Chapter 40
After the sumptuous dinner, the winter dog patted his full belly and returned to the barracks with satisfaction.
“I’m so full.”
"Yes, I've never eaten beef before I grew up."
The person who replied to him was Gou Sheng in the same dormitory. Perhaps because the two of them had the word "dog" in their names, they quickly became familiar with each other after they were divided into the same rank. One winter dog and the other one were all named as a cheap name, and both of them had only this name and no big name.
The wine and meat tonight were rewards sent by local squires, including a cow. The squires said that the cow was killed by falling, so they did not commit the crime of privately slaughtering the ox. However, no one cared about whether it was really falling and killed by falling.
The two winter dogs and dogs left were just from Taiping Township to the north of Macheng.
There are Xianju, Taiping and Tingchuan Township in Macheng. Originally there was Xiaogan Township, but it was later merged and evacuated. The remaining three towns, Xianju Township, is the richest, located in the southwest of the county, and are all open plains, close to the Fucheng and the provincial capital. The second-class one is Tingchuan Township in the southeast, which has some mountainous land, but it is still pretty good. Only Taiping Township is basically mountainous areas, with very little arable land and barren land.
The local people have been poor for generations and rely on hunting, burning charcoal to support their lives. It is said that poor mountains and rivers have produced troubled people, and the people in Taiping Township are indeed fierce, and they are often a place where bandits often come. However, only a few people who are really brave are the ones. Most people just live in poor mountains and rivers.
Both Dog Sheng and Winter Dog are hunters and can shoot good arrows, so they are recruited to join the team. Although they are hunters, they are very likely to leave the prey they catch for themselves, and they are all bought for money and food. They have grown up so big that they have never eaten pork a few times, let alone food such as expensive beef.
"I'm really right here." Donggou lies on his bed, touching his belly, and said with happiness. That day, he came to the county town to sell some accumulated animal skins, but when he saw recruiting soldiers, he heard people telling about such good recruitment conditions and was a village soldier, he immediately signed up. Then he tested all the way and was actually admitted.
That day, he went back as required and asked the guarantor to help him with the insurance. He immediately got seven taels of silver, a piece of cloth and another set of clothes. After returning home, when he handed the seven taels of silver to his father, his father and his family touched the silver over and over again.
When he returned to the county town, the family had already used the money to make a marriage for his elder brother who was almost 30 years old but had not found a wife. He only spent five taels of silver. The family in the neighboring village immediately agreed to marry his sixteen-year-old daughter to their family.
The situation of the dog left is similar. Seven taels of silver can change their family situation. His mother turned out to be bedridden. With this money, her mother finally had money and could ask the doctor to get medicine.
As they were talking, Cai Yuan, the commander of their ranks, walked in. Donggou knew that this ranksman Cai was the sworn brother of their ranks and the brother of the ranks. In fact, in his heart, Donggouzi felt that this ranksman might not be better than himself. Cai Wu was white and tender, and it was said that he was a ranksman. However, since the other party was a brother of the ranksman, it was normal for him to be the ranksman.
"Everyone go to bed early and we will start practicing tomorrow morning." Cai Yuan said to his four soldiers.
Everyone was very sensible and took off their clothes and lay down to sleep.
At this time, a rumbling sound rang out, and the winter dogs sat up, not sure what it meant.
"This is the light-out signal. Once the light-out signal is blown, you must turn off the lights and go to bed immediately. You must not speak again. Turn off the lights and go to bed!"
The light was blown out, and Donggou had to lie down and sleep. However, she was too full for dinner and couldn't sleep. She wanted to get up and eat, but when she thought of Chief Cai's words, she didn't dare to disobey orders, so she had to lie on the mat and savor the sumptuous meal tonight.
I don't know when I fell asleep, but then he was awakened by a rumbling sound.
Chief Cai had already gotten up and was standing beside his bed bent down and patting his face.
"Wake up, get up."
Dong Gouzi opened his eyes and faced Wu Chang Cai's excessive white face.
"As soon as you wake up, you must wash it in a stick of incense."
Dong Gouzi quickly sat up and began to wear clothes and socks. After getting out of bed, he followed Gou Zuo to walk to the well with wooden basins and towels. The three teams of the Right Banner's township warriors had already gotten up, and they lined up in front of the well to get water and wash.
After washing up, I returned to the dormitory, and then a series of different horns sounded again.
"This is a fucking call, fucking!"
Following Chief Cai, he left the dormitory and then met with another troop of the banner outside. The team leader Zhang Xiyu was already standing there with his team's fire soldiers. A team of twelve people gathered and lined up to the playground of the right flag.
It was just dawning, and the three teams of soldiers from the Left Banner had arrived at the front playground.
The winter dog secretly looked around in the queue and found that the flag general was wearing armor covered with yellow spikes, standing in front of the team today, wearing an eight-piece iron helmet with bright red tassels on it. Behind the Liu Qi general, there was a red flag two feet square, with a line of words written on it.
However, he didn't know him.
Dongtiangou knew that this Liu Qi was originally a martial artist from the Wei Wushui in Huangzhou, Fucheng. He was the son of the scholar of Xiwan, the county, and had a good relationship with Chunjiang Gongzi of the Li family in Bashang. Chunjiang Gongzi established this horse team, and Liu Qi served as his deputy and also served as the Qi General of the Zuoqi. He was the real second-in-commander of the horse team.
