Hearing the footsteps behind her, Liu Niang turned her head, her cheeks were deeply sunken due to long-term hunger under the miserable white moonlight, and Ding Yueming opposite her was similar, they hadn't eaten for almost three days. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Sister, there's meat to eat!" Liu Niang's eyes flashed with a seeping look, and hunger had made her lose her mind.

Ding Yueming looked at the bloody mass in her hand, her stomach churned, and she retched, but she couldn't vomit anything in her empty stomach.

rushed over in a few steps to knock off the flesh and blood in Liu Niang's hand, Ding Yueming knelt down and hugged Liu Niang, whose eyes were straight, and cried.

"Sister, you can't eat it, if you eat it, we won't be human!"

Liu Niang stared at the piece of meat on the ground, swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and muttered to herself, "Are we still human now?"

"We are human, of course we are human!" Ding Yueming shouted weakly, she used to live a miserable life by the side of "Poison Tai Sui" Mei Renxing, but compared to now, she felt that it was the difference between heaven and earth.

Under Ding Yueming's comfort, Liu Niang fell asleep, looking at the moon in the sky, Ding Yueming said softly: "Xianggong, if you are already dead, give Yueming a dream, and I will go down to find you, I ...... I can't take it anymore......"

In this Dahua army that fled to the northwest, Gao Sheng, as a deputy general, naturally did not have the right to Cao Heda, so every time Cao He issued an order, he did not raise objections again, but just silently carried it out, and Cao He was very satisfied with this.

However, Cao He found that Gao Sheng's attitude towards himself was a bit abnormal recently, that was from the time he ordered the reduction of refugee rations, and Gao Sheng, who had always looked at him with low eyebrows, had some other things in his eyes, Cao He said it was not good, but it was certainly not respect and admiration.

When Cao He and his men retreated from the battlefield without authorization, he knew that he could no longer go back to eat the food of the imperial court. Escaping from the battle, leaving his post without permission, the crime should be punished! So he led his team all the way to the west, on the one hand, to get rid of the Jin soldiers who were following behind, and on the other hand, to stay away from the capital of Dahua. He was going to find a place far away from the emperor of the mountain, and the fate of deserters was like this throughout the ages.

Cao and his subordinates also knew it in their hearts, but none of them stood up and shouted: "Go back, protect your family and defend the country!" "Because they are afraid in their hearts, and fear of death is only one aspect, and no one is afraid of death. But what they fear most in their hearts is that death is meaningless and worthless.

So these thousands of people silently followed Cao He, left the battlefield and fled to the distant Northwest Plain, as long as they could survive, it didn't matter if they were infamous as deserters.

Gao Sheng is one of them, he is about thirty years old, born poor, originally joined the army to have something to eat, and then climbed to his current position step by step with his military exploits, he cherished all this, so he carried out the orders of his boss to the letter, in order to be able to keep his current official position.

When Cao He gave the order to flee, Gao Sheng carried it out, when Cao He gave the order to go west, he carried it out, and when Cao He ordered to cut the food of the refugees to ensure the rations of the soldiers, he still carried it out.

But now, he regrets it.

While the team stopped to rest, Gao Sheng took the soldiers to visit the ranks of refugees, something he often did. As a result, he saw a scene that he will never forget: two pairs of parents, swapping their children, and then killing and eating!

Easy to eat!

I thought that the cruel fighting on the battlefield had tempered his will and made him hard-hearted, but the screams of the children and the crying of his parents still made his heart twist, he knew that the refugees were very hard, but he didn't expect it to be so bitter! He is also from a bitter background, and knows that the most docile people in the world are the common people, as long as they do not starve to death, they are lambs to the slaughter who do not know how to resist.

The excited Gao Sheng went to Cao He with red eyes, but was pulled down by Cao He to drink and eat together. The meal was not very rich, a plate of air-dried beef, a small plate of peanuts, a pot of turbid wine, and five white-flour steamed buns.

