Three Kingdoms

Xia Houshang is a bit angry.

Therefore, people who know him well don't dare to disturb him late at night when he is sleeping soundly.

Can Xiahou Zijiang's escape be considered a particularly urgent military matter? Does Xiahou Shang have to be woken up from his sweet dream?

Cao Cao had the tradition of killing people in his dreams, and of course the people below him also followed suit. Anyway, since everyone is great, let’s kill people in their dreams together! Just like the glasses and drinking glasses of later generations, it is a tradition to be in line with the commander-in-chief!

Therefore, when Xiahou Shang got up in the morning and received the news, his expression changed and became more ferocious.

"Where is that boy now?" Why didn't you stop me? ! 』

The three or four military academies under his command lowered their heads.

Who dares to stop this?

As soon as they stopped him, Xiahou Zijiang would definitely take action without hesitation. So should they lie down and accept the kick, or should they turn around and run away?

If you lie down and accept the kick, what if Xiahou Zijiang's people can't hold back, then those guys will apologize and spend some money to issue a letter of understanding?

If you turn around and run away, maybe it will be considered a dereliction of duty, and even the official will be raped by then?

As for fighting back, that's even more impossible. If it doesn't happen, it will be judged as a fight. Who will suffer at that time?

In fact, if you look at the Qin and Han laws, subtle differences have already emerged.

There is a saying in the Book of Changes: "To attack the Mongolians is not good for the invaders, but it is beneficial for the enemies." "It talks about bravery and bravery. In the Qin Dynasty, clear rewards were given to bravery and righteousness. For example, those who turned the thief over to the government on the spot would receive all the money from the thief; those who captured the fugitive and brought him back would receive the corresponding money. Rewards, etc., and the Qin Dynasty also stipulated how to deal with acts that are not courageous in the face of justice, "There is a thief who kills and hurts others and uses his skills. If he and others do not help him, if he can compete in a hundred steps, he will be the second armor." 』

In the Han Dynasty, the scope was greatly narrowed, from "hundred steps" to only "five neighbors".

In the later feudal dynasties, it was further narrowed, and it even changed from the same crime to "reduced" corporal punishment, and then the scope was further reduced, and it became "knowing but not saving" before you should be punished.

In the feudal dynasty, the power of local police officers was relatively small, so they often waited until the crime had been committed before the officials came out to wash the land. In order to ensure the strength of the rule, the people were allowed to act bravely. In the later period of the feudal dynasty, With the increase in the number of government personnel, more and more people only eat and do not work. Naturally, they feel that the people are difficult to manage, and they dislike the people's use of violence to resist.

Throughout the evolution of the feudal dynasty, the standard of civil righteousness for the people was gradually lowered, the scope was also reduced step by step, and restrictions were strengthened step by step, which actually showed that the feudal dynasty was further oppressing from all aspects. These changes in the people, especially the law, also reveal that the rulers hope that the people will not resist as much as possible when facing evil deeds. The purpose of deliberately setting various harsh conditions is to make the people behave like sheep. Those who only know how to escape and not resist.

Even in the feudal dynasty, the victim had to apologize, kowtow and confess to the powerful perpetrator in order to teach the rest of the people a lesson and see if they would dare to resist next time!

Therefore, when Xiahou Zijiang used violence, who dared to move?

Xia Houshang looked at these military schools and understood what was going on. He said angrily: "This is really a child's nonsense!" 』

All the military academies lowered their heads, their eyebrows twitching secretly, and they couldn't help but feel lucky. It was indeed the case, and luckily they didn't stop him.

Disobeying orders in the army, opening camp gates privately, going out without orders, and taking the crowd away, no matter which one it is, is a capital crime!

But in Xia Houshang's words, it turned out to be "a child making nonsense"!

If he really went up to stop him, wouldn't it just be like arguing with a "child"?

