Lin Zhaolong, Gu Yunkun and Xu Lang all gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army with their rice bowls. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Xu Lang, we are getting closer and closer to Shaanxi." Lin Zhaolong asked, "There won't be any problems, right?" ”

"Probably not." Xu Lang swallowed a mouthful of food, "Gao Yingxiang and they are now storming Xi'an, even if we encounter the peasant army, it will be a small group of rogues, and there will be no big troops." ”

"How much do we have left?" Gu Yunkun asked, "I didn't see a place to supply along the way. ”

"Old Gu, you don't have to worry." Lin Zhaolong said with a smile, "The military food can last for at least another 3 months, and after we settle down, we can let people go to Yan'an Mansion to buy some food, and that place should not be too damaged." ”

"Zhaolong, not necessarily, we have to make plans." Xu Lang said suddenly, "The last time we went to North Korea, we also planned to buy grain in North Korea. As a result, a batch of grain was distributed to the victims at the Fushan Institute in Shandong, but they could not buy it when they arrived in North Korea, so they had to go to Tianjin to buy it. Now that Shaanxi is like this, it is difficult to say whether there will be grain to sell, and we will definitely resettle a group of disaster victims and distribute some grain. ”

"No, it won't." Lin Zhaolong put down his rice bowl, "Then isn't our food going to be enough?" ”

"I've already planned this, I'll arrange it." Xu Lang asked again, "We are still about four hundred miles away from Yanchang County, should we go directly or take a look at the situation first." ”

"Go straight ahead." Lin Zhaolong replied, "There is no need to look at the situation anymore, we will not enter the county seat, we will be stationed outside." Besides, don't you still have an order from the Ministry of War, it's still okay to fool them. ”

"Huh." Xu Lang smiled, "I hope I can fool them." ”

The troops marched west for another two days and entered the territory of Shaanxi. The number of refugees gradually increased, and Lin Zhaolong issued a strict order that no contact with refugees should be made, and he would speed up his journey. Lin Zhaolong was worried that once these refugees were relieved, he was afraid that they would come over like a tide, and even if they had the ability, they would not be able to take care of it.

Gao Chen rode behind Xu Lang on horseback, the young lieutenant had never seen so many refugees, and corpses lying on the ground appeared from time to time on both sides of the road.

Xu Lang took out a piece of white cloth and wrapped his face: "Herald, herald the whole army, everyone is looking for something to block their mouths and noses." ”

Gao Chen also took out a white cloth and put it on his mouth, but he choked and retched a few times from the foul smell that came from him.

"Staff Officer Gao, can't stand it?" Xu Lang turned around and asked.

"Report sir." Gao Chen coughed a few times, "The subordinates are okay, but the subordinates have never seen this scene, it's too miserable." ”

"You'll see more later." Xu Lang said expressionlessly, "This is war, this is troubled times." ”

A cavalry pegasus ran from the front of the line: "Report to the sir, a large number of refugees have been found ahead. ”

"How many?" Lin Zhaolong asked loudly.

"About thousands, and they're blocking the road."

"Order, stop advancing, all departments defend formation, and strengthen alert." Lin Zhaolong turned his head to Xu Lang after giving the order and said, "Let's go and have a look." ”

Xu Lang and Lin Zhaolong came to the front of the troops, and more than 1,000 refugees were clustered on the road, walking slowly and silently, and the whole road was jammed.

All the soldiers of the Yulin Army held their guns and looked at these people silently, no one knew where they came from, let alone where they were going.

An old man in the crowd suddenly fell to the ground with weak legs, and the people around him didn't know where the strength came from, so they quickly surrounded him and rummaged on the old man's body. But after only a moment, the men saw that they had found nothing, and got up again and continued to walk forward.

Xu Lang's mind suddenly appeared in an American TV series "The Walking Dead" that he had watched in his previous life.

A middle-aged man among the refugees led a six- or seven-year-old boy past Xu Lang and Gao Chen, who was only wrapped in a shabby cotton jacket with two small thin legs and bare feet exposed.

