Chapter 335: Precursor to Calamity
Squeak squeak...... The wheels roll slowly.
Hengshan, in the foothills, the wheels are undulating, running over the rugged road, occasionally shaking violently, a corpse that has coagulated blood slides down from above, dense maggots follow all over the ground, several soldiers who cover their mouths and noses hurriedly run over here, lift the corpse that fell off the cart, throw it up again, stir up pieces of dense flies, the sound of flapping wings, buzzing and .....buzzing in the air, or fall back on the cart to continue to bite the swollen and rotting corpse.
The hot air was filled with the stench of decay.
In front of the silent team, Hu Che'er, who was riding on a war horse, stood in place with a copper rod in armor and looked at the team passing in front of him, the sun from the west came across and shone on his face, and the deputy general next to him covered his mouth and nose, obviously unable to stand such a strong smell of corpses.
β.β¦β¦ If there is a major epidemic in Si, Yuzhou and Yanzhou are afraid that there will be no one for hundreds of miles, general, will we be poked in the back if we do this? β
Hu Che'er pinched the copper stick tightly, as a warrior, but also the leader of the army, there is always knowledge, now is the height of summer, the season of disease is rampant, a few days ago killed a village, hundreds of corpses have accelerated the decay, and it is indeed easy to breed plague at that time...... What might happen, he could imagine with his eyes closed.
He thought for a while in the sunset, looked at the adjutant general, and sighed: "As a soldier, you should take obedience as your own responsibility, don't say it again, act according to the plan of the military advisor immediately, if you find that there is a high fever and headache in the team, there are spots on the face, and there are stinky abdominal pain and diarrhea on the body, all of them will be led to a secluded place to be killed." β
Woo wow - wow - wow wow -
The remnant sun hung on the top of the mountain, and the red rendered the western sky, and the old crow fluttered its wings and stayed on a crooked-necked branch by the roadside, staring at the passing carts and piled up, stinking corpses, and screaming fiercely. If you go further, you will get out of this mountain pass, and your vision will become broader, and it is not far from Ye County, Yuzhou.
Halfway up the mountainside, the grass was low, the hidden branches moved slightly, and in the three faces exposed, Cao Ang gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, and hit the tree pole next to him, "This is Wancheng Zhang Xiu's team...... The corpses in the car, looking at the clothes should be ordinary people, what the hell are they ......"
Yun Niang covered her mouth, her eyes slightly red. On the other side, a strong man named Wu An frowned and looked at it for a while, then retracted his gaze, and his voice sank: "They take these corpses...... If you want to make a plague, this is no joke. β
"I have lost my conscience...... Cao Ang heard the word 'plague', and his whole person trembled, after all, in this year, he had also heard how terrible the outbreak of the plague was, and it was even more terrifying than the military disaster.
"We must get ahead of them, go to Yexian County first to inform the soldiers and horses defending the city, intercept this army, whether it is to spread the plague in Yuzhou or not, we must not take this risk."
As he spoke, there was a soft click, and the sound of a tree branch breaking could be heard behind him. The strong man turned his head abruptly and shouted: "Who?!" Holding a heavy soldier in his left hand, he turned and slammed it down.
The hammer shook in the air.
There was a loud sound of gold and iron, and a figure dressed as a soldier in front of him with a blade in his hand was shocked and took a few steps backwards before stopping.
"It's not good, it's a scout in Zhang Xiujun!" Wu An roared directly, "Zixuan, take Yun Niang away first-"
Moment.
Cao Ang pulled the girl standing beside him, drew his sword and strode to the side, rushing into the woods, several arrows whistling and flying through the forest gaps, nailing them to several big trees where they ran, and several scouts with bows and knives copied the previous parrying companion and chased after a man and a woman over there.
In a few steps, the hammer roared, smashing at the waist, and one of the scouts who sprinted after him screamed "Ahh
The stout and mighty body, the big beard, the square face, with a violent aura, stopped in front of the three scouts, holding the long-handled hammer in his left hand, his steps were slow and steady, he slowly raised the hammer, turned his head to look at Cao Ang and Yun Niang, who were fleeing away.
"-I am the Beihai Wu'an Kingdom!" The tiger's beard opened wide and roared sharply.
