Before dawn is the darkest, but that hour is the most comfortable time for the horses to sleep. Yin Ci obeyed the order of the general to repair it on the spot for an hour, mainly to take care of the war horse. Just as a farmer is good to his oxen, so a soldier is best to a horse. Horses are not so much their mounts and livestock, but rather their companions, and their long-term relationship with men and horses, as well as their mutual charge and trust on the battlefield, have allowed them to establish a close relationship. Experienced veterans can even understand the "language of horses", and can tell from the subtle sound where the war horse is uncomfortable, or the horse's paw is loose or the reins are tight.

At this time, the stars were dim and the weather was fine, and everyone did not rest and camp, and the tents were saved, and they fell asleep on the grass one after another, snoring everywhere. The Guanzhong region is located in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty and is the military and political center of the empire, there is no more stable place in the world than here, and there is naturally no need to be too vigilant to rest, in fact, they don't even have weapons.

In the vast wilderness of the high night sky, most of the people have already slept, and some people have not slept, so they lit a bonfire on the camp and hung the iron jar for eating to cook and eat, and put some dry food and bacon to cook for a while to eat a night of hot meat soup, which is a great pleasant enjoyment in this hard time.

The Chinese army lit a bonfire, Yin Ci and some soldiers were sitting there cooking and eating, and several people in the distance were also attracted by the fragrance and leaned closer, and someone asked: "General Yin, why don't you stop?" ”

Yin Ci said with a smile: "You can only sleep for an hour, and you have to get up at dawn, and it is even more uncomfortable when you wake up if you don't sleep, so it's better not to sleep and sit and rest." ”

Like most of the people in the army, Yin Ci is not yet thirty years old, and he is usually a kind person who gets along very well, and he has the demeanor of a Confucian general. Everyone knows that the main general has read a lot of books, knows the most about the art of war, and still trusts him.

After hearing this, the general also sat down and nodded: "The general is so reasonable, you have read a lot of books, so you have nothing to tell us about the books at this time, Xue Lang used to talk about Ban Dingyuan is very interesting, but he can rarely stay with us." ”

Yin Ci took a sip of hot soup and patted his thigh and said, "Nacheng, since I mentioned Xue Lang, I will start with a long and short sentence recorded by Wang Shaobo." Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp. Eight hundred miles of moxibustion, fifty strings turned over the outside sound. Autumn soldiers on the battlefield. The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death......"

He first talked about the battle case of Su Dingfang's 200 cavalry rushing into the camp of more than 100,000 horses of the Eastern Turks; Then Xue Rengui led the cavalry to win less and break back to the ...... The general set the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows, and the strong man sang a long song into the Han Pass, and the army listened to it with relish. In the early war, the Tang army was all cavalry elites, and the long-distance attack went straight to the tiger's heart, and the surrounding tribes who were dissatisfied with it could face the strange situation of the Tang army suddenly appearing in front of them at any time, ending the conflict with the capture of the leader. As a result, the Tang army gained the legend of invincibility in Siyi, and the tactics of long-distance raids and direct access to the key points were tried and tested repeatedly.

But when Yin Ci talked about Xue Rengui, it was difficult to avoid the battle of Dafeichuan, and everyone sighed when he said it, and since then, the blitzkrieg tactics of the Tang Dynasty cavalry have not seemed to be so useful.

"Fortunately, we won the battle of Jishi Mountain two years ago and kept a large area of Longyou suitable for the horse farm, otherwise it would be even more difficult to revive the prestige of the year." Yin Ci said thoughtfully. The generals nodded their heads in agreement.

As he was gossiping, before he knew it, the sky had turned white, and Yin Ci ordered the whole team to continue their journey. The camp soon became lively, and the shouts and curses of the generals were incessant.

The Chinese army thought that it was better for the horses to rest and have better horsepower, so they ordered the whole army to ride forward. After walking for a long time, he dismounted and walked, because the infantry only had one horse, and there was no deputy horse, two deputy and three deputy horses, so everyone had to walk as a change of horse.

In two days and nights, the Shence army marched for more than ten hours, and finally entered the territory of Qizhou on time. When Yin Ci dismounted and looked carefully at the stone monument on the side of the road, his expression was already excited, and he shouted: "Our Shence army can run for 350 miles in two days!" ”

The faces of the exhausted and almost chaotic soldiers also showed excitement, everyone had not slept well for two days, did not wash their faces and cleaned up, and the military appearance when they first came out of Chang'an had been judged to be two armies, but it seemed that the interest was still very high. They weren't going to war, and it was not easy to get there on time and at such a fast pace anyway.

"Repair on the spot, and the whole team will go to Qizhou City later!"

At noon, the whole army barely maintained the queue and arrived outside the city of Qizhou, only to see that the city walls and houses in the line of sight had collapsed countless ruins, and it was really miserable. Changshi had already received a message in advance, knowing that there was a force of men and horses in Chang'an who were coming to the rescue, but they were also a little incredulous when they were suddenly reported that the soldiers and horses had arrived outside the city.

A lot of officials, soldiers and civilians in the city came out to greet reinforcements, and Changshi finally couldn't help but ask after seeing Yin Ci: "Are you from Chang'an?" ”

Yin Ci took out an official document from the Ministry of War and said: "The Ministry of War order, the Shence Army will be immediately transferred to Qizhou to assist the local military and civilians in disaster relief, and there must be no mistake in arriving there within two days!" Changshi said movingly: "We are short of manpower, and we came at the right time." ”

"Without further ado, let's dig people first, and then decide the following arrangements with Changshi after nightfall." Yin said.

"What the general said is very true, let's do it together."

Yin Ci turned back to the army and said: "Although the brothers are exhausted, there are still people under the ruins, let's go!" ”

There was a shout outside the city, and the people cheered up and marched to the city with shovels and other tools, and Yin Ci and others convened the generals to divide the work, and ordered the various departments to perform their duties, which was obviously much more orderly and efficient than the gang of Changshi.

When the army marched into the city gate, they saw miserable images everywhere, and the surviving people were weeping and digging on the ruins, and some were kneeling beside the corpses and crying, and there was chaos. Seeing this situation, the soldiers were also concerned, and followed their respective generals to work. After obtaining Yin's permission, Changshi organized the old men and women who had no strength to dig to collect the remaining rations of the Shence army, set up earthen stoves to boil porridge to relieve the survivors, let them gather near the porridge shed to receive food, and persuaded them to bury the corpses of their families to avoid the plague.

Changshi said to Yin Ci: "There is an official warehouse in the city, but it was buried underneath due to the collapse of the house, although it rained for a while two days ago, but it should still be able to eat when it is dug up, at least it can keep the people in the city from starving to death." ”

Yin Ci said: "I will do that early tomorrow morning, if the food is not enough, there are other ways, the imperial court has ordered the surrounding counties to open warehouses and release grain, and then levy and send people to repair the post road, and then transport grain to Qizhou." ”

"It is really a blessing for the country to protect the people with unimpeded court decrees." Changshi sighed, "After this incident, I will definitely write a chapter describing the events in the city in detail. ”G