The 2,000 pieces that Pei should have asked Li Ju and Feng Tie to recruit in Jiangdu were originally all strong men screened from the nearby homeless people, but although they had been trained for more than a month, they were still yellow and thin, and they couldn't even recognize the banner. This is that although Li Ju has led soldiers, he is still a second knife in military affairs, Feng Tie is an old man, but he is still a layman in military training - they don't know what should be the priority of military training and which should be the first; Second, the food of these soldiers is really poor.

Pei Gai certainly asked several families in Jiangdong to borrow nearly 20,000 Hugu rice, but he didn't know how long these soldiers would have to be raised, so he could say that he would move Wang Dao and let himself and Zu Li go north, so he really didn't dare to open up and let these rogue militiamen eat - otherwise, when he crossed to the north, he suddenly found that the food was eaten up, so what should he do? After months of hard work, will the soldiers be forced to be dismissed?

The most unfortunate thing is that this is a period of green and yellow, and last year's harvest in Jiangdong was not very good, if you want to borrow grain temporarily, collect grain, even if it is to grab grain, I am afraid it is not easy to get it.

Therefore, when he was still in Jianye, he spent money on the market to buy old rice and even grain bran, and mixed it with borrowed grain and rice, so that one liter could be mixed with half a liter more; Then transported to Jiangdu, Li Ju not only gave those wandering militiamen two meals a day, but also boiled gruel, enough to hang his life, but he didn't care about being full. If the soldiers can't eat enough, they naturally have no strength and no mental head, so it is impossible to practice day and night......

But Li Ju thinks that I am already very worthy of you, and I haven't mixed sand and straw in the porridge, and I haven't dared to fill my pockets for the time being.

Of course, Pei Gai's selection conditions also consumed a lot of food - he advocated choosing those with family members, and they had to give their families a bite to eat, and it was impossible to starve to death, so who would be willing to die for you? The reason for this kind of decision-making, Pei Gai mainly took into account two points: first, as Feng Tie said to Team Leader Zhang, it is difficult for homeless people to find out the roots, if they are homeless and unconcerned, do you know if they are hooligans and bandits? Will it run away or even make trouble? It's cumbersome to manage.

The second point is that Pei should want to pull people to Xuzhou to farm, so the old and weak also want to go, women and children also want to go, only the whole family goes together, those who farm can farm with peace of mind, and those who are soldiers can be soldiers with peace of mind, and only then can they have the possibility of reproduction and development.

Therefore, although 2,000 soldiers were recruited, including their families, there were nearly 10,000 people in Wumartingale, and more than 100 grains were consumed a day—not counting salt and vegetables—in just one and a half months, more than 30% of the stored grain had been consumed. At this rate, it is a question of whether it can survive until the autumn harvest......

Pei Gai and Zu Ti discussed carefully, and then gathered these wandering militiamen and asked in a loud voice, "What you have eaten recently, is it too thin?" "Only a few people have the strength to respond weakly, saying that they really eat too little, they don't have the strength, like this situation, how can they protect the nobles?

Pei Cai shouted at the top of his voice: "Last year, Jiangdong also had a bad harvest, and even if you cross the river, you will have no food to eat." And the south is damp, epidemic epidemic, and it is very unlivable. Why don't you go north to Xu Fang with me, you can choose good land to cultivate with your family, and you can also collect grain and food stored in various cities, how about it? ”

The soldiers stared wide-eyed, but basically did not react. Originally, since he became a soldier, the military master said that where he went, he had to go - as long as he gave our family a bite to eat - but didn't he originally say that he would go to Jiangnan? Even if it's not livable anymore, at least it's peaceful and safe. This is going north...... If there is a way to live in the north, why did we have to go to the Yangtze River in the first place!

Pei Gai asked several times, but he didn't get a satisfactory response, so he simply waved his hand - I won't talk nonsense with you, let's have a full meal first!

So he ordered to set up a pot, and instead of the inferior rice that had been hoarded in the past, he carried the new ones given by Sima Rui from the boat—although it was old rice, it was not mixed with bran after all—and cooked them into dry rice in front of everyone. For both soldiers and family members, a bowl of dry rice with a sharp tip – halved for children and the elderly – plus two pickles; In addition, Zu Ti also sent his subordinates to a nearby farm to buy five chickens and five ducks, and boiled them into a large pot of clear soup, also one bowl per person.

When the soldiers had eaten dry rice and their spirits were slightly better, Pei Caicai stood on a high place again, pointed to the north, and shouted in his throat: "There are many dry rice, chickens and ducks like this!" Before the Hulu went south, they were full of food for the rest of the villages—and if you stopped asking for this meal, it was gone; If you want the next meal, go north with me! ”

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed in front of him: "If you don't want to follow, you can stand here." "I asked three times in a row, but no one would move at all—this was barely a success.

