Regarding the departure of his relatives, Wang Fubao has long become numb. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Even if he is by his side, many of his companions are starving to death. There were fewer and fewer people in the village, and often one night later, the next day someone in the family lay dead in bed. They are all hungry, and they all think that they can save food by sleeping. But who would have thought that many people would be lost like this. Perhaps, when they die in their sleep, they will be able to eat a full meal, right?

The Wang family's land has long been sold. More than 20 acres of good fertile land can only be sold for less than three taels of silver. The person who bought the land said that it was for the sake of Wang Fubao's father and son that they were really pitiful, so they gave an extra high price. If you go further north, the land there is even cheaper, and you can buy hundreds of acres for five taels of silver.

Wang Fubao and his father came all the way to the south with short-term jobs. It is said that the south side can be fed, and in fact it is also true. There is Rongdi in the north, which is something that everyone knows. There is only a living road in the south. I heard that the source of grain transportation in the imperial court was in the south. By calculation, that side must be much stronger than this side.

Great calamities, often accompanied by plagues.

Wang Fubao's father began to cough up blood. I don't know exactly when I contracted the disease. There was no Langzhong, and there were no medicinal materials, so they could only go south next to each other. When he got up one morning, Wang Fubao found that his father did not get up, so he shouted twice and pushed it, only to find that his father's body was stiff, and he didn't know when he died in the middle of the night.

It's okay to be dead. At least, he didn't have to starve.

Wang Fubao cried so much that in the end, he could only dig a shallow pit and bury the body in it. He didn't even dare to put more effort into it. If the pit is dug deep, you may be dizzy and fall into it and never get out again. I don't have food in my stomach, I really don't have the strength!

Walking on two feet, too slow.

Along the way, everything that could be eaten was eaten. Grass roots and tree bark are familiar foods. Of course. They are not crops that grow out of the ground, but they can eat and hunger. When passing through Sui County, Wang Fubao saw a family of five digging Guanyin soil in the field. When Daddy was alive, he repeatedly warned that it should never be eaten. Even if you are so hungry that you can't stand it, at most you can eat two bites to deceive your stomach. That family should understand that. But when they saw what they were eating, who could bear it? As a result, the whole family had a large snack of all sizes. At night, five people clutched their stomachs and cried out in pain, from night to day. When the sun came out, it swelled to death.

In the past, Wang Fubao had only heard that he couldn't pull and was very uncomfortable. This time, he really saw it. The man who ate Guanyin soil squatted on the ground with all his strength, and more than an hour passed, and the **** was bleeding. The intestines are a little protruding, but nothing can be pulled out. In the season of famine, women do not shy away from anything. Everyone was a victim of the disaster, and the woman squatted down in front of Wang Fubao to relieve herself. It was not so much a matter of convenience as it was of torture. The woman couldn't stand the pain, so she picked up a wooden stick from the ground and stuffed it into her mouth and bit it. I don't know where the half-starved people get so much strength, and the dry and hard branches were bitten alive by her into slag. The woman couldn't even stand up, she didn't have the strength to put on her pants, and there was nothing but a small pool of blood-soaked dirt on the ground. Nothing was left.

It's messy, a lot of people are messed up. A lot of things are messed up too.

On the way, Wang Fubao saw someone eating people.

It was indeed human flesh boiling in that pot. The appearance of the slap, Wang Fubao can still judge clearly. Very thin, very dry, the surface of the boiling water in the pot has a layer of foam, white and greasy. It's disgusting to watch. However, the smell of cooked meat in the nose is mouth-watering. More than a dozen men gathered around the pot to eat meat, Wang Fubao couldn't help but walk over, and when he found that something was wrong, it was too late to escape. Fortunately, the group of men did not kill anyone. Just ask him if he's hungry or not, if he eats meat?

Why not eat it?

I'm so hungry that I'm dying, no matter what kind of meat he is, I'll eat it first.

Wang Fubao finally ate a full meal, and he was so happy that he burst into tears. In my memory, this was the first time in my life that I was late to eat meat. Although disgusting, although there is a kind of instinctive resistance when holding the dishes and chopsticks. But Wang Fubao still couldn't resist the physical temptation and ate the cooked meat that the men gave him.