Gao Chen rode on the horse and stared at the child silently, and the little boy also stopped, looking at Gao Chen without speaking. The middle-aged man suddenly stretched out his hand to Gao Chen: "Master Jun, take pity on this child, enjoy the stuttering." ”

Gao Chen didn't think much about it, and subconsciously took out a few pieces of jerky from his pocket.

"Gao Chen." Lin Zhaolong shouted angrily, "The military order is like a mountain." ”

Gao Chen's hand stopped there, and the surrounding refugees suddenly surrounded him to snatch the jerky from Gao Chen's hand.

Lin Zhaolong closed his eyes, took out a handcuff from under his waist and fired a shot into the sky: "Order, disperse the refugees, and move on." ”

"Spread out, spread out, and don't block the way." The soldiers of the Yulin Army began to push the refugees with flintlock pistols in their hands.

"Master Jun, please, enjoy the stuttering." A woman in her 20s fell to her knees and ripped off her clothes in front of a soldier of the Yulin Army, revealing her dirty chest, "Master Jun, please, I can do anything, just stutter." ”

The little soldier of the Yulin Army took two steps back in a panic and twisted his head to the side.

"Commander." Gao Chen lowered his head and shouted.

Lin Zhaolong put the gun back into the holster, turned his head and looked at Xu Lang and Gu Yunkun, who had just rushed over, and said nothing.

"Master Jun, let's enjoy the stuttering." Another man fell to his knees, and then the second, and then the third, all of them, knelt down, saying, "Appreciate the stutter." ”

Xu Lang bit his lip tightly for a while: "Gao Chen, order the baggage team to boil porridge in a pot." ”

"Yes, sir." Gao Chen shouted excitedly, turned over and got off the horse, and stuffed the jerky in his hand into the little boy's hand, "Our chief said, I will cook porridge for you immediately." ”

"Gao Chen." Lin Zhaolong raised his head and looked at these refugees, "Order the troops to strengthen their vigilance and don't let them mess up." ”

"Understood, sir."

The march of the Yulin army stopped, more than a dozen cauldrons were propped up, and the boiling rice soup was tumbling in the pot, and Lin Zhaolong, Xu Lang and others sat on a slope and looked at the refugees below.

Xu Lang took out a cigarette and lit it, and handed it to Lin Zhaolong: "Forget it, it's already like this, let's help if you can." ”

"What will I do in a moment?" Gu Yunkun asked, "We can't save them with this meal." ”

"Saving the urgent, not the poor." Lin Zhaolong spat out a puff of cigarette, "We can't help it." ”

Gu Yunkun asked Xu Lang again: "Xu Lang, you said that you can have a way to solve the problem of military rations, is it true, and what can you do?" ”

"Old Gu, what do you mean by that?" Xu Lang looked at Gu Yunkun, "How do I think you have any ideas, you don't want to take these people in, do you?" ”

"Don't look at me like that." Gu Yunkun smiled, "But you're right, I really want to take these people in." ”

"Director Gu." Lin Zhaolong sighed, "I also know that they are very pitiful, if we go back to Yulin Bay, even if we go to Datong and Xuanfu, we can take them there." But we don't know what the situation in Yan'an is, how can we take them in. ”

"yes, Gu." Xu Lang pointed to the refugees and said, "Look at them, except for the elderly and children, they are women, and taking them in will only add a burden to ourselves." ”

"I know all of that." Gu Yunkun explained, "That's what I thought. It's been almost 2 months since we came out, and we don't know much about the situation in Yan'an now, looking at their appearance, they should have come from Yan'an or Xi'an, and we can learn some information from them. And when we go to Yan'an, we will definitely not be able to enter Yanchang County, and we can only garrison troops outside the city. I only brought a well-drilling team of more than 100 people, and I went to explore, and your army is only 2,000 people, and the surrounding rogues may be tens of thousands. If we don't recruit some people to build barracks and fortifications, it will be difficult to put down roots here. They are a good workforce and only need to take care of the food. ”

Xu Lang and Lin Zhaolong didn't speak, silently smoking a cigarette and thinking about Gu Yunkun's suggestion.

