After some debate with Valka, Wang Huaizhong finally couldn't twist his arms and thighs, so he had to give in:

"Yes!" Wang Huaizhong left indignantly, he came to the soldiers' tents, wanted to appease everyone's emotions, tell everyone about the difficulties, and unite the army's heart, so he said: "Brothers, now that Luoyang has been attacked by the enemy, the army's grain road has been cut off, so the military salary cannot be paid. However, as long as everyone works together to recapture Lüyang, the food problem will naturally be solved! ”

As soon as Wang Huaizhong said this, the soldiers below exploded.

"What? The grain road has been cut off, and it's a fucking bullshit? ”

"Lord Wang, it seems that the last time you said that the grain and salary had reached Guangyuan, it was all nonsense, obviously the grain road was cut off."

"Yes, we asked to go back to Guangyuan, and after the salary, we will fight again!"

"That's right! To Guangyuan paid a silver salary, and then to fight! ”

The soldier is you, every word you say to me, and they are all clamoring to return to Guangyuan.

Wang Huaizhong saw that these soldiers had no sense of patriotism at all, and only knew that they wanted silver salaries, and he was quite dissatisfied, and said: "Brothers, everyone came to serve as soldiers just for those few silver salaries? If that's the case, I think it would be better to go home and do a business, wouldn't it be more profitable? Now that the Qing Dynasty is in difficulty, it is the time to employ people, and everyone should sacrifice their own small interests, fight bravely for the great interests of the country, and kill the enemy for the country. Otherwise, the country is dead, will your home still be saved? Brothers-" Wang Huaizhong couldn't help but have a sour nose and shed tears when he said about his feelings, "Everyone is an iron-blooded man, since he has chosen the road of serving the country in the army, how can personal selfish interests be so clear?" Take my Wang as an example, my wife and children are in Xi'an, the two pairs of old people are also alive, I have become an official to the general army, and it is almost the end, in Xi'an, I will transfer an idle position, every day the wife and children are hot on the kang, and the family is happy, why do I have to trek through mountains and rivers to this wild place, endure hardship, bloodshed, and suffer? And not because I have a patriotic heart! Now that Wu Sangui has raised an army and is in turmoil, how many people have been displaced, how many families and wives have been separated, think about their sufferings and sufferings, can we still call it a matter of grievances now? The Qing Dynasty is not the Qing Dynasty of the emperor alone, nor is it the Qing Dynasty of which Gege, which brother, which Baylor, but the Great Qing of all our soldiers and all the people! So, brethren, take a long-term view, broaden your horizons, and stop getting emotional for the sake of the extra penny and the less penny, okay? ”

Wang Huaizhong's words were full of emotion and reason, and analyzed the deep affection between the Qing Dynasty and individuals, and between the court and the people.

"What a fart! You officials will tell these big truths to fool us little soldiers! ”

"That's right! When you return from the war, you can still be promoted and make a fortune, and you can still have a hot kang head for your wife and children. What do we have! I can't even get a fucking daughter-in-law, hot your mother's big head! ”

"Lord Wang, you are out of the realm when you are a slave of the Qing Dynasty, we are not as highly conscious as you, we just want silver salary, if you have money, you will fight, and if you don't have money, you will get out of here!"

"Ask for money! Back to Guangyuan! ”

Wang Huaizhong's face was flushed with suffocation: "You...... You ruffians, hey! With that, he returned to the marching camp in a gloomy manner.

When Varkha saw that Wang Huaizhong had returned, he hurriedly asked, "How is it?" Does that make sense? ”

"Fart! A group of people are clamoring for silver salaries and returning to Guangyuan! ”

"Why are you so useless? These little things can't be done either! ”

"If you want to do it, I really don't have that ability." Wang Huaizhong said angrily.

"It's really lawless!" Varkha cursed angrily.

