"Damn, it's ...... again"

Gu Laosi looked coldly at the figures that appeared on both sides of the road.

I gnawed the snow balls in my mouth, felt the excitement and excitement brought by the cold and biting bones in my mouth, and waited until the snow cubes dissolved into water in my mouth and moistened my throat, and then spit out the mixed sand.

Then he put the gun and put the most important one into the door and the alignment. Steadily buckled the hair, and Peng's sound exploded on the side of the chest of a horse, and a blood flower exploded.

The horse that had been shot neighed in pain, and fell to the snow with the Emperor

More Humal rushed up with some vigilance, forming an elongated, dense column, making a gesture of ready to sprint and search, which was their most usual response.

Especially after being attacked by an endless stream of cold guns and stray bullets along the way.

However, the sound of this gunshot, like a signal, suddenly fired in unison, and the smoke of the gunfire rose from behind the snow wall and among the trees than them, and then made an invisible whistling rain of bullets, knocking these Humas who were half-surrounded in the mouth of the funnel to the ground.

After a few moments, there was nothing left to stand on, except for the frightened survivors who turned and fled, and the large masses of corpses and wounded lying in the blood-stained snow.

The ambushers also stood up from behind the cover, and before more Humal heard the noise, they quickly regrouped and gathered their troops, and withdrew to a prefabricated camp in the mountains and forests to rest, without even loot or capture.

As for the wounded Huma, who was still moaning on the ground, the cold and blood loss would help them in their final steps.

Looking at the footprints of a large number of retreats into the mountains and forests, Gu Laosi breathed cold air, and was the last to leave this messy battlefield, he was already the head of a general with three hundred and fifty guns, and he was also the temporary commander of this eight hundred mixed battle group.

And more than half a month ago, he was still a member of the migration escort team.

But when it came to the final closing stages, things suddenly changed. On the third day of the fourth group of tens of thousands of migrants, at the cost of falling behind and losing hundreds of people, they arrived at the camp in Qingzhou.

The snow-colored wilderness, which had been dead and silent, was once again shrouded in black and oppressive crowds, bringing up smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun.

It was a large number of refugees from the north and west, and at the same time, a large number of defeated soldiers of the country, driven and chased by more Humar, like a raging wave rushing in, after stepping on the snow cover of the field, and almost along the open area, there was no life to flee towards Xuzhou, which was accessible in all directions.

Under the pursuit of Hu Qi, these fugitives paved almost every road, every field and village with their corpses, and the surviving people almost instinctively or panicked after passing through those abandoned empty cities in waves, catching up with the trails left by the retreat of the original brigade, and coming towards Qingzhou in groups......

Most of them are survivors who have been broken by Humar who has entered the customs in the future, and have fled in panic in the walled cities and towns in various places.

In fact, the waves of Humar who had invaded the previous batch were frustrated and blocked one after another, and the efforts to abandon the attack on the population and materials in the fortified cities gradually turned to the warmer, richer, and more underprepared southern plunder, in order to make up for the losses and attrition in the early stage.

Those princes and subordinate subordinates who came from the depths of the grasslands of Mobei and Moxi, which were even more distant and got the news one step later than others, finally followed the ruins and traces left by their predecessors, and entered the pass one after another.

As a result, those who relied on the city walls and fortified villages in the first half of the winter to hold on, and finally survived on the land of the Central Plains, many strongholds and cities of all kinds inevitably suffered from the catastrophe of destruction one after another.

Therefore, in just a few days, the form of Henan, or Xuzhou, has taken a sharp turn for the worse. And these preset positions and mobile forces left in the rear along the way have become the last cards and hopes.

In the past month, these blocking troops who have taken turns to fight have fought dozens of battles in one go in the Feixian, Yishui, and Zhuanyu areas in Yizhou, defeating, defeating, and repelling tens of thousands of enemies.

It's just that the number of these Humas in this battle is larger, and the color is more complicated.

Therefore, they don't know the strength of their army at all, and they are not like the enemies they fought and encountered under the city of Xuzhou before, even if they know how to unite and communicate with each other, they will also cover each other and retreat. But I found a little sign, and such waves of wanton killings are coming.

meanwhile

Qingzhou Prefecture Zhiyi Capital, the headquarters that has been settled, has been settled in the original Qingzhou transfer envoy's office.

And as the head of the army, and as the temporary leader of the army, I was also buried in the quickly piling up of seals and affairs.

After all, this is a place where you want to settle down and settle down for a long time, and it is very different from the occupation zone that used it as a source of short-term supplies and labor.

In addition to organizing and configuring the corresponding basic defense lines on the front line in Yizhou and Yanzhou, the basic arrangements for people's livelihood are also indispensable.