So he regrouped his queue and set out for the camp.

He originally wanted to bring Li Ju with him, but Li Maoyue had no ambitions, he was a good official in the palace, and his wife Mrs. Wei won the respect of various families in Nandu because of her good calligraphy, so she had no desire to go north to adventure. In the end, Pei Gai had to pick out the thinnest fifty people, hand them over to Li Ju with their families, and go back to Jiangdong to serve as the guards and servants of the East China Sea Palace, and the rest of the people were all pulled north.

Not daring to issue them weapons first, the soldiers still carried their own bamboo poles and wooden sticks, and every 200 people were a team, and Feng Tie and other ancestral clans were holding sharp blades as the main and deputy team leaders, and they were the first to pull out. Those family members were left to Wei Xun and the others to manage, and they followed—it was a chore, but it was also an opportunity to test the abilities of the three scribes.

From Jiangdu along the ditch to the north, sixty miles away is the county seat of Guangling, although the soldiers are tired, they have also walked for more than three hours. In his previous life, Pei Gai heard about this ditch, but in history class, he listened to the teacher talk about Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty who built the Dadu River and connected the Huaishui and the Yangtze River with the ditch. However, the ditch actually has been in ancient times, dug by Wu Wangfucha, the north end is east of Huaiyin, the south end is in Jiangdu, but there is a big circle in the middle, and now it is deep into the swamp near Sheyang County, and it is impossible to sail again. Later, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty used the original ditch water to straighten and widen it, rather than creating a section of the canal out of thin air.

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Whether it was in the original timeline, Zu Li's Northern Expedition, or in this time and space, Pei Gai and Zu Li traveled together, and the first stop after crossing the river chose Guangling County in Xuzhou for two reasons:

First, a few years ago, Liu Yuan sent Zhao Gu and Wang Sang to the east and arrived in Pengcheng, and the striker only arrived in Xiapi, which scared away Pei Dun, the assassin of Xuzhou at that time, and retreated to Huaiyin County in Guangling County with Sima Ao and others. Originally, Huaiyin was close to Huaishui, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Hu Han army may not be able to break the city, the problem is that Pei Dun used Sima Aoji to send good people as soldiers, and he was cruel and violent, but he fled, and the soldiers and generals scattered in a hurry, and there was no one to defend the city at all. So Pei Dun was lured by Sima Ao again, took the initiative to go back and surrender to Zhao Gu, and was killed by Zhao Gu soon after.

Wang Sang and Zhao Gu immediately retreated. Therefore, in fact, the captives have never invaded Guangling County, and on the whole, the damage to the social productive forces is not serious, and it is possible to try to recruit troops and levy food here.

Second, Zu Ti had lived in Sikou near Pengcheng for a period of time, and was appointed by Sima Rui as the assassin of Xuzhou. At the beginning, he didn't expect that Jian Ye would have no grain of rice and no soldiers, so he had to continue to run south, and once rolled up his sleeves to plan to do a big job, so he conducted a more detailed investigation of Xu Fang's situation. And even if he crossed to the south, Zu Ti still left several of his subordinates in Xuzhou to find out the news of Jiangbei for him, so this time he went to Xufang, especially the nearest Guangling County, so that he would not be blackened in both eyes, and he would completely live both in man and land.

Zu Ti once introduced to Pei Gai, saying that since Pei Dun surrendered, Xuzhou was completely emptied, and most of the county officials were scattered, and they could only be self-governed by the squire. In the southern part of Guangling and Linhuai, the situation was slightly better, while in the northern part there were thieves, forcing some powerful local families to build dock forts to defend themselves. Zu Ti means, Guangling, Hailing, Gaoyou and other counties in the south of Guangling County, we don't have to pay much attention, as the assassin and the county guard, order the locals to donate a certain amount of food and materials, and then go straight to Huaiyin, take it as a preliminary base, and find a way to requisition troops from the nearby Wubao, so that we can go west to restore Yanyu.

Pei Gai only smiled at this suggestion, but did not say no. He said in his heart Zu Shizhi, after all, you are still a representative of the landlord class, your ass is very stable, you are not unhappy about the autonomy of the squire, and you have no intention of complete unification of the dock forts in various places - so in the original history, you could only rely on those guest soldiers transferred from the dock fort to fight, resulting in an unstable foundation. Since I'm coming, I can't let you repeat it...... I haven't done it yet, but what to do, I can't make a decision before conducting field research, so I'll leave it to you first.

Although Zu Ti had studied the situation in Xu Fang, he did so from the standpoint of the landlord class, and what he said could not be fully believed.

