Li Guoying's plan is a killing person.

It is not right to attack Li Dingguo, nor is it right to attack without attack.

If you don’t attack Hanzhong, you will be afraid of the enemy and afraid of the battle. If you attack Hanzhong, you will be despising the imperial power, or even despising the imperial wisdom.

Li Guoying can be said to be very careful in Li Dingguo on a psychological level.

As long as Li Dingguo takes one wrong step, he will end up being broken.

After making this plan, Li Guoying calmed down and continued to arrange some city defense details.

Li Dingguo, don’t stop fighting. If you don’t come and fight, then the governor will look down on you!

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After all the matter was prepared, Li Dingguo finally led a large army to fight northward to attack Hanzhong.

As a general who came out of the old Xiying, Li Dingguo is certainly not unfamiliar with Hanzhong.

But after all, I haven't been to Hanzhong for more than ten years, so this road is like brand new, and I have to cross the river by feeling the stones.

The situation of Bai Wenxuan is similar. Feng Shuangli, the only one in the Western Camp who has recently had experience in attacking Hanzhong, has been transferred from the southwest by the emperor and is not in the army at this time.

The most difficult part of walking on a mountain road is that it is difficult to transport food and supplies. If you are not careful, the car will fall into a muddy pit.

In this case, soldiers could only stop and push the cart.

But because the car is too heavy, it takes a lot of energy to push it out of the quagmire.

For this reason, the Ming army stopped many times and took a lot of time.

But there is no way to do this. If you want to fight Hanzhong, this path must be taken.

Li Dingguo did not complain too much. Anyway, fighting early is also fighting late. As long as he can win Hanzhong in the end, it would be fine, and it would not be bad for the past few days.

However, when passing through some villages along the way, Li Dingguo discovered an extremely terrifying scene.

The people in these villages were dead, and they were not killed, but died of illness.

To be precise, he died of a plague.

These people all had bloody orifices and swollen bodies, and they were obviously suffering from plague.

For a moment, Li Dingguo was very cautious, after all, the plague was not a joke.

Once the soldiers are infected with the plague, it is difficult for them to survive, let alone maintain their combat effectiveness.

Li Dingguo had a psychological shadow on the plague, so he would rather be cautious than take risks in this matter.

Li Dingguo issued a strict order that no soldiers were allowed to enter these villages, nor could they drink the river water near the villages.

Because he was worried that the river water had been polluted, once the soldiers quoted the contaminated water, they would likely have a disease.

He now doesn't know where the source of the plague is, so he can only avoid contacting these villages where the plague broke out as much as possible, speed up the marching as much as possible, and feel at ease when he arrives in Hanzhong earlier.

I have to say that the people are really miserable in troubled times.

Not only do we have to face natural disasters such as locust plagues, droughts, floods, etc., but we also have to face plagues and war disasters.

If you can't bear it, you will collapse. Even if you grit your teeth and hold it, you will probably have to fall off a layer of skin.

So Li Dingguo is now going to expedition as quickly as possible to end this chaotic situation earlier.

When Zi is the Holy Lord today, as long as the world is unified, Li Dingguo believes that people's livelihood will be restored soon.

"Your Highness King Jin, there is movement ahead!"

The army was marching, and suddenly a strange movement rang out in the forest ahead.

Bai Wenxuan immediately reminded Li Ding National Highway vigilantly.

"Well, send someone to take a look."

Li Dingguo nodded slightly and ordered in a deep voice.

Bai Wenxuan waved, and immediately more than a dozen scouts came forward to observe.

The army stopped on the spot and could not act rashly before figuring out the situation ahead.

The scouts were also very cautious and touched forward little by little, without rushing to find out the results.

As a result, shortly after entering the woods, they found a group of ragged and trembling victims.

The scouts were stunned for a moment.

The victims were stunned when they saw the soldiers, and then they knelt down and kowtowed.

"Mr. Sir, save us. We really can't survive the drought for years, so we went to the mountains to find food. But except for hunting two hares, we didn't eat anything. We could only eat bark, and now we have only one breath left."

Although these scouts sympathized with the victims, they could not agree immediately.

They could only report to Li Dingguo again.

If His Highness of Jin agrees that they will take in these victims, they will naturally follow the order.

Li Dingguo waited for a long time before waiting for the scout.

According to the scouts' reports, they found a large number of victims in the woods, all of whom were pale and thin and dying.

They requested to be able to follow the army so that at least they could survive.

Li Dingguo sighed in his heart after hearing this.

It's really hard for the people.

From the scout's report, he could basically conclude that these victims could not be spies.

If it is a spy, they need to make themselves lose their faces and lose their skin first, then their perseverance and determination are too great.

But Li Dingguo was still hesitating whether to bring these victims with him.

There are not many of these victims in total, so they definitely can't eat much food. The problem is that Li Dingguo is worried that some of these victims will be infected with the plague.

People who suffer from plague will not die immediately, and there will be a time when the disease occurs.

Maybe it will not take a certain time to get sick.

If Li Dingguo is soft-hearted and brings these victims by his side, and suddenly a disaster victim sends troops, the entire army will be very dangerous.

For the sake of the overall situation, Li Dingguo finally did not agree to the request of the victims. However, in the face of this, Li Dingguo promised to leave some food for these victims to overcome the difficulties in the near future.

At least the dozen victims of the disaster will no longer have to worry about hunger. As for whether they can have enough food in the future, Li Dingguo will not be able to control it.

After all, there are so many in the world, it is impossible for Li Dingguo to take care of them all.

To completely solve this problem, we must succeed in the Northern Expedition as soon as possible and enable the emperor's benevolent government to be implemented across the country.

Otherwise, when will the family be saved?

The victims were disappointed at first when they learned that Li Dingguo could not take them away, but when they learned that Li Dingguo had left them some food, they kowtowed to Li Dingguo with great gratitude.

Li Dingguo couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he waved his hand to signal the army to set off.

The road is long and I don’t know when I will go.

Li Dingguo could only care about the present. He didn't want to spend the night in the woods tonight. It would be better to find a source of water and stay by the river.

This not only solves the problem of burying the pot to make rice, but also prevents the risk of fire attack.

If an enemy attacks the Ming army, you can respond as soon as possible.

It is different to station in the woods. With a fire from the enemy, the Ming army could not even run away, and would be burned up and down.

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Chapter completed!