Chapter 113: Tragedy, Righteous Indignation

He Xian is back, bringing bad news. There were thirty Jiannu guarding the small village, He Xian arrived with a scout team and an infantry team, and a platoon of guns killed more than half, and after paying the price of three scouts being wounded, he blocked the remaining Jiannu in one room. Under the cover of the village buildings, the Dengzhou regimental training camp ushered in casualties in the real sense. An infantry soldier was shot in the face and choked instantly. Although the Jiannu who shot the arrow was sifted into a sieve by a rifle, it was not possible to save the soldier's life.

In order to avoid new casualties, and not wanting to set fire to the house and its belongings, He Xian decided to come back and call a cannon to assist. Chen Xie checked the three wounded soldiers, all of whom were wounded by bows and arrows, but fortunately they were not shot, two injured their hands and one was injured in their feet. The accompanying medical staff had already done a simple bandage and sent them to the back for treatment of Hongguo.

Chen Xie decided to go and see for himself, and when he arrived in the village, he found not only bad news, but also more than 100 carts of food and property, as well as more than 100 heads of livestock. It's a pity that there are fewer war horses, only a dozen.

The soldiers who died in the battle were very young, they looked only ten ** years old, and the arrows in their eyebrows were not cured.

Two cannons were pushed up, against the courtyard wall, just two hundred meters away. Chen Xie was also unwilling to let his subordinates increase unnecessary casualties, his soldiers were not cannon fodder, and everyone spent a lot of money to train.

The only large house in the village, the courtyard wall is a brick and stone structure, which is a foot high. When the artillery was loading, Chen Xie asked very curiously: "Why didn't you see any living people in the village?" ”

At this time, Wang Qinian also came, and the little Liaodongwa also brought it, with a bald head, a leather hat, a wide cotton coat, and an armed belt around her waist.

"Slave Cui Gouzi, I've seen the master." Xiao Liaodongwa came over and knelt down skillfully to speak, and Chen Xie looked at Wang Qinian unhappily. This thing was trembling when he saw it, and quickly dragged Cui Gouzi up and said, "Get up, there is no kneeling in the barracks." You must have a master in your heart, you don't have to kneel and pretend, just work hard. ”

For a while, Chen Xie also plans to change the people of this era, so he just closes his eyes to these things.

"The name of the dog is too ugly, and it will be called Cui Xin in the future." I was going to give this kid a newer name, but after thinking about it carefully, it was in the Ming Dynasty, and it was too cruel to urge the change. So the word is gone.

"Thank you for the name!" The young man is very clever, and at first glance he is the kind of person who grew up looking at people's faces and eating. Because of this, Chen Xie looked at him quite pleasing to the eye, and even a little cordial.

"Tell me, where have all the people in this village gone?" Chen Xie thought of this and asked, Cui Xin heard a panic on his face, and hesitated again and again before saying: "The young men have all been taken away as porters, dozens of young women are locked up in this courtyard, and the others are in the forest behind the village, and there is a small river." Originally, the child was also going to be taken away, but he didn't take it when he said he was going to be in a hurry. ”

Chen Xie's heart was sour, he had read a lot of books in the Ming Dynasty, and he knew what was going on in the forest.

"Wang Qinian, send someone to call Hongguo and the others, remember to come a few four-wheeled carriages with the wounded. Again, send a team of people to the river and settle in the ground. Chen Xie explained after some while, only to see that the soldiers' eyes were red. Even Wang Qinian, this will show his eyes that he wants to eat people.

"Your Excellency, reloaded!" Weng Zhengqing came over to report, and Chen Xie looked at the big yard that covered an area of three or four acres, and waved his hand. The cannon rang out, and the courtyard wall collapsed lightly. Scouts wearing stab-proof suits with shields and shields rushed in, and the sound of tinkling sounds, and the arrows were useless against this kind of police equipment from modern society. Instead, it exposed Jiannu's hiding place.

A volley of guns passed, and three or five screams were heard. The next battle went very smoothly, and Jiannu, who only had a bow and arrow, had no chance to show his personal bravery. At the last moment, three Jiannu rushed out of a room with large knives in hand, and were beaten into a pile of rotten meat by a volley of dozens of flint guns. Although it was wasteful, Chen Xie did not criticize the soldiers who did so.

After this battle, these soldiers insisted on moving forward while vomiting, stepping on the blood and internal organs on the ground, ending the lives of those injured Jiannu with bayonets and cutting off Jiannu's head. In fact, no matter who you are, you can be regarded as a qualified veteran after such a walk. When he saw the blood, his hands did not tremble, and he could calmly stab him with a bayonet. It's very simple to say, in fact, let alone killing, even if it is the scene of a dead person, people who have not smelled much blood can hardly bear the strong smell that makes people tumble in their stomachs. (When I was young, I followed to a murder scene for an interview, but I didn't enter the door, and I was washed by the smell of blood and vomited for a long time.) ）

As soon as the battle was over, in a large room in the main house, the young women appeared. After a young soldier kicked open the door, he saw clearly that a group of women inside were disheveled, and even a few were naked, and quickly withdrew, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." ”

Hongguo and the others came in time, Chen Xie briefly explained a few words, and after Hongguo and the others went in, Hongguo came out in half an hour. Seeing Chen Xie waiting outside, the strong Hongguo hugged Chen Xie's arm and wept silently, and after a while, he wiped away his tears and said, "Master, please ask people to find a few coffins." ”

Chen Xie turned his back and was silent for a long time, and only after calming down his mood did he let people do it. It's hard to find a coffin now, but it's hard to keep the sappers. Some of the door panels were dismantled, and several thin-skinned coffins were made out of nails. A total of forty-four young women were found in the large courtyard, the eldest in his twenties, and the youngest only thirteen or fourteen years old. Eight of them hung themselves from a beam with a cloth strap, three died naked in bed, one had an artery in his neck severed, one had a knife stuck in his chest, and the last had ended his life with scissors, which seemed to be only thirteen or fourteen years old.

