Just after Leap May, 800 deserters, or deserters, were finally sent to the front line. Zhang Xiaowu thought that some deserters would be sent, but he didn't expect that 800 of them would come all at once. Not to mention that the barracks were not enough to live in, and they were just cells.
There was not enough room for him. He quickly asked Su Yu for help.
To help, Su Yu happened to have just finished building the rooms of the epidemic camp, so he took the craftsmen over and temporarily converted all the prisons outside into wooden houses. The craftsmen worked day after day and built more than a dozen wooden houses. Finally,
Let the fleeing soldiers have a place to stay.
A deserter is different from a prisoner. A prisoner only violates military regulations, but a deserter escapes from the battle and should be killed on the spot. The Crown Prince naturally meant to kill, but Military Master Gu knew that eight hundred soldiers could be killed at once.
For fear of causing a sudden change in the morale of the army, the deserters were given a chance to survive and were taken to the Mucheng Epidemic Camp. After some transformation, they were transferred back to the Yashan front line.
There are many reasons why there are so many deserters, but generally it is because the confrontation has lasted for too long and the morale of the army has been weakened.
The Crown Prince Xuanyuan Zixun, who commanded the Yashan Camp, did not have much experience in commanding the army. The Qinglong Army relied on military advisor Gu Yong and deputy commander Li Cunyi to maintain everything. Gu Yong led the 5th Regiment, 25th Regiment, 26th Regiment and
Twenty-eight Regiment
Garrisoned at the Jincheng Camp, Li Cunyi and Crown Prince Xuanyuan Zixun led the First Regiment, the Second Regiment, the Third Regiment and the Fourth Regiment to garrison the Yashan Camp. The Jincheng Camp and the Yashan Camp were the horns of each other, supporting each other and jointly protecting the two.
The Ravengold Granary.
There is a saying in ancient times that a vigorous effort can be exhausted again and again. Gu Yong only thought of using confrontation to wear down his opponents, but he ignored many factors such as the Han army's expeditionary sergeants were not adapted to the climate, water and soil of the northern Saibei. Mosquito bites spread diseases in the northern Saibei, and sick soldiers
Gradually, they missed the Central Plains more and more. However, the confrontation lasted for more than a year, and the morale of the Han army gradually declined.
During this period, in order to rebuild morale, Li Cunyi personally led his troops to fight against foreign troops several times, with both victories and defeats. However, the Tucheng was destroyed and massacred. The entire 27th Regiment served the country with loyalty, but the morale of the frontline soldiers was greatly reduced. Gu
Yong regretted it endlessly. He never expected that a defeat would lead to the demoralization of the main force of the Qinglong Army of 200,000 people.
Military advisor Gu Yong was like a tinker. He established a plague camp in order to save the morale of the army. He also knew that deserters could not be stopped by killing them, so he placed the deserters in one place.
The fleeing soldiers originally thought they would die, but after learning that they had been pardoned, they were immediately grateful and thought of Gu Yong as a living Bodhisattva. The fleeing soldiers also heard that the Sixth Regiment would not go to the front line to fight, and repeatedly expressed their willingness to stay.
The Sixth Regiment joined the army and helped the front line as much as possible. It happened that the epidemic camp was expanding and there was an urgent need for a large number of soldiers to take care of the wounded, so some deserters responded to Zhang Xiaowu and were willing to save people to repay the kindness of Master Gu.
Zhang Xiaowu immediately couldn't laugh or cry. Anyone who escaped from the army must be afraid of war, but if they only took care of the disabled, they no longer had the fear. He reported to Su Yu, who then selected hundreds of honest people from the escaped soldiers.
Enter the epidemic camp.
The deserters who were transferred to the epidemic camp were quickly qualified for their new jobs and took good care of their disabled comrades. Guan Xiang also specifically asked Zhang Xiaowu what method he used to make these deserters so morale.
Zhang Xiaowu said in his heart that no matter what method I use, it is useless. They are all a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. Naturally, they love life very much.
More than 400 fugitives staying are the kind of those who have to go or have a sneak -sneaking thoughts or tame. Among them, a quarter of which is the old battlefield.
It started to get things trouble.
In order to control the escape, Zhang Xiaowu compiled the criminals into the team, and promoted some people with strong ability to serve as officers.
After the team, the process can be said to be generally smooth, especially after with the new thorn opponent, the later team is even up and down.
Zhang Xiaowu was calm and deliberately set up a trap, so that some of them escaped to think that the epidemic village was proclaimed, and they could escape at any time. So, a few old men discussed in the middle of the night and escaped the epidemic village while the defending army was incapable.
Unexpectedly, when these eight old daughters had just went out, they saw the rain falling on the sky, and the eight people escaped the less than fifty steps of the epidemic village.
Su, the next morning, all died. Zhang Xiaowu ordered the people to transport the body to the epidemic village to watch it. Then he sneered and said: "When you enter the Equation Village, you will not die, you can escape the Queenzhuang. You will die.
No matter what he did and what he wanted to do before, but the scope of your activity was only within the village, and the dead person after the wall was out of the wall. "
Zhang Xiaowu asked the sergeant to bury the eight corpses in the sandy land not far from the epidemic village. In the early morning of the next morning, everyone found that the eight corpses were dug out of the sand from the sand, leaving only the bones.
Zhang Xiaowu found the local herdsmen to ask if they knew what animals were eating corpses. The old herdsmen said after seeing the wound and said, "It's a pupple."
"Isn't it a grass wolf?"
"No, the grass wolf only eats the animals that they hunting, and the dumplings eat carrion, and they eat everything." The old shepherd explained, "But the dumplings are timid and will not actively provoke humans. They don't have to worry about their attack on your camp.
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Zhang Xiaowu reluctantly came down, and then five fled in the middle of the night, and was still chased and killed by Zhang Xiaowu. After the corpse was brought back to the epidemic village, he buried it under the sand.
People dug a little, but suddenly found that there were black stones in the depths of five feet below the sand. He jumped off the deep pit and found that there was an open -air coal mine here.
Zhang Xiaowu dug out the coal mine to ask the local people if they knew it. The locals called the black paint stones. Although the smoke stones could be burned, they could produce thick smoke, and the thick smoke was poisonous. The locals were rarely used.
It is a inferior coal mine. Zhang Xiaowu said that God was not thin, but he found an open -air coal mine around the epidemic village. Although it is a inferior coal containing a high sulfur.
Guaranteed.
"This general needs to be cautious with tobacco. Many Han people use it to warm it in winter, but were killed by poisonous smoke." The local herdsmen were advised.
Zhang Xiaowu said that it is okay. The local people of the local Han people designed the imports of the soil stove in the house. The thick smoke will naturally smoke themselves when burning. In particular, this kind of inferior coal with more sulfur -containing elements is most likely to cause poisoning.
Separate and build a row of warm walls in the middle. This thick smoke can be discharged and will not affect the life of soldiers, but some soldiers are needed to guard the warm house and add coal from time to time.
The weather was warm, the warm wall was not rushed to build, and he didn't know if the epidemic village gave up in the future, he just made a simple design drawing.
Wang Yijin saw him sketching the design on the paper, studied it carefully and said: "Master Duwei, what kind of landscape are you painting? This painting you are asked to draw... is somewhat similar to what I painted when I was eight years old."
Zhang Xiaowu glared at him, and Wang Yijin stopped talking and did not dare to say anything more.