Chapter 32: I'm going to go hungry
Seeing Mu Chenmo leaving, Qi Yu turned around and said viciously to the mountain bandits below.
"Be a personal soldier for this king, or you will be beheaded by General Mu who just went out."
When the mountain bandits heard this, they hurriedly kowtowed and said that they would follow the Seventh Prince, and the Seventh Prince's Father would never go to the west.
Qi Yu nodded with satisfaction, and asked them to pack up and gather in the camp at the bottom of the mountain early tomorrow morning.
Mu Chenmo's face was black all the way, and his fists clenched and gurgled, so frightened that the people who followed behind didn't dare to gasp for breath.
When he returned to the barracks and saw that Dr. Zhou was bandaging the wounds of the soldiers, Mu Chenmo calmed down and walked over.
In front of the military doctor's tent, there were more than 30 wounded soldiers sitting or standing waiting for Dr. Zhou to treat their wounds, walked up to the wounded soldiers and asked them about their injuries.
Mu Chenmo thought about the environment he had just seen in the medical tent as he walked, as well as the overly perfunctory disinfection methods and simple medicinal materials.
The heart sighed that the mortality rate in a war in this era of cold weapons is still high, which should be related to their medical environment and methods.
Mu Chenmo walked back to his main account and sat in front of the military case, took out a charcoal pen and a folded paper from his arms, spread the paper on the table, picked up the pen and added another one on it, and was looking at it carefully, when Captain Qian shouted outside the account.
"General Mu."
"Come in." Mu Chenmo folded the paper and received it into his arms.
"Does General Mu really want to collect the mountain bandits, plus their words, our food and grass are not enough to support the army to catch up." Captain Qian looked at Mu Chenmo with some sorrow.
"Able to eat for a few days." Mu Chenmo looked at Captain Qian and asked.
"We have been delayed here for five days, and according to the speed of the march of the army at the time of separation, there should be a difference of three hundred miles, and it will take half a month to catch up with the rapid journey." Captain Qian said with a frown.
Captain Qian watched Mu Chenmo finish calculating the marching time, and then began to count the number of people and military rations.
"This group of mountain bandits is counted as 400 people plus the number of people in the army, and our current grain and grass can only last for ten days." Captain Qian looked at Mu Chenmo and said.
Mu Chenmo frowned and asked Captain Qian to retreat after listening, scolding Qi Yu in his heart, who had no brains to think that one would be one out.
Qi Yu entered Mu Chenmo's main account, looked at Mu Chenmo with a proud face, and said.
"Mu Chenmo, the mountain bandits will be able to set off with us tomorrow."
Mu Chenmo looked at Qi Yu's face and really wanted to pack him up and send him back to the capital.
Qi Yu looked at Mu Chenmo's increasingly gloomy face, laughed awkwardly twice and went out, thinking in his heart that the most lacking thing in war is not people, and it is better to let these mountain bandits go to war than to rob.
Mu Chenmo sat in front of the desk worriedly, and the things he wanted to reform had not yet been implemented urgently, so he had to make it difficult for the rations of these thousands of people, and muttered in his mouth: The soldiers can't eat enough, how to march and how to fight.
"General, let's eat." Zhou Qi came in with a bowl.
Looking at the multigrain buns and vegetable porridge in front of him, Mu Chenmo became even more difficult.
After solving the meal in his hand in two or two, Mu Chenmo decided to ask Captain Qian how this situation had been dealt with before.
Passing by Qi Yu's tent, I heard him roaring inside.
"Why is this pig food ...... again?"
Mu Chenmo really wanted to go in and slap him, telling him that you wouldn't even be able to eat this pig food after a while.
Crossing Qi Yu's tent, he quickly came to Captain Qian's tent, stood outside the tent and shouted, and was invited in by Captain Qian.
"Captain Qian, how to solve the problem of food shortages on the battlefield before." Mu Chenmo asked modestly.
"Let the officials at the border raise money, rob the enemy's food, and hunt if there is prey, the Huns have eaten the enemy's corpse."
Captain Qian smiled and said more and more terrifying, wanting to scare Mu Chenmo, but he nodded in agreement.
"Then what good way do we have to solve the problem of grain and grass now?" Mu Chenmo asked with an expression of asking for more advice.
Captain Qian looked at Mu Chenmo's modest attitude, and he was indeed concerned about the matter of grain and grass, so he was in a hurry not to tease her and said.
"General Mu, you write a letter to General Li to explain our situation, and ask the general to store the grain and grass in the local county office, and take out the token directly when we arrive."
