Chapter 377 If you can do it, stay
Except for Old Man Du and Tianbao who enjoyed the barbecue very much, everyone else felt that it was tasteless.
The old man was used to seeing life and death and was not affected by it.
Tianbao is emotionally indifferent and has little empathy, so being able to feel a little is already a huge improvement.
After they finished eating, Duan Dao came back exhausted. Although he was tired, his eyes were bright and his spirit was different from when he was outside.
The whole person seems to be glowing.
"I saved some barbecue for you." Du Buqin glanced at him and snorted, "You looked so radiant after fighting with your own soldiers. If you didn't know better, you would have thought you got married. You looked so happy."
"On a daily basis, let those soldiers know their own strengths and weaknesses, so that they won't rush into the battlefield without thinking." Duan Dao sat down, took the roasted meat and ate it without any care.
Hanging out with the soldiers every day, I quickly regained the familiarity of leading troops back then. Although it’s boring day after day, it always makes me excited.
Very fulfilling.
Su An stared at him, watching him eat a large piece of rabbit meat in a few bites. "Uncle Broken Knife, your soldiers said you live and eat with them. Now you are eating barbecue here. Does that count as cooking for them behind their backs?"
Broken Blade raised the corner of his lip, "Are you waiting here to take over my army? This food is what you brought, not what you took from the kitchen. If I eat it, it doesn't count as special treatment."
"...Uncle Duan Dao, I thought you would not eat it in order to maintain your prestige." Su Wen felt so sorry.
The man patted him on the head with his big hand, just like he had done when he was a child. "Since you're not serving special food, why can't you eat the delicious food? A general's prestige is earned through military campaigns, not through hardship."
"If that's the case, why does Uncle Duan Dao still want to eat and live with the soldiers?" Tian Bao tilted his head, puzzled.
The general has special supplies, and after eating his fill, he has plenty of energy, so his chances of winning a battle on the battlefield should be better.
It’s better than being half-hungry.
Broken Blade smiled, a rare smile, open-minded and generous, "Because even after taking off the general's robe, I am still a soldier."
The old man was silent for a moment, then handed over another piece of barbecue. "Here! This is my secret stash! I was planning to save it for a midnight snack!"
The children followed suit, passing along the uneaten pieces of meat and fresh fruit. "There's more here, eat more, fill your stomachs and continue training tomorrow! There's also fruit! This is really a hidden treasure, Uncle Broken Knife, bury the fruit cores after you finish eating them, don't let anyone find them!"
More than half of the food in front of him had been bitten, and there was a clear tooth mark on a juicy pear. Duan Dao took them one by one, and laughter overflowed from his chest.
The military camp was not quiet in the middle of the night, with voices and laughter everywhere.
The general's smile blended in with it, heroic and free and easy.
Everyone around the fire, young and old, also started laughing.
This was another side of Uncle Duan Dao that they had never seen before, and they thought it was wonderful.
After a short gathering with the old man and the children, Duan Dao left and went to rest in the tent where the soldiers were sleeping.
He temporarily gave his main tent to the old man and the children, while the three little girls slept in the newly set up tent next to it. The bedding was taken out by Tianbao and was relatively clean.
Even Duan Dao didn't want the three little girls to use the bedding rolls used by the soldiers. There were few clean men in the military camp. It was common for them not to take a bath for ten days or half a month. It was too shabby.
This was the second night that the young and old had stayed in the barracks.
Can't sleep.
Especially Bai Yu.
During the time he was injured, Bai Yu felt that he was being ostracized by his companions.
They didn't even take him with them to barbecue, chat, or roast fire. They almost tied him up in the tent and made him sleep day and night.
As the night deepened, the surroundings gradually became quiet, and only the sound of horses snoring could be heard in the distance.
Night talk could be heard from the coach’s tent.
It’s just that the conversation was too low and I couldn’t hear it clearly from a distance.
Once the sound of the wind was drowned out, I could no longer hear anything.
The next day at dawn, it was still dark.
The whistle sounded again.
The soldiers dressed neatly and rushed to the training ground quickly.
When the troops were counted, there were eight more people in the first battalion.
They were wearing soldier uniforms that were stolen from somewhere, but they were either too long or too short. Some of them had hats that were too big, and when they moved their heads, the hats would slide down and cover their entire heads.
The deputy general, who was nearly fifty years old, was overwhelmed and asked the commander-in-chief to come.
"Nonsense! Military training is not something to be joked about. You eight, get out of line! Leave immediately!" Duan Dao looked at the eight familiar faces with a gloomy expression. His headache was no less severe than that of the deputy general.
He looked at the old man with a pointed face and monkey cheeks, his face wrinkled more than his eyebrows, and his hair so wrinkled that the hat couldn't hold it down, with tufts of hair sticking out wildly from under the brim. "The most outrageous thing is you! Why are you joining in the fun at your age? The oldest soldier in my barracks is only in his fifties! All soldiers over sixty are deported! How old are you?"
Poison is not harmful. "Report to the general! Don't look at me as an old man over 70 years old. If you pick out a strong and healthy man in the barracks, he might be able to last fifty moves against this old man! Do you look down on me? I can fight!"
The younger ones stepped forward, "We can fight too!"
Duan Dao's face darkened. "The military camp has its own rules! Regardless of whether you can fight or not, if you are not a soldier of the Yuan family army, you cannot stay here! Tian Bao, take Grandpa Du and the others away!"
Tian Bao didn't move. "Uncle Broken Blade, we are not here to make trouble. We are here to train together to fight Wen Renjing."
Bai Yu stepped forward and said, "General! This time, you single-handedly came to Shu Road to rescue us and provoked the Nine Kingdoms. We were the cause of this, so how can we stay out of it? Once this is over, we will leave without you having to chase us away. And keeping us here will definitely not hurt anything! Doesn't the general train his troops every day? The eight of us can train with everyone. The new rules may be more effective in improving the soldiers! Please allow us to stay!"
Little Wheat Ear immediately followed the formation. "Besides, Uncle Broken Blade said the military camp has its own rules. Bringing eight outsiders like us into the camp doesn't that count as breaking the rules? If you can make an exception once, why can't you make an exception a second time?"
Duan Dao put his hands behind his back and stared at the eight people in front of him who were unmoved, his eyes flashing.
The deputy general had been watching and listening. After a moment's thought, he approached the general and said, "General, why don't you let them stay and train together? It won't hurt. Maybe they can even come up with some new ideas when fighting those soldiers. Besides, look at them all. They're all so excited, waiting to fight."
The sky gradually brightened.
The soldiers on the training ground stood straight, twisting their necks as hard as they could to look over here. Especially those who heard the conversation here were already eager to try.
The first ray of light from the sky shone into Duan Dao's eyes, and he just caught a glimpse of the smile that flashed across his eyes.
"In that case, let's make a rule. You will train with the soldiers, and I will treat you like new recruits! You will eat what they eat, and you will live in the same environment as they live. If you can do that, you can stay!"
The eight people said in unison, "Yes!"
"Get in line! Start the drill!"
"yes!"
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