Although the Lord of the Attached City was said to be "useless" by Huan Tan, when he returned to the barracks, Fifth Lun still felt different.

The most obvious is the attitude of his colleagues and subordinates, Liang Qiuci simply wants to introduce Fifth Lun as a cronie, and his face is pleasant, because he saw that the emperor and Fifth Lun asked a few words correctly, as if Jane was in the emperor's heart, and several military horses at the same level looked sideways at Fifth Lun.

And the subordinates such as Dai Gong in the army, when the fifth Lun entered the camp, he was even more exaggerated to the point of prostrate and prostrate, bowing and thanking each other, and he was sincerely afraid of the fifth Lun, and he did not dare to have the slightest neglect.

Imperial power is so magical, even if it is just a few words with the emperor, and it is not practical to give a little, it seems to have become superior, and everyone stares at the ugly Lin Wei Zhiben, their eyes are in awe.

At this time, Dai Gong understood that Liang Qiuci would never turn his face for himself and the Fifth Lun, and under the hint of the backer's eyes, he confessed to the Fifth Lun in front of Captain Liang Qiu in fear.

However, the fifth Lun was surprised: "Since I entered the camp, Dai Junhou has been helping with all his heart, what is the crime?" ”

I don't know if this is pretending to be confused or what the plan is, Dai Gong panicked even more, and blindly paused, saying that he was too old to serve as a military candidate anymore, and hoped to be transferred.

Fifth Lun is now reluctant to let Dai Gong go, Dai Gong resigned three times, he refused three times, and drank with him in front of Liang Qiuci, which can be regarded as a smile and hatred.

But behind his back, Wu Lun touched the sword given to him by Huan Tan, glanced at Dai Gong and said secretly: "If you leave, whose blood will I take to sacrifice the sword?" ”

The camp lost three hundred pots in two months, which was a lot of blood debts, and Dai Gong had to bear at least half of it, and the fifth Lun decided to clean him up when he went to Saibei.

But before that, with today's momentum striking while the iron is hot, the replacement of the fifth Lun to the middle-level scholars and dangbai can be carried out smoothly. The evil officials who played × on the small book were all empty, and the key positions were all replaced by their own people, and the camp had a new look.

These more than 800 people are firmly controlled by Wu Lun from top to bottom.

That night, the fifth Lun opened the burden that Yan Youtuo Huan Tan handed over to him? But I saw several volumes of military books? are all "Liutao", outside the ink characters in each volume? There is also Yan Youping's experience outlined with a red pen when he was reading books.

Expand that letter again? But it was Yan You who told Wu Lun something about the inside story of this Northern Expedition.

Yan You thought that ten years ago, the battle of the twelve generals against the Huns? Wang Mang emulated the Qin Dynasty's "helplessness" to resist the Xiongnu, and couldn't bear to be ashamed and underestimate the people's strength? A trip to transfer? Starting from the negative sea, the territory is finished, and China is exhausted.

And this expedition is different from the last one? Considered a lesson? There are not so many people, tens of thousands of elite divisions, and Zhu Tu Yong is a pawn who goes to the front line to transfer grain and straw and does not participate in the battle.

"Should it be to emulate Han Shiwei and Huo? Deep thunderbolt, traumatic Hulu? In order to replace the single in. ”

This was also Yan You's proposal ten years ago, but Wang Mang didn't agree? This time it is a re-pick-up of the strategy of the year. If this goal can be achieved, then according to Wang Mang's dream? Seeking to call Han Evil Shan to fifteen descendants? Divide the Xiongnu into fifteen countries? Use Hu to control Hu, and seek to be Yongning on the side.

"How can it be so easy?" Fifth Lun shook his head, just relying on this army full of magic and absurdity? Get out of the plug and give the Huns a head.

Yan You has been removed from his post for several months, but after all, he has connections in the army, knows some insider information, and has also communicated with Fifth Lun.

Let's say that the war that failed to start ten years ago did not hurt the enemy at all, but it lost 800 and 200,000 troops were stationed for several years, resulting in the complete destruction of the economy of the Bingzhou region, coupled with the great hunger and cannibalism on the border, which led to the influx of border people into the inner county, and this phenomenon has not stopped to this day. Eventually, deserters and peasants from Gohara and Daijun gathered to revolt, and thousands of people were in revolt, and although they were pacified, a similar situation has appeared in Beidi and Anding to this day.

Therefore, on this trip to the north, Wang Mang had two purposes: as the main force, tens of thousands of elites of the Taishi Wang Kuangbu wanted to take advantage of the replacement of the Xiongnu, and wanted to try to see if it could be done once and for all.

