On 30 July, Choi Jeong-moo, a large landowner in Yeongjiao County, Pyongan Province, North Korea, lay in ambush at the bend of a mountain road, waiting for a passing Ming convoy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Rongjiao County, located 200 miles from the sea, has been occupied by the Tiger Ben army. But Cui Zhengwu was well-informed and hid in the mountains before the Tiger Ben army arrived. Therefore, although the manor was forcibly occupied and plundered by the Tiger Army, the Cui family's people and tribes were preserved.

The 5,000 people sent by the Tiger Army to Rongjiao County plundered Rongjiao County, robbed two classes of nobles and left. Except for the hundred soldiers in the county, there was no garrison in Rongjiao County.

The invaders of the Ming Kingdom did the same in other counties. After all, the Tiger Ben army that invaded Ping'an Province this time was only 30,000 people, and it was impossible to station a large number of soldiers in various counties.

This gave two classes of nobles such as Cui Zhengwu room to go down the mountain again. In fact, on the third day after the main force of the Ming invaders left, Cui Zhengwu returned to live in his manor. Although the goods in the manor were looted, the beds and chairs of the house were still there.

And the 100 tiger army in the county town did not have the strength to control the vast countryside, knowing that the two classes of nobles had returned to the manor, the tiger army could not spare the strength to attack the manor again.

Cui Zhengwu lost all his food and goods, and with nowhere to vent his hatred, he organized the villagers to ambush the transport team of the Tiger Army. Although Rongjiao County is not a major transportation route, it happens to be on the route of Li Zhi's main force, and the bullets, shells, gunpowder and other materials transported by the Tiger Ben Army from the sea have to pass through here.

Cui Zhengwu took a hundred parts, called 500 villagers, gave them short swords and long forks, and was going to ambush the transport team on the mountain road.

However, the team pulled up by Cui Zhengwu was a little half-hearted.

Those peasants held Cui Zhengwu's weapons, and their faces turned pale one by one, as if they were holding hot potatoes instead of murderous weapons.

Cui Zhengwu looked at the hesitant villagers, lowered his voice to boost morale, and said: "Li Zhi's soldiers killed us Koreans, invaded our country, and robbed our grain, and we fought hard!" ”

However, the peasants next to Cui Zhengwu were not instigated by Cui Zhengwu, they looked nervously at the corner of the mountain road in front of them, and some even couldn't control their bodies and trembled.

Cui Zhengwu frowned, and stopped talking with a dark face.

An old subordinate beside Cui Zhengwu said, "Patriarch, what's going on? The peasants did not seem to have the slightest fighting spirit. I remember when I was a child, when the Japanese invaded, the peasants fought desperately against the Japanese people one by one, and the Japanese people killed and killed every village, and the peasants did not give in. ”

Choi Jung-wu did not speak.

Another old subordinate next to Cui Zhengwu shook his head and said: "At the beginning, the soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom came to kill, burn, kill and rob everything, and when they saw women, they rushed up and insulted them, and the people hated them to the core, and the peasants were fighting for survival one by one. However, Li Zhi's soldiers were different, Li Zhi's soldiers only robbed two classes of nobles, and not only did not commit any offences to the peasants, but also distributed grain to the peasants. Although the peasants knew that the country was invaded, they did not hate these invaders. ”

Cui Zhengwu's face darkened when he heard the words of this old minister.

Lee Sik is dividing the country.

Suddenly, the procession in ambush became noisy. A middle-aged farmer jumped out of the bushes and fled to the rear and became a deserter.

But this peasant couldn't outrun Cui Zhengwu's troops, and he was arrested at once. The subordinates grabbed the deserter in front of Cui Zhengwu and pressed him to the ground.

