Three Kingdoms

Returning to Pingyang Old City, looking at the ruins in front of me and the wild mountains in the distance, Fei Qian was silent for a long time. Fei Qian knew that he was faced with a choice again, but all the previous choices could not give him much help in this choice, because the previous experience and previous success may not be able to be followed and successful this time.

Just like there was a beautiful garden under your feet a hundred years ago, but once you made the wrong choice, it turned into the loess it is today. Fei Qian raised his head and looked up, only to see that the thick lead clouds disappeared at some point, revealing the clear sky behind him.

The blue and tranquil sky is such a beautiful existence, but in Fei Qian's heart, it is like those heavy lead clouds in the sky have fallen from the sky into his heart.

He was really standing at the crossroads again. After a moment of silence, Fei Qian shook his head with a self-deprecating smile and turned to look at the busy Ata on the side.

A Da came when Fei Qian was recruiting troops in Bei Qu. This time he came to support Hedong. Fei Qian also brought these barbarians out. Now most of them followed Ma Yue to Baibo Valley and stayed with Fei Qian. There were probably only about a hundred people.

Because the soldiers who had been cleaning up the ruins of Pingyang Old City in the past two days had a hard time, Fei Qian ordered that a few of the sheep he brought with him be slaughtered to reward the soldiers.

When it came to preparing these muttons, naturally the Han people could not compete with these barbarians, so the barbarians showed off their skills one after another, setting up wooden fork racks one after another, killing the sheep, pulling out the skins, and killing the sheep in three strokes. The ones are baked.

The Hu people are all very cheerful, and they can even sing songs while roasting mutton. Although they don't understand the language, they can still hear some cheerful meanings in the songs.

Gradually, the aroma of mutton began to spread out, gradually permeating the entire Pingyang County, and re-infecting this old uninhabited city with some mundane atmosphere.

This city used to be completely desolate. Even though there were some trees and weeds, it seemed lifeless. But now it seems that everything among the trees and grass is tainted with a trace of vitality, even those above the treetops. The new shoots seem to be a little greener.

The mutton fat made a slight explosion under the flames, like the most attractive accompaniment. The Hu people proudly raised their heads and hummed a tune. The Han people sat around in circles, watching the Hu people's skillful performance. Turning the mutton, swallowing.

Just like Huang Cheng and the guards around him, they were also looking at Ata, and of course they were staring more at the mutton above the flames...

Fei Qian tilted his head slightly and whispered to Huang Cheng beside him: "Look, people live to eat, whether they are Hu people or Han people..."

Huang Cheng nodded in agreement: "Actually, sometimes when I think about it, it's just for one bite."

"If you have land, you can grow food, graze livestock, and have food to eat. So I have to fight for more land and better land, but one day I suddenly find that there is only so much land..."

"..." Huang Cheng was silent.

"Looking at the current situation, our current number of soldiers is just duckweed. To feed these nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, we must control the ground in at least three counties, and it will be very tight..." Fei Qian calculated.

The farming technology of the Han Dynasty was too backward because it was limited by the lack and inconsistency of tools. For example, the plows used to plow the land include good iron plows and bronze plows. Poorer people even used wooden plows and stone plows to plow the land. There are not many standards for the depth of the ground, and it is often based on the experience passed down by the farmers themselves. There is no fixed number for the planting spacing and additional fertilizer.

It can be said that there was still a lot of room for improvement in agriculture in the Han Dynasty.

Near the old site of Pingyang County, there is flat land that can be farmed.

The place in Beiqu serves as an outpost and trading market. The several smelting plants currently located in Beiqu are still more dangerous after all, and it is difficult to keep secrets. Sooner or later they will have to be moved out. Maybe Baibo Valley is a good choice...

Of course, these things need to be overcome first before we can talk about it...

Because of the Xiangling incident, the fact that he had changed the marching direction had been reported to the Beiqu camp. Now it should be time to compete for patience.

