Chapter 488 (1/2)

In the early morning of the next day, she was woken up by the sound of practicing martial arts outside. It was still dark in the camp before it was completely bright.

Pei Zhuang turned over with the quilt in her arms, but the slogan of that voice still went through layers of barriers, straight into her ears, so that she could not sleep at all, so she had to lift the quilt and sit up.

After finishing her work, she went out to find Zhao Quan next door and asked the guard outside the camp: ”is the general awake?”

”Mr. Pei is joking. Our general has been to the martial arts arena for a long time. Now he is watching the recruits practicing martial arts. You can see him along this road.”

”Recruits?” Pei Zhuang has never heard of it.

The guard explained, ”yes, our general recruited another group of recruits in the city.”

This is a way, but most men of their age have joined the army. How can we find so many young and middle-aged people in the city.

When it comes to the practice field, Pei Zhuang understands. Only the recruits with long guns in their hands have tender faces. Some of them look only twelve or thirteen years old. They don't know how much higher the long guns are. They can't even hold them stably. Such children will not die in vain when they go to the battlefield?

”Mr. Pei, you came here just in time. Last night, you were still used to living here. Come and have a look at these recruits and wait for you to arrange for them.” Zhao Quan's eyes are sharp. When he sees Pei Zhuang, he says hello warmly.

Pei makeup politely smiled and looked at the children on the school floor and said to Zhao Quan, ”they are too young to use, aren't they?”

”Even if it doesn't work, it's better than nothing. The enemy is coming. We've lost the number of people. At the last moment, even the old, the weak, the women and the children must go to the battlefield with weapons.” Zhao Quan said with a heavy face.

”When it's such a critical time, the reinforcements will surely arrive in Luoyang within ten days. General Zhou Dingchao is the general who takes back eleven cities of the border. He is young and promising, and he will surely be able to kill the enemy completely.” Pei Zhuang laughs at Zhao Quan's fuss.

She dismissed so many words, hoping that Zhao Quan would send these children back home. It is their adult business to fight. The war should not spread to the children.

Zhao Quan sighed heavily, and pulled Pei Jie aside to avoid others, complaining and explaining: ”I don't know, sir, these days under your Majesty's eyes, I can hardly breathe. What I do is wrong. I don't want to be a general anymore.”

I don't know why Pei Zhuang used to have some complaints about Zhao Quan, but now I hear him say that, and I think he's kind of funny and pathetic.