When Zhao Wuji entered the tent where Luo Chuan was, he discovered that Luo Chuan had not yet taken off his helmet. He was holding the hilt of the sword in one hand and standing upright in front of a huge map, staring with a solemn expression.
Beside Luochuan, except for Siqi who was holding a water bag for him, even Qianxue and Yingying were standing further away, and the atmosphere was extremely dull for a while.
Zhao Wuji didn't even say hello when he saw this. He walked directly to Luo Chuan, folded his sleeves with his hands, and looked at the map with him.
After watching it like this for a while, Luochuan stretched out a finger and pointed it twice at a point in the southwest direction of Mianjin City, not far from the city. "We met a group of people right here." The refugees who were eaten away by the beast tide, a team of hundreds and nearly a thousand people, were just knocked down one by one from the outside by the beasts..."
Luo Chuan slowly retracted his fingers and clenched them into fists, "Those people, when faced with wild beasts, don't even have the courage to pick up a stone and throw it at them. They are numb and frightened, but they can pick up the weak and thin fellows first. He was thrown into the claws of the beast with one step... blood was spilled all the way, Uncle Zhao..."
Zhao Wuji said nothing, just listening to Luo Chuan softly venting his inner rage.
"We killed all those beasts, and also the few beasts I saw with my own eyes." Luo Chuan clenched his hands into fists and put them behind his back. He slightly raised his head to look at the top of the tent, "But when I look around, Go, all those who are alive, kneeling, crying or just kowtowing, where are the few old, weak, women and children left?!"
"They are all young and strong!" Luo Chuan gritted his teeth and said, "If these people were forcibly recruited into the army, put on armor, and put them on the city walls and streets, they would immediately become human-like and dog-like, capable of bullying men and dominating women. That shit!!”
"The ones we rescued," Luo Chuan turned to look at Zhao Wuji, his eyes full of bloodshot eyes under the bloody mask, "They are just such a bunch of...dogs."
Zhao Wuji looked back calmly, "Since they are such a bunch of dogs, why didn't the Grand Administrator order them to be killed on the spot, so as not to release them back to the north and become a disaster?"
Luo Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "If it were Uncle Zhao, he would kill them on the spot?!"
Zhao Wuji did not nod or shake his head, "Master Taishou, I have killed monsters, beasts, and people. Many people. On the battlefield, talking about benevolence, justice, laws and human relations are things that need to be considered after the battle is won. , Minister, just win."
This time it was Luochuan's turn to be silent.
Seeing him like this, Zhao Wuji softened his tone, as if he was talking about other things, "I once listened to the prefect, Gongsun and Dou taking turns on etiquette on the high platform of the civil and military court. I was deeply impressed, but no matter it was The reason why etiquette or law needs to be established based on the authority of the country is because all living beings are inherently incapable of being rude, otherwise why would they be like this?"
"To establish this etiquette, it is just like marching and fighting. It pays attention to the right time, the right place and the right people." Zhao Wuji stretched out his hand to point out the city. "When the weather is good, there is no war or disaster, and everyone inside and outside the court is united, the people are happy and well-fed. Then a three-year-old child can know etiquette, and a hundred-year-old man can also abide by the law." He stretched out his hand and pointed at the current Heyu City with a heavy voice, "But if the world is in chaos and the people are in dire straits, the court cannot protect the people from outside, and wild beasts eat away people's hearts. In front of us, we hope that those who originally rose up and rested in the sun can become warriors or even heroes overnight. How can we do that?"
"Under this situation, they are nothing more than those beasts." Zhao Wuji withdrew his hand and looked at Luochuan, "If you want to blame, blame the world and those people who have crossed hundreds of thousands of mountains to eat people. Beasts, force people into ghosts..."
"Once, I thought I already understood human nature, but now it seems..." Luo Chuan seemed to be a little uninterested, but then reached out and tapped the spot he just clicked, "This place is far away. Jincheng is only about twenty miles away, and if the tide of Nanyi beasts has spread to this position, then Weiming City... I am afraid it is difficult to say that it is still in the hands of Wang Mingyuan and his group."
Zhao Wuji looked at the point pointed by Luo Chuan, his expression suddenly solemn, and said, "According to the description just described by the Grand Administrator, the number of this so-called beast tide is not large, but judging from the battle damage, there are also some in the beast tide. Monsters exist. If this is the case, it is more likely that the controller in Heyu City divided a group of beasts into small groups, and each led the monsters to kill them all the way north. Burn down the houses and make the country strong and clear."
Luo Chuan opened his visor with a click and said, "After cleaning up those things, the scouts sent further south came to report that they saw the cottages and houses burned, just as Uncle Zhao expected!"
"If this is the case, there will be a lot of trouble..." Zhao Wuji stared at the map with a solemn face, "But looking at it this way, there is a high probability that Weiming City is still in the hands of Wang Mingyuan and his people, because they want to have a solid wall and clear the country in the true sense. , even the fastest one is already close to Mianjin City. The area that needs to be covered is too large. It is difficult for them to send enough troops to capture Weiming City at the same time while ensuring that Heyu City is unimpeded. Therefore, life in Weiming City may be difficult, but it will not be unbearable. What we really need to worry about are the people outside the city..."
When Luo Chuan heard this, the bloody road he saw today flashed before his eyes, as well as the broken limbs and the wasteland densely covered with blood clots. He said in a cold voice, "No matter whether they clear the country or not, we need to establish a stable and long logistics." Supply lines.”
Zhao Wuji shook his head, "After clearing the wilderness, the logistics team lacks villages or even fortresses that are naturally conducive to defense as camps. Once we set up camp in the wilderness and are attacked, it will be a big trouble. We have to reduce the number of logistics teams and increase the number of each team. The amount of food shipped and the accompanying escort team, each of these are huge risks and burdens."
Luochuan was an outsider in matters of marching and fighting. He was a little bored after hearing so many opinions, so he changed the subject and asked, "Have the people from Guangjun caught up?"
"Well," Zhao Wuji was still staring at the map, but he was able to think about things at the same time and replied, "I arranged for the ten thousand soldiers to camp in the north of the city, adjacent to Zhang Zifeng, He Ruoxiong and Du Ruyong's troops. The Shanshan Army will follow the wishes of the prefect. , still hanging at the end, Guangjun's 500,000 shi of grain has also arrived at Miangjin, plus 1 million shi and more grain under the Mianjin auxiliary warehouse. There is no need to worry about this in the short term, but Miangjin The land is at stake, and who needs to stay behind is a question.”
Luo Chuan pondered for a while and said, "Mianjin is not only our escape route back north after going south, but also Zhaoshui City...'s escape route. If we have to choose one to stay behind among several people, it would be He Ruoxiong." , if Ruoroxiong stays behind in Mianjin, all logistics will be under his jurisdiction, and the road between Mianjin City and Weiming City should be smooth after our army has swept it once."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, because..." Zhao Wuji stretched out his hand and pointed at the thin blue line on the map and said, "Because Nanyi can cross the Fubo River from Shiwanda Mountain to the north. , they can also cross...Mianshui!!"
