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Chapter 79 (7.12 one more)
Chapter 79 (7.12 one more)
Wei Yun rushed all the way to Wei Qiu and Wei Xia, and immediately said: "Shacheng is not easy to attack, retreat according to the retreat route you prepared."
Wei Qiu and Wei Xia hesitated for a moment, but they said, "Master Hou, our ration may be less than seven days..."
"There are other places nearby, go back first and then make plans."
Wei Yun resolutely broke the conversation, Wei Qiu and Wei Xia no longer hesitated, after listening to Wei Yun's words, Wei Qiu stepped forward to lead the way, Wei Yun led Chu Yu and Shen Wushuang and the group, and the group left Shacheng like the wind.
The soldiers in Shacheng were just getting ready to fight, when they saw those soldiers and horses turn around and leave. A group of people thought about whether to chase or not, and thought... it's better not to chase, it's not that they have nothing to do. So the defenders of Shacheng rested for a while, and seeing that Wei Yun and others hadn't come back, they turned around and reported the attack on Shacheng to the royal court.
Wei Yun and Wei Qiuweixia rushed to the escape route they had planned for a long time, and said, "Where are we going now?"
"There is an oasis not far away, where we rest." Wei Qiu led the way and answered.
"How many people are left now?"
They were looting the village all the way, and there must be some damage. Wei Xia said with a dark expression, "There are 1,143 people."
In addition to the losses during the siege, their casualties these days are not very heavy, but in terms of proportions, it is a little shocking.
Wei Yun pursed his lips and said, "Why did you guys think of coming to Shacheng?"
"We're running out of food," Wei Xia sighed. "We're not familiar with Bei Di either. The person leading the way is dead. Now we're just going to fight at the sight of people. Let's grab the food first."
Wei Yun didn't speak, and there were hardly many people from Chu in Bei Di's belly. Although Wei Yun had collected all the relevant information about Bei Di as much as possible before he came, on the one hand those data were maps from many years ago, and on the other hand, Bei Di was originally a nomad. Except for the cities, most of the ethnic groups camped on the spot. Moreover, even if it is a city, the people of Da Chu only know about a few cities on the main roads. Even this Shacheng, I just heard that the strength of Shacheng, if Wei Yun lived in this city for a month, was afraid. Can't figure it out either.
Chu Yu listened to their conversation and understood Wei Yun's concerns. In the last life, she and Gu Chusheng went in and out of Beidi many times for this very reason.
After everyone set up camp in the oasis, Wei Yun and Wei Qiu Wei Xia exchanged information about the situation after they separated. Chu Yu settled Shen Wushuang and Bai Chang Shen Jiaojiao and returned to Wei Yun.
Wei Yun asked Wei Qiu and Wei Xia to go to bed first, and Chu Yu sat next to Wei Yun and saw the map he drew.
"Where are you thinking of going?"
Chu Yu smiled, and Wei Yun looked up at her: "Sister-in-law still sleeping?"
"There should be a village not far from here."
Chu Yu ate Hu Bing, raised his finger to the southwest of Shacheng, and said calmly, "I asked when I was in the city. This village is not big, there should be only a few hundred people."
Wei Yun nodded, Chu Yu thought about it, and took out a map from her arms: "And this, I asked someone to draw it when I was in the city."
Wei Yun took the map from Chu Yu's hand, which was much more detailed than the map he got when he was in Great Chu.
This is the map of the entire Bei Di that Chu Yu and Gu Chusheng had drawn for many years. Not only that, but she also, according to her own memory, marked the strongholds of the main tribes of Bei Di and the marching routes of the main forces. Wei Yun said: "I guess the points above, let's avoid it then."
Wei Yun looked down at Chu Yu, if there was no error in such a picture, it would be too important.
He vaguely understood in his heart, how could this thing come out just by asking someone, and he would know by guessing.
But he also knew that if Chu Yu didn't say it, there must be a reason why she didn't say it, so he bowed his head in response, looked down at the map, and had a vague idea in his heart.
The next morning, before dawn, Wei Yun called Wei Xia and Weiqiu up, let the soldiers have breakfast, got on their horses, and galloped all the way towards the village marked by Chu Yu. The desert is vast and sparsely populated, and it was only after nightfall that they came to the vicinity of the village. Wei Yun asked everyone to hide behind the dunes first, and then went forward to observe for a while. After almost confirming the number of people, he called Wei Xia over and instructed: "You let people spread out, and we will go down after night, from all directions. Go down, let everyone shout a little louder, make the movement louder, you know?"