Mu Chenmo looked at Captain Qian and saluted respectfully, and Captain Qian hurriedly helped him up, giving Mu Chenmo more respect in his heart.
In the early morning of the next day, as soon as Mu Chenmo came out of the account, he watched the mountain bandits of Heifeng Village standing at the gate of the barracks.
The group of people in front of him, the oldest are in their sixties, the youngest is seven or eight years old, and there are some mothers-in-law mixed in, carrying burdens on their bodies, and some are carrying chickens and sheep in their hands.
The leader of the mountain bandits saw Mu Chenmo stepping forward with a smile on his face, there are 600 people in our village here, and I ask the general to take a look.
Qi Yu heard the voice and walked out of the tent, looking at the scene in front of him and a little stunned, it didn't seem to be the same as what he thought, and looked at Mu Chenmo with a look of help.
Mu Chenmo looked at Qi Yu's expression, and thought that he deserved it with hatred in his heart, and he didn't want to pay attention to it, but he was afraid that something would happen, so he said to the mountain bandits.
"Do you know where we're going and what we're going?"
The mountain bandits all shook their heads and looked at Mu Chenmo.
"We are going to war, to fight the Huns." Mu Chenmo raised his voice and said loudly.
As soon as the mountain bandits heard that it was a war or a Hun fight, many people's faces turned white in an instant.
"Now listen to me, those who are over sixteen and under fifty will stand to the east." Mu Chenmo pointed to the east and spoke.
The mountain bandits who met the standards walked to the east, and the remaining mountain bandits looked at Mu Chenmo with an expression of what should we do.
Mu Chenmo waved his hand at the rest of the people: "Live a good life in the future, don't rob the house, otherwise I know that once I will be exterminated, and next time I will be killed and disbanded." ”
The mountain bandits were dumbfounded, is this to let them go back to the village, and in a blink of an eye, a group of people disappeared in front of the barracks.
The mountain bandits standing in the east also looked at Mu Chenmo a little dumbfounded: "General, what should we do?" ”
Mu Chenmo glanced at Qi Yu and turned his head and left, thinking to himself, aren't you the prince's personal soldiers, and asked me what are you doing.
Qi Yu coughed twice at the mountain bandits below: "You will follow this king." ”
"Yes, we are the prince's personal soldiers." The rough-voiced man interjected.
Captain Qian came to Qi Yu: "Seventh Prince, they have to register and make a register, they have to send them food and grass every day to join the army, and they have to prepare military uniforms and weapons for them in the future." ”
Qi Yu waved his hand impatiently when he heard this: "You can do it." ”
After packing up and rearranging the team, Mu Chenmo and his party began to hurry up.
Captain Qian came to Mu Chenmo's horse: "After the mountain bandits were registered, a total of 361 people followed the Seventh Prince. ”
Mu Chenmo turned his head to look at Qi Yu's side, only to see that this uncle was no longer in the carriage, and sat majestically on the horse and walked forward with the gang of mountain bandits.
After a day of peace, the sky gradually darkened, Mu Chenmo and his party finally found a suitable place to camp in, and the soldiers began to set up tents to cook.
Mu Chenmo was setting up a tent with Zhou Qi and Xiaoqiang, Qi Yu walked over and looked at Mu Chenmo and asked
"What do my soldiers arrange?"
Mu Chenmo ignored him and continued to do the work in his hands.
Qi Yu saw Mu Chenmo ignoring himself and shouted at him angrily: "You are despising the royal family, and you can cure your crimes, do you know." ”
When Captain Qian heard this, he hurriedly came over to play a round: "Seventh Prince, let them come to me, I have already arranged everything." ”
Qi Yu snorted coldly at Mu Chenmo, turned his head and followed Captain Qian away.
Captain Qian asked the leader of the mountain bandits to go to the baggage place, get the food for the tent today, and found a few soldiers to help set up the tent and cook.
Everything was settled, and the other soldiers had already laid down to sleep, but there was a commotion in the bandits' tents.
Qi Yu walked out of the tent and saw that the mountain bandits were roasting rabbits with a fire, and the gluttonous worms in their stomachs were hooked out and walked over quickly.
The leader of the mountain bandits saluted Qi Yu with a smile on his face: "Seventh Prince, we caught a few rabbits on the road and they are ready to cook, do you want to taste them." ”
Qi Yu nodded with the prince's shelf, found a slightly clean place to sit down, and stared at the roast rabbit without blinking.
You can't blame our seven princes for being greedy, since the march, every day has been big steamed buns and pickled vegetable porridge, and at the beginning there were private goods hidden by the little third son, but it was difficult to explain it later.