But there are also those who do not believe in evil

On the fourth day, they encountered a group of mountain bandits who openly blocked the road, and they roamed the fields beside the road unscrupulously, carrying flags, guns and spears, and arrogantly pulled down the men who had been sent to negotiate and chopped them to death.

Hundreds of armed men, shouting and screaming, the front pole team dispersed before touching the enemy, but somewhat distracted the other party's attention, and then the first team, suffered a lot of casualties, and also knelt down, but they at least knew how to run from both sides.

The so-called wave of water met the three-layer cake, but it was blocked by the platoon on the last layer, and a dozen mules and horses rushed around the back, and the robbers broke up with shouting for their father and mother.

However, the subsequent pursuit was quite badly organized, and the remaining bandits almost scattered and ran away, and these rebels fought in the local area to grab the spoils that looked good.

Only later did I know that this was just a group of former officials and soldiers who had mutinied. However, their outfit was better than that of this rebel, and they were supplemented with eighty or ninety prisoners by the way, which in general the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.

This battle also made me have a slight improvement in the military quality of this leader of the rebel army who is full of turtle flavor, but it has improved from the evaluation of most of the scumbags to the level of some militiamen who are not so scum.

So we dragged the bottles and cans at the back of the queue, and there were a dozen more crying women, who were usually saved to the end as the targets of the bandits and the violence, so they were spared.

However, for this rebel, they are only consumables, just for a long time or a short time, such as having to take turns sleeping in the leaders' tents at night.

Often, halfway through, the leader of the generals, would leave the road with some of the better weapons and equipment to raise the so-called "military funds" or "sentinel food", sometimes a few mules, horses and carts on the grain, melons and vegetables, sometimes some of them were tied up and the threat of being beaten and kicked to starvation, and it was easy for them to be reluctant to become a member of the "glorious" army that had not yet officially opened.

However, most of the results depend on the object of the negotiation, and if it is a walled and sufficiently strong village, considering the cost-effectiveness of casualties and gains, then guò form and verbal threats and negotiations, and some supplies are obtained at a cost; If it is a relatively weak and unprotected village, they don't mind making a cameo appearance as a robber and charging the price of a transit laborer.

But there is not always something to gain, when encountering a well-walled wealthy clan Wu Fort, it is common to be expelled if the negotiation fails, to return empty-handed with scolding and scolding wolves, and even to escape back with the dead and wounded.

But in any era, it is always easier for people with knowledge and experience to obtain simple respect and courtesy. Even if it is a "righteous army" that has not been born long after being reckless, it is just respect.

Although I inevitably had to sit with stinking chickens, ducks, poultry and animals, I was much luckier than those pole teams who walked barefoot to the worn soles of their feet and were covered with blood and mud.

With the short life in this arm, some of my related memories began to recover and present, such as some basic knowledge of the army, the matters of camping and setting up accounts, the search for water sources, and even the knowledge of using the terrain, the basic rules of night prohibition and prevention,

"Xia Fuzi."

A voice called me back, a face of affection.

"Well."

One of the leaders handed me a tattered piece of vellum, rather a vague line map.

"I'll show you where we've been......"

I nodded, fumbled with the marker, and drew a mark with a charcoal strip.

"The front should be Pulou Town, along the official road through the West Jiajia Mountain, you will reach the boundary of the official army......

"What a ......"

He answered the call and went back to his life.

Although it is in troubled times, it is the mainland after all, and the material foundation accumulated in the more than 400 years after the revival of the Tang Dynasty is still visible.

For example, the straight road we just embarked on, although it is only a branch of the local construction, has been overused and disrepaired for many years, but under the surface of the road surface that has been worn out by the strict zhòng, the still solid foundation stone and the fine rammed earth that cannot penetrate the water tells the financial resources and technology possessed by the dynasty in the prosperous era of the past.

As these straight roads, the biggest enemy is not the years or pedestrians, but the nearby villagers, after losing the basic order and supervision and maintenance, they will come one after another, and try to get these seemingly solid and durable roadbeds back to their homes to build houses or Wubao walls.

Like ants moving, they will gradually encroach on the wide and smooth road into thinner and thinner sheep intestines or ditches of different depths......

Just like the Zhongxing rule in the Taixing period, the many good governance and prosperous landscapes accumulated are general, except for those areas that are separated and cut into countless large and small areas, which are more or less repaired and used.

Things such as the postal post and the copying of the sea and the river have been destroyed by the war and military rebellion that continued for decades after the Pang Xun Rebellion, or with the increasingly collapsing authority and financial plans of the imperial court, the 7788 that has been in disrepair and deserted for a long time is still in the few prosperous cities on the southeast coast, and the self-contained Lingnan Provinces, and the last bit of the old view is maintained.

After getting on the straight, the speed finally increased a lot

Before all the carefully calculated supplies were used up, we finally reached the final destination of this long march, following the trail of ruts and footprints of men and horses.

In the sound of people and horses, on the dusty field, a variety of flags are unfurled, the fighting is strict, the rangers are patrolling, the guard towers and arrows are lined up and the camp is more huge, the towering sauce-colored flag, if the big one is a "green" word, and the other dozen or so slightly smaller vertical flags, are the surnames of the leading generals.

Its scale and grandeur are not at all comparable to the previous small broken camp, just looking at it is enough to make people's blood boil, and they can't be especially intimidated by themselves.

It is said that this battalion is only the most important Qingzhou Road among the various officers and armies this time. Then the leader General Ancai announced to most people the mission and origin of this time to help the army fight the thieves.

This is one of the five state camps that crusaded against the Liangshan thieves, yes, it was the Liangshan thieves.

