Chapter 12, The Scourge of Thieves
Bai Qi pointed at his people: "Fang Cai's words are for them, but for you...... The first evil will be punished! As he spoke, he nodded to Ziyi behind him, and Ziyi slashed horizontally, leaving only a layer of skin on Zhang Fei's neck. Ziyi slapped his hand, and the head fell off.
The rest of the people exclaimed again!
Bai Qi shouted: "Wait for the quick departure, whoever falls last, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless, take your grain and rice, and run!" ”
With this shout, adults and children all spread their legs and flew westward, and from time to time someone fell to the ground, and the people behind stepped on it, crying, because no one dared to fall last.
In a moment, all the people ran away. Only a few dozen corpses remained in the camp, as well as the fires that had not yet been extinguished.
Bai Qi knew that as soon as these people ran away, the news of encountering the officials and soldiers would immediately spread, and the surrounding thieves would not dare to come, so this place would be much safer, just to rectify the people. He ordered to count the loot, and Li Dang shook out a cyan round-necked cotton robe from the leader's baggage, which seemed to be new, and there was a cotton scent, he presented it to Bai Qi, and Bai Qi praised: "Now the king finally has a decent dress." ”
At this time, someone shouted: "General, come and see." ”
Someone said that a horse was pulled, please Bai Qi and Wang Jian to see.
The second general Dingqing took a look, that horse was not a divine horse, just an ordinary horse, and there was nothing to see. But Wang Jian had sharp eyes, copied the horse's belly, copied the horse's pedal in his hand, and asked Bai Qi: "General, what is this?" ”
Bai Qi took a closer look and shook his head slightly: "I don't know, I haven't seen it." ”
No wonder they haven't seen it, the horse pedal was only after the Han Dynasty, the Qin army knights in the battle, the horse only has a saddle and no horse pedal, even the famous Zhao Wuling King's reform "Hufu cavalry shooting", there is no horse pedal, at that time it was extremely difficult to shoot arrows on the horse, the knight's legs should be tightly clamped in the horse's belly, and it is okay to shoot forward, if you shoot arrows backwards or left and right, you will often fall off the horse.
Because of this, when the Qin army fought on horseback, it used crossbows instead of bows.
Wang Jian touched his head: "This thing...... What's the use? ”
Bai Qi circled around the horse: "I'll try." So saying, he flew on the horse, and his legs clamped the belly of the horse, just as a pair of feet could step on the horse's pedals.
The horse neighed, and the man stood up.
The people were terrified, afraid that they would jump wildly and throw the general down.
However, Bai Qi clamped the horse's belly with his legs, stepped on the horse's pedals with both feet, and pulled the reins with his hands, and the whole person fell backwards with the horse, and his body was almost parallel to the ground, but he did not fall down.
As soon as the horse's hooves hit the ground, Bai Qi laughed: "With this thing, it is much safer to ride on the horse." I think I can even leave my hands free. ”
Everyone was overjoyed, jumped on the remaining horses, tried to ride, and then they were full of praise, and said: "Why didn't we think of this thing when we fought the Huns, if there was such a thing, a million Huns would also shoot it." ”
Everyone laughed and returned to the dungeon.
This raid was really bloodless, all the sergeants were unharmed, and everyone admired Bai Qi's strategy, if he fought hard, he could kill the enemy in the end, but there would be casualties on his side.
Seeing King Qin, Bai Qi offered the new robe, King Qin wore it, took off the crown, and even changed his shoes, this time he didn't look like a king, but the style was still quite big.
For now, without further ado, while no one has discovered the dungeon, leave quickly. The king of Qin decided to go east, he ordered Bai Qi to go ahead, and after Wang Jian broke off, Zhang Yi and Fan Ju set off overnight with clothes, rice and grain and treasures in the underground palace.
After everyone and materials were out of the underground palace, the king of Qin ordered the entrance of the cave to be buried so that no one would find out.
He has his own plans, this underground palace has spent countless manpower and material resources, and when he really dies, he will return here. The dungeon is another of his kingdoms.
When the entrance to the cave is buried, and some hay and branches are pushed, no one will know that there is such a huge underground structure in this wild forest.
He wasn't worried about not being able to find the hole in the future, because the huge mound of sealed earth was not far to the west.
After casting one last glimpse into the wild forest where the underground palace was located, the King of Qin took his army and treasures and set out in a mighty way.
Their destination was Huayin, which was very close to Tongguan, and in case of a fight, a rapid march could reach the city of Tongguan. The king of Qin issued an order to go, ordering the soldiers to walk day and night, and take as far away paths as possible, without alarming anyone.
The army of 10,000 was like a long snake sneaking in the water, they were absolutely silent between their movements, the human ranks, the mouth of the horse, even the four hooves of the horses were covered, and the rest during the day was hidden in the woods and mountains, and they walked for five days in a row, and finally arrived at Huayin. The vanguard has already seen the towering Huashan.
In order to hide people's eyes, the Qin army first drove into Huashan at night, rested in the forest for a day, recuperated in the spirit, and sent sentry spies to Huayin to inquire about the news.
Half a day later, the sentry reported that Huayin County was similar to Xianyang City, but the villages and towns seemed to have just been looted, and the fires in many villages had not been extinguished, and the corpses were everywhere in the villages, and almost only the old people with impaired mobility remained, and the young men and women were gone.
Bai Qi understood that most of those young men and women had been taken away by the thieves, and the old people were left waiting to die.
He reported the situation to King Qin, who nodded: "Good opportunity, there is no one in the village, and it happens to be the shelter of my Qin people." When we enter the village, we settle down. ”
Taking advantage of the night, the Qin army began to approach those villages, and sure enough, before they approached, they saw that the fire in the village was still burning, and no one put out the fire, and they couldn't see the people of the government around, they didn't know, just lit the lamp, and a group of thieves and people such as the monkeys looted and burned here, and then roared away, and the Huayin defenders defended the city with all their might, where is there still room to relieve the victims.
Bai Qi arranged it, divided the team into four teams, led one team by himself, Wang Jian a team, Ziyi a team, and Li Kang a team, each team of 2,000 people, stationed in four villages, first extinguished the fire, relieved the living in the village, and then buried the corpses and reorganized the village.
The assignment was decided, leaving 2,000 people to protect the king of Qin, Bai Qi led people into a village, and saw a stone archway at the edge of the village, which was engraved with three big characters: Yuehuazhuang.
It's still full of poetry, of course Bai Qi has no time to feel, his first task is to find the living first, enter the village to see, there are corpses all over the ground, there are wooden stakes on the side of the road, there are a few people who have cut off their heads, and some of the bodies are scraped to expose their bones, and a few other big trees are burned to the black, there are charred human figures on them, there are a few burned people in the extinguished fire, look at the size of the corpse, it should be children, the dead women are all messy clothes, some are even stripped naked, obviously suffered before death.
All kinds of tragic situations are unbearable to see.
These Qin soldiers are all battle-hardened warriors, and they have seen tens of millions of dead people, and they will no longer be tempted by any tragic situation, but the dead people in front of them are all ordinary people, even women and children, and if they want to replace them, they will never poison these people, which shows that these thieves have no humanity at all, and only take pleasure in killing.
The soldiers of the Qin army gritted their teeth with hatred, although it was not their relatives who died, but everyone had compassion for women and children, and everyone was angry when they saw their tragic deaths.