Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 374 Lack of water

Looking at the raging fire below, Chen Ci asked everyone to stop setting fire and instead shoot unlit arrows, raining down on them. Some barbarians who were fleeing in all directions because of the fire were pierced through the hearts by the sudden rain of arrows and quickly died.

"Well done!" Song Chunlin did not forget to cheer for everyone. He did not bring a bow and arrow today. His compound bow was in the hands of the archer that day. The archer was also a professional archer with good accuracy and strength. Song Chunlin let him be fully responsible for aiming at those fish that slipped through the net.

Vines cannot be used for fire attacks, and the mutated vines are also very afraid of fire. When humans set a fire, the mutated vines will escape directly from underground and huddle in the corner and tremble. Song Chunlin has to keep using his supernatural powers to appease these vines.

The first attack ended with the barbarians being burned or shot to death. Of course, the barbarians would not give up. It seemed that they saw that Linyuan City still wanted to defend the city and not leave, so they wanted to use the old method and directly besiege it.

Song Chunlin somewhat disdains the stubbornness of these barbarians. Why do they only have this one trick? Doesn't he have any new tricks?

The barbarian camp was only five or six miles away from Linyuan City, and their tents could still be seen from the city wall. Chen Ci looked at the tents that seemed to have no end, and felt a little worried.

"That's what they did last time. They besieged us for ten days. If it weren't for the sufficient food and grass in the city, we would have starved to death. Now they're doing this again. Let's not talk about whether there is enough food and grass. With so many wounded soldiers, the amount of herbs we consume every day must be over a thousand kilograms. We have collected all the herbs from all the herbal medicine shops in the city. We estimate that we can only hold out for a few more days. We don't know when the court's support will be sent."

Song Chunlin frowned slightly and couldn't help but comfort Chen Ci: "Don't worry, they must be on their way. Didn't you say that you had sent out the battle report a long time ago? According to the time, they should have arrived in the capital."

The 800-li express train in ancient times should have been quite fast. Song Chunlin had never seen it, but theoretically, it should have reached the capital by now. However, if they were rushing to support from the capital, it would take nearly half a month even with a forced march.

Song Chunlin's guess was correct. Gu Fengyun and his men traveled day and night, but because they carried too much baggage and the team was too large, they could not move much faster. However, Gu Fengyun and his men only rested for two or three hours every day, and spent the rest of the time traveling, for fear that they would arrive too late and Linyuan City would be captured by the barbarians. What would greet them then would not be as simple as losing a few cities.

When the team was resting in the middle of the night, General Lin's dog came over stealthily, crouching down. Gu Fengyun raised his eyelids and glanced at him, but seeing that he didn't say anything, he didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Seeing that Gu Fengyun ignored him, General Lin poked the other's sleeve with his hand feeling somewhat aggrieved.

Gu Fengyun finally opened his eyes tiredly and glared at him sharply.

"If you can't sleep, go on patrol."

General Lin still felt aggrieved: "Oh, why are you so fierce? It's nothing like what Gu Fengyue said..."

Gu Fengyun narrowed his eyes slightly: "What did Gu Fengyue tell you about me?"

General Lin thought carefully, "He said you were gentle as jade, resourceful, uh, kind?"

Hearing General Lin's uncertain tone, Gu Fengyun's eyes returned to their coldness again: "What did you say?"

General Lin is also a dog. Even in this situation, he still wanted to touch the tiger's beard. In the end, when he was beaten up by Gu Fengyun, almost no one felt sorry for him and thought he deserved it.

General Lin was defeated by Gu Fengyun and ran away with his head in his arms. He returned to his territory and complained to his subordinates crying.

His subordinate rolled his eyes at him and said, "Ancestor, you knew that Marquis Yongyi was in a bad mood, but you still insisted on provoking him. If he doesn't beat you, who will he beat? He can't beat us."

General Lin was not convinced: "After all, I disobeyed my great-grandfather's order and came here with him to help Gu Fengyue. How could he beat me?"

The subordinate was speechless for a long time before he slowly asked back: "Are you sure you are trying to help Sima Gu, and not to escape the marriage arranged by the family?"

