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After the war, because of Han Qi's presence, it was much easier for Deng Ji to replenish his strength than other tuns, and he quickly recruited more than 20 soldiers who had no family members, most of them were born in shabby families, and had no other livelihood, and served in the military for the wealthy.

When attacking the city, Xintun mainly attacked one side, the other three sides were a little lax, when the city was broken, Fan County ordered to escape from the east city, and did not have to be killed, the yellow turban convention, every time a city was broken, the people were also stopped, but the big households were bound to plunder, of course, if there were no big villages or yellow turbans were really difficult, even the ordinary people could not say.

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that the Yellow Turbans are the Righteous Army, and it is a bit inappropriate to say that they are completely thieves, maybe the Yellow Turbans are between thieves and the Righteous Army, but they are still biased towards more thieves.

After a battle and looting in the city of Fanxian County, a lot of materials and people were obtained from the county treasury and large households.

There is an example of Fang Meng, Deng Ji knew that those big families raised their troops, because they had practiced martial arts since childhood, and the good hands were no less than those in the army, and when the city settled down a little, he personally led people to pick it up regardless of the injury on his arm, and recruited two pawns.

At this time, most of the soldiers in the state and county were still peasants in military service, not much stronger than the Yellow Turban, and there were more good players in the army than in the army, but most of them were loyal to the main family, and Deng Ji also took a lot of effort to get two from the Chen family of the Fanxian Wang clan.

A man named Ma Pi, in his forties, is a good hand with a knife, his wife was insulted by the master of the main family, hated deeply, Deng Ji slightly from it, Ma Pi jumped out and cut off the head of the main family with his own hands, and took the family members to follow the thief.

Another pawn named Niu Jian, more than 20 years old, skilled in knives and bows, he has no family members, but because he was whipped too much by the master on weekdays, seeing that he was killed by Chen Liu, he was also willing to be a thief, Deng Ji tried, his baby horn bow is a two-stone strong bow, although he can't pull it open, but with Zhang Yishi birch bow, it is indeed very accurate within fifty steps, and the knife is not weak.

The current head of the Chen family in Fan County is only a waste, and the rest of the big families of the family treat the subordinates poorly, and they always know that they have to attract the good players among them, and only in his family, Deng Ji, can recruit two at a time.

In the early days of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the momentum was huge, and the world was shaken, but they only knew that they blindly stuck to the city, such as Wancheng, Yingchuan, etc., and were finally captured by the officers and soldiers one by one.

In the case of rich families as fat sheep, the Yellow Turbans did not take the civilians captive, and finally left a way for them to live, and after resting in the city for three days, they put all the materials they could take away on the baggage carts, and then coerced more than 1,000 large households in Fan County as usual, and ordered the city to be abandoned to the north.

Once again, there were more than 1,000 people, and there were also a lot more grains and livestock, and this time they were able to get Fan County at a very small price, and they were chased by the officers and soldiers before crossing the river, and the moths and thieves were still very excited.

In the team that stretched north, Deng Ji rode on a blue and white horse, looking left and right very proudly.

This time the first merit of breaking the city, the materials obtained in Fan County naturally had to be rewarded to Deng Jitun first, and Gengen gave five horses, including two good horses, three horses, and a lot of cattle, sheep, donkeys, and livestock.

In the days of wandering, Deng Ji also practiced riding, Xu One-eyed's mount was secretly ridden by him many times, although it is not superb now, but it can still be done if the horse runs wild and will not fall down.

In addition to the blue and white skulls he rids, another good horse Deng Ji gave Niu Jian, he is now a scout in Tunli, and the three horses are also well distributed, Han Qi is not lightly injured, it is estimated that he will have to raise it for two months to see well, and he can't ride a horse, Guo Shi, Fang Meng, and Ma Pi each have a horse.

The stirrup is a good tool to assist riding, the Eastern Han Dynasty has assisted the unilateral stirrup on the horse, of course, the appearance is not equal to the popularization, to be seen on the horses of those large families, and then to the popularization of the cavalry double stirrups do not know when, these do not need too much knowledge, only Deng Ji, who has a junior high school education, also knows the importance of the stirrup, but he has not yet developed the mind.

Of course, it is more secure to have stirrups to assist in riding, as the spirit of all things, human beings rely on their intelligence to obtain a more and more comfortable and comfortable life, but they gradually lose their survival instincts, such a profound truth Deng Ji must not understand, but he knows a simple truth in his head, that is, the riding skills obtained by relying on auxiliary objects are not as good as those practiced by just relying on the strength of the legs, so from the perspective of his own riding skills, it is better not to have stirrups.

After having a war horse, compared to the stirrup, the appearance of another item was a little impatient, and that was the horseshoe.

This inconspicuous aid can help horses to grasp the ground when walking and running, not easy to fall, and more importantly, it can also extend the service life of the horse, which is actually much more important than stirrups in terms of priority.

Deng Ji couldn't have known that the inventor of the horseshoe was a Roman, but in his previous life, as a farmer's child, it was common to watch others nail horseshoes in the countryside.

