Volume 1 The Country Breaks Mountains and Rivers Chapter 96 The Story of Niu Yong
Kneeling in front of his mother for a long time, Niu Yong still couldn't believe everything in front of him.
He touched his mother's face, wiped the blood from her face with his clothes, and struggled to hold the cold corpse in his arms.
"Why, why.
I, Niu Yong, never do anything wrong, and I don't care about life and death to resist the Rong people, but in the end, this is the end.
Mother, I'm going to avenge you. ”
With that, Niu Yong stood up, picked up the machete that slaughtered countless dogs, and walked towards the noble servants outside the door.
In Hanhai City, Niu Yong is actually not a poor family, on the contrary, compared to other people, his family is relatively prosperous.
But even Niu Yong's house has been looted and cleaned, and other people's homes are even more unbearable.
In order to prevent the whole family from being persecuted by the nobles, some families even began to sell their sons and daughters, and some families were forced to pay off their wives and daughters by the nobles' domestic servants, but they all endured it and prayed that such a dark night would pass as soon as possible.
In fact, these nobles are ready to stop, after all, they also know that if they continue like this, they will not be able to get anything back.
However, it was already too late.
When Niu Yong slashed and killed the group of noble servants one by one in front of the neighbors, he was like crazy, and he cut down the servants of another group of nobles not far away.
That group of people was the same person who came to his house yesterday to snatch the rice.
Subsequently, Niu Yong saw these noble servants like a devil and slashed them to death.
When Niu Yong's neighbors realized that once Niu Yong was killed, they would also suffer revenge from the nobles, so they picked up kitchen knives and axes from their homes and followed Niu Yong to kill people all over the city.
When the killing team became bigger and bigger, and it was so big that it was all over the city, someone said to Niu Yong:
"Brother Niu, it's better to kill all those nobles."
Niu Yong, who was red-eyed, led the people to slaughter all the nobles of Hanhai City from house to house.
After the slaughter of the nobles, when the people were excitedly rushing into the homes of these nobles to snatch the grain, someone said to Niu Yong:
"Bull leader, the county lieutenant has sent people out of the city to transfer troops, and when they come, we will all die, I heard that the people in Hexi County have rebelled, so we will also rebel."
When Niu Yong heard this, he also knew that if today's matter stopped here, when those soldiers entered the city, they would definitely behead all their people, so he immediately gritted his teeth and took these people to kill the Qin soldiers who had just entered the city.
The people he brought with him were just some ordinary people, who had never experienced any battles, where would they be the opponents of those Qin soldiers, so as soon as they fought, they asked those Qin soldiers to scatter and flee.
Just when Niu Yong was about to die, he heard another shout of killing in the city, Niu Yong fixed his eyes, but saw that it was the leader of the Hanhai Shu family when he was requisitioned to defend the city, Huang Yunhe.
At this time, Huang Yunhe was leading the people who had participated in the defense of the city to kill the Qin army.
Although these people are ordinary people, they have also killed the enemy with weapons, so they are naturally different from these ordinary people behind Niu Yong.
Sure enough, as soon as the two people met, they fought together in the stunned eyes of Niu Yong and the people behind him.
This time, it was really fighting together, not the simple slashing of the people by the Qin army.
Although the combat strength of the Qin army is still much higher than that of these reinforced people, it cannot stand the outnumber of these people, and the vicinity of the city gate where the two sides are fighting is relatively small, which is not conducive to the Qin army attacking in formation.
Gradually, these Qin troops were no longer able to advance, and some of them began to suddenly abandon the attack, just defending themselves to save their lives.
These people shouted as they retreated: "I won't do it, we can't kill our own villagers." ”
"What is it for your own people to kill your own people, and there is my brother among the people on the other side."
"Daddy, don't rush up again."
Voices similar to this gradually became more and more in the Qin army.
Finally, a soldier of the Qin army threw away the weapon in his hand and ran backwards, and the people around him also lost their weapons one by one.
When the city was completely occupied by these people, when the county lieutenant Li Mi and some nobles who were not killed were tied up by Huang Yunhe and others to parade through the streets, Niu Yong was also raised above his head by the people around him and thrown high.
In fact, Niu Yong at this time just wanted to go back and bury his mother.
When he was elected as the leader by the people who followed him, Niu Yong was not ready to lead thousands of people at all, but he didn't know how to reject the love of his neighbors, so he served as the leader of the people in half a way.
In the next few days, the ruffians and some rebels, who were not controlled by the government, began to burn, kill and loot other civilians who had stood together against the Qin army a few days earlier.
In order to protect themselves, Niu Yong's people spontaneously carved out an area, built a side wall, and fought with the rebels who came to disturb them.
This chaotic battle that plagued the whole city lasted for two whole weeks, and as more and more people continued to flee to Niu Yong's side, Niu Yong became the second largest force after Huang Yunhe.
When the riots in the city of Fucheng gradually subsided in the third week, Huang Yunhe brought his men to find Niu Yong, and he tried to persuade Niu Yong to join him to join Ji Lin's Rong people.
