Volume 7 Getaway Chapter 5 Nameless (Part 4I)

The snow never stopped all winter. Li Xu's mood is also as cloudy and sunny as the sky outside the window. He didn't know how much strength the Ashina family was going to muster to go south, so he had to seize the last opportunity to mobilize all the forces at hand. Sometimes, however, looking out at the red-clad world, he was expecting that the news of the imminent invasion of the Turks was nothing more than a rumor. In that way, he would no longer have to face the fiery disappointment in the eyes of Shi Defang and others. Although after one of his seizures, the latter no longer questioned his decision. But sometimes silent protest is more uncomfortable than loud.

"You lose your own foundation, it's about Lao Tzu's!" Someone's current behavior clearly expresses such an attitude. But Li Xu was helpless with this negative attitude. The war is imminent, and he no longer has the time and energy to reorganize the official system under his command and distinguish which ones are like Zhou Daniu and Zhang Jiang, who have gone to the black with him no matter what. Which ones are only for fame and fortune, and they may abandon themselves at any time. Moreover, in Li Xu's eyes, these two are only a very few. Most civil and military officials are both utilitarian and loyal, and it is difficult to distinguish which factor prevails in their hearts until the critical moment.

At the risk of death, the spies sent to the outside of the fortress sent back a steady stream of information about the Turks. In the grassland, there is a white plague in winter, which means that due to the raging snowstorm, many tribes are at risk of running out of food when the harvest is not harvested next year. This also means that the Ashina family's mobilization order will be responded to by more people. From Lishui to Wanshui, from Jinshan to Changbai Mountain, Turkic, Tiele, Murowei, Xia, Xi, and a few Ya and Khitan, dozens of tribes are looking forward to passing on their disasters to the Central Plains people who are killing each other. Emperor Yang Guang a few years ago, the "heroic act" of inviting Zhuhu to travel to the Central Plains, manage food and housing, and then give gifts, made the tribal leaders on the plug deeply feel the wealth of the Central Plains. And Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Li Yuan and other heroes competed for the courtiers, and let the wolves clearly see the weakness of the Central Plains. Following the Ashina family southward, the nomadic tribes will hopefully plunder the supplies and food that will allow their own tribe to continue, and may even repeat the carnival of the Five Chaos and China. And once the robbery fails, they don't lose more. Anyway, they had almost nothing but their lives.

The messengers who sent warnings to the heroes of the Central Plains also returned to Boling one after another. Except for Li Yuan and Dou Jiande, as well as a few people such as Xu Shao and Du Fuwei, who were thousands of miles away, there were almost no more heroes who believed that this warning was true. Or do they feel that the danger is too far away from them? After all, even if the Turks went south, the first unlucky ones were Li Xu, Li Yuan, and Luo Yi. Without these three potential opponents competing with themselves for the world, there is no reason why everyone should not watch the fire from the other side!

On the contrary, some of the Boling soldiers who were left behind by local officials to serve in various parts of Henan last year tried their best to rush back quite a bit. At this time, all parts of Henan were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Wagang Army, and the local officials not only remembered the love of fighting side by side with Li Xu back then, but also did not want to leave these unstable factors behind, so they did not make it too difficult for everyone. When passing by Li Yuan's territory on the way back, everyone was saluted without exception. Some newly appointed county governors and county governors in the Hedong and Gyeonggi regions even took out their salaries that had just arrived to set up a banquet for those who returned to Zhuo County. Most of them were also born in the army, so they can best understand the thoughts of the children of Boling who went all the way to the country. It was not only out of personal loyalty to Li Xu, but more likely out of a kind of responsibility of a person with a knife.

When the foreign enemy arrives at the doorstep, if there is no one with a knife willing to come forward to fight, it is undoubtedly a sadness for the whole family. And when your own brothers come forward to fight to the death, instead of helping, you point fingers behind your back and laugh at their stupidity, and it will not be those who die in battle.

This is true for one family and one surname, and it is also true for thousands of households. Since ancient times, it is the countless surnames that are unwilling to be conquered that have supported the entire China.

The return of the veterans further restored the strength of the Boling Army. The growing military strength also made the dark tide rising again in the six counties slowly fall. As the year drew to a close, the newly recruited soldiers had become familiar with the sound of golden drums and trumpets. The cavalry that took the lead in rushing to Zhuojun for training was also restored to the scale of about 7,000 people with the efforts of Wang Xuba and Cui Qian. Due to the financial constraints of the six counties, these 7,000 people are no longer equipped with heavy armor, and the body of the war horse is no longer equipped with any protective gear. Most of the cavalry even abandoned the traditional long lance and replaced it with the large horizontal sword that was standard in the Sui army. The whole team acted like a howling north wind, and everywhere it passed, it was desolate.

