Early the next morning, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang followed Xun Yu to leave Yanling and head towards Anyi surrounded by four hundred tiger guards, although it was only said that there were four hundred tiger guards to escort them, but there were as many as 1,200 people accompanying them, because in addition to the four hundred tiger guards, there were also eight hundred militiamen who were responsible for transporting grain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The military system of the Eastern Han Dynasty is very different from modern times, their minimum establishment is five people, five people by a captain, two soldiers for what, set up a chief, Wu Shi for the team, set up a captain, two teams for one tun, one hundred people, set up a tun chief, two tun for the song, is two hundred people, with a military marquis, and two for the department, for four hundred people, with a captain and Sima, or only set up Sima one.

One is already the highest fixed establishment ceiling of the army, like Yu Ban, Le Jin, Cao Ang, these people with thousands of people have installed the names of various generals, such as Le Jin is a partial general, Cao Ang is a rebellious general, the number of soldiers led by this kind of general depends on how many soldiers and horses Cao Cao gives them, and this name may change at any time, for example, this crusade against the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Thief, Le Jin was named a left general.

This kind of general's salary is a little less than that of Zhonglang general, not more than 2,000 stones, probably between 1,000 stones and 2,000 stones, depending on how Cao Cao distributes and the military merits of this person.

The four hundred tiger guards escorting Cao Zhang and others only have one Sima, called Shi Lian, who is also a tall man, Xun Yu's figure is at least more than one meter eight, but Shi Lian is still a little taller than him, and much stronger than Xun Yu, which makes Cao Zhang completely subvert the image of those invincible brave generals in the Three Kingdoms novels. It's really unlikely.

Anyi belongs to Hedong County in the Heluo Plain, which belongs to the Sili area, which is equivalent to the modern capital area, and Hedong County is located at the junction of Yongzhou, where Sili and Chang'an are located, that is, the edge of Sili, and it will take a while to start from Yingchuan.

After a few days of marching, everyone went from Yanling through Xuchang to Changshe, went to Rongyang and then passed through Zhongmu, and finally arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass, where the eighteen princes and Dong Zhuoxi's Liang army fought in the past.

This Tiger Prison Pass is one of the few Xiongguan in the world, connecting Bishui and Songshan in the south, and the Yellow River in the north, a Xiongguan blocks all the routes to the Heluo Plain in the east, and it is like a door god guarding the Heluo Plain, which is fertile in the land behind him.

But today's Xiongguan is still there, but it is a place of refuge for the homeless, since Dong Zhuo burned down the Luoyang Palace and returned to Chang'an with Emperor Xian, there is no army stationed in the Tiger Prison Pass, because Luoyang has only left the ruins and broken walls, Dong Zhuo went to Chang'an and burned and looted all the way, making ten rooms and nine empty, thousands of miles of red land, who will garrison troops at this pass to guard the devastated Heluo Plain?

Only one-third of the city gate of the Tiger Prison Pass is left, hanging at the gate of the city staggeringly, when Cao Jun enters the pass, he only sees countless displaced people sitting and lying in the abandoned walled city, all of them are ragged, yellow and thin, most of the displaced people are old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children, and the strong men who want to come are either captured as soldiers or taken as slaves by Haoqiang, or they will run out of the customs to find a way to live.

Now the people in the pass have obviously lost their longing and hope for life, Cao Jun has more than 1,000 people walking in, and carrying grain and grass baggage, these homeless people have not even looked at it, there are obviously thousands of living people in the pass but it is like a dead place, Cao Pi who is sitting on the horse is shaking his head again and again, quite unbearable.

Xun Yu also sighed when he saw it, and suddenly called out loudly after a long groan: "Shi Sima? ”

Although Shi Jian was an official Sima, he still walked on foot like other Tiger Guards, and did not ride a horse, only to see him come to Xun Yu's horse and ask, "Sir, what are your instructions?" ”

Xun Yu said lightly: "Leave half of the Tiger Guards to guard the Tiger Prison Pass, and then leave half of the militia and grain and grass, and send someone to inform the lord to bring some farming animals and farm tools and seeds, and send these displaced people to the gate to open up wasteland and cultivate land, and they can't be allowed to wait for death here." ”

Shi Jian was puzzled when he heard this: "But I was ordered to protect the safety of my husband and the two sons, if half of the manpower is missing, this... ”

Xun Yu sighed and said: "There are thousands of homeless people in the little Tiger Prison Pass, there must have been a famine in the Heluo Plain, even if there are thieves, they are thieves who are about to starve to death, two hundred tiger guards and four hundred militiamen are enough to deter any thieves, the lord wants to meet the Son of Heaven in Luoyang, and such an important town as the Tiger Prison Pass must not be abandoned." ”

After hearing the promise, Shi Jian called a military marquis of the Tiger Guards, and took his two hundred commanders to leave two hundred Tiger Guards here, and left another four hundred grain soldiers and half of the grain and grass, and asked one person to send a message to Cao Cao, and then left the customs and continued to go towards Anyi.

Sure enough, as Xun Yu expected, there has been a famine in the Heluo Plain, and there are five counties in Sili, namely Pingyang, Hongnong, Hedong, Hanoi, and Henan Yi, which includes the capital Luoyang, Hongnong has the hussar general Zhang Ji and a group of local tyrants to control, only care about their own territory and ignore the hungry people, Hanoi has the Sima clan of the great family to control the military and government, but it is a little better than Hongnong, at least there are no hungry people, but they do not let the hungry people from other places enter Hanoi, as for Pingyang and Emperor Han Xian's current location in Hedong, there is an extreme shortage of food, Eating is a problem.

And Cao Zhang's passing by Henan Yi now, needless to say, almost every mile will see human bones, as well as the hungry people who have just starved to death, what is more exaggerated is that it is spring now, and the grass and trees are sprouting, but the land of Henan Yi is still bare, there is no tender grass on the ground, there are no tender shoots on the trees, the trunk does not even have bark, and the bare trunk still has tooth marks, it can be seen that the hungry people are so hungry that they eat the buds and bark directly, and they go to gnaw on the trunk if they don't grab it.

Cao Zhang also found that there were still broken teeth under some trees, apparently those people were so hungry that they lacked calcium, and gnawed off their own teeth by gnawing on the trunks of trees, which shows how serious the famine has become.

Cao Jun's soldiers were strong and strong, and those homeless people didn't dare to beat their attention, but Xun Yu's face became more and more ugly along the way, and Cao Pi also couldn't bear it, not only them, but also the six hundred people on the march, including Sima Shi Lian of other departments, none of them had a good face, and they were obviously touched by this scene.

Since Cao Zhang came to this world, he has been dressed in fine clothes and food, and even during the difficult period of Zhang Miao's rebellion, Cao Zhang also lived well and ate well, and he had no direct understanding of the people's livelihood in the outside world.

Looking at the miserable situation of these hungry people, looking at this desolate scene, Cao Zhangzhen felt in his heart that the kind of princes who had fought for pleasure were not people, and remembered that he had not yet walked and began to think about how to lead the army to gallop the world invincible, he wanted to slap himself, which is called standing and talking without backache.

"The little peach blooms without an owner, and the tobacco is vast with a night crow. Several ruined wells have always been people's homes. Cao Zhang suddenly couldn't help but chant the poems that the old professor used to read when he was in college whenever he talked about troubled times.

Xun Yu was originally sad, and he should have been even more sad when he heard such a poem that was suitable for the occasion, but when he heard that it was actually Cao Zhangnian, he immediately looked at Cao Zhang in shock.