Chapter 201 The people are not afraid of death
After resting in Yanyun Pass for another three days, in the early morning of the fourth day, Xiao Chen led the army out of the pass and officially set foot on the ground of Yanyun County.
The north of Yanyun Pass is covered with continuous deep forests, with undulating peaks and steep terrain. There is only a narrow mountain road that can barely pass through.
Xiao Chen and his nearly 10,000 horses could only march slowly along the mountain road in a thin line. The distance between the head and the tail was as long as seven or eight miles. This kind of long snake-like marching formation is actually very dangerous. If the enemy is cut off from the middle, it will be difficult to take care of both the beginning and the end.
However, Zhuge Xiaosheng had already investigated in advance. Although there were many fleeing civilians in the nearby mountains, there were also some suspicious characters among them, and there were even a small group of enemy troops with more than a dozen people, but there were no organized troops.
Presumably the Xianbo people are not familiar with this place, so they dare not send troops into the mountain easily.
Qin Gang and the others were too nervous, so that there was a lot of noise, and the grass and trees were full of soldiers. Even the ordinary people who had managed to escape here did not dare to take them into the customs. It was really too sad.
The army had only marched more than ten miles, when a scout from the vanguard came to report that they had encountered a large group of refugees kneeling on the ground blocking the way, and they couldn't drive them away, crying and shouting to see Master Xiao.
Everyone thinks that Xiao Chen can't put himself in danger, for fear of an ambush, but Xiao Chen insists on going, what the hell, I don't believe that the Xianbo people have the courage to ambush the young master blatantly!
This is clearly what the people of Yanyun County have asked me for. As the parent officer of Yanyun County, don't I think it's reasonable to go there?
The big guy didn't say anything, just told him to be careful.
When Xiao Chen rushed to the front, he saw that on both sides of the road, there were ragged, sallow and emaciated common people all over the mountains and plains, the number of them was as many as several thousand, and he couldn't help but gasped.
Quickly got off the horse and approached.
"Are you sent by Mr. Xiao?" When a man in his thirties saw Xiao Chen approaching, he turned over and was about to kneel.
Xiao Chen grabbed him and said in a deep voice, "This big brother, I am Xiao Chen."
"Ah? You are Master Xiao who descended from Wenquxing?" The man's expression was unbelievable, can't he? Why are you so young?
"Hehe, big brother, I'm just an ordinary person, what kind of Wenqu star is that, you all escaped from Yanyun County?" Xiao Chen spoke softly, without any airs.
"Master Xiao, you are looking forward to it! We have been waiting for you here for a long time, if you don't come, we all have no way out!" The man knelt down to him with a thud, kowtowing repeatedly.
"Lord Xiao, help!" As soon as the man knelt down, thousands of people behind him also knelt down, and the crying was loud and moaning everywhere!
Xiao Chen never thought that the common people in Yanyun County also knew his name, and they were still waiting for him and looking forward to him, and suddenly felt a big mountain on their shoulders, right?
I said in my heart that the big guys think highly of me, Xiao Chen, but don't you know that I also came to survive from death?
"Folks, get up quickly, I'll send someone to take you into the customs right now..." Xiao Chen would never just watch these people starve to death in the deep mountains and old forests.
Although Qin Gang did not allow the people of Yanyun County to enter the pass, if he sent someone to send them there, Qin Gang would have to give him face.
Of course, he will also tell Qin Gang to take some necessary measures to prevent them from staying in the city as much as possible, and directly send some soldiers to send them to various towns in the south, and then verify their identities, register them, and arrange them properly. Then there is no problem.
But to Xiao Chen's surprise, these Yanyun common people were unwilling to enter the pass!
"Master Xiao, on behalf of the big guy, let me ask you a question, are we the subjects of the Great Zhou?" The man's face was flushed with excitement, and his voice was like a roar.
"Of course it is, does it need to be said?" Xiao Chen didn't know why the man asked such a question.
"Since we are the subjects of Dazhou, why doesn't Dazhou want us! The big guy desperately escaped from under the iron hoof of the Xianbo people, trekking hundreds of miles, not to mention how much suffering he suffered, how many people died along the way ...but the master of Yanyun Pass forbids the big guys to enter the pass, and even says we are the spies of the Xianbo people!" The man said with tears streaming down his face.
"It's not that General Qin is ruthless, it's just that the situation forced it..." Xiao Chen also defended Qin Gang.
"We ordinary people don't understand these reasons. We only know that since we are the subjects of the Great Zhou, the soldiers of the Great Zhou should protect us. The Xianbo cavalry swept across Yanyun County, causing our common people's homes to be destroyed and displaced, but we have not seen Da Zhou. One soldier at a time to protect us! Just let us be slaughtered wantonly by others."
"When the emperor of the Han Dynasty was in power, no one dared to bully us. Back then when those Ross devils invaded, our Lord Li Changli immediately led an army to drive them away. Why is the dynasty changing now? One generation is not as good as the next generation. gone?"
"Emperor Da Zhou doesn't want us, so we won't go back. Going back is also a dependent. Why don't you all follow Master Xiao and fight with the Xianbo people to regain our own land and property!"
"We all know that you are a hero, Mr. Xiao. If you weren't a hero, you wouldn't dare to come here! But we also heard that the emperor sent you to die, just because you have done too much, and you have shocked the Lord! I see you, Mr. Xiao, this time. Come on and don’t go back, after defeating the Xianbo people, you will be the prince of our Yanyun County!"
That's why the eyes of ordinary people are discerning. Don't think they don't understand anything. In fact, they understand everything in their hearts...
"Oh, this big brother, don't talk nonsense, this is the crime of beheading!" Xiao Chen had three black lines on his forehead, unexpectedly this guy was really bold, he really dared to stab words up! .
But the words are rough and the rationale is not rough, but it is quite in my mind.
So even though it was a reproachful tone, he didn't get angry, and he didn't order anyone to be arrested.
"Hehe, Mr. Xiao, we all climbed out of the dead, half of our lives are already dead, and we will freeze to death and starve to death if we speak, why are we afraid of beheading? There is an ancient saying that the people are not afraid of death, so how can we do that?" Afraid of death?" Unexpectedly, this rough-looking man is still a educated person.
"Don't despise us as a burden. Look, these are all young people. If nothing else, they have a lot of strength and the courage to kill! Why? Because the old, weak, sick and disabled can't run away. Move, even if you run out on the way, you will die of starvation, illness, exhaustion, these are our relatives... We hate it!"
The man's eyes were red, and what was shed was not tears, but blood!
Xiao Chen looked around, and sure enough, thousands of people were mostly young adults in their twenties and thirties, and there were some girls among them, but there was not a single old man or child...
This was probably one of the reasons why Qin Gang didn't dare to let them enter.
It also made Xiao Chen a little embarrassed.
Because he couldn't be sure whether these people were spies sent by the Xianbo people?