A group of people gathered on the desolate side of the road, their faces were yellowish and thin, and their clothes were disheveled. When they raised their heads occasionally, they looked greedily at the pedestrians on the side of the road. The people who had fled all the way hurriedly passed by, and they couldn't avoid these refugees who were in a worse situation, wishing to hide in the same way as the plague.
In the procession that fled south, there were also a few wealthy families, with servants in the nursing home, driving two or three carriages, and slowly advancing in the crowd. In one of the carriages, a girl raised the curtain and saw the refugees on the side of the road. She couldn't bear to say, "Grandma, these people seem to be starving to death."
The nanny next to her hurriedly persuaded: "Oh, miss, don't be seen by them! If we are caught by these refugees, we won't be able to return to Jiangnan even if we have ten lives."
The girl didn't seem to understand the meaning of the nurse's words, but she soon understood the reason.
There was a dispute from the refugee group, which caused a commotion. The girl couldn't help but look over again. She saw a group of scrawny people robbing an under-year-old baby who was not as big as a cat, but had a strange lower belly It is swollen, obviously because of a serious illness. The baby's mother can only watch her companions scramble for her own child, her fingers lying on the ground are full of mud and blood.
"What are they doing?"
The girl was stunned. The nurse hurriedly pulled her back, and persuaded: "Miss, this cannibalistic years, how can you control so much. You don't want to think, now there is no farming in the northwest, there is no food, you say, they live on what they eat. Long?"
The girl was stunned when she heard the words. At this time, in her eyes, the vagrant's yellowish and thin face was no longer pitiful and pathetic, but rather like a beast hungry, making her chill. Seeing this, the nurse hurriedly closed the curtain to block the malicious look from outside the car.
The carriage continued to move forward, and the refugees and the fleeing people also divided a clear line. Beyond the boundaries, the dehumanized beasts occasionally swept the crowd with scorching eyes, seeming to be looking for prey worthy of the attack.
Soon, they found their goal.
It was a group of three or five passers-by. There was a gray-haired old man, a young girl who hadn't made it to sleep, and a patient lying on the donkey cart with confusion. Among them, the only strong man was injured. The refugees quietly glanced at each other and followed quietly, until these people gradually separated from the southbound army, they stretched out their dry hands to snatch the girl over first.
They think beautifully, the girl's meat is the most tender, whoever gets it first!
"Ah!"
However, the person who reached out quickly wailed, and a broken limb fell to the ground.
The last man drew his sword and wounded one person, and said viciously: "Who will come here again?!"
The refugees were shocked and did not dare to act rashly, but they still surrounded them like hyenas that smelled blood, staring at them with green light.
The man with the sword is already at the end of the road, but he is still supporting himself and protecting the group of old and weak. The girl beside him supported the old man, looked at him, and shouted anxiously: "Brother!"
The man raised his head, revealing a familiar face——Xiao Yingran. It turned out that this group of people was actually the long-missing Baimeike and others.
"Qingqing, you take the master and the young Tibetan to go first. Keep up with the team and find a kind person to take you along." Xiao Yingran held the long sword and held back a bit of blood from his throat.
Bai Qinghuang said anxiously: "What about you, brother!"
"Leave me alone! You don't want to go!"
While talking, there were already refugees rushing up, Xiao Yingran cut and wounded a few more people, but the general situation was gone, others had already seen that he was the end of the force.
Having said that, isn't Xiao Yingran supposed to be looking for Xiao's secret treasure? How could he be here? Why did Baimeike and Zangfeng suffer another serious injury, and the other was unconscious? Not yet waiting to solve these mysteries, the hungry beasts that the refugees have gathered will swallow them.
Seeing more and more people around him, and losing the opportunity to escape, Xiao Yingran couldn't help but feel grief and anger. Are they destined to be buried here? Thinking of this, Xiao Yingran finally couldn't help but vomited out with all his heart.
opportunity!
One of his nearest refugees flashed their eyes and rushed forward with a roar, the mouthful of yellow teeth couldn't wait to take a bite from Xiao Yingran. Xiao Yingran gritted his teeth and was about to fight to the death.
Suddenly, a cold light flashed, like a thunder, nailing the refugee to the ground. The vagrant who was pierced by the arrow looked at his chest in confusion, and was about to reach out to touch—
Shoo! There were three more arrows, which quickly smashed the people on the ground, and also ruined his last breath.
Xiao Yingran raised his head in astonishment, and saw arrows flooding the sky like rain.
There was a burst of ghost crying and wolf howling from the refugee group, one by one, they fled in panic.
