My balcony connects the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 90 The Dragon Slayer Becomes the Dragon

Horses' hooves trod over, picking up dust.

Withered and yellow weeds swayed in the wind on both sides of the road, the whole world seemed to have lost its vitality, and crows could be heard from time to time.

The refugees who huddled by the side of the road waiting for death looked at the distant horse team, and there was no emotion in their grey eyes.

Le Jin looked back at the owner of those eyes and sighed silently, his mood seemed to be a little heavier.

The team members on the side scolded heavily: "I remember that when the Yellow Turban thieves hit Hedong a few years ago, there was no such tragic scene as it is now. Damn Baibo Army, what did they do?"

Another team member said solemnly: "I heard that they are not only robbing food, but also people, whether adults or children, as long as they have a little strength, they will all be pulled by them to mine, and there are women, except for the really old ones. , as long as it's a woman, they won't let it go."

This team member was from the Jiaolong Gang before. Although they are water bandits, they will not kill them all. They will only loot goods and food, and people will let them go, and they will not do things that hurt the world.

Therefore, even they, who are water bandits, detested the behavior of the beasts of the Baibo Army.

Le Jin retracted his gaze and looked up helplessly at the gray sky.

The reason why the sky is gray is that there are several villages not far ahead that have been burned by fire, not only the houses, but also the crops in the fields.

"Brother Le Jin, Xia County is ahead, let's be careful, lest we run into people from Bai Bojun."

Le Jin nodded and tightened the letter hidden in the seam of his chest.

About a stick of incense, several people arrived at the periphery of Xia County.

The soldiers guarding the city spotted them immediately, and an arrow flew from the sky and pinned it seven or eight meters in front of Le Jin.

Le Jin tightened the reins, raised his head and shouted loudly, "Le Jin, under the entrustment of my son, ask to see Third Master Wei."

The soldier in the city asked, "Who is your son?"

Le Jin took out the waist card provided by the Wei family, and said loudly, "My son is Wei Chen, the second son of the Wei family."

The city guards were startled when they heard the words, then turned around and hurried away.

Not long after, Wei Gong appeared at the front of the city wearing a military uniform. Seeing the familiar stab-proof clothes on Le Jin and others, he whispered to the soldiers on the side, and the city gate slowly opened the next moment.

Le Jin rode in with a few team members.

However, the scene in front of them made them take a deep breath.

There were wounded soldiers everywhere, and the buildings in the city were in ruins. There were traces of fire in many places, and there was an unpleasant smell of burning in the air.

"Is this... Bai Bojun entered the city?" One of the team members couldn't help but muttered.

At this time, Wei Gong came down from the city gate, and Le Jin and others hurriedly turned over and dismounted.

Le Jin stepped forward and clasped his fists in a salute, and said, "Little Le Jin, I have seen the third master."

Wei Gong lifted him up with both hands, motioned the soldiers to close the city gate first, and then said, "Did the second brother ask you to come?"

Le Jin took out Wei Zhen's letter, nodded and said, "That's right, Young Master has something important to tell the third master, please take a look at it."

Wei Gong took the letter, nodded slightly, and explained to the soldiers on the side: "Modern, they are going to rest... I'm sorry, I still have some things to deal with here, a few go to rest first, and Wei will entertain a few in person later. Strong man." Later, he said to Le Jin and others.

Le Jin and the others clasped their fists and saluted. The situation in the city was obviously not good, and they didn't bother to disturb them much. After thanking them, they followed the soldiers to rest. After traveling for so long, they were indeed tired.

Wei Gong watched them leave, then glanced at the letter in his hand, turned and walked into the guard house beside him.

"Cough cough, cough cough..."

The guardhouse was another tragic scene. Soldiers on hand could be seen everywhere. Many of them lacked arms and legs, and were already lingering.

Emiya was not surprised, and walked to a main room with a gloomy face.

Several people dressed as scribes in the room were sorting documents, and when they saw Emiya come in, they all bowed their hands in greeting.

Emiya waved his hands at will, and walked to a case and sat down with his legs crossed.

Maybe it was because he was in a hurry. There was a hint of pain on his face, and he looked down at the waist and abdomen. He saw traces of blood oozing from the leather armor of the military uniform, mixed with the stained inner shirt. he is injured.

Seeing this, a thin-looking scholar next to him frowned and said, "Uncle Wen, your injury can't be dragged on like this any longer. Let's have someone send you back to Anyi for healing as soon as possible."

Wei Gong frowned, shook his head, and said, "I'm not in the way."