The baggage cart pulled by two old oxen next to it is full of stalks, and the wooden wheels of the ox cart are also easy to damage, but if Deng Ji wants to build rubber tires, it is estimated that it will be as difficult as letting him pick up stars.

The ox cart hid some extra knives and guns and Deng Ji's precious ox horn bow when the city was broken, and on the pile of the first ox cart, Xie Yunniang and Lu Yijiang's two grandsons were sitting upright; In the back, lying seriously injured Han Qi, his wife Fan and the old doctor are taking care of him.

Behind the ox cart, there was a slightly smaller donkey cart, which was piled up with herbs harvested by Fan County, which was prepared for the medical craftsman surnamed Lu, as well as tools such as hammers, axes, saws, etc., found by the blacksmith and carpenter.

The three cars were ridden by the families of several pawns in the tunli, and the rest of the sturdy and old and weak did not have this treatment, but the weapons in the hands of the auxiliary soldiers were all bright and shining iron goods, which was a world of difference compared to before.

The cattle pulling the cart, the materials on the three carts, and the six or seven goats shouted by the auxiliary soldiers behind them are all the private property of Deng Ji's tun today.

Xie Yun is only eleven years old, after all, he is a child's heart, he witnessed the short and fierce battle to break the city a few days ago, although Fang Meng still hates, others can get along, especially Deng Ji is only two or three years older than him, he admires it even more, and at this time he couldn't help but turn his head and ask: "Brother Pimple, where are we going?" ”

Deng Ji shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't know, I guess it's General Qiang, and I don't have an accurate number in my heart at this time!" ”

"What about them?" Xie Yun stood up and pointed to the Fan County people at the end of the team and asked, "They are also the same as us Yongqiu people, why don't the generals form a group?" ”

There are auxiliary soldiers in front of the traction, the old ox pulling the cart is very slow, but the car is also bumpy, Xie Yun to see far away to stand up straight, the ox cart shook twice, scared the two grandsons of the Lu medical craftsman a few exclaims, Mao looked back and saw that Xie Yun was torn off, and his backhand on his buttocks "snapped" a few times.

Deng Ji said with a smile: "Yes, you won't be safe if you don't take the car!" ”

Attacking Fan County killed eleven auxiliary soldiers, if they met a ruthless commander, most of their family members and the old and weak would be driven away, Deng Ji couldn't do this, so he let them and the other old and weak follow the oxcart on foot, like Xie Yun is qualified to ride the ox cart or dip Fang Meng's light, but this kid is not honest.

Xie Yun didn't struggle to scream, and honestly waited for his mother to finish the fight before he said to Deng Ji: "Brother Pimple, can you teach me to practice guns?" ”

"You want to learn how to shoot?" The road was dull, it was good to have a topic to talk about, Deng Ji said with a smile: "Fang Meng is also your half father, and his marksmanship is much better than mine, you should learn from him!" ”

Fang Meng Yuma was a few steps behind, and when he heard Deng Ji's words, an old face couldn't help but smile, and his stubborn body straightened up.

"It's not uncommon for me to learn from him," Xie Yun glared at Fang Meng: "I've learned the skill, and I'm going to kill him first!" ”

This kid holds a grudge, Deng Ji no longer pays attention to him, people are like pigs and dogs in troubled times, and morality and ethics are only like paper paste, if it weren't for Deng Ji's young and weak heart now, he can't say that he wants to rob two women to warm his feet, it's not that his thinking is degenerate, there have been thousands of peasant uprisings in Chinese history, Chen Sheng, Huang Chao, Li Chuang, and Hong Xiu are all like this, and no one knows what their fate will be in the future, and even such a big thing as rebellion has been done, how can he still be happy?

This is the so-called small peasant thought, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in the early stage of the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", it was said: "There are many men in the world, all of them are brothers, and there are many women in the world, all of them are sisters", but later Hong Xiuquan and other leaders who are not full of wives and concubines? Hong Xiuquan has so many concubines that even he himself can't recognize the names of the women in the house! If they were all his sisters, how could it be?

Therefore, although Deng Ji came from later generations, he was a child of a peasant family in his two lives, and he did not have many new ideas of democracy and freedom, no noble character, proud character, great ideals and the like, he had limited knowledge, and he was always just a small peasant child, and now he was just a child of a small peasant family, and now he is just begging in the troubled times like these moths and thieves around him.

"Gotta get it!"

During the march, the people of Fan County at the end of the team suddenly rioted, six or seven war horses carrying yellow turban moth thieves galloped from behind, Deng Ji could see clearly, it was Xu Duyan and others who were still scouts, and when they galloped past Deng Ji's side, they hurriedly said hello, and their expressions seemed to be a little anxious.

In the long marching column, Deng Jitun walked in the back half of the line, and Xu Duyan, these scouts went straight to General Qiang's central army.

Note: The stalk tax mentioned in Chapter 2 is the forage collected by the government in the Qin and Han dynasties to feed livestock, mostly the stems of crops such as corn, which can also be replaced by paying money.