Cui Zhengwu's eyes were a little red, and he asked sharply: "Why don't you know that you are ashamed, and you became a deserter at a critical moment." ”

The middle-aged farmer kowtowed to Cui Zhengwu on the ground and shouted loudly: "Master Cui, the materials of this Ming Kingdom cannot be robbed!" It's unacceptable. Now we are honest, and the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom send us food. If we rob the supplies of the Ming Kingdom, those soldiers will definitely sweep up village by village and kill all of us peasants. ”

Hearing the words of this middle-aged farmer, the surrounding farmers were even more panicked. They looked at each other and whispered. The morale, which was already swaying from side to side, became even more chaotic.

Cui Zhengwu understood that the small favors of the peasants in the Ming Kingdom by Li Zhi played a role. These peasants got food, and the war became a war between the Tiger Army and the two classes of nobles. Although the peasants did not want to see the Ming invade Korea, they were afraid of the strong tiger army and did not dare to get involved in the war.

Although the peasants had never seen the world, they all understood that if the Koreans disrupted the rear transportation of the Tiger Army, the angry Ming people would definitely carry out the tactics of killing and robbing them all. At that time, not only will the village be burned down by the Ming people, all the crops in the fields will be finished, and those old people, women and children who run slowly will even be killed by the Ming people.

The Ming people were strong and strong, and it was the peasants who would take revenge when the time came. The peasants' lives will now be all over now, and I don't know how many people will die.

Cui Zhengwu angrily slapped the middle-aged farmer.

"Cowardice!"

slapped the middle-aged farmer left and right, and slapped the middle-aged farmer with a bow left and right, causing the middle-aged farmer to have gold stars in his eyes and blood oozing from the corners of his mouth.

"I'll kill you, cowardly peasant."

The other peasants looked at Cui Zhengwu in horror, but none of them dared to come up and stop Cui Zhengwu, a nobleman from the two classes of furious.

slapped more than 20 times, knocked the middle-aged man unconscious to the ground, and Cui Zhengwu put away the blood-red slap.

At this moment, a transport team of more than a hundred Tiger Ben Army appeared at the corner of the mountain road.

Cui Zhengwu glared at the farmers around him angrily and shouted: "It's now, those who dare to retreat, behead!" ”

The transport team escorted ten truckloads of arms and ammunition and walked slowly forward, and when they reached Cui Zhengwu's thirty paces away, they suddenly felt that something was wrong and stopped.

Cui Zhengwu yelled: "Rush! ”

A hundred steps rushed out with Cui Zhengwu. Behind these tribulations, panicked peasants followed in a sparse manner. However, these peasants walked extremely slowly, and suddenly distanced themselves from the Cui family who rushed ahead.

Thirty paces away, the company commander of the Tiger Army fired a shot into the sky.

"Smack!"

The crisp sound of gunfire echoed through the mountains.

When more than 500 peasants heard the gunshot, it was as if they had heard a warning that they could not bear, and they were so frightened that their faces turned bloodless. The farmer who was walking in the front stopped and looked at the other peasants around him. The other peasants were even more panicked and trembling.

On the spot, someone threw Cui Zhengwufa's weapon on the ground and fled backwards.

The appearance of the deserters immediately aroused the emotions of the other peasants, and in a matter of seconds, five hundred peasants who had been temporarily armed threw away their armaments and turned to flee to the far side of the mountain road.

Cui Zhengwu and his subordinates rushed for more than a dozen steps, only to find that there was no reinforcement behind them. Without 500 peasants, attacking the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army with such a little force is no different from looking for death.

The company commander who was escorting the ammunition snorted coldly, pointed at the hundred people around Cui Zhengwu, and shouted: "Free shooting!" ”

The rifle bullet was already stuck in the chamber, and the soldiers quickly poured the gunpowder into the fire door to raise their guns and shoot. Crackling gunshots rang out one after another, and Cui Zhengwu only felt a chill in his chest, and a blood flower bloomed from the part of his heart.

With a scream, Cui Zhengwu, a nobleman of the two classes, fell on the mountain road with his chest clutched and never got up again.