There is such a thing as cannibalism, there is a first time, and there is a second and third time.

These people are a bunch of thieves. In the beginning, everyone was a common man. It's just that I can't stand the hunger, and there are corpses everywhere on the roadside, so I think that this person eats whole grains, which should be treated as food. So I tried to cut off the legs and feet of the corpse and boiled it, but I didn't expect it to taste good.

Eating human flesh every day is not a long-term plan after all.

Wang Fubao found that the eyes of this group of people were glowing green, even when they looked at themselves. It's like a wolf in the mountains, a hungry dog in the wilderness.

Even if you have eaten human flesh, you still want to eat food like normal people.

The man at the head aimed at the big families in the vicinity. He spoke very directly and with great appeal: "As long as you rush in, you can eat enough." ”

It is said to be rushing, but in fact it is fighting. Rich families have walls, and I heard that it was a showman. Strictly speaking, it is not a big family, at most it can only be regarded as a rich family. But no matter what, after all, his family has food and can live.

When you're so hungry that you can't even eat human flesh, no one will take your life seriously. The man led by lurked nearby and watched the terrain for two days, made some weapons such as sticks and firewood knives, and then took Wang Fubao and them to do it.

Speaking of which, it's also this talented family who has no vision. In the past, in peacetime, Xiucai always felt that the farmers in the village were vulgar and the big ones were tyrannical, and being with a scholar like himself was simply self-deprecating. Xiucai's idea was very good, so he built the family house outside the village. It's very close to the fields, the surroundings are clean, and it's really convenient to read and write, but no one thought that a year of catastrophe often means chaos.

Xiucai also has a man in his family. In the face of these hungry ghosts and strongmen who are like wolves and tigers, of course they must resist. Wang Fubao smashed the door open with a stick, and a man rushed in, but his head was cut off by the man guarding the door inside. At this time, Wang Fubao noticed that Xiucai's family was not as simple as it seemed, and there were several fierce and vicious characters with knives and guns in their hands.

The people of the Northland will bring their own simple weapons. Except for bows and arrows, which are strictly forbidden by the government. There are knives, guns and sticks in every house. After some chaos, Chong is rushed in, and six people on Wang Fubao's side fell to the ground, and several people were hung with colors. However, Xiucai's head was still cut off, and the men in the house were also killed. I don't know which bastard is in a hurry. actually came up to the throat of the talented lady. As a result, the delicate woman was cut into a blur of flesh and blood, and she was angry on the spot.

The man at the head scolded severely. It's just a pity, it's a pity, or the most important thing is to fill your stomach. There were several pockets of grain found from Xiucai's house, as well as pickled vegetables and dried meat. Wang Fubao slowly divided a sack and a few pieces of salty salt. A group of people happily went out with food, and as soon as they walked out, they were surrounded by people from the village who got the news. OK. Wang Fubao knows a lot about dealing with this situation, and his legs and feet are better than others. He threw away the food bag early and ran into the distance, leaving the big man who was reluctant to give up food, and was caught up by the pursuers behind, and was stabbed into a sieve by a spear on the spot.

For several days, Wang Fubao spent time in fear.

Indeed, this day is not a man's life.

Perhaps, only by going south can there be a way to live?

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Lizhou. Camp Wasion.

Lu Mingtao is a battalion officer with outstanding ability in the Lizhou army. Especially in this Wasion Battalion, there are a total of eighty-six battalion officers. Lu Mingtao can rank first in both bow and horse weapons and military strategy.

According to the establishment of the military department of the state of Chu, the Lizhou army is 120,000 when it is full. It was only later that the situation in the northwest frontier became urgent, and the Lizhou side was already asking for an army expansion, which gradually increased the number of troops. It has become a behemoth of as many as 300,000 now. But no matter what, the Weisheng Battalion, which has more than 10,000 people, actually has 86 chief and deputy battalion officers, which is very incredible. In fact, this kind of thing is not difficult to understand. can sit in the position of battalion officer, regardless of the principal and deputy. More or less have some identity background. Just like in another world institution, there will always be a few idiots who just eat and don't work, and will only sit at their desks to read newspapers and drink tea after work every day.

