Goguryeo, close to the border of the Han Dynasty for fourteen miles, along the country road winding up to a stick of incense can see the official road of east and west, here in the past belonged to the Han Dynasty, it was called the three obstacles, because there are three barriers in a radius of ten miles.

Time has passed, nearly a hundred years have passed, no one remembers that this place once belonged to the Han people, and the children of the Goguryeo people multiplied on this land, they cut firewood, farmed the land, herded horses, fed sheep, and after the vicissitudes of life, they even thought that this land belonged to Goguryeo for all generations.

Last year, the invasion of the Han Dynasty army killed many young people in the village, and in order to supply the baggage supplies, the king sent 500 families from all over the country to relocate here. It's only been a year, and it's become like it used to be.

The people who gather in the three obstacles have also become different in their thinking. The older generation died at the hands of the Han Dynasty general named Lu Yi, and these new people moved in...... In fact, they didn't care whether this 'barren land' belonged to the Han Dynasty or Goguryeo, they preferred that there would be no war here, and if there was no war, it would be the same for them to give this land to the Han Dynasty.

The current settlers live here simply because of their reverence for the law, and they do not have much affection for the land.

Just as the emperors of the Han Dynasty were fond of sending merchants and criminals to the frontier, the same Goguryeo kings also sent prisoners, slaves, merchants, and their relatives to the frontier. On weekdays, in addition to ploughing, raising mulberry, and weaving, these people living on the border line were also responsible for escorting grain routes for the royal army.

"Bang bang!"

In the early morning, when the peaceful village had not yet woken up, the loud sound of gongs woke people from their sleep, and seven or eight foot soldiers dressed in cloth clothes and armed with spears and iron swords surrounded a low-legged horse with Goguryeo characteristics and marched on the black dirt path in front of the farmer's door. The two foot soldiers at the forefront, with gongs and drumsticks in their hands, struck the gong face quickly and impatiently, making the listeners irritated.

This was not to blame them, before dawn he rushed to this side twenty miles away, visited more than a dozen villages in the stars and moons, and the thick cocoons on the feet of the foot of the foot who was accustomed to climbing the mountain road brought him the feeling of breaking again...... Whose heart will be at ease again?

There was no way, there was too much grain to be transported, and although the front line broke through the border of the Han Dynasty, it was blocked at the westernmost end of Daliangshui, where the Han army confronted their prince Yi Yinmo in the valley, and every day people ate horses and chewed 800 stone of grain and grass. However, in the entire border line of more than a dozen settlements, only 1,300 young people can serve as people.

The age of youth is already as strict as possible.

"Men between the ages of twelve and sixty-five, women between the ages of twenty and fifty-three, all come out to carry grain!" The foot guards who beat the gong shouted loudly in the village in Goguryeo, and the dog who guarded the house heard the stranger's voice barking hard, "If you don't come out, you will burn the house, you cheap slaves and waste, come out quickly!" ”

The people did not let the soldiers wait too long, and every day for these days, they had to get up in the early morning before the fog had dissipated, and they could carry the 800 stone grain to the front line and the territory of the Han Dynasty by carrying it on their shoulders twice.

Although there was a large beam of water that could be transported by water, in order to dispatch troops and horses for fear of an unfavorable war situation, those big men were unwilling to use the limited warships to transport their baggage, so they could only use these coolies to cross the mountains and repeat the hard labor.

This was forced labor in the Han Dynasty, but it was ...... in Goguryeo They do not have the right to refuse.

And in the mountains and forests not far from the village, several men in ragged clothes looked at the village at the foot of the mountain from a distance, under the cover of grass and trees.

It's only been a few days, Pan Ling's appearance is very different from the appearance of immediately hiding in the mountains and forests of Liaodong County, the iron leaves on the armor protecting the chest and abdomen have broken a lot, revealing the leather armor that has been pierced by the branches of the trees inside, and the clothes on the arms have also been torn out a few times, and the bags and circles under the eyes have never been aggravated. ”

Pan Ling's literacy is not as good as Jiang Jin's, so Jiang Jin can still draw his name, but Pan Ling knows the swallow characters on the army flag when he is so old, let alone the obscure Goguryeo dialect.

Even the leader Pan Ling has become this down-and-out appearance, not to mention the soldiers beside him, the shabby leather helmet is worn crookedly on his head, and the soldier who has been a merchant next to him frowned and said: "Sima, they seem to say something, they want to let the slaves in the township go out...... Most of them are people who escort grain and grass. ”

"It's better to be like this." Pan Ling nodded, his eyes were about to open, and he muttered, "Tonight, we can have a full meal...... Wu Shuang's side is ready, if it is to escort grain and grass, it will always pass through him. ”

It has been four days, and the road to Xiangping has been blocked by the Goguryeo army, and it has been four days since Pan Ling led his subordinates to escape into the mountains and forests into Goguryeo...... There were still three days left for their military rations, but the drinking water had been cut off as early as yesterday, and although this road was only a few dozen miles, it killed more than 300 of Pan Ling and Wu Shuang's subordinates in four days. Most of them were seriously wounded in previous battles, and some were bitten by poisonous insects in the mountains, or they were left behind with weak bones.

