Chapter 30:

"Go over there!" The soldier flicked his whip. "Bring things here!"
"Didn't you eat?! Strength!"
The hard laborers only wore a few pieces of rags on their bodies.They squatted their bodies, their skin was dark and dirty, and they were obviously not old. At this time, they looked like old people. They were trembling to move coal, and the atmosphere did not dare. Out.
"Someone fell here!"
"Lost!"
The soldier rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Throw it out into the pit."
The laborers don't have too much expressions, they bury their heads and do their own things, like livestock without brains.
The soldier took the whip, took a sip of the wine in the flask he carried with him, and rushed to the people around him: "Bring out your strength!"
The laborers did not speak, remained silent, and worked hard like an old cow.
Li Congrong looked at the scene behind the hillside, sipped, and cursed in a low voice: "They are all birds, only daring to bully the flat-headed people, they are good guys, good people, and they are tortured like pigs, dogs, cows and horses. Beating and scolding is a dog, and it has to be fed to be loyal."
Zhu Chongba persuaded: "Brother Dao don't be anxious. When it gets dark, I will burn their granary. Brother Dao will get into the crowd and raise his arms. Naturally someone will respond."
Although Li Congrong has never read military books, he also knows the old saying: "Soldiers and horses do not move food and grass first." They still know the importance of food and grass. This is just a small coal mountain with not many soldiers guarding it. The biggest official is just a man. Hundred households, that is, centurions, have a hundred soldiers under their hands.
But the labor force here is more than one hundred.
Most of these people are nearby farmers and villagers who have been detained here to dig and transport coal. They are on the verge of collapse. Seeing the soldiers have wine and vegetables, they only know how they feel inside.
Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba put on rags and prepared to act as soon as dark.
"It's really cold." Li Congrong was so cold that he was fighting with his teeth.
Zhu Chongba didn't get any better. People are all made of meat, and they feel cold and painful.
"Brother Dao, forbearance." Zhu Chongba said.
The sky gradually darkened, and seeing people gradually stopping work and walking back to the shed, Li Congrong went down the path from the hillside. He stood outside the shed, hesitating to know which shed would be better.
When Li Congrong was in a dilemma, someone behind him suddenly pushed him.
Li Congrong had only two words in his mind: "It's over."
However, when he turned around, he saw a scrawny middle-aged man. His numb eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog. The man looked at Li Congrong's eyes and asked indifferently, "New?" "
Li Congrong nodded stiffly.
The man opened the rag curtain at the door of the shed: "Come in."
Li Congrong went in with the man. There was nothing in the shed. A bunch of people lay on the ground and saw strangers. They looked up and stared at Li Congrong warily, but their eyes were full of sympathy.
The man who brought Li Congrong in pointed to an open space: "Just whoever you are."
So Li Congrong walked over and sat down on the damp ground, where there was no hay. Li Congrong asked the person lying next to him: "Don't you make some grass?"
The person next to him laughed mockingly: "Master can tell you to hay?"
Li Congrong didn't mind being ridiculed. He asked, "How long have you been here?"
No one answered him.
Li Congrong said to himself: "I used to work as a porter in Wucheng. Although it is not a good life, I don't worry about eating and drinking. I have good luck occasionally and I can eat meat for a while."
Still no one answered.
Li Congrong grabbed his ears and fished his cheeks: "By the way, where are your children and mother-in-law?"
Speaking of this, someone replied in a dull voice: "I don't know."
"I have no children. The mother-in-law may have run away with someone."
"My parents are still waiting for me to go back home."
"I don't know how the autumn harvest will be at home this year."
Li Congrong hurriedly said: "Now the chaos is out there. Many people are selling themselves. You still have to go back and see. There is no man in the family. Isn't that bullying?"
"Do you think you can go if you come?" Someone turned over, "No one went out here, only the ones who were thrown out after death."
Li Congrong's eyes rolled: "I heard on the way there that some soldiers killed the guards and fled."
The shed is very quiet.
Suddenly someone opened his mouth and said, "A soldier can have weapons."
Everyone stopped talking.
"Go to sleep, think about tomorrow's affairs tomorrow."
Li Congrong was anxious: "Why don't you spell it instead of living a life here as a beast? It's always a dead word. If you spell it out, at least you have a chance to live!"
Someone scolded him: "Where is it so simple! Do you think no one has done it? The few who made trouble were skinned alive! Even if it is a pleasure, it is better than skinning!"
Li Congrong was stunned on the spot. I didn't expect that the man in charge here was so frantic. Isn't he a human? Can the heart be so cruel?
