Chapter 55: The Wu Brothers

Zhang Xuan was resolute. Just go. However, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and the security near Linying has not yet reached the time when the white dragon fish can be served, so Zhang Xuan took dozens of his personal guards to ride, plus more than 100 rides from Luo Dai, a total of more than 150 rides. These 150 horsemen, as long as they don't face a large group of enemy troops, they can still walk if they want to.

As soon as he arrived outside the city, Zhang Xuan immediately felt a familiar feeling, and corpses were quietly exposed in all corners, some of which had already been ossified. I don't know how long I've been exposed to the wilderness.

Henan is a province that has history soaked in its bones. There is Zhang Su as a tour guide, everywhere you go, there are introductions, whether it is the Huayan Temple in the east of the city, the Xiaoshang River in the south of the city, the tomb of General Yang Zaixing, and the Shouzen platform in the northwest of the city. Introduce them to Zhang Xuan one by one. But the more Zhang Xuan became, the more desolate he became.

No matter how glorious the building was, but now only ruins remain, yes, ruins.

There are no people in the field, even if there are any figures, they seem to be animals, they dodge when they see a large group of people, and there are even some who are secretly cutting the meat on the corpse to eat, Zhang Xuan saw several corpses, and there were obvious traces of meat removal on them.

All the villages that are still populated have become dock forts. As soon as Zhang Xuan leaned in, he heard the gong sound from a distance, and hundreds of people climbed on the wall. glared at Zhang Xuan and his party with vigilant eyes.

Zhang Xuan sighed and said, "Let's go." It's not interesting to see it from any further distance. ”

What Zhang Xuan can control is only a few miles away from the county government, and a large area outside the county seat is in a state of anarchy, and the villagers are in their own way. Moreover, the winter wheat planting that Zhang Xuan attaches importance to is not much at all, or even less than eleven, most of which are grown by the wild ears themselves, and a small number are planned planting. Even if Zhang Xuan doesn't know much about planting, he also knows that next year will be another famine year, and if there is no farming, where will there be any harvest? Zhang Xuan's heart was heavy, and he no longer had the interest to look at it. Anyway, it's all the same, thousands of miles of barrenness, which has long been deeply imprinted in Zhang Xuan's heart.

"General." Luo Dai suddenly said to Zhang Xuan: "Someone is here." ”

Compared with the experience of conquest, Zhang Xuan was far inferior to Luo Dai, he trusted Luo Dai's words the most, and immediately said: "How many people? After Zhang Xuan received Luo Dai's warning, he also saw smoke and dust in the distance.

"There are probably less than a thousand, and less than a hundred mules and horses, so I'll take a look." Luo Dai didn't say a word, whipped his horse, and rushed out. Zhang Xuan couldn't intercept it at all.

Luo Dai is a master of art and bold, and when he rushed out more than a mile, he saw this arm. He was almost clinging to this arm, as if he were reviewing the troops, and he looked from the front to the rear, and only when he returned did two men rush out on a mule, and said, "Come and get a name?" But the brother under the command of King Chuang? ”

Luo Dai believed in the reins, and his relaxed appearance did not look at these hundreds of people at all, and he secretly commented in his heart that these people were just some rabble. Although Zhang Xuan only had one hundred and fifty horsemen around him, it was enough to defeat these people, and he said with a sense of contempt: "I am Luo Dai under General Zhang of Cao Ying, who are you?" ”

The leader said: "My name is Wu Laiqing, this is my younger brother Wu Zilan, I heard that the righteous army broke Linying, and I was going to defect to the righteous army." ”

Luo Dai said, "You wait. ”

After Zhang Xuan got Luo Dai's report, he asked Zhang Su, "How are the Wu brothers?" ”

Zhang Su said: "The Wu brothers are also the local people of their hometown, there is really no way to survive, last year Yuan Laojiu crossed the border, they took their brothers to echo Yuan Laojiu, and also pulled out a batch of poles. However, he was broken by the county lord in Huang Liancheng and beheaded two hundred levels. Now how many people are unknown. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Hurry up, please? Zhang Xuan didn't care how many people there were under the command of the Wu brothers, he cared about the four words of the hometown that Zhang Su said. If Zhang Xuan wants to gain a firm foothold in Linying, he must get the support of the local snake, otherwise it is a rootless duckweed, once the wind blows and the rain blows, it can only be blown away by the rain and the wind.

