Chapter Twenty-Six: Up to the North (Part II)
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The next day, the army set out from camp. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!)
Ding Miao led a light cavalry of 200 troops to scout, with a group of five people and four sentinels, taking turns to change, as far away as 80 miles. Generals Han Shu and Huang Su each led 200 light armies as the left and right armies, and marched along the ridges on both sides of the main army to cover the two wings of the whole army. Liu Kun led the main force of the Chinese army with 200 cavalry and more than 1,000 foot soldiers, accompanied by a group of subordinates. The general of the protector army, Ling Husheng, urged the homeless people and the baggage to be the rear team and follow the advance.
6 Yao and Xue Tong were supposed to follow Liu Kun's team, but He Yun was tortured by the Huns for a day, and his injuries were so serious that he couldn't ride a horse, so he could only find a door panel to hang between the two horses, use the door board to carry him, and move forward slowly. The two then pleaded with Yue Shigong, and simply temporarily joined the homeless people.
The terrain was difficult to navigate, so the march of the large army was slower than expected. The outcasts who are like a rabble grind step by step. If you don't make it to Nirje County at sunset, I'm afraid you'll have to camp in the wilderness today. Liu Kun and his guards had rushed to the front an hour ago to survey the terrain, and they had not yet turned around.
This situation is most dangerous. Originally, although Liu Kun's subordinates were small, they were very elite, like a fierce and fast beast crisscrossing thousands of mountains and ravines. Unless the Xiongnu headquarters army is dispatched, no one can do anything. But after taking these homeless people, the momentum was prosperous, and the little beast grew into a fat wolf-rammed pig. In case the Huns drove troops to fight, the situation would be very bad.
At this moment, the winding procession is marching along the mountain road. Except for a few soldiers who maintained order, the team consisted almost entirely of displaced people. As far as the eye could see, they were all ragged and weak, and their steps were slow and tired, as if they were just rubbing step by step by inertia.
Most of these people are residents of the southeastern counties of Shangdang. Forced by the Xiongnu, they first fled to the Huguan area in the north; Then the Xiongnu army arrived, killing or plundering most of the displaced people, and the rest had to scatter into the mountains to survive. It wasn't until the news of Liu Kun's recruitment of displaced people spread that they continued to descend the mountain to take refuge in 66. However, Liu Kun was limited to the extremely tight situation of grain and straw materials, and was unable to provide effective relief.
Obviously, the upheaval of their past life took a toll on their bodies, making it difficult for them to cope with the physical exertion of the long journey. 6More than once Haruka saw people walking, and suddenly fell to the ground, and could not wake up again. There are also people who are tired of walking and sit on the side of the road to rest, but their bodies suddenly lose their strength, so they lean against stones or tree roots, and die like that. Perhaps it was the harsh ways of the world that made people completely numb, and their relatives or fellow villagers would hardly mourn the loss of their loved ones, but simply took something usable from the corpse and continued to move on.
Several scrawny old men struggled to move forward around the dilapidated cart, which suddenly fell to the ground with a thud, and a wooden wheel sank into a crack in the ground, creaking and writhing and unable to pull out. A sleepy half-pile child in the car was awakened by the vibration of the vehicle, opened his eyes blankly, and wiped his snot on the dirty furoshiki around him. This is a narrow part of the mountain road, and as soon as the cart stops, the team behind it has to stop. A leader of the homeless people came over to take a look, waved weakly and beckoned, "Here are a few helpers, cart ......"
6 Haruka turned his horse to make way for the men who came to push the carts, and he couldn't help but sigh as he watched the tired faces pass by in front of him.
Xue Tong strode down a high slope. He landed heavily on his feet, and drove a lot of rubble to roll down. The slower the distance of the displaced people below the high slope is to avoid the gravel, and the slower they travel.
"Daoming, have you seen Yue Shigong's subordinates? Xue Tong's face was a little excited: "These are all elite soldiers!" The Luoyang Forbidden Army is the elite of the world, and it is really worthy of its name! β
6 Yao glanced at Xue Tong.
Xue Tong, as a soldier who has experienced a hundred battles, naturally does not have such a compassionate and compassionate feeling as 6 Yao, but will concentrate on the affairs of the army.
He climbed to the heights several times and overlooked the actions of the various units of the Jin army in front of him. Although the distance is a little farther, with his rich experience, just from the pace of the march, the queue and other details, it can be judged that the soldiers Liu Kun brought to Bingzhou are rare elites.