Secondly, 100,000 pigs were organized and trained by General Genshi, who promised to dismiss them as slaves and go to the border, while transporting grain and straw for the Taishi's troops, and by the way, undertook the task of clearing the border thieves.

Good guy, Wang Mang is going to fight both inside and outside, in the name of fighting foreign enemies, but in fact, he is "suppressing bandits"!

Compared with the distant Haidai and Jingchu, there is a straight road to Chang'an, which can threaten the heart of the northern Xinqin, which makes the imperial court care more.

But Wang Mang thinks that an edict to remove slavery can make people die? I'm afraid he doesn't know the real situation of the pigs.

"It's like using oil to douse the fire, and I'm afraid that the 'thieves' on this edge will be more and more suppressed."

Knowing that he didn't have to go to fight with the Huns, Wu Lun was overjoyed, and at the same time he thought about it, opening up the border to transport grain and suppress the uprising, is this an opportunity for him to take the opportunity to increase his strength?

He slapped himself on the face: "Don't be in a hurry, come step by step, let's train these eight hundred people well first, at least let them go into battle and be able to fight, don't scatter in a hurry during the march." ”

Two days later, Liang Qiuci summoned Wu Lun to the camp, saying that he had received an order from Lian Dan, the first general.

"First, Xu Xulian, the Li Jun who jumped from the high platform that day, will join this song." Liang Qiuci's face was as uncomfortable as eating a cockroach, he looked down on those so-called Li Jun, and felt that they were charlatans, but he really stuffed it.

Secondly, they were asked to camp near Maoling, west of Chang'an, and after training for half a month, they would set out on the road on the first day of February.

"Captain, we are going to camp in the west, so it seems that we should be assigned to the county in the northwest?" Fifth, get to the bottom of it.

I just don't know where it is, just don't give him the whole way to Dunhuang in Hexi.

Liang Qiuci couldn't call Fifth Lun as an ordinary subordinate now, but relied on him a little, so he told Fifth Lun in a low voice: "What we are going to is Weirong County!" ”

Weirong is the Northland, and then suddenly thought of ......

"The 'border bandits' who are going to be suppressed won't be Ma Yuan and Wan Yu, right?"

……

The opening of the army is the most tense moment of the fifth lun.

Not because of the distant enemy, but because they were afraid that the pig warriors, who were still safe in the camp, would take the opportunity to flee en masse once they moved.

So a miraculous scene appeared, when the soldiers of each battalion set out, they were tied with ropes, one by one, like prisoners.

The seventh Biao came to ask him: "Jun Sima, are we not connected?" ”

Fifth Lun hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "No!" ”

Daxin is not Daqin, and it is a serious shortage on weekdays, and it is common for two or three percent of people to run during the march, and the chief officer will not have any punishment, as long as you can get to the place and someone can complete the task.

When Xuan Biao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed his head: "The subordinates must do their best to patrol to ensure that no one escapes!" ”

"Less than ten people a day is good." Fifth Lun shook his head, wanting to ensure that no one ran away, and no one dared to play this package of tickets.

Fifth Lun still has confidence in the soldiers of the battalion, in more than half a month, he has increased everyone's food from two and a half buckets per month to six buckets, and after arguing with Captain Liang Qiuci for a long time, he asked for a set of winter clothes for each person, after the food and clothing are ensured, the non-combat attrition is also greatly reduced, even if he escapes, the life in exile is not necessarily better than now.

Before the expulsion, Wu Lun even promised: "All his battalions are tired soldiers, but I don't want to do this, just because you are my subordinates, not slaves and prisoners!" Fifth Lun hereby swears in front of the emperor God with his filial piety that when he goes to the edge of the edge, he will eat first and we will eat! What you eat, I eat! ”

This is a promise of food and clothing, although the fifth tyrant said that this trick was useless when he first entered the camp, but during the march of the army, this will give the soldiers a little peace of mind, they are most afraid of being abused by Lazhuang Ding on the road, and their lives will not be guaranteed.

In these years, the large army was extremely slow to travel, and it was more than 100 miles to Maoling, and the fifth Lun light cavalry could reach it in two days, but now it was divided into five days.

Along the way, the Fifth Lun Xing was at the end, letting Xuan Biao in front, and the Seventh Biao and Zang (zāng) Nu led their private servants and guards back and forth on the way, although the tangible rope was not tied, the invisible shackles were still required.

Because of the close attention, on the first day, dozens of miles away, only a dozen or so tried to escape, but they were all stopped, and the fifth Lun talked with them one by one, and heard a lot of miserable stories.

