Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The next day, a group of wounded soldiers in the camp rode in ox carts of civilian husbands to a town called Wupu Town in the southwest of Luzhou City. There were about forty or fifty wounded soldiers in the army, and people were constantly dying on the road, so they could only dig a hole and bury it hastily. Most of the wounded and patients can only be taken care of by civilian husbands. There is only one person in the army who is known as a doctor, who has been appointed as an inexperienced clerical officer. He may usually do some copying work. During the war, he became a doctor who healed the wounded. No matter what the medical skills, he couldn't see so many people.

The town is a military stronghold at the county level, usually guarded by the town generals and the army. But when Guo Shao came to Wufang Town, he was immediately stunned by the sight in front of him. Is this a town?

There is an archway on Huangtu Road with the words Wupu Town written on it. This is probably the building with the most traces of human civilization here. Behind the archway, the dilapidated and collapsed soil wall showed signs of weathering, and there were holes everywhere, so the simple gates were just decorations, not to mention the soldiers standing guard. From a distance, there are many low and dilapidated houses in the city, some of which are huts, which are roughly the same buildings as shacks. They are towns, and they seem to be no different from a village.

When I entered the town, all I saw along the way were old and weak women, few young and strong men, and ragged disabled old men coming up to beg.

The person who came out to hand over the official documents was a fat man, who claimed to be a town general and named Li Desheng, but he did not see the slightest appearance of a general. Li Desheng was forced to disperse the wounded soldiers in various houses, and forcibly ordered each wounded soldier to be provided with food and taken care of by ten nearby households in turn.

Of course, Guo Shao lived with Yang and Luo, and the other wounded soldiers also held groups with people they knew.

It was only after they settled down that Guo Shao and others felt that this place resembled a village. It was not wrong at all. In addition to the name of Wufang Town, there is also an alias called "Widow Village." Because there are almost only a few kinds of people in Wupu Town: the old, the weak, the sick, and the widows.

The provinces under the jurisdiction of the Hedong Zhaoyi Army Jiedu have long been responsible for resisting attacks from the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan. They have always been a northern human barrier for the Central Plains Dynasty. There were frequent wars and many casualties. Some soldiers in the town were dead or disabled. The dependents who depended on the military pay for survival lost their source of income, and the Luzhou aides was unable to continue to provide for them; therefore, those people would be forcibly moved out of the military base, and another place and some land were designated for them. Seek your own way. Wufu Town is one of such places.

Barren arable land, underdeveloped economy, famines, bandits, and military disasters are rampant. Most of the people who have moved in have no strong labor force, and people live very hard. This is the case, the military government still does not let go of the opportunity to transfer some of the burden to these suffering people, and the maintenance of wounded soldiers is one of the burdens, and the military government has not even transferred a single grain.

There is a dilapidated thatched shed next to the place where Guo Shao lives. Inside, there lives a lonely old woman who is so blind and skinny that she sighs with alms from the townspeople. It didn't take long to hear about her. Her husband and three sons died on the battlefield one after another. Her daughter was caught in a haystack and humiliated to death when the Khitan people went south. Now the whole family is left with such an old woman half-lengthed.

Living, it turned out to be so painful. Guo Shao and others heard the old woman's howling every day.

Luo Mengzi could not see such tragedy, and often saved part of his ration to the blind old woman. Yang Biao's partner occasionally complained and cursed: "What do you do when you are alive, and nothing will happen when you close your eyes. What's the point of being alive!"

But this guy is just a cheap mouth. Guo Shao has not heard a nice sentence after knowing him for so long; but Yang Biao said horribly, he would leave half a piece of cake or something. Guo Shao believes that a person's life does not need to listen to what he says, but depends on what he does.

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The three get along day and night, and the relationship is better than when they were in Tokyo, and after a while they negotiated to be brothers.

Luo Mengzi suggested that Guo Shao be the eldest brother. Guo Shao was the youngest of the three. He immediately declined and said, "Brother Yang is many years older than me. How can I be honest with my eldest brother?"

Luo Mengzi said indiscriminately: "We are not born of a parent. We only depend on our ability to determine how old we are! In the play, Liu Xuan is younger than Guan Gong, and he is also a big brother?"

Guo Shao pondered and swept across Yang Biao's face with a casual look. Yang Biao said with a stern face, "Luo Er's words are rough or not, so you have to judge the size by ability."

"Brother Yang is really convinced?" Luo Mengzi said with a hippie smile, "At that time in Tokyo, my eldest brother was one level older than you. Isn't Brother Yang the one who thinks he's the top performer and can't put down his face?"

This guy really doesn't open which pot to pick up which pot, Guo Yang hadn't mentioned the previous festivals long ago, Luo Mengzi fell well and opened his mouth.

Yang Biao snorted: "If Yang is a dissatisfied person, he won't call out a big brother on the neck of the knife holder!"

After listening to Guo Shao, he still talked nonsense, saying too much is hypocritical ~www.readwn.com~ and immediately decided: "Okay, then I will reluctantly be the eldest brother. From now on, I will be blessed and enjoy the same."

"Big brother!" "Big brother!" "Second brother, third brother!"

Guo Shao stretched out his palms and raised them in the air. Yang and Luo looked at each other and stretched out their hands in confusion. Guo Shao slapped his hands vigorously: "I am for everyone, for everyone!"

Luo Mengzi laughed for a while. Yang Biao still had no smile on his face, and said after a long time: "The general surnamed Zhao made a special trip to the barracks to commend his eldest brother and said, "It is appropriate to grant a commander." Now, he is in charge of the military power in front of the palace again. It seems that the eldest brother will really be promoted to the commander. With the help of the smashing Zhang Yuanhui, the eldest brother can convince the crowd, but if he rises too fast, he will easily lose his foundation. Commanding 500 people, I’m afraid it’s not enough to rely on the help of two brothers. I have an idea. There are 40 or 50 wounded soldiers in Wufang Town. If they are injured, there should be 20 or 30 who can recover their combat strength. These people have been beaten. In the chaos, the subordinate soldiers do not know the generals and have no place to rely on; why don't the eldest brother take the opportunity to let them join the army?"

Guo Shao nodded frequently when he heard: "The second brother is reasonable. After all, he is a general who has been a Dutou. These words are very pertinent."

Yang Biao said again: "We came from Gaoping. All the wounded soldiers were in the same camp at the time. Then General Zhao had a loud voice that night, saying that you shot Zhang Yuanhui with an arrow and the officials personally praised him. I'm afraid the whole camp has heard it. Although the wounded soldiers don’t know us, the eldest brother can win people’s hearts only with this prestige."

Guo Shao thought for a while and said: "The clerk and military doctor Zuo You has a list of officers, but if you are not in Zuo You's hands, you must be in the hands of the town generals. Let's do two things first, first get the list of military status, second get The support of the town general."

The three of them discussed it and did what they said, and then they split up. Yang Biao went to find Zuo You, and Luo Mengzi helped Guo Shao to visit the town general Li Desheng.