35 The smoky earthen city
After walking north for seven more days, they saw a smoking earthen city. Sitting down, the barge screamed for no reason.
Xianbei raised his arm, he stopped, and the whole team stopped.
Xianbei said, "There is a war in this city, we should bypass it." β
Xie Lan rode up and said, "My lord, I see that smoke is the smoke of embers, even if there is a war, it has already died down." β
Xianbei didn't know what he wanted to say, so he said, "And then?" β
Xie Lan said, "Let's go through the city." β
"Why?"
Xie Lan said, "Looking at the amount of smoke, I estimate that there are not many houses in the city that have not been burned. β
Xianbei felt that Xie Lan had something to say and something to do, so he said, "What do you want to say, although it doesn't hurt to say it." β
Xie Lan said:
"When we get to the station, we need to build a house and make living utensils. It doesn't matter if you build a house, the big frame and the beams and pillars are made of freshly cut down trees; However, it is not possible to use wet wood for doors, windows, tables, chairs, and mats. If you want to dry a piece of wood, it is not an overnight thing, besides, you have to break the log, we don't have a big saw, how to break it?
"So, let's go into the city and see if there are any old houses that haven't burned out, let's find some. We have horses and carts, pull them up, and when we get to the station, I will start to use the utensils, isn't it just right? β
When Xianbei heard this, he slapped his palm on his thigh and said, "Okay!" What are you doing, go to town! β
Gao Feng stepped forward to stop him again, saying, "No, the situation is unknown, how can you rush in?" The king and his ladies are not allowed to trespass into danger. In this way, the king and his ladies stayed here, and a few of us went to explore first, and if it was really as Xie Lan said, the city had already stopped the army, and the banner had died down, and the brigade would march into the city again. β
Everyone said that Gao Feng was right, so Xianbei had no choice but to follow the plan and send Gao Feng, Xiannan, Xianxi, and Fengji into the city with knives. Xianbei instructed them that if they encounter sword soldiers, they must not fight, turn around and return: first, we have no enmity or grudge against them, and we can't take the sword lightly; Second, we have no medical treatment now, and if we are injured, it is very troublesome.
The four of them agreed, and rode forward.
Xianbei They didn't come down, they still rode on the barge, and the ladies were also sitting in the car.
Since they came out of the city, the women's faces were covered with a white veil, and this time there were three caravans, and many felt pads, and the women seldom rode on barges and horses, but sat leisurely in them. Riding on barges and horses is not a horse for several people, but a horse for each person.
Ten knives bought from a knife shop in the city of Liganlou, with a woman riding a horse and barge, straddling her waist. They don't know how to dance with knives, but they fill the faΓ§ade and march to the military.
Xianbei looked at them and smiled, and said, "Their bodies are also very strong, let's train with us men in the future, and then rush to kill, take off the veil, and paint two beards, no one knows whether it is a man or a woman." Two thousand four hundred and forty-one years later, which branch of the army has women, defending the motherland, and there are men and women? β
Later, Xianbei intended to select a woman in each tent as a concubine with a sword, and take on the responsibility of protecting the safety of the people in this tent, because after the man and the woman were entrusted at night, they would not have much mental and physical strength, and the security work of this tent would be taken up by this woman.
There was training during the day, and the women also trained with the men, wielding knives and slashing together, so that they formed a special group.
Some men are just one woman, like Mu Tong's nephew Mu Zhi, and there is a woman Hai Mulan. In this case, they did not let Hai Mulan hold the knife, and at night, their tent was close to other people's, and if there was a disturbance, the knife-wielding women of the other tents would jump up and help them.
In the tent with many women, there are two knife-wielding women, like their tent in Xianbei, there are Li Lulu and Hao Qixi as knife-wielding women.
- These are all afterwords.
At the moment, Xianbei they were outside the city of war, and they didn't wait for a long time, Gao Feng and the four of them ran out on a barge, and when they arrived in Xianbei, Gao Feng said, "There is no fighting in the city, most of the people have been slaughtered, and only some old and young are left, crying and wailing." β
Xie Lan hurriedly asked, "Is there any material we can use?" β
Gao Feng said, "How do I know? You go and see. β
Xianbei waved his hand and said, "Enter the city!" β
After speaking, Xianbei took the lead and walked up. Gao Feng and Xiannan urged the barge under the crotch twice, and walked in front of Xianbei.
Xianbei smiled and asked, "What are you doing here?" β
Gao Feng said, "You are the king and the commander, how can there be no barrier when you are marching?" Exposing you to the public? β
Xianbei said "It's okay", but he was very ironing in his heart: They really regard me as a king.
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Before you enter the city, you can smell the smell of scorching smoke, and when you enter the city, the smell of blood is extremely strong, and there are people who have been tortured and killed, crying children, and helpless old people.
After Xianbei fell, he waited for the carriage to come, and said to Tukia and Wu Qima in the car, "A few of you come down, see if there is a baby boy, if you are willing to go with us, bring it." β
"What about the old man and the girl?" β
"No." Xianbei said firmly, "We didn't make a promotional video, and we are not a charity. β
Tukia didn't know what Xianbei said, but she understood his attitude. She and the woman in their car got out of the car and asked around about the children.
On the Xianbei side, under the leadership of Xie Lan, he went to the burned houses to find the wood he thought could be used, and when he found it, he pointed it out to other people and asked them to move it to the car.
As soon as Gao Feng saw that the charred wood was moving, it was black and dusty, so he went back and asked his housewife Lan Wulong to find out his original Qin costume, and he took off the new white clothes on his body and replaced them with the original ones.
Lan Wulong looked at him beautifully and said, "Do you know that your heartache daughter-in-law?" β
Gao Feng said, "You can't let your daughter-in-law spend all her energy on laundry clothes." β
Lan Wulong slapped him complainingly.
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Xianbei also had to change his clothes and work with them, and everyone said, why do you still use you? You wander around and see if there's anything we can use in the future.
Xianbei thought to himself that he was right, so he walked down the street by himself.
What could there be? Everywhere there are ruins, broken walls, collapsed houses, and a dilapidated.
Xianbei walked to a house and saw an old man in front of a collapsed shop, looking at it in confusion. The smoke of the shop was filled with the smell of herbs, Xianbei was stunned, so he stepped forward and asked the old man, "Uncle, is this your shop?" β
The old man nodded and sighed deeply.
Xianbei said, "What kind of man-made sin is this?" β
The old man pointed to the north and said, "The left side of the family." β
Xianbei didn't really understand what the old man meant, so he asked again, "What are they doing here?" β
The old man glanced at Xianbei and said, "The power of thieves." β
"Snatching? Then," Xianbei said, "why are they burning and killing?" β