Chapter 3 Bones
"What if he doesn't matter, now we have to go to the vicinity of Zhongdu and wait for the rabbit." Thinking of this, Yang Xiao raised his hand: "Send the order!"
"yes!"
When Lan Qifei arrived just now, all the generals knew that new news had come and all came over. At this time, he heard Yang Xiao’s words and responded immediately.
"The troops were divided into two parts. One part was led by me to all the light cavalry of Liu Sanqi, and Wang Fang and ten people, and went to Chenliu to collect grain. The other part, led by Li Ying, followed my retreat and went down through Chenliu."
"Sir, where is the destination?" Li Ying asked after Yang Xiao's order.
"Guzhou!" Yang Xiao pointed the whip in his hand into the distance.
"Sir!" Li Ying was shocked when he heard Yang Xiao say this: "Guzhou is located near Zhongdu, and there are imperial tombs in Zhongdu. It is not a place to stand under the imperial edict, which is equivalent to rebellion!"
"It's okay!" Yang Xiao waved his hand: "As I expected, the high thief must go to Gushi, Yingzhou and other places, and will eventually attack Fengyang. Our troops will go straight to Guzhou to cut off the thief's power. Although Zhongdu is in a rush, there is no danger to defend. As long as our army can block the enemy for three days, the army will siege and the thief will flee far away when the thief is frightened. We will defend Fengyang to prevent the thief from disturbing the imperial tomb."
"What if the bandits do not attack Fengyang and turn to attack other places?" Li British asked.
"Impossible!" Yang Xiao shook his head and handed the edict in his hand to Li Ying: "The bandits are divided into different directions, but the thief Gao has not shown any trace. If he had not planned a major event, how could he be so secret?"
After reading Feiying quickly, Li Ying frowned, obviously considering Yang Xiao’s ideas.
"Don't think about it, today I will make arbitrary decision and follow the orders." Yang Xiao looked at Li Ying's thoughts and said in a more intense tone.
"Yes, sir!"
Military orders are like mountains. Since Yang Xiao made a decision, Li British could only obey.
"The Gaozhe troops are all cavalrymen, and there are many people. When the rear team is waiting for the pace of progress, after I urge grain, I will ask Wang Fang to take the grain to wait for you. I will rush to Guzhou first and fight for the front station for you." Yang Xiao then said that, then turned his head to Liu Sanqi: "Sanqi, let's go!"
"Yes, sir!"
When Liu Sanqi heard that he was walking along with Yang Xiao, his eyes were only lit up with excitement and he shouted loudly.
"Sir, let me go with you." Just as the group was about to leave, Wang Zhengnan suddenly spoke.
"Zhengnan, your body has not been healed. Stay in the back team and walk slowly will help your body recover." Yang Xiao persuaded.
"I'm fine!" Wang Zhengnan shook his head: "As the captain of the personal soldiers, there is no reason to let the adults go alone and recover from their own injuries. I know my body myself, so please forgive me."
"Okay!" Yang Xiao used Wang Zhengnan very easily. He was not used to it without him. Seeing that Wang Zhengnan insisted, he nodded without dissuading him.
"Thank you, sir." Wang Zhengnan's face was still gray after being seriously injured, but he seemed to have not noticed it at all, and his body was as straight as a javelin.
The war horses ran wildly, and after more than a hundred people left the brigade, they ran for more than a hundred miles in one day. Although their faces were surrounded by a headscarf and only a gap was left in their eyes, they still suffered in a hurry. The headscarf was covered with frost, and their bodies were as hard as wooden boards.
After running like this, Yang Xiao and others arrived near Chenliu City in just two and a half days. Only then did everyone be stunned. The vast Chenliu City was like a dead land. The villages they passed by were sparsely populated and did not hear any chickens and dogs.
"It turns out that after the army, everything is ruined. Even Chenliu is like this. How good can other counties be?" Seeing this situation, Yang Xiao was very troubled, but he didn't expect that the matter of collecting grain was so difficult. If the army had no food, it would be abolished.
"Sir, go to Qi County." Seeing Yang Xiao's embarrassment, Wang Zhengnan spoke from the side.
"What can Qi County do?" Yang Xiao asked.
Wang Zhengnan did not answer Yang Xiao’s question directly, and pointed at the car marks on the snow and said, “Please look, sir.”
"It hasn't snowed recently. The car marks are obviously left a few days ago. Seeing that the car marks are deep and shiny, the middle one has become ice, and it is obviously carrying heavy objects."
Speaking of this, Wang Zhengnan jumped off his horse, walked to a very obvious car mark, and wiped it with his hand in the middle of the car mark and said, "The front is deep and shallow, and the front is wide and narrow in the back. From this, we can tell that the direction of the car is Xingyang. The direction of Qi County is contrary to Xingyang. Perhaps the bandits did not harm this place, so we can go and take a look."
"I'm sure that Brother Zhengnan is an expert in the investigation." Seeing that Wang Zhengnan was just a car mark, he was very wise. Liu Sanqi, who was in charge of scouting, nodded in admiration.
"Okay, let's go to Qi County to have a look!" Seeing this situation, Yang Xiao laughed and expressed his agreement.
"Let me lead the way!"
Liu Sanqi shouted, rushed to the front and rushed straight to Qi County.
As we walked along, we didn't think anything was there at the beginning, but the closer we got to Qi County, the more shacks there were on both sides of the road. After hearing the sound of horse hooves, many people secretly stretched their heads out of the shacks. When they saw that there were more than a hundred riders in a group, and swords and guns were all in place, everyone hurriedly shrank their heads back.
"It seems that these people are refugees who fled from Chenliu and other places." Yang Xiao couldn't help but look at the simple shacks around, but they were all made of wooden sticks, just forming a simple human form. Those with better conditions would put quilts and other objects on the outside of the shack, while those with less could only throw their clothes to the outside of the shack, hoping to block the wind and cold. But in the severe winter, such shacks could block how much wind and snow can be blocked, and such a construction was just a little bit of human resources. Looking at the people who stuck their heads out in the shack, each of them was unkempt and there was no hope in their eyes.
"What's going on?" Just as Yang Xiao was riding his horse, a white bone on the side of the road suddenly attracted his attention. It was the corpse of a small baby, with sporadic flesh and blood still on the white skeleton. The entire corpse was abandoned on the side of the road. Because the weather was cold and frozen, the corpse showed an extremely strange posture.
"Sir, this is Yi Zi's eating each other." Seeing Yang Xiao's shocked look, Wang Zhengnan whispered aside.
"Is Yi Zi eating each other?" Although Yang Xiao was cold, he couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. He looked up at the sky, but the sky was gloomy, as if it was about to collapse.
"A place in Henan has been hungry for years and it is no longer rare for children to eat each other. Judging from the flesh and blood on the baby's skeleton, it is obvious that his family is not bad for him." When they heard the two of them discussing this matter, Liu Sanqi interrupted.
"Is this good?" Yang Xiao only felt that his mood was like the sky, and he was so depressed that he could almost breathe.
"Mr. Liu is right!" Wang Zhengnan added from the side: "At least, his bones are still left, and the ones who eat him have not been stewed."
Chapter completed!