Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Road Is Difficult

The first time I went on the road was in the early morning of the third day after the siege, and the sun was rarely blocked by thick clouds, and the faint light that finally fell made everyone's faces a little pale.

This dark color gave the first Ming a bad premonition, but the bad premonition couldn't stop the order from above to decide to set off, and hundreds of people were mobilized on the road early in the morning.

The team of several hundred people was not only the first Ming and others from Linshui City, but also residents from other countries and places, they were divided into more than a dozen teams, and one team escorted several grain trucks, with a total of more than 100 trucks of grain.

A hundred carts is a lot, but the first Ming didn't dare to compliment this amount of grain and grass. A hundred carts of grain and grass is only a ration for a few thousand people for about half a month, and for a war, the scale of a few thousand people is definitely not a brigade, so for these thousands of people, what can the food of ten days be used for? It cannot even supply this army to attack some deep places.

Moreover, he did not know where the food was to be delivered, which made him even more desperate about the purpose of this delivery, to carry food to an army that did not know if it existed.

The procession marched out of the city, passing through a mile of loess and earth, and they officially came outside the confines of the city.

The position of the first Ming and the others was in the middle and rear of the grain brigade, and their job was to help the mule-drawn four-wheeled vehicles to move forward with difficulty. It stands to reason that if the ground is level, a mule-drawn four-wheeled city does not need manpower to prop it up. But as it happens, the land north of the city is not a plain. Thankfully, though, the terrain isn't mountainous.

As if someone had deliberately done it, the Great Plains in the south and the north became a mountainous and hilly terrain, with a towering cliff in between, as if the creator had deliberately created a barrier called the Castle of the Underworld, separating the two sections of terrain that were originally contiguous.

The hills outside the city are not high, but they also slowly descend or rise, making it difficult to see the road ahead at a glance. On these gentle slopes, although you can see many groups of trees in the distance, you can feel that the grass on the side of the road grows higher and higher as you travel farther and farther. Asakusa outside Yuma Castle had just submerged the soles of his shoes, reaching the height of the lower calf by noon.

First Ming and others pushed the car all the way, thanking their predecessors all the way for them. But at the same time, I couldn't help but think about the meaning of this road.

It's a well-established carriage road. If it weren't for the frequent travel of horses and carts, it would never have been possible to form such a road in the middle of such a meadow that could not reach the calf. But this is not the territory of man, so why is there such a road for carriage and horses? Unless it is a road for grain and grass! Only a road that is a grain road can form a stable road in such a place!

Grain Road, the definition of this road made First Ming's heart sink!

The grain road means that this road is often walked by people, and it is precisely this kind of grain road that is the road that is most likely to be attacked by the enemy! No matter whether the enemy is a man or a beast, as long as the attack is successful a few times, the grain road will basically be the key attack target!

How can this not be attacked? First Ming had to start thinking about what kind of existence he was currently on the team.

The team of a few hundred people is not big, but it is small enough to be eye-catching. However, the main force of such an eye-catching team is only eight teams of armor soldiers distributed in the front, middle and back of the team, and nine armor soldiers in one team, a total of seventy-two people. Except for these seventy-two people, others can hardly be regarded as drags.

If the squad is attacked as the soul expects, then it can do as planned. But if you encounter a large group of people, then you can really only obey the destiny of heaven. First Ming thought about it, and unconsciously looked at the soul life on the side.

Seeing the first Naruto look at him, the soul nodded as if he didn't understand what it meant.

First Ming was a little unimpressed by Soul Life's reaction, and although there wasn't any particular conflict with him along the way, it was hard for him to trust the person who was smiling at him anymore.

No matter how the first Ming and the others thought, in fact, everyone was frightened along the way. For these people, the beast is no longer a man-eating monster that lives in the mouth of others, but a terrifying creature that is active around them, ready to jump out of the grass next to them and pounce on everyone. It's hard not to be nervous.

Even the armorers who were escorting these people and had the ability to defend themselves were very wary of the situation around them. In such a situation, everyone is a soldier, and every step is courageous.

However, it was very unexpected, although the journey did not make people feel relieved, but from morning to noon, not a single beast appeared in the field of vision.

One morning, the team traveled more than 30 miles, and the scenery on the road gradually became unfamiliar, and the grass on the roadside grew to a waist-deep height, making the grass moving with the wind in the distance become like animals.