Between the roads below the mountain, the crow flew away from the tree abruptly, and Hu Che'er looked up at the mountain forest where the voice of a person faintly came.
"It looks like there's someone fighting our scouts on that hill......," the lieutenant heard the commotion, and rode over to the side, just about to let dozens of soldiers pass over to take a look.
Hu Che'er waved his hand, and did not have any intention of finding out, "We are waiting for a hidden march, if the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou knew about it, they would have stopped and killed them halfway, why wait until now, the mountain may have encountered a fierce beast, or a woodcutter or something like that." Ignore it and hurry up to get out of the mountain pass. β
The lieutenant nodded his head back at the knife, and as the Lord continued to move forward, the winding procession and cart squeaked and rubbed towards the mountain.
The sky was getting dark.
In the woods, the figures of a man and a woman are still running, a few feet behind them, the bodies of two scouts fell in a pool of blood, on the way to escape, from time to time they will meet Zhang Xiujun scouts who search the mountains, in the dark outline, a prostrate figure noticed the movement here.
Quietly took off the bow and arrow behind his back, took advantage of the cover of the tree, pulled the bow and pulled the string, and took a few deep breaths at the silhouette of the running figure, however, the moment the string was startled, the whistling sound broke through the air.
In the night, exhaled a huge semicircular circular hammer, like a scythe of harvesting, the bow puller rolled and pounced, the arrow had flown out before the action, and pierced the tree pole in front of him, and the two people on the startled side stopped, and when they looked over, the bow in the hand of the rolling scout broke, and in the faint cold light of the stars and moon, the rolling stopped, and the figure skyrocketed, and the fierce sword was drawn and slashed down angrily towards the sneak attacker over thereβ
The stout and burly figure broke away from the dark outline, and the arm swung horizontally, and the hammer struck with all the same force.
With a bang, amazing sparks jumped up in the darkness, iron filings, fragments of the knife edge collapsed in all directions, the blade broke and flew out, the hammer smashed into the opponent's chest without hindrance, and the huge force carried the scout's body backwards into a tree, and the shocked leaves fell down.
"Brother?" Over there, the girl's voice asked.
Cao Ang remained on guard, and the burly and tall body dragged the long-handled hammer into their sight, lifted the hammer handle and carried it on his shoulder, under the thick beard, a smile appeared on his rough face, "Otherwise, who do you think will come to the rescue...... Let's go, let's go to Ye County first, Zhang Xiu's team has been out of the mountain for a long time. β
In the night, the figures of the three of them quickly descended the mountain and hurried in the direction of Ye County.
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The sky gradually brightened, and a few days passed, north of Ye County.
The sound of horses' hooves trampling the earth came from afar, the horses were running alone in the field, panicking southward, Wu Zilan's vision swayed, and her lips were chapped and she looked at it again, thinking that she was about to escape from Yuzhou.
He thought.
In the distance, he vaguely saw a waterhole, under hunger and thirst, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, urged the horse to hurry over, when he approached, there were many footprints on the ground, traces of the wheel, but he didn't care about these, the vision swayed, Wu Zilan planted the horse's back, climbed on the ground for a distance, only then got up with difficulty, staggered over, pounced on the water's edge, didn't care about the mud, is a big mouthful of water into the mouth.
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The palm holding the water suddenly stopped. The tongue licked the water stain from his lips, "....... What a strange smell. β
The early morning wind blew through several trees around, the branches and leaves swayed, the sky gradually brightened, he screamed "ah-", fell backwards and sat down in the mud, his eyes stared to the extreme, on the surface of the pool, dozens of rotting and swollen corpses floated, and in the black bulging eyes, there were even dense maggots drilling in and out.
A huge feeling of nausea crept up in his heart, Wu Zilan retched a few times, and crawled away, but the horse he rode was gone, he wiped his mouth disgustingly, and had to stumble away from this waterhole on foot.
After a long time, the weather warmed up, and the whole person began to feel hot and confused, and in his vague vision, he saw someone plowing the field in front of him.
He tried to pass, but he fell down without obeying the call, and in his last sight, the peasant seemed to have dropped his hoe and was running here......
Everything is initial.