Army of the Undead in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 139
When the smoke rose and the fragrance of the food overflowed, the moon had already hung in the sky, and the men and women who survived the disaster in Xingyang County were eating their first delicious meal in many days, although it was just a simple one. porridge.

Although the food that Liu Bian carried was less than half of what was left at the beginning, it was enough to feed these thousands of people for several days.In the end, he did not follow Li Su's strategy of selecting strong young men to recruit into soldiers, while the rest were ignored.Instead, people are looking for iron pots and clear water to cook porridge, which is used to relieve the only surviving people in Xingyang City.

Under the moonlight, these common people gathered together in twos and threes, sitting together in a group, holding rough tile bowls to enjoy the fragrance of porridge that they hadn't smelled for a long time.Everyone's faces were filled with the joy of being alive after the catastrophe. At this moment, just this simple bowl of porridge made them extremely satisfied.

Two thousand young men were selected by Li Su, equipped with the armored weapons he had just brought, and instantly became Liu Bian's soldiers. Although the combat effectiveness of these men was as poor as scum, they were better than nothing.

"Your Highness, do you really decide to waste food on these ordinary people? You know, if we just feed our newly recruited soldiers, the food can last them for half a month." Li Su came at this time Going to Liu Bian's side, looking at the people sitting under the moon in the distance, he said.

Liu Bian smiled, but did not answer, but asked instead: "Do you know why all the heroes in the world attacked Dong? Why did Cao Cao and Yuan Shao raise their arms and all the princes responded?"

"This." Li Su hesitated for a moment, wanted to say but didn't know where to start, after all, he was an old minister of Dong Zhuo's direct line, so he couldn't say that it was because of Dong Zhuo's cruelty and persecution of the Han family clan.

"Let me tell you." Liu Bian pointed to those soldiers who used to be Xiliang soldiers, but now they were resurrected as undead soldiers and said, "The Xiliang army's military planes are corrupt, and they have no discipline at all. They even burned, killed and looted the people. He did all kinds of evil, and at the most fundamental level, Dong Zhuo lost the hearts of the people, so the army of the princes attacked Sishui Pass like a bamboo without any hindrance."

"If we let these people die in agony from hunger and ignore them, wouldn't we become like Dong Zhuo in the long run?"

Of course, what Liu Bian still said is that these newly recruited soldiers must have relatives and friends of the common people. If he ignores them and only cares about these soldiers, it will inevitably make people feel chilled. Follow him wholeheartedly?
On this issue, Li Su rarely agreed with Liu Bian's opinion, but insisted that these common people should be abandoned.According to their estimates, the defeated army of Li Kuo and Guo Si will almost retreat here around tomorrow afternoon, and a bloody battle will be inevitable at that time, and these people will have no effect at all except wasting food.

"Oh, it's a pity that no one is available, and these newly recruited soldiers are not reliable. Otherwise, it would be a day's journey to Hongnong City. It is the best arrangement for people to bring these people to Hongnong City." Liu Bian thought in his heart. Sigh, Xingyang has become a dead city, and it is absolutely impossible to recover only by relying on these thousands of people.And Hongnong City should have resumed production now because of the water source. As long as there is food, the more people the better.This is exactly why Liu Bian tried his best to keep these common people.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Su and his recovered soldiers began to simply repair the city gate with stone and wood, and then stationed troops on the city, quietly waiting for the arrival of Li and Guo.And those people were not idle, and under Li Su's arrangement, they moved things like tiles to the city. After all, there were few people and they were all survivors, so it was easy to work together to fight against foreign enemies.

Originally, fighting outside the city was not much different from fighting inside the city, but these recruits had never been on the battlefield, so Li Su had no choice but to let them defend the city for battle.And Li Kuo and Guo Si's exhausted soldiers were determined not to attack rashly without knowing Xingyang.

On the way to Luoyang City, Tengu and two thousand undead soldiers firmly guarded the necessary road.According to Li Su's estimation, if Li urged Guo Si to see soldiers and horses guarding Xingyang City, he would definitely break through Luoyang, and they should have already experienced the power of the Tengu, so when the two roads were blocked, they could only divert Go to Hongnong, and when the time comes, accumulate troops to pursue and annihilate them all.

When everything is ready, all that remains is to wait.

Standing on the city wall, Liu Bian opened the eyes of the undead and looked, only to see the grievances flying in the air in the lifeless Xingyang city in front of him, and the dead souls are flying all over the sky in broad daylight, tens of thousands.These are the people who died in the city because of plague, natural disaster or drought, and their souls are still gathering in the city.And in this city, there must have been corpses everywhere. Fortunately, a heavy rain last night brought the plague toxin that had been spreading in the city under control, which allowed these thousands of dying people to survive. Like those villages, it has completely become a place of death.

I don't know how many small counties and villages have been affected by the plague in the world.Liu Bian sighed a little, no wonder he remembered someone saying that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the average life expectancy of people was only in their 20s, and very few survived. Now it seems that it may be because of the catastrophe of the plague s reason.

While Liu Bian was sighing, suddenly two groups of green lights appeared in his eyes, coming from the direction of Hongnong City, approaching from far away!

Looking back at the eyes of the undead, there are two war horses, and immediately two knights dressed as scouts are galloping towards the city. Seeing that they are wearing clothes, they look familiar.

Taking a closer look, I couldn't help but be surprised: Isn't this the scout specially trained by Yu Ji's subordinates in Hongnongcheng?

Yu Ji used to be one of the officers and soldiers of Why Jin, and later joined Zhang Jiao under the pseudonym Tang Zhou. He himself was very shrewd in strategy, and after several life-and-death dangers, he became extremely capable, so he could stick to it with a few thousand people. Live in Hongnong City.Among them, the sergeant's daily training is important, but the most important thing is because of Yu Ji's intelligence.

He is different from other soldiers, he often waits until the troops are dispatched before he arranges a few spies to investigate.In Hongnong City, there were nearly a hundred scouts just looking around, and some of them were arranged by him to hide in several nearby cities, such as Luoyang.In this way, the troubles and disturbances everywhere can't be hidden from his ears.

The two scouts also saw the dense army on the city at this time, they were startled, they couldn't help but stop quickly, and they were about to turn around and leave.

Liu Bian became anxious when he saw it, and quickly shouted: "You two stop, see who I am?"

Hearing what he said, the two scouts stabilized their horses and took a closer look.Although he couldn't see clearly, he could roughly recognize Liu Bian's appearance.Strange in my heart, I walked in and saw that it was Hongnong King Liu Bian, who immediately bowed and saluted: "Your Highness!"

(End of this chapter)