There were also more than a dozen people who were found because they did not obey the order and wanted to flee westward, and all of them were hanged on trees in the forest by Pan Ling's order.

It can't be helped, if there are deserters, it doesn't matter, and then more people will want to escape. Without enough soldiers, it was simply impossible for them to survive in Goguryeo until the end of the war.

Pan Ling came out to step on the spot, just like in the old days when he was mixed in the mountains and forests, first to investigate the situation, and then raid the village. However, there are many differences, in the past, most people were sent to send messages to the village, asking them to prepare food, and if they were not ready to come up, they would attack the village and loot it...... But in Goguryeo, Pan Ling did not have such thoughts.

Even if they wanted to act like a group of rebels, Pan Ling still regarded himself as a middle-level officer in Liaodong County, they were still in the war, but they had lost contact with the general and Xiangping, but the war continued.

"You go back, find two teams of people and ask them to bring crossbows and swords, and leave the rest alone." Pan Ling lay on the ground, his lips were dry and he didn't want to speak, annoying these two eyes that were as dull as dead people and said: "See if Wu Shuang can still fight, if he can't bring people, you can go, their team to transport grain is only four or five hundred people at a time, and there are no more than two hundred weapons, do you know how to rob them?" ”

Compared with Pan Ling, Wu Shuang was very unlucky. He had been cut on the arm during the earlier battle, and he didn't notice anything serious at the time. However, a few days ago, he had a fever and vomiting and diarrhea, and he was still cold when he was wrapped in fur felt at night.

But whoever suffers from this disease is not cured. Ten miles can carry it...... Wu Shuang's life is no longer up to him in Pan Ling's opinion.

"How?"

Pan Ling didn't want to speak, but he didn't want to speak, stretched out his dry tongue and pursed his lips, he raised his finger and slowly sketched on the ground and said: "The soldiers who escort the grain road, just like here, there are less than one of the hundreds of soldiers who have weapons, you take eight hundred brothers to lie in ambush on the road, in the forest in front and on the left and right, and there must be two hundred people behind, but don't rush out, prepare bows and crossbows on both sides, and block the road with knives and spears in front and back...... I heard in southeast Liaoning that General Yan defeated Meng Yi in this way. ”

At that time, Pan Ling was also a nobody who escorted grain to Yanbei.

"When the time comes, fight those who have weapons first, and you will speak Goguryeo and teach the soldiers two sentences, kneel on the ground and not kill them...... Kill their soldiers first, and when these people are honestly kneeling on the ground, then kill them too, and let the soldiers carry the food, and hurry up! ”

Pan Ling didn't have much compassion for anyone, and after speaking, he watched the young men in the village walk out of every house, and he slowly counted how many courtyards and houses there were in the village at the foot of the mountain, estimating the enemies he might encounter.

A team of three houses.

Pan Ling doesn't know how to do arithmetic, but he can make a rough judgment by counting the houses by the number of people in the army...... All the young and strong people left the village, and the rest were just some old and weak, and in Pan Ling's opinion, it was enough to use two teams of sergeants to loot the entire village.

This is already the most cautious idea, and this is still because of the fear of bad luck and bumping into the patrol of the Goguryeo sergeant, otherwise in fact, even the sergeant with a strong crossbow will probably be able to snatch up this settlement.

Even if the rest are young people, they are not qualified sergeants without training, let alone the equivalent of a rabble, even if they are sergeants who have been on the battlefield and become bandits, not everyone dares to fight the enemy, and when they send troops to fight against the Goguryeo army, there are still some people rushing forward and some retreating.

After the young man left, there were at most 200 children and old people left in this village, what was it?

After Qingzhuang left, the village fell into peace again, and Pan Ling squinted his eyes and waited for his soldiers. About half an hour later, there were a few bird calls in the dense forest behind him, Pan Ling glanced at the soldiers beside him, and after a few beast calls in response, a group of down-and-out warriors wearing leather armor and holding sharp blades appeared in the jungle.

They looked very fierce, and their muscles bulged with good training, but there was no doubt that at this moment this rabble, which could barely be called an army, was surrounded by very low morale.

The lack of water caused each of their lips to crack, and their godless expressions and tattered armor explained their extremely bad situation.

"Everyone will have a full meal tonight, and you will go and fence it off in the place below, and search every road and every house." The deception leader slapped the blades of grass on his body and got up from the ground, slowly pulled out the ring knife on his waist, and said to his subordinates: "Lao Tzu, whether male or female, old or young, in short, one can't run, and the other can't stay!" ”