A dock appeared on the horizon.
Perhaps for military reasons, the fort was built at a high place. Even though life was inconvenient, it unexpectedly saved their lives at the critical moment.
But - it's only a temporary rescue.
If the food in the fields is gone, what will happen next year? Do we have to drive away a group of people, or simply eat a group of people?
No one cares how they do it.
Yang Qin sent a man to call the door, intending to borrow some food, but he was greeted by an arrow.
This was not unexpected by anyone.
Even if the Wubao residents saw many regular warriors in the team, they would not take out life-saving food without permission. At this time, who can care about others?
Yang Qin did not reveal his identity, and after calling out to no avail, the team continued eastward.
The two children sat on the horse, their legs and feet tied up to prevent them from falling to the ground.
Among the entire team, they were probably the most well-fed.
Shao Xun walked beside the horse, turned to Yang Qin and said: "Gather the people together, organize them carefully. You select people from the pro-army to serve as officers. One team for strong men, one team for strong women."
"promise."
"How many people are there?"
"Two thousand strong men, more than a thousand healthy women, less than a hundred children, and more than ten old men."
Shao Xun glanced at the carriage and horse that were lagging behind.
The cart was abandoned and was just used to carry grain and dried meat. The water on the flat ground had receded, but the mud was overflowing, making it difficult to walk.
It’s actually enough to eat.
After the hundreds of cattle and sheep sent by Chen Wu were slaughtered, they could still be eaten for a while.
Xubuyan sent people to deliver more than a thousand bushels of grain.
Both of them had already brought their men back, saying that they were sending the second batch of food. Shao Xun asked them to do what they could and not to force it. After all, they had also suffered a disaster.
The team would sometimes find a higher place to stop and rest.
At this time, people will be sent to the nearby Wubao and Tuweizi to borrow food. It is good to succeed once or twice out of ten times. Sometimes they will even be attacked. This is the main reason why Shao Xun did not reveal his identity to the Wubao masters.
reason.
He has more than a thousand personal soldiers and more than 2,000 volunteers on horseback and on foot, which seems like a lot, but there is really no need to take risks.
This is Hebei, not Henan.
While traveling through Xinshi County, I found that most of the city wall had collapsed and there were rotting corpses everywhere.
There are more than a hundred people gathered outside the city wall. I don’t know how they are still alive today.
Shao Xun stopped at a distance, then offered him meat to lure the hundreds of Xinshi people to dig a hole and bury the body.
There will be a great epidemic after a major disaster, and these corpses are definitely an important source of the epidemic.
To be honest, he was a little scared too.
Although he cherishes his own life, to put it bluntly, if he gets sick and dies at this time, millions of people in the world will be buried with him, or even more.
Therefore, he almost paranoidly ordered the entire team to drink hot water, fetch river water and well water for bathing every day, and even wished that the bathing water should be replaced with hot water. For this reason, he did not hesitate to demolish abandoned houses to make firewood.
If someone in the team is sick, give him some food and let him find a place to stay until order is restored.
Everything is done to perfection.
Some yellow cloth was also found in Xinshi County, but no one took advantage of it.
The strong men and women in the team took a piece of it and wrapped it around their heads to distinguish them from the rioters and Wubao people, so as to avoid being unable to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in a real fight.
Some weapons were collected along the way and all were distributed for self-defense.
On August 15th, this team arrived in Lunu County, Zhongshan.
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Along the way, it actually gradually became dangerous.
The ground was much dry, and some victims began to target similar people.
More and more of them gathered together, and the scale became larger and larger, from dozens to hundreds to thousands.
They couldn't capture the remaining forts, and it was difficult to plunder food in the wild, so they had no choice but to kill people and eat them.
Human flesh is also meat, which can provide them with a lot of energy, allowing them to survive and eventually provide disaster relief food.
Before arriving at Lunu, Shao Xun and the others encountered a mob.
It's just that compared to the regular army, they are terrible.
The soldiers fired a few rounds of arrows from a distance, which brought the charge to an abrupt halt.
During the fight, the two children were trembling with fear and only calmed down when they saw Shao Xun.
Shao Xun took them down and put them on a carriage.
The five-year-old boy Chou Nu clenched his fists and looked at the mob rushing towards them with hatred in his eyes.
Blood splatters on the battlefield.
Shao Xun covered the eyes of Chou Nu and Chun Kui and said, "Don't blame them, they are just asking for a living. There are many things in this world that I really can't tell what is right or wrong. You will know it when you grow up."
Xue Yong, the leader of the army, who was born in the Xue family of Fenyin and brought his tribe to seek refuge with his relatives, took out his horn and blew it for a while.
The strong men with their heads wrapped in yellow scarves lined up in a slightly chaotic formation. They went out to chase and disperse the enemies in an instant. The whole process was as smooth as child's play.
Perhaps, this was originally a ridiculous and tragic drama.
After driving away this wave of chaos, Shao Xun camped outside the city and sent people into Lunu to look for living people. In the end, he only found a hundred people from an unknown corner.
The old rules were to let them clean up and bury the bodies, then find a place to camp far away and give them some dried meat.
On the 17th, the Xu and Sun families from North New City, Gaoyang County, brought more than a hundred carts of grain and hundreds of cattle and sheep to this place.
When they were about to leave the city, they saw an astonishing scene——
Countless new graves stand in the wilderness.
Team after team of young men wearing yellow scarves were maintaining order.
Men, women, old and young were divided into seven or eight camps, each with a thousand people.
With so many people, three hundred dendrobiums of dendrobium would be consumed for food alone in a day.
Of course, meat will make you hungry a lot. If you eat cattle, sheep, draft animals, and war horses, you can indeed last for a long time, but the cost is a bit high.
