Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 376 Stealing All the Food and Grass

Song Chunlin happened to be in the rear of the barbarians. When he saw this situation, he thought it was God’s help!

While the barbarians were fighting in the front, Song Chunlin went straight to their rear. He first planted countless mutated vines around the entire military camp. Those vines quietly devoured most of the soldiers left behind in the camp. Unfortunately, there was no one in the center of the camp. It seemed that the barbarian generals had all gone to the front line, and it was quiet here.

Song Chunlin boldly patrolled the barbarian camp. When he came across their warehouse, he killed the guards and looted it. He took away all the wolf grass and didn't even leave a single bean. The entire warehouse was spotless, ensuring that the barbarians would not be able to eat a hot meal when they returned.

Speaking of hot meals, how could he have forgotten about the kitchen? So Song Chunlin started looking for the kitchen, or the stove. The barbarians did not like to eat stir-fried dishes or stews like the Han people. They used more noodles and barbecued meat, and at most they would make some milk tea. Song Chunlin smelled the milk tea and it was a bit strange. He couldn't accept it, so he gave up.

Then there were several tents full of meat, most of which was dried meat. Song Chunlin counted with his fingers and it seemed that the quantity was not that large. It seemed that these tribes were not that rich. No wonder they always wanted to come here to rob the Dajing people. It turned out that they had no food to eat at all.

Song Chunlin didn't care whether these people would starve to death or not. He only knew that these people were invaders. Since they were invaders, he should not be merciful to them. So Song Chunlin also put the meat into his pocket. It would be nice to give a meal to the guys who had worked so hard to defend the city.

Song Chunlin killed and looted in the enemy's base camp. When he came out of the barbarian camp, there was no one alive. Even the corpses had been fed to the mutant vines as fertilizer.

Looking at the mutated vines that were burping because of eating many people, Song Chunlin touched the vines with satisfaction, and then ordered the army of mutated vines to kill towards the rear of the barbarians.

A large group of mutated vines made rustling sounds, but the sound was not loud and did not attract the attention of the barbarians. When the vines climbed up people's bodies, the barbarians subconsciously wanted to call for help. However, before they could make a sound, the vines drilled into their mouths in the next moment, blocking their mouths from speaking.

Immediately afterwards, the vines entangled his neck. As the vines tightened, the bones inside were broken and the person suffocated to death.

This way of dying would be relatively quiet, as people would not struggle when entangled by vines. Song Chunlin used this method to secretly kill many barbarian soldiers. By the time these barbarians discovered him, the mutated vines had grown into a one-meter-high vine wall by eating people, and the vines continued on both sides, as if they wanted to trap all these barbarians inside and eat them slowly.

"It's those monsters! When did they appear behind us?!"

The barbarians shouted in shock. With Gu's army in front of them and vine monsters behind them, they wondered if Linyuan City was really blessed by God, otherwise how could they have not been able to take it down after such a long siege?

Gu Fengyue didn't know what happened behind the barbarians, but he keenly observed that there seemed to be a commotion among the barbarians on the opposite side.

"There's a problem over there. Hurry up, everyone, work harder and drive these barbarians out in one go!"

As soon as the Gu family army made an effort here, they were surrounded by mutant vines from behind. Under attack from both sides, the barbarian leader decisively ordered to turn around and attack a place where the vines were sparse, trying to tear open a hole so that he could escape as soon as possible.

Seeing that the barbarians were trying to escape, Gu Fengyue certainly would not miss this good opportunity. He immediately led his men in pursuit, and unknowingly penetrated deep into the barbarian tribe. Until he got into the center of the barbarian team, Gu Fengyue saw the green vine wall from the gaps in the crowd.

It’s Song Chunlin, he’s back!

When he saw the mutated vines, Gu Fengyue knew that Song Chunlin had returned safely. A big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and he became more courageous in killing the barbarians.

Song Chunlin also saw Gu Fengyue in the crowd, so he immediately drove the mutated vines towards Gu Fengyue's direction. The barbarians seemed to realize that the abrupt young man in front of them was the owner of these monsters, so they roared and raised their knives to slash at Song Chunlin. Song Chunlin was too lazy to even dodge and just shot him directly. Hot weapons are much faster than cold weapons. As soon as the knife was raised, the man fell down. The mutated vines around him immediately rolled up the body and did not eat it, but just carried it along. The visual effect was even more terrifying than if it had been eaten directly.

