapter 630: Lost Again (Part 2)

This is the first time Dong Zhuang has set foot on the battlefield. In the past, they only completed battles again and again in training. Compared with the bloody battles now, the training in the past was just playing house between little kids. For the first time, they will The spear pierced the opponent's chest. As the spear shook and he pulled it out, he saw the opponent's distorted face as the blood spurted out. At that moment, he felt that his entire intestines and stomach were squirming, and a stream of heat flowed from his body. It welled up in his chest and abdomen until it reached his throat, and he swallowed it back alive. , with you all the way! The captain's roar seemed a bit far away, but the rhythmic drum beat kept ringing in his ears. He thrust out the spear mechanically, pulled out the spear, and moved forward involuntarily with the large army.

Dong Zhuang was really strong. Compared with his peers, he was a head taller. With his burly figure, he was highly valued by the superiors in the army, and he also worked hard. When he was at home, he never had enough to eat. His family of seven or eight members farmed more than ten acres of land owned by the rich man. After a year of hard work, after paying the land rent and paying taxes, there was not enough left over for the family to fill their stomachs. , and he ate a lot, almost as much as three or four people for one person.

Every spring is the most difficult time for the Dong family, because this is the lean season. Dong Zhuang felt particularly distressed every time he saw his parents' faces that looked disproportionately old.

In the spring of this year, looking at the countless grains of grain in his family's granary, listening to his parents sighing, and looking at the miserable condition of his brothers and sisters who were skin and bones due to hunger, Dong Zhuang decided to leave the house and try his luck. Without him, the food at home can last a few more days.

He was lucky enough to go all the way to the county seat and saw the recruitment notice. He only wanted to be favored by the officer who came to recruit soldiers. You can immediately receive one hundred catties of grain and three months' salary in advance, which is one tael of silver a month. With this money. The family will definitely be able to survive this season until the time of harvest.

He pushed his way to the registration spot without hesitation. With his size, he easily stood in front of the recruiting officer. There were so many people who wanted to be soldiers, but most of them were sallow and thin. Compared with him, they were not at the same level at all. Dong Zhuang understood very well. I saw it clearly when I stood in front of the commander. The officer's eyes lit up.

Dong Zhuang joined the army without any questions, put on the newly issued uniform, carried a hundred catties of grain, and an advance salary of three taels of silver, and returned home.

When he poured the grain into the rice vat and placed three small silver ingots on the table, he saw the adoring eyes of his younger siblings. Of course, he also saw the sad faces of his parents.

"Father, mother. Don't worry, I will have a salary of one or two silver dollars every month from now on, so you won't go hungry. I'm leaving. It's impossible to go home in a short time. When I become an official, I can't go home again." Come back and build a big house for the second elder, buy all Tian Laocai's land, and let the second elder sit at home and collect the rent. "Dong Zhuang can't stay at home longer, the officer said, he must return to the team before dark, otherwise he will die. If you want to be punished as a deserter, you will not only have to beheaded. Even relatives at home will be affected.

Dong Zhuang was surrounded by the admiring eyes of his younger siblings and the tears and cries of his parents.

He walked out of the house with his head held high, and he didn't walk alone. When he walked out of the village, there were seven or eight boys from the village embarking on the journey away from home with him.

After a year of hard training, Dong Zhuang understood the queue, the orders, and the meaning of the drum beats. Whether it was a knife or a gun, he became familiar with it. Among the eight friends who left the village with him, some Two were injured and died during training, and the other became a deserter and was caught and had his head chopped off in front of them. This made Dong Zhuang know what military discipline is.

A year later, Dong Zhuang became the commander of the sentry, with fifty brothers under his command. The five remaining brothers who had left the village together were also under his command.

They were treated very well. They ate steamed buns every day, had a meal of meat every ten days, and never owed their salary of one tael a month. This made Dong Zhuang very satisfied. The hard work of training would disappear when he saw the two pieces of silver.

Until today, they finally took to the battlefield.

After raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while, the commander's words kept ringing in Dong Zhuang's ears. The discomfort in his body was forcibly suppressed by him. He mechanically moved forward, stabbed, and then moved forward.

Dong Zhuang, with his fifty soldiers, was deeply embedded in the ranks of Yuyang County soldiers. Around him were several friends from his village.

The enemy seemed to be disintegrating. Dong Zhuang had encountered this situation many times. Although the resistance seemed to be strong, Dong Zhuang could feel that the pressure on him was getting lighter and lighter. In his usual training, he could also Feel this, and when he feels this, the opponent will lose.

This made him very happy. Some numb nerves became normal because of these joys.

"Go forward, kill!" he shouted loudly. Looking around, he was surprised to find that less than half of his companions were left.