"Where can I be better if I am not caught by them?" Suddenly someone whispered, "When I left, the mother-in-law was still pregnant. I wanted to see my baby."
After a while, someone went on to say: "My parents are getting older, and I'm the only child..."
"My son was only three years old when I left."
A group of people who were already numb, they were talking and crying.
"What are you talking about!" A soldier shouted outside, "Don't go to bed! Only if you delay tomorrow, you will look good!"
This person is so loud that everyone in the sheds around can hear it.
But everyone has become accustomed to it, and they are silent, lest they be beaten up.
After all, even if he was severely beaten, he still had to go to work.
At work, they were beaten again for a bad job. Many people were beaten to death like this.
Just when everyone closed their eyes and was about to fall asleep, Li Congrong shouted: "Grandpa is afraid of you, a birdman?! If you are a little bit courageous, just fight grandpa!"
When this word came out, everyone was shocked.
Especially the soldiers who watched the night, he froze for a moment before reacting: "Who was talking just now! Get out!"
Li Congrong: "Grandpa called you, grandson!"
The soldier was young, rolled up his sleeves and drew out his whip: "You wait, I skinned you alive!"
Many soldiers were attracted by the shouts.
The people in the same shed as Li Congrong trembled in fear.
Just as the footsteps approached, there was a loud shout outside: "The granary is on fire! Come and put out the fire! Come on!"
The sound of footsteps that had approached was far away.
Li Congrong turned his head and looked at the person who had already sat up, his expression indifferent: "Anyone who has the courage will rush out with me and fight his brother to death and life! Stay here, either die today or die tomorrow, fight for it. There is still a chance to survive."
"Masters, they are reduced to beasts, so they don't want to resist."
"Manly man, seven-foot man, bloody!"
"Think about your mother-in-law! Son! Father and mother!"
Li Congrong opened the curtain: "The lords above don't give us a way to survive, let's earn one by ourselves!"
Li Congrong looked back, only to find that all the people who had been sitting stood up.
They did not say a word, standing behind Li Congrong, Li Congrong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone walked out of the shed and picked up the wood or stones around him. Li Congrong rushed to the forefront with his bare hands and shouted: "Fight with them!"
A group of skeleton-like men followed behind him, with red eyes, and shouted: "Fight!"
It was probably because the movement on their side was too great, and the people in the other sheds also walked out fearfully.
There were also soldiers who did not go to fight the fire. Seeing Li Congrong and the others came out, they hurried over and said, "What are you doing! Go back! Otherwise, you will be beautiful!"
Li Congrong rushed forward at this moment. He grabbed the opponent’s whip with one hand and sat on the opponent. He tightened the man’s neck with the whip. The man’s face was flushed red, and he grabbed Li Congrong’s arms and legs with both hands. It stopped swinging, and made a "Ugh" sound in his mouth.
"What are you doing? Can't you reverse it?!" Someone came over again, but this time those who followed Li Congrong stood up.
As soon as they rushed up, the other party obviously didn't expect that the people who were as good as pigs and dogs would resist. For a while, they were pressed to the ground by these people, and their heads were smashed by a stone, and they lost their breath.
"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
Li Congrong held up his whip: "You want to live! Go back to see your family! Run out with me!"
The soldiers were divided into a group of people to fight the fire. Although the other group had weapons, they could not fight with the large numbers of laborers at all. These soldiers had never been on the battlefield, and they were military households for generations, and they were doing their best work. For the Fuyurou people, when they really encountered an unfavorable posture, they first retreated in their hearts.
However, the moment of life and death, once retreated, it is a dead word.
These labors have no way to retreat. If they retreat at this time and are liquidated afterwards, none of them can escape, and they will also affect the family.
At this point, they would have to fight without fighting.
What's more, emotions can infect people, and people around will rush up, and those who don't rush will also rush.
In the dark, people cannot see the blood stains, the ground stained red with blood, only hatred and the enemy on the other side are in their eyes. The weapons of the laborers are things picked up at hand. There are stones, branches, and dead. The knives
guns picked up in the hands of the soldiers, they are all ordinary civilians, they have no fighting skills, but they have a desperate momentum.
Like a pack of hungry wolves.
Soldiers are their food.
The blood was boiling at this time, and everyone seemed to forget the fear of death, and rushed forward desperately. The people in front of them fell down and seemed invisible.
The moon overhead was covered by dark clouds. Li Congrong looked up and felt that the moon was also red.
He will never forget this night, never forget the first person he killed.
In fear, he had another feeling.
An unspeakable sense of excitement.
He finally understood what Lin Yuan said.
"If you don't reverse it, there will be no way to survive. If you reverse it, you can survive."
