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Chapter 58
After the challenge, two days later, everything was ready.

The east gate of the fortress was wide open, suona shaking the sky and prayer flags hanging high.The four-yearly sending spirits back to their hometowns has officially started.

Ren Ning stood upright like a javelin.

In addition to the weapons that he carried with him, he also had an extra flag.

Block the falling stars with one knife and one sword.

It is the Xingluo military flag.

Boom!
He gave a heavy meal and raised the scarlet flag.

wow wow wow.

Fifty energetic soldiers assembled quickly and lined up in a straight line in front of him.

These are his temporary subordinates who sent the spirits back home this time, responsible for escorting the spirits of Xingluo County, Yingchuan County, and Yunzhong County in the southwest.

Ren Ning glanced at the team.

Most of them are unfamiliar to him, but there are also familiar ones.For example, Lei Er led his big red horse to run to Lei, and Ma Dali, who tried to challenge him three days ago, was among them.

He didn't know most of the people in the queue, but everyone in the queue knew him.

Three days ago, Ma Dali took the stage to challenge. Ren Ning shot dead the spy who tried to murder the military doctor through the crowd, shocking the entire fortress.

Even the general defending the fortress came out to inquire about the situation in person after hearing the news.

However, many people who were interested deliberately measured the distance between the two sides at that time, and they were amazed by Ren Ning's arrow skills on the spot, and they were so impressed that they fell to the ground.

Soldiers have always worshiped the strong.

No matter how young Ren Ning was, he easily won the approval of other small soldiers and veterans just by virtue of his unique skills.

Ren Ning didn't think too much, and shouted in a cold voice: "Send the spirit back to the southwestern direction of the hometown to guard, report the number!"

As Qianchang, Ma Dali is the highest-ranked person in the ranks except Ren Ning.

"One!" he began loudly.

Lei Er next to him hurriedly answered loudly, "Two!"

"three!"

"Four"

"Fives"

……

"Fifty!"

Ren Ning nodded, and pointed the military flag in his hand to the east: "Let's go, let's go home!"

"Yes!" The fifty people shouted their orders, got on their horses, protected the fifty carriages in the middle, and slowly exited the east gate.

Fifty carriages carried a total of fifteen coffins and [-] altars of ashes, in addition to ten carts of grain and three carts of relics of martyrs.

Those wagons carrying coffins or urns were stuffed with weeds and shrubs, which blocked the space tightly.In order to avoid accidents when the road is bumpy.

The convoy headed slowly, passing one small village after another near the fort, and one or two carriages would join in from time to time.

Those were the women's family members and children returning home with them.

These female relatives and children are almost illiterate.They couldn't even tell whether their hometown was in Xingluo County, Yingchuan County or Yunzhong County.

But they recognized the flag in Ren Ning's hand, and they knew that they could go home by following the military flag embroidered with "one sword and one sword against falling stars".

Even so, Ren Ning checked the vouchers issued to them by the fortress one by one to ensure that these women, children and children did not follow the wrong team.

The team stopped and went, starting from the fort in the morning until the sun went down in the evening, and they hadn't walked forty miles.

Just parked opposite Xiaotianyuan.

And the motorcade behind Ren Ning has formed a long queue, as many as a hundred vehicles.

Seeing that it was getting dark, after choosing an open place, Ren Ning ordered to stop for the night.

Immediately, a soldier was ordered to run backwards on horseback, reminding loudly again and again while running.

"Stop to cook and spend the night here. The women and children are in the middle, outside the carriage enclosure. The weather is dry and the things are dry, pay attention to fire prevention..."

Not long after, hundreds of carriages formed a huge circle, surrounding hundreds of women and children.

Common fireproof, waterproof, and uncommon insectproof and poisonproof.

Ren Ning personally led the team to check everything.

More than half an hour passed, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he sat down and took out the horse rations to feed Zhuifeng.

Ma Dali was silent for a while, then came over to salute.

"Commander, bring all the women and children you want to bring today. After the team is lined up, the speed will be much faster in the future. According to the previous speed, you can reach Pingxi City the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."

"Pingxi City!" Ren Ning knew this city well.

The situation of Yanfeng Fortress is special, it is directly under the imperial military department and is not subject to local jurisdiction.But the fort itself is within the territory of Pingxi County.

