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The Beiliang army is stationed in Longwang Village, which can be regarded as finding a good place to stay, and the generals are a little at ease, but Xuanyuan Chen is not easy at all, and now he has encountered an extremely serious problem.

The food and grass in his hands will soon be exhausted.

When breaking through from Pengcheng, the 800 soldiers of the Beiliang Army were all cavalry, and they were all one person and two horses, one for the soldiers to ride, and the other was used as a pack horse, and each pack horse was hung with two bags of grain.

When Xuanyuan Chen migrated with the people of Beiliang City, he used to treat the war horse as a pack horse, and Zuo Kui, who was responsible for receiving him at the south gate of Pengcheng, also painted a gourd, and also used this trick, thus ensuring that the Northern Liang army had enough ration support on the way south.

It's just that there was a lot of food brought with me at the beginning, but now there is not much left.

The food stored by the thieves in Longwangzhai is far less than Xuanyuan Chen's estimate, a total of more than 70 stone of grain, and some gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy, painting and antiques, except for appreciation, can not be used for the time being.

Xuanyuan Chen made a preliminary statistics, there were a total of 2,872 people in the Beiliang Army in the Dragon King Village, plus the people, and under normal circumstances, the remaining food was only enough to eat for half a month.

But there is one thing that has to be taken into account, the people in the Dragon King Village are all young and strong, and the demand for food is much greater, especially the eight hundred soldiers of the Beiliang Army, who have been fighting on the battlefield all year round and have trained their strong physique, and their appetite is naturally far more than that of ordinary people.

And once there is not enough to eat, the combat strength of the Northern Liang Army will be seriously damaged.

In the chaotic world, the Northern Liang Army is in the dangerous Jiannan Road, and in order to survive to the greatest extent, it cannot affect its own combat effectiveness no matter what.

Xuanyuan Chen knew this very well, but a grain of grain was difficult for a hero, and he had already gone through life and death several times, but this threshold made him feel very headache at this time.

In order to narrow the food gap, Xuanyuan Chen asked the two thousand rescued people to go home separately, but only a dozen people chose to leave, and the rest stayed without hesitation.

These people who were dragged up the mountain, their homes were all destroyed, most of their relatives were killed and injured, and they were left alone, where can they go after leaving Longwang Village?

And in the troubled times, if you want to live well, you must have the protection of the strong, after seeing that the four thousand thieves were wiped out by the Beiliang army without the power to resist, and the Beiliang army did not commit any offense against them in autumn, and provided rations, the people were shocked and grateful, and instinctively chose to attach themselves to the Beiliang army, let alone leave the Dragon King Village.

Xuanyuan Chen couldn't do anything to drive the people down the mountain, so he could only leave all the troubles to himself.

The snow was getting heavier and colder, and Xuanyuan Chen was sitting in a simple grass hut that had just been built, surrounded by several major generals of the Northern Liang Army.

There was an iron pot in the middle of the straw shed, and the hot water was boiling in it, and everyone used a ladle bowl to serve it and drink water to drive away the cold.

Someone looked outside and sighed, "What a lot of snow!"

Zuo Kui was born in a peasant family when he was a child, and he seemed to have a soft spot for farming, and said with a regretful face: "It's a pity, if I have a few acres of paddy fields, and when I sow grain seeds in spring, I will definitely be able to usher in a bumper harvest."

In a year with abundant snow, the colder the winter, the more abundant the harvest in the coming year.

Wan Xiaodao laughed when he heard this: "Brother Zuo, do you know how to grow corn or millet, do you want to toss a piece of land out on the mountain, so that you can show your skills."

Zuo Kui glared and scolded in a low voice, asking his hands holding knives to change to hoes, but he was unwilling.

At this time, someone asked aloud, "Is there a suitable field for cultivation on Dragon King Mountain?" It was Xuanyuan Chen who was asking, and his mind was now full of how to solve the problem of food demand.

Zuo Kui was shocked when he heard this, and was instantly dumbfounded, his rough face showed a little pity, and he said bitterly: "Son,

You don't really want me to farm, do you? ”

Xuanyuan Chen didn't have time to pay attention to Zuo Kui's ignorance, and directly asked Wan Xiaodao by name: "Xiaodao, you have explored the terrain on the mountain, do you have suitable arable land?"

