On a street, hundreds of newly recruited villagers were sitting on the ground nervously, and the barricades not far away were fighting fiercely, and from time to time sporadic arrows fell on them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In front, the Daishan Army was desperately blocking the attack of the Eight Banners, relying on the barricades, relying on the cooperation of spears and muskets to block the attack of the Eight Banners. However, the number of Eight Banners entering the city is increasing, and the number is almost equal to the defending Daishan Army, and the Eight Banners are well-equipped, there are many archers, and the will to fight is very strong.

Listening to the fierce fighting in front of them, most of the township soldiers' faces turned pale, and for these township soldiers who were ordinary people a few days ago, the battle was too cruel.

"Are we going to die?" A young man of seventeen or eighteen asked his companion in a low voice, but what awaited him was a wordless silence. When they were forcibly recruited as soldiers by the government, they all knew that they had to fight against the Qing soldiers besieging the city, and the Qing soldiers were so fierce that even the brave Daishan army couldn't resist them, not to mention those of them who had never touched a weapon.

"I don't want to die, my family just set a family business for me, and I am the daughter of the Liu family who grinds tofu in my arms." The young man babbled.

Like him, the other village soldiers were also pale, everyone was in a panic, the strength and ferocity of the Eight Banners were well known, and in the hearts of ordinary people, they were not easy to be ferocious beasts.

Seeing the frightened looks of these recruits, the officers in charge of leading them frowned, how could this situation be on the battlefield?

Can't let the morale go down so much, a team named He Zhang is standing up.

"Brothers, the Eight Banners soldiers on the other side are very cruel and terrifying, they are all demons who kill people without blinking!" One sentence made many recruits even more frightened, the young man even sobbed, and the other officers from the veterans of the Daishan Army also looked at him in puzzlement, did you talk like that, these recruits were already very scared.

"But I'm afraid it's useful? It's useless, there are your parents and relatives behind you, if you let the Eight Banners soldiers kill you, your family will not be spared! ”

"Many people may think that I am alarmist, and some people even think that I have surrendered, and I will beg for my life by giving the money in my hands and kneeling on the ground and praying."

"I tell you, don't have that illusion anymore. Because the Eight Banners on the other side are not human beings at all, they are beasts, as long as they are let into the city, they will kill you and all the men in your family, bully your wives and sisters next to your corpses, rob all your family's wealth, and then set fire to the house you called. ”

"Don't think I'm talking nonsense, don't think I'm scaring you. No, what I said is true. I am a native of Jiaozhou, and we in Qilu have been attacked by Qing soldiers many times, and many people in the Luxi area have fled to Jiaodong, which they told me. ”

"In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers entered the customs and robbed, hit Jinan, killed King De's family, and killed all the people in the city. Then he continued to attack southward, slaughtering more than a dozen prefectures and counties, and hundreds of miles south of Jinan were completely uninhabited. ”

"By the way, the general flag of the eleventh team, Li Shuzi, fled from Jinan to our Jiaodong, you can ask him if what I said is true."

When this team named He Zhang was talking, another veteran next to him was already crying tears, he was Li Shuzi.

"Quick, bolt, don't cry yet, tell the brethren if the Qing soldiers did this!" Several officers next to him urged.

Li Shuzi endured his grief and wiped away his tears.

"Brothers, my name is Li Shuzi, what Team He is saying is true, I am from Jinan. When the Qing soldiers broke through Jinan, they killed people when they saw them, and it was my mother who told me to hide under the well in the yard to escape with my life. My mother said, let me survive, so as to leave a root for the old Li family......" Li Shuzi said and sobbed again.

All the recruits present looked at Li Shuzi without blinking, listening to the man tell him about the tragic things that happened to him.

"I hid at the bottom of the well, and heard with my own ears that the Qing soldiers broke through my door, and my father and my brother and sister-in-law and sisters all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but they, they still killed my father and my brother. Then, and then in the courtyard, ruining my sister-in-law and two younger sisters," Li Shuzi no longer shed tears, and his eyes were red as he told about what happened to him a few years ago.

I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move at the bottom of the well, so I listened to their crazy laughter, and listened to my sister-in-law and sisters crying and screaming, and they were stabbed to death afterwards. One of the soldiers looked into the well and shot an arrow, which hit my cheek and left this scar on my face. ”

Li Shuzi said and lifted the messy hair scattered on his cheeks, allowing everyone to look at the ugly and hideous scar on his face that was more than three inches long.

"I hid at the bottom of the well for two days before I dared to climb out, my family of six, their bodies are still lying in the yard, my sister-in-law, she, she still has a three-month-old child in her belly..."

Li Shuzi couldn't cry silently, feeling his grief, many recruits' eyes were red, and many of them sobbed silently.

"I dug a pit in the yard and walked out of the house, only to see corpses all over the street, and the whole city of Jinan did not meet a few living people, the streets were full of corpses, and the blood flowing on the ground filled the ditches on the side of the road. Later, later, I left Jinan and fled to Jiaodong, where I joined the Daishan Army. ”

"Brothers, the Qing soldiers are not human, they are all beasts! I now regret it every day, regretting why I was so timid and afraid of death at that time, and didn't dare to take up arms and fight them! ”

Li Shuzi wiped away his tears and said loudly to the recruits in front of him: "The reason why I joined the Daishan Army is to kill the Qing soldiers and Tartars, so as to avenge my whole family. But a few years ago, they were able to kill all of us in Jinan, and today they can kill all of Yangzhou! Are you still willing to watch your parents and relatives being killed by them, just like me? ”

"I don't want to!" Many of the recruits let out angry roars.

"Take up arms, fight with them, fight with this blood, and protect our parents and relatives behind us!" Li Shuzi raised his fist and roared loudly.

"Fight with them!"

"Fight with them!" Countless recruits let out a loud roar!

At this moment, they were inspired with all their courage, they wanted to fight for their families and drive the evil Tartars out of Yangzhou! (To be continued.) )