The chariots, the horses, and the pedestrians, bows and arrows, are all at the waist.

Ye Niang's wife went to see each other, and the dust did not see Xianyang Bridge.

The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight to the sky.

On August 20 of the second year of Ju Se, Du Wu, the general of Zhenbei, received a military order from Weifu, led 1,000 infantry, 500 cavalry and 2,000 people, and carried 600 double-wheel ox carts with a total of 100,000 stones, grain and grass, and swept out of the city gate. At this time, it was almost late autumn, and the aventurine melons cultivated in the former Qin were just ripe and sold on the roadside, attracting passers-by to linger.

Du Wu was a little groggy on his horse. For two days in a row before the expedition, Pipa begged Du Wu every night. Du Wu was very emotional, he knew what Pipa was afraid of, so he desperately wanted to leave a queen for Du Wu. Even though Du Wu told her that he was just going to escort the grain and grass, this trip was not dangerous, at least two months, at most three months, he would definitely come back, and he could catch up with the New Year's Festival, and promised to bring back the best peach wood for Pipa to make gods and Yu Lei, and take her to see the latest opera and so on, Pipa just refused to let go of the hands holding Du Wu, until the second half of the night, the little girl fell asleep.

As soon as the team left the Bacheng Gate, they saw a large group of women and children guarding the Baqiao from a distance. Seeing them, the crowd suddenly burst into tears, and the sound made Du Wu's scalp begin to tingle.

Chen Xun hit the horse and followed, pointed to the group of women and children and said: "This is the family of the people who came to see them off, don't worry about it, sir, we have military orders." It is nearly 2,000 miles to Xihai County, and you have to walk at least 40 to 50 miles a day to ensure that you will not miss the date. If there is heavy rain or muddy ground along the way, we will delay it for some time. ”

Du Wu nodded, he was still very clear about this. Since ancient times, it has been a big sin to miss the deadline, otherwise there would not have been an uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. Thinking of this, he called the Chinese army to guard Wang Buliu, and asked him to ride his horse to convey the general's order, and the team quickly passed the Baqiao and marched westward.

After a while, the crying on the bridge became louder, and many of the people who were pushing the cart began to wipe their tears. Du Wu sighed and ordered Chen Xun to take the scouts to explore the way.

On this expedition, Wang Mang assigned Chen Xun as a deputy general for Du Wu, presumably because of his friend Chen Tang. Chen Xun has been idle in Chang'an for two years, and if he does not have military merits, it is difficult to obtain a higher real vacancies. Du Wu understood this in his heart, and Chen Tang also gave him a Great Qin Family Ding, although he was suspected of surveillance, but after all, it was his first body force, so Du Wu was still very grateful to Chen Tang from the bottom of his heart. Since Chen Xun had been in the Western Regions Protectorate, Du Wu made him the leader of the scouts at the same time.

As for Guangbai, who left the Changshi Mansion that day, he thought about it for half the night, and the next day he visited the Chu Palace, saying that he wanted to go to the west for Wang Mang to find the real divine object, Wang Mang was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Guangbai to be Du Wu's supervisor and go to Xihai County with Du Wu. Guangbai also knew that his name as a supervisor was not worthy of his name, and took the initiative to ask Wang Mang to send another real supervisor to exercise the position of supervision, and he was only responsible for solving personal matters for Wang Mang, which made Wang Mang trust Guangbai even more.

As for the fifty guards who guarded Du Wu, they were selected by Chen Xun from the Northern Army. Chen Xun had a good relationship with Du Wu, and he was also quite familiar with many old departments of the Northern Army, so Wang Buliuxing, the Ma brothers and Huang Da Halberd were naturally selected to stay in the Chinese army, which made Du Wu feel a lot more at ease on this trip.

The procession marched for a day, more than fifty miles. There are many villages and towns near Chang'an, and there are also galloping roads that have been widened during the period of Emperor Wu, which makes the team's travel speed much faster, but Chen Xun is still not satisfied.

In fact, Du Wu is also thinking about this issue. Fifty miles a day, which seems like a lot, is actually insignificant compared to the long journey of two thousand miles. Throughout the day, Du Wu pondered how he could increase the speed of his march and save his physical strength. After all, the more exercise a person has, the greater the amount of food. This is especially true of the cattle that transport the main force. Although he escorted 100,000 stones of grain and grass, only seven-tenths of them could really get to Dou Guo's army, which was only one-way. If you also count the grain and grass for the return trip of the people, then Dou Guo can only get 40,000 stone of grain and grass at most, which is equivalent to more than half of it is consumed on the road. Whenever he thought of this number, Du Wu couldn't help but sigh at the flowers, what kind of food is this, it is simply a snack for Dou Guan by the way when he was traveling at his own expense. However, there is no way, the whole Han is like this. Du Wu couldn't help but think of the record in "The Art of War: Combat" about "food for the enemy":

Those who make good use of the soldiers, no longer serve in the army, and the food is not three years; It is used for the country, because the food is for the enemy, so the military food can be sufficient. The poverty of the country is far from the teacher, and the people are poor if they are far away. Those who are close to the teacher are expensive to sell, and if they are expensive, the people will be exhausted, and if the wealth is exhausted, they will be anxious to serve in the hills. Strength and wealth, the Central Plains is empty at home. The people's expenses are seven out of ten; Public expenses, broken cars and horses, armor and crossbows. The halberd covers the oar, the hill ox cart, and six out of ten.

