"Father-in-law, I see what you said. Since you are already a part of this place, you will naturally contribute.
Don't worry, as long as I, Zhao Ming, stay hungry from now on, all the farmers can have a bite of food, and Yunyun won't suffer. "
Zhao Ming tried to comfort him, although he had guessed in his heart that Mr. Feng was anxious to get married to him for some reason, but he did do a good job.
After talking to Mr. Feng for half an hour, Zhao Ming walked out of Mr. Feng's residence.
Looking at the scorching sun outside as always, Zhao Ming frowned.
God really wouldn't let this thief live in peace for a single day.
"The plan needs to be implemented quickly."
Zhao Ming sighed secretly in his heart. He had just asked Ah Fu to calculate that if he fully ensured that the escorts would be fed and drunk regardless of consumption, the horses would also be fully rationed.
The village can only last for half a month at most, and it will definitely run out of food for half a month.
Early the next morning, the escort team outside Zhuangzi continued to practice hard as usual.
At this moment, Zhuangzi was enveloped in a solemn atmosphere both inside and outside the village. Although the dealers in the village didn't know what was going to happen next.
But seeing Zhao Ming, the current man in power, acting like a man of strength, no matter how stupid they were, they knew that something big might happen in Fengjiazhuang next.
The storm is coming, and no one knows what will happen next.
Until the third day after the fire, the training in Fengjiazhuang continued.
A few miles away, seventeen or eight emaciated corpses were lying on the ground. The fatal injuries on these people had just appeared, and blood was flowing.
"Bah! These damn victims are all damn poor and don't have anything to eat. If this continues, all the brothers will be hungry!"
One of the knife gangsters was cursing, and everyone's atmosphere was also extremely depressing.
Han Laosan and the second boss Li Shundang also looked bad. For several days, they walked around the area several times and ran back and forth for hundreds of miles.
But in the end, nothing was caught, but many victims were encountered.
It's just that these disaster victims do have some oceans on them, but this is of no use, everyone who has nothing to eat will starve to death.
"Hehe, we won't lose this time. Didn't we just kill a dozen cattle and sheep? Taking these back and roasting them on the fire will fill our stomachs, right?"
Suddenly a voice sounded, and everyone couldn't help but swallow.
"Lao Wu, you are crazy!"
Han Laosan immediately shouted angrily.
The person who just spoke was the fifth in their group, but how could he say such words?
Hearing this, Lao Wu sneered disdainfully, "Boss! You are Qinggao now, Qinggao, then why don't you take our popular food to drink?
I don’t want to eat these things either, but don’t you think about it, if we don’t eat it, what will our brothers eat next?
Like these people? Starve to death? "
Hearing this, Han Laosan, as the boss, fell silent.
After a long while, he sighed, "You can't eat it, just kill the horse!"
As he spoke, he closed his eyes in pain.
The horse is the treasure of their knife bandits, and both the horse and the knife are things they cannot part with in this life.
Killing a horse is absolutely unacceptable to them, but right now...
"Boss! You can't kill the horse! You can't kill the horse! I would rather eat these than kill the horse!"
Lao Wu immediately became even angrier, scratching his neck and roaring angrily.
Da da da! ~
At this moment, a group of fast horses were galloping towards him, but they saw a brother glance at the situation first, and then hesitantly came to Han Laosan and whispered a few words quickly.
It wasn't until this brother walked away that the silent atmosphere was broken by Lao Wu.
"Boss, have you found any fat sheep?" Lao Wu said and couldn't help but lick his lips.
Han Laosan shook his head, and Li Shundang on the side was also curious.
"It's Fengjiazhuang. They seem to be practicing again over there."
As Han Laosan said these words, Lao Wu immediately cursed.
"Damn it, Fengjiazhuang is bullying people too much. Before we can cause trouble to them, they are already thinking of ways to deal with us, right?"
"etc!"
Suddenly, the second master Li Shundang suddenly spoke up, and when he saw everyone looking over, he thought thoughtfully and said, "I don't think the situation is that simple.
Think about it, we just asked the brothers to set fire to the village a few days ago, although the news inside could not be spread.
But looking at the intensity of the fire that night, a lot of food must have been burned.
Think about us, we don't even want to rob our homes and houses when we don't have enough to eat. You said that after burning so much food, what kind of strength does Fengjiazhuang have to train nursing homes?
You must know that Fengjiazhuang has a thousand people! With so many people eating horse chews, one can imagine the consumption! "
After Li Shundang finished speaking, he expected to receive many expressions of realization, but in the end, everyone looked at him in a daze, unable to react.
"Um...Second brother, what do you mean by saying so much?"
"Yeah, what does this mean?"
Everyone was asking questions, which made Li Shundang a little annoyed, and he secretly despised this group of idiots.
"I guess they must want to do something recently!"
"Do something? What can be done?"
Everyone was still puzzled.
Li Shundang's chest rose and fell, suppressing the urge to scold these people for their stupidity, and said as calmly as possible,
"They must be short of food now, so I guess they want to grab food!"
"Grab food? But the question is who can they rob?"
Han Laosan understood now, but who was he going to rob?
They have explored the area around here very clearly, and the ones they can rob are those Zhuangzi, but they can't deal with those Zhuangzi, so Fengjiazhuang can do it?
Li Shundang also shook his head, "I don't know either. Anyway, I have sent people to keep an eye on Fengjiazhuang recently. I feel like there must be something fishy!"
Although he felt that something was going to happen in Fengjiazhuang, he never thought of robbing the army.
After all, who would dare to do this after eating a bear's heart?
"Hmph! What can they grab? I think, brother, instead of wasting this useless energy, you might as well think about how to let the brothers eat.
