0369 Soldiers and horses
In early May, the Taiwan government issued an order, which suddenly changed the atmosphere in the entire Guanzhong.
The local government was busy raising materials to cooperate with the levy order, and people from all walks of life were also busy and began to gather. Although the common people were not involved in the conscription order, they were all panicked, and all kinds of speculations and rumors were noisy, which made the entire Guanzhong filled with a tense atmosphere.
However, no matter what the civil atmosphere is, the recruitment of people and horses and the preparations for the big parade are being carried out in an orderly manner. As the time entered the midsummer of June, people from all over Guanzhong gathered in Xianyang one after another.
In late June, a mighty contingent of tens of thousands of horses marched east along the Weishui Road. Such a large contingent of men and horses is really rare, and wherever they go, there is no shortage of villagers looking at them from afar, and bandits and beasts retreat one after another, and they really can't provoke such a huge team that looks terrifying.
This is Li Tai and his entourage who entered Guanzhong from Longyou, and the soldiers of Longyou led by Li Tai alone and Liangzhou entered the court in a battle and were rewarded by thousands of people, plus more than 5,000 households in Liangzhou, forming such a huge team size.
If only Li Tai and his entourage enter the customs, they can arrive in Chang'an in a few days with one person riding and two horses, fast horses and whips, and sufficient supplies. However, because there were thousands of households traveling with them, the speed was slowed down, and they walked all the way for more than half a month, and they did not leave the scope of Qizhou.
Fortunately, the people arranged by the Taiwan government had already arrived, and the group stayed in Qizhou for two days before they could be regarded as having completed the delivery of these immigrants.
Li Tai couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart, he really didn't want to go down with these Liangzhou immigrants anymore, not because he regarded these people as a drag, but because in the ancient background, this kind of large-scale migration of people was simply a purgatory-like scene on earth, and all he saw every day was a picture of life and death, full of negative energy.
Although Li Tai is not benevolent, he sees too many such pictures every day, and he feels extremely bad. Because of the lack of administrative capacity of the Western Wei regime, in order to weaken the potential local threat, it forcibly drove the people to drag their families and families and leave their hometowns for a long distance, and a large amount of people's wealth and human lives were consumed on the way to this migration, which is really miserable.
He had no ability to stop this kind of thing, so he could only collect his mood and turn his eyes out of sight, and after handing over these people to the officials in charge of resettling them, he led his headquarters and continued to go in the direction of Chang'an without stopping for a moment.
In the territory of Xianyang, located in a plateau between Jingwei and Wei, a very large scale camp area has been demarcated, and more than half of the camp has been gathered in it.
With such a large range of camp planning, it is inevitable that there will be good or bad differences in location, whether it is shaded and ventilated, or completely unobstructed, close to the water source and cool, or directly exposed to the scorching sun on the top of the hill, although it has nothing to do with life and death, but it greatly affects the living experience of the campers.
Especially this year's big parade is a full season ahead of schedule, and the weather is unbearable, and if the camp location is not good, it will be miserable.
With the continuous convergence of people from all walks of life, some well-located camps have attracted the attention and competition of people from all walks of life. Usually, those with low potential positions should avoid high potential positions, while those with comparable potential positions will compete with various military skills to determine their ownership.
However, in this year's big parade, the atmosphere of seniority is not very strong, and it is often not effective to suppress people by virtue of power.
One is naturally because the weather is hot, and people's hearts are inevitably more irritable, so they are less in awe. The second is because of an exemplary figure, Li Boshan, who defeated Zhao Gui in the Baishui Grand Parade last year, not only won a great reputation, won great favor from Daxingtai, and even won the favor of Hanoi Gongdugu Xin, who directly took the woman in the household Xu Zhi.
Although more than half a year has passed since the incident, the masses still can't help but talk about it with relish. The power of example is infinite, so this year, these generals have more or less a hint of gunpowder, especially some young generals are staring at just looking for a few old things to vent the fire.
The big reading has not officially begun, and the soldiers here have become a common practice, and several competitions of different sizes are held every day, which can be described as very lively. As for the camps that are the main bargaining chips for the fight, except for some important areas that have been divided in advance by the Taiwan government, some other camps with better locations have been replaced by a few settlers.
On the west bank of Jingshui, there is a slope valley that is several miles long, the inner area is more than ten hectares, the vegetation on both sides of the valley is dense, a large area of cool shade is imprinted in the flat slope valley, and several clear spring streams run through the valley between the plateaus, and there are still wet and cool river winds blowing in the east side.
But such a place in such a good location, large enough to accommodate thousands of people to rest, has not yet been occupied. Even if the camp on the left side of the environment is a little inferior and cramped, I don't know how many times it has changed hands, but this area is still only a simple fence and earthen ditch circle, and no one has stopped in it.
