Lan Ziyi and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion walked in small steps on the road to the east, the road under this foot was on the outside of the embankment on the south bank of the river, walking along the river, and not far from the left side of Lan Ziyi's marching team was the river flowing eastward.

Counting the few days that Lan Ziyi and they have been stationed in Ruyin, the river has been flowing day and night for four days, but there are still many corpses floating on the river.

After soaking in the water for so long, coupled with the hotter and hotter temperatures day by day, the corpses in the water were already swollen, rancid, and unrecognizable, but fortunately, the rushing river kept washing the corpses downstream, and if it was a stagnant pool, the rancid smell was probably too close to people.

Even so, Lan Ziyi and the others would still smell some rancid smell from time to time when they were walking.

Tao Zhutu rode his horse beside Lan Ziyi, waved his hand and said:

"It stinks, it stinks."

Hearing this, Tao Zhuhu glanced at his third brother and said:

"The dead are big, just accumulate some virtue on your lips, don't talk nonsense."

Lan Ziyi sighed, looked at the green grass on the side of the road, and said:

"In spring, everything sprouts, plants and trees recover, growth and nurturing are at this time in terms of qi, and in terms of farming, the harvest and sowing of a year are at this time.

As a result, now it is being troubled by thieves, and the north and south of the river are in a mess, and yesterday after walking for a day, all the villages I encountered were burned to the ground. Not a single living person was seen. “

Tao Zhuhu nodded and said:

"What the young master said is right, so it becomes impossible for us to collect grain and grass nearby."

When Lan Ziyi heard Tao Zhuhu's words, he was silent for a moment and stopped talking.

But Tao Zhutu said to Lan Ziyi:

"Then the young master will work harder and command us to destroy the thieves as soon as possible."

Lan Ziyi raised his head and glanced at Tao Zhutu, and smiled in response.

At this time, there was a sound of galloping horses' hooves behind the team, and Lan Ziyi looked back, it turned out that the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion, who served as the guard of the rear team, had come back to change shifts.

After the soldiers over there changed shifts, the next round of soldiers urged the horses to rush to the back of the team, and the news of this round of reconnaissance also reached Lan Ziyi, and no thieves were found in the rear of the team.

Although Lan Ziyi is the vanguard, but because the war horses of the whole army are basically concentrated in the Jihu camp for the use of cavalry, so the vigilance tasks on all sides of the army are also handed over to Lan Ziyi, and every day the march Lan Ziyi has to arrange the scouts in shifts, scattered in the far away places on the periphery of the team, so as to find the enemy situation in time, the river on the left side provides a natural barrier for the marching team, protects the left flank of the team, and allows the soldiers to focus on other directions.

Lan Ziyi looked at the completion of the shift, and then turned around,

After thinking about it, Lan Ziyi asked Tao Zhuhu and said:

"Big brother, second brother, do you have any news from him?"

桃淚虎 says:

"I sent the news from Zhulu directly to the young master, and the others, including me, are not allowed to handle it, and they can't even touch it, if the young master doesn't receive it, I can't even receive it."

Lan Ziyi was a little worried and said:

"I'm afraid that I missed the important news from my second brother.

The second brother has been staying in Qi Rongxun's Chinese military tent with the two gentlemen of the Qiu family, and he has been marching for a day, and he doesn't know if he has any new news. “

Tao Zhuhu knew that Lan Ziyi was looking forward to Tao Zhulu bringing the latest information about the thieves, but Tao Zhuhu also knew that Tao Zhulu was sitting in the Chinese army, and he had to contact the soldiers of each battalion internally, and install his cronies in Qi Rongxun's battalion, and also prevent the infiltration of the thieves and the people who had two hearts inside.

However, these things are just things within the peach chasing deer, and the peach chasing tiger doesn't want to bother Lan Ziyi with this kind of thing, so he opened his mouth to comfort:

"Young master, don't worry, if there is any new news, it will definitely be sent to the young master first."

Lan Ziyi nodded, his eyes regained a lot of energy, and he said:

"I believe in the second brother, the second brother will definitely not let us go out to fight blindly."

Tao Zhutu didn't think as much as his eldest brother thought, and after hearing Lan Ziyi's words, he immediately answered:

"I heard that the Shenji battalion will have a lot of resistance to the second brother and Mr. Qiu, the forbidden army in Qi Rongxun's camp is more interested in the young master, but was stopped by the Shenji battalion general, the second brother spent a lot of effort to deal with the battalion general, and also to catch the people who collaborated with the enemy in the army, young master, you also know, now the thieves are about to hit the capital, the people in the army are fluctuating, and there are still many people who want to understand the enemy, I heard that there are especially many forbidden troops under Qi Rongxun."

Lan Ziyi was taken aback when he heard this, and when he looked at the peach chasing rabbit again, his face was still a little ashamed,

兰子义 says:

"The second brother turned out to be so troublesome, and I still urged him to get the information of the thief, which is really unkind."

桃淚虎 says:

"These are all things that are within the scope of the deer, young master, you should urge, our troops are far inferior to the thieves, if you don't know the information of the thieves, then you will really be blind."

Peach Rabbit said at this time:

"Young master, there are so many things in the big tent of the Chinese army in the back, why don't you go back to the town, there will be no problem with the eldest brother and General Li Guangzhong in the forward."

Lan Ziyi did not answer the request of the peach and the rabbit,

In fact, Lan Ziyi understands very well that he can more easily grasp the military situation of the whole army by sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army at this time, and can also liberate Tao Zhulu, so that he can go all out to collect the news of the thieves.