Immediately afterwards, several people saw the group of people who had fled south in front and returned. The carriage was circling hurriedly on the stone road. They only heard people crying: "Xiqiang people, Xiqiang people are coming to kill! "
In the distance, a group of Xiqiang soldiers with weapons gradually appeared, their swords still stained with blood, and they seemed to have been waiting on the road long ago. In the crowd, those ornately decorated carriages are their primary goal. For a time, wealth became a deadly poison. The girl who had been sitting in the carriage before, leaned on the frame of the carriage in a panic, watching the bandits like Xiqiang soldiers roaring over. And her nanny had died in the previous Liuya.
"Help me, help me!" the girl shouted desperately.
Xiao Yingran held the long sword tightly, weakened. Now he has exhausted his mind just by racking his brains to save the master and sister, and he no longer has the time to take care of others. Just as he was about to watch the innocent and weak, killed under the claws of the Xiqiang people——
Whoosh——! A white feather long arrow volleyed in the air, piercing the throat of the grim-faced Xiqiang soldier rushing towards the girl, and took his life without any difference.
The Centurion Xiqiang, who was instructing his subordinates to burn, kill, and looting, changed his face and looked at the sky in the northwest as if he saw some kind of unknown sign.
Xiao Yingran was also startled, he looked at his feet.
The earth is shaking.
It was as if a giant stepped on this desolate land, making a trembling sound.
The sand and stones on the ground were undulating slightly, and the leaves were shaking. Suddenly, accompanied by a dull rumbling sound, a group of heavily armed cavalry rushed out of the sparse barren forest! They wore black armor, white feathers on their heads, and armed with spears. They were majestic.
"Kill!" the knights shouted, and eight or nine horses galloped down.
At the forefront was a black horse. The knight on the black horse rushed to the front of the array instead of holding a spear. I saw him leaping into the air, a sword pierced the chest of the unprepared Xi Qiang Centurion, and in the surprise gaze of the opponent before his death, he retracted the bloody sword. Then he gave an order, and the cavalry rushed to the Xiqiang people, with unparalleled vigor during the fight, they quickly scattered the camps of the Xiqiang soldiers, killing them one by one.
The leading knight turned his horse's head and said with a murderous intent: "Don't leave one!"
"Yes!"
The cavalry scattered away, chasing and killing the fleeing Xiqiang soldiers. The situation was like an overturned balance, which turned upside down in the blink of an eye.
The people were still in panic, but the knight slowly rode his horse and stopped in front of the people who were still in shock. The refugees looked at him with more fear than gratitude.
"Thank you, my lord, for your help!"
Among the crowd, a middle-aged man dressed in wealth knelt down and kept kowtow, shaking his head: "The adult saved the little girl, but the villain has nothing to do with him. There is only a small amount of money to thank the adult." People go to fetch things from the carriage.
From the perspective of the refugees, there is not much difference between the Xiqiang and the Central Plains soldiers, except that one is killing people and gaining money is unreasonable, and the other can still buy life with money. The soldiers of Daqi who have suffered defeats on the front lines in the past few years, hung up the banner of bandits in the rear to rob the people, they have seen a lot!
The knight stopped him.
"Where do you want to go?"
The middle-aged man looked at him and hesitated: "There are frequent wars in the Northwest, and the villain wants to go south for a chance."
"You can't go to the south." The dark horse knight said, "The great prince of Xiqiang is lying in ambush on the official road to Jiangnan. You are only going to die."
The middle-aged man was surprised and asked, "How come?" The Xiqiang people went deep into the hinterland, didn't they seek their own death?
The knight said indifferently: "This is the battle of the whole country. The prince is just breaking the boat." He reminded, "If you want a way to survive, you can go to Black City in three days."
"Heicheng, but that is the territory of the Xiqiang people."
"After three days, it won't be anymore."
The knight left these words, and was riding his horse to go, but stopped again and asked what.
After getting a disappointing answer, he pulled the horse's rein and left silently. At this time, the refugees saw that the knight and his subordinates were not as fierce as they were, and couldn't help but dare to ask: "Who is the man just now, and what do you mean by what he said?"
A soldier said: "Don't you know? This is the general of the town who was pro-appointed by His Royal Highness! This time I came to the border to regain lost ground and expel foreign thieves!"
The people were startled, and wanted to know the origin of the general in this town, but saw that the general took the reins again and went to the end of the team.
Xiao Yingran held the long sword and looked at the incoming people vigilantly, only to see the dark horse knight stopping ten feet away from them, reaching out and taking off his helmet.
The long black hair is tied behind his head, and scattered in the wind, fluttering arrogantly, while the knight's ink-like eyes have already looked at him in a deep voice, listening to him in a low voice: "Why are you here? "
With a cry, Xiao Yingran's sword fell to the ground. Bai Qinghuang has already called out in surprise, "Qin Commander!"
It turned out that the general of this town was actually Qin Shan.