Chapter 4 Section 029 Conscription
"Master Jun, Master Jun! My son is fourteen years old, how can he join the army at a young age?! I beg the military master to raise his noble hand, and when I stay until the next year, my son will definitely go to serve the King of Wei! Ask the military master to raise his noble hand, raise his noble hand! "A man from a village household, holding his son with one hand, and taking out a dozen copper coins from his arms with the other hand to stuff them into the hands of Cao Bing, who came to recruit soldiers, or rather, to catch the strong man, begged bitterly!
Cao Cāo still issued an edict, requiring Ji, Beiping, and Xiangping counties to each recruit more than 15,000 soldiers. After a little training, head to Nanpi to assemble! As soon as the edict was issued, the whole of Hebei immediately fell into panic and sorrow. Some people have been requisitioned several times in succession! So much so that many people don't have a man in their homes anymore! The old ones died on the battlefield, the little ones were then enlisted, the little ones died again, and then the younger ones were enlisted! Right now, even thirteen or fourteen-year-old children are not spared!
"We have exalted our noble hand to you, who has exalted our noble hand? Get out of the way! "Most of the Cao soldiers in charge of conscription are people who are used to being domineering, or they are cronies of a general. That's why I got this errand, don't underestimate this errand, if a big family wants to escape military service, it's not ordinary! Of course, the big head was naturally taken from above! But the benefits of these people who came forward to recruit soldiers are also indispensable. They drink soup when they eat meat on top, and they smell soup when they drink soup on top.
There are many large households, and according to the proportion, it is one of the three dings! But after receiving the benefits of others, how can you go to Sanding to draw one? There is a hard target of 15,000 people in each county. One less for a large family means that the poor people will have one more person to top the pit! No, Lao Tzu just retired due to injury, and he came to arrest someone's son and go into battle!
"My son is young, what can I do when I go into battle? Can I really send my son to death? When the man who retired from military service saw that the soldiers had collected the money, but he still wanted to pull his son's Ding, he immediately said angrily! He was also a soldier and a murderer! This anger made those Cao soldiers look at each other for a while!
"You're right, the recruits of the three counties of Ji, Beiping, and Xiangping were originally prepared to be used as cannon fodder during the siege! I advise you to let it go, maybe your son didn't die in battle, and maybe he can get a half-official position when he comes down! Even if you die, the pension given by the boss is enough for you to raise another son! "The stall that was entangled, knocked on the door and walked in a small school, holding the waist knife in his hand and saying to the man!
"Pension? The bereavement shirt with three taels of silver is deducted layer by layer, and it is less than five dollars! Do you dare to be a little darker? Today, my son will never become a soldier! King Wei had an order earlier that a man must be eighteen years old before he can enlist in the army! How? I was afraid that the common people would take advantage of it, so I took the military salary and didn't fight, so I joined the army at the age of 18! Now that the front is tight, you have come to force the fourteen-year-old child? Such a change of order every day, Lao Tzu is not convinced! When the man heard the little colonel say this, he couldn't help but be even more angry in his heart. Pushed his son and mother-in-law back to the house at the moment, and sneered at each other!
"You have to accept it today, and you have to accept it if you don't accept it! If you dare to disobey again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu chopped you with a knife? "How could the school have ever been so contradicted? said cruel words in his mouth, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he pulled out the waist knife. pointed directly at the man and said sharply!
He has been a soldier, he has killed people, and he has seen blood. It's not like people pointing weapons at themselves, and the same is true of this man! As soon as he saw that the lieutenant had drawn his sword, his pupils shrank and he didn't talk nonsense. immediately stepped forward, pinched the captain's wrist, broke the wrist with a hard "click", and then snatched the waist knife from the captain's hand and dragged it around his neck! After a "poof" sound, the lieutenant collapsed to the ground like a chicken with a cut throat and swallowed his breath after a few convulsions!
As the saying goes, if you don't do anything, the man sees that the captain is dead! The cāo knife turned around and pounced on a few stunned Cao soldiers, killing is idle for veterans! When several Cao soldiers were hurriedly preparing to draw their swords to meet each other, the man's waist knife had already cut into their necks. In an instant, there were several more corpses in the small courtyard.
Looking at the corpse lying on the ground, the man hurriedly closed the courtyard door. Then he stepped forward with a slight limp on his right foot and touched the corpse one by one. Soon, from the arms of several people, a hundred taels of silver tickets were found, and a number of broken silver and copper coins were found. He put the silver ticket and scattered money in his arms, stuck the captain's iron waist knife into the scabbard, and pushed open the door and walked in! Soon there was a whispered voice in the room, and after discussing for a long time, the man decided to take his mother-in-law and children away to avoid trouble, and come back when the world was too peaceful!
"Father, what should I do with these corpses?" The woman followed closely behind the man, holding a large package in her hand, and asked the man in fear!
"Near the conscription, every household is restless, and no one will notice them for the time being! Lock the door, let's go! The man walked to the door, looked left and right, and then turned back to the mother-in-law and the child!
A family of three hurriedly locked the courtyard door while there was no one near the left. The man walked forward, holding a good knife from the captain of Cao Bing in his hand, and his eyes looked around. The woman followed closely behind her with a few change of clothes in her hand! And the half-grown boy who was almost caught was looking at his father's back with adoring eyes, and he followed suit!
"What? Lonely conscription and transfer of soldiers, there are people who dare to kill officials to resist? Who gave them such guts? Cao Cāo looked at the folds on the table and couldn't help but be angry!
In just three days, no less than dozens of soldiers in charge of conscription died! Even the captain had one killed! Cao Cāo never thought that he would recruit a ghost by himself. When did the people begin to resist their edicts? When, they began to rebel? When did I, Cao Mengde, actually fall into Dong Zhuo and the like, causing the people to raise their swords to greet me? Cao Cāo asked himself three questions secretly, and pondered there with his forehead propped up!
"King Wei, there is a battle report!" When Cao Cāo was depressed there, Xun Yu held a book of battle reports in his hand and walked in softly!
"Wen Ruo, read it! Is there another moth out of nowhere? "Cao cāo is very sensitive to the word war report now! Hearing this, he immediately raised his head with a wry smile and asked Xun Yudao!
"King Wei, please look!" Xun Yu lowered his head and looked at the battle report again, and finally handed it to Cao Cāo's eyes and said softly!