Chapter 289: Moving South

The remnant sun fell in the west.

Zhang Chu was wearing a golden tiger roaring armor, and a red tassel was on the red bronze tiger's head, and he was surrounded by a hundred Xuanwutang iron horsemen, passing through the cattle and sheep market to return home.

In the afterglow of the sunset, the cattle and sheep market is filled with a twilight that only the old man who is about to die.

The doors of the shops on both sides of the street are closed, and wooden signs are hung on the doors that are closed.

Occasionally, there are one or two shops that are still open, and the shopkeeper sits behind the counter, looking at the street outside the door with an almost dull and numb expression.

There are very few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally there are one or two, all of whom are dish-faced and hobbly.

As far as the eye can see, there are not a few wisps of cooking smoke in the sky above the endless houses.

It's like a ghost!

Zhang Chu couldn't believe that this was the west of the city where 20,000 people lived......

He was worried about beating his horse and walking into the sycamore, and suddenly saw a team of soapy clothes with broken knives in front of him, who were going from house to house to inform something.

After concentrating on it, the leading catcher was still an acquaintance: Qin Zhengang.

He subconsciously strangled the green horse under his crotch and shouted from afar: "Brother Qin!"

Qin Zhengang in that compartment had already noticed this Biao Tie Cavalry, and when he was guessing whether this was Zhang Chu's person, he suddenly heard a shout, and hurriedly left the catchers under his hands, and trotted Zhang Chu over with a knife.

"Subordinate Qin Zhengang, meet General Zhang!"

He walked in front of Zhang Chu's horse's head and waved his hands respectfully, no longer having the casualness when he met Zhang Chu in the old days.

After a while, Zhang Chu has become a big man who has to look up to his top boss, how dare he rely on the friendship of the past and call Zhang Chu a brother again.

Zhang Chu turned over and dismounted, stepped forward to stroke Qin Zhengang with his own hands, and said warmly: "Brother Qin is polite, why do you need to be like this!"

Qin Zhengang's face showed a look of emotion, and he whispered: "General Zhang's tiger is mighty, how dare his subordinates be presumptuous!"

Zhang Chu smiled, turned his head to look at the little catchers in the distance, and asked, "They have all been released, how can you brothers still work here?"

Qin Zhengang sighed helplessly: "It's not about moving south, Shangguan is chasing too closely, and the brothers have no choice but to work night after day, and continue to know and reason with these residents who are unwilling to move south." ”

"What?

Zhang Chu's brows instantly wrinkled into the word "Chuan", "When did it happen?"

Qin Zhengang was taken aback: "What, you still don't know about this?"

Zhang Chu shook his head slightly: "I have been in the camp to train the new army these days, and I haven't returned to Jintian Mansion for a few days...... Tell me more about the move south. ”

He is now a battalion general, and he can no longer go home and sleep peacefully every day like he used to be an official in the county government, and he needs to eat and sleep with the soldiers in the army, and share weal and woe, so that the soldiers can use their lives and work together.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that he has been practicing with all his strength during this period of time, and the environment in the former military camp is better than that of Zhangfu...... At least don't worry, there is that blind man in the rivers and lakes who came to the former military camp to find him trouble!

The nickname "Blood Demon Knife" has already reached his ears......

This time, he spent six days in the former army camp, refining all the vertebrae of the torso, which were the most difficult to temper, and now only the ribs and skull remained.

Ten days!

In a maximum of ten days, he will be able to start practicing the marrow three times!

"The subordinates don't know what's going on, our Jintianfu, don't you hold it all, why do you have to move south?"

"Just yesterday, the subordinate received a notice from Shangguan that within five days, the people of the city must be mobilized to move south, hey, you don't know, most of the people in the city are now in their fifties and sixties, seeing that the loess is about to be buried to the root of the neck, who wants to die in a foreign land......"

When Qin Zhengang talked about this, there was also some resentment in his words.

In fact, not only did those old people not want to go, but Qin Zhengang and other men in their prime wanted to go?

People are cheap when they leave their homes......

Zhang Chu listened to him in silence, and his eyes slowly dimmed.

