Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 273: Civilization Emerges from Barbarism
"W-what's going on?"

In the middle of the night, Sigui, startled by the shaking sound coming from the ground, suddenly sat up from the ground. He tried his best to keep his eyes open without blinking in the darkness.

Although he had not yet adapted to the darkness and everything in front of him was still pitch black, he had a vague feeling that something extraordinary had happened.

The vibrations on the ground were not the noises of the herdsmen grazing their livestock, but something more violent, coming from far away.

"call out--"

Before Sigui could think about it, suddenly, amazing rays of light appeared in his dark vision.

He raised his head and looked at a piece of "fire rain" flying down from the sky not far away, which instantly illuminated the entire night sky.

Just as it was about to fall, there was another crackling sound.

Immediately afterwards, the screams of the Xirong people began one after another.

Sigui only heard the Xirong people around him chattering in a barrage of words that he could not understand but were probably curse words.

“Come, come?!”

The firelight flashed across Sigui's face, and the panic on his face gradually turned into surprise, and finally the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

He quickly woke up the person next to him, and the others gradually woke up from their drowsiness and became terrified.

"What on earth... is going on?"

"It's coming!" Sigui shouted out his guess excitedly.

"what?"

"An Guo, An Guo, our people are attacking us!!"

Sigui felt even more excited as he listened to the chaos around him. The lifeless eyes of the people around him lit up at this moment. Some of them even looked around and tears began to fall as they looked around.

"Can we, can we really go back?"

Mei Qian deliberately chose to launch the raid in the dark of night because the noise of marching during the day was too loud, and the darkness was also conducive to her actions.

Mei Qian used the dead meal to invite the heroic spirits of the Western Rong soldiers to possess them, and this time he used the same trick again.

Because it was not intended to create a very scary scene, it did not cause the Xirong people to think of ghosts.

They were just suddenly hacked to death by their own people in the dark. When something happened, they didn't even have the chance to speak or see clearly before they died with hatred in their hearts.

Nasha was commanding the frontal attack. Before Mei Qian took her away from Xinquan, she had followed Mei Qian to the workshop and watched Mei Qian experiment with the preparation of black gunpowder to make these arrows with explosive effects.

Sure enough, when the light was shot into the enemy's opposite side, it illuminated the enemy's painful face in the darkness, which made Nasha very excited. She even thought that in the future, she would have to let the Guli Army in Tianxue City prepare this thing, so that they would be able to face the horse thieves in the Western Regions.

As for Mei Qian, Nasha turned her head and looked at him sitting on the horse with a bowl of rice in his hand, her expression becoming more and more confused.

Where did this bowl of rice come from?
"Ahhh, girl, girl, look at me, I just shot the enemy on the opposite side!"

It was the first time that Lingjiao followed Mei Qian on a march. He was wearing light armor and had just gone to the front row of archers to show off his archery skills.

Sure enough, it is easier to shoot someone standing still than to shoot someone running on horseback!
Seeing Lingjiao's excitement, Mei Qian also started laughing. Seeing that the opposite side was in chaos, Mei Qian also ordered further attacks!
And tonight, the Xirong people stationed in Xitu are destined to suffer a crushing defeat.

Mei Qian knew that there were ordinary people from Xirong here. Apart from the soldiers who were chased and strangled by Mei Qian, Mei Qian did not chase the ordinary herdsmen who ran away, but surrendered directly...

Mei Qian decided to pack up everything and take it away.

It would be possible to take them back as slaves, or have them naturalized as An people, or to use these Xirong people to train a group of spies to infiltrate Xirong.

When the sky brightened again, Mei Qian had already begun to count the results of the battle.

"Sir, this time we annihilated 13,000 Western Rong soldiers, 103 of our men were killed and 418 were injured." Although the number was much less than the death toll of the Western Rong soldiers on the opposite side, Nasha couldn't help but shed tears when she reported the numbers.

Mei Qian asked Nasha to take the fallen comrades back and bury them properly, and said:

"They are all heroes who are as good as any other man. I will report the results of the battle here truthfully. I heard that the people of Tianxue City are good at singing and dancing. Why don't we stage another song and dance to be passed down through the ages, like Guli did."

Mei Qian once heard Nasha say that there was a huge Guli stone sculpture in Tianxue City, which was specially built by people after Prince Jing established the Guli Army.

Mei Qian was deeply moved when he heard this. Guli, as her name suggests, is a brilliant everlasting flower on the western border of Anguo.

She always stands there shining brightly, announcing to the world that there was once a very outstanding woman here.

Her glory inspires subsequent women to keep moving forward.

"Okay."

Nasha was also very happy to hear this, and couldn't help but curiously asked, "I hope that one day the dance troupe of Tianxue City can sing those legends and stories all over Anguo."

Influenced by the culture of the Western Regions, there are also many bards and dancers in Tianxue City who sing and dance to remember history. Mei Qian was naturally happy to hear this and said, "Wait until the world is unified and the seas are clear and the rivers are peaceful."

The two of them talked for a while longer there. The soldier over there was so excited because he had counted a large number of cattle and sheep that he couldn't breathe. He ran here with his face flushed and mentioned this to Mei Qian.

"Sir, General, here, here are nearly 30,000 sheep, 2,000 cattle, and 5,000 fine war horses!"

"Oh my God!"

Don’t blame Mei Qian for being shocked; she had never seen such a number before.

Even Nasha was shocked: "It's spring now, the herders should have been separated by a lot, how could it be..."

Before Nasha could wonder, Mei Qian had already guessed the reason, so she asked, "Are there any more people from our Anguo who were captured?"

"As you expected, there are nearly 2,000 Anguo people, some of whom said they were from Li Su Mansion and were arrested last year for unknown reasons."

"Oh~ This is the place where the princess is investigating missing people, right?" Mei Qian seemed to understand something when he heard this, and went to check on the group of people who were captured. Mei Qian asked in detail and couldn't help but be shocked.

"what happened?"

Nasha had been following Mei Qian at this time. Seeing Mei Qian's expression, she couldn't help but ask a question.

"The Xirong people are not the barbarians we imagine. They are also learning and making progress."

"what?"

"Didn't you hear what those people said just now?"

"Most of them are craftsmen from Anguo, or at least farmers who are stronger than others. And... I also saw a teacher. Do you think they captured these people and just enslaved them?"

As Mei Qian spoke, Nasha gradually understood what she meant.

The Xirong people also needed to be enlightened. They also began to gradually form their own civilization in the midst of barbaric plunder...

In fact, Sigui’s perspective is also quite interesting. He is not a perfect person, but a poor man who was swept along in the war.

Seeing Mei Qian and Gulijun, a female army, from his perspective, he would also express some of the world's prejudices and shocks through his subsequent conversations with others.

I saw some little darlings leave a message saying that he should die quickly hahaha. Although he secretly went to Cricket Man and was quite jealous, he finally stood from the perspective of a poor ordinary person like him and suggested that Mei Qian work hard to get rid of the miserable situation of being a slave at that time.

Sigui is also a multifaceted and complex little person~
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I received a call from ZS last night. In the next few days I will have to go out every day to get ZS’s stamp.

My mother has been recuperating at home these two days due to acute pelvic inflammatory disease, so the housework fell on my shoulders.

So, I did all kinds of housework under the command of my mother's cleanliness... I wanted to "crawl in the dark" on the floor every day...