In summer and autumn, the north wind rises, and the grass and trees bend their waists.

In the northeast of Pingcheng, Yanmen County, Dahan Prefecture, under Baishan Mountain, several roe deer with different coats and colors are grazing with their heads down.

Suddenly, an arrow whizzed from a distance, heading straight for one of the pale roe deer. However, perhaps because the wind was too strong, the arrow that was originally aimed at the neck deviated a lot, and only hit the roe deer in the thigh.

Gongsun Xun, who was dressed in the light armor of the crane crown and shot this arrow, was greatly disappointed, but it didn't matter, this roe deer lost its ability to move after all, and the other group of roe deer saw their companions being attacked, but they didn't dodge or run, but just exploded the white hair on their buttocks, as if this could scare away the more than ten elite light armored cavalrymen with swords and bows that suddenly appeared on the hills over there.

At this moment, Han Dang, Cheng Pu and even other elite guards who were following Gongsun Xun did not hesitate anymore, and drew their bows one after another, but it was this group of roe deer that took them all.

"Roast roe deer and eat it today." There was no arrow to kill, and Gongsun Xun in the gust of autumn wind also seemed a little excited. "If the wind is strong, you must find a leeward place with no grass and trees to light a fire, and the province will set fire to the mountain...... Let's go to the valley from last time! ”

Naturally, the people hurriedly agreed, and then put the roe deer on their horses and went straight to the valley.

"Shaojun." When he arrived at the place, Han Dang was about to peel the skin with a dagger, but suddenly stopped.

"What?" Gongsun Xun, who had just sat on a piece of bluestone, couldn't help but be curious.

"Why don't you go under the knife?" Han Dang pointed to the dead roe deer that had been hit by an arrow in both his knee and neck.

"Why?" Gongsun Xun became more and more dazed.

"Hmm......" Han Dang replied in a somewhat mysterious low voice. Shaojun, look at this roe deer, the color is light, can it barely be regarded as a white roe deer? Although I don't read much, I also know that this white prey is auspicious, right? ”

Gongsun Xun immediately laughed: "You quickly peel the skin and bake it!" Still a white roe deer? This roe deer obviously changed its winter fur in advance at the turn of the seasons, and it looks a little white compared to other roe deer...... I don't believe you turn it over and look at its ass, that's called white hair! ”

When Han Dang heard this, he turned over the roe deer and glanced at its buttocks, which was also very embarrassed...... Seeing this situation, the rest of the people, even if they were as calm as Cheng Pu, couldn't help laughing, and the embarrassed Han Yigong went down with a knife and pierced the white buttocks of the roe deer with a big hole.

Putting aside this little turmoil, everyone immediately began to roast the roe deer. Eating in the wilderness is not so particular, nothing more than setting up a fire, boiling some hot soup in a clay pot, and then the roe deer is just cut, then set up and roasted, and finally smeared with air-dried salted fish...... That's right, Amway's specialty salted fish, easy to carry, after air drying, crushed and sprinkled in soup or barbecue, it is extremely neat, and even has a faint umami!

Since this way of use was invented by herdsmen, this thing actually has a vague meaning of becoming hard currency in the grassland and border areas.

In this regard, Gongsun Xun's old lady has an evaluation...... Whether it is Xianbei or Dahan, the working people are the greatest inventors, and her grandson can only rank second.

"Shaojun!" Just as everyone had just cooked the soup and roasted the meat, and were ready to feast, a sweaty knight with a Liaoxi accent suddenly appeared at the entrance of this small river valley. "I found you...... Lu Zuo asked me to send you a letter! ”

Hearing this, Gongsun Xun hurriedly got up, but he handed the roe deer leg in his hand to the other party, and motioned to the other party to drink the horse and drink the soup, and then took another roe deer row, and sat back on the stone to read the letter sent by Lu Fan.

There are many letters, not only from Lu Fan, but also from those sent to the barracks and transferred by Lu Fan...... For example, the first letter was a letter from Aunt Gongsun.

When I opened it, I probably reported that I was safe, said something about the situation in Liaoxi, and then continued to hesitate to send Zhao Xiaoniang over.

Gongsun Xun shook his head helplessly after seeing it, and could only think of writing a letter to tell his wife after he went back, that life here is not stable, and finally don't let the little girl come to this place to suffer.

Looking further down, it is a letter from Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Xun doesn't need to read it to know what the content is.

In other words, now the two brothers are in Shanggu and the other in Yanmen, although they belong to two states, but in fact they are only separated by Gaoliusai, which is more convenient for transportation, and the correspondence is more frequent...... However, the two are only discussing one issue, that is, Gongsun Zhan's future.

Speaking of which, Gongsun Xun's luck is really bad, he happened to be a newlywed Yan'er Nest in Lingzhi in the first battle of Lulongsai that day, and then he followed his father-in-law to Shanggu because he was worried that Zhao Bao was the son of a eunuch and would miss his future, and he didn't get anything!

Otherwise, with his own level of daring to fight and being able to fight, how could he get a background.

