Zhao Junsheng led 50,000 troops from the West Route Army to rest in Lingwu for a day and then continued to move north along the Yellow River, arriving in Linrong County after a few days of marching, and crossing the river in Linrong County and marching westward.

After another three days of marching, the prosperous reclamation area gradually faded away, and was replaced by deserts and bare barren mountains and mountains, with not a trace of turquoise in sight.

A pass in the distance appeared in the sight of the forward soldiers, and the forward general Yang Lie sent people to beat horses to report to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, the forward has arrived at Jilusai, more than ten miles away from here!" ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he looked up at the sky, and instructed the messenger: "You go back and tell Yang Lie that it is not early, and the army will camp in Jilu Pass tonight, and let him organize troops to find land and camp, divide camps, dig trenches, and release outposts!" ”

"Command!" The messenger agreed, struck his horse, turned around and galloped away.

By the time Zhao Junsheng arrived with the main force of the army, Yang Lie had already led the forward generals to carve out a large camp in the open space east of Jilusai, and the camps where the armies and the marshal's tents were located had been divided and clearly marked, and he was leading the generals to dig trenches and drainage channels around the camp, and build horse rejection and roadblocks.

Zhao Junsheng gave an order, and the officers and men of each army found their camp area and began to set up camp tents, and the logistics baggage team pulled all the baggage to a special area to store it.

When the soldiers were in full swing, Zhao Junsheng took the generals and ministers to inspect the army, and the soldiers got up and saluted and continued to work hard.

Zhao Junsheng said as he walked: "You must know about this chicken deer stopper, right?" ”

Minister Xu Yan arched his hand: "Huo Quai, a famous general in the Western Han Dynasty, and Dou Xian, a general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, have led an army to attack the Xiongnu from Jilusai to the north!" Also, when the Han and Hun were in harmony, Zhaojun went to Mobei from here, and later the Xiongnu civil strife, Hu Han Evil Shan Yu and Zhaojun and his wife had lived in Jilusai for eight years! ”

Zhao Junsheng sighed with emotion: "Yes, this Jilu Fortress was built from the early Western Han Dynasty, and it was the northwest gateway of the Han Dynasty at that time. ”

Minister Lu Xuan said: "It's just a matter of talking about Huo Hussar, as for the rebellious Dou Xian, don't mention it!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "I can't say that, although Dou Xian has left a lot of bad deeds, so that these bad deeds cover up his historical achievements, his military commander talent is indisputable!" Look at a person, we can not only see his mistakes and shortcomings, but also see his advantages and merits, he is the military commander of the Eastern Han Dynasty's second northern expedition to the Xiongnu, led the Han army to break the Northern Xiongnu in Jiluo Mountain and Jinshan, climbed Yanran Mountain to 'carve Shi Legong', forced the Northern Xiongnu to move westward, and shocked the north and south of the desert! He not only influenced the history of our Central Plains, but also influenced the history of the West, because he defeated the Northern Xiongnu and forced the Northern Xiongnu to move westward. ”

Chang Kun touched his neck and said: "It turned out that the Northern Huns who were driven away by us are now showing off their might in the west, there are really no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king!" ”

"Hahaha······" The generals and ministers laughed.

Lu Xuan said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the credit for breaking the Northern Xiongnu can not be regarded as Dou Xian alone, although he is the commander, but the military talent and strategy are not necessarily profound, the minister remembers that he had a deputy marshal named Geng Bing at that time, the official worships the general of Zhengxi, Geng Bing is also a famous general, Dou Xian should have other strategists around him, and the battle of the Northern Xiongnu should be a collection of wisdom to succeed!" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said: "Lu Qing is right, without others, Dou Xian can't do it alone, but you must understand the role of a commander, a military commander does not need to have advanced strategy and strong force, his role is to make everyone around him can give full play to his talents, and can concentrate the strength and wisdom of all generals and strategists to exert the most powerful combat power!" ”

"Speaking of this Geng Bing, his father is the Great Si Nong Geng Guo, and his uncle is the Jianwei General Geng Yi, you know who Geng Yi is, right? He is the founding general of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the fourth of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, Geng Bing's grandfather is Geng Qian, Shanggu Taishou! The Geng family is amazing, in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, there have been two generals, nine generals, thirteen rank nine Qing, three people who married princesses, nineteen marquis, and dozens of hundreds of officials who have served as Zhonglang generals, Qiang captains and assassins, and two thousand stone level officials, this is a real top tycoon! There is also the Wuji captain Geng Gong, he and Geng Bing, Geng Bian are cousins, when the grain, grass and water sources are cut off, digging mountains and wells, boiling armor and crossbow tendons for food, squeezing the juice of horse manure to quench thirst, alone to defend the city of Shule, only with hundreds of warriors and recruited thousands of people to resist the siege of the Northern Xiongnu 20,000 troops to attack the city, after years and months, after being rescued by reinforcements, and then chased and killed by the Huns, only 26 people left when they left, and only 13 people left when they returned to Yumen Pass, how loyal and heroic is this? ”

