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Yin Bupo and Huang Xiaoqiang also didn't believe it.

Kuai Ze smiled faintly, "Since you don't believe it, then let's wait and see, after all, I have confidence in Ling Jing." The people did not answer, but continued on the march.

Yangzhou belongs to the Jiangdong region, and it has always been an extremely rich place, but everywhere the army goes, there are barren rice fields, starvation everywhere, and many villages are not a trace of people. After more than ten days, it is estimated that it will take five days to reach Jiangdu, the army passed through a village, and from a distance, Huang Xiaoqiang finally saw that there were people in the village, but the people in the village seemed to be afraid of them. They were gathered in one place, but they walked away in an instant.

Huang Xiaoqiang felt that there must be something wrong, so he ordered the troops to rest in place, dismount and go to see what was going on, and the other three main generals naturally followed. Huang Xiaoqiang walked in and saw that there was boiling water in a large vat, and the water was boiling some rotten leaves and roots, and there were a lot of insects floating on the surface of the water. Looking a little disgusting, Huang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but wonder in his heart, "What are these people doing?"

An old man suddenly ran out and knelt down in front of the four of them, and the old man cried, "Please, don't take this ration with you." ”

The old man's words suddenly surprised Huang Xiaoqiang, this pot of things that made him a little sick to his stomach was actually "grain." Huang Xiaoqiang's disgusting feeling disappeared in an instant, and what appeared in turn was pitiful, Huang Xiaoqiang helped the old man, "Old man, don't be afraid, we have no malice." ”

The old man looked at Huang Xiaoqiang carefully, and after feeling that Huang Xiaoqiang really had no malice, he trembled and prepared to get up, but it looked like the old man had not eaten for a long time, and he had no strength, so Huang Xiaoqiang hurriedly supported the old man. After a while, many old people came out of the village. If you look closely, the whole village is full of children and old people, and there is not a single young person.

Under Huang Xiaoqiang's signal, Lin Zhan brought some rations and distributed them to these old people and children, almost all the old people and children showed greedy eyes when they saw the food one by one, and after taking the dry food, they immediately devoured it. "Delicious! delicious!"

Huang Xiaoqiang couldn't say what he felt in his heart, and said with emotion, "It's also in the same country, but it's too different from Jingzhou." ”

Kuai Ze said, "General Huang, build the Grand Canal, recruit countless strong men, and some places where the number of people is insufficient, they will recruit women to go, and all places are really miserable, among which Yangzhou is the most seriously affected." In the past two years, Jiangdong has been plagued by drought, no one cultivates, and the people have no food rations, so they can only eat leaves and roots. The folk customs here are quite simple, and there is no cannibalism. ”

At this moment, Huang Xiaoqiang thought of the Great Wall again, and said in his heart, "Is every feat left in history like this?"

The old man got up, "Thank you for the general's food." Then he sighed and slowly explained what had happened.

This place is called Sunjia Village, and this old man is the village head. As Kuai Ze said, about half of the strong men in the village were drafted away, and the remaining ones went to rebel, and then a small part remained in the village. If that were all there was to it, their village wouldn't have suffered so much. After that, Liu Cuo cruised around Yangzhou and was surrounded by anti-kings from all over the country. With so many troops gathered in Yangzhou, there was naturally not enough food, so there was a situation where various anti-kings forcibly conscripted troops to collect food. After that, the women of the village were also arrested and used as military prostitutes.

Hearing this, Huang Xiaoqiang thought of the original Yellow Turban Army, and immediately stopped fighting, and scolded, "Are they still human beings when they do this? Are you embarrassed to say that you are a rebel? I must destroy them." ”

Kuai Ze persuaded on the side, "General Huang, these rebel armies come from all over the place, they must be uneven, there must be a few people and bandits who are difficult to change, and I hope the general will not be impulsive." ”

Huang Xiaoqiang nodded, "This is natural, Mr. Kuai, pass on the order, if there is anyone who disturbs the people and hurts the people, there will be no forgiveness." ”

