Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 355 General Wen

On the tower of the north gate of Wucheng.

Zhao Hao stood behind the wall and looked to the north.

In such weather, the visibility on the plain is also very low.

However, without seeing it, Zhao Hao can also picture the city fifty miles away in his mind.

Ayer City.

In his previous life, he fought bloody battles outside that city for three months in order to retake the captive border residents.

At that time, the lord of Aye City was Yelu Hongji.

The eldest son of King Nanyuan.

The bravest warrior of the Rong people.

In that battle, he fought extremely hard, and in the end, he only saved one-third of the people.

But Wucheng has become an abandoned city, and the border of Song State has also retreated to the pass.

Ten years later, Yelu Hongji, who had unified Beirong, sent troops southward in three divisions.

Without Wucheng as a barrier, the pass was broken after two days of resistance.

"Major General."

Hearing the call, Zhao Hao turned his head and looked at a man who had just stepped onto the tower.

The weather was extremely cold, and if one wore armor, one would freeze to death without fighting, so the person who came was wearing a military jacket, with two pieces of wooden armor symbolically hung on the chest and waist.

The hat on his head covered his ears and nose, his face could not be seen clearly, but the only pair of eyes that were exposed were not big, looked from under the brim of the hat, coupled with his somewhat stooped, short and thin figure.

It's really a bit of a thief's eye.

As a frontier general, this image...

It's no wonder that the Zhen Guo Guild is suspicious of him.

And when he arrived at Wucheng with his people, he saw that General Wen greeted him like this...

I couldn't help but thumped in my heart.

This, is it really General Wen who insisted on defending Wucheng for three days in his previous life relying on the few people left?

It's just that after staying for a few days, he will never despise this short, thin middle-aged man again.

This person is really full of ghost ideas!

The whole Wucheng was turned into a bunker full of traps and pits by him.

It's just that the more he saw, the heavier the guilt in his heart.

Although it is said to be Tong Guan's scheme, in the previous life, if Lord Zhen Guo had a little more sense of the overall situation and a little less suspicion, Wucheng would not be destroyed, and Jinzhou City would not be looted.

Moreover, all of this was caused by someone who was related to him by blood.

"It's freezing cold today. In this weather, the cavalry of the Rong people can't run, and they won't cross the border." General Wen put his gloves in his armholes, looked out of the wall with his neck curled up, and said hoarsely. .

So, it's not that my subordinates are lazy and not on duty!
Those of my subordinates didn't have enough to eat a while ago, they didn't have any clothes, and they didn't have such high martial arts as you.

General Wen glanced at Zhao Hao, thinking secretly.

This young man has a pretty good body, he doesn't even wear a hood, he just stays on the tower.

Just wait and see, as soon as I go back to warm up by the fire, I will get chilblains.

"I know, we only have a few sentries on duty at this time." Zhao Hao pointed down and said with a smile: "But, General Wen, what do those people do?"

General Wen took two steps forward, and looked in the direction Zhao Hao pointed with his head.

Below is the official road leading to Aye City, but this official road is only 500 meters long, and after that, it is the original mud ground stepped by horseshoes and wheels.

At this time, a team of more than a dozen large mule carts was coming out of the city gate.

And in the wilderness farther away, there is also a team of convoys moving forward with difficulty.

General Wen squinted his eyes and said, "This is a caravan carrying our silk and other things to Aye City to exchange for fur and gold."

Looking sideways at Zhao Hao's face, there was no displeasure on his face, General Wen continued: "At this time, the wind and snow are heavy, and the road is difficult to travel, but the two sides will not go to war. It’s a good time, and the Rong people will also celebrate the New Year, and they need our silk and other things the most, and they can be sold at a good price.”

The voice paused, and General Wen said again: "The merchants over there in Aye City will also send good goods here in order to trade with our past caravan. At this time, the fur medicinal materials in Aye City are very cheap. And gold agate."

Before he finished speaking, General Wen's face darkened slightly.

Both Wucheng and Ayecheng occupy geographical advantages, and the goods are just complementary.

In previous years, writers would also participate in it and do some business.

It’s just that the [-] shi army rations were lost in the incident the year before last, and he couldn’t produce any evidence to prove his innocence (of course, Duke Zhen couldn’t prove that he did it), so he was very clear about Duke Zhen’s dissatisfaction with him.

Moreover, [-] soldiers in Wucheng could not be without food, so he paid for [-] shi of grain to fill the hole.

At that moment, all the property saved by the Wen family was filled in.

He thought that with such an attitude, Lord Zhen should be able to trust him, and believed that he would never tarnish the reputation of his ancestors and do such a thing that is not as good as a pig or a dog.

pity……

Duke Zhen still didn't believe him.

Zhao Hao sent someone to notify all the border towns about the embezzlement of military rations by the imperial court this year, but he also said that he would find a way to get food for everyone for the winter.

But the small pass next to it got food.

Only they don't have it in Wucheng.

It would be a lie to say that there is no resentment in my heart.

Thirty thousand soldiers!
How do they spend the winter without food or clothing?

If this situation is known to the Rong people, and they will go south to attack the city in the spring of next year, what will he do to stop it?
But no matter how angry he was, he could only find a way by himself.

Who told him that he was incompetent? In the past two years, he has not found any clues about that matter, and he doesn't know who did it!
If the real culprit cannot be found, he will not be able to wash away the suspicion in the mind of Duke Zhen Guo.

Every time I see my subordinates trustingly ask him when the food will arrive.

He felt like a knife was piercing his heart.

The bottom of my heart is colder than the wind and snow outside.

He even thought that he might as well go to the Duke of Zhen to accept the crime himself, and use his own life in exchange for the Duke of Zhen to let go of transporting food, so that these officers and soldiers in Wucheng can survive.

Then, at this time, Zhao Hao's messenger arrived.

Said that he would personally escort the grain and clothes over.

Then, Zhao Hao went to Guancheng in person.

Pressing down on the Shui family, Zhao Hao's uncles, aunts, cousins ​​and cousins ​​came.

Then all the officers and soldiers in Wucheng were summoned to announce in public that it was the people from the Shui family who colluded with the Rong people, killed the officers and soldiers transporting grain, and robbed the official grain.

After the announcement, in front of all the officers and soldiers in Wucheng, he personally beheaded the person who was connected with him by blood.

He didn't know what it was like at the time.

Joy, sorrow, and various emotions were mixed together, so that he didn't know how to treat Zhao Hao.

It was Zhao Hao's uncle and cousin who did the crime, but it was also Zhao Hao who helped him and Leng Xiaoxue.

He could only lead Zhao Hao to patrol Wucheng as a subordinate first.

Two days later, Zhao Hao's food team arrived.

Far from being one-third of the food he thought.

It is food and military uniforms that exceed their share.

However, at that time, Zhao Hao quietly told him that it would be good to only talk about one-third of it to the outside world, so that people would feel that their food in Wucheng was still not enough.

That's right, winter is the time when the armistice businessmen of the two countries come and go frequently, and at this time, they will not do more checks on the passing caravans.

and so……

Those Rong people who robbed food...

(End of this chapter)