Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 140
In the Wangming Camp, 3000 people were directly selected from the captured Chuangjun, and Wu Dayan was the deputy commander.

However, for the migrating people, there are early benefits and late benefits.

As soon as possible, the summer grain is not mature yet, the common people have less family property, it is easier to migrate, the disadvantage is also very obvious, and there is not enough grain.

If he moved late, he was afraid that Chuangjun would react, and Li Zicheng would be in trouble when he returned to Guanzhong.

In this regard, Zhu Yixi made a decision: "Migrate as soon as possible, and send troops to collect the summer grain left behind."

So, the army moved together and headed towards Ruzhou and Runing.

There are only [-]% of the people in Nanyang, and there are millions of people. Zhu Yixi thinks that other places in Henan can't be too bad.

Unexpectedly, just after passing Fangcheng, his fantasy was shattered before his eyes.

Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng three times back then, with millions of people, and Henan has been corrupted.

This kind of misery made Zhu Yixi not see many forts along the road...

After walking for a hundred miles, there is no human habitation near the official road, but the strange thing is that peaches and plums are everywhere, and the fruit is abundant, which is eye-catching.

"Strange, there is no village nearby, why are there so many fruit trees?"

Sun Xuan couldn't help but wondered as she looked at the fruit trees that were so full of fruit and bent their branches.

Hearing this, Sun Changzhou frowned, and after a long time, he sighed:

"For these flowers and trees, the best fertilizer is human corpses. Thousands of people have fallen into the ditch, so that they can grow vigorously."

"Similarly, no one picks so many fruits, which also proves that there are few pedestrians, and there are even no people in the surrounding area."

"Ah?" Zhu Yixi was picking the fruit and giving it to his mouth, while the soldiers on the side were even more flustered and gnawing on it.

"Your Highness, don't eat."

Sun Xuan said hurriedly, her face full of concern and tension.

"It's not a problem." Zhu Yixi looked at the army behind him wolfing down, and couldn't help but continued: "In today's world, it's not bad to be able to eat enough. How can I take this into consideration."

"The soldiers can eat, but I can't?"

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, is this better than eating human flesh?"

Sun Xuan nodded, and the husband and wife followed suit, picking and eating.

When Sun Changzhou heard the words, he was greatly impressed and said: "Your Highness's words are quite like a wise king."

Zhu Yixi smiled, since the news of King Feng was passed on, he has heard too much flattery like this.

With a certain identity, even if he farts, it is delicious.

Throughout the ages, power has been so intoxicating and magical.

As far as Ruzhou is a huge prefectural city, there are only 3000 people, and the defensive force is only [-].

Just like this, Chuangjun was so hungry that his eyes glistened with hunger.

Zhu Yixi cooked a pot of porridge, and they surrendered.

The empty city was full of rubble, and there were only a few people walking on the streets, and no one was seen for a long time.

Ditches, dilapidated houses, a large number of corpses, human bones, were abandoned at will, open to the outside, and the grass is growing.

Rabbits and wolves patrol the streets in broad daylight without fear of people. Facing the arrival of the army, they even dare to show their teeth angrily, with murderous and greedy eyes.

"Fucheng is no different than mountains and forests."

Zhu Yixi was riding a horse, looking at the hordes of hungry wolves and the overflowing animals, he couldn't help saying coldly:
"These beasts have already tasted the taste of human flesh, so they can't stay any longer. I will kill them all."

"Obey!" The whole army was dispatched to encircle and suppress Ruzhou City.

When the people of Ruzhou heard that Master Wang was coming back, they couldn't avoid it. They curled up tremblingly, praying for the protection of their ancestors.

What surprised them was that there was no sound of knocking on the door for a long time, but a lot of howling wolves sounded instead.

So, the whole family hid in the doors and windows, watching through the gaps.

I saw that this officer army, which was very different from the previous ones, started to catch the wild wolves in groups of three or four.

"Ouch-"

The ferocious wolves have roamed the streets for several years. This is the first time they meet a ruthless character. How dare their prey resist their guts?

Its will never admit defeat.

For a time, the two collided more violently.

