Zhang Yumeng vomited several times on the side of the official road, and Yang Qian kept patting her on the back.
She kept gagging and asked, "Why is there such a thing as cannibalism?"
Suddenly she seemed to think of something, "You told me last time that there were many incidents of cannibalism in history?"
Yang Qian had a melancholy look on his face, and there were usually only a few records in history books.
Yang Gan said in a low voice, "In the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers invaded the south and war broke out. The officers, soldiers and people had no food to eat, so they salted all the dead and dried them into dried meat for consumption."
"Fan Wen, a native of Dengzhou, organized a rebel army to fight against the Jin Dynasty. After the defeat, he took a boat across the sea to Lin'an. After the team entered the city, they were still eating the dried human meat they carried."
"I have seen records in old and new Tang books that Zhang Xun and others defended Suiyang, and the rebels surrounded the city like an iron barrel."
"The officers and soldiers in the city suggested that Zhang Xun abandon the city and break out of the siege, but Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan and others believed that Suiyang was the gateway to the Yangtze River and Huaihe River and should not be abandoned, so Zhang Xun decided to defend Suiyang to wait for reinforcements."
"But as time went by, the food and grass in the city had been exhausted, and then they ate the horses and waited until the horses were exhausted."
"The soldiers began to eat bark and paper to satisfy their hunger. After the bark and paper were finished, the soldiers caught birds and mice to eat. Later, even the leather armor worn by the soldiers was eaten."
"With no other solution, Zhang Youyou went to his home, killed his concubine, and distributed it among the soldiers."
"Xu Yuanyuan and Zhang Xun sacrificed their concubines and killed their own slaves to satisfy the hunger of the soldiers. Later, after the family had finished eating, they could only eat the common people.
"They ate the women first, and after the women were done eating, they picked out the old, weak, sick and disabled who couldn't fight."
"According to historical records, there were 40,000 households in Suiyang City before. If one household had 4 to 5 people, there would be 160,000 to 200,000 people. When the city was breached, there were only 400 people left in the city. Think about it. , how many people did these guys eat?
It was okay if Yang Qian didn't say anything. As soon as Zhang Yumeng did, she started to vomit again. She could no longer imagine how ordinary people in this world could survive.
How could there be such a cruel era? Aren’t all the people filmed in TV series beautiful and well-dressed, not all the women beautiful and elegant, and the men handsome?
Zhang Yumeng looked uncomfortable and kept patting his chest, "I, I finally know why you told me to save food."
Yang Gan looked melancholy, looking at the sun on the horizon. It was obviously a sunny day, but for some reason, a slight chill came out of his body.
"My family is rich, and I have made a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of gold, and even many assets have not been sold, otherwise millions of gold is not impossible."
"But if your family has money, you can't waste food. You can eat as much as you should, and the rest can be fed to the pigs."
Yang Gan thought for a while, and Zhang Yumeng didn't like eating fat meat like him, so he added, "If you think the fat meat is not delicious, you can give the leftovers to tigers and brown bears. Anyway, you have four of them, so you can't waste it." food."
Zhang Yumeng's white hands grabbed Yang Gan's shoulders and rubbed his head on his shoulders.
Yang Gan wanted to avoid her, but he was afraid that she would fall. He suppressed his nausea and said disgustedly, "Fuck, don't rub it on me. I'm almost going to puke from you."
"I'm going to die. I feel insecure now. You have to hold me to sleep today." Zhang Yumeng looked hopeless.
"Okay, okay, you know how to pull, just like a child." After asking her to rinse her mouth, Yang Qian came with Zhang Yumeng in his arms.
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Inside the carriage.
He asked his men to call some people from Shang and Liao for questioning. It turned out that Liao's situation was better than that of Shang, and he could barely make ends meet.
But the situation in Shangguo is very difficult. The phenomenon of cannibalism has appeared on the border. It is fine near the capital of their country, but it is not easy to control in remote places. There are even many refugees forming small teams to catch people and eat meat on official roads.
Xiao Yu and Mu Qing, one was from a scholar-bureaucrat family and the other was from a wealthy businessman family. Although they had heard of it, this was the first time they saw human bones that had been eaten clean. They immediately wrapped them up and threw them outside, but Yang Gan stopped.
Mu Qing's face also looked very ugly. He wiped his hands and said, "King Shang Guo is governing the country like this. It seems that he is not far from destroying the country."
Yang Gan shrugged indifferently, "I don't care. Anyway, I never wanted to hit others. Going home and living my own life is more important than anything else. In addition, my ability is limited. I can currently feed the Guizhou leaders in Yuntong County." It’s already hard to have enough to eat.”
Two days later, outside Yanggu Pass.
On the city wall, several soldiers chatted lazily with each other, and some were even eating snacks. If such a thing had happened at Baiyunguan, Yang Gan would have been pulled down and beaten with a military stick.
Baiyun Pass not only has strict military discipline, but is equipped with at least ten telescopes on the city wall, and even two specially customized huge telescopes, which can clearly see the scene more than ten kilometers away, and there is no chance of being attacked by anyone.
When the peripheral vision of several soldiers glanced outside the city, they held their helmets dumbfounded and shouted heartbreakingly, "Enemy, enemy attack~~!"
