Chapter 24 The Tragedy of the Black Margin

ps. This chapter is a bit disgusting, please skip if you don't like it.

As mentioned last time, after Liu Hou's Hong army was reorganized, he was in full swing to prepare for the expedition to Lingnan.

On this expedition to Lingnan, there were a total of 80,000 combat troops, 40,000 main troops (10,000 Liu Houyan's troops, including 7,000 musketeers, 3,000 reserve soldiers, and 30,000 rattan armor troops), and 40,000 fish belly troops. Of course, the baggage team has not yet been counted. Liu Hou expanded the baggage team again and again, this time requisitioning 80,000 horses as a baggage force, anyway, the barbarians captured a lot of prisoners, and if it was not enough, let the mining area be transferred over.

A soldier with a transport soldier, which is actually not much in ancient warfare, is still thanks to Liu Hou's extensive use of cattle and advanced means of transportation, which can reduce the baggage force to this size.

Fully prepared, Liu Hou and a total of 160,000 horses rushed to Lingnan. The march was a long way, starting from Zhuti County, to pass through Qike County, Jianning County and then to Yulin County (almost the part of Guilin), after arriving at Yulin County, the troops had to divide into two roads, all the way to the south, and Gao Ding led 20,000 fish belly troops to force Hepu County.

The task given to him by Liu Hou is to take Hepu County as the best, and it doesn't matter if he can't take it, but to make a posture of actively attacking Jiaozhou, it must play the role of intimidating Shixie, so that he will not dare to send troops to rescue Buqi.

In order to increase the attack power of this force, Liu Hou sent a 10-man demolition team to him, carrying a certain amount of explosives, and their task was to blow up the city wall if necessary and assist Gao Ding in attacking Hepu.

The other way is the main force, led by Liu Hou himself, all the way to the east, will pass through Yulin County, Cangwu County and then enter Nanhai County. Along the way, the mountains are high and the road is far away, the jungle is dense, and there are countless hardships and dangers, not to mention, just say that on this day, the third day that Liu Hou's army entered Yulin County, seeing that it was getting late, Liu Hou ordered to set up camp, rest for one night and then hurry.

Because the roads were rugged and difficult, and there were no roads in many places, Liu Hou's army entered the turtle speed mode again, advancing only a short distance every day, at most 50 miles a day, and sometimes even only 30 miles a day.

In order to prevent getting lost, Liu Hou also hired local natives as guides, and with these guides to lead the way, he came here smoothly.

Nearly in the evening, Liu Hou returned to the big tent after inspecting the camp and summoned the guide. This guide was recruited after the army entered Yulin County, and he was a local Wuhu barbarian in Yulin County, a young man in his early twenties, who was black and strong, and he was very clever.

Liu Hou's purpose in summoning him was mainly to ask him how to go on the road behind and what to pay attention to.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, please rest assured, there are still one to two days to go to Bushan County (the seat of Yulin County), and the road in this area is relatively easy to walk." Guided by.

Liu Hou knew that the so-called easier road to walk was at best a slightly wider dirt road, and compared to those mountains and forests where there were no roads, such a dirt road was indeed much easier to walk. What more could Liu Hou ask for? In this backward era, in this semi-wild place, it is already thankful that there is such a dirt road.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, there is a celebration meeting tonight in the Lilliputian clan, there are a lot of food, wine and beautiful women, everyone dances and sings around the bonfire, it's very fun, the villain patriarch heard that His Royal Highness the Prince has come to the cheap land, and wants to invite His Royal Highness the Prince to attend our celebration, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Prince is interested?" The guide asked cautiously.

"Oh, and this kind of fun?" Liu Hou's mind immediately appeared a bunch of barbarians around the bonfire, shouting and dancing hula. I thought to myself, it's good to see these exotic customs, I've been here for so long, and my mood has been tense and I can't relax, and sometimes appropriate relaxation is also needed.

On second thought, why did this Wuhu patriarch invite me to the celebration? Is there any purpose? That's right, this patriarch may know that Yulin County will soon be ruled by my Shu Han, and it is also the right thing to have a good relationship with the future ruler as soon as possible, it seems that this patriarch is not simple, and he has a very keen sense of smell.

Liu Hou, who had figured it out, didn't care, and readily agreed to the guide's request. In the evening, Liu Hou took Guan Suo, E Huan, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and 10 personal guards to their tribe under the guidance of the guide.

The patriarch and the elders waited outside the tribe early in the morning, obviously they were here to greet Liu Hou. As soon as they saw Liu Hou and his party arrive, they all knelt down and saluted. Liu Hou naturally wanted to show his image of being close to the people, and helped them up one by one.

The patriarch invited Liu Hou to sit on the main seat, and he accompanied him, the so-called main seat was just a tiger skin on the ground, although Liu Hou was not very accustomed to sitting on the ground, so he had to sit cross-legged in accordance with the customs.

The patriarch called another girl out and stood next to Liu Hou to wait, and only after listening to his introduction did he know that this girl was the daughter of the patriarch. Of course, Liu Hou also understands his intentions, if his daughter can be favored by the prince and become a princess or something in the future, then their entire tribe will benefit immensely.

Liu Hou looked at the girl a few times, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, she looked very delicate, and her figure was also very fit, but her skin was a little darker.