Therefore, wisdom will be eaten by the enemy. Eat the enemy for one minute, and be my twenty bells; One stone, when I have twenty stones.

Thinking of this, Du Wu was even more despised by Dou Qian. As a leading general, he can't take it from the enemy, which is really a bit of a failure.

But contempt is contempt, but he has received a military order. Du Wu still clearly remembered the sneering look of General Wei when he went to the Wei Mansion to receive the Tiger Talisman, but he couldn't be underestimated, after all, everyone in the capital knew that he was a wise man who "fixed Changping with four words".

On the day that Du Wu left the city, Du Er said goodbye to Du Yi and rode two fast horses to the east. Du Yi knew very well in his heart that the head of the family was going to prepare for the next big game of chess, although he didn't know where the landing point of this game of chess was, but he knew that he and Du Er were both chess pieces on the chessboard of the head of the family. Just as Du Er couldn't understand his task, he didn't care about Du Er's whereabouts, but only knew that the head of the family asked him to give Du Er a month's leave, and asked him to quickly recruit people to establish a branch of Qingfeng Building in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty. Just thinking about these is a bit of a headache, thirteen semicolons, when and what month will it be built?

The words are divided into two ends.

Du Er was a Marshall man along the way, and it only took three days to rush to Taishan County. When I arrived in Taoxiang County, it was dusk, the sun had just set, and a fiery cloud stained the sky red. Du Er stopped to catch his breath while enjoying the beautiful scenery. When passing by a peach orchard, the peaches were ripe, all of them were bigger than an adult's fist, and the sunny side was red, and the back was white and tender, which looked extremely tempting.

Du Er had been hungry for a long time, and when he saw such a delicacy at the moment, where could he bear it, so he sat on the horse and shouted: "Does this peach have an owner?" Passers-by are thirsty, can you sell me a few peaches? ”

shouted twice, and an old voice came out from the depths of the peach orchard: "Two pennies a piece, wait a minute, the old man will come out immediately." ”

Hearing this, Du Er jumped off the horse, walked to the nearest peach tree, picked the reddest peach, and grabbed it with his hand, I don't know if it was too strong or the peach was too soft, he splashed the juice of the peach at once, and directly probed the peach pit.

Du Er withdrew his hand in a daze, licked the peach juice on his hand, and couldn't help but exclaim: It's so sweet!

At this time, the old man also came over. I saw him carrying a basket, and there was a large pair of scissors in the basket, and when he saw Du Er's broken peaches, he smiled proudly: "The guests don't know, our peaches are the best peaches in the world, the taste is fat, juicy, sweet but not greasy, so it is also called fat peaches." As long as the peach is ripe, the flesh inside will turn into juice, and customers who don't know the weight of the peach will often crush it. Come, wait for the old man to pick a guest to taste. ”

After that, he put down the basket, held it under the peach with his left hand, took the scissors in his right hand to cut off the stem of the peach, and gently handed it to Du Er, and said with a smile: "The guest takes it slowly, takes a small bite on it, and you can absorb the peach juice inside." ”

Du Er concocted it according to the law, and sure enough, as soon as he took a small bite, the peach juice overflowed. He hurriedly sucked it with his mouth, and took some peach hair into his mouth, which made his face itchy. In a short time, a peach was sucked clean, and only the peach pit and peach skin remained. Du Er hiccuped with satisfaction and exclaimed, "It's really a good peach." ”

The old man was praised, and his heart was also beautiful, so he cut off three more peaches and put them in front of Du Er: "Plus the one that was pinched by you just now, a total of ten yuan, is this price fair?" ”

Du Er nodded, the old man didn't ask for a sky-high price, and this peach was indeed worth this money, so he counted ten cents from the baggage, handed it to the old man, and chatted with the old man on the side of the road while eating.

The old man looked at the horses that were grazing on the side of the road, twisted his beard, and said with some distress: "Such a good horse is a bit too much for the guests to spoil like this!" ”

Du Er sighed: "My uncle still understands Soma?" ”

The old man shook his head: "The old man doesn't understand horses, but these two horses have a good demeanor and bright coat color, can they not be horses?" ”

At this time, Du Er had already eaten the remaining peaches, jumped up, arched his hand to the old man indiscriminately, thanked him, and rode on his horse to continue walking. The old man looked at his departing back and muttered, "What a good horse! It's a waste. ”