Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 405 0400 [Doctor Knowing the State]

Wang Ting was wounded in twelve places all over his body, but none of them were fatal, and he was even alive and kicking after being captured.

It can only be said that his armor is awesome.

Wang Teng was held incommunicado, and his son Wang Xun was brought to see Li Bao.

Li Bao opened his mouth and said, "You come and lead the troops to guard the city. The soldiers are strictly forbidden to plunder the people. If there is any mistake, they will be killed!"

"what?"

Wang Xun thought there was something wrong with his ears.

He was just a prisoner, not even counted as a general, let alone surrendered.

What the hell is it to ask him to lead troops to defend the city without any drama of personally untying, respecting the corporal, and persuading the virtuous?

Li Bao was too lazy to go around, and said truthfully: "I don't have many soldiers. I left some to garrison Kuimen, and the rest of the soldiers have to attack Zigui. That is to say, I don't have any troops to guard the prisoners. You can either lead the prisoners to defend the city and restrain them." They are not allowed to do evil, or I will kill thousands of captives. Choose yourself!"

How else can I choose?
As long as Wang Xun said no, thousands of heads would fall to the ground.

Wang Xun couldn't help asking: "Your Excellency, are you not afraid that I will lead troops to fight again?"

Li Bao said: "If you want to die, you can do whatever you want. I will take away all the captured soldiers, and only leave weapons for your father's personal soldiers. You can escape and lead your troops to Zigui if you are capable. You can also defend the city Anyway, food is brought in every half month, let’s see how many days you can live without food. Also, your father will be escorted to Kuimen!”

Wang Xun was speechless for a moment.

In the morning of the next day, Li Bao led his troops and left without leaving a single soldier, as if he had never been to Wushan.

No, there is still some military rations left.

Standing at the top of the city, Wang Xun watched Li Bao go away, as if in a dream.

His father's personal soldiers still have their weapons, but their armor has been taken away.

The rest of the captives were all empty-handed, no different from ordinary people.

Then, Wang Xun will take these soldiers to defend the city, and he will help the bandits to defend the city.He is still a magistrate, and those unarmored soldiers are the foundation of his rule of Wushan City.

There is not enough food at all, and the people have to be rescued.

Li Bao said that food would be delivered regularly to ensure that soldiers and people would not starve to death.

Not to starve, that's all.

Therefore, Wang Xun's main job is to suppress the soldiers not to grab food, eat porridge every day and hang themselves, waiting for the end of the war.

What the hell is this called!

There is no way to escape. At most, he can escape to Daningjian (Wuxi County) further north, and then there are continuous mountains that are difficult to climb.

To the north and then to the east, there are mountain villages there, and you can go to Padang by crossing the mountains, but Padang is the direction where Li Bao marched.And at most to Padang, and further east can only take a boat.

There are waterways in the east and west directions, with Qutang Gorge on the west, Wu Gorge on the east, and Xiling Gorge farther away.

Wang Xun can also try to demolish the houses and make rafts to see if he can paddle across the Three Gorges with the whole army.

Also, his father was taken away, obviously as a hostage!

Li Bao's fleet disappeared completely, and Wang Xun and a group of soldiers stared at each other.

"Are we considered thieves?" A personal officer asked confusedly.

Wang Xun was also not sure: "Didn't you follow the bandits? I just helped the bandits defend the city."

Everyone was speechless.

Wang Xun said to the soldiers: "Remember, from today onwards, you must strictly abide by the military orders. You must not loot the people, especially those soldiers who have been relieved of their armor. It is strictly forbidden for them to harass the people. It is best to lock them all in the barracks. Every time the thieves and bandits bring in food, some of it must be distributed to the people. Ministries are not allowed to withhold it, and the officers and soldiers will starve together, and they will definitely not die of starvation."

A soldier complained: "It's not like that when we work for the court. Not looting along the way is already a strict discipline. Now we help the bandits defend the city, but we have to help the people hungry."