Even though he had already guessed this, when he really heard the exact news, he still couldn't suppress the disappointment in his heart.

It was the county government that was disappointed.

Disillusionment with the Zhenbei Army......

Jintianfu was only defended by him with such a good son's life.

Four thousand city guards.

Three thousand van troops.

Three thousand people.

Three thousand four-gang gangs.

In the end, there were less than 4,000 defeated generals left.

Even the life of the big bear was involved......

But in the end, this AllBright Mansion still can't hold it.

So.

What is the point of him working desperately to defend the Alli?

What's the point of so many people throwing their heads and spilling their blood?

Qin Zhengang, who was chattering, noticed the change in Zhang Chu's face, and quickly realized that he had done something stupid, and quickly shut up, looking at Zhang Chu in a worried mood.

Zhang Chu has been silent.

The flow of time seems to have slowed down countless times all at once.

Qin Zhengang's heart was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and he didn't dare to show the slightest hint on his face, lest he anger Zhang Chu and splash blood.

"How is the county government going to evacuate the people of this city?"

I don't know how long it took, Qin Zhengang finally heard Zhang Chu speak, and his voice was so ethereal that it seemed to come from outside the sky.

His heart was suddenly relieved, and he felt like he was in danger of surviving after going around outside the ghost gate.

"General Zhang, Lord Di has urgently requisitioned more than 30 three-masted ships, and arrived outside Nancheng three days later, and with the help of the canal, he took turns to run the people day and night to withdraw to Beiyin County. ”

Zhang Chu nodded, and asked again: "My family, how did the county government arrange it?"

"General Zhang, the county government has already made arrangements for your mansion, and your family will take the first batch of three-masted ships to evacuate Jintian Mansion?"

Qin Zhengang clenched his fists and bent over, not daring to look at Zhang Chu again.

"Oh, how many people can a three-masted ship carry?"

"Back to General Zhang, three hundred. ”

"Who is the person who is handling this?"

"Back to General Zhang, it is Lord Cao Kong Changming Kong!"

"Go back and report to Master Kong, Ben will ask for two ships, let him arrange it himself, if he doesn't give it, Ben will come to visit him personally!"

"The subordinates obey!"

Zhang Chu didn't say anything more, turned around and turned over on the horse, and hit the horse forward.

A hundred majestic iron horsemen with heavy armor are also moving in the same direction.

Qin Zhengang, who retreated to the side of the road, respectfully watched the hundred horses go away.

It wasn't until a hundred horsemen disappeared at the end of the long street that Qin Zhengang's hanging heart finally landed.

The night wind blew past him, and he couldn't help but shiver.

It was only then that he realized that his underwear had been wet with cold sweat.

The group of catchers who were watching Qin Zhengang and Zhang Chu talking from a distance dared to come up at this time, and asked with envy on their faces: "Boss, what did General Zhang tell you?"

Qin Zhengang puffed up his eyes and glared at the talker, and said angrily: "Don't ask blindly if you shouldn't ask, hurry up and go, there are still a few streets to go!"

"Yes!"

The crowd dispersed in a hurry.

Qin Zhengang looked at the direction where Zhang Chu and the others were gone, and suddenly he was happy, gloating and muttering: "Kong Pao Pi, Kong Pao Pi, I see how it ends this time!"

He didn't complain about Zhang Chu's turning his face like turning a book, he even felt that if he were Zhang Chu, he was afraid that now he would have the heart to go to the county government with a knife to explain the law......

He gloated that the more than 30 three-masted ships in the first round had already been divided up by the adults of the county government and the only remaining rich families in the Allbright Mansion.

Even a person like him, who can be regarded as a "official", failed to find a place for his old father and mother on the more than 30 three-masted boats in the first round.

That Master Kong Changming, with just this move, ate his mouth full of oil, and he didn't smell the oiliness at all for those who ran errands.

It's okay now, this tiger out of the mountains, one mouth is two boats, which is equivalent to pulling out two large pieces of meat from the mouth of that Master Kong alive that he has already eaten in his stomach!

Does that Master Kong dare not give it?

Qin Zhengang felt that he should not be able to withstand the tiger power of this master.

It's just ...... What a joy to hear!