Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 3 Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 3: Sweeping away the chaos and making meritorious contributions

Section 10 100,000 women and children

In the blink of an eye, the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion had been resting under the city of Yiyang for 14 days, during which Liu Yunwei began to carefully screen the 180,000 thieves captive, and took some of them into custody alone, and then handed them over to the Henan political envoy to take custody and wait for further trial; As for the vast majority of the remaining thieves and captives, Liu Yunwei did his best to ensure the supply of food and grass for these people, and carried out simple marshalling and training for them, preparing to use these horses as reserve soldiers.

As for the Henan political envoy, there has been no action, Liu Yunwei sent out a night to inquire under the doubt, and learned that the Ministry of War had refuted the Henan political envoy, and the governor of Henan suffered a dumb loss. Liu Yunwei couldn't help laughing when he learned about it, and said to Lu Ying and the others: "It seems that those officials and masters in Henan have completely stopped, and we can also deal with the matter of the thieves and prisoners with peace of mind, and wait for further orders from the imperial court." ”

Just when Liu Yunwei led everyone to concentrate on military affairs, Wen Poyu received the news that his subordinates did not receive it at night: in the area of Santu Mountain south of the Gaoduchuan River, traces of a large number of displaced people were found, and the number of them was no less than 100,000! Frightened, Wen Poyu didn't dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly told Liu Yunwei about the situation.

Liu Yunwei frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Do you think it's strange? We annihilated an army of 250,000 thieves, but we did not see a single old and weak woman or child accompanying the army. It stands to reason that there should be these thief soldiers in the thief army, where did those people go? ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard it, and if they thought about it carefully, they really didn't find any shadows of the women and children accompanying the army. Wen Poyu frowned and said, "Could it be that the homeless people on the other side of Santu Mountain are the families of Zhao Zhenren's army?" ”

"It's very likely, after all, the area around Santu Mountain is not very far from Mushu Town." Liu Yunwei analyzed: "Placing the families of the thieves in the rear, on the one hand, can ensure that they will not be caught by the officers and soldiers, and on the other hand, they can also be used as hostages to motivate their subordinates to fight bravely. Hum! This Zhao Zhenren is really calculating. ”

Lu Ying also nodded and said, "Big brother, let the captives take someone to take a look, if it is really the family of these captives, let's just bring them all back." ”

Wang Dangdang had a different opinion when he heard this, and said: "But eldest brother, we are struggling now, how can we take care of these homeless people?" I heard Master Chen say that the grain and grass in our army have bottomed out, and if we feed another 100,000 displaced people, it is estimated that we will run out of food in a few days! ”

Hearing this, Liu Yunwei's brows almost furrowed together, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Anyway, we must also hold these displaced people in our hands first, I plan to bring all these people back to Sichuan, and in the future, these people will be our military households, and we will be our endless reserve soldiers!" As for the matter of food, the Henan political envoy should not be able to count on it, and the little grain they sent was a drop in the bucket, so they could only reach out to the court to ask for food. Lu Ying, immediately write down our situation here as a fold, and ask the military department for food and grass! Po captives, immediately take the soldiers of the Changshui Department to Santu Mountain, and bring back all those displaced people. ”

Two days later, Wen Polu led the soldiers of the Changshui Department back to the Yiyang camp, and there were 100,000 homeless people who came back with the army!

Liu Yunwei, Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Li Tianhao, Wang Dangdang, Gao Hongguang, Huang Fuming, and Zhao Kaishan stood at the gate of the camp, looking at the vast and boundless team of displaced people, everyone's hearts were extremely heavy, and the pressure like a mountain pressed everyone almost to suffocate.

So far, the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion, the prisoners of the thieves and the newly arrived refugees, more than 300,000 horses have gathered outside the entire Yiyang city, and the Hanwei battalion has long been overwhelmed and cannot carry so many men and horses. As a result, Liu Yunwei built eight more camps around the Hanwei camp, and each thousand headquarters lived in a battalion; At the same time, Liu Yunwei also divided all the thief captives and exiles into eight parts and placed them in the newly established eight camps.

By the time all this was dealt with, it was already ten days later, and in order to properly settle these rogue captives and homeless people, the Hanwei camp had been stranded in Yiyang for nearly a month. Liu Yunwei can be said to be anxious at this time, if the imperial court does not send follow-up grain and grass and new wills, these thieves and captives may face the danger of running out of food at any time, and there will definitely be another riot at that time, in that case, when will he be able to return to Sichuan?

Just as Liu Yunwei waited anxiously, two more days passed, and the imperial court finally sent a new will, but to Liu Yunwei's surprise, the person who came to read the holy decree was not Jinyiwei, but Li Linbin, the squire of the military department!

