Xinhui's loyalty, Lei Xiang was extremely moved, but it also made him always difficult to solve doubts, he always had difficulty facing a problem, cannibalism and disloyalty are both great rebellions, but loyalty can really erase the crime of cannibalism.

Before coming to Xinhui, this problem was not a problem, Zhang Patrol guarded Suiyang and ate people, and future generations did not think it was a crime, because he was loyal and righteous.

But when he arrived in Xinhui, he appreciated the loyalty of the Xinhui people who pushed women and children in front, knew the story that happened more than 60 years ago, and was bombarded by that vulgar rumor, this problem was once again twisted in his heart, and he never understood what the problem was.

Now these eight words made him finally know where the knot was twisted...... "I thought that I had understood what Huayi's distinction was, but now, I don't understand it anymore." ”

He muttered to himself bitterly, this knot is naturally Huayi's distinction, what is Yashan? It's China, it's China! Where is Yashan? It is more than 100 miles south of Xinhui County, in this county!

To the south of this mast road sign is Yashan, more than 100 miles away in the bay, more than 400 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Song people were martyred.

To the north of this mast road sign is the county seat of Xinhui under his feet. More than 60 years ago, in October of Guangzhou's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, the whole city was slaughtered, and then Xinhui was "passed on to decide", and there was no loyalty. After another three or four years, Li Dingguo marched east with the banner of the king of the Ming and Jin dynasties in the south, but Xinhui was full of loyalty and went all out to resist the Ming, and also left the reputation of the four filial piety martyrs of Xinhui.

Both the north and the south are loyal, but this loyalty, Lei Xiang is difficult to juxtapose. What is the foundation of the "loyalty" of the Xinhui people? Even if Lei Xiang is just dead studying, he will not be pedantic enough to think that it is "the heart of the Zhengshuo Dynasty", which is simply fear of violence! They were not inspired by the benevolence of China, but succumbed to the oppression of the violence of the founding of the country. And for him, who has read the books of the old sages, benevolence comes from Huaxia and erupts from Yidi.

With Lou Xueyu and these children in the city, listening to the recitation of "University", self-cultivation, family building, and governing the country, listening to Lei Xiang's ears, I felt extremely ashamed. This Xinhui people cultivate my body without death, and Qi is a family other than me, what kind of country is ruled by this family? Beasts are not as good as the country! He was so hot that he couldn't rush down the wall, this is not loyalty! At least not the loyalty he was asking for!

"Why is the husband worried? If it is to pity the concubine, do not worry about it......"

Lei Xiang's wife, Lei Shi, stood behind him, although she was dressed as a woman, she still had a green face. Seeing that her husband's face was changing blue and red, he was deliberately relieved when he was worried about the road ahead.

But when I thought of the road ahead, the previous ballad was churning in my heart again, and Lei, who was born in a scholarly family, was also pretty and pale.

"If you really want to answer the story of Suiyang, the concubine will only ask for ......"

Lei's hands twisted his handkerchiefs, and he couldn't help but plead, he was not afraid of death, and there were things more terrible than death.

"Please chop the meat in the kitchen and leave the concubine to finish the bones."

This low and sad voice was like a bolt of lightning, slashing into Lei Xiang's heart.

"Nope! My Lei Xiang's loyalty is never attached to the loyalty of Xinhui! ”

He didn't care about anything else, grabbed his wife with one hand, gritted his teeth and said: "You and I are husband and wife, I'd rather die together than let you fall into the belly of a person!" ”

Under the big mast, Yang Junli, who joined the army, frowned and shook his head: "The people of Xinhui are already shameless, no matter how much they do, they will not blush, let alone be ashamed to open the city and surrender." They have their righteousness, and they want to be loyal to the Tartar court, of course, they are loyal to their own lives, and this big mast and high banner are afraid that it will be in vain. ”

Everyone nodded, they all felt that it was too wasteful, such a tall and strong mast, I was afraid that it would not cost thousands of taels of silver, and the king of heaven would really pay no attention to the hearts of the people of Xinhui. It's a pity that the chanting of Xinhui Tongsheng is still loud, and in Xinhui County, I'm afraid no one can be shaken by the eight characters on this giant road sign, and it is they outsiders who are really shaken.

