Chapter 317: Forced Conscription
As Sun Wen said, as soon as Sun Wen returned to Shenlei Mountain, he asked a group of monks with different cultivation levels to come and protect Du Feng. The arrival of those monks made Du Feng's image even taller among the villagers of Lijia Village.
"You go back to the mountain to cultivate, it doesn't make much sense to stay here and guard me!" Facing the Yang Xin of the leader, Du Feng kindly persuaded him, "I am in this Lijia Village, and I am deeply loved by the villagers, nothing will happen!"
"But Uncle Ke's order is for us to protect you every step of the way!" Yang Xin was embarrassed.
"Okay, okay, what can happen to me, and if you come here, it will directly break the normal life of the villagers of Lijia Village, you can go back!" Du Feng was a little impatient, "What is the matter with a group of you monks guarding me as a mortal? Hurry back and cultivate!"
"But junior brother, it's hard to disobey the master's order...... Yang Xin still had something to say, Du Feng directly turned his head and strode away, "It's okay if you want to stay, hide far away by yourself, I don't ask you to come out, you don't let me come out, so that the villagers don't kneel down and salute as soon as they see you, the immortal master, is it very awesome? I am also a member of the mortals now, do I also want to kneel down to you and shout to you immortal master? How simple are these villagers? I also want to have a good experience of the life of ordinary people from sunrise to sunset, can you not disturb me, my good brother? After all, I will have low self-esteem with you!"
"Uh......" Yang Xin was exhausted, and sighed after thinking for a long time, "That's okay, let's hide, if you don't call us, we won't come out!"
Du Feng shook his head helplessly, and picked up the fishing rod: "I'm going to feel the life of Jiang Taigong fishing today!"
On the shore of Nuoda Lake, Du Feng was lying on the grass, holding a long thin bamboo fishing rod, and not far away, Li Xianglong and a group of children were holding short sticks and practicing the-stirring stick method taught by Du Feng.
Time passed. Every day, Du Feng would go to the entrance of the Ten Thousand Demon Valley to find out, and ask the disciples of Shenlei Mountain, Xiao Yijun and Guo Xingxing, who had arranged to be stationed at the entrance of the Ten Thousand Demon Valley, if they had come out.
Day after day, half a year has passed.
On this day, Lijia Village ushered in a group of uninvited guests and called all the villagers of Lijia Village together.
"The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband. In order to make the people live and work in peace and contentment, the whole country is now conscripted to fill the three armies to protect the family and defend the country! Male, all those who have reached the age of 14 but are under the age of 50 must join the army, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" After the soldier who read out the notice finished speaking, he waved his big hand, and all the soldiers behind him rushed out, dragging away the men who seemed to be able to join the army and fight in Lijia Village. Du Feng was also among them.
"Do I want to call the senior brother and them out?" Du Feng thought anxiously in his heart, but I can help Lijia Village for a while, but I can't help them for a while, they seem to have no quarrel with the world at the foot of the mountain, if they go to the battlefield once, or someone dies in battle, or someone has outstanding achievements, they live in Lijia Village like this, they seem to live a life without fighting with the world, but they also lack some knowledge. Anyway, I can't disturb the trajectory of their normal life because of my arrival! The times create heroes, and they have the right to stand taller and see farther! And I can't rely on my senior brothers for everything, which is why I let them not come out without my orders! I can't rely on them, because that will wear down my strong heart!
Thinking about it, Du Feng didn't bother anymore, and let the officers and soldiers drag him and the people from the same Lijia Village away.
"Master, do you want to make a move?" asked Xiang Yangxin on the mountain. Yang Xin shook his head: "No, the little junior brother didn't let us make a move, we resolutely can't make a move! Appearing rashly will make the little junior brother feel inferior, and it will wear out the little junior brother's strong heart! Besides, if the two friends of the little junior brother who have entered the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons do not bring any turnaround, the little junior brother will always be a mortal, secretly protected, and he can't make a move until the moment of life and death!"
"Yes, Master!" the young man clenched his fists and retreated.
Lijia Village was originally from the border location of Yan Kingdom, and Du Feng and the villagers of Lijia Village, who were being driven, gradually gathered together with groups of people from other villages, and the team gradually became larger. After a five-day journey, Du Feng and the others arrived at the border city, there were no people in the city, all soldiers, and some newly recruited soldiers worked hard to practice the ability to save their lives on the battlefield, looking like a big war was imminent.
Du Feng and the villagers, who had just arrived at the barracks, were given a knife by the generals to maintain order, a cloth uniform, and a hat with flower feathers. Dressed up, he was urged to get together with everyone.
At the front of everyone, a soldier riding a war horse wearing silver-white armor and a big sword at his waist was impassioned: "Ladies and gentlemen, this general knows that you are here, and he has complaints in his heart, thinking that if you come here, you will be sent to death! However, I want to tell you, if you do not come, you will be better off than dead! Because the barbarian army has already been killed, if you do not hold the territory, you will become the slaves of the barbarian army, and the women will become the playthings of the barbarian army!"