The enemies in front of them were much more ferocious than the friendly forces on the training ground.

"Come closer to me, kill!" Dong Zhuang shouted loudly. More than 20 Yan army soldiers squeezed towards Dong Zhuang, standing shoulder to shoulder and back to back with him. They penetrated deep and had lost contact with the friendly army. Enemies kept coming up from all sides. They even felt that they didn't even have time to breathe or blink. They could only keep stabbing the spears in their hands. When the spears broke, they pulled out their waist knives and waved them desperately. Blood stained the spear shaft and covered the handle of the knife. The hand felt sticky, but everything was out of care. If you don't want to die, you have to kill the enemy desperately.

Tan Feng's gloomy face because of the destruction of the armored heavy cavalry finally smiled again. These new troops were trained by him with all his heart and blood, completely borrowing from Gao Yuan's training method. It must be said that this rebellious training method is very powerful. Those farmers who know nothing can become like a whole in the shortest time after boring queue training and command practice again and again.

Tan Feng gave the best treatment to the newly-trained army as much as possible. No one dared to eat empty salaries in this new army, and no one withheld soldiers' salaries. The treatment of each soldier was actually paid to the soldiers, and all of this created such a strong and powerful army.

The three thousand elite soldiers of Yuyang were cut into pieces before his five thousand new recruits could last for a stick of incense.

"The team at the front is very good!" Looking at the battlefield from afar, Tan Feng looked back, "If they can survive after this battle, the leader will be promoted three levels, and all the soldiers will be promoted to sentry officers!"

He was referring to Dong Zhuang's team.

Dong Zhuang didn't know that he was being watched by one of the most important people in power in this country. At this time, he was doing his best to fight for survival. The circle of his team had been reduced again, with only a dozen people left. The circle was smaller, and the area to be taken care of was much smaller, whether it was attacking or defending, but at the same time, the pressure they felt was also much greater.

Dong Zhuang was very surprised, because during the training, the opponent should have been defeated by now. He just took a quick look at the battlefield in his busy schedule. The opponent had been cut into small pieces by his comrades and had long lost their formation. The standing army was still in neat formation, except for their team, which became an isolated army because they rushed too far forward.

Hold on a little longer! He said to himself in his heart that the enemy was about to collapse.

This battle also made Dong Zhuang deeply understand that war is not training. Here, it is only a matter of life and death.

The ground suddenly trembled slightly. Although Dong Zhuang was a little surprised, he did not realize anything. As a new recruit who went to the battlefield for the first time, he did not realize what this meant at all. He was still trying to maintain the survival of his small circle of partners.

But veterans such as Tan Feng and Kou Hanfeng naturally understood the meaning of the trembling of the ground, and both of them changed their faces.

A cavalry appeared on the left side of the battlefield. There was no flag to indicate which unit they were, but when Tan Feng saw the navy blue uniforms, how could he not understand who was coming?

"Zhengdong Army!" He screamed, and the whole person was almost dumbfounded at this moment. He had calculated everything, but he had not calculated that Zeng Xianyi had actually surrendered to or colluded with the Zhengdong Army.

The infantry was in high spirits. After almost two years, he finally got the opportunity to go to the battlefield again. Ye Zhen brought 500 cavalrymen, and he himself had 500 cavalrymen being trained. A thousand cavalrymen, at this moment, were a force that determined the victory of the battle.

"Flatten them!" The infantry waved the longbow in his hand, took the lead, and rushed in from the flank of the battlefield.

The bowstring sounded, and the arrows were fired continuously. One after another, the officers of the standing army were knocked to the ground by the feather arrows that were like flying fairies from the sky. In just a blink of an eye, several regular army units were rushed to pieces by the cavalry.

The timing of the infantry's arrival was very good. Zeng Xianyi's desperate resistance dragged the standing army deep into the battlefield. At this time, these troops had no way to withdraw. The arrival of the cavalry of the Zhengdong Army, while deeply damaging the morale of the standing army, also greatly boosted the morale of the Yuyang County soldiers.

Dong Zhuang knew that it was bad. He wanted to survive, so he immediately led his team and turned back to fight desperately. The spear in his hand had already broken into two pieces. He held the half of the spear in one hand and waved his saber in the other hand, roaring and fighting. The Yuyang County soldiers were really torn open by this hideous man.

Dong Zhuang rushed out, but all his companions fell down.

Dong Zhuang ran away, and just after running a dozen steps, he saw a black shadow in front of him that was expanding infinitely. At this time, his eyes were already a little blurry, but he still tried his best to dodge to the side. A strong force rushed over, and Dong Zhuang flew up, and fell heavily among the corpses on the ground. There was a buzzing sound in his head, and he lost all consciousness.