Otherwise, we will really have no choice but to flee like these disaster victims. "
The fifth child was very disdainful and thought that the second child could come up with something.
——
Time flew by, and soon two days passed.
"are you sure?"
"Master Zhao! We have traveled dozens of miles, and I saw correctly that the grain transport team has indeed arrived. It is estimated that we will arrive near the West Wind Slope tonight!"
"It's too late!~"
Zhao Ming rubbed his brows, but he didn't expect that the time to transport food this time would be much faster than before.
When he was a refugee before, it was not that he had not observed the rules of this food transport team. After all, when people were extremely hungry, they would come up with crazy ideas.
At that time, he also thought about smearing himself for stealing some military rations.
According to past rules, transportation is usually once every half month.
I just didn't expect that this time it would be five days ahead of schedule. It seemed that the front line was increasing troops again.
"Master Zhao! Are we really going to do this? There are so many of us out there, what kind of trouble will there be in the village at night..." Chang Wei was a little embarrassed.
"The news hasn't spread yet?" Zhao Ming asked.
Chang Wei shook his head, "No! Even many of my brothers are unaware of this."
"Before sunset, ask a few brothers to take some donkey carts out of the village. The carts are full of things. If anyone asks, tell them to go to Xi'an Mansion in Beishan to buy grain."
Zhao Ming paused as he spoke, then thought for a moment and continued, "Let these brothers prepare a few more fast horses. If there is an emergency, don't bring anything with you and escape on horseback!"
"Master Zhao, do you want to..."
"Surrounded by a pack of wolves, if you don't throw something out to test the waters, you won't be able to do this!"
Zhao Ming shook his head and sighed, feeling that he was still too soft-hearted.
In the year of great disaster, donkeys, carts, and horses are extremely expensive items, and human life is worthless at this time.
"Yes! Mr. Zhao, I understand!"
Chang Wei cupped his hands and prepared to leave.
"in addition!"
Zhao Ming stopped Chang Wei and continued to give instructions, "Today, eating in the village will be postponed for half an hour. While everyone is eating, if you do this again..."
——
When night falls, tonight's night is still dark, and a relatively thick cloud layer blocks the moonlight.
Just as everyone in the village was dining together, the door of Fengjiazhuang opened quietly. But they saw a dozen people leading a large group of horses and quietly leading dozens of horses out of the village before anyone in the village noticed.
Immediately afterwards, another seven or eight people drove some donkey carts out of the village.
Inside the restaurant, everyone ate together in one place. It was very noisy with so many people gathering, and they didn’t notice any movement outside at all.
After the meal in the village was over, another two or three hours passed, and there was silence inside and outside the village.
There are no entertainment activities at all in the evening, and Fengjiazhuang is now living a life of tight belts. Even if you don't feel full after eating two meals a day, you don't have the energy to do any waist and abdominal exercises at night.
Therefore, most bankers go to bed early, and even those who haven't slept lie in bed to reduce consumption.
At this moment, a large group of people groped in the dark and monitored each other as they left Zhuangzi.
This group of people didn't have any torches, so they just walked in the dark. After gradually getting used to this dark environment, it was still very simple to identify the general direction.
As everyone left the village, the door was quickly closed and blocked with wood.
There are not many people who are still busy in Zhuangzi, only about twenty people. If you look closely, these people are all old people in Zhuangzi, and they are all in their fifties and sixties.
These people quickly climbed up the wall and walked around the wall holding torches. Every time they passed, they lit the kerosene stoves that had been set up early.
Soon there were dots of fires all over the Zhuangzi wall. From a distance, the entire Fengjiazhuang seemed to be brightly lit. Those who didn't know it thought that the patrol force had been greatly strengthened.
With so many people dispatched at once, Zhao Ming was naturally very worried about the situation inside the village.
Not only did they notify everyone ten minutes before the operation, but they were also on guard against the hidden knife gangsters in the village.
Even in order to conceal the movement of a large group of cavalry leaving the village, he took advantage of the meal to have a few people leave the village with all the horses in advance, so that it would not make people feel that a large number of people were missing from the dinner table.
The only hidden danger is the twenty or thirty old men staying in the village.
These people are the real old people in Fengjiazhuang. In fact, their credibility is already very high, but they still have to be guarded against.
So Zhao Ming arranged for them to form a team of three. Before they came back, they would supervise each other and be determined not to let any one of them leave their respective fields of vision.
Even Feng Yunyun has a back-up plan. There is a secret passage in Mr. Feng's mansion that can lead directly to the outside world.
Zhao Ming was only informed by Feng Yunyun recently, so he arranged for four swordsman brothers with excellent skills to be on guard at all times. If something bad happened, he would immediately lead people into the secret passage and temporarily leave the city to avoid danger.
And what Zhao Ming needs to face next is the biggest risk!
This is a gamble!
If time was not so tight, the first person he would clean up would naturally be Han Laosan and the gang of knife thieves. What a pity! ~
——
At the same time, about dozens of miles away from here, West Wind Slope.
The place was brightly lit, and a procession stretching for a kilometer or two with torches was slowly moving forward.
There were soldiers in the team who were constantly patrolling back and forth on horseback to urge soldiers carrying guns. There was also a military vehicle clearing the way in front of the team, and a big light scanned the surroundings from time to time.
In the middle and back of the team there were more farmers driving donkey carts and coolies pulling carts.
The entire team, including soldiers and peasant coolies, numbered at least several hundred people.
And this road has long been smoothed by lanes and people's feet.
During the day they mostly took refuge in some shady areas, and at night they moved quickly.
There is a severe drought in Guanzhong and the scorching sun during the day is really unbearable.
