In the winter of the seventh year of Jinghe, the Yalang tribe broke through Yuguan, leaving Duanshui Village with only three days of food left, and less than two hundred capable warriors.
Huo Qing, who had just crossed over, saw in front of him piles of corpses, the supervisors who had deducted food and wages, and three thousand Huqi torches connected in a line at the end of the snowy ridge to the north.
He clutched the spring wheat seeds and the blueprints of the improved bed crossbow, and issued a military order in public——
"In ten days, sow the seeds; in one month, the enemy will retreat."
Others farmed for a living, but he opened a military camp - using agriculture to support war, and using war to protect agriculture. Wherever the grain goes, so does the flag.
From Baizu Guzhai to Dingbian becoming a marquis, this area of peace was planted by him with his own hands.
