Cao Ying couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Man's favor's words, and then his face became gloomy again, and said: "Boning, I heard that Liu Xin has six righteous brothers, and Xu Huang is one of them, and Liu Xin is very good at winning people's hearts, if you go to persuade Xu Huang, I'm afraid you will return in vain, so don't go." ”

Full of favor bowed and said: "The lord doesn't have to worry too much, his own brothers can still turn against each other, not to mention the righteous brothers, Xu Huang is the most loyal and righteous, as seen by his subordinates, the reason why he assisted Liu Xin, but because Liu Xin is a relative of the Han family, now the emperor has been rescued by the lord, that is the orthodoxy of the Han family, with the three inches of his subordinates' incorruptible tongue, Xu Huang will be happy to return." ”

Cao Yingsheng's surname was suspicious, although he swore by Manzhong, he still didn't believe it, and he pondered for a while before asking: "Boning, Xu Huang has retreated to Hongnong City, not camping in front, how can you get in." ”

Full pet smiled: "Lord Qiyu, what is the use of his subordinates to get in, they can go to see Xu Huang openly, Xu Huang is cautious, although he has returned to Hongnong City, he will set up many patrols outside the city, and his subordinates will pretend to be a pawn, as long as they are close to Hongnong City, they will be obtained by the patrol posts, and the subordinates say that they are Xu Huang's old friends, and I think those patrols will naturally take me to him." ”

Cao Ying hesitated again and again, and finally his mind to recruit Xu Huang still prevailed, and he said with his head bowed: "Boning, you need to be very careful when you go, if things are not harmonious, you can return quickly." ”

Man Zhong said disapprenously: "Don't worry, my lord, even if Xu Huang is not allowed, he will never embarrass his subordinates, and if things are not good, his subordinates will have a way to get out of the way." ”

At this time, the sun has not yet set, the afterglow splashed down, put on a golden coat to the earth, full of favor to the pawns around him to change a coat, welcome the sunset to Hongnong City, along the way, the corpses of the dead Cao soldiers can be seen everywhere, and then go forward, there are many Luoyang old army on both sides, but not see the remains of the Jingzhou army, although Liu Xin has always claimed his army of the Han army, every time the battle is always held high the banner of the "Han" character, but in the eyes of other princes, they still only look at the Jingzhou army, Liu Xin is just a prince,

"Wound the enemy a thousand, self-damage 800" the truth of the full favor is naturally known, the Jingzhou army first and Yang Feng's Luoyang old army a big battle, and then met the elite Cao soldiers, it is impossible not to have a little casualties, is it possible that the Jingzhou army will transport all the corpses of the fallen soldiers, full of favor feels incredible, in this era of human life like grass mustard, if anyone dies on the battlefield, someone digs a mass grave to bury it, it is good, and it is expected that the scenery will not be buried, how can there be such an army in the world,

The further he went, the more frightened he became, not only could he not see the corpse of the Jingzhou army, but even their clothes and armor and weapons were rare to see, even if the winning side cleaned up the battlefield would not be so thorough, he was puzzled, and suddenly heard something moving in the corpses on the side of the road, and couldn't help shouting: "What people, get out." ”

With his loud shout, three people rushed out from the side of the road, each carrying a bright steel knife in his hand, and surrounded him in the middle.

The sky is still not dark, full of pet to see the real, these three ragged, face is covered with a rag, but can not hide the face of yellow muscles, although they are holding a sharp blade in their hands, but their eyes are full of fear, full of pet can be sure that they are not soldiers on which side, look like beggars, although full pet is just a strategist, but also some martial arts, not afraid, "poof" pulled out the waist knife, shouted: "What kind of person are you waiting for, in broad daylight dare to block the road and rob." ”

Man Pet guessed well, these people are indeed not soldiers, they are just hungry people nearby, years of war, the fields are barren, these people can only hide in the nearby mountains in order to survive, today's big battle here, they can see clearly on the hillside, and when all sides have dispersed, they quietly touch down the mountain,

The hungry people know that most of these soldiers do not have families, and their belongings are often carried with them, and after these soldiers die in battle, they will not wait for the war between the two sides to subside, and generally no one will come to deal with these corpses, and they will take advantage of this time to make some dead people's wealth, and it is necessary to hurry up to make the dead people's wealth, especially in the hot summer, the corpses will stink in two days, and even cause a plague epidemic, so these hungry people can't wait for dark, so they hurriedly search for the corpses and pick them up,

After the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms in history, the population of the country dropped sharply from 56 million people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to 16 million people in the early Jin Dynasty, a full decrease of 40 million people, in fact, the number of people who died directly on the battlefield is limited after all, such as the Battle of Chibi, many people still have a lot of controversy about whether the number of Cao Ying's army can reach 830,000, but even if Cao Ying had so many people at that time, and all of them died, it was only 830,000, in fact, The reason for the sharp decline in sincerity and benevolence is the two by-products of war, one is famine and the other is pestilence.

Although these hungry people did not have much knowledge, experience told them that many people had died here, and that there might be a plague epidemic in a few days, so they were more anxious to collect some belongings as a haunt to flee to other lands.

