The next day, a group of wounded soldiers in the battalion took the people's ox cart to a section town called Wuzhen in the southwest of Luzhou City. There were about forty or fifty wounded soldiers in the army, and people kept dying on the road, so they had to dig a pit and bury the matter hastily. Most of the wounded can only be cared for by the people, and there is only one person in the army who is called Langzhong, who has an official position of a clerk who does not enter the stream, and may do some copying work, and in wartime he became Langzhong who healed wounded soldiers. No matter what his medical skills were, he couldn't look at so many people.

A town is a military stronghold at the county level, and it is generally garrisoned by a town general and an army. But when Guo Shao came to Wuzhen Town, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him, this is a town?

There is a memorial arch on the loess road, on which are written the three words of Wuzhen Town, which is probably the most trace of human civilization in this place. Behind the archway, the dilapidated and collapsed earthen wall has shown signs of weathering, and there are holes everywhere, so the simple city gate is just a decoration, and there are no sentry soldiers. From a distance, there were many low, dilapidated houses in the city, some of which were thatched huts, probably similar to shacks; It is said to be a town, and it doesn't seem to be much different from a village.

When I entered the town, I saw all the old and weak women, the young and strong men, and the disabled old men in ragged clothes who came to beg.

The person who came out to hand over the official document was a fat man, claiming to be a town general and named Li Desheng, but he didn't see the slightest appearance of a military general. Li Desheng was forced to scatter the wounded soldiers in various houses, and forcibly ordered each wounded soldier to be provided with food and given to others to take care of by the surrounding ten families in turn.

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

After settling down, it was not wrong for Guo Shao and others to feel that this place was like a village, in addition to the name of Wuzhen Town, there was also another name here called "Widow's Village". Because there are almost only a few kinds of people in Wuzhen Town: the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the widows.

The states under the jurisdiction of the Zhaoyi Army in Hedong have long been responsible for resisting attacks from the Northern Han and Khitan, and have always been a northern manpower barrier for the Central Plains Dynasty. There were frequent wars and many casualties. Some of the town soldiers died or were disabled, and the families who depended on military salaries for survival lost their sources of livelihood, and the Luzhou staff government was unable to continue to provide for them; As a result, those people would be forcibly moved out of the military strongholds, and they would be given another place and some land to fend for themselves. The town of Wuzhen is one such place.

Barren farmland, backward economy, famine, banditry, and military disasters are rampant, and most of the people who have moved here do not have a strong labor force, so people live in a very difficult situation. Rao is like this, the military government still does not miss the opportunity to transfer some of the burdens to these suffering people, and raising the wounded soldiers is one of the burdens, and the military government has not even transferred a single piece of food.

Next to Guo Shao's place lived there was a thatched hut and dilapidated house, in which lived a lonely old woman, blind and skinny, relying on the alms of the townspeople to hang her breath. It didn't take long to hear about her, her husband and three sons died on the battlefield one after another, and her daughter was caught in the haystack by the Khitans when they went south** to death, and now the whole family is left with such an old woman who is half in the ground.

To be alive is also like a pain. Guo Shao and the others heard the old woman's dry howl every day.

Luo Mengzi couldn't see such a tragic thing, and often saved part of his rations to the blind old woman. Yang Biao occasionally complained and scolded: "What do you do when you are alive, everything is gone when you close your eyes, what's the point of being alive!" ”

But this guy is cheap, Guo Shao hasn't heard a good word about him for so long; But Yang Biao's words are ugly, and he will also drop half a cake or something. Guo Shao thinks that a person's good does not have to listen to what he says, but depends on what he does.

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The three of them get along day and night, and the relationship is better than when they were in Tokyo, and after a while, they discuss being called brothers.

Luo Mengzi proposed to make Guo Shao the eldest brother. Guo Shao was the youngest of the three, and he immediately excused himself: "Brother Yang is many years older than me, how can you call my eldest brother like me?" ”

Luo Mengzi said indifferently: "We are not born by the same parents, we only rely on our ability to judge the size, depending on the age!" In the play, Liu Xuande is younger than Guan Gong, isn't he also a big brother? ”

Guo Shao groaned and swept Yang Biao's face with a casual look. Yang Biao said with a straight face: "Luo Er's words are not rough, but they have to be judged by their ability." ”

"Brother Yang is really convinced?" Luo Mengzi said with a hippie smile, "When I was in Tokyo, my eldest brother was one level older than you, didn't Brother Yang think that he was a dignified person who couldn't let go of his face?" ”

This guy really doesn't open any pot and which pot to mention, Guo Yang didn't mention the previous festival for a long time, Luo Mengzi is good, and he will come when he opens his mouth.

Yang Biao snorted: "If Yang is a person who is not convinced, he will not call a big brother on the neck of the knife holder!" ”

Guo Shao listened to it and did nonsense, saying too much was hypocrisy, and immediately made a decision: "Okay, then I will reluctantly be the eldest brother for him, and in the future, I will be blessed and enjoy the hardships together." ”

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

Guo Shao stretched out his palm and held it in the air, Yang Luo and the others looked at each other, and also stretched out their hands in confusion, Guo Shao high-fived hard: "I am for everyone, everyone is for me!" ”

Luo Mengzi laughed for a while. Yang Biao still had no smile on his face, and only said in a half-loud voice: "That day, the general surnamed Zhao made a special trip to the military camp to commend the eldest brother, saying, 'It is appropriate to give the commander'; The eldest brother relied on the miraculous skill of slashing Zhang Yuanhui, although he can also convince the public, but if he rises too fast, it is easy to have an unstable foundation, and in the future, a command of 500 people, I am afraid that it will not be enough to rely on the help of the two brothers. I have an idea, there are forty or fifty wounded soldiers in Wuzhen Town, and there should be twenty or thirty who can recover their combat strength after being injured. Why didn't the eldest brother take the opportunity to let them join the army? ”

Guo Shao nodded frequently when he heard this: "The second brother is reasonable, in the end, he is a general who has been the head of the capital, and his words are very pertinent." ”

Yang Biao said again: "Let's come from Gaoping, these wounded soldiers were in a camp at the time, and General Zhao had a loud voice that night, saying that you killed Zhang Yuanhui with an arrow, and the official family personally rewarded the whole battalion with a big shot." Although the wounded soldiers don't know us, the eldest brother can win the hearts of the people with this prestige alone. ”

Guo Shao thought for a while and said: "Zuo You, the clerk and military doctor, has a list of soldiers there, and now if it is not in Zuo You's hands, it must be in the hands of the town generals, let's do two things first, the first is to get the military list, and the second is to get the support of the town generals." ”

The three of them discussed, just do what they say, and act separately at the moment. Yang Biao went to find Zuo You, and Luo Mengzi helped Guo Shao to visit the town general Li Desheng.