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Chapter 364 Follow me to grab it!

It was a big surprise for Zhang Zhe that Nuo Wa could speak Beibei dialect.

It turns out that the one who taught Nuwa to herd sheep was a disabled slave from Beibei.This made Zhang Zhe's interrogation of the three Beibei captives quite smooth.

These three Beibei people have been shocked to the bone by the "miracles" that have appeared one after another.The golden light all over the sky, hundreds of charred corpses in miserable death, Zhang Sanqi's divine light and the "thunderbolt" in Ganxiu's hand made these three guys [-] believe that it was Canggu God. With the light of God, he went down to earth and executed Tamer and others in person.

The prisoners of Beibei knew everything without saying anything, which made Zhang Zhe feel a little bit embarrassed.

He didn't expect that Tamer was actually Xingkong Khan's confidant, and this thousand-man team was even the Khan's pro-army directly under the king's tent.

Whether it is Tamer's disappearance or death, Xing Kong Khan will have doubts about Da Zheng, which in turn will affect his efforts to attack the Three Northern Kingdoms.

And if Xingkong Khan starts a serious investigation, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape the other party's eyes.After all, many people knew that Tamer left the camp to hunt down his party.

"This is Tamer who broke his promise and made an appointment with you, but he regretted it afterwards, which angered the great Canggu God and burned all the sinners to death! We are all guilty, please honorable Your lord made us your slaves as punishment!"

Sometimes ignorance can make a person extremely heroic, but sometimes ignorance can make a person extremely religious.

Tutuo, Mirha and Bakan, the three elite Beibei king army elites voluntarily became Zhang Zhe's slaves within half a day.They will be in charge of taking care of the horses under the hands of the old man, the horseman.

"Tamer led the troops out of the station, using hunting as an excuse. For the Hu people, it is very common to leave for ten days and half a month. What we have to do in the next few days is to raise these horses Son."

After Zhang Zhe finished speaking to everyone, he looked towards the wasteland below the high ground.

There are more than 500 horses galloping, including more than [-] majestic stallions.

"My lord, maybe we should send people to find the next water and grassland. Otherwise, if we go on the road like this, once we lack water and grass, neither humans nor horses can stand it for a few days."

It was Ma Yuzi who made this suggestion to Zhang Zhe.

Zhang Zhe also felt that it was reasonable, so he asked Zhang Sanqi and Ganxiu to bring twenty people and set off early to explore the road on forty newly acquired healthy horses.

Two days after Zhang Sanqi and the others set off, the condition of the mares stabilized.

Following Zhang Zhe's order, the soldiers disassembled the spears into five pieces again, wrapped them in oilcloth, packed them together with the steel plate, and placed them on their other horse.

All the soldiers embarked on the journey westward with one man and two horses, or one man and three horses.But even so, there are still more than 200 horses left unattended.Fortunately, there were three Beibei people and the old man Ma Yanzi, and they drove the horses skillfully, and followed the brigade.

After walking along the ancient road for more than a day, they found the mark left by Zhang Sanqi and others on the edge of the sand sea.Following the marks all the way, Zhang Zhe and the others arrived at a cave under a crack in the wilderness.

There is a pool of water in the depths of this cave, and because the temperature inside the cave is higher than the outside world, the cave is still covered with green grass at this moment.

Hundreds of horses swarmed up immediately, and they had never eaten grass so freely since the beginning of winter.

Zhang Zhe also found the letter left by Zhang Sanqi here, with human-like handwriting, like ghostly drawn symbols.

It was a coincidence that their group found this place.

Sanqi's Wu Renji and Ganxiu's telescope are what they rely on to find water sources.But when they reached the edge of the desert, there was no harvest.

Until a kite attacked Sanqi's Wuren chicken, Sanqi got angry and manipulated the Wuren chicken to chase and kill them all the way.But the speed of the kite was too fast, it only left an afterimage on Qianxiu's telescope, and then flew into the crack.

Zhang Sanqi originally wanted to demolish Yaozi's house, but he found this good place.As for the kite that dared to provoke Zhang Sanqi, let's not mention it, anyway, both Ganxiu and Sanqi said that the meat was too good.

"It seems that they entered the sea of ​​sand yesterday, let everyone rest for a day and prepare water and food, especially those big water bags I brought are filled!"