"I know what Brother Xian wants to say, come on, have a drink first." Gao Sheng glanced at the wine glass handed over by Cao He, and silently took it and drank it. Cao He said with a smile: "The lives of those refugees outside are very hard, I know all this, but Brother Xian, our life is not easy!" ”

Gao Sheng looked at the food in front of him silently, and Cao He continued: "Liu Datou took his two thousand people and left, leaving these hundreds of thousands of refugees to us......"

"There are no more than 100,000 left, and there are still 60,000 or 70,000 people left alive......" Gao Sheng corrected in a low voice.

Cao He was stunned for a moment and waved his hand: "It's the same, it's all cumbersome!" He took a piece of jerky and threw it into his mouth, saying, "These refugees should be grateful to us, if we hadn't protected them all the way, they would have died at the hands of the Jin soldiers and the Tanguts." ”

He put his arm around Gao Sheng's shoulders and said, "Brother will be honest with you, let's escape this time, don't think about going back, escaping from the battle is an end, death!" But don't worry, I've already figured out where we're going to go, come and see. ”

Cao He spread out a map, pointed to a place and said: "This is called the Tibetan Military Building, the terrain is excellent, I heard that it used to be the place where Dong Zhuotun soldiers, we will set up camp there, and live the days of the soil emperor, when the time comes, my brother and I will be the owner of the village, you are the deputy owner of the village, and after a few years, we will also raise strong soldiers and horses, and expand the territory and build a country by ourselves, I will be the emperor, you are the prince, you and I share the wealth and glory, hahaha." ”

"My lord......" Gao Sheng arched his hand, "The grand cause of the adult, the villain is looking forward to it, but the refugees outside are about to starve to death, should we open a warehouse first and release food to save people." ”

"Humph!" Cao He was very dissatisfied with Gao Sheng's reaction, he slammed his wine glass on the table, and said, "Do you know how much grain we have?" After giving all the food to those burdens, how can the soldiers win the battle when they are hungry? ”

"Even if you are full, you will still lose the battle!" Gao Sheng said coldly, Cao He was furious when he heard it, slapped the table and said, "Fart!" If it weren't for the strong golden dog soldiers, we would have been able to defeat the battle? If it weren't for those bastards in the imperial court who withheld military salaries, grain and grass, would we have been able to defeat the war? I'm telling you, Gao Sheng, don't take yourself too fucking seriously! If you dare to talk nonsense again, be careful of military law! Gao Sheng bowed his head and said nothing, but his fists under the table were tightly clenched.

After Gao Sheng left, Cao He drank all the wine in the pot with a gloomy face, and said secretly in his heart: "This kid and I are not of the same heart, sooner or later he will be a scourge, and he must be eliminated!" ”

On this night, Gao Sheng couldn't sleep all night, he left the camp and walked to the place where the refugees rested, there were many people lying on both sides of the road, an old man leaned against a dead tree and seemed to look into the distance, he walked over to talk to him, but found that the old man had been dead for a long time.

With a long sigh, Gao Sheng stood up and continued to move forward, and suddenly heard a woman's shouting in the distance, there are also some unruly bastards among the refugees, who like to snatch food and bully the weak, could it be that these turtle sons are doing bad things again?

"Uncle, uncle, she's already married, don't her......"

"Fuck off! Dead cripple! Lao Tzu has long taken a fancy to her! Don't get in the way, be careful that Lao Tzu chops you! ”

"Uncle, please don't mess around, or ...... Why don't I accompany you tonight......"

"Sister, don't do this, I'll kill them!"

In the darkness, a thin woman flashed out of the darkness with a wooden stick, and it seemed that she had practiced kung fu, but her body was too weak, and she only took a few steps before falling to the ground, and then two soldiers who were smiling lewdly also came out of the darkness, and a lame woman hugged the thigh of one of the soldiers and pleaded.

"I'm annoyed, stinky!" The soldier took the trouble and swung his steel knife and slashed at the woman's head!

"Sister!" Ding Yueming's exclamation pierced the silent night sky, and not far from here, a young man riding a horse suddenly pulled the reins, and he followed the prestige, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Moonlight!"