Wei Xia nodded, and when it was night, he dispersed with people, forming a siege, hiding behind the dunes of the entire village.
Then just listening to Wei Yun's order, a group of people shouted and rushed down, and the sound of killing sounded in the sky, the sound of gongs and drums came from all directions, the cattle, sheep and horses were frightened and fled everywhere, and the villagers rushed out one after another, the man holding the knife Take arrows and protect women and children in the middle.
Wei Yun shouted in Beidi language: "Surrender and don't kill! Surrender and don't kill!"
Wei Yun and his party appeared too fast, and in the middle of the night, it was impossible to tell how many people there were, and they could only hear the sound of killing everyone from all directions. This village with less than 1,000 people had long been scared. The men and women looked at each other in the firelight, put down their weapons, and slowly knelt down.
Wei Xia and Wei Qiu separated men and women, and then began to raise cattle, sheep and dry food.
An old man watched Wei Qiuweixia do this, clenching his fists with tears in his eyes.
Wei Yun looked beside him, turned his head and patted his shoulder.
The old man was startled by Wei Yun and immediately began to kowtow, thinking that his demeanor made Wei Yun dissatisfied, and the villagers suddenly became excited. Wei Yun supported the old man and said calmly: "Master, we will not take everything. We will keep half of it for you. dry food."
The old man was stunned for a moment, and the people next to him listened to Wei Yun's words, and then slowly calmed down, Wei Yun watched Wei Qiu and Wei Xia lead the cattle, sheep and horses out, and calmly said: "Now that the war ahead, everyone is forced to do so. If there is a way to survive, no one wants to do this. If you have something to hate, hate Su Can."
The jerky Beidi language revealed Wei Yun's identity, and the old man showed grief: "You fight, what does it have to do with us people?"
"Old man, what you said is wrong," Wei Xia sneered when he heard this: "Why didn't you ask your Beidi army, when they killed our people in Dachu, why didn't you say it had nothing to do with the people? ? You come to Dachu every year to grab people and food, this is the first time we have done this, so it's polite."
The old man was at a loss for words. After a long time, he sighed and said sullenly: "Go away, take it all, call and fight, it's the common people who suffer."
"We're still dead."
Wei Xia rolled his eyes. Wei Qiu came forward and said with Wei Yun, "Master Hou, the food and horses have been counted."
Wei Yun nodded, turned his head and said to the old man, "You can order twenty young men for me."
"what are you going to do?"
The old man opened his eyes, Wei Yun smiled: "We need a few guides, you give me ten young people, I will take good care of them and their wives and daughters."
"No!" The old man said decisively: "You can take food, cattle and horses, but people can't!"
Wei Yun's face was calm, and there was some regret in his eyes: "Master, it's not that I can't kill people."
Wei Yun pulled out the sword from his waist and said indifferently: "If you don't give me these ten people, then none of the people in your village will survive."
The old man clenched his fists and trembled all over. After a while, a bright young voice rang out: "I'll go with you."
"Tusuo, go back!"
The old man shouted, but the young man did not step back, stared at Wei Yun and said, "I'll go with you."
Wei Yun nodded and asked Wei Xia to pull people. However, at this moment, many young people stood up and excitedly stood in front of the young man and said, "I'm going! Let's go!"
"Young patriarch, you can't go..."
The crowd surrounded the young man, preventing Wei Xia. Wei Xia looked at Wei Yun in embarrassment, Wei Yun looked at the young man, and finally said: "Let him come over, he will pick two more people himself, I will say dozens of times, and I will leave after the selection."
The boy let out a sigh of relief and smiled. Everyone beside him excitedly started to stop the boy, or suggested himself. After the boy looked around, he ordered two people, then separated from the crowd, walked to the old man, raised his hand on his chest Before, he bowed deeply and said seriously, "Grandpa, goodbye."
After saying that, he turned around again and said goodbye to his relatives one by one.
After doing all this, the teenager came to Wei Yun. Wei Qiu and the others were all ready to go. Wei Yun looked at him and said, "What's your name?"
"Tusso."
The young man lowered his eyes and looked respectful. Wei Yun nodded and asked Wei Xia to lead him a horse: "Come up."
Tusuo obediently finished according to Wei Yun's words, and the lightning-like looting was over before dawn. Wei Yun took Chu Yu and let the camels lead the way. The group walked all night. At noon, they finally found the next water source.