At this time, a sergeant came to report: "Master Mo informed us that we can temporarily return to Guangyuan, and after we go there to raise grain and grass, we will recapture Luoyang together with Belecani and Bei Zidong!" ”

Varkha was overjoyed and said, "Lord Mo has also ordered us to retreat to Guangyuan, so let's listen to you, Lord Wang." ”

So, Wang Huaizhong passed down the military order: pull out the camp and set off, withdraw to Guangyuan!

Tan Hong watched Varkha lead the troops back at the head of Shunqing City, and did not chase after Wang Pingfan's instructions.

Varka led the army mightily, and finally retreated from Shunqing to Guangyuan City, and settled in the county government to rest. He hadn't eaten for a day, and Varkha's stomach was growling, and he was indeed hungry. He told his guards to go to the city to buy some good wine and food, and at the same time to buy more grain to enrich the grain storehouse.

Varka took off his armor, made tea, and chatted with Wang Huaizhong: "I said, brother, don't you say it's hot in the south, why is it so cold, it's so cold, it's so cold that people shiver." ”

Wang Huaizhong took a sip of hot tea and said, "Brother, you are used to staying in the north, and in winter, it is hot kang and stove, and it is warm in the house; It's not good in the south, don't look at the outside it's not too cold, but it's cool and damp, especially in this house, there is no brazier, but it's not freezing. ”

Varkha also took a sip of hot tea to warm his stomach: "Oh, this is a breaking day, and the rain is not over." You say, is it okay for Lord Mo to arrange a war like this? ”

Wang Huaizhong said: "As long as we raise grain, there is no big problem. ”

"But Luoyang is guarded by Wang Pingfan, is it easy to fight?"

Wang Huaizhong was angry and funny when he heard it, it was you who were clamoring to beat Luoyang in Shunqing, and now it is you who want to be a turtle with a shrunken head, so he said: "Although Wang Pingfan's foreign firearms are powerful, after all, there are few people, and there are only about 20,000 people. I listened to Lord Mo's meaning, and asked Belecani and Bei Zidong to attack Yang together, and unfortunately it may be that Daniel Zhang and Wang Fuchen's 50,000 people also came up. In this way, they have 50,000 people in the north, and we also have 50,000 people in the south. ”

Varkha nodded and said, "That makes sense. In this way, if the Wang Ping Domain is destroyed and the grain road is opened, the army can drive straight into Chongqing and take it directly! ”

The two chatted with laughter, and after about half an hour, the guards who bought grain came back empty-handed: "Report to the military gate, the people of Guangyuan City don't sell us grain!" ”

"What?" Val Khaten jumped up, "Why? ”

"They say the grain road is blocked, there is no food."

"Fuck it!"

"That's exactly what the people say?" Wang Huaizhong asked.

"That's exactly what I said."

"It's broken! Eighty percent of this Guangyuan City has entered Wu Sangui's henchmen, and they instigated the common people to do this! Wang Huaizhong said.

"If you don't have food, go get food!" Varkha took the case, "Whoever dares not to sell us grain will be killed!" ”

Varkha commanded angrily: "General Wang! ”

"In!"

"I'll leave this to you!"

"Why give it to me?"

Varkha sneered twice: "General Wang, you are clamoring to come to Guangyuan." Now that the soldiers are listening to you, are you going to make them hungry? ”

"This ......" Wang Huaizhong scolded Valka in his heart, and you are justified both horizontally and vertically. This kind of offending and thankless work is called on me to do.

Seeing that Wang Huaizhong did not answer, Varkha asked with a straight face: "What, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”

"Don't dare."

"Then go! If you don't get food today, don't come back to see me! ”

"Yes!" Wang Huaizhong had no choice but to lead a team of personal soldiers.

When Wang Huaizhong and his entourage came to the street, he asked the captain of the pro-soldier squad beside him: "Which store doesn't sell grain?" ”

The team leader pointed with his hand and said, "That's it!" ”

Wang Huaizhong looked in the direction of the team leader's finger, and a big "rice" flag was hanging high, fluttering in the wind.

