Chapter 87: Yunzhou Left General (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Another damp cave.

Several torches were burning in the cave, slightly driving away the cold.

But the feces, rotten things, and all kinds of disgusting smells in the cave could never be dispelled.

The smell even gets worse because of the rising temperature in the air.

Lu Yuan frowned as he looked at the naked women in front of him, at least one third of whom were dead.

Those who are still alive all have numb expressions.

Although these women were naked, they were just skin and bones, with blood and feces stuck together on their bodies, emitting a foul odor. No one would have any evil thoughts when seeing them.

Some of the women seemed to still have a glimmer in their eyes, and they wanted to say something or get up.

But after struggling for a long time, he could not do anything except trembling slightly.

Zhou An, Xu Changqing, Li Qi and others held torches, took off their clothes, covered the women with them, and tied them up tightly.

He also moved the torches a little closer to provide some warmth to the women.

Zhou An and Xu Changqing wanted to drag out the corpse which was already somewhat rotten.

But I heard an impatient voice:
"What? Are you going to delay any further? How about you two stay here and take care of them?"

Lu Yuan was a little annoyed.

Not much food was looted from this mountain village.

They destroyed the village and got almost nothing.

When we first discovered these caves, we thought they were hiding some kind of food.

I didn't expect it to be all this kind of thing.

Everything here made him feel uncomfortable.

Seeing these two men again, it seemed that there would be further delay.

He stopped her irritably.

It's fine to just put the clothes on them. When the time comes, we can go to the foot of the mountain and strip the clothes off the bandits we killed. It won't affect anything.

If we still take the trouble to move these corpses and deal with these matters, I'm afraid we'll be busy until dark.

"Brigade Commander."

Zhou An and Xu Changqing felt sorry for the tragic scene in the cave and wanted to ask the brigade commander to do more to help these poor women.

At this time, Li Qi interrupted them.

“You two, going south to Muzhou is the top priority for us.

The longer you stay, the greater the risk of exposure.

It is even more likely to put the entire brigade in danger.

Please don't delay here."

"But" Zhou and Xu both showed reluctance on their faces.

If these poor women were left alone here, they would not live long.

“Don’t worry, the women who can walk in the other caves have already gone to the county town at the foot of the mountain to seek help.

These bandits have been wiped out, and the government officials will definitely come to check and take these women away, so there is no need for us to worry anymore."

When Zhou and Xu heard what Li Qi said, they thought about it and nodded.

This is true.

No matter how incompetent the county officials were, upon hearing that the bandits here had been wiped out, it was impossible for them not to come up and check it out.

By then, you will definitely find this place.

Let these women be handed over to the government for handling.

Thinking of this, they both took out a bowl from their pockets and a piece of cake from their arms at the same time.

Crush the pancake into pieces and put them into a bowl, then take off the kettle from your waist and pour clean water into the bowl.

He shook the bowl a few times, and when the contents were evenly distributed, he placed the bowl next to the two living women.

These women are extremely weak, and this kind of rice porridge is the best for them.

The few soldiers standing behind Lu Yuan and others also stepped forward at this time, and like the two captains, they took out their bowls, took out the cakes, made rice paste, and placed them next to the woman.

Lu Yuan turned around and shouted:
"Let's go! If the people from the government see that we are still here, they will not dare to come. By then, these women will be really hopeless."

Zhou, Xu and the other soldiers put their bowls down, stuck their torches on the cave wall, and turned to leave. They headed south to Muzhou, racing against time.

If they were discovered by the government, it would be disadvantageous to these women whether it was a fierce battle or scaring the government officials away from coming forward.

Thousands of soldiers came out of the wooden houses in Shijin Village and the caves behind them.

Either they are missing a piece of cotton-padded clothing to keep warm, or they are holding a few tiger skin or cowhide blankets.

Or a few of them might have found a few pieces of fat meat from some of the better houses.

The soldiers who walked out of Shijin Village gathered outside the village like ants on a flood and went down the mountain.

Wait until Lu Yuan and others leave.

A woman on the ground seemed to confirm that there was no one around.

His eyes finally focused on the contents of the bowl, which were gleaming in the light of the fire.

Dry biscuits, no fragrance.

But this woman was so hungry that she was in a trance.

They are extremely sensitive to any strange smell that may represent food.

She stared at the contents of the bowl.

He used his hands and feet to scrape the uneven surfaces of the cave and propped himself up.

With his arms slightly bent, he lowered his head and touched the bowl.

My lips, which were a little cracked by the cold wind, touched the cold bowl and were stained by the beige paste.

It's like a dry field after a long drought, now covered with rain and dew.

The rice paste was instantly sucked into the mouth and disappeared.

The woman drank the food in the bowl little by little. Even though she was extremely hungry, she still didn't dare to move too much for fear of knocking over the bowl.

The bowl is not small.

The pancake in the rice paste is also a whole one.

The woman ate very slowly, and sometimes after swallowing a slightly larger piece of biscuit, she had to stop and swallow it slowly.

Eat a little bit of rice porridge.

The woman whimpered slightly in her throat.

With a "tick-tock" sound, a tear fell from the eye and dripped into the rice paste.

In the afternoon, the sun was still shining brightly.

On a narrow road.

There were corpses with stone-colored turbans lying all over the place.

Nearly three thousand soldiers wearing armor and holding spears and swords had gathered around these corpses.

At the front of the officers and soldiers stood a young figure.

This person looks to be no more than twenty years old.

With sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, he looks like a handsome young man from a noble family.

But when it stands, it is like a javelin.

Looking at a corpse with red and yellow feet dug out from a pit nearby, he frowned slightly.

Tianxing Army?
How could there be the Tianxing Army in this Yunzhou?

But the thick yellow soles of the feet on this corpse were obviously the result of the Tianxing Army's iron foot training method.

Moreover, there were nearly two thousand corpses of bandits lying here.

If it weren't for the Tianxing Army, how could an ordinary rebel army have such combat power.

One look at the traces of battle here shows that this group of bandits was annihilated in a crushing manner.

This can also be proved by the fact that there are only dozens of corpses of the rebel soldiers buried in the pit next to it.

The young general frowned.

I had just taken office as the Left General of Yunzhou when I heard that there was a bandit causing chaos here and the government was unable to do anything about it.

So he brought three thousand soldiers to encircle and suppress them.

When we got here, we saw corpses all over the ground.

(End of this chapter)