General Lin seemed to have been hit in the sore spot. He stiffened his neck and argued: "Am I the kind of person who is afraid of death? Stop slandering my character."

His subordinates were extremely skeptical. Did this guy really have that thing? And was he so afraid of death that he would use it like this?

"I'm not saying anything bad about you, General. Look at how old you are. People your age have children and you're still single. I think you should just listen to your grandfather and marry the young lady from the Hu family. You haven't even met her yet, so why are you so resistant?"

General Lin couldn't explain it. Although he always said that he was lonely and wanted to find a companion, in his heart he still preferred the freedom of being alone. Besides, if he had a wife and children, how could he concentrate on going to the battlefield in the future?

General Lin sighed deeply: "You don't understand, I just don't want to delay her. She is the daughter of a good family, and she deserves a better marriage."

The subordinate was silent again, so you also know that you are not a good match?

They didn't dare to say this out loud, but they all complained silently in their hearts. With General Lin's living habits, any delicate young lady who dared to live in the same room with him would be scared away if she just stood at the door and took a look at him.

However, after the laughter and frolicking, the surroundings fell into silence again. In the long night, 150,000 people only slept for a short two hours. The stars were still hanging in the sky, and the army set out again, heading towards Linyuan City.

The reinforcements from the capital were still on the way, and the herbal medicine stocks in Linyuan City were already running out. Song Chunlin had taken out many water bottles from the city wall before, and Chen Ci had issued a gag order to everyone who saw it at the time. Also because of Song Chunlin's help, those soldiers did not tell these things to anyone, but Gu Fengyue was still worried. Afterwards, Song Chunlin gave those people mental hints. Gu Fengyue learned that when those people wanted to tell others, they would feel the pain of being pierced by thousands of arrows. Gu Fengyue was finally relieved this time.

But the city was running out of not only food and grass, but also water. Before the barbarians attacked again, they took advantage of that period of time to store a lot of water in the city. However, the water from Tianchi was not only provided to Linyuan City, but also to several small cities around it. Therefore, since the day Linyuan City was besieged, until now, the water supply of several other cities has also begun to run out. Those cities have also secretly brought water trucks here to fetch water.

Everything went smoothly at the beginning, but the barbarians were too cunning. They first let these people transport water down from the mountain smoothly, but once their water carts went far away from Linyuan City, the barbarians directly sent people out to rob these people's transport teams. Half of the people died, and the remaining half fled back to Linyuan City in a panic, but they were all seriously injured.

Being injured was the least of the problems, but there was no way to bring the water back as it was all wasted by the barbarians.

Seeing those barbarians pouring all the water they had obtained with great difficulty onto the ground and splashing it around, the pain in their hearts was greater than their wounds.

"These are our life-saving waters, and they just wasted them all, wuwu~"

The soldiers from Linyuan City were also filled with righteous indignation. Although the waters of Tianchi were vast, the people of Linyuan City had been instilled with the concept of saving water since childhood. It rarely rained in the north, and the water from Tianchi was the only source of water they could find. More than 100,000 people relied on the water from this area to survive. How could they be willing to watch those barbarians waste their most precious things?

"Fuck you, I'm going to go out and kill all those beasts!"

The rest of the people hurriedly grabbed the angry soldier, and all of this was seen by Song Chunlin and Chen Ci who were standing on the city wall. Gu Fengyue at the foot of the mountain on the other side naturally also saw the behavior of the barbarians. He knew that the barbarians were shameless, but he did not expect them to be so shameless, and he frowned deeply about this.

Soon, Gu's army came to report that several surrounding towns had sent people to say that their water sources would not last for a few more days. If water was not transported there, people would die of thirst.

After hearing this, Gu Fengyue suddenly felt a chill on his back: "How long can the water in those towns last?"

"Reporting to the Grand Marshal, they said that roughly speaking, they can hold out for another five days. They have tried to save the water in the city these days, but the day when the barbarians came to attack Linyuan was just the beginning of the second half of the month. They usually get water from the city once a month, and there was not much water left in the second half of the month. Later, when Linyuan was besieged, they were unable to replenish the water, so..."

