A month later, in the Sui army camp outside the city wall of Weixian County, Wang Shichong, Mai Tiezhu, Duan Da and other five people were gathered in their temporary camps, talking and laughing, everyone was in a good mood, because Wang Shichong had just received a military report from the front line, Shi Wansui had won a big victory, and captured the leaders of the east and west wars, and the army would return to the division in triumph in the next two days.

For more than a month, Wang Shichong has been living in the military camp outside the city, Mingli said that he wanted to maintain the security and discipline of the nearby military camp, in fact, he didn't want to get involved in the battle between Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, and Shi Wansui has become more and more obvious, half a month ago, Yang Xiu's second batch of reinforcements of 30,000 people have also arrived, and the general who led the team is Yang Xiu's Sima Yuan division of the Shu Wangfu.

And although Wan Zhiguang got enough benefits from the process of interrogating those leaders, after merging with the reinforcements, it was obvious that he also understood Yang Xiu's latest intentions, and began to pester Yang Wutong every day, asking to bring troops to Shi Wansui as backup, but Yang Wutong politely refused, and then sent to defend those villages that were broken by Shi Wansui all the way, or those Guanzhong troops, only Wang Shichong took the initiative to stay in the military camp outside the city with five generals such as Mai Tiecane.

Just the morning before yesterday, Yang Wutong himself also took the remaining 3,000 soldiers from the last three thousand Guanzhong to embark on the road of the Eastern Expedition, Wang Shichong became the nominal top general here, but he only had five generals such as Mai Tie Staff in his hands, except for Zhang Jincheng and other two hundred personal soldiers, there was not a single soldier in his hands, and the barracks were full of Shu soldiers, so Wang Shichong was too lazy to care about these people, and let the soldiers who were not on duty hunt everywhere every day.

However, compared with the relatively strict military discipline of Wang Shichong's subordinates, Wan Zhiguang and Yuanshi's subordinates have become a group of outright bandits, and there is no hope of making contributions on the battlefield. The only thing that can be done is to loot the barbarian tribes here. These Shu soldiers would go out in thousands every day. In the name of searching for the remnants of the bandits, sweep up the various barbarian tribes that have surrendered nearby.

If the gold handed over by this tribe can not satisfy Wan Zhiguang, then it will be attacked and exterminated, because of the first battle of Wei County, most of the strong men of each department died in battle, and there are only some old and weak women and children left in the tribe, and they are simply unable to fight against these Shu soldiers, Wang Shichong can see these people with dozens of heads and hundreds of young men and women captives every day. They returned to their respective camps as if they had won the battle.

Liu Quan and others despised this kind of behavior of killing good people and taking meritorious deeds, and they were unwilling to work with this gang of bandits in military uniforms, so they had been looking for Wang Shichong to drink to relieve their boredom these days, but Wang Shichong knew very well in his heart that although this practice was inhumane, it could also seriously weaken the strength of Ningzhou's various departments.

After this blow, these tribes want to recover, but they are afraid that it will take at least forty or fifty years, but the Liuzhao tribe in the Xi'er River, the leader of the Nanzhao tribe, Meng Shelong, surrendered on the battlefield on the same day. Afterwards, he was the first to hand over all the population and field books of the Nanzhao tribe, and privately shared the most gold of Magic Light. It was vigorously promoted by Wan Zhiguang as a typical example of the Guishun court, and even sent him 20,000 or 30,000 captives who were exterminated by the tribe.

In this way, the strength of the Nanzhao tribe has been strengthened under the general and serious weakening of the various tribes of the Western Zhao and Baiman, and there is a tendency to break away from the control of the Nanzhao clan and form its own system.

It's just that Wang Shichong didn't mention these words to anyone, in the depths of his heart, it is not a good thing for the Fu clan to dominate in Ningzhou, there are one or two tribes that can be evenly matched with it and fight for a long time, maybe in the case that the Sui Dynasty cannot garrison here for a long time, and can only rule Ningzhou indirectly through bondage, it is the best choice.

As for that Meng Shelong, let Wang Shichong unconsciously think of Li Guangshi, his humble appearance hides an untamable wildness, after Li Guangshi's matter, Wang Shichong is 10,000 percent sure that once this Meng Shelong has the conditions, it will still sit big, and the Nanzhao tribe will become a more difficult opponent than the Fu clan, and even if this Ningzhou rebels again in a few decades, it must be the Nanzhao tribe who takes the lead.

