Chapter 598: Before leaving

"Ben is going to Qincheng, naturally there is a reason for the general, don't say anything about the two of you," After feeling that Wang Yiyao and Xing Hu's thoughts were completely different from himself, Lin Xuanzhong, who was already impatient, suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of impatience in his heart, and Lin Xuanzhong, who was excited, just wanted to quickly find a place to avoid Wang Yiyi and the others.

"General, this matter still needs to be considered!" After Lin Xuanzhong expressed his attitude, as Lin Xuanzhong's direct subordinate, at the critical moment, Yu Tong also stood up and wanted to dissuade Lin Xuanzhong.

"You don't have to say much, Ben Jiang still has something to deal with today, so let's scatter around," After speaking, Lin Xuanzhong got up and left directly, leaving Wang Yiyi and the others to look at each other. Even though Wang Yiyi felt that Lin Xuanzhong's behavior was a little reckless, when he thought about the situation they were currently facing, there was only a feeling that he could not blame Lin Xuanzhong.

On the other side, as soon as Lin Xuanzhong left, there was no way, but now Xing Hu remembered Lin Xuanzhong's previous proposal, and they went to attack the bandit village. For Xing Hu, if there is no way to collect enough food and grass, it is indeed a way to attack the bandit village.

As for Yu Tong, he still knows a little about Lin Xuanzhong. Lin Xuanzhong's demeanor when he left just now made Yu Tong feel that Lin Xuanzhong might be a little anxious. Thinking that since they left Shiyan City, they hadn't received a single piece of good news, and it was not difficult to speculate that Lin Xuanzhong might have lost his patience a long time ago.

In Yu Tong's opinion, Lin Xuanzhong is too young and lacks a certain amount of experience, so it is bound to be difficult to deal with the current situation. But think about it from another direction, if Lin Xuanzhong is replaced by himself, Yu Tong feels that he is afraid that he will be more anxious than Lin Xuanzhong, speaking of which, Lin Xuanzhong's attitude is completely within the acceptable range of them, so Yu Tong naturally understands Lin Xuanzhong's mood at the moment.

Didn't care what Wang Yiyao thought of him, it was already evening when Lin Xuanzhong came out of the main hall, and when Yu Tong hadn't come back before, the people sent by Wang Yiyao to Orchid Village had already brought back the news that Zhang Jiutian was in charge of escorting the grain and prey caught by the soldiers. Just in case, Lin Xuanzhong has sent some people to respond.

In addition, according to Zhang Jiutian's instructions, Lin Xuanzhong also found some vehicles from the city and sent them to Orchid Village. Calculating the time, the things over there are about to be delivered, and Lin Xuanzhong doesn't have to worry about food for the time being.

Li Shuangxi, according to Lin Xuanzhong's instructions, Li Shuangxi had already brought all the refugees from outside the city to the city, and then was sent by Lin Xuanzhong to arrange accommodation for those refugees. Now the number of people in the city has been greatly reduced, so Lin Xuanzhong also specially ordered that those refugees should be arranged close to the city lord's mansion. In this way, if another bandit comes to attack, the night army can protect them as quickly as possible.

Now there is no war to be fought, rather than leaving the manpower idle, it is better to come in handy, after leaving a certain number of night soldiers to guard the general's mansion, Lin Xuanzhong sent a large number of soldiers to dispose of the corpses received, and at the same time mobilized the civilians in the city, after all, those corpses are likely to have the relatives of those civilians who died, and it may be better for them to recognize the corpses before burying them.

For the Night Army, disposing of those corpses can only be regarded as extra coolies, but for those civilians, everything is not easy. First, they had to face the corpses that had died miserably, and secondly, they were likely to find their relatives among those corpses, so many of the city's citizens were almost crying while moving the corpses.

The city was not big, originally it was only composed of a few small towns, and there were only twenty or thirty thousand people in and out of the city, and by the evening, the corpses on those streets had been removed, and some civilians spontaneously helped the main night army clean up, and soon the city became clean and tidy again, but it was too lifeless.

After dinner, Lin Xuanzhong brought Li Shuangxi to ask about the refugees. Not surprisingly, the hundreds of refugees came from Orchid Village and the surrounding villages, and after the problem of animal infestation became serious, most of the villagers chose to flee to Shiyan City farther away, and a few fled to Qincheng farther away, and the rest chose to flee to Qucheng.

Originally, there were nearly 1,000 people in the ten villages combined, but now only one-tenth of them fled to Qu City, presumably the number of people who fled to Shiyan City would not be much, and the others were likely to have become food for the fierce beasts. I remember that Hong Lao also said before that some young girls in the village were abducted by bandits soon, and it is estimated that the end will not be much better.

While thinking about these things in front of me, I felt my own mood at the moment. Due to many troublesome things recently, Lin Xuanzhong found that his original character of being easy to be compassionate and compassionate seemed to have changed, and now he didn't seem to have much sympathy in his heart when he thought of the tragic experiences of those villagers.

The current mood seems to be more appropriate to describe with the word numbness, and after thinking about it carefully, Lin Xuanzhong feels that the current mood may be related to a long-term experience. Perhaps, after getting used to life and death, a person will naturally look down on life and death. If even life and death can be looked down upon, what can be counted as the suffering experienced by those villagers.

