Chapter 10: Rushing to Lulong

After Liu He collected the letter of appointment and the tiger talisman, he and Xu Rong stepped down and went to find Huang Zhong to rectify the soldiers and horses. It was only a few steps from the post station to the temporary barracks, and Liu He wondered: When did this Huang Zhong join them? Isn't that the Five Tiger General Huang Zhong?

Just when he was wondering, he and Xu Rong had already arrived at the temporary station, and when they entered the tent of Huang Zhong, they saw one: bright eyes, eyebrows divided into eight characters, a body of one meter eight five, a red hair helmet with red inlays on the head, and the red tassels on the helmet were eye-catching; Wear a pair of armor with a hundred refining beast faces; wears a collared embroidered cloud flying monster robe, and a pair of jade cloud sewn brocade heel boots between the thorny unicorns; Bring a carved bow with a goldfinch painting; Hanging a pot of phoenix feathers chiseled mountain wolf tooth arrows, leaning on a cooked steel knife, standing in the middle, majestic, and looking like a god.

"But Huang Junhou?" Liu He said.

"Exactly that." As soon as Huang Zhong spoke, his voice was square and majestic.

"I am the new Sima Liu He of the Youzhou Military Department, this is a tiger talisman, and I was ordered to transfer troops." Liu He took out the tiger talisman and handed it to Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong took the tiger talisman and took out the tiger talisman he carried, the two talismans coincided just as one, and the verification was correct: "Verify that it is in line, Huang Zhong is waiting for the army of the shooting sound camp, and he is willing to accept the military order." ”

Then he handed over the tiger talisman to Liu He.

"Military order: Dispatch 500 soldiers and horses with Sima Liu He of other departments, and gallop Youzhou Right Beiping Jun Lu Longsai. Rest in the middle of the night, cook with chickens, set off on weekdays, there must be no mistakes, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law! Liu He ordered.

"Humble duty!" Huang Zhong and Xu Rong said in unison.

"Huang Junhou, I take the liberty to ask, dare to ask where I am from, and what is the word?" Liu He looked at Huang Zhong.

"Sima of the Hui Department, a certain word Hansheng, native of Nanyang, Emperor Township." Huang Zhong promised.

Liu He finally let go of his suspenseful heart - it was really Nanyang Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng.

"Waiting for the army, the night will not rest but the armor is on the body, what is the explanation?" Liu Hefu asked.

"Tonight is Ben's night patrol."

"Brother Hansheng, follow the words in the following table. Jun is a little older than me, and he is a veteran general in the army, so you don't have to be so majestic, just call me a word. In the future, I hope that Brother Hansheng will mention some trivial matters in our army. Liu He changed his previous seriousness.

"The ministry is elevated! The army has its own system, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and there is a degree between the upper and lower levels, how can it be chaotic? What can I do if I miss state affairs when I do it? ”

Huang Zhong's statement embarrassed Liu He.

"Brother Hansheng, it's serious. In the next Xu Rong, the word Boyu. What the ministry means is that if you don't talk about business, you don't have to be so...."Xu Rong looked like you know.

"Haha! I didn't expect Brother Shunzhi to mean this, I thought that the new official took office with three fires! Huang Zhong changed his serious face and smiled.

"Brother Hansheng, I still have to rely on you when I first join the army!" Liu He shook Huang Zhong's hand and said.

"Deshun is so trusted, loyal and dare not do the power of the humerus." Huang Zhong said gratefully.

That night, Liu He, Xu Rong, and Huang Zhong had a long talk and had nothing to say.

It turned out that this Huang Zhong was recruited into the Northern Army's archery battalion with courage and proficiency in archery, and served as a candidate for Qu Jun to teach archery, and it happened that Liu Yu held the festival and served as a hunting representative of the Son of Heaven, so according to etiquette, Liu Biao, the commander of the Northern Army, selected Huang Zhong to lead his troops to Youzhou with Liu Yu.

The soldiers of the Beijing division were divided into the Northern Army and the Southern Army. The Northern Army is the elite unit of the Han Army, and the commander is the lieutenant of the Northern Army) under it is the Tun Cavalry Captain in charge of the knights, the Infantry Captain in the hands of the Lin Yuanmen Tun Soldiers, the Yue Cavalry Captain in the hands of the Yue Cavalry, the Changshui Captain in charge of the Changshui Xuanqu Hu Cavalry, and the Shooting Captain in the hands of the bow and crossbow soldiers.

