Tang Dynasty

Chapter 28: Sentry food (middle)

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Starting again from Hoi An Town at the foot of Etouling, it was already in the afternoon of the next day.

And Zhou Huaian, who temporarily lived in the house of an escaped boat’s owner, rarely sleeps in a lazy sleep that is rarely disturbed; and is no longer in a narrow cubicle, the door panels, straw and coarse cloth constitute a constrained one. The three-in-one bunks hanging on the side for fear of rolling on to the ground, but the ancient low-footed old bed and the yellowed silk cotton cushions in the authentic wooden furniture, so that he no longer needs to sleep for the possibility of getting up every day. He Ge should continue to bother.

In addition, in addition to this piece of silk cotton mat that was taken away, he also harvested a woolen blanket with obvious foreign style and color, but it was obvious that most of the volunteers who copied here did not know the goods, and let it be pulled into one. They were thrown on the ground indiscriminately and trampled full of black marks.

However, according to Zhou Huaian’s private identification and identification, this blanket should be a product made of camel hair and wool from alpine mountains, which are good for warmth, after a dozen hand-blending and weaving. It naturally has a certain waterproof and moisture-proof effect; therefore; After shaking off the sludge and dust on it, it still has a certain texture and shine.

This is a good thing, plus the previous silk cotton pads and the chicken and duck fleece collected by Zhou Huai'an privately. It is completely possible to process and sew a crude sleeping bag, and it needs to be re-adjusted and adjusted every day to sleep. My sleep plan has been improved to a certain extent.

Then, using the local smelly fish sauce and pickled oysters, together with the yellow chestnut rice porridge and the slightly sour steamed yellow hair cake, he slowly finished the morning meal and got another good news; The required portable hammock made of cloth cables and brown cables has been rushed out overnight after some potential pressure.

In this way, these townspeople can finally be sent away in advance and get rid of the turmoil and pressure caused by these armed men, but all this is hidden under a certain repressive atmosphere and emotions.

After separating a part of the soldiers from the same team, they took the collected Junziyuan road back to the station, and the remaining soldiers of the rebel army continued to the northwest and embarked on the road to the next sentry area and location.

According to the expected goal and direction, this trip of sentry food has just begun; after walking a certain distance, I found a village to stay, and then the next day I saw another team coming to meet the wind and dust. Rebels, and corresponding replacement and supplementary labor manpower.

In the following days, almost all of them went back and forth like this, passing through seven or eight market towns and villages one after another; and the specific circumstances and chances were also different.

In Pingshui, a village near the tributary of Xiaojiang where fish is the main source of livelihood, most of them have been carrying the stench of salted fish for several days.

In Wuyuanli near the mountainous area, among the outfits taken by the sentry food team, there were more than a hundred pieces of fur and dozens of burdens of crude drugs. In addition, there were dozens of them under the control of various metal furniture. Mountain people and hunters who are willing to leave with the rebel army to make a foray.

In Shashan Township, which seems to be lacklustre and poor, it is because there is a small transfer port for salt transportation. In the private cabin of the local shipowner, hundreds of stones of mixed-color coarse salt were picked up.

As for Wujialiao, which is mostly on sloping fields and terraces, in addition to the local sweet potatoes and taro, these rebel soldiers, who are mostly in the North, have also eaten a meal of cold melons under the guidance and demonstration of Zhou Huaian. {Watermelon}, and used some of the salt and salted fish from the local government, in exchange for a lot of dried plums, dried peaches, and bayberry.

On the other hand, Hechengdu, famous for its wooden workshops and {River} boats, was requisitioned and refitted on the spot, and more than a dozen large vehicles were considered to expand the sentry food team's capacity and range of maneuvering.

Then in Baoshan Township, which is relatively barren and high on the back of the mountain, they also encountered their first resistance and public rejection. It was only after the sentry after the formation of the sentry that the first team of troops were in the first place, and they quickly collapsed under the impact and attack of more than a dozen people injured; so that Zhou Huaian, who stayed in the rear team and arranged the escort, had not had time to see the details. The battle scenes and the corresponding assessments are all over.

