Chapter 6 Why I Came?
Zhang Ying happily chopped a hare jerky and put it in the pot to boil, and then put a pinch of salt, she thought about it, and put a pinch of salt in it.
As soon as the dried hare and salt were put into the pot of wild vegetables, the fragrance gushed out, and the older woman was better, and the more than thirty children were all drooling and staring at the pot.
These 30-odd children are not only yellow and thin, they don't even have clothes to wear, and children over 10 years old only have a pair of tattered shorts to wear, in fact, the adults here are not much better, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as unclothed.
Yun Mo really felt more and more sad the more he looked at it, he really didn't have an appetite to eat, now it was better to take a closer look at this grape ditch if there was anything that could not be used.
"Uncle Chen, I want to look around, see if you can find someone to guide the way."
"The leader is polite, I'll take you around."
Elder Uncle Chen was about fifty years old, thin and emaciated, with a short, stiff mustache, a pair of eyes sunken into the sockets, and unkempt gray hair.
He had deep wrinkles on his face, brown spots on his cheeks, caused by the intense sunlight of the Western Regions, and his only right hand was left with deep wounds and a few scars, which were mottled like eroded rocks in the desert.
Everything on Uncle Chen's body seems so deep and vicissitudes, coupled with the missing arm, this old man really looks like a dog-headed military advisor.
Yun Mo rode his jujube red horse and walked in front slowly, Yun Mo now has this technique, he can only ride a docile horse, this fierce war horse is really not his dish now.
Chen Bo said to Zhang Ying first, and then rode a war horse captured by Yun Mo and followed:
"Chief, you don't seem to be very good at horseback riding!"
More than 100 old and weak women and children looked at Yun Mo, who was leaving in good spirits, and looked at the hare and wild vegetable soup tumbling in the big iron pot, and they immediately showed a long-lost smile, and many women secretly thought in their hearts: "Finally, there is a healthy man." ”
"Yes, I used to ride only a horse at home, and I didn't ride a war horse.
The two horses walked side by side in the grape ditch, and Uncle Chen deliberately controlled the war horse under his crotch to fall half a step behind, Yun Mo could only laugh at Uncle Chen's intentional behavior.
Chen Bo didn't worry about whether Yun Mo's equestrian skills were superb or not, he immediately changed the topic:
"Chief, where is your home? How did you get to this place in the Western Regions? ”
Yun Mo understood Uncle Chen's motive for asking very well, and his sudden appearance in the Western Regions for no reason was not very reasonable in itself, so Yun Mo did not intend to deceive Uncle Chen:
"Uncle Chen! I am from Guanzhong, and I was deceived by an old Taoist, who said that he would give Lao Tzu the blessing of the third life, and as a result, he sent Lao Tzu to this place where birds don't. ”
"What about the old man?"
"I don't know if the old way came, hey......"
After Yun Mo finished speaking, he became extremely unhappy, the old Taoist actually hypnotized himself, and then crossed himself to this ghost place, thinking about it was a belly of fire.
Chen Boke is a master of observing words and feelings, and Yun Mo's unhappiness and depression were instantly captured by him:
"Chief, this grape ditch is eight kilometers long from east to west and two kilometers wide from north to south, and the mountain springs in the ditch are trickling, the land is fertile, and the sunshine hours are long, so the grape ditch can be cultivated and livestocked.
If there were no robbers to plunder, in fact, this grape ditch would be a cornucopia! ”
"Isn't there a Hui Guan's Mansion here?"
Chen Bo smiled helplessly:
"The Hui official mansion is also a robber for us Han people, they have never been soft on killing us Han people, our Han people are now living a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, all thanks to the Hui people."
This place in the Western Regions is a world of robbers, as long as the strong can live with dignity, the weak can only be enslaved, there is no exception, Zhang Ying and their Han group speak for themselves.
Yun Mo could only nod and said:
"Looks like we should find a way to get stronger! Otherwise, I can only be a knife, and I can be a fish. ”
Chen Bo immediately came to his senses, and his eyes showed long-lost longing and hope:
"Does the leader have a strategy?"
"Of course, but I need basic armed forces now, but we don't have healthy adult men, so we can only let our adult women form a team for the time being."
In this place in the Western Regions, it is not uncommon for women to use knives to cut people, all for survival, but women are born with little strength, and in the battle array, the first to die must be women.
Uncle Chen had a bitter face and replied in a low voice:
"Leader, we are left with you, a sound and mighty man, and forming a female-dominated team is also the only feasible way, but women's strength and martial arts are not good, I'm afraid that forming a women's team will not help!"
Yun Mo smiled slightly, and casually took off the modern bow and crossbow behind his back and handed it to Uncle Chen, this modern crossbow could definitely dispel all his concerns:
"Uncle Chen, look at this bow and crossbow, the elastic force is two hundred and forty catties, the pulling force is thirty catties, and the range is three hundred and seventy steps."
After listening to Yun Mo's words, Chen Bo hurriedly stepped on the mountain in front of the bow and crossbow with his foot, and gently pulled the bowstring with one hand, with a "click" sound, Chen Bo exclaimed "ah", he really couldn't imagine that this crossbow could be easily wound with one hand.
"Chief, can I try to shoot an arrow?"
"Absolutely."
Yun Mo took out a crossbow arrow and handed it to him, Uncle Chen, who was in his fifties, and it was still one-handed, and a crossbow arrow was quickly put into the bow and crossbow by him.
"Ahh Chief, how did the tree on the other side come to the fore? ”
All right! This is a high-tech thing, thirty-two times the scope, even if Chen Bo is a literate person, he can't understand the reason, so there is no need to explain it to Chen Bo.
"Leave the scope alone, just test fire the way you normally would."
"Poof"
A crossbow arrow shot out like lightning, and the crossbow arrow shot into a big tree more than 300 meters away, and entered without a handle.
After a moment of surprise, Uncle Chen immediately urged the horse to rush to the side of the big tree three hundred meters away, and he stroked the crossbow arrow with one hand, which was only half a small section, as if caressing his beloved woman, Uncle Chen suddenly howled unscrupulously.
"Woooooooooo......oo Why didn't you come sooner, why didn't you come early...... You only came when all the brothers are dead...... Woowoo woo ......"
"Oh my God! …… Our Han people in the Western Regions are finally saved. ”
Yun Mo didn't bother Uncle Chen's venting, anyone who watched their relatives and friends being killed would be angry in their hearts, but Zhang Ying and their Han group were too weak, and they could only endure it if they were killed, this hatred was endured in their hearts, and they needed to explode, otherwise they would be sick.
After a long time, after Uncle Chen had cried enough, he asked Yun Mo, who slipped to his side:
"Chief, this crossbow may be a replica?"
"Of course you can copy it, you just need some good materials."
"Chief, we have materials here! There are really good materials for bows and crossbows. ”
Yun Mo became interested, and immediately asked in a low voice in surprise:
"Do you really have ready-made materials for making crossbows?"
"Chief, it's like this, after all, our ancestor is a great general guarding half of the Western Regions, although we have been defeated repeatedly, but we still have a little bit of things left, fine birch, crossbow arrows, armor, swords and so on."
"That's good, that's good, tomorrow you send someone to dig a few carts of stone salt and come back, we will make salt while imitating bows and crossbows, if we are not armed, we will not be able to keep the food exchanged for salt."
"The leader is mighty, and the leader is victorious."
Yun Mo: ......