Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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Every short period of time, a scout sent out would come back to report Zhao Wen's information.

Not long after, a huge cloud of smoke appeared in the distance.

Song Hu stood where he was, watching Zhao Wen who gradually appeared in his field of vision, and then hurriedly stepped on his horse to meet him.

Zhao Wen looked at Song Hu who was rushing over, pulled the reins of the horse in his hand, and stopped in front of Song Hu.

His personal guard camp also slowly stopped.

"grown ups!"

Song Hu jumped off his horse, came to Zhao Wen, and saluted Zhao Wen with his hands clasped.

Zhao Wen nodded slightly, and said, "Don't be too polite, let's go to the camp first."

"As ordered!"

Song Hu hurriedly stepped on his horse, followed behind Zhao Wen, and headed towards the camp.

At this time, Xing Bingzhong was standing on the city wall of Dongxing Pass to inspect, when he suddenly saw a huge cloud of smoke coming from outside Dongxing Pass.

"Zhao Wen's rebel, this must be Zhao Wen's rebel!" Xing Bingzhong pointed in the direction of Yan Chen, shouting in horror.

A personal guard standing behind him pointed in Zhao Wen's direction, and said with a sad face: "Look at this, at least there are nearly 1 people."

Xing Bingzhong looked at the smoke and dust in front of him, with cold sweat streaming from his forehead.The previous soldiers and horses alone couldn't handle it. Now that there are so many, I'm afraid Yanmen Gate will really be unable to hold it.

"Quickly order all the soldiers to go up the city wall!" Xing Bingzhong hurriedly turned around and shouted at the guards behind him.

"Damn it, why hasn't Zhenwuwei's reinforcements arrived yet? Damn it, if there is no reinforcements, what are we going to do to guard the Yanmen Pass?" Xing Bingzhong looked at the army outside the city and cursed endlessly.

After Zhao Wen came to Song Hu's camp, he went directly to the front of the camp, and looked at Yanmen Pass not far away with a telescope.

"How is the situation at Yanmen Pass now?" Zhao Wen asked as he saw the busy defenders at Yanmen Pass.

Song Hu said: "My lord, we launched a tentative attack on Yanmen Pass before.

The defenders in Yanmen Pass are just like that, that is, the city wall is very strong, and the damage caused by 40 fire hitting it is very limited. "

Zhao Wen put down his binoculars, "Yanmen Pass is not an ordinary city wall, it is a gate that has stood for a thousand years, and the imperial court also attached great importance to Yanmen Pass before, so it must not be so easy to deal with.

If ordinary soldiers attack Yanmen Pass, there is no continuous attack by tens of thousands of people, so don't even think about taking Yanmen Pass.But who let it meet me? "

"My lord, an army came out from Zhenwuwei to rescue Yanmen Pass this morning. I have already sent someone to deal with it. According to the news sent back from Yebushou, this army has been defeated. I guess they will be back soon." Song Hu said.

At this moment, Wang Tiewa led the men under his command to escort the captives into Song Hu's camp.

"Report, Wang Qianhu escorted the captives back." The messenger who came to report stopped in front of Zhao Wen and Song Hu.

Zhao Wen's eyes lit up, and he said to Song Hu, "Let's go, let's see what kind of quality these reinforcements are, and how dare they come to rescue Yanmen Pass."

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, he walked towards Wang Tiewa under the leadership of the messenger.

Not long after walking, Zhao Wen saw a group of soldiers dressed in tatters like beggars in the camp.

"My lord, my lord commander!" Wang Tiewa stopped in front of Zhao Wen, and saluted Zhao Wen with her hands clasped.

Zhao Wen waved his hand, pointed to the captives behind Wang Tiewa and said, "These are the prisoners of Zhenwuwei?"

"My lord, these people are the prisoners of Zhenwuwei." Wang Tiewa pointed at the prisoners and said to Zhao Wen.

"Bring me the leader of this army." Wang Tiewa turned around, pointed at Wu Xiao and Cui Jichuan among the prisoners, and shouted loudly.

"My lord, it's not good, the leader whose leg was crushed is dead."

At this moment, a scream sounded.

"Dead?" Wang Tiewa was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Since he's dead, let's bury it, and bring the living one up."

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Chapter 374 Meals for the Captives

"What's your name?" Zhao Wen looked at Wu Xiao who was kneeling in front of him, and asked in a cold voice.

Wu Xiao's body kept shaking, and his whole body kept shaking like chaff.

His hands were tied behind his back and he knelt on the ground.

"My name is Wu Xiao, and I am a thousand households in the former Qianhu of Zhenwuwei. There are more than 750 soldiers under him. I was ordered by Chen Zhong, the commander of Zhenwuwei, to come to support Yanmenguan." Wu Xiao's head was buried very low, and his tone was full of fear.

