Cheng Dalei's raised hands were hopelessly lowered, like a drowning man trying to grasp the last straw, but in the end he couldn't grasp anything.
But then he raised his hand and said: "You have to listen to my arrangements for escaping! Five thousand brothers are like birds and beasts. They can only become the ghosts of others, and how many can survive. I will take everyone away.
Five thousand brothers go together, not leaving behind an old one or a young one."
"Follow the master's orders!"
No one objected to Cheng Dalei's words. The Rong army was pressing down on the territory, but everyone actually had no backbone. Cheng Dalei was willing to stand up now, and everyone was willing to take him as the leader.
"Lin Shaoyu obeys the order!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"I order you to climb Niujiao Peak alone, bring a month's dry food with you, and use the big tree as a sign to point out the direction of the Rong tribe's invasion!"
Niujiao Peak is the highest peak of Qingniu Mountain. Looking from the top of the peak, the entire Qingniu Mountain can be seen at a glance.
"Liao Jia and Liao Yi take orders!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"You two brothers and I will each lead a thousand men to dig rivers, destroy roads, and block roads with rocks and trees to buy time for everyone to retreat!"
"My subordinates take orders!"
Cheng Dalei looked at everyone in the audience and said, "Brothers, if you want to leave, let's go together. Five thousand brothers will go together. I, Cheng Dalei, will not let go of any brother."
Everyone has a backbone, especially the old and weak, who can't run very far. Without the large army, there will be a dead end. Now that Cheng Dalei said these words, everyone felt a stone fall to the ground, and the mountain in the valley was filled with a tsunami.
Cheng Dalei also called Xu Shenji, and Gao Feihu stayed behind to discuss how everyone should retreat.
"Master, this matter is urgent and should not be delayed. Should we leave overnight?" Gao Feihu said.
"Don't be anxious!" Cheng Dalei said: "When the Rong tribe captured Black Rock City, they would naturally burn, kill, loot, and transport the supplies and slaves away. We would not be able to get out for ten days and half a month. We were so frightened that we lost our control.
If you are in a hurry and don’t choose the right path, then you are seeking your own death.”
Seeing how calm Cheng Dalei was, Gao Feihu also felt relieved and said: "Everything is just a matter of following the master's instructions. We can rest assured following the master."
"That's right, when we leave here, we can occupy another hilltop and enjoy the spicy food as usual." Xiong Daxiong said.
Cheng Dalei smiled slightly: "Don't worry, everyone, everything is in my arms. Now let's discuss where to go?"
Several leaders gathered together to discuss the retreat route.
"How about we escape to Bingzhou?" Xiong Dadao said: "Where is the road easy to travel and the plains are flat?"
"Bingzhou borders the Rong tribe. If you escape there, it may be worse than here." Cheng Dalei rejected Xiong Da's proposal.
"Now we have no choice but to go to Jizhou. I have a friend in Feilong Mountain in Jizhou, with whom I have a life-long friendship. Why don't we go and join them?" Gao Feihu said.
"Can you trust it?" Cheng Dalei asked.
"He has a good relationship with me. I helped him when he was not prosperous." Gao Feihu.
"Now, it seems there is no other way." Cheng Dalei said: "How far is it to get there?"
"All five thousand of us will go there. It will probably take more than a month."
"If the time is long enough, then you need to bring enough food for a month." Cheng Dalei said: "There are also weapons for self-defense... Let's prepare together and cut down more big trees to make carriages."
Xu Shenji said: "Master, it takes more than a day or two to prepare these things. The Rong people won't come and kill them."
"Why should I ask Shao Yu to go to Niujiao Peak?" Cheng Dalei rolled his eyes at him: "Don't worry, I have a plan for all this and it will never fail."
…
Black Rock City, night.
Fordler carefully climbed over the wall and sneaked into the city lord's palace, being cautious all the way and not daring to be discovered.
Immediately afterwards, he quietly sneaked into the vegetable cellar of the city lord's mansion. In this era, even the lord of a city had to dig a cellar at home.
"Who?" someone asked softly in the darkness.
"Don't be afraid, it's me." Fordler held a basket in his hand: "Eat quickly, I brought it for you."
Not long after, a small chewing sound could be heard in the darkness, like a greedy dog.
"Don't choke. I brought you water to drink. I'm afraid I won't be able to keep coming here. This is three days' worth of food. You have to eat it slowly."
"Thank you, thank you for hiding me here...you got beaten..."
There were no lights in the dark cellar, and through the dim moonlight, one could clearly see the bruises on Fordler's face.
"It's nothing. My brother often beats me, so I'm used to it." Fordler grinned. Looking at the embarrassing appearance of Green Cherry eating, he remembered a puppy he once raised. At that time, it was also like Green Cherry.
He was a glutton, but was later killed by his brother and cooked into meat.
"I have caused trouble for you...so thank you. When are you leaving?"
"I don't know where to go. Maybe I won't leave. My brother said he was looking for something here, but I don't know what it is."
"Actually... you are a good person. You are different from them..." Green Cherry devoured it and suddenly asked: "It would be fine if you didn't come to attack us. Why are you so bad and come to steal our things?"
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and Fordler's breathing seemed to have stopped. Green Cherry suddenly realized that he was in front of a Rong clan, and that he might have offended him accidentally.
"Yes, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing, don't worry..."
"It's nothing... In fact, we have long been out of food. The tribe suffered a disaster last year. Large areas of grassland were deserted, and cattle and sheep starved to death in droves. If we didn't come to rob you, we wouldn't be able to survive."
His voice gradually became lower, and Fordler suddenly said: "That's it, I'm leaving first. Please be well. I will come over to see you often."
From then on, this incident caught Fordler's heart. He hid the green cherries in the cellar, just like raising a puppy. He always wanted to take a look at it every day to see if it had grown up. The sun in his heart, Ullihan
, I don’t think much about it these days.
That night, he quietly came to the cellar again. He dared not speak until he entered the cellar: "Xiao Tao, Xiao Tao, I'm here to see you. Are you hungry? I brought you something delicious."
No one spoke, and when I got closer, I saw that Xiao Tao had disappeared. On the haystack, a young man was taking a nap. Surprisingly, the young man had a pair of red eyebrows.
In an instant, Fordler broke out in a cold sweat and his body trembled uncontrollably.
"Ha!" Chimei yawned, and Youyou woke up: "Good brother, did you bring something delicious? I took a nap and I happened to be hungry."
"You...killed her?" Fordler asked in a voiceless voice.
"The look in your eyes... is really scary." Red Eyebrow stopped smiling: "Like a hungry wolf. If I tell you that she is dead, will you kill me?"