Seeing that the sun was almost over, the leading armor soldier stretched out his hand and shouted, "Stop, rest in place, and continue on the road after a while!"

One moment is about twenty-five minutes of the earth, this time is a rare time to repair on the march, everyone must eat and drink during this period, and the speed of the need for convenience also needs to be faster, once the team marches again, there is no time for the big solution, so many people have chosen to solve the big solution during this time, and one by one they have jumped into the grass.

The first Ming also went into the grass to solve the problem.,When the solution is over, he returns to the team.,At this time, the time is almost up.。 Which one of the armor soldiers, he stood up and shouted: "Each team of overseers counts the number of people, and all of them return, and those who do not return at all, and those who do not return at all, are regarded as knowing and do not report, and they will be killed!"

This is the way of doing things in Beijian City, killing people if they don't say the right thing, so those overseers quickly counted the number of people, and then quickly reported back, for fear that a slow move would give the armorers an excuse to kill.

However, the Overseers were fast, but things were not necessarily right, and the last two Overseers ran to the side of the Armorers, and then they saw that the Armorers were furious and kicked the Overseers to the ground, and then shouted: "There are three people who are missing, but someone knows where they are going, and if they report to us, they will be rewarded, and those who do not report will be killed!"

After the armor finished speaking, after a while, he saw the crowd hesitantly stretching out two hands, and the armor immediately called him to come and talk back. The two men stepped forward, replied resignedly, and then pointed to the grass, and the armor soldier took advantage of the situation, and then beckoned the two armor soldiers to chase in that direction.

When the two men saw that the armor soldier was gone, they only promised, they did not leave, nor did they stay, but they only clubbed there, but the armor soldier did not care about the two people, and sat back in the car by himself, and did not ask people to sit down, but kept the same.

It's fine to stand like this for a while, but standing for a long time has to be imagined by people, what about people? What happened? So people looked at each other, and the atmosphere in the ranks became tense. I couldn't help but turn my eyes to the grass, and those who stood close to the grass couldn't help but walk inside.

Suddenly, several bushes in the distance of everyone moved, which made people fall into a state of extreme tension, people unconsciously got closer, and the armorers also clenched the bone blades in their hands, ready to fight at any time, as the moving grass approached, the leading armorers also stood up, and he said loudly: "But the search for people has returned?" He clenched the hand of the bone blade and lifted it up.

As soon as his words fell, he saw the momentum of progress in the grass pause, and then a sentence came: "Exactly!"

This reply made everyone a little "disappointed", but then the three bloody heads that were brought out made the crowd let out a burst of exclamation.

This is just a small episode on the road, which makes people frightened for a while, and there are some warnings that people will not want to run away in addition to being frightened.

In addition to this, the armor gave the impression that those who had escaped had died on the way before they could be escorted back, while the two men who showed the way were rewarded with a piece of silver. This also caused everyone along the way to endanger themselves, suspect each other, and become more like a plate of loose sand.

After this incident, it was as if to remind the leader of the armor that he sent three armor soldiers as a pathfinding team, and at the same time sent four armor soldiers to watch along the road to prevent anyone from escaping.

In this way, the three armor soldiers came back from time to time to report alone, and the armor soldiers always knew the situation ahead, warned all the way, and came to the night without incident.

As the sun did not emerge from the horizon, night officially came into this world, and without light, the leader did not dare to march blindly. But this was not human territory after all, and he did not dare to set up camp, but only ordered the team to form a circle around the carts carrying grain, and everyone stayed in the circle as a temporary camp.

In this makeshift camp, no one dared to light a fire, so they could not keep warm or eat cooked food, and they ate dry bread and water up and down, no exception. After eating, there was no after-dinner activity, and people fell asleep one by one.

The cold wind of the grassland at night made the people who had little clothes have to lean together to keep warm, and the distance between people is close, so that some souls who want to talk and stop can't find a chance to talk to the first Ming, and they meet together to facilitate the possibility of being killed on the spot by the armor as an escape, so they have to give up.

The soul didn't speak, and the first Ming didn't really want to speak, seeing that the black baby next to him was already asleep on his own, he secretly cursed an animal in his mouth, and then he also leaned on the black baby and squinted groggily.

Early the next morning, after a simple meal of dry food, the team started another day's journey. Although it is a new beginning, the fatigue is better than yesterday. And this road, as the distance deepens, people become more and more nervous.