Chapter 130 The Bitter Winter That Is About to Begin
New Space, November 9, 204 A.D.
Due to the continuous and rapid cooling, the concubine army has been busy in order to support the northbound team. However, this is not to say that other tasks cannot be carried out.
Although the weather during this period has had some impact on the attendance of the concubine army, fortunately, the accident rate of the voyage has been declining recently.
Since the great cooldown, not a single plane has crashed or made a forced landing...
On the contrary, due to the increase in attendance, the concubine army has a sense of "self-transcendence".
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The first good news of the day was the discovery of Wei Wei's trade convoy on the east bank of the riverbed at the mouth of the Mei River. The campfires they are stationed on are "OK" style.
Also, there is a character bonfire for "1C, 6H, 7A" next to "OK".
Subsequently, a V22 special service group unconventionally made direct contact with it.
Wei Wei's dictation and his autographed report were also brought back and organized. Soon, Tang Songyuan will be able to see the Nth hand "breaking the news".
What Tang Songyuan can know at present is that the reason why the caravan of Wei Lu is calling for help and playing missing is because it was relied on by someone who asked for food.
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I don't know if it was too ostentatious before...
The caravan of the guards first encountered sporadic and small groups of displaced people.
At first, it was fine, but in the next few days, more and more people fled with the caravan!
Later, it developed into not only Liaodong hooligans, but even whenever a caravan was stationed, it would be surrounded by many tents. The owners of these tents are small tribes of Wau, as well as small tribes of Buyeo...
It's okay to follow and gather together.
But, I can't stand the poor people who come over to eat every night!
With the number of people skyrocketing and the composition is complex, and the communication is completely ineffective, plus the hungry people, panicked clansmen, etc., there is always a bit of "not afraid of death" stubbornness.
As a result, just to cope with these people's begging, a lot of food and fuel are consumed every night! From time to time, people come to steal and scramble...
At night, they had to be on guard against the enemy.
When the food and the like are distributed, in the face of this group of people who can't drive away, they can't listen to it, and they can't really kill it... As a result, the Guardian Caravan and his party panicked and chose to call for help and escape.
Until the east hid in Tibet ushered in a blizzard!
Then, after receiving a small amount of supplies, Wei Lu and his gang came up with a plan for a 100-kilometer rapid march as soon as they discussed. After eating and sleeping, he fled for four days.
Only then did I completely get rid of the situation of being tailed...
Just when Tang Songyuan confirmed the safety of the Wei Lu caravan, the Wei Lu 450 people, 1,703 horses, and 800 four-wheeled vehicles had started to hit the road again.
They had to rush to the nearest airdrop point.
Otherwise, with what they have left to eat and drink, it is estimated that they will not live for a few days.
Besides, they also consume a lot of fuel due to the cooling.
Although there was no shortage of clothes, sleeping bags, and marching tents, they still wanted to sleep in the board house... After receiving the airdropped board houses, sleds, and food fuel, their next stop will be to go straight to the county seat of Xigema.
The reason for going to Sageima is not because of proximity, nor because Wei Lu and the others have any foundation there. It's because there's a horse market there!
For more than a month, it is natural for people to work hard.
It's just that in this ice and snow, the horses are the hardest. Even if they take good care of the horses, after all, the road conditions are not good...
Therefore, the guards wanted to replenish some new horses, so that the old and weak horses could be replaced and rested; Second, they also received instructions from the base to sell a batch of "high-end luxury goods".
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After Tang Songyuan learned that the caravan was safe, he didn't pay attention to ordinary people and things, but asked Alia: How much did the caravan earn? Is the grain transaction record copied back?
Arya was stunned for a moment before replying: copies of the ledger and goods records are being checked. You can ask Martha directly if you are late.
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The second news is a summary of many contents after Gao Mao returned to the "Buyeo Royal City".
To put it simply, the surrounding area of Buyeo Wangcheng is not as good as the atmospheric environment... Even if there are wooden and stone buildings to rely on near the river and mountains... But it's still no match for this drastic drop in temperature!
In a few days, the loss of population and livestock around Wangcheng is quite huge!
Mo Ming's big cooling also overwhelmed the Buyeo Ministry!