No wonder the soldiers in King Liang's tent could not see a few horses, so they all slaughtered them to make preserved meat.
When the leader saw Shao Xun, he fell to the ground and cried: "It has been two months of disaster, but unexpectedly King Liang arrived first."
"Your Majesty, Gaoyang is so miserable."
"From Taihang to the Bohai Sea, there is a watery land and a vast country. Homes are gone. Not even one of the Li and Yuan Dynasties is left. How sad."
"In the Yan Kingdom, the wealthy people in Peiping have food, but they refuse to borrow it. They just sit back and watch us suffer."
"I almost thought the imperial court had forgotten me."
Everyone was crying and half-truths, and it looked like they were really frightened by this century-old flood.
Shao Xun helped them up one by one and said: "Those who can come are all good and responsible men. On weekdays, rich families live in mansions, with big fish and meat, surrounded by beauties, all of which are made by the people. When the people are suffering, how can we sit back and watch?" Ignore? There is nothing we can do about natural disasters, but if more people die of illness and starvation due to man-made disasters, it should not be done. Get up, I appreciate you coming."
The Xu family and the Sun family must have suffered losses in the flood, but the clan will not be left with nothing, and they should still be able to survive.
At this time, all their actions are for themselves and their tribesmen.
If Shao Xun did not come to Zhongshan, the Xu family and the Sun family would definitely not come to Lunu, just like the two generals of Feilong Mountain and Puyang Mountain.
During a great disaster, if you have too much time to take care of yourself, how can you care about the life and death of others? This is human nature and understandable.
"Have you heard the news from Boling?" Shao Xun asked, sitting on a fallen giant tree.
"It was difficult to walk a few days ago, so I didn't ask about it."
"I vaguely heard on the road that the grain ship had arrived at Lukou and that there were hungry people looting it."
"Yes, I have also heard that many hungry people are heading to Lukou in groups."
Shao Xun nodded slightly and said: "It's not easy to transport it from Lukou. It doesn't matter, it's not up to me to get food. I'll go get it. By the way, what's the situation in Gaoyang?"
"It's difficult. Hejian, Boling, Zhangwu, and Gaoyang are not good."
"This water rushes all the way to the Bohai Sea."
"It should be better in the south."
To put it simply, during this disaster, Changshan and Zhongshan in Hebei were the devastating disaster areas, the five counties of Fanyang, Gaoyang, Hejian, Boling, and Zhangwu were severely affected, and the four counties of Zhao, Julu, Anping, and Bohai were severely affected. We were also hit by a disaster, but not that serious.
Further south, Ji, Wei, Dunqiu, Yangping, Guangping, Pingyuan, Leling and Qinghe suffered less severe damage.
The four counties of Taiyuan, Xinxing, Leping and Kelan in the Bingzhou area were also severely affected.
The Yanmen and Dai counties of the Tuoba Dynasty also suffered heavy losses. The former was relatively light, while the latter was seriously affected.
This was a "special attack" on a large-scale disaster in the Youyan and Jin Dynasty areas. Jizhou, southern Bingzhou and parts of Sizhou were only affected by the disaster.
"Don't worry, I'm here, everything will be fine." Shao Xun looked at everyone and comforted: "Keep on holding on, gentlemen, don't be stingy and save food, give it as much as you can, it's important to hold on to the living. The court will not ignore it. Asked."
After enjoying the benefits, you must bear responsibilities and obligations.
If you ignore the victims, the victims will ignore you.
If you save them, they will recognize you.
This is actually how the legitimacy of rule comes.
"If it can be communicated to the surrounding counties, counties and villages, please do so as soon as possible." Shao Xun said again: "The disaster relief food will be here in a moment."
Everyone agreed after hearing this.
It was originally thought that Lu Zidao would only save the counties of Zhao, Julu, Anping, Bohai, Wei, Yangping, Qinghe, and Pingyuan, which have populations and food, but would not be kind enough to provide food to save the counties further north. Now the king of Liang
Now that they are here, their priority has been raised, and maybe the dawn is just around the corner.
Thinking of this, they all felt happy.
If the King of Liang did not come, a large amount of disaster relief food would be consumed in counties that were not so severely affected by the disaster. After all, the food was provided by them. Is it too much to ask that the hometown or neighboring areas be saved first? It is not too much at all.
On August 21, Shao Xun arrived in Anxi County, Zhongshan.
Many survivors of the disaster have gathered here, many of them are children of wealthy families, wearing dirty brocade clothes, with disheveled faces and anxious eyes.
When a large group of people appeared on the western horizon, the people who went to inquire about the news quickly ran back: "Huang Tou'er is coming, King Liang is coming."
"Huang Tou'er is here, King Liang is here!"
"The King of Liang is here, we are saved!"
The good news was quickly delivered to every corner.
Coincidentally, the rich families of Yan State and Peking, which had been indifferent to the disaster in Jizhou, also allocated part of the disaster relief grain sent to Fanyang and sent it south across the Yishui River, which had already restrained its fierce power, and sent it all the way south to Anxi.
On the Lukou side, the relief grains from the Cui family of Qinghe, the Liu family of Pingyuan, and the Hua family of Pingyuan were rushed to Zhongshan as soon as they were unloaded.
The soldiers escorting the grain and fodder did not care about the damage to the animals or the fatigue of the personnel. They kept waving their whips and tried their best to deliver the grain first.
Everyone understands that disaster relief food cannot save all victims.
The victims of the disasters in Changshan, Zhongshan, and Gaoyang were able to survive entirely because of that person.
And because of his presence, the relief food fleet and convoys were diverted, and the people in his county who did not receive life-saving food did not know how many people would die.
Life and death is the basis of this abnormal world.
Chapter completed!