Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 42 On the Road

Lu Ye drove his horse forward and led the team along the official road.

He noticed that on both sides of the city gate, the piles of corpses pulled out of the city after the city was destroyed a few days ago were gone. After a fire burned that day, only a large black ashes were left on the spot.

The flames of the burning corpse smoked the walls on both sides of the city gate black. On the damaged bricks of the city wall, the smoky traces of the battle between the two armies that day were cast with a terrifying dark oily sheen. .

Despite the passage of several days, the lingering smell of burnt corpses still lingers in the air.

He turned to look at the city wall carefully.

I saw that these days had passed, and the damaged city wall still looked as damaged as before. The parapets above were covered with cracks, and some of them had completely collapsed without any repairs.

On the base of the city wall below, there are many large holes dug out by the servants that day, revealing the pitted adobe inside.

On the city wall, small teams of refugees patrolled alternately, and the atmosphere was quite serious. A large flag with the word "Chuang" stood above it. Because there was no wind in the air, it was hanging down on the flagpole.

It can be seen from the lack of repairs on the city wall that the refugee army may not hold on to this city. If a large number of officers and soldiers attack, they may give up quickly.

He turned around and asked Zhang Cunyi.

"Lao San, I have been in seclusion these days and have not heard anything outside the window. How is the situation in the city these days?"

"Just now we were rushing to the city gate, but the road was very empty, and the county seemed quite depressed."

Zhang Cunyi sighed, not only was it a depression, there were almost no civilians on the streets except for the homeless soldiers.

He whispered to Lu Ye about the recent situation in the city.

After Chuang Potian conquered the city, he and the other three kings divided the city into four parts, and then the kings of each family searched the city with all their strength.

Strong men were conscripted into the army, and beautiful women were divided up among the leaders.

If the old, weak and useless are left alone, the people will suffer without mentioning it.

Livestock, food and grass were the focus of the search, and countless other gold and silver equipment were also plundered.

The subordinates of the various kings swelled up as if they had been blown away, but the city was inevitably depressed.

Not to mention that when the kings and their subordinates entered the city, they rushed to occupy the good houses. There was a lot of killing. Many old and weak people in the city were afraid, so they lived outside the city and became new refugees.

The refugees in the city mixed with the original refugees, and many shacks were built outside the original shacks on the city wall.

Because there is no food, the natives in the city cannot leave if they want to.

Fortunately, most of the soldiers recruited by the refugee army are from refugees, so these kings also want to face them.

Now that they have occupied the city, they have enough food and grass, and they have set up porridge sheds to support them every day. The natives are hiding in the shacks and having a meal every day, but they are still starving to death.

Lu Ye nodded and said nothing.

It was said in the past life that when things prosper, the people suffer, and when they die, the people suffer.

Nowadays, the drought is rampant in the Jin Dynasty, the grass-headed kings are rising together, the government is inactive, and both parties have no bottom line. Isn't the common people just suffering more and more?

He led everyone past the shacks outside the city and found that the area of ​​these shacks was even much larger than before the siege.

The cavalry marched through the shacks, and the refugees on both sides cowered and hid in the shacks, fearing that they would bump into the gentlemen.

Lu Ye noticed that many refugees were still wearing relatively complete clothes, and even saw a barefoot old man wearing a tattered brocade robe among the crowd.

It is estimated that some unlucky rich family in the city fell here.

These people should be the original residents of the city, but now they have no choice but to become refugees.

The current refugee army coerced the refugees into a large army and did not engage in production. They captured the city and plundered the men and women in the city for food and grass, and then left with their gold, silver and equipment.

Wherever it went, it disrupted the old order, but failed to establish a new order.

It can even be said that the chaos is amplified, constantly swallowing up the shaky foundation of the inactive government.

He sighed. In troubled times, all living beings are suffering, so you should take care of yourself first. As soon as the horse team walked out of the siege shack, the official road immediately became empty. It was hard to see even a ghost, let alone a human figure.

When the two armies are fighting, the first to die may not be the soldiers who go into battle, but may be the people in the border area in the middle.

This is the truth of the so-called struggle between two strong powers, and the innocent and weak one dies first.

The villages along the road have either been conquered and cleaned.

Either guard the village, mobilize the whole village, and treat any soldiers with caution. No matter they are bandits or soldiers, they are just robbing food, money, and killing people. There is no difference to them. As long as they are provoked, they will destroy the village. disaster.

The team had walked an unknown distance, and the dusty dirt road was monotonous and seemed to be reaching the end of the world.

As everyone moved forward, there were people in the team chatting with each other. But here, the atmosphere gradually became depressing and everyone fell silent.

Lu Ye's attention was all on the horse, and he was still at the level of a bronze-skinned martial artist.

Now he has a lot of zhenqi. If the original zhenqi was just a shallow pool of water, now it can be regarded as a stream.

When I rode horses before, my buttocks were sore when the horses jostled me. After a lap, it felt like I had been beaten hard. My buttocks were bruised and swollen, and the sides of my thighs were even worn.

Even if you become a young warrior and have strength greater than ordinary people, you are still no match for the brute force of a horse. You have just learned to follow the trend, and your body is very tired after a lap of horse racing.

But now that his energy is strong and his legs are strong, Lu Ye can truly understand what it feels like to ride on a horse. What used to be a violent horse power for him has now become much gentler.

It gave him the illusion that he was riding not the tall horse carefully selected by Pan Furong, but an obedient short-legged pony.

He couldn't help but spur his horse to gallop, his speed suddenly increased, and the whole team also accelerated.

This acceleration doesn't matter.

thump!thump!

Following several screams, a third of the people in the team suddenly fell to the ground. One unlucky guy even sprained his foot and groaned loudly.

Lu Ye then remembered that he was not leading elite cavalry, but a group of rabble.

Zhang Cunyi's face turned dark immediately. These people were all trained by him recently.

He hates that iron cannot be transformed into steel and wields his horse whip.

"Get up, get up quickly!"

"With the way you are, when can you get to Dongsai Mansion?"

"We are really going to encounter officers and soldiers. You can't even escape on horseback. You are all living piles!"

Lu Ye raised his hand to stop him.

"Third brother, stop fighting and inquire about Dongsai Mansion. The three of us are enough. The rest of us should find a place to hide nearby and wait until we return to meet up..."

If these mobs didn't hide, Lu Ye was afraid that when the three of them came back, these people would be picked up by the King of Hell who was passing by.

Zhang Cunyi and Wang Hu were shocked and hurriedly objected.

Lu Ye shook his head.

"Two brothers, listen to me. Even if you beat them to death, they won't be able to run fast. When we get to Dongsai Mansion, I'm afraid it will be dark. What useful information can we detect?"

"Besides, even if you take them with you, it will be dark by the time you retreat. How can you safely let these people gallop in the dark? I'm afraid they will all fall to death."

"If there are only three of us, we can go back quickly and avoid these troubles."

"It's just bad luck that we met a large group of officers and soldiers. With or without them, it makes no difference to the three of us."

"Those who can beat us, the three of us are enough to handle them; those who can't beat us, the result will be the same if we add them."

(End of this chapter)