Three Kingdoms New Malaysia Super League

Chapter 622 Locust Tide

While seriously ill, Ma Chao came to the outside of Chang'an.It's just that this time, he didn't ride alone on the majestic and noble-blooded Xianglong Xiaohei. Instead, he sat in the carriage accompanied by Cai Yan, Diao Chan and other women.

"In the Sili area, are the chickens and ducks grazing all over the mountains and fields still there?" Ma Chao lay in the carriage, occasionally opening the window to observe the disaster outside.At this time, the carriage had just left Weiyang Palace, and had not yet reached the city where the locust plague was infested.

"Still, still..." Naturally, Chen Haojie was not really killed by Diao Chan. After Ma Chao was treated by Hua Tuo himself, after waking up, he asked Chen Haojie to take him to the disaster area outside the city.When the pardon order was issued, Chen Haojie's neck was only a few inches away from the knife...

"Since the Sili area has already released chickens and ducks according to my instructions, and millions of victims have also caught locusts under the call of Ma's family, why is the locust plague still breaking out?!" Ma Chao said weakly. , he has always believed that man can conquer nature.But this time, he also felt that his precautionary measures were already in place.

"There is no other reason, because there are too many locusts..." Diao Chan waved his hand to let Chen Haojie, who was driving outside the window, drive with peace of mind. When Chen Haojie saw Diao Chan, he seemed to be flustered and relieved like a mouse seeing a cat. Quickly escaped from Diao Chan's sight: For this shameless woman, when they met for the first time, Chen Haojie was already terrified to the bone.

Diao Chan shook her head with a wry smile, and she naturally saw Chen Haojie's happy eyes when he fled.However, what she is worried about now is Ma Chao's condition.She patted Ma Chao's hand lightly, trying to use some light words to relax Ma Chao's mood: "The chickens and ducks all over the mountains and plains these days are eating locusts so much that their legs are shaking and they are almost dying..."

"Oh..." Obviously, Diao Chan's words did not ease Ma Chao's worries.After Ma Chao listened, he murmured, "There are so many?..."

Ma Chao has never personally experienced a locust plague, but he was a technician of an agricultural base station in his previous life and had read some locust plague materials.Recalling that the slideshow covered the sky and covered the sun, full of pits and valleys, it was all that stuff.Ma Chao couldn't help but feel a little creepy, thinking about the scene of locusts flying like a sandstorm, how spectacular and terrifying it is!
"Let the locusts come more violently! The life and death of the Ma family may be in this battle!!" Ma Chao gritted his teeth and said these words, then raised his head and asked Liu Yue: "Those chickens, ducks, geese, and the last auction Are the cattle and sheep bought by the Ma family still there?”

"It's still there..." Liu Yue understood what Ma Chao meant by asking this question, and comforted Ma Chao, "Although the locust plague may wipe out all the food in Sili, these poultry and livestock can still support it for a period of time. If we can catch up with the grain harvest in Yongzhou, then the Ma family will be able to survive this difficulty safely."

"It is true that we can survive this difficulty, but in this way, the Ma family will have no seeds to plant next year. I know better than you the inventory and harvest in Yongzhou... Yue'er, you don't need to comfort me." Ma Chao waved Waving his hands, he seemed to feel a little tired.But after he closed his eyes, he said again: "Tell the household department to hand over all the milk goats and cows to the Ministry of War. If the situation is really out of the control of the Ma family, then the Ma family can only regress to the start-up stage. They drove tens of thousands of dairy goats and cows to guerrilla warfare..."

When Ma Teng started his career, he relied on [-] Xiliang cavalry to fight.Even in the first year of Ma Chao's occupation of Fufeng County, when he marched northward beyond the Great Wall, he fought guerrilla warfare by driving cattle and sheep.The yield of crops in the Northwest is not as good as that in the Central Plains, but they have done a lot of research on animal husbandry.Cow's milk and goat's milk are their best food, drinking a full stomach is more filling than grain.

For Northwesters, cattle and sheep are their source of food and clothing, and Northwesters cherish them very much.Although hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep are grazing, they rarely eat meat. Most of them eat barley powder mixed with cheese. They only eat meat when they entertain guests or when the cattle and sheep die of old age.It wasn't until Ma Chao later received the first harvest from Fufeng County that the cattle and sheep gradually began to stay away from Ma's army when they fought with the army.

It's just that this locust plague might really bring the Ma family back to the initial stage of guerrilla warfare.Ma Chao smiled wryly. He really didn't want to believe it. He had been stealing and robbing for three years. A catastrophe brought him back to before liberation...

