PS: Chapter 2 at night

The terrain in the north of Shanxi is on the high side, and the entire surface is occupied by some large and small mountain ranges, among which an extremely narrow gourd mouth is formed between the two big mountains of Xiawu Mountain and Juzhu Mountain, which connects the Datong Basin and the Xinding Basin where Huoren County is located. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fifty years ago, the Bank of China Muzi led the Jin people to conquer Taiyuan, and the Rongdi tribe retreated north, and it was through this pass that they left, and they left a small city here, called Ju Note. Fifteen years ago, Zhao Ying seized this place from the Di people, and added Xiaoyi into a pass, called it "Juzhu Stop", as the Zhao family, but also the extreme northern border of the Jin State, the junction of Rong Di and Huaxia.

When Zhao Wuxian came here, he saw a white mountain field, across which was a pass mixed with earth and stone, just stuck between the two mountain ranges of Juzhu and Xiawu, locking the narrow passage to death, covering the wind and sand blowing from the grassland in the north, and also blocking the spring breeze in the south. This situation is very much like the gate between two stone pillars, since ancient times, people and vehicles must pass through this gate, except for the soaring geese, they fly directly above the pass, as if they have crossed a low threshold, all the way south.

So in later generations, there is a more famous name for the sentence note: Yanmen Pass! It is the first of the nine stops in the world.

Dong An returned to Jinyang ahead of schedule after completing Zhao Ying's last wish, and Zhao Wuxian and his party entered the sentence under the guidance of Xu Qu.

Maybe it's because he has been in the Biansai for a long time, Xu Qu's personality is very hearty, and he was so sad that he burst into tears when he mentioned the old lord Zhao Ying, he was a little flattered that Zhao Wuxian would come to this remote place in the far north, and he enthusiastically took Zhao Wuxian around the Sei.

Wuxian noticed that Sene resembled a small town, with barracks, stables, foundries, wells, and sheepfolds. There are even more than 1,000 acres of land where corn and wheat were once grown, but unfortunately in autumn, severe frost killed the remaining crops, leaving only mud and wilted and rotten stalks.

The entire pass consisted only of a two-man high stone wall and a closed gate, protected by a pair of square stone towers, and the narrow walls were patrolled by sentinels throughout the day.

Separated by a wall, outside are deep trenches for defense, an earthen embankment with a slope, and a wooden fence extending out. Because of the rain and snow for several days, the thick moss climbed up the wooden fence and half of the city wall.

It was an important fortress, but it was not fortified. Half of the collapsed enemy building was covered in snow and could not be repaired, so you can imagine the intensity of the fighting at that time.

Xu Qu introduced: "There are 1,000 apprentices in Huoren County, and there is a brigade of 500 people, most of whom are local savages, and most of their families live around the county. In the past two years, the war was raging, and we stubbornly defended this place, so that Dai Rong could not cross the south and take the next step! It's a pity that hundreds of miles of borders, the sentence note plug can only guard against a few mountain passes, and the generation still detours to Lou Fu, to lay down Huoren County, cut off our grain road. ”

Zhao Wuxian couldn't help asking, "Then how did you survive it?" ”

"There is a stream and a well beside the pass, but there is no shortage of water, and everyone lives by storing grain and shooting geese and finches, and feeding on the moss of the ear of the ear. Later, more than 1,000 people came to besiege him, and he couldn't even go out hunting, so we boiled the armor and bowstring and crossbow, and ate the animal tendon and leather on it......"

Zhao Wuxian could imagine the hardships and hardships at that time, but in Xu Qukou, he was just waiting for leisure.

An old soldier on the side smiled and said: "When we couldn't hold on, the brigade commander told the soldiers that he would treat the soldiers as the emperor treated him." Since the brigade commander and we live and die together, everyone has no two hearts. But the number of dead increased day by day, and only 400 people remained, and Daizi knew that we were in a desperate situation and were determined to make the brigade commander surrender, so he sent a messenger to recruit him to surrender, saying, "If you surrender, Xuqu, the Daijun will make you the head of the tribe and give you a woman as a wife!" ”

"The brigade commander pretended to agree, lured the messenger of Daiko to the city, killed him with his own hands, burned the body of the messenger at the head of the city, and ate it with us, and exclaimed that the smell of meat even floated to the city, and said to Daizi, if there is a woman, send it quickly. Daizi was very angry, and sent more than 1,000 soldiers to besiege it, but he still couldn't break through the fortress, but was killed and wounded by more than 100 of us, and retreated in embarrassment, and never dared to attack the sentence note plug again. ”

"Great!" Zhao Wuxian was moved by it and couldn't help but praise it. Perhaps due to the environment, the people of the Zhao clan in Taiyuan are more tenacious than those in Hanoi and Handan, and the soldiers recruited from Taiyuan can often be one enemy and two, and he is also impressed by Xu Qu.

