407 Thousands of miles of grain
The snow is beautiful, looking at the whiteness of the mountains and the snowflakes flying in the wind, a feeling of cleanliness to the bottom of my heart arises spontaneously. {γγ ε «((δΈ(γη½ ?γ}.γ8?1]
If such a beautiful scenery is set up with a big hot pot, simmered over low heat, some beef, lamb chops and big bones, and then accompanied by two or two small wines, then not to mention how comfortable.
Food, wine and beautiful scenery, there is no one in the world who does not love, of course, you must be able to afford the price of food and wine, as long as you have money, you can naturally enjoy it, this is a universal truth.
But today, this truth is a bit inaccurate.
Zhang Qi is very rich, but he can't enjoy hot pot and wine now. This kid is also well-known in Peishui, a native of Peishui, who experienced the Peishui tragedy that year, and awakened in that tragedy.
Later, Lord Drifting Fire formed a team of Sky Walkers, and as an awakened person, he was the first to sign up, and later this kid also coincidentally got Lord Flowing Fire personally instructed him to travel skills, which made his comrades envious.
The Sky Walker troops are the elite of the Drifters, and the monthly military salary has been as high as a hundred gold coins, you must know that in the Chu State, one gold coin is already the ration money of a family of three for nearly half a year, and even most of the people have never seen what gold coins look like in their lives.
From this point of view, they are definitely rich people. But today, these noble skywalkers are actually like a herd of donkeys, trekking forward against the wind and snow.
It was a squad of 150 soldiers, with 10 large wooden plowtrucks, each loaded with thousands of pounds of grain, and dragged forward with great difficulty by 10 soldiers.
Zhang Mad is the captain of this grain transportation team, but he has no special treatment, and all work here must be done by himself, and even those who are officials do more than those who are soldiers.
The reason is very simple, this grain transportation task is voluntary, and no one can force you.
The route of the arrogant team's march this time was from Wugang to the official road of Dawang City, in the official warehouse of Wugang, the Liuhuo Lord had stored more than 15,000 tons of grain, mainly all kinds of grains and dried meat, and now these foods will become Peishui's life-saving food.
The heavy belt was draped over his arrogant shoulders, the long rope was pulled straight, and beside him, there were ten soldiers with the same belt, walking in unison and silently.
Thousands of pounds of climbing plows made long marks on the snow, but they were soon buried by the blizzard, as if they had never been there.
A squad of one hundred and fifty people, fifty of them are mobile forces, and on the one hand, they have to replace those who are overtired, and on the other hand, they have to pre-boil water at the front of the team and make pots of hot soup.
This is the lesson of life, in such a big snowstorm, in the temperature of dripping water into ice, the strongest warrior can only insist on walking ten miles. After this distance, you have to replenish the heat, otherwise you will have to wait for non-combat attrition.
The final result is that a bowl of broth can walk ten miles, and a hundred miles a day is already the limit of all soldiers, and at this time it is necessary to camp and rest.
There is a thousand miles from Wugang to Dawang City, and the team must walk for ten days to reach the destination, and today is the eighth day of the march, and the day after tomorrow everyone will be able to enter the Peishui realm, and Peishui is now the paradise of the entire Zhongzhou Da 6 li.
Just as he was calculating the route in a frenzied silence, a soldier suddenly stumbled in from the front.
"Captain, captain, the brute is tired and out of strength, and now he has passed out, you can go and take a look..."
Zhang Yan frowned when he heard this, hurriedly threw the holster to the messenger, and ran quickly to the front.
"Lord Flowing Fire bless, God of Light bless, don't have an accident, it's only been two days, you just let me bring the team back safely."
Zhang Mad beat the drum in his heart, the wild bull was a militia soldier who had just been replaced, due to overwork, Zhang Mad asked him to go to the rest camp in front of him in advance to drink hot soup, but he still didn't hold on, and before he could reach the edge of the fire, he plunged into the snow.
When Zhang ran to the fire, he breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that the wild cow had been carried over, and someone was feeding him the broth in one bite.
"I'm really useless, I'm calling the name of the bull in vain, I know why I was eliminated by this recruitment, I'm just a waste, I can't even pull a climbing plow..."
The bull's self-blame pushed back all the words of comfort that were full of arrogance, and at this time he suddenly felt a burst of depression in his heart, he stood up and pointed to the wind and snow around him and wanted to speak, but he couldn't say it.
