Chapter 538 begging army

  Shile was stopped in the area of ​​Hedong County, just north of Luoyang, not far from Shangdang.

  Xun Xiu immediately sent someone to spread the news back to Luoyang after discovering their traces.

  The three thousand soldiers and horses that Wang Mi left successfully bypassed Shile’s soldiers and horses and went straight to Bingzhou.

   So Shi Le still didn’t know the situation in Luoyang, he stopped Shi Le’s army, and the Qihuo army, who was fighting with them, didn’t even know.

They just thought that Shi Le was a Hu, and the soldiers they brought were all Hu soldiers. Seeing that this style would be detrimental to Luoyang, although they didn’t eat or drink themselves, they still bit Shi Le firmly, so they wouldn’t go to Luoyang. .

   Xun Xiu sent the news back, while following Zhao Hanzhang’s order to let people spread the news of Luoyang to the opponent’s army.

   But where is the need for them, before their news was handed out, the Shile Army received the news from Luoyang, and Ji Yuan was a little faster than him.

   Therefore, the news they spread arrived in the Shile Army a little later, but soon arrived in the Qihuo Army.

   The Qihuo Army is an army composed of officials and civilians, brave and good at fighting, but… he is poor!

   They were too poor to eat. They were originally soldiers and civilians who had escaped from Bingzhou with Sima Teng. They fled all the way. In the end, in order to survive, officials and scholars from Bingzhou gathered the refugees and formed an army to beg for food in the Jizhou area.

They have reached the point of begging, and officials and scholar-bureaucrats can no longer maintain their status and dignity. All in order to survive, their wide-sleeved robes have been replaced with narrow-sleeved robes. Barely covered one or two with armor.

  As there were more and more places for war and begging, the officials and literati in the army became less and less. In the end, except for a few people, the rest were refugees who were constantly admitted, so they became like refugees.

Because most of them are refugees, so the army is dragging their families along with their family. Except for the leading people, the whole army can’t find a complete battle armor. The clothes are all patches and layers. Basically, they are sandals that they rub themselves.

   Their purpose is only one – to live! So called the begging army.

   No matter who it is, except for the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jiehu and other foreign forces, whoever can afford money and food, they will fight whoever they ask them to fight.

   So today, the King of the East Sea gave them money to grab some territory from Gou Xi, and they went to fight Gou Xi. Tomorrow, Gou Xi would ask them to beat the King of the East Sea again, and they turned around to beat the King of the East Sea again.

   So their goals are very clear, money and food.

   is also because of this, many people have hired them, and they look down on them, so far no force is willing to fully accept them.

   After finishing their work, they shooed people out after clearing the money and provisions. The beggar army wandered around like this, occasionally fighting against Liu Yuanshile and other Hu soldiers to stop their plunder.

When I heard that a Jin army was coming next door, Chen Wu, the general of the Qihuo Army, immediately called Chen Chuan and Feng Longlitou and asked them, “Who of you would like to inquire about the situation? A foodie.”

   Feng Long and Li Tou immediately said: “The last will be willing to go.”

  Chen Chuan was reluctant to go and roll around, and also recommended the two of them to go, “Let them go, I’ll go ahead and watch.”

   “Okay, you two go.”

   So Feng Long and Li Tou stripped off their armor, revealing their patched clothes and were about to leave, but Chen Wu felt that they were not shabby enough, so he called two personal soldiers and asked them to take off their clothes and exchange them with them.

   “There are so many cavalry on the opposite side, and there seems to be a lot of armor. At first glance, they are rich. You behave a little bit miserably. Maybe you can get food and grass.”

   Feng Long and Li Tou felt that what he said was reasonable. They were a group of military men who didn’t take a bath for more than ten days. Don’t dislike anyone.

  Therefore, two generals in rags stood in front of Xun Xiu.

   “Begging for a living army?” Xun Xiu frowned, or squeezed out a smile, and asked gently, “I don’t know what the two of you are coming from?”

   “There is a large army of Shile in front. Is General Xun here to stop Shile?”

   When they entered the camp just now, they had already found out that the leader of the troops was Yuzhou Xunxiu, but Yuzhou was quite far from here, and they did not know why they came here.

  Because they were all Jin troops, although Xun Xiu didn’t look down on them very much, he still exchanged some information with them.

   So Xun Xiu knew that they had blocked Shi Le for five days, and Shi Le also sent out a lot of Jin ministers to kill and play, forcing the beggar army to retreat.

   However, the captured Jin ministers could not give money or food to the Qihuo army, and they were not as important as Luoyang in the heart of the Qihuo army, so Chen Wu let them kill them, and they would not retreat.

  Feng Longdao: “There is also Taiwei Wang Yan in there. Is General Xun here to save Taiwei Wang and the others?”

  Li Tou hinted at the side: “We have more than 5,000 soldiers, all of whom are brave and good at fighting, and can help the general. It’s just that we have been starved for several days and our strength is not enough.”

   Xun Xiu just pretended not to hear it. Although they brought food and grass, it was only enough for them for half a month. It was still bought by force from the scholars and officials in the palace. How could it be given to the beggar army?

   There is no food and grass, but a lot of information is still given.

  For example, Wang Mi died, at the hands of their envoy Zhao Hanzhang!

  For example, Liu Cong was defeated and defeated by their envoy Zhao Hanzhang!

   Another example, when the emperor was saved, they made Jun Zhao Hanzhang seal the Duke of Runan!

   Finally, now Luoyang is governed by their envoy Zhao Hanzhang!

  Xun Xiu concealed the news that the emperor followed Gou Xi to move the capital, and only said that they asked the emperor to let them rescue the Jin ministers who were captured by Shi Le.

Feng Da and Li Tou returned to the Qihuo Army, and said to Chen Wu, “I’m very stingy, I don’t want to give out a bucket of food, they say that they are here to save Jin Chen, but I don’t think he wants to save them at all, so he stationed troops on the side. General, doesn’t he want us to work for free?”

Chen Wu thought about it and then shook his head, “There is Wang Yan in there, Wang Yan has a great reputation and a great talent, if he returns to the emperor and raises his arms, half of the world’s aristocratic families will listen to his orders, I am afraid that Zhao Hanzhang does not want him to live. Maybe the emperor doesn’t want to go back, so…”

   “So they want to kill Wang Yan?” Feng Da spat and said, “These people’s hearts are really dirty, then General, are we still here?”

   Chen Wu asked: “He really doesn’t want to give a bucket of rice?”

   “Li Tou mentioned it three times, but he didn’t talk to him. Obviously he didn’t want to give money.”

   Chen Wu sighed and said, “Forget it, since they are here, let Shile give them to them, and we will leave tomorrow.”

   He said: “There is not much food and grass in the army, and we need to save the trouble. Let’s go west for a walk. I heard that Xianbei will occasionally invade Chang’an and other places. Let’s see if the King of Nanyang wants to hire us.”

“Yes.”