When we entered the barracks just now, the officer had already told everyone that no matter what channel you learned about the front-line battle situation from, you must keep your mouth shut after entering the barracks. If anyone talks nonsense, military law will be immediately enforced.
Seeing the shock on Sambik's face, Raf knew that this guy had never heard of it. He originally thought that his father had wide connections and should have heard about the situation in the north, but now it seems that he was also deceived, or he had not interacted with people in the army for many years.
Modira is indeed like this. When he chose to live in the countryside, he had actually drawn a clear line with the army. If he went back, he probably would not be like this now. So for Modira, it is very beneficial to stay away from his colleagues in the army.
If he gets too close to them, he will easily be dragged into the army again. Since the war when he retired, Modira sometimes has nightmares at night, just because he doesn't want to go to the army, but he didn't expect that he could hide so cleanly. Now his youngest son has been dragged into the army. So no matter how you want to distance yourself from the past, the court will remember it.
When the court is on the rise, your life may be protected and you may get some benefits from time to time, but if the court is on the decline, a useful person like you will not be able to escape no matter what means you use, unless you run to the desert and become a bandit, so that the court can't find you and maybe you can escape.
Of course, in Modira's heart, if he had known the court's idea earlier, he probably would not have waited in the village. He would have taken his children to the depths of the desert early. Although there are various dangers there and they may starve to death tomorrow, at least their lives are in their own hands, which is much better than now.
After joining the army, no one knows what they will do in the next minute. More importantly, they are not very clear about the Tang army's tactics. The higher-ups are still concealing it, and only a few people know the Tang army's tactics. If they go into battle directly like this, how can they not be defeated?
After the two men finished their whispered conversation, they returned to the circle. Many people were also asking each other for news. No one remembered the prohibitions they had just entered the barracks. They just wanted to know what the future would hold. But unfortunately, most of them were farmers. How could they possibly know what was happening on the battlefield? The rest was just groundless speculation, which brought great distress to the night.
Fortunately, the weather here is relatively hot, so there is no need for tents at night. These soldiers are newly recruited and have no corresponding tents. If you want to rest in a tent, you can only bring your own. Everyone relies on their own lives, then slowly closes their eyes, trying to calm themselves down, but thinking about everything that will happen tomorrow, they can't fall asleep.
"Why do you think the Tang army came here? Aren't they east of our Andong Governor's Mansion? As far as I know, the Andong Governor's Mansion is quite far away from here, thousands of miles away. Did we all bow down in the middle? Otherwise, how could they have reached the capital?"
A small man said with his eyes closed. He asked a question that everyone was wondering about. Didn't the Arab Empire just win? They defeated the Frankish Kingdom in the West and brought back a lot of their troops. Many families were given a slave.
Unfortunately, those slaves could not adapt to the local climate, and most of them died of illness. Only a small number survived. Those people were much taller and stronger than us, and they worked much better than the locals.
Just when they were preparing to enjoy life, who knew that the empire announced such news that the Tang army appeared in our north. The farmers who could have been farming at home now had to follow the army to fight honestly. No matter how capable you are, the empire needs you at this moment, you have to take your weapons and livestock and contribute what you should to the empire.
This is what the recruiting officers told them. Naturally, no one expressed dissatisfaction in front of those people, but when everyone quieted down, they all wondered the same question: had the thousands of miles of defense line from the Anton Governor's Mansion to here completely collapsed? Then what good would it be for us to go there?
Some even went further, wondering why we should provoke the Tang Empire. They were also an extremely powerful empire, dominating the surrounding areas. Our territory was already vast enough, so why would we provoke such a formidable enemy? If we couldn't defeat them, wouldn't all our previous achievements be for naught?
"Everyone, shut up. No one is allowed to continue talking. If anyone is found continuing to talk, they will be court-martialed tonight."
Just when someone was about to answer, the voice of a conscription officer came from a distance. The guy looked like a black-faced god, with blood flowing from his braid. I don't know which unlucky guy he had just beaten.
From morning till now, at least a dozen people have been whipped. There are barbs on the edge of this whip, and one whip will tear your skin and flesh. If you are whipped several times in a row, you may even lose your life here.
There are all kinds of mosquitoes in the desert at night, and these mosquitoes all come here following the smell of blood. If you don't control them, these mosquitoes alone can bite you to death. It will take at most three or four days, and you may lose your life here.
The black-faced god must understand all of this. After all, he has been in the army for a long time. The reason he did this even though he knew it was to give everyone a warning and let them know that if they violated the orders from above, they would be given a wound on their bodies and these mosquitoes would send them to Allah.
For the whole night, Sambik sometimes fell asleep and sometimes woke up suddenly. No time was more uncomfortable than this night. He wanted to know what would happen when he woke up in the morning, but he didn't want to think about the morning coming, because at least he could still sleep. When the sun rose, they would not know where the future lay, and their fate would be completely handed over to others.
