Chen Shaowei had a headache.

He never imagined that it was just a scout's routine sentry that would bring him such a big trouble. Looking at Cheng Xiaoyu, the leader of the scout squad kneeling in front of him, he didn't know what to say.

More than 500 refugees are now waiting outside the gate of the camp, basically all of them are old and weak, women and children, mostly women and children. Outside the camp, the cold wind was howling, the snowflakes were dancing wildly, and those who were thinly clothed and cold and hungry were determined to survive no night in the wilderness.

Cheng Xiaoyu hopes that Chen Shaowei can save them. In his opinion, this is just a sentence from Chen Shaowei. But in Chen Shaowei's view, this matter is not a trivial matter.

Chen Shaowei was originally the deputy general of the Tiger Prison border Guanbei Battalion, and when the Tiger Prison Incident occurred, he had no choice but to join He Weiping's side, and together they made great contributions to the success of the Ming Dynasty in obtaining the Tiger Prison, but his own family knew that in the Tiger Prison New Army, he was really not He Weiping's henchman. In the entire Ming army, generals like him are even more consciously inferior than those generals from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he has always acted very carefully, and never exceeded the rules and regulations.

Now when the two armies are facing each other, Cheng Xiaoyu actually got back hundreds of enemy family members for him, which really made Chen Shaowei not know what to do for a while.

In addition to political reasons, there are also economic reasons. Cheng Xiaoyu felt that they were well fed and warmly dressed, and thought that everything in their army was surplus, but a general of Chen Shaowei's level naturally knew better.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty's domestic transportation network, which extends in all directions, all counties and county guards uphold the theory of building roads first if they want to get rich, and the road system of the Qin State can be described as chaotic, so the Ming Dynasty will build so many huge warehouses in the Tiger Prison, and store the military rations and materials transported from the country here first, and then transfer them from the Tiger Prison to the front line.

Such a transshipment is quite difficult. There are no good roads, and it is the season of heavy snowfall, and for every pound of grain transported, the consumption along the way is almost a pound. The caravan in charge of the transfer of military materials in the Ming Dynasty has risen in price several times, and it is still complaining about the loss of money from the Ministry of Households.

Although the logistics ensured the basic needs of the army, the so-called landlord's family had no surplus food, and suddenly hundreds of mouths came out, which really made Chen Shaowei difficult. More importantly, if a precedent is set, will more refugees flock here?

It is true that there are no large-scale refugees outside, but it cannot be ruled out that there are no ordinary people of the Qin State wandering and struggling in the wind and snow in this huge area.

Cheng Xiaoyu and they bumped into the Qin cavalry, or this news will leak out immediately, will it attract more refugees to come to ask for help This is a question worth pondering, will the Qin people use such an opportunity to consume the already small amount of food in the Ming Dynasty?

Chen Shaowei glared at Cheng Xiaoyu angrily, the patrol is good, when it comes to such a thing, isn't it good to pretend that you can't see the horse and go? They are the family members of the Qin army, and the Qin army itself ruthlessly drove them out of Shuanglian City, but did they want the Ming army to take over this burden?

The key is that even if you take this burden, people don't necessarily think of you well, and they will never be soft when it is time to cut you. Judging from the fact that the other party's generals can drive these people out of Shuanglian City, it can be seen that that guy is ruthless!

Ignoring it, Chen Shaowei felt that he couldn't be ruthless. Out of sight is not upset, this time it is all in front of him, and the children's cries are tearing at the softest part of the heart of every soldier in the battalion. Half a year ago, they were considered their own compatriots!

If you really want to see death and not save yourself, if it spreads out in the future, it will be extremely bad for your reputation. Although it has only been half a year since he joined the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shaowei still learned about the emperor of the Ming Dynasty through various channels, and it was not ordinarily good for the people under his rule.

These people are still Qin people at the moment, but to be honest, they can already be regarded as the people of the Ming Dynasty. If they are allowed to freeze to death and starve to death in the wilderness, I am afraid that the emperor will have prejudices against him.

He really wanted to punish this troublesome scout squad leader severely.

"They can't enter the camp!" He said coldly.

Cheng Xiaoyu was startled and raised his head to look at Chen Shaowei.

"The barracks are heavy, and the idle people are so bad, how can they enter!" Chen Shaowei stroked his forehead and said with some pain: "But I can't watch these people freeze and starve to death." ”

"Thank you, General!" Cheng Xiaoyu was overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed.

"Fucking knock me on the head, thank you for the fuck!" Chen Shaowei scolded angrily, turned his head to look at the quartermaster on the side, "More than 500 people, allocate twenty military tents to them!" ”

The quartermaster nodded.

"If you have extra cotton clothes, quilts, felt blankets or something, get some too."