Everyone rested, Chu Yu and Bai Chang greeted to make a fire to slaughter the sheep, Wei Yun called Tusuo over, shared him a Hu cake, and the two chatted behind the camel's shadow.
"How old?"
"Fourteen." Tusuo ate Hu Bing and looked at Wei Yun quietly. Wei Yun nodded: "Well, I'm fifteen, almost sixteen."
"Are you an official?"
Tusuo was a little curious, Wei Yun couldn't help laughing, and replied, "Well, it's okay."
"Then you must be very capable." Tusuo nodded, Wei Yun smiled bitterly: "Just inherit the family business."
"Ah, what about your father?"
"Dead." Wei Yun's voice was low, but Tusuo didn't feel that he had offended anything and continued: "Don't you have a brother?"
"some."
"What about brother?"
"died."
Tusuo was stunned, he considered it for a while, and said cautiously: "Did... Bei Di killed it?"
Wei Yun didn't speak. After a while, he nodded.
There was some despair in Tusuo's eyes, but Wei Yun patted his shoulder.
"Don't worry, I won't anger you because of this. Since ancient times, the sufferings of wars have mostly been on the common people, the suffering of the people has been raised, and the suffering of the people has been lost. I want to take revenge. It is also your Beidi royal family. "
Tusuo is a little strange: "What do you want me to do?"
"Lead the way."
Wei Yun looked up at Chu Yu, who was wearing a cloak and greeted roast mutton under the scorching sun not far away, and said calmly, "I don't have any other ideas, I just want to end the war and go home. Please help me, and when I return to Da Chu, If you want, I will take you back, and I will help you when the time comes."
Tusuo thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't want high officials."
"Then what do you want?"
Wei Yun turned to look at him.
The reason why Tusuo was chosen was because he could see that Tusuo was not forced to come, he stood up voluntarily.
Tusuo was a little embarrassed, he whispered: "When the war is over, can you give me a piece of land, I want to take my clan to Da Chu."
Wei Yun was a little puzzled: "Why? Isn't it bad in Beidi?"
"Our tribe is small," Tusuo sighed: "There are a few scattered villages, with less than 2,000 people in total, and they are often bullied by other big tribes. To tell you the truth, even if you hadn't robbed us this time, it wouldn't have happened. There will be others. I don't like war," Tusuo looked in the direction of Da Chu with envy in his eyes: "I heard that the people of Da Chu don't like war, they live very peacefully, and I think so too."
No one likes war, everyone does.
Wei Yun did not comment on Tusuo's thoughts, everyone just wanted to live a better life.
He patted Tusuo on the shoulder and said calmly: "Don't worry, when the war is over, I will give you a piece from the Wei family fief."
"thanks!"
Tusso was full of gratitude: "I know you are a good man!"
The two were talking, Chu Yu came over, and she greeted the two of them over: "The lamb is roasted, come and eat."
Wei Yun stood up in response, smiled and said, "I'm sorry to bother my sister-in-law."
When Tu Suo heard Wei Yun's words, he moved his ears and looked up at Chu Yu. A group of people gathered around the sheep, Wei Yun personally cut the mutton for Tusuo, and said seriously: "Now in the desert, you are the host, and I will depend on you in the future."
Tusuo nodded again and again, and Shen Wushuang also gave Tusuo a toast with water instead of wine.
Tusuo blushed, and Wei Yun introduced everyone. Tusuo kept remembering people. After the introduction, Tusuo asked Wei Yun, "Is that young master in Da Chu?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Wei Yun said a little embarrassedly: "I haven't married yet."
Tusuo was a little strange, looked at Chu Yu and said, "Isn't Madam here?"
"That's his sister-in-law!" Shen Wushuang hurried out to interrupt, Tusuo said solemnly: "Yes, his brother is dead, isn't his sister-in-law his woman?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Yu spat out a mouthful of water.
She coughed hurriedly, her face flushed from coughing, everyone looked at Tusuo, stunned, Shen Wushuang just remembered, and quickly explained: "Beidi people are like this, after the elder brother dies, his younger brother inherits all the property."
As he said that, Shen Wushuang's face turned a little red, but he still bit the bullet and said, "Including women."
The author has something to say: [Small Theater]
Shen Wushuang: I suddenly feel that the inheritance of Beidi people is very good.
Wei Yun: …
Shen Wushuang: Don't be hypocritical, just say something
Wei Yun: My sister-in-law is not property and cannot inherit!
Chu Yu: Good, Xiao Qi is really sensible.
Bai Chang: That's why I don't like you.
Shen Wushuang: …
Wei Yun: > <