Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 23 Zheluping (added for the leader Wang Huadu)

The weather is a little cold, and the vegetation is decaying.

Shao Shude snorted white steam and walked on the ground covered by severe frost.

The preparations of the Tiande army when they set off can be said to be insufficient, but because they are relatively poor, there is still a shortage of winter clothes.The people on the Beicheng side did not allocate all the troops, not to mention the soldiers and horses of Fengzhou and Xicheng. Along the way, the Zhenwu Army's Zhongcheng defenders, the Shuozhou soldiers, the defeated Zhelu Army and some newly recruited auxiliary soldiers were recruited. Soldiers, even more so poor.

Winter clothes, do not exist!
Fortunately, Lan and Shi Erzhou in the south did their best to collect a batch of winter clothes and shipped them over, which looked like more than a thousand pieces.

Hao Zhenwei first made up for his subordinates, and then sent a hundred pieces to the guards and guards, and then the rest would be distributed to the non-lineal Xicheng soldiers and Fengzhou soldiers, and the number was only two or three hundred pieces. Not enough for them.

Shao Shude had visited Sun Ba and Li Renjun before, and he heard them yell at Hao Zhenwei for being shameless, and pulled good things to him.

Shao Shude was a little ashamed when he heard it. Hao Zhenwei sent people to distribute a total of 115 winter clothes to them. Shao Shude made the decision and distributed 15 to Guan Kairun's squadron. Anyway, their Chang'an children were rich, so they had the money to buy winter clothes.The other hundred pieces were given to their own people.Counting those who made do with animal skins or old clothes, everyone in this small group had warm clothes to wear, which was quite eye-catching.

But now it's wartime, even the brave and ruthless Lu Huaizhong is intimidated by military law, and he doesn't dare to find someone to fight casually.

"Although my own people have winter clothes, there are many people in other cities who are lacking. By extension, are the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from various towns under the command of the entire Daibeixing Camp ready? I'm afraid it's not optimistic. !" Shao Shude sighed heavily again, marching to fight, but having to be burdened by logistics, which is really demoralizing.

There are many soldiers from Henan in the Beihang Camp, such as Yicheng, Zhongwu, and Heyang. Are they ready for winter clothes?Can it adapt to the cold climate of northern generation?The ones from Yiwu, Zhaoyi, and Hedong are better, but they are only "some". It's really hard for outsiders to know what the truth is.

Zhelu Army City is also called Zheluping. It is not small in size. It has an outer city and an inner city. In its heyday (Xuanzong period), there were more than 4000 people stationed there. It was an outpost barrier for the Kelan Army, an important military town. Lived here and left a poem.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the number of troops dropped sharply to about 2000 people.In the late Tang Dynasty, it will be a hehe, and there will be only a thousand people. No wonder they were defeated by Li Ke's rebel army. The strength is really not good.

However, this is the case, the status of the Zhelu army city is still very important, and the size is also built according to the scale of [-] troops and [-] horses.Although the meeting was a bit rundown, after being repaired by the Tiande Army, it was still stable as a whole.

Shao Shude led his men to march outside the city for half an hour, until they stopped behind a new post station.

It is about three or four miles away from the city, and you can see the outline of the city wall from a distance. At the same time, the terrain is relatively dangerous. The Tiande army built a stockade nearby and stationed more than a thousand soldiers, including the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

There is an open space at the foot of the mountain, and a temporary warehouse is built to store supplies.The supplies sent by Lan and Shi Erzhou are generally delivered here with the Tiande Army.

Shao Shude came here today to escort a batch of grain belonging to them back to the camp.There were a total of thirty carts, and each cart was loaded with five shi of wheat, corn and other military rations. If all of them were transported back, it would be enough for all of them to consume more than 20 days.

In fact, there is still food in the camp, which is enough for more than two months, but the wind has been tight recently, and everyone has said that the materials that have not yet been transported outside the city will be brought back as soon as possible, so various departments have sent people over to collect them. The auxiliary soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, they really couldn't spare more manpower.

It was Li Renjun who guarded this stockade.As the ten generals of the former Zhenwu Army in Zhongcheng, he had neither relatives nor friends in the Tiande Army, and his eyes were smeared, so he was sent to such a dangerous place.Shao Shude didn't plan to catch up with him today, after all business matters.

After the team arrived at the temporary warehouse, the 50 people in the front team dispersed, watching the six roads and listening to all directions, carefully guarding the surroundings.More than 120 people from the remaining squadron, rear team, and right team began to carry supplies. The right team leader, Lao Li, was responsible for counting and random inspection to ensure that there was no problem with the military rations.

He was quite careful in his work, so much so that the little officer in charge of the warehouse kept giving him scorn and urging him to hurry up.This warehouse is about to be withdrawn, and the wind outside is getting tighter and tighter. Seeing the rebels roaming every three days, they feel that it is dangerous to spend an extra stick of incense here.

However, Lao Li is also a person who has experienced big storms. He is very thick-skinned and unmoved. He still tests step by step and is meticulous.

