65. Spontaneous uprising (shuttle)

The beggar waved his hand casually to Sowin as a sign of goodbye. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Then he pointed to what was left over from his dinner and said, "If you are hungry, take the bread with you." After a while, he disappeared into the woods.

Sow Wen got up and walked in the direction that Lao Gao had pointed out. It's a fascinating moment, in the old saying of the farmers of Ha Huang Prefecture, called "early morning chirping", with cuckoos and sparrows chirping. Souwen followed the path from yesterday and walked out of the woods to the intersection where there was a stone cross. The notice was still there, white in the morning sun, as if it was cheerful. He remembered that there were a few lines below the notice that he didn't read, because the font was too small and the light was dim. He walked to the base of the cross, and sure enough, below the notice, at the bottom, there were two lines of small letters:

Former rebel leader Sowen is to be executed immediately if discovered.

Signed: Ling Polarization

Company Commander, Imperial Captain, Commander of the Expeditionary Force

"Polarization!" said Sowin.

He stopped, staring at the sign, deep in thought. "Polarization!" he repeated. He walked away, turned to look at the cross again, and then walked back and looked at the sign again. Then he walked away slowly. If anyone approached him, they would hear him whispering:

"Polarization!"

He walked up a deep recess, from which the roof of the manor to his left could not be seen. He walked down a small hill full of flowering wattle beans, a variety with long thorns. At the top of the hill is a pointed mound of earth that the locals call "Beast's Head". At the foot of the hill is a forest. The leaves seem to be soaked in light. The whole nature is filled with the deep joy of the early morning.

Suddenly, the sight became terrifying, as if an ambush had been struck. Savage shouts and gunfire struck the sun-drenched fields and woods like a tornado, and smoke rose from the manor, mingled with bright tongues of fire, and the manor and the town seemed to be a bundle of burning straw. It all came suddenly and eeriely. Tranquility turned into rage, and hell suddenly appeared in the morning, and terror came suddenly. There's a war going on on that side of the Kouhe. The Marquis stopped.

Whoever is in this situation will be like him, curiosity has overcome the sense of danger, and he has to figure out what is going on, even if it kills him. Sowyn ascended the side hill from a low path. There he will be seen, but he can see all around. A few minutes later, he came to the top of the hill and looked out.

There were indeed shootings and fires. He heard the shouts and saw the fire. The manor seemed to have become the epicenter of the disaster. What disaster? Happiness Manor was attacked? By whom? Was it a battle? Maybe even shot? According to a decree, the Qi army often set fire to the rebellious manors and villages as punishment. For example, manors and villages were set on fire if they did not cut down trees and open passages in the jungle for the Imperial cavalry. Not long ago, this was how the Zimeng manor near the mouth of the river was burned down. Clearly, the strategic passage provided for by that decree was not realized in the jungle and land of the Kouhe. Was this a punishment? Did the advance party occupying the manor receive an order? This team probably belonged to the expedition nicknamed "The Demon Team".

Sowin stood on the top of the hill and watched, the hill was surrounded by a wild jungle with huge branches, known as the Baiyun Mountain Enclosure, but it was as big as a forest, extending all the way to the manor, and like all the jungles of the Qi Kingdom, there were criss-crossing ravines, paths, and concave roads, which were a labyrinth that made the imperial army lost.

If it was an execution, it must have been brutal because it was short-lived. Brutality is always a quick fix. The brutal civil war also had this barbarism. Sowin was speculating, hesitating whether to go down or stay, listening and watching. At this point, the clamor of the shootings stopped, or rather dispersed. Sowin saw as if a violent and cheerful party was spreading out through the jungle. There was a dreaded commotion under the trees. People pounced from the manor to the woods, beating the drumbeat of the attack, but there were no more gunshots. It's a lot like a hunt: search, chase, capture, and obviously they're searching for a person. The voice appears scattered and deep. The voices were mixed, some angry, some proud, noisy and noisy. He couldn't hear anything clearly. Suddenly, as if a silhouette appeared in the smoke, something unmistakable appeared in the noise, a name, a name repeated by a thousand voices, and Sowin heard the cry clearly:

"Sowyn!

The one people are looking for is him.

Suddenly, spears, bayonets, and spurs appeared on all sides of him at once, and in the darkness there was a five-color flag, and in his ears was a cry of "Sowen", and some furious faces appeared among the thorns and branches at his feet.

Sowin stood alone at the top of the hill, visible from any corner of the woods. He couldn't see the people calling his name, but they could see him. If there are a thousand guns in the woods, then he is a target. All he saw was the furious eyes of the jungle staring at him.

