At dusk, by the creek, blood flowed into a river.
Blood continuously poured into the stream, temporarily dyeing the entire stream red. And under the glow of the setting sun, it looks particularly bright red.
Chu Dang blocked the gap of the grain cart by himself, and he was really a barrier that could not be opened by ten thousand people. Those warriors who came to chase Li Ran went one after another to fight with him, but they could not shake Chu Dang in the slightest.
Seeing how brave Chu Dang was, these warriors felt even more timid after fighting for a moment longer.
After another period of fighting, the ground was covered with the corpses of these warriors, and the smell of blood gradually began to spread in the air. Chu Dang, on the other hand, held his weapon and gradually killed outside.
Li Ran looked at the falling warriors in front of him, a look of awe flashed in his eyes.
The leading warrior just now clearly spoke with a Qi accent. Although Li Ran had never been to Qi, he often listened to Qi people when he was in Lu. After all, Qilu and Qilu are close enough, and the people of the two countries have very close exchanges. Therefore, as soon as the leading warrior opened his mouth, Li Ran felt something was wrong.
When I think about it more carefully at this time, I feel that the relationship between the Ji family and Qi State is indeed very unusual, and I am afraid that they have already secretly colluded together.
Thinking of this, Li Ran's expression slightly calmed down, and he motioned to the attendants around him to step forward and shout, if he wanted Chu Tang to spare his efforts, he must catch him alive.
But at this moment, Chu Dan suddenly let out a fierce roar, which directly covered the attendant's shouting. Then, I saw its huge body spinning in the open space, and the warriors chasing him around suddenly fell down like grass, blood flowing freely, and they died on the spot.
"Chu Dang!"
Li Ran shouted hurriedly.
However, Chu Dang still turned a deaf ear. He was still like a wolf entering a flock of sheep. He opened his bow from left to right and could not stop the sword.
Li Ran naturally couldn't understand what it meant to "kill with red eyes" because he had never killed anyone with his own hands.
At this moment, Chu Dang was already furious. The warriors who came to chase him were so frightened that Chu Dang was so fierce that they turned around and tried to escape.
But who knew that Chu Dang didn't give them a chance to escape at all, and chased them one after another with a wave of his hand. This group of warriors who were originally eager to try seemed to be like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Following the rhythm of Chu Dang's swing, they all fell down one after another.
Soon, only the last one was left. The man was facing Chu Dang and pressing forward step by step. He lay on the ground with his backhand and kept moving back. His legs were trembling.
Li Ran rushed over from the pile of grain carts, and was about to let Chu Dan survive, but who knew that Chu Dan raised his left hand high and slashed diagonally with his sword, and the man was cut in two on the spot.
"I…"
Even Li Ran couldn't help but be stunned.
"Brother...killing is killing, you should be kept alive!"
He felt a flock of crows flying past his head.
What made him even more speechless was that when Chu Dang killed the last warrior, Chu Dang reached out to shake off the blood on the blade of the sword, then turned to look at Li Ran and said naively:
"Sir, look at what I, Chu Dang, am like? Hey, did you not disappoint me, sir?"
Li Ran was immediately speechless.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Li Ran could only wave to him, and then motioned to the attendants behind him to come forward and clean up.
Then, he called Chu Dang to him, frowned and asked:
"Chu Dang, when you were fighting just now, I called you, didn't you hear me at all?"
Chu Tang was startled when he heard the sound, touched the back of his head and said:
"Oh? Sir, did you call me?"
Seeing his uninformed yet surprised and honest look, Li Ran no longer wanted to reason with him. But he still said patiently:
"Hey... next time we encounter this kind of situation, remember to leave one or two alive so that we can ask where these people came from, right?"
Unexpectedly, Chu Dang asked:
"Why do you ask where they come from? No matter where they come from, if they want to kill Mr., I will just kill them all."
As he spoke, Chu Dang couldn't help but show a rather arrogant look on his face.
