Chapter 14 The Dragon Enters the Sea
Lu Bu brought all his family members with him, and his wife and concubines all took him.
Originally, he wanted to dig Li Su over, but he was worried that Dong Zhuo would be suspicious, so he didn't do it.
The brigade left Luoyang, marched rapidly, walked more than 70 miles in one day, and left Luoyang for more than 140 miles in two consecutive days.
When camping that night, Lu Bu called Chen Heng over.
"Lord, you look for me."
"Look for you, how many blacksmiths, cobblers, carpenters are there in the army, and they are going to rebuild the saddle utensils."
"Back to the lord, there are only more than 150 people, including more than 80 blacksmiths, more than 20 cobblers, and 50 carpenters. In addition, there were many soldiers who knew how to carpenter. ”
Lu Buyi frowned: "Why is it so little?" ”
"My lord, you must know that we were originally a team of five thousand people, and we have only expanded for less than half a month just now. Craftsmen can be cultivated, and of course, some can be caught back. ”
Lu Bu shook his hand: "Don't mention the words again, we are the king of the Han Dynasty, I am the Han Wenhou, how can I catch the people." ”
Chen Hengda was moved, and the lord had changed his sex.
followed by Lu Bu and said: "We can fool and fool the craftsman." ”
The two came to the blacksmith camp, this group of craftsmen was the hardest, they could not be left behind during the day, they had to work overtime at night, and in case of the urgency of the war, they had to carry knives to the battlefield.
The status of the craftsmen was very low, and when they saw Lu Bu coming, they hurriedly bowed down and did not dare to speak.
"Get up, who is in charge?"
"The villain Zhang Tiezhu is in charge."
Lu Bu took out a drawn drawing and handed it to Zhang Tiezhu: "Look at this iron stirrup, you can build it." ”
Zhang Tiezhu saw that this was an iron stirrup with a round underneath, or a double stirrup design.
The cavalry of the Han Dynasty is still martial, all of them are dead, and they are proud of riding fierce horses, and there are not many people who are equipped with double stirrups. Most of them are unilateral simple stirrups.
"General Hui, although the structure of this stirrup is different, it is not difficult to build."
"Okay, while ensuring the march, hurry up and build it, and make five hundred sets first."
"It's the general."
Lu Bu arranged for Chen Heng again: "Allocate some horse jerky to the craftsmen, the grain is enough, and everyone can't work hungry." A few more pieces of money were allocated, and each blacksmith was rewarded with some copper coins. ”
"Okay, don't worry, I'll arrange it, but I don't know why the lord changed the stirrup." Chen Heng wondered
"You'll find out when you put it on."
The craftsmen worked until midnight, working overtime.
Got up early and marched, and just after walking far, the former army scout Cao Xing came back to report: "Lord, there are a lot of displaced people in front, about thousands, there may be yellow turban thieves mixed in, how to deal with it?" ”
Lu Bu took Cheng Lian and Cao Xing to the front, and there were thousands of homeless people sitting and lying on the side of the avenue.
There is half a nest in the bowl, more people are swollen after eating too much weed, and some are skinny and dizzy.
"They all ran out of the war, many starved to death, and there were many roads on the side of the road ahead."
Lu Bu looked forward, and as Cao Xing said, there were old people, women, and children who fell on the side of the road.
There is also a six- or seven-year-old child, holding his mother and crying there, maybe in the next second, this child will go to his mother.
Lu Bu's nose was sour, he was not a good person, he didn't blink when he killed people during the war, and he was even a little bad, but the bottom line was still there.
"The army paused, buried the pot to cook, and called Wei Xu and Li Ding."
"Yes."
Soon Wei Xu and Li Ding came: "Lord." ”
Lu Bu pointed to the displaced people and arranged: "Settle the displaced people in an open area, cook for them, and arrange food and drink." ”
"Yes, my lord." Wei Xu took hundreds of infantry, moved the healthy homeless people not far away, set up a cauldron and began to cook porridge.
Li Ding gathered the sick homeless people alone, about 500 people, and examined them one by one, and buried the dead, and treated the living.
Lu Bu stood on a high place and shouted at the homeless: "Don't panic, don't be afraid. Today Ben will invite you to drink chicken soup, and when you meet Ben will have a good day, you will never have to worry about starving again. ”
The numb homeless people are a little boiling, but some have already begun to curse in their hearts.
Dozens of miles of war losses have been lost, and there is not a single chicken feather, where did the chicken soup come from? But no one dared to ask rhetorically, and the group behaved properly
Chen Heng was distressed and allocated a thousand catties of sorghum rice, and Lu Bu looked disgusted:
"What can more than 3,500 people eat, it's just a gruel."
"The lord is not at home, I don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, there is a lot of food, but we have nearly 60,000 people, and we have to pick and search for them, if I am generous, what will the team eat at that time? I can't eat or drink, and my lord can't cut me down. ”
Lu Bu nodded: "Okay, Ben Jiang didn't mean to blame you, the team always comes first, but you don't have to worry about the grain and grass, Wang Situ gave a lot of money." ”
Chen Heng didn't believe it: "Sometimes money is not used, money can't be bought, not to mention that it has to be transported, and the loss of grain and grass transportation is huge." ”
The sorghum porridge in the big iron pot was gurgling, exuding the fragrance of sorghum, and the throats of the displaced people were moving up and down one by one.
But soon a new problem arose, and more than 1,000 homeless people did not even have a black porcelain bowl.
In the peaceful years, porcelain bowls are not rare, but in the years of war, this black porcelain bowl is rare, and you have to be careful to take the rice, in case you fall, eating is a problem.
There is no reserve rice bowl in the army, so Chen Heng spread his hands: "There is no way to do this, I can only send someone to look nearby to see if there are any shops selling porcelain bowls." ”
There are still shops, and there is nothing left when the rebels come.
"Ben will find a way in the future, and this porridge won't get better for a while."
Lu Bu said and returned to the pro-military camp and ordered: "Take out the porcelain bowl and give it to the homeless people." ”
There was nothing to say about obedience, and soon a thousand black porcelain bowls were taken out.
Although everyone didn't say anything, Lu Bu could see everyone's reluctance, after all, he was the guy who ate.
Lu Bu laughed: "You don't need to worry, Ben will replace you with a new one." ”
Lu Bu walked into the temporary tent and directly exchanged the enamel large tea jar, which could hold several bowls of size.
The white porcelain looks a little monotonous after all, and a shape is added to it, and the portrait of Lu Bu riding a red rabbit horse is printed on it.
After redeeming a thousand sets, Lu Bu beckoned Cheng Lian to move out and let the soldiers get the iron rice bowl.
And the state iron ride to see, this is also great, this big rice jar is just right, hanging in the horseback luggage, not afraid of bumps.
One by one, they happily received the iron rice jar.
How to use it, how to use it, the main thing is that there is a portrait of the lord on it, tsk, what a good baby.
Lu Bu went back to the tent to exchange for thousands of catties of white sugar, kept it in the supplies, and arranged for his soldiers to carry a few bags to the camp camp.
In the camp for the wounded and sick of the homeless, Li Dingzheng, a military medical officer, took the pulse of the patients one by one and checked the tongue coating.
Some patients were covered in foul smells, and some patients were bitten by wild dogs, and the wounds were terrifying.