Song Chunlin kept hearing the mutant vines complaining in his mind that they were tired of eating such people and asked Song Chunlin if he wanted to try a different taste. Song Chunlin said with a dark face that it was impossible. The mutant vines could only continue to hold the corpses with a wronged look on their face. They were still a little full now and it would not be too late to eat them after they broke out of the encirclement.

Song Chunlin controlled the mutated vines all the way towards Gu Fengyue. A small area was cleared in every place along the way. These vines very sensibly began to close together, slowly wrapping him in the center. Soon, he reunited with Gu Fengyue and the others.

The Gu family soldiers just watched their Great Sima pass through the monsters. Those Gu family soldiers who had never seen vines before were worried for Gu Fengyue.

However, a moment later, Gu Fengyue walked out from behind the green wall holding his fiancé's hand.

When everyone saw that they were unharmed, their eyes widened. Some of them almost forgot what they were doing. If their companions had not rescued them, they would have almost had one hand chopped off by the barbarians.

He quickly dodged to the side, and after he was done he did not forget to thank his brother who saved him.

"Don't be distracted. Look at these barbarians. They are almost running away."

At this time, Gu Fengyue also received the person he had been thinking about, and after learning from Song Chunlin that Song Chunlin had actually taken away all the supplies in the opponent's base camp, Gu Fengyue's mood improved a lot, and he walked to their camp with Song Chunlin with a smile on his face.

After Gu Fengyue came back, he asked his subordinates to come back with him.

"General, are we not going to fight anymore?"

"Come back, the enemy will probably retreat soon, let's go."

The soldier didn't understand why Gu Fengyue said that, but since his superior said so, he must be sure to withdraw, so the Gu family army retreated from the battlefield and returned to Linyuan City.

Song Chunlin also summoned back his mutated vines. This time, he did not let the vines walk outside with their thorns spread out. Instead, he let them burrow underground to avoid scaring others in broad daylight.

Those vines also obediently rolled up their spare rations and burrowed into the ground, waiting for Song Chunlin to summon them again.

On the other side, the barbarian soldiers returned to their barracks not long after that and discovered that something seemed to be wrong with the barracks. It was too quiet in there, and all the other people who had stayed in the barracks were nowhere to be seen, along with all their food and supplies.

There are still some smart people among the barbarians. They almost immediately guessed that this might have been done by the young man who controlled the vines.

But don’t those vines eat people? Do they also eat meat and food?

Upon discovering that his house had been robbed, the barbarian leader was so angry that he jumped up and down on the spot. He was running around anxiously in the empty granary. Without food, would all of them starve?

"These damn Han people, how could those monsters be so greedy? We collected so much dried meat, but it was all gone in an instant! Where are the people guarding the camp? Bring me their heads!"

"Well, those people seem to have disappeared..."

"disappeared?"

"Yes, they are all missing, and the wounded soldiers and doctors are all gone, including the various medicines that we had worked so hard to get. Now the wounded soldiers have no one to treat them, and there are no medicines to use. If they can't find medicine, they will die soon."

In fact, even if there is medicine, these people can easily die. They may struggle for a while. Who wants to die?

Now, not only have they run out of food, but they have also run out of medical treatment. This is God’s will to kill them!

The barbarian leader's eyes went blurry and he staggered. The people beside him hurriedly helped him up and prevented him from falling to the ground. It can be said that this man is quite resilient. Faced with such a predicament, he has not collapsed completely, but he looks almost there.

At this time, other barbarian soldiers also discovered the differences in the camp. Some of them searched the camp and found no trace of food, so they completely broke through the defense.

"All the food is gone, how can we fight?"

"Why don't we rush into the city in one go? They must have plenty of food in the city."

"How do we kill them? That monster is guarding the gate, and there are also those Gu family soldiers. We have been fighting with them for a whole day, but we still can't get to the city gate."

"How can you boost others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige?"