And what is the situation now? Now the main thing is that Gongsun Chan is constantly hesitating to go back to Liaoxi, anyway, Gongsun Xun suggested that he go back, because after returning to Liaoxi, Zhao Bao can arrange a filial piety for the other party within a year or two...... After all, now Gongsun Xun has a future for himself, the pure and flawless Gongsun Fan has gone to Luoyang again, the thick-eyed and big-eyed Gongsun Yue is still young, and there is no one in the younger generation over there who can fight except for Tian Kai!

But Gongsun Chan himself thought about it more:

First of all, one is in the direction of Shanggu and Daijun, the imperial court has appointed the famous general Xia Yu as the captain of the Wuhuan school, and he is fighting all day long, no matter how he looks at it, there will be a big war, he is afraid that he will miss the opportunity to make meritorious service after returning to Liaoxi; And then the other, he didn't want to leave his father-in-law Hou Taishou, who had been promoting him, and the province was blamed, leaving a stigma, and affecting his future future......

In fact, taking these two points into account, it is safe to say that there is no need to worry about any extra thoughts.

But Gongsun Bogui, like that Gongsun Wenqi, couldn't hold back his utilitarianism, especially when he saw that the clan brother who had been mixed with him since he was a child had mixed up with Biqianshi's position, and he was an eyesore in the county next door...... Therefore, this guy has to have the urge to return to Liaoxi again every ten years.

As a result, Gongsun Xun also received an employment consultation from his brother almost every ten years.

Stuffed Gongsun Zhan's letter to the end casually, and then, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but light up, it turned out that the next letter was brought by Gongsun Fan from Luoyang.

When I opened it, it was good news.

In other words, the barbarians on the other side of the Lujiang River have rebelled again! Then the imperial court considered that Mr. Lu Zhilu had served as the Taishou of Jiujiang next door, and he had not only suppressed the local barbarians, but also was familiar with the customs and customs over there, and he should be very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, so he let him serve as the Taishou of Lujiang, hoping that he could simply suppress this group of barbarians as he did last time.

However, this appointment also caused a cascading effect, Mr. Lu came out of Dongguan, and then when he was about to set off, he probably felt that the University of Qishi Mountain was too nominal, and he really didn't want to mislead people's children, so he officially dissolved the University by the way...... All the disciples will be assessed a little, and those who write a letter of recommendation will write a letter of recommendation, and those who don't want to write it will be sent home directly.

And Gongsun Fan also specifically mentioned that he had sent some goods to that Liu Bei privately as a coil according to his brother's request.

After reading this letter, Gongsun Xun was actually quite emotional, thinking that this was the so-called 'historical plot', but unfortunately he was not in front of him.

At the end, it was finally Lu Fan's turn to write letters.

And said that it is a letter, in fact, it is more like an official letter, and it also reports some official duties when Gongsun Xun came out hunting without doing his job, and the previous page probably said how much armor or something, how many bows and crossbows and arrows arrived, and how to build the camp...... However, turning to the last page, Gongsun Xun became angrier and angrier the more he watched!

In the end, he couldn't hold it back, and directly smashed the roe deer ribs in his hand to the ground:

"Zang Manzi deceives people too much!"

"Shaojun?"

"Sima, what's going on?"

Whether it is Han Dang, Cheng Pu, or the other guards around, they should all be regarded as Gongsun Xun's own personal cronies, and when they saw this scene, they naturally got up and asked.

"Zang Min is still unwilling to allocate troops to us, I was in a hurry this time, he actually sent more than 200 companions to fool me! There are no horses! "Gongsun Xun threw the letter paper in his hand, and he was so angry." Isn't it that Brother Bogui scolded his son in front of Yuan Shao that day, as for being so careful? ”

When the people heard this, they were also full of anger.

In fact, Gongsun Xun really wronged the Hun Zhonglang to clear Zang Min Zang Boqing, and even he himself may know this, but he was too angry, but he was helpless, so he poured dirty water on others.

In other words, more than three months have passed since I received the appointment to rush to Yanmen, but Gongsun Xun's so-called other department has the taste of a bare Sima, otherwise he would not have been idle and ran to Baishan Mountain to hunt, and it would be several days.

As for the question, it's very direct and helpless.

First of all, it is not a matter of station, the imperial court obviously gave Liu Kuan face, and with a stroke of the pen, he let Gongsun Xun's other department be stationed outside Pingcheng City (near Datong in later generations), that is, the northernmost part of the Datong Basin.

Of course, it is not a problem of armor, the iron tools of the Han Dynasty are officially managed, needless to say, the scale of smelting is needless to say, and the supervision and distribution of ordnance are also very strict. Therefore, Gongsun Xun received the iron armor, weapons, bows and arrows, armor pieces, spearheads, and cow tendons according to the full number of calculations very early...... and a variety of finished and semi-finished ordnance. And until now, there is still a steady stream of things sent along the Datong Basin or from Takayanagi in the east.

For now, the real problem lies with the soldiers and the horses.

According to the compilation instructions on the official document, Gongsun Xun should have a cavalry qu, an infantry qu, plus a tun of material officers, that is, half-curved crossbowmen.

And it stands to reason that these establishments should enable the Xiongnu Zhonglang to allocate Zang Min.

