Great Sui Storyteller

Chapter 373. 372. Wishful thinking
"Report!!! Huozhou dispatched troops! The number of pioneers is one thousand!!"

"Report!!! Huozhou dispatched troops! Estimated to be about [-]!!"

"Report!!!..."

Early in the morning, one report after another went straight to the Chinese army's account.

Then, two orders were quickly issued from the central army and spread to the front line.

In an instant, [-] troops were drawn out of the already assembled army, and [-] were advanced, forming a confrontation.

The drums sounded suddenly.

Riding on a horse that was covered in armor and showed only four hooves like black ink on snow, the young general drew his long sword after hearing the order from the Chinese army.

"Attack, fight!"

The order was issued, and the vanguard soldiers shouted:
"kill!!!"

The two armies fought against each other.

But the strange thing is that the two sides seemed to be in a tacit understanding. The armies of both sides did not move, but the vanguards of both sides took the lead in fighting to one place.

On the Huozhou side, the group of vanguard soldiers who were all bandits in the eyes of the regular army looked calm and stern.

There was no killing intent.

But the sword and spear were not slow at all.

In contrast, the vanguard of the Sui army, for some reason, is obviously a regular army, but their skills seem somewhat negligent...

Once there is a battle, the superior and the inferior will be judged!

Several people from Huozhou Fang formed an army, and the battle formation was extremely skillful!One advance and one retreat seemed to be a muddy and sticky trap integrated into one. During the interspersed march, the Sui army was gradually pulled into the muddy encirclement.

They are like camels.

And the Sui army is like that prickly cactus.

Although the burr pierced people, it fell into the mouth of the camel. No matter how it writhed, it was finally swallowed up.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Sui army immediately set off with cavalry, intending to rescue the pioneers and break through.

But arrows rained in the direction of Huozhou!

With the neighing of war horses, countless cavalry could only avoid the sharp edge temporarily.

Watching helplessly... the three thousand soldiers were swallowed up.Then, the one thousand Huozhou vanguard troops, who had been extremely calm from beginning to end, retreated in an orderly manner, retreating among the ten thousand soldiers.

What an iron-blooded army!

"Ding ding ding ding..."

In the battlefield, the crisp sound of the bell and cauldron spread throughout the audience.

In less than half an hour...

The Sui army suffered [-] casualties and retreated to defend.

And there was no pursuit from Huozhou, and more than 1 soldiers returned to the city, only to hear cheers:

"Great victory!"

"Great victory!"

"Big victory!"

In the Sui army's main formation.

Sun Jingchan, who came to the battlefield to watch the battle with the army today, stared at the closed city gate, thoughtful, and muttered to himself:

"Thousands of people, the armor is all refined and neat, and every attack is invincible, the name is..."

What is the name, she did not say.

Just looking at Huozhou's direction and nodding slightly:
"No wonder it occupies a county..."

……

Shangluo.

Although it is a county, there are only five counties under it: Shangluo, Shangluo, Luonan, Fengyang, and Shangjin.

The terrain is mountainous.

Compared with Hongnong's "three steps, one village, five steps, one town" villages everywhere, the population of these five counties is relatively concentrated.Although the mountain road is not easy to walk, it is much more convenient for Li Zhen and Du Ruhui as long as they reach one place.

This is the benefit of population concentration.

There is no need to run intermittently. Except for a few villages located in the mountains, the rest are built next to the city and on flat land.

Because the terrain is flat, it means the land is easy to cultivate.

The land in the mountains requires logging, crushed stones and the like, coupled with the limitations of transportation conditions, in this era, the arable land is limited.

And such objective conditions undoubtedly made it much easier for Li Zhen and Du Ruhui.

In the blink of an eye, five days have passed since stepping into Shangluo.

Luonan County.

"Hey, have you heard? There is another war on the east side of the river."

"Hedong? Oh, I know. Didn't you say that there has been a banditry over the past two years? Finally, officers and soldiers went to put down the rebellion?"

"Hush... Keep your voice down... Let me tell you, the bandits over there are very powerful, they are not ordinary people, you know?"

"I don't know... The question is how do you know?"

"Hey, don't mention it. Didn't my second brother's daughter marry over there? She married a wealthy family who specializes in water transport business on the east side of the river. As a result, since last year, she has cut off correspondence with her family. .The family is planning to send someone over there to have a look...and guess what?"

"what's wrong?"

"He escaped back. My second brother's son-in-law's family, hey, hey...you look like a beggar, and you're about to be beaten out by my second brother's servant..."

"Oh, how did this happen?"

"Ah... miserable. Once there was banditry in Hedong, their family was destroyed. Not to mention the gold and silver in the house, even the wooden beams were taken away. The family was separated from their wives and children. It was a big family. There was not a penny left in the robbery, and the bandits didn't let him go, so they locked him up.

