Chapter Seventy-One: Extinguishing the Locusts
Fu Quan looked at his stupid uncle, how is it different from the rotten Confucianism at this time? But after Fu finishes speaking, he has to bear it, Fu Wan is his blood elder, does he dare to refute?
The sky gradually darkened, and the cold wind blew from time to time, bringing the sound of breaking the sky, and there was a noisy sound in front of it, and Fuquan looked at it as a hill.
Everyone walked into the mountain pass, there was a team of sentry horses, all of them were tied to iron armor, and the horses were also good horses, this should be the cavalry of the Yue cavalry battalion, after all, the iron armor was really valuable in the Han Dynasty, and even the sentry cavalry could only be equipped with the elite of the Han cavalry.
"Who are you waiting for? It was getting late, and the front was the forbidden place of the cavalry camp, and he left quickly. Before long, one of the sentry riders shouted.
The Fu Wan guard who led the way in front immediately shouted: "The captain of the Tun Cavalry is here, you will come to pick up the general as soon as possible." ”
There was a commotion on the opposite side, and then a horse rushed out of it, and when he drove towards Fu Wan, he saluted when he saw Fu Wan and said: "Zhao Xin has seen the captain." ”
After a few words, he let Zhao Xin lead the way, and a team of men and horses walked towards the valley.
Don't look at the small valley, but the valley is very wide, only to see rows of civil structure barracks, orderly distribution, countless cavalry back and forth in the barracks open space.
There is no big war yet, but there is a solemn atmosphere in the air, which makes people tremble, it can be seen that the Han army is as strong as this, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has fought again and again, not to mention that the Hanqiang Hundred Years War has just ended, it is Xianbei and often Kou realm, and the Yue cavalry battalion is the elite of the Han cavalry, and often fights with foreign races, so there is this murderous atmosphere.
Everyone dismounted, followed the ambush to the tent, and listened to the soldiers on the left and right in front of the tent: "Beat the drum to summon the general, there is a holy oracle." ”
The two soldiers said, "No." Then he departed.
Before long, I heard a deafening drum beat that shook the sky, faintly with a solemn atmosphere, which was terrifying.
Then there was a sound of horses' hooves, and after a while, I saw rows of iron horsemen gathered in front of the handsome tent, led by a few people, one of whom Fu Quan knew, that was Pan Jun.
After Pan Jun quelled the rebellion in Jiangdong, he finished his merits, and he was awarded the rank of Sima with a rank of 800 stones, and commanded a thousand cavalry of the Yue Cavalry Battalion. Wang Yue, on the other hand, was given the Marquis of Guannei, and was later left in the palace by Liu Hong.
Later, the soldiers under the tent said: "Your Majesty's edict ordered Gu to ride a battalion of soldiers and horses to hunt and kill locusts outside the city of Luoyang. After speaking, the soldiers will check it out.
The Han system is very strict about the transfer of troops. In addition to the emperor's edict in the Western Han Dynasty, it was also necessary to have a tiger talisman for the letter, and later the transfer of troops increased the token, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly based on holding festivals.
In other words, with only an edict and no troop transfer tokens, even if the emperor came in person, the ordinary big-headed soldiers would not dare to move a penny.
This is the iron discipline of the Han family, which fully guarantees that no one can steal military power from the emperor.
However, in the hundreds of years of the Han Dynasty, the foreign dynasty and the Chinese dynasty fought each other, and the matter of overbearing the edict and the festival happened from time to time, such as the death of Dou Wu, so it is no longer as perfect as the original intention of the Han family when the military transfer system was formulated.
"Captain, please!" Although some of them were afraid and hesitant that the emperor wanted to hunt and kill locusts, believing that the locusts were a warning from the gods, after all, they were loyal to the Han Dynasty, the emperor, and they quickly received the order after some thought.
Fu Wan said loudly: "There is no need for too many people to wait for the locusts, Pan Sima, you can lead the soldiers of your headquarters to go with Gu, and the rest of the generals will inspect the camps and stand by." ”
"No." All the generals bowed in unison.