Zhang Zhe ordered Gao Deshu to do these things, but he took Nuwa aside and continued to learn Beibei dialect.The nano-robots in his body have a powerful auxiliary memory function, and it is estimated that in a few days, he will be able to speak Beibei dialect with Nuowa's characteristics.

On the second day, Zhang Zhe actually received a signal from Zhang Sanqi's walkie-talkie.

Although the signal was not good, it also showed that Zhang Sanqi hadn't gone very far.In this kind of situation where there is no electromagnetic interference at all and the terrain is flat, the maximum receiving distance of this magically modified walkie-talkie can reach [-] kilometers.

Zhang Sanqi and his group probably lost their way.Sure enough, the guy who said he learned to use the "compass" is a lie.

After receiving Zhang Zhe's instructions through the walkie-talkie, Zhang Sanqi adjusted his direction and quickly disappeared from the channel.It seems that this time is in the right direction.

Somewhere in the desert, Zhang Sanqi stood alone on the sand dunes, carefully put away the replaced battery, and let his beloved Wuren chicken fly again.

This time he got smarter, covered the appearance of Wu Renji with the feathers of the previous harpy eagle, and kept making circling flight marks in the sky.

After changing the batteries twice, the two sand hawks were attracted by the Wuren chicken. They thought there was prey under the Wuren chicken, so the Wuren chicken kept circling here.

It's a pity that there is no prey below, but there is a group of two-legged beasts holding crossbow arrows, very ferocious.

Sha Ying, who was deceived, could only leave obediently.

And the "stupid bird" who couldn't figure out what Twolegs couldn't mess with had been following them.The enhanced version of the Wuren chicken, which is tens of thousands in size, also has limited battery life. Fortunately, the two sand eagles did not fly very far, and landed [-] miles to the southwest.

There is a small oasis here.

For thousands of years, almost no humans have arrived here.

After seeing the oasis, everyone in the exploration team cheered loudly.At the same time, their awe of Sanqi's metal eagle became more and more intense.

After resting in the oasis for half a day, Zhang Sanqi continued to call Zhang Zhe on the walkie-talkie.

According to the agreement, the rear brigade should have entered the sea of ​​sand at this time.

Zhang Zhe didn't move straight forward, but after entering the sand sea, he maneuvered in an arc with a radius of fifty miles from the starting point in order to receive signals from Sanqi from their respective possible directions.

After receiving the signal, follow the prompts of the exploration team to move towards the water source.

The second day after Zhang Zhe entered the desert, he successfully arrived at the oasis, and when they entered the oasis, they met two of Zhang Sanqi's personal soldiers, and only then did they know that Zhang Sanqi and the others had not left for long.

Zhang Sanqi used all his bad thoughts on the Sha Ying couple.He sent people to guard the water source of the oasis all night to prevent the Sand Eagle from approaching. Finally, the Sand Eagle flew to the northwest helplessly.

Wu Renji hurriedly followed, but this time he lost track.

Zhang Sanqi and Ganxiu discussed it, and simply followed the route that Sha Ying flew away, and went straight forward, leaving two people in the oasis to continue driving away the Sha Ying couple who might kill their carbine.

Zhang Zhe and others rested in the oasis for another day, but the Sand Eagle couple did not come back.

They were played by Zhang Sanqi with the same move again, and Wu Renji's circling attracted them again, and then led the group of two-legged beasts to the next water source.

On the fifth day, the pair of sand eagles left the range of the sand sea in grief and anger, because their last water source was also occupied by the group of nasty two-legged beasts.

Anyway, there is a grassland not far away, and they are going to have a look there.

On the third day of December, Zhang Zhe's team walked out of the desert one by one.They pass through four oases, two of which have never been discovered by humans.And there is an oasis that is also very special. It is full of traces of massacres. It is the place where the Li family, Shangguan family and Luo family committed crimes.

In these four oases, Zhang Zhe deliberately stayed overnight.He purchased a batch of solar signal towers from the Internet, a set of [-] kilograms, and he installed a set in each oasis.

When he passes by here next time, it will be more convenient and safe. Of course, this convenience and safety are only for him.

The sixth day of December.

On the barren land, a dilapidated city appeared in the distance.

Yunshang County City.

Zhang Sanqi immediately assembled his spear, put on a big flag with the word "Zhang" in black regular script with a white background and red border, and stood behind Zhang Zhe's horse.

Geng Liang also took a spear, picked up a long flag with a red border and a white background, and wrote four large characters "Yunshang Taishou".

