Chapter 75: The Starving Ghost
Life is unpredictable, and it's hard to predict what's next.
A few days ago, I was still cultivating immortals in the mountains, and I hurriedly ran home, but I caught up with the battle.
Local conscription is not yet possible to hide, it is indeed the time to defend the country.
The hot-blooded man should indeed put on his armor and go into battle and throw his head and spill his blood.
Since it has caught up, it is fate.
If you were hungry and weak before, you would indeed be panicked, and no matter how clever you are, most of them will have no return.
Now, he's a person with a bit of ability, and he's so murderous that it's a little exciting to be able to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.
Although there is still no guarantee of survival, the chances of survival have certainly increased significantly.
I went home and made arrangements, almost emptied the Qiankun bag, only brought weapons and pills and some change, and tried not to bring unnecessary things, so as not to die outside and cheapen others.
Early the next morning, I went to the county government with a wine gourd to report.
A gourd of spiritual wine was specially poured at the gate of the city to strengthen his courage at a critical time.
"Boat..."
"Long time no see..."
There are indeed a lot of people in Zhoujiadian, among whom there are several former friends who know each other.
The others didn't know each other, and the village was too small when they came out, so they basically didn't go back.
Few of the friends couldn't even name each other, but they remembered that they were familiar with each other and chatted together.
Chatting and chatting, I heard and remembered other people's names, after all, we always have to bring a name when shouting at each other.
However, rural people usually call nicknames, for example, teenage boys will be called old women, and some will be called Ah Gong directly, which is really Ah Gong, and there are several generations of older generations...
Rural people live in clusters, and people of the same age can get together, and the seniority can be quite different.
Zhou Xiaozhou's seniority in Zhou's shop is neither high nor low, there are also those who call him Uncle, and there are those who have to call him Uncle, and it is not strange to call him Grandpa.
In short, they are all their own people with the same surname, and when they go to the battlefield together, they need to be tightly united.
The recruits will be pulled directly to the battlefield, and the casualties will definitely be large, but the casualties in Qingshi Pass are large, and the reinforcements will not arrive for a long time, so they will have to pull the recruits to fill it.
The villages around the county seat were sent troops, numbering several thousand.
These thousands of people didn't have any weapons and armor, and they were taken directly to Qingshi Pass.
Although the county seat is only twenty miles away from Qingshi Pass, Zhou Xiaozhou doesn't seem to have even left the east gate, this is the first time to go in this direction.
In the past, when I talked about the east gate, I was so panicked that there would be enemy arrows shooting here and killing people.
More than twenty miles, who can shoot that far?
I think it's ridiculous now, but I really believed it before.
Before entering the Qingshi Pass, I saw a rather terrible scene, a large number of sergeants' corpses were pulled out and arranged in rows and rows, densely packed.
"Hurry up, pick up a suit of armor and put it on, find a weapon and take it..."
Sergeants kept urging the recruits to pick the armor off their corpses.
The armor on these corpses is not very good, at most it is light armor, which is better than nothing.
And it was bloodstained, and it was even pierced by arrows, and the arrows were still stuck in the corpses.
They were the defenders of the city, and most of them were killed by arrows.
There are a lot of recruits who have been replenished, and when it is the turn of Zhoujiadian, there are no corpses to pick up, and they can only consider themselves unlucky.
Although it is a bit creepy to pick up the corpse, it is even more terrifying to pick up the corpse.
I don't even have any protection on my body, how can I be good!
And there are no weapons.
Zhou Xiaozhou is not short of weapons and armor, and he also wants to get a strong armor to wear in order to feel more at ease.
"Those who have not received weapons and armor should wait outside the city, and they should not be crowded, but sit in place."
It was quite cold, so I could only sit outside the city, wait for the body to be transported out, and then substitute for it.
Qingshi Pass is not very big, it can't accommodate 20,000 garrisons, and if too many people enter, it will be crowded, and it is easy to be shot by stray arrows.
Zhou Xiaozhou was a little puzzled, hadn't a large number of troops been dispatched to the county town a long time ago, why didn't they come over?
Is it just to defend the county?
I don't understand how the troops are arranged.
At this time, the enemy army did not forcibly attack the city, but from time to time put cold arrows into the city.
Occasionally, scattered corpses will be pulled out, and the number of substitutes will be very small.
About 3,000 people went in as substitutes, but seven or eight thousand people were recruited, and more than half of them could only sit outside and starve and be blown by the cold wind.
There is no food.
The local and military did not cooperate well.
The local officials felt that it was none of their business to send people over.
In the afternoon, many people couldn't stand it and started scolding.
Let people come and send them to death, so they can give them a full meal!
If you don't die, your heart will be like this.
If you don't give food, it's not right, who wants to be a starving ghost...
Nobody paid any attention.
The military said they didn't want so many people, they didn't prepare food for so many people.
After spending until dusk, they dispersed and went home.
It's impossible to want someone else to come back tomorrow, and it's not a good thing.
And there is a justified reason to refuse.
Zhou Xiaozhou noticed that someone on the enemy side flew over and spied on him.
There were also immortal cultivators in Xichang who participated in this war.
The area around the Nine Peaks is not under the jurisdiction of any one country, and there are people from the surrounding countries who go to the Nine Peaks to cultivate, but they will not include the Xichang Kingdom.
Xichang Kingdom and Wusheng Kingdom were feuding, and their people did not dare to go to Jiuzhong Mountain through Wusheng Kingdom, and later developed and expanded their domestic Immortal Cultivation Sect, which was self-contained.
The Immortal Cultivation Sect of Xichang Kingdom is even regarded as a Protector Sect, and it is very happy to fight for the country.
Wu Shengguo may not be, no immortal cultivation sect will pay attention to him, at most when he gives a high price, he will help out.
Edgeworth's flight as a scout is really good.
This Xichang scout bypassed the sky above the Qingshi Pass, and dared to sentry in the direction of the county seat in broad daylight, probably because he was sure that no immortal cultivator would fight for Wushengguo.
So as long as he pulls the height out of the range of the bow and arrow, he is safe.
There are at least several immortal cultivators in Qingshi County, and there must be more powerful immortal cultivators, whether they are willing to make trouble for themselves is indeed a question that needs to be considered, and whether they are willing to fight for Wushengguo is a big problem.
It's usually ungraceful, and it's difficult to want others to charge for you at critical moments.
Zhou Xiaozhou remembered the flying sword under this guy's feet, how could he get it?
The four major pieces of cultivating immortals, Qiankun bags, flying swords, magic robes, and magic weapons, he already has half of them, and what he wants most is flying swords, and the magic robes don't matter, he doesn't like the outfit of the Taoist.
The height of the Xichang scout flying was four or five hundred meters, and the magic weapon flying sword would definitely not be able to shoot him, he took out the small bronze mirror and looked at the guy for a while, but it was too far away, and there was no response.
I had to follow him and wait for a chance to make a move.
Killing the enemy scout, you can't say that he is evil and kills people indiscriminately, right?