Xu Qu scratched his beard a little embarrassed, and said: "Although the soldiers are tired, they still hold on until the marshal's reinforcements arrive, that's it, there are still three hundred and fifteen people left, but it's a pity that many of their Huo people's families were taken away by Rong Di, and when they returned home, they saw the ruins and broken walls, and their wives were missing, leaving only the corpses of the old father and mother, and no one was crying bitterly......

"You are really loyal servants of the Zhao family."

Zhao Wuxian was moved, looking at the simple guards who gathered over and looked at him with curiosity and reverence, he was both moved and ashamed, the veterans are not dead, they are just withering, he owes them too much!

He resolutely took Xu Qu's hand, walked to the city wall, and said to everyone: "Ju Zhu Sai refuses to submit to Rong Di, stick to it for two years, my father and son will be proud of you in the spirit of heaven, let alone a boy?" I hereby announce that Brigade Marshal Xu has been promoted to the rank of middle doctor because of his merits, serving as the county lieutenant of Huoren, and he is also the commander of the division! Where the sentence is filled with guards, savages are promoted to countrymen, countrymen are promoted to sergeants, corporals are promoted to sergeants, and sergeants are promoted to sergeants! There is another compensation for the war dead, and their names can be listed on the Yuntai roster, and they will be accompanied by the Zhao family! ”

"And in order to keep in mind the deeds of your guarding Heng Mountain, I will name my newly acquired eldest son Heng, Zhao Heng!"

This is the supreme honor, the guards of the sentence note are full of joy, in the past year, they have received many rewards of food and meat, and now they are rewarded again, all of them are happy, and the extravagance of the old soldiers of the side is so much.

Xu Qu also said excitedly: "The ministers are still willing to guard the border for the Zhao family!" ”

"No!" Zhao Wuxian shook his head and denied this.

He shouted to the crowd: "It's not just about guarding the border, it's not just about passively guarding against the invasion of Rongdi. This time, we will take the initiative to fight out, welcome back the families of the soldiers who were taken captive, and repay them tenfold and hundredfold of the pain caused by Dai Rong to Huoren County and Taiyuan! ”

In the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not been returned. But to make the dragon city fly general, do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain...... Now the Qin and Han dynasties are probably impossible, General Fei's ancestor Laozi is still traveling everywhere, and the edge of Huaxia and Rongdi is not Yinshan, but a sentence note. However, Zhao Wuxian also vowed to make Rong Di dare not go south to herd horses, and the history of complaining about the soldiers not daring to bend the bow will be staged in advance!

Under the excited gaze of everyone, Zhao Wuxian pulled out his sword and pointed it directly at the outside of the fortress: "I will take you and others, trample on the pastures of the generations, occupy their farmland and cities, slaughter their cattle and sheep to feast, and take their wives and daughters as slaves and maids on your bed!" ”

"I want all Rong Di barbarians to firmly remember that those who dare to offend Zhao will be punished even if they are far away!"

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"The lord is in the Heng Mountain, and the passes are all in our hands, so it is quite easy to attack the border of the Dai country. However, it is a little difficult to go deep into the generations and destroy the generations with only this one division of the people. ”

That night, in the humble house where the guards tried to clean it several times, but it was still mixed with horse manure and the smell of mold, Xu Qu began to report to Zhao Wuxian about the information about Daiguo in every detail.

In fact, this summer house, hundreds of miles from north to south, was occupied by the Wuzhong Kingdom, and it was not until fifty years ago that the Wuzhong Kingdom was defeated and declined by the Bank of China Muzi, and the Jin Dynasty slowly moved into the south. As for the north, after the final defeat, the tribes were scattered, and Dai Rong, who was originally a small tribe, took advantage of the situation and established a new state, whose king called himself 'Dai Wang', with the black dog as the banner. ”

He carefully observed Zhao Wuxian's expression, this room was very simple and dirty, but Zhao Shangqing, who was used to fine clothes and fine food, was at ease, recalling that today he ate coarse grains with all the guards, drank soup, and drank well water, like an old pawn, Xu Qu and others were all admired and pleased.

Seeing that Zhao Wuxian was listening very carefully, he continued: "Now that the country has been established for decades, the generations live in the city of Dai, in addition to several rammed earth cities and fields. But more often than not, tribes scattered in the valleys and live on herding and hunting. Its population is more than 100,000, in addition to the 30,000 people in the Daiko headquarters, there are also the Raccoon Clan, Sanggan, Takayanagi, and Ru, Xuchi and other departments, each with thousands of people, all of whom set up the Black Dog Flag, and consider themselves to be Daiko's relatives...... The other tribes were conquered by the Zarong Zadi, the larger ones were the Tu He tribe in the north, and the endless tribe of the Poor Fish Hill, each with more than 10,000 people, all of whom paid tribute to the sons......"