However, beasts are beasts after all. In the encirclement and suppression of ironware and muskets, four claws are hard to beat and many hands start a one-sided massacre.

Wild boars are even more in groups, not afraid of people, and rampant.

Even, during this hunting activity, there were several tigers entrenched in the house, and the tigers roared endlessly.

In the end, I still use a musket, if a three-stage shot is not enough, then two shots.

In the evening, Zhu Yixi was taken aback by counting the harvest.

In Ruzhou City, there are more than 500 wild wolves hunted and killed, and dozens of wolf packs.

There are hundreds of wild boars.

There are three fierce tigers, extremely fierce.

The rest are rabbits, deer, dogs, badgers, etc., in the thousands.

The number of wounded soldiers also exceeded a hundred.

"Good guy, this is not a city. There are more prey in the forest than in the mountains, and there is a shortage of bears."

Zhu Yixi was amazed. It was too exaggerated for people to retreat from the wild and enter. The army is like this. With thousands of weak people, they are really no match.

In the north, Kaifeng is a country of Ze, and Luoyang is in ruins, not to mention.

"Give me all the skin and chop the meat, set up a pot, cook it into broth, and reward the brothers."

There are hundreds of thousands of catties of meat piled up like a mountain, and the crowd is excited, so attractive.

However, he still has a lot of [-] soldiers left, which is just right to buy people's hearts.

Zhu Yixi looked at the broken windows and rotten houses along the street, and sighed: "Beat the gongs and drums, let the people in the whole city come out to eat broth!"

"Clang-crack-"

"Come out to eat meat. In front of the magistrate's yamen, each person has a bowl of broth. Don't wait until it's out of date!"

"Come out to eat meat—"

With a sound of shouting, Ruzhou City instantly became commotion.

"Dad, is this true?"

In a fairly tidy house, two malnourished boys with sallow complexions, eight or nine years old, licked their lips and turned their heads to ask.

"It should be true!"

Wang Jun, the prime minister of Jiaxian County, Ruzhou, squinted his eyes, looked at the soldiers beating on the street, and began to think.

The summer harvest is approaching, but there is not much food in Ruzhou City, and the nearby counties and countryside are almost completely depopulated.

This also means that he only has a few days left to store food, and it will be gone after eating.

"They went to fight wolves and didn't rob us. They must be the real masters. We have no choice. Let's go out!"

As he spoke, he took the hungry hands of his two sons and slowly opened the door.

Half an hour later, a large group of people with disheveled hair, like savages, ran out with cloth strips and naked clothes.

Apparently, all shame bowed their heads before hunger.

The sallow, emaciated, and swollen people all lined up, looking around, wanting to get the porridge.

There are hundreds of big pots, boiling broth, and the fragrance is overflowing, which attracts a series of gurgling sounds.

Zhu Yixi shook his head. Those who can survive are either wealthy, officials, or gentry. In a sense, they are all useful people.

At least, it is more useful than ordinary people.

Only these people can persist until now.

Everyone had a bowl of meat soup, and everyone licked their bowls clean.

But everyone was still not satisfied, standing on tiptoe, eager to have another bowl, but the deterrence of the army prevented them from being presumptuous.

Zhu Yixi stood on the high platform and counted just now. All the people together are only in the early three thousand, and he will take them all back.

"Everyone, I am the King of Hanyang of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yixi. This time I came to Ruzhou to bring you back to Nanyang and escape from this ghost land."

"Clean up tonight and leave the city tomorrow."

As soon as these words came out, everyone cheered.

Unexpectedly, many people even sat on the ground without moving around.

Zhu Yixi frowned, and he asked a middle-aged man who was leading two children, "Why don't you go back and pack your things?"

"Your Majesty, it's not that we don't want to, it's just that we are afraid that your army will move too fast and fail to keep up, so we will stay here waiting to die."

Wang Jun said bitterly.

　The dragon set Wang Jun came on the stage.

　　In addition, I would like to thank the book friend WineQ for the reward. Compared with the starting point of [-], it is quite a lot. I must thank you

　　
　
(End of this chapter)