In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

Shen Qian and others left for three days.

A mighty and well-organized army marched to the front of Jingguan.

"The princess!"

"A hundred meters ahead, there's a Jingguan built with barbarian heads!"

"I just did a careful calculation, and it should be a full-strength team of a hundred people!" A scout quickly ran back to the princess and reported loudly.

Upon hearing the scout's report, the princess was visibly stunned.

A Jingguan built with the heads of hundreds of barbarians?

Could they be the soldiers from Pingyuan County... No, if they were county soldiers, how could they build the Jingguan? The heads of these barbarians can be exchanged for military merits and rewards.

They certainly wouldn't just leave it here like this.

Suddenly, a graceful figure appeared in her mind.

Could it be...Sister Shen?

Judging from the time, if that person had followed this route, he should have arrived here a few days ago.

So... this Jingguan was built after she killed those barbarians?

If I remember correctly, I only gave her fifty heavily armored infantrymen, but she was able to wipe out a full-strength barbarian squad. Her command ability is even stronger than that of the generals on the border.

You should know that Pingyuan County has a vast terrain, and plains are everywhere you look.

It is a natural paradise for cavalry.

They were all killed by the infantry on the plain, and no one would believe it if they told others about it.

"Bring the head." Princess Chi Yu waved her hand and gave the order.

"Yes!" The cavalryman responded excitedly, and then ran over with more than ten people to knock on the man's head.

Looking forward, Chi Yu murmured softly:

"Sister Shen, I can follow your request and open the county granary to distribute grain to the people."

"But those barbarians were not humane. After they captured the county town and couldn't grab any food, they broke into the counties and villages to plunder."

After the barbarians' heads were collected.

Then Chi Yu shouted loudly:

"Three days' forced march!"

"Double your daily mileage."

"Those who cannot do it and those who fall behind will be killed!"

The words fell.

The messenger immediately rode back on his horse.

He kept repeating Princess Chi Yu's orders.

All the soldiers immediately became extremely alert. This was a military order, not a joke.

What the princess says will definitely be carried out.

They dared not challenge the authority of military orders.

......

Another four days passed in a flash.

The group of merchants following Wangjiacun were suffering terribly.

Although they had many vehicles, most of the goods they carried were valuables.

In addition, cooking consumes a lot of water on a daily basis, and there is very little water left at the moment!

Some guards had not had water for eight hours.

My lips are chapped from the sun.

"Do they have a lot of water? Why don't they go towards the county town?" A merchant licked his lips, holding a kettle with half water left in his hand.

"President, are we just going to follow like this? We've passed another county, and the guards are about to die of thirst on the road."

"I don't have much water left. If the guards don't distribute some water to us, they might rob us at night." A merchant said softly, a little timidly.

"What does Master Zou think?" Wei Liangping pondered for a moment, then looked at the merchant with the largest number of people in the team besides himself and asked.

This person...is none other than Zou Chu, the head of the Zou family in Beiyang County!

"Let's send someone on horseback to the county town to buy some water. Anyway, we are using pipelines, and it will be easy for the people we send out to catch up after buying water." After pondering for a moment, Zou Chu suggested to Wei Liangping.

Wei Liangping's face turned unhappy when he heard Zou Chu's proposal.

The scene of the guards' escape that day reappeared in his mind.

Of the eight hundred people, only less than six hundred remained after they were gathered together.

Two hundred people ran away, not counting the servants who were lost.

Otherwise, the team would have been missing at least 300 people.

I was simply... traumatized by them running away.

Zou Chu seemed to see the concerns in Wei Liangping's heart and spoke again:

"We can send someone from our own family, with a small number of servants."

"This should have prevented the previous situation."

Upon hearing this, Wei Liangping immediately showed joy:

"Okay! Let's do it!"

The words fell.

The two of them made arrangements immediately.

The seven families sent out a total of twenty people and twenty horses, galloping towards the county town they had already passed.

After they arrived at the county town.

The gates of the county town, which should have been quite popular, were wide open.

It’s fine that there are no soldiers standing guard outside the county town.

There were no refugees gathered at the outermost part.

At this moment, Wei Liangping and his two sons, who were riding in the front, were a little panicked.

He said to the servant beside him:

"Go in and take a look at what's going on in Sunset County."

"This...Yes!" The servant hesitated, but when he met the murderous gaze of his second young master, he immediately became dispirited and responded weakly.

Drive the horse forward.

'Da da'

The horses' footsteps made a sound as they entered the county town on the flat ground.

The city gate, which should have been bustling, was surprisingly deserted and dilapidated.

As we continued walking forward, we found that some places were actually stained the color of charcoal.

It was as if someone had set off a rocket and set parts of it on fire.

Keep going inside.

No one was seen at all.

It's as if this is an empty city.

However, the doors of the grain stores and restaurants were wide open, but when you looked inside, you couldn't see the shopkeepers or the waiters at all.

There was no sight of money or food.

It can be said that it was completely looted!

For a moment, the servant began to murmur in his heart.

Is this an abandoned county town? But judging by the buildings, they don't look that old.

What's more, how could a county town be abandoned?

The servant, who was confused, quickly turned his horse around and galloped towards the door.

When he returned to the team, he stammered and told them what he had seen in the city.

This immediately caused all the young masters to frown.

An empty city!

Such a big county town has turned into a ghost town!

There can only be one reason: it was looted by bandits and barbarians.

But as the servant said, he didn't see a single corpse in this city.

This is a little weird.

"What should we do?" The second son of the Zou family asked Wei Liangping's second son.

Each of them sent out their direct descendants, but none of them were the eldest sons, all of them were the second sons.

If the eldest son encounters problems while away from home, it will be a loss to the family.

But the second son is different. Unless he is particularly promising, he is the best person to do these things.

"What should we do?" Wei Liangping and his two sons listened, their expressions changing constantly:

"Of course we have to go in and find water. If we can't find any water and go back, we will definitely be punished."

"Let's go to the water house in the county town first."

As soon as he finished speaking, he urged the horse under his crotch and walked towards the city.

Now that he knew there was no one around, he became bolder.

at the same time.

Tens of thousands of people gathered near the south gate of Sunset County.

It was eerily quiet.

Their eyes simultaneously turned to the man standing on the high ground.

The man held up a flag with the word "king" written on it and shouted loudly:

"A tyrant ruler reigns supreme, bringing disaster upon us!"

"The people are suffering and have no means of livelihood!"

"Now, I, Wang Qingliu, raise the banner of rebellion and strive for a peaceful and prosperous world for the people of the world."

"Princes, generals and prime ministers, would you rather have the seed?"