The scribe wanted to persuade him again, but another scribe with a long beard on the opposite side suddenly said: "In the battle last night, our side suffered heavy casualties, 310 people died, more than [-] were seriously injured and slightly injured, and the herbs in the city were exhausted. I am afraid that there will be more dead today.”

Another scribe said: "A granary was also burned. Although the rescue was timely, only less than 3000% of the original [-] shi grain was rescued. If the Baibo army came to attack several times at night, I'm afraid..."

He looked at Wei Gong, who was headed by him, with a worried expression, as if he was hesitating to speak.

Wei Gong knew what he was going to say, and said flatly: "Don't mention the abandonment of the city again, the white wave bandits outside the city are always watching, unless we don't care about the people in the city and don't want the nearly [-] stones of autumn food, otherwise they will not easily let go. passed us."

The thin scribe also said, "That's right, Brother Pei has repeatedly proposed to abandon the city several times, but it's really not a gentleman's act. Do you want to learn from those dog officials who eat corpse and vegetarian meals, and abandon the common people when they are in danger?"

The scribe frowned slightly, blushing and asked: "Brother Wang, what's the solution? Am I leaving? Last night, the white wave bandits almost invaded the city. Who led the people to use the train to drive them back? It's me! Yes! I'm Pei Qingzhi!"

The thin scribe was at a loss for words.

Seeing this, Wei Gong slapped the table hard and said solemnly, "Okay, Brother Wang, Brother Pei, don't make any noise."

Wei Gong took out Wei Zhen's letter and opened it in front of everyone.

After taking a look, Wei Gong frowned slightly, thinking that in the first line of the letter, Wei Chen told him to go back to Wei Zhuang.

When he saw the following content, Emiya's whole person was a little short of breath.

By the time he had finished reading all the letters, the decadent look on his face had already disappeared, and instead he had an excited and incredible expression.

Scholar Tangzhong looked at each other in dismay, what happened to the Wei Palace?
The thin scribe folded his hands and asked curiously, "Uncle Wen, but is there a letter from the second master?"

A few scribes immediately thought of Wei Ying, because Wei Ying was in the prefecture. If Wei Ying sent a letter, it was likely that the prefectural government would send troops to support them.If it weren't for this, Emiya wouldn't have such a surprised and happy expression change.

However, Emiya's answer directly poured cold water on them: "No, it's not the letter from the second uncle, I'm the second brother."

Several people looked at each other, even more puzzled.

"Brother Wei Chen?"

"Wei Zhongdao?"

"What did the letter say, why is Uncle Wen so excited?"

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Wei Zhuang.

Not far to the west of Zhuangzi is Anyi County. At this time, many people were carrying supplies to the city.

"Come on, be careful when moving, don't bump it."

"You two be careful, don't you want your life?"

"...Really, all of them are frizzy."

Wei Chen was standing on a carriage, holding a map of Anyi County in his hand.

"Acai."

"Hey, I'm here, I'm here, what's the second master's order?"

Wei Chen recruited the foreman in charge of the overseer, pointed to a small hillside not far away, and said, "There is also a trench dug there."

The steward nodded, took out a simple blueprint from his arms, and made a mark on it.

Wei Chen pointed to a ditch a hundred meters away and asked, "That canal is connected to the inner city?"

The steward came over, glanced at the map, and said uncertainly: "This small one needs to be confirmed by someone, I remember that it is a sewage canal, and it is connected to several squares in the east of the city. As for whether it leads to Inner city, I really don’t know.”

"Is that so..."

Wei Chen frowned slightly, looked around, and said, "Okay, go ahead and do your work first, and I'll look elsewhere."

The steward bowed his hands respectfully, "Respectfully send the second master."

Wei Chen nodded towards Xu Ding, and Xu Ding waved his horse whip and ran around Anyi County on a horse-drawn carriage.

This is the second day of coming to Weizhuang.

Wei Teng did not rest too much, and the next day he devoted himself to intensive work.

The area of ​​Wei Zhuang was still too small to accommodate too many people, so Wei Chen suggested that Wei Hao give up Wei Zhuang and move his family into Anyi County.

The Wei family also has a house in the county, but compared to Wei Zhuang on the outskirts of the city, the size of the house in the city is much smaller.

Fortunately, now the entire Anyi County can be said to be ten rooms and nine empty spaces, and the Wei family doesn't care about that much, and directly occupies the center of Anyi County. .

In addition, the city wall of the county town is higher, and it can be easier to defend against foreign enemies.