Dazheng Shangjin, so all the flags are mainly white.According to the Dazheng law system, the edge of the official flag must match the rank of the official.

Since Zhang Zhe is now a fourth-rank official, his clothes are dark crimson, that is, dark red, so the edges of his flag are embellished with dark red.

The prefect's banner drove straight down the city, and when a few commoners saw it, they turned their heads and ran away.

Yunshang County, which has lost the management of the government, naturally no one will organize to welcome the new prefect.

Zhang Zhe drove his horse in first, and the first thing he saw was the completely demolished city gate.He remembered that Ma Yanzi said that after the barbarians burned the city gates and refused to repair them, the city people took the destroyed city gates as firewood one after another.

There were no yamen buildings in Yunshang County for a long time. On the original site of the yamen that was burned to the ground, people successively occupied the repair yards.And the last group of people who occupy here are Li, Shangguan and Luo's family!

Zhang Zhe was dressed in a crimson official robe, straddling his horse and carrying a knife, and led the rumbling cavalry to the location of the three families.

Sure enough, this is the center of the central axis of the city, and there are only three courtyards instead of the usual yamen.

The three families returned home with their families, and there were not many housekeepers left behind.

Geng Liang, Xie Lun, and Gao Deshu each brought ten soldiers, kicked open the door of the three houses and broke in, and drove out the dozen or so people left by the three houses in a short time.

"How dare you invade where the government office is?!"

Seeing the young man on horseback in a crimson official robe, the left-behind members of the three families were all terrified and unable to speak.Fortunately, these are slaves of the three families, Zhang Zhe didn't make it difficult for them, and announced on the spot that they would be released from slavery and let them go back to their respective families.

These three families were all dead, and since this was originally the land used by the Yamen, Zhang Zhe occupied these three courtyards with peace of mind.

The Li Mansion with the largest courtyard was customized by him as the office of the yamen, the courtyard of the Shangguan's house belonged to him, and the courtyard of the Luo's house was used as a place for the soldiers to live.

When the new prefect arrived, hundreds of warriors and hundreds of horses took over the houses of Li's, Shangguan's and Luo's before dismounting.

The news quickly spread throughout the county.

It's winter now, and most of the people in the county have rushed back to Maodong. As for those who haven't come back, they probably won't come back again.

On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, this day is not a year or a festival, but the people in the county and city have begun to visit relatives and friends.Almost always after exchanging a few pleasantries, they would talk about the new prefect.

After all, the life in Yunshang County is hard, and everyone counts their days. If the new prefect raises tax money, what should we do?As for fighting the new prefect, forget it.

A total of [-] warriors from the three families of the Li family can run amok, not to mention that the prefect has more warriors.Naturally, the common people couldn't discuss anything useful, so they worried all night for no reason.

In the early morning of the second day, the common people found that there was a big banner on the dilapidated city tower.

A big flag with the word "Zheng" on a red border and a white background fluttered in the cold wind.

Other than that, the new prefect only posted an Anmin notice on the gate of the city, said some polite words, and did not do anything else.

The county residents continued to suffer day after day, their stomachs were still empty, and the Chinese New Year was approaching, and the smoke from every household began to dissipate and no longer rose.

This situation continued until the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, the New Year's Eve of the year.

A person died at the entrance of the Da Niujiao Grain Store.

Da Niujiao Grain Store does not sell grain, but a place to collect grain.This is the grain harvesting area opened by the Mulet Department of the tribe closest to Yunshang County.

After all, too many cattle and sheep starved to death this year, and the Mullert Department also lacked food for the winter.

And the way this tribe buys food is also peculiar.There were more than a dozen barbarians in the store, and every day someone would go out, go to the street and use a knife to arrest a person, and then ask that person's family to bring food to redeem.

If there is no food, feed that person to the dogs.

Today, the barbarians captured a girl again. The girl's widowed mother ran over to her death in front of the grain store, where there was no grain to redeem her.

More than a dozen barbarians, armed with scimitars, looked triumphantly at the angry county residents around them.

"You Central Plains dogs!" The leading barbarian laughed, pointing at the woman's corpse on the ground, "There are five hundred warriors in my Muller Special Department, and you don't even have a decent kitchen knife! If you have too many people, give them all Uncle, spread out! Be careful, Uncle will go to your house tomorrow to exchange people for food!"