He Xian, who went to the river, sent people back to report that there were 285 corpses by the river, all of them old people and children. The water of the river was dyed red, and many of the brothers had red eyes. There was no coffin, so they had to dig a pit on the spot and bury it.

Chen Xie, who was standing in the courtyard with a gloomy face, no one dared to step forward at this time. Only Hongguo came up and persuaded in a low voice: "Master, everyone is dead, why should you blame yourself?" ”

Chen Xie agrees with the word self-blame. The reason is very simple, he can obviously do better, or he can rush to Tongzhou earlier. But he didn't make this choice, it can be said that the people in this village, if Chen Xie had come earlier, would not have died so much.

Chen Xie decided to set up camp in this village, which has more than 100 households, and the people in the village either ran away or were arrested. There is no disturbance to the people if you live in it, and there will be no one to live in this Zhuangzi next year. After the order was given, the brigade continued to be stationed, and in an open space in Zhuangzi, all the soldiers lined up here, except for the scout squad sent to receive the baggage team.

Standing on the carriage, Chen Xie made a shortened speech to his subordinates: "Brothers, everyone knows about being born in this Zhuangzi. The reason for this qiē consequence, I think everyone has their own answer in their hearts. Here, I don't want to talk about the great righteousness of the nation, nor do I want to talk about loyalty and patriotism. I just want to tell you that the birth of a qiē today is enough to prove that the enemy we are facing is a group of inhumane beasts.

If you brothers trust someone Chen, I am willing to take my brothers together to fight these beasts. If nothing else, we will fight for ourselves and our fellow relatives first, and not to repeat the pain that is born here. The second is to fight for the thousands of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. No matter how difficult the journey ahead, I will fight to the end. Even if the last drop of blood is shed, I vow to kill all this kind of beasts! Never die! ”

"Swear to kill all the beasts and slaves, and never die!" The dog-legged Wang Qinian raised his arms excitedly and shouted, and everyone raised their fists together and shouted hoarsely.

That night, Chen Xie lived in the study in this large courtyard. There are a lot of books in the study, and I asked the surviving maid to know that the master here is surnamed Gao, and he has a reputation for raising people, and when Jiannu came to attack, he had fled into Tongzhou with his family. A number of maids and subordinates didn't bring them. After knowing this situation, Chen Xie had no psychological pressure at all about occupying the house.

Chen Xie chose to stay alone in the study, and no one knocked on the door. Hongguo was delicate, knowing that this old man with a heart as kind as a bodhisattva felt uncomfortable, so he sent dinner into the study and saw Chen Xie staring at the map on the wall.

When he put down the plate, Hongguo glanced at the map, and the "Baoding" on it was surrounded by a large black circle, and at a glance, he knew that it was drawn by Chen Xie. Then I saw Tongzhou surrounded by a red circle, and at this time Chen Xie turned around, and there was nothing but anger in his eyes.

Hongguo was taken aback, Chen Xie pointed to the map and said, "You can also see clearly, where is Baoding, and where is Tongzhou?" The dignified governor of Baoding, the imperial history, and the general army, with nearly 10,000 troops under his command, were ordered to run from Baoding in the southwest of Beijing to Tongzhou in the southeast. It's strange that the Ming Dynasty can keep the world by relying on these bastards. ”

Hongguo said indifferently: "The master is different from other masters, you take us people who have grown up in bitter water as a person, in the eyes of other masters, we people are not alone." It is right to kowtow to them and kneel as cattle and horses. ”

Hongguo's words deeply touched Chen Xie's nerves! In two years, Chen Xie has a deeper understanding of the "elites" of this era. They are the basis of the rule of the Ming Dynasty! No matter who becomes the emperor, they can't do without the help of these people, and they must be relied on to govern the world.

Although Chen Xie was eager to kill all these people, the reality told Chen Xie that this idea was out of place.

What should be the next road to the Ming Dynasty? This is a problem that Chen Xie has to face.

Of course, before this issue is thought through, there is another very important thing to do, and that is to enforce military law. There are not a few soldiers and officers who have made mistakes on the battlefield, all of them have been remembered by their respective officers, and this time of course they must be cleaned up, only rewards and no punishments will not work. In the open space in the village, the bench was horizontal, and more than a dozen second-class goods were taken off their pants, revealing a piece of white flowers.

The beating is still a trivial matter, and the shame is that there are female soldiers watching, covering their mouths and laughing, and all the soldiers who were beaten, and even some non-commissioned officers, did not fail to remember this mistake. rs

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