Chapter 152: The Battle of Pingpu (6)
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In the primeval forest, which covers the sky and the sun, it is quiet as if it is frozen, and there are no birds and birds, no wild beasts to be seen, only the dense wild grass, only the giant trees thicker than people.
The more you go inside, the more you feel your own insignificance, and the depression that you can't see the outside world makes people feel involuntarily depressed and crazy.
But in the eyes of the people of Pingpu, this dense forest is the home given to them by the ancestral spirits, the sky where they can fly freely, and the place where they have lived since childhood.
Here, they are all too familiar.
Now, they are in their homes, hidden in every corner of the forest like invisibility cloaks, and outsiders can't detect them.
On a large tree that is several people thick, if you don't stare carefully, no one will find that there are people hidden in the tree.
Two young Pingpu people lay motionless on the tree, their eyes fixed on the foot of the mountain not far away. They saw the hateful outsiders, the women and children who were being driven to their knees by the outsiders.
"Nalu, what are the Han people doing?" The young Ketu was at a loss.
"I don't know."
Naru shook his head, and suddenly the dagger in his right hand stabbed to his side, which startled Ketu, and then became happy: "There is something to eat!" ”
"Here you go."
Naru divided the serpent in two, and gave the one with the head to Ketu. In the eyes of Pingpu people, the head of the snake is a good thing. Ketu ignored the fact that the snake's head was still moving, pinched it, pointed the snake's body to his mouth, and greedily drank the snake's blood. After that, the two of them peeled off the snake's skin and swallowed it raw.
They were really hungry, and they hadn't eaten for days. Fortunately, there were many animals in the hunting grounds given to them by the ancestral spirits, and they were able to barely support themselves. Unfortunately, because the small teams of Han Chinese often came in, they did not dare to hunt often and did not dare to make fires, because that would reveal their hiding place.
"If only there was salt."
Ketu licked the snake blood from his mouth, and the smell was very fishy.
"When these Han people are defeated, I will take you to Kupang to hunt for grass."
The Kubang mentioned by Nalu is a Han mixed village community dozens of miles away from Pingpu, and they used to go there to hunt for grass when they did not have salt and grain, and they could return with a full load every time.
Nalu's first headhunting after becoming an adult was in Kupang, and that time he hunted and scalped off a Han girl, very beautiful.
Nalu still remembers what the Han girl was begging for before she died in words he didn't understand, and he was soft-hearted at the time, but thinking that the ancestral spirit was looking at him, he still cut off the head of the Han girl without hesitation and dedicated it to the great ancestral spirit.
This is their tradition, and every Pingpu person must adhere to it, and Ketu's first headhunt was taken by Nalu.
"I'm going to skin them ten!"
Ketu looked at the Han army at the foot of the mountain hatefully, his brother Mensai was stabbed to death by the Han army half a month ago, and his mother cried sadly every day, and her eyes were a little blind.
"Yes..."
Naru was about to speak, but a woman's cry was heard in his ears.
It was the voice of a mother calling for her son;
It is the voice of a wife calling for her husband;
It was the voice of a daughter calling for her father;
It was the sound of a child crying ....
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"Touren, these Han people are so despicable!"
Rhodao's eyes were terrifyingly angry, and if he could, he would have cut out the tongues of all the screaming women!
Aganon was silent, and the cries of the women and children under the mountain annoyed him, the Han people were very vile, they wanted to use these women and children to shake his people.
At a glance, many clansmen had hesitation and hesitation on their faces, and many people were staring at him, the patriarch.
Aganon knew that these people were shaken.
Han Chinese, really cunning!
"What are you doing? Do you really want to go down the mountain and surrender! Rodaao glanced at the apparently wavering clansmen with ferocity, and many of them lowered their heads under his compelling gaze.
But there was one man who was not afraid of Rhoda's gaze, and he bravely stepped forward to express his opinion.
"Touren, why do you have to fight with the Han people? What's so bad about being a Han Chinese? As Han Chinese, we can live in one place permanently, we can have crops, we don't have to go hungry, we can ask teachers to teach our children, and we can ask Lang Zhong to see a doctor for us...... What's wrong with all this, do you have to live by savage hunting as before? ”
"Thangka, for the sake of your wife and children, do you want to betray the head man and the ancestral spirit!" Rhodao angrily drew the long knife in his hand and pointed it at Thangka.
"Are you going to kill me?"
Thangka also pulled out the knife in his hand, Rhodao is a warrior of headhunters, and so is he Thangka.
The surrounding clansmen were stunned when they saw this, and they all looked at the leader, Aghanon.
"Put down the knife!"
Aganon was furious, and under his angry gaze, Rhodao reluctantly lowered his knife, and Thangka also lowered his hand.
"Thangka, do you want to go down the mountain and surrender?"
Aganon looked at Thangka without any expression on his face.
"Touren, my wife and children are in their hands..."Thangka's voice was a little weak, he could go toe-to-toe with Rodlao, but in front of the Touren, he was always weak-hearted.
"Women can remarry if they don't have them, and they can regenerate if they don't have children, but if they surrender to the Han people, we have to make cattle and horses for them, do you want the people to become slaves of the Han people!" Aganon snapped.
Thangka hesitated for a moment, plucked up his courage and said, "Touren, that's not what the Han people said. ”
Aganon sneered: "You believe them? ”
Thangka did not speak.
"I don't believe it, I don't believe that there will be people in this world who care about the lives of others, I don't believe that those Han people will really accept us and let us be one of them!"
Pointing to the women at the foot of the mountain, Aganon said hatefully to the somewhat wavering clansmen: "That's a trick of the Han people, can't you see it!" ”
"But the chief, if we don't go down the mountain, the women and children will die!" Thangka loved his wife and son very much, and he really didn't want to see his wife and children killed by the Han.
"We're not just these women and children! ... If their deaths can awaken the ancestral spirit's punishment of the Han Chinese, then it will be worth it! Aganon remained expressionless.
"But can we hold on?" Thangka looked sad and indignant, "Patriarch, we have no food, no clothes, we can't last long." ”
"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on!"
Aganon put his hands upwards and faced the direction of the ancestral spirit, "If you can't hold on, there will be no ancestral spirit, no hunting ground, and no future!" ... We can't hold on, and neither can the Han people, as long as we are strong, the Han people will definitely retreat! ”