184. Refugees

The target of Jiang Ke and his party was Langton Prison, although it was not far from here, but it was not easy to reach on foot, and according to Xi's plan, he was going to buy a horse-drawn carriage at a nearby market point. The official road stretches out, and there should be a stop at the end where border merchants gather.

"But I said, the noise was so loud just now, so many refugees ran away, the news must have spread quickly, this is the territory of the empire, won't the patrols near them come?" Walking on the quiet dirt road, Jiang Ke thought of something, frowned and said, "I also said something bad about 'witchcraft', isn't it a little ...... that we are so relieved not to change the route and walk?"

Before he finished speaking, adhering to the law that he must be agile when setting a flag, a puff of smoke and dust suddenly appeared in the distance, like a small-scale hurricane sweeping over.

“……”

Yo.

Bai Yu looked at Jiang Ke silently, and even the tide in front of him tilted his head slightly.

A black line crossed her forehead, and the deep gaze of the two made Jiang Ke a little speechless, but since she had just finished speaking, in order to match the situation, she still asked intimately: "This...... What is that? ”

Getting a little closer, the line of sight was clearer, and suddenly, a dozen horses leaped out of the dust and mist, a group of cavalry came around with the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and soldiers in standard armor were running behind. The number of people who came was probably less than a hundred, but even so, the momentum of the oncoming rush still made Jiang Ke, who had never seen the battlefield, a little calm.

The cavalry did not rush straight, but after observing Jiang Ke and the three of them, they formed a circle from a safe distance, and the infantry in the rear quickly stopped and put on a strict formation.

"Well, that's the Empire's army." Jiang Ke didn't wait for others to answer her question, but answered herself with a painful face, like that [beep-].

Probably afraid of the information about "witchcraft" among the refugees, this small group of imperial troops did not rush up, and after making sure that the three girls had been surrounded, a young general jumped out of formation on a war horse and began to shout.

"How do we do it?" The majestic voice came, Bai Yujing's momentum precipitated, and a trace of killing in the shadows leaked out, this terrain was open, and there was no shelter, which had a great impact on her.

"Hey, we don't have to be head-on." Jiang Ke felt troubled and said, they didn't come here to fight bosses, they killed and killed all the way, and they didn't do anything serious, why did they encounter so many battles.

Because the empire and the federation, which have had friction all year round, have broken out under the accumulated contradictions, the front-line federal army is fierce, and the border areas are already in a tense state, so the response of the garrison troops in the face of emergencies is much faster.

The cavalry commander's shouting is basically that you have been surrounded, hurry up and give up resistance and surrender on the spot, otherwise it will be Balabala, which is similar to the rabbit's "disarm and not kill" in the anti-Japanese drama. After a powerful and serious shout, not to mention Xi, who had been maintaining facial paralysis, Jiang Ke and Bai Yujing did not react, and they were not too worried about the threat of the other party, a team of less than 100 people was really the level of an ordinary army in ancient times, and it was no problem to break out.

After shouting twice, the voice of the commander of the hundred-man army was hoarse, but the surrounded people showed no signs of weakness, and the atmosphere was stalemate for a few seconds, and the anger was pervasive, and the commander once again made sure that the three girls matched the shrine maidens described by the refugees, and raised his hand behind him.

Wow –

The sound of the bow and crossbow being vigorously opened, and more than a dozen cavalrymen all pulled their bows and arrows to the full moon and towards the air.

"Put."

The arm was swung down, the crossbow strings buzzed and trembled, and a dozen arrows were shot loosely in a parabolic trajectory, and the infantry team on the other side saw the movements of the friendly side, and did the same, dozens of whistling arrows rushed into the sky, and then slanted with the daylight, and plunged down.

Hundreds of arrows rained down at a distance of nearly 200 meters, which was worthy of an arrow, and it was a projectile, and the accuracy was not high, but the sound of "Xiu Xiu" that kept pulling closer from the sky after a few seconds would still make ordinary people's hearts numb.

Jiang Ke took a deep breath, calmed the nervousness of the novice in his chest, looked at the rain of arrows in the sky, and then looked at the ground, well, nodded, and took a few steps forward.

Chop chop chop –

The arrow sank into the dirt, and the feathers at the end of the arrow kept shaking in the force, Jiang Ke looked at the ground full of bows and arrows around her, but she was the only one who was spared and shrugged.

Jiang Ke leisurely pulled out an arrow from the ground, looked at it for a while, the workmanship was quite rough, and immediately felt bored and threw it away.

After three rounds of arrow rain......