As a result, the staff, staff officers, and clerks under my command suddenly became a little insufficient, and a large number of affairs and decisions were piled up on me.

The treasury and account books were sealed on the spot, and then the existing accounts in several cities were liquidated, and the relocated people and materials also needed to be properly settled.

Instead of just finding a random place to throw it away, leaving it to its own devices, and then the next year will be like a strategy game, automatically growing population and resources, waiting for you to collect them.

It was necessary to eat, drink, and lazar tens of thousands of people, to carry out military control and rationing of basic materials, and then to organize them into different types according to their physical condition, and carry out large-scale construction and repair activities inside and outside the city.

Even the most monotonous and boring repetitive work, instead of being idly fed there, with the energy and mind to think and walk around in tandem all day long, becomes a new hidden danger and factor of instability.

So, after a preliminary survey in the city of Jinzhou, I got a good news and a bad news here.

The good news is that there are enough houses and other buildings in the city to provide shelter for these immigrants, so that they don't have to go to the wilderness and have to work hard to build new settlements on the frozen land.

The bad news is that these vacant houses are left behind by the local fleeing population. As a result, the number of permanent residents in the city today is less than 40% of what it would have been in normal times. You must know that Qingzhou was originally one of the two pillars of Qingxu Town, and there were at least 100,000 permanent residents in the state capital.

Although compared to Xuzhou, which fought particularly fiercely, the entire territory of Qingzhou was under the attack of sea and land in the previous strategy, and after a little resistance, it was almost bloodless.

Therefore, it can be regarded as the most well-preserved state and county in the occupied area controlled by Shuai Si, and it is also a large county whose population and production are all of the best class, which is also one of the conditions they repeatedly promised me to act.

It's just that there is still a strict gap between reality and expectations, and after crossing the Muling Pass, we traveled all the way, and what we saw was nothing but barrenness and withering under heavy snow.

Only when you get close to the city will you find a few sneaky wandering in the countryside, rummaging like rats for grass roots and tubers covered in the snow, or dead branches.

In addition to the state cities with only tens of thousands of mouths left, other large and small cities such as Shouguang, Linzi, Qiancheng, and Beihai that have fallen under control are also similar. All kinds of people fled, and the market withered badly, especially Changyi County, which was close to Mizhou, and became almost an empty dead city.

The reason is also very simple, as an important source of soldiers in Qingxu Town, the young and middle-aged people here were all transferred to assist in the defense of Xuzhou in the previous Qingxu Town strategy, and then most of them were buried there.

After Shuai Si got Qingzhou, in the name of the local people who had supported and resisted Wang Shi, he punitively requisitioned and looted a large number of laborers from the local area, and the materials were sent to the front line, and most of them were not able to come back in the end.

Coupled with the shortage of materials and the abandonment of fields caused by the war, most of the old, weak, sick and disabled who were not physically enough to support them became dirt bags outside the city or abandoned corpses on mass graves in the first half of the winter.

As a result, a large proportion of those who survive are women between the ages of young and middle-aged, as well as older children. It's just that most of them are yellow and thin, or even skinny.

Therefore, in the cities, we only used gruel to give relief for three days, and we were able to complete the preliminary statistics and registration of household registration relatively lightly.

In addition, there are a large number of remnants of the Southern army generals in the territory, most of them are far away from the cities and entrenched in various villages, many of whom are driven by despair and pessimism, and almost give up on themselves to do many things with the dark side of humanity and the lower moral limit.

In this regard, I can only order to sweep the search team, and try to give them a good time after encountering it, and die early and be born sooner.

I can spare the compulsion to eat the corpses of my fellow men in order to survive among the fleeing allies, but when there is still the strength and other options available, it is an unforgivable limit to openly make it a habit to eat the living kind.

Among the generals of the Southern Dynasty who were brought back, there were actually many former generals who had lost their subordinates and troops, and there were even many high-ranking generals and capital supervisors, and the vast majority of them expressed their corresponding gratitude in various ways and their willingness to obey the arrangement.

Of course, there are also those who don't appreciate it very much or don't want to appreciate it, and even rely on their past identity and background to continue to be powerful.

Of course, there is no need for such people to continue to stay in the world and waste resources and living space, so they are most likely to see a reasonable place and a logical ending when they are lost in the chaos of the army, or they are taken advantage of by the enemy's attack.

Anyway, there is no proof that you are still dead in chaos, and if you have the ability, you can let the hostile camp come out and confess, these are not done by yourself.

After taking preliminary control of the capital of Qingzhou and a few key points, my order was to continue the march, march towards the sea, open the passage to the sea as quickly as possible, and send our news from a certain port, so that we could get support and information from the rear before the beginning of spring.

Therefore, in the direction of Yidu east to the sea, the farthest dispatch team has already gone out more than 200 miles.