Deng Zong, a native of Ruyin, rushed out of the camp with the crowd, took off his clothes, and rolled on the ground before extinguishing the fire on his body.

I turned around and saw the fire in the camp, many township parties were burned, and some people were trapped in the fire and couldn't get out, Deng Zong's lungs were about to explode!

"Mother and maid!"

He was a tun commander anyway, and he knew that the Wuchang battalion was built by General Wei two years ago, and it was originally used to train recruits for the Second Southern Expedition. In the thirty-sixth year, the recruits were trained to fight in the south, and the Wuchang battalion was empty for a while, but soon, 20,000 veterans of the Chencheng county battalion were transferred north in rotation and settled here, engaged in tuntian and other things, and provided a steady stream of food for the army.

After the pacification of Lingnan, tens of thousands of soldiers came to the north one after another, all of them were veterans who had served for a long time, the longest had not returned home for more than four years, and General Wei promised that once the imperial court relented, they would be the first batch of soldiers to return.

But the 30,000 people were looking forward to the stars and the moon, but what they were looking forward to was not the disbandment order of the imperial court, but the bad news that General Wei had died in Lingnan, and the new generals who took away all their armor and weapons with their arrogant Guanzhong soldiers......

"You will soon be able to return home."

The officials moved their mouths, and they didn't know how many times they made promises, and everyone didn't believe it at all.

In the next few days, Deng Zong sensed that something was wrong: it was clearly the busy season for ploughing the fields and preparing for rice planting, but the soldiers were confined to the camp and were not allowed to go out at will. Seeing that weeds grew in the tun fields, as an old farmer in Ruyin, Deng Zong has been regretting that he missed the agricultural time.

What's more, they seem to have really become prisoners, a 500 lord who wants to go to the nearby Shaxian City under the pretense that he is an official, but he was brought back by those Guanzhong soldiers at the gate of the camp and rudely pushed to the ground.

"No one is allowed to go out without the order of the general!"

At this moment, everyone felt strange, and vaguely felt that something big had happened.

Bold people, such as Ge Ying from Fu Liren in the next door, thought that they couldn't go home and were secretly planning to escape, and timid and honest people, such as Deng Zong, decided to wait and see.

But in the end, what they were waiting for was a fire that almost burned everyone to death in their sleep!

"Mother and maid too! Is this a way to burn all of us to save food for the sake of officials? ”

Honest as Deng Zong couldn't help but scold, obviously forgetting that hundreds of thousands of stone grain in the camp were also burned in this fire.

He heard from the people who escaped that General Yang, General Xin, and thousands of Guanzhong Qin soldiers had already withdrawn in advance, and they had released the Fire Eight Achievements!

"We were conscripted into the army, served as soldiers, shed blood in Lingnan, and farmed in Wuchang, in exchange for a fire?"

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, and the anger distorted their faces, and they didn't even notice that the Yellow Crane Mountain in the distance was also set on fire.

"Take this opportunity and escape!"

Ge Ying, another tun chief, shouted in Chu Yan again: "Even if you escape into the lake to be a bandit, it is better to survive than to be burned to death by the Qin people in your sleep!" ”

There were quite a few people who responded to him, and the more than 20,000 people who escaped had completely broken up the establishment, and they could only gather with each other according to their accents and places of origin.

Even though Qin's laws were strict, but when such a thing happened, everyone's hearts were cold, and many people supported Ge Ying's proposal and fled far away, but most of them still did not recover from this drastic change, and looked at the sky-high fire in a daze.

It wasn't until dozens of horsemen planted small white flags on their backs and galloped from afar, blowing copper whistles while shouting loudly in the Xichu dialect of Nanjun, that the confused China and Japan found a direction.

"There were traitors in the court, plotting to kill Zhongliang, and colluding with the Vietnamese to attack and kill General Wei!"

"The traitorous minister rebelled against the son and killed the king to seize the throne, killed His Majesty, and now he will not mourn, and he wants to execute all the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army."

"General Jinwei is waving his army to the north to save the second and third sons, so go to Yellow Crane Mountain with us!"

These people are all the best horsemen among the three thousand soldiers of Heifu, hundreds of people riding horses, around the huge Wuchang battalion to pass the news, Heifu's words, to everyone who escaped!

The soldiers reacted differently.

"There are traitors in the court."

"Didn't General Wei die in battle?"

"How can a general's body die so easily?"

"Anyway, this fire was set by Yang Xiong, who really wants to burn us all to death!"

"The imperial court doesn't talk about credit, but General Wei Shi Wu and others left Lingnan and came here to rest, he is trustworthy!"

"Let's take a look?"

It was like a lamp turned on in the dark night when they couldn't see their fingers, and most people subconsciously followed the riders, supporting the burned township party and heading towards the Yellow Crane Mountain in the west.

And some people, after thinking about it, still scattered and slipped away.

The beacon on the top of the mountain, which was used as a warning, has now become a beacon for everyone.

The crowd was crowded, and the flowing water that should have been wading from the height to the place turned back and flowed in the opposite direction. This wave is so big that even Ge Ying and others, who have been clamoring for everyone to flee together to be robbers, are also caught in it, and can only walk west step by step.

They walked until they reached the place where the flames of the Yellow Crane Mountain could be reflected, and they saw a general dressed in eye-catching armor, wearing a crane crown and a white cloth on his forehead on a high stone.

He personally held a plain white flag, and the short guards on the left and right sides were the Jiaolong Zhiyi and the Weizi Banner respectively! As an old acquaintance of the Jianghuai Chu people, Lu Jia is also beside him.

Deng Zong and Ge Ying were far away, but several leaders and five hundred masters had to come forward, and when they reached the general a few steps away, they were so excited that they knelt down on one knee.