But just think about it, when it comes to implementation, the five battalions directly under Zang Min, more than a dozen departments, which soldier leader is willing to divide the elite under his command? Zang Min's words don't work, huh? Moreover, the position of the Xiongnu Zhonglang is the same as that of the captain of the Wuhuan on Gao Yanagi's side, which is a permanent but not permanent position, and at this point in time, it has the flavor of temporary deployment for the purpose of fighting...... Since the war may start one day, no one is willing to share their elite soldiers and horses.

Even to be fair, although Hu Qi is needed to help the exit, the commander of the Han army, as the commander, whether it is the Xiongnu Zhonglang General or the Hu Wuhuan Lieutenant, if he does not have enough elite Han troops in his hands to suppress the formation, can he really command these Huns and Wuhuan people?

Therefore, even out of public intentions, Zang Min did not want to divide troops and horses to Gongsun Xun...... To put it bluntly, although they are all subordinates, who made you belong to another department? The latter is really anxious, that is, he is divided into two tuns to deal with it.

By the way, the so-called companion refers to the existence of a person who has committed a crime and is confiscated as a military slave, generally as a death squad or as a miscellaneous worker, and his status is very low.

As for the horses, in fact, in addition to the selfishness of the military leaders under Zang Min, there is also the reason why the local economic foundation of Bingzhou is too weak.

In other words, the border counties of Bingzhou and Youzhou will receive money and grain support from the inland counties, which is the so-called central financial support. But Youzhou guards the Liaohe Plain and the Hebei Plain, and its own hematopoietic ability is still not bad, and when the two are added, life can basically go on.

But it can't be done here, it's too poor and the population is small...... For example, Yanmen County is already one of the three core counties in the state (the other two are Shangdang and Taiyuan), but the dozen or so cities in the entire Yanmen County have only 120,000 registered population, which is not even as good as the poorest county in Youzhou next door!

As for Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Xihe, Shuofang, Wuyuan, etc., outside the three major counties, they are simply the poorest and most miserable places in the entire Han Dynasty! Even the only way to maintain dominance is to use garrison points!

In this way, the army of Bingzhou can basically only rely on the central treasury to feed, so it is no wonder that Zang Min is more and more reluctant to share the money to buy horses for Gongsun Xun, or directly allocate a cavalry horse to him......

In short, in the words of the official document sent by Zang Zhonglang to Gongsun Sima, the state affairs are difficult, and everyone must understand each other.

However, understanding is understanding, from Gongsun Xun's point of view, no one can stop him from scolding here!

"Can the accompaniment be reluctantly used?" Han Dang frowned and asked. "Pick it, you can always make up that material official, right?"

"It's too much." Cheng Pu also frowned. "It's not that these people don't have the courage, but that they all have no fighting spirit, and the imperial court will not allocate military salaries and equipment to their subordinates ......"

"So what the hell should I do?" Han Dang also became nervous. "Without horses and soldiers, are we not empty shelves? Then Zang Zhonglang will not be afraid of the court's blame? ”

"He asked me to recruit troops on the spot in Yanmen County!" Gongsun Xun, who finally recovered his breath, sneered. "He said that when I had recruited some soldiers, and the winter money and food had arrived, he would come with me with some horses from the Huns...... Anyway, what he meant was to take his time, and he could always make up the compilation in two or three years! ”

"Or ...... Write a letter to try with Liu Gong? Han Dang couldn't help but make a suggestion.

"This kind of trivial matter has to ask the captain to come forward, even if the matter is done, people will laugh at it." Gongsun Xun shook his head again and again. "If you want to say that you are ruthless to impeach a 2,000 stone, it's almost ......"

"But what should we do?" Cheng Pu asked embarrassedly. "It can't really take a year or two to get the people and horses together, right? At that time, don't talk about meritorious service, I'm afraid that you won't be able to go to the battlefield. ”

"Two or three hundred horses are not very difficult." Gongsun Xun gritted his teeth and said. "It's only two or three million dollars in the horse-producing land. I wrote to my mother and asked her to pay for the horses I bought for me in Kamiya and Daigun, and when the time came, we could go directly to Takayanagi next to me to receive them...... The biggest problem is the soldiers! Not to mention that Yanmen is sparsely populated and difficult to recruit soldiers, is it the same thing to say that recruits and veterans are the same thing? ”

Han Dang and Cheng Puqi were silent.

"Let's go!" After thinking about it again and again, Gongsun Xun suddenly picked up an ear-piercing clay pot next to him, poured a few mouthfuls of hot soup, but it was a short beard on the side of his mouth, and suddenly beckoned the rest of the people to leave.

"Shaojun, are you going back to Pingcheng?" Han Dang hurriedly asked as he handed over the reins of the horse.

"No, go to the Yin Pavilion (Yanmen Junzhi)." Gongsun Xun took the reins of the horse and turned over on the horse. "Let's go find the Yanmen Taishou to fight the autumn wind!"

"At the beginning, Taizu was twenty years old, and he took Sima Tun Pingcheng from other departments, tasted hunting white mountaineering, and returned with white deer." - "Old Yan Book". Volume I. Emperor Taizu Wu Benji

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