Chapter 225: Chopping Wood for Soldiers
"Okay, since everyone is willing to rebel with me, let me see everyone's determination and courage first!" As he spoke, Tang Ning pointed to the corpses of the two officers and shouted: "Brother who wants to rebel with me, come and stab these two dog officers with a sword now, as long as you stab you with blood, I will approve of you, otherwise you will go home and wait for death!" ”
Obviously, Tang Ning is forcing everyone to surrender his name, and what he said about going home and waiting for death is not to scare people, Qin Law is extremely harsh, these 900 people should go to Yuyang to garrison according to the regulations, if you sneak back, and the government finds out that not only will you die, but even your whole family will not survive, and don't expect to escape to other cities, because if there is no guide, no matter which city you go to, you will still be killed!
Although everyone understands this truth, stabbing someone, especially an officer who was originally high up and killed himself, is really not so easy to overcome.
Just when there was some coldness, suddenly a person came out of the crowd and shouted, "I'm coming!" ”
Tang Ning saw that it was none other than Sun An, who was subdued by himself last night, only to see him trembling and picking up the long sword on the stone, then gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and stabbed the officer's corpse hard, and after stabbing it, he gasped and asked Tang Ning: "General, is this okay?" ”
"Good brother, good man!" Tang Ning praised loudly, and even walked close to him and hugged him hard.
With Sun An taking the lead, someone behind him gradually followed and stabbed down, and soon the bodies of the two officers were stabbed into a puddle of mud.
After all, we can't let these 900 people fight with their bare hands to fight with the officers and soldiers, right? But this is not in Yangcheng's own home, not even a hoe, but fortunately, Tang Ning has been prepared for this, and ordered Wu Guang and Sun An, who had just been appointed as captains and given two sets of officer equipment, to take people to the nearby bamboo forest to collect bamboo.
After tossing for nearly a day, he finally basically managed to have a bamboo gun in his hand, and the food brought by the team was almost eaten, Tang Ning decided to take everyone to open the meat first, and this time the target was Daze Township, the location of this uprising!
Although it is no longer a troubled era of the Warring States Period, because the Qin Emperor is dead, the army is stationed in all directions, and the exploitation is becoming increasingly heavy, and the people are not living well, so in the territory of Feiguanzhong, large-scale bandits still occasionally occur, so when they saw Tangning's big group of people coming from a distance, the villagers thought that the bandits were coming.
But the patriarch of the township immediately refuted: "You don't look at how many people there are, where can there be so many bandits?" I've heard that some people are passing by us these days, are these people coming? ”
A sharp-eyed villager immediately said: "That's right, it should be them, don't you think the two people in the lead are officers?" In fact, he was talking about Wu Guang and Sun An, who were wearing officer armor.
The patriarch confirmed this, so he instructed the sharp-eyed villager: "You go and ask the officer, why did you come to our Daze Township to collect grain or what?" ”
Seeing the sharp-eyed villagers coming, Sun An was about to pull out his long sword as if he were facing a great enemy, but was stopped by Tang Ning: "Don't be excited, he will definitely not have any malice when he comes alone, and he is not an immortal, how can he dare to do something with more than 900 of us?" ”
"That's right, it's still the general, you have knowledge." Sun An's flattery.
At this time, the sharp-eyed villagers had already run over, knelt down and kowtowed to Wu Guang, who was burly and wearing armor, and then asked respectfully: "Dare to ask the officer, is this coming to our Daze Township to collect grain?" ”
Hearing this question, Wu Guang and Tang Ning immediately looked at each other, but fortunately, at this time, Wu Guang's mind suddenly flashed, and he pretended to nod and replied: "That's right, you are going to collect grain, you quickly gather all the pavilion chiefs and clan elders of your Daze Township." ”
Originally, the pavilion chief and the clan elders thought that they were collecting grain, but when they saw that these people who rushed into the village were all armed with bamboo guns, and they all looked murderous, they immediately felt that something was wrong.
At this time, Tang Ning shook the treasure knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "There is no way to storm Qin, we are ordered by General Xiang Yan to set up a righteous army and crusade against Tyranny Qin, I hope that the people of Daze Township can revolt with us!" ”
The pavilion chief said in his heart that we are crazy, we will let go of the days that are a little bitter but stable, but to rebel against you, but looking at the hundreds of stout men with sharp bamboo guns in front of him, he knew that once he said this kind of words, he would definitely be stabbed to death, so he said hard: "The general is such a heroic hero, he wants to raise troops to do great things, I admire it." It's just that our Daze Township is a small family, and we don't dare to expect to follow the general, just to survive. If the general is willing to lead the army and leave, we, we are willing to take out thousands of catties of grain and talk about our hearts. ”
For the small Daze Township, this thousand catties of grain must not be considered less, if you change to an ordinary horse bandit leader, it is estimated that you will agree at this time, because even if you force it in, you may not get more things, but the problem is that Tang Ning's pursuit is by no means limited to a small horse bandit.
So he said with a straight face: "There is only one way in front of you, and that is for everyone in your Daze Township to join our rebel army, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”
Seeing that Tang Ning really didn't seem to want to give them a way to live, the pavilion chief begged: "Think twice, general! That's all the food that Daze Township can take out, even if you break it, General, you won't be able to get more, and our Daze Township is not so easy to break......"
Before he finished speaking, Tang Ning impatiently ordered someone to drag him down, although he also saw that there was a hundred and ten young men holding various farm tools and weapons at the entrance of the village, but he really didn't pay attention to this person, if he couldn't even beat these farmers, then what was there to talk about fighting against the Qin army?
So Tang Ning waved his hand: "Kill me in, and kill all those who dare to resist!" ”
PS: Some friends may think that it is a bit cruel for the protagonist to force the people of Daze Township to join the rebel army, but in fact, the peasant uprising is the most basic means to coerce the homeless, and it is not just the homeless people who are generally coerced, but all taken away like locusts crossing the border, and the representative force in this regard is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.