Li Congrong shouted: "Kill!"
In the darkness, Li Congrong no longer knew that he had killed a few, and he also had injuries on his body, but he didn't feel the pain, his spirit was extremely excited.
However, the situation is getting worse.
After all, the opponent is a soldier. Even if they have never been on the battlefield, they are also soldiers. They have weapons that the laborers don't have. When they gather together, the laborers are not opponents at all.
Just as Li Congrong and the others were getting more and more disadvantaged, a roar suddenly came from the mountain, echoing in the mountain, giving people the illusion of a large number of people, the group of people rushed down from the mountain, shouting and killing deafening.
coming!
Li Congrong took the machete he grabbed, and slashed it at a soldier in front. These soldiers were wearing common clothes and had no armor on them. When the knife went down, the man turned his head to see who killed him.
Li Congrong also saw the face of this soldier through the moonlight that the dark clouds dissipated, a childish face with a surprised face.
Li Congrong gritted his teeth. He didn't look at this man again, but shouted: "The one who helped us is here! Don't panic! It's the one who helps us!"
Probably because Li Congrong was at the forefront at the beginning. The laborers listened to him very much and believed it without even thinking about it. The arrival of reinforcements greatly improved morale, although these reinforcements were just four people who were waiting on the mountain at the beginning. ten people.
Li Congrong breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that Zhu Chongba was not caught.
After all, they had agreed that Zhu Chongba went up the mountain after burning the granary and rushed down with people.
The shouting made the soldiers confused, and Hundred Burigude shouted: "They are bluffing! Don't retreat! Who has retired from the military law! The opposite is just a mob!"
Brigude held a knife in his hand: "Follow me!"
Li Congrong also shouted: "Follow me!"
Zhu Chongba and the others have arrived at the battlefield. They all have hoes in their hands. Compared with the laborers, their physiques are stronger and their arms stronger.
Zhu Chongba said to them: "Just cut pigs and sheep, don't treat them as adults! They don't die, we are the ones who die!"
The men shouted: "Got it!"
In the midst of the storm, Zhu Chongba looked for Buri Gude in the dark. After all, Buri Gude was a hundred households. Even if he rushed ahead, he was surrounded by many people to protect him.
Zhu Chongba cautiously approached the knife Li Congrong handed him in his hand. He could hear his heartbeat and even feel the blood flowing. He had never been so scared or excited.
Bregude chopped off a person's head and said in the gap of his breath: "Kill them all!"
Then he said to the people around him: "Don't worry about me, I am a great Yuan warrior, these mobs can't get close to me."
Hearing the words, the soldiers beside him dispersed.
The Bregude family has been a military household for generations, relying on the enemy's head to make a fortune. He is the only one of these people who has ever been on the battlefield.
In his opinion, these people are not opponents at all.
"Hundred households." Someone called him.
Brygude turned his head, he saw a young man, probably because the young man seemed to be strong, not like labor, so he naturally thought it was his soldier: "What are you doing? Kill the enemy?"
The young man looked scared: "I...my knife is gone..."
Bregude snorted coldly: "Things that are not enough."
As he said, he threw his knife to the opponent: "Take mine."
He is more than a knife himself.
The young man came closer and said, "Hundred households, I'm afraid..."
Brigude scolded impatiently: "Things without eggs! Fear of a bird! Don't go!"
"Hundred households." The young man looked at him eagerly, and took a few steps closer, "I will protect you."
Brigud snorted coldly: "I am..."
He didn't finish speaking, he saw a flash of cold light before him, and he couldn't speak anymore.
Burigude was holding his neck, blood pouring continuously, and his mouth was full of blood. When he opened his mouth, blood came out of his mouth.
Because he couldn't make a sound, he couldn't even call the name of his soldier.
Brigold fell to the ground, he watched the opponent approaching, and then-lost consciousness.
Zhu Chongba slashed off Buri Gude's head. He climbed to a relatively low hillside and shouted: "Your hundred households are dead! Disarmed and kneeled on the ground without killing! Your hundred households are dead! Disarm and kneel down without killing!"
Capture the thief first capture the king, Zhu Chongba has not read a few books on war, but he understands this truth without a teacher.
The soldiers were instantly confused, and when they lost their senses, the butcher knife of death had already fallen.
When the people around him fell one after another, the soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt.
The sky was getting brighter, and the battle lasted all night. When the sun rose from the east, everyone saw the corpses all over the world. Soldiers and laborers were covered in blood. Finally, someone sent out the first There was a cry.
Slowly, the crying became louder and louder.
I don't know if I was crying for the dead, or crying for the rest of my life.
