In the third year of Guanghe, in August, the first Lingqiang in the north did not follow the Han order, the big Hanba County was too guarded by Fuquan, held the festival, marched to the northern general's military, led the Yue cavalry captain Duan Cheng and other 8,000 foot horses, and first Lingqiang Hu rode more than 5,000 horses, out of the north, straight into the West Qiang.

In a few days, the battle was victorious, the Qiang Department was wiped out innumerable, the Han army wounded several people, nearly 200,000 Qiang people were captured, and there was no plan for livestock.

In the middle of August, Fuquan led his command to ride 8,000 steps, and Qiang rode more than 12,000 horses, everyone rode horses, all with double horses, gave up cattle and horses felt tents, traveled lightly, went out of the north, crossed the Great Wall, went deep into the south of the desert, went to the desperate region, long-distance around the rear of Xianbei, and went to the rear of Xianbei to be surrendered.

In the vast and boundless desert, I saw a pillar of smoke pointing to the sky rising in the distance, thousands of miles of yellow sand, like a river, from west to east, flowing from the desert like a jade belt, above the yellow sand, a round red sun, is hanging on the river surface on the horizon of the western skyline.

"The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, the sun sets on the long river", the famous sentence of the desert scenery described by Wang Wei in later generations is really convincing, the Han army in order not to move in the state, attract the attention of Xianbei, break into the south of the desert from the north, Fuquan can be regarded as comprehending the vastness of the desert.

After running north for a few days, the scenery in front of him has not changed much, except for the sand and the scorching sun, not the occasional shrubs, low slopes, and streams passing by, and Fuquan still thinks that his army is galloping in place. Fortunately, the army has a guide to guide this trip, and the dry food brought is reduced, but more water bags are brought, otherwise, it will not be said that there will be a shortage of water halfway, of course, even if the Fuquan ban army strictly pays attention to drinking water, but the army's water bags are still decreasing in this place like a desperate place.

"Call the guide." After walking for a few days and still not arriving at the place, Fu Quan couldn't help but be anxious, if he didn't arrive again, the morale of the army really didn't know what it would be, so he hurriedly asked the soldiers around him to quickly go and bring the guide who was leading the way in front of the army at the moment.

"Don't be in a hurry to Liuchuan, this time the northward detour has been expected today." Duan Cheng was eating dried mulberries while comforting Fuquan Dao, after all, he was a veteran, and he had long been accustomed to this kind of long-distance attack, and he had rushed thousands of miles to destroy Qiang several times back then, and he didn't care about this desert domain at all.

In front of Duan Cheng, Fu Quan pretended to be calm in order not to lose face, nodded and said: "What Duan Gong said is very true, this long-distance attack, I hope Duan Gong will not hesitate to give advice." ”

"Definitely."

At this time, before the guide arrived, Fu Quan saw Duan Cheng eating this mulberry, and his stomach was also hungry, so he immediately took the dried mulberry that had been packed a long time ago from himself to eat. Huangfu Song is worthy of being a rare civil and military all-round talent in the Han court, after knowing that the Han army went out of the fortress, he prepared a variety of military rations, of which this mulberry dried is one of them, it is not only food, but also an alternative "water source" for the Han army.

The dried red and purple mulberry is sweet and sour, in this desert, it is also a rare delicacy, and it can quench thirst, greatly reducing the amount of water used by the Han army, of course, you can't eat more, eat more crooked mouth, your throat will be disgusted, and when the time comes, you have to drink more water to moisten your throat, and there will be more gains than losses in this desert.

Looking at the mulberry in his hand, Fu Quan couldn't help laughing when he remembered what happened later, and later Cao Wei in order to touch Yuan Shao, continued to write in history to Hebei under Yuan Shao, the soldiers and the people all relied on mulberry to survive, it seemed that they were in dire straits, as long as they relied on the great Emperor Wei Wu to save their lives, it was really ridiculous.

Mulberry, not only in the Han Dynasty, even in the pre-Qin Dynasty, is a rare snack in the mouths of the people, if there is a famine, the harvest is not good, or even a poor person with no surplus grain, the hope of the one-year famine year to fill hunger, how has it become the people of Hebei under the rule of Yuan Shao to live a bad life, in dire straits? And Yuan Shao, a heroic man who only talked about his brilliant exploits in governing internal affairs without other factors, became a mediocre person in the pen of Cao Wei Shiguan, which is really ridiculous and generous.

As for Emperor Wu of Wei, regardless of his military exploits, he only talked about internal affairs, and took Yuan Shao's Jizhou, knowing that Jizhou had 300,000 people, countless armor and equipment, and was a big state in Kyushu under heaven, so he was happy, but this consciousness really can't be compared with Yuan Shao. What's more, Yuan Shao went out on the expedition, and he was satisfied that Jizhou had never been short of food, although it was because Jizhou was rich, and he also had the credit for governance, otherwise only with a population of less than one million people in the north at that time, he could supply hundreds of thousands of troops under his command to go on the expedition, and there was no shortage of food, which shows his ability to govern internal affairs. Unlike Cao Cao, even if he got Yanzhou, which is also a wealthy state, but in the end he was not well governed, and he had to rely on eating human flesh to maintain military food, and even after he unified the north, there was also a shortage of food.

Of course, thinking of the real history, after the official crossing, Jizhou, the former land of the rise of Guangwu, the rich state of the Han Dynasty, has only become a large state of 300,000 people, and I can't help but sigh, after all, even if the Jizhou scholars have private soldiers and black households are not counted, it is impossible to hide too much, so it seems that what later generations said about the Three Kingdoms is true to only a few million people in the country.

However, at the time of Emperor Huan, there were nearly 60 million people in the country, and in just a few decades, only 10% remained, and the disaster of war was so great. Thinking of this, Fu Quan clenched his fists, he understood that even if he couldn't stop the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, he also had to keep the people of the late Han Dynasty from suffering too much, after all, without this catastrophe and the subsequent Eight Kings Rebellion, the Han people would not have that period of history of sinking Wuhu Chaohua.

Still thinking deeply, Fuquan saw several knights who looked like Huns riding horses, all of them from the Southern Xiongnu who guarded the border fortress for the Han court. It is said that they are all descendants of the Xiongnu who could not mix outside the Saiwai, fled to Guannei, and joined their relatives of the Xianbei people of the Southern Xiongnu, this time under the order of Fuquan's old boss and Zhao Bao, the assassin of the state, came to lead the way for the Han army.

Yuan Shaozhi is in Hebei, and the soldiers eat mulberries on their backs...... Excerpt from "Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu Ji" annotated from "Book of Wei"

Taizu broke the Yuan family, led the Jizhou pastor, and Biyan was engaged in other driving, and Yan said: "Yesterday's household registration can get 300,000 people, so it is a big state." ”

Yan said: "Today is falling apart, Kyushu is split, the two Yuan brothers are looking for each other, the Ji side is steaming, and the bones are in the wilderness." I haven't heard Wang Shiren's voice go first, ask about customs, save it, and school plan soldiers, only this is the first, how can the scholars and girls of Si Zhou look forward to Ming Gongzai! ”

Taizu changed his face and thanked him. At that time, the guests were all overwhelmed.

At the beginning, Taizu lacked food, omitted his own county, for three days of food, quite mixed with human breasts, because of the loss of hope, so the position is not to the public

Excerpt from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"