"Rely on cattle and sheep to accompany the army as a source of food? Husband, what do you mean, the Ma family army is going to use force again?" Diao Chan couldn't help asking again after hearing what Ma Chao said.Although she also knew that Ma Chao might not answer her question.

But this time, Ma Chao took a look at Diao Chan, and saw the brightness and worry in Diao Chan's eyes, as well as the trace of longing.His heart softened, and he said: "I asked you to arrange for Xiao Tian and Mu Yuanfeng to investigate Yuan Shu's news, just to leave a way for the Ma family... Yes, if it really can't hold on, the Ma family will let Yuan Shu do it... ..."

"Why is it Yuan Shu?..." Diao Chan was puzzled, Yuan Shu was still a big crocodile entrenched in Yuzhou at this time, and he was no less than the Ma family.Diao Chan couldn't figure out why Ma Chao would choose such a hard bone to attack.

"Because..." Ma Chao just wanted to explain, but suddenly felt as if he heard the roar of the plane taking off in his ears, from far to near, wondering if he was hallucinating, to see if anyone else was sent away by the plane again When I arrived in the Three Kingdoms, I was about to go to welcome him, but I heard Chen Haojie outside the window screaming: "My lord, my mistress, sit down quickly, the locusts are coming!"

Diao Chan quickly opened the window to check, and saw that the carriage had already reached the outskirts of Chang'an, and a cloud of yellow mist rushed towards them on the distant horizon, tens of millions of finger-length locusts spread their wings and flew in the air. It danced quickly in the air, converging into a huge roar similar to that of an airplane taking off, covering the sky and covering the earth.

In the face of natural disasters, Ma Chao, whose heart is like gold and iron, felt his heart was hit by a heavy hammer, while Diao Chan, Liu Yue, Cai Yan and other women all turned pale in an instant, and his personal guard Chen Haojie wanted to bury his head When entering the soil, the horse neighed unceasingly, was dragged by the carriage and couldn't move, and kept stamping on the spot.

"Let go of the horse!" At the critical moment, Ma Chao was the first to react, and shouted: "Everyone hide in the car, cover the doors and windows!"

When Chen Haojie heard this, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes. At this moment, he remembered that he was Ma Chao's personal guard.He knew that if the horse was frightened and ran away at this time, the people in the car would definitely be severely injured.As soon as he turned over, he resolutely let go of the stopper on the carriage, and stabbed the harness horse's buttocks twice, allowing the four panicked horses to gallop away towards a path where no locusts came from.

Ma Chao in the car tore off the inner skirt of his clothes, wrapped his head and face tightly layer by layer, leaving only his mouth and eyes, and wrapped his hands with cloth strips, and then tied up the neckline, sleeves, and trouser legs. Tight, let the panic-stricken girls do the same.At this time, Chen Haojie also plunged into the carriage, regardless of other things, he put down the curtain when he got up, and covered it tightly!

It seemed that at the next moment, everyone felt that their whole bodies seemed to be in the center of the sandstorm, and the outside of the car seemed to be constantly being hit by thick stones. It was creepy to hear, and everyone knew that it was locusts hitting the car. The timid Fushou I was too scared to even open my eyes.

But this couldn't stop the locust attack at all, and many locusts seemed to just want to see the people in the car.He couldn't help sneaking in through the gaps in the car curtains and windows, causing all the girls to scream, and when Chen Haojie saw this, he was so anxious that he punched and kicked, wishing to kill the locusts that got into the car.

The impact lasted for half an hour before it gradually eased.Ma Chao opened his eyes only after hearing that there was no more impact on the car body, and asked Chen Haojie to tear off the car curtain, looking at the strange land and laughing miserably.

For half an hour, the whole land seemed to be covered with a yellow coat, and there were wriggling locusts everywhere. From time to time, broken branches fell from the tall tree crowns, and the fat branches that fell into the air quickly lost weight and became thinner. Only the bare branches without bark remain.

From the fields on both sides of the road came the rustling sound of spring silkworms biting mulberry leaves, but the sound was much louder, and their bites were much stronger than silkworms, making one's hair stand on end.

Several locusts climbed on each crop, and the tender green leaf veins disappeared in an instant, and large areas of farmland with good harvests in sight became feeding grounds for locusts.

Ma Chao stretched out his sick hand tremblingly, as if trying to grab something.In the end, he put it down slumped, and softly uttered a sentence from his pale lips: "Could it be that the sky is going to kill my Ma family?!..."

(End of this chapter)