Xia Houshang's anger rose. He turned his head and looked at the three or four military academies with cold eyes. His tone was cold, "The kid is impulsive!" You guys are also fooling around! This is the son of General Xiahou! If something goes wrong, how can I explain it to the general? 』

All the military academies lowered their heads and did not dare to say a word. It's really a saying that I don't know whether to use it as a paddle or as a pulp, okay, now I have changed from a "child" to someone who wants to "explain"!

Seriously, if you want to govern the country in accordance with the law, then it doesn't matter whether you are a general or an ordinary person. If you break the law, you have broken the law. How can we say that we are treated differently? What's more, this is not the general, but the general's child! In the end, Xiahou Zijiang obviously made a mistake and violated military discipline, but he was going to have to explain to General Xiahou Dun!

But from the perspective of the feudal dynasty, there is nothing wrong with doing so. After all, under class rule, the upper echelons of the feudal dynasty did enjoy various special privileges. Naturally, they could not share the same laws with the so-called ordinary people. Let alone violating military law, even if they were suspected of some heinous crimes, In the feudal dynasty, people can still be classified as "temporarily stupid" or "ignorant", and then big things become trivial.

Xiahou Shang was still angry, "General Xiahou personally handed the child into our hands!" As a result, you just watched and did nothing? ! Um? ! If something happened to Xiahou Zijiang, wouldn't you all risk your lives? ! 』

Hearing this, all the military schools almost burst into tears!

this……

This is too unreasonable!

But the feudal dynasty was so unreasonable! Can it still be called a feudal dynasty if it is reasonable?

Xiahou Shang's remarks, which were obviously intended to shirk the blame, immediately made all the military schools unable to hold back. If Xiahou Shang were allowed to continue talking like this, there was no telling when Xiahou Zijiang would have no problems at all, and all the rest would be these. The military academy’s fault!

have a look!

Forcing a good child to be like this!

Even good children become depressed!

The children are fine at home, why is it like this when they arrive in Youbei? !

Such and such.

Xia Houshang's extremely cold and stern tone made all the military academies start to distinguish, and they didn't want to take the blame.

"This is Young Master. He said it. It has nothing to do with the Xiahou family's face and future plans. He also said that Xiahou cannot be allowed to stay behind and lose face... That's why he didn't stop Young Master..."

"Young Master Shao Lang also brought his men, who are all warriors of the Xiahou family. Even if they can't achieve any military exploits, self-preservation should be fine... So that's what we thought before we came to report..."

"If the general feels something is wrong, please give the general's order. We will order our troops and horses to go out to meet Mr. Shaolang now..."

Xia Houshang couldn't calm down anymore and was spinning in circles with his hands behind his back.

Xiahou Zang died, and if Xiahou Zijiang died again, let’s not say whose fault it was, and leave aside the facts, how sad would General Xiahou Dun be?

General Xiahou Dun fought on the battlefield with blood and sweat for the sake of the Han Dynasty and Prime Minister Cao. He, Xiahou Shang, can be defeated, can go his own way, and even imprison Xiahou Zijiang on behalf of General Xiahou Dun. This is all fine, but the only thing is that he must ensure the safety of Xiahou Zijiang!

Now Xiahou Zijiang runs out, just in case...

In his anxiety, Xiahou Shang almost shouted, "What about the Xiahou family's reputation?" If something really goes wrong with Young Master, it will really be called losing face! This outdoor training was originally just for Shao Langjun to experience it, to lay a foundation to some extent! As for military achievements and battle honors, how could he be missing after a hearty victory! Why bother to do it yourself? He really... This child has experienced too few setbacks! 』

"Even if there are guards around him, what does that mean? ! It's not that I underestimate the martial prowess of Xiahou's children, but if I really encounter the military horses from the Qiusi side... Even I need to be careful in dealing with it, let alone a dabbler like him? ! If something goes wrong accidentally, how will you explain it to General Xiahou? 』

"If we send out troops now, what will General Cao do?" Not to mention where to find it! Everyone disperses. There are so many supplies in this camp. If something goes wrong again, our lives will be at risk! General Cao's surname is not Xiahou... No! General Cao is a master of military law! 』

Xia Houshang yelled angrily and danced. He was obviously confused and his words and deeds were abnormal.

