Chapter 630 Locust Tide

When he was seriously ill, Ma Chao still came outside Chang'an City. However, this time, no one was riding the majestic and noble elephant dragon Xiaohei, but had no choice but to sit in the carriage accompanied by Cai Yan, Diao Chan and other women.

"In the Sili area, are the chickens and ducks raised all over the mountains still?" Ma Chao lay in the carriage and occasionally opened the window to observe the disaster outside. At this time, the carriage had just left the Weiyang Palace and had not yet arrived outside the city flooded with locusts.

"It's still there, still..." Naturally, Chen Haojie was not really killed by Diao Chan. Ma Chao was personally treated by Hua Tuo. After waking up, he asked Chen Haojie to take him to the disaster area outside the city. When the order of pardon was issued, Chen Haojie's neck was only a few inches away from the knife...

"Since the Sili area has raised chickens and ducks according to my instructions, and millions of disaster victims have also caught locusts under the call of the Ma family, why does the locust plague still break out?" Ma Chao said weakly that he had always believed that people would win the sky. And this time, he also felt that his preventive measures were in place.

"There is no other reason, because there are too many locusts..." Diao Chan waved his hand to let Chen Haojie, who was driving outside the window, drive at ease, and Chen Haojie saw Diao Chan, as if a mouse saw a cat. He was flustered and relieved with a sense of relief, and quickly escaped from Diao Chan's sight: for this ridiculous woman, Chen Haojie was already afraid of the bone when he first met him.

Dang Chan shook her head with a wry smile. She naturally saw the happy eyes of Chen Haojie when she fled. However, what she is worried about now is still Ma Chao's condition. She patted Ma Chao's hand and wanted to relax Ma Chao's mood with some relaxing words: "The chickens and ducks are eating locusts these days, and both legs are fighting, and they are almost full..."

"Oh..." Obviously, Diao Chan's words did not ease Ma Chao's worries. After listening to this, Ma Chao muttered, "How can there be so many?..."

Ma Chao has not personally experienced locust plague, but as an agricultural base station technician in his previous life, he has seen some locust information. Looking back at the slide, the sky is covered with the sun, full of pits and valleys, all of that thing. Ma Chao couldn't help feeling a little creepy, thinking about how spectacular and horrible it was to fly like a sandstorm!

"Let the locusts come more violently! The life and death of the Ma family may be in this battle!!" Ma Chao gritted his teeth and said this. He looked up and asked Liu Yue, "Those chickens, ducks and geese, as well as the cattle and sheep auctioned last time, as well as the pigs purchased by the Ma family, Guan and Li, are still there?"

"It's still..." Liu Yue understood the meaning of Ma Chao's question and comforted Ma Chao: "Although the locust plague may clean up all the grain in the Sili area, these poultry and livestock can still support it for a period of time. If they can catch up with Yongzhou's grain harvest, the Ma family can survive this difficulty safely.

"It is true that we can survive this difficulty, but in this way, the Ma family will have no seeds to cultivate next year. I know the inventory and harvest in Yongzhou better than you... Yueer, you don't have to comfort me." Ma Chao waved his hand and seemed to feel a little tired. But after he closed his eyes, he said, "Tell the Ministry of Household and ask them to hand over all the dairy cows to the Ministry of War. If the situation is indeed out of the control of the Ma family, the Ma family can only retreat to the starting stage and rely on tens of thousands of milk sheep cows to fight guerrilla warfare..."

When Ma Teng started his home, he relied on 30,000 Xiliang iron riding to fight. Even in the first year of Ma Chao's occupation of Fufeng County, when he marched outside the fortress, he also relied on guerrillas to drive cattle and sheep. The crop yield in the northwest is not as good as that of the Central Plains, but they have done a lot of research on animal husbandry. Milk and sheep's milk is their best food. Drink a full stomach, which is more than grain.

For people in the northwest, cattle and sheep are the source of their food and clothing, and people in the northwest cherish it tightly. Although hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep are grazing, they usually rarely eat meat, and most of them eat them with barley flour mixed with cheese. They only eat meat when they entertain guests or when the cattle and sheep die old. It was not until Ma Chao received the first harvest of Fufeng County that the cattle and sheep fought with the army that they gradually began to stay away from the Ma family army.

It's just this locust disaster, which may really make the Ma family return to the initial stage of the guerrilla campaign. Ma Chao smiled bitterly. He really didn't want to believe that he stole and robbed for three years. A disaster made him return to pre-liberation...

