Chapter 172: Human Tragedy
The rooster crowed.
Li Xiang sighed at the thick nerves of the rooster, and after listening to the story of Li Mengkong and others, he closed his eyes and leaned on the pillow to think about something.
When Li Xiang was hit by an arrow, there was a fine lin's armor under his robe, and he was also wearing chain mail, which was separated by a silk shirt. The iron helmet worn is a three-layer protection, from the outside to the inside, which are wrought iron, chain mail and leather armor, and are firmly combined with the upper body armor. Li Xiang, who cherishes his life, is simply armed to the teeth.
In fact, Li Xiang's iron helmet and ghost-faced steel armor were not worn when he was hit by an arrow......
Facts have proved that Li Xiang's worries are not superfluous, and the episode of "there is always Diao Min who wants to harm me" still happened. Huang Liren and other gentry made up the dead soldiers, picked the unstable gap in the village, and used a strong bow and a hard crossbow to shoot Li Xiang's three arrows, hitting the head, chest and lower abdomen respectively.
However, it didn't work, Comrade Li Xiang's nail was too thick, and Mingyuezhuang made rapid progress in surgery.
It is true that the three arrows that hit Li Xiang were all coated with poison, but after penetrating the double or even triple layers of armor, the arrows had no strength, and only half of the flesh was only penetrated by the sharp tips. The five leaders of the medical and health department took arrows, debridement, sutures, and applied pesticides...... Li Xiang was only a little bit of toxin, and woke up in less than a day.
Cheng Cheng made a gesture and said slowly: "Owner, do you want to notify the three people by the Han River, as well as the Wang brothers of Mingyueji, to take some action?" The subordinates thought that the official army had completely broken the Huang family's plot by doing so, and might even alarm the court. ”
"Before the situation is clear, the owner of the village can say that he is not sick, and it is not too late to wait for Shiyan Zhizhou to come up with the charter and reappear."
The owner's bedroom of the council hall is tightly structured, and it is separated from the outside by several thick walls. The cries from outside came in, and all that was left was noise.
Li Xiang is not difficult to imagine the miserable situation outside. The Liu family's relatives reaped the consequences, but thinking of such a tragic thing happened to the villagers who called themselves "Zhuang Owner" in the past, Li Xiang couldn't help but feel compassion.
Touching the bandage on his head, Li Xiang said slowly: "Since the official army has already messed up the matter, it is better to make it more chaotic and give Lord Zhizhou to come forward and add some bargaining chips." ”
"Order, let Lao Cao, Lei Bo, and Wu Xiaoling impact the Mingyue Collection, and smash the big merchants who are secretly stumbling to the owner of the village. But you can't kill people, notify Wang San in advance and ask him to pick up the merchant's personnel. And ......"
Dozens of renegade villagers poured out of the council hall, and the old man led by knelt down and cried, "Master Liu, the little old man knows that he is wrong, please look at the past situation, protect me and wait for one or two." Xiao Lao'er's eldest son and a granddaughter have been killed by the official army, and Xiao Lao'er doesn't want to cut off his children and grandchildren. ”
Liu Sheng felt his head big, and looked at the owner's personal guards and the soldiers of the elder battalion. But he miscalculated, how can one person's gaze resist the gaze of nearly a hundred people?
For some reason, when Li Xiang selected his personal guards, he gave priority to selecting young people who had little to do with the people in Zhuangnei, or directly selected from the new homeless people. A card left in the village by the elder brother's battalion, there were many soldiers who knew the renegade villagers who came to ask for help, and they immediately whispered and were unstable.
When Liu Sheng was entangled, Zhang Zhanjun appeared at the door of the council hall and handed over a note.
The owner of the village on the left and right twisted his body in amusement, and Liu Sheng opened the note. Although he is not very literate, Liu Sheng can still deal with a few simplified Chinese. There were only twelve words written on the note: The owner of the village is not awake, and he is holding on to the council hall and the riverbank.
At the end of the note are Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli, Zhao Bo, and Liu Susu's name and seal!
