Back at the camp, although there were raincoats and bamboo hats, the group of people and the accompanying cavalry were still quite tough. The moisture was pervasive and soaked in from nowhere. I didn't feel it on the road. When I stopped, I felt wet and cold. If I didn't dry it off quickly, I would feel uncomfortable.
However, it is difficult to dry out. I don't know where to turn over, but another ball of water squeezes out, and then it is difficult to get up at night.
And what to do with the war horses? We have to take care of these precious war horses first, okay?
It's really not as good as snow.
In fact, these few rains in the winter of the second year Shengping instinctively reminded Liu Cheng of the snow in the winter of the fifth year Yonghe South of the Yangtze.
It's amazing. The South is afraid of snow, and the North is afraid of rain. But in essence, it is a test of weak logistics due to the increase in the number of people and the lack of fixed residence.
And there is no doubt that compared to that strange sense of resignation that I could only do this job after breaking the pot, today's situation is obviously much more worrying, because no matter where you reach, you will always wonder, can you do better?
In the current situation, does the responsibility lie with you?
Could this situation have been avoided?
The more I worried about something, the more the damn winter rain continued in the next few days. What was even worse was that with the rain came a slight cooling, so that there were occasionally tiny snowflakes in the rain. If it rained during the day, a thin layer of ice formed at night and then melted away during the day.
The attrition caused by falls began to increase, forcing Liu Cheng to open a new camp for wounded soldiers to separate them from the increasing number of soldiers suffering from colds and coughs.
And soon, in the past few days of cooling and continuous winter rain, among the first batch of people who fell ill finally appeared a series of non-combat deaths, that is, being exposed to the rain - falling ill - coughing - and dying.
Obviously acute pneumonia.
Four or five died in a row.
In this situation, some people even suggested that all coughing patients should be abandoned.
This is of course nonsense, but we have to take the initiative to isolate ourselves for psychological comfort - Liu Acheng cannot explain to anyone what bacterial pneumonia is and what viral pneumonia is, let alone tell these people. Even healthy people are very likely to carry pneumonia bacteria every day, and then their resistance is weakened after being exposed to the rain, and then they become sick.
However, these days he has an extra job, which is to go to the Mountain Lord of Mount Tai temple corridor that has been transformed into an isolation hospital camp every day to deliver hot meals to the coughing patients, and he also performs dramas of scolding Mountain Lord of Mount Tai in public here every day, which is to use Family Temple, the dismantler, as a threat to ask the other party not to touch too many of his people.
Not to mention, the top and bottom are quite recognizable, especially combined with the commandment of "boil the entrance" and the dryness of some treasures Rice Straw previously stored in the backpack, the number of people who eventually die from coughing is far smaller than is generally understood these days.
But that's it, the dilemma has not been resolved.
Four days later, the rain stopped for a while, but the weather was still gloomy, and the roads and mountainous areas were already filled with water from the winter rain, making everything muddy, slippery, and cold.
Under this situation, no one even dared to mention withdrawing the troops. The Northern Command Armys in the Shanchi City over there didn't dare to withdraw, and the Western Command Armys in the camp here didn't dare to say "leave". If we were driving on a mountain road and then got wet, it would be really fatal.
Therefore, we must take advantage of the rain to stop, warm up by the fire and drink hot water! At the same time, we must inventory the supplies, speed up communication with Shanchi, Bo County, discuss and calculate when we will have to retreat, and how to evacuate at that time?
And it was in this precious gap that General Liu of the Vanguard Army received some not unexpected information.
For example, Xun Xian fell ill and coughed badly;
For another example, Jia Jian was soaked to death before that.
Liu Acheng is not happy that Xun Xian fell ill, nor does he feel sorry for Jia Jian's death, nor the other way around.
That's what happened.
Xun Xian's body was not in the right place before. It was very normal for him to be exposed to the rain at this time and induce pneumonia. Liu Cheng even vaguely suspected that the guy himself knew it well, so he was so eager for quick success.
Jia Jian's words sound convincing, but behind the scenes, his family is a local snake far away from Hebei Bohai, and Later Yan has indeed been kind to him, and it is an objective fact that he was given a high position as a veteran.
It would be good if he died, and he would die if he died. Besides, Xun Xian was already ill, so naturally no one would go out to release him at this time. Death from being soaked to death was almost inevitable.
Compared with the first two messages which were not unexpected, the third message that came from Rencheng behind him was a bit unbelievable to Liu Cheng.
