At the request of Zhang Yongjie, with the two baskets of steamed buns left by the widows, the more than 30 Ming men on this island finally ate a relatively full meal, of course, it can only be said that they are relatively full.

Because everyone has been hungry for five or six days, they ate a piece of mud cake in the middle, and in this case, two baskets of gray-flour steamed buns obviously can't really fill their stomachs. There are many people, because of extreme hunger, eat steamed buns too quickly, and after eating, they keep burping.

Many of them were on the ground, obviously unwilling to do anything for the Japanese in such a situation.

Zhang Yongjie was also unwilling, the reason why Zhang Yongjie stood up and served as the leader was only because he didn't want the Japanese to kill again, not that he wanted to work for the Japanese Kou.

Zhang Yongjie was lying on a small slope, looking at the sky, and he was also uncertain about his future plans at the moment. Who could be better at a time like this?

Uncle Zheng and Uncle Li came over, and they all wanted to know what Zhang Yongjie planned next.

Uncle Zheng asked: "Xiao Li, then the Japanese coward chose a leader to come out, obviously he didn't have any good intentions, why did you want to be here?"

Zhang Yongjie smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle Zheng, look at the meaning of that widow, today we are here, either all of them will die, or we will always choose someone to be the leader, I just want to delay a little longer." ”

Uncle Li picked up the map that the fake robber leader handed over to Zhang Yongjie and looked at it, and said angrily: "This dog thief, with our manpower here, how can we build so many houses and trenches. ”

Uncle Zheng picked up the map and looked at it, thinking that this was simply an incredible thing, and scolded the widow again.

Maybe he was hungry and didn't have the strength. Maybe he didn't dare to shout and scold loudly, which attracted the widows, so Uncle Zheng's scolding was very small.

The other Ming men were lying on the ground at the moment, they knew that the task shown on this map was also very huge, so they were not in the mood to come and check, now they just wanted to have a good rest.

Zhang Yongjie is not in a hurry, because he has no plan in his heart. Building a project for the Wakos was not what he wanted to do. What he wanted to do, escape, survive, obviously didn't see any hope at the moment.

What's more, Zhang Yongjie knew in his heart that although he was now the leader, this leader was appointed by the Japanese Emperor. I am not ashamed to use this identity to arrange things for everyone.

Obviously, there are many people who will not follow the arrangement because they have been appointed as the leader by the Japanese Invaders.

So now you can't do anything at all except rest. This break lasted for two or three hours, and in the blink of an eye the afternoon had arrived.

Uncle Zheng finally couldn't sit still, stood up, and said angrily: "Xiao Li, are you planning to sit still and wait for death? With more than 30 lives here, can't we really see a little hope?"

Everyone wants to escape reality by being in a daze, confused and other methods. But with the passage of time, there is no escaping this reality. Since you haven't lost your breath yet, you have to work hard to survive, which is human instinct.

Therefore, the Ming men present were all thinking about what to do next. I thought that Zhang Yongjie should be the leader, and he would inevitably ask everyone to work hard, and drag on day by day.

In this way, some old fritters who are good at stealing and playing tricks have already thought about it, and they will definitely not cooperate with Zhang Yongjie's work, but when the time comes, fake the widow to investigate the progress of the project, and directly put the responsibility on Zhang Yongjie's head to finish the matter, after Zhang Yongjie's death, maybe there will be that fool who will stand up as the leader, and he can drag on for three days to survive.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man surnamed Xie is a representative of this type of person. This middle-aged man surnamed Xie is generally called Lao Xie by others.

Lao Xie even thought of the lines, as soon as Zhang Yongjie spoke and wanted to mobilize everyone to do things, he would come out first to raise the bar.

This is the most common phenomenon of human nature, as long as someone wants to take everyone to survive, there will inevitably be some people who want to fish in troubled waters, and want to take a free ride on the collective escape with the least effort.

But Zhang Yongjie didn't have the action to survive at all, and so far, he didn't ask everyone to do anything, this Lao Xie took the lead and couldn't sit still, he had to instigate Zhang Yongjie to lead everyone to work hard, so that he had the opportunity to steal and play tricks.

If not, after these three days, the Japanese will inevitably kill people again, and everyone knows that in the end, everyone will not be able to escape, and everyone will have to die.

I saw Lao Xie stand up and said, "Xie has some questions, I want to ask Leader Li." ”

Zhang Yongjie's eyes drifted to Lao Xie's body, quietly wanting to hear what he said.

