Ugly man is hard to marry

Du Yishan and his entourage consisted of more than [-] people. They ate and slept in the open all the way, galloped on their horses, and headed straight to the south rein.

All the way without talking, I walked for more than a month on the road, and finally arrived at the territory of Nanxuan at the beginning of May.

Du Yishan joined the 50 troops first.

This time, Du Yishan was the commander-in-chief, and the rest of the troops were deployed from all over the country and the border guards. Many of them were guards from the Seven Stars. They were old acquaintances with Du Yishan, Wei Chongyan and others. Having met each other and complained about their divorce, they asked General Nanxuan how the battle was going on here.

The man stationed at Nanren was Su Mi, the commander-in-chief of Nanren. He ordered all the generals and took Du Yishan and others into the camp.Li Zhong first proclaimed the imperial decree, handed over the Commander's Seal to Du Yishan, everyone looked towards the capital, burned incense and kowtowed, thanked the emperor for his kindness, and returned to the camp to sit down again.

After a day's rest, Du Yishan ordered the army to move out, and then marched southwest along the mountain road, crossing mountains and ridges, and walked for another month. North Korea, ask the emperor to send officials to recover the lost land.

Xiao Guancheng has been in Nanxuan for more than ten years. He has won the hearts of the people and is very prestigious among the people of Nanxuan. There are many natives here, and there are villages in every mountain and cave. The people in the villages only know Xiao Guancheng, but they don't know who the current emperor is. who.

Du Yishan led the army to put down the rebellion. Although the people did not dare to resist, the people felt resentful. Some tribal chiefs with a large number even led the tribe to dig pits in the mountains to block the way of the army.

The marching pace of the army was exceptionally slow. The weather in Nanzhang was hot, much hotter than the temperature in other provinces, and the jungle was dense, it often rained, the road was muddy, and it was difficult to move forward. Even the humidity in the air was not something ordinary people could bear.

Among the 50 troops, more than half of them were not satisfied with the local conditions, and felt dizzy when they arrived in Nanxuan. What's more, they would develop a series of red rashes, which were painful and itchy, making the soldiers miserable.

While fighting, they faced all kinds of difficulties and obstacles. It was not until July that the 50 troops reached the bank of the Yanchi River. Looking across the river, they could see a towering mountain city on the opposite side, and in the city was Xiao Guancheng's sky. The palace is gone.

Xiao Guancheng had already received the news that the imperial court sent a large army to suppress the border, so he gathered the locals from Nanxuan and 30 men under his command, and all retreated to the border.

The two armies faced each other across the river. Du Yishan ordered to set up camp five miles away from the river.

The Yanchi River is fast flowing, deep and wide, and there is only one stone bridge to cross the river.Du Yishan has hundreds of thousands of people, including men and horses. It is not an easy task to cross the river on a bridge that only allows three people and one horse to pass side by side.

As soon as Du Yishan's men and horses reached the river, Xiao Guancheng on the other side of the river sent [-] elite soldiers to guard the stone bridge, ambushed the archers at the pass, and prepared several artillery pieces to prevent Du Yishan from sending men to attack and cross the river.

The imperial court sent people to fight for a few years, but the southern rein could not be broken for a long time. One reason is that the climate here is hot and miasma is rampant. Northern soldiers who are not familiar with the environment here will probably be unaccustomed to the climate and fall ill before the battle. Most of it.Secondly, relying on the natural danger of Yanchi River, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, Xiao Guancheng has nothing to fear.

Xiao Guancheng sent people to beat gongs and drums every day, shouting and cursing at the bridge, and asked Du Yishan to let his horse come over. He wanted to come one to kill one, and two to kill one pair.

The generals were scolded every day, they all got angry and asked Du Yishan several times for orders to lead the troops to capture the stone bridge, break through the Heavenly King's Mansion, and capture Xiao Guancheng alive.

Du Yishan dismissed all of them. The weather has become hotter and hotter these days, and the physical strength of the soldiers has also been greatly reduced. It is hot and humid, and coupled with the unacceptable climate, many soldiers marched with illnesses. They walked for two months in a row. However, even if the soldiers barely entered the battlefield, they would not be able to defeat Xiao Guancheng's 30 army.

Du Yishan issued a military order that all soldiers were not allowed to go out of the camp without a commander's order, and Wei Chongyan was sent to lead people to pick up the grain and grass. Don't let Xiao Guancheng sneak attack on the grain road and cut off their retreat.

Wei Chongyan took the order, led five thousand cavalry, left the camp, and went straight to the grain road.

The rest of the generals did not dare to disobey the order, and all stayed in the camp to wait for orders.

Because of Li Zhong as the supervisor, Du Yishan couldn't let go of his hands and feet. At the beginning, he had to ask Li Zhong for everything.This is especially the case for Su Mi and several generals and captains. Li Zhong, the giant Buddha, stands behind the present Long Live, but he cannot be offended.

Li Zhong didn't put on airs, and he didn't do anything to disturb the morale of the army or command indiscriminately. He told Du Yishan privately that he came to the camp just for display and would never interfere in military affairs. General Du, don't worry.

Du Yishan smiled and said, "You don't meddle in the affairs of the army? How can the emperor explain it?"

Li Zhong touched his bare chin, and said with a chuckle: "There is nothing to explain. We are a eunuch in the palace. Does the emperor know how many catties I have? I was only sent here to give General Du sent a handyman. If you have anything to do, just tell our family to do it. General Du wants money and food, just tell our family that our family is going with the emperor. You are the biggest in this army, I will not listen Who do you listen to?"

Li Zhong said with sincerity, but Du Yishan laughed and scolded a few times: "Slippery!"

