This was originally a peaceful and peaceful small village located in the remote mountains of Shandong! But today, these simple mountain people who have nothing to do with the world, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, have been overwhelmed by the suffering that fell from the sky!
The fire that shot up into the sky submerged dozens of thatched huts. Women's screams, children's cries, men's howls, excited roars and lewd laughter filled this originally peaceful and peaceful mountain village!
From time to time, a few puffs of blood would rise to the sky with the head, and the woman's screams would gradually disappear along with the excited roar, and the big men with bare arms and trousers lifted up would go around in the small village!
The moon seemed to have no intention of seeing this tragedy, and quietly disappeared into the thick dark clouds!
Long Qie looked at the big men who were contentedly teasing each other and letting out a few obscene laughs from time to time. He twitched his lips and coldly snorted: "Send the order, collect the food, and move forward immediately!"
Long Qie didn't know how many times he had seen such a human tragedy! The ninth time or the tenth time? Or the twentieth time? Long Qie couldn't remember it clearly, and of course he didn't want to remember it clearly!
From the initial opposition and intolerance to the current disregard and numbness, Long Qie has gradually become accustomed to the Major General's orders and uses this method to appease these Baiyue barbarians when they are irritable!
Because, more than ten days of daylight and nighttime seemed to have worn away the last bit of patience of these originally unruly Baiyue barbarians! Because they had to endure hunger, mosquito bites, and from time to time...
Someone was bitten to death or carried away by venomous snakes and wolves that suddenly appeared!
Because they had to march in concealment, they were not allowed to make loud noises. They were not allowed to light fires to cook and eat cooked food outside the mountains. Even the tenacious nerves of the Baiyue barbarians had already reached the limit of their patience at this moment!
More importantly, no one knows where these tens of thousands of people are heading! What is the purpose of marching like this!
The riots that occurred from time to time seemed to indicate that the 60,000-strong army led by the Major General, which had sneaked out of Sui County on that rainy night, seemed to be on the verge of "exploding the camp"!
At this time, a small mountain village that unexpectedly appeared during the march appeared in front of everyone!
Looking at the Baiyue barbarians who were unable to walk one after another, the women in coarse linen clothes seemed to have found a way to continue to control this army that had no idea of its destination and direction!
So, the first tragedy began!
Next, more tragedies happened!
The army seemed to have gradually changed from being forced to take action when it suddenly encountered such a village, to chasing such villages around during the march!
Occasional surprises turned into brutal and bloody hunting! And you never tire of it!
Long Qie is one of the few people who knows the purpose of his army's trip. Apart from him, only Yingbu and Xiang Yu know about it. Long Qie knows because of his strong opposition for the first time, which almost caused the relationship between him and Xiang Yu since they were young.
The biggest conflict ever!
In the end, Xiang Yu had to tell Long Qie the purpose of his trip!
The fire in the remote village gradually extinguished, and the original noise gradually fell silent! A strong smell of blood spread in the air. From time to time, several wolf howls came from the distance!
After looking at the army that was meandering in the dark in the mountains, Long Qie turned around and cast his gaze behind him for a few deep glances. Then he waved his hand and led several personal guards to join the army that had finished venting its anger and started to move quickly again!
He didn't know how long he would have to wait for someone like this!
How many more innocent people will become the targets of hunting because they want to appease the Baiyue barbarians!
But Long Qie knew that there was no way back for him and others. He was sure that if he turned back now, he and his group would be the first to die! Those Baiyue barbarians would definitely tear them all into pieces!
There is only forward movement. There is only goal!
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The fourth day of the seventh lunar month in the first year of Emperor Qin II!
Hu Hai returned to Xianyang from Jimo (now close to Qingdao). He did not return all the way along the way he came. Instead, he chose to go straight from Jiaodong County to Langya, and then took the old road connecting Wei and Qi, preparing to go from Xue County, Dongjun, and Dongjun.
, this straight line from Hanoi County goes directly to Sanchuan. Then enters Hangu Pass again and returns to Xianyang!
Although the old road connecting Wei, Han and Qi is not as easy to travel as the Chi Road from the east of Daqin, the road condition is not too bad. The most important thing is that the distance between Hu Hai and Xianyang will be greatly shortened.
Just like leaving behind two thousand cavalry and nearly a thousand craftsmen who followed the army north from Xianyang, Hu Hai's team was greatly reduced. Without the burden of the craftsmen, the marching speed greatly increased! Nearly a hundred box cars were freed.
Used to supplement food and supplies!
More than 16,000 cavalrymen and hundreds of boxcars marched all the way. In just two days, they had passed Langya and transferred to Xuejun!
The day before, Hu Hai was still in the mood to check on the people's livelihood in Shandong and other places on the march. The war in the Central Plains and Julu did not seem to have spread to the vicinity of the Shandong Peninsula, so along the way, although most people lived in poverty, they were able to live and work in peace and contentment.
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But the closer you get to Xue County, the more and more homeless people you can see on the road and in the wilderness dragging their families with their families, carrying large and small bags with them, as if they are fleeing!
Hu Hai groaned, could someone have rebelled? Otherwise, these people would obviously not have left their homes and fled to Shandong and other places! And they did not flee west to Guanzhong, but east to Shandong Peninsula!