"Director Gu, what you said seems to have some truth." Lin Zhaolong said, "Otherwise, Xu Lang should take the idea of this matter, he has more eyes than me, and then he will solve the food matter." ”

"Zhaolong, you pushed the difficulties to me again." Xu Lang threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, "Let's find a few people to ask about the situation first." ”

After Xu Lang finished speaking, he stood up, looked around, and beckoned Gao Chen over: "Staff Officer Gao, you go and ask if there is a leader among those refugees, find a few people to come over and ask about the situation." ”

"Yes, sir."

After a while, Gao Chen walked over with an old man and a few young men.

"The grass people meet your lord." Several people bowed deeply to Lin Zhaolong, Xu Lang and the others, "Lord Xie is giving porridge, your lord is really a bodhisattva." ”

"Don't be polite to the old man." Xu Lang stepped forward to help the old man, "I don't know who the old man's surname is, where are you going?" ”

"Well, the adults don't know." The old man replied, "The little old man is from Yan'an Mansion, and his name is Wang Shan. These people are all from Xi'an, Shaanxi. Now the Liukou are attacking Xi'an, and the whole Shaanxi is full of chaotic soldiers, and we don't know each other, but we just come together to strengthen our courage. As for where to go, we don't have a goal, we just think that we can go to Beijing, and maybe it will be better at the feet of the Son of Heaven. ”

"Old man." Gu Yunkun asked, "I don't know where the old man is in Yan'an Mansion, what is the current situation in Yan'an Mansion?" Have you ever been attacked? ”

"Little Lao'er is a person from Yanchang County, Yan'an Prefecture." Wang Shan replied, "The Liukou didn't attack Yan'an Mansion, but the surrounding places have been walked by the Liukou a few times. ”

"Then why don't you go to Yan'an Mansion or the county seat to hide?" Lin Zhaolong asked.

"Back to the general." Wang Shan said again, "The Liukou know that they can't take the city, they are only plundering everywhere, the city and the county seat have long been closed, and we can't enter the city at all. ”

"How many rogues are there around Yan'an Mansion?" Xu Lang asked another question.

"This little old man can't say it well." Wang Shan replied, "General, the rogues are very arbitrary, and in addition to robbing things, they also rob people. The general young and strong people were taken captive, and the general also saw it, and we were basically old and young, women and children. ”

Xu Lang asked a few more questions, and then hugged his fist at Wang Shan: "Old man, we went to Yan'an Mansion to clear out the Liukou at the behest of the imperial court, but we are not a local garrison, and we don't know much about the situation in Yan'an Mansion, so I don't know if the old man can be a guide for us?" ”

"The general is a soldier of the imperial court?" Wang Shan looked at Xu Lang and Lin Zhaolong's military uniforms strangely, and he wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.

"The elderly don't have to worry about it." Lin Zhaolong said with a smile, "We are the garrison of Hainan Wei, and we came here on the orders of the Ministry of War, so our military uniforms are different from the local ones. ”

"Little Lao'er is willing to lead the way for the general." Wang Shan no longer doubted.

"I'm tired of the old man and ask you again, if you are willing to go with us, you can go back together, and we can give porridge every day."

"Thank you, General." Wang Shan heard Xu Lang say this, and knelt on the ground excitedly, "The general is really a bodhisattva and a Buddha who saves suffering." ”

Gao Chen accompanied Wang Shan to greet those refugees, and ran to Lin Zhaolong on a flying horse and stepped on the smoke and dust: "Report to the chief, there is a group of rogues in front, and the number is about three or four thousand. ”

"Do you see the flag clearly?"

"Back to the sir, they are playing the banner of Liu Zi."

"The surname Liu?" Lin Zhaolong turned around and asked, "Xu Lang, who will be surnamed Liu?" ”

"Have you seen the general's face clearly?" Xu Lang didn't answer Lin Zhaolong's question.

"Back to the sir, I can't see my face clearly, but this general is burly, wearing heavy armor, and he looks quite powerful."

"Could it be Liu Zongmin?" Xu Lang's surprise was no less than when Wang Qianxiang met Li Zicheng, "Liu Zongmin is here?" ”