Yang Chuan personally cooked a meal of oily meat noodles for the Yulin orphans who returned from the expedition; In addition, he also commanded Tangyi's father and others to make four hot dishes, four cold dishes, and an egg mash soup.

The four hot dishes are nothing more than stir-fried lamb liver, stewed carp, secret braised pork, dry stir-fried tripe and other home-cooked dishes, while the four cold dishes are more distinctive, all of which are local wild vegetables in Shuofang County, blanched and mixed with a little garlic, refined salt, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil and white sugar, the taste is excellent.

However, the best thing to eat is the oily meat noodles after all.

Hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat in Shuofang County have been harvested, and under the personal guidance of Yang Chuan, a lot of pasta eating methods have been quickly developed, just noodles, there are cold noodles, mixed noodles, braised noodles, chicken soup noodles, chicken blood noodles, fried noodles, Zhenzi noodles, mutton noodles and other twenty or thirty ways to eat.

The rain in the north is still falling, dripping, weeping like a complaint, which makes people feel sad, and it also makes this unprecedented victory lose a little color, and it is always impossible to raise any interest in talking about and pointing out the country.

In this situation, it would be nice if you could make a small hot pot.

It's a pity that the Han Empire didn't have chili peppers for the time being, and no variety of green and red peppercorns were cultivated; At the same time, after this big battle, Yang Chuan was no longer in the mood to make a small hot pot.

Seeing Huo Quzhi, Cao Xiang, Li Dang and the orphans of Yulin feasting, immersed in the taste of oily meat noodles, Yang Chuan felt an inexplicable sadness, his eyes passed through the vast rain curtain outside the window, and he was slightly distracted.

"Yang Chuan, why do you eat so little?"

Cao Xiang sensed that something was wrong with Yang Chuan, holding a large plate of noodles with oily meat, the corners of his mouth were stained with red oil soup, and he smiled: "Was it shot by the wolf tooth arrows of the Huns?" Go back and help you check your body......"

Yang Chuan smiled: "I'm worried about you second goods." ”

Huo Quzhi took a bowl of wine and said solemnly: "Yang Chuan, this battle in Dragon City, if it weren't for your map and the help of the three teenagers of Ah Huo, I'm afraid it wouldn't have gone so smoothly."

Come, brother will give you a bowl! ”

Yang Chuan took the wine bowl and said warmly: "It's good to win the battle, it's good that you all have to come back, brothers, come, drink this wine together!" ”

The orphans of Yulin picked up the wine bowls one after another and drank them all.

Yang Chuan drank the wine in the bowl, stood up, and said, "Eat and drink well, go back to the camp in the north of the city to rest for a day or two, slow down your spirits, and I invite you to eat." ”

As he spoke, he arched his hand and walked out of the Taishou Mansion.

Huo Qubing and his Yulin army made a long-distance attack, broke Longcheng, and captured hundreds of grandfathers, uncles, fathers-in-law, wives and children of Dadan Yu Yizhixie, as well as a large number of civil and military ministers who did not deserve to have names, such as generals, households, and ministers; In the siege of Shuofang City, more than 24,000 elite Huns were annihilated and more than 30,000 war horses were captured, which can be regarded as a complete victory.

But.

In Yang Chuan's heart, he just felt unhappy, uncomfortable, and unhappy, so he wanted to go out for a walk, take a look, listen to it, and let this endless heavy rain wash it well.

Shuofang City is full of people.

The faces of the elderly, women, children, county soldiers, scholars, almost everyone were filled with inexplicable joy and pride, and Yang Chuan felt that his preoccupied appearance was a bit out of place.

So, he temporarily turned in a direction and climbed the gate tower of the west gate.

In the open space outside the city, the corpses of thousands of Huns were piled up into a hill, doused with black oil, and were being burned by dozens of county soldiers.

The autumn rain continued, the fire was dazzling, and the billowing smoke rolled up into the sky, under the influence of the humid air and rain, but it slowly drooped down, like a black giant beast, hanging its huge and terrifying head in front of the scarred Shuofang City, which made Yang Chuan angry for a while.

"!"

"Don't give Ben Hou a fuck yet!"

Yang Chuan cursed a few swear words inexplicably, found a dry place on the steps of the city gate building, sat on the ground, and took out a few things to eat from his bag, a green-skinned gourd.

In this battle, more than 20,000 enemies were annihilated, and more than 1,600 people were lost in Shuofang City.

Among them, 832 county soldiers were killed in the battle, 703 people were among the people, and 92 people were scholars, which can be described as heavy losses.

In addition, the ten counties under the rule of Shuofang County, as well as some scattered villages, towns, and tribes, also suffered heavy losses.

15,000 soldiers, more than half of whom were lost in battle.

The number of casualties among the people has not yet been counted, and it is estimated that it is not much better, and their own method of 'deep ploughing and irrigation', although it resisted the burning and plundering of the vast majority of the Huns, and reduced the losses to a minimum.

But.

80,000 cavalry rampant in Shuofang County, burning, killing and looting, like a group of wild beasts, how can he be a small guard, unscathed.