Seeing the tens of thousands of brightly armored troops walking on the road, they not only showed no harm to the people fleeing along the way, but even distributed some food. The fleeing people scattered around the road became bolder and stopped running around.
He even started approaching the place where the army was staying to beg for some food!
Regardless of the obstruction of Weng Zhong, Du Teng and others, Hu Hai rode his horse to the road where the box truck was located at the rear!
At this time, hundreds of people who were fleeing with their families gathered around these box trucks that were distributing dry food to the fleeing people according to Hu Hai's order. All of them were unkempt and ragged, and most of them only carried a small package!
Fortunately, it’s already summer. If it were winter, I don’t know how many people would freeze to death along the way!
On the outside are a few homeless people who are obviously the same family, but this family seems a little different. Except for an old man with white hair, the rest are an unkempt woman whose face is unclear and two people in tattered clothes, about three years old.
Four year old!
The people in this family who were fleeing seemed to be women and children except for the old and the weak, so there was no way they could squeeze in to receive food. The woman stood about ten steps away from the crowd with her two children in her arms, and the old man was holding a cane and seemed to be hesitant to go in and squeeze in.
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The appearance of Hu Hai, a large group of people with bright clothes and angry horses, who were obviously the generals of the army, immediately aroused a crowd of people who were still crowded begging for dry food! When passing by the woman with two children in her arms, the woman didn't know what she was thinking.
Suddenly the sun was blocked and I realized that someone was next to me!
The woman raised her head blankly, her black and white eyes looking directly at Hu Hai, who was sitting on "Black Lightning" and looking down from above!
"ah!"
The moment the woman saw Hu Hai, she suddenly let out a low cry, then quickly lowered her head and held the two children in her arms like a frightened little rabbit, turning around and trying to get out of the way!
"ah!"
Perhaps because she was walking too hastily, the woman holding two three- and four-year-old children lost her balance and fell backwards!
Soon after, Hu Hai jumped off the black lightning and stretched out his arms to catch the woman who was about to fall! Frightened by this, Hu Hai looked at Hu Hai's two children curiously in the woman's arms.
Weeping in unison!
Du Teng, Weng Zhong and the Long Guard guarding Hu Hai were all frightened by this sudden scene!
You know, if that woman was an assassin just now, then she would reach out to help the unsuspecting Hu Hai and fall to the ground!
Stopping Du Teng and Long Wei who were coming, Hu Hai helped the woman to stand firm. Before he let go, the woman quickly fled around Hu Hai with two crying children in her arms like a snake!
Does she know me? Hu Hai is a little confused!
Then he whispered to Weng Zhong: "Go and get some dry food for the children!" Then he took a deep look at the woman who was about ten steps away from him, who was obviously a little unusual, and strode towards the woman who was hurriedly coming after seeing the scene just now.
The old man goes away!
"Thank you, General! Thank you, General!"
The white-haired old man could clearly see the scene just now, so before Hu Hai came closer, he quickly bowed and said!
"Old man, you don't have to be like this! It's just a little effort!" Hu Hai stretched out his hand to support the old man, and then asked: "Old man, you must have escaped from Xue County, right? I wonder what happened to Xue County?"
"Didn't the general's army go to Xue County to quell the chaos?" The old man with white hair and beard said in surprise when he heard Hu Hai's words!
"Quiet the chaos? Could it be that someone in Xue County is rebelling?" Hu Hai's heart tightened. He was really afraid of what would happen!
"The general doesn't know what he is doing! His Majesty the Emperor's edict has finally arrived! Who would have thought that just a few days ago, news came from nowhere that General Wang Li had died for his country, and then the whole country turned against him!"
"The land has rebelled? Then why didn't the old man flee west to the land of Guanzhong? I... I remember the emperor said in the edict that in the event of a great disaster, all the people in the world should move to the land of Guanzhong!"
"No one can say otherwise! But the fields were also heading west, burning, killing, and looting along the way. All the men were soldiers, and all the women were taken into the camp for sexual pleasure! We had no choice but to..."
"Your Majesty! Four red letters came from Xianyang!" At this moment, Long Xuan came to Hu Hai and whispered!
Hu Hai couldn't help but tremble when he heard Long Xuan's words! Intuition told her that with the four red letters, it was obvious that it was definitely not just Tian Du of Xue County who were rebelling at this moment! He only remembered when he heard the old man's words. It seemed that he had been using
Xinying was so accustomed to delivering letters and newspapers quickly that he fell into a misunderstanding! As a result, he ignored the limitations of messaging in this era!
He originally thought that the news of Wang Li's death in battle should have spread throughout the world, but when he saw that there was no movement, Hu Hai went north with peace of mind! Who knew it was not that there was no movement, but that the news of Wang Li's death in battle had not spread at all!
"Old man, I'm going to take care of some things. You can take these grains. You and your women and children should find a place to hide! The imperial court will definitely send troops to put down the rebellion, and then the old man can go home!"
"Thank you, General! Thank you, General!"
When the old man left with a lot of gratitude, Hu Hai turned around and said: "Du Teng, lead thousands of people to distribute food to these fleeing people! Remember not to rob or trample!"
"I will obey my orders!"
"Long Xuan, send two dragon guards to follow the old man secretly! Well, find out the details of that woman!" Hu Hai waved to Long Xuan and ordered in a low voice! (To be continued)!~!
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