Just like the coincidence of the chaos of space and space at the same time, there is also a group of heroes under the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, entrenched at the junction of the estuary of Henan and Hebei, controlling the chaotic place, with the help of the river diversion to the sea to form hundreds of miles of Boze, and the surrounding soil regiments, officials and troops circulate, from their own home robbery, gathering in the mountains and forests, and finally evolving into a giant powerhouse with the movement to capture the state and county.

It is said that in recent years, it has also received the support of overseas rebel parties and has become more and more violent, and has become a problem for the henchmen of the surrounding military towns, and even an observer envoy stationed in Gaotang County was openly destroyed in the mansion in the city, which eventually attracted several town guards to temporarily put aside disputes, and the joint suppression of local forces such as the town army, unity, and township soldiers in the five states.

To this end, the "Order to Help Suppress Grace" was also promulgated to send the righteous and heroic heroes of the four townships.

Due to the contact of people arranged in advance, as a dispensable, but it is better to have more forces than nothing, and it is better to take the initiative to join one of the local armed forces earlier.

On that day, we received several hundred stone of miscellaneous grain from the officers and soldiers, most of which were old chestnut rice and liang rice, as well as some millet and soybeans, but this did not prevent them from grinding on the spot, steaming and pasting a large pile of cakes, and Meimei ate the first full meal since the army.

Then there was a report from the head of the township soldiers signed by the local government, which was regarded as a credential for assisting the officers and soldiers in the battle, which made the general who was counting on this rich and prosperous place a little disappointed, and gathered his subordinates together and scolded him.

Then he searched for some more valuable objects, bowed his head and went to the camp again, and finally became a brigade commander and a general's body, but it was still the local thorn seal, not the regular military fire talisman, which could only be regarded as the first leader than the official official.

After this toss,

In the end, there were only 1,171 people left, because on the night of the recruitment, dozens of people ran away, and after being caught by the horse team one by one, they were beaten to death according to the ratio of four to one, and half of them were directly abandoned on the side of the road to fend for themselves because they could not survive the whipping.

Then, because of such reasons as drinking unclean water, injuring oneself during drills, falling behind due to various unexpected situations and injuries, or being really unable to support themselves, they never kept up, or they were sent to the sentry food, and then they were chased back and killed, adding up to about two or three hundred people.

But it didn't prevent him, cut a few more wooden poles and tear cloth to make flags, and then claimed to be 1,400 members of the three battalions, and asked the officers and soldiers for food or something. However, the food of the officers and soldiers was not eaten in vain, and all kinds of errand soldiers were quickly dispatched.

"What, collect the corpse ......"

The roar of the leader reverberated through the small camp.

"We worked hard all the way to join the army, just to collect corpses......

They got together and scolded and vented, but they still had to bow their heads and accept the reality, and it was impossible to spit out what they ate.

After discussing for a long time, I asked for some more tools and trolleys, which was considered compensation in disguise.

The camp we were in was only on the periphery, and in the mountains surrounded by water, the fighting was already in full swing, and almost every day the wounded and corpses were sent down like flowing water.

It is rumored that the offensive of the five armies in three directions did not go smoothly, and these Liangshan Kou, relying on the obstacles of the continuous water to the Mabu army, as well as those who were familiar with geography, made it difficult for the officers and troops to move forward, and the strategy of marching step by step only advanced to a very small part, and they could not even touch the edge of Liangshan.

It is said that the waterway connecting the guò water to the sea can also receive some foreign aid, so the official army was pinned down a considerable part of its forces to guard against these overseas attacks.

Then in the outer camp in the rear, the dirty work such as cleaning up the aftermath was spread out to these miscellaneous rebels, but compared to the other miscellaneous genera assigned to cut wood, quarry, dig and build fortifications, our people came early and were lucky.

Because in addition to the scene is more disgusting, the flesh and blood blur makes many people retching for several days and can't eat, and it is more unlucky, there are often parts of the human body falling or staining the body, in addition to being slightly easier, there are also some opportunities for the dead to rub oil and water, and people who are more courageous after getting used to the scene will find some small objects from the corpse.

The officers and soldiers in the large battalion will be more or less generous to the auxiliary troops who bury and dispose of the bodies of their comrades, and will be more or less generous in giving them extra rations and asking for tools and materials......

One is that those who have participated in the collection and transportation must scoop water in the river and wash it from head to toe before returning to the camp, and the other is that I would rather spend more effort to concentrate on deep burial and let the pole team take turns to participate in these transportations, which can be used as a rehearsal before participating in the war.

I already hated this team's poor hygiene habits from the top down, but this time I finally have the conditions and opportunities, and then I will change this reason, at least their taboo about these things will not be much worse than others

It's not worth giving me a sense of substitution, or doing something about it, except for giving them a few suggestions on hygiene and personal epidemic prevention out of concern for their own safety, and then watching their words and deeds in a low-key and cold manner, waiting for the right opportunity to get out of it.

At least to obtain an official identification certificate, even in the troubled times when the authority of the court and the government is swept to the ground, an indirect proof of innocence can reduce a lot of trouble by settling in the city.

Then there is the livestock, at least a mule, without taking into account the loss of fat, at least by gnawing grass can sustain itself for at least several days, enough to get rid of the recourse of those who have a heart.

Then there are some handy and light weapons, such as small crossbows and short knives, not to mention troubled times, even in peaceful times, traveling alone in the wilderness is also a risky thing.

Then there are portable dry food and other miscellaneous items, after all, not everywhere has the opportunity to buy food and other odd and end supplies.

So for the time being, I still need the status and identity of this motley unit to gradually achieve my goal. I touched the wooden sign in my hand, which was a temporary letter for me to go in and out of the official barracks with the general and receive the goods, which was obviously a good start.