When it comes to Bohai County, everyone may think of it at the first time, this is the place where Yuan Shao and Yuan originally started during the Three Kingdoms period, and only relying on one Bohai County can support Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops, of course, everyone can also see the wealth of Bohai County.

After hundreds of years of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Wuhu 'chaos' China, and the 'chaos' wars of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Bohai County has been developed during the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and is still one of the few wealthy counties in the north of the great river during the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Because Bohai County is close to the Qinghe River, which is convenient for water transportation, this large river that connects Zhangshui and the Yellow River, and there are Bohai County, Zhangwu County, Qinghe County, Yangping County and other rich prefectures and counties along the way, so Bohai County has become the grain and grass distribution center of the Northern Route Army led by Liu Damo, the general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and a large number of grain ships come here every day.

Now Liu Dharma personally led an army of 50,000 troops stationed in Ande County on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the grain and grass consumed by 50,000 horses eating horses is not a small amount. Every day, a large number of cars and horses are constantly transported from Bohai County to Ande County under the escort of a team of soldiers, and the sound of people and horses boiling on the road is endless.

Seeing that the day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hotter and hotter, the noon sun pierces people can't open their eyes, the weeds on the roadside and the leaves on the trees are drooping their heads, and the leaves are "covered" with a layer of dust, and the original pure green "color" will become dirty, and it seems that there is no "fine" to be caisson.

Hundreds of people were urged by a team of Qi troops to pull the vehicle forward with difficulty, and there was not even a single wild bird or hare in sight along the way, only the cicadas in the nearby woods were chirping loudly, making the road more and more silent.

Huang Rui slowly stepped on the steady steps and pulled the car forward step by step, he is only twenty-eight years old this year, is a native of Bohai County, because he has learned martial arts since he was a child and has a good ability, I don't know why he did not go to serve in the Northern Qi army with a good martial arts, but became a civilian man who transported grain and grass.

Originally, a vehicle for transporting grain and grass was in charge of three people, and the other two people who were in charge of the car with Huang Rui were named Gu Kai and Luo Bin, who were also good brothers he had known since childhood, both of whom had good kung fu and were also local martial arts youths in Bohai.

Of course, the more important thing is that none of the three of them have married a wife now, and in the context of this era when the general marriage age of young people is fourteen or fifteen years old, it can be said that they are really old leftover men.

However, this time, only Huang Rui pulled the car alone, Luo Bin and Gu Kai were both sent by him to help several old people in the village to pull the car, everyone in the village is a clan, of course they have to help.

Of course, the vehicle pulled by Huang Rui was also very heavy, with more than 20 bags of rice grain on the car, as well as horse food and forage for the military horses, which was full of a large cart.

Most of the land in the north and south of the river is the soil that the Yellow River flooded out of, and it usually looks like a 'very' smooth and hard road, under the trampling of the people of the Northern Qi army in the past few days, now the whole road is paved with a thick layer of floating soil, and people step on it to make a 'poof' sound, it is a big nest.

Fortunately, these people are usually barefoot, and the thick calluses block part of the heat transmission, and under the pressure of the vehicles, the floating soil kicks up a large amount of dust, and the faces and bodies of the people are coated with a thick layer of plaster.

Although the road is difficult to walk, the people who pull the carts still dare not slack off, shouting the horn and using the strength of 'milk' to try to pull the vehicles full of grain and grass out of one deep nest after another.

Their clothes were already soaked with sweat, and large drops of sweat dripped down their foreheads almost in a string, dripping into the floating soil on the ground, condensing into balls of mud, and then buried in an instant by the dust 'stirred' up by the wheels behind them.

The people who transported the grain and grass were all ordinary people requisitioned from the surrounding townships of Bohai County, and these people were preparing for the upcoming summer harvest, but they did not expect to be requisitioned by the imperial court with a sudden edict.

The journey from Bohai County to Ande County is only 200 miles, but the distance traveled by these people every day is forty or fifty miles, and you must know that the army at this time only marched 30 miles a day before setting up camp, so the speed of these people's daily march is not unfast.

Huang Rui took this opportunity to hold the wheel with one hand, and with the other hand took off the clay pot hanging on the wheel, which was filled with well water from a sweet well before setting off in the morning.

