The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 234 Disaster Victims
With an elite army, the trip to find water went smoothly. The mountain is a lush northwest-southeast ridge with lush vegetation and good water storage capacity.

In the case of not much precipitation for months, there are also several intermittent clear springs in the mountains.There are also those strong men who take advantage of the water, but they are not enough to look at in front of the army.

After clearing away a nest of rampant "water bandits" and fetching water, the group returned to join the main force.

The army stopped on a south-facing pipeline, and two lieutenants took 200 people to fetch water.

An Xu and Zong Che were resting at the same place, not knowing what was going on at the water fetching side, but at this moment they were stunned watching the group of people coming from the south.

Under the hot sun, the men are shirtless, with dark faces and dark upper bodies, and the skinny ones can almost see the bones under the skin. Some are walking alone, and some are holding children with chapped lips like dehydrated fish in their arms. .

The women didn't pay so much attention to their appearance. They were wearing single clothes with their sleeves rolled up. Some slowly followed the man, and one was holding a child.

Not seeing a living person for a few days, but not wanting to see a living person is more uncomfortable than seeing dead bodies all over the ground.

The group of people also found the army in front of them, and they dared not show their spirits, and they dared not stop and walk.

These days, soldiers are more terrifying than bandits.

They want to go to the north to ask for a living, can't even this humble wish come true?
Looking at the serious soldiers in front of them, whose eyes could cut people like knives, several of them were about to cry.

The people who fetched the water came back at this time, no matter how frightened they were, the eyes of the group of people saw the wooden barrel with traces of dampness, and their eyes burst into wolf light.

At this time, the soldiers here are more afraid.

Who has never heard the saying that hungry people are scarier than wolves.

Zong Che held An Xu's hand tightly, and signaled to the Iron Tree who was also going south this time, "Give them a bucket of water. Take it for a few more months, and whoever grabs it will have their hand chopped off."

Tieshu solemnly agreed, and called a group of ten elite soldiers to negotiate with those people.

This group of disaster victims can come this far, they have life-saving food on their bodies, and they will not lose their minds. When they saw a general in armor coming, although they still carried a bucket of water, their first reaction was to hide. .

Tie Shu said: "My general kindly invites you to drink water. Line up and come one by one."

What is queuing?

not understand.

I heard that the general invited them to eat this water, and everyone wanted to squeeze in the front.

They became chaotic, and Iron Tree didn't speak, then raised the steel whip in his hand, and knocked down the two men who had overwhelmed several people and came to the front.

The two men fell to the ground clutching their arms and rolled over. Seeing this scene, the rest of them finally became honest.

Tie Shu said, "Women and children come forward first."

A group of disaster victims consisted of 30 to [-] people, but there were only eight women and children.

Here, An Xu and Zong Che sat under the shade of a tree and counted the number of women and children. An Xu was worried for the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"General, madam, your lunch box."

A guard came over with two iron lunch boxes and put them on the ground covered with only a floral sheet.

This is a self-heating lunch box developed half a month ago. Because there is no tin foil and good-quality plastic, An Xu had to ask someone to replace it with an iron one.

In fact, if Zong Che hadn't sent people out many times to search for mineral deposits after arriving in the northern border, the current military camp would not have the conditions to use iron boxes as outer boxes for self-heating meals.

Even if it is done now, only people above the lieutenant general can be rationed.

Of course, it is impossible for the generals to eat and watch the people below. Inside these self-heating lunch boxes, there are also some relatively large ones specially packed with vegetables, with a combination of meat and vegetables. One box is just enough for a team to eat together.

The staple food is the dry food in the military rations they carry.

The steamed rice has been dried again, and the grains are distinct. The side dishes are also dried and dried in advance. Then there is a small porcelain bottle with sauce, add water and let it sit for a quarter of an hour before it is ready to eat.

This is incomparable with the modern self-heating rice. After all, there is no plastic bag to keep fresh, and it is not so fresh after adding water and sauce.

The only advantage is that there is no need to light a fire while marching outside.

As boxes of self-heating rice and self-heating dishes were opened, the rich aroma wafted over one after another.The victims who had gnawed on dry and hard pancakes for a month couldn't help swallowing their saliva, but if they wanted to grab them, they wouldn't dare even ten times.

I just thought, wait a while, and see if I can pick up some leftovers from these military masters.

The victims all sat down on the other side of the road.

An Xu saw a seven or eight-year-old child holding a black lump in his hand, and while watching them, he moistened the thing with saliva, and then grinded it down with his small hamster-like teeth.

The sad taste rushed up one by one.

Maybe this looks like a virgin to some people, but when she doesn't have to worry about food, she does have too much sympathy to sway.

An Xu thought more about it. She seemed to have never known this ancient world with backward productivity. The materials here were not rich, and she only felt it at the beginning.

Linhe Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the officials in the county are not too mad. Not only can she do business and earn money, she has no shortage of food and drink, and ordinary people in the village are not hungry.

The poorest family back then was Zheng Changsheng's family. With the mountains behind them, their family could eat their fill.

After entering the city, I saw beggar Hanako, but even though those people were dressed in tatters and their complexion was thinner, they were not what they are today.

An Xu looked at the rice in the iron box, and he didn't have much appetite. He was about to ask the soldiers to separate the box of rice, give each of the victims a scoop, and then take some dry food specially made by the military camp.Just listen to Zong Che's order to the lieutenants sitting in the east: "Bring some dry food and send it to them."

The bucket of water just now, and half of the bucket, were also carried over.

Without vegetables, dry food and water are delicious enough.

It wasn't until the afternoon that a large group of military masters moved the camp southward that the rarely satisfied victims came out of the feeling of having a sweet dream.

Suddenly a person said: "Such a good army is only under the rule of the Zongdu army in the north."

I heard that the warlord also came from a farming family.

"Let's go, let's work harder. When we reach the northern border, we will be able to fill our stomachs." The man shouted again, his excitement was beyond words.

In the past, they heard that the northern border was a safe place, and that the generals of the northern battalion did not starve to death under their rule. They still didn't believe it, but now they actually ate a lot of army rations!
Soldiers are so conscientious, why worry about not being able to live?
Others who were reluctant to speak, also ignited their yearning for the future at this time.

A month later, the group of victims arrived at the defense line set up in the northern border, and after a series of inspections, they were allowed to enter.

At this time, the story of Beiying going south to suppress the rebellion was already a matter of word of mouth.

More and more victims are coming from south to north.

But this wave of disaster victims is the most proud. They have to show off to others everywhere they go. They met counter-rebels on the road and ate their military rations.

When they heard for the first time that the Beiying Army was going south, the victims had already guessed that it was the Beiying Army they encountered on the way.

Otherwise, which army can have such demeanor?

(End of this chapter)