Chapter 223: To Yecheng
Early the next morning, a group of men and horses pretending to be a caravan, led by Qin Han, left Xuansha City in the fog.
To cross the Northern Regions defense line, you need to detour to Qin Yong Pass and enter through the gate of Qin Yong Pass.
Xuansha City to Qinyong Pass is about half a day's journey, and in the afternoon, the group stopped under the gate.
The people in front of them were lined up, Qin Han and his party all changed into Hu clothes, and they all wore heavy turbans on their heads, and Xin Nianyan also pasted two mustaches.
The team moved forward slowly, and soon found Qin Han's convoy.
Qin Han had a beard all over his face, but he still couldn't hide his handsomeness, and he spoke a lame Northern Dialect.
"Howling in the mud, the nest is Xilin Guolai's business, and Shi Lai sells Yaocaide."
The Northern Regions city guard looked him up and down, "You can't pass this official talk, how did you get here?" ”
"Da Ren, nest and raise the tomb of Guiguode cashmere, don't eat the old, the old ......"
On the side, one of Qin Han's personal soldiers followed, took out a piece of silver and handed it to the city guard.
He shook it in his hand, "No hard work? ”
The pro-soldier nodded again and again, "Redeem and redeem!" ”
The city guard took a look, and it was indeed a piece of silver unique to Xilin, and the national seal of Xilin was also printed on the bottom.
"Now that there is a plague in the Northern Regions, are you sure you want to go in?"
The pro-soldier looked at Qin Han, and a string of muttering Xilin words popped out of his mouth, and Qin Han also replied to him with a grunt, anyway, Xin Nianyan, who was sitting behind, didn't understand half of the sentence.
Then he turned to the city guard, "Zuo Yaocai's business, Fang Xin, Wo Jiaojia's tribute knife, step back to Luan." ”
The city guard raised his hand and waved, and several city guards stepped forward to search hastily, and when they saw that the car was indeed full of medicinal materials, they quickly turned their heads to report with a happy face.
"Lord Huiyu, it is indeed a few carts of medicinal herbs, or a ...... that is urgently needed in the city."
The city guard did not stop at the moment, "Go over." ”
A group of people just got into Qin Yong Pass in this way, and the blades hidden under the carriage were not found.
Xin Nianyan and Qin Han glanced at each other, and their expressions were clear.
The idea is Xin Nianyan, the advantage is that it is easy to mix in, and the disadvantage is that you have to fold a few carts of medicinal herbs.
After all, when you get here, I'm afraid that the medicinal herbs are not so easy to give out.
After the group found a place in the city to replenish supplies, they drove north and rushed in the direction of Yecheng.
Yecheng was only fifty miles away from Qin Yongguan, and the group arrived at Yecheng that night.
There were only a few sick guards at the city gate, and when they saw someone approaching, they hurriedly raised their blades to block the car.
Xin Nianyan rode a reddish-brown horse and glanced at the group of people condescendingly.
Most of the people of the Northern Regions are blonde and blue-eyed, with beards and tall bodies.
But the defenders were visibly sickly, as thin as bones.
"I thought that Yecheng had long been abandoned, and there were still soldiers guarding it."
Xin Nianyan opened his mouth and glanced up at the tall city wall.
This place used to be the strongest fortress in the North, but now it is a source of plague.
The city guards couldn't understand Xin Nianyan's Nanxuan dialect, so they glanced at each other suspiciously, and they were about to question with their knives.
Qin Han waved his hand, and the elite soldiers behind him pulled the gauze around his neck and rushed up.
But in the blink of an eye, several defenders were lying on the ground.
Qin Han drove the horse forward, stepped on a ground of blood, and pushed the door into the hidden city gate.
The group drove in, and a barren and empty city was reflected in front of them.
Under the moonlight, the wind rolled up layers of wind and sand, and there were stiff corpses everywhere.
They were all old and weak, young and powerful, and they ran away when the epidemic broke out.
"Let's find a place to stay first." Qin Han opened his mouth, and the deputy general beside him took the order and took a few personal soldiers to find a place to live in the city.
Xin Nianyan drove his horse down the street, looking at the devastation in front of him, and the desolate howl of the jackdaws continued, but he did not come to peck at the corpses on the ground.
This is the troubled times outside of Nanxuan.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded beside her, Xin Nianyan looked sideways, and saw Qin Han, who was driving a horse under the moon, walking to her side and standing side by side with her.
Even with a heavy hat and a beard on his face, it was difficult to hide his turbid aura.
If Xuansha City didn't have him, I'm afraid it wouldn't be much better.
Although she despised the practices of the county guard, morality aside, when the epidemic broke out, slaughtering the city and burning the corpses was the most ruthless and effective method.
She didn't know if General Qiu would be like this, breaking his arm to survive.
But Qin Han wouldn't, he didn't do it, he didn't give up the soldiers of Nanxuan, and he didn't give up the people of Xuansha City.
"Lord Wang."
"Huh?" Qin Han raised his eyes to look at her.
"Nanxuan has you, it is a blessing for the country."
At this moment, Xin Nianyan admires him as much as he does for his grandfather, when he is a hero.
"It's Nan Xuan's luck to have you." Qin Han smiled.
It was also his blessing.
Xin Nianyan and he looked at each other and smiled under the moon, even in such a desolate environment, they felt extra at ease.
At this moment, she just wants to hug the man in front of her who is responsible for her family and country.
She suddenly understood why Qin Han felt different from the prince in her previous life.
Her previous feelings for the prince tended to be more infatuated.
And what Qin Han gave her was more of a sense of stability and peace of mind, as long as she thought of him, her heart warmed.
This kind of feeling was Qin Yan in the previous life, and he would never give it to her.
"Lord Wang, I found an inn in front of me, and it was abandoned for a while, but it can still be used when you clean it up."
The man who had gone out to look for shelter drove his horse back and opened his mouth to report.
Qin Han turned his horse's head and led the team in the direction he was.
What the soldiers were looking for was a deserted and dilapidated inn, and a few people broke down the door and opened the window to ventilate.
Then he cleaned up and picked up the upper room, barely able to live in it.
They brought their own bedding and clothes, and all they needed was a shelter from the wind and rain.
A group of people gathered in the lobby of the inn to make a fire, hung a pot on the fire, cooked a pot of Hu soup, steamed the Hu cakes, and drank a bowl of them.
A few elite soldiers joked about today's adjutant general who could speak Xilin, praising him for his versatility, no wonder he could follow Qin Han as a deputy general.
"It is a privilege to be able to follow the prince by his side!"
The man smiled and replied.
This group of soldiers is accustomed to life and death, and even in such a bleak environment, they can talk and laugh around the fire, and liven up the atmosphere.
"Your Xilin language is very interesting, let me learn it too."
An elite soldier said with a smile.
The lieutenant took a sip of the hot soup, "What are you doing with this?" ”
"When will it be available?" The man smiled and shrugged.
Xin Nianyan heard it and thought it was interesting, so he looked at Qin Han.
"Lord Wang, why don't you teach me too?"
Before Qin Han could speak, Ning Wuji on the side spoke.