Just drank a large mouthful of well water, Huang Rui felt that sweat kept coming out of the various 'hair' pores of his body in an instant, and in this hot weather, the clothes that had been soaked many times were soaked with sweat again.

Huang Rui faintly felt that his skin at the place of his 'chest' was a little scorching, which was caused by the sweat soaked for days, and the layers of salt stains on the undershirt made of Ge cloth formed a variety of strange patterns.

Some people were afraid that their clothes would be soaked with sweat, so they simply went bare-chested, and 'exposed' their tanned backs, and the sweat merged into a stream of water flowing down from the backbone, and even the waist of the 'trousers' was full of water.

Taking advantage of the time to wipe his sweat, the people glanced at the road ahead, steaming on the hot ground under the sun, and the air had begun to distort, as if there was a fire burning in front of him, and the scenery in front of him kept swinging.

"Hurry up! The military order requires us to rush to Ander County by noon tomorrow, and if there is a delay, both you and we will be beheaded for public display! Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, if you arrive on time, everyone will be rewarded! "This is the commander of the Qi army who is in charge of escorting the convoy urging.

This time, the Northern Qi soldiers who were in charge of escorting the convoy were about 300 people, and most of the generals at this time recruited the troops themselves, so the number of people in Yidu was very uncertain, as few as 100 people, and as many as 7 or 800 people, the number of soldiers in this group was relatively in line with the standard.

Because of the hot weather, even these Qi soldiers were not very willing to rush at this time of noon, but the helpless thing was that the military law was ruthless, they had to rush to Ande County before noon tomorrow, if they didn't rush to the road, even their soldiers would be dealt with by military law.

So under the leadership of the head of the capital, one by one also did not 'fine' move forward, most of the soldiers were picking up the 'shade' on the side of the road to walk, and some soldiers even quietly put their weapons on the grain cart pulled by the people in order to save some effort, regardless of these people who were already very tired of pulling the cart.

Although these people are also very angry, they are 'intelligible' with the soldiers, and they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak, secretly endure and only hope that God will open his eyes to punish these soldiers.

At the urging of Qi Jun, the people once again quickened their pace, and at this moment, an older man in front of Huang Rui suddenly fell to the ground, if it wasn't for the other two old men to protect him, it is estimated that he would have been run over by the car to death.

Huang Rui, who was following closely behind, saw this, and immediately hurriedly helped the old man up with the people in several cars next to him and sent him to the shade of the roadside, only to see that the old man's forehead was blue and obviously suffering from heat stroke.

A Qi soldier walked over quickly after seeing the situation here, and shouted, "Bah! What's going on over there? If you delay the time, do you want to die? ”

Huang Rui looked at the old man's condition, then stood up and replied loudly to the soldier: "Master Jun, this old man has suffered from heat stroke, I think it's better for everyone to rest, and only after raising the 'spirit' can we hurry!" ”

The soldier also knew how hard it was for the people to travel, so he hesitated for a moment and said to Huang Rui: "Then you wait a minute, I will tell the chief, and then quickly wipe him with water!" As he spoke, he turned and left.

It seems that this soldier still has a good conscience, Huang Rui thought to himself, but the clay pot handed over by a man dipped the 'wool' towel and wiped it on the old man. Gu Kai and Luo Bin, who had been helping other old people pull carts, also rushed over to help.

Under the busyness of everyone, the old man slowly opened his eyes again, but his body was weak and he couldn't stand up, and at this moment he heard the sound of a horsewhip, and the people gathered outside let out a series of screams.

"You money-rich men, let you pull a car and don't go to death, you dare to be lazy! Look at me 'pumping' you guys! It turned out that another Xianbei team leader also discovered the situation here, and rushed over with a dozen or so soldiers, waving the whip in his hand vigorously, beating the people gathered together to scream again and again.

Just as the Xianbei officer was about to use the whip to 'whip' the old man lying on the ground, one hand grabbed the whip, and the Xianbei officer looked at it and saw a young man pulling the whip with one hand, this person was Huang Rui, and he said to himself: "This military master, the weather is too hot, this old man's family is heatstroked, and I hope that the military master will forgive him!" ”

The Xianbei officer probably felt that he had lost face by being caught, so he shouted angrily: "You dare to resist me, but you want to rebel? As he spoke, he pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist and pointed at Huang Rui.