Although he had the intention to let them go, he still couldn't open this head, otherwise the eight hundred people would be dispersed overnight, and the fifth Lun asked these people to punish them for a meal.

The first night lived near the Changling Tomb west of Xinfeng, which was actually an empty mausoleum, did not bury anyone, but was repaired by Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty at the instigation of Chen Tang, but it was found that the cost was too great to be repaired halfway, and the low-lying terrain was difficult to fill in, so it had to be abandoned.

In the early morning of the next day, the night watchman came to report that one of the people who had tried to escape the previous day had run again.

This time, the fifth Lun was merciless, and asked the seventh Biao to scold this person fiercely, but he turned his head and went to visit him with medicine, and personally gave him medicine, which moved the fugitive very much: "I'm really sorry for Sima, I won't run anymore." “

After this iteration, on the second and third days of the march, the number of people trying to escape was reduced to single digits.

The second night was in the Weinan Tiger Circle, and the third night was at the Changling Lanchi Palace.

Here, the fourth Xian was already waiting with several carts of grain that had been prepared long ago, and the fifth Lun was born out of his own blood, so that the soldiers were fed, and at the same time promised again that when they were stationed in Maoling, the days would not be worse than those of Hongmen, and when they set off for Weirong County......

"Even if Ben Sima sells horses and swords, he will ensure that all the monarchs have a bite to eat!"

The hearts of men are made of flesh, so on the fourth day there were miraculously no fugitives.

However, the 7th Biao and the others caught the battalion marching in front of them, a dozen or so people who had cut the ropes and fled, and even heard that the 5th Sima was kind and loved the soldiers, hoping to take refuge in him.

If you want to vote, wait until you get to Weirong County, each battalion will be stationed in a county, and the Tiangao Emperor will vote for me when he is far away!

Fifth Lun categorically refused, and let the seventh Biao let the people go, and then they were left to fend for themselves.

They stayed at Duyou on the fourth night and arrived at Maoling on the fifth night. After a meeting in the Liangqiu Ci camp, which arrived first, Wu Lun learned that the most exaggerated battalion under Captain Liangqiu had only walked more than 100 miles, and a third of the people had already tried to escape.

Half of them were lucky enough to run away without a shadow, and the other half were beaten to death, and even stuck a dozen heads in spears to intimidate the rest.

Liang Qiuci felt that the fifth Lun was too good to the pig warriors, and implied vaguely: "In fact, the fewer people, the more empty space they can eat, and the rest of the people can be well fed and have combat power." As for the vacancies, when you get to Weirong, you can recruit them from the local area, the three-legged donkey is not easy to find, and there are not many two-legged homeless people! ”

"If Boyu can't bear it, those who flee can just let them run, and it is better to cling to Haoqiang and become tenant farmers in Guanzhong than to go to the border to stuff and eat sand."

Is this the culture of the Daxin army, Wu Lun was noncommittal, just control his own part, but after returning to the station, he also told the seventh biao and others: "At present, I have only walked more than 100 miles, and I will go to Weirong in February, but I will have to walk 2,000 miles, as long as two months, and the danger along the way is even worse than that of Guanzhong." When the time comes, if they want to escape again and again, let the private servants pretend to chase after them, and let them go. ”

At that time, the physique is too weak to walk, and the fifth Lun will even deliberately let them go.

Dai Gong has become extremely active since a few days ago, running back and forth for the fifth Lun, with his assistance, the camp has been almost set up, they will stay here for ten days, looking west, you can see the high peak of Maoling, it is said that there are also the tombs of the two generals of Wei Huo nearby, but the fifth Lun has no time to see.

It stands to reason that there is no day of rest in the army, but Wu Lun found that on the second day of camping, several military horses next to him sneaked out of the camp with their cronies and went to Maoling City to be happy, and Liang Qiuci knew it and didn't care at all.

So, after telling Xuan Biao and others to be optimistic about the camp, Wu Lun also took the time to take a leave of absence from Liang Qiu.

Liang Qiuci asked, "What did Boyu do in Maoling City?" ”

"Something." Fifth Lun replied vaguely, but Liang Qiuci immediately showed understanding and smiled ambiguously.

Captain Liang Qiu approved very simply, and this subordinate, who was different from others, finally showed his vulgar and ordinary side, and it seemed that it was not that he was not inaccessible.

The fifth Lun left the camp and rode to Maoling with a few people. Since the destination is the northern land where Ma Yuan and Wan Xuan are located, he has to meet someone before leaving.