As the war approached, Xiao Han couldn't help but get busy, constantly bringing his family guards to train the auxiliary soldiers and the people in the city.
The boiling of salt has been completely put on hold, and everyone has brought it back. Either training before the war or learning how to treat the wounded. A big battle without damage would be a fantasy.
The land of Jiuqu has now become a place where scouts from both sides compete. Xiao Han's logistics camp would receive several injuries from time to time. They were all injured in battles with local scouts. The dripping blood also made Tang Zu, who was proud of his victory, sober up a lot.
Xiao Lizi has not been seen for several days. On the contrary, Changsun Shunde often comes to the logistics camp to encourage the injured scout.
And through him, Xiao Han also knew that they had pried out from Yin Shijie the main reason for Wang Shichong's bold westward march: Dou Jiande in Shandong was now restrained by Luo Yi in the north and had no time to take care of Wang Shichong.
In this way, Xiao Han knew that the war was inevitable. In the past two days, he could only do his best to treat the wounded and train auxiliary troops.
In front of Xiao Han, another seriously injured soldier died.
Several people carried the young body and carefully walked around behind the Marquis. Everyone knows that this young Marquis is always reluctant to see dead people and gets angry every time he sees them! But in a war, no one will die...
Xiao Han sat facing a willow tree, as if he wanted to see where the ant on the trunk was going. A few willow branches that had just sprouted buds were brushing in front of Xiao Han, disturbing his sight.
Angrily, he grabbed the swaying willow branches and tried to pull them off, but it was in vain. There were no tough willow branches that he could pull off.
Another person died, and he was still so young. Yesterday I promised him. When he recovers from his injury, he invites him to go to Chang'an with him and go shopping in Pingkangfang... Unfortunately, he still didn't survive last night.
"It would be nice if I had a drink of wine..." Xiao Han let go of the willow branch and sat down slowly, suddenly wanting a drink of wine. The melancholy of the ages can only be drunk once.
"Give!"
A wine gourd was handed over from the side, and Xiao Han subconsciously reached out to catch it. It wasn't until I received it that I felt something was wrong and looked up to see who was coming.
"Prince Qin, why are you here?" Xiao Han was a little surprised.
Li Shimin was still so calm and composed, even in the logistics camp where wailing could often be heard, his expression remained unchanged.
Patting Xiao Han's shoulder, Li Shimin sat cross-legged next to him regardless of the dust on the ground, and then said: "I heard that you have been in a bad mood these past few days and have scolded several soldiers. I'm here to come and see you. It’s up to you.”
Xiao Han gave a wry smile, lowered his head and shook the gourd. Hearing the sound of rushing water coming from inside, he said, "It's my fault too. I always want them to learn first aid as soon as possible, so I can't help but get a little temperamental. I also know that in the past two days, Xiaodong is far away from me."
"Haha..." Li Shimin smiled and took the gourd from Xiao Han's hand, took off the plug, raised his neck and took a sip, then handed it to Xiao Han and said: "Don't be impatient, come and have a drink! Your authentic Xiao Mansion wine!" When we win this time, we will celebrate!"
"Xiao Mansion's fine wine?" Xiao Han held the gourd and smelled the wine inside carefully. Suddenly he raised his head and looked at Xiao Lizi strangely: "Why do you have my wine? I remember that we didn't bring any wine with us before we came here. !”
"I didn't bring it with me, but can we just have someone give it to us later?"
"What? Send?!" When Xiao Han heard this, he stood up in a hurry, stared at Xiao Lizi in surprise, and said anxiously: "What do you mean? We have reinforcements coming?!"
Li Shimin smiled happily: "Sure enough! In fact, a few days ago, I wrote to my father, asking him to send reinforcements! Wang Shichong's troops stationed in Luoyang are too great a threat to us! I must fight to end his thoughts! Let him go east or south, but he can't attack our Tang Dynasty!"