And Zhang Xuan regarded it as the foundation of the place, not only the gentry family like the Zhang family, but also the Wu brothers, who had prestige among the poor.

"Nope." Zhang Xuan suddenly thought that it was impossible to let Luo Dai do these smiling and welcoming hookups, and said, "Luo Dai, don't go, Qin Meng, you go." ”

Qin Meng said, "Yes." ”

But after a while, the Wu brothers came, and the Wu brothers came to Zhang Xuan's horse, immediately dismounted, knelt on the ground, and said, "Meet General Zhang." ”

Zhang Xuan immediately dismounted and helped the Wu brothers up, and said: "It is my Zhang Xuan's luck to be able to see the two heroes of Linying, Zhang Xuan is also a Yu person, they are all a family, why bother to be polite." ”

Wu Laiqing and Wu Zilan glanced at each other, and secretly felt a little happy in their hearts, if they were not desperate and knew that their strength was not enough to survive in the troubled times, they would not have come to Zhang Xuan, their original intention was to go to Yuncheng to join King Chuang, but before they could do it, they heard that Linying was taken down by King Chuang.

When I came, I realized that it was not King Chuang who took Linying, but an unknown General Zhang. It was not the king's lineage, but Cao Cao's people, which made the Wu brothers a little disappointed. However, he has already come, and he can't go back, otherwise he will offend this General Zhang heavily.

Now that I see that General Zhang's attitude is very good, and he is also from Henan, I feel a little closer for a while.

Zhang Xuan invited the Wu brothers to get on the horse, and he walked side by side with the two of them, saying, "How many people do you still have in your hands?" ”

Wu Laiqing said: "There are only 1,000 young and strong people, and hundreds of old and weak. General Zhang didn't know anything, but it was cold in winter, and he didn't even have to dig up the bark of wild vegetables, so he asked General Zhang to be merciful. Let's give the folks a way out. ”

"General Zhang, please show mercy to the general and save the villagers." Wu Zilan also looked at Zhang Xuan with a blank look and said.

Zhang Xuan also saw the Wu brothers' subordinates at this moment, not all of them were skinny, but in general, it was also a collection of a group of people called Huazi, and these people didn't need makeup to perform as a group performance of the beggar gang. Most of them looked weak, and most of them didn't have enough to eat.

"Okay." Zhang Xuan said: "Please brothers follow me to the county seat, if I Zhang Xuan eats, everyone will eat." ”

This sentence was said by Zhang Xuan through gritted teeth.

Zhang Xuan can't turn food into food. The food on hand is also limited, and if hungry people from all sides rush over, Zhang Xuan's food on hand is estimated to not even be able to support this winter. But Zhang Xuan really couldn't say a word "no" from his mouth.

If this is a woman's benevolence, I'm afraid this kind of woman's benevolence will follow Zhang Xuan for a lifetime.

"It's time to figure out how to get something to eat." Zhang Xuan thought to himself.

Sure enough, the defection of the Wu brothers triggered a riot of the hungry people in Linying, and I heard that there was food in the county, but all the hungry people who had a breath of air went to the county seat. However, the only thing that moved Zhang Xuan was that after countless soldiers and horses ravaged, there were not many hungry people in Linying County, but only 10,000 mouths were filled.

No more. This made Zhang Xuan breathe a sigh of relief.

If it were according to the rules of the righteous army, Zhang Xuan would now have thirty or forty thousand people, but Zhang Xuan would never do this.

As soon as Zhang Xuan returned to the county, he immediately summoned Cao Zongyu, Deng He, Luo Dai, Wang Jincai, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Su, Wu Laiqing, Wu Zilan, and others to discuss together, and the topic was also very simple, that is, the food problem.

"Although there is food in the army, it must not be wasted, so everyone's food must be rationed regularly." Zhang Xuan first set the tone and said: "All the grain in the whole city is collected, no matter whose family it is, it will be distributed by the county government in a unified manner, and every strong man must be formed in formation and come according to the rules of the army." One must not be allowed to take one less bite, but no one should be allowed to take an extra bite either. ”

Zhang Xuan's gaze swept over everyone, and finally stayed in front of the Zhang brothers for a while longer, and said, "Including me Zhang Xuan." ”

"Yes." The crowd did not dare to disobey. Said in unison.