Lao Xie said: "The remaining thirty or so people here, where should we go in the future, what are Leader Li's plans?" ”

Zhang Yongjie sighed for a while, and said in frustration: "The leader appointed by this widow can also be regarded as a leader? ”

Lao Xie sneered and said, "That's not good, if you don't work hard now and complete the tasks assigned by the Japanese Kou, do you want to kill everyone?"

Zhang Yongjie handed the map in his hand to Lao Xie and said, "You first look at the amount of work and figure out the situation first." ”

Lao Xie didn't take the map, and said leisurely: "We haven't taken over the task of the Japanese Invaders, so why should I do it? Since you are the leader appointed by the Japanese Invaders, this project must be done by you." ”

Seeing Lao Xie talking like this, Zhang Yongjie knew that someone was starting to pick on him. Zhang Yongjie asked confusedly, "I'm doing it alone?"

Lao Xie nodded and said: "You must have done it, three days later, when the widows checked the progress of the project, you didn't do anything, didn't you want to kill everyone?"

Lao Xie's words not only shocked Zhang Yongjie, but also the others present felt incredible.

Listening to Lao Xie's words, he actually wanted Zhang Yongjie to do the project alone, if the project couldn't be done, then Zhang Yongjie was all to blame for killing everyone.

But how could Li Ronghao do it alone? How could he do it alone?

Even if this kid surnamed Li is willing to do it, it will be absolutely impossible for him to complete the progress, and it will not be that everyone will die by then?

Even if the responsibility is deducted on the head of this Li Ronghao alone, but the widow will definitely still implicate everyone? or kill people, what is the use of theorizing responsibility in this case, what does this Lao Xie think?

As soon as Lao Xie said this, when he saw everyone's confused looks, he realized that he had made a gaffe, what he said just now was indeed too rude, it was simply a show of intelligence.

Lao Xie shouted and scolded the Japanese in his heart, if the Japanese killed the Japanese Kou, if he hadn't given Lao Tzu food and starved Lao Tzu, would Lao Tzu be able to say the kind of words with obvious loopholes?

Lao Xie had no choice but to whirl: "I mean to ask you to lead everyone to do it together, but how to do it, it must be arranged by you, it can't be arranged by me, after all, I didn't go to be the leader." ”

Only then did everyone 'understand' what Lao Xie meant, it turned out that Lao Xie wanted Li Ronghao to lead everyone to do it, and there was no intention for Li Ronghao to do it alone.

But Zhang Yongjie had obviously sensed the ugly thoughts in Lao Xie's heart, so he immediately came up with a way to deal with Lao Xie.

In fact, Lao Xie originally thought that the picture at this moment should be the scene of Zhang Yongjie standing in front of everyone, shouting loudly, trying hard to survive, working hard, and working hard.

And in this kind of scene, Zhang Yongjie is bound to be able to get a response from some people, after all, there are hundreds of people, all kinds of people. It's impossible for anyone not to listen to this kid.

In that way, Zhang Yongjie can work hard with this part of the responding people, in this case, he is not qualified to command the Ming men, including himself, who do not respond.

But Lao Xie never expected the current situation, and he actually took the initiative to ask Zhang Yongjie to lead everyone to work. In this case, what reason do you have to cheat?

Zhang Yongjie stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and said, "We are captured now, and everyone is in a bad mood." I'm the same, I can't wait to fight that guy right away, but the situation doesn't allow it, and now we can only think long-term. ”

Zhang Yongjie finally began to mobilize everyone's emotions and finally began to do ideological work for everyone. But obviously, Lao Xie can't come out to disagree at this moment.

Because he came out to disagree at the moment, he was undoubtedly slapping himself in the face, so Lao Xie had to temporarily obey Leader Li's arrangement, and if he had the opportunity in the future, it would not be too late to find a way to cheat and play tricks.

Zhang Yongjie said: "But I have a bad temper and often want to kill people, so I am also afraid to ask everyone to do something." ”

When Zhang Yongjie said this, he raised the long knife in his hand, and his face became very ugly, which made everyone feel scared when they saw it.

Zhang Yongjie continued: "My Ming boy came to this place where birds don't, and all of them can be described as talents who stand up to the sky. At this point, I mean everyone has their own powers, and everyone has their own escape. ”

Zhang Yongjie's words made everyone feel inexplicable, how could this kid say such a thing? The more critical the moment, the more we should maintain unity, this kid actually encouraged everyone to take separate actions?

This split action, the manpower is thin, isn't that looking for death?