Puyang Administrator Han Gao provided a statement in a routine anonymous letter that seemed to perfectly explain why Murong Xianbei had no reinforcements, but this statement was so shocking that Liu Cheng felt that God was helping me Great Jin!
According to the letter, Lord of Yan Murong Jun About Twelfth Month, just before this war, that is, in early Twelfth Month, Yecheng released a big announcement, requiring all Great Yan County, according to the Autumn Harvest tax roll, check and verify Adult Males, and then leave one person per household, that is, one worker per household, and the rest are all recruited as soldiers.
In this case, he should be able to gather an army of 1.5 million by next winter.
One and a half million!
At that time, he will lead this 1.5 million army to sweep away Three Jin and Guanzhong, and completely conquer the North.
After Liu Acheng saw this message, his first reaction was that Han Gao, who sent the message, was crazy. They cooperated well and built mutual trust over several years, but in the end, they used such crazy words to tease themselves for no reason.
But soon, after realizing that there was no need for Han Gao to fabricate such bizarre information, he couldn't help but ask the military staff around him if Murong Jun was crazy?
Then, in the slightly cramped side room of the temple that served as a temporary command post, along with the three core staff members Quan Yi, Jiang Gan, and Fu Jian who were on the expedition, there was a strange silence. Liu Acheng was so frightened that he thought he was crazy!
Because the collective silence of these strongly the North staff can only mean one thing - they believe that Murong Jun is not crazy, at least not too crazy, at least this seemingly crazy behavior has the internal logic of a typical the North regime, at least this thing is true!
"Ming Gong." Jiang Gan was quite honest. He was careful to deal with it under the torch. "Do you think Shi Hu is a lunatic?"
Liu Cheng was stunned and didn't dare to answer.
Quan Yi was the most calm among these people. At this time, he couldn't help but glance at the surprised faces of the southern subordinates in the wing room, and then whispered to each other under the firelight, "Former army, Shi Hu is here at that time., according to Household Registration, three to five draws, there are three times where more than 500,000 people have to work. Among them, during the expedition to the Murong Clan, an army of 500,000 people was concentrated in Yecheng..."
"So, Murong Jun started to learn from Shi Hu?" Liu Cheng still found it incredible, and even unconsciously started a historical conspiracy theory. "Okay Yecheng. Are all the Hu people emperors of E like this? Why? Is it not for fighting, but simply to consume the Han land Adult Males to facilitate the rule?"
"My subordinates don't think so." Fu Jian responded carefully. "In the former army, I think it may be that Murong Jun mistook the Han people Household Registration as his former Xianbei subordinates..."
"It is the Shetou tribe of Qiang people, the Fangtou tribe of Di people, and even the Qihuo troops of the Han people." Jiang Gan smiled bitterly, and completed what Fu Jian said that the latter had difficulty saying. "There are thirty thousand Adult Males, that is thirty thousand soldiers, at least ten thousand soldiers."
Liu Cheng listened to Jiang Gan's explanation, but his eyes were fixed on Fu Jian. While the latter was feeling frightened, the former had inexplicably believed such an incredible thing.
This should not be a problem of God's will or personal spirituality, nor should it be a problem of ghosts and gods. There is no reason for Shi Hu to have such strong magic power.
If I have to say a curse, it is nothing more than that Yecheng absorbed the brutality of Hu people and the extravagance of the previous Western Jin Dynasty and formed a tradition. In addition, the position of the emperor naturally has an alienating function, making the the North Hu people ruler easily infected, but that's all.
What the three the North colorful staff in front of me said is the truth.
It was the previous decades of turmoil that made the North these years The Hu people group and the Han refugee group, including those Wubao Lords, reached a certain extreme in their use of Household Registration and Adult Males when they formed the group, and then made them They had a strong path dependence, and their military science was not very good. They really couldn't figure out the qualitative difference between one hundred thousand and one million, so after they mastered ten times the amount of Household Registration, they naturally felt that they could mobilize them all as before.
Not only is Shi Hu a precedent, there seems to be a "successor example" before me!
Therefore, this message should be true. This is what Emperor the North Hu people can do!
It's just that Murong Ke is still there, and the Han veterans who followed brothers Murong into the customs are still there. They will definitely try their best to stop them, but it is probably difficult to explain this matter, because for those As for the Hu people emperor, he just can't understand why he can't mobilize 1.5 million? I have so many Household Registration, Adult Males! One hundred thousand households, one hundred thousand soldiers, why can't there be one million soldiers when there are one million households?!