The squad leader two hundred meters away was already dumbfounded, what is this? Bai Yujing and Xi naturally dodged the rain of arrows with their own superhuman means, and the most speechless thing was Jiang Ke, a group of imperial soldiers watched the black-haired girl take two steps in a daze, two steps, two more steps, and then the rain of arrows fell down, without exception, all of them were inserted into each other's side. Three times, it's just a replay of what happened a few seconds ago.

Why?

The silver-haired girl who has witchcraft and can raise her hand to wave the ice rays is okay, and it makes sense for the black-haired girl with a very fast reaction and quick skills to dodge the rain of arrows, but why does the black-haired girl who looks the most inconspicuous seem to be able to do nothing with just two steps, is she the spokesperson of the goddess of luck in the mortal world?

No, I bring salt for myself.

Before the outbreak of this war with the Federation, although the empire had not fought for many years, the garrison troops on the border still had combat experience, and in the face of the behavior of the three people who subverted their three views, the squad leader decisively issued an order to retreat.

The irregular Xiaoice icicles stood erected, and their feet stood firmly on a small ice cone that extended out, and the cold was pressing, "Leave them three horses." The war horse neighed and turned around, and seeing that the other party showed signs of retreat, Xi suddenly said.

Bai Yujing's eyes were sharp, his figure darkened, and in the reflection of the ice cubes on the ground and the tall and thin shadows left by the three rounds of arrow rain, he rushed forward incomprehensibly.

Xi was not idle, he stepped lightly, his footsteps were like stepping on tangible air, the unformed ice flashed through the streamer, and Xi blinked in an elegant way It was already more than ten meters away.

Leaving Jiang Ke alone, the sultry wind blew, as if she was a little embarrassed, she coughed, took out a pistol from her backpack, and took it at it carefully, and the figures two hundred meters away became black spots one by one.

"Bang!"

Jiang Ke blew out the gunsmoke, put the gun away, and walked slowly towards the place where Bai Yujing and Xi rushed over.

"Didn't hit...... It's normal, I don't know how to ride a horse anyway. ”

The horse shook its head restlessly, lifted its strong limbs step by step, and walked steadily on the grass.

Jiang Ke sat on the horse's back with a tense face, holding Bai Yujing's waist in front of him with both hands, and his body trembled with the bumps.

"We ...... Is it okay to go a little slower? After a while, Jiang Ke felt that his buttocks were shocked very uncomfortable, and asked the other two weakly.

Xi shook his head slightly, revealing only a cold side face.

"Sister Jiang Ke, after the group of soldiers escaped, we must speed up and leave, and rush to Langton Prison before there is any major trouble." Bai Yujing said kindly, she flicked the reins, and the unruly war horse was forcibly stripped of its armor, and now it is almost under control, "It seems that it can be accelerated, Xi, it's been a long wait." ”

The second half of the sentence was said to the previous Xi, who nodded when he heard the words, flicked the reins, and rode his horse to run. The captured war horses need a certain amount of time to tame, and the speed of the tide is very fast, and they have long waited for Bai Yujing to finish it.

"Drive." Bai Yu barked softly, and the brown-haired horse followed.

Jiang Ke suddenly felt that the two of you were targeting me, the speed increased, the green grass kept crossing from both sides, and the galloping wind was blowing, so she had to hug Bai Yujing's waist tightly to relieve the tension in her heart.

Bai Yujing and Xi took the initiative to shoot at the imperial team that had lost their will to fight, and it was easy to get a substitute driving tool, and they were originally very thoughtful to grab three horses, but because Jiang Ke's driving skills were LV0, they had to release one of them, let Jiang Ke and Bai Yujing sit together and squeeze it.

Breaking away from the official road, two sturdy horses ran on the grassland of Pingchuan, after a long time, Jiang Ke let go of the worries of riding a horse for the first time, and enjoyed the feeling of freedom like the wind, looking at the green, the future is willing, and even rising heroic, Jiang Ke almost sang "Let us live a chic life with red dust", but I thought that it would damage the city's appearance, no, it was the earth's capacity, forget it.

Langton Prison is located between several towns on the border, is an independent building complex, can be placed outside the city, and is the border, the prison inside is naturally not a good stubble, either committed an incident and assigned here to be a thorn in the labor, or waiting to become the front cannon fodder in the border army, the security is quite tight, in order to facilitate management and security, it is also located outside the suburbs, and the usual material delivery is guarded by the army.

After riding his horse towards the northeast for half an hour, Jiang Ke had already changed from the pride of a man who set a horse to a bitter force who wanted to get off the horse quickly, no way, no matter how turbulent the emotions were, he couldn't resist the resentment of being shaken apart. On the horizon, a town of human gatherings came into view, with low walls emerging from the end of the grassland, surrounded by more and more pedestrians, in addition to a few traders, there were also a large number of refugees mixed in, in addition to the largest official road, there were rows of people crowded on the dirt road that had been stepped on for many years, the scene was quite spectacular.