These are still battle losses on the surface.

In fact, what made Yang Chuan particularly angry was that this war seriously affected Shuofang County's tuntian plan, resulting in his hundreds of thousands of acres of melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables being unable to harvest them after they matured, and he could only watch them rot in the ground.

"Comrades who died in battle, I, Yang Chuan, am sorry for you."

Yang Chuan grabbed the cold-cut beef and mutton, placed it on the steps in front of him, lifted the green skin gourd, splashed a few catties of liquor on the ground, and prayed in a low voice: "May your spirits in heaven be healthy, have a field to plant, have a mouthful of food, and have a knife to chop up the souls of those wolf Riha, give them a physical transcendence, crush the bones and scatter ashes, and make their souls scatter!" ”

These words are very hideous.

Almost、Gnashing teeth。

Immediately, he took a piece of cold-cut lamb from the ground, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly; He wanted to drink, and tilted his neck, but only seven or eight drops were poured out of the green skin gourd, which made him feel melancholy for a while.

Wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk.

Just seven or eight drops of wine are enough.

Yang Chuan stood up, took a few steps forward, came to the scarred city wall, and looked at the west side with a distracted look...... No, it's west-northwest, and that's the land of Mo Nan.

"Accustomed to the long night of spring, the woman will have silk on the sideburns. In the dream, there are vague motherly tears, and the city head changes the king's flag. endure watching his peers become new ghosts, and angrily look for small poems in the knife bush. There is no place to write after chanting, and the moonlight shines like water on the clothes......"

A 'little poem' that is not very heart-wrenching is so sentimental that it makes a seventeen-year-old boy, the Marquis of Changning of the Han Dynasty, and the Taishou of Shuofang County burst into tears.

"you!"

Yang Chuan pointed to the west and scolded.

"The Marquis of Changning is unhappy, you can kill a few enemies to relieve your anger," Suddenly, someone chuckled sadly, and said quietly: "The emperor didn't expect the enemy to be clear, and he fell for Yizhi's oblique, and now it is estimated that he is also secretly poking and scolding his mother in Weiyang Palace." ”

Such a haunting old yin thing, except for the big Changmen Cui Jiu, who else?

Yang Chuan didn't bother to look back, and scolded angrily: "Da Changmen, how many times have I told you, don't be so quiet in the future, it will scare people to death." ”

Cui Jiu walked over and stood side by side with Yang Chuan, also looking at the northwest: "There is a war report from the front, Zhao Xin defected to the Xiongnu royal court, and was named the second king, and Yi Zhixian married his sister to Zhao Xin; After Zhao Xin defected to the Huns, his first achievement was to set up an ambush in the Mobei grassland, and completely annihilated the 3,000 elite cavalry under the command of Su Jian, the right general, and Su Jian escaped with his life alone. ”

"In addition, the 50,000 main forces of the general Wei Qing were chased and intercepted by the 120,000 main forces of Yi Zhixian, Zhao Xin, and Youxian Wang, and suffered heavy losses.

"Also, Yanmen guarded Li Guang too much, after entering the north of the desert for five hundred miles, he got lost, wandered around the edge of the desert and the grassland for seventeen or eighteen days, was targeted by the main force of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and tore off his 12,000 elite cavalry in one bite, even Li Guang himself was captured by the Zuoxian King, and later, waiting for the opportunity to escape, it is estimated that he will inevitably be taken away......"

Listening to the old thief's expressionless narration, Yang Chuan felt very bored.

He looked at the vast rain curtain quietly, and said indifferently: "My Shuofang County has suffered heavy losses, and in the battle of Shuofang City alone, more than 1,600 people died in battle;

Also, in the millions of acres of tuntian, a large number of melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables rotted in the field, making the next tuntian plan even more difficult.

Da Nagato, can you lend me some money and food? ”

Da Changmen turned a deaf ear to Yang Chuan's complaints, but looked sideways at his handsome and heroic face, and asked very seriously: "I heard that you once gave advice to the general Wei Qing, change generals before the war, don't let Zhao Xin lead the troops to fight?" ”

Yang Chuan nodded.

Cui Jiu asked with interest: "You already knew that Zhao Xin would defect to the Huns?" ”

Yang Chuan glanced at the old thief, and said very coldly: "Lianshan, Guizang, and Zhou Yi are in the same line, but they are slightly different, Ben Hou roughly flipped through a few pages, and found that the astrological divination in it was actually just a concrete manifestation of arithmetic, so he tried to occupy a hexagram before the war, what's the matter, there is a problem?" ”

The scholars of the Han Empire looked at people and told them hexagrams at every turn, and they all looked like old gods.

Cui Jiu smiled and said, "After all, the Marquis of Changning still fell into the cliché, and even began to believe in the divination of those ghosts and gods. ”

Yang Chuan smiled.

He pointed to the northwest and west, and said: "It's not that I, Yang Chuan, have fallen into the cliché and believe in those ghosts and gods in divination, but I know the hearts of the people better, Zhao Xin was originally the little king of the Huns, and after the defeat, he voted for my big Han, which was a helpless move; That kind of person is like a duckweed without roots, drifting for half a lifetime, and the one who asks for it is just a glory and wealth that can make him raise his eyebrows. ”

"Whether Zhao Xin rebels or not, in fact, it doesn't matter."