"Only by joining me in taking up swords and guns, defending this territory, and repelling the barbarian army, can you live in peace and contentment! If you are lucky enough to survive this battle, make war achievements, and worship the generals, then you will have endless glory and wealth!"
"You are all men, do you dare to risk your life?"
"To dare or not to dare?"
Listening to the impassioned soldier, Du Feng couldn't help but feel funny in his heart, this stupid bird must have a problem with his IQ. Just want others to fight hard in a few words? It's too naïve to think about it? Do you want to? These are ordinary people, and they have never lived that kind of life of licking blood on the knife edge, who wants to fight? But the morale of the battle is the most important, since they have come here, these people are future comrades-in-arms, of course Du Feng does not want to see his comrades-in-arms die.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing that he had been talking alone for so long, and no one agreed? Forget it, who asked my brother and me to be helpful? Just help you!
After thinking about it, Du Feng raised his fist: "Dare! I dare to take my life! For the sake of my family, for the sake of glory and wealth, I will fight, I will never want to be an ordinary peasant in that small mountain village again! I want to make war merits, I want to be a general, I want to be glorious and rich!"
Du Feng shouted excitedly. The soldier looked at Du Feng very gratefully, and couldn't wait to go up and hug Du Feng and kiss them.
"Woo~" a horn sounded. Suddenly everyone became nervous. This is the alarm of the enemy attacking.
The soldier didn't have time to thank Du Feng, and pulled out the long knife on his waist: "Draw out the war knife on your waist and fight with me!"
"I'll wipe it, this is going to fight, why don't you practice it, these are ordinary people, it's completely going to death like this!" Du Feng looked confused. The soldiers who had been in the drill all stopped their drills and rushed in the same direction with their guns and knives in hand. The people who were forcibly recruited and didn't have any psychological preparation with Du Feng were all terrified: "I don't want to die!
"I'm going home!" as one person howled, and suddenly everyone abandoned their knives and ran!
"Whoosh...... A rain of arrows fell on everyone's front and blocked everyone's way. A majestic voice sounded: "Deserter, kill immediately!"
Everyone was overwhelmed and dejected.
"Look at you, where is there still a little bit of a man?" a middle-aged man riding a horse and carrying a spear pointed to everyone, "Pick up your knife and follow me!"
"Actually, if you chase ducks to the shelves like this, you just let them go to death!" Du Feng's uncontrollable voice sounded, "They haven't gone through any training, and they don't have the courage on the battlefield on their faces.
"In the face of death, who can't raise the courage?" The middle-aged man said angrily, "In the face of death, who can raise the courage? Whether there is courage or not, it's all in their thoughts, courage is not practiced, the war is imminent, we don't have so much time to practice, and what can train them is the battlefield!"
"Pick up your knives and come with me to the battlefield for a good practice! After I have three sounds, if anyone does not pick up the sword, kill immediately!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"Very good, now pick up the sword and charge with me, and those who escape from the battle will be killed!"
Du Feng was furious: "Chop chop, chop, chop! These ordinary people were forced to go to the battlefield, and they just became cannon fodder!"
"This is how the Pioneer was forced to go to war!" the man said, driving away on horseback.
"Let's go!" Suddenly, a row of archers drew their bows with arrows, urging all the people who were forcibly recruited, including Du Feng. Du Feng sighed, courage can only be raised by these people themselves! Du Feng carried the knife and went straight to the direction where the middle-aged man left, with Du Feng taking the lead, those who were forcibly recruited, you look at me, I will look at you, and followed Du Feng's back ruthlessly.
"That's a good boy!" said a veteran in armor stroking his beard. A red-robed young general next to him said, "Father, do you want to carry him?"
The veteran shook his head: "No merit will be punished!"
"I can't let these ordinary people who have just joined the army become cannon fodder! I will rush to the front, hand over the senior brothers, and scare the incoming army away! Yes, that's it! As long as the incoming army is scared away, there is no need to fight, and those who are forcibly recruited will not die in battle!" Du Feng thought in his heart, and ran all the way with the middle-aged man on horseback.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" the middle-aged man on horseback urged excitedly as he waved the spear in his hand. A sharp arrow fell at the feet of those who were unwilling to go to the battlefield, expelling those people to the battlefield, and those who were forcibly recruited had to follow Du Feng's direction, if they didn't go, those sharp arrows might fall on their bodies.
I don't know if it was because they felt the urgency of the war, or because they were expelled by the archers, the people who were forcibly conscripted gradually changed from walking to running, and those archers did not give up, and one by one sharp arrows fell at the feet of the backward people as if they did not need money! This is the real duck on the shelf! Rush to death! Go, maybe there is still a glimmer of life, if you don't go, you have to die!
The strength of the archers made it impossible for everyone to resist.
"These people are really too much!" Looking back at the recruits who were driven to the battlefield and forcibly recruited, Du Feng was furious.
"Ga!" The city gate opened, and the scene outside the city made Du Feng stunned!