"The camp here is so comfortable and livable, why is there no one to stay here?"
Such a strange situation is naturally curious, and there are inevitably new arrivals here who can't help but start the idea of this place.
Some of the camp guards who arrived earlier replied, "I heard that it was a camp drawn by the Guangling King Yuan Dazai. β
Although the power of Kansai is now vested in the hegemon, after all, the Wei family still has a righteous name, and Guangling Wang Yuanxin, as a senior member of the clan with a transcendent status, also makes people respect and dare not be contemptuous. Hearing that this was actually a camp reserved by his people, even most people dispelled the idea of stealing.
But some people are still not angry, seeing that the environment here is excellent but idle, they can't help but say angrily: "King Guangling is not in charge of the military plane, even if he participates in the big parade, he is only a guest on a high platform, why should he be greedy for the best camp!" β
Hearing this argument, the person next to him was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and encouraged him to take possession, but the person did not dare to offend easily, but only hated and said: "I dare not offend the majesty of the famous king, but I can't bear to be sullen." Just wait for the soldiers to settle here, and they must have a fight! β
Hearing this, the onlookers also applauded, which shows that there are not a few people who have similar ideas.
After Li Tai and his entourage traveled lightly and quickly, it only took more than a day to complete the rest of the journey, all the way to the Dayue place near Xianyang.
"Boshan, here, here! I've been waiting here for a long time! β
Next to the intersection ahead, Li Licheng stood on the high frame, put his palm on his eyebrows and looked at the dusty road, and when he saw Li Tai who was at the forefront of the team, he immediately waved his palms and shouted with enthusiasm on his face.
After a few months of separation, Li Tai was also very happy, and even if he rode a horse to Li Licheng.
But Li Licheng didn't have time to catch up with him, looking at the abnormal green horse under his crotch and sighed: "Good horse, really good horse!" Although I am not good at bow horse games, I can't help but want to gallop when I see this horse! β
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When Li Tai heard Li Licheng's praise, he was even more proud, turned around and pointed to the huge team behind him and said with a smile to Li Licheng: "It's rare that filial piety is not afraid of the scorching heat to come here to welcome me, and you will be allowed to join the team and select a few horses later." β
"ThisβThis is all your troops?"
Li Licheng saw the mighty cavalry team that could not be seen at a glance, his eyes widened in surprise, and when he saw Li Tai nodding with a smile, he was suddenly excited, and directly grabbed the bridle of the horse with both hands and hung it in front of the horse's head, and sighed again and again: "Boshan, didn't you lead all the Longyou army back to Guanzhong?" Hanoi Gong is really partial to you! My family has such a strong man, and I am even more afraid of who in the world ......"
Seeing that this guy was a little forgetful, Li Tai hurriedly raised his hand to stop him from continuing to brag, and the staff brought an idle horse, and then led Li Licheng to the team to greet Yang Kuan, who was traveling all the way.
When he learned that Li Licheng had served as the Sima of Guangling Wangfu and the Shaoqing of Taifu at such a young age, he looked at Li Licheng with much more enthusiasm, and pointed to the two and sighed: "With this talented heir, why worry that the family can't prosper for a long time!" β
Li Tai led the returning Longyou soldiers to directly participate in the next big parade, but Yang Kuan was going to return to Beijing to report on his work, Li Tai saw that he was interested in Li Licheng, so he signaled Li Licheng to accompany Yang Kuan to escort Yang Kuan back to Chang'an.
Li Licheng was a little unhappy in his heart, he still did not lose his youthful heart, seeing that Li Tai was strong and strong, he still wanted to follow him to the big parade venue to shake his majesty, but when he saw Li Tai's eyes, he hurriedly agreed, and left a few domestic slaves to lead Li Tai to lead the way, and then accompanied Yang Kuan to the ferry to cross the river.
After Li Tai arrived at the Xianyang camp, he rode forward while looking at the soldiers in those camps with great interest, and couldn't help but feel that the army construction of the Western Wei Dynasty had also made visible progress to the naked eye.
Soon the group arrived at the camp that Li Licheng had reserved for them in advance, and Li Tai walked around the camp, and was quite satisfied with Li Licheng's arrangement, so he ordered his troops to dismount and set up camps.
However, when the subordinates were busy setting up camps, many onlookers gradually gathered outside the valley.
Li Tai originally thought that they were just curious about where such a large cavalry brigade came here, but he didn't care, but sat in the shade of the tree and introduced the customs of Guanzhong to Linghu Yanbao, who came to Guanzhong for the first time.
After a while, there were more onlookers gathered outside the valley, and some people let out a strange and provocative cry into the valley. After Li Tai saw this, his heart suddenly became unhappy, he was about to establish an authoritative image in front of his subordinates, how could he let these idle and boring ** people tear down the stage and slap their faces!