"This is not for the new people......"

Yuan Yinggang scratched his head, he had to have a showdown.

Facing everyone's surprised eyes, Yuan Yinggang said cautiously: "The purpose of my coming here is not to help you conquer Xinhui. ”

What the!? Yuan Tiepan's hard work, didn't he do it to take Xinhui County? Is this guy just living his own mouth?

Yang Junli glared, Zheng Yong's knuckles were clenched, and Zhang Hanwan had already held his hand on the hilt of the sword.

Yuan Yinggang hurriedly threw out the talisman: "The Heavenly King has an order, when the teaching camp arrives, the Long Xiang army can continue to advance westward." ”

Excitement, relaxation, loss and other emotions were intertwined in Zhang Hanwan's heart, but what finally stopped was the concern for the overall situation, Zhang Hanwan asked in surprise: "Do you want to set up a new barracks here, in Xinhui?" ”

Yuan Yinggang nodded: "We want to set up a third recruit camp here." ”

The training battalion is not a combat formation, but a recruit training unit, and placing the recruit battalion in Xinhui makes everyone feel a little unbelievable.

Zhang Hanwan couldn't figure it out: "Don't talk about the training camp, Xinhui is blocking the main road to the west, even if the grain and grass can be raised directly in the front, but the heavy ammunition has to wait for the rear to be transported, if you don't take Xinhui, you can only go from Zhaoqing to Enping, which is a lot of trouble." ”

Zheng Yong also frowned and said: "Relying on the new barracks, coupled with some artillery, can scare the Xinhui people, but after all, it is a thorn in the side, and it is a headache to stick to the Guangzhou Mansion." ”

Maybe there were too many things to explain, Yuan Yinggang was at a loss for a while, and said: "This must mention the training camp......

Yang Junli had been groaning, and when he heard his words, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I see! Ha ha...... Wonderful...... Wonderful! ”

Yuan Yinggang stopped talking, and listened to what Yang Junli said.

"Leaving the new club is not occupied, there are two wonderful things!"

Yang Junli also whetted his appetite.

"What do you think of this newcomer?"

This question, everyone's eyebrows and noses are wrinkled together, so needless to say, it is so disgusting that I want to vomit out of the overnight meal!

"So, I guess the king wants to keep the new club, and the first trick is naturally to let the recruits get familiar with the battlefield, and at the same time see what kind of enemy they have to face."

Everyone understood this after a little thought, and nodded their heads one after another.

"The second is even more wonderful, the Heavenly King's instructions to us to advance westward said that our battle with the Tartar court is not only a battle of blood and fire, but also a battle of people's hearts. This new meeting is a ready-made ...... Teach Fan, well, teach Fan! All kinds of hypocrisy and all kinds of rebellion in the Tartar court can be clearly seen by Xinhui, so I guess that when the king of heaven received the urgent report from the ruler, most of them were still glad that the ruler failed to win Xinhui. ”

Yang Junli's words made Zheng Yong and Zhang Hanwan stunned, is this actually the case?

Yuan Yinggang cocked his thumb: "Yang joined the army very well, and he explained the Heavenly King's explanation thoroughly, and the original words of the Heavenly King were...... To make Xinhui a 'patriotic education base', I still don't know anything about it, but that's what happened. ”

He smiled and said: "Yashan is in Xinhui, and the king asked me to prepare the Yashan Memorial Hall before, but I didn't expect the people of Xinhui to repeat the story of more than 60 years ago." As soon as Zhang Tong's urgent letter arrived, the king of heaven paused for a moment, and then laughed, saying that one plus and one minus, the new meeting was all accounted for. Yashan is to mourn the loss of China and the loyalty of our Han people, and this Xinhui county, these Xinhui people, is a living example of the Mantar enslaving my Han people! ”

