Chapter 42: The Scout Squad
After solving the coalition army, he stayed in Zhuojiabao for another night, Liu Xia did not send people to take revenge on all the big households here as those people guessed, but left Taihe County directly and began to advance in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion.
This made those big families who participated in the attack on Liu Xia breathe a sigh of relief.
When they learned that Liu Xia's army was a cavalry composed of a thousand people, these big families couldn't help but be secretly shocked, it turned out to be cavalry!
No wonder he lost so badly, it turned out to be a cavalryman.
After some observation, they found that Liu Xia's team was not an ordinary homeless person or pole. More like a regular army.
This discovery made the big families here frightened, the regular army was not something they could deal with, these big families didn't know that Liu Xia was leaving here, and thought that they were going to find a place to camp and stay here for a long time.
If Liu Xia really stayed here, then the safety of their big families would not be guaranteed at all.
So several big families hurriedly reported this matter to the county magistrate in the county, and when they learned that the county magistrate had been killed by the thieves, these big households only felt a little cold on their necks.
So he hurriedly went to Zhang's house, in this place, only Zhang Lao had contact with the people above, and if he wanted his life to not be threatened, he could only ask the people above to send soldiers and horses to kill Liu Xia.
That old man was still a little disdainful of Liu Xia and the others before, but when he learned that Liu Xia's pole was a remnant army that had escaped, and it was also a cavalry, he had already lost his original height, he hadn't slept well all night, and his eyes were red.
Liu Xia must be driven out of Yingzhou.
Just when the few of them were discussing how to ask for troops from above to encircle and suppress Liu Xia, Liu Xia had already left the territory of Taihe County and set foot on the territory of Kaifeng Mansion.
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"Order to stop the march and rest the army!" Liu Xia said to the soldiers beside him.
The soldier made a promise, then rode his horse and ran to the rear of the army, shouting: "The general has an order, stop the advance, and rest on the spot"
"The general has an order, stop the advance, and rest on the spot"
With the arrival of the order, the entire army stopped advancing. It was an open field, on fertile land that was supposed to be growing food, but the population had been so degraded by war that it had left the area uncultivated. The fertile land is overgrown with weeds.
"Each battalion scout is in a team of three, scattered around!"
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"General, this place has reached the boundary of Chenzhou."
"Back then, Li Zicheng wantonly slaughtered the people of Chenzhou here, so that now the fertile land has no owner and is all deserted."
"Yes, Li Zicheng could not attack Kaifeng City for a long time, so he dug the Yellow River embankment and caused hundreds of thousands of Kaifeng people to die under the flood, and Kaifeng City was covered with silt, and the Yellow River was diverted and entered the Huaishui."
[Note: The Yellow River burst in history, no one knows what it really is, the first theory is that the officials in Kaifeng City secretly dug the Yellow River embankment, and the second theory is that Li Zicheng was shot in the eye, and he dug the Yellow River embankment in anger. The third theory is that Li Zicheng and the people in Kaifeng City secretly dug the Yellow River embankment at the same time. However, according to the environment at that time, there were not thousands of people who wanted to dig the Yellow River embankment, and it was difficult to dig a big hole overnight. At that time, Kaifeng City was besieged like an iron bucket, and it was obviously difficult for the people in the city to get out. Then only Li Zicheng, who surrounded Kaifeng City, had this condition, so these people also thought that Li Zicheng dug it up.
As for what the historical truth looks like, let's wait for the historians to give the right answer. 】
"Yes, the Yellow River embankment was dug open, and there were 300,000 people in Kaifeng City, and in the end, only tens of thousands were left alive, and there were really corpses all over the field!"
Liu Xia is also very clear about this history, after Kaifeng City was buried, the people were killed and injured countless times, and the buildings in Kaifeng City were directly buried by the silt of the Yellow River, and since then the strong and tall Kaifeng City has been buried underground.
After thousands of years of glory, Kaifeng has also become a decline, and in the 21st century, Kaifeng City, the ancient capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was the most developed commercial in ancient times, has now become a poor small city.
Liu Xia couldn't help sighing, the people are suffering, and the people are suffering.
After coming to this world for dozens of days, Liu Xia began to gradually integrate into this world, and the perspective of looking at problems began to gradually look at it from the perspective of the ancients.
At this time, Bian Yujing walked up to Liu Xia with a bowl of hot water and said: "General, after walking for so long, you must be thirsty, according to the general's orders, the army does not eat and drink cold water, all the things to eat and drink must be cooked, this is the hot water that the logistics battalion has just boiled, and then the little woman uses the best tea leaves to make hot tea, please taste."
Liu Xia nodded, stretched out a hand to take the hot tea, took a deep breath, and a thick aroma inhaled into Liu Xia's mouth.
Then Liu Xia took a small sip of the tea made from this fine tea leaf. In his previous life, Liu Xia didn't have the money to buy top-quality tea, so he drank some ordinary low-quality tea, but now he naturally feels different when he drinks good tea.
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wilderness
The three scouts formed a team, riding horses and carefully inspecting the surroundings, this place was already more than twenty miles away from Liu Xia's army, the three of them looked at the surrounding barren at this time, and also relaxed their vigilance, there would be no one in this kind of place at all.
The weeds around them grow like crazy, growing at a height of more than a meter in some places, and the dense wind blows and sways in the wind, looking like a sea of green.
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"Big boss, do we really want to do this vote? They don't look like a messy lord! A young man in his twenties, dressed in tatters, showing yellow teeth and loose hair, said to a middle-aged man next to him who was dressed a little better, showing two large yellow buckteeth.
The middle-aged man looked at the three scouts on dart-headed horses not far away, and his eyes were a little hesitant, but when he looked at the strong steed below them, his eyes suddenly showed greed.
"Isn't the big boss just three soldiers on war horses? What's so scary, there are thousands of our brothers, and now there are dozens of people around us, and we can't do three more soldiers? Even if you are afraid of the retaliation of the officers and soldiers, then we will hide back after finishing this vote, and those officials will not be able to find us" This is another middle-aged man with a goatee and a very obscene appearance next to the middle-aged man who is called the big boss, and he also showed greed when he looked at the three scouts.
"As the third master of the Black Wind Village, I am still just riding a thin donkey, and your mount is just a thin pony, how does this show the wisdom and martial arts of the big master, let's do it!"
The big boss's eyes kept shining, and finally he gritted his teeth and said to the people around him: "Fuck it, Lao Tzu did this ticket, it's a big deal to hide back in the village after doing it." ”