Chapter 038: Hurry up and take power
Caopozi is close to the border city, and the people who live in the town know what it will be like if the barbarians kill them. As soon as they received the notice, they all collected their bags and umbrellas, set horses and drove, and spontaneously set off in groups of three or five to lead their children to the direction of Jinlin Beach.
After informing the residents, Shu Mei found a family with a car and carriage, took off his personal jade pendant, and said that he rented a seat on the carriage from the coachman. She helped the coachman pack his belongings, and then urged the coachman to drive the carriage to the wooden staircase in the courtyard of the tea shop.
"Shen Gongzi, I helped you find a carriage." Shu Mei jumped down from the carriage and went straight to the wooden stairs to support Shen Shen.
Shen looked into the carriage and saw that there was already an old man and a child sitting inside, and immediately shook his head and said, "I can ride a horse." ”
"Don't be reckless, you look like you're going to be thrown down again while riding a horse, and your brain will be broken, and the Zhenxi Army won't want you." Shu Mei only cared about him, and walked to the carriage.
"What about me?" Bai An endured the pain and stood up from the wooden staircase.
"You ride a horse." Shu frowned and didn't reply.
"Hey, I'm more injured than him, why do I have to ride a horse?!"
"You are a soldier and a doctor, so you naturally have to be polite to the people." Shu Mei argued for a while, as if he felt that it was not convincing enough, and then turned back and said: "Besides, you only save people one at a time; Shen Gongzi saves people, but it is hundreds of ...... at a time"
"You actually think I'm not as useful as Shen Gongzi?!" Bai An immediately beat his chest with his hands, and exaggerated the appearance of repentance.
"No, no. I mean...... It means ......" when Shu Mei reacted and wanted to redeem it, but he was out of words. In her heart, a person like Shen Zhu would obviously be of greater help to Ling Li. She herself didn't know when she judged everyone and everything with the highest criterion of being beneficial to Ling Li.
Shu Mei's embarrassed appearance made Shen Yi smile, and he opened his mouth to relieve the siege: "Master Shu, Dr. Bai's legs and feet are inconvenient, and he needs a carriage even more." ”
Shu Mei stopped, looked at the carriage, and then at Bai An, finally let go of Shen and walked towards Bai An.
Bai An was just joking with Shu Mei, but she took it seriously. It was difficult to ride a tiger, so he had to be helped into the carriage by Shu Mei, and the old and young of the coachman's family stared at each other.
After leaving the town, when he lifted the curtain, he found that Shu Mei was riding with Shen Ji on the side of the road, and immediately regretted it. This woman cares nothing about the defense of men and women! Although she is in a hurry to obey the power, Shen Zhu can be regarded as a humble gentleman, but she is a woman in the boudoir......
Not long after a large group of people left the town, after climbing over a long dirt slope, there was a sudden strange sound of "clanging" in the distance. Everyone was in a hurry and panicked.
"Everyone, don't be impatient." He calmed everyone with a deep voice, then held the saddle, slowly slid off the horse, swept away the snow on the road, knelt on the ground and listened for a while, then got up and said: "This sound is from the east, it should not be the barbarian of the western plough." ”
Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Just in case, Shen asked everyone to leave the driveway and temporarily hide behind the small dirt slope next to the road.
A moment later, I saw the armored Zhenxi military rank rushing towards at night. Qi Li and Boss Tong wanted to go up to say hello, but they were stopped by Shen Shu.
Rao is marching on a snowy night, and the Zhenxi army is still neat. In the dark night, I couldn't see the faces clearly, but I saw silhouettes of people and horses galloping along the lane, the horses' hooves rolling up the snow on the road, and raising bursts of white fog in the dark night.
"I knew that the western army of Zhenxi would be able to come over so soon, so we should have stayed in the town......" Qi Li was clutching his collar and complaining, regretting that he had fled with his family.
