Chapter 134: The Way to Live

Liu Zhilun immediately disbanded the people in Zunhua City after confirming that the main force of the Jin army returned to the north.

Because his family has been farming for generations, he has helped his father and brother with farm work since he was a child, and he used to collect firewood and sell it to supplement the family.

The grassroots scholar knew how important the farming time should be, so he dismissed the people of Zunhua and asked them to go home to farm, and within a few days, only a part of the aborigines remained in Zunhua City.

On the day Huang Han received the holy decree, he entrusted the eunuch and Lou Yun, the chief banner officer of the Jinyi Guard, to escort the angels to Zunhua, to do a good deed.

The eunuch was an acquaintance, and he once followed Fang Yihua to Jiulitai Village. Lou Yun followed Li Ruolian to stay behind to participate in the attack, and after the attack, the captain of the Jin Army's transport team, it was because of that merit that he was promoted two levels in a row to become the chief flag officer.

The two of them saw that Huang Han was very enthusiastic, and listened carefully to Huang Han's talk about the recent offensive and defensive battles in Zunhua, and learned that Jiannu actually drove the common people with the intention of taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city, and the common people would be slaughtered if they walked slowly.

At the most tense time of the offensive and defensive battle in Zunhua, the civil official Liu Zhilun actually went to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city, and operated the bed crossbow to shoot several enemy soldiers, including a Jiannu Bayala, and the Ming army also snatched back the body of the white-armored soldier whose chest was pierced.

Huang Han entrusted Lou Yun and them to bring back to Beijing the 20-level true slaves, 30-level Tartars, and 100-level Qiding heads collected during this time, and let them widely publicize the deeds of Liu Zhilun's beheading of the first-level Bayala.

This is a great thing, of course Lou Yun agreed, he promised that within ten days, the Jingshi would definitely talk about the deeds of the Zunhua defenders who were willing to take risks to save thousands of Ming people, and Liu Shilang's great achievements would spread throughout Gyeonggi.

Liu Zhilun, who had been accompanying the angels, was amazed when he saw that Huang Han was comfortable dealing with the eunuchs and Jinyi Guards, and arranged for them to do things in a grand manner. He knew that Huang Han's move was to make a name for him, and of course he was grateful.

This is officialdom, you must spend a sedan chair to carry people, if Liu Zhilun reports his victory, with his background as a doctor, where is he embarrassed to talk about killing a Jiannu white-armored soldier with his own hands?

Huang Hanlai is completely different when he presides over the victory, he not only wants to hype but also add oil and vinegar, presumably with the big mouths of Jinyiwei to help shout, Liu Zhilun's glorious image of courage to save the people must be extremely tall.

The "Red Banner Army" marched from Zunhua on 9 April, with 800 ironclad knights, 1,100 mounted infantry, and more than 2,700 war horses.

There were also three or four hundred donkeys, mules, and bullocks, and 1,800 wagons, ox carts, and wheelbarrows.

Huang Han fell in love with the gun-lifting wheelbarrow designed by Liu Zhilun, and cheekily asked for it, Liu Zhilun has not yet been able to put this big killing weapon into practice, and now he will be able to experience actual combat soon by equipping the "Red Flag Army".

Liu Zhilun generously gave Huang Han a fifteen-pole wheelbarrow carrying gun, and instructed Huang Han to observe more in actual combat to see if there was a better way to improve.

Song Pengfei is in charge of the newly formed firearms unit, and now there are enough men and horses with two general flags, and these 112 people have all been the guns of the former Ming army without exception.

At the end of March, many Han people who had been rescued by the "Red Banner Army" learned that the "Red Banner Army" had given them 20 yuan a day for three meals and a day of military service.

Tens of thousands of people in Zunhua City also took a fancy to this beauty, and they signed up to accept the selection.

Therefore, Huang Han selected 2,000 strong men or men with a skill to accompany the army, of course, it is a bachelor, the old man is preferred, and Huang Han, who is not alone, did not let them leave their families behind, and allowed them to drag their families to follow the "Red Flag Army" to ensure that everyone is not hungry.

The "Red Banner Army" that left the south gate of Zunhua numbered 5,600, and not only seized the gold and silver treasures, silk, cloth, and iron materials accumulated during this time, but also carried a total of 20,000 stone of grain.

Liu Zhilun knew that he, the bureaucratic team of the governor of Shuntian, would rush to Zunhua to take office immediately after the retreat of the Houjin army, and there were too many materials and food hoarded in Zunhua City, and these things would be inspected and stored by the imperial court immediately, and I was afraid that there would be no way to deal with it by myself at that time.

To be able to provide help to Huang Han, who he appreciated, and to contribute to the development of the "Red Flag Army", Liu Zhilun certainly spared no effort.

Therefore, when Huang Han left with his men and horses, he asked to bring some grain and iron, and he generously promised Huang Han that he could take as much as he could.

The places that have been plagued by Jiannu are short of food everywhere, and the people take food as the sky, where can Huang Han be at ease if he doesn't bring enough food with the army?

It is not yet known whether there will be a harvest this year, and Huang Han always has to ensure that his men and horses have a year's worth of grain.

Most of Huang Han's subordinates and accompanying army laborers came from the grassroots, and they were all ordinary people who worked hard to dig in the soil, and they were even more reluctant to have food, so they shipped as much as possible, and even the cavalry dismounted and marched, and the war horses carried a stone of wheat.

One stone of wheat on the war horse was divided into two sacks, and if the cavalry warrior needed to fight on horseback, he could throw down two grain bags and turn over on the horse, without much delay.

In this era, the unit of measurement "stone" is very fucked, this is actually a unit of volume measurement, which is calculated with a measuring tool, one stone and ten buckets, one bucket and ten liters, one liter and ten stones.

As for how many kilograms a stone should be in later generations, there is a specific gravity problem here, and it cannot be generalized.

The heaviest weight of polished rice is about 90 kilograms per stone, wheat is much lighter, a stone is around 75 kilograms, and coarse grains and coarse grains may be lighter than wheat, but they will never be less than 70 kilograms.

The city jin of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of later generations, about 600 grams of a catty, so Huang Han carried 20,000 stone wheat with thousands of people, thousands of cattle and horses and carts, which was equivalent to 1,600 tons, and the loading capacity of a river boat in later generations.

The procession marched less than five miles out of the city, and more than 500 people, more than 70 percent of whom were women, and 30 percent of whom were children, knelt on the side of the road and wept and blocked the way of the army.

"Lord Huang, please take us with you! We, the orphans and widows, see that we can't live anymore. Woohoo......"

"General, we are helpless, please have mercy on the adults, give us a way to live......"

"My lord, the man of the slave family has taken care of the 'Red Flag Army' before he closes his eyes, and the slave family has been waiting here, and today it finally came......

Jiannu wantonly plundered Shenzhou, how many Han families died? Too many families have lost their strong workforce, and the more than 500 helpless women and children here are just the tip of the iceberg.