The snow is falling, and this year's winter seems to be extremely cold, and the mountains and rivers are covered with a thick layer of white cotton jackets.

Compared with the tide that has been swept up again in Youzhou, Jizhou, in Shangdang Taiyuan, it is somewhat quiet, but it is also relatively speaking, after all, the war took place in the neighboring states and counties, although it is blocked by Taihang Mountain, it has also brought a lot of restlessness.

In such a time of ice and snow, even the people of Yanmen Wuyuan, who are accustomed to the climate of the Northland, rarely walk through the county outside, not to mention that if it encounters snow, the cold wind blowing up is really like a knife, and it can hack people to death halfway through.

But in the winter of the early years of Yanping, it was a little different.

Because of the ongoing war between Jizhou and Youzhou, farmers from some small counties in the north of Jizhou began to flee one after another.

Different from the elite army policy implemented by Fei Qian, whether it is Yuan Shao in Jizhou or Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, they all continue to use the original recruitment system of the Han Dynasty, and the recruitment is by no means like in the game of later generations......

The source of recruitment, first of all, is all kinds of ranger prodigals and homesteaders who have lost their fields, but the number of such people is always limited, when these cannon fodder is gradually worn out on the battlefield, no one is willing to abandon their families and join the great cause of Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zan when they have to replenish it.

So what should we do when the war is still going on, and we still have to replenish the soldiers, and when we have to recruit the peasants?

Catch the strong!

Therefore, in such a cold weather, there are naturally more displaced people who have fled, and their families have poured into Taiyuan and Shangdang, which are relatively calm, from the Taihang Mountain Trail, even though they may die on the way, but at least it is better than being directly captured by Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zhan, and walking to the battlefield without a life.

The war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan is obviously impossible to show signs of peaceful coexistence, and no one has a bottom line in their hearts about how long they will fight in the future, and people are panicking everywhere when they are disturbed.

In those counties and counties located at the junction of the two armies, there are even more local officials, who simply use all kinds of strange reasons to resign, return home, and even run straight to the inner territory of Jizhou and Youzhou under the pretext of personally going to Yuan Shaogong Sun Zan to report the matter, no matter what, leave such dangerous places first. The big and small clans in these places are arrogant, and they don't all have the spirit of seeking wealth and danger, not to mention the so-called duty of defending the territory, but all those who are less timid will hurry off before the military disaster has spread to their own heads, and those are hundreds of strong villagers who have hundreds of strong customers in their hands, and they don't know how long they can stay in the local area.

The second reason why these people chose to flee was also to facilitate the flight of a large number of displaced people to Taiyuan and Shangdang at the junction of Jizhou and Youzhou, which was an even more desperate move by Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, the displaced people can directly join the army, so as long as the fleeing people, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan naturally arrested and sent them to the army without saying a word, so these people have no more choice, they can only survive in danger.

There is also a very important reason, under the situation that the two armies of Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan are fighting, the damage to people's livelihood is too serious. The so-called military and civilian fish and water situation in the past has long ceased to exist in the case of shortage of materials, and many scholars have to open a warehouse under the coercion of knives and guns, and they are "borrowed" by Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zan I don't know how much grain and grass. Not only that, but the destruction of arable land has also made these people completely blind to any hope for the future.

Youzhou's original scholar clan was basically less, especially after Lu Zhi's death, there was no decent leader, and the area around Shanggu County in Dai County was basically troubled by Wuhuan and Xianbei for a long time, so Yan Rou, who had some friendship with Wuhuan Xianbei, gradually gathered some people who disliked Gongsun Zhan.

For Jizhou, it is relatively peaceful, so the local government has not seen such a reckless army for many years. Those who are famous among the Jizhou clans are even more angry and angry, and the marriage relationship between the Jizhou clans is complicated, and they are involved in it, many people have found Yuan Shao and fiercely sued these border soldiers! In addition to anger, there is also double heartache. All this food is money!

The nobles in Jizhou, who were originally leisurely, also began to get nervous. These years have really not been smooth, and the war against Gongsun Zhan, which I thought would end soon, has been involved today, no matter which household in Jizhou, it has been greatly affected.

This day and that day are heads!

If Yan Ping fought for a whole year in the first year, how many years will he have to fight in the future?

