Jianghuxing

The grain team stopped outside the county seat of Wucheng County, and a group of people gathered together to discuss whether to enter the city. For the first time, I didn't dare to be too arbitrary, and since the brothers had all been on the army last year, I was very shallow in this regard, so it was good to listen to everyone's opinions.

said that it was a discussion, but in fact, Chen Hao and Hao Meng had a dispute. Ren Qiang usually doesn't like to talk, and he doesn't bother to care about this at this time; although Li Zhong usually talks a lot, this is related to some responsible matters for marching and fighting, and Li Zhong immediately became speechless. As for Wang Shihao, their military rank is quite low, and if they weren't familiar with me, they wouldn't even be qualified for this discussion.

Chen Hao advocated going into the city to rest, because after all, it borders Yunzhong County, and the defeated cavalry encountered in Yanmen County before can pose a non-negligible threat to the grain team, but now Yunzhong City is close at hand, in case of encountering a large force of cavalry or multiple infantry units, it will be a devastating blow to the safety of the grain team.

Hao Meng felt that Chen Hao's military experience was insufficient, and he was too ostentatious when he entered the city, and more than 100 ox carts and carriages entered the city in a mighty way, and the food and unloading of grain and the food and clothing of the 500 soldiers accompanying the army were all problems, which was far better than camping outside the city. If there is an enemy in the city, the grain team will be closed and blocked after entering the city, and there will be no place to run at that time.

The two of them made sense, I couldn't make up my mind for a while who to listen to, and finally Hao Meng patted his chest and promised, and continued to use his military rank to suppress Chen Hao, I was afraid that I would not be in the army anymore Hao Meng would wear small shoes for Chen Hao, and Hu Che'er also agreed with Hao Meng's opinion, so he persuaded Chen Hao to listen to Hao Meng's arrangement.

Hao Meng was very satisfied, and went out to arrange a dot, so we were stationed in the eastern suburbs of Wucheng County, and the soldiers rested in two groups, half of the car and half went to sleep first, and then got up to eat and change to the next round of sleep after this round of rest. Ren Qiang and I fought violently during the day, so the two of us slept on ourselves in a tent first. I dreamed a lot of dreams in a daze, one moment dreamed that I was fighting with the Hu people on horseback again, and another time I dreamed of killing bandits from all walks of life last year. Huang Haitang was interspersed with it from time to time, laughing for a while and ignoring me angrily, so anxious that I circled around her, always wanting to ask her where she went in my dreams.

Suddenly, Fan Jianghui broke into my tent and shook me awake, and said eagerly: "Something is wrong! Brother Shun, come out quickly!" Ren Qiang woke up when he heard that the hawker was so anxious, and the two of us took our weapons and went out, and after leaving the camp tent, we were both stunned on the spot, and the long large group of grain trucks before going to bed was all gone, and even the farmers who were escorted by the cars were gone.

I was so shocked that I shouted: "Where is Hao Meng?!" Hao Meng ran over with a sad face when he heard the sound, and I asked him, "Is there anything wrong with the brothers?

Hao Meng first scolded angrily for a while, pushed his responsibility to the heavens and the earth, and then called the soldiers in charge of the night vigil over one by one and reprimanded him, until he felt less embarrassed before he said to me a little apologetically: "Brothers, it's not a big deal, it's just that a few people who woke up when they walked the car were killed, and there were less than ten inside and out- If you want me to say that we must be on the road, or more than 200 people are in charge of guarding the car, although they are tired from traveling all night, but it is still daylight, and even if the brothers are extremely sleepy and can't hold on, they won't all fall asleep, right?

Although the matter came from the point where Hao Meng proposed to be stationed outside the city, it was indeed very suspicious to say. I called Wang Shihao and asked them to go to the army to inquire if they had heard of any gangs in the vicinity. In my opinion, although Wucheng County is located on the border between Dingxiang County and Yunzhong County, and the north and left sides are next to the Hu people, but this method of fascinating hundreds of people Hu people will not come, if it is really Hu people who are estimated to have killed us all, it should not only kill a few people who have not woken up. Moreover, this Dingxiang County used to be the place where Liu Bei secretly operated, and the Shanwu area in the east was his foothold after coming out of Youzhou, and it was not uncommon for him to leave some unclear people here after he left.

Ren Qiang, who had not spoken, suddenly reminded me: "What about Hu Che'er?" I was shocked to find that I had forgotten about him in such a panic just now, he had the most experience in taking the car and carrying grain among our people, and it was precisely because of this Lu Bu that he was invited from other places to help supervise the grain, even if Hu Che'er couldn't determine who did it at once, at least he could guess the difference.

So all of us went out to look for Hu Che'er outside the tent, but he disappeared without a trace like those grain carts. Everyone gathered together and had different opinions, and no one had a practical way, Hao Meng shouted that he immediately organized his troops to chase after us, but we didn't even know who robbed us and where we went after the robbery, so where did we start chasing?

After a while, Wu Yanji and Fan Jianghui came over one after the other and said, "Brother Hao called you!" I heard that Chen Hao had some hope in his heart, although I didn't have much contact with the brothers, but Chen Hao's performance in these limited times made me very satisfied, he was very smart in handling things, and he was steady and unassuming, which was very suitable for marching these things, compared to Hao Meng, it was much worse, and it could be said that he was not on the same level at all.

