Zhangnan, Qinghe County. The flooding in the county finally receded in early winter, but it flooded Zhangnan. All the fertile land in the county cut off the last ray of hope of the people, the famine then swept the county, the population of the county plummeted by nearly half in an autumn and winter, and the Liujiatun where Dou Jiande was located was also sharply reduced from more than 100 households to more than 30 households, and the other families either starved to death or fled, but there was no way to live if they escaped, either they fell into the grass or died in another country, all hope was cut off, in the eyes of the peasants, the sky of the seven years of the great cause was darker than the bottom of the pot.

Dou Jiande did not escape, on the one hand, he still had a little surplus food, and he could survive this most difficult time by boiling porridge, on the other hand, he was a person who was extremely attached to his homeland, and he would never leave his hometown until he was forced to do so.

From mid-March, news came from all over the country that the government had begun a large-scale conscription, and all those who were brave and powerful in all townships were to join the army in Liaodong to participate in the Goryeo Campaign.

This news stirred up thousands of waves in the counties of Qinghe County, if it was to join the army to defend the capital, in order to eat military rations, everyone would enthusiastically sign up, but to Liaodong, everyone understands, it is to send death.

The wave of fugitives swept through Zhangnan again. In the county, everyone who knows a little martial arts has fled from home, and even Dou Jiande's best friend Liu Heimin also left his wife and children and left.

Dou Jiande didn't dare to go at will, he had a wife and children, his escape would affect his family, and he was thirty-eight years old, he was the one who was his grandfather, how could the government still arrest him? Moreover, there are so many rumors these days, who knows if they are true or not.

It wasn't until the morning of 17 March that the county lieutenant personally brought dozens of officers to his home, registered him for service on the spot, and took him away directly, that he realized that he had thought things too simply, and that each county had a quota for recruiting troops, and then split it into the county, Zhangnan. The quota of the county is 3,000 people, and if you want to recruit 3,000 brave and good fighters, how can Dou Jiande escape.

Although he was recruited as a soldier, Dou Jiande decided to accept his fate, he was very cooperative with the government, and he had served as a lieutenant chief, and his prestige in the township was very high, and he was soon appointed as the commander of 200 people, trained in the county seat, and prepared to rush to Liaodong in early April.

Dou Jiande's training place is in a small school field covering an area of seven or eight acres next to the south gate of the county, which was originally a place for training county soldiers, and now it has become a training place for nearly 500 brave young men to train bows and arrows and spear skills every day, and is commanded by a captain from the county.

If it weren't for the fact that he was going to Liaodong, in fact, such a day would not be bad, in addition to training every day, he would sleep, and he would have two meals a day to eat enough official food, Dou Jiande was two hundred people long, and he could get a little more rice, and he would bring it to his wife, and even he himself felt that such a day was good, and if he was lucky, he might be able to escape back from the Eastern Expedition to Goryeo

Early this morning, there was a shocking news in the county, the county order was killed when he went to levy Xiaoyong, and the news quickly spread throughout the county, and even Dou Jiande and they had heard about it.

However, at this time, there are still three days before the day of departure, and it has nothing to do with them whether the county order is dead or alive, Dou Jiande is also the same as usual, leading his subordinates to train bows and arrows on the school field, in fact, everyone is a practitioner, who can't shoot arrows and dance knives? These so-called trainings are just to deal with the captain, and to have a full meal, Dou Jiande himself is a person with extremely strong martial arts, skilled in bows and horses, since he is a captain of two hundred people, he also has to set an example.

"This morning, each person shoots 100 arrows, and in the afternoon, I will arrange spear practice, and I will train in the last few days, everyone should work hard!"

Dou Jiande shouted loudly, he also picked up an eight-bucket step bow, opened the bow and set the arrow, slightly off an elevation angle, the string was loosened, and the powerful arrow came out of the string, crossed an arc, hit the bull's-eye, and attracted a round of applause.

Dou Jiande was a little proud, and laughed, at this time, a soldier shouted at the door: "Dou Baichang, someone is looking for you at the door!" ”

Dou Jiande commanded a few words, turned around and walked quickly towards the gate, and walked out of the gate of the school field, it was his wife who sent a letter, it was he from his own village, and he knew it.

"Shiro, what's the matter?"

"Big brother, sister-in-law asked you to go back, saying that there is something urgent."

Dou Jiande was a little worried now, so he went back to ask the captain for a leave, because Dou Jiande behaved very well and had no intention of escaping, the captain agreed, stipulating that he must return to the camp before dawn tomorrow.

Dou Jiande's home is about ten miles away from the county seat, he was worried, trotted all the way home, and asked loudly as soon as he entered the house: "Lady, what's wrong?" ”

"Da Lang, you're finally back!"

His wife greeted him and said nervously, "Sun Er is here." ”

She whispered in her husband's ear, "He's covered in blood, as if he had committed a murder." ”

The second Sun that his wife said was his friend Sun Anzu, who was two years younger than him, and he studied art with him since he was a child, and he was a brother.

Dou Jiande was taken aback, "Where are the others?" ”

"Big brother, I'm here!"

I saw Sun Anzu walk out of the back room, half of his clothes were bloody, Sun Anzu was burly, his face was slender and long, and he had a 'Sun Donkey, nickname, he was a famous chivalrous and righteous person in the county, he had entered Beijing to participate in martial arts in the fourth year of Renshou, and after the failure, he returned to his hometown to open a martial arts gym, recruited hundreds of disciples to practice martial arts, and was also a well-known figure in the county.

