Among the tiny snowflakes that began to sway, Gao Chong, the former deputy general manager of the Western Shu Administration and the commander of the Beichuan administration and the remaining subordinates, also accompanied by a small team of guards and messengers, passed through the continuous hilly communities and Xiachang Basin in the Luonan region, and embarked on the way to meet in Pengcheng, Xuzhou. Because this time, he had to take a trip himself.

In fact, when Huaizhen expressed his generous expression that he was willing to accept the wounded and sick people from Shangzhou and the many people accompanying people from Shannan, and continued to support and assist his team in the Nanyang area. After his people and morale tendencies had already undergone irreversible huge changes, he had no room for any turnaround.

After all, although this lonely army has not yet reached the last step, it is not far away. Most people are completely tired of this endless daily life of losing their guard day and night, but still fighting against their superior enemies in a lack of food and clothing, just for such a little hope and possibility.

And when the last little hope was completely shattered, even he could not stop the collapse of the morale and morale of the army. Only Huaizhen's helping hand can help and remedy their imminent crisis and dilemma.

Despite this, there were still a small number of soldiers under his command. Under the leadership of those generals who were still sincerely unchanged to the country or were lucky enough to choose to continue to go south to find the reunion of friendly forces, or to take a detour west to return to Shu, rather than just like others, joining Huaizhen, a rebel party in the northern part of Huaizhen.

As for Gao Chong himself, in a sense, he was already a dead person in the country and the dynasty, so there was not so much honor, disgrace, gains and losses to care about. So his trip was more like a kind of attitude and disguised guarantee.

He also set foot on the land of Duji Province, Henan, almost with this complex and bumpy mood.

The atmosphere of desolation and decadence is almost everywhere, with destroyed villages and towns everywhere, as well as collapsed and abandoned county towns, and unrestrained white bones everywhere among the deserted grass on the roadside. This situation did not improve until they passed Lushi County under the Xiluo River, and saw the first military camp and Suitai in the southwest foot of Xiluo Mountain.

Although it was still cold and lonely in the wild, and there were only the whistling and whispering like crying, the wind was swept by, but at least the groups of wild dogs and crows that were wandering and almost fearless were no longer visible, and replaced by emerging construction sites of all sizes on the roadside, as well as one of the fields that were not very coherent but were obviously harvested neatly.

Although the people who work vaguely between these construction sites have a look of food or are inevitably pale and thin, and the fatigue and hard work of heavy labor is beyond words, unexpectedly there is almost no depressed or depressed, no worries about the inability to stay in the future, and no confusion about the future...

Because of their existence, the roads that were originally muddy and uneven due to the war began to gradually become dry, flat and hard; sections of new and old rivers and canals and pieces of water-filled fields also continued to extend around; beacon towers, sentry towers, village buildings, stations and barracks, and garrisons, and garrisons also rose one after another.

What surprised him was that among these construction sites that had already begun to take shape, except for a few more important core projects that were undertaken by the Jiansheng Army from Huai, almost all others were built and developed by the local military and civilians recruited in Duji Province, Henan. This also shows that Huai Town is always good at operating and expanding the prominent reputation and sufficient confidence, and it is not a waste of time;

You should know that most of them have just been in charge of Huaizhen and have already developed this obvious change of mental outlook and weather in just over half a month.

Therefore, Gao Chong, who had a rare complex thought, even took the initiative to come to the kitchens of these construction sites during a moment of rest on the road, wanting to see other things that are more real under the opposite side of these places;

For example, Gao Chong found that their daily dietary supply was filled with taro, radish and dried beans. Although there was almost no oil, water and meat color in it, it was cooked thick enough and the portions of each person were full of a small pot. If you need to extend your working hours six hours a day, or if you continue to work temporarily at night, there was even a supply of mixed noodles soup cakes and baked jaccao.

Well, if you take this as a guide, you can see through the cave with a single scale and a half-claw in the cave. If you have at least this newly occupied outer area as a reference, the general living standard under Huai Town and the treatment of the military should not be a shortcut.

After Gao Chong crossed the Heyang Bridge and entered Hebei, it was a different style. Because the river surface began to freeze and icy flow to varying degrees, it was difficult to get a boat down the river, and he had to take a detour on land.

Here, compared to the deserted Duji Province in Henan, Hebei Province, there is undoubtedly much more popular in Hebei Province. In the colder weather and the falling snow powder from time to time, there are still many bridgeheads, small cities, wild cities at intersections and ferries, as well as groups of pedestrians and carriages coming and going. And the more you go east, the more lively and frequently it becomes.

Of course, there were also some more annoying or less harmonious existences during this period; some of the newly-entered villages and market towns, the signs of being attacked and smoky on the walls of the county towns, as well as many heads hanging on the roadside with long poles, and corpses hanging under the walls of the city gates, the unkempt and stinking faces were imprisoned in the stand cages, or the figures of working in the mud of moats and wearing shackles;

All of them are showing that Huaizhen is not smooth sailing without any obstacles or resistance in the newly occupied areas. But this makes Gao Chong feel more at ease. As a senior general who has participated in various anti-insurgency operations and Yanbian garrison developments in the vast areas outside the ridge for many years, he understands better than others the basic principle of using heavy punishments for the great chaos; and since Huaizhen is not hesitant to use these iron-blooded and violent means on the newly occupied areas, it also means an unprecedented determination and firm attitude to govern chaos.

Therefore, after arriving at Liping City, a water and land transfer hub in Dezhou, and after passing through the Yellow River and entering Huaibei Road in the heart of the heart, his originally ups and downs had completely calmed down.

I have also had a preliminary idea and idea about the next path and direction.

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at the same time,

The iron horse autumn wind is the gateway to the south of Guannan that enters Shu and Shannan West Road, and has once again been trapped in dust, smoke and blood.

This time the fall was even faster than the Western Army entered Shu many years ago. The renovated Guancheng had not even been useful. Just when the Huangyuan vassal soldiers, who were known as the "Hengshan and Broken Water" of the Qingtang Protectorate, competed to climb over the next round and disappeared.

After losing the combat power of the vast majority of the northward Xishu Xingshi, as the country of Tianfu, there were basically no soldiers available in Shuzhong, and only some old, weak, sick and disabled people and newly recruited Tumen from the local area. The township soldiers are striving to maintain the basic situation...

Since then, in the face of the Western Army frenzy that came against the wind and snow, Xingzhou, Wenzhou, Longzhou, Lizhou, Langzhou, Yangzhou and Bazhou have successively descended. With the decline of Xingyuan Prefecture (Hanzhong County), the last gateway to the heartland of Shuzhong was no longer open.
Chapter completed!