Chapter VII Yongkang County

"Kill these wounded horses, I'll wait for a good meal of meat", Li Shuang, who rushed over, ordered, this order made everyone cheer. It is already a luxury for these soldiers to be able to eat enough in normal times, and they rarely eat meat, and even low-level officers like Li Shuang can only eat a few bites of meat when they meet the labor army before the war.

However, the group did not stay where they were, but after quickly cleaning up the battlefield, they killed the horses and took them to the mountain clearing where the wounded soldiers were hiding. At that moment the people went their separate ways, the sentry sentry, the fire of the fire, and the division of the division. According to Li Shuang's arrangement, as for the horse meat, it was deboned and kept for later consumption, and the horse bones and offal were eaten first. It was a hot summer climate, the meat was very perishable, and the salt was very small, so everyone smoked the horse meat into jerky, and the meat of the four Mongolian horses after smoking was several hundred catties, but a few tents had been burned down, and no useful items were left. The heads of the two slain Tartar soldiers were cut off by Li Shuang's order, and they were to be taken to Yongkang City to be salted with lime and brought back to Chongqing Mansion.

"This time, I won't say that I'm waiting to kill the good and take the risk!" Li Shuang pointed to the Tartar soldier killed by Ouyang Xuan and said angrily, Ouyang Xuan only found out at this time that the Tartar soldier he killed had blue eyes and yellow hair, and he was obviously a Hui in the Mongolian army. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, there were many sources of the Mongolian army, in addition to the Mongolian cavalry, there were Khitan, Tubo, Western Xia, Qiang and other ethnic minorities and Hui and other Western Regions Semu people, of course, the largest number of people was the original Jin State and the Southern Song Dynasty. Some generals in the Southern Song Dynasty army lied about their military exploits, often hunting and killing civilians to obtain their heads, and reported the defeat of the Mongol army as a great victory in order to reward them, and they always succeeded. Li Shuang and Yu Zhu had killed Tartar soldiers in battle, but when they reported their merits, they were falsely accused of killing civilians and taking their heads to report their merits. Li Shuang's narration made Ouyang Xuan's back chill, not only was the reward and punishment unfair in the Southern Song Dynasty army, but it also became a common practice to kill good people and take meritorious deeds, which was really shocking that the Southern Song Dynasty regime was rotten to such an extent.

After dawn, Li Shuang led everyone to Yongkang City to collect grain, which was a top priority and could not be delayed. Yesterday, because the sky was dark, there were Tartar soldiers chasing and killing, and Ouyang Xuan did not see the situation in Yongkang City clearly. The Yongkang City in front of him is backed by mountains and rivers, the quadrangular city wall is made of rammed earth, the height is only more than two or three miles long, part of the city wall has collapsed, and the gap formed is surrounded by a wooden fence, there is no shadow of the ancient town of Jiezi in his memory at all, but the Longmen Mountain behind the walled city and the Weijiang River flowing from west to east next to it are so familiar. Although Ouyang Xuan knew in his heart that Wang Da was not lying when he met Li Shuang and others, he still had a trace of unwillingness in his heart about whether he had really crossed over. Until this time, he did not see the bustling Jiezi Ancient Town, but the gray and dilapidated Yongkang City, which made the last glimmer of hope in his heart dashed.

After entering Yongkang Village, everyone went their separate ways to get busy, only Ouyang Xuan sat on the wall of the wall, staring blankly at the river outside the city, still holding the useless car key in his hand. Li Shuang and Yu Zhu went to the county government to find Yongkang County to order Xie Jinyong to handle the grain requisition, and Huang Dagen took people to exchange pickled horse meat for salt.

At noon, Li Shuang, Yu Zhu and others found Ouyang Xuan, who was still sitting on the city wall.

"Elder, we will leave Yongkang Town and go to Hengyuan Town. Military affairs are in the body, don't pass it away, regret it for a while! Yu Zhu's words interrupted Ouyang Xuan's contemplation, just now he had been thinking about how he could survive in this world.