When Li Ran heard this, he knew that it would be useless to talk anymore, and he was speechless again:
"I…"
"That's all, you can take a rest. We have to continue our journey tonight."
To say that nothing was gained this time is not true.
At least, these warriors who traveled thousands of miles to kill people could be said to have done Li Ran a big favor, and that was the horses they rode.
Li Ran ordered people to do an inventory, and found that there were at least dozens of horses left in place. With these horses exchanged with the horses that had previously pulled the grain carts, their trip to Weiguo would be guaranteed.
So that night Li Ran ordered the servants to change the horses. At this time, the horses had a surplus and could be replaced frequently, and their speed also increased sharply.
…
After driving like this for another two days, Li Ran followed the marks left by Sun Wu. As these marks became more and more new, Li Ran knew that they were not far from the sacrifice caravan ahead.
But at the same time, the caravan of sacrifices in front has also entered the territory of the Wei Kingdom, and will reach the capital of Wei, Diqiu, in two days.
Sun Wu mingled among the caravans and was not noticed by the Ji family members.
At first, he was leaving marks for Li Ran all the way, but as Li Ran couldn't catch up, he felt unsure.
He also knew that the two brothers Ji Zong and Ji Xun were not people who wanted to do big things at all. They were transporting grain to Wei State. Ji's grain truck was so unevenly loaded that it kept swaying, but they completely turned a blind eye and never checked it. One or two, we still kept our heads down and hurried forward.
If these grain carts were transported to Diqiu and allowed to be received by Weiguo officials, the lives of these two brothers would be over.
Later, he always wanted to find an opportunity to delay the progress of the Ji clan caravan halfway. However, the Ji clan's caravan was famous for being on time, and the two brothers were really nerve-wracking and didn't pay attention to what was going on around them.
"Hey, let's wait a little longer. If it doesn't work..."
Originally, Sun Wu was given instructions that if he entered the Wei Kingdom and approached the Wei capital, and if he did not see them catching up with him yet, he could deliberately overturn a few grain carts to show off to everyone.
However, do not act like this unless absolutely necessary. Because these two dandy boys would be frightened and run back to Zheng if they saw this scene, and this trip to Zheng would be completely bad.
After all, there is official food in it. If the relationship between Weiguo and Zhengguo is severed because of this incident, the consequences will not be much better than now.
As they entered the territory of Weiguo, the tragic situation caused by the drought in Weiguo gradually appeared before his eyes.
The roads are full of refugees, there are no people in the fields, the wilderness is full of corpses, the air is filled with a putrid smell, the sounds of women and children crying, and the sounds of refugees begging for alms are endless.
The closer you get to Emperor Qiu, the more tragic the scene becomes. Even the official road at the end is full of corpses of refugees, and no one is restraining them.
Starving people are dying all over the land, it’s so miserable, it’s nothing more than this.
This made Sun Wu's heart tremble. He originally thought that war was the most cruel thing in the world, but when he saw the scene before him, he couldn't help but feel ashamed of his ignorance.
Compared with the millions of floating corpses and blood-soaked oars caused by war, the sacrifices caused by such natural disasters are even more tragic.
Because these common people had no room to struggle or even a chance to resist, they could only let God continue to take away their lives.
They are like withered grass all over the mountains and plains, and this natural disaster is like a spark. Once it lands, it will start a prairie fire, and no one can stop it.
But what makes Sun Wu even more indignant is that along the way, the Ji clan caravan saw such miserable conditions, but they were completely indifferent!
He was still on his way, without any thought of using the food he transported to alleviate the local disaster. He still thought of transporting the food to Diqiu and finishing the job.
How cold-blooded is this?
Do they really not take the lives of these common people seriously?
Is it possible that the only thing they have in mind is completing the mission?
Sun Wu looked at the sleepy Ji Zeng and Ji Xun who were sitting in the carriage, and his heart was already filled with anger.
