Chapter 673: The Beginning of the Eight Thirty-Two Event

"Huh? What the? “

Dong Xu didn't notice the treacherous look on Huang Ji's face, and still said to himself: "How do you know that the White Lotus Sect will definitely be able to knock down Lingyidu?" As far as I know, during this time, the Su family and other big families spent a lot of money to recruit Zhuang Ding, and they also bought some weapons, and I heard that they also invited two people with great skills to be instructors in the army. The walls of Lingyidu have also been renovated, and the outer trenches have been re-dug and deepened, which is not the same as a few months ago. I don't think the White Lotus Sect can be defeated so easily. ”

Qian is a good person, she saw that Huang Ji's face showed a trace of displeasure, and she knew that her husband had said the wrong thing again, so she quickly pulled Dong Xu's sleeve and said in a low voice: "What nonsense? Shut up if you don't know! Our Uncle Ji has been a soldier for so many years, can he not understand as well as you? Listen to what Uncle Ji said is right. ”

Dong Xu showed a look of embarrassment on his face, shut up and stopped talking.

Huang Ji smiled faintly, and secretly said in his heart, this Qian family is indeed a person with a heart.

There was silence, no one spoke again, and the three of them just hurried eastward. After walking more than a mile, a small undulating mound appeared on the side of the road, only about one or two zhang high, and stretched for more than half a mile, which was not even a hill.

There was a forest growing on the mound, but at this time, the outer skin of the trees was stripped away, leaving only a white trunk, which looked like the bones of a dead man, which made people feel a little uncomfortable. The bark of the tree has been stripped of itself, and the leaves on the tree are naturally impossible to remain, and these bark and leaves have been eaten by the homeless people who have passed through this place. In these years, there is no food to eat, and it is already very lucky to be able to eat the bark and leaves, which is more fortunate than those who eat Guanyin soil and eat themselves to death.

Huang Ji took Dong Xu and the Qian family and walked towards the mound, and after bypassing the forest in front of him, seeing the situation in front of him clearly, Dong Xu suddenly shuddered.

It turned out that behind that hill, there were many people hiding. There were as many as twenty or thirty people, and all of them looked fierce, and they knew at a glance that they were not easy to mess with. However, what shocked Dong Xu even more was that all of them were holding weapons, four or five of them were still wearing heavy iron armor, and the others were wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, and they knew at a glance that they were military men.

Only one of them had a war horse, but he did not ride on a horse, but led the horse at the head of the procession. If there was someone from Rock Fort at this time, most of them would be able to recognize this person, and he was actually Dong Zhongxian.

At the beginning, Dong Zhongxian originally followed Dong Ce as a member of your escort Liu Ruozai to the Chahar Department, but after encountering those homeless people on the way, Dong Ce appointed him to lead these homeless people back to Panshi Fort!

I have to say that Dong Zhongxian's errand was really good, and after more than two months of arduous trekking, he finally led these homeless people back to Rock Fort. It's just that the first outcasts who followed him were able to reach the Rock Fort, and no more than thirty percent of them were able to reach it. Others either died on the road, or they felt that the future was bleak and hopeless, so they fled on the way and ran to other places to eat.

For these people who insisted on leaving, Dong Zhongxian did not force them to stay. In fact, on the way back, even Dong Zhongxian himself had doubts about whether he could reach the Rock Fort safely. There's no way, it's really because it's too hard along the way, and it's unspeakably miserable.

Imagine thousands of hungry people, without food, clean water, or supplies, trekking thousands of miles. It's a big challenge for all! Under the conditions of productivity in this era, it is a miracle to be able to complete such a different journey!

Even the most elite soldiers, after catching up with such a long distance in a row, will be exhausted, and there will be quite serious non-combat attrition, not to mention these outcasts, in terms of physical fitness, there is no comparison with those elite soldiers.

Moreover, there are some other messy difficulties along the way, such as the difficulties of the local government along the way. Although before Dong Zhongxian left, Dong Ce specially asked Liu Ruozai to write him a note, asking the prefectures and counties along the way to take care of him. But the problem is that Liu Ruozai is just a soldier in northern Hebei, and his words may still have some weight in Datong Town, but out of Datong Town, how many people recognize him? In the territory of Bingbei Road in northern Hebei, he is the supreme master, but in the eyes of other civil officials, he is just a mere fifth-grade official who is at the same level or even lower than his own family, and if he is offended, he will be offended.

Along the way, those officials asked them to accept the displaced people, not only did they not accept, but they also did not allow Dong Zhongxian to take these displaced people to pass by on the land under their own jurisdiction. Every time he encounters this situation, Dong Zhongxian has to take people on a long detour, and he is really tired and exhausted.

It's just that the number of displaced people who came to Rock Fort has not decreased at all compared to those it received at the beginning, on the contrary, it has increased a lot. At the beginning, there were about 6,000 displaced people who set off with Dong Zhongxian, and more than 8,000 people arrived at Panshi Fort.

Although many people died and many fled on the way, many more displaced people joined the group, especially after crossing the Yellow River into Shanxi. Since the beginning of the year, there has been a severe drought in Shanxi, and there has been no rain for several months, and those people who were still able to support themselves finally could no longer hold on, and they left their hometowns and fled one after another, becoming homeless.

Dong Zhongxian's team of several thousand people has also been extremely powerful all the way, and it has a very great attraction to those small groups of displaced people. When they joined the team and learned the whereabouts of Dong Zhongxian and the others, they were even more determined to follow. Because for them, the Rock Fort is not the kind of target that is almost far away from the horizon thousands of miles, but a destination that is only a hundred miles or even dozens of miles away.

This is not a distance, as long as they can have a bite to eat, as long as they can live, they can bear it even farther away.

So, with the addition of these homeless, the number of homeless people arriving at Fort Rock reached a rather alarming level, but it made the civil officials of Fort Rock who were in charge of this errand scramble for a while.

After Dong Zhongxian came back, he had a serious illness, and it took half a month to get better, which was also a disease caused by overwork.

After he recovered from his illness, he could not be idle, and stayed in the barracks all day, bored and tight, and suffocated to death. So he ran to Zhou Zhong and Shi Jin every day, begging them to give him an errand to do, it just so happened that this time the errand of the White Lotus Sect was extremely important, and it required a certain amount of force, Huang Ji proposed that the operation on the side of Lingyidu needed one, and he had experience in fighting and leading soldiers. So naturally, this errand fell on Dong Zhongxian's head.

After learning the news, Dong Zhongxian was also extremely excited. Although it is a great credit for him to bring these displaced people back safely, no one has too much credit, right? When it comes to the White Lotus Sect, then there is no trivial matter.

He already knew the details of all the actions in Lingyidu, and how they should be done, but he didn't know what they meant and what the follow-up methods were. Despite this, according to the little information revealed by Huang Ji, he is also very aware that what he has done must be the beginning of a big event. The heart of the head of his family is like the abyssal sea, and what he thinks is definitely beyond his own control, and the only thing he can do is to do his best to do the errand in his hand properly. The details of the whole operation had already been in his mind countless times, and he had deduced it many times, thinking about all the possible changes, and also thinking about how to deal with it. Early this morning, he rushed to the pre-agreed place with the soldiers who had been assigned to him.

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