Just look at the surrounding environment to see how big the snowstorm that swept through the Chu State was that these frozen soldiers dug out a snow nest more than one meter deep in order to make a fire. Not only that, but people had to build a windbreak wall out of snow against the wind, so that they could light a few bonfires and cook enough broth for more than a hundred people.
Is it easy to pull a climbing plow? How difficult it is to walk in the soft snow more than a meter deep, try to know, one foot down, the whole leg is sunk in, with this high leg posture to walk ten miles, you try?
What? You still ask where the livestock are? Such a thick layer of snow is a waste of any large animal except for dogs pulling plows, but unfortunately there are not so many trained dogs in Dawang City.
Zhang Mad voice was a little choked, he patted the brute on the shoulder and said, "Who dares to say that you are a waste, Lao Tzu beat him to death, not only you, but also the hundred or so people in our team, who are the bad seeds? No one is not..."
"Look at the snow, listen to the north wind of this call, and touch the thousand-pound climbing plow. Why do we come to suffer all this? Who of our Peishui people doesn't have any surplus food? Is it okay for us to stay in the bed at home? Why do we have to suffer this sin? And no one forces us, why do we have to suffer?"
At this time, Zhang Mad was no longer talking to the brute bull, his eyes were already looking at the soldiers around him.
"Why should we come from begging for hardship when we have a good life, because we are still human beings, and we have a human heart in our hearts, and we regard ourselves as human beings, and we also regard those who suffer all over the world as human beings..."
"There are already 30,000 refugees gathered there on the grassy slope, those people are living people like us, we can't watch them starve to death, you must know that before we go out, there has been news of cannibalism among those people, are we indifferent to the tragedy?"
"Some people may say that none of those people are our Peishui people, none of them have made any contribution to Peishui, and we have no obligation to save them. I said it was all fart..."
"Back then, the people of Peishui were all poor and sold their sons and daughters, why did the Flowing Fire Adults willingly save everyone? And the famine in Yongning Prefecture, so many people came to the adults What did the adults say? The reason why our Peishui has become a legendary place in Zhongzhou Da 6 is because we have a broad mind..."
"My lord has long said that how wide your heart is, how wide your world is..."
"We are all good, those who can give up their warm homes and willingly walk into the wind and snow and selflessly dedicate themselves are heroes..."
Under the guidance of insolence, the cold hearts of these soldiers welled up with warm currents, and they had never analyzed the problem from such a height. In their hearts, they were able to walk into the wind and snow only out of their worship of Lord Drifting Fire and the habit of obeying orders cultivated through years of militarized training.
"Oh, when you say that, I think I've done something really amazing?"
"That is, you will have the capital to brag to your children in the future..."
"What is this? I'm going to join the Black Iron Legion in the future, and when the time comes, I'll be able to make some merit and change my title..."
"Haha, it's up to you, and you're all counted down in the militia..."
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The arrogant enlightenment finally worked, and the laughter in the rest camp became louder and louder, and at that moment, the originally biting north wind actually had three more points of warmth.
At this time, the sky has begun to darken, today's goal of 100 miles has been completed, and the arrogance who is in a good mood finally issued a rest order, and soon, dozens of double-decker cowhide tents were erected in the wind and snow.
Today's incident is just a fragment of the process of transporting grain by the arrogant team, and there are more than hundreds of grain transportation teams like him, just in the thousands of miles from Wugang to Dawang City, there are more than 200 grain transportation teams of the same scale as him marching against the wind and snow.
Not only Wugang, but also on the road leading from Dawang City to the hinterland of Daxue Mountain, there are more than 100 such teams marching forward in the wind and snow, and according to preliminary calculations, there are 50,000 soldiers carrying grain alone.
Not every team was as lucky as the insolent team, although the insolent team was very tired, no one died or was injured, and the other teams were miserable, because the members who volunteered to join the team were in good and bad health, and many people with weak resistance could not survive this unprecedented snowstorm.
There are many people who freeze to death, and many people who are infected with wind and cold and die of illness. There are also many people who are inexperienced and do not protect their hands and feet, and as a result, they are left with a lifelong disability.
In such weather, the injured person cannot be effectively treated at all, and everything can only depend on his physical fitness. And those who died can only be hastily buried in the snow on the side of the road, and wear a wooden sign around the neck of the corpse, hoping that his family can still find him when the spring flowers bloom.
This is the famous "Thousand Miles of Grain" in the history of Zhongzhou, and some people call him "Peishui Miracle", it is after this incident, the image of the fire has become unusually tall, and the natural disaster that has taken the lives of tens of millions of people has actually achieved the famous name of the fire in the secular world.
Of course, the name of Suzaku is also widely spread.