"Dong dong dong~~~~!" The drum was beaten immediately, and the entire pass began to operate violently. Although the military discipline was average, the basic military quality was still there.
When the generals and generals came to the city wall, they saw their father, Bochao, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
He just smashed the helmets of several lieutenants.
"You pigheads, are you blind? That's Commander Yang's team."
Zaifu Bochao helplessly covered his face. He felt extremely embarrassed. From such a close distance, Yang Gan must have heard the sound of beating drums.
When he saw several lieutenants looking at him with innocent expressions, he cursed directly, "You bastard, you idiot, why don't you open the city gate for me?"
The generals, big and small, rushed down to the city in an instant. They were not fools, and they were looking for scolding for staying here.
Five thousand mysterious armored cavalry were lined up neatly on both sides of the large army. Many porters looked at the tall pass and instinctively showed frightened expressions.
But there were also some people who had seen the world and looked at it in shock. Isn't this Yanggu Pass of Xia Kingdom? At this time, these people seemed to understand something in their hearts.
The large army arrived at the pass, and Zaifu Bochao hurriedly ran down the city wall. Looking at the man riding on the huge beast, wearing strange armor and a ferocious mask, he was stunned for a moment, cupped his hands and smiled.
"General Yang?"
He opened his visor, revealing a beautiful face, and said with a smile, "General Zaifu, are you afraid that I will attack the city? You can hear the sound of drums beating far away."
Zaifu Bochao's face darkened, he was so embarrassed.
But now that the matter has come to this point, he can only smile awkwardly and say, "Misunderstanding, this is completely a misunderstanding. General Yang, would you like to come in and explain?"
Yang Gan shook his head and said, "No, there are so many of us. As soon as I find my mentor, I will set off back to Yuntong."
Looking for someone
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Naturally, someone did it for him. After Yang Gan got off the rhinoceros, he handed a package to his father, Zai Bochao, and told him everything he had analyzed about the situation.
Zaifu Bochao opened the package, examined it carefully, and said with fear, "Is it already so serious?"
Yang Gan said in a deep voice, "It's like this in official circles, but the situation in Shangguo must be even more difficult."
Zaifu Bochao nodded and asked, "Has the young master's plan been completed?"
"Don't worry, it's done. We also captured six to seven thousand soldiers, about fifteen thousand porters, and more than 9,000 carts of grain and grass. This time it's much more than expected."
Zaifu Bochao showed an envious expression. Who wouldn't be interested in having so much food and grass? It would be enough for an army of 300,000 people to eat for a month.
"General Yang, this is incredible. This can be considered a windfall."
Yang Gan rolled his eyes at him and said, "A windfall? It's a windfall, but the most important thing is to disrupt Shang Guo's deployment. Otherwise, Shang Guo will definitely attack in less than half a month, and General Zaifu will definitely bear the brunt."
Zaifu Bochao was actually very conflicted in his heart. There was no general at this time who didn't like fighting, but the battle might not be 100% won. If he lost, he would lose his life at worst, and he would be reprimanded at worst.
When Yang Gan told him about it at that time, he actually didn't take it to heart. Even after a period of martial law, he felt a little tired.
When seeing so much food and grass, even an idiot could see Shang Guo's ambition.
"In general, I would like to thank General Zaifu for making the border troops more convenient for me. If I have food and grass, I will keep some of it here and treat it as extra food for the soldiers."
Zaifu Bochao was overjoyed and stopped repeatedly, but he was very honest and immediately turned around to let his men receive the food.
Yang Gan gave him one-tenth of the food and grass, and he still needed the baggage cart, which was just right to take some weak people with him.
Even though some porters are thin, they are all hungry. If they go back to the village and eat a few more meals and gain a little weight, they will be good at plowing the land.
Arriving near the military camp, this place was designated by Zai Fu Bo Chao for Tan Tianyan and his party to set up camp.
No matter what other people think, just talking about the names of Tianyan and Xunhou Sheng can make you treat them carefully.
Yang Gan didn't care about others and walked into the camp first. He always said hello to the old man, otherwise he was afraid of being misunderstood as not respecting his teacher.
When I opened the door, I saw three old men sitting inside, drinking tea.
Yang Gan smiled and said, "Teacher, Xun Sheng, eh~~~ Lao Ge, why are you here?"
Yang Gan looked surprised. The third old man turned out to be Ge Zhao.
Tan Tianyan frowned and said, "Yang Qian, you must not be rude to Divine Doctor Ge."
Ge Zhao smiled and gave up, "It's okay. I was saved by a friend. I call him Lao Ge. Hehe, it's quite kind."
Looking at Yang Qian's questioning eyes, Ge Zhao explained, "We originally wanted to go to Xia Kingdom, but we didn't expect that the road was not peaceful. We happened to meet up to talk about offering wine, so we came together."
"Lao Ge, come to Yuntong. Everything else is not peaceful right now." As soon as Yang Qian saw him, he didn't know if it was an occupational disease, so he immediately planned to recruit him.
The three old men were stunned for a moment, then laughed together and said, "Brother Ge, I must be right."
Ge Zhao nodded, cupped his hands and said, "I told you exactly what I said. I didn't expect that my little friend would try to recruit someone as soon as they met."
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