Outside Qingzhou City.

It was a deep blue night in the east, the sun was setting in the west, disappearing into the mountains, and there was still a red glow in the sky near sunset, and as the light disappeared on the horizon, the wind rose and cooled.

It's cold.

Suddenly, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time lit a bonfire in the field, illuminated its vicinity, and also dispelled the cold, sparks jumped out of the bonfire, and the stalks occasionally crackled in the fire.

One bonfire, two bonfires......

The soldiers built bonfires in places where the fire did not shine, and they did not build much, only burning bonfires in one side of the field, and the other half of the field was still immersed in twilight.

After doing all this, they retreated to Qingzhou City.

"Would such a move be useful?" someone asked softly.

During the day, they are in groups of ten, wrapped from head to toe, tightly and densely, in the cool season after autumn, they are also stuffy with sweat, they are responsible for facing the locusts in front, and some are in the rear to catch the locusts, they use the net, the mesh is small, the net is thick, the locusts can not escape from the net in a short time, Rao is so, they only eliminated the tip of the iceberg. In the face of the huge locust swarm, which is inexhaustible, they can't help but feel hopeless.

"Yes, that's the prince of Hou Ye, since Hou Ye left the prince in Qingzhou City, the orders he gave will always be useful. The other reassured.

"Put on your cotton clothes quickly, it's cold at night, beware of catching a cold. Another soldier reminded them, "I heard the captain say that after the change of guard, you can go and get a bowl of broth to warm up, and you will continue to go out of the city before dawn tomorrow." ”

The founding marquis left a few days ago, and before leaving, he left Pei Shuo, the founding marquis's son-in-law, in Qingzhou to share weal and woe with the soldiers and continue to exterminate locusts. left with Pei Zhengwen and an army of 150,000.

The soldiers who remained in Qingzhou City were less than a thousand people.

Say too much, in front of the locusts that are far more than them, this point is not enough for people to see; less is not much, Qingzhou City suddenly has more than 1,000 people, shelter and food and so on need to be arranged, fortunately, Pei Jiajun and the government soldiers transferred from all over the country have brought dry food before the army is pulled, and there is no need to use the grain stored in Qingzhou City's Yicang for a while and a half, the prefect wipes off the sweat on his head, and the food is not a problem for the time being, so it is the turn of the accommodation arrangements for these thousand people, and they can't let them stay outside the city, there are locusts outside, don't be bitten all over before they can rest.

The prefect's headache did not belong to Pei Shuo, he only asked the soldiers temporarily under his command to eat as well as possible within the limited conditions, get a good rest, and have enough energy to exterminate the locusts during the day.

Exterminating locusts is a long process, and they not only want to exterminate the locusts in Qingzhou, but also go all the way north to clean up the locust plague in the prefectures and counties on the way back to Beijing.

Pei Shuo stood on the castle tower, with flying insects and a few locusts flying low around the fire in the brazier, and soon fell into the raging fire, the fire light shone on his pupils, and watched the bonfire in the field from afar, hoping that it would be effective.

"Childe, the chickens, ducks and geese in Qingzhou City and nearby villages are all rented and temporarily kept in captivity in the corners of the city. Pei Zhengwen's personal soldiers came to report.

"Well, have you chosen the soldiers to be in charge of the drive, and the fowl should be separated from each other, and tomorrow morning see how the ashes burn, and the places where they have stayed are to be boiled with ashes and hot water and sprayed, in case the plague is born. Pei Shuo came back to his senses and arranged it in an orderly manner.

When Pei Zhengwen left, he took away the four people of Bobu and Yang, but left his two cronies to Pei Shuo, so that he would not be available, and the prestige of these two cronies in the army was second to that of Bobu and Yang, and they could control the soldiers below. The saint gave Pei Shuo the word, but Pei Zhengwen had not yet been listed on the list of the Chengjue, so they called Pei Shuo a son instead of a son.

Pei Shuo didn't close his eyes almost all night, and he was even more exposed, and the bangzi knocked a few times, and a certain rooster puffed up his chest and sang the first sound before dawn.

The gates slowly opened.

A soldier with a lantern hanging from the tip of his spear, and countless chickens, ducks and geese, driven behind by soldiers with experience in herding, quacking all the way out of the city, and behind them were a thousand soldiers.

"Ah......?"

At this time, it was not yet dawn, and the bonfire outside the city had already been extinguished, so Pei Shuo first commanded them to relight the bonfire, and then arranged for someone to burn the ashes of the grass and trees.

"It smells of burnt meat in there?" the soldier in charge of lighting the bonfire approached and asked about the smell of burning, and while the fire was still not big, they leaned closer to look, "Oh, God, there are so many locusts!"

More than one place, but several campfires were full of locusts.

"My mother said that the locusts are delicious, especially its legs, and a little meaty. I remember, I tasted it when I was a child, but it really only has minced meat, and when I am hungry, I can beat my teeth...... Well, but that's all, it doesn't taste good. ”

“……”

Straw piled up on the edge of the ridge is burned into plant ash, which is boiled in water and sprinkled on the riverbank - where they are out of reach, but where there are locust eggs, can be disinfected and killed, and the plant ash is distributed to the farmers, and the grass and wood ash is sprinkled in the process of ploughing the land, which on the one hand kills and disinfects, and on the other hand, it acts as fertilizer for the soil.

The fowl that had been grazed into the wild seemed to find themselves free, and ran happily around the fields, pecking and pecking in the west, not noticing the wheat grains on the stalks, and slowing down, but they soon took aim at their new prey, locusts resting on the leaves.

Locusts with dew-stained wings could not fly high, and even if they found themselves in danger, it was too late, and after so many days of blessing and scourge of food, it finally became a meal for the poultry.

At dawn, the lively fowls were fed and fell asleep on the spot, with only a few still clucking.

At this time, the soldiers found that there were more than half of the locusts in the suburbs than yesterday!

For example, if yesterday there were ten large swarms of locusts, today there are only five or six swarms left!

The workload has suddenly been reduced a lot.

The bonfires and poultry in the middle of the night contributed a lot, but the person who brought it all up was Pei Shuo, the general's son-in-law.

After staying in Qingzhou for two or three days, most of the locusts have been eliminated, and he left the way to deal with the locusts to the prefect, grazing poultry, digging locust eggs, plowing and sprinkling grass and wood ashes are indispensable.

After explaining, he led the team to continue to advance in the direction of the capital.

No matter if there is still anyone who is still unconvinced, but on the surface, no one doubts that Pei Shuo can no longer serve as the temporary commander.

Minimize casualties among soldiers and reduce their burden in a variety of ways. After nightfall, there is a pot of fragrant stewed chicken waiting for them, the fat hen, the soup noodles float with a layer of yellow and clear chicken fat, the Huotou army simmers the hen softly, a little force can be torn apart, sprinkled with a little salt flowers, the cold day, a bowl of hot soup to the stomach, particularly comfortable, the whole body is hot, if it is not enough, come to a few fried locusts to beat the tooth sacrifice.

It's not that hard to exterminate locusts.

The soldiers were satisfied.

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