They are already under great pressure to feed these soldiers, let alone the Baibo Army?

In the past, when he was still in Luoyang, Fei Qian said when he gave advice to Li Ru, the hungrier people are, the more difficult it is to control and plan. When they receive food supplies, they will often panic desperately. Sexually heavy eating.

It is true that there is some food in Yong'an County, but the Baibo Army definitely does not have the ability to effectively distribute and control food, so whoever grabs it will most likely get it. In this case, the people of the Baibo Army will subconsciously do their best. Eat as much as you can, eat as much as you can, and eat as much as you can. Food that could have supplied you for a week or even ten or twenty days may be eaten in a panic within two or three days. Eighty-eight, there is nothing left...

Then suddenly one morning when you wake up and finish pooping, you may find that there is nothing to eat except feces and urine all over the floor...

And once you have eaten the sweet corn rice, who would want to go back to chew the bark and stew the grass roots?

Therefore, before suffering a major setback, the White Wave Army will definitely go south to carry out another plunder.

There are two routes going south along the Fen River. One goes through Xiangling on the east bank of the Fen River, and the other goes along the west bank of the Fen River. On the west bank of the Fen River, you must pass through the old site of Pingyang County...

In comparison, Fei Qian also hoped that the Baibo Army would go to the east bank, because the terrain on the east bank of the Fen River is narrow and is not very suitable for a large army to march in, especially when the Baibo Army is a mixture of farmers and soldiers, dragging their families and families. , when there are all the old, weak, sick and disabled, if the offensive momentum is blocked, and then the entire army is stuck in a long and narrow area with narrow terrain, hum...

It is not advisable to completely abandon the east bank and go all the way to the west bank. There is nothing wrong with the west bank being relatively flat and conducive to traveling. However, if Yong'an is attacked from the east bank, then the Baibo army will be completely cut off from their retreat and they will not want to return to Luliang. The mountainous area is simply incomparable to the sky. In this case, we can only have a decisive battle with the soldiers of Hedong County on the west bank of Fen River...

However, the Baibo Army is obviously not a fool, so the most likely situation is to go down both sides of the Fen River at the same time. Of course, this will also cause the originally concentrated troops to be divided into two parts, and there will be some decline in strength, but in the world There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. It’s just a matter of weighing the pros and cons and choosing the heavier one.

It's just that Fei Qian can't figure out who will go to the east coast and who will come to the west coast. While he was thinking about it, under the bright eyes of Huang Cheng and other personal guards, Ah Da carefully walked in front of Fei Qian. His waist was almost bent to the ground. He raised a small knife high with both hands and muttered something in his mouth. Two sentences or something.

A veteran who understood Hu language explained at the side that it was Fei Qian who made the first cut into the mutton. The custom on the grassland is to ask the leader of the Hu people to do this, but now there is no leader of the Hu people, so it is natural to invite Fei Qian...

It turns out that if this were the case, other officials of the Han Dynasty would probably be very impatient and drive away Ata, because in the minds of many Han people, the barbarians are barbarians. As a nobleman, speaking even a few words to ordinary people would be considered a form of condescension. , let alone dealing with barbarians?

So what should you do?

I'm roasting people... The temperature outside is thirty-nine, and the temperature inside the shed is at least forty-two-three...

Several times I wanted to say, Damn it, but I was so hot that oil was oozing out of my body, and I even wrote the word "hammer"...

But I still gritted my teeth...

Maybe many years later, I will look back and look at this period of life again...

You will also hear the sound of chick.chick keyboards and the crackling sound of the entire work shed expanding under the sun...

I will also feel the futile hot air from the fan behind me and the burning breath I exhale from my nose, as if it is about to burn...

Wait for the author to drink some Huoxiang Zhengqi water...

ps: Starting tomorrow, the first update will be at 11 a.m. as suggested by book friends... The time will remain the same in the evening...