Chapter Seventy-Four: Thinking of the Old
The whole camp was set up on the grassland with great fanfare, and the old herdsmen who were familiar with the road were selected from among the Xianbei people, and the Han army riders went to the distant forests to cut trees, and the soldiers in the camp boiled their skins and built the prototype. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Only now did Yan Bei finally have time to count the goods they carried. The dead things are most beasts, bones and skins, and the soldiers of Yanbei in the desert rely on these things for warmth, and basically everyone carries a roll on horseback. The other is meat, where strips of air-dried meat are placed in the hip sac. In addition, the belongings were packed in nearly a hundred boxes, and there was very little money here, most of them were utensils, which was also embarrassing...... In the Han region, the people looked down on these crude utensils, but it was difficult for the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai to exchange these things for the gold cakes that were common in the Han region.
It's a pity to lose it, with the land occupied.
Therefore, the only things worth pondering in Yanbei's hands are more than 3,000 swords, bows and arrows and those thousand pieces of bronze armor, which are valuable and sold outside the plug.
By now, Yanbei's mind has been completely different. If in the past, he would have sold these things for money, and the whole person would have opened his eyes to money. But now that he was at a completely different height, he was going to trade these swords and armor for something that money couldn't buy.
For example, in the power of Xianbei, such as an army that can ride a horse and fight...... In the past, Lu Yi didn't mention it, and he didn't think about it in this direction himself. But now since he has to cultivate his own power in Xianbei, Yanbei's mind has been activated.
What did Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun rely on to be the king and dominate the north for a whole year? With more than 100,000 Wuhuan soldiers and horses. But Dong Xianbei is different from the Wuhuan people, they are not vassal states of the Han land, those Wuhuan people have long been naturalized, and even the tribes have moved to the Great Wall, although chaos is inevitable, but there are still many people who are willing to be loyal to the Han Dynasty.
After all, the ancestors of the Karasuma people were defeated by the Xiongnu and destroyed the country, and then moved them to the Great Wall north of the four counties of Yuyang, Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Youbeiping during the period of Emperor Xiaowu, and their mission was to detect the movements of the Huns on the grassland for the Han people more than 300 years ago.
Even the earliest captain of Gokaramaru had only one duty, which was to monitor them and prevent them from communicating with the Xiongnu.
The Han people are divided into Hu people, and the policy of pulling and pulling a dozen is ancient.
In this way, if you can say that the Suli Department in the East Xianbei can be moved to ally with yourself, even if you compete with Gongsun Chan in Youzhou at that time, as long as you can survive, Liu Youzhou may not be able to accept him Yanbei!
Showdown with Gongsun Chan! This is extremely exciting for Yanbei. He is a native of Liaodong, and before he defected to the Yellow Turban, he always heard people talk about how heroic Gongsun Chan was, and in Liaodong and even the entire Youzhou, he was the object of envy of the sons of the common people. Even he himself did not have the idea of defecting to Gongsun Zan as a soldier.
The white horse general Gongsun Zhan, holding a double-headed spear and leading more than ten horsemen to counterattack the feat of dispersing Xianbei and hundreds of horsemen, escorted his father-in-law Liu Taishou into a dangerous place for thousands of miles, how loyal and heroic?
Even today, Yanbei has never considered himself qualified to sit at the same table as General Baima...... But at least, General Yan, the rebel army with thousands of people in his hands, has the capital to fight with Gongsun Zhan!
The first thing to be set up in the camp was the Chinese military tent that belonged to Yanbei himself...... The army carried the most things for him, whether it was a topographical sketch, a few cases needed by the generals, and a mess of pots and pots, as soon as he put them in the big felt tent, he felt like he had entered home.
These objects are too familiar, Zhongping has been in exile since he left Zhuo County, and he has almost forgotten what it was like to sleep at home.
Spreading out the map, the plug in his mind came to his mind, and the routes were very clear in his mind. Fingers grinding on the old sheepskin...... Now they are in the middle of Leshui, the southern Han land is relative to the middle line of Liaodong County in Liaoxi, Youzhou, this place is still 300 miles away from the fork in the south of Leshui, and it is 400 miles to the south to Liaodong, as for their destination Wuhuan vassal country in Liaodong County, it is another 300 miles away.
The reason why it is necessary to spend the winter in Xianbei is because the fork in the south of Leshui is not so easy to walk, full of lofty mountains and deep mountains and old forests, and the road is southern, if they want to get out of a road, it will take at least a month.
If you are on the plains, it doesn't matter if you walk for a month, especially in the Han land, there are many cities, and you are not afraid of the winter wind. But if he spends the winter in the deep mountains and old forests, and a heavy snow falls all over the sky, he is afraid that his 20,000 horses will only arrive in Han Land and have 5,000 will be considered good.
In winter, the army will cease fighting, but in the spring of the next year, not only Dongxianbei will be fighting, but also the Han land, and everything will grow and sprout in the spring, and human life will be wiped out like mowing grass.
Yanbei has only one hope, no matter who dies, he hopes that it is his friends who will survive. Whoever lives, he wants to die is his enemy.
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"General, how did you talk to the Xianbei people?"
