After eating, Gao Chong called these sand thieves and the leaders of the rebel army to a conference room for a meeting, in Gao Chong's words, this is a discussion. What it means to sit down and talk.

The second uncle, Qian Jichen, and Qian San, the liaison officers, also attended the forum. said that it was a meeting, but in fact it was not as serious as a formal meeting, and there were many fried foods and preserved fruits produced by the Gao family on the table.

A few people sit in the middle of them in a mess, which also makes people feel close.

This time, there were a total of 18 people representing 12 teams, and some of them were young masters in their twenties, such as Chen Jialuo of the Chen Jiama team, with more than 800 people, and his father's name was Chen Yunhai. One of them, Zhong Hui, was also a general of the former Great Song Dynasty Western Army, who participated in the Battle of Fuping and had more than 500 people under his command.

After introducing each other, Gao Pet and everyone started a homely routine:

"Although you are in Hexi, you should rarely be together in normal times, right?" Everyone nodded.

"So, if you encounter a problem, you have to solve it yourself. I invited everyone this time, first, everyone will get to know each other in the future, and it will be easy to help at critical moments. The second is that everyone sits together to communicate and communicate, talk about any difficulties, what can be cooperated, and each other has their own directors, maybe they can help. Besides, we live on the knife every day, and we have nothing to do with ourselves, but will our wives and children follow you like this all our lives? ”

"Yes, my wife wants me to send the child back to my hometown all day long, do you think my hometown is? Luoyang, that's the place of the cash army, they are divided into five classes, how can we old men live that kind of life? "A thirty-something-plus sand pirate leader said.

"I remember that three years ago, we escaped after being pursued by the officers and soldiers, and we ran for three days and three nights without our lives. More than 300 of us fled to Big Bear Mountain, but my wife was seven months pregnant, and she was born prematurely, and she couldn't give birth, and the blood kept flowing, and there was nothing around, so she died in my arms. The leader of the Seven Star Army was in a daze, as if he had returned to the time of the year.

When one person said this, everyone began to talk about it, sharing their own sufferings.

"Can you tell us why we are running around like this, what we want to get, have you thought about it?" The high pet leads the topic at an inopportune time.

Gao Pet asked this question, and many people thought deeply, and many of them didn't even think about why they did it.

"We have no way to live, and it is impossible for us to surrender to the Jin people and to the Western Xia, let alone to be their slaves, many brothers and family members have also died in battle and have been killed... Many people and women were taken into slavery by them. Gao Gongzi, apart from resisting and taking revenge, what else can we do? Zhong Hui said as he spoke, tears falling from his eyes.

"Don't look at me as a concubine of the Western Xia and think that I am a Xixia person, not only am I not, the princess is also the daughter-in-law of the Gao family, a member of the Great Song Dynasty, and you are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty. And I am the head of the Gao family in Tongling of the Great Song Dynasty, and now I am the deputy envoy of the three divisions of the imperial court, and the salt and iron envoy is my grandfather, and my father Gao Shiyuan is the prefect of Xinzhou Mansion, and in the second year of Jianyan (1928), Xinzhou Mansion died in a battle with the Jin army in Yanmen Pass. Therefore, I, a native of the Great Song Dynasty, also have a great enmity with Jin Jun for killing my father. ”

"However, we have so many people at this time, each in charge of their own affairs, a small cavalry of the Western Xia or Jin Army can chase us down, do we have more time to run for our lives for so many years? Have you ever slept soundly? ”

"No, have we made a fortune? Nor did it. ”

"Let's think about it again, if our team of people adds up to almost two thousand, what can the Golden Army and the Equestrian Army do to me? They can only see us running, and if they want to destroy us, do they need 5,000 or 10,000 to come? ”

"If they really have to send an army of so many people, as soon as we part, we may walk away from another ravine," Gao Zhong continued to guide them.

"yes, why didn't we think of it before?" If you think about it, will you still sit here and listen to me? Gao pet thinks.

"What if our people are injured or sick? There is no doctor, no medicine, and we will either slowly heal or die, so we can only pray that we will not get hurt or get sick. But if you think about it, you won't get hurt or get sick? ”

"What are we missing? One less base area, one place to rest and recuperate. Isn't it? ”

"Just now, Jia Luo told me that his family has been here for five generations, more than a hundred years, how many people like you have been wiped out, and how many have survived? How many rebel armies have such tenacious vitality as the Chen family? How did the Chen family do it? It was his ancestor who found them a good place and a base area. ”

"The Western Xia and my Great Song Dynasty have fought for more than 100 years, it turns out that the place where you are is our Great Song Dynasty, the reason why we have reached the current situation, one is that our army has not fought well, and the other is that the politics of our court have not been handled well, and the Western Xia has grown from a small clan with only two states of Ning and Xia to now, with a radius of thousands of miles, dozens of states, and the country is getting stronger and stronger. That's because people have good leadership, good management, and hard work. Existence is truth. We have to obey them from the bottom of our hearts. ”

"For more than a hundred years, the army of our Great Song Dynasty is getting weaker and weaker, and it is vulnerable in front of the army of the Jin State.

