Xinzhou, located in the center of the earthquake, was completely destroyed, and even half of the city was flooded, and human beings seemed incomparably small in such a drastic change in the world.

It was supposed to be a farmland, but now there were several huge mounds of earth and huge cracks in the ground, but compared to other places, the ground here was relatively flat, and there were makeshift shacks everywhere, and people could be seen moving in the distance.

Seeing these survivors, Li Zhang's face couldn't help but show a little joy, after all, he had seen too many dead people along the way, and now he finally saw the living.

At that moment, Li Zhang led the people to step forward quickly, and the people in the camp had already discovered them, especially Li Zhang brought hundreds of forbidden troops, all of whom were wearing the uniform of the forbidden army, which was very distinct, so after a riot, a group of people in the camp soon took the initiative to greet them, just looking at the appearance of them holding sticks, it seemed that they were not afraid of Li Zhang.

"Who are you and what are you here for?" The leader was a burly man, who looked to be in his thirties, and also carried a waist knife in his hand, and it could be seen from the weapon that his status was higher than that of the people behind him who were holding sticks, but he had a cloth belt wrapped around his head, and there were faint blood stains spilling out, and his face was a little pale, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured.

"This official Dingbei Hou Li Zhang, on the orders of His Majesty, came to Xinzhou for disaster relief, but you are the people of Xinzhou?" Li Zhang immediately identified himself and asked, the order was shattered under the catastrophe, he had seen it before, and it was estimated that these survivors had experienced more, so it was normal to be vigilant.

"Dingbei Hou?" The big man led by him was stunned for a moment when he heard Li Zhang's identity, and then shouted with surprise on his face, "But Li Duwei, who invented firearms and accompanied General Cao Lao to break the party's agenda?" ”

"Yes, who are you?" Li Zhang immediately smiled again, although he was no longer a captain, but because he had done a lot of great things when he was a captain, the title of lieutenant was no longer a title, but was about to become his pronoun.

"Wang Wen, the commander of the garrison of Xinzhou, pays a greeting to the Marquis of Dingbei!" I saw that this burly man also immediately saluted Li Zhang at this time, and his face was full of surprise.

The position of the Commander of Soldiers and Horses is quite extensive, there are soldiers and horses in the army, and the local state capital and county town also have Soldiers and Horses Supervisors, so the scope of authority is also different, for example, the Soldiers and Horses Supervisors of the Camp have great powers, and they are in charge of the transfer and warfare of the army along the way.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of local soldiers and horses, one is the garrison of the soldiers and horses, that is, the garrison of the forbidden army in a certain state capital, and the soldiers and horses of the city, that is, the local soldiers and horses are in charge of the cantonment, armor, training, and errands, the two are not subordinate to each other, among which the garrison soldiers and horses are generally located in the border states, stationed with the forbidden army, if there is a war, the garrison soldiers and horses must listen to the dispatch of the Hou court to the battlefield to resist the enemy.

"It turned out to be the royal capital eunuch, so there is no need to be polite, how is the situation in Xinzhou now?" Li Zhang heard that the other party was a local official, and immediately asked with a sigh of relief, the Wang Dujian in front of him is obviously the local forbidden army stationed in the capital, and in some places, the soldiers and horses are served by eunuchs, but most of them are military generals, such as Dong Ping, the famous double-gun general in the Water Margin, he is the soldier and horse supervisor of Dongping Mansion.

Hearing Li Zhang ask about the situation in Xinzhou, I saw that Wang Wengong, a military general, suddenly became slightly red, and his voice was also very sad: "Qiqi Dingbeihou, Xinzhou City is completely destroyed, most of the people in the city are dead and injured, and there are less than 10,000 survivors, most of them are injured. ”

When Wang Wengong said at the end, tears also flowed, because many of his relatives also died in the earthquake, after all, under this kind of natural disaster, both officials and ordinary people are equally vulnerable, and there are not a few officials who died in the earthquake, and even the forbidden army under his command is now not one in ten.

Li Zhang also showed a gloomy look when he heard this, there are more than 30,000 people in Xinzhou City, but less than 10,000 are alive now, in other words, more than 20,000 people may have died in the earthquake, although there may still be people alive in the ruins of the city, but now that the earthquake has passed for nearly ten days, I am afraid that they would have died of hunger and thirst without rescue.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang couldn't help sighing, but now was not the time to be sad, so he said to Wang Dujian again: "Take me to see Zu Zhizhou, I want to understand the situation in Xinzhou in detail!" ”

"Okay, Zu Zhizhou is injured, and it's inconvenient to go out now, please come with me in Dingbeihou!" Wang Dujian immediately agreed, and then asked the people behind him to get out of the way.

Li Zhang looked at these people with sticks and guessed in his heart, so he asked Wang Dujian as he walked, "Is it unsafe around here?" ”

"Dingbei Hou guessed right, under the catastrophe all lost humanity, and we have been affected by the disaster for a long time, there is a shortage of food among the victims, some people lose their humanity under hunger, not only rob others of food by force, and even cannibalism occurs, and most of my soldiers and horses died in the earthquake, and everyone who survived was injured, and there was no way to maintain the law, so I had no choice but to organize these people......"

With Wang Dujian's narration, Li Zhang also had a preliminary understanding of the situation after the Xinzhou earthquake, it turned out that after the earthquake, Zhizhou Zu Baishi and other officials were also injured, but they still tried their best to move the surviving people in the city outside the city, because after the earthquake, the aftershocks continued, and the city was very dangerous.

At the beginning, Wang Dujian and these officials could barely maintain order for the victims, but as the food shortage became more and more serious, many of the victims were hungry.

For this reason, Wang Dujian also personally led people to kill a few people, but still couldn't suppress it, some time ago there was a riot in the camp of the victims, some people led people to loot food and women, and then fled to the nearby mountains, and from time to time they would go down the mountain to loot the victims, so Wang Dujian They would be so nervous when they saw Li Zhang.