There are five people in the army, and there is a captain, and ten people and a captain; A team of fifty people, with a captain; Two teams of 100 people are a tun, and there is a tun chief; Two hundred people in two tuns are a song, and there are military waiting; Five songs and thousands of people are one, and there are military horses; Five departments with 5,000 people as a school, with a captain; The two schools are 10,000 people, and there are lieutenant generals.

Unconsciously, the east was already white, Liu He went back to the room to hide his clothes and squint for a while, then got up and prepared to pack.

At this time, Xu Rong came in and said, "By the way, those teams of homeless people who have escaped from work are begging to go with us. What does this make? ”

Liu He thought about it anyway, so he agreed.

When I went out, I saw the woman holding the child still crying.

"What's wrong?"

"This kid was fine last night, and he can't wake up now."

Liu He personally hugged him and came to see. The child was two or three years old, but he was hungry and not enough to eat, so he showed a big head. Touching his forehead, it was hot. Liu He turned back to Congdao: "This child is sick, take them to the county to find a medical hall to see." ”

"Lord, the hour is not early, and the soldiers and horses still have to be drawn."

"This ......" Liu He saw that this woman was really pitiful. My husband is dead, and I am still holding a sick child in a foreign country, how can I return to my hometown? After thinking for a while, he said to Congdao: "Ah Xia, Ah Ren, you two stay, accompany them to see a doctor, and then drive them back to Tang County." When everything is done, go to Lulong. ”

"No." The two answered.

"Slowly, if you go to Tang County and see that their livelihood is difficult, you can sell the carriages and horses, and give them the money to live."

Hearing Liu He's arrangement, the woman knelt on the ground: "Thank you, Master Jun, for the reward!" The little slave family is grateful for your great kindness in this life and this life! "Kowtowing is like a chicken pecking at broken rice.

Liu He was also inconvenient to talk to her, and took the rest of the people to meet Xu Rong and Huang Zhong.

But this matter spread in the post station, and Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Xu Rong, Huang Zhong and others all felt that Liu Shunzhi was a virtuous person like his father, and they admired it even more.

In this way, Liu He, together with Xu and Huang, led the army, led a team of Jizhou refugees, and looked north. Every day, the soldiers marched sixty miles, camped in the village, passed through the counties, did not commit any crimes in the autumn, and there was nothing to say along the road. Will be close to the boundary of Jizhou, Xu Rong proposed to invest in the post station early, arrange dry food and water bladders, rest early today, and cross the Yellow River to the north the next day.

Everything was arranged, and seeing that it was still early, Liu He and everyone went to hang out outside the city of Wei County. This visit revealed a lot of new things. It turned out that outside the city, there were a large number of homeless people out of thin air. And these displaced people are extraordinary. Liu He had seen it on TV, so he had the impression that the homeless people must be ragged and hungry, but these people are not, they have food and clothing that are no different from ordinary people, and even some tents and sticks to protect themselves.

Liu Hezheng was secretly surprised, but he saw that among the fellow homeless people suddenly called out loudly: "Chen Jiu! Why are you here? ”

With his shouting, a middle-aged man jumped out of the pile of homeless people opposite: "Wang Liu, He Wu!" You're still alive! ”

Liu He was surprised to see that they met, and was surprised that so many people were sleeping outside the city, and he also came to the side to listen to them. It turned out that they were fellow villagers, and they were all people from Xiuxi Garden, and that Chen Jiu escaped first, thinking that he would never meet again in this life, but he didn't expect to see each other outside the city of Wei County. After a few refugees told the story of this journey, Chen Jiu also knew the courtesy, and hurriedly knelt down to Liu He: "Ministry Sima, you are really a merciful and good official." At the beginning, I escaped alone and lost these little brothers, but I didn't expect you to save their lives, so I kowtowed to you. ”

"Hurry up, please!"

Chen Jiu said to those people: "According to me, you don't bother the ministry anymore, just follow me." ”

"Where are you going?"

"I am now in the Taiping Path, and I am following them in a procession and preaching! You go with me, don't talk about it if you can't enter the Tao, at least you have something to eat and drink, and you don't have to trouble the ministry Sima anymore. ”

"A few of us still want to go back to our hometown."

"Don't mention going back to your hometown again, now that taxes are being raised, big families are once again trying to occupy the fields, and you won't have a good life when you go back." Besides, we all ran out of Luoyang, and the yamen wants to ask! Even if he escapes this catastrophe, what will the emperor's family do in the future? Still have to catch us. simply went with me, followed the great sages and good teachers of Taiping Dao, and it was considered to have something to eat. Chen Jiu said eloquently.

Liu He was really shocked when he heard the words "Taiping Dao".