Half an hour later, the scout who went to explore the road came back.
"Your Majesty, Princess, the road is blocked for more than two hundred meters. You can climb over it if you are careful, but there is a cliff in the middle that should have been caused by the earthquake. It is extremely dangerous."
Qi Baoer: "Is the cliff long?"
"You can't see the end of it from both sides, but it's not wide. The narrow part is probably about one meter. You can still get through if you be careful."
The scouts dared to say this because even if there were new recruits in their line, they were relatively capable.
The main roads have become like this, and no one has any hope of climbing the small mountain roads.
The horses were left behind, and five Qi family soldiers were left at the same time. They were told to wait for an hour. If everyone did not come back, they would send two people to Pingcheng to ask someone to ride all the horses back to Pingcheng. These horses were the ones they prayed for.
The huge wealth earned by the family army is, to put it bluntly, more valuable than a human life.
Landslides are not soil slopes, most of them are rocks of different sizes, and climbing is not easy.
Fortunately, among the people this time, less than half were former Shadowless Army soldiers who were all skilled in martial arts. When encountering a big rock that was difficult to climb, these people jumped up with light skills first, and then used ropes to pull the others up after they stabilized themselves.
Although it was not easy, we all made smooth progress without any danger.
Finally, half an hour later, everyone arrived at the cliff the scout had mentioned.
It is still the old rule to cross first with skill, and build a rope bridge with human pillars at both ends. The narrow part of the cliff is only less than two meters wide, and the recruits only need to use the rope as a fulcrum to jump across.
The five hundred soldiers crossed the cliff without much delay and climbed over the landslide on the other side. Going down was easier than going up. A quarter of an hour later, everyone stood...
··On the road with obvious cracks on the front and left sides.
Just like the landslide is a dividing line, everything is normal at that end, but this end has entered a world that has experienced earthquakes.
This time no one said anything and continued to move forward in silence.
At first, the cracks on the ground were not big, and most of them were not long. Some of them were like the ground cracking into spider webs, which looked scary, but they were not very serious.
When Pingbei County could be seen, a crack appeared on the ground leading directly to Pingbei County.
The crack gradually widens from a small size, and becomes deeper and deeper. When the width reaches about five meters, if you look at the edge of the crack and look at the bottom of the crack, it is already so dark below that you can't see how deep it is.
Everyone continued walking towards the city along the edge of the crack.
It seems that all the people in Pingbei County have fled. Anyway, they didn't see a single living person on the way from Pingcheng to Pingbei County. They only saw two corpses buried on the road.
There are also no traces of people here.
After entering the city, what we saw was a mess. The cracks passed across the county town to the north. Coincidentally, most of the county government offices where the cracks passed had fallen into the cracks and were still located.
Everything on the ground has almost collapsed. The only thing that is still standing strong is the strong door of the county government office. The left and right walls have almost collapsed.
Zheng Haoran: "Pingbei County is said to be only affected, but it has already become like this. Then Songxiang Town...?!"
From what they could see along the way, there were no intact houses in Pingbei County. It looked like a house, and at least some of its walls had collapsed. No wonder Pingbei County didn't take in the victims at first, and no wonder all the people in Pingbei County later went there.
Pingcheng Run.
Silence, silence is the common song at this moment.
It was already noon, and Qi Baoer waved for everyone to take a break.
We found a relatively open place with no collapsed objects, and without being particular about it, we all sat on the ground, took out some dry food, and started gnawing.
When Zheng Haoran and King Li returned from a tour, they saw Qi Bao'er squatting on the ground, chewing a large cake in one hand, and drawing something on the ground with a small branch in the other.
The two walked over, looked at the paintings on the ground, and then looked at each other with horrified expressions on their faces.
That is a simple map of Pingcheng.
Prince Li also squatted on the edge of the map: "Anle, what are you...?"
Qi Bao'er waved to them without raising her head. She didn't explain the content of her drawing, but picked up a stone and wiped it while saying:
"Earthquakes are also called earthquakes. There are usually aftershocks after an earthquake. The earthquake happened ten days ago. Although it is unlikely that there will be aftershocks after so many days, we still have to take precautions."
Both of them knew this, and Zheng Haoran immediately answered: "The general has already informed the soldiers, and everyone will pay attention."
The ground is already cracked here and there. If there is another aftershock...
After hearing this, Qi Bao'er felt relieved. These soldiers were all her father's soldiers. She had to bring them all out, so naturally she had to return them to her father one by one.
After a short rest, continue south.
In the following days, everyone witnessed the cruelty of this earthquake disaster.
The dangers of earthquakes and other dangers are very different from the terrifying promises in the hearts of the people, so I didn't encounter a single living person along the way, and...
They stayed in Tamagawa Town for one more day, not because of anything else, but because before they even got close to the town, they were almost run away by the rotten smell that filled the town.
The situation in Yuchuan Town was much worse than that in Pingbei County. Although there was no cross-cutting crack in the ground like in Pingbei County, almost all the houses inside were knocked down and many people were crushed.
The people here must have fled in a hurry, as many corpses were not disposed of and were just left in the open air.
The south is already humid, and it rained a lot a few days ago. For one thing, everything...
We have already passed by. Even if we want to abandon them here, we cannot let these corpses be left here and become a possible source of plague.
However, centralized treatment is not realistic. Even the ones that fell on the roadside are difficult to lift, let alone lifting. Some of them are probably hanging even with a shovel, not to mention those that are buried underground.
Many of the soldiers who had already experienced the battle with the mob in Pingcheng vomited on the spot after entering the town.
Therefore, they still had to use oil. They brought it themselves and found it from the town. Then, they poured oil all over the town and set it on fire.
Yuchuan Town is a certain distance away from the mountains and forests on the left and right, which gives them a greater safety guarantee when burning the town.
However, just in case, Qi Baoer and the others still stopped for two more days and one night, until the fire had subsided and it was basically confirmed that there was no safety hazard, and then fifty Qi family troops were left to watch, and Qi Baoer took the
The others continued towards Songxiang Town.
It is not easy to go from Tamagawa Town to Songxiang Town because there is no road.
We knew the direction, but the official road was either blocked by landslides on the left or right, or it was like a jigsaw puzzle where there was clearly a road but in front of it was a mountain with tangled trees.
What can be done?
No matter how difficult it is, we have to keep moving forward, although everyone has an idea of what we will see ahead.
really···
There is no Songxiang Town at all. On the original site of Songxiang Town, there is only a huge and turbid lake.