"Good! Walk! Wang Huaizhong walked into this rice shop with a fierce attitude, and the owner of the rice shop greeted him, arched his hand, and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing?" ”

Wang Huaizhong put his hand behind his back and asked, "Didn't you sell rice just now?" ”

"That's the case, Master Jun," the boss said with a smile on his face, "It's not that I won't sell it to you, it's really to catch up with the chaos, Wu Sangui has blocked the grain road, and no rice can be transported in, please forgive me." ”

"Fart!" Wang Huaizhong pointed at the boss's head with his finger, "Changmao, tell me the truth, are you Wu Sangui's henchman?" ”

The Qing government referred to Han Chinese who did not shave their hair as "long hair". Wang Huaizhong saw that the owner of the rice shop had cut all his braids, so he asked.

The boss was so frightened that he hurriedly said, "It's really not, master." This place was originally taken over by Zhou Jun, and everyone cut their braids, can I not cut them? ”

"Look at you, old guy, you are toasting and not eating and drinking!" Wang Huaizhong's eyes were round, his left hand crossed his waist, and his right hand pressed the knife, "Search for me!" ”

"Whew!" The soldiers received the order and began to search the house through boxes and cabinets.

"Oh, Master Jun, don't flip, don't flip!" The boss begged. No one paid attention to him, and after a while, the tables, chairs and benches fell to the ground, and they came to the ground.

"There's rice here!" The squad leader shouted excitedly, and he found five or six bags of rice under the bed in the backyard hall, and then walked out with one bag on his shoulder.

Seeing this, the boss quickly knelt on the ground, hugged the leg of the squad leader, and begged: "Master Jun, this can't be taken away, this is the rations of our whole family!" ”

"Get out of here!" The team leader wanted to walk away, but he didn't want the rice shop owner to hold on to his thighs and not let go. The squad leader was anxious and shouted, "Let go!" You let go of Lao Tzu! ”

"Master Jun, you are doing well...... the rice shop owner was halfway through his words, and the captain's long knife had already penetrated his chest. The pro-soldier next to him went up and kicked the boss's body to the ground.

As soon as Wang Huaizhong wanted to close the team, a woman with a kitchen knife and two young men with hoes ran out of the back room, threw themselves on the boss's corpse and cried: "Old man! "Daddy!"

It looks like the boss's wife and sons.

The pro-soldiers were stunned, and the three of them picked up the guy and slashed at them: "I'll fight for you, the Qing soldiers of the dog day!" One of his own soldiers couldn't dodge, and was slashed in the head with a kitchen knife and hoe, and immediately fell in a pool of blood.

"It's the other way around! Kill me! Wang Huaizhong came back to his senses at this time, and with an order, the soldiers pulled out their knives one after another and killed the three people, who were the opponents of the Qing soldiers, and they were unloaded one by one and died tragically on the spot.

In this way, Wang Huaizhong led the team, collecting grain one after another, and the people were killed if they did not obey at all. The entire Guangyuan City fell into a state of terror, and the people ran out of the city without their lives.

"Run, the Qing army is collecting food and killing people!"

It didn't take long for Guangyuan City to become an empty city.

Wang Huaizhong returned to the county government exhausted with the grain he had received and handed over to Varka.

When Valkha saw that there were only about 100 bags of rice, which could be eaten by 50,000 people for a day or two, he asked angrily: "Why is there so little?" ”

Wang Huaizhong said: "This is all a desperate call. Now all the people in Guangyuan City have run out, and there is not a single one left. ”

"What? Running out of business? Varkha was a little anxious, "Who told you to drive the people away?" Now that Guangyuan City has become an empty city, what should I do? ”

Wang Huaizhong was angry: "You asked me to fetch food, and if I can't beat it, I won't be killed." Why is it my fault again? For now, I can't stay here. ”

Varkha said: "There is a problem with your working methods, we and the common people are the relationship between water and fish, how can you fight and kill at every turn?" ”

At this moment, a puff of smoke came and drifted into the house.

"What does it smell like?" Varkha sniffed.

