Wuling Soldiers: Protect Food and Fight Through the Border

The defenders abandoned the city, and three thousand victims were left to die. Only the most inconspicuous clerk, Shen Li, was left in the granary. The enemy cavalry is approaching, the city walls are in ruins, and there are no soldiers, no armor, and no reinforcements. Everyone was running away, but Shen Li locked the granary, gathered the victims, killed the enemy and seized the horses, exchanging food for lives and lives for knives. From Wulingyi to Kuhebao, from a group of refugees to an army that dared to fight, he grabbed food, seized armor, collected surrendered troops, opened salt wells, opened trade routes, and forcibly carved out a land of living people in the northern border that had been abandoned by the imperial court and foreign enemies. The Han family said that he was a rebel, and the grassland tribes asked him to hand over the city, and the imperial envoy asked him to hand over grain and troops. Shen Li just stuck the knife on the city wall: We saved the food, and we fought for the city. Anyone who wants to take it can come and get it themselves.