The left flag stood on the front playground, and then a sound of footsteps came from the side. Mr. Chunjiang, the general leader, came over with his two banners, Zuoqi and Zhongqi.
The three flags gathered together.
Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun stood on the small earth platform in front.
"Everyone stands at attention!" Liu Jun shouted loudly.
Donggouzi was shocked. On the way from Macheng to Queen City, they had learned the simplest queue knowledge. At that moment, he quickly stood up with his chest. Each team happened to be in a horizontal row, and Donggouzi stood in the middle.
Then he saw General Liu Qi standing on the platform and shouting, "Today is the day when our Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team is officially established. Now, please invite General Li Bai to award the team flag."
When Donggouzi saw that Mr. Chunjiang took a folded red flag from General Liu Qi, he then handed it over to the four flag bearers of the Zhongqi. The four flag bearers took the team flag and spread it. One of them held a corner of the nine-headed bird red flag and walked to the middle of the platform with a solemn expression, where a three-meter-high flagpole had already been planted.
There is also a pulley and a rope on the flagpole. The flagbearer puts the flag on the rope. Then the drummers of the middle flag sound the trumpet and beat the skin drum. The flagbearers slowly raise the nine-headed bird flag to the top of the flagpole.
The nine-headed bird flag fluttered in the wind on the top of the high flagpole. The winter dog suddenly felt that the flag was so beautiful. The nine-headed phoenix is what a magical phoenix.
"Now, the ordnance is awarded!"
Several tall military prisons were dressed in black, standing beside the two horse team leaders, behind them were boxes of ordnance equipment. Each time they called a name, they clicked on the famous village hero, and then the ordnance of Chunjiang and Jiye personally gave them the ordnance.
"Zhang Donggou!"
"Come!" When Dong Gouzi heard the commander's name, he shouted "Come" with a meaning.
"Zhang Donggou, come forward."
Dong Gouzi stepped forward nervously, climbed up the platform, and walked to General Li Bai and General Liu Qi to stand in front of General Li Bai and General Liu Qi under the gaze of more than a hundred people in the team.
I saw Mr. Liu Qi look at him up and down with his sharp eyes, and then said aloud, "Zhang Donggou, from today on, you have been crafted as the left-wing bird gunner of the Left Banner Arm Team. Now, you will be given bird gunner equipment to you."
Then a servant of General Liu Qi began to send him one piece of equipment, and another person registered and sang next to him.
"A long knife, a bird gun, a stick, a tin turtle, a gun cover, and a lead bag."
"There are thirty medicines, and every three cents of gunpowder is given, three hundred out, and six taels of medicine are given, a total of six kilograms. Three hundred lead seeds, five inch ropes, and one coconut scoop."
"A pair of cotton armor, a pair of mesh boots, and an eight-petal bright helmet."
"A backpack, a belt, a short sword, a dragon scale face protective armor, and an animal mouth-shaped throat protective armor."
"A war horse! A pair of saddles!"
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There were a lot of things, Dong Gouzi never thought that he would become a bird gun soldier, and he never thought that he would have so much equipment when he was a bird gun soldier. The table was almost full, and finally a tall and majestic horse was led over.
He reached out to touch the knife. It was not an ordinary waist knife, but a long sword with both hands.
This is an extended version of the Qi Family Knife, and the Qi Family Knife has changed from the Japanese sword. It is similar in shape to the Japanese sword. The blade is five feet long and the handle is one foot and five inches long. The knife is six feet and five inches long and weighs two pounds and eight taels. This is the standard melee weapon for bird gunners.
Finally, the table of his equipment was not directly sent to him, but was kept in the flag. The rest of the equipment was collected by him, such as armor, bird guns, long swords, etc.
There are several armors alone, with eight-petal bright iron helmets on the head, with bright red helmet tassels on it. There are also dragon scales that specifically protect the face, with cowhide as a mask, and copper scales on the outside. There are also animal mouth-shaped throat protection for the throat of the throat, and specialize in protecting the armpits of the armpits. Then there are cotton armors, which have several parts, including body armor, folding arms, iron mesh skirts and mesh pants, iron mesh boots and arm armor.
The dog was so confused that he thought that he would just give him a bow when he went to the village to eat food. But he didn't expect that he had so much equipment.
There was also the bird gun, which weighed less than ten kilograms, but he was completely unfamiliar with this firearm. He had never used it before, and he didn't know how to use it. He also felt a sense of fear. He heard that when the bird gun was fired, the sound was like thunder and fog was emitted. He even heard that the bird gun often exploded, killing the gunman to death and destroying the remains.
Therefore, when he looked at the bird gun, he was not excited, but fearful.
But he liked the horse very much, a very tall and majestic horse. He never thought that he would have one day or a war horse.
"Zhang Donggou, weapon is the second life of a soldier, and war horses are the rider's brothers. From now on, you will be a glorious bird gun cavalry of the Nine-Headed Bird Cavalry. Keep your weapons well and treat your war horses well!"
Dong Gouzi looked at the equipment that belonged to him from now on, swallowed, raised his chest and raised his head, and replied yes loudly. When he shouted this yes, he felt inexplicably excited and excited.
Chapter completed!