"It's really General Lieutenant!"

"The general personally killed Jia He in Chenxian County that day, and we have met once!"

After being confirmed, a soldier shouted, "General, aren't you dead?" I heard that the emperor is still mourning for you, why are you alive again, are you a human or a ghost? ”

"Hahaha!"

Heifu burst out laughing, laughing so much that everyone stopped talking.

But his next sentence made everyone's hearts tighten.

"I'm a ghost!"

……

"Huh?"

But he heard Heifu say: "Many years ago, a king of the Zhou Dynasty killed his courtier Du Bo, but Du Bo was not guilty, so he said on his deathbed that if the dead are ignorant, then that's it, but if the dead are knowledgeable, within three years, the king will know the consequences!" ”

Three years later, King Xuan of Zhou joined the princes to hunt in the garden, hundreds of hunting chariots, a few cadres and a number of people, and the crowd was all over the mountains. When the sun was in the middle of the day, Du Bo rode in a white horse chariot, dressed in red, and held a red bow, chasing King Xuan of Zhou, shooting an arrow in the chariot, and hitting King Xuan's heart, causing him to break his spine and fall on the bow bag and die! ”

This story is bizarre, but everyone keeps nodding, feudal superstition, which is very effective for the low-level soldiers.

Heifu's voice changed: "Du Bo is still like this, I was attacked by traitors in collusion with the Yue people, Hugh said that I was fortunate not to die, and I survived under the protection of my personal guards, even if I died, I must turn into a ghost again and punish his generation!" ”

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, so to speak, General Wei is still a human?

But he heard Heifu say again: "The traitor Zhao Gao and the rebel Hu Hai plotted to kill Zhongliang, forced away the son Fusu, and colluded with the Yue people to assassinate the general." ”

"I was fortunate not to die, and immediately went north to warn Your Majesty."

"However, Your Majesty thought that Heifu was dead, and he only had time to make me the Marquis of Wuzhong, and then he was robbed by the traitorous ministers and rebels, and even killed by him!"

"He is a thief with a weak heart, and he wants to clear the soldiers of the Southern Expedition."

He pointed to the growing flames of the Wuchang camp in the distance: "This fire is the evidence!" ”

When it was a matter of their own survival, more than 20,000 people became excited, and their voices became noisy.

So what else did Marquis Wu Zhonghou say that day, the illiterate Deng Zong couldn't remember clearly, but he only remembered the three questions he asked everyone at the end.

"Do you want to live?"

"Do you want not to be victimized by traitors, and die of water, fire, knife and axe poison in vain?"

"Think...... Go home? ”

Compared with what emperor was killed and what reorganized the dynasty, these three questions are obviously more realistic.

After being bored for a long time, 20,000 people shouted out the word at different levels:

"Yes!"

Holding the flag in his hand, Heifu smiled.

The enemy was near the Wuchang camp wharf, and after the beacon of Yellow Crane Mountain was ignited, the Xiakou garrison on the opposite bank immediately crossed the river by boat, and at this moment it had reached the south bank.

They are landing on land one after another, merging with Yang Xiong, arranging troops, looking at that posture, they are going to fight at night!

Heifu knows that life and death are tied to today's battle, and to the 20,000 soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army who have not yet recovered from their fears, can stand firmly on their side!

"That's why Ben is coming back."

"I'm here to fulfill the promise I made in the past!"

"I'll come, take you and the others home!"

He raised his right arm and hissed:

"If you want to, pick up the armor! Meet the enemy with me! ”

……

There was no room for delay, Dongmen Leopard, Wu Chen, and others had already led people to transport out the armor soldiers of the arsenal, first of all, chariots, tied to four war horses: there were "general troop chariots" as command vehicles, light chariots that attacked the enemy's entrapment, heavy chariots carrying ordnance, military rations, clothing and other military supplies, theatrical (xì) chariots with command flags, drum wagons that boosted morale, and even many military musical instruments.

Next, there are bundles of Qin army-style armor, placed at the foot of the mountain, piled up like a mountain, a total of 10,000 pairs, in addition to 10,000 pairs of armor, nearly 1,000 bronze armor, and 3,000 skinned shields......

Finally, there are the blades, most of which come from the two arsenals of Tonglu Mountain and Tieshan in nearby Hubei, in addition to ordinary swords, ge, spears, and halberds, there are also chiefs and spears, as well as boxes of arrows.

The guards ran forward and backward with the armor soldiers in their arms, and distributed them to everyone one by one.

Wearing thick armor and holding cold blades, the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, who had lost them for a time, found a sense of security that had not been seen for a long time.

But even so, everyone is an unpopular ragtag army, they haven't fought for a long time, they have been planting for two years, they are more familiar with hoes than weapons, and they have almost lost their formation because of chaos, and they are scattered, even if there are 20,000 people, can they really fight head-on with 8,000 or even 10,000 elite Qin soldiers in the pass?

"Don't be afraid."

The voice of the general sounded.

After a brief decoration, the white horse chariot, which was really like when Du Bo shot King Xuan, drove to the front of the array.

Heifu stood on the general's troop and looked at the torches gathering at the dock in the distance, Yang Xi and Xin Yi over there finally came with reinforcements, and they had reorganized the array, but they still didn't move their feet, or because they didn't know how many people there were in the "rebels", so they hesitated to come, which gave Heifu precious time......

"It is not you who should be afraid, but them."

The dawn is approaching, and the big battle is imminent, but Heifu is still talking and laughing freely, he has already seen the other party's suspicions:

"Because, we are not only this little bit of men, behind me, there are also 100,000 troops of the Southern Expeditionary Army, all of whom have gone north, and they will be able to come to help at dawn!"

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