People who dare to search for property on the dead are naturally more courageous than ordinary people, since they were found by the full favor, they don't mind adding another dead person to the ground, there were only three people who jumped out, and with the loud shout of the full favor, there were seven or eight people who rushed out, and the first three people who came out were still a little undecided, and now they were even more courageous, and the first one said loudly: "We are just blocking the road and robbing, so what, the acquaintance will quickly hand over the money on his body, maybe he can leave you a way to live." ”

Although these people say fiercely, they haven't really killed anyone, but they just hope to scare off the full favor, so that they can continue to make a fortune, of course, the full favor of a soldier's outfit, or make them quite jealous, if the full favor refuses to give in, these people will definitely hurt the killer,

Full of pets often hang a saber on their bodies, this time in order to dress up as a pawn, he changed a waist knife, but he was not used to this waist knife, the hand holding the handle of the knife couldn't help but ooze sweat, the body involuntarily shrank back, secretly regretted, this time out should bring a few followers,

Suddenly hearing the sound of horse hooves behind, a large group of black-clothed and black-armored cavalry swarmed, headed by a general, holding a big axe, it was Xu Huang, who turned his head to look at it, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "Gongming save me, Gongming save me." ”

As soon as Manzhong's words fell, the cavalry had already come to the front, surrounding the more than ten people, and there was a sound of "ping pong", and those hungry people who came to make a fortune had already thrown the sharp blades in their hands to the ground, holding their heads in both hands, and obediently squatted aside,

Xu Huang took the lead, waved the big axe in his hand, pointed directly at Manzhong, and asked sharply: "Who are you and how do you recognize General Ben." ”

Man Chong also hurriedly threw away the waist knife in his hand, and arched his hand and said: "Gongming, don't you recognize me, I am Man Boning." ”

Xu Huang took a closer look, and sure enough, he was full of favor, threw the big axe to the soldiers around him, jumped off the horse and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Berning, I haven't seen you for a long time, how can you be here." ”

Man Zhong sighed and said, "Gongming, this is not the place to talk, it's better to wait for me to return to Hongnong City with you, and then let's talk about it in detail." ”

Xu Huang couldn't help but be secretly vigilant, he had not met with him for nearly ten years, and Hongnong, who he had only arrived today, how did he know, it seems that this time is not a coincidence, I am afraid that there is another mystery in it, Xu Huang remained silent on the surface, and said with a smile: "It's okay, you and I haven't seen each other for many years, I have a lot to say, and when I finish taking care of the things here, let's have a long talk." ”

While speaking, many people came over behind him, but it was a large number of Minzhuang people, these Minzhuang people were carrying shovels, pickaxes, pickaxes, and large bags of white powder.

Seeing this scene, Man Zhong felt strange in his heart, and asked, "Gongming, what are you doing?" ”

It turned out that Liu Xin learned that Liu Xie had defected to Cao Ying, worried that Xu Huang and Gao Shun were still not Cao Ying's opponents, and sent Chen Gong to lead 5,000 cavalry, escorting a large number of baggage to reinforcements, and when Chen Gong came to Hongnong, Xu Huang and Gao Shun also happened to escort Fu Shou and those family members to escort the remains of the fallen soldiers back to the city.

Liu Xin knows the severity of the plague, so after each battle, the remains of the fallen soldiers can be collected, and the corpses of the opposing soldiers, he will also organize soldiers and people to bury them, and sprinkle lime on the bottom of the burial pit and the corpses.

Today, in several battles in succession, Xu Huang's subordinates have suffered huge casualties, and the casualties of the other party are several times heavier, but, worried about being attacked by the enemy, Xu Huang did not rashly organize the burial of the corpses along the way, and now, it has been determined that Cao Hong and Li Dian have returned to Luoyang, and they have received extremely mobile cavalry to reinforce, Xu Huang is relieved, so he organized people overnight to bury the bodies of the dead in the war,

These people are all from Hongnong City, although Xu Huang promised to pay everyone after the work, but not many people believed his words, while working, he was terrified, for fear that he would accidentally annoy those soldiers, and he would make a different place and become a member of the corpse pit he dug.

Man Pet figured out the purpose of Xu Huang's organization of the people to come here, but he was particularly surprised, he didn't expect Liu Xin to think about things so thoroughly, his opinion of Liu Xin quietly changed, just when he bowed his head and pondered, the matter of more than ten hungry people, Xu Huang has also been dealt with, these people are local villagers, in order to escape the war to hide in the mountains, Xu Huang has promised to send people tomorrow to send money, grain, seeds, so that they can rebuild their homes, although now they have missed the agricultural time, but also for the sake of next year,

Due to the number of dead in the old army of Luoyang and the Cao army, the whole burial work was not finished until the second watch, under the escort of the cavalry, all the people returned to Hongnong City safely, and someone took them to receive today's wages, and the wages for burying the corpses this night were really a lot, far from what they imagined.

Those people had never encountered such an army before, and they were all grateful, and they flocked to the Taishou Mansion one after another, asking to meet the general and thank the general.

Xu Huang said good words to appease him, and then returned to the back office with full favor, sat down with the guests, and asked: "Boning, since you and I are old friends, there is no need to beat around the bush, if you have any intentions, you can just say it." ”

These things that happened tonight have shaken Manzhong's confidence, and as soon as Xu Huang sat down, he directly asked him about his intentions, which caught him off guard, Manzhong held back for a long time, and finally said: "Gongming, good birds choose trees to perch, good ministers choose the lord to do things, you should have heard this sentence." ”