"I said you don't know or what? Li thief cavalry appears from time to time, how critical the situation is, you are still so slow, are you trying to get me in danger?" The little officer blushed and stood in front of Shao Shude. walk around.

He was just a small team leader, and Shao Shude was a lieutenant, so he shouldn't be so arrogant.But who made him come from Hao Zhenwei's personal soldier, and he was in the most elite Yajun of the Tiande Army. Of course, he didn't pay attention to these Zhizhou town soldiers.

The more the little officer thought about it, the more angry he became. He stroked the knife with his left hand and pointed at Shao Shude with his right hand. Just as they were about to scold something, the two suddenly jumped out from behind Shao Shude and directly knocked the arrogant little officer of the Yajun Army to the ground, scolding: "Dare to be disrespectful to the lieutenant, it's against the sky!"

Shao Shude was a little surprised, but when he looked closely, it was Shao Desheng and Wei Boqiu, the two fire leaders in the back team.Shao Desheng was originally his own personal soldier Saburo, so it is not surprising that he stood up, but Wei Boqiu came forward, which made people feel quite interesting.Actively asking for progress, taking the lead for the collective good, yes, yes.

After these two people acted, the soldiers inside and outside the warehouse were stunned at first, and then became furious.

Shao Shude's side was also unambiguous. The soldiers in the front team who were on guard quickly gathered and formed five fires. The first fire and the second fire were [-] steps forward, with a cold light, and the three fires behind them were ready to launch at any time.

The soldiers of the other teams who were carrying the supplies also drew out their horizontal knives, forming a semi-encirclement situation for the thirty or so soldiers of the Ivory Coast.This fellow Lu Huaizhong jumped out of a carriage, kicked the soldier of a certain tooth army directly beside him, took the spear from his hand, shouted and cursed loudly, and his attitude was extremely arrogant.

Thirty or so soldiers of the Tooth Army were accustomed to running rampant, but I didn't expect that the eunuch's pro-military would be so irritable, and they would act if they disagreed.Moreover, the horses were very cooperative. The long lances and the bows were all displayed. If the group of people kept the formation and pressed down, they would have no choice but to turn around and escape.

Lu Xun once said, "I am most afraid of the sudden quietness of the air." This is the situation now. The Ya army has not formed a formation, and is surrounded by four times their number. The opponent is still fully armed. How can we fight this battle?It will be fatal!As a result, although these people are usually fierce, but at this moment they dare not move lightly, and stay there for a while.

"What are you doing? Is there something wrong with your own robes? Don't put it away!" On the one hand, he is pleased that his small group has been twisted into a rope, and he is more loyal to himself, on the other hand, he is also worried about unpredictable conflicts.

He had already offended Hao Zhenwei before, and this would offend his subordinates again. Presumably the military envoy didn't want to see this either.Why, they are all their own people, seeing that the army of Li Guochang and his son is likely to be killed, and everyone is killing each other, this is a very stupid behavior.

As soon as Shao Shude's voice fell, the soldiers in the former team put away their weapons, but they still stood there with bad eyes.Lu Huaizhong scolded and threw the spear on the ground, obviously dissatisfied with the lack of a fight.The others were not as aggressive as him all day long, and at this time they quickly stopped when they heard the order, but they still surrounded themselves and did not continue to carry food.

"We are both members of the Tiande Army, and we should work together as one." Shao Shude looked at the young officer of the Ya Army who was climbing up from the ground, and said coldly: "The Zhelu Army is the passage of thieves, and it is an important threat to the enemy's southern flank. The next day When the rebels come, most of them have to pull out the city as the foundation. At this moment of [-] urgent fire, you wait for a long time, bullying your comrades, doing things wrong, and looking like a court official? Today, Shao Mouli is responsible for it , even if it gets in front of General Hao Du, I have to talk about it. Lao Li, keep working, I see who dares to make a noise!"

Li Yanling responded and called everyone to continue to carry food and grass.The junior officer swallowed his saliva and looked at the fierce pawns around him. After all, he didn't dare to continue to make things difficult, so he could only retreat to the side in dejection, and he didn't care about it.

The corners of Shao Shude's mouth twitched slightly. In the army, the military does not talk about right and wrong, and the most important force is force.If you are ruthless, others will obey you. If you are not ruthless, you will only be bullied by others.He is also an old man, and naturally understands this truth.

After loading the rations, the auxiliary soldiers drove back in their carts.Li Yanling's right team of 30 people led the way, the squadron and the rear team protected on both sides, and Shao Shude led the front team at the end. The 180 soldiers had bright armor, high morale, and walked neatly, which turned into a different scenery on the way back.

I just don't know how many of these high-spirited soldiers survived when the rebels marched southward to Caocheng River.They are not figures or dolls, but real people, with flesh and blood, relatives and friends, and family members who care about them.As the saying goes, "At night in the north of Sanggan, half of the Qin soldiers will not return; if there is a letter from the village in the morning, I still send cold clothes", I hope it will not be like this.

(End of this chapter)