Sima Dan looked back at Cao Lie in confusion.

Cao Lie walked to his side: "Chen Qi was hit by an arrow in the chest, he can't pass tonight, ask the prince to give him a good time, Huang Ergou was hit by an arrow in his right leg, although he will not die immediately, but his right hand is also useless, and it is inevitable that he will die sooner or later in the northern camp, so I also hope that the prince can give him a good time, but their mercy, I hope the prince can report to the general's mansion, so that their families can enjoy their days in peace." ”

Sima Dan raised his eyebrows: "What?" Can't the wounded barracks here take them? What about military doctors? Why not come? ”

"Hahaha!" Not only inside the house, but even the soldiers outside the house laughed loudly, and a short and thin man stepped forward coldly: "Prince, the villain is the military doctor He Guo, these two people can no longer be cured, if they are wounded soldiers, they don't know how long they will toss, if the prince raises his noble hand, they can also sacrifice before the battle, so it is good for the living and the dead!" ”

Sima Dan was furious: "Chen Qi was hit by an arrow in the chest, naturally he died before the battle, but he hasn't lost his breath yet!" How can we be his ** slaughter? Huang Ergou will not die at all! This is a matter of human life! ”

Cao Lie said coldly: "There is no medicine here, let alone extra rations, if you raise a wounded, you must have another person starving, so that more people will die when the enemy attacks, so the Beida Battalion has always left no wounded soldiers, this is our common decision, and it is also fate, the prince Ming-no-Ming-white?" ”

Sima Dan was stunned, he really couldn't imagine that the northern camp of the dignified empire would fall to this, and Chang'an City was "Zhumen wine and meat smelly" at this time.

He couldn't believe it, but the silence of the soldiers, and the anger contained in the silence, made him believe Cao Lie's words.

These are all a group of straightforward military men, are they really conspiring to kill the old prince?

Sima Dan resolutely shouted loudly: "Can't! This is not a soldier's life, and I will not allow you to do so! ”

He Guo said loudly: "Prince! When you first arrived, you may not believe us when you first encountered this, but think about it first, why didn't our brothers send the wounded soldiers back to the Great Wall before? As a result, not only did they not have mercy, but they also took off their military status, and in the end most of them starved to death on the streets, and they were eaten by wild dogs, and they couldn't even go back to their hometowns. There is also mercy in the house...," his voice suddenly choked up.

Cao Lie sighed, and pulled out his saber from the other person, "We held a meeting here just now, and we also obtained the consent of Huang Ergou and them, so the last general couldn't come out to greet him, and he neglected the prince, since the prince refused to show mercy, there is only the end of the future!" With a swing of his knife, he slashed at Chen Qi.

Chen Qi was stabbed in the chest and died immediately.

Blood splattered on Sima Dan's face, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Hahaha!" The soldiers laughed again, and there was a cry mixed with it.

Sima Dan was stunned on the spot.

Cao Lie's knife was so fast, it was aimed at the heart, so Chen Qi died extremely quickly.

Cao Lie walked to Huang Ergou's side again, raised the knife in his hand, his hand shook violently, and his forehead suddenly jumped.

At the flash of the knife, with a bang, Sima Dan drew his knife in time to block the knife.

The soldiers couldn't help but be silent for a moment, this sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy was able to block Cao Lie's quick knife, and the knife in his hand was not knocked away.

When Cao Lie was stunned, the knife in his hand had been snatched by Sima Dan, Sima Dan's own saber was retracted from its sheath, and his eyes were fixed on the saber he had snatched, and there were still traces of Chen Qi's blood on the knife.

The light in the eyes of the left and right Yong flashed, and Sima Dan's hand was greatly beyond their expectations.

Sima Dan glared at Zuo Yong fiercely, held the knife flat with both hands, raised his knee and slammed it, and the long-standing saber "bell" broke off from his waist with a bang.

Sima Dan threw away the broken knife in his hand, and while walking outside the house, he said: "This prince has an order to pacify the envoy, you can't do this cannibalistic thing in the future, and half of my rations will be given to Huang Ergou!" ”

That night, one of the thirty-six horsemen left the Beida camp, and Mu Sheng and Sima Dan talked all night until dawn.

******

The next day, outside Hukou Village, Sima Dan inspected the Xiaocai Battalion garrisoned in Beidaying.

The three cavalry battalions were supposed to have a total of 3,000 cavalry, but now there are only more than 1,200 cavalry.

Fortunately, there was only one wounded soldier, and that was Huang Ergou.

Although Huang Ergou was lying on the ground and attended the review today, his face actually regained his blood.

There are also one hundred and twenty-three auxiliary soldiers, all of whom are gang leaders, carpenters, etc., and there is only one military doctor, He Guo, and now there is one more: Mu Xiaomin.

Although the defense of men and women in the Jin Dynasty was not strict, there were still no female dependents in the barracks, so Mu Xiaomin disguised herself as a man and pretended to be a small servant to serve in the wounded barracks.