"And you have done your best to fight against our hostile country in this land, as a Great Song person, I admire your courage, and I also deeply sympathize with the situation you are facing, we don't know when we will die, and sometimes we don't know where the next meal will be."

"It's rare for us to be together today, so let's sit down and reason, why are we doing this, what is our purpose, and is this way we used to work? Is there a better way and how can we do it to better achieve our goals? We still have those difficulties. Speaking of this, Gao Chong stopped and looked at everyone, he wanted them to have time to think.

"We really didn't really sit down and think about it. Just to live, to live with dignity. Zhong will say.

"It's good to live with dignity, but the enemy won't give us handouts, we will only have strength if we organize, clench five fingers into a fist, and fight out. It's like this. Gao Zhong clenched his outstretched fingers into a fist.

"Hoeryeong is where we come in, where we rest. To the southeast of it is the Jin people, whose army is enslaving our people of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Gao Gongzi, let's do it with you."

"Master Gao, come and take everyone to do it!"

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"I think I'm used to living in freedom now, thank you for dinner!" A bearded sand thief bowed his hand to Gao Chong, and took a sand thief next to him and left. There are a few more walks behind. Life can indeed change many people, some people would rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix, some people like to steal and bully the weak, and some people really don't want to be controlled. Everyone has their own goals, and high pets can't force them.

Most of the people chose to stay here in Huining, and even the Chen family, who had survived in the Hexi Corridor for more than a hundred years, sent half of them to Huining.

The Yellow River turned westward at Luyin, and the moisture brought out by the river made this arid valley full of moisture, softness and freshness. At the foot of the hill there were many wooden huts built along the edge of the forest, a few children were rolling in the grass, and women were coming and going to tidy up the new home.

In the past few days, these rebels or sand thieves and their families have arrived in Huining one after another. Settled in this valley. In total, more than 1,200 horses arrived. Their families settled in the valley of the Yellow River, became a member of Huining County, and began a different life.

Many years later, they said that they were most grateful to Qian San, who found them in the desert and brought them out of the desert.

More than 1,200 people were selected and washed out of those who were old, in poor health, and injured and disabled, and in the end only 742 people remained, and among them, the best 158 people were selected and added to the northward detachment. The remaining 584 people were reorganized into a supplementary detachment of three supplementary companies and sent instructors for training. Although Zhong Hui and Chen Jialuo were reluctant to disrupt their original staffing into various units, they thought about the one-third of their old comrades-in-arms, and they were not dissatisfied with the arrangement of favoring them. But the two of them were not originally the commanders of the supplementary company, they shook their heads when they heard the name, they would rather be a fighter of the Flying Tigers.

Gao Pet kept the choice of these two people in mind and saw their great potential for growth.

Qian Jishen has taken office and become the head of Huining, and the two brothers of the Deng family have become his assistants, each in charge of a share. They call Qian Jichen Mr. Qian. When Gao Pet heard it, he also smiled, what a familiar title, in his previous life, the word "total" flew all over the sky, and those who did not have a total word were embarrassed to come out and mix.

Qian Zong, with the Deng brothers and a group of people from the princess's mansion, was receiving the dowry given by the emperor to the princess, as well as the food and some military supplies that Huining needed most, which was for fighting the war and settling the consuls.

The more than 300 wheelbarrows that the Gao family came over this time, plus more than 100 new ones made in Xingqing, nearly 500 vehicles came in handy. The efficiency of this car is much higher than the efficiency of the camel horse, and it is suitable for this mountain road, a car can carry nearly a thousand catties, and there are five or six hundred catties less, although this mountain road is more sloppy, the ancients are as smart, when going uphill, they use the wheel to stand on the camel horse, and the back is still pulled by one person, saving a lot of effort.

The baggage force in charge of transportation was formed by Gao Zhong from the Wolf Tooth Army. For the sake of this baggage force, it is now responsible for the transportation of Dihuining.

Watching the same thing arrive at the Yin and pile up in the square, experienced soldiers knew that it would not be long before a war would come.