Xue Shao's sentence "I need intelligence" made Guo An take more than a hundred men whose legs were still cramping after marching thousands of miles, and pounced on the unknown battlefield ahead at the fastest speed.

Groping all the way through, Guo An and the others saw the most fleeing people, the defeated remnants, and the corpses that no one collected. Everyone was fleeing, and Guo An and the scouts had no choice but to go backwards.

After entering the territory of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Guo Andu suspected that he had become a ghost in the underworld. Otherwise, how can we walk in hell?

They saw many familiar faces lying among the corpses emitting a foul stench, and they also saw human hands and feet tossing up and down in a large boiling iron cauldron, which was always surrounded by a group of emaciated homeless people who looked like ghosts. In the past, the clear water stream where the willows used to cling to each other has now been filled with corpses and piled up into a mountain. The streets of the town's bazaars and shops are left in ashes, and the countryside is deserted. Occasionally, one or two living creatures were seen, also wild dogs or jackals with rotting human heads in their mouths.

No matter how many dead people have been fighting for several years, Guo An and the scouts thought that they had become accustomed to it and even tended to become numb. But after a few days of reconnaissance in Lingxia Erzhou, they hated the war like never before, hated the Turks, hated Wei Zhihui who had lost the battle, and the so-called imperial court that had become a pot of porridge because of internal strife!

Every scout who returned to Yanchang to report the news was full of murderous aura and resentment. When the superstitious people saw them, they were so frightened that their legs weakened and they avoided them.

Yanzhou, under the rule of the Xiazhou Governor's Office, has not been affected by the war for the time being, so it has become a refuge for displaced people and routs to rush into. However, the assassin ran away from the county order, and the officials also joined the fleeing team for food. All order had completely collapsed in the first few days of the Helan Mountain fiasco.

In just a few days after Guo An and others went out to reconnoiter the situation, tens of thousands of displaced people and defeated soldiers had poured into a small county town in Yanchang alone. They snatched up all the food they could see at the first time, and then someone knelt on the side of the road and held up the baby and the child and shouted that it was better for a child to change only three corn cakes, or a child of the same size, than to cook one's own child.

Years of war experience told Xue Shao that the real terrible thing about war is not how many brave generals were killed on the battlefield, but the collapse of order and the large number of displaced people after the defeat. At this time, all legal provisions and moral constraints will be invalidated, and even the most kind person is easy to become a man-eating demon at this time.

In Xue Shao's opinion, the tens of thousands of displaced people in Yanchang in front of him were far more difficult to deal with than the tens of thousands of Turkic enemies. He had thought about opening a warehouse to release food to help the refugees and the rout, but he didn't have enough manpower to maintain order. As soon as this warehouse is opened, all the hungry refugees and routs can all turn into cannibalistic bandits and demons in one instant. What's more, Yu Hongye and Yuenu, as well as a group of women from the caravan, are now living in this big warehouse.

What do you say to turn the tide?

Before facing the Turkic enemy, Xue Shao encountered a lot of trouble. In order to solve this trouble, Wu Ming, Yu Hongye and the others all accompanied Xue Shao to break their brains and endure enough fright. Several groups of refugees and routs were on the verge of storming the warehouse. The scouts guarding the warehouse were forced to knock over several people.

If you want to solve this big problem as soon as possible, the best way is to recruit a large team of people to act as help. But this kind of thing can only be done by the former ministers and young marshal Xue.

Eventually, there was only one last option.

At nightfall, Xue Shao took Wu Ming to disguise himself and mixed into the rout group with a few wheat cakes.

Late at night, Xue Shao and a dozen of the routs curled up in the same house, listening to their uncoordinated snoring. Wu Ming was beside him, Xue Shao gave him a look, he nodded knowingly, and moved to the side of a rout who was suspected of being a low-level military attache such as a team commander or a brigade commander.

Wu Ming pushed him with his arm.

When the rout woke up, the light in his eyes was like a fierce beast about to eat people, "Death?!" ”

Wu Ming immediately showed half a wheat cake, and the rout snatched it like crazy and stuffed it into his mouth, gobbling it up and almost choking to death.