But Lan Ziyi is inconvenient to say that he doesn't want to stay so close to Qi Rongxun, not that Lan Ziyi hates Qi Rongxun, but the two belong to different factions, and the forces behind them are different, because the situation is forced to cooperate, although Qi Rongxun is just a soldier and has no intention of conspiring, but his people are not all fools, Lan Ziyi is sitting in the Chinese military tent, and he is bound to rub with Qi Rongxun because of all kinds of small actions in secret, if the two are angry about this, the whole army command will become a disaster, and the strong enemy is in front, Lan Ziyi didn't want to have infighting with Qi Rongxun.

Just as Lan Ziyi was thinking about these miscellaneous things, suddenly a scout marching on the river embankment quickly returned to his horse.

Lan Ziyi raised his head and followed the prestige, and Tao Zhutu said:

"It's not time for a shift change, why are people coming back?"

Tao Zhuhu squinted his eyes and said:

"There must have been something found."

Sure enough, Scout Pegasus came to Lan Ziyi and reined in his horse and reported:

"Wei Hou! There are boats on the river coming against the current! ”

Lan Ziyi frowned when he heard this,

This scout is still very smart, he came to Lan Ziyi to report the news, instead of shouting in front of the army, let everyone know, that would cause a riot,

Tao Zhuhu asked first:

"How many boats are there? How much is it? ”

The sergeant replied:

"There are only five boats, all of them small boats."

Tao Zhutu leaned into Lan Ziyi's ear and asked:

"Could it be a thief?"

Lan Ziyi had already whipped his horse at this time, and when he heard this, he replied:

"That's only known by looking at it."

Then Lan Ziyi said to the sergeant beside him:

"Go on, and don't stay without my orders."

Then he ordered two riders with Peach Chase Tiger and Peach Chase Rabbit, and ran with the scout to the river embankment in front.

Lan Ziyi and the others went out of the army, urging them to rush to the embankment, and saw that the river embankment scouts led by Li Guangzhong had stopped on the embankment, holding the horn bow in their hands, and had already pulled the bow and stringed, waiting for the small boat to enter the firing range.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Li Guangzhong looked back and saw that Lan Ziyi and the others only urged the horse to come to Li Guangzhong in just one moment.

Li Guangzhong did not put down the bow and arrow in his hand, but just greeted Lan Ziyi and said:

"Wei Hou!"

Lan Ziyi stopped and looked at the river, and asked:

"How's it going?"

Li Guangzhong replied:

"It's still close, I don't know if it's friend or foe."

Lan Ziyi has already discovered the five boats on the river,

These small boats slowly went up the current under the swing of the boatman at the stern, like leaves falling with the wind, and they could fall in front of Lan Ziyi.

The people on the boat should have also discovered Lan Ziyi and them, and the boatmen on the five boats hurriedly let go of the oars and oars, and got into the cabin, not knowing what to do.

Li Guangzhong said to Lan Ziyi:

"These boats have a deep draft, they must be full of stuff, and I don't know what it is."

Hearing this, Lan Ziyi said to the peach and rabbit on the side:

"Third brother, can you see what's in the cabin?"

said that it was a cabin, but in fact it was just a straw to build a shed on the ship.

Hearing Lan Ziyi's question, Tao Zhutu squinted his eyes and put his hands on his hand to look at the past, and after looking at it for a long time, he said:

"I saw that the boat was full of corpses."

When the surrounding people heard this, they were shocked, and quickly took out their bows and arrows and put them on them, and they were about to release their arrows.

However, Tao Zhutu did not finish his words, and he continued:

"The boat was full of corpses, all bodies that had been soaked in the water."

As soon as he heard this, Lan Ziyi was puzzled, and the tense muscles in the hands of the people around him also relaxed.

Lan Ziyi said to himself:

"Corpses? It's still soaked. That's the corpse in the river? “

A sergeant then said:

"Hou Ye, look, there is movement on the ship."

Lan Ziyi heard the prestige, and saw that a small boat may not have found Lan Ziyi and them on the shore, and the people on the boat were still active.

There were women among the boatmen, who threw the bodies in the water with ropes or fishing nets, and then dragged the bodies back into the boat.

When they looked carefully at the boatmen, they were all wearing long-sleeved shirts and trousers on such a hot day, and their mouths were also wrapped in cloths, and they fished up the bodies and put them neatly in the cabin, and the women looked as if they were still crying from a distance.

Although these five small boats were only a drop in the bucket for the corpses covered in the river, and it was impossible to fish out the corpses, these small boats continued to move forward, slowly salvaging one corpse after another floating in the river.

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi was overwhelmed with grief and sighed:

"My Lanzi is incompetent, and the lives of the people are ruined, and the people are suffering.

Now innocent people can't go into the ground for safety, and they have to be buried in the belly of the fish, and no one collects the corpses, these five small boats are not afraid of the epidemic and go into the water to fish for the corpses, which really makes me ashamed, ashamed of the landless self-shame! “

Saying that, Lan Ziyi's sigh turned into sobbing, and the frustration of these days all came to my heart in an instant, causing people to burst into tears.

The soldiers next to them also withdrew their bows and arrows when they heard the words, and Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhutu comforted Lan Ziyi for a long time, and finally Lan Ziyi saw Xiaoge for a long time before he stopped his tears and brought people back to the army.

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