So Yecheng must be in a mess now!
Who cares about a Shanchi? A Jia Jian and Administrator?
Even if you care about it, it will be greatly delayed. It is normal to be delayed for a month and a half.
Xun Xian If he knew that his plan failed because of this kind of thing, and that he was weakened by Dongyu, would he be so angry?!
This is very dark humor, but not funny at all, because if this thing comes true, it will mean the collapse of the entire the North economy, the collapse of social order, and it will mean hundreds of thousands of people die in war, disease, starvation, and freezing.
Liu Acheng's biggest thought now is that he wants to travel back in time a few days ago, and use this letter to question Jia Jian on the day Jia Jian was to be Xun Xian's grandpa and grandpa. Imperial Army is certainly trash, but who are the two people you are loyal to in this life?!
One Shi Hu, one Murong Jun!
One and a half million!
Isn't there your family member Renxiang Party in Bohai?
And soon, while his eyes were still fixed on Fu Jiantou's head, Liu Cheng thought of another incredible possibility... that is, if this thing really comes to pass, I, Great Jin... That's not right. If this happens, I, Great Jin, will really be doomed, because our Duke Huan will be able to easily obtain Zhaozhao Mandate of Heaven in one year's Guanzhong!
So this thing will definitely not happen, right? But Shi Hu seems to have done this very hard back then.
Could it really happen?
Could it be that Lantian fought with his own life and helped Huan Wen take Chang'an to create such a big butterfly effect?
Liu Cheng's reason and logic were fighting, and the beating made him miserable.
Even if he succeeds, Grand Marshal can't win, right? Why can he conquer the world so easily? Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and even Sima Yi father and son will cry to death.
Jiang Gan, Quan Yi, and Fu Jian looked at Liu Cheng, who was almost losing his temper, and looked at each other. They felt very complicated now... because they found that as they got along with Shouchun in the past few years, they had I have reached a point where I can not only understand the objective rationality behind Murong Jun's move, but also understand the superimposed cultural and military traditions of Hu people-Yecheng behind it, and also understand Liu Cheng's disbelief at Murong Jun's move.
The North Hu people The most bastard kind of king, versus the most sensible young Han Chinese General Fang Zhen in the south, the two sides just can't understand each other at all.
Unfortunately, these two people have not only met before, but they are also expected to bump into each other directly.
"If I were Murong Ke, I would kill Murong Jun and give Great Yan ten more years of life." Liu Acheng's mind was in a mess. In the end, he could only give up thinking and was so speechless. "Call Wang Guannu to come in and ask him to stop cooking eggs. I want to write letters to people! Write a bunch of letters!"
----I am the dividing line between writing a bunch of letters----
Duke Huan is in Jiangling, heard Lord of Yan wants to conquer Hebei Adult Males, gathered one and a half million people to bring peace to the world, and was astonished beyond words. The left and right people thought that they were timid. After a while, the Duke slowly said, "Looking at the behavior of this generation, although they were frivolous and willful a few years ago, they still had the spirit of founding the country. Why have they been so disobedient for several years? Hu people If it is like Yulong's words, it has not lasted twenty years Mandate of Heaven "Huh?" The crowd didn't understand what he meant, so he replied: "With a million people, the logistics transportation is actually a hundred times that of a hundred thousand; mountains, rivers, geographical roads, all have load-carrying restrictions, and it cannot be passed; the battlefield has been laid out, and those who can be arranged in front of the formation since ancient times, 70,800,000 or 80,000 have been exhausted, and the rest can be divided into troops or reserves to survive. Since ancient times, there has never been a winner with a million people. If they come with 1.5 million, God's will is in Jin Dynasty."
-- "Han and Jin Spring and Autumn Annals".Xi Zaochi
Riding on Mount Tai, I heard that Lord of Yan wanted to conquer Hebei Adult Males and gathered one and a half million people to bring peace to the world. At first, I was stunned and speechless. After a while, I stood up and sighed, "Everyone, watch, Murong Jun is about to die. If he doesn't die before the formation, he will die in the palace first."
-- "Chronicle of Wei and Jin".Sun Sheng
PS: You don't really think that is the original intention of your son and daughter, Yu Nai Gong? "Nai Gong" is obviously a self-proclaimed name. Does this mean that your grandson is worthy of recruiting your grandfather? What I said is purely a deliberate mismatch in the novel.