Chapter 55: You Chu

As Su Ze was threatened by me to pretend to surrender, Jincheng's affairs were easy to handle. Next, while sending an urgent letter to Kong Ming, informing him of the battle situation, dispatching manpower, and taking care of civil affairs, I ordered Jiang Wei and others to continue westward and capture Hao Zhao alive.

Looking back on this northward journey, it has only been a few months, but it seems to have been separated by several years. Especially in the days when Meng Jian was fighting, he was in suspense day and night, three times in a moment, his heartstrings were almost broken, and he didn't know when the enemy army would use some terrible strategy. I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand the enemy's attack, I am afraid that Jiang Wei and others will not be able to return to help, I am afraid that Ma Chao and others will not be able to attack, I am afraid that the battle situation will be erosive, and I am afraid that something will happen to Chang'an on the Eastern Front.

Fortunately, now everything has passed, not only a big victory, but also a complete Longxi and Jincheng without any damage. Looking at the piles of grain and grass in the warehouse, I was dazzled.

The war is over, militarily, Hao Zhao is no longer worried, as long as he is surrounded, do not let him collude with the Qianghu Department, cut off the water source and grain and grass, he will be defeated, now it only depends on whether Jiang Wei and others can surrender or capture him alive, such a good general who defends the city, it is a pity if he dies.

Although the battle of Yongzhou was won, as the saying goes, 1,000 people were wounded and 800 were self-inflicted, and although our army's casualties did not have such a large proportion, our Chinese army and Wei Yan's forward losses were still very heavy. After the big victory, although there were many surrenders, it was difficult to form combat power for a while. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to go west without a good rectification. The topography of Liangzhou is like a line, unfolding along the Silk Road, Ju Yan in Xiping, Zhang Jin in Zhangye, Huang Hua in Jiuquan County and the three Hu people in Wuwei although they nominally responded to our army, but they claimed to be too guarded, fierce and brutal, do they want to get rid of them, or appease them? Dunhuang Taishou Ma Ai died of illness, the people in the county elected Cao Zhang Gong to run the history, it is said that this person is very strong, it is simply another Su Ze, with him, it takes some effort to pacify Liangzhou. Thinking of this, I also thought of the Western countries with strange products and different customs, and I don't know when we will be able to reopen the road to the west.

After reading the military situation everywhere, I took out the Yongliang map, drew it with a pen, and thought. I gradually felt that my eyes were sour, and my mind was swollen. I stood up and took two steps, and suddenly I heard the drums outside, and I walked out in full clothes. Zhao Zheng knew that I was going to patrol the camp as usual, so he took the guards without saying a word and went out with me.

The night was dark, and it rained to wash away the heat. The breeze blew from the river, wet and cool. Walking out of the tent, I felt very comfortable. The tent was in the darkness of the night, like a meek beast lying on the ground. The sky was full of stars bright and bright, and I looked to the north as usual, and I saw the seven bright stars, illuminating the sky high.

"Command!" The sentry post in front of him whispered.

"Seven stars in the sky!" Zhao Zheng replied.

"Young master!" Sentinel salute. I patted him on the shoulder and said hard. But when he heard singing from a tent not far away, he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Whose tent is that?" ”

The sentry replied, "That's where You Tai guards." ”

You Chu, I forgot, he lives in the camp, but he doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, what kind of songs do he drink. I asked Zhao Zheng to continue patrolling the camp, and walked in by myself with a curtain.

As soon as I entered the tent, I smelled the smell of barbecued meat. There was a fire lit on the ground, and a shelf was on fire, on which two hares were bubbling with oil. You Chu was bare-chested, lying on his side on the collapse, flipping the hare with his hands, drinking songs in his mouth, and entertaining himself with an arrow throwing pot in his other hand.

"You Taishou is so interested!" I laughed, kicked away a chair and sat down, staring at the hare.

"Your Highness." You Chu didn't get up, "This is what I fought when I went out of camp in the evening, Jincheng Su is well governed, and there is little wasteland." I ran thirty or forty miles before I was able to fight at the foot of the mountain. I remember when I first arrived in Hanning, the land was barren, the fertile land was idle in vain, there was no race, and all the people fled to the mountains after years of fighting. I couldn't find a few people, they were all hungry, but rats and rabbits were fat-headed and big-eared to eat dead corpses and weeds. I decreed that he should be exempted from forced labor for one year. The officials tried to find their own way to eat, but it was really impossible for them to eat, and all the officials and officials followed me to eat rats and rabbits. --Good arrows! ”

I was listening with interest, startled by his voice, but it was he who threw the arrow into the pot.

