Five days later, the fleet arrived in Yingzhou. This time it was Zou Yan's turn to doubt his life.
This ghost place doesn't look like a fairy mountain at all. It's even more desolate than the broken island I encountered before. I walked around the shore for more than an hour without seeing a single person, but I saw a lot of desolate hills.
"Let's go ashore and have a look." Yuan Hua said.
"...Okay." Zou Yan nodded.
We are all here, and if we don't go up and see him, we will definitely not feel at ease.
It was still Sun He who led 700 soldiers to protect the warship, and the remaining personnel followed Yuan Hua ashore.
Fortunately, the big island was not really desolate. Not long after leaving, the group saw a group of dwarfs fighting. The tallest one was only over six feet tall, and most of them were only five feet tall. Period
There could be hundreds of people, holding stone weapons in their hands, and they fought fiercely. While fighting, they cursed in a language that Zhao Jun could not understand.
The leading men were riding war horses.
The people here are short, and the horses are also short. In addition, the neck and head can only be as tall as a person. If Yuan Hua and others ride on it, the horse may be crushed, but it is suitable for the local dwarfs to ride.
As the saying goes, a dwarf goes with a pony.
"It looks like several villages are fighting." Ou Yeshou said, stroking his beard.
This kind of thing is also very common in the Central Plains. Fighting for water sources, fighting for pastures, fighting for mulberry trees, etc., all adult men in a village have to fight. Resources are limited. If you don't fight for them, you will get nothing.
Back then, Wu and Chu had a dispute over two village girls picking mulberry trees, and it turned into a fight between two villages... a fight between two cities... a fight between two countries... Period
In the end, Wu State defeated Chu State and robbed two cities.
"This... is definitely not Yingzhou. Yingzhou is definitely not like this. This is clearly a wasteland. Only in the wasteland can such small savages and wild horses grow. Look, even the weeds on the ground are yellow and shorter than those in the Central Plains. For a moment, only the wasteland can be like this."
Zou Yan pointed at the dwarf and the weeds on the ground in the distance, and said angrily that he felt as if he had been deceived by Yuan Hua.
"Why don't we go over first and ask... them... maybe these dwarves are the servants of the immortal?" Yuan Hua said in a low voice.
He also felt a little regretful. Zou Yan spent a lot of effort to cure him without leaving any sequelae. As a result, he took Zou Yan to Yingzhou to have a look, and this place was a mess... all the birds praised it!
"I don't want you to be my servant, let alone an immortal." Zou Yan whispered, but still agreed to come forward and ask.
"You two, go and ask." Yuan Hua said to the two soldiers beside him.
"No," the soldier said, clasping his fists and walking towards the dwarf with his weapon in hand.
"Jili Gua La, Gua La Gua La." The dwarves looked at the two soldiers approaching and stopped fighting. Then a dwarf general on horseback came over and said a lot of words that they did not understand.
"Nan, can you understand?" the soldier on the left asked.
"I don't understand. By the way... why did the general ask us to come here to ask?" Nan scratched his head.
"...I don't know either." Yan said blankly.
"Are you here Yingzhou?" Nan thought for a moment, then stepped forward and asked.
"Hometown, flax haha..." The dwarf general said a lot of unintelligible words again. Period
The other dwarfs also gathered around, looking at Nan Heyan with some fear, some curiosity, and some greed.
"I'm asking you if this is Yingzhou." Nan finally couldn't bear it anymore, pointed his gun at the dwarf general, and said impatiently.
After drifting on the sea for such a long time and experiencing a big storm, no one could be in a good mood. The group of dwarfs in front of him who could step on two with one foot actually looked at him with greedy eyes.
The dwarf general thought Nan was going to take action, so he quickly brandished his stone ax to fight back.
However, he was riding on a horse, and he was only about the same height as Nan. How could he be Nan's opponent? Nan stabbed him off the horse with one shot. Seeing this, the other dwarfs rushed toward the two of them with a roar.
Nan and Yan turned around and ran away. Although the dwarfs had low combat power, they couldn't stand up to a large number of people. A large number of ants could kill an elephant. It would be no problem to kill them with hundreds of dwarfs.
"General, we couldn't understand what they said at all. My subordinates asked if this was Yingzhou, and then they started to attack them." Nan shouted loudly as he ran. Period
"A mere servant dares to attack our Zhao army. Kill him!" Yuan Hua gave the order immediately without hesitation.
On one side were nearly 800 heavily armed Zhao troops, and on the other side were more than 500 dwarves gathered from various places.
This is destined to be a one-sided massacre!
The battle ended quickly. As soon as the two sides came into contact, within a breath, the dwarf turned around and fled towards the rear.
"Catch up...wait, chase them slower and let them run away." Yuan Hua thought of Zou Yan's method of finding the barbarian tribe, so he ordered.
One is running in front and the other is chasing behind.
Soon, the dwarfs split into three groups and fled in three directions.
To be on the safe side, Yuan Hua did not choose to divide his troops, but pursued the one on the right.
I saw farmland along the way, but the millet in the farmland was really not growing well. It was sparse and short, and the leaves were curled and withered. I really didn’t know if I could collect the seeds during the harvest.
"Is it really a wasteland?" Yuan Hua also had some doubts. Apart from the wasteland, he couldn't think of a place like this. Even the most barren places in the Central Plains were better than this.
"Let's look for gold and silver." Yuan Hua thought in his mind that he did not regard Yingzhou as a fairyland. As long as he could find gold and silver and complete Zhao Kuo's mission, that would be enough.
I just feel a little sorry for Zou Yan.
Half an hour later, Yuan Hua saw a relatively simple village. It was not big, with hundreds of people including men, women, old and young.
The reason why this is so certain is because when Yuan Hua appeared outside the village, he could barely walk, and his face was full of vicissitudes of life. He was holding a variety of weapons and farm tools in his hands, standing on a low stone. Behind the wall, Yuan Hua and his party were watching warily.
"Let your village elders come out to see me, otherwise... Tu Li." Yuan Hua waved his trident and struck the boulder at the entrance of the village. The entire village's facade turned into powder.
There was no resistance as expected. The moment Yuan Hua chopped the boulder into pieces, all the dwarfs threw away their weapons and farm tools, knelt on the ground, and shouted the name of a certain great god.
"General, we don't understand the language." said a military commander.
Yuan Hua also looked worried. He came here to find gold and silver, not to kill people. After finding the gold and silver, someone would also need to mine it. It is impossible for more than a thousand Zhao Jun to mine it himself!
But now the language barrier...
"Is there anything you can do, sir?" Yuan Hua looked at Zou Yan.
"Although I claim to be omniscient, it is impossible for me to understand the language of savages who are worse than barbarians..." Zou Yan glanced at the dwarf with disgust and said with disdain.