Gu Fengyue had already understood some of what his subordinate had not finished saying.

"It seems that this battle still needs to be resolved quickly."

On the city wall, Song Chunlin screamed in surprise after hearing Chen Ci's words.

"Such a big thing, why are you telling me now?"

Chen Ci smiled bitterly: "What's the use of saying it? We can't send water to those cities from a distance. These barbarians obviously want to trap several cities around us to death, unless someone can transport water to them without anyone noticing. However, this kind of thing is unlikely even if we just think about it with our toes."

After saying that, he turned to look at Song Chunlin, only to find that the other's eyes were sparkling.

Chen Ci's face was full of question marks, and then Song Chunlin patted his shoulder vigorously: "Next time, don't think with your toes, think with your knees, maybe it will really come true?"

Chen Ci: “???”

What is this young master Song talking about? It's so confusing. If you can't figure it out with your toes, how can you figure it out with your knees? Oh no, I was almost led astray by this guy. Who would think with their knees?

Chen Ci couldn't help but shook his head, feeling that he seemed to have experienced too many things recently and even started to feel a little weird.

Song Chunlin looked at the sky and thought, well, it was still early. He told Chen Ci that he was going out for a while. Chen Ci was even more confused.

"You want to go out? At this time, in this situation, can you still go out?"

Chen Ci did not ask Song Chunlin why he was going out. He did not understand why Song Chunlin would want to go out at this critical moment.

Song Chunlin gave him a reassuring look: "Don't worry, Gu Fengyue and you are here, the barbarians will not be able to break in for a while, I think..." Song Chunlin lowered his head and counted his fingers, then pointed out a finger.

"I'll probably be back in a day and a night, so take good care of the house."

Chen Ci was about to agree, but then he realized why he should agree to the other party? He should stop the other party.

However, by the time he reacted, Song Chunlin had already flown down the city wall in front of him. Or perhaps it couldn't be said that he flew, as he came down with the help of the power of the mutated vines. Chen Ci didn't even see his movements clearly, as he had already happily run towards the foot of Tianshan Mountain.

When Gu Fengyue saw Song Chunlin coming over here, he was also confused.

"Hmm? Is that Young Master Song? Why is he here?"

Most of the people here were from the Gu family, and they basically all knew Song Chunlin. When they saw him running over, they readily made way for him.

Song Chunlin went straight to Gu Fengyue and whispered a few words into her ear. Gu Fengyue disagreed at first, but later reluctantly agreed. Then Song Chunlin left happily.

He just left like that?

The Gu family soldiers were dumbfounded. They watched Song Chunlin walk in the opposite direction of Linyuan City. They had no idea what he wanted to do. They were whispering privately that this guy might have gone stupid from fighting in the war. He didn't even carry a bow and arrow to save his life, and just left Linyuan City like that. And judging from his posture, it seemed that he had Gu Fengyue's permission.

Chen Ci, who was standing on the city wall, was even more astonished as he watched Song Chunlin walking further and further away. He didn't understand why this man just left like that, and the direction he was heading was actually the barbarian camp.

"Is this young Master Song going to die? He didn't even take his weapon. Is he crazy and going to die?"

"Shut up. If he's crazy, is Gu Sima crazy too? Didn't I see him go to find Gu Sima on purpose? Maybe Gu Sima agreed too?"

Others were stunned: "How can you agree to this? The barbarian camp is right in front of him. If a delicate boy like him goes directly to the barbarian camp, wouldn't that be like a sheep among wolves?"

Just as people here were talking about it, a magical scene happened. Song Chunlin passed by the barbarian camp in a swift manner. However, no one in the barbarian camp came out to stop Song Chunlin, as if they didn't see him at all. So Song Chunlin swaggered through the barbarian camp and left in a swagger.

They couldn't see the rest. In fact, in the eyes of the barbarians, Song Chunlin at this time was also a strong and sturdy grassland man. Such men could be seen everywhere in the barbarian camp. Even if the barbarian soldiers saw him, they all treated him as one of their own. They never thought that the other party's true identity was a Han boy.