Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 11: Wufang Town (1)
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The next day, a group of wounded soldiers in the battalion rode in the ox carts of the civilian husbands to a town called Wufang Town in the southwest of Luzhou City.
There were about forty or fifty wounded soldiers in the army. Some people died constantly on the road, and they could only dig a hole and bury the matter hastily.
Most of the wounded and patients can only be taken care of by civilian husbands. There is only one person in the army who is known as a doctor. He has an inexperienced clerical officer position. He usually does some copying work. During the war, he became a doctor who healed the wounded. .
Regardless of medical skills, he couldn't see so many people.
Towns are military strongholds at the county level, usually guarded by town generals and troops.
But when Guo Shao came to Wufang Town, he was immediately stunned by the sight in front of him. Is this a town? There is an archway on the Huangtu Road with the words Wupu Town written on it. This is probably the building with the most traces of human civilization here.
Behind the archway, the broken and collapsed soil wall showed signs of weathering, and there were holes everywhere, so the simple gates were just decorations, not to mention the soldiers standing guard.
From a distance, there are many low and run-down houses in the city. Some are huts, which are about the same buildings as shacks. They are towns, and they look like a village.
When I entered the town, I saw old and weak women along the way, few young and strong men, and ragged and disabled old men coming up to beg.
The person who came out to hand over the official documents was a fat man. He claimed to be a town general and named Li Desheng, but he didn't see any generals.
Li Desheng was forced to disperse the wounded soldiers in various houses, and forcibly ordered each wounded soldier to be provided with food and taken care of by ten nearby families in turn.
Of course, Guo Shao lives with Yang and Luo, and the other wounded soldiers are also in groups with people they know.
After settling down, I found out that Guo Shao and others felt that this place resembled a village. It was not wrong at all. Apart from the name of Wufang Town, there is also an alias called "Widow Village".
Because there are almost only a few kinds of people in Wufang Town: the old, the weak, the sick, and the widows.
The provinces under the jurisdiction of the Hedong Zhaoyi Army Jiedu have long been responsible for resisting attacks from the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan. They have always been a northern human barrier for the Central Plains Dynasty.
There are frequent wars and many casualties here.
Some soldiers in the town were dead or disabled. The dependents who depended on the army's salary lost their source of income, and the Luzhou staff office was unable to continue to provide for them; therefore, those people would be forcibly moved out of the military base, and another place and some Land gives them a way to survive.
Wufang Town is one of such places.
The barren arable land, the backward economy, famine, bandits, and military disasters are rampant, and most of the people who have moved in have no strong labor force. People live very hard.
This is so, the military government still does not let go of the opportunity to transfer some of the burdens to these suffering people. The maintenance of wounded soldiers is one of the burdens, and the military government did not even transfer a single grain.
There is a dilapidated thatched shed next to where Guo Shao lives. Inside, there is a lonely old woman who is so blind and skinny that she sighs with alms from the townspeople.
It didn’t take long to hear about her. Her husband and three sons continued to die on the battlefield. His daughter was caught in the haystack when the Khitan people went south, and insulted to death. Now the whole family is left with such an old half-length man. Woman.
Being alive, it turns out that it is the same pain.
Guo Shao and others heard the old woman's howling every day.
Luo Mengzi can't see such tragedies, and often saves part of his ration to the blind old woman.
Yang Biao’s servant occasionally murmured and cursed: “What’s going on when you’re alive? When you close your eyes, nothing will happen. What's the point of being alive!” But this servant is just a mouthful. Guo Shao has not heard of him for so long. After a nice sentence; but Yang Biao said badly, he would also leave half a cake or something.
Guo Shao thinks that a person's good or bad needn't listen to what he says, but depends on what he does.
...The three get along day and night, and the relationship is better than when they were in Tokyo, and after a while they negotiated to be brothers.
Luo Mengzi suggested that Guo Shao be the eldest brother.
Guo Shao was the youngest of the three. He immediately declined and said, "Brother Yang is many years older than me. How can I tell my eldest brother to be fair?" Luo Mengzi said indiscriminately: "We are not born by parents. , Just rely on the ability to talk about the size, how old is it! In the play, Liu Xuande is younger than Guan Gong, and he is also a big brother?" Guo Shao pondered, and glanced over Yang Biao's face with a casual look.
Yang Biao said with a stern face: "Luo Er's words are rough and not rough, and they have to be judged by their ability.
" "Brother Yang is really convinced? "Luo Mengzi said with a hippie smile, "At that time in Tokyo, my eldest brother was one level older than you. Brother Yang didn't think that he was a dignified person and couldn't put down his face? "This guy really doesn't open which pot to pick up which pot, Guo Yang hasn't mentioned the previous festivals long ago, Luo Mengzi is good, and he opens his mouth.
Yang Biao snorted: "If Yang is a dissatisfied person, don't call the eldest brother on the neck of the knife holder!" Guo Shao listened to nonsense, saying too much is hypocritical, and immediately decided: "Okay, Then I will reluctantly be the eldest brother, and in the future, I will be blessed and enjoy the same.
" "Brother! "Big Brother! ""Second brother, third brother!" "Guo Shao stretched out his palms and raised them in the air, Yang Luo looked at each other, and also stretched out their hands in confusion, Guo Shao clapped hard: "I am for everyone, for everyone!" "Luo Mengzi laughed for a while.
Yang Biao still had no smile on his face, and said after a while, "The general surnamed Zhao made a special trip to the barracks to commend the eldest brother, saying,'it is appropriate to give a commander's envoy.' Speaking for you, he is again in charge of the military power in front of the palace, it seems that the eldest brother will really go straight to the commander.
The eldest brother is able to convince the crowd with his amazing skill in cutting Zhang Yuanhui, but if he rises too quickly, his foundation will be unstable. In the future, if one command 500 people, the help of two brothers may not be enough.
I have an idea. There are forty or fifty wounded soldiers in Wufang Town. There should be twenty to thirty people who can recover their combat strength after being injured. These people have been disrupted and their subordinates do not know the generals and have no place to attach; Why didn't the eldest brother take the opportunity to let them subordinate to the army? "Guo Shao nodded frequently when he heard it: "The second brother is reasonable. After all, he is a general who has been a leader. These words are very pertinent.
"Yang Biao said again: "Let’s come from Gaoping. All the wounded soldiers were in the same camp at the time. Then General Zhao had a loud voice that night, saying that you shot Zhang Yuanhui to death and the officials personally praised the whole camp. I heard it all.
Although the wounded soldiers don't know us, the eldest brother can win people's hearts only with this prestige.
"Guo Shao thought for a while and said: "Clerk and military doctor Zuo You has a list of officers, but if you are not in Zuo You's hands, you must be in the hands of the town generals. Let's do two things first. First get the list of military status. , Second, get the support of the town general.
"The three have discussed it, and they will do what they say, and they will work separately now.
Yang Biao went to find Zuo You, and Luo Mengzi helped Guo Shao to visit the town general Li Desheng.