Suddenly there was a sound of the bowstring, and a sharp arrow shot directly into the forehead of the leader of the barbarians.

With the sound of horseshoes, Zhang Zhe with a livid face came riding on horseback, and Xie Lun behind him was drawing his bow and sword.The crowd dispersed one after another, and they all turned their attention to the man who was supposed to be their parents' official.

When more than a dozen barbarians saw that their leader had been killed, they were all furious and killed them.

It's a pity that they have been rampant in the city for too long, but they forgot that the other party is not an unarmed county citizen.

"Slaughter them all!"

Twenty cavalry rode out behind Zhang Zhe and fired crossbows. As a result, only one person rushed ten steps ahead of Zhang Zhe's horse.Geng Liang galloped out from one side of his horse, and with a swing of his sword, he cut the man into two pieces, including the man and the saber.

"Okay!" Yunshang people were not afraid of killing, but applauded one after another.

"I'm late!" Zhang Zhe looked at the woman's body lying on the ground in a deep voice, "But you must also be men?! Just thirteen barbarians scare hundreds of you?!"

A man immediately refused to accept it: "You give me a knife, and I will go out of the city immediately and kill a few dogs!"

Someone also shouted: "Prefect, what you say is so unreasonable. If we kill these people, and the Muller special forces come to wash the city, will you guard or not?"

"Guard it!" Someone laughed, "There is no city gate, and the city wall is leaking, how can we guard it?"

At this time, a neighbor had come over to help collect the woman's body, and also rescued three imprisoned children from the grain store, including the woman's daughter.

Seeing the little girl crying on her mother's corpse, everyone fell silent.

At this time Zhang Sanqi came out of the grain store and whispered a few words in Zhang Zhe's ear.

"Labor and capital give you a knife, do you dare to kill a barbarian?" Zhang Zhe suddenly asked the first man who spoke to him.

The man's face turned red all of a sudden, and he shouted while pulling his neck.

"Give me the knife!"

Zhang Zhe ignored him, but looked at everyone around him with a sneer.

"I have my own way to defend Yunshang City, but do you have the guts to kill people?" He casually pointed to the grain store next to him, "I have ordered the grain store of Mueller's department, and the grain in it is about It can make half a meal for the whole city, and it can also make three or four meals for thousands of people. But what should we do next?"

Everyone looked at the young prefect, who was not on the verge of starving to death?
"After half the meal," Zhang Zhe's tone became more and more cold, "Are you going to prepare for the funeral for my mother? Let the mother and the baby starve to death? Next spring, can we survive?"

An old man came out and cupped his hands and said, "My lord, you are the official of the parents. What do you think we should do? We can't produce food. In previous years, half of the city's people were often starved to death in disasters. Whose children don't help us?" I have the strength, but there is no place to use it?"

Zhang Zhe didn't answer the old man's words, but looked at the more and more county residents gathered around.

"People who have run out of food at home, wives, children, and parents who refuse to open their mouths to eat food, all raise their hands for me to see!"

All the citizens of Yunshang County were stunned, but unexpectedly, a half-old child raised his hand first in the crowd.

Soon each hand was raised either simply or hesitantly, and after a while, a forest of arms appeared in front of Zhang Zhe.

"I don't have that much food for you!"

The county residents were in an uproar, but Zhang Zhe immediately said again: "So I decided to grab it! It's just that there is a shortage of manpower, who dares to go?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Lun threw a hatchet and smashed it in front of the man who said he was going to kill the barbarians.

Zhang Zhe pointed at the ax again, and shouted loudly: "Either, before learning, half of the city's people will starve to death this winter. Or, go out with me to grab a wave. It's amazing that half of the city's people will die. My official Definitely die before you. I don’t have knives, axes, labor and capital are enough!”

"The rules on the prairie, I have already understood the rules in just a few days since I came here. Why don't you understand after all these years?" Zhang Zhe tore off his official uniform, revealing the iron armor inside, "Labor and management If you want to take thousands of bloody people to destroy Mulet, do other tribes dare to challenge us?!"

Hearing Zhang Zhe's words, the man before him suddenly picked up the ax on the ground.

"Prefect, count me in!"

"Now, I will ask you again, how many people dare to follow me to grab food, raise your hands!" Stimulated by the contemptuous question, the arms once again formed a forest.

Zhang Zhe sighed in his heart, the people on the cloud are brave, and they are very useful!

(End of this chapter)