Just when everyone was confused, I heard Zhang Yongjie say: "Of course, if there is a trustworthy kid who is willing to follow the kid, let's move elsewhere later." Think again. ”

Uncle Zheng hurriedly said at this time: "Xiao Li, in our group of people, you are the youngest, and you must have the most methods, let's all go with you, even if you die, it can be regarded as a struggle, not sitting still." ”

When Zhang Yongjie heard this, he smiled at Uncle Zheng, and continued: "Uncle Zheng, you don't have to instigate everyone, this matter is voluntary, because I, Li Ronghao, may kill someone." ”

Uncle Zheng has always been more clever, and he thinks that at this time, someone must cooperate with Zhang Yongjie's performance, so that everyone can act according to his will. Why doesn't this Xiao Li understand this truth?

Zhang Yongjie raised the long knife in his hand again and said, "But there is one thing that everyone must remember. Anyone who follows me, Li Ronghao, must abide by discipline and obey my arrangement. Otherwise, this long knife in my Li Ronghao's hand will definitely kill people. ”

The leader must have real power in order to do practical things. If you have no real power, you are called a leader, but you are actually a backbiter. It's like dancing on the tip of a knife, walking on thin ice, and being in the abyss.

Thinking about that Li Ling, when he was the temporary head of the Li family, wasn't he like a person in the abyss?

Zhang Yongjie said very clearly, the leader appointed by the Japanese is obviously not counted, and he is unwilling to act as this leader who has no real power.

The right comes from everyone, and those who follow Zhang Yongjie's steps at this moment are regarded as handing over their lives to Zhang Yongjie, and authorizing Zhang Yongjie to punish some people when they make mistakes in the future.

In other words, if you choose to follow in the footsteps of Zhang Yongjie at this moment, then when you want to be dealt with in the future, there is no reason to resist at all. Zhang Yongjie can justifiably execute the person who dragged his feet.

After Zhang Yongjie said this, he ignored the crowd and walked to another small hill by himself, holding a long knife and standing quietly.

Although Uncle Zheng and Uncle Li felt that Zhang Yongjie's words were very unpleasant, they were neighbors after all and had a certain emotional foundation, so they took the lead in going to Zhang Yongjie's side.

In the hearts of many Ming boys, it is obviously a desperate situation at this moment, and any of them feel that they can not escape death no matter how they rely on their own strength.

Although following Zhang Yongjie's footsteps, it is also a life of nine deaths, but there is only one step at a time, and a dead horse is a live horse doctor.

After a while, most of the people stood on the small hill on Zhang Yongjie's side.

Lao Xie hesitated for a while, thinking that this Li Ronghao was young, and he thought that he was a stinky boy who no one had lived to understand, and he could easily play with him in applause.

I didn't expect this Li Ronghao to be a little tricky, and he actually used this trick. With just this simple trick, he changed from a virtual leader to a real leader.

Lao Xie knew that as long as his footsteps shifted to the past, it would be equivalent to his personal promise to obey Li Ronghao's arrangement. It amounts to a commitment, which is clearly binding.

If he doesn't go over at this moment, this Li Ronghao is not qualified to ask himself to do anything. At this moment, if Li Ronghao wants to kill himself because he does not obey the arrangement, morally saying that he will not leave, others will also oppose it.

But he walked over first, if he didn't follow the arrangement, this Li Ronghao would obviously kill himself, and others wouldn't think there was anything wrong with this.

Lao Xie sighed in his heart, it seems that this Li Ronghao still has two brushes, and his Taoism is far above him.

Interestingly, if Zhang Yongjie didn't show two brushes, everyone wouldn't dare to mess with him. After all, the generals are incompetent and tired to death of the three armies. Who wants to mess with an incompetent leader?

Now that Zhang Yongjie has shown this method, Lao Xie is also willing to entrust his life to Zhang Yongjie and follow Zhang Yongjie's footsteps.

Lao Xie was the last person to walk in front of Zhang Yongjie, and now, all the living people have come to Zhang Yongjie's side.

This means that the identity of Zhang Yongjie, the leader, was elected by everyone with their feet, not by the Japanese Kou. From then on, the power in Zhang Yongjie's hands came from everyone, not from the authorization of the Japanese invaders.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yongjie feels that the responsibility on his shoulders is very heavy, after all, how difficult it is to lead everyone to escape back to the mainland on this island that does not know the southeast, northwest, and direction.

Zhang Yongjie issued his first order, that is, to ask Lao Xie to move all the tools left by the Japanese Kou here.