This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. It's really a dilemma.

All the military academies looked at each other, but they all fell to their knees and confessed their guilt. How can I say this? If I continue to argue, wouldn't I be suspected of contradicting my boss? Besides, they really don't have any good way to solve this problem.

"Damn!" Where did this child go? 』

……(*≧∪≦)……

Deep in the desert, this land has been shrouded in the shadow of war and soaked in blood since the day recorded in history books.

From the early Beirong, then became the Xiongnu, to the later Xianbei and Wuhuan, and then to the later Turks, Rouran, Uighurs, Xi, Khitan, Jurchen, etc...

It is difficult to say whether these desert peoples who have emerged one after another have their own evolutionary path of development, growth, aging and demise, and whether they have inherited the light of civilization between their successive emergences. But one thing is certain, these desert peoples Once the nations among them rise, they will turn their wolf-like eyes to the Central Plains, peering at the farming civilization of the Central Plains that makes them salivate.

And these are only the large tribes or tribal alliances whose names have been recorded in history. Over the long years, there are still those who have not been recorded in the annals of history and have been swept away by the great fusion of ethnic groups on these grasslands. Small tribes and small nations.

Perhaps these people in the desert have various excuses and reasons for natural and man-made disasters, but they are not like the farming people of the Central Plains who have to deal with natural disasters and man-made disasters on their own. Instead, they will reveal their greed under these excuses and reasons. With a handsome face, he rode a horse, raised his sword, and headed south, south...

However, as history has proven countless times, bloody killings can never bring about true surrender.

In front of the butcher's knives of these nomadic peoples in the grasslands and deserts, the farming people of the Central Plains may be silent or forbearing, but they will never forget their hatred and resistance. Starting from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and continuing to the subsequent feudal dynasties, these memories have remained in the history books. Even if these nomadic people tampered with them several times and burned the original manuscripts of the history books, they would not let the blood dissipate and the pain disappear.

Now, the battle in the desert has just come to an end and is far from the end.

Just like the beacon tower and the small military camp that stood in front of Zhang He's eyes, the moment of calm was just a temporary pause in the long river of war in the desert.

Or maybe it's a sign.

It's like a landmark.

The Hussars Northern Territory Army's tentacles penetrated deep into the desert.

People who are impatient often cannot achieve great things.

Irritated, reckless, and always willing to do whatever they can't do. People with this kind of personality were the thugs of tribal leaders in ancient times. These people were often the first to die. It is not easy to pass on their DNA by being able to slip through the net.

It has been quite some time since Zhang He last patrolled here.

The military stronghold was built with civil structures. Since wood was more scarce in the desert, soil, or soil and cement, actually became its main component.

The rammed earth and soil-cement layers on the exterior walls seem to have fallen off due to the attack of wind and frost, and there are some cracks, but overall there are no major problems.

A team of people is stationed here all year round. A team of five people, plus some miscellaneous soldiers and so on, is about seventy or eighty people. There are command posts, barracks, warehouses, arsenals, wells, fodder sheds and stables in the military stronghold.

On the high platform of the military village, under the wooden canopy, there is a crossbow on the left and right. The huge crossbows that were placed together were slightly rusty because they were not taken care of in time, as if they were stained with old blood.

Zhang He stood on the high platform of the military camp, silent and looking out.

Looking around, you can see everything within a radius of more than ten miles.

Except for a small hill here in Junzhai, the rest is desert grassland.

The north wind drives the clouds, like herdsmen driving their sheep, moving slowly across the blue sky.

On the Han side, it became a strip of indigo as far as the eye could see.

Zhang He led a team of men to patrol here an hour ago.

Every once in a while, he and Gan Feng would lead people to conduct inspections, and the inspection points would be these military villages scattered in the desert.