Wang Xun said: "If you don't listen to the thief general, you and I will all die here."

Some military officers suggested: "It's better to go to Daningjian to collect food. The villages on both sides of the Daning River can also get some food. It's better than staying in the county town and starving."

Wang Xun said angrily: "You want to kill the whole army? What's the difference between looting the villagers along the river and robbing the people in the city? When the thief returns to the division to kill, he will definitely kill all the officers and soldiers to vent his anger!"

Ever since, a group of officers and soldiers with extremely poor military discipline, their mission is to suppress thieves.Now he is honestly helping the rebels defend the city, and has become strict in military discipline, and he has to distribute food to help the people when he is hungry.

During this period, some military officers withheld rations from their soldiers.

A group of soldiers broke out, and Wang Xun immediately killed the officer to let the resentful soldiers vent their anger.

The wealthy households in the city are not fuel-efficient lamps. They are afraid that the officers and soldiers will turn their faces due to starvation, so they join forces with the Baojia chief to form a citizen armed force.

Every time grain was brought in from Kuizhou, the local militia moved the grain ashore, and then negotiated with the officers and soldiers for distribution.

Soon there was a third force, which was caused by rich households colluding with Baojiachang and embezzling the people's rations during the distribution of food.Several gangsters connected with the neighbors, beat the Baozhang to death, grabbed the food, and were suppressed by Wang Xun's troops.

The more the news spread, the more evil it became, saying that the officers and soldiers colluded with the wealthy households and the security chiefs to seize all the food rations of the people.

A little knowledgeable craftsmen and shop assistants led civilians to form armed forces and killed more than a dozen wealthy households and security chiefs, and some even took the opportunity to insult women.

Wang Xun sent troops to suppress again, and a scuffle broke out, resulting in hundreds of casualties between the army and the people.

The grain transportation team heard the news, and when they next shipped food, they also brought a strand of Wang Zhi's hair.

Surprised and furious, Wang Xun sent people to put up notices throughout the city. Anyone who dared to occupy, embezzle, or rob food would not only behead the whole family, but also sit in five neighborhoods.Every five households are organized into a Jiajia to supervise each other, and those who report can be exempted from crime!

After beheading more than 50 heads for public display, the order in the city was finally stabilized.

Let's all starve together, don't bother anyone, you won't starve to death anyway, and you will be relieved after the war.

……

But it is said that Li Bao led his troops to Badong County, and the county seat here is almost empty.

Residents in the city were looted by Zhong Xiang, and they either fled to the countryside to beg for food, or went to the outskirts of the mountains to pick wild fruits and eat grass roots and bark for a living.

Kuizhou's food was also limited, and it was not easy to relieve Wushan, and Li Bao in Padang, which was farther away, could not manage it.

How much the people in Badong County can survive can only depend on their own luck.

Fortunately, the rice has begun to head, and after another two months of cooking, we will be able to eat this year's new rice.

Leading the troops to continue eastward, they came to Zigui County, which is also the state capital of Guizhou.

It was later flooded by the Three Gorges Reservoir, and even the county seat was moved further downstream.

Looking at the closed city gate, Li Bao was not depressed, but rather happy, which meant that he was not robbed by Zhong Xiang.

Rong Jue, the secretary in charge of the military account, volunteered again and came to the city as an envoy.

Yang Jie, the prefect of Guizhou, hung down the basket, hung Rong Jue on the top of the wall, and asked, "Are you an officer or a bandit?"

Rong Jue said: "We are the Sichuan rebels, not some bandit soldiers."

"As long as it's not Jinghu bandits." Yang Jie finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When Zhong Xiang ransacked Padang, some fishermen sneaked back to the river at night and floated downstream in small fishing boats.

Most of the thieves went to the city to loot, and the navy who stayed behind didn't find him.

