Fang Youzhen pointed in the direction of the south of the county, "Your Highness, a new military camp is also being built in the south of the county, which will be completed soon, it can accommodate about 60,000 to 80,000 people, and is ready to be used for the fugitives of Taiyuan County to live, if it is not enough, then we can only consider evacuating to other counties." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Try to be thoughtful, I told the imperial court before that these fugitives will live in Hebei for at least half a year, and they can give them land to plant wheat after the spring of next year, and the harvest will all belong to them, as for winter, you can organize Zhuangding to build water conservancy and find something to do for them, if you are short of manpower or land here, you must apply to the imperial court in time." ”

Fang Youzhen hurriedly bowed down and said, "Weichen understands. ”

At this time, an official ran over and whispered to Fang Youzhen: "Juncheng, there is another group of fugitives, there are thousands of people, they have already registered, and they are waiting to be resettled." ”

Fang Youzhen glared at him fiercely, "Didn't you see that I was busy?" Arrange it yourself. ”

The official was so frightened that Wei Wei retreated, and Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Fang Juncheng is going to get busy!" I don't need you with me. ”

Fang Youzhen had no choice but to salute and hurriedly followed his subordinates, at this time, Zhang Xuan found that there was a tent on the side of the road with a wine banner hanging at the door, and the color of the top of the tent was also dark and different, it was estimated to be a tavern.

Zhang Xuan smiled: "There is actually a tavern here, let's go in and take a rest." ”

He took Fang Xuanling and a dozen guards into the tavern, of course the tent tavern is not big, the ground is covered with sheepskins, and five or six small tables are placed, which is also chic, but it is now past the time to eat, and there are no guests in the tavern.

Zhang Xuan and Fang Xuanling sat down at a small table, and asked the other guards to sit down and rest.

At this time, the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him, recognized Zhang Xuan at a glance, and was immediately startled, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "The villain sees His Royal Highness King Qi!" ”

The two bartenders in the back also knelt down, and Zhang Xuan asked them to get up and asked with a smile, "Did you originally open a tavern?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, we were originally the No. 1 restaurant in Loufan County, Jingle Liquor Shop, and now all the liquor stores have withdrawn eastward, and we have opened a new store in Zhending County, and the proprietor himself is the shopkeeper, and the proprietor let the villain bring two guys to open a branch here."

"Your proprietor has a lot of vision."

Zhang Xuan nodded and smiled: "I'm a guest of your tavern now, you have to greet the guests, so polite, we don't have anything to drink." ”

"The villain understands!"

The shopkeeper respectfully asked, "What does Your Highness want to drink?" ”

"What's here?"

"The small shop only has fruit wine, wine, pear wine and plum wine, and if you order food, there is only mutton, roast lamb leg, sauce mutton, mutton soup, and fried lamb with shallots, vegetables only pickled radish and fried radish, and the staple food is Hu cake, but the villain wants to report to His Highness, the dishes are sent from the city, it is a little cold, and the taste will be a little worse."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Give each of my subordinates a roast leg of mutton, two Hu cakes and a plate of mutton with sauce, and a pot of wine for each table. ”

"Then what does Your Highness want?"

Zhang Xuan smiled at Fang Xuanling and said, "Strategist, order!" ”

Fang Xuanling smiled at the shopkeeper and said: "Except for the roast leg of mutton, everyone else will have a serving, wine and wine, in addition, give us three Hu cakes, we haven't eaten lunch yet, try to hurry up." ”

"The villain understands, and he will come right away!"

Soon, the shopkeeper came up with two bartenders with wine and food, and several tables were full, and the two soldiers tried the poison and said that they could eat, and the guards ate like a storm.

Zhang Xuan ate a few chopsticks and poured a glass of wine for himself and Fang Xuanling, and Zhang Xuan said to the shopkeeper again: "I have a few words to ask, please come over to the shopkeeper." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward and stood with his hands down, Zhang Xuan asked: "I remember that the population of Lou Fan County was 300,000 in the eighth year of the Great Cause, but now there are only 110,000 left, which is a total of 60%, are they all dead in Liu Wuzhou's rebellion?" ”

The shopkeeper sighed and said: "Liu Wuzhou looted grain in all parts of Loufan County, wantonly killed, and died countless deaths, almost all the people who lived fled to Jingle County, the population of the county was about 200,000 at the beginning of the year, but a few months ago in the Jingle County War, the Tang army and Liu Wuzhou's army broke out in the street battle in the county, almost half of the people died, and the city was full of corpses, which was simply too miserable."

Although Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, tried his best to appease after the war and opened a warehouse to release grain, the people's hearts have been lost, so this time they migrated to Hebei, and all the people in Jingle County came to Zhending County, and no one was willing to be a subject of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"You're right, Taiyuan County, how many people do you think will come to Hebei?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "If it was five years ago, I don't think eight adults would have come." ”

"Why?"

"At that time, Li Gong was really a loyal elder, persuading students and farmers, and being sympathetic to the people, everyone mentioned Li Gong, and no one did not give a thumbs up, but then Li Gong went to Chang'an and became the emperor, Taiyuan was handed over to his son Li Yuanji, and Li Gong's reputation was ruined by his son little by little."

"What happened, can you give us an example?"

"A lot of things happened, such as hunting, this Li Sigongzi loves to hunt, every three or five to go out of the city to hunt, I heard that he couldn't find the prey, so he drove a village of people as prey for him and the army to shoot and play, of course, this is just the wine guests chatting with the words, the villain did not see it, and I don't know whether it is true or false, but there is one thing that the villain saw with his own eyes, that is, Jianmai!"

