Turbulent Times Chapter 37: Western Turkic Coup
(Thank you very much for the generous support and monthly ticket support of 'Book Friends 18672397')
The time waiting for the soldiers under his command to run back was full of anticipation and helplessness, as well as some disappointment. After a full quarter of an hour, a few people appeared at the gate of the camp, staggering, falling and getting up, in a panic He trotted over, feeling extremely exhausted. When he saw Wang Junlin, who was waiting for the time, he gritted his teeth one by one, burst out with the last strength, and launched the final sprint of several hundred meters.
When they rushed to Wang Junlin, they reported their regiment, team, fire, and their positions and names one by one. Everyone was exhausted and collapsed on the ground, unable to get up for a while, looking at Wang Junlin. His eyes were full of respect. Running along the way, everyone experienced the hardships involved. Everyone has a clear understanding of Wang Junlin's strength. In this era, the weak are more pure. In addition to Wang Junlin's reputation for viciousness and poison, Wang Junlin conquered them with strength . Of course, running only accounts for a very small part of personal strength.
As soon as many soldiers came back, they collapsed to the ground from exhaustion, but when they saw Wang Junlin standing there, they quickly stood up tremblingly, stood upright with difficulty, looked at Wang Junlin, their eyes were full of fanatical respect , Consciously lined up, gasping for breath to regain strength, looking at other people who kept coming back.
After waiting for half an hour, all the soldiers finally came back. Except for a dozen people who fell slightly injured, no one fell down. This result was better than Wang Junlin expected.
"Now go to the bow and horse training ground. Everyone draws the bow a hundred times, then chops the sword a thousand times, stabs the iron spear a thousand times, and swings the shield a thousand times. Those who complete it within an hour have a rest and eat. Those who failed to finish had gruel for lunch. There was no dry rice to eat. The first 500 people to finish had meat to eat.” Wang Junlin issued a new training order and took the lead to start the training.
An hour later, when it was close to noon, under Wang Junlin's special instructions, the meals prepared in advance were placed outside, and everyone ate outside. As he said before the training, each of the first five hundred soldiers had a piece of mutton, and each of them was full of excitement. This kind of excitement was not only about having meat to eat, but also because they had completed arduous training, and they were more expensive than most people. The sense of accomplishment of finishing training earlier.
Another 2,600 people are also in a good mood, and they are eating dry rice. The remaining 900 people had nothing but a bowl of porridge, all of them had ugly faces, and it was fine if they didn’t have dry rice and meat to eat, and they also had to bear the ridicule of their companions, especially because four of them were Nearly half of them did not complete the training tasks on time, causing the entire team to drink porridge, and those who had dragged their comrades down felt ashamed to death.
After eating at noon, the army rested for half an hour, and Wang Junlin gave the order to start training again. This is a 500-meter obstacle course. Wang Junlin combined the 500-meter special training obstacle course used by later generations of special forces training, and added the characteristics of the war of this era. After more than a month of research, it was built.
This kind of training is called devil training in the army of later generations. After Wang Junlin demonstrated it himself, he asked everyone to try it out, and then ordered everyone to run the whole course twice. The distance is only one thousand meters , but because there is also a time limit, everyone has to try their best to run. So, after the two journeys, everyone turned into a puddle of mud, panting like a bellows, feeling like their lungs were about to explode.
"Same as in the morning, now go to the bow and horse training ground, everyone draws the bow a hundred times, then chops the sword a thousand times, assassinates the iron spear a thousand times, and swings the shield a thousand times. It will be completed within an hour Those who can’t finish will still have gruel. There is no dry rice to eat. The first 500 people to finish will still have meat to eat. In addition, starting tomorrow, they will continue to train according to today’s program, morning and afternoon After the training of running and running obstacles, there will be no assembly, and those who run back first will go to the next training directly, and the overall time ranking will be carried out.”
…
…
Time flies, the time has come to the spring of the fourth year of Renshou, and Wang Junlin has served as the chief general in Gaotai City at the border for more than half a year.
After the defeat of the Western Turks last year, the tribes suffered heavy losses, and the prestige of the Chuluo Khan plummeted. Wutu was the new Khan of the Western Turks, claiming to be the Khan of Tong Yehu, and King Boduo became the national teacher of the Western Turks.
Under the leadership of King Boduo, Tong Yehu Khan advocated peace talks with Sui, sent envoys to request the canonization of Sui, and at the same time asked Tai Sui for marriage, willing to marry the princess of Sui as Ke Dun (called the Turkic queen).