This part of the river is not so dangerous, the fishermen escaped to Zigui and reported to the prefect Yang Jie: "Jinghu soldiers rebelled, murdered and robbed in Badong County, and even robbed villages outside the city, the government quickly sent troops to rescue! "

Yang Jie was shocked, and organized the people to move the military rations outside the city into the city, and then closed the city gates to recruit young and strong to guard.

This is not only a grain and grass transfer station, but also hundreds of grain transport troops.

Zhong Xiang led his troops to kill, tried to attack, and left by boat when he saw that it was not easy to fight.

Rong Jue said: "Jinghu officer Zhong Xiang's army rebelled, Wang Zhi was defeated, and he led his troops to surrender to the rebels. Are you still going to resist?"

Yang Jie actually started to make a relationship: "This old man and Zhu Tanhua once had a relationship in the palace. Mrs. Zhu's concubine, Mrs. An, was sick, and this old man came to see him for treatment."

Rong Jue was surprised: "The prefect can heal diseases?"

Yang Jie stroked his beard and said: "I used to be an imperial physician, and was granted Jinshi's background by His Majesty for curing the stubborn illnesses of officials."

Yang Jie was appreciated by Song Huizong not only because of his medical skills, but also because he was good at poetry and rhythm.Yang Jie's uncle is Zhang Lei, one of the four Sumen scholars.

By the way, Yang Jie is good at anatomy and has drawn a map of human internal organs!

He drew the esophagus, thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, five internal organs, blood vessels, diaphragm, etc. into an atlas.It is a pity that it was lost due to the war, and only some written records are left in later generations.

Yang Jie recalled the past: "When the old man treated Mrs. An, he talked with Zhu Xianggong about medical skills. He never thought that Zhu Xianggong also knew medicine. He also said that the heart beats to open and close, and the blood in the whole body is pumped. It is a pity that the living person cannot be cut. For chest observation, dogs can only be used instead. I killed more than a dozen dogs, and I am basically convinced that what Zhu Xianggong said is true. Zhu Xianggong is really a great talent. If he is a doctor, he must already be a generation of famous doctors."

Rong Jue was stunned when he heard that, what is this all about?

Now that the prefect of Guizhou knew Mr. Jinglue and the general, things would be easy to talk about.

Rong Jue agreed for a while, and asked, "Would the prefect dedicate the city to surrender?"

Yang Jie said seriously: "You can offer the city, but you must agree to two things."

"Prefect, please speak." Rong Jue said hastily.

Yang Jie said: "First, since you are called a righteous army, you can't slaughter and rob people; second, you can't let the court know that you are dead, and my family is still in Sizhou."

"Please don't worry, prefect!" Rong Jue was overjoyed.

Yang Jie ordered to open the gate of the city, and seeing that the rebel army Qiu had committed no crimes, he immediately had no doubts.

Li Bao heard that he was old with the Zhu family, and his attitude became more respectful: "The younger generation has seen the prefect!"

Yang Jie asked, "Are you going to fight Yiling?"

Li Bao said, "Exactly."

But Yang Jie said: "Yiling has no soldiers to defend, and we can send sailors to capture it. General, why don't you go north and cross the mountains to take Fangzhou?"

Li Bao was surprised: "Can you go to Fangzhou here?"

Yang Jie said: "There is a thousand-year-old road, and there are many wild animals and miasma along the way. Outsiders fear it like a tiger, but it is not difficult to walk, and there are many mountain people living along the way. I have a soup, decocted in the morning and evening to prevent miasma. As for wild animals, The general must not be afraid."

The horror of Shennongjia lies in the fact that it is easy to get lost, there are many wild animals, and the weather changes suddenly. In ancient times, there was also the worry of miasma.

However, 90% of the ancient road from Zigui to Fangling follows the river valley, so it is not easy to get lost, and the climate does not change much. Just beware of wild animals and miasma.

Moreover, there are sporadic mountain dwellers living in those river valleys, so it is not a no-man's land.

(End of this chapter)