"How many troops does Zhenwuwei have now, and how many of them are good at fighting?" Zhao Wen asked again.

"Except for the battalion soldiers and servants of Commander-in-Chief, the soldiers in Zhenwu Guard are similar to my subordinates, they are a group of peasants carrying hoes.

There are more than 100 soldiers in the battalion of the commanding officer, and about [-] soldiers as for the servants.Commander-in-Chief's servants are all cavalry, and their equipment is even more sophisticated than those of us thousands of households. "Wu Xiaosheng was afraid that Zhao Wen would cut himself off if he was dissatisfied, so he said what he knew like beans in a bamboo tube.

Zhao Wen listened to Wu Xiao's words with a blank expression on his face.

After Wu Xiao finished speaking, Zhao Wen pointed at Wu Xiao and looked at Song Hu, "Put this person alone. As for the prisoners, except for his family members who were separated, all of them will be detained together."

"By the way, the food standard for ordinary captives these days is half of our standard. These captives are very thin. If they don't make up for it, where will they get the strength to build the railway for us.

When the repairs are almost complete, they will be sent to the rear to repair the railway for us. Zhao Wen pointed to the captives who were strung up with ropes and squatting on the ground, and looked at Song Hu.

These captives were malnourished all year round. If they went to repair the railway in this state, they would probably die of exhaustion before much repairs were made.

After all, there are no machines for railway construction in this era, and it is up to people to lift horses. The bones are too weak, so how can they lift the rails.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhao Wen to provide them with this kind of food all the time, nor could he provide them with canned meat every day.

After taking down Yanmen Pass, Zhao Wen will send them to the rear and let them build the railway.

Song Hu nodded and said, "Obey!"

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he led Song Hu and others to the front of the camp.

As for Wu Xiao, Wang Tiewa and others made a special cell and locked him up alone.

Wu Xiao's servants were also stripped of their armor, leaving only a jacket, and they were imprisoned next door to Wu Xiao.

The remaining more than 1000 captives were all left in an open field, guarded by about a hundred soldiers with live ammunition.

These prisoners squatted on the ground, looking at the armor and strong bodies of the soldiers under Wang Tiewa's command, with envy on their faces.

"Grandma, if I had such excellent equipment, I wouldn't just run away." A man over [-] years old with two missing front teeth said enviously.

"Hey, just looking at their physiques, you can tell that their food must be good. Our group of people are like beggars, how can we compare with others."

"It's true, we are just a bunch of beggars, we can't even eat enough, and we can't stop panting after two steps, let alone fighting."

The prisoners squatted on the ground, watching the soldiers guarding them talking non-stop.

These people looked at these soldiers with envious eyes.

Time passed by little by little, and it had been almost a whole day since the soldiers set off, and they had never eaten any other food except for a half-dry porridge before setting off.

Now they are very hungry in their stomachs, and they look helpless as they look at the sun that is gradually setting in the sky.

"Oh, I starved to death. I was not killed, but now I am going to starve to death."

The man with missing front teeth was lying on the ground, looking at the sky, his stomach growling.

At this moment, a smell of meat suddenly wafted from the camp, and the smell of meat became more and more serious.

Now it was time for dinner, and the cooks in the camp also started to make dinner.

Soldiers sat around the fire and heated the canned meat in the iron pot on the fire.

Under the transpiration of water vapor, the aroma in the can keeps coming out of the iron pot and drifting away.

"It smells so good. This is the smell of meat. This is the smell of meat." The man with missing front teeth twitched his nose vigorously, smelling the smell of meat wafting over, and his mouth kept flowing.

"Grandma, the food of this group of people is so good that they can even eat meat. Grandma's, I haven't seen meat once in all these years."

Except for the man who had lost his front teeth, the other captive soldiers also looked envious, squatting, and looked around with blazing eyes.

"If you give me this kind of food, I will rebel. I will starve to death sooner or later if I follow the court. It is better to rebel with these people, at least I can eat meat."

"Yes, that's right. Brother Zhao's words are reasonable. When have we poor soldiers eaten this kind of food? If we can really give us this kind of food, what does it matter if we sell our lives to them? Woolen cloth?"

All of a sudden, the captives squatting on the ground started talking about it.

"Man, is this the food you had before the war? Isn't this food too good?" The man without front teeth kept rubbing to the side. He squatted on the ground, looking at the soldiers standing beside them and guarding them. Looking up, he asked curiously.

For the man missing his front teeth, he had already been captured anyway, and it couldn't be worse than this, so he asked with a sullen face.

