Chen Ning spread out the map with Kan Jing and Qin Yingqi, and as soon as Qin Yingqi saw the location of the Tiger Pass, he smiled bitterly: "Commander, it seems that our General Fu really hates you to the core." ”

Chen Ning was stunned when he heard this: "Why do you say that?"

Qin Yingqi pointed to the location of Hukou Pass and said, "Commander of the corps, Lieutenant Colonel Kan, look here." This kendo path path connects the eastern and western fronts that we divide, and if you are stationed here in peacetime, it will naturally be a very easy job. But now that Tears and the Scorpion Tyrant are at war at any time, and with the intervention of our Imperial Army on the Eastern Front, even if the Scorpion Tyrant can defeat the Tearful Resistance, he will be taken advantage of by our Imperial Army. A little zombie led by the Demon Scorpion Tyrant is in danger, then the Corpse Emperor of the Western Front is likely to send other zombie forces to rescue the Demon Scorpion Tyrant. ”

Suga added, "Even if there are no zombie reinforcements coming from here, then we will be refrigerated, and it will be difficult for us to perform in the war to recover the southern provinces." ”

Chen Ning was not so pessimistic: "But at least we have tens of thousands of prisoners of war, and it is also a good choice to be able to station at Hukou Pass." ”

When Chen Ning came back just now, he had already told Ah Diao and the other more than 30,000 rebels who had surrendered that their danger had been completely removed, and the commander-in-chief had promised not to kill anyone at will. Chen Ning also asked if everyone was willing to go to Vermilion Bird City, if everyone was willing, Chen Ning could wait for the caravan of the Liu family trading house to send them supplies privately, and arrange for these people to follow the caravan back to Vermilion Bird City.

As long as the captives are willing, even if the journey is a little slower, it will take ten days and half a month, and it is estimated that they will still be able to safely reach the camp camp outside Suzaku City.

However, more than 30,000 prisoners of war, or rebels, all refused to go to the camp camps in Suzaku City.

You must know that when the zombies just swept through the southern provinces and countless people became homeless people and fled their homes one after another, these rebels did not think about fleeing their hometowns, they had a particularly crazy insistence on their homeland, and they reached the point of living and dying with their homeland.

It was precisely because of this belief that they formed a rebel army, so that when their father died in battle, their brother stood up and fought, when their brother died in battle, their mother stood up and fought, and when their mother died in battle, the old man and half-grown children stood up and fought.

Therefore, sticking to this land is their strongest belief, and the belief that they can persist in this difficult environment.

Just as no one wants to abandon their faith, none of these tens of thousands of rebels are willing to abandon their homeland, as Ao said: "In order to protect this land, my father died, my brother died, my mother also died, and my whole family died to protect this land." If I go to the camp of exiles now, become a homeless people, and flee from this homeland, then what is the point of my relatives who died in battle?"

Chen Ning had seen the stubbornness and fanaticism of the rebels for this homeland, but he was also moved by the madness and persistence of these people to guard their homeland, so when the rebels were unwilling to go to Vermilion Bird City to live in camps, he asked for everyone's consent and led them to Hukou Pass to arrest them, and the soldiers and civilians survived here temporarily.

The Black Legion marched slowly with tens of thousands of people, and it took several days of hard work to reach the Tiger Pass.

Hukou Pass is a steep hillside on both sides, and in the middle is a sheep intestine path, called Kendo, where the environment is harsh and there is nothing. Fortunately, the two colonels, Mu Ye and Wu Junsheng, secretly gave Chen Ning a part of the grain when Chen Ning left, otherwise, Chen Ning and they would not be able to take root here with tens of thousands of prisoners.

The Black Legion and tens of thousands of prisoners of war, under the bad conditions of drinking gruel three times a day, began to cut down wood and build soil, or pile up stones, and in five days, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians forcibly built a three-meter-high city wall in Hukou Pass, and also built countless wooden houses, and built basic fortifications here.

On the tenth day, the convoy of the Liujia Commercial Bank finally arrived here, sending a lot of food and daily necessities to the Black Army and tens of thousands of people, temporarily solving the problem of food shortage and material poverty in Hukou Pass.

The Liu family's business house will come here once every half a month in the future, but the materials transported by the Liu family will be less and less, and the Liu family hopes that Chen Ning and them can quickly become self-reliant, after all, even if the Liu family on the rich side has to feed the soldiers and civilians for a long time, it is also very difficult.

Chen Ning asked the merchant transport team to bring all kinds of fast-growing vegetables or food seeds, as well as seedlings of various animals, so that tens of thousands of people could cultivate and breed here, of course, the Black Legion did not participate in these farming, and the primary task of all the soldiers of the Black Legion was to train and guard this pass.

