The rise of the prince

Chapter 784 Gu Lichuan

On the same day, Li Xingzhou was going to stay in Pingzhou City.

The guard general Gu Lichuan gave him his bedroom. The front line of the war, everything must be done. The conditions are very difficult. Only the Pingzhou guard can live alone in a room, which is not much better. Two low walls are built of bricks, and boards are put on top of them, and the bed is three feet above the ground.

The north is no better than the south. If the conditions in the south are difficult, you can sleep on a few boards on the ground, but sleeping on the ground in these places can't stand the cold air alone, especially in autumn and winter.

After entering the city, Gu Lichuan nervously asked him if he could keep everything simple for the sake of safety.

Li Xingzhou understands why he is nervous. He is the grandson of the emperor and will be the emperor of Jingguo in the future.

"Then keep everything simple, General Gu, arrange it, do as you want, you are more experienced in border affairs, don't worry about me." Li Xingzhou said easy-going, so he trusts Wei Chaoren, this Pingzhou is Jin Guohe Wei Chaoren sent Gu Lichuan to the forefront of the Jingguo war, the most dangerous, and the most complicated area, so he must have thought about it, and it was also an affirmation of Gu Lichuan's ability.

"Thank you, Your Highness, my subordinate!" Gu Lichuan's dark worry disappeared, and he quickly knelt down to thank him, "Then this subordinate will go down and arrange things first, and send someone to be your Highness's guide."

Li Xingzhou nodded, Gu Lichuan withdrew, and after a while, a scribe who was about 40 years old with a frightened face came to receive them.

"What kind of person is Gu Lichuan?" Li Xingzhou whispered to Wei Chaoren beside him on the road.

Wei Chaoren replied: "Your Highness, he is from Bazhou. His parents are herdsmen. There are too many brothers in his family to support him. Later, he joined the army and became a scout in the army. He was promoted step by step. He is very flexible and experienced. The most important thing It’s about knowing how to solve problems.”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Li Xingzhou asked curiously.

"Seven or eight years ago, he was a capital. At that time, the border of our country was still in the Bazhou area. We had confronted Liao for decades, and there were frequent frictions. Yigu Lichuan took more than 100 people out for inspections, and the result was too deep and luck. Not good, bumped into the Liao people on a tour, lost more than a dozen people and was trapped on a small hill to guard.

There were 300 Liao people, nearly a battalion of troops, trapped them on a small hill, unable to send news, starved for seven or eight days, all skinny, fortunately it rained a few times at night to survive However, the Liao people did not dare to attack by force, but they seemed determined to consume them to death.

In the end, they felt that they had to fight desperately to break through, but before breaking through, Gu Lichuan, as the head of the capital, ordered to kill the remaining five horses and let everyone have a good meal.At that time, the order caused an uproar.

For one thing, there are few horses in our country, and it is against the military law to kill war horses. If it is light, it will be distributed, and if it is serious, it will lose its head.Secondly, some horses have grass to eat on the mountain, and they are strong. If they want to fight the Liao people, the cavalry is the most powerful. "Speaking of this, Wei Chaoren paused for a moment. They had arrived at the state capital of Pingzhou, and the middle-aged scribe introduced them to various places in the government office in fear. It could be seen that he was a person who had never seen the world.

Li Xingzhou nodded slightly, then gestured for Wei Chaoren to continue.

"After one hundred or so people went out, 63 came back alive, some died at the hands of the Liao people, and some got lost.

The old man asked him if he knew he violated the military law and why he killed the war horse, ha ha." Wei Chaoren paused for a moment, showing an approving smile: "He told me that keeping a horse is just a thought, and everyone wants those few horses. They escaped with a horse, so that people's hearts were not in harmony, and no one wanted to fight desperately with the Khitan people.Killing the horse will stop thinking about it, everyone will fight him desperately, and they can still fill their stomachs, so they don't have to fight the Liao people weakly. "

Li Xingzhou also nodded, a feeling of approval spontaneously arose, indeed, with five horses there, and several times stronger enemies waiting at the foot of the mountain, people's hearts couldn't be united anyway.

Only when hope is lost, the desperate soldiers will fight the Liao people desperately. Otherwise, once a fight starts, the cavalry may run away timidly, and the others will have no fighting spirit.

"Sure enough, he is a person who can solve problems."

"So at that time, the magistrate of Bazhou felt that there was a reason for the incident, but the death penalty could not be escaped. He suggested that he should be tattooed and assigned to Jiaozhou. The old man saved him and punished him with the removal of his head. He stayed by his side as a personal soldier and was constantly trained."

Li Xingzhou agreed, "The border is not somewhere else, it's an extraordinary place, and with extraordinary people, this is what is needed."

Seven or eight years have passed, and now Gu Lichuan is the magistrate of Pingzhou and the training envoy of the Pingzhou regiment. He is fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Pingzhou. It is Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the world, and the most important strategic place where Jin Guotun's army and Jing Guo confront each other.

It can be seen that Wei Chaoren trusts him very much.

The clerk might be too nervous, speaking upside down, stuttering, and out of sequence, Li Xingzhou simply waved his hand to let him go back to Gu Lichuan's room without introduction.

When we got back to the house, someone brought clean water. There was no tea. They used big porcelain bowls instead of cups. Both he and Wei Chaoren’s mouths were dry after traveling all the way. No, gulp and gulp.

After resting, Wei Chaoren told him why he couldn't leave today.

The most elite in the army are usually the scouts. Not only are the scouts good at skills and riding skills, but they also have good brains, rich experience, and can hide themselves.

So different from their large army stationed in the capital, in areas where there has been a long-term tense confrontation on the border, the scouts are sent out at any time. The most elite soldiers are often outside, stationed in some important roads or field camps where they can observe the other party's situation, and keep an eye on the enemy's movements. , Once there is a situation, return to the city immediately.

That's why Gu Lichuan said that it would take at least one day to recall the elite.

Li Xingzhou had fought quite a few battles, but he listened with great interest. This was the first time he had heard of these things.

Then someone brought some food, hard steamed buns, now people call them cooking cakes, water and two bundles of jerky, pork jerky, mutton jerky, hard and salty, soak in water before eating , or you will lose your teeth.

The hot dish has a large bowl of stew, three or four kinds of vegetables are stewed together.The best thing is a large bowl of hot stewed rabbit meat. The servant who delivered the meal explained that the scouts went out to catch it in the morning, and they caught up with the good luck.

This table is already the best that the frontier can cobble together, so I'm not qualified to pick and choose.

Army rations are about sufficient quantity, so naturally they will not use fine grains, even if they have fine grains, they will be exchanged for more coarse grains, so the steamed buns taste very rough, and it is hard to swallow if they are not served with clear water.

The two of them had been hungry for a long time, and they wolfed down a meal.

(End of this chapter)