What handyman call?Who in the world doesn't know that Director Li is a popular person in front of Wansui today. He was once the emperor's companion, and he watched the emperor grow up since he was a child.Such a person, apart from the emperor, who would dare to order him?What he said was so cautious, and he didn't know how much of it was inspired by Long Live Today.

Thinking about it, Li Zhong's status as a military supervisor was already embarrassing, and if he had to point fingers and come up with ideas blindly, it would be fine if he won the battle, but if he lost, he would not only be difficult to explain to the emperor, but even Du Yishan There, he was also offended, and in addition, he would be vilified as a eunuch for harming the country.

Why bother.It would be better to push cleanly like now, even if he is defeated in the future, it has nothing to do with him.

Du Yishan chatted and laughed with Li Zhong, and he had a backbone in his heart, lest there be a war on one side, and worry on the other side that someone stabbed a knife in the back.

When I returned to the camp at night, there was no one there, and Fang Yunxuan hadn't come back yet.

Du Yishan couldn't help smiling wryly, since he came to the barracks, he and Fang Yunxuan have been together less and far away more often, meeting each other in a hurry, and sometimes they can't say a few words before being interrupted by the battle.

Fang Yunxuan didn't let Du Yishan worry about him, he was busy with the affairs of the leader of the army every day, and he was several times busier than him as the commander of the army.

As soon as he arrived at the barracks, Fang Yunxuan took the initiative to take over the important task of leading the army. He couldn't help on the battlefield, so he could only help Du Yishan relieve his worries in terms of logistics supplies.

There are 50 million people in the army, and daily food is a big problem. If a big pot of rice is made and distributed to each soldier, it is nothing more than two thick noodles and a bowl of vegetarian dishes with a little bit of oil.

Fighting is the most strenuous thing, not to mention that a large part of these soldiers are from the north, and they are not acclimatized in the south, and they either have diarrhea or rashes all over their bodies.The rash can grow from the chest to the back, and it can't be scratched, and it will burst when it is scratched. Once it breaks, it will fester and fester. The pus that flows out will stain the good skin, and a large series of red and itchy pustules will appear immediately.

The whole body was itchy and painful. Soldiers ran around in the damp every day. It took a lot of energy just to kill the enemy and counter the rebellion. Now they are still infested by these rashes.

The military doctor can't help, it's internal poison, it can only be released by itself, the soup and herbal medicine can only help to disperse, after drinking, it just makes those rashes appear faster, and the process is even more uncomfortable .

Fang Yunxuan thought hard, and remembered that Houttuynia cordata can clear away heat and detoxify, and it is the most effective for abscesses, and it is very easy to find. I saw many in the mountains on the way here.

I hurriedly took people to pick all the Houttuynia cordata that I could find, washed it, picked the stems and leaves, boiled it into Houttuynia cordata porridge, or smashed it into flour, baked it into pancakes, and added the rest Put it into glutinous rice flour, put it on the tray and steam it, make glutinous rice cakes, and distribute them to sick soldiers.

The big pot of rice in the army has always been unpalatable. When there is a war, it is not bad to have a mouthful of hot soup and hot rice. Who is picky about whether it is delicious or not.These soldiers have been fighting for many years, and they have long been accustomed to such days of hungry and full meals.

But since Fang Yunxuan came, the lieutenant soldiers felt that their food and treatment had been greatly improved. It wasn't that they could eat chicken, duck and fish every meal, but the taste and color of the dishes had improved significantly.

For example, I used to have two meals a day, a bowl of clear porridge in the morning, two steamed buns with stick noodles, and a bowl of mixed stew and two steamed buns in the evening, so I could have a meal of meat every three to five days.This is already considered good. Only when they are fighting in the front can they be treated like this. If they just stay behind to guard the border, those ordinary soldiers will boil cabbage with water, and they won't even see the oily smell.

Now it is very different. Although there is still a bowl of clear porridge and a bowl of miscellaneous stew every day, the contents of the porridge and vegetables have changed a lot.

Originally, there was only one kind of rice in the porridge, and the clear soup lacked water. A bowl of porridge was so clear that people could be seen. Now, in addition to rice porridge, there are also round-grained rice, corn, glutinous rice, etc. The content of the porridge is much richer, and the soup is thicker. The porridge bowl can stand up to the chopsticks, and the rice grains inside can protrude from the side of the bowl, and occasionally there are more peanuts, red dates and the like.

The stewed dishes in the evening are even richer. Every day, you can eat two pieces of roasted meat that is fat and lean, and you can often see even fish and shrimp.

All the soldiers knew that there was a new chef in the army, and it was he who fought against Li Zhong and improved the food and treatment in the army.

Du Yishan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he needed a few more chefs like Fang Yunxuan, and after a battle, all the money in the treasury would be wiped out.

Fang Yunxuan didn't take it seriously, how could he win a battle if he didn't eat well?Besides, many of these soldiers are sick, and they live in tents with more than a dozen people every day. The weather is hot and humid, and their physical exertion is heavy. After a meal of porridge and pickles, people will collapse within a few days.

Therefore, money in this area cannot be saved.

Sitting behind the table, Du Yishan thought of Fang Yunxuan's settlement of accounts just like him a few days ago, and couldn't help showing a long-lost smile.

Fang Yunxuan has never seen a real fierce battle. In the past few encounters, they had a great advantage in terms of numbers. They won before the battle, so naturally they came over easily.But in the future, I am afraid it will not be so easy. The real war is extremely cruel. How can Fang Yunxuan be so calm to make hot soup and hot meals? Go straight to Huanglong, sometimes even the pots and stoves have to be thrown away.

The goal of war is always victory. How these soldiers lived, whether they had enough to eat, and how many people died were not considered by those who started the war.