Once you become disabled at this age, you are basically incapacitated. Even women are reluctant to pass on the family to the crippled.

In reality, due to the low agricultural production capacity, the vast majority of people are engaged in agricultural labor, so women need labor to support him. For a crippled person, who can neither farm nor support his family and pay taxes, of course, no woman is willing to pass on the family to the disabled.

Due to the lack of men in Xianguo, 50-year-old men such as Zhusheng had to put on armor and go into battle, and women over the age of 30 who gave birth to children had already begun to be conscripted in the rear to serve as laborers and transport food to the army, the exact amount is unknown.

The previous Yin Yangcheng transported grain to the army of Lu Jing besieging Feicheng, Bailiyan saw that Yin Yangcheng dispatched the garrison, and there were also people's husbands, because Han He killed many men in the siege of the city, and women accounted for more than sixty percent of the people's husbands.

I don't think it's this point yet, but the women are on the front line, which is not a good sign.

But the war has reached this point, but he is still gambling with the national capital of the entire Xian country for his own military exploits, does he not have any pity for the suffering of the people?

Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to think about it now. Fate seems to have played a huge joke on him, and he saw that he had escaped, but he didn't want to fall into the abyss again.

Now that the war is imminent, he never thought that one day he would fight on the battlefield. At least I didn't think that I would be a big soldier and be used as cannon fodder to charge into battle.

At noon, Yao Sheng asked people to send their luggage, saying that it was luggage, most of which were in Yin Yangcheng, and the army was actually a few sets of clothes and an iron gun and an iron sword.

One of the four men was armed with a spear, and the five were equipped with a bronze dagger. In addition to this, there is also a rattan card under a centurion. And the archers were led by a special centurion, and the archers were used intensively.

Zhusheng thought that he had never seen an iron weapon, so he took the iron sword and looked at it again:

"I said Wei Xian, this iron blade is not something that ordinary people can use, you are not an ordinary person in front of General Zhao."

"Sooner or later, iron will spread all over the army, but it is a bit strange at the moment. As for below, it's a big-headed soldier right now, and it's not a big deal. ”

Zhusheng had never seen an iron weapon, and he had a bronze sword inserted in his waist, which attracted many other soldiers to watch for a while.

At this time, Shi Chang Kuifa, where Baili Yan was, also came over:

"Wei Xian, this sword is good." Kuifa stroked the blade of the sword, and his mouth was full of praise.

"A lot of people were captured in the Battle of Feicheng, and I'm afraid they are all in the hands of the Chinese army now."

"Yes, you must be well-informed with General Zhao, do you think we can win this battle?"

Bai Liyan is actually very interested in this problem, he knows that this battle will definitely not be won, and even if he wins, most of the people standing here today will die in battle.

"Life and death depend on fate and wealth in the sky, only the day of victory or defeat will be known, and it is useless to say more now."

Kui Fa smiled and returned the sword again:

"It makes sense for anyone who has read a book to say a few words. Let's go, let's start dinner. I heard that there was going to be a war, so today I started to have meat to eat. ”

When everyone heard about eating meat, their eyes became different, full of color and longing, perhaps in the eyes of the big soldiers, eating was the only meaningful event in their lives. In addition to eating, it is to farm the land and pay taxes and serve the conscription, and now they are asked to work hard, and meat is obviously a great attraction, and it also means that war is imminent.

As always, I went to the queue to receive food, and the amount of food did return to normal levels.

At noon, there was actually only a thick light cake with a large diameter, plus vegetable stalks, but each person still got a piece of meat, and the meat was not big, only about four taels.

But the irony is that this meat is still the war horse left behind when he ambushed Jichang, and more than 3,000 were killed and more than 4,000 were captured at that time. These flesh are the war horses that died in battle.

Back in his camp, sitting outside the camp tent, Bai Liyan, like all the big-headed soldiers, squatted on the ground and chewed the barebread, and the others rarely ate meat, so they devoured the horse meat first, and then began to chew the bread and swallowed it in the stomach.

At this time, Xiao, who was sitting next to him, looked at the horse meat that Bailiyan was holding in his hand but had not eaten, and kept swallowing saliva in his mouth. Bai Liyan was eager to do so, and handed him the horse meat that had not yet been eaten:

"Here, eat."

Xiao shook his head and looked at himself again, his eyes were full of longing, and at the same time, there was a faint fear.

"Eat, I don't like horse meat very much."

"Brother Wei really doesn't eat it."

Xiao's voice was very small, very thin, full of femininity, like a second sister-in-law.

"Really, I don't eat horse meat."

Of course, Bailiyan also wants to eat, and if she really wants to eat meat, there is a way, but where can Xiao get such a child, maybe he will be bullied by the soldiers.

Perhaps it was extreme eagerness, Xiao took the horse meat in his hand, lowered his head and nibbled it, and in his arms, there was still a bare cake that he hadn't eaten a mouthful.

"Eat slowly, don't choke."

"Well, Brother Wei is a good person." Xiao moved his body and moved closer to Bai Liyan's side.

"Good guys? How do you know that Big Brother is a good person. ”

"The eldest brother gives Xiao meat, he is a good person. I remember eating fish when I just crossed the river, but I robbed the bad guys and my bread. ”

Xiao said very helplessly, the fish he said was the fish that Ding Yanghou had eaten on the night he had just arrived in Yin Yangcheng. After the Jin army retreated, Yin Yangcheng was busy with salted fish for more than a month in order to supplement food, but he was ordered by Ding Yang Hou to eat up the hundreds of thousands of troops in a few nights.