Along the way, Jiang Ke and the others also saw many refugees displaced from the front line here, all of them famine-faced, but they all passed by the dust.

There are more people, and the speed is slow, and then they can only get off the horse, Jiang Ke and Bai Yujing have all put on masks brought from the earth on their faces, and Xi has also received a share, I don't know how fast the news spreads, but it's always right to do a little bit of measures.

Leading the fat and sturdy horse to walk among a group of short refugees, in fact, it is a bit abrupt, close to the town, the mentally handicapped may be less, the refugees saw the tall horse led by Jiang Ke and the three of them, and quickly bowed their heads and hurried by.

"It's the currency here." Xi handed over a heavy small bag, "There will be a fee to enter the city later, let's rest inside for a while and then continue to set off." ”

Jiang Ke, who was so shocked that she couldn't walk steadily, took the bag, carried it slightly, and the sound of clanging sounds, thinking of the current environment, she took out a few copper coins and gave them to Bai Yujing, and carefully hid the money bag.

Jiang Ke has no objection to Xi's proposal, since this is where the ultimate target headquarters is located, although the land is vast and the other party's personnel are scarce, it is difficult to meet the eyes of the other party if he is unlucky, and the matter of robbing the prison will be in vain.

After marching for a while, the noise came from the front of the side, and then the impact of the ripple spread to this side, causing Jiang Ke and the others to stop checking the team entering the city.

All three of them frowned and looked over, only to find that the last car of a baggage team had somehow overturned, the sealed wooden box was broken, and some grain was poured out. The refugees who had been hungry for a long time around saw the food stained with dirt and filth, and their eyes suddenly lit up, and the sound of swallowing saliva was a little clear, and the atmosphere began to be weird.

The escorting soldiers scolded and went back, ready to put these things back.

A person finally couldn't help it, he could only walk with his body hunched over, he suddenly burst out of strength, pushed down the bent soldier, didn't look at the other soldier, picked up a bunch of things and ran.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

"Someone—"

The riot ensued, and when the refugees saw someone making a move, a dozen black shadows were immediately stimulated and rushed towards the broken wooden box, and the two soldiers resisted for a moment before being smashed to the ground, blood pouring out.

"Who dares to be presumptuous!"

"Stop it all!"

The soldiers farther forward rushed over, shouting, and slashing at the hungry people with the hilts of their swords.

Bang bang bang...... Several big men in armor held wooden sticks, smashing the men and women around them who were looking down to pick up things, some of them were bleeding directly, and some of them were broken legs, and the big man shouted not to rob them, while swinging the wooden stick in his hand with all his strength.

Later, there was a hint of crying in the shouting.

The chaos did not stop, but there was a greater trend, and finally for a moment, with a sonorous sound, a soldier could not help but draw his sword, and poof—a rushing refugee vomited blood and collapsed, still clutching a piece of bread in his hand.

"Don't rob it......"

Some people died, some people were taken back, the food was taken back, and some sergeants chased people everywhere and beat them around—they lost their food.

Jiang Ke looked at this sudden scene blankly, and didn't expect that a small overturn would cause such chaos. It turns out that the people here have been so hard and hysterical......

A girl ran to her mother with blood on her forehead crying, clutching rotten wild vegetables in her hand, just ten meters away from Jiang Ke, the sound and the scene were so close.

Jiang Ke squirmed, she couldn't help but step forward and squatted beside the mother and daughter, the mother looked at her with some horror, and she was still holding the girl and wild vegetables tightly in her hands. Jiang Ke smiled reluctantly and secretly stuffed a few silver coins into his mother's arms.

"Don't be seen......"

……

"It's useless for you to do that."

After the episode, the three of them entered the city, and there were no accidents in the payment and inspection.

It wasn't until he walked a long way down the street that the silence was broken by Shio.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ke was still thinking about those hungry people just now, she didn't have the heart of the Virgin to support everyone, but it was inevitably heavy, this was not her world, but such suffering was not only real and moving, and hundreds of years ago on the earth, there must have been similar things happening.

"That mother and daughter will definitely die." Xi calmly said something that shocked Jiang Ke.

Simple and a little incomprehensible, Jiang Ke just wanted to refute, but when he thought of something, he lowered his head again, and pulled Bai Yujing, who was about to speak.

More than 100,000 people, refugees outside the city in a row with no end in sight, the townspeople look at them with indifference and rejection, farther wars, sooner or later will burn here, summer and autumn rainstorms, when it rains, how many people will fall.