On the fifth day of February, a large ship sailed to Yuan County.
The ship is loaded with grain and is slowly approaching the dock. This is grain transported from Yuanyang.
At the bow of the ship, a man wearing the uniform of the flag officer stood upright. This man was Huang Tianyan, who had submitted to Prince Yong's Mansion.
Although Huang Tianyan was born a bandit, Huang Tianyan was indeed very capable, and he contributed the Wu Family Fort to the palace, so it was logical that he was promoted to the general flag.
Today he led a team to escort food. This was not the first time, but today he was escorting military rations.
Compared with the daily necessities of ordinary people, military rations are undoubtedly more abundant, including things like cured meat.
When the ship docked, Huang Tianyan ordered people to light a beacon fire. Logically speaking, after the garrison in the city found out, they should leave the city to unload food.
Huang Tianyan was not too anxious and ordered his men to start unloading the goods.
As long as they unload the goods and deliver them, they can return to Yuanyang.
But after they had unloaded most of the supplies and half an hour had passed, Huang Tianyan finally realized something was wrong.
The dock is nearly three miles away from the county seat. Although the city can be seen from here, the situation on the city wall is not clear.
Could something have happened in Yuan County? Huang Tianyan's heart was in doubt.
"Come two people and follow me to the county seat!" Huang Tianyan said solemnly.
With a few soldiers, Huang Tianyan quickly approached Yuan County. They were on high alert at the moment.
What surprised him was that he didn't see a zombie on the road leading to the county seat, which meant that Yuan County was safe.
What's more, when he was only a mile away, he already saw soldiers on the city wall.
"Damn, what a trick!" Huang Tianyan yelled.
I sailed here all night just to deliver the supplies to Yuan County as soon as possible. Do the Yuan County garrison people still have to send things to their warehouse by themselves?
With dissatisfaction in his heart, Huang Tianyan quickly walked towards the city gate.
"Damn it, didn't you see the beacon fire at the pier?" Huang Tianyan yelled.
At the city wall, a commander-in-chief stuck his head out and replied with a smile: "Brother, we saw it, but we can't come out to get it!"
"Why can't you come out?" Huang Tianyan asked.
"There are only a few dozen troops stationed in the city now, and everyone else has left. If we leave again... there will be no one to defend the city!"
Finally there was a reasonable explanation, so Huang Tianyan said: "Where have your people gone?"
"Master Gao leads the team and goes out to clean up the monsters!"
Well, not only do they have a reasonable explanation, but they are also very valid reasons.
According to the rules set by the palace, the number of troops stationed in a county town at any time must not be less than fifty. This is an iron rule.
Huang Tianyan looked ugly and said helplessly: "Okay... It's up to you to enjoy the happiness, and we have to unload the goods for you!"
Huang Tianyan couldn't wait forever when he went out to fight. He still had to go back to deliver the goods!
Immediately, Huang Tianyan said to the soldiers on the side: "Let our people work harder and transport their things here for them!"
After saying this, Huang Tianyan looked at the tower and said: "You can't leave your post, we admit it... but you should be able to find some big cars for us, and you can't let us carry it on our shoulders!"
"It's a simple matter, I'll arrange it right away!" the commander-in-chief on the tower replied.
Ten minutes later, the city gate was opened and seven carts were pushed out.
The general flag on the tower was a little embarrassed and said: "Brother, I will trouble you next!"
Without saying much, Huang Tianyan directly waved to his subordinates and asked them to push the cart away.
Huang Tianyan's men began to work. This time they transported twenty carts of grain, and it took at least two hours to transport it to the county seat.
Just when Huang Tianyan was thinking that he was going to supervise the work, he suddenly remembered something important.
According to military law, after the delivered materials are delivered, they must be signed and pledged by the garrison commander.
This requirement is extremely strict, in order to prevent anyone from dumping supplies, and whoever signs it will be held responsible.
Now that Gao Zhengan has left, there is no one in Yuan County who can sign, which makes Huang Tianyan stumped.
"Where did you Gao Qianhu take people?" Huang Tianyan asked to the top of the city tower.
"Went to the garrison station in the south!"
"How far?"
"If you ride a horse, it will take more than half an hour!"
Upon hearing that it would only take half an hour, Huang Tianyan immediately had an idea, why not just go there himself.
"Brother, find me two horses and another brother to lead the way. I'll go find Mr. Gao to sign!"
"Okay!" The general flag on the tower readily agreed.
Everything he asked for was quickly arranged. Huang Tianyan didn't waste any time and headed south under the guidance of his guide.
On the other side, where Yang Qing was stationed, an extremely embarrassing situation occurred at this moment.
When the sun set yesterday, Gao Zhengan led his team to arrive here.
Because it was getting dark, Gao Zhengan did not arrange any tasks, but decided to let his men repair it first.
In fact, it was not that they did nothing. At least after dinner, they helped Yang Qing complete the reinforcement of the fortifications.
A trench two meters wide and three meters deep was completed.
It was already night when the work was completed, and everyone was extremely tired. Gao Zhengan directly asked his men to rest.
Three military vehicles were only enough for about thirty of Yang Qing's men to rest, and most of them had to lie down on the ground outside.
It's only early spring now, and it's still very cold at night. Sleeping outside is a curse.
Fortunately, before they set off, they had already expected to spend the night, so they all brought bedding and spread them on the woodpile to barely sleep.
At this moment, the soldiers could only pray that it would not rain tonight, otherwise they would not be able to survive the night.
Of course, all this has nothing to do with Gao Zhengan, because he has a bed in the military vehicle.
Fortunately, this night, except for the cold night wind, which made people suffer, there were no other incidents.
But before dawn, something still happened.
The soldiers on guard posts in the military vehicles heard the roars of zombies.
It's not unusual to hear roars, but as the sound gets closer and closer, more and more zombies are making the sound, so things don't last seconds.
The soldiers on guard immediately issued a warning and woke everyone up from their sleep.
After lighting more torches and seeing the scene clearly, Gao Zhengan and Yang Qing discovered that they and others had been surrounded by corpses.
At this moment, more than a hundred of them were trapped in a small area where the military vehicle was.
Fighting outside, there are more than a hundred of them, there is no way they can do anything in this small place.
The outer trenches, while protecting them, also locked them inside.
Therefore, they can only use various methods to attract zombies to jump into the ditch, so as to achieve the purpose of annihilating them.
So they used various methods, but the results were really not good.
Every time they come up with a method, they can only trick one or two into being fooled. Now that they have learned from past mistakes, these zombies won’t take the bait anymore.
From dawn to now, they tried every conceivable method and killed seven zombies in total.