After Liu Yunwei learned the news, he hurriedly took Lu Ying and several other thousands of generals to the outside of the camp to greet him.

"Master Li, why did you come to read the decree in person? How dare I do this! Liu Yunwei hurriedly stepped forward and saluted his nephew and said respectfully.

Li Linbin smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, Yunwei, now you are infinitely beautiful, and the court is talking about the great achievements of the Hanwei camp in Henan." Today's mission, but the old man took a lot of effort to grab it, and you have to set up a table of wine banquet for the old man to catch the wind in a while. ”

Liu Yunwei laughed when he heard this, and said, "That's natural, Lord Li, please!" ”

After everyone returned to the Chinese army's tent, Li Linbin read out the holy decree in public, in which the imperial court first gave a verbal commendation to Liu Yunwei and the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion, and said that it would transport 100,000 stone of grain and half a year's salary in the near future, but the imperial court still did not promote Liu Yunwei and the soldiers; Moreover, in the end, the imperial court also asked the Hanwei battalion army to continue to stay in Yiyang to garrison, stabilize the important land in Henan with heavy troops, and wait for further arrangements from the imperial court; Regarding Liu Yunwei's return to Sichuan with the army, the imperial court allowed Liu Yunwei to lead his own soldiers back to Sichuan to bury his father and wife, and immediately return to Yiyang after settling down at home, and the period for returning to his hometown is only one month!

After listening to this holy decree, Liu Yunwei and Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Li Tianhao, Wang Gandang, Gao Hongguang, Huang Fuming, and Zhao Kaishan were all stunned, and everyone almost forgot about thanksgiving. Everyone didn't know why the imperial court would issue such a holy decree? The soldiers of the Hanwei battalion fought bloodily and annihilated the army of 250,000 thieves, and the imperial court did not have any promotion awards; At present, there are nearly 300,000 thieves, prisoners and displaced people in the camp, and the imperial court has no intention of dealing with it. From beginning to end, the entire holy decree only asked the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion to continue to stabilize the important land in Henan, how to stabilize it?

At this moment, Liu Yunwei's heart was full of anger and incomprehension, he looked up at Li Linbin and said, "My lord, why is this?" What does imperial court mean? How can such a holy decree appease the soldiers' desire to serve the country? ”

Li Linbin sighed slightly, smiled and said, "Yunwei, don't worry, the imperial court's move is also meaningful. In this way, you can get some food first, the old man has come all the way but he is already hungry, let's talk about something while eating. ”

After a while, Liu Yunwei set up a table of wine and meat in the big tent to catch Li Linbin and wash the dust, and Lu Ying and several others were also on the side.

"My lord, if you have anything to say, why did the imperial court issue such a decree?" After Liu Yunwei poured Li Linbin a full glass of wine, he said softly.

Li Linbin sighed and said, "The plan we discussed to return to Sichuan first to accumulate strength and then return to Liaodong to fight against Jiannu is probably going to come to naught now." The reason why I want to come here in person this time is because I am afraid that you will not know some of the inside affairs of the court, so that you will misunderstand some arrangements of the imperial court, so I want to come and sit with you and explain to you. ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and Liu Yunwei stood up directly excitedly, exclaiming: "How can this be? What happened to the DPRK? Is someone deliberately trying to make it difficult for me to wait? ”

Li Linbin shook his head and said, "That's not it, no one embarrass you, at least as far as Huang Shangshu and I know, no!" The reason why the imperial court arranged the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion in this way was because His Majesty had some new plans in mind. ”

"Your Majesty's new plans?" Liu Yunwei and everyone looked at each other, they were all very strange, did the Hanwei camp have such a heavy weight in His Majesty's heart?

Liu Yunwei asked, "What are your Majesty's new plans?" What do you need me to do at Hanwei Camp? ”

Everyone looked at Li Linbin eagerly, but when they saw that Li Linbin's face was full of sadness, they couldn't help but be secretly frightened.

"Your Majesty has been in a dragon body since the beginning of the year, and now he is bedridden, and these wills of His Majesty are all preparing for his successor."

Liu Yunwei and the others were struck by lightning after hearing this, if Your Majesty is really terminally ill and will die at any time, then what are you doing now arranging for Hanwei Camp to stay in Henan? Does Your Majesty want the soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion to play any role? Your Majesty will definitely have further wills coming next, but where will these wills push the soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion?

Liu Yunwei's heart was full of confusion and panic about the road ahead at this time, and after being stunned for a while, he asked cautiously: "My lord, can it be said that we are involved in the battle for storage positions?" Does Your Majesty want us to stabilize the place by then? ”