In the past few days, Zhang He has passed through several military strongholds one after another, and this is the farthest military stronghold, and it is also the beginning of his return journey. Of course, the direction of going back is different from the direction of coming, which is equivalent to making a big circle in the desert.

This time we came to patrol, the traffic conditions on the roads were better than last time.

Although there is no need to build permanent hard roads in the desert, during the last training session at Changshan Camp, with the cooperation of soldiers and craftsmen accompanying the army, a general road network was built. The biggest improvement is that some signs along the road have been added a lot, which makes it possible to reduce some time of finding roads and directions.

The desert seems to be changing little by little.

Zhang He stayed on the high platform for a while, then got off the high platform, and walked around the barracks of ordinary soldiers, checking the beds and beddings where the soldiers slept, and then returned to the command post in the military camp. .

The team leaders in the military camp have been silently following Zhang He.

The leader of this military camp was named Shi, and it is said that he was originally from Qingzhou. He fled during the chaos in Qingzhou. The team leader had scars on his face, and half of his ring finger and little finger on his left hand were missing. It is said that they were frozen and rotten on the road when he was escaping. So he is also called Shi Bazhi.

Shi Bazhi felt that he was a tough man. When he met the Yellow Turban bandits, he was not able to join the army at that time. He fought with the armed Yellow Turban thieves and was slashed in the face with a knife. However, Shi Bazhi also used wood. Stab the yellow turban thief to death...

Shi Bazhi didn't follow him until he arrived at the command post and said: "General, our place is remote and windy and sandy, and there is not much food to eat. We only have some coarse grains, pickled vegetables, dried mushrooms, salted fish and the like. I hope you will forgive me, General..." …』

The command post was actually Shi Bazhi's residence. There was a table at the top, a tattered mat underneath, and a tattered screen in the middle. The back was where he slept.

It was bitterly cold in the desert, so a fire pit was set up in the middle of the command post house. It can be used for heating, daily cooking, or boiling water. If it were a more elegant term, it could also be called a night talk around the fire or something like that. However, the houses in this era were not tightly structured and were mostly made of wood with large gaps, so there was no need to consider carbon monoxide poisoning. However, the houses in later generations were just It’s different…

Zhang He didn't take it seriously. He didn't come to Junzhai to catch the autumn breeze. But when he heard that these were the only things left in Junzhai and there was no meat such as dried meat, he couldn't help but frowned. "This is the dried meat that is distributed." Salty preserved meat, you finished eating it so quickly? I remember the last delivery was just over a month ago? 』

Shi Bazhi lowered his head and said, "I dare not hide it from the general. I exchanged the dried meat for some lambs and asked the shepherds in the north to help raise them... I will eat the dried meat, but the lambs When they are raised, they will become big sheep in winter, and they can also give birth to lambs..."

Zhang He laughed and said, "You calculated this well!" But aren't you afraid that the shepherds will just take your sheep and run away? 』

When Zhang He was on the high platform before, he had already seen traces of some herdsmen's tents in the distance to the north. There are not many tents, only about five or six, and the total number of tents is about twenty or thirty people. Zhang He originally thought they were scattered herdsmen, but he didn't expect to be involved with the military camp in this way.

Shi Bazhi said with a slightly embarrassed smile: "Isn't this... there are so many mouths waiting to be eaten in the military camp. If you really want to eat this dried meat, you will be done in one meal. If you change it to a lamb, When they are raised in winter, they will turn into big sheep. If you kill one, the entire army village will be able to eat deliciously for three days! On the first day, we had soup and haggis soaked in pancakes. On the second day, we ate some bones and meat with mixed vegetables. On the third day, each person could get a piece of meat... This year was a bit enjoyable... These shepherds had been there earlier. I have been here before, and I am familiar with it. Moreover, the pastures to their north have been affected. If I want to run away, where else can I go? 』

Zhang He pointed at Shi Bazhi, not knowing what to say for a moment...