Chapter 388: Saving People Before Fighting.
Taojiang has a name called Red River in later generations.
The birthplace of the Red River is in Dali, and there is a section of the upstream that receives the green juice river, a tributary on the east side, also called the Yuan River, which is where the Song family is located.
The downstream is set aside from the estuary and flows into the territory of Vietnam.
The formation of a very important area now and later, the Red River Plain.
In the river valley only twenty miles away from the border, Ma Xianglin and Mu Tianbo were advancing quickly with the soldiers under their command.
Suddenly, after a turn in the river, the soldiers in front shouted excitedly.
"Up ahead! They're ahead!"
"Rush Rush!" Mu Tianbo was in high spirits for a while, and roared loudly!
Finally caught up!
They were walked around like kites by Pu Mingsheng and others, and they had already held their breath in their hearts.
At the moment, seeing that the enemy is in front of you, where can you still calm down. Even if there is a tiger's den in Longtan in front of him, he has to take someone to break through.
Mu Tianbo took the lead and rushed over with the meteor hammer in his hand.
Encouraged by him, the soldiers also rushed up, shouting for murder.
The movement on their side is so big, the front general reputation department will naturally not be unnoticed.
The soldiers who were maintaining order in the back looked back and saw a group of government soldiers rushing from the corner of the river beach,
Oh my mother!
"Run! The officers and soldiers are coming!" Before the soldiers could react, the people who fled with them screamed loudly and rushed forward frantically.
But the river beach is so wide, and there are many of them, and the front ones don't know what's going on, but the back ones crowd up, and the scene is chaotic.
As for the soldiers who were responsible for protecting them, they were also wrapped in the crowd, and they were rushed around, and some even had no time to guard and were squeezed into the Taojiang River.
Seeing the scene like this, Mu Tianbo, who led the charge, didn't know what to do.
If he encounters a rebel, he will not hesitate to rush forward, hammer the meteor in his hand into a round, and smash it into the enemy's head. But the people in front of me who were huddled in horror were all ordinary people.
Looking at the gray-haired old woman and the crying baby, Mu Tianbo really couldn't do it.
"Don't move! Don't squeeze it!"
Mu Tianbo rushed to the front, raised his hand and shouted loudly.
But he ignored a problem, these natives couldn't understand the official language at all, plus the meteor hammer in his hand was wielded again and again, and the soldiers behind him were all fierce and vicious, how could they look like a good person.
So instead of calming people's hearts, his shouts made these people more frightened and rushed forward more impatiently.
The road on the river beach was already uneven, and some people were squeezed to the ground due to the squeezing of people behind them.
But those who want to flee for their lives will not stop because of their fall, whether they are reluctant or not, they can only take their own steps, and the companions below them scream again and again.
A stampede happened.
Mu Tianbo was dumbfounded.
A group of soldiers who were holding back their strength to fight each other and vent their sulkness were dumbfounded.
This, how to fight?
They stopped, and Ma Xianglin, who didn't know what the situation was, sent someone to investigate the situation, and he was also stunned. hurriedly turned back and reported the matter to Ma Xianglin, who reported it to Qin Liangyu.
Qin Liangyu led people to the front to take a look.
Good guys, squeeze into a pot of porridge.
"Grandpa, save people first!" Listening to the screams from the crowd, Qin Liangyu hurriedly said to Mu Tianbo.
Although these people fled with the rebels, in fact, most of them were women and children who did not understand anything, and they may be guilty, but their sins are not to death.
It's impossible to kill them all, but it's even more impossible to ignore them.
Because they are blocking the way, how can they pursue?
"Help! Help!"
Mu Tianbo accepted Qin Liangyu's suggestion without saying a word, and commanded the soldiers below to start saving people.
The soldiers were reluctant, but obeyed the command.
One by one, they walked up with knives and began to pull those who still wanted to squeeze forward.
After living for such a long time, I really haven't seen a battle to this point, and if you don't kill anyone, you have to save people first.
They were trying to save people, but the other party didn't know, and when they saw a group of government soldiers walking towards them with knives, they were even more scared when they were left behind.
"Run! Officers and soldiers are going to kill people!"
I don't know who shouted in a hoarse voice, and the scene became even more chaotic.
Mu Tianbo took a look, damn, I don't know how much I have to step on to death if I go on like this.
"Hurry up, pull the people out of the periphery first! Who can speak the local language! Hurry up and tell them! Obedient don't kill! Whoever resists will die!"
The soldiers listened to the order, shouted the shouts, pulled the people.
At this time, it doesn't matter what men, women, and children are, those who are disobedient will be pulled out and beaten, and if they are not honest, they will be beaten again.
Occasionally, the soldiers will find the toast soldiers crowded in the crowd, which is the happiest for them, pull them out and cut them first.
The rescued soldier was thrown aside and guarded.
Slowly, the people in the crowd listened to the shouting, and their vigilance decreased a little. In addition, seeing that his companions were not harmed, there were fewer and fewer people who resisted, and the speed of saving people was a little faster.
As the crowd was separated little by little, the people who had been stepped on below were also revealed.
Originally, there was still some resentment, and the hearts of the soldiers who didn't understand Mu Tianbo's order to save people began to become heavy.
Because of them, on the cobblestone beach, they saw a child who had been trampled into an inhuman shape.
Look at children who are no more than three years old.
And this is not the only case.
Some are adults, some are half-grown children, and there are even children who seem to be playing for months.
A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, half an hour.
The rescue effort has finally come to an end.
At first, there were about three or four thousand people huddled together, but after the continuous rescue of the government soldiers and the frantic escape of the people in front, they were finally evacuated and made a way.
Ma Xianglin continued to pursue, and Qin Liangyu came to Mu Tianbo.
"Grandpa, how many casualties are there?"
"After a preliminary count, more than 100 people died, both adults and children. Some are unconscious, and I don't know if I can resist it. However, more than 100 rebels were found, and all of them were not left alive."
"Okay, let Lang Zhong who is with the army take a look, if you can save one, it's one."
"Okay."
Mu Tianbo left a thousand soldiers here to take care of the people and help the wounded, and he and Qin Liangyu took the soldiers to continue to chase ahead.
They were delayed for more than an hour, but Pu Mingming and the others were not idle, and when they learned that the officers and soldiers behind had caught up, everyone sped up.
Except for a very small number of old men with old arms who couldn't run, everyone fought hard to eat.
Because Pu Ming and Sha Yuan told them that if they were caught by the officers and soldiers, they would all be punished for treason, and they would be beheaded all over the house!
So in the face of death, it's better to run faster.
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