"But they have 100,000 troops. Even if we come to reinforce, there won't be many..."
After Xiao Han was briefly happy, he immediately thought of another point. Although he is not a general. But he still has some idea of how many people he has.
Li Shimin stood up, and his curved waist gradually became straight, like a peerless sword unsheathed. His whole body exuded strong self-confidence, just like the old willow tree in front of him.
"Wars don't mean more than one person!"
Li Shimin left, leaving only a jug of wine.
A soldier who was delivering the order cautiously approached Xiao Han. Just as he was about to speak, he smelled a strange fragrance first.
"Oh, it smells so good!"
Xiao Han laughed dumbly as he looked at Xiao Lizi's back. The worries of the past two days disappeared instantly in front of Li Shimin's strong self-confidence. He looked at the gourd in his hand and threw it to the soldier standing beside him.
"I reward you!"
The greedy and drooling soldier hurriedly caught the gourd, nodded and bowed with a charming smile: "Thank you, Lord Marquis, for the reward, thank you, Lord Marquis..."
A gourd of wine in exchange for a bunch of favors, this business is profitable no matter how you look at it. After flicking the dust on his clothes, Xiao Han asked the soldier playing with the wine gourd: "What, why do you come to see me?"
"Oh! Mr. Hou, someone outside said he knows you and wants to see you."
"who?"
"A young man seems to be called a fool?"
"Who? Fool!!" Xiao Han was stunned for a moment, then jumped up suddenly and ran towards the camp gate!
The soldier who was delivering the order, holding the wine gourd, looked at the fast-running Marquis in surprise, wondering why he had such a big reaction.
"Hey, forget it! Maybe it's an old acquaintance of the Marquis, but this wine tastes really good! If you and your brother have a little drink tonight, you won't be caught by the military judge..."
In the logistics camp, a bored idiot was kicking stones. What kind of shabby place is this? How come you have to report it to your own marquis? And Xiaodong and Uncle, where have they gone? It’s a waste of time that I got here in such a hurry, but there was no one to greet me!
Just as he was muttering, the stone under his feet bounced to the side. Just as he was about to kick it back, a figure suddenly appeared from the door.
"Stupid! It's you! Why are you here!" The stupid person saw a dark shadow flash at the door, and Xiao Han rushed out with a loud smile. As soon as they met, they gave me a big hug, which almost made me stupid. I didn’t know whether I should greet him or give him a hug!
"Huh? Why are you alone? Who did you come with? You won't come alone, right? What are you doing here? Are you at home... just talk!"
A series of questions were thrown out from Xiao Han's mouth one after another. Before the poor fool could get over the first question, he was successfully stunned by other questions.
"Master Hou, please slow down and ask, I, I can't remember..."
"Hey, idiot! Come in, come in, speak slowly!"
Without any explanation, Xiaodong pulled the idiot into the logistics camp. Xiaodong raised his head with the basket and saw Xiao Han, and was about to turn around and sneak away. But he suddenly saw the idiot next to Xiao Han. In an instant, the basket fell to the ground, and a pile of ointments and wooden sticks rolled everywhere.
"You fool! Why are you here! When did you come? With whom? What are you here for? Is there something going on at home?"
Come on, the master and the servant even asked the same questions!
He dragged the fool into an unoccupied room and filled him with a large bowl of water. After drinking enough water, the fool gathered his words and slowly explained the reason to the master and servant who were as anxious as curious babies. People explain clearly.
It turned out that just after the medicine mountain outside the city rewarded Xiao Han. The family members began to recruit people, preparing to accept it. After all, one’s family’s property cannot survive without one’s own family members watching over it!
But now during the war, it is very inconvenient for people to travel due to the chaos of war. But later Zhang Qiang got the news from somewhere that Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army and more than 10,000 soldiers were rushing to Xiazhou City.
Butler Lu directly sent them to follow the army. The fool rushed ahead because he was impatient. It was estimated that it would take two days for the remaining people to arrive.