Li Congrong had scars on his shoulders and back. Fortunately, the wounds were not deep. He sat on the stone, panting with exhaustion.
Zhu Chongba asked someone to tie up the soldiers, and then said to the workers around: "We have our place to go. If you want to go home, you can go now. If you have nowhere to go, you can go with us all the way. ."
Most of the people who survived chose to return to their hometowns. They still have relatives and ties.
Only a few people chose to leave with them.
Li Congrong sat down on the ground and asked Zhu Chongba: "What shall we do now?"
Zhu Chongba calmly said: "Take the weapon, and the coal can be pulled as much as possible, so let's go back."
The deep winter is coming soon, their current things are not enough to survive the severe winter, they must go back to Zhuangzi, and the food they brought out is almost exhausted, and they must go back as soon as possible.
"I see." Li Congrong said, "I'll lie down here for a while."
Zhu Chongba also sat down. Li Congrong looked at Zhu Chongba's expression and asked, "Are you not afraid at all?"
How can a person be so courageous to burn food and grass alone?
He also killed a hundred households, and Li Congrong felt he couldn't do it.
Zhu Chong Bachao Li Congrong smiled: "I don't know either."
He gained strength from the sound of fighting, and his hatred for the court burst out completely, which made him extremely excited.
The people who wanted to go home have already left. Before everyone left, Zhu Chongba gave them some beans, enough to fill their stomachs at this time. When they left, they knelt down and gave Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba a head. , And then left the blood-stained land with his back.
They don't know what their future is, so they can only follow the path in front of them.
"Although I didn't find iron, it's good to have coal." Li Congrong remembered the purpose of their trip at this time. "As long as there is coal, the iron pots and kitchen knives found can be used as weapons. These machetes are good."
These soldiers still have some good things.
After staying for half a month, they began to hurry.
In addition to the forty people originally brought out, more than ten have been added, and these are all willing to follow them.
These people quickly became one with the original forty people.
When the fire was burning in the evening, they listened to these forty people talking about Zhuangzi.
"Can you be full." This is the biggest temptation.
"The boss doesn't hit people."
"I can sleep in a bed at night, with a quilt cover."
When Zhu Chongba brought clothes for these people, these people had an unprecedented yearning for Zhuangzi. Although these clothes were not made of cotton, they were stuffed with hay, but they were also straw fleece, which was much warmer than ordinary coarse cloth Geyi. , Not to mention that they are here, but they can't even wear coarse cloth Geyi.
Many people froze to death last winter. They survived last winter, and they also know that this winter, they will have many bad luck.
But now, they see the hope of life.
As long as there is a chance to survive, everyone wants to live.
Snow was flying, covering the ground with a thin layer. Lin Yuan stood in front of the window. This was the first time he saw snow in the south. It was much smaller than the north, and it was not available every year. Look at luck.
Everyone in Zhuangzi was exclaiming.
"It's snowing! It's snowing this year!"
Erliang and Gouzi wanted to use this little snow to push a snowball out, and they were squatting on the ground outside to play.
After all, they are young people, and they still have fun.
Lin Yuan looked at the snow and hoped that the harvest tomorrow would be better.
Today the granary is full, and there are two sheds dedicated to raising bamboo rats, ducks and chickens. If all goes well, Zhuangzi will be fully self-sufficient at this time next year.
If Li Congrong and Zhu Chongba can return safely and complete their tasks, this Zhuangzi can cultivate his own armed forces.
During the uprising in the four places, I took a share from the powerful.
For the future, Lin Yuan only had a general idea. He needed time to think and implement it.
"The boss."
"My boss! The man is back!"
"Brother Dao is back safely!"
Cheers came from outside.
Lin Yuan rushed out of the room, he ran in a hurry, and he even couldn't breathe.
They came back safely!
When he was about to run in front of Li Congrong, Lin Yuan stopped.
He looked at the undamaged Brother Dao and Zhu Chongba, and couldn't help breathing.
Finally, Brother Dao stepped forward and hugged Lin Yuan.
"Our experience has not disappointed, right?" Brother Dao smiled triumphantly.
Then he asked Lin Yuan in a low voice, "I didn't say the word that lived up to expectations wrong, right?"
Lin Yuan also laughed: "Yes! That's right!"
The women behind Lin Yuanchong said, "Go catch chickens and ducks, and taste the meat tonight!"
"There is meat to eat!"
"The owner said to eat meat tonight!"
Lin Yuan felt that he had never been so happy before, even if he did nothing, the smirk on his face couldn't stop.
At noon, the sun fell, melting the little remaining snow on the ground.
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It's been a long time since I wrote the battle scene, but this scene cannot be skipped.
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