He paused for a few breaths, and suddenly sighed: "Da Changmen, in fact, you know better than me Yang Chuan, the root cause of this defeat of the Han army lies in ...... BOC said. ”

Originally, he wanted to say that 'the root of the defeat is in the imperial court', but in front of the old thief, he counted the mistakes of the emperor and the imperial court, who knew what the consequences would be.

Cui Jiu nodded and admitted frankly: "The Bank of China said that he was originally a favorite minister of Emperor Jing, but at the beginning, Emperor Jing was forced by the pressure of civil officials and scholars in the court to marry his own daughter Princess Nangong to the Huns, and he thought that he would appoint his favorite ministers to marry him in the past, and his daughter could have a caring person to take care of him;

Unexpectedly, the Bank of China said that he hated Emperor Jing because of this, and felt that he had pushed him into the fire pit, so he simply completely rebelled against the Xiongnu Da Shan Yu and became one of the advisors of the military minister Shan Yu.

Bank of China is very powerful, he is familiar with almost all the secrets of the Han Dynasty, and he knows the minds of our Han people very well, over the years, he is familiar with the art of war, hard practice martial arts, even I am ashamed of my ......"

Yang Chuan listened quietly and didn't say a word.

He knew in his heart that the big Changmen Cui Jiu came to find himself, not to say some things about the past that were not salty or indifferent, but there must be other purposes.

Really.

After some emotion, the old thief suddenly asked: "More than a month ago, when you built the Chi Road, what was the gray ore powder that could be as hard as iron after three or five days?" ”

Well, the emotion is to set an eye on your own good things again.

However, as long as it is not the details of the battle of Hulugou......

Yang Chuan's face was unhappy, and he said coldly: "What's the matter, Da Changmen wants to prostitute my good things for nothing?" ”

"My Yang family's secret method was casually dedicated to the imperial court, allowing you to earn endless money and food, and making the combat power of tens of thousands of northern troops skyrocket by two or three times, what benefit did I Yang Chuan get?"

"Cao Xiang and I posted money to the court to give 1.5 million mu of tuntian, this old book has not been recovered, the court will take away half of the summer wheat for disaster relief, the court is still unreasonable?"

"Also, the imperial court knows that in this war, the main target of the Huns is our Shuofang County, why didn't you tell me in advance, so that Benhou could be prepared?"

"Da Changmen, you see, after this battle, Shuofang County has become a mess again, does the imperial court still want to pursue my responsibility and punish me, just like it did to Gongsun Ao, and get me Yang Chuan back to Chang'an City, do you still want to take away my lord and remove my official?"

Cui Jiu's eyes flashed, and he said lightly: "The emperor does mean this. ”

Yang Chuan said: "Uncle Cui Jiu, then pass on the decree." ”

The old thief shook his head slowly and said, "However, there is a better scapegoat now." ”

Yang Chuan was silent.

Look, this special mother is the evil old society, as the emperor, your special mother's own judgment was wrong, and she fought an inexplicable defeat, but she wanted to find a scapegoat among the courtiers?

Isn't this a proper hooligan?

Is this the same as some dynasties in later generations, county magistrates, county officials, and those official officials, bullying the six classes of officials, miscellaneous servants, catching fast, and squad leaders, etc., and throwing the pot to the 'temporary and hourly workers'?

It's nothing more than a backstabber.

But this time, the back-up man Liu Che wants to find is not a 'temporary and timely', but the great Sima and the great general Wei Qing.

It's boring to think about it.

Looking at Yang Chuan, the Marquis of Changning, who was expressionless, Cui Jiu suddenly sighed and said: "Huo Quai's big break through Dragon City, took Yi Zhixian's hometown, seized more than one million cattle, sheep, horses, women and children, and the emperor issued a decree to entitle the champion Hou and 1,600 households;

Pingyang Hou Cao Xiang as the Yulin Army Sima, great merit, rewarded 10,000 acres of fertile land, 9,000 silk horses, 300 Shu brocade horses, 500 catties of gold, the official seal of the right farmer order, rank ratio of 2,000 stones;

Li Dangguan Feng Yulin Military Captain ......"

Yang Chuan suddenly asked, "What about me?" ”

Cui Jiu wiped the rain on his face, took out a roll of silk from his arms and threw it in Yang Chuan's arms, and said: "The Marquis of Changning, Shuofang County is too guarded by Yang Chuan, 1.2 million acres of tuntian, exhausted and loyal, in this battle, organized the county soldiers and people to kill 19,325 Xiongnu elites, captured 246,18 cattle and sheep horses, and assisted the Yulin Army to completely annihilate 23,954 Xiongnu elites......

A lot of credit.

The Marquis of Changning, promoted to the rank of marquis, with 7,200 households.

The official position and rank remain unchanged, and they are still the Taishou of Shuofang County. ”

(End of chapter)