Wang Huaizhong said: "It is estimated that the soldiers are killing horses and eating. ”

Varkha said, "These ruffians! War horses are our thing to march and fight. If we kill the horse, who will pull the cart for us? What do cavalrymen ride? Be sure to stop them! ”

"I can't eat now, where can I take care of so much?"

Varkha thought anxiously, scratched his head, and after a while said, "No! If this continues, this battle will not be fought! I can't stay in Guangyuan anymore, I must take Luoyang back! ”

Wang Huaizhong said: "The soldiers can't even eat enough now, where can they still have the strength to fight? ”

"Then force them to fight!" Varka said firmly, "General Wang, you go harder, go to the barracks to mobilize, and fight back to Luoyang!" ”

When Wang Huaizhong heard this, his head "buzzed": "Let me go again?" I won't go this time, and if I scold again, I will be scolded to death. ”

Varkha said, "If you don't go, I want you to look good now!" ”

Wang Huaizhong spread his hands and said, "If you want to go, you won't die this time." ”

Varkha saw that the threat was useless, so he said: "Then let's go together, you will say, you will mobilize, I will press you for the formation." ”

"Okay then." Wang Huaizhong reluctantly agreed, and the two of them left the county government and went to the school field outside the barracks. Varkha moved a handsome chair and sat on it, majestic.

Wang Huaizhong saw that the soldiers had arrived, and said, "Brothers, now due to Wu Sangui's instigation, the people of Guangyuan City do not sell grain to us. But this difficulty can't stop us, as long as we occupy Lüyang and recapture the grain road, the army can be victorious! Therefore, everyone must unite as one, cheer up, and follow General Varkha to fight back to Lüyang! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers below shouted:

"Lord Wang, last time you said that there was food in Guangyuan, and now you say that you still have to fight to Luoyang, is there still a quasi-head?"

"Yes, now they are all hungry, where is the strength to fight."

"Lord Wang, don't lie to us, are we already surrounded?"

Wang Huaizhong hurriedly said: "Where is it surrounded?" Master Mo is still occupying Yangping Pass behind us. Before, we planned to go to Guangyuan to raise some grain and grass and then attack Luoyang, but who knew that Wang Fuchen's kid probably voted for Wu Sangui, and he didn't pay a single grain in Hanzhong! ”

When the soldiers heard that Wang Fuchen had surrendered to the enemy, they panicked even more:

"What? Wang Fuchen also rebelled? Wouldn't we be even more finished? ”

"That's right, Luoyang is also occupied, and Hanzhong is also occupied, isn't this surrounded, what is it?"

"You officials only tell deceitful nonsense. We want money, don't fix these vains! ”

"Yes, for money! Brothers, if we fight to die, and if we starve here, we will die if we don't take this soldier and go back to our hometown in Xi'an! ”

"Yes, go back to Xi'an!"

Wang Huaizhong saw that he was going to mess around, and if he didn't give these people a taste, this soldier would not be able to bring it, so he shouted: "Who dares?!" Come on, drag these few people who are clamoring to go home and cut them down for me! ”

No one agreed.

Wang Huaizhong's palms began to sweat, and he looked at Varkha on the handsome chair. Val Khaten stood up: "Someone! Behead the people you just said and show them to the public! ”

There was still no one at the bottom who agreed.

At this time, I saw the soldiers take off their armor in twos and threes, and threw all their weapons on the ground: "Junmen, kill if you want, brothers, let's go, I won't go for two more days, I'm so hungry that I don't even have the strength to walk!" ”

This time, more soldiers followed, weapons and armor were thrown all over the ground, and only a few timid soldiers and two single commanders remained.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around! It's all fucking reversed! Varkha cursed angrily.

Seeing that 50,000 people, in a blink of an eye, all ran clean, Wang Huaizhong said: "Wajunmen, let's go too, or after a while, Zhou soldiers will come around, but it will be troublesome!" ”

"Alas! A bunch of ruffians! Varka sighed to the sky, mounted his horse with Wang Huaizhong and a few retinues, and ran from the interroad to Xi'an.