Volume 1 The Quiet River Section 25 The Hungry
On this night, the grain conscription team formed a circle of ox carts, lit a bonfire in the middle and set up a few night guards, and then began to fall asleep, and soon the surrounding snoring and teeth grinding sounded together, and combined into a moving lullaby......
Although Zhao Hong was very tired after a day of driving the ox cart, it was too difficult for Zhao Hong to sleep in the open air in this wilderness, and listening to the symphony of the same level as the Golden Hall made it even more difficult for him to fall asleep, and Zhao Hong, who couldn't sleep, began to think cranky......
In his previous life, Zhao Hong always envied the protagonist when he read the Three Kingdoms crossing novels. A famous character like Zhao Yun will naturally not be let go by the protagonist, and will always be easily accepted as a younger brother by the protagonist.
Although Zhao Hong remembered that Zhao Yun's hometown was in the area of Zhending, Changshan County, Zhao Hong didn't know where it was. Zhending is more than 100 miles away from Shiyi.
In the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the land was vast and sparsely populated, there was no contact channel, Zhao Hong looked for Zhao Yun, who was not yet famous, in fact, this was similar to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Zhao Hong felt that even if he found the famous general Zhao Yun, even if he looked at the face of his family, people might not necessarily bird him. Thinking of this, Zhao Hong couldn't help but feel a little lost, and then he was relieved.
"Poor literature and rich martial arts", since he can afford to learn martial arts, at least Zhao Yun is also a strong child like Qin Lei. Zhao Hong is currently just a militia platoon leader, no, not even the militia platoon leader, that is, the squad leader of the security squad in the countryside. This is like a security captain in the countryside in the later generations who lobbied for the evil young man of the coal boss in the city, and the evil young man let go of the good rich second generation young master and turned around to join a certain security team to become a security guard, the problem is that the evil young man is also very willing to do the little brother, without any complaints, and loyal.
Zhao Hong felt that as long as he was not a Beijing ape, he would probably not do this, if a certain historical general was really deterred by his own leakage of Wang Bazhi's qi, then Zhao Hong would not dare to accept him as a junior brother, this kind of person really can't use it with confidence. Zhao Hong felt that it was safer for people with this kind of IQ to send him back to his hometown to drill wood for fire in the cave on the top of the mountain.
On the other hand, Zhao Hong, who has watched "Three Kingdoms", also has some opinions about Zhao Yun. In the Battle of Jieqiao, which was a turning point between Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao, who carried out the attack of light cavalry against the strong crossbowmen who had a strong established position? This kind of stupid idea is obviously a chaotic life, and it will not be subject to foreign military orders. It can be seen from the cavalry led by Zhao Yun later that Zhao Yun was probably the commander of the White Horse Yicong in the Gongsun Zan Army at that time, and he also had to pay some responsibility for the fall of the White Horse Yicong?
According to the records of the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun had almost no significant war results in his life, and there were many examples of defeats in his life, and his military talent was really limited, and his greatest achievement was probably to escort Liu Bei's son Adou.
This is also this kind of private merit, and it is also the main reason why Liu Bei later gave Zhao Yun a high-ranking official. In the Goryeo War, the blind General Peng actually burned the crown prince to a pile of illegible coke, which is no wonder that the Taizu of a certain dynasty continued to give General Peng eye ointment later.
Although Liu Bei, who is as wise as a torch, is actually selfish, he is generally quite good at employing people, and it is either Zhang Fei or Zhao Yun who stays in a strategic place like Hanzhong according to his qualifications. Liu Bei made an exception to promote Wei Yan. The orthodox leader of Liu Bei's most elite guard, Bai Yubing, is Chen Zhi and not Zhao Yun, which also shows from the side that Zhao Yun's ability really does not reassure Liu Bei.
Most of Zhao Yun's abilities were made up by Luo Guanzhong for him, and the actual prototype of Gao Daquan's image of Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is mainly Chen Dao, the commander of the Bai Yu soldiers, this guy is really a fierce man, after the Battle of Yiling, he ambushed and severely damaged the pursuing Dongwu soldiers and horses with hundreds of Bai Yu soldiers. Otherwise, whether Liu Bei could die of illness in the White Emperor City is still a matter of saying, maybe he will be caught in front of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu.
In general, Zhao Hong felt that Zhao Yun, a historical celebrity, was incapable and loyal.
Zhao Hong, who believed that if he couldn't eat grapes, he would be sour, and he thought about it, and fell asleep unconsciously.
The first day of the conscription team went relatively well, and the tent was set up in the field. The next day, the official road turned around a small hill, and a large group of ragged homeless people came up to him, helping the old and the young. The hair tied up by rags was covered with mud, the strands of clothes seemed to be unable to cover the body, and many thighs and other thin arms leaked out. Many of them live on broken sticks. Holding broken bowls, many children are skinny but have big bellies, like pregnant women, and in previous lives, this kind of scene often appeared in newspapers and television pictures of the hungry people in Africa. Seeing this tragic scene, Zhao Hong felt that his heart was beating fast, and his breathing became a little short, he turned his face slightly, trying to make himself unable to see this scene, because Zhao Hong knew that the stomach of the hungry people who only had a thin layer of skin around these bones was caused by eating soil. Soon, they will be distended to death by the soil that has accumulated in their stomachs because their stomachs are unable to digest the soil.
