518: Stopping the epidemic by force, Cheng Qing is finished?
Fifty or sixty thousand displaced people walked to a place more than ten miles away from Wuhe County.
They were staggering, ragged, and their feet had long since lost their strength, but they were still moving slowly and mechanically in the direction of Wuhe County.
As long as you get to Wuhe County, you can live.
Wuhe County had food, medicinal herbs, and the army of the imperial court to protect them.
They were told that the homeless people were confused and suspicious.
No matter how weak the hope is, it is also hope, if they don't believe it, they can only wait for death in Huainan.
The turf was gnawed and the roots were dug up.
The rat holes in the fields were all cleaned up, and everything that could be imported was eaten into the stomach.
But I'm still hungry!
The hunger was so unbearable that some people ate Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger.
Guanyin soil is self-deception when it is eaten in the stomach, and the heavy Guanyin soil cannot be digested in the stomach, and it cannot be excreted in the intestines, and it will suffocate people to death.
When she died, she was skinny and skinny in other parts of her body, but her belly was bulging and straight, like a pregnant woman who was several months pregnant.
Along the way, countless displaced people fell.
The first displaced people to leave Huainan have run so far to Shandong, and some of the affected people who have been slow to respond want to run, but unfortunately the scarf thieves have developed greatly, and they are not allowed to run, so they can only stay in Huainan and wait for death.
I don't know what's going on, the scarf thieves suddenly didn't care where they went, and these tens of thousands of people escaped regardless of it.
The water level of the Huai River has dropped, and there is still some water in the end, so these people will go downstream along the Huai River, and Huainan is not far from Wuhe County, and as they walked, fifty or sixty thousand displaced people arrived in Wuhe County.
Walking in a mess, I don't know how many people have fallen along the way, and it is still difficult to protect myself, except for blood relatives, who has time to take care of others?
The epidemic has broken out among these tens of thousands of displaced people, but they are unaware.
There are so many displaced people who have fallen, and no one cares how people die.
Even if some homeless people know that there is no way to do it, they will die of hunger if they die of the epidemic. It is too painful to be starved to death, and if you are destined not to live, it is better to die of the epidemic.
People who have contracted the epidemic can end their suffering in a day or two if they are fast, and a few days if they are slow.
This group of displaced people has no awareness of epidemic prevention at all.
If you are infected with the epidemic, you will not enter Wuhe County, this kind of self-sacrificing thinking is too noble, and you can't find one out of a hundred homeless people!
If you don't take the initiative and don't deliberately infect others, you already have a conscience.
There are also a few people who complain about the heavens and the earth, complain about the disaster in Huainan, complain about the viciousness of the thieves, and they are sick, but others are fine, and they are unhappy! Those who are infected with the epidemic, as long as they can continue to walk, they don't care at all whether they will infect others, and they are moving towards Wuhe County.
Near, near, close.
Tens of thousands of people fled the famine together, and if Wuhe County didn't give food to eat, everyone would rush into the county seat to rob it!
If you can't grab it, you will infect the people of Wuhe County with the epidemic, and if you want to die, everyone will die together.
These words, like the whispers of evil ghosts, rang in their ears from time to time, bewitching tens of thousands of homeless people to rush to Wuhe County.
They failed to reach Wuhe County as they wished, and were stopped by the army about ten miles away from Wuhe County.
The soldiers were armed with shields and bows and arrows, and wore improvised cloth masks around their muzzles and noses.
The cloth mask was double-layered, containing charcoal slag, which was insisted on by Cheng to be attached to the garrison.
The garrisons are not stupid, who is good to them, they know it in their hearts.
Bachelor Cheng asked military doctors to teach the "art of suturing", and when they arrived in Wuhe County, they have been purifying alcohol and giving them "masks...... If it weren't for these "masks", the garrisons in Wuhe County might not have dared to get so close to these tens of thousands of displaced people.
The displaced people were stopped by the army and were furious.