The Wasion Battalion is a secular army, and the system and military regulations must of course be secular. Lu Mingtao's ancestor was a general in Lizhou, although in his father's generation, he did not embark on the path of martial arts, but wanted to learn from the literati to gain fame. As a result, Wen couldn't succeed, and in the end he could only end up depressed and die early. Lu Mingtao was raised by his grandfather since he was a child, and the temper and personality of the old general had a great influence on Lu Mingtao. This grandson is also angry, and the old general will learn what he has taught. Relieved, the old staff general was willing to put down his body, and used the last few points of his family in the army to fight for the position of deputy battalion officer in the Weisheng battalion.

Needless to say, the meaning of the word "Wasion" is self-evident. However, in this kind of place, Lu Mingtao did not see any of the results he wanted. All Lizhou armies were controlled by the Changhu Hou Cui family. If you want to climb up, if you want to get ahead, you can't do it without money in your hand. At this time, everyone wanted to have a relationship with the Cui family, and the money was used like water. The Cui family is also a high threshold, just the door guarded outside, it is said that the door bag can not be less than two taels of silver every time. Changhuhou is a big family or a nobleman of the imperial court, and the rules are naturally much more than ordinary people. After entering the gate, there are two gates, and then the inner hall. This means that just to enter the Cui family, there must be three people guarding the inside and outside. The door bag of the second door is thicker, if the news arrives inside, in the inner hall, it will be given again. After calculating before and after, the cost will not be less than twenty taels.

The descendants of the Cui family are still so bold and reckless, and it is conceivable that Changhu Hou Cui Yangguang himself. Ever since Lu Mingtao entered the Weisheng camp, he has been disgusted by the atmosphere here. From top to bottom, Camp Wasion doesn't feel like a barracks at all, more like a chaotic market. No one, whether a soldier or officer, had ever thought of training the army and repairing weapons, and everyone was thinking about how to make money and how to get more silver.

Lu Mingtao was terrified. Such a Lizhou army is simply vulnerable. Fortunately, for decades, the target and scope of Rong Di's attacks were only limited to the north of the Great Wall, that is, the range of Youzhou and Qizhou. If Rong Di suddenly changed the direction of the attack and took Lizhou as the focus, then it would not be possible to hold it at all. The 300,000 Lizhou army was either defeated at the touch of a button, or simply fled.

This kind of thing is definitely not a fantasy or speculation. The news of the fall of Tieyang City in the north has come, and the surrender of the army led by He Tianyang, the general of the town guard in the city, has spread throughout the Great Chu court. He Tianyang has a close relationship with Changhu Hou Cui Yangguang. I have also been to Lizhou a few times. When Changhu was waiting for the banquet, Lu Mingtao had seen He Tianyang a few times. Although this person is a bit of a philistine, he still has a bit of the courage of a military general, whether he is in knowledge or conversation, he is far more than the Lizhou generals. What's more, He Tianyang still has hundreds of families under his subordinates. His family over there. It's not this kind of fat head in the Lizhou army, and he has long forgotten how to fight.

Lu Mingtao was really scared. Even He Tianyang of Tieyang City chose to surrender in front of Rong Di, so if the same thing happened to the Lizhou side, how should it be handled? The 300,000 Lizhou army is actually a huge piece of tofu. At the slightest touch, the edifice will collapse and fall apart.

Lu Mingtao had heard of Yang Tianhong's name. That was when he was a brave waiter. In the first battle of southern Xinjiang, 100,000 were killed. Such a super victory, of course, the imperial court has to announce it to the world. When Lu Mingtao first heard the news, he instinctively didn't believe it. Not because of anything else. I just think there may be too much water mixed in it. What is the concept of a hundred thousand? That means that the severed head can be piled up into a mountain. Lu Mingtao had never been to southern Xinjiang, but he had heard many rumors about the Yue barbarians in southern Xinjiang from the mouths of businessmen who traveled from south to north. Those cannibals are truly ferocious, and I don't know how Yi Yonghou won that battle. In short, rumors are rumors, and even the edicts of the imperial court are hard to believe.

