The crowd rushing over the mountains and fields in the shouting was suddenly a big part of the front, and burst into loud screams and angry scolding.

"There's a trap."

"Be careful."

"Don't push me."

"Push you turtle son."

"Stop, you kid."

And those who were missing lay in the deep ditch full of stagnant water, stuck in the sharpened stakes, screaming, groaning, and asking for help; Then there were also people who couldn't stop crossing the past, but they stepped on the inconspicuous slope of the ditch, and slid down with their hands and feet, pressing the people below into a string.

Then someone crossed over with the sharpened bamboo pole in his hand, and then leaned down and screamed; But the surface of his feet was pierced by the bamboo sticks in the soil that were cut into the soil, and he squatted on the ground bloody and couldn't move forward.

Then some of them jumped over their backs in a hurry, only to be dragged to the ground by the low and indistinguishable cords on the ground, and they realized that behind the footsticks there were many short ropes with iron hooks.

And after their repeated delays, the workers who were working up and down the construction site of the signal tower also suddenly reacted, and in the sound of a warning whistle, they gathered towards the nearest long and short tools and other skilled guys.

But faster than they were the soldiers with bows and crossbows, who stood condescendingly on the scaffolding of the bamboo hoops, and sent arrows like flying. Almost uncommonly, they fell on these attackers, who were blocked in improvised trenches and foot sticks and ropes, and dragged them down.

and put down the attackers who rushed the most fiercely and screamed the most fiercely, and they fell to the ground one by one with great precision.

Then these laborers, armed with all kinds of tools and iron tools, also rushed forward with more and more encouragement, and waved their fellows in groups, and crowded these "thieves" who were blocked from the periphery and fearful, and gave all kinds of screams of beating and beating with broken heads and broken hands and feet.

And in between the fights, the attackers found that their swords were not even as good as the tools of the laborers. The opponent used almost all fine iron equipment, and between a few blows, the blade was broken everywhere, or the connecting rod was simply broken and broken;

As a result, they were already in the middle of the downwind, and their morale was even more depressed and their hearts were shaken, and they collapsed and turned around and fled.

I don't know how long later, as the leader of these local armed forces, Song Renchu, a former famous man in Kuizhou, gritted his teeth and fled in the mountains; Because in order to cut off the rear and create a chance for him to escape, the dozen or so sons and subordinates he followed at the end have all fallen into the enemy one after another.

is the so-called "Zi Bu Silent Ghost and God Chaos Force", but the famous people with a small reputation in this place have been reduced to relying on the demagogic means of pretending to be gods and ghosts, so that they can be used to incite the villagers and wild people to act, but it is also a helpless thing.

Because these Taiping thieves are too harsh on the local gentry. Not only did they destroy their homes and take away their fields and property, but they also had to break up the clan kinship they had maintained for generations, and turn them into many small families.

He had tried and failed to rely on the recommendation of his family, and he entered the history of assassination in the state city as an idle palmist; Even in a turbulent world, there is a sense of happiness and wholeheartedness in a corner of peace. But I didn't expect that the thieves who were in turmoil in the world still came to kill.

As a result, countless human tragedies began to be staged one after another in their places and the rich and noble; Although he was quick to see the opportunity, he escaped the liquidation of the old officials by the thieves, and was appointed to a new ministry.

Soon, however, bad news came. His old father, the contemporary patriarch and Li Zheng known as "Song Taigong", was escorted to his own people for exposure and public trial after his house was raided, and he was scared to death on the spot.

and his father-in-law's family, known as Chen Wentai, a great benevolent man in Zigui City's "Fu Wu Street", was deprived of his family property and exiled to Lingxi to do hard labor because his slaves and maids exposed the so-called cruelty and lawlessness, along with his mother-in-law, aunt and brother-in-law.

Such a heavy new hatred and old hatred can only be repaid with a tooth for a tooth. Therefore, he did not hesitate to get drunk and kill the leader of the grass thieves who supervised him, and then set fire to the warehouse and fled from the city.

He rushed back to the township to gather the fleeing and exiled clansmen, and tirelessly trekked through mountains and rivers to the townships to bitterly express his strength, and gathered the villagers and soil groups who were defending one side of the country with great righteousness.

Then, he threw himself into the constant confrontation and struggle with the grass thieves who occupied the area; first attacked the thieves who went out alone, then ambushed and intercepted their sentry teams, and even took the initiative to attack some weakly defended strongholds; Gradually, they were squeezed and excluded from the towns and villages, and they were confined to the cities.

Therefore, after the Jingnan army representing the imperial court came back, they also took the county seat and the state city together, and killed those grass thieves and their people who acted for the tiger, etc., which was also an extremely happy revenge.

