In ancient times, sixty miles a day was basically the limit for marching.
But what is referred to here is the speed of ordinary troops when carrying baggage weapons.
For example, this pirate team was attracted by the huge wealth of Yangzhou City, and they did not carry too much burden. By the afternoon, they had already traveled more than sixty miles, and they could travel less than forty miles south.
The valley where Xiao Han is now.
Now, the large team came to the bank of a wide river. There was only a not-so-wide stone bridge on the sparkling river, which forced the team that was originally walking fast to slow down.
The old man on the sedan quickly noticed that the team was slowing down. He opened the curtain, took a look outside, frowned, and ordered to the people around him:
"Go down with the order, rest here for a while, send people to explore the road ahead, and find a place to camp tonight, and then inform the teams that haven't followed that they must meet up tomorrow!"
"Here!"
Under the sedan chair, a man in black accepted the order happily. After the old man finished giving instructions, he strode towards the front of the team.
Immediately afterwards, the cry to rest on the spot spread throughout the entire team.
The Japanese pirates, who had traveled dozens of miles today, were already half dead from exhaustion.
Seeing that I could finally rest, what else could I do? I sat down on the floor and breathed heavily!
Although the ideal of grabbing money, food, and women is very beautiful, it is really hard to bear...
Amid the gasps and noises around him, the sedan that was high above his head was gently lowered.
When the sedan touched the ground, the old man sitting inside rubbed his sore legs and walked out slowly.
This man didn't realize it when he was sitting in the sedan. Once he came out, he realized that he was really too old!
Judging from his appearance, he must be no less than eighty years old! He trembled slightly as he walked, as if a gust of wind could bring him to the side of the road.
However, even though the old man walked so hard! All the men in black around him, including the old slave, just looked at him worriedly, but no one dared to come up to help him!
Ever since the last person who kindly helped the old man was sent to Lingnan, where he lived with monkeys all day long, no one dared to help him anymore.
"Haha, I can still walk! When I can't walk anymore, I'm afraid it's time to leave this world..."
After walking slowly on the ground for a few steps, and waiting until his aching legs got used to the feeling, the old man straightened his somewhat stooped back, looked around with a smile and said.
The old slave next to him heard the sound, and his body bent even more. He respectfully echoed: "Sect Master, your health is very good now! Why worry about these things that will happen decades later?"
The old man chuckled: "Haha, you don't need to say nice things to make me happy. I know my own body best. If there is no immortal fate, I'm afraid this body will not last more than three years."
Speaking of this, the old man suddenly felt a little emotional. He looked blankly at the sun in the distance that was half hidden in the clouds and mist, and sighed in a low voice: "Hey, I remember when I was young, I always felt that time passed too slowly, and all I wanted to do was grow up quickly.
big.
When I was approaching middle age, I realized that time had passed, but at that time, I still felt that there was a lot of time for me to waste.
It was only at my current age that I realized that time is really fleeting, just like a fleeting moment! I am like Fu Xuanwang from Jin Dynasty, wishing I could hang on to the sun and the blue sky so that it would never sink."
The old man's voice became lower and lower, and in the end it was almost inaudible. This was of course related to his state of mind.
They say that as people get older, they become more afraid of death!
Although he has always been open-minded and talks about life and death, the sense of urgency that death is approaching is increasingly weighing on his heart, making him unable to rest for a moment.
Taking a deep breath, the old man relaxed his mood and looked at the huge team around him again. Then, an inexplicable hope appeared on his face again.
He has been in obscurity for decades, but when he gets old, he can command the military power of ten thousand people!
He didn't want to use this team to attack the city, but he just wanted to use this force to go to Yangzhou City to see what the young marquis looked like and what kind of things he had in his workshops.
What?
"In the past, Liu An, the king of Huainan, saw eight white-haired and child-like ladies in front of his door. In the blink of an eye, they turned into green-haired children. He was so shocked that he immediately abandoned his shoes to greet them. Finally, he obtained the supreme elixir. It was later said by the world that if one person achieves enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven!
Boy, I have tried so hard to check your past for three years, but I have found nothing!
I don’t believe that apart from rootless trees and sourceless water, there are also people without roots in this world! Since you jumped into this world alive, you should be a fairy boy who has shed your true colors and rejuvenated! Otherwise, you will be a child again!
Where do you explain those amazing things about you?”
Looking at the large crowd of people in the darkness around him, the old man once again fell into his own world and couldn't extricate himself. Seeing this, the people around him did not dare to disturb him, so they could only stay aside and wait quietly for the sect leader to wake up.
I don't know how long it took, but the sect leader still didn't wake up, but a commotion suddenly broke out outside the team.
Several men in black immediately looked over there with vigilance, only to find that there seemed to be a man in black dressed in the same clothes as them running towards here in a hurry. Behind him, there was also a man in ragged clothes?
"Sect Master, Sect Master!"
After a while, the man in black finally ran closer. When he saw the old man, he immediately knelt down on one knee and reported loudly: "My subordinates found a person in front and said that they have something important to report!"
"What's the big deal?" The old man, who was stuck in his own imaginary world, was finally awakened by the man in black, and his confused eyes gradually became clear.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the man in front of him with disheveled hair, disheveled clothes and a pair of straw sandals that were almost worn out. He frowned slightly and asked, "Who are you and what's the matter with you?"
The man looked at the old man in confusion, and said at a loss: "I, my name is Wang San, and I am the subordinate of Boss Xue Yi, Xue Yi!"
"Xue Yi?"
The old man frowned slightly when he heard this unfamiliar name. Seeing this, the old slave next to him quickly stepped forward and explained to him in a low voice: "Sect Master, Xue Yi is the little leader of the team in front."
"oh."
After hearing the explanation, the old man nodded slightly, then looked at the man again and asked, "What do you want?"
"I..." When the man was asked this question, as if he was remembering something, his eye circles immediately turned red, as if tears were about to well up inside.
Several men in black around him saw him wiping his eyes fiercely with his hands, as if he wanted to wipe away the tears contained in them, but he didn't want to wipe away more tears!
In the blink of an eye, tears were streaming down his face.
"What's wrong with this guy?"
People including the old man were a little strange when they saw his sad look and couldn't figure out why he was so sad.
Only the man wiped his tears and cursed in his heart: "Oh, let me go, what did the Marquis give you? Why is it so spicy! My eyes..."