Zuo Yong was noncommittal about the activities of the crown prince, and they did not attend the military parade today, as if they wanted to see Sima Dan's appearance.

The most hateful thing is that they set up a small stove and eat separately, ignoring the hatred of all the officers and men.

However, Sima Dan was happy that they offended the officers and soldiers here.

After the cavalry was assembled, Sima Dan ordered them to dismount, climbed a humble high platform himself, and spoke to more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the audience.

"There are more than 3,000 troops, only more than 1,200 officers and soldiers, I checked the military register last night, it turned out that there are 10,000 people here, but I believe this is not General Cao's problem. But since I'm here, that's my problem.

I don't want to say too much to defend the country, I think the first thing is that we have to survive, and the people here... According to the military register, he arrived here about seven years ago. Think about it, in seven years, only one thousand two hundred of the three thousand remained! In another three years, we will all die and be leftover, and I can't run away, if we watched Huang Ergou die yesterday, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or next year, it will be our turn.

Seven years, more than half dead, after three years, how many people will be left here?

So survival is my biggest purpose here! If you can't survive, can I survive?

On the issue of rations, I will send fast horses to Yanzhou Province today to borrow grain, and use the rations of the 7,000 people who were held in the hands of the general as collateral, of course, we cannot rely on borrowing grain to survive, starting tomorrow, I will lead you to the north to hunt, and by the way to promote military might. ”

The soldiers were dumbfounded, they had never expected the new pacifier to say such a thing, and they forgot the occasion they were in.

One of the soldiers couldn't help but ask, "But... However, we have a military order not to go to the north to conduct guerrillas, because doing so will cause a big war with the Huns! ”

Someone else said, "The North... That's not fun, if we really attract the Huns, we'll die sooner.... ”

Sima Dan let the soldiers talk about each other for a while, but Cao Lie couldn't help it anymore and was about to stop drinking.

Sima Dan laughed loudly: "Are you still a man from the Jin Kingdom?" As soldiers, I command you not to starve to death, because if you starve to death, who will defend your country? Compared with starvation, there is no other more important military order, what is there to take care of! He slapped his chest loudly: "As for what two countries are fighting, if the other side has a small force of cavalry, what are we afraid of?" I'm starving to death, why don't you fight hard? If it is better to attract a large army, I will immediately take you to Yanzhou to ask for reinforcements, and leave 1,700 people here to guard! ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and before long, everyone who understood laughed.

"Hey! What are you laughing at? "Those who don't know ask the others.

"You still don't understand? 1,700 people stayed, all of them were dead, even if he would take us all away, haha! I can't imagine that the dead ghost Chen Qi can be regarded as protecting us, haha! “

Who wouldn't love a general like that?

Not only putting the safety and well-being of the soldiers first, but also daring to take responsibility, Sima Dan immediately won the first favor of the officers and soldiers.

"Also, the best training is the way to save my life, we are also hunting, while rehearsing, during this period, I will work with you, never open a small stove, so if you can't eat, I won't be full, but you must train me like a dog, because only in this way, we can survive in the end!".

"Good!" From the bottom of their hearts, the soldiers cheered.

They didn't know that such a speech that pointed directly to the hearts of the people was taught by Mu Sheng to Sima Dan, and Mu Sheng was based on a superhero from hundreds of years ago in the West: Julius Caesar.

"His Royal Highness the Prince! By doing so, you are ignoring military rules and discipline, and the authority of military orders is gone! Cao Lie angrily questioned Sima Dan.

In the "General's Mansion" in the village, Sima Dan drank goat's milk leisurely, and kept thinking in his heart: "Old man Mu said that Old Man Cao is the object we must fight for, but this person's temper is too bad!" ……”

The so-called "General's Mansion" is actually just a small wooden house, which is used as a place for the prince's residence and office, but because it is the place where the former prince lived, the furnishings are also comfortable.

Sima Dan was sitting on a tiger skin chair.

"General Cao, the general is outside, the king's order is not affected, so many soldiers' lives are in your hands, can you bear to watch them die like this? These are young people, children... I said to borrow grain, nine times out of ten I can't borrow it back, you don't know, I've seen the grain barn, and I definitely can't survive this winter, how many people died last winter? Five hundred! Five hundred, General Cao, aren't those your soldiers? You ask yourself, is this your fault? ”

Cao Lie stared at a pair of blood-red eyes, panting like a cow, but he couldn't speak, and suddenly two lines of tears flowed out. Who doesn't cherish his brother who was born and died?

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but it's not time to be sad.

Sima Dan was overjoyed in his heart: "Sure enough, he is a loyal and upright man, with his help, this winter will not fall into a desperate situation!" “

Cao Lie suddenly grabbed Sima Dan's arm and said, "The former prince also loves soldiers like sons, but he still treats them as political tools, unless you promise me, never involve them in your struggle!" ”