No matter how the soldiers explained, let the displaced people calm down and wait in place for the arrangement, but the displaced people just wouldn't listen.
What supports the displaced people to go to Wuhe County is the instinct to survive.
Now the county town is in sight, but someone is blocking their footsteps, what is the overall situation, the displaced people don't want to listen, whoever stands in their way is the enemy!
The army of the imperial court did not protect them, but came to kill them.
Emotions were stirred, and immediately the homeless people rushed into the army's defenses built with shields and bows and arrows.
"If the soldiers don't let us live, then everyone will die together!"
"If you don't starve to death, you will die of disease, and you are afraid of being killed?"
"Rush over, grain is ...... in the county"
The hands of the soldiers with bows and arrows trembled.
If these people were scarf thieves, the soldiers would not hesitate to shoot arrows, but these people were ragged outcasts, unarmed ordinary people!
Seeing the homeless people rushing over in waves, the defense line formed by the soldiers was actually panicked.
"Forcibly break into the county, all of them will be killed, and they are still stunned to do something, release arrows!"
The roar sounded, and the soldiers subconsciously shot arrows.
Some soldiers looked back, but it was Cheng Qing, who was wearing an official uniform, who hurried out of the city and rushed here.
"Master Chengβ"
"The one who forcibly broke into the county must be a thief, and since he is a thief, why can't he be killed?"
Cheng Qing asked the general of the garrison expressionlessly on horseback.
The generals were drenched in cold sweat.
Those who were shot to death were supposed to be people with scarf thieves, but most of them were really outcasts...... I didn't expect Master Cheng to be so decisive, and he would kill if he said he would.
Therefore, don't look at the rough appearance of the generals, shouting and killing all day long, the really powerful thing is the civil officials who look at Sven, and the vulgar point is that dogs that can bite people don't bark......
Cheng Qing had a calm face and looked at the dense crowd of homeless people.
After firing arrows several times in a row, hundreds of the displaced people who rushed to the front fell down, and the displaced people behind did not dare to continue to attack the defensive line.
Most of the homeless people who were hit by the arrows were only injured, but the arrows did not last long, and some of them were actually killed.
Cheng Qing didn't look at the corpses underground.
She didn't want any outcasts to die.
Before she crossed over, she hadn't even killed chickens, and at most she was fighting with people in the business field.
If you don't order to shoot the homeless people, not to mention rushing into the county, these people rushed outside the city, so that the tens of thousands of homeless people who originally lived outside the city were infected with the epidemic, even if Bian Que was reborn, he couldn't save so many people.
Seeing that the homeless people were scared of being killed, Cheng Qing shouted:
"Who said that the court didn't save you and didn't care about you!"
"If the court doesn't care, what will the emperor do when he allocates food and money to Huainan, and the good Beijing officials don't do it, and come to Huainan to ask for hardship?"
"It's all gone to Wuhe County, why don't you want to wait? You've waited for months, you've walked all the way, but you don't even want to wait half an hour...... You didn't starve to death, you didn't die of disease, but you were bewitched by thieves and died, do you think it's worth it? β
"This official tells you that you are not worth dying like this! Others die of natural disasters, of man-made disasters, of stupidity! β
Cheng Qing's words, these homeless people naturally couldn't answer a word.
After a few breaths of silence, someone hid in the crowd and instigated the yin and yang, saying that Cheng Qing was delaying time, and Sun An, who was guarding Cheng Qing's side, shot the man with an arrow.
The homeless people were in turmoil, Cheng Qing sneered:
"Whoever questions the words of the official is a spy of the thief, and the official wants to see how many lives you spies have to kill the official!"
If it weren't for the long range, Cheng Qing would definitely have used the crossbow himself.
She went on a killing spree outside the county, Cheng Zhixu was silent after learning the news in the county, Rong Jiu knew that Cheng Qing was very gangsterly when he was in Hongxian, but it was a thief, and now it is killing homeless people, which is not the same thing at all...... Oh my God, Cheng Qing is finished!