And Pingxi City is the capital of Pingxi County, a small and medium-sized city with a population of just over 50.

Patting the side, Ren Ning motioned him to sit down, "So you have experience, Ma, so sit down and talk about it."

Ma Dali was slightly taken aback.

He was nearly forty years old and had served in the fortress for more than 20 years, so he naturally had experience in sending souls back to their hometowns.It's just that every time it's the same as this time, he can only be an ordinary guard, not the history of security command.

"Sit down." Seeing that he was lost in thought, Ren Ning patted the ground next to him.

"It is said that the master is a teacher. I can say that I don't know anything about sending souls back to their hometowns. Since you understand, old horse, I ask you to give me some advice on this trip."

Ma Dali couldn't believe it for a moment, but after he realized it, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

He failed to challenge Ren Ning in public three days ago, and thought that Ren Ning would give him small shoes to wear on the road, and then he would peel off his skin if he was not dead.

When I heard it at this moment, although the other party was young, he was also open-minded, and he didn't have any thoughts in this regard at all.

Ma Dali sat down silently.

He habitually stroked his beard all over his face, and suddenly realized something in his heart.

Perhaps this is the reason why the fortress favored Ren Ning when sending the spirit back to his hometown, and specially chose him to be the security commander.

"Then I'll just say it straight." Ma Dali put aside his messy thoughts and continued in detail.

"It will take several months to go back this way, and anything can happen. Especially there are hundreds of women, children and children in the team, and the long-distance journey is the most prone to illness."

"Therefore, it is suggested that the commanding envoy should send people into the city to buy some medicines when they arrive at Pingxi City or every big city. For example, medicines to treat colds, headaches...etc."

Ma vigorously read the names of a bunch of common diseases.

"Okay." Ren Ning nodded, took out a pen and paper and recorded silently.

Seeing this, Ma Dali was even more refreshed, "There are so many horses in the team, and only ten carts of food and grass are definitely not enough to chew, and we need to buy them on the road."

"Food, isn't the station on the road ready?" Ren Ning said.

Cough!

Ma Dali coughed twice with a strange expression.

He looked at Ren Ning's young face, and was a little stunned.

"Our team of sending spirits back to their hometowns can logically ask the post stations along the way to provide food and grass. It's just that the post stations on the road don't have as many commanders as imagined. And begging others is not an easy task."

"For example, Yicheng said that there is no food and grass in the station, so we can't go in and check it. Besides, if we can kill one, can we kill all the way?"

Ren Ning was taken aback for a moment and quickly realized.

It seems that the king of Hades loves to deal with little devils, and the emperor of Shan Gao is far away from the sun, and these bullshit things happen in every world and era.

"Then we also want to buy food and grass in Pingxi City ahead?" he asked.

"That's not necessary." Ma Dali slyly stroked his beard, "Commander, have you heard of caravans?"

"What about the caravan?" Ren Ning was at a loss.

Ma Dali drew a long line on the ground.

"If our team wants to go back to Xingluo, we have to go all the way east from Pingxi City, pass through five counties and reach the Xinglan Grand Canal before turning southwest to return to Xingluo."

Ren Ning nodded.

As the commander, he certainly knew the route from the fortress back to Xingluo County.

Xingluo County is a basin that was smashed by a meteor.The surrounding areas are either high mountains and dense forests or cliffs. With hundreds of carts of columbariums, women and children, it is absolutely impossible to go directly to the southwest from the fortress.

Therefore, it is necessary to go east first, pass through half of the cloud and then turn southwest.This way is better.

Seeing that Ren Ning understood, Ma Dali continued to speak.

"Of the five counties to the east, the roads in three counties are difficult. Some caravans may need some protection."

"And we can provide such protection. As for the caravan, they just pay us a little protection fee and distribute some food and grass."

Ren Ning was speechless.

It is understandable that the caravan needs protection in the Xiliang Prairie next door.I didn't expect to be protected after returning to the territory, what is this called!

Ma Dali smiled.

"Old Ma, I have lived for most of my life, and I know some caravan owners. If the commander needs it, I can go to talk to them first. When the team arrives in Pingxi City, we will go east together."

(End of this chapter)