After a period of confusion, Lin Xuanzhong couldn't confirm whether the change in his temperament was good or bad, and then he remembered the matter of requisitioning grain. When Lin Xuanzhong told Li Shuangxi how difficult it was to collect grain at present, Li Shuangxi gave a lot of suggestions, but unfortunately they could not satisfy Lin Xuanzhong.

Speaking of which, in terms of the overall situation, Lin Xuanzhong knows more than Li Shuangxi, how can Lin Xuanzhong count on Li Shuangxi, he just wants to say all the boredom in his heart. Thinking that Li Shuangxi was just an ordinary third-order martial cultivator, staying by his side could only help Lin Xuanzhong deal with it, and after some exchanges, Lin Xuanzhong asked Li Shuangxi to leave first.

After Li Shuangxi left, Lin Xuanzhong stayed in the room alone, looking straight at the jar of wine on the table, stunned.

There were a few oil lamps lit in the room, the evening breeze blew in through the screen window, the firelight danced, and the next time, Lin Xuanzhong had already picked up the wine jar and poured himself a big bowl of wine, drinking alone in the room.

The dry wine flowed through his throat, a burst of heat, while savoring the wine, Lin Xuanzhong couldn't help but think of the problems in front of him, but unfortunately he never had a clue when he thought about it, it seemed that everything had to wait until he had been to Qincheng before he could make a decision.

Speaking of which, whether Su Chi is willing to pay grain or not is not the first thing Lin Xuanzhong pays attention to, based on the idea of wanting to attack the bandits, what Lin Xuanzhong wants to know more now is Su Chi's attitude towards that gang of bandits. Of course, there is no way to know at the moment, so Lin Xuanzhong naturally thought about what would happen if they unilaterally went to fight the bandits.

First of all, whether those bandits paid attention to the movements of the night army is a major problem, if the night army passes when the bandit village is prepared, Lin Xuanzhong is not sure that he will be able to capture the bandit village.

If Qincheng attacked the night army from behind out of hostility to the night army, the consequences would be unimaginable. If the lord of Qincheng does not care about their status and is willing to cooperate with the Night Army, then the plan to attack the bandits has a good chance of succeeding.

The more he drank wine, the more he had to think about it, and drinking didn't seem to help Lin Xuanzhong think about it.

Time passed little by little, and when Lin Xuanzhong felt sleepy because of the alcohol, the flames of those oil lamps stopped beating. Blowing out a few lights, Lin Xuanzhong directly lay down to rest.

At the same time, in Shiyan City, Yan Nantian naturally lived in the City Lord's Mansion and accepted Qi Lianhai's hospitality. As the chief general of the army this time, although Yan Nantian does not want to do everything himself, he is still paying attention to the news of several grain collection teams.

Up to now, news has been transmitted back from Qu City, Flowing City, and Star City. Among them, the team that used to go to Liucheng to collect grain moved the most smoothly, and the situation in Star City was not bad, only the problem of Qucheng gave Yan Nantian a headache. After the looting of the bandits, coupled with the escape of the city lord and some local forces, Yan Nantian could think that it would be difficult for Lin Xuanzhong to collect a sufficient amount of grain and grass from Qucheng.

When the army set off from Beast Ridge Pass, Zhao Xu had clearly explained that he could not use force against the civilians of the Wing Country unless he had to, so Lin Xuanzhong could not easily use force in Qucheng, and the people he had to deal with were ordinary civilians.

But a single Qincheng is absolutely impossible to make Lin Xuanzhong complete the task, now it seems that Lin Xuanzhong only has two methods, one is to forcibly scrape in Qucheng, and the other is to wait until he goes to Qincheng and then go south to a city, but because of the limited grain and grass they carry, Yan Nantian feels that there seems to be only one way to forcibly collect grain.

Of course, if Lin Xuanzhong can't do it, then Yan Nantian can only replace Lin Xuanzhong's leadership position, for Yan Nantian, the result is obviously more important than the process. Although there was no time limit for sending Lin Xuanzhong and them to collect grain separately, the shorter the available time, the better. Unsure whether Lin Xuanzhong would be able to complete the task, Yan Nantian did not think about sending additional troops to Lin Xuanzhong, and there were also no new instructions.

There was nothing to do all night, and early the next morning, Li Shuangxi came early and knocked on the door, brought washing water and utensils to Lin Xuanzhong, and even brought breakfast to Lin Xuanzhong.

Last night, the grain from Orchid Village had been delivered in batches, so I still ate meat for breakfast. After saying hello to Li Shuangxi, Lin Xuanzhong sat on the bed and meditated pranayama, evaporated the remaining alcohol power in his body, and then washed up briefly and had some breakfast.

Last night, I didn't think of a solution to the problem of requisitioning grain, but I just made up my mind to go to Qincheng. I went to Qincheng to inquire about the news, and I met with Su Chi. After a night of consideration, in order to be safe, Lin Xuanzhong changed yesterday's temporary decision, and today he wanted to leave Wang Yiyao to sit in Qucheng, and he took Xing Hu and the two deputy generals to go, and he still had to dress up in disguise for this trip. Of course, the purpose is not to infiltrate Qincheng, but to avoid the eyes and ears of the bandits that may exist in Qucheng.

After a simple breakfast, Lin Xuanzhong took Wang Yiyao and Xing Hu around the city, after posting notices and those behaviors of the night army yesterday, the city's citizens who were still hiding appeared more and more on the street, but the market and inn could not open normally, and now many civilians are bartering for what they need.