Wan Xiaodao shook his head and said: "The place on the mountain is not small, but the soil is very shallow, and digging down some of it is a mountain rock, and it is impossible to use it as cultivated land, but ......" He took a sip of the hot water in the bowl and continued: "The vicinity of Longwang Mountain is all fertile soil, many of which are reclaimed land, but in this chaotic day, the people either died or fled, and almost all the land was abandoned."

A hint of anticipation flashed in Xuanyuan Chen's eyes, and he said: "Xiaodao, you will send people to nearby counties and towns tomorrow to collect grain seeds, and wait until the sky clears, and then organize the people to go down the mountain to reclaim the fields."

Wan Xiaodao responded, he knew the current importance of Longwang Mountain to the Beiliang Army, this is not only a temporary stronghold, but also may become the foundation in the future, so it is necessary to have a long-term plan.

The firewood crackled, and the hot water in the iron pot was still boiling.

In the mist, Leng Junao took out a handful of bran out of nowhere and threw it into the hot water, and said: "Even if we can successfully cultivate the fields, we will not have a harvest until next year, but our grain will not last for ten days."

Everyone had a sad look on their faces when they heard this, but Zuo Kui was still smiling stupidly, and he realized that Xuanyuan Chen didn't want him to farm, but was worried about food.

As for the problem of running out of food, Zuo Kui didn't seem to take it to heart, his head was obviously only interested in fighting and killing, and he couldn't worry about the rest, and he didn't want to worry about it.

Xuanyuan Chen took the wooden scoop, filled a scoop of water from the pot, and then grabbed a handful of snowflakes from the ground and put them in it, and when he put the wooden scoop into his mouth, a faint smell of wheat came into his nose.

Leng Junao's handful of bran is equivalent to turning the hot water in the pot into a pot of barley tea.

It's a pity that the wheat fragrance is pleasant, but Xuanyuan Chen has no time to taste, and the hot water containing the wheat fragrance is drunk in his mouth, leaving him with only a thick bitterness.

After ten days, the food ran out, and perhaps the only way to satisfy the hunger was bran.

There was a dullness in the grass shed, and Zuo Kui suddenly said, "Isn't there just no food?" Those thieves in Longwang Village can go down the mountain to rob them, and our invincible division of the Beiliang Army can't grab food? ”

Xuanyuan Chen's eyes froze, and he said gloomily: "Zuo Kui, do you want to grab grain?"

Zuo Kui took it for granted and said: "Yes, ......" Before the words came out, his eyes touched Xuanyuan Chen's grim eyes, and immediately realized that the words might have caused a misunderstanding to Xuanyuan Chen, and hurriedly explained: "I mean robbing the food of the nearby thieves, just like the Dragon King Village that we exterminated."

Xuanyuan Chen's face softened slightly, but the sadness in his eyes was still thick, and he said: "Longwang Village is the largest group of thieves within a radius of 100 miles, and the grain and grass stored are only seventy or eighty stones.

Zuo Kui was unwilling, and said: "The small group of thieves is not enough to eat, then we will go and rob the big share of thieves, and we good men of the Beiliang Army can't let a little food suffocate to death." What he said was arrogant, but it was also a solution.

Xuanyuan Chen pondered for a moment, nodded slowly, and said, "You can give it a try, let people find out the power of the various bandits in Jiannan Dao, and then we will choose the target to attack."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces were a little more excited, Wan Xiaodao seemed to think of something, suddenly slapped his thigh, and said: "By the way, there are a few people in the Dragon King Village, they may know something about the various thieves."

Xuanyuan Chen asked, "Who?"

Wan Xiaodao lowered his head and thought for a while, then hesitated: "There are about six or seven people, I don't know their identities, but they must all be Lian Jiazi, when we exterminated the thieves in Longwang Village, those people only used sticks, and smashed several thieves."

Xuanyuan Chen's eyes flashed, and he said, "Bring them up."