The man with missing front teeth is called Zhao Yi, he is Wu Xiao's subordinate, and now he is a chief banner officer.

The soldier he was questioning was also surnamed Zhao, named Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng looked at Zhao Yi, and said arrogantly: "Not only was our meal like this before the war, but our usual meal is also like this.

Every meal has rice or white noodles, three dishes and one soup, there is meat in every meal, and there are enough steamed buns. "

"Really? Is it really that good? If you said that the food before the war was so good, I would still believe it, but if you said that your usual food is like this, I don't quite believe it." Zhao Yi expressed disbelief, There is enough rice and white noodles, and there is meat in every meal. Even a hundred households cannot have such a meal. Isn't this bragging what is this?

Zhao Yi didn't believe Zhao Sheng's words from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, this kind of food could only be available before the war. After all, according to what the soldier said, these rebels had to be rich to afford it. If there is so much money for this kind of food, why rebel?

In Zhao Yi's mind, being able to eat rice and white flour steamed buns is considered a very good meal.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help laughing at Zhao Yi's unseen appearance.

"You really are watching the sky from a well, you have never been to our Xuan Town, and you have no idea how rich our Xuan Town is.

Have you ever seen a tall building made of cement?Have you ever seen a floor made of cement?Have you ever seen canned meat in tin cans?You have never seen anything. "Zhao Sheng's face was full of pride, and his eyes were full of pride when he looked at Zhao Yi.

"Hey, you guys who are not stingy, your ancestors have accumulated virtues, and you have met such a benevolent general as our Lord Chief Soldier."

While talking, a hundred households came over with a hundred soldiers carrying dozens of large boxes.

As soon as Baihu appeared, he attracted the attention of these captives.

They looked at the boxes carried by the soldiers behind Baihu with curiosity in their eyes.

"Zhao Sheng, what are you talking to this prisoner?" Baihu looked at Zhao Sheng.

Although Zhao Sheng is not under the jurisdiction of this hundred households, he also knows them.

He hastily gave a military salute to Baihu, and said, "My lord, this prisoner just asked me whether our food was like this before the war or it has always been like this.

I just said that it has always been like this, but they don't believe it. "

Zhao Yi looked at Baihu who was walking over, and hurriedly retreated.

Baihu sneered and scolded, "They're all a group of people who have been deceived by lard. They still don't believe in our food. Believe it or not."

"Okay, I won't say any more. This is the food that the adults ordered for the prisoners. You can ask them to distribute these things to them. I have something to do, so I will leave first." Baihu pointed to the box behind him, and then He asked the soldiers to put these boxes on the ground, and then he led the men and horses back along the way they came.

Zhao Sheng looked at the boxes placed together, then at Zhao Yi, and said with a sarcasm: "Hehe, you are really blessed, the adults are willing to give you canned food."

Zhao Yi and the others looked at the boxes placed together in confusion, they couldn't figure out what was in the box, and they didn't know what canned food Zhao Sheng was talking about.

Looking at the bewildered eyes of these people, Zhao Wen shook his head, then called over a dozen soldiers, opened the box, and took out the cans inside.

"Okay, now you prisoners stand up for me, line up, and come one by one, each with a can." Zhao Sheng stood in front of the box, pointed at the cans inside the box and shouted at the prisoners.

Every time he shouted, the soldiers standing beside him would shout in unison and pass on his words.

Zhao Yi stood at the front. He looked at the iron cans in the box, and the confusion on his face became more serious.

"Is this food edible?" Zhao Yi asked suspiciously, pointing to the iron can in the box.

Zhao Sheng picked up a can with a sneer on his face, pulled the ring on the can, and turned around the edge of the can.

After a few breaths, a smell of meat rushed out from inside.

Because there is no heating, the smell of meat is not dignified.

But even so, it still made Zhao Yi and the others scream.

"Hey, is there meat in this? Is this for us?" Zhao Yi pointed at the can in Zhao Sheng's hand with a look of disbelief.

Zhao Sheng said: "Hmph, you also met our Chief Soldier, otherwise, you still want to eat this kind of food, it's just a dream.

Now, all of you line up for me, if anyone dares to loot, don't blame me for not recognizing people with the weapons in my hands. "

As he said that, Zhao Sheng put down the can in his hand, held up the 56 and fired several shots at the sky.

These captives all looked at the 56 Chong in Zhao Sheng's hand with horror on their faces, and they involuntarily took a few steps back.

"Okay, line up now, come and get it!" Zhao Sheng put down the 56 Chong, stood beside him, and began to distribute the cans.

After Zhao Yi received the can, he squatted aside and slowly opened the can in the way Zhao Sheng did just now.