The owner has woken up, why does it say on the paper that the owner has not woken up?
Liu Sheng was beating the drum in his heart, and found that Zhang Zhanjun's eyes in front of him were flickering, and he felt that the winter was a little colder, and the fire on the south bank of the small river could not bring much warmth. Even Su Su didn't want to save the seven Liu families, so what could he Liu Sheng do?
Now that the officers and soldiers have begun to smash and loot, they no longer have the strength to fight, and the council hall is very safe. Liu Sheng didn't say a word, and left with the young people who had some friendship with the Liu family of the seven households, and handed over the task of defense to the remaining village owner's personal guards and the soldiers of the elder battalion.
The old man who was kneeling on the ground and begging saw this, why didn't he understand what Liu Sheng meant? The old man regretted and joined Liu Xiadu, but he didn't say more, and took dozens of people who were crying and crying, and went to find a strong house to defend it.
As soon as the old man left, the seven Liu families came to the front of the meeting hall with one hundred and ten people.
Among the Liu family, the leader was Liu Xiadu's cousin, and he only heard this thin young man who looked like a scholar and said loudly: "Tell Li Xiang to come out." Our Liu family agreed to his conditions, only take half of Mingyuezhuang, and quickly let him drive the officials and soldiers away, take back the property of our Liu family, and protect our safety. ”
In front of the council hall, there was silence.
The only sound in the air was the crackling of burning wood, the breathing of the owner's personal guards and the soldiers of the elder battalion, and the sobbing of the women and children of the seven Liu families.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the young man of the Liu family shouted, "The position of the owner of the village, as well as the entire Mingyue Village, belongs to our Liu family, he Li Xiang has been stealing for many years, why don't you pay it back?" We're just breaking up, and now we're in trouble, and you can't save you when you die?! ”
"Liu Susu, you come out. I know that you are inside, you are all members of the Liu family, and you actually helped Li Xiang deal with your own family. You little girl, if you don't save your relatives when you see death, where does your cruel heart come from?! ”
"Liu Sheng, you are my uncle, why are you so ruthless...... Belch! ”
An axe, a short spear, and a single knife stabbed the young man surnamed Liu at the same time. The young man clutched his stomach, as if he couldn't believe it, and finally slowly collapsed.
The mother of the young man surnamed Liu rushed up and beat him with a stick, and was hit in the waist and abdomen by whose bones. The woman crawled up to her dying son, blood streaming from her mouth, "You killed my son, you untouchables dare to kill my son!" ”
"Everything in Mingyuezhuang should belong to the Liu family, you untouchables dare to resist?! If the law of heaven does not exist, where is the law of the Great Zhou, why not punish the untouchables of Mingyuezhuang......"
After the mother and son who fell into madness died, a farmer's personal guard couldn't stand it, "It's all your Liu family, why?!" Only by virtue of the general system as the owner of the village, Mingyuezhuang is owned by a few of your households?! ”
"Since Lao Tzu's family came to Mingyuezhuang, they have worked hard and saved money, and they have just gained a part in a lime kiln." The farmer's personal guard burst into tears and shouted: "There is no one in your family who dares to call yourself noble? You and others colluded with foreign enemies to rob Mingyue Village, and now they are being looted by the official army, and they are still thinking about taking advantage, how can there be such a good thing! ”
A cold breeze blows.
A soldier from the elder battalion couldn't help it, "Brothers, open your eyes and see." Thanks to us, we defeated the official army, otherwise the official army, the official errand and the seven Liu families captured the entire Mingyuezhuang, and the people who were robbed and bullied were our parents and sisters! ”
"That's right, if you really want to let the seven Liu families gain power, we won't end well." Another soldier from the elder battalion also shouted.
"Drive these people away, who knows if there are any official and military spies among them!"
"That's right, far away. Since they have taken refuge in the big families and the government, they can no longer care about them. Maybe one day there will be more trouble in the village, and we will be sold by them. ”
The owner's personal guards and the soldiers of the elder battalion consciously lined up into a wall, holding weapons and pressing over step by step.