And he asked Lao Xie to move alone, and everyone could see that Zhang Yongjie was deliberately embarrassing Lao Xie, but Lao Xie willingly moved the tools over.

Because Lao Xie knows that he is now following a very capable leader, and only by following a very capable leader and officer, any labor and sweat paid will not be useless, and only then can there be a little hope of escaping, although this hope is very small, but it is finally there.

Lao Xie's actions gave Zhang Yongjie some sense of security in his heart. He knew that at this moment he was no longer the kind of 'leader' in the air, but a leader with real power, so that he could calmly arrange things and not fall into internal intrigue.

Zhang Yongjie motioned for everyone to sit down and conveyed the map in his hand to everyone, and everyone shook their heads for a while, looking very frustrated.

Zhang Yongjie said: "I will try my best to protect the safety of everyone as much as possible." But we also have to work hard, and we can all work together to have hope. ”

Next, Zhang Yongjie said his thoughts:

First of all, build a house and make a show for the Japanese to see. Because building a house can first give everyone a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and a place to live temporarily on this overseas desert island.

Secondly, dig a cave and serve as a secret base. Then craft weapons, cut down trees and secretly build ships in caves. When the time is ripe, drag the modules of the big ship in the cave into the sea and assemble them into a ship as fast as possible.

In the end, Yang Fan set sail, relying on the sun, moon and stars, discerning the direction and returning to the mainland. Report to the government and send troops to exterminate the Japanese and complete the great cause of revenge.

Zhang Yongjie's idea is very superficial, but it is also a method, especially the idea of digging a cave and establishing a secret base has won the hearts of the people.

Even if the Japanese want to be aggressive, everyone can use the secret base to compete with them. It is better to die on the battlefield than to sit back and wait.

After burying their deceased compatriots first, they divided into several groups and began their escape and revenge plans on this desolate island.

The Japanese sent steamed buns every morning, and every three days, a small leader of the Japanese invaders visited the island to inspect the project. Seeing everyone's construction in full swing, the small leader of the Japanese was very satisfied with Zhang Yongjie.

The little leader of the widows said: "Yo Xi, Li Sang, yours are really good, continue to work hard." ”

Whenever this happens, Zhang Yongjie always looks at the little leader of the Japanese with an expressionless face, without showing any emotion, but sneering in his heart, he will wait for the beast to die, and then come to say hello to you.

The island is actually not small, and there is a small hill in the middle. This is a very normal phenomenon, and the islands in the sea are formed by the mountain peaks rising above the sea level.

The hills are overgrown with trees, some of which are still relatively large, but there are no fruit trees or anything like that, which cannot be used to satisfy hunger.

God will not disappoint a group of people who want to work hard to live a good life, plus I am a bright man, and there are many capable people. Although there are only about 30 people on the island, it is unusual.

I'm a Ming boy, no matter what kind of environment I am in, I can have good survival skills.

Don't look at the fact that there are only more than 30 people, but some people can drill wood for fire, some can dig caves, and some can do carpentry.

Being able to drill wood for fire means being able to distill seawater to obtain fresh water. And on this small island, it is very satisfying to have enough fresh water.

And being able to do carpentry means that the big ship built can better withstand the test of the rough sea, and there is more hope for escaping back to the mainland.

Even if you don't know any skills, you can do some things more appropriately by relying on imagination or being taught by others.

If you change the widows, more than 30 people can only sit and eat and wait for death on this desert island. After three days, it can be regarded as giving them a long face.

The previous month was still quite hard, but this group of Ming men never gave up hope.

The people of Ningshan originally lived by the sea, and almost all of them knew water, although they could not swim far, there was no problem in wandering nearby.

Once everyone is full of confidence, even Heaven will help. Soon came the good news, a few Ming men found a nest of a group of tuna in a mountain bay behind the island.

After all, the basket of steamed buns provided by the Japanese is obviously not enough to fill the stomach, and the tuna is very large, and a tuna is equivalent to a small pig, so in this way, there is no problem to fill everyone's stomach.

This news obviously made this group of Ming men even more excited. Immediately, some people went up the mountain to cut down a number of small tree trunks, sharpened the tips, made them into improvised weapons, and went to the sea to catch tuna.

Although this group of Ming men can now eat and drink enough, they still have to show extreme fatigue in front of the Japanese Kou.

So every morning when the Japanese sent the steamed buns, they made a pretended action to rob them, and later stored the steamed buns and ate the tuna first.