Night slowly fell, pitch black, occasionally a faint moonlight sprinkled, in a locust village outside the city of Luoyang, Pan Junzheng led more than 1,000 cavalry under his command to defend the surrounding of the village.
Originally, Luoyang was the capital of the Han Dynasty, so there was no need for this, but when the villagers knew that the Han army was going to hunt and kill locusts, they stopped them one after another, saying that this was a locust god and should not be hunted and killed, otherwise they would be punished by heaven.
For this reason, Pan Jun could only order the villagers' elderly, weak, women and children to be detained and guarded, and at the same time set up defenses to prevent extreme villagers from having different intentions, but he thought too much.
These villagers and young people were recruited by the official army, and the rest of the old and weak women and children were all frightened when they saw the bright blades of the official army, and they did not dare to make trouble, so they could only curse loudly, and then knelt down and prayed to the heavens, praying for the protection of the gods.
In the distance, at the edge of the village and field, the cavalry of the Yue Cavalry Battalion had already supervised the people to dig the pit, and next to the pit, they took weeds and other flammable materials from the nearest households.
Fu Wan stood aside with a blue face, and there was an old man beside him, his sideburns were white, and he was angry at this time, and his words were fierce, reprimanding Fu Wan for being a Hanchen in vain.
The person is the three elders in the township, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Western Han Dynasty, said: The people are more than 50 years old, have practice, can be handsome and good, and think that they are the three elders and one person in the township. Choose the three elders of the township as the three elders of the county, and the county order, Cheng, and Wei to teach each other, do not fight again, give wine and meat in October, and after the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are three elders of the county, and the three elders of the country are placed in between.
Mo looked at the face of being scolded, but he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, because the Eastern Han Dynasty valued filial piety and respected the elders.
This old man is the third old, not to mention his age, his conduct is also first-class, Fu Wan is a nerd who is loyal to the family tradition of Confucianism, and he values filial piety very seriously, how dare he refute it?
Fortunately, the locust hunting was ready, and after giving an order, I saw that on the field in the dark night, the fire was soaring, lighting up the light curtain in the sky, accompanied by a strong smell of smoke, and after a while, it made the mouth and nose uncomfortable, and tears and snot emerged.
It wasn't long before swarms of locusts swooped down into the flames as if enchanted, with a crackling scorching sound, and in a few moments most of them were reduced to ashes.
At this time, the people, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried to bury the locust corpses under the supervision of the Han army.
When the three elders of the village saw this scene, they were angry, and their hands were reprimanded, shouting: "These are all locusts, they can't be burned by fire, they can't be hunted and killed, and if you do it, you will be damned by heaven......
After saying that, maybe the words were too intense, and he actually fainted, but the Yue cavalry battalion soldiers around him panicked, and hurriedly supported him and sent him to the nearest house.
However, these three elders and one man were no longer of great importance in this matter, and many of the people in the fields were already touched by the fact that the locusts could be easily hunted, and they no longer resisted as before, but worked harder and harder, and continued to bury the locusts scattered on the ground by the fire.
People are selfish, they know that the extermination of locusts is beneficial to their own harvest this year, how much can they save, it is related to whether their family can live, and what kind of locust is the locust god or something like that?
Fu Quan looked at this scene, felt something, ignored the smell of smoke in the air, and chanted aloud: "The fields are full of crops, both planting and precaution, and preparing for things. With my Qin Yun, I carry the south mu. Sowing a hundred grains, both court and master, great-grandson is Ruo ......"
Before long, everyone present, whether it was a man or a cavalryman, also sang: "Both the square is soapy, both strong and good, and it is not bad or bad." Remove its moths, and its thieves, and do not harm my Tianzhi. Tian Zu has a god, and he is in flames. There are sprouts, and the rain is prayed. The rain on my public land touched my private land. He has not been immature, he has not been retained, he has a legacy, this has stagnation, and the benefits of a widow. The great-grandson came and stopped, and his wife and son. The south acres of the rice are happy. Come to the party to worship, with its black, with its millet grass. To enjoy the worship, to introduce the blessing of the scene. "Many of them improvised while exterminating locusts and dancing, so uncomfortable.