Yuan Yinggang said with a smile: "The previous warm-up and the next three scenes are just to peel off the faces of the Xinhui people, the king of heaven said, how to dry them, how to dry them, the more shameless they are, the better, just to let the recruits and the people in other places see their faces!" ”

At this time, everyone completely woke up, and it turned out that Li Shi turned this Xinhui into a battlefield for the battle of people's hearts, and from this point of view, he didn't want to take this Xinhui county at all, but trapped this Xinhui people as rare birds and beasts.

Zhang Hanwan's worries are military, but Li Xi has also arranged countermeasures, Xinhui Kaxi enters the main road, this is nothing, directly outside the county to repair the station, there are new barracks to force Xinhui, plus these people in order to survive, regardless of shame, how dare not go out of the city to attack and kill, they are not afraid of logistics disturbance at all.

can get rid of Xinhui, a sticky, smelly, disgusting and dead place, the people of Long Xiangjun are happy, but Yang Junli is still a little worried, Xinhui people are defending the city, driving women and children to block artillery, they will besiege but not attack, and take a detour, so what should other places do?

"Xinhui is so dazzling, the things in other places, the people of the world, should have no intention or eyes to see."

Peng Xianzhong, the senator of the Tianwang Mansion, came with the teaching camp, and the construction of the two "patriotic education bases" in Xinhui and Yashan required the mobilization of a large number of industrial and commercial forces, and it was necessary for a figure of his level to come out. Hearing the worries of Yang Junli and the others, he replied like this, although he didn't say it directly, but everyone in the Long Xiang Army was shocked.

"This should be the third trick, the King of Heaven is really not the King of Jin."

Yang Junli sighed with emotion, Li Tianwang knows people's hearts really penetrating the bone marrow!

Zhang Hanwan and Zheng Yong and others looked at each other silently, and they all knew it in their hearts, Peng Xianzhong said it euphemistically, and it was really difficult to say it publicly, Xinhui was a beacon, and the "benevolence" of the King of Heaven and the Yinghua Army was high. People in the world, both inside and outside, only see Li Xian in Xinhui to do his duty, and the good people have already chased Song Xianggong. The light of Xinhui is so dazzling, where can I care about looking elsewhere? They attacked the city and plundered the land, what should they do or what they should do, the slaughter of the city is naturally not done, but if there is a place like Xinhui, then naturally there is no need to be as scrupulous as Xinhui.

"I think there shouldn't be such a thing anywhere else, after all, such shameless people are a minority after all."

Yang Junli's prediction came true, on the seventh day of December, they left Xinhui and went all the way west, Xinning and Kaiping looked at the wind and fell, and in Enping, he Yang Junli also passed the addiction of entering the city alone, showing up the clothes of the old country and cleaning up the hearts of the people. In just four or five days, Long Xiang's army advanced to the Yangjiang line.

The Longxiang army advanced westward, and Xinhui was still under siege.

"As the saying goes, there is a way! Such people even push their wives and children in front, and they are still reading the books of sages, and their loyal court is such a good thing!? Birds and beasts know how to protect flesh and blood, and Tartars are really Tartars, phew! ”

To the north and west of Xinhui County is the newly built Yashan training camp, Meng Kui took his three or four thousand bandits from eastern Guangdong to stay, and saw the face of the Xinhui people, Meng Kui spat at it, and these habitual bandits who used to make a living by looting also laughed again and again, and felt that their image was also tall.

"We ordinary people know that it doesn't matter which court comes to collect money and grain, what do you say this Xinhui people are trying to do?"

"They will be loyal to the court to the north."

"Loyalty? Then it should be the generals and officials to work hard, and if there are more, the man Ding Zhuang should stand up, right? How can women and children be pushed out to block guns and exchange for food? Now let those scholars in the city say that they are reading, such a loyal method, it is really new. ”

"Why are they loyal, isn't it just to protect their own lives, everyone can eat them, and women and children are used as bargaining chips to save their lives, what is this?"