"More!" The rout unceremoniously stretched out his hand. Wu Ming shook his head, he grabbed Wu Ming's collar, "If you don't want to die, take it out!" ”

"If you want to eat, you have to come with me." Wu Ming was very calm.

The rout blinked, found Xue Shao staring at him on the side, and after glaring at him a few times, he said in a vigilant voice: "Who are you?" ”

After Xue Shao and Wu Ming disguised, it was difficult for even the moon slave to recognize, and naturally they were confident enough not to be easily recognized by the soldiers of the Shuo military.

"Of course we are officers and soldiers." Wu Ming said, "Brother, your surname? But the school? ”

"Officers and soldiers? We are all officers and soldiers, officers and your mother's army! The rout sneered, "Just call the king's team, and don't ask anything else - if you have something to eat, take it out quickly, otherwise you will be cut with a knife!" ”

Wu Ming frowned, and gave him another half of a wheat cake, "It turned out to be Wang Teamzheng." Who are you all under your command? ”

"Whose command are you?" Team Wang asked rhetorically.

Wu Ming replied: "Shuo Fang Army, the military cavalry regiment under the command of General Liu Xuanyi. ”

"Then you are lucky, you didn't completely drill into Helan Mountain. Escape early and fast, and you can still save food on the way. Team Wang gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "We are all the relatives of Marshal Pus. More than 8,000 Yue Qi brothers, these dozen escaped! ”

Wu Ming and Xue Shao glanced at each other, and then asked, "That pus-bag marshal, is he killed?" ”

"He hasn't even been in battle, and he's a fart!" The rout screamed in frustration, waking up all the other routs in the room.

There was a sudden shouting in the house, and some people picked up stones and bricks and smashed them. Xue Shao and Wu Ming reacted quickly enough to flash outside the house, but Team Wang was obviously used to such things. He held his head and let them smash and curse for a while, and when they stopped, he continued to quietly nibble on the wheat cakes, and the blood from the smashed hands flowed into his mouth.

Wu Ming used the second wheat cake to quietly call the Wang team to a secluded place outside the house. This time, Xue Shao stepped forward and asked him: "Wang Teamzheng, let me ask you something." If you tell me the truth, I'll give you two wheat loaves -- two big! ”

Team Wang looked Xue Shao up and down suspiciously, "I see that you are a little familiar, who are you?" ”

"You're talking too much, I'll ask someone else." Xue Shao turned his head and left.

"Okay, I don't have much to say! Just ask! Team Wang was hurriedly pulling Xue Shao back.

Xue Shao took a piece of wheat cake in his hand and asked, "Marshal Pubao's pro-honor Chinese army, isn't it the jumping army under Xue Chuyu?" ”

"He's worthy?" Team Wang was grinning, "Since Young Marshal Xue left, there are only two men and horses left in the entire Shuofang army that have not been turned into pus by Marshal Pus, that is, the Jumping Army under General Yuguan and the Fengzhou City Defense Army under General Guo Yuanzhen. In fact, the two of them can be regarded as one, because they have always been at the forefront of Fengzhou. ”

"Staying there now?" Xue Shao asked, "Didn't they go with Marshal Pu Bao to conquer Lingzhou?" ”

"Hey, I'm talking about you!" Team Wang was shocked, "You're not from Shuo Fangjun, are you, you can't even figure this out?" ”

Xue Shao picked up the wheat cake and took a big bite, "You still have one left." ”

Team Wang was suddenly panicked, "Hero! The good man is merciful, I promise not to talk nonsense again! ”

"Answer the question." Xue Shao threw the wheat cake he had bitten into him.

The Wang team was hurriedly catching the wheat cakes, and hurriedly replied: "Marshal Pubao wants to transfer General Yuguan and the Jumping Army from Fengzhou to conquer Lingzhou together. But General Yuguan is a cow, he ignored Marshal Pus's order at all, and stayed in Fengzhou with General Guo Yuanzhen to guard. I also heard that General Yuguan also wrote back to teach Marshal Pus, saying that a great war was imminent, but no one who knew the slightest bit about the army would not take troops out of such a military danger as Fengzhou - a good scolding, but it is a pity that General Yuguan did not poke the pustule to death with a halberd, but let him kill so many of our brothers! ”

Xue Shao's eyes lit up, but he was both happy and worried in his heart, and said, "Do you want revenge?" Come with me. ”

"Revenge?" Team Wang was stunned for a moment, then grinned, "Don't fucking talk nonsense - what kind of revenge?" To whom to avenge? How to report? ”

"Kill the Turks and avenge your dead brethren." Xue Shaozheng said, "I'll take you back and win back all the losses!" ”

"Crazy!" Team Wang didn't hesitate to smash the wheat cake back on Xue Shao's body, turned around and left.

