Chapter 684: Changes in Shanhaiguan:
Snow is falling heavily and everything is covered in silver.
A group of staggering refugees trudged on the snow-covered National Highway 102.
Some of them carried bedding on their backs, some carried iron pots, and some were strong men pushing wheelbarrows, using the path taken by the refugees in front of them to move forward with difficulty.
The wheelbarrow was filled with rice, flour, and all kinds of meat, vegetables, and eggs.
Around the refugees, there are security guards in police uniforms maintaining order. Some people ride horses constantly shuttling on both sides of the road. Not only must they be alert to avoid being attacked by evil spirits in the wilderness, but they must also pay attention to who is inside the team. Not adulterated believers of the old gods.
Sometimes when encountering old, weak, women and children who are unable to walk, they will help them up, carry them on the back of a horse, and walk towards the tractor team behind them.
It was a fleet of more than thirty tractors.
In the harsh environment of the End of Dharma era, all types of social vehicles are basically in a state of slump. On the contrary, agricultural tractors have become the mainstream means of transportation because of their sufficient horsepower and strong loading capacity.
Some agricultural machinery factories have also started to produce modified tractors specifically for this purpose, just to adapt to this difficult snow-covered terrain.
The team walked out of a long snake formation on the narrow road, which was several hundred meters long.
The refugees were sallow and thin, with sad faces. Some of them were still turning back step by step, looking back at the majestic pass in the distance.
That is the most powerful pass in the world, Shanhaiguan.
In the second year after the end of the Dharma Age, overseas fairy mountains finally began to invade China.
And their preferred location is Shanhaiguan.
The geographical location of Shanhaiguan is extremely important. It not only bears the attack of Fengdu ghost soldiers from north to south, but also defends against the invasion of overseas fairy mountains.
The most important thing is that the Shanhaiguan Defense Line is also one of the magnificent Great Wall defense lines in China, and it is also the starting point.
Once Shanhaiguan is breached, it will be equivalent to opening a gap in the Great Wall defense line.
When the time comes, Fengdu and the Overseas Immortal Mountains will join forces to invade, and attack from both inside and outside, the destruction of China will be just around the corner.
In order to guard Shanhaiguan, Zhongtu dispatched four demon-suppressing envoys and gathered 60,000 demon-suppressing soldiers to station here.
Among them, the Shanhaiguan Demon Envoy is the main one, the Henan Demon Envoy is the main one, the southern Gansu Demon Envoy is the main one, and the Northern Jiangsu Demon Envoy is the supplementary one.
In addition, there are Xu Zhenshi, the field team of the Secret Bureau, Ludong Tiejia, who represents the folk exorcists, Taishan Dai Temple, and Jinmen Guanjia, all gathered here.
There are more than a dozen A-level masters alone.
Among them, Xu Zhenshi is a strong person who is about to embark on the road of questioning one's heart.
But so what?
Everyone knows that there are at least a dozen S-level immortals in the five fairy mountains, and there are countless A-level and peak A-level masters.
During this time, they were wreaking havoc in the Liaodong region and absorbed countless servants.
The fairyland organized these originally human servants into an army and taught them simple immortal cultivation methods.
These servants suddenly turned into C-level or even B-level exorcists, and then turned around to fight the Middle-earth...
In this case, Shanhaiguan could not defend itself even with an iron wall.
It was only a matter of time before it fell.
In order to avoid the massacre of the people after the fall of Shanhaiguan, the governor of Shanhaiguan led the people without hesitation to choose to evacuate Shanhaiguan and go to the closer northern Hebei, or simply go directly to Kyoto.
For tens of kilometers near Shanhaiguan, almost all the people who could walk left.
Those who cannot leave are also those in their seventies or eighties, or those who are seriously ill.
Their physical condition simply cannot bear such a long journey.
Suddenly a fast horse galloped through the snow.
The knight on horseback passed through the fleeing crowd and went straight to the location of a lying tractor.
The tractor is full of supplies, and several maintenance personnel are busy working nervously. Next to him, an old man wearing thin clothes directed a few young people to remove the supplies from the vehicle and put them on other tractors.
The old man's cheeks were red from the cold, and his thin clothes could not withstand this level of cold.
But he saw the knight rushing towards him, gave some instructions to the people on the left and right, and then stopped in front of the knight.
When the knight saw the old man blocking the road, he immediately slowed down.
Before the horse came to a complete stop, he jumped off the horse and said loudly: "Lord Archon! Evil ghosts were found five kilometers to the left! There are about a thousand of them and they are approaching us! "
The estimated arrival time is within twenty minutes!"
"Captain Zhao Ziyu has already led people to greet him!"
Shanhaiguan Consul's face remained unchanged and he said quickly: "Captain Zhao has only a hundred people under his command, so we can't stop him!"
"Ask the security company to come over and help!"
"In addition, send communications troops immediately to tell the Shanhaiguan Suppression Envoy about the evil spirits found here."
The consul knew very well that this was inside the pass, and it was very close to Shanhaiguan.
Since there are more than a thousand evil ghosts here, it shows that there are still big loopholes in the Great Wall's defense line.
If the loopholes in the defense line cannot be found, this will definitely become the enemy's weak point in breaking through the Great Wall's defense line!
But these things are not things to consider now.
As the governor of Shanhaiguan, the first thing he has to protect is the more than 5,000 refugees who are lagging behind!
Because the war in Shanhaiguan was tight, they left almost everything they could fight to the Shanhaiguan Demon Suppressor.
He only brought less than 500 security guards to maintain order and disperse some blind devils.
These more than 500 people were scattered sparsely. The largest group was more than 100 people led by Captain Zhao Ziyu.
Facing thousands of evil spirits, the governor of Shanhaiguan had no reason not to worry.
He said quickly: "Notify the people to speed up immediately!"
"All the elderly, children, and the weak and sick, get on the bus! Squeeze!"
"Distribute weapons to the young and middle-aged! If evil spirits break in, immediately launch a counterattack! "
Also, don't repair this car! Evacuate with people first!"
The order from the governor of Shanhaiguan was quickly passed on. In an instant, a commotion spread throughout the team. The panicked people heard that there was something wrong. The evil ghost chased over, and the originally neat team immediately became chaotic.
Someone said loudly: "The evil spirit is coming! Everyone, run away!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, several wolf-like security guards rushed over and arrested those who deliberately caused chaos and beat them up.
Regardless of whether such people are intentional or unintentional, at critical moments, whoever dares to cause chaos will be treated as a believer of the old god.
The governor of Shanhaiguan did not care about these matters. He ordered the people around him: "How many people in the security company can be spared?"
Someone replied: "There are more than thirty people, and everyone is on standby at any time!"
The governor of Shanhaiguan said quickly: "Take everyone with you and follow me!"
No one hesitated or gave advice.
Everyone knows that once the evil spirits come to kill them, not many people here can survive.
As long as everyone does their best to block it for a moment, maybe the demon-suppressing soldiers in Shanhaiguan will notice something is wrong and quickly send reinforcements.
What's more, the governor of Shanhaiguan will never allow the people to die in front of him.
Even if he is going to die, he must die first!
(End of chapter)