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Chapter 193 - Young People

At this time in Chang'an City, the weather had turned cool.

As the sun was setting in the west, dozens of young porters walked in from outside the city. They arrived at a dilapidated courtyard in the North City where they rested. They were all only seventeen or eighteen years old, youths who had lost loved ones during the Nvzhen's occupation of Chang'an. Their leader was called Yang Zheng. Yang Zheng was slightly older than others, already over twenty years old.

"Big Brother Yang, it's time to eat!" a young man shouted after a while.

The young man called Yang Zheng nodded, and brought the rest of the young men to eat together with him. The so-called rice was just porridge with steamed buns, with no dishes to eat. However, everyone still ate with relish. After working so hard for the entire day, every dish was extremely tasty.

"Big brother Yang, when are we going to Middle Han Area?" A young man asked as they ate.

"We don't have to go out to work tomorrow! Tomorrow, we will go to Middle Han Area! " Yang Zheng took a sip of the porridge and said.

"What?" Tomorrow? " Those youths were all taken aback!

They already knew that they were going to the Middle Han Area, but they did not expect them to arrive so quickly!

"That's right!" Tomorrow! I just received the notice from the higher ups, we will head to Middle Han Area tomorrow with the rest of the young men from Chang'an City! We want to meet His Majesty, and we beg His Majesty to agree to the establishment of the death army, and to fight to the death with the Nvzhen! Our parents and relatives have died in the hands of the Nvzhen, we must fight to the death against him! " Yang Zheng gritted his teeth.

"We will set off tomorrow. Doesn't this mean that we will soon be able to see His Majesty?" A youth said excitedly.

He stood up and looked at the sunset in the sky, his heart surging with emotion! In the entire history, he was not an ordinary person either. He was Wu Jie's assistant, following Wu Jie in battles to the north and south! But now that history had changed, when Wu Jie went to Sichuan, he was the leader of the Orphan Men, and one of the people at the bottom level of Advocacy Division!

Tonight, these porters were too excited to sleep!

When dawn arrived the next day, they were already rushing to get up before the sky had even started to brighten! It was already autumn, but they did not have any extra clothes on them. They only wore thin outfits, and under Yang Zheng's lead, they headed towards the outside.

When they arrived outside, they discovered that the young men from all over Chang An had already left! On this day, the city gates of Chang'an City was opened very early, countless youths came outside, Yang Zheng led his tens of brothers outside!

"Don't mess around!" The people of the North City would gather here, the people of the East City and the West City would gather there, and the people of the South City would gather at the front! And the people outside the city with those from South City! We need to first count the number of people before we head to the Middle Han Area! " A middle-aged man wearing a military uniform shouted.

Other than this middle-aged man, there were also countless soldiers there maintaining order and counting the number of people!

These young men had never been trained before, and now, all the young men of Chang'an City were gathered here, in an extremely chaotic manner! After a full two hours, the youths lined up in an orderly manner. The youths began to count down!

"Academy Officer Liu, has a total of seventy-three thousand people!" A soldier walked up to the middle-aged man and said.

"There are actually so many people!" Along the way, they had to make arrangements for their consumption of food. This was not a small expense! "However, this is a big matter that the Military Intelligence has arranged. We must execute it well!" The middle-aged man nodded.

After another hour passed, the 73,000 plus Chang An youths started heading towards the west, their destination was Middle Han Area! These 73,000 youths were divided into 73rd squads. Each squad had over a thousand people! Each team wasn't too far away from each other. They shouted to each other as they moved forward!

On the first day, all 73,000 youths were abnormally excited! They had already received orders from "the higher-ups", or had received word of mouth from other youths, and knew that they were going to the Middle Han Area to pay their respects to the "great man" and "saint" in their hearts, to request for the establishment of the "death army", and to fight with the Nvzhen to the death! It could be said that these youths were the first ones to realize the militarization of the Advocacy Division. Regardless of their background, whether it was the scholars, the martial artists, or the laborers, all of them had the same belief in their own people, that they were Chinese, and their own people had an incomparably glorious history. But now, this once glorious race was going to be wiped out by the female barbarians. Everyone had this kind of belief. Naturally, they were extremely excited about the establishment of the so-called "Daring Army"!

However, the Chang'an City was too far away from the Middle Han Area, so given the ancient transportation conditions, it would take them at least a month to reach the Middle Han Area! The time they had agreed upon was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and right now, it was only half a month away! Thus, even though it was night time, they did not dare to stop their footsteps. At night, they still had to hurry on their way!

In this era, males were inferior to females, and males were of a much higher status than females. As a result, these Chang'an youths were all made up of males! Even so, after a day and a night of travelling, they were still a little tired!

For the next few days, they continued on their journey and only rested for two to three hours every night! They had travelled all the way from Martial Arts to Windraiser, and only then did they find out that the young people were also headed towards Hanzhong City! It turned out that it was not just the young people of Chang An, at this moment, almost all the young people of the entire nation were advancing towards Hanzhong City!

Amongst the countless youths, Yang Zheng felt himself to be so insignificant! In this group of over 70,000 people, anyone could feel the strength of their insignificant group!

Afterwards, they passed by the Dazhang Pass. Outside the Dazhang Pass, they admired the place where Wu Jie had defeated the Jin Army, they were extremely excited! Many people wished that they were also Wu Jie's subordinates. As long as they could defeat the woman, even if they had to die on the battlefield, they would be willing!

When they arrived at the foot of the Qin Mountains, they saw the youth who came through the same route! The number of youths that had arrived by the same route was around 30,000!

The two groups of youths met and greeted each other. They had come for the same purpose, so they both laughed heartily and were extremely excited!

Finally, on the afternoon of August 13th, they arrived outside the Hanzhong City.

Here, the flag was fluttering in the wind, and there was a sea of people! The young people from all over the place were gathered here!

The entire Chang'an City was surrounded by the youth's encampment! Who knew how many youths there were here! The supplies from Hanzhong City were also being delivered to these youths!

"Master Wang, the young people of the Middle Han Area, the Guan Shan, and the various Northwest regions have all arrived at the Hanzhong City! Only in the Sichuan area, the power of our Advocacy Division there is limited, the power of the local families there is huge, so the number of young people there is limited! A total of 1.45 million young people had already arrived! There might be more tomorrow! " An official of the Advocacy Division said.

"1,450,000 people!" So many people! They were all young people, so they could all enlist in the army! Very good, very good! " Wang Shu said in excitement.

"That's right!" If these 1,450,000 soldiers were to join, our Song Dynasty would no longer lack soldiers! " The official from Advocacy Division also said excitedly.

"However, it's still not enough! Sichuan has a large population, and the number of young people there is the highest. If we can mobilize the young people from all over Sichuan, that would be for the best! " Wang Shu said.

"My lord, the resistance in Sichuan is too great! Now, even the imperial court's Rent reduction order has not been implemented in Sichuan, so there's no need to even mention our Advocacy Division! We were originally relying on the Rent reduction order to change the entire situation! " the official said.

"You're right, the resistance in Sichuan is too great. Forget it, we can think about the problems in Sichuan later! Soon, these millions of youths will pay their respects to His Majesty! With so many people here, there must not be any trouble! You must maintain order! Let them enter the Hanzhong City one by one to pay their respects to the Emperor! " Wang Shu said.

"Yes sir!" That official agreed!

"There should be some extraordinary figures among these youths. You should find a few of them, I want to see them!" Wang Shu said again.

The official agreed once again. When dusk came, a few young leaders arrived in front of Wang Shu, with Yu Yunwen as their leader.