Ten days later, when the army marched to Lishan County, which was closer to the northwest, it could feel a scene completely different from the glitz of the capital, a scene of the last days, where the rich were extremely poor and vicious, and their brains were full of fat; The poor have no clothes and no food.

Along the way, you can see the families of refugees dragging the old and the young, all of them are yellow and thin, their clothes are ragged, and the children are crying weakly, and the old man's tears are dry, and his expression is numb, like a walking corpse.

There are no new graves on the roadside, and it is not difficult to guess that they are all starving people who have been hastily buried by their relatives, and some of the bodies are not even buried at all, only covered in the field with broken straw mats or leaves.

It was the first time for Qin Dui to see this kind of tragic scene, and his heart couldn't help twitching, Qin Dui in his previous life often complained that the country at that time was so bad and that it was not good, but compared with such a chaotic world, Qin Dui's people in his previous life did live in heaven.

In this troubled era of thousands of families crying and displacement, the bones are exposed in the wild and no one is buried, relying on the bark and grass roots, and even forced to change children and eat, life is as cheap as grass mustard here, although Qin Duan has been prepared in his heart, but when he really saw this tragic scene, he was still deeply shocked.

Under an old elm tree on the side of the road, an old woman with white hair was driving a barefoot man who was approaching with a wooden crutch, and there was a woman in her twenties beside the old woman, who was nursing the child, and several of them were unclothed, the woman thought that she had been hungry for a long time, and there was no milk at all, and the child could not absorb milk, and was crying dying, and the woman was also crying.

Qin Duan couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and closed his eyes tightly to prevent himself from looking at it again. Qin Duan knew that in this chaotic time, there were too many such things. There is no way for him, unless one day he can build a new empire, but this is still very far away for Qin Dui, all Qin Duan can do is endure and endure again.

"Old man......"

Little Cherry tugged at his sleeve and said with tears in her eyes.

"What do you want to do?" Qin Duan asked.

"Master, they are so pitiful. Let's give them something to eat. ”

Little Cherry said with some sadness, seeing them reminded Little Cherry of the days when she fled with her family. Little Cherry feels lucky to have met a good man.

"Go ahead." Qin Du touched the little cherry's head and said lovingly, kind girl. It's still very much annoying to Qin Dui.

Qin Du let the handlebar stop the car. Little Cherry took down a dozen pancakes from the car and stuffed them into the woman, plus a tael of silver. Then, ignoring the gratitude of the woman and the old woman, he returned to the car without saying a word.

After that, every time he encountered such a thing, Xiao Cherry would come and pull his sleeve, and Qin Du would stop the carriage every time and ask her to give love.

After many times, Little Cherry stopped pulling his sleeves. Just rolled up in the corner of the car silently shedding tears, little cherry understood. With so many people, no matter how much they give alms, it is useless, even if they have a full meal, they will still be hungry when they have a meal.

I'm just a maid next to the master, and the master accommodates himself again and again, and I can't make it difficult for the master again and again.

Looking at the little cherry who was shrinking alone on the side of the carriage, ignoring the persuasion of several other good sisters, and still crying, Qin Duan had to say: "Little cherry, we have some silver on us, but this can't save them, let alone all, I have to keep this money, I have to!" I'm going to use this money to do more important things, and if I do, I can really save them." ”

"But the old man ......," said the little cherry what else he wanted to say.

"I know this, and I can't bear it, but now our strength is too weak to save a few people." Qin Duan interrupted Little Cherry's words and said.

"What is the master going to do?" Delusion asked curiously

"You'll know in the future, you will, you'll know, as long as we all make it to Northwest Tokugawa-gun alive."

……

Three more days of marching

"My lord, we are now in Lishan County, and in three days we will enter Maoshan County in the northwest." Liang Qiming came to the side of the carriage and reported to Qin Du.

"Very good, arrange it, let's rest today, you arrange some officers to go to those homeless people to recruit some soldiers, as long as it meets the requirements, they will be recruited for me, and it is best that before we enter the northwest region, the number of soldiers can reach three thousand." Qin Duan thought for a while and said.

"Yes, I'll arrange for someone to recruit soldiers." Liang Qiming responded.

"Okay, you go get busy and call Zhu Yongqing over." Qin Du said.

"Yes." Liang Qiming answered and went out.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Soon Zhu Yongqing came over.

"How much do we have left?" Qin Duan asked, and Qin Duan temporarily handed over all the logistics of the army to this Zhu Yongqing to manage.

"After consuming along the way, and constantly replenishing along the way, we now have enough food for the army for two months." Zhu Yongqing said.

"Two months, too little, we still have to recruit no less than two thousand soldiers here, these grains and grass are not enough, you now arrange people to purchase logistics materials for four thousand people."

