stubborn thief

Chapter 6 Dispatching Troops
In the second year of Chongzhen, the seventh day of the second month.

He Renlong, the garrison of Yuhe Fort, sent an order to the whole fort in the afternoon to dispatch 170 troops to the frontier of the fort.

He Renlong led a horse to march along the frontier river, walking very slowly.

This river is also called Yuanchuan, Yinchuan Station is named after it, and sometimes people call it the Mudu River because of its serious vegetation damage, variable flow, variable depth, and uncertain turbidity.

Now he is like this river of confusion, not knowing whether his decision is good or bad, but things are so bad that there is no other way.

He stood still and looked back at the sergeants in front of him and looked at them again and again, and finally walked towards the front of the team with a knife, folded his fists and silently bowed to the crowd.

"Presumably the matter has spread, and all the brothers know what it means to leave the fort."

In fact, there were a lot of things he wanted to say, and the dignified garrison made such a decision very embarrassed, so embarrassed that it was hard to say.

He was a Wu Jinshi in the late Wanli period. The first thing he made up for was the defense. At that time, the imperial court attacked Hu in the north, hung the Japanese in the east, destroyed the west in the west, and broadcasted in the south.

There is arrears in military salaries, even if only [-]% of the army's salaries are received, whether it is an army or an officer, it is considered a normal phenomenon. The court has a lot of expenses, and everyone can understand the difficulties. They tightened their belts and gritted their teeth. .

In the early years of Apocalypse, the past owes were made up for two years. In the fourth year of Apocalypse, after the frontier troops had made up their wages for years, they basically received full military salaries. At that time, the training was serious and the drills were very good.

Qi Jiguang's code of conduct, Li Chengliang's hunting, and Xu Guangqi's regulations were all compiled by the imperial court into military books and battle books, and issued generals and sergeants in various places to prepare them for the next war.

At least for He Renlong, he never expected the situation to deteriorate so quickly.

In the fifth year of Apocalypse, the situation changed sharply. The military salaries belonging to Yansui Town were only paid [-]%, and in the sixth year, it was [-]%. deserter.

After five years of desertion, he ordered his subordinates to arrest him, locked Guanfang, collected mountains, and brought back the military law and punished him severely.

After six years of desertion, he sent someone to look for it, and the southern cities of Mizhisuide found Xiaozhi and persuaded him with reason and emotion.

When he came to the deserter in the seventh year of Tianqi, he could only find it in person, and went deep into Luliang Mountain, Hengshan. The soldiers he found would rather kneel and kowtow to him than come back. What can he do if he doesn't want to come back?
They're all people, and they don't want to starve to death.

When he returned home to farm, he tried to find a way to get cattle and donkeys, and he went into the mountains to follow the bandits and negotiated with the bandit chief to get people out.

At the same time recruit refugees to fill the vacant sergeant in the fort.

In order to prevent the frontier army from fleeing again, he gritted his teeth and swallowed up the army field outside Yuhebao, and for the purpose of planting the field, he deceived a general army from Yansuiwei to plant the field.

In the first year of Chongzhen and the first year of Chongzhen, there were no deserters. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he not only pardoned the world, but also paid a large part of his military salary. He also used his savings to buy more than 50 sets of winter clothes for the soldiers in the fort, and persuaded the soldiers not to pawn With swords, bows and arrows, there will be wars in the future.

Tell everyone that the situation can get better, and it is true that northern Shaanxi has been experiencing droughts for three consecutive years. Even if you escape, there is no place to survive. Even if you are not full, you will not starve to death in Yuhebao. Maybe the situation will change next year. Okay?
But the situation in Chongzhen's second year was not good, not even half.

This year he really didn't have the face to persuade the soldiers to stay, and he really couldn't get food for his subordinates. The court only gave half of the army food, which was only enough to feed 300 people in Yuhebao.

When it was time for Shaanxi to use troops, Yuhebao would rather have [-] troops with fighting strength than [-] weak and hungry soldiers.

"It's He who can't help you, the mountains are high and the rivers are long, you are out and about, but you can't get anything for you, only some arrows, please fill up the quiver.

I can't live outside. Today is one month, two months, five years or ten years. As long as He is still alive, even if he is not an officer, he goes home to farm the land. You have a meal.

After that, He Renlong took down a wine bowl from the horse, bent down and scooped a bowl of water from the river, and mocked himself miserably: "The fort is so poor, there is no wine, He Mouquan uses Huanchuan water replaces wine, I apologize to my brothers!"

The frontier soldiers standing opposite He Renlong were full of emotions, and no one could speak, or those who clenched their teeth or clasped their fists in return, were so excited that they could only say a thousand words in the end: "General!"

He Renlong's eyes also glowed red, he turned the bowl over and put it away, pursed his lips and nodded slowly, and pretended to smile: "He will not say what other girls say, lest Shame on people.

It is not like the castle outside, so be careful in everything, and you often send people to come back to see if you lead the troops. Maybe He will be able to work with you again when the imperial court pays you a salaries. "

He Renlong cupped his hands again and said, "I'll wait for fate, so I'll be here for the time being, brothers... take care!"

Liu Chengzong stood in the crowd with his horse, just behind his brother. As the only family member who left Yuhebao with the frontier army, Ding Xuanfeng, his style of painting was different from others.

He held the red flag, knowing that he was going to leave with his elder brother, He Renlong gave him the horse; other people's quiver contained more than a dozen arrows, but his horse had two quiver, 33 arrows, Six of them are the best feathered fast arrows.

The hound named Xiao Diaofeng and Mei Dianmei, director of the Yuhebao rodent control office, followed him.

Director Mei was sitting in the wooden basket on the horse's back. He didn't seem to like this small house with air leaks on all sides. He was so angry that he kept breathing around in the cage.

Others can pack as lightly as they can, and some don't even wear armor.

He is quite good. He is a man, a cat and a dog, with four mouths; two northern army helmets on his head, red border army armor, a geese ling knife hanging from his waist, and a seven-foot short spear, as if going out to fight.

The city wall of Yuhe Fort was full of people. Nearly [-] frontier soldiers drove south along the river under the farewell of He Renlong. No one knew how the defenders standing on the city should feel at this time. .

Those who left have a heavier heart. Only a few of them have clear goals, and most of them don't know where to go.

Walking out of the distance, Liu Chengzong and his brother walked side by side, looking at the rolling mountains on both sides of the strait, and sighed: "General He is not bad for his subordinates."

Liu Chengzu, who was very worried, nodded and said, "Generals always think that generals who only know the constraints of military law are mediocre, saying that commanding and pawns should always be heart-to-heart, but now they are desperate—"

"Comparing a heart with a heart is nothing compared to a hungry heart."

Liu Chengzu then changed his face and said: "The 24 of us only have three days' food, and we can walk quickly enough to reach Ansai.

It is forty miles to the south to Mizhi. The road to Yan'an is really difficult to walk. If you want to find some food on the way, you have to rely on your little drill wind.

I want to go home first, and then do other calculations when I get home. "

Note: ①. The data on the owed salaries from the end of Wanli to the seventh year of Tianqi comes from the "Duzhi Memorial and Court Draft"

②. From the sixth year of Apocalypse to the second year of Chongzhen, the amount of pay in Yansui Town comes from the "Duzhi Memorial: The Department of Border Pay"

(End of this chapter)