Chapter 19 It's Not Easy
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"Bang, bang, bang......"
"Bang!bang!bang......"
Niulandong is located in a mountainside 100 meters away from the west of Xiangjia Village, up and down are dozens of zhang of cliffs, in the middle is artificially expanded out of a half-meter-wide path, along the trail to walk in the concave half-mountainside after advancing more than 40 meters, is a flat round hole. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info only needs to hold the hole with a few guns, and the attacker wants to score the hole in a short time, which is tantamount to a dream. And here, it is also the last barrier for the villagers of Xiangjia Village in addition to running into the mountains.
When Xiang Laosan slowly walked into the cowpen cave with twenty or thirty old men, and was about to build a position with stones, he suddenly heard the messy sound of rifles and muskets from the mountain, as well as the insults and screams of each other, and he could know with his ass that the young people who wanted to escape from the back mountain to the forest were intercepted by bandits.
Xiang Laosan, who had been worried, heard the gunshots, his heart was like being pressed by a stone, he sat on the ground with a buttocks, his face was pale, cold sweat broke out, and he pointed to the top of the mountain and scolded: "The bandits of the dog day actually want to kill my Xiangjia Village, Lao Tzu will never die with you." ā
Other old people also pointed to the slope of the mountain and cursed, but they could only curse: not to mention that the old people in the cave were poor and weak, but some of the old women were still wrapped around their little feet, which made people cry out helplessly.
"Okay, don't scold. After all, it was the village chief, and everyone shut up in unison: "The women loaded ammunition, collected food and went to the cave to get water. We men carried stones and built them at the entrance of the cave, ready to fight the bandits who killed them...... The bandits of the dog day blocked the way of the young people, and the young people had to come to the cowpen hole. ā
The last words made everyone like a lightning strike, their faces turned pale, and some women even began to cry: the reason why they voluntarily came to the cowpen cave was that they did not want to drag down their families, and at the same time help them buy time to escape. Now, instead of running out, the family is going to the cowpen cave together, isn't it a dead end? Who doesn't feel sad when they think of this?
"What's the point of wailing? Shut up Lao Tzu!" Xiang Lao San shouted angrily, and everyone looked at him in unison.
"To tell you the truth, I have asked Dayou to go to the town to invite the Red Army, and I believe that in a few hours, the Red Army will come to our rescue. ā
This gives everyone hope! There is hope, and the people's morale is high, not only their complexions are much better, but they also have the strength to work.
"But, third child, how much money do you have to move the rescue soldiers?" The elder with the highest rank in the village asked very authentically: In the past, it cost a lot of money to invite Kuomintang soldiers and horses to fight bandits, otherwise, whether the Kuomintang soldiers and horses can fight the bandits or not, even if they beat the bandits, it will also cause trouble to the village, so it is better not to invite.
"Second uncle, I didn't give you a penny. ā
As soon as these words fell, everyone suddenly began to talk again.
"What are you shouting about? I tell you, I believe that the Red Army will help us for free, because the leader of the Red Army swore a poisonous oath in front of me and many others, and if he did not come to help us, his whole family would not die. Besides, there were so many people watching at that time, if he didn't fulfill his oath, hmph! They outsiders don't want to gain a foothold in our Guitang Town. They know better than we do. "Thankfully, the oath of this era is still very reliable. Don't look at what the third child is saying now, but think about the scene when he forced Zhang Guozhi to swear, he felt a little guilty and a little lucky: fortunately, he was persecuting the Red Army official with a dead face at that time.
"The third child is right. The last time the Red Army came to our village, not only did they not ask us for a penny, but they also did not harm our family...... Not only did he help us with the work, but when he left, he also gave us rations. I have lived for so long and have never heard of such a caring team, and I believe that I will be able to speak. Okay, don't be stunned, what to do and what to do. ā
Everyone was busy with their own work, but they didn't notice that the gunshots from the mountains were already very sparse.
It didn't take long for Xiang Lao San to carry a big stone to the entrance of the cave, when he suddenly heard a person next to him shout: "Look, someone is coming over there...... Hey~!Isn't this the cousin of the dog family and his two sons?"
"Look, walking behind them is a ...... of Gui Fang's family"
Listening to everyone's discussions, he looked at the third child, and sure enough, they were all young people and children in the village.
Didn't I just say that the bandits surrounded the village, and they couldn't get out, so they had to come to the cowpen hole. Well, don't look at it, move the stones quickly, and prepare the muskets, lest the bandits rush after them and catch us off guard...... From the town to the Red Army, an hour was enough. Damn, I still don't believe it, there are so many of us, so many guns, there is no shortage of food and water, let alone an hour, even a month, Lao Tzu can defend it. ā
Morale boosted!
In everyone's imagination, it is natural to think that the bandits are not fools, since they can surround the whole village, then how can they let go of the panicked opportunity of the young man running over, and then take advantage of the situation to attack.
However, in the midst of everyone's fear, the young people and children of the whole village actually entered the cowpen cave safely, and even the three wounded people entered the cave smoothly. Not to mention the bandits, not even the shots were fired.
Without thinking too much, Xiang Lao San hurriedly asked the young man to help block the road with stones, and more than a dozen guns stretched out from the cracks between the stones, ready and waiting.
Waiting for all this to be done, Xiang Sancai breathed a long sigh of relief, sat on a stone, took out a cigarette pouch from his waist, filled the cigarette pot with cigarettes, lit it, and just took a puff, he saw the stone coming over with a gun, sitting on the stone beside him, rubbing the blood on his hand twice on the sand on the ground, taking out his own cigarette pouch, filling the cigarette, lighting it, and after taking a puff, he said: "The three of them are not seriously injured, and there is not much danger." But there are not many herbs, and if there are any more casualties, it will be troublesome. ā
Xiang nodded to the third child and did not speak.
Without saying a word, the two silently finished smoking a bag of cigarettes. After knocking the cigarette pot on the ground, Xiang Lao San asked lightly while putting the cigarette pot into the cigarette pouch to fill the cigarette: "Stone, don't you think it's strange?"
"Well, this time the bandits came to rob, not to mention that it was very different from the previous ones, it was a bit inexplicable. After stopping us from escaping into the mountains, although they chased and killed us all the way, they only chased us to the trailhead and stopped, and besides, they didn't even bother to shoot and scare us, so they didn't shoot us if we didn't run anywhere else, and they didn't even go into the house and loot. It gives me the feeling that this is not to rob, but only to gather us in one place so that they can occupy our village. ...... Don't they know that with this terrain, we can definitely defend the Red Army and rescue us......"
The stone was a little verbose, but when Xiang Lao San listened to it, he suddenly got up and shouted softly: "It's not good! ā
Seeing the stone's puzzled look, Xiang Lao San shook his head and sat down, patted his thigh, and smiled bitterly at the stone: "Alas~! Even if we figure it out, what can we do if we are trapped here?"