"Hey...... Not to mention dogs, wolves still have to protect their female cubs, these people are not even as good as wolves. ”

"I think they should be slaughtered as human meat buns!"

"We are human beings, how can we learn from them? But...... The king of heaven is really benevolent and righteous, and these people are not worthy of life! ”

To the south and east of Xinhui County are the erected industrial camps, where thousands of craftsmen gather not only to build military stations, but also to build "memorial halls". The women and children who were pushed out by the Xinhui people to exchange food were also arranged here to help sew and wash the rice and cook. The craftsmen not only learned about Xinhui from the "propaganda soldiers", but these women and children of Xinhui also made silent statements about their own experiences, so that these honest people also spit on the county every day.

A high wall gradually formed, the Xinhui county is completely separated, rammed earth for the inside, blue bricks for the table, the craftsman in the painter's guidance, the different colors of red bricks inlaid in the wall, make up a painting, also caused a lot of scholars to sigh, most of them are Li Xian in the territory of the new dynasty, unwilling to work for Li Xian, do not give up the family business, all learn from the former Ming relics, in the countryside seclusion.

I heard that the Xinhui people were loyal and martyred, and they actually blocked the momentum of the thief army, and many readers were excited, and they came here to cheer up the Xinhui people. Originally, listening to the sound of the scholar at the head of the city, I also felt that there was a lot of enthusiasm and generosity, but I learned the true nature of the matter from the women and children of Xinhui, and I saw this high-wall brick painting again, and I woke up one by one, and I felt that these Xinhui people were too shameless, and they also had doubts about the "loyalty" in their hearts.

"You should gather your best troops to go out of the city to fight, destroy its high walls, and drive its craftsmen!"

At the head of Xinhui City, Lei Xiang gritted his teeth and said to the dignitaries in the city.

The bandit army outside the city was "huge", not only increasing its troops, but also building high-walled forts, and there were already red-coated cannons placed on the repaired forts. The dignitaries in the city were frightened and gathered at the head of the city to discuss countermeasures. They didn't know that only two of the camps on all sides were soldiers, and they were new soldiers, and on the other two sides, there were only a few hundred patrolmen in charge of guarding, and the cannons on those forts were all old cannons drawn from Guangzhou and other places.

Lei Xiang's opinion is very simple, he no longer wants to be attached to the loyalty of the Xinhui people, but wants to push the Xinhui people to fight bloodily and practice what he thinks is loyalty.

"That's not going to happen...... I'm afraid the thief army is happy to see us go out of the city and fight! ”

"It's better to learn like before, let the people go out of the city and tear down the wall!"

"That's the wall, not Li Dingguo's grass and trees!"

"Let's discuss with the thief leader, we still have women and children in the city, and they will all be escorted out in exchange for them to stop building forts."

"What don't they want? I saw the women and children surnamed Suo go to the city, and declared that if they built another fort, we would kill our own women and children, isn't it righteous for the thief army? Let's see if they dare to bear this charge! ”

The others were arguing endlessly, and some even put forward opinions that were no different from the essence of cannibalism, and Lei Xiang's eyes were torn apart when he heard it, and for a moment, he hated to slash these people.

"Mr. Wei Qian! I command you to gather your troops and go to war! ”

He no longer wanted to quarrel with the people of Xinhui, and gave an order directly to Mr. Wei Qian, but Mr. Wei Qian shook his head silently, there were tens of thousands of thieves outside the city, and if he went out of the city to fight, he would die, and his goal was only to hold the county seat of Xinhui.

"I don't want to fight, and this county doesn't want to wait for you to commit the crime of the past again, this county has decided to surrender! The court said that the queen would ask for the guilt, and the county would bear it! ”

Lei Xiang couldn't help it anymore and said his plan, which was both public and private, not only because he didn't want Xinhui to ruin people's hearts, but also because he wanted to save his and his wife's lives, even if he couldn't keep it, he would never want to face the choice of whether to eat or not to eat people in the future. Watching the thief army repair the wall and erect artillery, it is obviously determined to encircle it for a long time, and if it does not fight and does not surrender, then the end will be...... Cannibalism.