But Niu Yong categorically rejected Huang Yunhe's invitation, and repelled several attacks launched by the angry Huang Yunhe.
After Huang Yunhe reluctantly left Hanhai City, Niu Yong, under the advice of others, took 30,000 people to Fengtong and Pucheng.
I heard that the rebel leaders in these two cities were also poor people, so Niu Yong made up his mind to take refuge in them.
But what he didn't expect was that the situation in the two counties was far inferior to his own.
Although there were still 60,000 or 70,000 people in Fengtong and Pucheng, these people had never fought a war, and when they rebelled against Qin, they only beat up the officials in the county government and the family members of the nobles, and then they pulled the flag and stood up on their own.
Although they also killed county officials and nobles, they were not mentally prepared to take the initiative to train their troops to resist the counterattack of the Qin soldiers, and the leaders who led the rebellion of the people were like some strongmen who occupied the mountains and were kings, oppressing the people and especially the nobles.
When Niu Yong went, the two counties seemed to have no idea, ignoring the 30,000 people, and what made Niu Yong even more sideways was that these county towns, which were originally far richer than Hanhai, began to starve to death.
And the reason turned out to be the same as when they were forced to rebel, the rebel leaders levied a poll food tax on the people.
Niu Yong, who had stayed in the two counties for a few days, became more and more uncomfortable the more he thought about it, and on the day when he wanted to contact the people of Hanhai to return to the north, these leaders actually levied the poll tax on his head.
Looking at the hundreds of menacing Pucheng rebels in front of him, Niu Yong smiled.
With a wave of his hand, thousands of people around him lifted their weapons and killed all the Pucheng rebels who had come to collect the grain tax.
Subsequently, he sent people to Fengtong to correct the rebel leaders there on the spot.
From then on, Niu Yong became the head of the two counties of Fengtong and Pucheng, and he ordered to distribute all the grain he took from the rebel leaders of the two counties to the people, and selected some young men from the people of the two counties to form together with the original 5,000 young men under his command, and let the surrendered Qin soldiers take them to practice military every day.
Niu Yong felt that it was always a good thing to train some people, whether the Qin army or the Rong army came here, he would no longer be afraid of them.
And these things have naturally been learned in detail by Yu Lihua from the mouths of the people in the city and the scouts who inquired about the news.
When he learned about this, a plan that excited him jumped into his head.
Therefore, after the scout came to report that the rebels came to the southeast of the city, there was only one thought in his heart, and that was:
"It's good to come, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Niu Yong walked in front of these five thousand children, he looked at the familiar environment around him, and he was still worried about the left-behind people in this Hanhai City.
At first, they were asked to follow them south, but the old, weak, sick and disabled people, who were less than 10,000 people, refused to leave their homeland.
Now that he is the lord of the two counties, he returned to Hanhai this time to let the people of Hanhai know about this, first, to show off in front of his father and fellow villagers, and second, to persuade the villagers to follow him south to Hexi County, where he has the ability to protect these people.
Niu Yong looked at Hanhai City in the distance as he walked, and suddenly, he frowned and asked the person next to him:
"Those farmlands on the outskirts of the city are actually cultivated?"
When asked, the man smiled: "The big man laughed, when he left, there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the city, how could they have the heart to farm."
Besides, we all missed the farming time when we left, so what they could plant must have been mistaken by the big heads. ”
After hearing this, Niu Yong also felt that his guess was a little ridiculous, so he rubbed his eyes and looked at the green fertile field of the farmland again.
Suddenly, Niu Yong's ears suddenly sounded a "boom" sound, like thunder rising from the ground in the woods on both sides of the official road.
He and his brothers behind him looked up at the sky, only to see countless arrows falling from the sky in dense clusters.
"Ah", as a scream erupted, Niu Yong hurriedly shouted:
"We're in ambush, retreat, retreat."
The soldiers behind Niu Yong heard the shouts of their big leaders and immediately scattered and fled.
In fact, even without Niu Yong's order, they would have escaped.
Seeing this situation, Lihua in the woods couldn't help but shake his head, people often say that the rabble, he has led the troops for more than a year, and it is the first time to see with his own eyes what the so-called rabble looks like.
Now that I think about it, even the rebel army in Chaona is more disciplined than these people now.
With just one round of arrows, the rebels scattered like headless flies along the official road.
Immediately afterwards, I saw a Qin army of about 1,000 people running out of the forest, quickly forming a battle formation and killing the fleeing rebels along the official road.
The rebels, who didn't know the direction of escape, turned around and ran on the road when they saw the Qin army rushing towards them with the cold light Changge in front of them.
Niu Yong wondered as he ran, although this blockade was the same as the battle clothes worn by the Ji Linrong people, the big flag held by these people was the Xuanwu Banner, where did this Qin army come from.
But now it is important to flee for your life, in this place of four battles in the wilderness, where will your own people be the opponents of the well-trained Qin army.
As he was running, he saw another Qin army of about 1,000 people rushing out of the forest on the way back, blocking the official road, forming a battle formation and rushing towards them who fled.