Chapter 54: Marching Alone
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Xiao Yan's words really aroused the response of the people, and they all left behind the incident of soldiers killing people, who would care if he was alive or dead. Man is always selfish and will not think about others unless he has an inseparable interest from himself.
After listening to the people's response, Xiao Yan said the last thing, "There is one more thing to bother the rich gentry and the common people, there are 70,000 people guarding our homes to protect everyone, but they can't eat, but they still go to the battlefield without hesitation!" I don't force it, I just ask the people to donate some extra money and food. Xiao Yan cried with a sad face, but he is a qualified actor and a real acting school.
"We donate!"
"I'll donate a hundred taels and a thousand quintals of grain!"
"I donate too!"
“......”。 The rich gentry have donated to defend the city.
The news that the Tatars came in to slaughter the city had already spread throughout this small city, so some rich gentry had decided to donate food and wages to the Ming army to win the Tatar war. It's a good thing that the Ming army is protecting itself, and it is also appropriate to give some protection money, and the previous idea of who wants to be in charge of the house suddenly disappeared.
Xiao Yan was gloomy and happy, and the food and salary had finally arrived. Then there was the capital that continued to be consumed with the Tatars.
At this time, Zhu Shou's army encountered a trouble halfway.
Most of Zhu Shou's soldiers were southerners, while the northwest region was a plateau wasteland, with sparse air and a capricious climate.
Soldiers passing by here, because they are not used to the weather here, many people get sick every day, and if they don't hurry up and get out of here, tens of thousands of troops will all die here.
"Master, look at how this should be!" Tang Bohu said sickly, and he also fell ill a few days after he arrived here. The face is pale, the eyes are blank, and the appearance of only one breath is pitiful.
Zhu Shou sighed and said, "Alas! There's nothing I can do. We can only take one step at a time now, if the march is too slow, more people will fall ill, and if the march is too fast, the number of people who will fall ill will not be able to keep up. ”
Zhong Lixin, Wu Qi, Shame, and Yun'er on the side also looked at Tang Bohu very worriedly. During this time together, they have developed a strong friendship.
"Master, if you really can't do it, you can leave us sick brothers behind!" Tang Bohu thought for a while and said, there is no good way in front of him, the slow walking of the sick soldier will drag down those who are healthy, and after a long time, those who are healthy will also fall ill.
Tang Bohu's suggestion was really out of the way, he really didn't want to see the other brothers die with them.
Zhu Shou didn't even think about it when he heard it, and shook his head decisively: "No!" I won't give up on any of the 70,000 brothers, and if I bring you here, I'll take you out! Brother Tang, you must have confidence, we will definitely be able to go out. Every word Zhu Shou said was from the heart, and Zhu Shou was anxious after so many people were sick, but what could he do?
Tang Bohu smiled and nodded, he believed in Zhu Shou.
The only thing that still supports him is his so-called faith and indomitable spirit! It was with such a spirit that supported him that Zhu Shou did not fall down, and kept walking, he firmly believed that he could bring the soldiers here, and that could also bring them out.
"Tang Long, you order to go down and let the whole army stop and rest." Zhu Shou said to Tang Long, the deputy commander of the Chongling Battalion outside the carriage, that Tang Long, as the leader in the Chongling Battalion, had been appointed as the deputy commander by Zhu Shou.
"Yes!" Tang Long agreed, and let a few brothers around him go.
After a long journey, everyone was already a little tired, and they couldn't help but get excited when they heard this order. Sick soldiers can also get a good rest, and Langzhong, who is on the march, takes advantage of this time to give them medicine to heal their diseases.
"Tang Long! You go and get the dragon bogey! Zhu Shou shouted outside the carriage,
"Yes!" Tang Long agreed and went in person.
After a while, the heavily armed dragon bogey came,
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, are you looking for the last general?" Long Ji bowed his head and said that Zhu Shou's carriage was two meters high, like a small house. So people can stand in it, and there is a bed where Zhu Shou sleeps, but unfortunately it is now occupied by Tang Bohu.
Zhu Shou nodded, "You have also seen the current situation of our army, the brothers of the Xuanji Battalion and the Shenji Battalion are the most sick, and the brothers of your Yutian Battalion are in good physical condition, most of them are northerners and adapt to the climate here, so there are few who are sick." ”
"That's right! My battalion is for the purpose of sweeping away the Tatars one day in the future, and I know that the Tatar nest is in the north, so the brothers I chose are all northerners. There is nothing unsuitable for the plateau here. Long Ji said with a hint of a smile, admiring his wise deeds.
"So you lead your 10,000 brothers from the Heavenly Camp to take the lead, don't drag you down." Zhu Shou said lightly,
"Huh?" Long Ji frowned, "Prince, are you letting the last general be a deserter?" He was a deserter, but although he was not punished by Zhu Shou, he was praised heavily, and some were aroused by Zhu Shou, but Long Ji felt very ashamed.
In any case, he will not be a deserter again, and he finally became a general to clear his shame, and he doesn't want to go through it again.
Zhu Shouzhi shook his head, fleeing your sister's soldiers? Is it okay to be a little conscious? "It's not that you're deserters, but that you have a more important mission! Now there are 70,000 of our army of 300,000 in Ningxia blocking the Tatars, and they will not hold out for long, so we must hurry up to reach the Tatars' lair. ”
"Only in this way can more of the 70,000 brothers who defend the city survive."
Listening to Zhu Shou's words, Long Ji sighed, and the two looked at each other with a look at each other, time seemed to stop at this moment, only the sound of rapid breathing. Long Ji was silent for a long time, and Zhu Shou was also silent with him.
Long Ji was reminiscing about Zhu Shou's words, while Zhu Shou was thinking about what to eat at night.
It's not that Zhu Shou is greedy, but that there is not much grain and grass left......
The amount of grain and grass belt was originally only enough for this part of the journey, but due to the slowdown, the grain and grass were already insufficient.
Does Zhu Shou really want to stop there? Zhu Shou is unwilling, but he can't do anything, he can't change his life against the sky, right? But if you want to change this, you have to change something, right? If it weren't for the faith, Zhu Shou would have collapsed long ago.
"Good!" Long Ji finally agreed, and it was better to obey Zhu Shou's arrangement than to wait for death. gave Zhu Shou a salute and set off, "His Royal Highness the Prince, take care!" ”
The sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, the sky is green, and the sunset at one end of the sky has been as red as blood, and the army of the dragon jealous suddenly accelerated its speed in the background of this blood-red sun, and thousands of horses galloped, like thunder rolling. Run in the direction of the Tatar lair.