Hukou Pass from scratch, it can be said that every day is changing, tens of thousands of people under the protection of the army, rest assured to open up the wasteland, in Hukou Pass everywhere to open up arable land, farmland, everywhere arable land has grown green plant seedlings, a wooden house quickly built, surrounded by captive chickens and cattle and sheep and other animals, but also raised a lot of dogs.

It's like it's been developed into a paradise.

On the twenty-fifth day that Chen Ning was stationed in Hukou Pass, this night ushered in the first grand celebration of Hukou Pass, and the reason was very simple, the first batch of vegetables planted by tens of thousands of residents, that is, dozens of acres of small cabbage, ushered in a bumper harvest.

The seeds of the little cabbage are one of the plant seeds that Chen Ning asked the Liu family caravan to bring, and the food seeds selected by Chen Ning are the plants with the shortest growth cycle, which can quickly provide food to the soldiers and civilians in Hukou Pass.

The growth cycle of bok choy is very short, and it can be picked in 20 days.

This green and tender white cabbage is not only a simple food, but also a new hope for the tens of thousands of people who have died and been displaced.

For more than a year, the zombie army has swept through the entire southern province, countless people have fled here, and the rest of the people have been ravaged by the war, everything here has been destroyed, and anything that symbolizes home and life has been destroyed.

These people who are struggling on the line of death, everyone longs for the day when they can rebuild their beautiful homes on the ruins.

Therefore, when tens of thousands of people were protected by the Black Army, they opened up a paradise in Hukou Pass, and truly re-established their homes in the ruins.

Tens of thousands of people were delighted by the sight of green plant shoots, hens foraging by the hut with their chicks, cattle and sheep grazing grass by the stream, and even the barking of yellow dogs.

Therefore, on the first harvest day of the residents of Hukou Pass, that is, the day of the first large batch of cabbage picking, a carnival was held, and they lit a bonfire under Hukou Pass, men, women and children sang and danced to celebrate, of course, it was indispensable to invite the most respected person in their minds, Colonel Chen Ning, to participate in the bonfire party.

Chen Ning and Kan Jing, Qin Yingqi, Bull Demon King, Fang Zheng and others attended the bonfire party, although most of the food of tens of thousands of people is mainly vegetables, but Chen Ning's dining table, which is full of all kinds of fresh vegetable food, in addition to fruit wine, as well as hares, squirrels, wild beavers and other game caught by the residents, they strive to dedicate the best food to Chen Ning, to express their kindness and gratitude to Chen Ning.

Without Chen Ning, they would not have rebuilt their homes one day.

This night, countless people came to toast with Chen Ning, and Chen Ning was drunk.

In the next few days, Hukou Pass became more and more prosperous, and it has become a paradise in the occupied area.

It's just that bad news came suddenly at this time.

It turned out that the Demon Scorpion Tyrant on the Eastern Front had not yet started a war with Tears, and both sides were wary because they found out that the imperial army led by Fu Yunfei appeared in the surrounding area.

The rebels were worried about Fu Yunfei's imperial forces, and the Demon Scorpion Tyrant felt that the situation was not optimistic.

After all, in the eyes of the Demon Scorpion Tyrant, the rebel army and the imperial army are both human beings, and the decisive battle with the rebel army was a bit unpredictable, but now that there is suddenly a cunning imperial army, the Demon Scorpion Tyrant must not be wary.

Therefore, the Demon Scorpion Tyrant confronted Tears while sending a signal for help to the Corpse Emperor on the Western Front.

The Slaughter Corpse Emperor of the Dark City, knowing the situation faced by the Demon Scorpion Tyrant, immediately began to draw super zombies and prepare to support the Eastern Front.

And the one in charge of supporting the Demon Scorpion Tyrant is a zombie tyrant named Thunder.

The Thunder Tyrant led the zombie army, from the path of the sword, trying to go around the rear to the rear of the rebel army and the imperial army led by Fu Yunfei, and attacked the demon scorpion tyrant before and after.

When Chen Ning got the latest news that the Thunder Tyrant was going to lead the zombie army from him to the back of the human army, his face turned pale.

Chen Ning gathered all the soldiers and residents, announced the bad news, and then instructed Ah Diao and their tens of thousands of people: "The Thunder Tyrant is here, everything here will be turned into ruins again, you can flee for your lives." ”

Everyone was shocked, they had just basked in the joy of rebuilding their homes, only to be told that their homes were going to be gone.

When Diao and the others heard that Chen Ning had let them flee, they couldn't help but ask Chen Ning, "Colonel Chen, what about you?"

Chen Ning smiled bitterly: "I am an Imperial soldier, I can't let the Thunder Tyrant outflank the back of the Imperial Army and the Rebel Army, I have to stick here." The order given to me from above was to hold on for half a month, in fact, I didn't even have the confidence to hold on for three days, but I still had to hold on. So, run away!"