So they led the two thousand soldiers, as well as three times as many old and weak people, set off from Jiangdu and went straight to Guangling County. At about dusk, it was less than five miles away from Guangling City, and Liu Yetang, the ancestor of the front station, suddenly ran back to report and said: "Guangling City is closed with four gates, and Ding Zhuang is all going to the city to defend it, as if he has the intention of rejecting me!" ”

When Zu Li heard this, he couldn't help frowning: "How can this be true!" ”

Pei Gai next to him smiled and said, "Or take us as a beggar." Then he turned his head and swept away the newly recruited soldiers, and saw that all of them were yellow and thin, weak and weak, and only carried bamboo poles and wooden sticks on their shoulders, and the queue was not neat, and they walked crookedly like a long snake. Maybe it's not as strict as Chen Wu and Liu Rui's beggar army!

Zu Ti glared: "We are all wearing court uniforms, how can we beg for life?" ”

Pei Gai pouted and said: "King Cai (Sima Teng) of the former Xin Cai led the begging to live out of the state, perhaps just like the ancestors, dressed in official clothes, and immediately ...... before the displaced people."

Zu Ti waved his hand, and said that there is no point in you pondering this, and you will stay here for a while, and wait for me to ride my horse and go down to the city to have a look. Pei Cai hurriedly said: "I should go with my ancestors." ”

Among their group, only Zu Ti rode a horse, which was given to him by Pei Gai, and as for Pei Gai, he was still riding in an ox cart. So the two of them galloped forward, and the road was only halfway through the order, and when Pei Gai's ox cart arrived at the city of Guangling, Zu Li had already been under the city for a while.

Pei should have pulled out the carriage, and he didn't need to be supported, so he jumped down directly - to be honest, it was very unelegant and hindered the official body, but he didn't care so much - when he looked closely, he saw Zu Ti putting a canopy in his hand and looking up. Pei Gai also took the opportunity to look at the city, only to see the flags waving, crowded with people, but most of them had no helmets or armor, just some ordinary people - as Liu Yetang said: "Ding Zhuang all went to the city to guard." ”

Pei Cai glanced at it a few times, and then asked Zu Ti: "Why didn't Zu Jun come forward to call the door?" Zu Ti stretched out his hand and pointed to the head of the city, and said to Pei Gai: "I don't know who is the master of this city, and there are big hills and ravines in his chest!" "It seems that this city is well guarded - it doesn't make sense, it stands to reason that the county magistrate has long run away, and only some ordinary people are left, even if they are the children of big families, who can have such skills?

Then he instructed Liu Yetang, who had just caught up with a wheezing: "You can go and open the city gate." ”

Liu Yetang untied a gourd from his waist, lifted the lid, and poured seven or eight mouthfuls of water in a row, before he took a breath and calmed down, so he walked forward and went straight to the moat. Just a few "brushes" were heard, and several feathered arrows were shot down from the head of the city—but they were obviously not accurate, and the nearest one was still seven or eight paces away, and they all fell into the moat—and then someone shouted: "Where are the displaced people, do not trespass into Guangling, and go around the city!" ”

Liu Yetang put his hands in front of his mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice: "We are not homeless people, the Xuzhou Pei Thorn History signed by the King of Langya, and the ancestor of Guangling are guarding this, why can't they enter the city?" Why don't you open the door and greet you, but when?! ”

There was a slight commotion in the city, and when it was not too long, I heard a few calls from someone, but it was too far away to hear clearly. Fortunately, there was a loud voice to help spread the word: "Where did Pei Yuanjun and Zu Taishou come from?" What is the name, and who is the person's name? ”

The history of the state and the county are all ranked in the fourth grade - like Pei Gai, the assassin history and the leader of the army are the third grade - not all cats and dogs can be a dog, you have to have a certain family background, and there is a certain amount of genuine product evaluation. Unless the Hanmen scholars took refuge in the Hu Han Kingdom, they had the opportunity to ascend to such a high position. That's why the city has to ask, you said that there are assassins and Taishou, what are their names, and who are their people's clans? I have to listen to the qualifications to discern the authenticity.

When Zu Ti heard the question, he wanted to answer immediately, but Pei Gai hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "You must prevent arrows from being put on the city...... Zu Ti gently pushed Pei Gai's hand away, and said with a smile: "How can Zu Shizhi be injured by a weak bow and arrows?" "Deserved" The sound of horses' hooves jumped directly to the front of Liu Yetang, and immediately raised his hand towards the city, and signed up loudly: "I am General Fenwei of the new department of King Langya, Guangling Taishou, Fan Yang Zu Zu Shizhi - who is the city defender?" ”

There was another commotion in the city, and then I saw a head poking out from the city wall, and faintly shouted: "General Zu, please wait for a while!" "Obviously, both the middle breath and the voice are far worse than Zu Ti and Liu Yetang.

Immediately, the head disappeared, and Zu Ti couldn't help but be stunned. Because although he only showed a small face, he could see that this person was not dressed as a common man, and he was wearing a three-beam crown on his head...... In other words, it is not a public or a prince - who is this?!

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