Chapter 31: The Eve of the Great War
The procession of tens of thousands of people stopped and stopped along the way, and the distance covered for three or four days was only a few hundred kilometers, and the small-scale homeless bandits rioted and attacked without stopping.
The ruins and broken walls are thousands of miles of wilderness, the ground is full of hunger, everywhere you go is hell on earth, where is there still a little bit of royal paradise of vitality, and the refugees Shen Xing, who followed one after another in the team, no longer ordered people to drive them away, but received proper treatment and arranged food. Time is the best medicine to heal the wounds, and after a few days, these poor people gradually regained their humanity.
"Young Master Shen, there are more and more displaced people, and it will take time to get away from the provincial capital of Taiyuan, and once they are attacked and harassed again on the way, it will be difficult to control the chaos of the people." Ren Tian said worriedly.
Seeing that Shen Xing just silently stirred the bonfire with a branch and didn't answer, he also stopped talking with interest, sighed, and led a few henchmen to continue to inspect the camp with the Xiuchun knife, but the cold wind blew the flag crackling, which made him feel a little uneasy in his heart.
The dark wilderness is deep and quiet, and the more you look at it, the more you feel your heart is furious, as if there are so many pairs of eyes staring at you hungry somewhere in the distance, and they will pounce on you and bite you at the slightest moment.
A little black pig in Chen Yuanyuan's arms poked his head out of nowhere, two small eyes stared at the apple in Shen Xing's hand, and his saliva flowed, and he kept humming and stretching out the little pig's trotters to escape from the clutches of the beauty.
"Look at it again, look at it again, I'll roast you, and the guy who is dirty will dare to pretend to be a Dutch species, so come here." The little black pig seemed to be able to understand Shen Xing's words, and instantly screamed in fright, and drilled into Chen Yuanyuan's arms. "Niuniu, don't be afraid that the young master will joke with you, you are so cute, whoever eats you will be a complete villain! You say, don't you? ”
After Chen Yuanyuan finished speaking, he glared at Shen Xing, turned around and walked towards the bonfire of the Red Lady and her group, and then a large group of girls chattered, competing to hug the little black pig, eager to send all the delicious food to his mouth.
A pig actually mixed better than himself, Shen Xing suddenly felt very lost, and patted Shen Da, who was sleeping fast and buried his head in the ground, "Go and see, have they come back!" ”
Shen Da was frightened, sobered up and hurriedly left, and after a while, he saw him leading a group of people from Wuxian Road to walk towards him with a solemn face. "Young master, I met them as soon as I arrived at the camp gate, this ...... They also brought back a few heads. ”
"You go and prepare some food, and immediately arrange the things I told you during the day, and Ren Qianhu and Zhang Ying's team will say what I mean if they ask." Shen Da answered and left in a hurry, and after a while, he was heard loudly beckoning the light and strong team to gather and speak.
"Young master, about 10,000 horses, all lightly armed iron horses, coming directly to supplement our team, depending on their marching speed, they can arrive here tomorrow evening." After Wu Xianlu finished speaking, he took the kettle in the dog's hand and drank it in a big gulp, the four of them were all covered in blood, and it seemed that this investigation was not as simple as he thought.
Seeing Shen Xing staring at him, the dog smiled, "Young master, it's all the blood of the Golden Dog Scout, just in the grove not far from our camp, these guys don't know whether they are alive or dead, they dare to get so close, and the smell of sheep on their bodies can be smelled from half a mile away!" ”
Wu Xianlu touched the dog's head and said to Shen Xing, "It's all thanks to his kid's nose, otherwise we wouldn't be able to find the right direction and touch it so smoothly, the five golden dogs are all good hands, it really took a long time, but unfortunately one of them ran away on horseback, and I don't know if the arrow of the strong son was shot." ”
"Brother Qiangzi, the birds in the sky can hit every shot, and with his speed of running horses, he will definitely not survive!" Hearing the dog say this, Qiangzi laughed, and among the meat that Shen Da ordered people to take, he picked the largest chicken leg and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
Shen Xing looked at the map spread out by Wu Xianlu with a blank expression, because except for a few words, the strange-shaped map was not what he had seen in his later life at all, and the geographical location marked by the twists and turns was also very different from what he knew.
"We are now in Zhulu County, Hebei Province, the territory is flat, and we can't find a suitable place to fortify it for a while, even if there is a camper of the Shenji Battalion to block it, but if the golden dog rushes to kill, I'm afraid we will suffer heavy casualties, young master, are you and the young lady going first, leaving some people to organize the displaced people......"
Halfway through Wu Xianlu's words, Shen Xing hurriedly waved his hand and interrupted him, "If I leave, people's hearts will definitely be unstable, even if they are blocked, it will be at most a moment and a half, and then they will be chased and killed by the golden dog taking advantage of the situation, then it is really called every day, and the earth is not working, Lao Wu, I have my own arrangements, although I expected that this trip would be a little risky, but this young master didn't expect that the golden dog would put down such a big capital, 10,000 iron horses, and rob a business brigade with such a big formation?" I'm afraid there is a lot of article in this!"
Wu Xianlu was stunned for a moment, and then patted his thigh and shouted, "Young master, the golden dog must have received the news in advance, knowing that our team is transporting food, and there is also the Shenji Battalion escorting, otherwise tens of thousands of iron cavalry will be more than enough to attack the city and plunder the land, and they must want to eat us in one bite." ”
"What tens of thousands of iron riders!" Ren Tian and Zhang Ping, who didn't know when they came over, heard Wu Xianlu's words, their faces turned blue with fright, and they sat down beside Shen Xing.
"I feel that something strange today, just now Steward Shen asked me to be a soldier, young master, my eldest young master of the Shen family, that is tens of thousands of iron horses, you don't want to block it on the spot, Jinyi Wei Qian, plus the Shenji Battalion is only about three thousand, even if you count all those Zhuang refugees and young people of yours can have 10,000, but the other party is ......"
Ren Tian sighed and didn't want to say any more, so he stood up and grabbed his hair and walked around, helpless. "Shen Gongzi, although Ren Qianhu is a little impatient, what he said is true, it is not that Zhang Mou has raised the morale of others to destroy his prestige, although the Shenji Battalion is well-equipped, it has been stationed in Gyeonggi for a long time, and the battle formation has been sparse for a long time, and tens of thousands of golden dog iron horses are really difficult to stop."
"Then leave the people behind and run away with food?" Shen Xing threw away the apple in his hand and shouted loudly, the red lady and a few girls had already heard the movement and stood aside, Shen Xing suddenly frightened a few timid people who were all trembling, Chen Yuanyuan's body trembled, and the little black pig he was holding jumped down and went straight to the apple.
"Is it up to these farmers? How different is it from sending them to death, Ren and Zhang Ying's team are not greedy for life and afraid of death, but they know that they can't do it...... Young Master Shen, you have a great deal to do with the emperor's order, and you are a little inferior to the old and young of the family...... In this way, you go first, and the inferior people will block it with all their might! There was a kind of sad helplessness in Ren Tian's tone.