Chapter 143: Compassion
The next day, Yang Shen woke up from his sleep very early, and after a hasty wash under Ye Lingbo's service, he began to wander around the barracks. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time, only a faint glimmer of light could be seen in the sky, and many of the torches lit in the barracks had not yet been extinguished.
The soldiers were still asleep in their tents, and all they could see were patrolling soldiers walking back and forth.
These people are all sleepy-eyed and in a very bad mental state, which shows that the quality of these soldiers is indeed worrying.
Just when they saw Yang Shen, their drowsiness in their hearts temporarily disappeared without a trace, and they all bent down to salute him.
In this regard, although Yang Shen was not satisfied, he still gave a few words of encouragement before leaving.
Along the way, they were all aimless, and before he knew it, Yang Shen came to the place where the 20,000 old and weak of Zuo Wuwei's army were deliberately separated from the 20,000 young and strong.
The first thing Yang Shen noticed was that the hygiene situation here was not very good.
He was passing by the camp where the young men lived just now, and the sanitation there was very good, and in Yang Shen's opinion, most of this should be due to the supervision of Yang Caiqing, the military judge.
It's just that the sanitation here is extremely poor, some garbage is thrown everywhere, and people can even smell a wisp of peculiar smell.
Yang Shen frowned, walked to a tent, pulled it apart, and walked in.
With his profound skills, without wanting to alarm the people in the tent, no one who was sleeping in the tent was awakened and noticed that there was an extra person in the tent.
Seeing the condition of these people when they were sleeping, Yang Shen's brows furrowed even deeper.
The old man and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old children in the tent had little shelter on them.
Yang Shen silently walked out of this tent and went into some other tents, and found that this situation was extremely common in these places where the old and weak were.
He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, the spring night was very cold, and there were no quilts and other warm clothes, and the physical condition of these people was not guaranteed.
Of course, Yang Shen knew that the conditions in the barracks were poor, and even those young and strong people could often only sleep in clothes, and it was impossible to expect any quilts to protect them from the cold.
But the old man and the child are different, one of them is old, the other is growing the body, the body's immunity can not be compared with the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man can sleep peacefully without a quilt, the next day normal march, almost no impact on the body, but the elderly and children are not, if they do the same, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold on for a few days.
Yang Shen took them to the northern frontier, although they may die on the battlefield, and even this possibility is very large, for this point, Yang Shen is impossible to change. After all, with the strength of the Yang family, although they can be properly placed elsewhere, the price will be very amazing, and it will also attract criticism from the government and the opposition, and the emperor will be in trouble, even if Yang Shen is the head of the Yang family, he can't do it willfully.
But they don't want them to die on the road because of cold, illness and other reasons.
He is the general of the town army, the president of the 80,000 people, and he has this responsibility and obligation.
This is also the most basic moral quality of his own as a human being.
He left here silently.
Although he was in a bad mood, he did not plan to turn his tent back here, but continued to walk slowly in the barracks.
Soon, Yang Shen came to another place, which was the place where the entire army's grain and grass were stored.
In fact, the grain and grass stored here are used by the entire army for four days.
Because of the urgency in northern Xinjiang, Yang Shen's team had to rush to the battlefield in northern Xinjiang as quickly as possible, so the traditional combat method of "soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass first" did not work at all, and the imperial court had no time to recruit people, so it could only order all counties in Gaizhou to provide four or five days of grain and grass for Yang Shen's army.
Every time Yang Shen passed through one county, he would receive enough food for the army to go to the next county, which was the reason why there was only food in the barracks for the army to march for four or five days.
Here, Yang Shen only stopped for a moment, visually checked that the amount of grain was roughly normal, and left here.
After turning around for a while, Yang Shen came to the barracks of Zheng Chenggong's Right Wuwei Army.
Although the two armies shared an entire barracks, they were still separated from each other.
Yang Shen walked around here for a while, and found that neither the patrol frequency nor the hygiene of the soldiers here could be compared with Zuo Wuwei's side, and he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh in his heart, and Zheng Chenggong was very protective of him, probably because he had already explained to the patrol team, and Yang Shen came to Yang Shen not long after he turned here.
"The last general has seen the general." Zheng Chenggong was very respectful.
Although Yang Shen didn't want to pay much attention to this guy who didn't agree with him, he still said a few words of kindness to him and talked for a while before leaving here.
Zheng Chenggong looked at Yang Shenyuan's back, his eyes flickering.
Soon after Yang Shen returned to his tent, the soldiers woke up from their sleep to the shouts of the officers and lit a fire to cook.
"The last general has seen the general." A middle-aged man came to Yang Shen's tent and gave Yang Shen a military salute after being passed in.
This person is the marching Sima in Yang Shen's army, named Ye Minghui, who is a member of the Ye family, and was specially called here by Yang Shen, he smiled and said, "Fifth Uncle doesn't need to be polite. This time, I invited the fifth uncle to come because ......" He told Ye Minghui about the old and weak in Zuo Wuwei's army who did not have anything warm when they slept.
Ye Minghui is the younger brother of Ye Jingtao, the head of the Ye family, and an important person sent by the Ye family to assist Yang Shen in Yang Shen's army at a cost, in charge of the documents, grain, grass and silver in Yang Shen's army, and what Yang Shen wants to do cannot be bypassed him.
"What does the general think?" Ye Minghui wondered.
It's not that he is slow to react, but Yang Shen's plan has almost no one done in this era, even the generals who love soldiers like children on the surface will not spend such a sum of money for some old and weak people to buy things to keep out the cold at night, not that they don't want to, but they can't face the doubts of others.
Doing so is too much of a suspicion of bribing the hearts of the army, and the generals who lead the troops outside are already susceptible to the suspicion of the emperor, and if they really do this, their lives will soon be unsaved.
Yang Shen naturally had no such concerns, and he explained his plan to Ye Minghui in detail.
"General, the money in the army is still of great use......" Although he didn't want to contradict Yang Shen, the chief general of the army, he didn't approve of his behavior, and there was a lot of money and food in the army, but there were other important uses and could not be moved lightly, so he opened his mouth to let Yang Shen understand his distress. (To be continued.) )