"Relying on cattle and sheep as a source of military food? Husband, do you mean that Ma Jiajun wants to use force again?..." When Diao Chan heard Ma Chao's words, he couldn't help asking again. Although she also knows, Ma Chao may not answer her question.

But this time, Ma Chao took a look at Diao Chan and saw the brightness and worry in Diao Chan's eyes, as well as a trace of desire. He softened his heart and said, "I asked you to arrange Xiao Tian and Mu Yuanfeng to explore the news of Yuan Shu in order to leave a way out for the Ma family... Yes, if you really can't hold on, the Ma family will let Yuan Shu do it..."

"Why is it Yuan Shu?..." Diao Chan was puzzled. At this time, Yuan Shu was still a giant crocodile in Yuzhou, which was no less commany than the Ma family. Diao Chan couldn't figure out why Ma Chao chose this hard bone.

"Because..." Ma Chao just wanted to explain, but suddenly felt that he seemed to hear the roar of the plane taking off in his ear. From far to near, he was doubting whether he had hallucinations to see if anyone else had been sent to the Three Kingdoms by plane. When he could welcome him, he heard Chen Haojie outside the window howled: "Master, mistress, hurry up. Sit still, the locust is coming!"

Diao Chan quickly lifted the window to check. At this time, the carriage had already traveled to the suburbs of Chang'an. A yellow cloud on the distant horizon quickly rushed towards them, and hundreds of millions of finger-long locusts spread their wings and danced quickly in the air, converging a huge roar similar to that of the plane took off, overwhelming Cover it down.

In front of the natural disaster, Ma Chao, with a heart like a golden iron heart, suddenly felt that his heart had been hammered, and Diao Chan, Liu Yue, Cai Yan and other women lost their faces in an instant. Chen Haojie, the personal defender, couldn't wait to bury his head in the soil, and pulled the horse and couldn't help hissing. He was dragged by the carriage and couldn't help stepping on his hoofs in place. .

"Rang the horse!" At the critical moment, Ma Chao took the lead in reacting and shouted, "Hide in the car and cover the doors and windows!"

When Chen Haojie heard this, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes. At this moment, he remembered that he was Ma Chao's personal defender. He knew that if the horse was frightened and fled at this time, the people in the car would definitely be affected and severely damaged. As soon as he turned over, he resolutely loosened the stop wood on the carriage and stabbed the horse's buttocks, allowing the four panicked horses to fly towards the road without locusts.

Ma Chao in the car pulled off the inner skirt of his clothes, wrapped his head and face layer after layer, leaving only his mouth and eyes, and his hands were also wrapped with cloth strips, and then tightened his neckline, sleeves and trouser legs, so that the panicked women did the same. At this time, Chen Haojie also plunged into the carriage and didn't care about anything else. When he came up, he put down the curtain and covered it!

It seemed that at the next moment, everyone only felt that their whole body seemed to be in the center of the sandstorm. The outside of the car seemed to be constantly being knocked by thick stones, which made people's hair creepy. Everyone knew that it was a locust hit the car, and the timid Fu Shou was so scared that they didn't even dare to open their eyes.

But this can't stop the invasion of locusts at all. Many locusts seem to want to see the people in the car. He couldn't help getting in through the gap between the curtain and the window, which made the women scream. Chen Haojie was so anxious to punch and kick when he saw this, and he couldn't wait to bite the locusts that got into the car to death.

The impact lasted for half an hour before it gradually eased. After hearing that there was no longer a feeling of impact on the body of the car, Ma Chao opened his eyes and asked Chen Haojie to pull off the curtain and looked at the strange earth with a miserable smile.

In half an hour, the whole earth seemed to be covered with a yellow coat, and there were wriggling locusts everywhere. From time to time, broken branches fell from the tall crown, and the fat branches that fell into the air quickly lost weight and became thin. When they landed, there were only bare branches without bark.

The rustling sound of spring silkworm biting mulberry leaves came from the fields on both sides of the road, but the sound was much louder, and the bite was much more powerful than the silkworm, which was creepy.

Several locusts climbed on each crop, and the tender green leaf veins disappeared in an instant. Large areas of farmland with a good harvest became a feeding ground for locusts.

Ma Chao stretched out his sick hand, as if he wanted to grab something. Finally, he put down and gently spit out a sentence from his pale lips: "Is the sky going to destroy my Ma family?!..."