The local scholars of Jizhou, in addition to the part that was deeply affected by the war in northern Hebei, the rest of the people who were somewhat related to each other also continued to come to Yecheng and visit Yuan Shao for various reasons.

Of course, these people came to Yuan Shao, and they were somewhat polite, after all, where was Yuan Shao's identity. Yuan Shao also knows how to perfunctory these scholars better than Gongsun Zhan, and he did not do such a domineering thing as killing Liu Yu like Gongsun Zhan, so there is also some face left between each other, although these scholars are not clearly named, but Yuan Shao also generally knows that it is the generals on the front line who do these things, so he pretends to be angry, orders reprimand, and gives some face to deal with the past.

But with the prolongation of the war, this kind of thing is difficult to break, again and again, after repeatedly, whether it is Yuan Shao or Jizhou Shi Haoyou, there will inevitably be some estrangement in their hearts, and whether such estrangement will evolve into cracks, or what kind of form it will become in the future, no one can predict.

In the midst of the snowflakes, this is already the territory under the jurisdiction of Zhengxi, and the large number of displaced people who came along the valley through the mountains and mountains entered the Shangdang Taiyuan area from this place.

In the open area at the exit of the mountain road, many sheds have been erected and many nests have been dug out. There were already more than 1,000 displaced people who arrived in advance, and every day they received some hot soup from the shed, and at night they huddled in a ball in the nest. Although it is still bitter, it is better than walking on the snow on the road.

As soon as these displaced people entered the territory of Zhengxi, almost everyone was resettled, not to mention anything else, in terms of food alone, they were already extremely generous. Even compared to the time when the Jizhou border was suffering from the winter, it was much better to eat, and the miscellaneous porridge distributed in the shack was also thick, and after drinking a bowl of stomach, it was suddenly warm and scalding comfortably, at least for an hour or two!

When I was at the border of Jizhou, although there was a broken wall to block the wind, but a few people a day in a few people, maybe there was such a bowl of coarse grain to fill the stomach, what two meals a day, what a bowl per person, but also don't think about it, every day and every night are hungry to the eyes are green, I can't wait to even rub the frozen soil on the ground and eat!

Not to mention how many poor people don't even have broken houses, and they also rely on digging nests to come out to live!

It is precisely because of this food that so many displaced people can be affected by entering the territory of Zhengxi. Although there are still some who can't hold on to freezing to death on the road, these homeless people have long been numb, in the winter season of every year, even if they stay in the original home, normally speaking, ten people will die at least one or two, some old and weak even in order not to drag down the young people in the family, while they can still walk, quietly entered the mountain in the middle of the night!

It's a little more alive now......

For the expedition to the west, these refugees also felt a little strange. At least the relationship with Yuan Shao is needless to say strange. But it's not about them, the little people in the border areas. What they are concerned about is whether they can live in this world for a few more years.

Since entering the territory of Zhengxi, Zhengxi's subordinates have sent a lot of elite soldiers directly into their ranks, thinking that they are the commanders. With these soldiers in charge of management, there are many things that are customary in the homeless team.

Although they need to run around in the snow during the day, build huts or dig dens or something, they also have some care, and the multigrain porridge distributed every day is as much as they want, and there is basically nothing to withhold, and there is no abduction of the women in the ranks of the homeless, so although the restrictions are tight, and there are still some so-called "health regulations" that must be followed at all times, but these homeless people have no opinions.

In this kind of time, it's good to survive, not to mention that Zhengxi eats and drinks, and does whatever he orders.

Although these displaced people may not know how to see what kind of strong soldiers these soldiers are in the west, they can casually deploy and transport truckloads of grain, grass and all kinds of materials, which is enough to prove how rich the expedition to the west is.

Anyway, even if these homeless people are in Youzhou, Jizhou, most of them are attached to the fortresses everywhere to survive, and now they are attached to Feiqian, the general of Zhengxi who is obviously more powerful than those of the previous scholars, for these homeless people who are accustomed to hard work, it may not be a bad thing.

Some of the more sturdy ones who came earlier have been incorporated and migrated inward, while those who remain here are mostly those who came later and are not very fit to continue the long journey.

Because of this, the shelter for displaced people set up near Shangdang Taiyuan seems to be quite orderly, and there is no disturbance.