Suddenly, Huang Xiaoqiang saw that Village Chief Sun divided the steamed bun in his hand into two halves, ate the small half himself, and put the other half in his arms. Huang Xiaoqiang was a little curious and asked, "Old man, this steamed bun is for you, why don't you eat it." ”

Village Chief Sun smiled, looked at a child on the other side, and said, "My hard-working grandson has eaten too long, I want him to eat more." ”

Huang Xiaoqiang was a little stunned, and ordered, "Lin Zhan, you let a small team of people bring enough rations and take these people to Jingzhou." Then he said to the village chief, "Old man, you will take these people from your village to Jingzhou with my subordinates, and you will be able to eat enough every day when you get there." ”

This village chief Sun suddenly burst into tears, in fact, they also wanted to leave their hometown, but they didn't know where to go, and they only said that the world was so dark. The village chief told the other villagers the news, and they were all overjoyed, although they were old, their grandchildren were still young, and they must be given hope.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of these villagers, Huang Xiaoqiang said lightly, "What the people want is just the most ordinary food and clothing, why don't the people in power understand." ”

Yin Bupo snorted and said, "This has to be blamed on Ling Jing, if he didn't get in the way, how could the people of the world be like this." ”

Kuai Ze said, "Without Liu Cuo's mediocrity, without Ling Jing's cruelty, how can you show the benevolence and righteousness of the King of Chu." ”

Huang Xiaoqiang replied lightly, "I would rather the benevolence of the King of Chu not be revealed." ”

An army of 40,000 stopped camping near Jiangdu.

Kuai Ze trotted all the way to Huang Xiaoqiang's camp, and at this time, Huang Xiaoqiang was discussing the military situation with the general under the account. "Good news, General. ”

After getting along for a while, Huang Xiaoqiang admired Kuai Ze's resourcefulness very much, so he respected him very much. He immediately stopped discussing the military situation and asked, "Military advisor, what good news?" ”

Kuai Ze laughed, "Ling Jing is really smart, he gave an order to arrange a martial arts competition in Jiangdu City, to gather the heroes of the world to choose the strongest martial arts to be elected as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses." In this way, hundreds of thousands of troops were indeed retreated with a single word. ”

"Oh, why is that? ”

"Then I'll be ugly, all the anti-kings now add up to 600,000 troops surrounding Jiangdu, but they have not attacked, why, just to reap the benefits. Ling Jing knew about this situation and specially arranged such a competition. First, it can recruit the rebels everywhere and turn the rebels into the Han army's own army. The two can gather the leaders and annihilate them, and the rest of the rebels will have no dragons, and the elite soldiers of the court will be able to win a big victory. ”

Huang Xiaoqiang always felt as if he had heard this story somewhere, and then asked, "How can this be considered good news?"

Kuai Ze continued to explain, "If it is the former, the rebels from all over the country have been recruited, and my Jingzhou soldiers have come to Qinwang, and the credit is not small, and Liu Xian, the assassin of Yizhou, committed a big crime by not moving his troops, and I have a basis for Jingzhou to capture Yizhou." If it is the latter, the court is untrustworthy and deceives the world, then it will lose the support of the people, and my soldiers in Jingzhou are just following orders, which can benefit from it without bearing the infamy, the best of both worlds. So, what's not good news?"

Huang Xiaoqiang nodded and praised, "Makes sense." "But then I think about it, isn't this script just about the Jiangdu martial arts competition in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this competition is so similar, that is to say, this competition is definitely a conspiracy? Huang Xiaoqiang thought for a while, and said in his heart, "It is naturally impossible for me to persuade these anti-kings to participate in the competition one by one." On the day of the competition, heroes from almost all parts of the world will arrive, if you make more friends with more heroes at this time, and then help them escape on that day, not only will the name of King Chu be retained, but you can also have more hands to eliminate Ling Jing later. ”

Huang Xiaoqiang smiled and asked Kuai Ze, "Mr. Kuai, this world's heroic martial arts competition is extremely dangerous, should we go." (To be continued.) )