The daughter of my second brother's family gave them their ancestral property by force before letting her out as the head of the family.When the family came out, they didn't have any money in their pockets... Fortunately, the girl was careful and suppressed a gold hairpin in her dowry.After the New Year's Eve, those bandits gathered in the direction of Huozhou for some unknown reason, and then escaped at night. After arriving in Hongnong, they pawned the gold hairpin, exchanged some money, and returned to their mother's house... Sigh! "

"My god...those bandits are so hateful?...But I heard that the bandits' banner is not that everyone has enough food and clothing?"

"It's all fart! It's all lies! It's all lies! Rape and looting, these people have done all the bad things! Don't you know... I heard my daughter tell me about the hard work of the journey, shed tears at the dinner table. That group of people robs everything, you say that everyone is from poor people, who doesn’t know the bottom line of not being able to eat grain seeds no matter how hungry? They all say that there is a way to steal, but what about them... don’t care if you are grain seeds, as long as you have grain seeds at home Food, then take it away... oh... just look, this year, He Tian knows how many people will starve to death..."

"These bandits are so hateful!! Come here, drink and drink, oh, today's chicken is really good..."

……

Two guests who looked like veterans were eating wine at a table.

In the corner of the restaurant far away from them, two unkempt people were holding a pig's trotter and chewing on it.

Now at this juncture, the poor and the poor are all off the corvee and go to dig mud in the river ditches.Those who can stay are either physically disabled or have money in their pockets.

So the business of this restaurant is really bad.

Don't talk about cultivators, even ordinary people listen to the truth.

While the two were talking, the scholar who was gnawing on the pig's trotter frowned several times.

But the Taoist on the opposite side didn't seem to hear it. After gnawing on the pig's trotters, he took two bites and stuffed them into his mouth one by one.

Occasionally, if I choke, I quickly drink a bowl of noodle soup or a sip of tea.

Then keep stuffing it in your mouth.

It's like a starving ghost reborn.

moment.

After the food on the table was left with scraps, the Taoist wiped his mouth...

"Huh... full, let's go?"

"..."

The scholar silently glanced at the two veterans, and then at the Taoist with clear eyes.

After a moment of hesitation, he nodded:
"Ah."

"Shopkeeper, check out!"

After giving the money, he came out and got on his horse.

The terrain of Luonan County, where the two are now, is already tilted to the south, and the climate has warmed up.

A layer of emerald green that is attractive to look at has already been seen on the surrounding landforms.

But for some reason, Du Ruhui, who was supposed to lead Li Zhen towards the villages around Luonan, seemed preoccupied.

After walking less than two miles out of the city, he suddenly stopped.

"Master."

"Ah."

Seeing his frowning expression, Li Zhen had already guessed what he was going to say.

After all, he wasn't deaf either.

Du Ruhui could hear what the two old men said, so naturally he could too.

But the problem is...

so what?

Whether it is the "Sui and Tang Dynasties" he mentioned, or the history books that have been read through.

In fact, there are very few records about Wu Duan'er.

In other words, he is more like a... very inconspicuous stepping stone under Li Yuanfeng's great achievements.

Li Yuan is here.

Li Yuan started to fight.

Li Yuan won.

Li Yuan built a tower.

Li Yuan left.

that is all.

In the few historical records, it is not written at all what kind of character Wu Duan'er has occupied Hedong for such a long time.

It also didn't say what happened to the people in Hedong who were hurt by bandits in the year after Li Yuan left.

But it is nothing more than a very simple result.

The imperial court provides disaster relief.

Whether it's food or money... no matter if someone is filling their pockets...

Anyway, the court gave something.

And in the past few years, the world has been in chaos... A small Hedong County has suffered a famine. Compared with an anti-king popping up somewhere today, what will the emperor do tomorrow, or what will happen the day after tomorrow? Such "gossip news", who cares about the life and death of a county that has already been relieved?
What's more... Troubled times are approaching, a river east...

Is it really worth a few drops of pen and ink for those who write history?

It is enough to write clearly about Li Yuan's "greatness".Could it be that, after finishing writing, he added a sentence of "recuperation after the war is not good, starving and dying everywhere" to show Li Yuan's incompetence?
Obviously impossible.

However, in reality, that is the case.

You don't have to see it for yourself.

Just by listening, Li Zhen understood...

On the other side of the river east, during the spring plowing, those farmers who had their grain seeds taken from their homes...

What despair is in my heart.

but……

When Li Zhen heard Du Ruhui's next sentence: "What does the Taoist priest think about the land in the east of the river?", he fell into silence again.

how to think?
Don't even think about it.

Because, what he thought...

It's wishful thinking.

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