After a while, Mr. Yu Xijue roared: "Lord Lei, our Xinhui people, for the sake of all loyalty, have come to this point, you let us descend!?" ”

His father Yu Mingfu straightened his waist, his eyes were no longer spent, and he said loudly: "Okay! Parents say to descend, let's drop! ”

Wei Qian was silent, he was not from Xinhui, and he also wanted to surrender, but his family was in the north, and he was afraid that the court would ask him for guilt, so he was embarrassed, so he simply resigned himself to fate.

The others shouted and scolded, they were loyal to the court, they gave up everything, and they didn't even do anything, how could they descend!?

Lei Xiang ignored them, and beckoned the county officials, personal soldiers and Ding Zhuang to open the city gate, Yu Xijue ordered to stop, and the city was suddenly in chaos.

"Those who dare to speak up are the enemies of the court! You must not be allowed to break the loyalty of my Xinhui people! ”

Yu Xijue roared and drew his knife, slashed it away, Lei Xiang was stabbed in the shoulder, and fell down with a scream, and the chaos turned into chaos.

"Son, where is your loyalty!? You're hurting my new people! ”

Yu Mingfu stopped Yu Xijue, who was trying to stab Lei Xiang again, and said with tears in his eyes and stomped his feet.

"Daddy! If you want to gang up with Lei Xiang again, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

Yu Xijue's eyes flashed with inhuman excitement.

"You...... You don't even listen to my dad and me!? ”

Yu Mingfu asked with a shudder.

"Listen to!? You are an old immortal, you have long been listed on the list of human flesh, and at that moment, I, Yu Xijue, will have to take you into the pot first! ”

Yu Xijue was so angry that he trembled all over, and shouted out the secret discussion hidden in his heart.

"Huh...... Good...... Well, I, Yu Mingfu, shouldn't have lived in that catastrophe! The people of Xinhui should have died more than 60 years ago, just like the people of Guangzhou! Now...... It's time to pay for this sin. ”

Yu Mingfu smiled bitterly, and slammed into his son, and in the miserable scream, the father and son fell off the city, poofed, and fell to the bones and flesh, and died at the same time.

At night, in the medical camp outside the city, Lei Xiang said to the military doctor who was wearing a fiery red uniform and was treating his wounds: "There is chaos in the city, why don't you take advantage of the chaos to attack the city?" ”

Bai said that the father and son of the Yu family died together, but they didn't touch the others, they just chattered and stuck to it, didn't listen to Lei Xiang's words at all, and even tried to put Lei Xiang under house arrest. He simply took his wife and family from the city wall and descended straight down, in his opinion, even if he was unfaithful, he was nobler than these shameless Xinhui. With him out of the city and surrendered, there were also Wei Qian and many Xinhui people, they didn't want to stay with those people anymore, it didn't matter if they were loyal or not, they couldn't be Xinhui people anymore anyway.

The military doctor cut off: "Why attack the city?" Let them be loyal to the court in the north. ”

Lei Xiangleng froze, and after a long time, he also laughed out loud, laughing sadly, he suddenly woke up to the fact that these thieves actually took the "loyalty" of the Xinhui people as a counterexample and raised them directly.

"The loyalty of this Xinhui people, the court in the north really can't afford it......"

He let out a long sigh, and then Peng Xianzhong, who was dressed in a red robe and had two hard wings swaying under the black gauze hat, appeared, Lei Xiang's eyes suddenly heated, and this official uniform reminded him of Yashan.

"Loyalty, how should it be for the blood of the ancestors, how should it also be for the root of humanity."

The original rock-solid loyalty in Lei Xiang's heart cracked a big crack.

(To be continued)