"Then what else can we do? What do you think we should do?"

The person being asked was speechless for a moment because he didn't know what to do.

Just when the barbarians were all having a headache, Song Chunlin was already sitting in the palace, applying medicine to Gu Fengyue's cut arm.

Clean the wound with saline solution and disinfect it with iodine. If the wound is not too big, sprinkle a thin layer of Yunnan Baiyao powder on it and then apply an oversized physiological patch to prevent infection.

Song Chunlin also poured out a bunch of medicine, found an anti-inflammatory medicine for Gu Fengyue to take, and stuffed the pill into Gu Fengyue's mouth. He also did not forget to scold the other party a few words.

"I told you to be careful, are you just that careful? The knife was handed to you, and you didn't dodge it?"

Gu Fengyue had a smile on her lips as she listened to Song Chunlin's mumbling. She didn't feel annoyed, but just thought that Song Chunlin looked particularly cute like this.

Perhaps finally noticing Gu Fengyue's absent-mindedness, Song Chunlin poked his wound in annoyance, and Gu Fengyue immediately cried out in pain.

"Still laughing, what's so funny?"

Gu Fengyue was still smiling: "I am laughing at your resourcefulness. Now that we have taken away all their food and grass, let's see what they can use to fight us."

Song Chunlin looked at him and said, "Calculate the time. The people from the imperial court should be here, right?"

Gu Fengyue thought for a moment and said, "Well, it is coming soon. I estimate it will be in the next few days."

Not long after the two finished talking, someone outside reported that the reinforcements sent from the capital were on the way and would arrive in Linyuan in three days at the latest, and that Gu Fengyun would lead the team personally.

"Wow, it's your brother again. Your brother is a civil official, why does he have to go on business trips like this every day?"

Gu Fengyue didn't say anything, because he knew why Gu Fengyun personally led the team to Linyuan. It was simply because he was worried about him.

"The barbarians are out of food now, and they might launch a fierce attack tonight. We probably won't be able to rest tonight. Can you hold on after traveling these few days?"

Song Chunlin took out some spiritual spring water and said that he could still hold on. Seeing that Gu Fengyue looked tired, he couldn't help but blame him: "Why didn't you drink the spiritual spring water I gave you? If you drank it, your hand wouldn't be hurt at all."

Gu Fengyue felt a little guilty about his questioning, and she coughed and explained, "Well, you consumed a lot of spiritual spring water before, so I gave the rest of my water to the wounded soldiers. They need the spiritual spring water more than I do."

After listening to Gu Fengyue's explanation, Song Chunlin didn't want to continue blaming him. He could only angrily fill a small bottle of spiritual spring water for him again, put it on his chest, and told him to keep it well.

Gu Fengyue placed his big hand on his small hand, smiled and promised that he would take good care of this precious spiritual spring water.

And just as Gu Fengyue said, before daybreak, the starving barbarian soldiers on the opposite side launched a fierce attack. And because they had no food or grass left, their attack this time was unusually fierce, as if they were venting all their anger for not having food on Gu's army. Even the soldiers from Linyuan City were affected.

"Did these barbarians take the wrong medicine? They suddenly became so fierce, like crazy."

The culprit, Song Chunlin, shrank his neck and dared not tell anyone else that the reason these barbarians were so crazy was all because of a series of his own tricks. If he hadn't used underhanded tricks to cut off the other party's retreat, these barbarians who had no food to eat would not be so angry.

In order to clean up his mess, Gu Fengyue hurriedly drank a sip of spiritual spring water to refresh himself, then took his spear and went into the battlefield to kill the enemy. Song Chunlin was worried about him, but he had no way to go up to help. He was not as good at close combat as he was at long-range combat, so he just stood on the city wall and shot at the barbarians below in the head.

He had the power of mental cheating, and his accuracy was almost 100%, and this time the sky was not completely dark yet, so he was able to take out a barbarian soldier with one arrow, which amazed the other archers.

"Did he...did he really aim?"

"Yes, otherwise how did those people die..."

The archers were shocked by Song Chunlin's speed and accuracy. They felt that Song Chunlin alone could defeat ten of them. Didn't they see that every arrow he shot hit the target?