Chapter 0609 Locust Plague Appears in the Southern Wilderness Tribe
The next day.
The barracks was immersed in a solemn and solemn atmosphere. One hundred thousand soldiers were ready to go and were on standby.
Chu Zheng stood on the high platform holding a heavy sword. His skin was dark, his sword-shaped eyebrows were pierced into his temples, his sharp eyes were menacing, and he exuded endless evil aura. He was holding a bowl of rice wine and drank it all in one gulp, with a 'bang' sound.
The bowl broke to the ground.
Facing the 100,000 troops below, he shouted loudly: "We have a heavy responsibility in this expedition to the Southern Wilderness! The sharp sword of Xiliang is in front! The barbarians of Beirong are behind! We have no retreat!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Those 100,000 soldiers were like pine trees standing on the top of the mountain, tall and tall, and their eyes, without exception, were full of the hope of death.
The fate of their families and people is in their hands. Once the Southern Expedition fails, what awaits them will be the Xiliang cavalry trampling on the Luoqi land, with red tassels stained with blood and swords in their throats. There will be no bones left of the scholars and common people.
An orphan girl drinks poisonous wine, and an orphan boy has no one to rely on.
Su Zhen is riding a war horse, her aura is as strong as the scorching sun, and her eyes are like cold stars under her eyebrows.
Chu Zheng got on his horse and pointed straight in the direction with the heavy sword in his hand: "Soldiers! Let's go!"
Shang Yu frame and Shang Yu Chen led a group of ministers and watched the 100,000 elite troops go away.
Today's soldiers are no longer what they used to be. They have put on new fine iron armor and the latest weapons.
As they set out for the Southern Wilderness, new weapons and armors were being continuously forged and shipped to the Southern Wilderness in batches.
The Southern Wilderness is no richer in resources than the Beirong Grassland, and its grain output is extremely low.
He could not defeat the powerful Xiliang, nor could he defeat Luo Qi, who had the strongest military force.
Among the four kingdoms, Nanhuang is undoubtedly the weakest.
No one had ever thought that the southern wilderness, which is full of rocks and hills, would become a geomantic treasure land.
Every year during the autumn harvest, people in various tribes in the Southern Wilderness are miserable.
The Southern Wilderness is poor, and the taxes and grain they pay are more stringent than those of Luoqi and Xiliang. They need to harvest grain day and night. Whenever the payment is completed, the grain left in their hands can only survive the winter. When spring comes next year
Before sowing, a large number of people will starve to death.
And this year, every once in a while, soldiers wearing strange clothes will harass the Southern Wilderness border, making the people miserable.
Those soldiers were very strange. Their clothes and weapons and armor were nothing like those from the Four Kingdoms.
Fortunately, the leader of the tribe bought a lot of crossbows from somewhere, and distributed them all to the tribe's soldiers to defend themselves against foreign enemies, so the people's lives became easier.
The farmers were harvesting in the fields with sickles under the scorching sun. Although they were tired and bent over, they had to continue working.
A farmer took off the cloth from his shoulder, wiped the sweat from his face, and was about to continue harvesting. Suddenly there was a "buzzing, buzzing, buzzing" sound in his ears. When he looked for the sound, he saw something in the sky in the distance.
It was like dark clouds pressing down on the surrounding area, covering half of the sky.
Seeing the 'dark cloud' getting closer and closer, he finally saw the true appearance of those things clearly.
"Locusts! It's locusts! The locusts are coming! Hurry up! Hurry up and harvest!"
As he shouted loudly, other farmers were also frightened and panicked. However, the locusts were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, two acres of land had been wiped out.
Before they even figured out how to deal with it, the locusts had already flown in front of them.
They waved the sickles in their hands desperately, but it was of no use. All the fields were destroyed in an instant, and even the grain they had harvested before was not eaten at all.
From sowing in spring to harvesting in autumn, for more than half a year, all the food they had worked so hard to grow was gone in just a quarter of an hour!
The farmers sat on the ground, slapping their legs and crying, these grains were their lives!
Without food, they can still eat leaves and bark! But once they cannot hand over a certain amount of food to the higher authorities, their lives will be in danger!
Those locusts had no idea what they were thinking. Wherever they passed, there was only loess all over the ground and not even a grain of rice was left behind.
If that's the case, then that's all, those strange soldiers from before came to attack again.
As soon as their army appeared, they turned around and ran away without stopping.
After several attempts, the hungry Southern Wasteland soldiers were already exhausted.
This sudden locust plague did not target a certain small tribe, but the entire Southern Wilderness.
In the camp of the leader of the main tribe, people were constantly coming in and out, reporting on the situation of the locust plague.
The leader of the Southern Wilderness, Ana Ye, has a beard, sunken eye sockets, protruding cheekbones, and an unusually tall and strong figure.
Hearing the repeated reports from his men, he angrily threw the bronze cup in his hand to the ground.
"Damn it! Didn't the high priest say before that there will be a bumper harvest this year and there will be no natural disasters?!"
"Go back to the leader! High Priest Lihan has never made any mistakes. This deviation should be just an accident." A general said tremblingly.
‘pop’
A hard slap fell on his face!
"Go tell Lihan! If he can't destroy the locusts! I will cut his body into pieces and feed them to those insects!"
"Yes! I'll go right away!"
After the general left, another middle-aged man with a long scar on his face stood up. From his appearance, it could be seen that this man was not from the Southern Wilderness.
"Master Chief, we previously sold stones and weeds to Luoqi merchants in exchange for weapons, but now there is very little food left in the tribe. For now, we have only one way to go."
"Mr. Mu, do you mean to let me continue to trade with Luoqi merchants and exchange those rags for their food and weapons?"
"Yes, the things they need are everywhere in our southern wilderness. Even if they raise the price and the lion opens its mouth, we don't have to be afraid!"
After thinking about it for a while, Ana Ye finally agreed: "Here comes! Summon Meng Si! I have important matters to discuss!"
Meng Si was a businessman who suddenly appeared in the Southern Wilderness a few months ago. At first, he just led a caravan to secretly trade food with some tribesmen. Later, he took a crossbow with Luo Qi's logo in exchange.
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Southern Wilderness is not a big place, so their little tricks were quickly discovered. When the leader of Southern Wilderness, Anaye, learned about it, he immediately arrested Meng Si and the people in his caravan.
They were tortured at first and kept silent. It was not until they were tortured that they told the truth. It turned out that they had colluded with some corrupt officials in Luoqi to resell weapons.
As for the weeds and stones they exchanged, Meng Si followed orders and didn't know what their use was.
Later, Anaye became obsessed with things, and his transactions with Meng Si became increasingly bold.
Between you and me, Nanhuang Kingdom has taken away tens of thousands of weapons from Meng Si.
During this period, they were not without doubts.
But the strange army that appeared from time to time made them exhausted and had to buy weapons to defend themselves against the enemy.