"Li thanked the elders for their healing, please accept my worship." Before leaving this morning, Ouyang Xuan found that Li Shuang was walking more and more slowly due to inflammation of the arrow wound, and remembered that there was a first-aid kit in his backpack, so he took it out to help Li Shuang treat his injuries. Ouyang Xuan first cleaned the wound with cool boiled water, then disinfected it with iodine and sutured and bandaged the wound. After treating the arrow wounds of the other two wounded soldiers, the medical equipment in the first-aid kit had been used up, and only two suture needles remained, which he carefully put away and put into his backpack. In ancient times, the most common deaths caused by war were not direct deaths from weapons, but often from wound infections and sepsis. The Mongols were well aware of this, and their arrows were often smeared with feces and other filth, so that those who were hit by the arrows often died from the following infection, even if they did not die on the spot. At this moment, Li Shuang's mental state has improved compared to the morning, and it seems that Ouyang Xuan, a temporary guest doctor, is quite competent.

"Where are the elders going? If you go to Huacheng Temple, you can trace 20 miles along the Ganwuli River, and you can get there in half a day. Yu Zhu continued.

"Where are you going?" Ouyang Xuan stood up and threw the car keys into the Weijiang River under the city walls. Throwing away this industrial age crystallization means completely giving up the illusion of returning to the 21st century, and it means a new beginning in this world. "The Tartars are brutal and unethical, I want to leave the Buddhism and join you in killing the Tartars........" He thought about it just now, Sichuan in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty was extremely dangerous, and he couldn't predict when he would die under the iron hooves of the Mongols.

Ouyang Xuan's decision made Li Shuang and the others overjoyed. Although there was a redundancy of officers and soldiers in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a serious shortage of soldiers in Sichuan for many years, especially in Chongqing and other places in western Sichuan, and Mongolia was very troubled, especially the lack of soldiers who could fight. In particular, although he only got along with Ouyang Xuan for two days, seeing that he was generous and well-informed, and he was witty and brave in fighting with the Tartars, everyone was quite impressed, how could such talents not be welcomed? Li Shuang immediately decided to let Ouyang Xuan be his staff. Of course, low-level officers like Li Shuang are not qualified to recruit staff, so Ouyang Xuan's official title is to be a personal attendant.

Now that Ouyang Xuan had joined the team, on the way to Hengyuan Town, Li Shuang and Yu Zhu no longer had any worries and explained the situation of the trip to Ouyang Xuan in detail. There were a total of 49 people in the group when they set off from Chongqing Mansion, and one person disappeared shortly after departure, and it is estimated that they became deserters. When crossing the river, two people were killed by Mongolian rangers, and the two wounded soldiers who were wounded by arrows stayed in Yongkang Village to recuperate, and now they add Ouyang Xuan a total of 45 people, divided into five fires, in addition to Cao Ergou and Huang Dagen, the other three fire chiefs are called Chen Hu, Liu Zhong and Wang Youfu, all of whom are capable in the team. According to the military system of the Southern Song Dynasty, the local army (box army) has a fire for every 10 people, and the head is called the fire chief; 5 groups are a team, the commander is called the escort team, and the deputy commander is called the support team; The 10th team is a battalion, the commander is called the preparation general, and the deputy commander is called the general; A number of battalions are formed into generals, and more than 5,000 people are called the army, and the commander of the army is called the commander. It's just that due to the frequent wars in western Sichuan, the army has been defeated repeatedly, and it has long been out of formation and has a serious shortage, such as the Chongqing Fu Pan system, although he led an army, but the number of soldiers was only 2,000. Because Yu Zhu treats people leniently and never beats and scolds and deducts money and food from soldiers, the loss of personnel in this team is not much, and even so, he is not treated well by his superiors, because the loss of soldiers is small, but his boss cannot eat empty salaries and cannot deduct more money and food.

As a result, the topic shifted from money and grain to the task of collecting grain in Yongkang County, and Li Shuang was so angry that he couldn't help but scold.