Wang Shichong thought of this, and smiled self-deprecatingly, now for him, leaving this ghost place as soon as possible, leaving Yang Xiu and Shi Wansui have been semi-openly competing for merit and profit, this is the way to protect himself, what to do with so much heart in a few decades? In this southern expedition, he also asked himself to be worthy of the country and his family, and he had done enough in all aspects, Shi Wansui had already grasped the planing and shaking, and now what he had to consider was the matter of the class teacher.

The generals in the tent were obviously also infected by this emotion, and the depressed and dull mood for a month was released, and Wang Shichong even specially opened a ban on alcohol, allowing the soldiers of the whole battalion to drink and feast for a day.

Now everyone drinks the carved plum wine, is the Xi'er River area where the Liuzhao tribe is located in the Xi'er River area specialty, Ningzhou here in the deep mountains and dense forests, rich in all kinds of wild fruits, and green plum is everywhere, the local people invented a unique wine-making method, with green plum as raw material, first soaked in lime water, and then taken out to dry, and then use a knife to carve a continuous pattern on the plum body, the plum core is squeezed out of these patterns, and then this pitted plum flesh is pressed into a plum cake, which is chrysanthemum-shaped, zigzag-shaped.

These plum cakes will be put into a basin of clear water, sprinkled with a little salt, to remove the sour taste of the plums, and then put into a sand pot, add fine brown sugar, honey, etc., seal the jar, put it in the shade of the tree hole and let it ferment naturally, after a few months, when the green plums turn golden brown, they can be taken out and eaten, and what is left in the jar is this sweet and sour and refreshing carved plum wine.

Because the carved plum wine is taken from the native green plum, not only the degree is not high, sweet and refreshing, but also can dispel heat and prevent miasma, the barbarians of Nanning Prefecture drink this wine all year round, basically not afraid of the poison of dampness and heat here. In terms of taste, this sweet and sour wine is not high, and it is not easy to rush to the brain after drinking, and it is really an excellent drink for cooling and detoxification in the hot weather of August and September in Ningzhou.

Duan Da took a big sip of carved plum wine, suddenly felt cool in his throat, indescribably comfortable, put down the wooden wine glass in his hand, he smiled: "After returning to Guanzhong, I have to leave this recipe for winemaking, with this thing in summer, I don't even need sour plum drinks." ”

Sima Dekan followed and said: "That's it, the sour plum drink in Daxing City is not as good as this thing, by the way, Lao Duan, when will I be able to go back to Daxing, I have been out for four months, and I miss my wife and baby a little." ”

Mai Tiezhu smiled "hehe": "Sima, look at your unproductive appearance, which big guy didn't leave his wife and baby to come out, just say this, haven't so many barbarian girls made you feel good enough recently?" ”

Sima Dekan waved his hand: "These mountain girls, fierce and wild, mother, all like wolves and tigers, I am not blessed, you see I have lost weight in the past few days, I have been in this ghost place for two years, I have to die here." ”

Everyone laughed for a while, Feng Xiaoci looked at Wang Shichong, who bowed his head and pondered, and said with a smile: "Xingman, this time the white barbarian women sent by various tribes to the labor army, our brothers have enjoyed it, but you never want it, why?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled and waved his hand: "I'm afraid of getting sick, this Ningzhou is full of poisonous insects and beasts, maybe those women also have this disease and that evil, it's really dirty, you are not afraid anyway, I will give it to you." ”

After everyone laughed again, Liu Quan looked at Wang Shichong and asked: "Okay, let's be serious, Marshal Shi will be a class teacher in the past two days, and when he comes back, we should also go back to Daxing together." Isn't it time to start withdrawing troops? ”

Wang Shichong's expression became serious: "This withdrawal of troops still depends on Marshal Shi's arrangement, but I think it's not so easy." This time, Marshal Shi captured the leader of the rebellion, according to the rules, he wanted to send an envoy to the imperial court to report the victory, and the sergeant who delivered the message had already set off directly to Chengdu, but when he reported to the imperial court after the last time, the great merit of capturing the rebel leader was won by Marshal Shi himself, or let it be given to His Royal Highness the King of Shu, which is a big article. ”

Everyone looked at each other all of a sudden, put down the wine glass in their hands, and Liu Quan frowned: "General Shi chased the enemy for thousands of miles, and even crossed Zhuge Liang's Southern Expedition Ji Gong Monument, this matter is well known to everyone in the whole army, and the King of Shu can't be so unscrupulous if he wants to grab merit." (To be continued......)