Seeing that it was the eldest son who was caught, the old man's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly reached out to stop him, "He can't do it, he can't do it, he is a laborer at home, he can't go......"

Before he finished speaking, the soldier had already turned out half a bag of grain from the house and carried it away, but this was not enough, one stone and two buckets, one stone had to be a hemp bag, and this was only half.

The soldiers rummaged around, and when they saw that there were made shoes, they also stuffed them into their arms, and after searching for a long time, they did not find them, so they simply grabbed one more person and threatened: "If you don't give enough food, you will take people's heads to resist." ”

This is the rhythm of one more military service.

Seeing that his youngest son was also arrested, the old man hurriedly chased him out, and when he was about to leave the yard, he finally hugged his thigh and cried: "I'll give, I'll give." ”

He turned back to his old wife and eldest daughter-in-law, and urged, "Quick, go and get the food." ”

The daughter-in-law hurriedly turned around and ran towards the kitchen, removed the firewood, and there was a sack in the corner, and the soldiers who followed her saw it, pushed her away, and dragged the sack out directly.

The daughter-in-law chased after him and said, "There is a stone here, there are at least six buckets in the half bag just now, and please divide four buckets." ”

The soldier glanced at her, but ignored her at all, and the soldier at the head said with a cold face: "This half bag has six buckets?" I think it's only two or three fights, you refuse to pay taxes, how much time has you delayed, and I haven't asked you for compensation. ”

The soldier asked the two bags of grain to be carried directly, and then asked the old man, "Which of your two sons do you want to keep?" ”

The old man begged, "Take all the two bags of grain, I just hope to keep the two children, they will only take hoes, where have they taken knives and guns?" I really can't be a soldier. ”

"Who is born with a knife and a gun? If you choose or not, if you don't choose again, I'll take both of them away. ”

The old man's heart was so painful that he almost curled up, and under the gaze of his two sons, he reluctantly chose the eldest son, and he said to the younger son: "Your nephew is just two years old, and he can't be born without a father." ”

The youngest son also understood, knelt down and kowtowed to his parents, and wanted to say a few words to the eldest brother, but the soldiers who grabbed him were already impatiently dragging people out.

The eldest son was immediately furious, and ran into the kitchen to pick up a kitchen knife and was about to rush out, but was stopped by his mother and wife.

When the old man saw the soldiers looking at him fiercely, the knives in his hands were raised, and he hurriedly kowtowed on the ground, "The young man is vigorous, and their brothers are friendly, so they are confused, I beat him, I beat him hard, and please don't care." ”

After that, he got up, picked up his arm and slapped the eldest son in the face, slapped him twice in a row, his eyes and face were swollen, and scolded him again, and then the soldiers lost their anger and left with people and food.

Ox carts loaded with grain were parked on the main road of the village, and the grain they had requisitioned was placed on the carts, and the strong men they had captured were tied with ropes and strung together, and when they arrived at the barracks, they were officially released as soldiers.

The soldiers were not afraid that they would run away, after all, their family was here, and the monks couldn't run away from the temple, and if they did, the whole family would be punished.

This is also the reason why thirty soldiers can loot a village, and it is also the reason why soldiers are lined up in front of bandits.

If it's a bandit, they can kill it, and the bandits may not dare to come, but Bing, if they kill a soldier, it will cause a steady stream of trouble.

Therefore, in the hearts of the people, soldiers are worse than bandits.

Thirty soldiers searched the whole village, filled the five ox carts they brought, and the captured strong men were also divided into three teams and tied up, and then led the ox carts and strong men back.

On the main road, they can join their large team, and several teams have stopped on the official road, all of which are collecting food and grass in the nearby villages, and together they are three teams, more than 300 soldiers.

Everyone looked at the food they found for each other, and they all returned with a full load.

"Jiangnan is really rich, and the second time it has been requisitioned, so much grain can be collected, in our Qingzhou, the first time a family can't find three buckets of grain."

"This time I also searched it, next time I won't be able to find anything, when will we go south, the army is gone, and we will be left to raise grain and grass, this is really not a human thing, my ancestors have been scolded for eighteen generations."

"If you don't get scolded, you will lose your head, and you dare not complete the amount of tasks given by the above?"

was gossiping, suddenly a sound of horses' hooves, everyone followed the sound to turn their heads to look, suddenly the scalp was numb, under the scorching sun, the "Zhao" word flag hunting, stabbing people's eyes.

There were already soldiers whose legs trembled, and the hands holding knives trembled, but the young people who were tied with their hands were excited, and some couldn't help shouting, "It's Zhao Jiajun, Zhao Jiajun has come to save us!" ”

Zhao Shi didn't come to save them on purpose, he just wanted to go to Yinling County, originally going north, but the scout came to report that there was a food begging team here and arrested a lot of people.

Thinking of the tragic situation of the requisitioned villages in the past few days, Zhao Shi directly led the troops over.

Because it was a begging team, naturally there were no more than 2,000 people, and Zhao Shi only brought 1,000 people, but this was enough to crush the other party.

Soon the battle was over, and he cut the ropes and let them untie themselves, then went to touch the two bags on the cart and said, "One of them takes two days' rations, and the rest is returned." ”

The soldiers immediately tore off the cloth bags they had brought with them, which were specially used for food, because they were light cavalry, and each of them carried a maximum of three days' rations at a time.

It just so happened that today the rations they brought were finished.

Everyone evenly took out two handfuls of grain from each cloth bag, and then tied the cloth bag, Zhao Shi's soldiers had already divided the strong men according to the village, and asked them to bring back all the food from their village.

From whose family the grain is collected, the family will bring it back for itself.

The strong men were moved and kowtowed to Zhao Shi one after another.

A young man asked Zhao Shi, "I don't know if there are still soldiers in the Zhao family's army, I, I want to be the Zhao family's army." ”

Zhao Shi smiled when he heard this, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go home quickly, how can you be a soldier so well?" It's going to die. ”

"I am willing to die for the Zhao family's army, and I am willing to die for General Zhao!"

"Me too, me too, I want to join the army too!"

The seventeen-year-old man squeezed to the front and said loudly: "General, you can take us, they have robbed my family of all the food, if you don't come, even if I have obediently gone to serve, there is no food at home for the winter, it will be difficult to survive, it is you who saved my whole family." ”

Of course, it was impossible for Zhao Shi to recruit new people, but seeing that they were so enthusiastic, he thought about it and said: "In a few days, the Zhao family army will definitely come to recover this place, you go home first and endure for a few days, and when the army comes, you will go to the army to ask the generalissimo, if he is willing to keep you, you can stay, if you don't want to, please help me and tell the news of Wang Dun's rebels, this is enough." ”

He also said: "Please also make it clear to you and your fathers and fellow villagers that if you encounter the forced conscription of Wang Dun's rebels, don't resist stubbornly, so as not to lose your life, it is better to follow, rest assured, when you get to the battlefield, our Zhao family army will not kill opponents indiscriminately, we all know that many recruits in the opposite army are strong men who are forcibly recruited, and when the time comes, as long as they lay down their arms and surrender, we can collect people and release them." ”

The strong men didn't expect this kind of operation, and the whole person lit up.

(End of chapter)