Two more old and weak people died, and the seven Liu families ran away crying and screaming. The officials and soldiers no longer embarrassed them, after all, the goods were also robbed, and the girl was also playing, so they always had to save some face for the Huang Cheng family.
Lin Guangyuan's body was still lying on the cold ground, and he didn't know how many people had trampled on it. His wife and daughter failed to get Liu Xiadu's compensation and were being played with by the official army......
Except for a few small brick and stone courtyards where the mutinous Zhuang people resisted the official army, the entire small Ban Mingyue Village on the south bank of the small river has fallen into the hands of the officials and officers. Clever officers and soldiers and officials searched around for chicken carts and two-wheeled carts, ready to transport the looted things away. Occasionally, the screams of women and girls were heard, but the officers and soldiers who had not seen meat for a long time were not yet happy.
"There are really a lot of good things in the seven Liu families, that dead old man, he actually held the door of the cellar until he died, a fool!" An old oilman of the official army sighed.
Standing on the roof of a small courtyard, the commander of the Xunyang Commander and the two battalions of Shiyan Prefecture witnessed the whole process of the expulsion of the seven Liu families by the 100 people of the council hall.
Xunyang's chief catcher sighed: "I really don't know what the seven Liu families think. They want to sell most of the villagers and seek their own wealth. Now that the matter has failed, he still has the face to seek refuge in the past. Tsk, I've seen a lot. ”
The battalion commander who was actually in charge of nearly a thousand officers and troops said: "Listen to the rules of Yuezhuang. It is estimated that the seven Liu families are Liu Chengdong's relatives, and their lives are too comfortable, so they always think that everywhere is like Mingyuezhuang, right? ”
The battalion commander glanced left and right and lowered his voice, "The seven Liu families are really rich, and the things found from their homes are forty percent of all the harvests. We have to report that all the fighting men under our command died in the Zhuang people riots, and in addition to the upper and lower points, we also have to compensate the families of those who killed the men. Now it's not just enough, there's a lot of ...... left."
Liu Tingting's body returned to its cleanliness in the icy water of the river.
The sky was bright, and the girl's body floated away along the river, under the gaze of hundreds of guards.
The loud voice took off his helmet and knelt by the creek with his hair disheveled. The brand head and the other who were familiar with the loud voice didn't know how to comfort him, so he had to pat him on the shoulder and stand aside in silence.
At a certain moment, as if he exhaled from his stomach, he turned around in a loud voice, kneeling in front of the eighty-three straight archers who shot Liu Tingting just now, his voice was like a whetstone, "Thank you." ”
From time to time, mutinous villagers ran to the south bank of the small river. or crying and pleading, or begging for old acquaintances, or scolding, trying for the guards to shelter them.
Statements such as "regret not being at the beginning, please look at the ...... in the past", "Brother Kuan, you don't give any face......", "We are also Zhuangmin, why don't we save ...... when we die", and other statements did not shake the hundreds of defenders.
The little doll's cry was exchanged for a raft. The rebellious villagers didn't care about anything, they squeezed upwards with their lives, and the villagers on the raft pushed people down desperately. The infant was pushed into the river and soon fell silent.
The young mother threw herself into the river.
Under the frightened eyes of hundreds of defenders, the mutinous villagers crossed the river to the north bank. They began to ask for more, food, clothing, house...... It would be better for the guards to go over now and take back their property, and two of them began to wonder how they could make the public compensate for their losses.
Da Niu's lips trembled, and he looked at the rebellious villagers who had just crossed the river, as if he had seen a monster.
Behind the array of straight archers, Zhang Qingping and Yang Yingdong noticed that the atmosphere was different, and they were about to come over to check it in person.
The loud voice put on his helmet and slashed the air with a single knife, "Straight archers prepare, take arrows!" ”
"Loose!"
The renegade villagers who had just crossed the river, both men and women, the old and the weak, were all crucified on the bank, and no more rebellious villagers crossed the river after that.
Some diseases are contagious.