At least when Gao Mao was exploring the royal city, he found that many tents were burning with fires... But the person who baked the fire had no temperature. If you are lucky, there are accompanying mercenary giants who use life-saving film + frostbite first aid, which can be regarded as a rescue of the soul.
But, how many can this save?
After some rough statistics, within a dozen kilometers of the vicinity of Buyeo Wangcheng alone, the number of people who died of freezing and starvation exceeded 50,000...
Don't ask how you starved to death~
Otherwise, Gao Mao can bite you to death!
After the visit and exploration, the mercenaries who followed Gao Mao to the royal city were surprised to find that the clan elders of various tribes, various plus (adults), etc., were not frozen to death...
After asking, I found out that their way to survive was so simple!
First of all, let the slaves make a fire to roast meat, cook meat, stew soup... Then, as long as he is not asleep, he will eat and drink all day long; Even when sleeping, let the slave girl keep the fire burning;
And that's not all, but to have young male and female slaves (maids) cover their bodies with heavy fur bedding and themselves...
And these attendants inevitably have to go in and out to serve one or two.
So, it won't take a day or two to freeze and starve to death.
(Organic injury)
But the problem is that no one in the entire Buyeo Royal City has doubts about this.
But!
In addition to observation, the mercenaries also discovered... No matter whether it is the clan elder or the adult, or all kinds of additions, people are alive, but one by one they are in pain.
Everything is clear through Gao Mao's explanation!
These so-called "superiors", in fact, that little fig leaf is supported by the number of livestock slaves. This time, no matter how high or low the status is, everyone has become bankrupt in the face of the cold snap.
At least, none of these "nobles" around the royal city did not suffer heavy losses. Most of the "noble" livestock were almost dead, and there were not a few slaves left.
But even so, Gao Mao didn't plan to comfort and appease them.
Because Gao Mao's "home" situation is almost the same~
At this point, the natives around the royal city of Buyeo sincerely believed that this was the result of their simple position having offended God...
Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental, first "Tianyin";
After the "poisonous fog"!
The baby was "swept away" by God...
Heaven also wants to comfort everyone with the soul of a "real person" (color print)...
Even if he says that God has come to bless him...
But as the saying goes...
"Only after the death of the people will the authorities wake up and rectify"!
Isn't this unprecedented winter just God's power to let the Buyeo people reflect on and wash away their sins!
Forehead~
Gao Mao is very embarrassed by this kind of thinking of the clansmen... He still hasn't figured it out:
Did he sin against God?
Or has Jane sinned against God!?
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But in fact...
Before Tang Songyuan read this report~
When the situation of Buyeo was reported back to the base, the Secretariat then held a voting meeting.
After that, the departments were asked to stop all plans that originally involved the rescue of the captured mercenaries.
He also ordered the ministries to give priority to the relief work around the royal city.
In particular, the Air Force should stop other tasks and only be responsible for airlifting the victims.
The Security Army was also assigned a mission.
In accordance with the requirements of the secretariat, a temporary large-scale storage site was built using the existing materials in the base. The site was chosen to be outside the entrance to the valley to the west of the base.
Originally, the medical and survey points that came with Gao Mao became temporary aid stations for collecting, registering, and distributing food and clothing. Although their original mission was only to find the real parents and blood relatives of those babies.
As a result, it has to be changed to humanitarian assistance.
Before Tang Songyuan got the report, the secretariat had already planned to turn the central open area, that is, the square, the gymnasium, etc., into a refugee camp... Once the refugee camp is built, it will directly affect the access to the library, and there will also be a threat to the safety of books...
Thereupon~
As soon as the cultural group saw the plan, they called Alia as soon as they saw it.
As it happens, Alia did not receive any notification from the Secretariat.
Thereupon~
She forwarded the feedback directly to Tang Songyuan.
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Holding the apple tablet, Tang Songyuan felt that something was wrong...
When he put down the tablet and compared the briefings and emails with the disaster relief plan, he found that the secretariat was doing very strangely.
Anyone with a modicum of scientific thinking understands it.
The so-called "I don't have the right data here, there must be something else on your side!" "This looks like a disaster relief, but in fact...
For a while, Tang Songyuan was also a little unclear.
It's just that his intuition tells him: trouble is coming again!
To be continued