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Xu Huai wanted to do something in Shuozhou next, and he had to do too many things and could not explain it clearly for a while. After all the 400 soldiers were settled in the military camp, he walked with everyone to Cao Shixiong's former governor's mansion.

By looking at Hedong Road and Khitan Xijing Road as a whole, you can see the importance of Shuozhou.

Shuozhou is facing Panguan on the right, Yanmen on the left, and Ningwu on the south. It is geographically located among the San Pass, and there are also relatively convenient roads to the San Pass. In addition, it is also located in the Huihe Valley and is a lip-synchronous place.

The foreign tribes that lived in the north and south of Yinshan for thousands of years have repeatedly moved south along the Cangtou River (sen Hekou), a tributary on the northern bank of the Huihe River. Shuozhou is its must-pass place.

Since history, Shuozhou, which is located on the bank of the Hui River, has not known how many bloody wars have occurred, and the city has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.

At this time, Shuozhou City was 14 miles away, and the city wall was built with rammed earth, with a height of four zhang, a top of three zhang and a height of three zhang.

Although Shuozhou City is much smaller than Datong and Taiyuan, after all the Han people in the city moved out, only three or four thousand soldiers remained behind, and the city was vast and the people were sparsely populated.

Of course, after the main force of the Tianxiong Army and tens of thousands of Han people moved south, except for more than 3,000 Tongbai Mountain soldiers, there were no people in the city.

Cao Shixiong was attached to Shuozhou's south. Almost all the adult males from the Khitan and the foreign tribes in the city were slaughtered. The remaining fish that escaped the net basically escaped from Shuozhou, but a total of about 4,000 Hu tribe women and children were stranded in the city.

Wang Bing, Wang Fan, Cao Shixiong and others brought tens of thousands of Han people to retreat south, and it was impossible to bring all the more than 4,000 Hu women and children. When Xu Huai returned to Shuozhou, the first thing he had to solve was these Hu women and children.

If these Hu women and children are taken into custody, they have to provide food, which is too much pressure on the logistics supply of the Tianxiong Army.

When Zhu Han was still in Shuozhou, he lifted the concentration of these women and children and released them to their own releases.

However, the Khitans and the foreign tribes had not been turned over several times in the city's houses. These women and children were short of food and clothing when they returned home. Now the city was closed with heavy snow, and they were not even able to escape from the city.

Xu Huai and everyone walked from the Nancheng Barracks to the governor's mansion. Along the way, they saw several old Hu women frozen in the streets and alleys, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

When he walked to the governor's mansion, Xu Huai saw many Hu women and children following him timidly.

Apart from the barracks, the governor's mansion was almost the only place they could beg for food, but they were afraid of the armored swords and bows in front of the governor's mansion, and they hurried in the streets and alleys on both sides and did not dare to come forward rashly.

"How much grain is left in the warehouse?" Xu Huai asked Su Laochang.

"Before Mr. Zhu's son left all the accumulated grains to us, in addition to more than 8,600 stone grains, there were more than 1,200 sheep, and more than 500 cattle and horses were left for us," said Su Laochang. "At present, there is enough food and fodder, but we have to consider whether things are inconsistent!"

Xu

Nodded and pondered.

If the court could not accept the fact that the soldiers gathered in Tongbai Mountain to guard Shuozhou, the first step would inevitably cut off their logistics supplies and force them to submit.

To make the worst plan in everything, they must first ensure that the soldiers can eat and wear warmth.

More than 8,000 stone grains and some meat supplements seem to be a lot, but if they want to supply them to the army, they may not be able to last for three months.

The next three months are a very critical time point.

If they can last for three months in Shuozhou, they may force the court to make concessions first.

The Tianxiong Army fought so badly that the situation in the northeast of the river suddenly worsened.

The Tongbai Mountain soldiers who had gathered seemed to have few people, but they were no longer an optional chess piece between the East of the Dayue River and the West Jing Road of Khitan.

The more intrigue the group of scholars and ministers is, the more they are good at calculating others with disgusting calculating, the more they are afraid of being attacked at this time.

Even if Xu Huai and others did not have the support of Wang Bing, Zhu Han and others, the possibility of other scholars and ministers being tough on Tongbai Mountain at this critical moment is very low, and they may not dare to cut off the supply of food and grass in Shuozhou for three months.

Xu Huai could see Wang Fan’s dissatisfaction with them, but he didn’t say anything and let them go back to Shuozhou?