The party soon began, first of all, the patriarch made some opening remarks, because it was in their local dialect, Liu Hou didn't know what he was talking about, and even he didn't know what this celebration was celebrating.

After the patriarch finished speaking, he gave an order, and the celebration began. Bonfires are lit, men and women dance and sing around them, and all kinds of food and wine are brought up.

Liu Hou is very interested in those delicacies, there are all kinds of barbecue, all barbecue, fried, and fried foods are relatively fragrant, so Liu Hou is also a little drooling when he sees the roasted game on the table. In addition, there are tropical fruits such as bananas, lychees, and longans, and Liu Hou also eats them happily.

These tropical fruits can't be eaten in Chengdu, let alone in Jingzhou, so Liu Hou hasn't eaten these fruits that are very common in later generations for more than ten years after his rebirth. At this time, seeing that there were piles of Lingnan fruits and fruits in front of him, Liu Hou had no reason to be unhappy.

I thought to myself, even if it was for the sake of tropical fruits to eat in the future, this trip to the army would be worth it. The patriarchs and elders frequently came to toast, Liu Hou was not good at refusing, their wine was all rice wine brewed by himself, it had not been distilled, the degree was very low, Liu Hou estimated that it was about ten degrees, the taste was not good, but it was difficult to get drunk, Liu Hou drank more than a dozen bowls although his face was red and his heart was beating, but he was not drunk.

The party gradually entered the climax, men and women danced around the bonfire, and the drums beat non-stop, but in Liu Hou's ears, it only felt very noisy.

During this period, the daughter of the patriarch also invited Liu Hou to dance, but Liu Hou was afraid that these tribes would not know if there would be any strange rules, such as marrying the girl as soon as he agreed to dance, so he had to pretend that he was too drunk to refuse her.

A baby's cry came, and Liu Hou saw a strong man walking over naked* with a swaddling arm in his hand. According to the patriarch, this is the most outstanding warrior in the clan.

Liu Hou greeted Wuba and praised him, saying that he was very sturdy, and he must be a very great warrior Yunyun, all of which were polite words. As a political figure, Liu Hou now has a little experience in saying this kind of thing.

Wuba whispered a local dialect, and the patriarch translated it to Liu Hou, to the effect that Wuba had just given birth to a son, his eldest son, and today the nobles came, and they specially dedicated their eldest son to the nobles to taste and taste.

Liu Hou was so drunk that he didn't understand what the patriarch's words meant, thinking that his Chinese language level was limited and the translation was wrong, so he didn't care. Seeing that Wuba handed the baby over, he took it.

Looking down, it was a white and chubby baby, probably not long after birth, dancing with hands and feet, very energetic.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, how is this baby?" The patriarch asked.

"Yes, yes, very powerful, I will definitely be as strong as Wuba when I grow up, and I will definitely become an excellent fighter." Liu Houdao.

The patriarch said two sentences in the local dialect, Liu Hou estimated that he was saying that the prince praised the baby as very good or something, anyway, if it was very short, it should not be all translated by his own words, and the sentences he said were relatively long, so he only said two or three words.

Wuba picked up the baby handed over by Liu Hou, raised his head high, and yelled loudly twice. The crowd cheered as if they were happy.

Uba strode to a large cauldron in the middle of the field, where a pot of water was boiling. Oba lifted the baby above his head again, the crowd cheered again, and then Oba simply threw the baby into the pot neatly, the baby's crying stopped abruptly, and the crowd boiled again.

"What!" Liu Hou was shocked, thinking that he was dazzled, and rubbed his eyes, and found that he was not mistaken, he stood up with a loud voice and shouted: "Save people!" ”

Needless to say, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, Guan Suo, and E Huan had already overturned the dwarf in front of them and rushed out. E Huan was the first to arrive, he smashed Wuba to the ground with a punch, Guan Suo kicked the cauldron over, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao ran over and lifted the baby up despite the hot water.

I saw that the baby's whole body was red, and he had already lost his breath, where could he be saved. Liu Hou's eyes were cracking, and his whole body trembled. Rao is the person he has experienced several wars and waded through the sea of corpses and blood, and this time he also vomited. I don't know if I drank too much wine, or I was disgusted by this tragic scene.

Liu Hou and the others couldn't figure out the situation at all, how could a happy and peaceful celebration suddenly turn around and have such a barbaric and bloody tragedy? Before Liu Hou could open his mouth to question, Wuba was the first to attack.

He pointed at E Huan and the others and scolded him, and then pointed at Liu Hou and scolded, but Liu Hou didn't understand a word. The patriarch said, "Guest, we have entertained you with the best wine, the prettiest maiden, the best food, and the strongest warrior eldest son, but why is the guest so?" Is it to look down on us Wuhu people? ”

"Why? Why? Why are you doing this? It's just a baby, an innocent baby. Liu Hou's eyes were bloodshot and he muttered to himself.

"What, why? It's just a baby, we took it out to entertain distinguished guests, but I didn't expect the guests to be so unpleasant. The patriarch said indignantly.

"What? Do you entertain guests with babies? "Liu Hou is yelling out this time." How can you do that? How can you be so inhuman? ”

At this time, the shape of the field began to get out of control, and Wu Ba didn't know where to pull out a mountain knife and slash towards Ehuan. E Huan turned sideways, also pulled out the long knife on his waist, and fought with Wuba in ping-pong.

ps. Ask for collections, ask for all kinds of tickets.