Chapter 857: Knocking on Chang'an (4)
And at this moment, in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an City, in a dilapidated and dilapidated dock fort, Li Dao and Guo Yan began to worry again.
The Tian family around the dock fort has become the place where the Xiliang soldiers are stationed, and there are many people who quarrel with each other because of the robbery of the only remaining houses in the dock fort, if it is not for the friendship of the villagers, maybe they have all moved their knives, even so, there are still fights and brawls from time to time.
Li Wei and Guo Yan can also understand that the soldier's situation is caused by the restlessness in their hearts, but they have no better way, Jia Xu in order to avoid suspicion, went to the east and has not returned, and although Hu Zhen said that he would obey Li Dao and Guo Yan's orders, but in fact, he only wanted to return to Xiliang, and he was not interested in attacking Chang'an at all.
It's a good thing to have more people, but money and food don't come out immediately.
Fortunately, it is spring now, although the fields are deserted, but some wild vegetables still grow in the Western Zhou Dynasty, plus Li Dao and Guo Yan call people to go to the river from time to time to catch fish, although it is not able to completely solve the problem, it can last for a few days......
But it only lasts a few days.
You can't blame Li Dao and Guo Yan for squeezing out Jia Xu, or saying that they don't trust Jia Xu, it's just that Jia Xu is a person, how to say it, anyway, when Li Dao and Guo Yan saw Jia Xu, they always felt hairy in their hearts, as if they didn't know when they would be calculated, so they couldn't get close to each other.
Although Jia Xu said before, as long as he expressed goodwill to Hongnong Yang's family, there would inevitably be grain and grass sent, but until now I haven't seen much grain and grass, occasionally once or twice, there are scattered three or five heavy trucks full of grain and grass on the side of the road, and then I didn't hide when I saw Xiliang coming, saying that it was sent by its owner, but he refused to say who it was.
Li Dao and Guo Yan felt that these grains and grasses might have been sent by Hongnong Yang's family, but there was no solid evidence to prove this, so they accepted them, and they couldn't detain these subordinates who sent the baggage trucks, lest they would hate Hongnong Yang's family, and even the follow-up grain and grass would be gone, so they had to let it go.
Without Jia Xu's advice, what to do next, Li Dao and Guo Yan don't have many ideas, but now there is no money and food, the last batch of grain and grass has been eaten, and the next batch of grain is still nowhere to be seen, so even if they want to attack Chang'an, it is not very realistic.
Beneath the ruined wall of the dock fort, there was a simple straw hut, and the inside of the shed was steaming with steaming white steam, and it was cooking food.
Inside the basket was black, half a fist in size, which could shave a sore throat, and was only mixed with a few grains, and most of the rest were steamed cakes that were kneaded into a ball and steamed by the bark and grass roots that they didn't know where they were pulled. That's it, and he still seduces the soldiers in line to stare at him, and the corners of his mouth are still ticking from time to time.
Although these foods are difficult to swallow, they are more precious than anything else for these Xiliang soldiers now.
There were a few sturdy elite soldiers standing next to the basket, and while handing out black steamed cakes to the ordinary soldiers passing by in line, they shouted loudly: "One bowl of hot soup for one person, one steamed cake!" The general is merciful, there is fish in the soup! This is all just hit by the water bend thirty miles away! Salt was added too! Salted! Hey! You kid hold it carefully! Sprinkle it and it's gone! ”
No matter how big or small the fish is, it is just a simple shaved belly, and then chopped into thin pieces, and even the fish scales are reluctant to be lost, and they are all stewed in a pot of mess.
The big spoon of the firehead army stirred in the kettle, and then a spoonful of fish soup was added, which just filled a wooden bowl.
A few people who were somewhat familiar with the Huotou Army said with a hippie smile on their turn: "Big brother, give it some thick, the little brother hasn't seen any oil for many days, so I should pity the poor little brother......"
Huotou Jun glared at him, and immediately sprayed back: "Give you the thick one, let everyone else eat the thin one!" Everyone is a brother and sister, and you also have the face to beg! Hurry up and get the calf out! Although the words were fierce, the spoon in his hand shook twice.
The cheap soldiers hurriedly covered it weakly, and quickly found a corner to snort and swallow, even the fish bones were reluctant to spit out, and they were finely ground into powder in their mouths, and then licked the wooden bowl back and forth, which saved cleaning.
"Grain and grass!" Li Wei angrily slapped it on the table, "If you get Chang'an, Lao Tzu will scrape Taicang all over again!" In this way, after worrying about the last meal and the next meal every day, Lao Tzu doesn't want to spend one more day! ”
Guo Yan glanced at Li Dao, and then nodded silently. Before, he was just a more capable captain, whether it was weapons or food and grass, it was all deployed by Dong Zhuo or the general above, and he never worried about this kind of thing, and now the whole army has to take care of it......
Although Guo Yan doesn't like to talk much, and most of the time he is silent, it doesn't mean that he doesn't have any thoughts in his heart.
To support tens of thousands of soldiers to fight, don't even think about it without ten thousand stone of food reserves, although Guo Yan didn't say anything, but in fact, he already had the same idea as Li Dao in his heart!
Hongnong is disabled, and there may be some hidden in the mountains, but it is obviously impossible to let his troops go into the mountains to search, so he can only start with the Sanfu area, although this area is also regarded as the original Xiliang Army, but now Guo Yan also realizes that at the moment, only protecting the little military power he has on hand is the real thing, and the other ......
Just throw them all away.
"It's almost time to enter the realm of Sanfu......" After a moment of silence, Guo Yan's eyes flashed with a strange color and said, "I remember, some way back, there should be some villages, docks, and forts......"
“…… That's it! Come! ”
The soldiers outside the tent suddenly walked in and bowed.
Li Dao grinded his teeth, made a gesture fiercely, and said, "God who should be killed!" If there is a little way, we will not make such a decision! Since God doesn't give us a way to live, then we can struggle for a way to live! Send me scouts to find out if there are any villages within thirty miles of the perimeter! Found the quick report! ”
Doing so is undoubtedly killing chickens and taking eggs, but if you don't do this, you won't be able to live, and how can you manage a lot!
Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't know that the way they were forced to choose to raise grain and grass in desperation was to open a door for these Xiliang troops, a gate that was unscrupulous and wantonly destroyed, and from this day on, the Xiliang army completely lost the word "army" and became a "thief" that they themselves were unwilling to admit......
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At this time, Zhao Wen had already sneaked out of Chang'an, grabbed a personal guard beside him, and instructed: "You go east quickly...... Just said that so-and-so sent him a great fortune! ”