I will not be king in the Spring and Autumn Period

Chapter 74
At dusk, by the creek, blood flows into a river.

The blood continued to pour into the creek, dyeing the entire stream red for a moment.Under the radiance of the setting sun, it looks particularly bright red.

Chu Dang stood alone in the gap of the grain truck, and it was really a one-man pass. Those warriors who came to chase and kill Li Ran fought with him one after another, but they couldn't shake Chu Dang in the slightest.

Seeing that Chu Dang is so brave, these warriors will feel more timid in their hearts after fighting for a while.

After another round of fighting, the ground was full of the corpses of these warriors, and the smell of blood gradually began to spread in the air.Chu Dang, on the other hand, carried a weapon and gradually killed outside.

Li Ran looked at the warriors who kept falling in front of him, a look of awe-inspiring flashed in his eyes.

The leading warrior just now obviously spoke with a Qi accent. Although Li Ran had never been to Qi, he did not listen to Qi people when he was in Lu.After all, Qilu is close enough, and the people of the two countries have very close exchanges.Therefore, when the leading warrior opened his mouth, Li Ran faintly felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, when I think about it carefully, I feel that the relationship between Ji's family and Qi State is indeed very unusual, and I'm afraid they have already secretly colluded together.

Thinking of this, Li Ran's expression turned slightly, and he signaled to the attendants around him to come forward and shout out that if he wanted to make Chu Dang hold back for a while, he must catch a living.

But at this moment, Chu Dang let out a fierce roar, which directly covered the servant's shouting.Afterwards, seeing its huge body spinning in the open space for a while, the chasing fighters all around suddenly fell down like grass, blood flowed and died on the spot.

"Chu Dang!"

Li Ran hurriedly shouted.

However, Chu Dang still turned a deaf ear to it, still like a wolf in a herd of sheep, bowing left and right, and the sword's edge was unstoppable.

Naturally, Li Ran couldn't understand what it meant to be "red eyed", because he had never killed anyone with his own hands.

At this moment, Chu Dang's eyes were already red.The warriors who came to hunt down saw Chu Dang so ferociously, they were already trembling with fright, and turned around hastily to run away.

But who knew that Chu Dang didn't give them a chance to escape, one by one jumped up and chased after him, and one waved his hand.This group of warriors who were eager to try seemed to be lambs waiting to be slaughtered for a while, and fell down one after another with the rhythm of Chu Dang's waving.

Soon there was only the last one left, and I saw that person facing Chu Dang pressing every step of the way, lying on the ground with his backhand, moving backwards constantly, his legs were trembling constantly.

Li Ran rushed over from the pile of grain carts, and was about to let Chu Dang live, but who knew that Chu Dang raised his left hand high and slashed diagonally with his sword, the man was cut in two on the spot.

"I…"

Even Li Ran couldn't help being stunned.

"Brother...Killing is killing, you should keep alive!"

He only 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 stretched out his hand to shake off the blood on the blade, then turned to look at Li Ran, and said naively:
"Sir, look, how good is my Chu Dang? Hey, did you not disappoint Mr.?"

Li Ran was speechless immediately.

Wiping the fine sweat off his forehead, Li Ran could only wave his hand at him, and then signaled the attendants behind him to come forward and clean up.

Then, he called Chu Dang to come to him, frowned and asked:

"Chu Dang, when you were fighting just now, I called you, didn't you hear me?"

Chu Dang was startled when he heard the sound, touched the back of his head and said:

"Oh? Sir called me?"

Seeing his ignorant yet surprised and honest appearance, Li Ran lost the mood to reason with him.But he still said patiently:
"Hey... next time you encounter this kind of situation, remember to save one or two survivors, so we can ask where these people came from?"

But Chu Dang asked:

"Why do you ask where they came from? No matter where they come from, if they want to kill Mr., I will kill them all."

As he spoke, Chu Dang couldn't help showing a rather arrogant look on his face.

Hearing this, Li Ran knew it would be useless to say it, and was speechless again:

"I…"

"That's all, you can take a rest. We will continue on our way tonight."

It is not true to say that there is no gain this time.

At least, this group of warriors who sent their heads for thousands of miles did Li Ran a big favor, and that was the horses they rode.

Li Ran ordered someone to count them, and there were at least dozens of horses left in place. With these horses being exchanged with the horses that pulled the grain carts before, they would be guaranteed to go to Weiguo this time.

So that night, Li Ran ordered the servants to replace the horses. At this time, the horses had a surplus and could be replaced frequently, and the speed also increased sharply.

……

After another two days of rushing like this, Li Ran followed the mark left by Sun Wu.And 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 sacrificial family caravan in front has also entered the territory of Weiguo, and it will arrive at Weidu Diqiu in two days.

Sun Wu was mixed in the caravan, and was not noticed by the sacrificers.

At the beginning, he was leaving a mark on Li Ran all the way, but as Li Ran couldn't catch up, he was at a loss.

He also knows that the two brothers Ji Wang and Ji Xun are not people who do big things at all. They transported grain to the state of Wei this time. The weight of Ji's grain cart was so uneven that it kept shaking, but they turned a blind eye to it and never checked it. One or two, still rushing forward.

If these grain carts were transported to Diqiu for the officials of Weiguo to receive, I am afraid that the lives of these two brothers would be over.

Later, he always wanted to find an opportunity to delay the progress of the Sacrifice Caravan on the way.However, Jishi's caravan was famously punctual, and the two brothers were really nervous enough to ignore what was going on around them.

"Hey, let's wait for a while. If it really doesn't work..."

Originally, Sun Wu had been instructed that if he entered Weiguo and approached Weidu, if they did not catch up with them, he could intentionally overturn a few grain carts to show the crowd.

It's just that, unless it is absolutely necessary, you can't act like this.Because if these two dudes saw this scene, they would run back to Zheng Guo immediately in fright, and Zheng Guo's trip would be a waste of time.

After all, there is still food for the government. If because of this incident, the relationship between Wei Guo and Zheng Guo is broken, the consequences will not be much better than now.

As they entered the territory of Weiguo, the tragedy caused by the drought in Weiguo gradually appeared before his eyes.

The roads are full of refugees, the fields are full of people, the wilderness is full of corpses, the air is filled with a rancid smell, the sound of women and children crying, and the voices of refugees begging for alms can be heard endlessly.

The closer you get to Diqiu, the more tragic this scene is, and even the final official road is full of refugees' corpses, and no one restrains them.

Hungry and dying everywhere, horrible, nothing more.

This made Sun Wu tremble. He originally thought that war was the cruelest thing in the world, but when he saw the scene before him, he couldn't help feeling ashamed of his ignorance.

Compared with the millions of floating corpses and bloodshed in the war, the sacrifices brought about by this natural disaster are even more tragic.

Because these common people have no room to struggle, or even a chance to resist, they can only let God keep taking their lives away.

They are like withered weeds all over the mountains and plains, and this natural disaster is like a spark, once it lands, it will be a prairie fire, and no one can stop it.

But what made Sun Wu even more indignant was that the sacrifice caravan was completely indifferent to seeing such a miserable situation along the way!
He was still on his way, without any thought of using the grain he brought in to alleviate the local disaster, but still thinking about transporting the grain to Diqiu and finishing the job.

How cold-blooded is this?

Don't they really take the lives of these common people seriously?

Don't they have only one thing in their minds to complete the task?
Sun Wu looked at Ji Wang and Ji Xun who were sitting drowsy in the carriage, and his heart was already burning with anger.

(End of this chapter)