Even if the Cai people were sure that Xu Huai was the son of Wang Xiaocheng at this time, even if they believed that the people in Tongbaishan had nostalgia for the Cai people, they could not publicly review the old cases of that year, and they might not dare to openly force the soldiers of Tongbaishan to rebel.

The Tianxiong Army was defeated in Datong City, and now the assassination of Ge Boyi by Yue Hailou is causing trouble. The Cai family's butt is getting dirtyer and dirtyer. Do they dare to take responsibility for the further deterioration of the situation in Hedong?

"Maybe the worst situation we were worried about before would not happen," Xu Huai said with a frown, "Ge Boyi's current rhythm is to bite Yue Hailou to death and connect with the enemy first, but secretly encouraged the ruling generals to point the finger at Cai Ying so that the Ge family could shirk the blame for defeating Datong to the greatest extent. Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou sent someone to force the Western Route Army to defend Shuozhou. I'm afraid they expected this situation. The Eastern Route Army might have some actions in Yanmen in the future. These idiots do not have the courage to fight tough battles, but when they fight in the internal battle, they are all very smart. Besides, Ge Boyi may also rely on us..."

"It's better for everyone if you fall down early!"

In the past, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Xu Wukun and others were somewhat awe of the lofty generals, but the defeat of the Tianxiong Army in Datong had completely shattered the awe in their hearts.

Xu Huai mentioned that he might trade with the Ge family in the future, and Xu Xin'an and Tang Qing all became disgusted.

"...I just said that, just telling you that the situation we face in the next year may not be as sinister as everyone is worried about," Xu Huai laughed and said, "We must take responsibility for so many Hu women and children in the city! We must also make all generals realize from this moment that we will be a unique army. In addition, there are many old bachelors in the army. If they are willing to marry Hu women, we must also promote it, but one thing should be paid attention to, and no one should be paid attention to.

If a forced marriage occurs, and if a Hu wife is married, her young children need to be raised together, and they are regarded as their own children!"

"How can this be done? The Qing Shun Army and the Tianxiong Army launched a massacre in Shuozhou. Almost all of these Husbands, women and children died under the butcher knife. I think they were given porridge for two or three months, and when they survived this winter, they would let them go out of the city to make a living. If they really wanted to get married, it would be difficult to guarantee that some women and children would have nostalgic grudges, which might be a big hidden danger!" Su Laochang frowned, feeling that Xu Huai had many inappropriate things to get the military soldiers to marry Hu women.

"Go in first, just spread the porridge and take the people below to perform. We don't need to stand here to blow the cold wind!"

Xu Huai and everyone walked to the governor's mansion, sat down in the warm living room where the brazier was burned, rubbed his hands that were frozen and frozen, and explained to Su Laochang and the others,

"There are many killings among the barbarian tribes, and it is common for plundering women and children to fill the population. In short, you either rob me or I rob you all day long. Women and children are like cattle and sheep, and they are all vassals. Therefore, on the grassland, there is no tradition of women or young sons avenging their father and brothers. Even if they are captured, most of them can be content with the new clan..."

Even though Xu Wuli, Xu Wukun, Zhou Jing and others had served as officials in the Jingsheng Army and had many confrontations with the Khitans and Dangxiang people, Su Laochang was also framed and exiled to Jingzhou as a prisoner, but due to inertial thinking, the customs and traditions of their foreign tribes lacked in-depth research.

Many scholars and ministers are used to treating them as "barbarians", but the more fundamental things are unintentionally investigated.

Although the memory fragments that were clearly flashing in Xu Huai's mind were short-lived, like puzzles that could not be seen through, accompanied by these memory fragments, the various understandings of the Chihu people seemed to be in harmony with the sky, and they also emerged, even more specific and in-depth than he had imagined.

At present, these three or four thousand women and children are not only the population resources they can directly control at present, but more importantly, after the Khitan was destroyed by the Chihu people, he wanted to further absorb the remnants of the Khitan forces, which would be a very good foundation.

How could he be afraid of difficulties and not do it because of some unnecessary worries and troubles?

Digestion and absorption of these three or four thousand Hu women and children was something that Xu Huai thought of on his way back north. At this time, he also patiently advised Su Laochang, Xu Wukun and others:

"Another, what does the many killings in Shuozhou and Datong have to do with us? When we were in Shuozhou, in order to restrain military discipline, Xin'an and others executed six soldiers in the courtyard on the street. In Datong, we were even more unfair. At this time, we were willing to squeeze out precious food to save women and children - these may not convince the tribes outside the city. Can't we convince the hungry women and children in the city to believe this? Of course, we are not trying to deceive anyone, we really need to do it during the next period of time.
Chapter completed!