Gu Kai and Luo Bin saw that their eldest brother was going to suffer, so they also stood behind Huang Rui with a long wooden 'stick', staring at the Xianbei officer with fierce eyes, and then the nearly 100 people who had just been scattered around also stood up, how could they be angry when they were beaten for no reason.

"Good! Good! Good! You are rebelling! The humble officer trembled with anger, and said that he was going to gather his soldiers to come and demonstrate.

Fortunately, the supreme leader of this group of Qi troops came to everyone and stopped the Xianbei officer from killing people, although he did not dare to offend this Xianbei officer easily on weekdays, but now the military law wants to himself and others must arrive before noon tomorrow, in case of killing these people, it will be ironclad late and will be dealt with by military law.

Besides, the usefulness of these people is only to wait for the grain and grass to be sent to Ande County tomorrow, and it will be up to him to deal with the Xianbei officer in the future, so after the whispering of the governor, the Xianbei officer glared at Huang Rui viciously and went to the front of the convoy.

Huang Rui stared at the Xianbei officer who went away, and had some bad guesses in his heart, I'm afraid this matter is not over yet!

At this time, the commander appeased the beaten people, and promised that there would be a forest on the way a dozen miles further, and that everyone would have a rest, so the men and soldiers who had received the letter rushed to the distance with all their might.

After half an hour's trek, the woods in front of him were already faintly in sight, but Huang Rui didn't know what was going on and suddenly felt a spasm in his heart, I'm afraid that the front is not a good thing. So he, Luo Bin, and Gu Kai quietly slowed down.

The Xianbei officer who had beaten people before walked in front with a dozen people, and when he saw that the woods were in front, he ran over and hurried to the shade of the trees to rest for a while.

A few people who were about to enter the woods were suddenly 'shot' into hedgehogs by dozens of crossbow arrows that were 'shot' head-on, and more than a dozen Qi soldiers, including the Xianbei officer, were killed instantly.

The Qi army saw that the situation was not good, needless to say that there was an enemy inside, and it was no wonder that the front line was urging so tightly, it turned out that there was an enemy cutting off the grain route, and then he hated the front in his heart for not explaining it to himself in detail.

But it was too late to say anything, I saw hundreds of cavalry rushing out of the woods, and nearly 500 more cavalry from hundreds of meters away on both sides.

While the three hundred Qi troops quickly gathered by themselves, they desperately urged the people to gather the grain carts quickly, and the flammable forage on the trucks had already been gathered and piled into a pile, and then poured water on them, otherwise there would be no smoke.

Because Huang Rui and the others didn't know who was on the other side, they had to surround a car under the order of the Qi army, but they didn't expect that these people were all driven to the outermost part of the convoy, and these Qi troops obviously regarded them as 'meat' shields.

Although Huang Rui and the others were resentful in their hearts, because the people were unarmed, they had no choice but to obey the arrangements of the Qi army.

The army surrounding this group of Qi troops was a cavalry led by Wang Ze, and the other was the soldiers of the blue wolf battalion.

But Wang Ze thought about it for a long time, and finally let Zhang Hang lead the 5,000 people back first, and there were still a large number of people who were ready to move to Qinjin to live.

Wang Ze led Jiang Chuan, Chu Honghang, Meng Xian, Cao An and others to prepare to attack the Northern Route Army led by Liu Damo first, and then set off after defeating the Qi army.

Of course, Wang Ze's attack on Liudama could not be only those people just now, so Ji Xiang and Yang Wu also led 5,000 cavalry to assist Wang Ze in attacking Liudamour.

But in this way, the army led by Wang Ze only has more than 30,000 people, and these people can win against Liu Damo's 50,000 people, even if they can win, it will be a miserable victory, which is not what Wang Ze wants to see.

So after some discussion, it was decided to send a small force of cavalry to attack the grain route of Liudama's army, and this group of Qi troops transporting grain and grass became one of the targets of Wang Ze's attack.