Therefore, the local area was also punished and quite thoroughly looted. Except for a pile of broken and dilapidated houses, there were very few gains. In the end, there were probably hundreds of young men and women who were too late to escape, crying and crying. Become the main harvest of this sentry visit. However, Zhou Huaian tried his best to dissuade the sentry food team from burning all the houses in order to behave in a similar way.

In Xingtou City, which is relatively affluent and has a larger scale of construction, it crashed with another rebel army who had taken the first step to guard the crossing, and almost ate a closed door; it was only in a tense confrontation and mutual scolding. After the team's brigade commander Deng Cun made some negotiations and struggles, it still failed to become a rush and attack between the two rebels.

In the end, this group of sentry food team only got people in the town, and temporarily pieced together some extra money and a dozen donkeys and mules as compensation and price for leaving and bypassing others. However, under Zhou Huai'an's suggestion and request, he additionally asked for all the over-the-counter medicines and pills and prescriptions from the local drugstore, and took a Chinese Chinese traditional Chinese medicine practitioner as a basic supplement.

As the deputy battalion manager and the coordinator of the logistics support staff, while selecting and identifying the various available items for the rebels, he can also publicly collect some personal items for himself as a fair benefit and harvest for this trip. . Therefore, all kinds of objects selected by him were quickly loaded with a half flat ox cart.

However, compared to the cities, towns and villages near Guangzhou that were largely preserved and maintained due to the rapid collapse of the officials and the army; the more northward the branch along Xiaojiang, the traces and creativity brought about by the war are just It became more obvious and profound. From time to time, the old and new corpses that closed down on the road, the crowds of crows circling together, and the broken ruins of the burnt grass market, post and wild shop.

Therefore, this group of sentry food teams also had almost no harvest at all. In a large-scale Guangtou town on the riverside, all you can see is a dilapidated scene with nothing but a dozen of them. Apart from the dogs that lingered in the town, there were only some rags that could not be taken away.

Therefore, after the brief total proposed by the brigade commander Deng Cun, everyone unanimously decided that they could embark on the return journey; of course, in order to create benefits and results as much as possible, and reduce the empty consumption of returning, Deng Cun intends to let the sentry team return. Take another route, in order to continue to raise the army from along the way as much as possible, so as not to go empty on the return journey.

Regarding this point, although Zhou Huaian felt that it would be better to close after seeing the better, it would be better to return to the original path with an increasingly large and bloated team; but under the general optimism and excitement, there is no more questioning. The position and reason are silent.

After all, the places that have been harassed before can no longer squeeze out more supplies; and this group of people, one group after another, plus nearly a thousand people who work hard and hundreds of livestock eat horses and chew, can It's worth taking a trip to find points to add on the return journey of a strange route.

Of course, during the relatively smooth journey along the way, there were occasional discordant noises and episodes;

For example, someone forced to buy and sell in private, or even openly robbed people’s property. Although the army was relatively abundant in materials, the brigade commander Deng Cunyu was punished to varying degrees; but in the end Zhou Huaian came forward to compensate and deal with the aftermath. .

This can not help but make him sigh that the common people of this era are really very low-demand and really foolish. As long as you add a little favor and courtesy, you will temporarily completely forget the hardships of life and the impermanence of life, and give it to you. The simplest touch and understanding.

Then, a few soldiers got lost on the road one after another, and they were never able to find it again; this made Deng Cun very angry, believing that a fugitive appeared under his command, and ordered more stringent supervision measures. And the means of mutual supervision, which made the original growth of the team's journey more and more sluggish and slow.

In the end, it got slower and more trivial problems occurred frequently, so I had to stop temporarily in Shixiang Town near Sihui County for rectification and sorting out.

Because it provides reprocessing for various spices imported from the sea, the local fragrance industry flourishes, and it is known as the place where the fragrance is soaked in the stones. But also because of the spread of the war, as part of the luxury goods market, the local area has been in depression for some days; all kinds of workshops and shops related to perfumery are closed.

However, to Zhou Huaian, he seemed to have entered a treasure mountain in disguise. In this world, there are not many places where you can collect all kinds of spices.

This is not only a good substitute for currency and easy-to-value luxury goods, but also one of the high-value pharmaceutical ingredients, but I don't know why it was ignored by these limited rebels. Although it was nominally within the scope of other rebels, since it ran into it, there was no reason to let it go. (End of this chapter)