But the hungry people on the flanks were also staring at the grain convoy, and the slightest movement would have exhausted them, but they still used the last of their strength to get close to the grain convoy, because it was the hope of life.
"This is the imperial grain, do you want to rebel?" Duber, the leader of the team on his horse, drew his heavy sword at his waist and pointed at the hungry people in a circle.
"If you dare to approach, you will be killed!"
With the "No! There was a sound in front of Zhao Hong, and the outermost county soldiers put down the long halberd that was originally pointing to the sky, and the cold light flashed with the tip of the halberd obliquely pointing at the hungry people who were not clothed. The sword and shield hand on the inner layer stepped forward, and with the sound of a knife out of its sheath, the long knife on his waist had been captured by these county soldiers.
This murderous atmosphere suddenly shocked the hungry people, and suddenly they became as if they could hear a needle. I saw that this group of hungry homeless people involuntarily began to slowly regress. There were a few half-year-old children who had never seen this kind of formation, and they actually cried "wow". This cry made the retreating homeless people seem a little flustered, and several of them fell down without looking at the road when they retreated, and sat on the ground and threw them back with their palms on the ground.
Duber of the grain requisition team couldn't help but smile on his face when he watched this scene. He then withdrew his sword from his waist.
Just as he turned his horse's head and was about to give the order to lift his guard, suddenly there was an explosion from among the hungry people
"Instead of starving to death, it's better to give it a go!" I saw a young hungry man shouting loudly while struggling to raise the thick wooden stick with both hands, and rushed quickly to the grain truck protected by the county soldiers.
"Rob!" The shouts were already loud.
Hearing this, the other homeless people, who were already extremely hungry, suddenly woke up from their original state of fear. With green light in their eyes, they rushed forward under the leadership of this leading homeless person, and this black force seemed to be able to swallow everything.
Dubo, who was riding on the horse, was stunned when he heard this, and then he restrained his smile, and the Adam's apple under his pocket turned up and down, and he gritted his teeth and stared at the homeless people who pounced on him, and spit out two words coldly in his mouth.
"Look for death!"
At the moment when he pulled out the long sword at his waist again,
"Kill me!" This resounding order had already been passed on to the soldiers of the county who were in a circle all around.
The soldiers standing in the front row stared coldly at these defenseless hungry people, as if they were looking at a group of dead people. They all arranged their halberds in their hands to a horizontal state, looking down from the sky like long fences pointing at the hungry homeless people who were not clothed.
At the moment when the homeless people rushed to the attack range of the halberd, the soldiers of the outer counties stabbed out the halberds in their hands like lightning, and the sharp halberd tips tore through the rags and indiscriminately chopped coats of the hungry people, deeply pierced the shriveled internal organs of the hungry people, and opened large gaps in the liver and intestines.
The hungry people who were stabbed by the halberd suddenly spasmed due to severe pain and threw down the wooden stick in their hands, and grabbed the halberd handle of the halberd with both hands, but the internal organs that were opened immediately had a heavy hemorrhage in the body, and the blood continued to flow out of the corners of the mouths, ears, and eyes of these hungry people, dripping on the thick yellow dust next to the official road, turning into dark red balls mixed with blood and soil.
The hungry people in the back didn't care about these stabbed hungry people at all, pushed them aside, and approached the county soldiers while the empty crotch of the long halberd in the front row had no time to retract, and smashed them with a thick stick. The hungry people, who did not have wooden sticks, carried large stones and put them on the heads of the soldiers.
Several of the soldiers were immediately hit on the head by the stones and sticks of the homeless people, but most of the soldiers in armor dodged the blow with their arms or dodged the vital point. Although the momentum of the wooden stick or stone was transmitted to the body of the soldiers through the armor, it was only purple and blue in some parts. More hungry people poured up taking advantage of the fact that the entangled county soldiers' halberds could not be used.
Seeing this, the county soldiers in the back row, armed with swords and shields, stepped forward to fight hand-to-hand with the hungry people who were close. While they were sheltering themselves with their round shields, they raised their long knives and slashed them down so hard that the hungry people were like cut watermelons, and their stumps and severed arms were splashed with the light of the dancing knives.
A dozen hungry people broke through the line of the soldiers, but instead of attacking the soldiers from behind, they reached the ox cart full of grain. Before they could arrive, their hands had taken on the shape of eagle claws, and they tried to tear through the grain in the sack with their fingers, but in vain they scratched white marks on the sack. Others were armed with stones and sticks and tried to puncture the grain bags, but in vain. Immediately, these people were cut down from behind by the county soldiers armed with swords and shields. There were also a few relatively strong hungry people who wanted to jump away with whole sacks of food, but because of their slow movement, they were caught up by the county soldiers who were skewering with halberds from behind.