In the blink of an eye, two more months have passed, and it has reached the cold winter wax moon. Now, Zhang Yongjie's cave is long enough, and in some places big enough, that it literally becomes a castle.

There are enough dried tuna in the cave, and although I eat dried tuna every day, I want to vomit, but I can fill my stomach, which is a very happy thing.

In the future, you only need to choose a dark and windy night to secretly drag the module into the sea and assemble it into a large ship, and you can complete it.

And what makes people feel even more happy is that Zhang Yongjie gradually found that the internal force of his dantian was leaking out little by little. Although extremely faint, the faint is negligible.

But this is enough to prove that the constraints of the dantian are not impregnable, which means that as long as you continue to step up your work, break through the constraints, and restore the internal force, you are always full of hope.

Sometimes, Zhang Yongjie thinks of Tang Yan again, and he doesn't know where Yan'er is at the moment, whether she is alive or dead. This made Zhang Yongjie very heartbroken, and Zhang Yongjie could only relieve the pain through hard work during the day and continuous practice at night.

Winter goes to spring, and a few months have passed, observing the celestial phenomena, it should still be late March at this moment, presumably it is time for spring to bloom on the mainland.

Through several months of continuous meditation, Zhang Yongjie's internal force has been restored to a certain extent, although most of the internal force is still trapped in the dantian, but being able to use part of the internal force is much better than losing the internal force.

Zhang Yongjie only thought at this time that Zhao Qianli said that he would need forty years to recover his internal strength, which was completely intimidating. As long as you continue to meditate every day, it will take less than 40 years to restore your internal strength.

How could it be a matter of a few months to build a few houses and dig a few trenches? Although the Japanese invaders kept urging the construction period, Zhang Yongjie and others were in full swing, and those Japanese did not kill people indiscriminately.

After all, no matter how simple their minds are, they can also think that to complete the tasks they have set for them, it is definitely not something that can be completed in a few months.

Although the construction period is slow, the current situation on the island is meeting the requirements on Hattori-kun's map step by step, and the Wako is still quite satisfied with this.

However, there is bad news on other small islands one after another, and the construction period is far away, and the staff is often reduced. The Japanese could only think that this was a blessing that they could not bear the hardships of the project, and they were exhausted to death.

But in fact, it is Zhang Yongjie, a small island, who constantly sends people every night to hold a raft, avoid the maritime patrol boats of the Japanese robbers, contact the nearby Ming men, and drag people over.

After all, Zhang Yongjie's island has a large enough cave and enough tuna to feed more Ming men.

At first, Zhang Yongjie was relatively cautious, but kept dragging people over to prevent traitors from telling the Japanese invaders.

Later, Zhang Yongjie was a little bolder, and kept sending news to the nearby islands, asking everyone to be self-reliant and look for food.

The flowers bloom and fall, another year has passed, and it is now March of the 38th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.

Seventeen months have passed since Zhang Yongjie was captured in October of the 36th year of Jiajing.

Now, on the islands, the work requested by the Wako is gradually coming to an end, and it will be completed in two months at most.

Now, Zhang Yongjie's internal strength has recovered a little half, although it cannot be said on the same day as at its peak, but it cannot be underestimated.

Zhang Yongjie thought to himself, at this moment, he was on the rivers and lakes, facing any second-echelon master, such as Li Yanjin, Hu Weiyang and others, without the slightest fear.

Moreover, Zhang Yongjie knows that as long as his internal force is restored to half of the previous one, so that the internal force outside the dantian is stronger than the internal force within the dantian, it will inevitably be able to speed up the recovery of internal force.

In the past 17 months, Zhang Yongjie not only gathered more than 200 Ming men on the island. Moreover, the Ming men on the eight nearby islands are all under the command of Zhang Yongjie.

In other words, the personnel that Zhang Yongjie can command at this moment are close to five hundred. And in the course of seventeen months, no less than thirty ships were secretly built to sail or fight on the sea.

The canvas made of tree bark and woven with slender rope is also solid enough to withstand the sea breeze and propel the boat along.

There are countless weapons such as bows and arrows, flaming balls of fire made from tree oil, spears, etc., and dry food made from tuna is enough to ensure that everyone can sustain a month's ration on the sea.

Zhang Yongjie decided to officially set sail on the first day of April and embark on the journey back to his homeland.

Now every Ming boy knows in his heart that everyone is about to end their captive career, and they are all very happy, and they are all looking forward to waiting for that day to come.

However, on 20 March, an unusual incident occurred that disrupted Zhang Yongjie's arrangements and deployments.