Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 144 Don’t abandon, don’t give up

A huge team meandered south. Looking at nearly 100,000 rescued compatriots, Lu Mou felt a great sense of accomplishment.

There are these compatriots who go back, and the composition of the population is overwhelmingly men, strong men. Women were tortured to death by the Mongols because they were old and weak. These people, just under the nourishment of beef, mutton and tea in these five days, have recovered a lot. As long as they enter the Central Plains and have a few meals of millet porridge and white steamed buns, they will all be strong laborers immediately.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty, which was as big as its own palm, increased its population. Of the 10 million acres of wasteland, we can contract another one to two million acres. Next year's household department will increase its income by another three to four hundred thousand. And I also gained a good reputation. This really accomplishes multiple things with one stone.

And these gold and silver things don't count, and those things that bring trouble to my father's advantage have nothing to do with me.

But after walking for five days, we had only traveled two hundred miles, and we were still far away from the Great Wall. Lu Mou is anxious. There is no airtight wall in the world. If this continues, the two banners on the left and right of Haraqin will know the news sooner or later. Their leader is the son of Lao Taiji, and they will catch up. It would be better to avenge his father. Not necessarily, but if you want to take back these slaves and these gold and silver jewelry, that's for sure.

The result is whatever you are afraid of. War horses galloped over. The Jinyi Guards on the horses had urgent information. The two banners on the left and right of Karaqin had already learned about the Taiji Camp incident. The two banners on the left and right, as well as the Mongolians scattered around, had begun to gather. They had already gathered from the survivors. He knew from his mouth that it was the prince's handsome army who was retaliating for the killing. They had already mobilized, and they had assembled no less than 500,000 troops, and were about to start chasing them.

Hearing such news, Qi Fei was shocked: "Things have indeed turned out for the worst." Then he looked at the Han people who were walking slowly and were weak and rescued: "I ask the prince to abandon those who can't walk and speed up the march." Bar."

Lu Mou shook his head firmly. Those were his future wealth. How could he lose what he had obtained? So he said loudly and righteously: "No, since I saved them and since I promised them to take them home, then I will never break my promise. I will not let them fall into despair again."

"But--"

"There's nothing wrong with that. I don't want to be a saint, but I want to be a man of his word. So, Qi Fei, listen to your orders."

"The end will be here."

"I order you to gather the entire army and listen to my instructions."

Upon hearing that the prince wanted to lecture again, Qi Fei couldn't help but feel nervous. This is going to be bad.

"What are you still doing? You're not obeying orders."

"Yes."

"The whole army has been assembled, please give me a lecture from the prince."

Riding a white horse, Lu Mou once again stood in the wind: "I brought you to deal with these Han compatriots. But now the enemy has moved. Almost all men, women, and children from the three Karaqin banners have moved out. Press on us.

I don’t want to be a saint, but I want to be a man of his word. My belief is, never abandon, never give up. So, I will never give up on anyone here. Now, the only way to ensure that our compatriots, and most of our brothers, can return to the Central Plains safely this time is for me to lead a death squad, turn north, and attract the Mongols who are targeting me to the north. Now, I don’t force it, it’s still voluntary. This time, my brother, who really wanted to die but couldn't do anything to me, followed me and attracted the enemy to the north to ensure the safety of the brigade. "

Qi Fei was shocked: "Your Majesty——"

"Shut up. Is there anyone who wants to talk to me?"

Whose father are you, little brat?

But just for the sake of not abandoning or giving up, the whole army picked up the reins and moved forward together.

"I don't want that much, I just want five thousand. Who wants it?"

The whole army was silent again, but took a step forward firmly and uniformly.

"No, it's more difficult to protect the living than to die. I only want five thousand people who want to do something easy, who--"

Everyone raised their weapons: "I——"

In the end, 5,000 true heroes were selected out of 16,000 soldiers. Five hundred experienced Jin Yiwei.

Qi Fei hugged Lu Mou tightly: "Your Majesty, let me go." "I understand your feelings, but this time is not like that in Wuxiang, when there was still a child who could pretend to be me. Only if I show up in person can Complete the purpose of luring the enemy north. Therefore, you cannot take my position."

"But Ming Dynasty is reborn and needs you."

Lu Mou shook his head gently: "The Ming Dynasty has been reborn in my hands. As long as my father remains as he is now and never goes back to his old ways, the Ming Dynasty can survive without me. Now, the place that needs me most is here ,this matter."

Then Qi Fei said, "Stop talking. I am very lucky. People who die once will never die again. I tell you, I know the number of people returning south. If they die of natural causes on the way, you have to kill them all." Take the remains back. If one is missing, I will ask you."

Then he pondered for a moment: "If it doesn't work out, you can throw away the gold, silver and jewelry on the cart and transport people."

Qi Fei was truly speechless, because only then did he truly understand King Ding.

From then on, he was loyal to King Ding and was eventually buried beside Lu Mou.

Lu Mou looked at the south with nostalgia for the last time, and finally said firmly: "Give me all the explosive packets. We have three horses per person, and we will swim in the grassland."

When they were about to break up, although the girl couldn't speak, she hugged Lu Mou's neck tightly, her eyes full of fear.

No matter how much Lu Mou tried to coax her, she just refused to let go.

There is no way, we can't delay any longer, we can only wrap the girl in our chest and experience the danger together. The girl looks safe and peaceful.

The army tearfully bid farewell to these dead soldiers and continued southward. Lu Mou shouted loudly: "Show me the royal flag, brothers, follow me to swim in the grassland."

The commander of the first division personally violently shook Ding Wang to pray, then carried him on his back and headed north arrogantly.

Jin Yiwei flew on horseback to report: "Your Majesty, there is a group of enemies in front of us, searching for us.

Lu Mou smiled and said, "Drowsy gave me a pillow, let's meet him."

This Mongolian team was just a temporary group of stragglers, both men and women, who came out to look for the enemy.

In fact, there is no need to look for it, the traces of hundreds of thousands of people passing by are obvious.

Just as they were tracking and confirming, they bumped into Lu Mou heading north.

Enemies were really jealous when they met. This group of less than 500 stragglers shouted and spurred their horses to gallop, and they ran away.

The division commander Zhang Congyi and his men were about to chase, but Lu Mou stopped him: "There is no need to chase, let them go back and report the news."

Commander Qu Shuai of the Karaqin Right Banner received the enemy's whereabouts. At that time, he was confused: "Didn't the young prince of the Ming army already go south with the captured soldiers and slaves? Why did he suddenly go north?"

Zuoqi Qushuai thought for a while and said: "Maybe he is greedy and wants to go north to plunder again."

This explanation is very reasonable, because even a normal person would not think that someone would be stupid enough to use his noble body to free a group of slaves and use it as bait to lure the enemy away.

But I'm still not sure. I've seen people who are greedy for money, but I've never seen people who are greedy for money to the point of death. The further north he goes, the deeper he gets into the depths of the enemy. Is he crazy?

Not long after, another group of searchers came back and reported: "The enemy group carrying the banner of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty continues to move north."

The two handsome men looked at each other. Today, everyone's eyes have really been opened. We have encountered someone who really wants money rather than his life. Even if he robbed Taiji Camp for hundreds of years, he is still so greedy.

(End of this chapter)