Before this, the Great Sui Dynasty had already used Princess Yicheng to make peace with Eastern Turks, stabilizing northern Xinjiang for nearly ten years. Now that it was able to make peace with Western Turks again, Emperor Wen of Sui readily accepted it. The imperial court has been preparing for this matter for many days. Junlin heard that the mission sent to the Western Turks will come to Gaotai City in the next two days.
…
During the past half a year, while Wang Junlin was doing his job well, guarding the frontiers where he was stationed, training elite troops with his unique and innovative methods, and gradually gaining complete control over the 5,000 troops under his command, he also followed Wu San and Wu Si to train hard. Martial arts, hardening the body, although he is not the opponent of Wu San and Wu Si, but his strength has been greatly improved.
In addition, in the past half a year, Wang Junlin personally forged a knife and a pair of plate armor for himself. The material used for this knife is made of fine iron that Wang Junlin spent five hundred taels of silver to buy. Of course, the knife he made is different from the war knife of this era, for example, there is an extra blood groove on it.
Moreover, Wang Junlin's knife and this pair of plate armor can be regarded as a steel knife and plate armor. From the preparation of materials, to the research and attempt to build it, he spent a full three months.
He first asked people to find coal, and then burned the coal into coke.
The process of burning coke is actually the same as that of burning charcoal. First, coal stones are piled up in a semi-closed furnace, and then ignited with firewood, so that the coal burns slowly in an environment lacking oxygen, so that the smoke in the coal stones All the impurities fly away from the chimney, and when the smoke is no longer coming out of the chimney, water is poured into it... Finally, coke is obtained.
But this is the most primitive method, Wang Junlin researched and fumbled for half a month before it came to fruition. Of course, this means that he knows the general way. If anyone in this era does not know the direction, no matter how much time is spent, they will not be able to figure it out.
In fact, Wang Junlin's method is the most stupid method, because more than half of the coal stones in the coke burned in this way will be burned to ashes, and only one third of the coal will become coke.
There is coke, and then there is steel frying. For this reason, Wang Junlin spent half a month looking for a craftsman to get a pull-out blower, because coke is not easy to ignite, and without a blower, it is difficult to maintain a continuous fire. combustion.
And every time Wang Junlin smelted iron, the two strongest guards in the mansion were exhausted. Because this requires the two of them to constantly pull the bellows of the blower.
Of course, this process is not so simple. Later studies have long known that the reason why iron is iron and not steel is that the biggest difference between the two lies in the amount of carbon element.
For this reason, Wang Junlin thought about it, and then he thought of a mineral that can be added to molten iron to burn off the carbon in it, and sent guards to find this ore, and asked the guards to smash it into powder, adding more Put this ore powder into the molten iron and stir it for testing. After countless failures, the carbon in the molten iron was finally burned out, and finally the most basic steel was obtained directly by burning iron ore.
With Hundred Steel Refining, it will be relatively easier to build weapons later on, but it took Wang Junlin a month to build a thick-backed saber with blood grooves and a steel plate armor.
No way, in this age where death is easy to die, and he is working in the profession that is most likely to die, he can only find ways to improve his strength, but he has already missed the age of foundation building, and it is too difficult to improve his strength , can only proceed from external forces.
In addition, in the past half a year, Wang Junlin led his subordinates to fight the Western Turks more than a dozen times, but every time he reported his military achievements, he gave the credit to his subordinates, so he is still a regular fifth rank Captain Guo Yi.
…
…
The breeze is blowing, and it is the time when the flowers bloom in March. The warm sunshine shines on the endless grassland. The color of the grass, unknown delicate yellow flowers protrude from the grass, and the wind blows, they nod slightly, and the slightly cool breeze sends the fragrant grass fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed.
A prairie falcon circled and flew under the blue sky, watching with sharp eyes a convoy of 500 Sui cavalry escorted to Gaotai City in a desolate Hexi Corridor.
The life of the frontier army is bitter and cold, and the food is simple and pitiful. Needless to say, fruits and vegetables are not seen several times a year. For this reason, Wang Junlin leads the cavalry to hunt and improve once a month in the name of patrolling the border. Meals, by the way, can also be regarded as training cavalry and bow horses.
Today, Wang Junlin was leading 2,000 cavalry to go hunting. A soldier came from Gaotai City on horseback. You go back immediately."
Compared to last year, Wang Junlin has gradually become familiar with this world, and his own living habits, words and deeds are gradually no different from this world.
Wang Junlin was originally 1.85 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist. His muscles were not showy but full of strength. more mature.
After listening to the report from the soldiers, Wang Junlin nodded and smiled slightly. As early as the day before yesterday, Yujuluo sent someone to send him a secret letter, claiming that the imperial court sent Sun Sheng, the head of the Turkic envoy, to the Western Turkic. Thinking that Yu Juluo actually sent Changsun Sheng over in person.