Zhao Wuxian said with some disdain: "Pu'er is a small country, but it dares to be the king and has vassals...... The country is small but not humble, the strength is small but not afraid of the strong, the bad is in the big state, and the greedy and clumsy friends can die! ”

This generation of sons was only a few years ago, he had served as an envoy to Jinyang, for Ji Huan's beauty and fell for him, many times sent people to send gifts to pursue, but were refused, and only then sent troops to besiege Jinyang with the Zhi clan in anger. After learning that Zhao Wuxian had married Ji Huan, the infatuated Daijun was extremely sad, so he did not actively reconcile with the Zhao family after the war, but was full of resentment......

Thinking of this, Zhao Wuxian was extremely unhappy, based on this alone, he would not let go of Dai Jun!

On the side of the couch, how can you allow your rival to sleep soundly!?

He said: "It sounds like the Daiguo is still a union of many tribes, and there are also non-generations, and what Daiko can directly control is only tens of thousands of people near Daicheng, isn't this more conducive to each defeat?" Why did you say that it was difficult to destroy the generation? ”

"It's mainly a matter of food and soldiers." As a veteran of guarding sentences for fifteen years, Xu Qu, who is in his forties, knows the situation here well.

"After the lord sets up Taiyuan County, how many troops can he gather?"

Zhao Wuxian thought for a while: "Dong Zi estimates that 25,000 people can be recruited during the slack season, which is enough for the two armies!" Coupled with the soldiers who can be transferred, it will not be a problem to attack with an army of 30,000! ”

Xu Qu shook his head helplessly and said: "But Huo Ren and Ju Zhu can only supply military food for thousands of people, and they must feed food from Jinyang and other places for hundreds of miles. But on the other hand, if there are fewer soldiers attacking the dynasty, it will be difficult to break through the city. The customs of the country are still martial, and the vast majority of men in the various departments can fight with spears in their hands, so it was only in the first two years that more than 10,000 people could be gathered to invade, and once the war started, the resistance might be fierce......"

Zhao Wuxian knocked on his forehead: "This is indeed a big problem, but in the summer and autumn of this year, I have asked Dong Zi to renovate the road from Jinyang to Huoren, and let five hundred Xinjiang immigrants move to Huoren Tuntian, and there will be one thousand more households coming over next year." ”

"When the trees and grasslands in the north are set on fire, it is a plastered land, and then the intensive cultivation of the field method is not low, with at least two stones per mu. Therefore, my request to the Tuntian officer is: in the first year, the immigrants can support themselves, and in the second year, they must supply military rations on the spot. Therefore, after the autumn harvest of the next year at the latest, Huo Hehe and Juzhu will probably be able to stop the army of 10,000 people, and the people will be responsible for one-third of the local food, and two-thirds of the supply of Jinyang......

Although Xu Qu is brave and loyal, he is also very cautious, he is not too optimistic, but said with reservations: "I hope that next year will be a good harvest year." ”

Zhao Wuxian thought about it for a while, and felt that there was still a omission, so he said: "The internal situation of Daiguo is like this, what is the situation around Daiguo?" ”

"However, outside the country, there is the land of Hu Raccoon Beidi. Its west is Loufu, its north is Donghu, all of them are migrating by water and grass, there are no cities and cultivated tribes, more than 1,000 people, less than hundreds of people, do not belong to each other, have not yet formed a state, and there is no unified monarch. ”

"Lou Fu, Donghu ......" these are two names that he seems to know, Lou Fu was probably not conquered by King Wuling of Zhao until about two hundred years later, and has been existing as a vassal and source of soldiers of Zhao State. As for the Donghu, it later became a large tribe, threatening the security of the Yan State and once overriding the Xiongnu......

In other words, the Huns who should have been in the north of Loufu, I don't know if it will appear or not?

He continued to ask: "Do you know the details of Lou Fu?" ”

Xu Qu bowed down with some caution: "The minister's energy is mainly on behalf of the country, and he only knows the name of Lou Fu, but he has never seen it in person, so there will definitely be mistakes and omissions in what he says, and the lord may wish to ask others." ”

"Oh, in the sentence note, there are still people who have walked around the Loufu area?"

"There is no one in the Senei, but there is a person in Huoren County, he came here to do business a few years ago, and traded cattle, sheep and five livestock with the Lou Fu tribes outside the Sai Nei, and he can also speak Lou Fu Di, and even married a Lou Fu woman as a concubine."

Xu Qu said with a smile: "And it's a coincidence to say that this person also claims to be from Lu and has seen the general's guard of honor when he was in Qufu......"

A native of Lu who traveled thousands of miles to the Rongdi wilderness north of Taiyuan to do business? Zhao Wuxian suddenly became interested: "What is the name of this person, when I went back to Huoren County, I asked him." ”

"His name is Yidun, and he boasted to me not long ago when he was selling grain that he knew Tao Zhu of Taoqiu!"

(To be continued.) )