Chapter 94: All the way south
Li Daniu looked puzzled and said in a low voice: "General Fang, it will be a problem for us to solve our own rations now, if we bring so many people with us......"
Fang Chengtian sighed: "Since we have met them, we can't ignore them, right?" ”
"That's not what the last general meant......," Li Daniu hurriedly explained, "It's just that this march leads the battle, with so many women and children, once the two armies fight, who will protect them?" Wouldn't that hurt them? ”
Fang Chengtian pursed his lips, nodded his head slightly, and said slowly: "Well, what you said is also reasonable, I originally wanted to leave these women and children, although they can't go to the battlefield, they can always cook for us or something, it seems that it is really too simple......
Li Xiangrong patted him on the shoulder, shook his head, and said with emotion: "It's not that the young master thinks simply, but you are too kind-hearted, and you always want to help when you see poor people." After speaking, he looked at Fang Chengtian and smiled.
"Is your heart kind?" Fang Chengtian sighed, "I used to tell myself that no matter how chaotic the world is, I have to be a good person......
As he spoke, he looked at his hands that had just been spread out, and said with a wry smile: "But now my hands are stained with blood......
Li Daniu frowned and said: "General Fang, the last general is a rough man and doesn't understand any big truths, but when the last general was at the border before, an old general once said that in order to live a better life for more people, even if it is worth sacrificing some people, but if you kill innocents indiscriminately for personal gain, and do not hesitate to put the people in the world in dire straits, then it will not work." ”
As he spoke, he paused, gritted his teeth and said: "Today, it is just for my own enjoyment, regardless of the life and death of people in the world, so I Li Daniu reversed, and the blood on his hands is no less than that of the general!" ”
Yes, what Li Daniu said is very good, no matter how good his medical skills are, he can't cure the world, kill ...... Actually, it's just to stop killing! Fang Chengtian suddenly smiled, his eyes swept over the people in front of him, and said, "Tell me to go down, clean up the battlefield, and set off after a little rest!" ”
His gaze fell on the giant stools, gritted his teeth, and slowly walked towards one of them.
Three steps, two steps, one step...... He stopped in front of the steps.
When I looked up, under the firelight, the giant stone mortar was covered with blood, stained with broken bones, and a smell of blood that made people vomit filled the surroundings.
Fang Chengtian's breathing gradually became heavy, he raised his legs, just took a step up the stairs, but stopped again, and muttered, "One day, I will pull those beasts out!" ”
The sun rose and sunset, day by day, on a frosty morning, Fang Chengtian and the others came to a village less than twenty miles away from Tangzhou City, and heard a news.
News of the rebels!
Three days ago, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao took the soldiers of the righteous army who fled in the first battle of Zhengzhou, and took Tangzhou in less than a day with lightning speed, and after looting, they went to the direction of Dengzhou.
The village is in ruins, and the smell of ruins left behind by the war is everywhere.
Fang Chengtian looked at the women and children who were busy cooking for the soldiers of Zuo Xiao's cavalry camp, and shook his head secretly: "Along the way, I haven't even found a place to house these people!" ”
The army went from south to west, and after a few days, they finally arrived in Dengzhou, but Wang Xianzhi and the others actually went to Yingzhou after capturing Dengzhou again.
In this way, Wang Xianzhi led the army like hide and seek, without direction, sometimes north and south, east and west, harassing Shannan Dongdao, and then ran to the neighboring Huainan Road to fight the autumn wind.
Shenzhou, Gwangju, Shouzhou, Luzhou, Shuzhou...... No one was spared!
Wang Xianzhi's battle this time, there is no discipline at all, he runs away after the fight, and the mobility is extremely strong, not only the Tang army can't find them, even Fang Chengtian can't find them, these days, the military rations are almost exhausted, and they haven't been in contact with Wang Xianzhi's army.
Along the way, Fang Chengtian also discovered a very strange thing, there was a Tang army that always followed behind Wang Xianzhi's army.
On this day, Fang Chengtian's department came to the White Horse Tip, the strange white horse tip is strange in the difference between the north and the south.
The south of the mountain is clear, but the north of the mountain is snowy!
Fang Chengtian stood at the top of the mountain, looking at the lush forest in the south of the mountain, at the beasts that ran by quickly from time to time in the forest, at the birds flying around in the forest, and at the stream that flowed from the top of the mountain to the mountainside, and couldn't help laughing.
He pointed to a gentle area where the stream passed by on the mountainside, and said to Gao Shiyuan next to him: "General Gao, you said that we cut down the trees there and build a village, so that the people can live and hunt for a living, how about it?" ”
Gao Shiyuan nodded and said, "Very good!" If it weren't for the fact that he would follow the general to fight the world, the last general would like to stay here and live some days of plowing and hunting, haha~~~"
"Haha~~" Fang Chengtian also laughed and said, "If Brother Gao is willing, he can stay!" ”
Gao Shiyuan shook his head and smiled: "No, no, the last general still prefers to gallop on the battlefield!" ”
Fang Chengtian said with a smile: "Brother Gao, please arrange it, settle the people as soon as possible, and I will also feel at ease as soon as possible, and take the women and children to march and fight, there are really too many inconveniences!" ”
As the saying goes, there is great strength in numbers, and in a few days, a brand new village will officially settle in Baimajian!
At Fang Chengtian's insistence, he only accepted two or three hundred people who met the devil's training requirements into the army, and all the other people stayed in this new village.
As soon as the village was built, the spies sent out also returned, and according to the spies' report, it turned out that the Tang army that had been following Wang Xianzhi's army was actually the army of Zeng Yuanyu, the deputy envoy.
They always followed behind Wang Xianzhi's army, but they didn't attack, it turned out that they were worried that the imperial court would end up in ruin like Kang Chengxun, who had quelled the rebellion of Pang Xun, and they didn't want to be the dog after the death of the rabbit and the bow after the death of the bird!
Therefore, they followed all the way, and they actually fought with the idea of raising war by war!
Fang Chengtian stood at the edge of the village, looking at the undulating mountains in the distance, and said: "After this white horse tip, to the east is Qizhou, Master's revenge, there is finally a chance to revenge!" ”
After speaking, he suddenly clenched his teeth, and his cheeks trembled!
When he thought of avenging his master, a pretty figure would always appear in his mind, and he couldn't help but sigh a long sigh.
Li Xiangrong didn't know why he stood behind him, and said slowly: "Young master, why don't we directly kill Xiang Qizhou and avenge the master?" ”
Fang Chengtian glanced at him and said, "Brother Li, why don't I want to?!" However, it is not easy to assassinate Shi Pei Wei in Qizhou, with only a few thousand cavalry from us, I am afraid that we will not even be able to climb the head of the city, not to mention revenge, and we will trap our brothers in injustice...... How can we do such a thing? Let's wait until we find the army first. ”
Li Xiangrong nodded, sighed, looked into the distance, and stopped talking.