The quartermaster nodded again.

"Is there a surplus of food?" Chen Shaowei asked.

"General, there is a ration of food, and now that there are five hundred more mouths, it is definitely not enough, so I can only pick a little out of the mouths of the soldiers, but fortunately, they are just surviving, boiling a little porridge, barely surviving, but it doesn't take much." Quartermaster Road.

"So be it!" Chen Shaowei suddenly found that the generals in the tent did not seem to disagree on this matter, as if everyone was willing to help these refugees, even if they had to eat from their mouths.

"The troops on duty can't let them starve, so let's save a little bit of the rest of the troops." Finding this, he felt a little better in his heart. "But this winter festival is still long, we can't always control them, go back and go to the general of the Chinese army to ask for an idea to see what to do next? These 500 people are not a large number, and if more come in the future, it will be really difficult to put things in order. ”

It is the wisest thing to accept these people first, and then find a way to dump the pot on the big battalion, maybe the general will be unhappy, but Chen Shaowei has no other way.

looked at Cheng Xiaoyu, who was still kneeling on the ground, and was still angry in his heart. "Since you brought these troubles back, Cheng Xiaoyu, you don't have to rest when you take a break, take your team to chop wood for these people, if those women and children go to find them by themselves, I'm afraid they will freeze to death in the wild."

"Yes, thank you General Chen!" Cheng Xiaoyu finally showed a happy smile, but he was just chopping wood, and he originally thought that he was going to be beaten with a military stick! "I took my brothers to help them set up camps, but these people were afraid that they would not be able to stand up, and they would not be able to stand up."

"Get out, get out of here, get out as far as you want!" Chen Shaowei scolded and kicked Cheng Xiaoyu to a big horse.

The quartermaster walked out with a smile, and when he walked to Cheng Xiaoyu's side, he said: "Let's set up a camp tent and let our logistics people do it, they are professional, Xiaoyu, now you go to chop wood, I look at a large pine forest ten miles away." Do you want me to lend you some saws and axes or something? ”

"Yes, of course!" Cheng Xiaoyu got up with a smile and happily followed the quartermaster out.

When Chen Shaowei was about to go to Chen Zhihua, the general of the Chinese army's battalion, to ask for guilt and shake off the burden, the herald of the Chinese army's battalion arrived in his new third battalion first, which surprised him. That's why he sent someone to preach himself back to the camp to ask for his guilt!

Especially when the herald asked to speak to Chen Shaowei alone, his heart was even more confused.

After retreating left and right, the herald lowered his voice and said: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived at the camp of the Chinese army, and after the general asked General Chen to arrange all the affairs in the camp, he will quickly go to the camp of the Chinese army to meet His Majesty the Emperor." ”

As soon as he heard this, Chen Shaowei's heart immediately became chaotic again, this is really a disaster, he just had a mess here, but His Majesty the Emperor has arrived again. This time he set himself up on the fire and roasted it.

If the herald accidentally falls into the hands of the enemy, if there is a letter, it will inevitably let the opponent know that the emperor is coming, and if it is not good, there will be a big surprise attack of the whole army.

It's not that they can really do it over the Ming Dynasty, in fact, they can't do it, but His Majesty the Emperor is here to reward the army, not to fight, and if a good thing is ruined because the Qin army is attacking in a big way, it will inevitably be not beautiful.

With a nervous mood, Chen Shaowei arranged the defense affairs in the camp, in fact, there is not much to do, the enemy in the Shuanglian City is not strong to fight, the main thing to guard against is those elusive Thunder Army wandering outside the city, these guys are also clever now, but they want to break through the heavily defended camp is also weak, after all, there are not many Thunder Army wandering in this area, and their main force is still in Yongdu City. One hundred and eighty miles away from here, if you really want to make a big move, you can't hide it.

When Chen Shaowei left the camp, he saw that the logistics soldiers of the new third battalion were setting up tents for the refugees, this small camp was a mile road away from his main camp, the camp had begun to take shape, and some soldiers were carrying pots and pans and grain bags and were stepping on the thick snow to go there. Outside the new camp, the troublesome Cheng Xiaoyu dragged back a lot of pine forests he had cut down on his horse, where he was wielding an axe to cut the trees into pieces.

The soldiers seemed to be happy.

He deliberately went around to the small new camp to take a look, those women and children in thin clothes were either wearing some large Ming army cotton clothes, or wrapped in quilts, gathered together and watched where the Ming army was busy.

Their eyes were very confused, but their faces were a little angry.

The children were the most energetic, and the older ones were already running around the camp, and they were really teenagers who didn't know what it was like.

Somehow, seeing this scene, Chen Shaowei himself felt a lot more comfortable.