However, the good times did not last long, and the Jingnan Army, which originally occupied the three states of Xiajiang, was actually in a good situation, and suddenly retreated along the river into Shuzhong without saying goodbye. Then those ruthless and cruel Taiping thieves came back.

As a result, people from all over the country were frightened and retreated, and fugitives abounded. His newly appointed regimental training team has suddenly shrunk by more than half, and only those who have no home or nowhere to go are bitter and bitter with thieves.

He wanted to retreat to a few inland and rather remote stockades, so that he could deal with the thieves for some time before making plans. But I don't want these Taiping thieves to be more ruthless than the grass thieves before; He actually set up a village on the riverside plains he occupied, and recruited those poor sticks who had nothing to settle down to join him.

So now it will take the lives of those mountain and rural landowners who live in a remote place. After all, no matter how extensive they are in the mountains, slopes, and waters, they need people to work and cultivate them to get something; As a result, all kinds of arrests and outgoing young and strong people, and severe punishments, were staged again and again.

But later, when they couldn't catch them, they began to send money, food, and women to ask for help from his local regiment; Let them help intercept and punish those who secretly want to go out of the Taiping thief Zhuangzi, and don't know whether they are good or ungrateful.

even made people pretend to be officials among the thieves of the peace, privately deceive and seduce those people who intend to join the thieves, and then expose them by the master's family and punish them cruelly; or simply attack the village in the name of the Taiping thief, and kill those who are determined to surrender to the thief as a wake-up call; Then the landlord came out to show favor and appease people's hearts, so as to prevent them from missing.

However, this situation did not last long, and those Taiping thieves who had just set up in the tun were also in full swing and immediately killed; Under the leadership of those mud legs who escaped, they blocked all the intersections and rushed to rush, and arrested all kinds of suspects one by one, and quickly cleaned up the people sent out by Song Renchu;

Many of those who pretended to be Taiping thieves were even cut off and hung on the road to warn. Then, Song Renchu found that the townships where he could get help and shelter and hide became less and less;

The strongholds and checkpoints constantly set up by those Taiping thieves not only looked at the passages in and out of the mountain, but also controlled the flow of rice, salt, tea, wine and cloth in the mountain in disguise. This is stuck at the heart of many people;

A large number of people are difficult to use the intersection of the mountain card, just a wooden fence and a few dozen bows and arrows are enough to make people return or block for a while, and then there will be a heavily armed thief army to support and respond.

Although Song Renchu, the regiment of the state trained the army, and still had some hidden passage paths, it was a sheep intestine trail used by mountain people for hunting, and a slightly larger number of people could not pass, let alone let the burden-bearing pack horses and livestock pass.

Although some of his good climbers have bypassed the blockade and successfully attacked the thieves' checkpoints and outposts several times, it has not substantially improved the overall situation at the moment.

Under the continuous shrinking scope of activities and material scarcity, their regimental training army became more and more weak and tired. After all, there is only a limit to what can be offered in the mountains that can be hidden.

And the villages and towns scattered in the mountains and valleys, once separated, will not be able to come in handy, let alone resist the endless stream of thieves pressing and breaking down one by one.

For the first time, there was a conflict between the team and the unequal distribution of hunger; As a result, the villages and towns that were still willing to help and shelter them were also taken as victims to bridge internal contradictions, and the arson army looted them.

However, the use of these newly looted goods is always limited. When things are quickly exhausted, and there is no place to stand or exist in all directions; As a result, Song Renchu, as a regimental training envoy, could not stop and suppress them, and each took some of his men to go out to find another place to eat.

And Song Renchu could only learn from the pain and give up his plan to continue to deal with the thief army in the mountains. And with the last bit of people who are willing to follow their own hands, they ventured through the mountain forest trails full of thorns and snakes and insects, and trekked all the way to the riverside flat land further upstream.

He intended to find the weak point of the bandit army's garrison here, and to base the last hundred or so men among the rural people who were dissatisfied with the methods of the thief army; Pull up a detachment of men again; And destroying this new stronghold of the thief army is the first battle that their men and horses can become powerful.

As a result, they still failed, and Song Ren initially found a master to pretend to be a god and a ghost, and it took a lot of money to coerce and lure them in several townships, hastily coercing and gathering thousands of people; When it came to the end, even such a group of hard laborers who built the demon tower and a few sergeants couldn't beat it, so they were blocked in the periphery and retreated.

When Song Renchu stopped completely out of strength, he had already fallen beside a trickling mountain stream, and what was reflected in the clear water flow was a "wild man" with a ragged body, a hair and hair tangled with blood and sweat.

