Fifty miles outside Linqu City, the Beifu Army temporarily camped.
This is a temporary camp with a radius of more than 20 miles. People are coming and going in the camp. Hundreds of Han people are trying to enter the camp in groups from the direction of several camp gates. Among them The elderly and the sickly people pushed the carts, while the powerful young men carried freshly made wooden spears and short guns, used pot lids at home as shields, and carried hunting bows on their backs. They were obviously coming to join the army. of.
Liu Yu leaned forward, lying on the handrail of an arrow tower, smiling and looking at everything around him. In the corner of the camp, there were four to five thousand people who had just come to join the army from all over the country, wearing the clothes that had just been wiped out by the Yan army. Marked leather armor, holding wooden sticks and wooden knives, under the command of more than a hundred injured soldiers from the Beifu Army, they were conducting basic formation drills and weapons training. Although each of them moved clumsily, it was obvious that they were training very seriously. , working very hard, sweating profusely, and the shouts and shouts with the earthy Qilu accent resounded in all directions.
Liu Yu smiled and pointed forward: "Fat man, you are right. They are really the common people of Qilu. There are so many followers. In just three or four days, many people have come to join the army carrying burdens and pushing carts." There are more than 20,000 people. If more people come, I'm afraid I have to call back the seriously injured soldiers who followed Yu Yue back to Jiankang from halfway, so that someone can train them."
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "The one you should send back most is Miaoyin. Unfortunately, I'm afraid she won't go back before Guanggu is captured or Nanyan surrenders. You have your battles to fight, and she also has hers." A war."
Liu Yu shook his head and sighed: "I hope her war will never come to an end. I still don't know what's going on with Alan? After Linqu's defeat, do you think Murong Chao and Heipao will express their anger at her? Will you be nice to her and ask for peace with me through her?”
Liu Muzhi stretched out and took a bite of a huge leg of lamb in his hand. The smell of tangy mixed with cumin suddenly overflowed. His eyes narrowed into a line as he chewed. While smiling, he said: "It's so delicious, Ji Nu, you really should try one too."
Liu Yu said angrily: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat. Why don't you eat to death with these things? In the past three days, you can eat as much as my whole team of soldiers."
Liu Muzhi laughed and pointed at his head: "Why don't you say you won't let me sleep peacefully for these three days? Look at my swollen eyelids. Do you want me to eat something good?" Are you exhausted?"
Liu Yu turned around and laughed: "It's just a joke, don't take it seriously. Of course I know your hard work, but I don't have the appetite to eat these at the moment. Ah Shou and Lao Suo in front, and that Sima Guo Fan went to pursue Murong Chao, and Liu Fan also led the Yuzhou cavalry to pursue him, but we still don’t know the outcome? If Murong Chao can be captured alive, then there is no need to fight Guanggu."
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "Believe me, Ji Nu, even if you can capture Murong Chao alive, your good wife will definitely create a new king and continue fighting with you."
Liu Yu's expression changed: "Why, why did she do this? If Murong Chao dies and Hei Pao can no longer control the overall situation, then it is possible that Alan will have the final say and surrender to us, thus completely resolving the conflict between Hu and Han. , isn’t it the best result?”
Liu Muzhi curled up his lips: "Alan is a strange woman in the world, so naturally she will not be like those little women who only care about children. You have to know that if she only considered the relationship with you as husband and wife, she would not have chosen to return back then. Nan Yan. After all, she is a descendant of the Murong clan. Even if she is not controlled by the black robe, she will definitely stand with her people until the end."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "I said that I would give her and her people a way out so that they could stay in the Central Plains without dying. Isn't it unacceptable to surrender to the Jin Dynasty and become subjects of the Jin Dynasty from now on?"
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "For those who have been emperors, it is very difficult for them to be subordinate to others again. Murong was once a tribal member of the Jin Dynasty. Once he tasted the taste of becoming a king on his own, Murong would It is difficult for a clan to be a subject of others. As for their clansmen, relying on the Murong clan's Yan State, they have been domineering and bullying the Han people for decades. It can be said that they have caused trouble to the north for decades. They also know that they will not be tolerated by ordinary Han people, so every day After the restoration of the Yan Kingdom, the Xianbei people of the Murong clan were concentrated in various cities. They did not pay taxes, did not practice farming, and only joined the army to fight. They usually ignored the behavior of these Xianbei people to bully the Han people."
"In this Battle of Linqu, only the Xianbei generals fought to the death, while the Han generals just watched and shouted from behind. As soon as the Battle of Linqu ended, so many Han people came to join us in the past few days. Send Nu Ah, what you see is that so many Han people are coming, and you are full of joy. But what I think is that on the other hand, the Xianbei people have no way to retreat and nowhere to go. They can only fight to the death with us in Guanggu City."
Liu Yu's brows gradually furrowed, and he said thoughtfully: "What you said makes sense. It seems that the contradiction and hatred between Hu and Han are no longer a problem between the top leaders of the two countries, but between the two countries." The hatred between ordinary people of different races. The national hatred at the top can be easily resolved, but the hatred among the common people is difficult to eliminate."
Liu Muzhi took another bite of the leg of lamb and said while chewing: "Yes, our army beheaded 100,000 people in the Linqu battle, but it also meant that almost all the Xianbei Hu tribes died in our army. In the hands, just like before, why do the people of Jingkou hate the Hulu so much? Isn’t it because in the past hundred years, people in every household have died at the hands of the Hulu. This kind of hatred between the country and the family is not so easy to eliminate. Send slaves, even if it is Alan, I’m afraid it’s not easy to resolve these hatreds at this time.”
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "Then there is no other way. We can only march to Guanggu first. I can't let my soldiers be killed on the battlefield, and then I have to consider whether to drink with hatred or not. If I talk about hatred, , do we have no hatred for the more than two thousand innocent people who were taken captive by them, and the thousands of people who were killed in Huaibei? Those hundreds of people who have been killed and plundered by these barbarians in Qilu land for decades have caused harm to hundreds of thousands of people. Father Wan, don’t you have any hatred? If the hatred cannot be resolved, then we can only speak with the swords and guns in our hands."
Liu Muzhi nodded: "So, have you made up your mind to attack Guanggu and wipe out Xianbei? Even if Guanggu City is bloody and corpses are everywhere, you don't care?"
Liu Yu's expression became determined: "If Alan can send back more than 2,000 of our people, then there may be room for redemption. Give us an explanation in Dajin, and we may be able to leave Nanyan a way out, but if you are stubborn and stubborn In the end, it’s just blood for blood, tooth for tooth!”