"Practicing wheat?"

The shopkeeper nodded, "In May last year, I went to Taiyuan, in the wheat field north of Taiyuan City, the villain saw Li Sigongzi lead hundreds of cavalry to chase the deer in the wheat field, tens of thousands of acres of wheat field were almost trampled down, the surrounding farmers were kneeling on the ground and crying, but they carried the deer back happily, this time Li Gong let the prince Jiancheng come to Taiyuan to preside over the overall situation, and changed Li Yuanji back to Chang'an, I heard that the city is full of firecrackers to celebrate. ”

"So how many people from Taiyuan County do you think will come to Hebei?"

"I think it should be Sanqikai, seventy percent of people will come to Hebei, although many people think of the benefits of Li Gong and are willing to stay in the Tang Dynasty, but thinking that Bingzhou may not be able to block the long drive of the Turkic cavalry, they will eventually choose to take refuge in Hebei."

"I see, thank you!"

Zhang Xuan and everyone finished lunch, and the soldiers stepped forward to settle the bill, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand, "The villain doesn't dare to accept it!" ”

The soldier slapped the money on the table, glared and said, "Do you think His Royal Highness King Qi is also Li Yuanji?" is still so poor that he can't even afford to eat. ”

The shopkeeper said repeatedly: "Don't dare! Can't! The villain just accepts it. ”

Zhang Xuan laughed and walked out of the tent quickly, Fang Xuanling asked with a smile, "Your Highness, where are we going next?" ”

Zhang Xuan said, "Let's go to Xinying to see, seventy percent of the people from Taiyuan County want to flee to Hebei, and they have to expand the camp." ”

.......

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties reached an armistice agreement in Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty also made an exception to agree that the Sui army would go north through Taiyuan County, and the army of Wei Chigong and Pei Xingyan joined forces, and the 70,000 army gave up the siege of Taiyuan City, and marched through Taiyuan County to Mayi County.

At this time, the general Li Jing led the soldiers from the Flying Fox Road, stationed in Shanyang County, Mayi County, Shanyang County is also the capital of Liu Wuzhou, rebuilt two years ago, the city was doubled, the city wall is as high as three zhang, two zhang thick, outside the city also dug a four-zhang wide moat, the black wolf water of the tributary of the Sanggan dry water poured into the moat, the city is tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Song Jingang is also deceived to open the city gate, if it is attacked, he can not succeed at all.

Shanyang County and the rebuilt Loufan Pass and the Zihe Great Wall will be the three lines of defense of the Sui army against the Turkic cavalry, especially Shanyang County is the concentration of more than 100,000 Sui army grain and grass materials, and 500,000 cattle and sheep are also raised in the city, which is the defense center of the Northern Sui army.

At this time, Li Jing was actively carrying out various defensive preparations, first of all, all the trees within 30 miles of Shanyang County were cut down, all the houses were demolished, and the beams and bluestones were transported into the city to be used as rolling wood and stones.

At this time, thousands of craftsmen were actively building various weapons to defend the city, such as trebuchets, bed crossbows, stone cannons, and many flammable materials were also put into stone houses, ready to be used to attack the enemy.

In the early morning of this day, Li Jing inspected the war readiness at the head of the city as usual, and a heavy snowfall had just fallen in Mayi County, and the outside of Shanyang County was covered with heavy snow, and it had become a snow-capped world.

Li Jing looked at the soldiers who were busy installing trebuchets, and at this time, a soldier rushed over and shouted: "General, the sled team from Hebei has arrived." ”

Li Jing was immediately overjoyed, he looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the first batch of sledding teams.

"Are you sure who they are?"

"The Patrol Brother has been identified and is accompanying them."

Li Jing immediately ordered: "Open the city gate immediately and welcome the arrival of the sled team!" ”

.......

On the snowfield outside Shanyang County, countless small black dots are speeding towards the direction of the city, this is the first batch of sledding teams, about 2,000 of them, after the sleds entered Yanmen County, they did not act alone, but set off collectively, mainly to guard against wolves on the snowfield.

Thousands of sleds slowly stopped hundreds of steps away from Shanyang County, this is because Shanyang County is located on a high place, condescending, so that the sleds cannot go up, this distance can generally only be carried into the city by soldiers on their shoulders or animal power, but because of the heavy snow cover, the Sui army thought of a better way.

At this time, Li Jing had already led 3,000 soldiers to drive more than 1,000 cattle and mules to wait at the bottom of the hillside, when the sleigh slowly stopped, immediately there were soldiers leading mules and horses or healthy cattle to help, the original single-horse sleigh became a three-headed animal pull, followed by several Sui soldiers to boost, so that a sleigh full of food and materials slowly went up the hillside and headed towards the city.

Li Jing walked up to a sled, patted the goods on it and asked with a smile, "How many supplies does this sled transport?" ”

"General Qiyu, I transported twenty stones of grain and five bundles of forage."

"Is it the case with every car?" Li Jing asked again.

"No, our sleigh is carrying armor, ten pairs of bundles, a full ten bundles!" Another middle-aged man next to him replied.

"Good!"

Li Jing waved excitedly to everyone and said, "Everyone go to the city to have a good rest, and then go back after recovering your strength." ”

The first batch of sleds brought 30,000 stone of grain and 10,000 loads of forage and a large number of armor materials to Shanyang County, but more importantly, the arrival of the sled team meant that the sled transportation method would work, and the second batch of sled teams would soon arrive. (To be continued.) )