Everyone found a few wooden shovels in the village, hoes and other things, they all brought self-defense when they ran.

Only one old man had a missing hoe in his house.

Fu Tinghan wrapped his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and went to dig with the soldiers.

The five old men were also willing to help them shovel the soil after Fu Tinghan took out a few dry cakes.

After most of the day, they shoveled out the soil soaked in dung and water, packed it in sacks and piled it on the cart, and were escorted back by the soldiers.

The five old men gnawed all the cakes they had just arrived, and they didn't give Fu Tinghan a chance to regret it.

Fu Tinghan didn't regret it, seeing that they really didn't have anything to eat, he gave them half of his dry food.

The old people took it, and after being silent for a while, they said, "Lang Jun is really Zhao Jiajun?" ”

Fu Tinghan raised his eyebrows, and after making trouble for a long time, they still didn't believe him.

Fu Tinghan thought about it and asked Fu An to take out the banner of the Zhao family army that he was carrying.

The old people were illiterate, but they had seen the banner of the Zhao family army and recognized the pattern on it.

They compared the word "Zhao" to confirm that it was really the pattern they had seen, their eyes turned red, and they immediately knelt down towards Fu Tinghan, "General, if you find the two things you said, will everyone in our village be able to come back?" ”

Fu Tinghan supported them, and after a moment of silence, he said: "If they are all alive, they should want to return to their hometown, if no one comes back, after Mengxian County is recovered, this village will also have a new population, and you will have new neighbors." ”

With tears in their eyes, the old people nodded and said, "It's good to have someone, it's good to have someone." ”

Five people, still five old people, are really lonely, they are counting the days every day, and they smell rotten in their breaths, and they don't know who will be the last to leave, and no one knows if it will be rotten at home when the time comes.

Therefore, those who die first may not be miserable, and those who live long may not be happy.

The five of them were all born here, grew up here, and are most familiar with this area, but they tried hard to recall, and really found a place, "There is a place, far away from here, called Nanshan, hey, it is different from ours, there are several mountains connected together, and there is the soup spring you said in the mountain, the smell is not good, but it is pungent." ”

"By the way, the stones there will still explode, and Lao Guan in the next village was injured by the blasted stones, so he has been blind in one eye and died early."

Fu Tinghan was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "How far is Nanshan from here?" ”

"It takes a day and a night to walk, and another half a day to arrive," the old man said, "That's when I was young, it's been almost 20 years, and my legs and feet can't work, I'm afraid it will take two days and nights to arrive." ”

He said with some pride: "I went to repair the courtyard for the county order, and I got eighty yuan, your brothers and sisters, I married you with eighty yuan, hehehe......"

Fu Tinghan smiled and asked, "Does the old man still know the way to go?" ”

"Recognize, recognize, the mountains around here are small, go if you see the direction, it's easy to find."

Fu Tinghan glanced at the sky, thinking that Shi Le might come back from the counterattack in Xiayi County at any time, so he couldn't wait for dawn, so he immediately got up and said: "Let's go now, we have cars and horses, and we will travel all night to try to find a place before sunset tomorrow." ”

As long as there is sulfur, and nitrate is refined from the soil just now, and something is mixed with it, he can make gunpowder.

The five old men did not hesitate, they were all willing to follow, even if only one person was needed to guide the way, but the five people were unwilling to separate, and their reasons were very good, they were still thinking, in case they remembered where there was saltpeter along the way?

When he came out, Fu Tinghan brought three cars, one car went back, and there were two more, he rode directly and gave the car to the old people, it was not difficult.

He's not a very good person at rejecting people.

The group lit torches and walked forward, only stopping in the second half of the night to rest, and the genius began to move quickly at a slight light.

The soldiers ran to the side of the car and followed behind it.

The old man leaned on the window and looked back, and couldn't help but sigh, "This speed is faster than when we used to repair the yard." ”

"That's it, these are all soldiers, or Zhao Jiajun, can it be the same?"

When Fu Tinghan finally found a place the next day, Zhao Hanzhang's army finally attacked Mengxian County and seized the next city tower, but the stone army did not retreat, and they still occupied most of the city, but because of the night, everyone temporarily ceased fighting.

Tonight is not a battle for the time being, but Zhao Hanzhang is even busier, today's strong attack, huge casualties, the camp is brightly lit, and there are screaming soldiers everywhere;

and after attacking the city, all kinds of information began to be summarized, and what made Zhao Hanzhang most heartbroken was the situation of the houses that he had just searched and seen.

Mengxian is under the rule of Yuzhou, Zhao Hanzhang once set up a school here, as well as Yushantang, textile workshop......

Although the loyalty of the people cannot be compared with Xiping in Chen County, it is not low, so as soon as she enters the city, she wants to find someone to understand the situation in the city, but Zhao Jiajun only found more than 80 people from the occupied area, and more than 20 of them came out of the cellar by themselves.

Zhao lowered his head and reported: "They said that when the Shi army attacked Mengxian, the young and strong people in the city all went up to the city tower, and there were heavy casualties. ”

"After Mengxian was breached, the Shi army slaughtered more than 6,000 people, many people escaped from other city gates, and most of the people left in the city were old and weak women and children," Zhao Ze's voice became lower and lower, "Because we have connected more than a dozen cities, many of which have opened the city gates, Zhixiong is afraid that the people of Mengxian County will also be like this, so they will ...... Just let the stone army massacre, now there is not one out of ten people in the city, except for the stone army, there are few people still alive. ”

Zhao Hanzhang clenched his fists and asked, "What about the gentlemen and students in the school?" ”

"Half of them died when they were guarding Mengxian County, and the rest were all dead when Mengxian County was broken." Zhao Ze paused and said: "The children of Yushantang survived a lot at that time, but they were all used as military food, and I don't know how many are still alive at this time. ”

Zhao Hanzhang's heart shrank, and she slammed the table hard, she suppressed her anger and asked, "Didn't I say that if you can't hold the city, first transfer the people, the workers in the workshop, the Yushan Hall and the school?" How did Xun Xiu defend the city? ”

The generals bowed their heads and did not dare to respond.

Zhao Hanzhang took a deep breath to suppress his anger, and said with a calm face: "Settle the people we found, we are familiar with Mengxian County, there may be street battles tomorrow, and the other party may have reinforcements, so we must also be careful outside the city, we can't let people make us dumplings." ”

She asked, "Is there any news from Sui County?" ”

Ji Shuyan was in charge of this, and he said, "No." ”

Zhao Hanzhang frowned and said to him: "Find a way to contact them, give them a day, and if you can't hit the county seat of Mengxian County, they will all go home and farm for me!" ”

She has called in such a strong city tower in Mengxian, what are they still grinding over there?

There's only one chapter tonight.,I'm going to try to adjust my schedule and rest.,Strive to update it early tomorrow.

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