After walking five or six miles to the east, he found Chen Hao, he took a few people to stand under the root of an ancient Great Wall, and when he saw me coming, he was happy, I knew that he must have found some clues, so he asked: "Has the grain cart gone?" Chen Hao pulled me over to see, in the shade under the ancient Great Wall, countless messy horseshoe prints and wheel prints stretched out to the east, I was happy that I couldn't, and immediately wanted the hawker to go back and order the whole army to chase, but was stopped by Chen Hao.

Chen Hao pointed to the direction we came from, and then pointed to the direction where the grain truck was going, and said: "Why didn't we find a little horseshoe print or car print near the place where we were resting, and we couldn't see it until here? At that time, we also lived in the wilderness, and we all slept together when we slept, unlike now when we sleep in shifts, wouldn't it be easier to start?"

I thought about it with everyone for a long time and didn't understand, Chen Hao squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand, scattered it between his fingers, and rustled it down. I suddenly came to my senses and asked, "Are they willing to do it until we get to this side where the ground is soft?" Chen Hao nodded and said: "In ancient times, this Dingxiang County has always been an endless prairie to the east, so the Hu people in Biansai are nomadic in these places. Later, many attacks on the Xiongnu broke out, these grasslands gradually became deserted, and the turf faded into a sandy zone, so it created a barren scene north of Yanmen, the more uninhabited these places are, the more empty, especially this Dingxiang County, I don't know how many years it has been abandoned after the war. "

I think of the second time I met Huang Haitang last year, she was wearing a flower dress and pretending to be kidnapped by bandits, who killed officers and soldiers and hijacked the grain cart before going up the mountain. At that time, there were only three or five people around those bandits, and a few tricks of the swallow guns were able to subdue a group of officers and soldiers, so I felt more and more that some people in the rivers and lakes did not know who they were instructed to deliberately attack us.

Chen Hao continued: "After these people brought down our guards with smoke, if their number is close to half of us, they should also wipe us out, so leaving us with these banes and not eradicating them to take revenge shows that they are not manpower enough and left in a hurry. Because they had to be responsible for transporting the grain trucks and freeing up a group of people to clean the trucks and horse prints, they had no time to have a substantive conflict with us.

I asked him, "Did the people on the rivers and lakes do it?" Chen Hao replied: "I don't know about this, I don't know much about it, but what is certain is that after fascinating us at first, those farmers who drove the car must have fallen asleep, and these people can't wake up all the farmers in an instant, so there should be a lot of good drivers among them, and there should be a lot of people who can drive two cars and three cars at the same time." Everyone

was deep in thought, and I muttered, "There are not many people, or the combat strength is not enough...... The car is first-class, and there are some strange fairy tricks...... A large amount of food is needed, and the target is the government...... "

Everyone suddenly saw a light in front of them -

the Yellow Turban Thief! As soon as it came to the Yellow Turban Thief, everyone began to grit their teeth, after all, the year before last, when Lu Bu led everyone to fight against the thieves and quell the rebellion, he implemented a strategy of combining leniency and severity, for these peasants who rebelled, Lu Bu understood that it was difficult to make a living under the harsh taxes of the imperial court, and because it was really difficult to live, he had to respond to Zhang Jiao's rebellion. So Lu Bu tried his best to punish only some unforgiving leaders, and basically sent his subordinates back to their original places.

But last year, I had a fierce argument with Huang Haitang because of this incident. In my opinion, Lu Bu is a very kind and proper way to deal with it like a son, because Lu Bu is not like other local officials, who uses the slaughter of the people of the uprising as a military achievement to show his political achievements, so he also has a very deep contradiction with the state assassin Shi Ding Yuan in terms of political views. Lu Bu said that the people are the only productive force and hope in the bitter cold and the state, and if it is just a massacre, then the future of the entire state will be devastating, and the people will fall into a vicious circle from which they will never recover. And assassin officials of Ding Yuan's level would not care about this kind of problem, they are all from other states and counties, and they only serve for a period of time when they come to merge states, so their political achievements are the most important thing for them.

But Huang Haitang thinks that Lu Bu is a woman's benevolence, although Huang Haitang is a woman, but in her opinion, the fundamental problem has not been solved, that is to say, the heavy taxes levied by Emperor Ling on local officials and the people of the world in order to repair the Golden Garden or the Golden Buddha in the West Garden are the reasons why the people cannot maintain their lives. Although the rebellious people were let back, the problem was still not solved, even if they returned to their hometowns, they still faced no arable land or a year's income was completely insufficient to pay taxes, plus the war broke out, either the imperial court came to confiscate the people or the Yellow Turban thieves or the Huren Qiang people came to wreak havoc on the people, just killing the leader of the rebellion and repatriating the people who worked with them was just self-deception, the problem that should happen always has to happen, and what Lu Bu did did not prevent that incident from happening, but only delayed its arrival.

At that time, I was too lazy to argue with Huang Haitang anymore, thinking that since I had to face it sooner or later, I would wait until I faced it. It's just that I didn't expect this day to come so quickly, and I'm going to go head-to-head with the strategy that Lu Bu made at the beginning.