"You wait!" Xue Shao stopped him in a flash, "Don't you have the slightest thought of revenge?" ”

"No, I'm us, all of us." Team Wang looked at Xue Shao coldly and said, "I know you must be a big man. Because only big people who have eaten enough and have never seen a dead person will say such shameless stupid things at such a time! ”

Xue Shao took a deep breath and endured it, "Revenge is shameless, is it stupid?" ”

"Not only is it stinky, it's stupid." Team Wang said coldly with hostility, "The war has just begun, and we don't want to set foot on this hellish battlefield. Now that it's been defeated, no one wants to fight back. If they die, they can only die unjustly, and none of us who are alive want to accompany their lives anymore! ”

"Why?" Xue Shao asked calmly.

Team Wang sneered: "I know it, you are not from Shuo Fangjun at all. Otherwise, there would not have been so many stupid things asked. ”

"What if I told you that I am?" Xue Shao said.

"The stinky woman in my house who was cooked and eaten often scolded me for being illiterate, stupid and stupid pigs. People like me don't believe you, so who will? Team Wang sneered, "For the sake of me eating your cake, I'll talk a few more nonsense words to you - since the Shuofang army left with Young Marshal Xue, no one wants to fight anymore." Because we simply don't know who we're fighting for and why. ”

"......" Xue Shao was suddenly speechless.

Wang Zhengzheng still said with a sneer: "Don't talk to me about being loyal to the monarch and loving the country to protect the country and the people, that's the nonsense that only the scholars who eat the emperor's food and the marshal of the pus bag like to hang on their lips." We little pawns who are as cheap as dirt only know how to play with our heads and feed our mothers-in-law and cubs in exchange for military pay and food - but we don't want to be treated like animals! ”

Xue Shao's heart sank coldly, "Marshal Pus, do you treat you like animals?" ”

"The brutes are probably a little better than us, because their flesh and bones are worth at least a few pennies." Team Wang was smiling, "None of us are worthless, we are just slaves raised by Marshal Pus." We farmed and reclaimed the wasteland, fed horses, raised pigs, and picked up dung, and the more than 6,000 hectares of wasteland in Yinchuan Juntun were all opened by us, and countless grains, grasses, fruits, chickens, ducks, and fish meat were harvested every year, but we just didn't have our share. We eat worse than chickens and dress worse than pigs. ”

"Marshal Pus, but he is getting fatter and fatter year by year, and now he is going to become a live pig. When he came to Xiazhou, he had already begged for more than a dozen concubines, all of whom wore gold and silver, and looked like royal ladies. He gave birth to seven or eight children, and every time he held a full moon wine, he had to receive a room of congratulatory gifts. The copper coins in the warehouse were all rusty, and we didn't see him add us a pair of winter socks. ”

"When he heard that there was a battle, he was more active than anyone else, desperately driving us cheap bones to the battlefield. We deserve to die, if we get a little credit, then he can be promoted and rich, and ask more concubines to have more children! ”

"I heard that the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion has also fallen, I really hope that Marshal Puss and his room full of concubines and children will all be arrested by the Turks - then the fucking one is called one, and it is very happy!"

When the Wang team was talking, Xue Shao was gritting his teeth.

Wu Ming stepped forward to remind him, Xue Shao turned his head to see that in the vast night, there were one hundred and eighty people walking crookedly like a group of zombies. Everyone's eyes were like wolves with green light, and they were all staring at Xue Shao and the wheat cake in his hand.

"I didn't mean to. Who told you to be fatter than all of us, and to have bread in your hands? Team Wang grinned maliciously and walked backwards into the house, "Big man, you ask for more blessings!" ”