Qin Dui said that although Qin Dui had never led an army to fight, one thing was very clear, that is, the basic common sense that the army had not moved, and the grain and grass came first, Qin Dui still knew.

"Yes, my lord, in this way, the number of our food guards is a little insufficient." Zhu Yongqing thought for a while and said.

"I will consider this matter, what you have to do now is to purchase a sufficient amount of grain before entering the northwest, and what situation we will face after entering the northwest, we all don't know, if there is a shortage of grain and grass, the consequences will be very strict." Qin Du said.

"Yes, my lord, I will arrange for someone to purchase grain and grass, and purchase as much as possible." Zhu Yongqing also recognized Qin Duan's idea very much.

"Go ahead, if you don't have enough money, you can take it from Crazy Dreams."

Qin Dui said, now Crazy Dream has become the financial officer of Qin Dui's army, after all, among the four women in Qin Dui, Crazy Dream is the most literate, and the other three girls are completely semi-literate, although they have learned some words in these days, but it is far from enough.

"My lord, I still have more than 500,000 taels of silver here, which should be enough."

Zhu Yongqing thought for a while and said, Zhu Yongqing is now in charge of the logistics of the entire army, and he is also in charge of the logistics and finance of the entire army.

"Very good, when we get out of Maoshan County, the entire army will be greatly adjusted, and then everyone's responsibilities will be clear, and now everyone can only work harder." Qin Du said.

"My lord, there is nothing, these are all things that lowly people should do, my lord, I will take people out to buy grain and grass." Zhu Yongqing said.

"Go ahead, bring more people, this is close to the northwest of the empire, and the security is not very good." Qin Du said.

……

After Zhu Youqing left, Qin Duan looked at the four girls who were tired on the carriage and asked, "Can you support it?" ”

After all, after traveling rapidly for more than a month, these four weak women must be a little unbearable, although most of the time they are sitting in the carriage, they can bump like this for a month, Qin Duan's bones are a little like they are about to fall apart, not to mention a few of them weak women.

"If the master can support it, the little cherry can support it."

"Girl, it's easy to misunderstand!"

"Misunderstanding what?" Little Cherry asked, a little confused

"Aha, it's nothing, hold on a little longer, let's rest here for a day today." Qin Dusk This can be regarded as a pleasure in suffering, and Yiyin took a moment to disperse the soreness on his body.

"Sir, when will we get to Tokugawa-gun?"

Crazy Dream asked, since she handed over her body to the master that day, Crazy Dream's heart is all on Qin Duan's body, this is the good thing about women at this time, as long as she identifies a man and will be unswerving to him for the rest of her life, Crazy Dream is such a woman.

"If we go to Tokugawa County in half a month, we will be able to reach Tokugawa County in half a month, but we are not in a hurry to reach Tokugawa County now, and after entering the northwest, our marching speed will slow down." Qin Du said.

"Why, sir?" Xiaoyu asked.

"Training, we have to train as we go, and when we get to Tokugawa Prefecture, we can have an army that can protect us, an army that can fight well." Qin Du said.

"Master, we don't understand any of this, we only know where you are, master, and we will follow you." Little Cherry said firmly.

"Hehe, rest assured, no matter where I go, I won't lose you, master." Qin Dui said with a smile that Qin Dui would not still abandon his own woman.

"Sir, you're so nice." Little Cherry happily leaned on Qin Dui's shoulder and said.

"It's good to know that the master is good, and you have to serve the master well at night." Qin Du said with a smile.

"Master, you're so annoying." The women said disagreeingly.

……

Three days later, Qin Dui's army entered Yushan County, on the border of Lishan County and Maoshan County, and in an uninhabited area of Yushan County, Qin Dui's army was stationed in an area close to the water source.

"Come on, go and inform Lord Liang and Lord Zhu to come to the camp for a meeting." Qin Duan explained to his personal guards.

"Yes." Immediately, two guards went to inform the two adults to come to the meeting.

After a stick of incense, the two commanders came to the camp.

"Sit down." Qin Duan waited for the two commanders to sit down and said, "I have summoned you here because I have something to discuss with you. ”

"Your Excellency, you say." Liang Qiming said.

"I looked at the roster of the troops, and now we have 3,500 people in the army." Qin Duan asked.

"Yes, sir. Now we have 2,500 men and 1,000 women in our army, and if you count the officers like Captain Wufu, we have more than 4,000. Liang Qiming said.

"Very good, I looked at the roster yesterday, and the ages and plain names of the people in it are very different." Qin Du said.

"Yes, my lord, many people along the way have joined our army with their families, and these are all specially approved by you."

Liang Qiming said, in fact, Liang Qiming didn't understand himself as an adult, in order to recruit even those children, the elderly, and women into the army, how could these people fight, and it was simply a burden to march with these people. (To be continued......)