The two Hedong reinforcements led by Li Jiancheng and Li Wan'er also arrived one after another. In order not to increase the misunderstanding between them, after Li Jiancheng entered Hebei, he temporarily stationed more than 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command at Feihu Pass at the junction of Shanggu County and Yanmen County. And Li Wan'er took Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others under his command to snatch back half of Yanmen County directly from the generals under Liu Wuzhou, and directly inserted the banner of the Women's Army on the two Xiongguan of Xicheng and Loufu, thirty miles north of Yanmen. Considering his own safety, Liu Wuzhou adopted a strategy of temporary forbearance, and did not impulsively take the lead in the war with Li Yuan and Li Xu before the arrival of the Turks.

Although Li Xu used all possible means to maintain the stability of the people, every day watching the soldiers armed to the teeth march north one after another, the people still felt the imminent atmosphere of war. In the past two years, the six counties of Boling have not experienced war, but every time in the past, including the fierce battle with Luo Yi on the bank of the Yishui River, not so many young children have been recruited into the army. Therefore, this crisis is obviously bigger than any previous one, and the peaceful days of the six counties of Boling may also be gone forever!

The folk have their own folk wisdom, and they don't need any wise people to open it. For some wise men who are entangled in right and wrong, they can often give the answer at a glance.

"General Li is going to take everyone to meet the Hu people!" Living in a house with wooden planks nailed to the windows, the bitter haha, who could not even afford the thick paper to glue the windows and the charcoal for heating, surrounded a pile of smoke-filled firewood and whispered about it. They couldn't tell the difference between the Turks and Tiele, just as they couldn't tell the difference between Li Mi and Dou Jiande. But this does not prevent them from judging who is an enemy and who is a friend.

"I heard that King Dou Tianwang retreated forty miles from the soldiers and horses close to Xindu. and sent sixty cartloads of grain. General Li sent back ten knives and arrows, all of which are of the best texture! A well-informed person swore to reveal, "I heard that once the war on General Li's side is unfavorable, King Dou Tianwang will personally bring troops over to help!" Never let the Hu people cross the Baihua Mountain! ”

"I still need his surname Dou, when did our General Li lose. He is a descendant of the flying general Li Guang, and he can shoot blind sparrows a hundred steps away! A man from Hejian County shouted with his eyes red from the smoke and fire. He didn't have any good impression of Dou Jiajun, so he didn't want Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses to pass by the door of his newly established house. But for General Li, who gave him land and lent him seeds, there is a heartfelt admiration. "Look at it, if the Hu people don't come, they will definitely touch a gray nose like Luo Yi. After all, our General Li is stepping on the Great Wall, and there are tens of thousands of Yan and Zhao brothers behind ....... ”

What the Great Wall looks like, no one in the house has ever seen it. Except for the Hejian men who fled, most of them have been to the farthest place in their lives is Mudaogou, which is 200 miles away. It was the same experience when the year before last, when the land was just divided and reclaimed, as a reward for the government, I helped transport seeds to the tuntian site. But the Great Wall is still a symbol of security and force in the hearts of everyone, although the more well-informed people have revealed that the Great Wall has long been dilapidated.

There will never be a gap in the Great Wall in everyone's hearts. Whether the Turks come for 100,000 or 1 million, they will all be pushed back by the Great Wall of China as they did during the reign of the first emperor. In the legend of the year, the Great Wall stood on the Great Wall of the great general Wang Yang Shuang and the tiger general Luo Yi, and now the general Wang Yang Shuang died of illness, and the tiger general Luo Yi was black-hearted, but the new general and the new tiger general stood on the Great Wall again, and protected the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains behind him with his body.

"The one surnamed Dou didn't see anything to help. But one more person, after all, one more power. It's a good guy who is willing to take action, unlike some families in our county, who haven't fought the battle yet, and have already thought of running away. "Someone threw a freshly picked up branch into the fire, hating the earth. The water accumulated in the branches was immediately dried and there was a thunderclap sound. Immediately after, pale blue smoke and red flames rose into the air almost simultaneously, choking everyone to cough desperately.

"Ahem, you kid can take it easy." The crowd condemned the perpetrators in unison. "Ahem, don't throw anything wet into it! In this way, if you don't freeze to death, you will have to be smoked to death! ”

"I mean, some people in the county usually look like they have a stiff chest, but they are not as good as Dou Jiande!" The perpetrator, who accidentally threw wet firewood, moved around and continued.

As early as a month ago, there were already several families with small and small surnames in the six counties who quietly transported the fine soft packages to the east of the river. At first, it was sneaky, but after finding that the government did not stop it, it began to be blatant. The people at the bottom didn't know why at first, but now that they think about it, it turns out that they are the ones who are really well-informed, and they are ready to run away in advance.

But the majority of the people did not envy their cleverness. Yan Zhao has been a generous and tragic person since ancient times, compared with "wise men" such as Guo Kai and Wang Meng, the market respects strong men like Jing Ke and Li Mu more. "Huh! Those people! Everyone sneered in unison, "They have the ability to put the ancestral ancestral hall on the wheel, and put the house on the wheel and push it away!" What a thing, it's also worthy of being our Hebei man! ”

"Yes, we have all our belongings here!" Another man with ten swarthy fingers echoed in a sullen voice, "If the people run away, can the land be moved?" ”

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