Wujiazhuang is more than 40 miles away from Pingdu, more than 70 miles away from Laizhou, and more than 300 miles away from Dengzhou.

The current marching speed of the Jinzhou army is faster than that of the wolf cavalry and the pro-soldier battalion, but at most it can only travel less than 50 miles a day, and the remaining two battalions of the infantry army will set off together with the baggage battalion, and the speed will naturally slow down, and it can only travel 40 miles a day in a hurry. Such a speed is not worth mentioning in later generations, but in this era, it is also rare, relying on nothing more than the elite of the Jinzhou army. In the case of any other soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, they can't do this, and thirty miles a day is already the limit.

Because they were worried that Li Jiucheng's rebels under Laizhou City would divide their troops to seize Pingdu, now the wolf cavalry and the pro-soldier battalion are all acting with the infantry army, and only reconnoiter the cavalry to advance a little to ensure that they will not be suddenly attacked by the rebels on the Laizhou side.

After asking those women and children, I learned that although this place is Wujiazhuang, it is actually a small Wujiazhuang, and there is a Wujiazhuang more than ten miles away, and the locals call it Dawujiazhuang. Since it is the Zhuangzi of the Wu family, the natural residents are all surnamed Wu. The land of China has always been like this, such as Shanghai Xujiahui in later generations, as the name suggests, it was formed by the early settlement of people surnamed Xu, and it was called more, and this place name was retained. I don't know if this Wu family Zhuangzi is still the Wu family Zhuangzi hundreds of years later.

Although more than 200 thieves were dismissed in Pingdu City, more than 100 women in the army still followed. These women were all taken captive by the rebels from neighboring villages and towns, and some of them did not escape from the city, and they were all hard-working women, who had been ravaged by the rebels until now, and all of them were greatly damaged. Shi Dayong wanted to leave them in the city or give them some rations to return to their hometown, but there was still a home to return to. In the end, they all had no choice but to stay in the army, first, they couldn't bear to be poisoned by the rebels anymore, and secondly, they also wanted to wait for the rebellion to be quelled, to see if they could be matched with Xu Jinzhou's sons in the army, so that the subordinates who fought with them could also start a family.

You must know that from the Jinzhou Army to the present, except for a few children of the Weisuo Army, almost none of them have a family. Some of the old soldiers are in their forties, but they don't have a daughter-in-law, and they are all in Liaodong who have suffered from the scourge of the Eastern Captives, and it can be said that all of them are ruined families. If you can set up a family for these subordinates, so that they can leave heirs, and do not cut off the incense, it is not only a good deed, but also a heart for the generals.

In ancient times, several people returned to the battlefield. Since Songshan, there are fewer and fewer familiar people around him, the bones can be returned, but the incense is broken, thinking is chilling at all, if you can leave the incense in a group of subordinates, Dayong is to take them to the battlefield again, the horse leather shroud, this heart is always better. The ancients were the most important heirs, the incense was extended, the so-called unfilial piety has three, no queen is the greatest, if you can make your subordinates have a home, everyone has a child, I am afraid that it will be more grateful than rewarding them with countless gold and silver.

Although these women are not chaste, they are all hard-working people, and they are also people who sympathize with each other, Dayong is a later generation, so he naturally does not attach much importance to this festival, and most of his subordinates are people who have broken their families, and today I don't know if they can eat this bowl of severed head rice tomorrow, and they naturally look down on women's names. As long as these women can leave heirs for them, they will feel at home when they come back from the war, and when they are tired, their mother-in-law will bring them food, this day will be considered heavenly, so why should he still miss it.

After telling the generals about this idea, of course, the generals had no opinion. No matter how hard this heart is, seeing these hard-working women homeless, they will die at any time, and even if you are hard-hearted, you can't look past it.

Now the more than 100 lonely women are all in the baggage camp, and there are those from the two big families that Pingdu Shou Jiang Maoran snatched. These women are rarely alive, and they naturally have more closeness to the Jinzhou army, and they have nothing to do in the camp, only to wash some soldiers' clothes. Before the counterinsurgency was over, Shi Dayong did not allow Erlang to get involved with them and issued strict orders, but some committed rape in the camp. Whoever commits adultery shall be beheaded regardless of his origin.

With the pressure of the old army of Jinzhou, and the power of killing prisoners in Shahe, the upper and lower levels naturally did not dare to disobey the order, and from the mouth of the Shangguan, they knew that these women would be allowed to be in the army in the future, although they didn't know if they could be matched, but no matter who they deserved, they would be the wives of their compatriots and brothers in the future, how could they be bullied!

Now, let those dozens of women and children join these lonely women, and the food in the camp can barely last another day, and they will eat some of it. The lonely people also know that the army is short of food and grass, which will give them a place to stay, and it is not easy to give them a bite to eat, how can there be complaints. It's just that I don't know what the future holds.

The thousand-strong rebel captives brought in Pingdu City were not treated by those women and children, and they were driven out of the city, not giving a bite of food all the way, but they had to do the cart and pull the coolies, which was unspeakably miserable. But no one dares to make trouble, but the bright knives and guns are not decorations, and if they say that they kill people, they will kill people. The captives also judged from the direction of their advance that the official army was going to Dengzhou, and they only hoped to arrive in Dengzhou as soon as possible to end the war.

After setting up camp in Wujiazhuang, Fang You's soldiers brought dozens of large buckets, but in the barrels were some soup boiled from rotten vegetable leaves, some of which were already as dry as hay, and even some unknown wild vegetables. There is some salt in the soup, but don't think about it, if you don't see the soup that the officers and soldiers themselves eat, you can't see the oil flowers, how can they, the prisoners, drink the oil soup.

The night was completely dark, and piles of bonfires began to rise, and apart from the neighing of horses, the silence of the huge camp was suffocating.

In front of the bonfire, the silent Jinzhou soldiers silently swallowed the food in their hands, without saying a word, whether it was those Jinzhou veterans, or the young men who were attached to Shahe, or those Sichuan soldiers, everyone knew that after tomorrow, the camp would run out of food.

What if there is no food?

Everyone had doubts in their hearts, but when they saw the figure of the general, their hearts calmed down a little.

Before the desperate situation, the generals can always think of a way.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, there was a quarrel.

"It's like this, and you can only gamble, do you really want the brothers to eat that human flesh?!"

"Let's not talk about whether there is that luck to intercept the grain, even if it is, what should I do in Dengzhou? Once the grain truck is intercepted, the rebels will be alarmed, and our whereabouts will be exposed. ”

As long as Dengzhou is taken, my Jinzhou army will have a way to live, and there will be a day to return Liaodong, but if you can't take Dengzhou, our Jinzhou army will be finished. Which is more important, don't you know the way! ”