In the early morning, Yanbei had been woken up when it was still dark, and all the soldiers performed their duties, some were engaged in the construction of the camp in full swing, some were like herdsmen on the grassland driving horses, cattle and sheep to swim near the camp, and there were skilled riders who were led by Sun Qing to patrol everywhere and do a good job of defense.
Yan Bei suddenly became idle, and practiced the sword skills with the attendant warriors outside the tent for an hour before dawn, and after using the morning food, he used charcoal to write those war books in memory on the sheepskin in the tent.
Not long after writing, Jiang Jin probed his head into the felt tent and sat down beside the fire rubbing his frozen red hands to keep warm, Yan Bei looked up and saw that it was Jiang Jin and smiled, and did not deliberately greet him, and then wrote on the sheepskin, just nodded and said: "It's not bad, it's just a stir up, there is no need to rush for a while, why are you here?" ”
The captains of all departments in the army have a personal guard department, among which the Qiang Zhongyi of Lu Yi is the most refined, but the personal guard of Yanbei is not bad, and the two hundred people are all filled by the elite in the Xiaoya army, with the best armor and crossbow in the whole army, temporarily led by the young general Zhang Jaw recommended by Gao Ran.
In the entire barracks, there are only a few people who can enter Yanbei's tent without notification, even if it is frustrated Gao Lan, there are only Jiang Jin, Wang Yi, and Sun Qing.
Even though his identity changed rapidly and his status rose sharply, Yanbei never forgot his old brother who had followed him for many years...... As for Sun Qing, it is his thousand-mile horse bones, no one in the army knows that Sun Qing is the first one in the Montenegrin Army to really return to Yanbei in addition to the Yellow Turban veterans. From then on, no matter what benefits Yanbei gets, Sun Qing's will always be indispensable.
Jiang Jin rubbed his hands cross-legged and roasted the fire, and when he heard this, he raised his head and smirked at Yan Bei: "I came to ask you something...... General, can you ask those Hu people if they have any corn and wheat that they have stolen from the Han land, and Chen Cang's can do it. ”
"There are only you and me here, everything is business as usual, it doesn't have to be like this." Yan Bei first raised his eyebrows, then put down the charcoal pen when he heard Jiang Jin's request, and said with a smile: "Why do you want corn and wheat, follow me to raise your mouth, can't the Hu people eat beef and mutton?" In Handi, this is the life of high-ranking officials and nobles. ”
In fact, not all the people in Saiwaihu can eat meat every meal, and in Saiwai, only high-ranking officials and nobles can eat like this. It is only in the next month that Yanbei's subordinates plundered the savings of more than ten tribes for several years, so that this can be done.
"It's not me, I don't have any relatives in Jixian's hometown, where are our brothers different...... The key is the sons and daughters under our hands, they are different from us, and they are not used to being displaced. Jiang Jin was stupid, but he struggled to express the meaning clearly, "They are all homesick, they set up a camp for a day yesterday, and at night the children sang the song of Jizhou, and they couldn't stop it." ”
Yan Bei nodded, the question Jiang Jin said is indeed very critical, over the years of conquest, many people and horses are enough to pacify all the armies that finally collapsed from the inside due to homesickness...... This is probably the reason why the Liangzhou rebels have never been able to gain a foothold in Sanfu.
The people of Liangzhou feel that they have left home when they leave Liangzhou. Could it be that there is any difference between the Jizhou soldiers and the Youzhou soldiers under him? It's okay if you've been in the middle of the battle, but what I'm most afraid of is that the war will be extinguished in the winter and the swords will be idle. When the soldiers are idle, they will naturally miss their hometown.
These days, even he himself often thinks of the poor countryside of Liaodong, and even the tall mansion that contains the memory of bullying when he was a child seems to have become cute in the nostalgia, not to mention the soldiers under him.
Yan Bei nodded and asked Jiang Jin, "Do you think it will work to get some corn and wheat?" ”
"It will definitely work, everyone knows that this winter will definitely be trapped outside the plug, if you can eat some naan with the taste of home, it will definitely be a lot better." After saying righteously, Jiang Jin said with a wicked smile: "In the past two days in the Xianbei tribe, I found that there are many young Hu Niang in their tribe, anyway, our two alliances, it is better to let the brothers who beat the bachelors find some Hu Niang to sleep, and if you look at the right eye, it is a kiss and a kiss, even if it is just a pillow person for the last winter...... How much comfort homesickness isn't? ”
"You're a bad idea!" Hearing this, Yan Bei glared at Jiang Jin, who was smiling hippie, raised his hand and kowtowed his head, frowned, and said, "Whether Su Li is willing to form an alliance with us is a matter of two words...... In this way, if you ask Wang Yi to go to the Xianbei Division, you will say that I will give a banquet to Lord Suli, and then let the brothers prepare it. ”
"No!" Although Jiang Jin was reprimanded, he was not annoyed, he got up and was about to go out, but before he could open the curtain of the tent, he was stopped by Yan Bei again, "You wait first." ”
Stopping Jiang Jin, Yan Bei's fingers lightly buckled on the several cases with charcoal sheepskins, and after a moment he made up his mind and said: "You find a few cronies and brothers, divide the property we came in, and take out one percent, I will be useful." ”
Jiang Jin didn't know what Yanbei planned to do, but Yanbei had always been fair in the distribution of money, and none of the brothers had anything to say, so they immediately promised happily, and then whistled out of the felt tent.