Lu Xuan seemed to have great respect for Geng Gong, and he said with great reverence: "What Your Majesty said is very true, Zheng Zhong commented on Geng Gong and said that his integrity is unprecedented in ancient and modern times; At that time, Situ Baoyu commented that Geng Gong's integrity was better than Su Wu's! ”

The national teacher Dongfang Chen said with a smile: "I heard that Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty compiled the "Book of the Later Han" a few days ago, and the book commented on Geng Gong's generosity and handsomeness! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Speaking of this Fan Ye, he does have great talent, but it's a pity that he was born in the Southern Dynasty!" There is also that Pei Songzhi, who is also talented, when I defeat Rouran, and then go back and destroy the Southern Dynasty, I must take them all under my command at that time! ”

The generals and ministers bowed their hands together: "Your Majesty is eloquent and strategic, and you will definitely be able to taste what you want!" ”

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Southern Dynasties, Yidu.

April is the time when the harvest is scarce, and a large number of landless peasants have already eaten the last meal but have not eaten the next, and have to leave their hometowns with their wives and children to flee the famine.

Outside the city of Yidu, tens of thousands of displaced people had gathered at this time, some of these refugees came from Wenyang, some from Jiangling, and some from Wuling and the surrounding counties of Yidu.

Such a huge number of displaced people gathered outside the city of Yidu made Taishou Peng Yu and his subordinate officials worried, if something happened to make these tens of thousands of displaced people out of control, this Yidu was afraid that it would become hell in an instant.

In order to ease the situation, Taishou Peng Yu decided to open a warehouse for disaster relief after consulting with his subordinate officials, and give porridge to the displaced people outside the city, so that they can have hope, if it is really if people starve to death, once someone makes a fuss, the situation will be uncontrollable.

As the officials, under the protection of the soldiers, brought some people in the city to carry food and dozens of large iron pots out of the city, the displaced people were looking forward to it, and a huge number of displaced people came to this side.

"Everyone listens to what the official said, don't mess up, don't crowd, we will start to build a stove to cook porridge now, everyone will line up, and when the porridge is cooked, they will come forward one by one to receive it, so as to ensure that everyone can receive it!"

When the hungry homeless people saw that there was something to eat, they began to line up, staring at the direction of the soup kitchen, one by one, holding clay bowls or clay bowls.

Soon, when the porridge was ready, the officials began to organize the people to give porridge to the homeless, and the homeless people who received the porridge did not care if the porridge was still hot, and drank a big mouthful when they opened their mouths, even if their mouths and throats were blistered.

Some people still think about their wives and children, so they only take a small sip and take the rest to their wives and children.

Wang Quan hurried back to his shack with a bowl of gruel, his wife and children were still waiting for this bowl of porridge to save their lives, but this bowl of porridge was so thin that you could see the bottom of the bowl, and there were not a few grains of rice at all.

"Fengying, Lang'er, the porridge is here······" Wang Quan screamed and opened the tattered curtain of the shack, and the rest of the words were blocked in his throat.

I saw the mother and son snuggling together in the shack, and the mother bit the artery of her wrist to let the hungry son suck it, but the son was already so hungry that he had no strength to suck, and the mother's blood was also drained, and the mother and son both died in the shack.

"Damn thief, oh-" Wang Quan threw himself on his knees and wept bitterly, and a bowl of porridge was also splashed on the ground, and a few hungry homeless people next to him immediately pounced on him and licked it clean like dogs.

It has long been a common thing for people to starve to death among the homeless, and the starvation of Wang Quan's wife and children did not cause any waves at all.

"Brother, brother!" A voice sounded in Wang Quan's ears, and a big hand patted him on the shoulder.

Wang Quan, whose face was full of tears, got up and turned his head to look at the person next to him, only to see that this person's face was full of sincerity and sympathy, and he was holding a bowl of porridge in his hand.

Dai Lin handed over the porridge bowl in his hand and said: "Brother Tai, people can't be resurrected after death, and your porridge has also been spilled, drink this bowl of porridge first, so that you can have the strength to bury your wife and children, otherwise when you are hungry and lose your strength, I am afraid that your wife and children will soon be eaten as food, and you will not be able to protect their bodies at that time!" ”

Wang Quan suddenly struck a spirit, he was completely sober, the person in front of him was right, he couldn't let his wife and children be eaten by other homeless people, he had to find a secret place to bury them while he still had the strength!

"In Xia Wangquan, thank you for your generosity, and thank you for your reminder! It's just that you gave me the porridge, what are you going to do? Wang Quan asked.

Dai Lin sighed: "The dead are the greatest, you bury your wife and children first, I can still think of other ways to feed my stomach!" ”

"Dare to ask Brother Taizun's surname?"

"My name is Dai Lin, and my name is not enough to worry about!"

"Brother Dai's great grace, Wang Quan has no teeth and never forgets, if there is a place where Wang Quan's service is needed in the future, Wang Quan will never give up!" After Wang Quan finished speaking, he drank the porridge in one go, and after drinking this bowl of hot porridge, Wang Quan had the strength again, and immediately went into the shack to carry his wife on his shoulder, and walked out with his son under his armpit.