Chapter 46: Father and Son
From Chengdu to Chuyang, the distance is more than 800 miles, but there is no waterway that can be passed.
Chengdu people can only go all the way to the northeast, through Mianzhu, out of the Sword Pavilion, take the Golden Bull Road and the Hanzhong Plain.
It just so happened that his subordinates had not had a long-distance march since the formation of the army, and Liu Chan happened to bring out more than 700 men and horses, and they were trained in the field.
Seeing this, Zhuge Liang simply handed over all the defense on the road to Liu Chan, and he was so happy that he only brought his attendants and a small number of subordinates.
Even though it's on your own territory, it's a great trust.
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Leading people on a long march is not the same as before.
It can be said that when there are many people and there are long distances, is all knowledge.
Let's just say that the camp garrison, that time was nearly 1,000 people, one person and a half catty, each time it was 500 catties...... If the toilet is not repaired, not to mention the stinking smell, it is easy to cause an epidemic.
In this era, if there is an epidemic in the army, it is almost the same as the total annihilation.
Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi was also largely related to the epidemic of epidemics.
Where to camp is also a knowledge, there must be a water source, not in the low-lying, not like the historical Lao Liu was set on fire......
This is all basic common sense, but many illiterate generals who do not read the art of war do not know it.
This is also the reason why the emperor could not completely abandon the wealthy family, in this era, knowledge was monopolized in the hands of the powerful.
The poor are barely useful, but the people at the bottom can't be promoted as much as they want.
I am afraid that for a long time in the future, it will be impossible for me to completely abandon the wealthy family to exercise rule, otherwise I will face an endless wave of resistance.
Moreover, in this era of inconvenient communication, the squires and local clans still had their positive side in organizing labor and maintaining law and order.
But only if it ...... Be obedient.
The scenery outside the carriage has changed from a lofty mountain on the Golden Bull Road to a gentle plain.
Hanzhong Plain.
Hurry up, Liu Chan and others finally arrived in Hanzhong in mid-July.
There is still about half a day's journey from Chuyang, and I am used to seeing the prosperity of Chengdu and Jiangling, and the desolation here is really not happy.
The houses you pass along the way are intact or dilapidated, but most of them are uninhabited.
Occasionally, wild dogs can be seen digging holes, wagging their tails excitedly when they dig out a few bones.
The shape of those bones is clearly human bones.
Many people died in the war, coupled with Boss Cao's relocation policy, Hanzhong has become what it is today.
Boss Cao will not provide you with any food and lodging, and you have to bring your own food.
If you die on the road, you will die.
Anyway, even if one of them doesn't live, I won't let you get what I can't get, and I won't lose.
But if there is a family that survives to the place, then I will earn it.
Liu Chan looked at such a scenery with a cold expression, letting the emotions in his chest churn, drifting farther and farther away with his thoughts.
I didn't notice Zhuge Liang on the other side of the "open-top carriage" at all, and he didn't have a calm smile at this time.
also had a serious face, but he didn't stare at the scenery outside the carriage, but at Liu Chan in front of him......
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The people approached Chuyang, and first passed by the famous Yangping Pass.
This Xiongguan is located at the intersection of Jinniu Road and Chencang Road, which is really close to the mountains and rivers, Qin Ling in the north, and water in the south.
Only by seeing it here can you appreciate the wisdom of the ancients, no matter how many people you have, you can't line up at all under this kind of terrain.
If you want to storm this Xiongguan, how many people want to save grandpa.
Yangping Pass is still like this, and the famous Tiger Prison Pass is still very much.
No wonder Dong Zhuo dared to block the princes of the Eighteen Roads with the Tiger Prison Pass.
It's a pity that he was not born at that time, and he didn't have the opportunity to meet Lu Bu, the tiger in front of the Tiger Prison that year.
After that, there was Dingjun Mountain, which was the turning point of the Battle of Hanzhong.
General Miaocai used his own head to send General Huang Zhong into the ranks of the Five Tiger Generals.
Now that a large number of corpses have been cleaned up, there is no longer the smell of blood after a long time.
But some of the burnt places still bear the bitter smell of war.
Further east, it is the Yang of the old Liu who has already built the mandala.
The camps can almost be described as one after another......
Lao Liu Da Hanzhong has invested more than 60,000 people in batches, and I don't know how many are left now.
But judging from the number of camps, the situation should not be too bad......
It's just that there are too many wounded soldiers, and wailing and moaning can be heard almost everywhere along the way.
Some men who were missing arms and legs had only been bandaged simply, and their wounds had suppurated, giving off a foul smell in the hot weather.
The flies that had been attracted had come to rest on it, and the numb-faced wounded soldiers had no intention of driving them away—they knew that they had suffered such a wound, and now that the wound had suppurated, they would not live long.
Liu Chan has seen a lot of the scene in front of him since he was a child, he can actually be numb, but he often reminds himself not to be numb.
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Lao Liu still has something to discuss, and he is holding a meeting in his Chinese army tent.
Except for Uncle Zhuge who was summoned to attend the meeting, Liu Chan and the others rested in the camp assigned to them.
Until the evening, Lao Liu's meeting finally ended.
A soldier summoned Liu Chan to the Zhongjun tent, and all the way to the front of the tent, Liu Chan paused slightly.
I haven't seen each other for two years, and after all, I still feel a little apprehensive in my heart.
The old man's low opinion of himself is certainly because of some strange behaviors in his childhood.
But more than that...... I barely see him myself.
For both of his mothers, he was undoubtedly widowed parenting.
Sun Shangxiang? She didn't care about herself, she threw it to her subordinates to take it, and she couldn't be considered a mother.
Lao Liu occasionally cheats corpses, less frequently than migrant workers who visit left-behind children.
In this case, even if he Liu Chan has great ability, he can't brush up Lao Liu's favor!
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Liu Bei sat in the tent of the Chinese army, and when he saw a person outside the tent coming with the guards, his buttocks immediately moved, and the corners of his mouth were about to rise.
But immediately, his buttocks, which had not yet been raised, fell back down, and his face became serious again.
So when Liu Chan entered the account, he saw his father, who was as always with a poker face, majestic and unsmiling.
Yes, majestic and unsmiling.
This is the strongest impression that Lao Liu left on himself.
This is not a kind person who will cry at every turn and be full of feelings.
When his mother Gan died, he didn't see him crying.
Outsiders may think that Mrs. Gan is a concubine, just a plaything.
Liu Chan knew that Lao Liu didn't dare to marry her as the main room, because all the wives in the main room before Lao Liu would not live long.
In fact, although they get together less and leave more, they have a good relationship.
Even so, Lao Liu didn't cry.
He understood that as the leader of a party, it was not a decent thing to grieve over a woman's death in this era.
But as a soul who has just come to the strange and cruel world of the Three Kingdoms, the body is still a baby at the mercy of others.
Gan's meticulous protection and care for Liu Chan gave her an extremely special position in Liu Chan's heart.
In this world, that is his own mother.
So as a son, he always had a pimple in his heart.
This is also why after that, he only called Liu Bei "old man".
Liu Bei's rare compromise and indulgence in the title in the end may be because he also has guilt in his heart.
After two years, father and son are reunited.
There is no warm hug, no look at each other and a smile.
Father and son were all wearing poker faces at this time, and the silence froze the air in the tent.
It's as if they're playing a game where whoever speaks first loses......