Presumably, there were a lot of people and horses dispatched by the Zhenxi army this time, and everyone hibernate for a full time behind the snow stacks on the small dirt slope, and the dull sound of the horses stepping on the snow and sand gradually stopped.
"Bah, they're not going to Caopozi Town!"
After a long time, Boss Tong exclaimed. Everyone also stood on their feet, and sure enough, after the men and horses of the Zhenxi army rushed down the dirt slope, they actually detoured to the southwest mountain road, and soon disappeared as the road winded.
"They're not here to save us!" Xiao Wu came to his senses.
Everyone's full expectations were instantly disappointed.
"Shen Gongzi, you say, are we going to Jinlin Beach?" Boss Tong asked.
"If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, just wait here. He stared at the town in the distance that was hidden in darkness, and fell into deep thought.
"Go ahead, it's too far. Don't you go, why are so many people hanging in the snow and ice? Boss Tong wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead again.
"What time is it?" Shen asked suddenly.
"It's the end of the day we're leaving, and it's almost time for this formation." Shu Mei replied.
"Then let's not leave for now, let's rest in place for a while." Shen opened his mouth, and then turned back to the crowd, "Be sure to be quiet." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another noise in the distance. When the people followed the prestige, they saw a few sparks suddenly lit up on the west side of the town. The firelight was more and more, and gradually merged from the stars into a large piece of bright light. Immediately, the light of the fire swam in the darkness, and after a while, it was like an arrow off the string, straight towards the grassy slope.
"It's the ——!!! of the West Plough Barbarian"
Bai An had seen the night raids of the Xili people, and those swimming points of light were the barbarians who rode on Humvees and held torches high to rush and kill.
Everyone was already several miles away from the town at this time, but looking at the dense torches like locusts and listening to the unstoppable rumbling horses' hooves, they were still terrified, and they were all glad that they had left the town with Shen.
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The fire was blazing, illuminating the entire Caopozi Town as if it were daylight.
The leading barbarian kicked over the big iron pot in the courtyard of the tea inn, and said angrily: "You guys, you say that there are hundreds of truckloads of grain and grass hidden in this broken town, what about grain and grass?!" Well, I ask you what about the grain and grass......?! ”
"Boss, we really saw grain and grass here. No, there were dozens of carts piled up here before, all covered with horse straw......" The spy who was called the fourth child pointed to the empty grass shed, and eagerly retorted: "The seventh and the hemp egg have also seen it, we took advantage of people's inattention, and secretly opened it to see it, all of them are fine Jiangnan rice ......"
"Yes, the fourth brother is right, I still have a handful in my bag." The barbarian named Lao Qi turned around, fumbled and took out a handful of white rice from the bag wrapped around the back waist pole, and reached out to hand it to the leading barbarian.
"Damn, it must have been transported away by the Zhenxi Army when we were resting." The tall and thin barbarian slashed the scimitar in his hand into the wooden staircase with a "snap", "If it weren't for the fourth brother, you were afraid of death, we would have robbed the grain and rushed back." ”
The leading barbarian spat hatefully outside the wooden ladder, and then asked, "What about the house searcher, what did you find?" ”
"There is no one in the town, and all the grain and rice that the brothers can find by rummaging through the cabinets are here." A stocky, stocky brute pointed to the sacks of rice grain piled up in the courtyard.
The fourth man trembled and said: "Boss, it must have been leaked after Ma Dan was caught, so the Zhenxi Army rushed to transport the grain and grass before we came, and also evacuated the people in this town......"
"The brothers have traveled so far, but it is the bamboo basket that fetches water!" The tall and thin barbarian snatched the torch from the hand of the subordinate next to him and threw it on the roof of the tea inn with a "snap". The anointed torches soon burst into flames next to the felt-covered waterproof roof.
Seeing this, the other barbarians also threw the torches in their hands to the wooden houses next to them to vent their anger.
In an instant, the whole town was in flames.