Chapter 489: The Barbarians Attack
After resting for one night, Su Liuye took Xiao Wu to walk around the neighborhood and found that the people in the town were in a hurry, and they didn't dare to stay on the street for too long even during the day.
Su Liuye didn't understand at first, Xiao Wu took her to the city gate to take a look, and there were several tents on the grassland in the distance. From time to time, there were people patrolling outside the tent, as well as people on horseback.
"Mrs. Chu, these are the barbarian army. They had suddenly gathered on the steppe the other day, and from time to time they had launched attacks on the town, and many of the civilians who had not had time to flee were wounded by them, and they even tried to take them captive, but fortunately the soldiers arrived in time. Xiao Wu said, with disgust in his eyes, "Mr. Chu's injury was caused by them, presumably it should have been reported to the barbarians by the people who ran out of the mine before." ”
Su Liuye lowered his face and looked towards the grassland, and now he could still see blood scattered on the grass, thinking about how fierce the battle was before.
If Chu Yan's itinerary was really leaked by those miners, then she thought about helping them rehabilitate at the beginning.
At first, she thought that these people just resented Wei Zhong and chose to hand over the drawings in the mine to the barbarians, but at least they kept the bottom line, but now it seems that these people have long since stopped caring about the life and death of the people. There is no need for her to keep such people.
"Little Wu, I want to take a look around." Su Liuye said.
At first glance, there is a large plain on the other side of the grassland, and there is nothing on it. She had heard a lot about barbarians along the way, but she had never heard of barbarians using poison.
The place where the barbarians are is a grassland, there are no poisonous weeds, poisonous substances and the like, and they will suddenly use poison, it must be because someone is teaching them behind their backs.
This poison was either found nearby, the antidote must be nearby, or someone found it from the Great Xia Kingdom.
She wanted to find out if the antidote was nearby.
"Mrs. Chu, it is not safe inside and outside the town now, and the barbarians are looking for an opportunity to invade our country. Mrs. Chu, if you run around and are caught by them, you will definitely use this to threaten Mr. Chu. Xiao Wu looked serious.
Su Liuye's eyes flickered, knowing that what Xiao Wu said was the truth, but she looked at Chu Yan's wound and felt anxious.
Chu Yan's injuries were not serious, but because the barbarians had smeared poison on his weapons, his wounds had not been able to stop bleeding until now. Although there is no fear of life for the time being, it will soon be summer, and the wound will rot without healing, and it will gradually lose too much blood.
On the way here, she already knew Chu Yan's identity from Xiao Wukou, at first she couldn't believe it, but then after thinking about it carefully, Chu Yan was indeed different from ordinary hunters. Chu Yan can not only go up to the mountains to hunt, he is strong in martial arts, but he is also literate.
In this era, there are very few literate hunters, and there are very few people who have the opportunity to go to school. Chu Yan also knew Qin Shiming, and when she saw Chu Yan take Qin Shiming to the village to find a hot spring, she faintly felt that Chu Yan was not an ordinary hunter, but she didn't dare to think about it at that time.
Looking at Xiao Wu's face, Su Liuye's heart sank slightly, and he asked in a low voice, "Xiao Wu, if there is really a war, will my husband also play?" ”
"It's natural." Xiao Wu didn't want to deceive her.
When Chu Yan was poisoned, the situation was quite severe, and the doctors in the army were frightened, so they hurriedly wrote a letter and sent it to Beijing. This letter was sent to the emperor, asking the emperor to send the imperial doctor in the palace to the border to help Chu Yan detoxify.
Xiao Yun also received the news, because he was worried that something would happen to Su Liuye, and the fifth princess also started to act, so he asked Xiao Wu to leave the capital with Su Liuye quickly, and he could also rush to the border to take care of Chu Yan.
But Chu Yan was the general favored by the emperor at the beginning, and he knew something about the barbarians. If the two armies were to go to war, Chu Yan and Qin Shiming would have to go on the march.
Hearing the news, Su Liuye's face was ugly, and he stood on the city wall and looked at the barbarian tent in the distance, his eyes gradually cold.
She walked around the town and found that there was no place to buy food in the town, and every family hid the food in their homes and would not take it out easily.
They will fight here at any time, and this grain is more important than their lives, so how can they sell it?
There was no way, so she had to take advantage of the fact that the sky had not yet darkened, rented a horse and went to the next town to buy rice noodles and some ingredients, and borrowed the kitchen of the military camp to prepare ingredients for Chu Yan to replenish her body.
The imperial doctor in the palace also came a few days later, and after helping Chu Yan check it, he began to detoxify.
The barbarians may have learned the news, and in the past few days, they suddenly launched an attack and sent people to attack the city gate, trying to break the city gate open.
The townspeople had long expected such a day, and they quickly packed their bags and fled from the town, and the soldiers guarding the border immediately moved into action, bringing weapons to resist the foreign enemy.
Su Liuye didn't know the barbarian's movements, and was suddenly awakened by a noise at night, and when he opened his eyes, he saw people running outside the tent with torches, and the ground trembled due to the sound of neat footsteps.
It can be seen that the number of people is huge.
Su Liuye suddenly had a bad premonition, she put on her robe, walked quickly to the door, opened the corner of the curtain and looked out, only to see that the soldiers had picked up weapons and torches and walked outside.
"Mrs. Chu, let's quickly pack up our things and hide outside!"
Su Liuye just wanted to open the curtain to check the situation outside, when a pair of cold hands grabbed her wrists violently. Su Liuye was startled, and when she looked up, she saw Xiao Wuzheng looking at her with sharp eyes.
Without waiting for her to speak, Xiao Wudao, "The barbarians have already called, the military camp is not safe now, we can't stay here to hinder Mr. Chu and them." ”
"Why did the barbarians do it all of a sudden?"
She had been here for several days, and the barbarians who lived on the grassland didn't look anything out of the ordinary, just set up their tents there, making daily rounds, and they didn't see any intention of doing anything about it.
Xiao Wu didn't have time to tell her more, after stuffing all the clothes into the package, he stuffed the dry food he had bought before, and pulled Su Liuye out of the barracks.
As soon as she ran outside, Su Liuye saw a carriage parked in the darkness. Before he could see it clearly, he turned over on the horseback on the side, and looked at Chu Yan, who had already put on armor.
There was a chill on his grim face, and the armor on his body shone with a chilling glow in the moonlight. Seeing her coming, Chu Yan hurriedly caught up with her and led her to the carriage, "Ah Liu, now that the situation is tense, you and Xiao Wu should leave here immediately and find a safe place to hide first." When the situation is urgent, you go to the capital, and Xiao Yun will meet you on the way. ”