"Those are not the Luoyang Forbidden Army." 6 Yao watched a group of homeless people pass by in front of him, and his feelings could not be as high as Xue Tong. He said lightly: "The Fifth Colonel of the Seventh Army of Luoyang Suwei and the Thirty-sixth Army of Yamen, although they are both famous for their elites, in fact, their armaments have been abandoned for a long time, and as early as the Taikang period, they were just some soldiers used to scare people. What's more, in the past few years, the kings of the clan have attacked each other, and many of the forbidden troops have participated in it, and the losses have been great. Today's forbidden army is just a rabble of brave men temporarily recruited by the imperial court with the acquiescence of the king of the East China Sea, and it is impossible to send such a force. β
He thought for a while, and then said: "I estimate that these soldiers were originally the private soldiers of Yue Shigong, but they are just newly assigned to the state and county soldiers of the state and state assassins. β
"Private soldiers? So much? Xue Tong was slightly taken aback.
6 Yaozhen: "Yue Shigong turned to fight in the north and south of the river, and he has his own strength at hand. β
Xue Tong hesitated: "I remember the military system of this dynasty, the princes and kings of 5,000 households, and the kings are only 1,500 people. The strength of Yue Shigong has reached the standard of ordinary princely kingdoms. If you look at it from the perspective of elite Cheng dΓΉ, I am afraid that it will be much stronger...... Isn't this against the imperial court system? β
"Lao Xue, you are familiar with the imperial court system." 6 Yao sneered: "But what year is the yellow calendar of that year?" Today's clan kings, who doesn't have tens of thousands of soldiers? Yue Shi Gong is brave and good at fighting, and he is the king of the East China Sea who relies on the Great Wall. He has a number of private belongings, and he doesn't even mind the king of the East China Sea, what are you idle? What's more, Yue Shigong is now in charge of the history of the state and state, aren't these horses the state and county soldiers of the state? β
He waved his hand violently at the homeless people who were struggling for their lives on the road, and his voice carried a little irrepressible anxiety: "Look at it, Hulu is raging, thousands of miles of fishy blood, and Guizhou is suffering so far...... You have the heart to plan Liu Tingshi's private soldiers! β
Xue Tong glared at 6 Yao, wanting to say something, and finally "Hey! He said a little and did not speak.
After a while, 6 Yao said apologetically: "These days, I have seen too much suffering of the army and the people, so that I am depressed in my heart, and my words have lost my proportion. β
"TD, how can I blame you." Xue Tong sighed deeply: "I won't tell you, my old Xue has been in the army since he was a child, and he has been a soldier for almost 20 years, and he feels that he still has a little knowledge." But now I can't understand this situation anymore...... Alas, compared with the Xianning and Taikang periods, I always feel that nothing is wrong......"
"yes, yes, I think too." He Yun lay on the erected door panel and listened for a while, and finally couldn't help but interject: "In the past few years, there have been more and more corrupt officials and more and more natural disasters, even if there are no nonsense people, the people will not be able to live......"
6 Yao snapped a whip against He Yun's face and whipped it, startling him: "Stop, Hugh is talking nonsense." β
These are all signs of the last days,6 and he sighed in his heart.
He understood Xue Tong and He Yun's feelings very well, but he didn't know how to answer for a while. The Great Jin Dynasty, which sits in the world, is rushing to extinction with an unimaginable degree under the concerted efforts of His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers and hundreds of officials. Emperor Wu's so-called Taikang rule was actually only fifteen years ago, but in the eyes of Xue Tong and He Yun, they already felt that everything had changed.
Xue Tong was born in the Xue clan in Hedong, barely a wealthy family in the county, and he was also an officer in command of thousands of people in the army. The first thing he felt was that the system of the entire dynasty was decaying and weathering, and there were no more rules to speak of. And ordinary people like He Yun who are recruited into the army can only experience one thing: they can't live anymore.
While he was calculating, dozens of fully armed cavalry galloped out of the col in the distance, and it was Liu Kun who took the lead. He rode a majestic warhorse, still dressed in a white robe. Under the sunset, he rode his horse with one hand, and his straight figure seemed to shoot light, which was really heroic!
With his status, experience and judgment, of course, he can see farther and clearer than Xue Tong, He Yun and others. However, even in the face of many difficulties, his confidence did not seem to waver in the slightest, and he was always so radiant, making everyone involuntarily believe that all the difficulties and obstacles would pass. is really worthy of being a hero who can leave a name in history, 6 Yao can't help but be heartbroken.