Of course, a deputy battalion officer was not qualified to greet Yang Tianhong when he came to Lizhou. Lu Mingtao didn't see the scene that happened in the Jiedu Embassy. He just knows. The young Duke of Dachu was very dissatisfied with the current situation in Lizhou. We are freeing up our hands and making great efforts to put things in order.

What is the concept of a battalion officer? Literally, of course, it is the military commander who commands a battalion. Yang Tianhong treats everyone equally, especially in the army, and he must be strict in his orders and integrate officers and soldiers. Camp Wasion's screening efforts were bickering from the start. A full-fledged officer. More than 80 deputy battalion officers all felt that this was Yang Tianhong's way to seize power. They were unwilling to surrender their military power in any case, and refused to participate in the selection. Lu Mingtao is the same. It's not that I have any bad feelings for Yang Tianhong, but I feel that he was yelled at by an outsider. What an unspeakable humiliation. As a military general, he will either die in battle on the battlefield, or simply cut his membership to the people. This so-called "selection" is simply a slap in the face and another spit.

Yang Sheng, the general of the Yang family, is fully responsible for the selection of the Wasion Camp. Yang Hu, as Yang Tianhong's blood relative, will not be merciful. Compared with the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Weisheng Battalion, the 1,000 Xuanhuo Army was obviously lagging behind. It's just that the difference between a tiger and a sheep is too great. Even if Lu Mingtao had the intention to resist, he was still shocked by the incomparable strength of the Xuanhuo Army.

It's so rich!

This was Lu Mingtao's subconscious emotion when he saw the Xuanhuo Army for the first time.

The whole body is made of iron armor, and it is also a talisman made of fine steel. This armor is expensive and effective against bow and arrow fire, minimizing damage to the wearer. Except for heavy weapons such as axes and steel hammers, there is no way to inflict fatal damage on them. However, on the battlefield, how many people can carry such weapons weighing tens of kilograms? Even if there are such big men, the number will never be too many.

Except for the soldiers who entered the camp to do things with sabers, the rest of the Xuanhuo officers and soldiers who were besieging and guarding the periphery of the Weisheng camp were all equipped with light and flexible long-handled combat knives. This weapon can be used as a spear, capable of slashing and sprinting. Lu Mingtao has used this kind of weapon, and he naturally has a lot of experience in the advantages and disadvantages. The best quality of steel in all the weapons of all countries in the world comes from the Qin State. The texture of the Chu State Iron Ware is relatively soft, and although it has been improved many times, it is still unable to overcome this biggest weakness. In desperation, he could only repeatedly increase the amount of steel used in the weapon itself in order to stabilize it. As a result, the weight of the weapon itself increases, and it is difficult for the user to control it. Especially on the battlefield, it is often counterproductive.

The long knives used by the Xuanhuo Army are very lightweight. Lu Mingtao borrowed it from a sergeant to watch it, and found that this kind of long knife was very light, and he could shake it out casually. The blade is long and can pose a threat to the enemy at different distances. The tip of the knife is slightly curved, but it still walks the path of a spear. Even if used by cavalry, it can inflict heavy damage on the enemy with the help of inertial impact, and will never hurt itself.

The 1,000 Xuanhuo troops besieging the Weisheng camp were divided into two types: infantry and cavalry. The cavalry was even better equipped. The war horses under the crotch are all of good breeds, wearing leather armor on their bodies, and the front and rear chest guards are also made of stainless steel. Because there is no weight, the movement on the horse is very flexible. The cavalry's main weapon is a cavalry lance, and each person is also equipped with a strong crossbow. This kind of weapon really opened Lu Mingtao's eyes. The crossbow is light and flexible, and the important joint parts are all made of steel. Cavalry did not need to draw a bow on their horses, and they could shoot easily and easily. Moreover, the crossbow is easy to operate and can be disassembled, and it does not take much time to replace parts. (To be continued.) )