Song Renchu, who was almost not confused, couldn't help but cry from his heart at this moment, he had been diligent in the king's affairs and fought in the township, but why did he come. Could it be that these grass thieves are already powerful, and they are no longer able to take revenge and recover them?

He felt sorry for himself for a long time before he picked up the stream and moistened his thirsty and chapped throat and body; And with the extremely cold spring water flowing and swaying in the body, Song Renchu's agitated and regretful mood can be regarded as slowly calming down; But he rethought his own path.

At least after losing these followers, he could only choose to lie dormant for a while to avoid the limelight. Then wait for the opportunity to sneak into the upper reaches of the Xiajiang River to those states and counties that have not yet been occupied by the thief army. I believe that with his knowledge and experience under the rule of the thief army, he may still be able to be appointed and valued in official positions.

At this time, a sound sounded behind him, and Song Renchu couldn't help but turn around and take precautions, but saw an equally unkempt man staggering from the sparse bushes panting, and said in a surprised voice:

"Is it Song Tuanlian? Let's take the mule and carry the pole Li Sanyou. ”

Song Renchu vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a number one person around him at the beginning, and couldn't help but let down a little guard and said:

"I've got some injuries on my foot, so I'm going to have to bother you to carry it for a while. There will be a lot of rewards. ”

"It's a blessing for us."

The man named Li Sanyou agreed in a loud voice.

And climbed up behind the other party's generous and rickety, Song Renchu couldn't help but let down his guard more and more, and closed his eyes sleepily in the slow bumps and shaking, he dreamed of his wife who was not in distress again in a drowsiness, and showed a shy smile behind the rich and graceful father-in-law.

He couldn't help but reach out to grab the hem of his sleeve, but he grabbed it and fell into the endless abyss; Then he woke up to find that he was not dreaming, but had really been thrown off the mountain wall, and in the intermittent exclamations and screams, he slammed into the uneven rocks.

Not long after, a puffy-faced man named Li Sanyou, standing on the edge of a wooden list with a cowering and flattering face, said to the Taiping sergeant who was inspecting a flesh-and-blood blurred head:

"Isn't this the Song Tuanlian, the head of the old thief of Song; It's still cut off by our own hands.,The military master has to look at it carefully.。。。 ”

"This is a Xuanhong reward worth 100 yuan, let's just take half of it, ah, it's not a three-way achievement. By the way, there's also a certificate of redemption. ”。

"And rest assured, it should be that your cents will not be short, and there is no problem with redemption, but a person like you who has a history of chaos must have to live in a different place for some time."

Another Taiping soldier on duty was unimpressed.

"Villages that have participated in the rebellion must strictly implement resettlement and management."

"If you want it, you want it. Anyway, we didn't stay in this township. You say we're going wherever we want to go. ”

Li Sanyou nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

As Song Renchu's head was circulated all the way along the Xiajiang Road, it finally arrived in the city of Fengjie in Kuizhou. The group was escorted in the procession at the city gate, but some people lamented loudly.

"Why do you want to exterminate my generation, can't you live in harmony with your army?"

"I haven't treated the township badly, and I have repeatedly given up my family property to help my neighbors. Why do you have to suffer this fate? ”

And Chen Yanzhang, who was also a military officer in his former year, sneered while holding a handwritten booklet

"You have not treated the township harshly, but your relatives and slaves are relying on their power, and the fish and meat township is rampant for a while, have you ever seen and stopped it."

"It's true that you have given relief to the villagers, but you have secretly instructed people to take them to rob the past travelers, but what do you want to say?"

"It's just a single husband and a thief whose selfishness is greater than righteousness, and he dares to coexist in harmony with my Taiping Army."

"If they were allowed to coexist in harmony so casually, then most of the poor people in the world would really have no way to live."

- I'm the dividing line -

And outside Jiangling City, Murong Parrot, who returned from the incident and handed over the follow-up, was also receiving the expected instructions.

"You parrot, teach people how to say hello. Why do you always want to make some big moves and big events, now it can be regarded as your wish. ”

As Murong Parrot's current direct superior, Chen Buju, the patrol commander of the reconnaissance cavalry team known as "a whip" and "little white wolf", said.

"At least three or more hostile groups were uncovered this time, including counterfeit bills and prohibited smuggled items. The commendation order of the Suppression Society will come down soon, and maybe there will be benefits from the legendary special commission. According to the rules and regulations in the patrol team, you are now an exceptional two-level patrol officer; ”

"Even I have been stained with your light, and I have reduced the qualifications requirement for two years of transfer. Not to mention that people also named you to be a temporary follower.。。 Maybe there's a chance to return to the army.,It's also a good thing for you to be out of the way in everything.。。 ”

(End of chapter)