In fact, that little salted fish is not enough for 160,000 people to eat, and a small soldier like Xiao who can't help but be able to resist the wind will definitely not be able to keep the meat when he encounters a strong soldier. Coupled with the reduction of food, it is not uncommon for soldiers to snatch the rations of other soldiers.

After eating the horse meat, Xiao licked his index finger, his face was full of happiness, just because a piece of meat could satisfy him.

"Xiao, tell Brother Wei, why don't you have a surname."

"Daddy doesn't have a surname, and Xiao doesn't have a surname."

"I see."

Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel a little sad, and then Xiao asked again:

"Brother Wei is literate, so let's give Xiao a surname."

Xiao looked at him longingly, and Bai Liyan was a little at a loss.

In this era, surnames have been popularized more than a thousand years ago, but not everyone has a surname, on the one hand, it is the customs of different places, on the other hand, the cultural level is too low, and some are separated from the surname because of the law, like the descendants of slaves who broke the law, and they are not allowed to have a surname.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan smiled lightly:

"The surname is a big thing in the family, how can Brother Wei give Xiao a surname casually."

"But Brother Wei is literate, Brother Wei is a scholar, and a scholar can govern the country with a word, so a scholar is a powerful person."

From Xiao's eyes, Bai Liyan saw worship, the worship of intellectuals.

Perhaps the scholars of this era are indeed more respected than any profession, so what is natural in Xiao's opinion is difficult to understand in Bailiyan's opinion. If the surname can be given casually, it is actually no different from recognizing a thief as a father.

Continuing to eat the light cake, Xiao was closer to Bailiyan, maybe in his opinion, Bailiyan was a capable person.

In the next few days, 10,000 horses from Feicheng and Yin Yangcheng rushed to Xiaosui, so far the total number of Xian soldiers and horses exceeded 120,000.

It was only half a day's journey from Xiaosui to Duyang, but he walked for a day and camped three miles away from the city. Since he was no longer in Zhao Xun's account, Bai Liyan knew nothing about the Jin army's defenses, and could only observe them visually.

The Jin army was east of Duyang City, but not to the south or north of Duyang City. Instead, there are camps in the northeast and north and south directions of the city east of Duyang City, which means that Han He divided the army into three and deployed them in a zigzag shape, and the three battalions were horns of each other, and no matter which point the Xian army attacked, they could get reinforcements from the other two battalions.

To make matters worse, the Xian army came from the west, and Han He's army was entrenched under the city wall east of Duyang City, if Han He adopted the strategy of holding the camp outside the city, which meant that if the Xian army started attacking from the west, it would have to attack the city first before attacking the Jin army camp outside the east gate of Duyang.

However, if the attacking army walked from the periphery of the north and south city walls, and was attacked by the Jin army's crossbowmen on the city wall, the morale would be frustrated before it could attack the Jin army's camp outside the city.

However, if the deployment of the army is adjusted, the attack will be launched from the south or the north side. It is necessary to attack the city wall again, and at the same time hit the Jin army's large camp outside the city, no matter which attack method is adopted, the losses of the Xian army will be higher than that of the Jin army.

Of course, theoretically, the Xian army has more than 30,000 people than the Jin army, but at the moment of the Jin army's situation, the Xian army can't take any advantage at all, not to mention that the Jin army still has 30,000 cavalry maneuvers, and if the Xian army is stuck in a stalemate, it may be hit in the back.

Han cooperated as one of the few veterans of the Jin State, and two large camps were placed outside the city, and the words were exchanged with the city, so it was impossible for the Xian army to know whether the Jin army was inside or outside the city.

At dusk when the Xian army descended to the village, the Marquis of Ding Yang held a meeting in the Chinese military tent to discuss the siege of the city:

"Generals, the current Jin army is camped in the southeast and northeast of Duyang City, what do you think of the generals?"

When the words fell, Lu Jing took a step forward and said:

"Qi Qi Ding Yang Marquis, the Jin army relied on the city wall, set up two large camps outside the city, forming a mutual horn trend, our army rashly attacked the city from the west, and it will definitely be affected by the Jin army city wall. The last general thought that the direction of the main attack should be changed to the south or north of the city, and at the same time, a battalion outside the city of the Jin army was selected to attack. ”

"Even so, our army still wants to attack the Jin army camp while attacking the city. Ben Hou thought that the Jin army should be lured to leave the city of Duyang, and then fight again. ”

Marquis Ding Yang did not plan to storm Duyang City, but whimsically asked Han He to leave Duyang City for protection, and everyone outside the city started to fight.

At this time, Zhao Xun said:

"General Zhang, I would have thought that the top priority should be to find out where the Jin army is, and then surprise the Chinese army and then annihilate the Jin army."

"Shouldn't the Jin army be located in the city?" Ding Yanghou asked rhetorically.

"I'm afraid that Han He will not set up the Chinese army in the city."

"Isn't it Wei Xian again who told General Zhao about the prophet!" Ding Yanghou sarcastically said, and the others echoed him.

"The general is not a lie, if the Chinese army is located in the city, if the Jin army's camp outside the city is defeated, our army will form an encirclement of Duyang City, and the Chinese army will be located in the city, and it will be difficult for Han He to escape. If it is located outside the city, our army will think that Han Heding will set up the Chinese army inside the city according to common sense, and our army can only forcibly attack the city.

And there are two large battalions of the Jin army outside Duyang City, one of which is the middle army of the Jin army, and it is difficult for our army to judge the truth or falsehood, so it is even more confusing to our army. Therefore, the top priority is to find out where the Jin army is, not to lure the Jin army to leave Duyang City, I am afraid that Han He will not easily leave Duyang City. ”