Even so, Wei Chen was still worried, and led the Wei family to start rebuilding and building the entire fortifications of Anyi County.

After seeing the fortifications of Anyi County, even if Wei Chen was a military novice, he found a lot of loopholes.

For example, many ditches in the city are dug in the ground, and they are also connected to the inner city, which obviously provides a special channel for the enemy to enter the city.Without saying a word, Wei Chen directly blocked all the ditches. As for the sewage problem, digging a septic tank can solve it.

Another example: the city defense of this era did not consider the problem of enemy fire, so there are naturally no facilities such as water storage tanks and cisterns around the streets and square houses.Wei Chen is no nonsense, forcing all streets and houses to have a large water tank.

The streets are 20 meters apart. As long as the house has a yard, a large water tank should be placed to store rainwater on weekdays. If the house catches fire, the water can be used to put out the fire immediately.

This problem could have been solved by diverting water from the Fen River, which is five miles away, but it is obviously too late to expand the moat and canals.

In addition, some simple defense methods and traps have been added, such as wooden fences, which can effectively block the cavalry's offensive, as well as trenches and trapped horse stakes. One, when the time comes, one can be pitted.

Of course, in addition to these, the necessary counter-offensive means are also indispensable.

Led by Mr. Wei, the common people who had not left the city chose to join the city defense queue, and even the passers-by also chose to join, because Mr. Wei not only provided food, but also a set of winter clothes.

Wei's rich and powerful solve the problem of food and clothing, the common people are still very active. In less than half a day, nearly 3000 people have joined as a defensive force. Right now, Xu Huang and others are leading the team for training.

According to Wei Cheng's arrangement in Weizhuang, the team temporarily divided Xu Huang, Guan Yu, Xu Chu, and Zhang Fei into four square formations. Each formation was based on the original guard members and village households, and absorbed the city's people to join, with a full membership of 4000 people. .

Soldiers are fine but not many.

Wei Cheng felt that 4000 people would be enough, and the rest of the people could join in the city defense construction and do what they could.

It is definitely not possible to eat and drink for free. If you want to eat and dress, you have to work.

Xu Ding was in charge of driving the carriage, and Wei Chen sat in the carriage thinking about what else was missing.

Not long after, the two came to the north of the city.

"Young Master, look!" Xu Dingle stopped the carriage, turned his head and said solemnly.

Wei Chen's expression changed, and he looked in the direction he was pointing, his brows furrowed immediately.

I saw thick smoke billowing from the sky, and the smoke drifted away with the wind. Visually, the fire source should be no less than ten miles away from here.But even so, it can still be judged that the fire is very ferocious by the rising smoke.

"It should be a village."

Wei Chen's face was not very good, and he said to Xu Ding, "Go back and send a few people over to take a look."

Xu Ding nodded, turned his horse's head and headed for the city.

Wei Chen turned his head and glanced at the direction the smoke was rising, and his brows could not help but wrinkle even tighter.

After he came out of the mountains in the past two days, all he saw along the way were the people of Limin who were shrivelled and displaced. These people still escaped. Then... what about those who did not choose to escape?Do they really have the strength to resist when they encounter the white wave army?

The answer is obviously no, ordinary people only have the share of being slaughtered and ravaged.

The dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon.

These so-called insurgents shouted the slogan of overthrowing the corrupt imperial court and saving the people of Li people, but what they actually did was even more unbearable than Zhang Rang, He Jin and others.

At least Zhang Rang, He Jin and his like still know how to raise pigs, so they can't slaughter ordinary people.And these so-called uprising troops, shouting nice slogans, really encounter ordinary people who disagree with them, but they have only two choices: joining or being killed.

Whether it is right or wrong, maybe Wei Teng can't say anything.

But now that he has met, he will not let the tragedy happen in front of his eyes.

At least in the realm of Anyi, under his nose, as long as someone dares to bully and rob the people, he will not ignore it.

The two returned to the city, and Wei Chen directly found the place where Xu Huang and others were training.

"Gongming, Yunchang, you two quickly lead five hundred cavalry, with the county as the center, within a radius of twenty miles, I don't want to see the existence of white wave thieves."

The expressions of Xu Huang and Guan Yu, who were training soldiers, changed, and Wei Zhen's face was terrifyingly gloomy.

Xu Ding winked at the two of them, and then pointed to the north.

At this time, the city gate was wide open, and through the city gate hole, a wisp of black smoke could be seen in the distance, like a bedbug, constantly gnawing at the blue sky...

(End of this chapter)