"Since then, I've been addicted to game. When I arrived in Longxi, I still like to ride horses and shoot archery, and I still like to hunt and roast game by myself. ”

I took a hare, sprinkled it with salt, and took a bite of it, and my mouth was full of oil. "Sure enough, it smells tight. I don't believe that so many of you, without conscription, can eat only rats and rabbits for a year. ”

You Chu smiled: "Of course, no one can deceive this." I have also eaten grass seeds, eaten tree bark, was so hungry that I was fierce, and I also fought the idea of a war horse. But I will not harm the people, so that the people are united with me, and the people are united with me, and there is nothing that I cannot do. Ma Chao didn't attack Longxi, he was right, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to eat, and he would have to go around. ”

"Do not harm the people. According to your words, if there is wine, I should have a toast with you. ”

"There's wine." You Chu rummaged through the bag beside him and threw a gourd to me, "If you weren't the son of the world, I would also like to make you a friend, although you are younger and softer, but you are a person who has a heart, dares to take responsibility, and does great things." Just because after your father's illness, you dared to seize the power, set the strategy of attacking Yongliang in the north, and personally led the army to the former enemy, and did not hesitate to put yourself in danger to lure the enemy in order to win, Lao You I will obey you. However, if you want to subdue the hearts of the people, your approach is simple, the nursery rhyme of the Big Dipper is from Yizhou. This kind of thing, the people believe it, and some officials also believe it, but You Chu never believes it, what is the sky? What is Destiny? And what is an emperor? Tell you, I don't believe anything now, if you can't let the people eat their stomachs, that is, you will talk wildly, and you will be called a god, and I will not believe you! ”

"Hahaha. Speaking of the bottom of my heart, alas, Lao You, Lao You, how did I live for so long to see such a wonderful person as you. Never, never before, has anyone dared to speak so bluntly in front of me. "It's really straightforward, if you put these words in the monarch next to you, even if you don't kill him in court, you will never let him be an official again. I looked at the wine gourd, it was full of grease stains, and I tasted it shallowly, and it was very spicy.

"Can't get used to drinking? No wonder, this is the mare's milk wine of the Huns, which I brewed myself. ”

"You seem to have been through a lot, let's hear it." I took off my helmet and sat down.

"I was born in a small official's family, and when I was a child, I was disobedient, except for leading chickens and fighting horses, I was naughty and mischievous, and my parents always beat and scolded, saying that I couldn't support the wall with mud. What I didn't like the most was studying, and I couldn't sit down honestly like my brothers, and my biggest ambition at that time was to be a big soldier and sweep away the wolf smoke and calm down the society. Saying this, he stopped, something flashed in his eyes, and he turned his head sideways, "Then it was Dong Zhuo's rebellion, my whole family was burned by a fire, and I escaped." In the future, it will be all kinds of heroes, you beat me, I will kill you. As for me, I ran around and wandered around, and the farthest place was to Loulan and the end. My skills are all practiced when I am wandering, don't look at me as a civil official, ordinary generals are really not my opponents. Later, I was taken by Master Zhang Ji and asked me to be an official. I'm not an official, and I look down on officials. I am from a homeless background that is worse than the common people, and I know what the people are thinking in their hearts, so I have been mixed up for a few years, until today. My father and my mother never dreamed that I could become the Taishou of a county, my mud stood up, but what about them? I'd rather be the thoughtless kid I was back then, and not have to endure the hardships I have today. Today you asked me, if you are afraid of a bad reputation, why not be as loyal as Su Ze. What are those things to me? As long as the people under my rule live, even if my reputation turns into shit, what can I do? ”

After saying that, You Chu lifted the arrow in his hand, raised his hand, brushed it, and threw it into the quiver again.

I listened silently, and suddenly felt a kind of bitterness as if I was sympathetic. didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he hurriedly picked up the wine gourd and took a sip, tasted the taste of the wine, and sighed in disguise: "Why is it bitter for the common people, why is it innocent." ”

You Chu suddenly knocked on the bed and sang: "Fifteen from the army, eighty years to return." Daofeng villagers: 'Who is in the family?'' Looking at it from afar, it is the Jun family, and the pine and cypress mounds are tired. 'The rabbit enters from the dog's sinus, and the pheasant flies from the beam. The atrium is born in the valley, and Inoue is born in the valley. Chung Gu holds for cooking, and picks sunflower for soup. The soup is cooked for a while, and I don't know who Yi'a is. When I went out to look east, tears stained my clothes. ”

He sang a song of Han Yuefu, about a veteran who fought all his life, but when he returned home, he found that there was no one at home.

You Chu suddenly smiled: "Anyway, live for a day, count it as a day, I'm a person, I'm never afraid that the sky will fall and I will hit my head." I don't know how to be polite in my life, I am rude, I don't want to be seen, when do you think I'm annoyed, tell me, you want to kill me, and I make it clear, let me be a ghost, I'll thank you. ”

I said sincerely: "Don't worry, people like you who have the people in your heart are the pillars of my Han." I stabilize the world, and I have to rely on Brother Zhongyun to help me a lot. ”

You Chu smiled indifferently: "Calm the world, there are too many people who say this, and there are too many people with this kind of ambition, how many people may succeed?" I don't ask for anything else, as long as you can be kind to the people and kill less, I will be at ease. ”

I put down the wine gourd and stood up: "Whether I can succeed or not, Brother Zhongyun can wait and see." One day you think about the people, one day I will be kind to you, no matter what you do. Longxi, I may have to arrange a few people, some of your right-hand men, I may arrange them to Nan'an Zhujun, Brother Zhongyun don't have any suspicions. In addition, "I mentioned a rabbit," no alcohol is allowed in the barracks, this time I invite you, don't have a next time, I rule the army with the rule of law, brother don't make it difficult for me. ”