He took off his hat, rolled up the brim, plucked a long, dry thorn from a vitex plant, took out a white knot from his pocket, rolled it up with the long thorn fixation, fastened the knot to the hat, and put it back on, leaving his forehead and knot exposed. He spoke loudly, as if the audience were the whole woods:

"I'm the one you're looking for. I am Sowen, a colonel of the rebel army, and a major general of the Hong Guojun. Do it. Aim! Shoot!"

He unleashed his goatskin tunic with both hands, exposing his chest. He looked down the hill, looking for the muzzle of the gun aimed at him, only to see the people around him bowing to him.

He heard loud shouts: "Long live the rebels, long live the generals, long live the people!"

At the same time, hats were thrown into the air, sabers were waved merrily, a stick was raised in the jungle, and a brown-fured floppy hat danced on the top.

According to legend, in the ancient Anxingling forest, there was a strange creature, a giant animal that resembled a man, the Hebrews regarded it as a terrible beast, and the Savinson regarded it as the embodiment of the gods, so it was sometimes destroyed, sometimes worshipped, and it was all by luck.

Sowyn's feelings at the moment were probably similar to those of this creature, who had intended to be treated as a demon, but was suddenly worshipped as a god.

The many glittering eyes stared at Sowyn, revealing a kind of brutal love.

They carried spears, sabers, scythes, pickaxes, and sticks, and all wore large felt hats or brown caps with white knots, as well as many rosaries and amulets. They wore wide shorts with open knees, fur jackets, leather shin guards, exposed knees, long hair, and some of them looked brutal, but all looked childish.

A well-rounded young man made his way through the crowd and strode towards Sowyn. Like the peasants, he wore a fed-up felt hat with white knots, and a fur tunic with white knots, but his hands were white, his shirt was of fine fabric, a white silk shoulder strap over his tunic was over, and a sword with a golden handle hung from the end.

He climbed to the top of the mountain, threw down his hat, untied his shoulder straps, knelt down on one leg, offered the shoulder straps and his sword to Sowyn, and said:

"Indeed, we have been looking for you. I've finally found you. This is the command sword, and these people belong to you now. I was their commander and am now promoted to be your soldier. Please accept my respects, my lord. Give the order, General. ”

Then he gave a signal, and out of the woods came a few men, who were holding a five-color flag, and walked up to Sowyn, throwing it at his feet. This was the flag that Sowyn had just seen faintly in the trees.

"General," said the young man who had presented his sword and shoulder strap, "this banner we have just taken from the Qi army. My lord, my name is Ah Guta, I used to be the person of the master of the Wanyan clan, Su Muge was not benevolent, and I led the people to betray him. ”

"Good. Sowin said.

So he calmly and solemnly put on the shoulder straps.

Then he drew his sword and swung it at his head.

"Stand up!" he cried, "Long live the people!"

People stood up.

Thus resounded in the depths of the woods a fervent cheer: "Long live the people! Long live Souwen! Long live freedom!"

Sowen turned around and asked Aguta:

"How many of you are there?"

"Three thousand. ”

As they descended the hill, the peasants cleared the way through the bushes of wattle beans, and Aguta continued:

"My lord, it's very simple, you can say it clearly in one sentence. We only had one Mars missing. The notice of the Kingdom of Qi indicates that you have come, and the people here have risen up for freedom. We also received a secret notice from the mayor that he was our man and that he had saved Father Yang Shanzhou. The alarm rang last night. ”

"For whom?"

"For you. ”

"Oh! Sowin said.

"So here we are. ”。

"There are only three thousand of you?"

"Today it's three thousand, tomorrow it's nine thousand. It's local efficiency. When Mr. Lin Juemin joined the rebel army, people sounded the alarm, and overnight, six districts: Dinghai, Jing'an, Xishan, Panlong, Qianyuan, and Xiaguan, let him take away 10,000 people. There were no munitions, so they went to the house of a mine boss and found 6 or 700 catties of explosives, which were taken away by Mr. Lin Jueminlan. We thought you were probably in the woods, so we came. ”

"You attacked the Qi army of Happy Farm?"

"Because of the headwinds, they didn't hear the alarm bells and didn't take precautions. They were warmly received by stupid villagers. This morning we surrounded the farm, the Qi army was sleeping, and we took them out at once. I've got a chariot here, will you accept it, General?"

"Okay. ”

A peasant drove a captured chariot, which, although destroyed in the battle, was still able to drive and carry people, and Sowin jumped onto the chariot.