Dou Jiande saw Sun Anzu's nervous expression, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"I put... The prefectural order is killed! ”

Dou Jiande was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled him into the house and asked, "How could this happen, what is going on?" ”

"In the morning, the county commander brought a group of officials to my house and ordered me to gather my disciples to serve in the military, I said that my wife died of illness and starvation last year, and the government didn't care, but now I want to recruit disciples for military service, I don't do it, the county commander whipped me with a whip, I was angry, so I pulled out his knife and killed him, it is estimated that the county will arrest me immediately, I want to ask you to borrow some money."

Dou Jiande was also anxious, and turned back to his wife and said, "You go to the small cellar under the firewood house and take out the bag of wheat." ”

His wife froze for a moment, and reluctantly turned away, the sack of wheat she had intended for her daughter.

"Sister-in-law, no need!"

Sun Anzu saw the embarrassment on Dou Jiande's wife's face, turned around and left, Dou Jiande sighed, grabbed him, he tore off a small cloth bag from the placket of his underwear, and stuffed it to Sun Anzu, "There are a total of fifteen silver beans in here, which is my last bit of family property, and I will go to Liaodong to fight in three days and I can't take care of you, so you can escape by yourself!" ”

Sun Anzu was grateful in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "I have already found someone to inform my disciples, let them all go to Gaojibo to gather in Jiande, the court is not benevolent, you can go with me!" ”

Dou Jiande's son Tianshun sent rice to Liaodong last year, and never came back, life and death are unknown, his daughter-in-law died in childbirth in winter, and only his wife and married daughter were left at home, so he couldn't bear to leave them, so he shook his head, "I have a wife and daughter, if I go with you, they won't survive, you go!" If one day, I can't live anymore, I'll go to you. ”

Sun Anzu bowed his hand to him, "Jiande, we will have a meeting later!" ”

He didn't go through the gate either, he jumped over the courtyard wall and left, and soon disappeared without a trace, Dou Jiande stood for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh.

When he turned around, he saw his wife carrying a bag of wheat out, and he couldn't help but be stunned, "What are you doing here?" ”

The wife said with an unhappy face: "Send it to your daughter, there is only this bag of wheat at home, you still send this and that all day long, even if I starve to death, I don't want my daughter and grandson to starve to death." ”

Dou Jiande sighed helplessly, he was also in a mood just now, forgetting that there was only this bag of wheat at home, so he had to nod and say, "Okay!" If I'm not there, you'll stay at my daughter's house, and I'll leave tomorrow morning at four o'clock, and you'll come back after delivering the wheat and we'll drink the last bottle of wine, which is a farewell. ”

The wife wiped a handful of tears, turned around and left, Dou Jiande went back to the house to pack up his things, his family was a very solid middle family, with more than 100 acres of land, the family has grain storage, two cows, and family wealth, but natural disasters and **, so that he has been completely bankrupt, last month the emperor crossed the border to offer food, the government also took away his last cow, he has gone bankrupt, only a few dilapidated houses that were washed away by the flood.

Dou Jiande sat on the windowsill in a daze, he didn't know what to do with the rest of his life? Before he knew it, it was already afternoon, and after calculating that his wife should come back, he sighed, took out the last bottle of wine from the box, and prepared to part with his wife.

But at this moment, he faintly heard his wife's shout: "Da Lang, run!" ”

The sound was about dozens of steps away, Dou Jiande was taken aback, he rushed to the roof, only to see his wife desperately running towards the house, chasing a large group of soldiers and servants, this is the person who came to arrest Sun Anzu, someone reported to the government, Sun Anzu fled to Dou Jiande's house, and the soldiers and officials immediately came to arrest him.

His wife fell to the ground, and several soldiers rushed up and slashed indiscriminately, hacking Dou Jiande's wife to death on the spot.

Dou Jiande's eyes were red, he looked up to the sky and roared, turned around and jumped off the house, and ran towards the small river hundreds of steps behind, and he plunged into the river.

In the night, Dou Jiande returned to the school field, he took out a knife from under the bed, strode towards the house where the captain lived, and happened to meet the captain at the door, "Dou Jiande, come back quite early!" ”

Dou Jiande didn't say a word, he was faced with a knife, and the long knife stabbed into the captain's chest, and the captain screamed and fell to the ground and died.

Hearing the screams, the brave people in the barracks rushed out, Dou Jiande cut off the head of the captain with a knife, and said loudly to everyone: "In the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, the Great Sui was rich and strong, and the first emperor sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Goryeo, but it failed, and now the floods are flooded, the hungry people are all over the wilderness, and the eyes are full of devastation, but the emperor does not know how to sympathize with the people, and still wants to send troops to conquer Goryeo, the world will be in chaos, the big husband was born in troubled times, even if he dies, he will do a lot of things, how can he go to Goryeo to fill the ravine, brothers, I Dou Jiande decided to go to Gaoshida, and I am willing to go with me, If you don't want to go with me, you can go to the government and report it, saying that I killed the lieutenant, so as not to be implicated, brothers, if you are willing to rebel, come with me! Go and smash open the granary, grab the rice and rebel! ”

Suddenly, someone raised his arms and shouted, "Instead of dying in Goryeo, it is better to do the opposite, there is still a way to live."

"It's the other way around!"

Hundreds of people shouted together, rushing to the county grain depot, countless hungry people followed them, Dou Jiande led his men to smash open the grain depot, open the warehouse to release grain, Dou Jiande led hundreds of brave men to Gaojibo to go to Gao Shida, opened the prelude to his rebellion.

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