Zhang Liao took Zhang Xiu and more than 20 personal guards, standing on a hill not far away, looking at everything in front of him, and his expression was quite satisfied. Although the weather was really cold, none of the surrounding guards showed the appearance of shrinking their hands and feet, standing straight beside Zhang Liao, and even the iron armor on his body was infected with wind and snow.

At this moment, Sima Zheng, a military lieutenant in charge of the camp for sheltering the homeless camp, respectfully replied to Zhang Liao: "Captain Qiqi, these days, there are a total of 1,326 new homeless people, and 47 of them can't stay up at night and freeze to death, all of them are old and weak. Each person is given two meals of thick porridge a day, and some hot soup is served. Every hour there are soldiers and horses patrolling the camp, but anyone who violates the law will be punished on the spot! ”

"It's pretty well restrained!" Zhang Liao nodded and said, "Good life look, there may be homeless people coming next!" Although the weather is cold and the epidemic is not easy to occur, the rules that should be in place cannot be relaxed at all! ”

Jun Sima surrendered, and then stepped back without mentioning it.

Zhang Xiu was beside Zhang Liao, and when he saw Zhang Liao's expression a little lonely, he couldn't help asking, "Captain, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Liao first shook his head, then exhaled slightly, and said, "It's nothing, I just heard that the Yanmen area also suffered a snow disaster...... Now it's ten households and nine empty......"

When Zhang Xiu heard this, he couldn't help but be silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"It's okay, I just remembered it by chance......" Zhang Liao didn't feel sad for long, and said, "At least we're pretty good here!" By the way, the one who came here some time ago...... Well, Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan, are you still in the pot now? ”

"Hehe......" Speaking of this Xu You, Zhang Xiu couldn't help laughing, and after laughing a few times, he said, "Captain, I've never seen such a person!" It is said that in the post house, I saw those who came with gifts, and those who came empty-handed! Also, I really have eyes and hands, I can't see anything good, I heard that I saw Jia Yuanjun's carriage two days ago, and I thought it was good, and then I was cheeky and wanted to go! ”

"Hahahaha......" Zhang Liao also laughed, and then turned the horse's head and said, "If General Yuan's command is such a figure, we will be much more relieved!" But you can't underestimate this Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan, or use a strategy to underestimate the enemy! And this guy can't linger in Huguan, according to Jia Yuanjun, his subordinates wander around Huguan every day with various excuses, and most of them are also surveying the terrain and our armaments! ”

Zhang Xiu raised her eyebrows, and said with some surprise: "I thought this person was a greedy person!" But we're all outside now, and this guy is useless even if he looks around Huguan! It's just that this weather, Erlang is stationed outside, and it is still a little harder......"

"It's going to be a few days in a few days......," Zhang Liao stepped forward and said, "The lord has already sent people to greet him, and this Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan can't delay for a long time, and it will be almost the same if he stays for a few days...... However, these times let the sons and daughters pay more attention, and the sentry spies are also put far away, but anyone who spies on the military intelligence will be killed! ”

Zhang Xiu also followed, and said loudly: "This is nature!" ”

Although the time of winter is difficult, but after all, spring is not far away, and now it is getting better and better under the rule of Zhengxi, what can these temporary hardships be?

Yanmen, Northland, Jizhou, the world, these words are churning in Zhang Liao's heart, somehow, Zhang Liao suddenly felt that the gap between himself and the general of Zhengxi Fei Qian seems to be getting bigger and bigger, although the original friendship has not decreased in the slightest, but the current general of Zhengxi Fei Qian has indeed far exceeded many people......

Sometimes Zhang Liao couldn't help but compare himself with Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, but found that if he did it himself, it would definitely be impossible to achieve what he did today.

As for Wen Hou......

To tell you the truth, most of the time it can't.

This feeling is like just a little brother who followed him, but in a blink of an eye, it became a back that could only look up at the top and drift away.

It's uncomfortable, it's a little bit.

Zhang Liao let out a long roar, and a long white smoke spat out of his mouth, which dissipated in the air. However, as long as he can calm the north and regain Yanmen, even if he Zhang Liao bows down at the feet of the original little brother, what does it matter?

Let's keep up! At least for now, this direction is not bad!