Unlike many Dongying mountain castles, there are a large number of villages gathered near Shanchun Castle, like a shelter in the mountains, even though the terrain is undulating, not conducive to farming, but there are still people who are willing to escape the war and seek safety to settle nearby, as if it is a self-sufficient independent small kingdom in the mountains. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Different from the plain villages of China, the number of people in each of these mountain Dongying villages is only about a few dozen people, scattered around the city of Shanchun, or hunting for a living, or by opening up rare cultivated land in the mountains to survive.

Izo rode a horse and dragged a cart carrying the corpse slowly towards the winding road up the mountain, and at the bottom of the mountain was the five hundred new guards led by Genmen Jiro.

It began to rain slightly in the sky, and Jing San's heart recalled what Chen Xiaochu had said, and his mood was very complicated.

"Jing San, have you really decided to do this?" Genmen Jiro couldn't help but speak.

Jing San, who was riding on the horse, slowly looked back and said: "I made a choice, my family is almost all I have for me, that is my last relative, please ask Genmen-sama to help me send Peaches back to the village." ”

Genmen Jiro glanced at Momoko, who was kneeling on the ground, hiding her face and weeping, and responded, "I will, don't worry, she won't be hurt in any way." ”

Jing San nodded, then turned around, no longer thinking about complicated emotional issues, "As long as you kill that guard and take advantage of the chaos to lure the new guards into the city, then my brother will survive." ”

Different from the tense atmosphere of martial law on the mountain, at the pass below the mountain, many materials have been collected, and the corpses have been almost cleaned up, Chen Xiaochu did not stop the villagers on the mountain from going down the mountain to the pass to take away the corpses of their relatives.

From temptation, to contact, and then to no scruples, the villagers of Dongying began to go down the mountain to look for the bodies of their relatives, some of them had numb eyes and did not say a word, and some people were lying on the corpses and sobbing, there were brothers, sons, and fathers, looking at the figures who dragged the corpses with mop bags, Chen Xiaochu wanted to say something, but some couldn't say anything, walked to the corpse placed outside the pass, and looked at Chen Xiaochu with a pair of curious eyes.

"A Dongying kid." Lu Bu touched his chin and said, this snotty child didn't know what the departure of his relatives represented, and he didn't know who caused all this, standing next to the grandmother who packed the corpse, looking at Chen Xiaochu and Lu Bu and his party with some curiosity.

"I'm going to orphan more kids, just tonight." Chen Xiaochu said a little indifferently, the old grandmother in front of her seemed to have packed her son's body and dragged it with great effort, while the child followed behind her. The loss of her loved one left the old lady without any fear, even if she had to face it, like a samurai lord who usually needed to be respected and bowed.

"The lord seems to have not appreciated the cruelty of war enough." Lu Bu noticed the subtle changes in Chen Xiaochu's eyes, and said with a little worry. "People in troubled times, like grass mustard, if you don't want to become grass mustard, you must become the leader, for the general, take people's lives on the battlefield, for the king and the king, and the corpse will float for thousands of miles in a word, and the lord should not be shaken in the slightest."

Chen Xiaochu smiled a little reluctantly: "I won't let Huaxia become a mustard, I know what I'm doing, and I also understand what the consequences of all this will be, I'm just worried that my humanity will be lost little by little, and finally become an emotionless ruler." ”

"That's why the lord gave the task of seizing the city to the new guards?" Lu Bu thought for a moment, and suddenly understood Chen Xiaochu's intention to do this, the new guards who were disciplined by the Tang army, and because they were also from Dongying, after the city was broken, there would not be too many killings, "Do you actually use benevolence and righteousness in this kind of place, lord, your arrangement will delay our arrival at the Cliff Fort." ”

"The troop configuration of Yamaharu Castle has been confirmed, and those flag warriors will die with dignity, and those remaining Ashigaru captives will wait until the castle is broken, and let them go to reunite with their families." Chen Xiaochu did not respond directly to Lu Bu, but said to himself.

"Isn't the lord worried that those who have returned will join the Maeda army again and become our enemy? You must know that we will still have to return to Izumo City after we have achieved our goal, and this is the only way to go. Lu Bu frowned a little and said, according to the dominant way of the state army, almost none of these people can survive.

"Burn the mountain city and destroy the pass, that's enough, rest assured, when we return to the army, we will be even stronger than now." Chen Xiaochu said with a firm look in his eyes.

On the path leading to Shanchun Castle, there are many wooden fences, which are guarded by ashigaru in twos and threes to prevent the enemy cavalry from rushing to the vicinity of Shanchun Castle, which catches people off guard.

"Who are you, stop quickly." The guard's Ashigaru noticed that Izo on a horse was approaching, and asked vigilantly, the battle that happened at the pass had made the defenders on the mountain tense their nerves, and the only rescue down the mountain also failed, plus the people who delivered the letter died one after another, so that many Ashigaru felt demoralized, and they could only huddle up on the mountain and prepare to defend to the death, waiting for the return of the lord of the country,

"I have very important news to tell the general, it is from the Gentile army that attacked the pass." Izo got off the horse and said as he looked at the guard's ashigaru.

"What's the proof? How did you survive the battle at Pass? A man in samurai armor spoke, looking at Izo carefully.

"I was released, and I brought the corpse of the pass guard." Izo bowed slightly, then leaned sideways to give way to someone wearing samurai armor.

"It's really Kimura-sama." The man in samurai armor stepped forward to look at the corpse on the wooden cart and immediately exclaimed, especially when he saw the crossbow arrow that pierced the skull, he couldn't help but clench his hands.

"What message did those strangers tell you to deliver?" The man in samurai armor asked through gritted teeth, a bloodshot streak appearing in his eyes.

Jing San bowed his head again and said, "I'm sorry, I can only see the general tell him directly." ”

"You coward, are you afraid of war and surrendered to the other party, so you survived?" The man in samurai armor pulled out his katana, put it on Jing San's shoulder and scolded, and when he saw Jing San raise his head with some uneasiness, he suddenly said: "This stubborn face, I remember, are you the one who was unwilling to join the Maeda Army before?" ”

"Yes, but in order to repay Kimura-sama's kindness, I put on the armor of the Maeda Army and participated in the battle, and I was not afraid of war." Jing San looked directly at the other party.

"I see dissatisfaction in your eyes, is it dissatisfaction with the forced participation in the Maeda Army? Someone like you still wants to see the general? (To be continued.) )