With the messy rain of arrows and the clamoring shouts, many figures with swords and guns rushed out from the mountains and forests in the distance, like a turbid stream.
I saw their mottled outfits, holding in their hands these various shapes of knives, firewood axes, bamboo spears, door panels, pot lids, and even the main road, which only had a leather jacket and gray shirt big hips. The soldiers are neatly dressed.
Seeing this scene, Ge Shutic's frowned brows relaxed slightly. Wasn't that what he was wary of and guarded against along the way? Threats that are not sent out are the most uncomfortable and painful; but once they show their deeds, they will naturally have corresponding measures.
However, this Luzhou boundary is where the powerful Huainan faction Yang Xingmin started his home. Therefore, the various rebellious troops, bandits and local groups scattered on the ground are more active and fierce than other places. Seeing these obviously organized ranks of myself, he even dared to take the initiative to attack.
Under the slogans and orders one after another in the queue, these more than a hundred assistant soldiers, both old and new, also hesitated and slowed to gather along the road in a mess, and then followed the edge of the dirt road to eject a short spear. Enemy, the sword is in a generous formation on the left and right.
In the formation, another twenty or thirty assistant soldiers began to lean against the mule and started winding the hook in a hurry in accordance with the training regulations; however, at this time, another round of arrows flew in, and suddenly shot the current short. Mao Di Li screamed and screamed.
But those archers in ambush also rushed out of the mountains and fired a round closer; although the specific kills were only acquaintances, they further hit the morale of these auxiliary pawn spearmen, causing them to weaken their legs and the tip of the spear in their hands. They hung down one after another, and looked around as if they were about to turn around and flee in the next moment.
"Bastard thing, look over there..."
But he was slapped severely by his brother Shudiqi and turned back, even the leather helmet on the head was a little slanted.
"Would you like to find a way to survive after leaving the team and betraying the enemy?"
However, at this time, the crossbowmen at the back of the queue were finally loaded and wounded, and then shot the first arrow. All of a sudden, the crossbow and arrow athletes with uneven residuals flew up and down in a row. Some shot and penetrated the advancing enemy soldiers, and some flew over their heads, but the archers behind them quickly dodge and scatter.
It’s just that, before the second round is finished, the enemies who have dashed and jumped over the rocks, rivers, ridges and grasses, and under the roadside trees have already smashed to the front; aggressively forcing the front-line assistants to retreat. After taking a short step, he was pushed back by his companions behind him, and the spear was still influencing the incoming enemy.
In an instant, blood spattered and roared and screamed, but it was a total of seven or eight enemies rushing in front. The inverted spear tip pierced the chest, shoulders, waist and abdomen, bloody wailing and screaming. But he didn't die for a while, but he dragged the spearhead to the ground.
"Turn sideways, pull forward and stab!"
With these thunder-blasting shouts, the assistant soldiers finally remembered that they had stabbed the grass target in the daily queue training, and the fear of being dominated by the instructor and the instructor with sticks and lashes, instead of conditioned sideways pumping. Pull; and give up the gap to the spearhead of the back row assistant pawn.
In an instant, there were screams and bloody gushes that almost immediately followed. Before the first wave of enemy soldiers on the ground died, more enemies slammed into and penetrated these cold spearheads, and the front row of auxiliary soldiers The casualties finally began to appear. Two people were chopped in the shoulder and side waist respectively, and the wounds fell to the ground revealing a gap.
At this time, a new round of arrows flew up, shooting down the auxiliary soldiers in the front row one after another, exposing more gaps; however, at this time the crossbowmen in the rear were finally ready to counterattack, in an instant round. Crossbow arrows were thrown obliquely over the heads of the chaotic crowd, and the very large spread pierced through the approaching archers, immediately shooting them upside down and dispersing them.
And the sword players on the left and right finally reacted, and under the leadership and urging of the fire chief and the five heads, they slashed from the side to these enemies who slammed into the front line. Suddenly he cut it down one after another, and then drove it out again with the remaining spearmen.
At this moment, the elder Shutic, who was in the middle of the license, let out a sigh of relief. Although relying on the array of these auxiliary pawns, they inevitably fought into chaos several times; but the advantages of the enemy's ambush and surprise attacks have disappeared; The next thing is the array battle.
Although the number of array operations that can be mastered by these assistants is limited, it is the simplest version; but if you have the basis of battle and the reluctance for a while, even if the place has several times the head advantage, it may not be able to move and disperse. This It is the chief of the array of the masters of economics.
Besides, the enemy seems to have poured out all his strength, and he still has extra energy to use it? He was thinking about it, and suddenly he heard a fierce whistling sound from the reed grass in the distance behind the side; but it was the grass that was constantly falling over and trampled, and suddenly another wave of people rushed out. .
Among them, there are several figures wearing this shiny armor, riding horses that are not much larger than mules, just running across the uneven ground, and they will rush into these auxiliary pawns when they see three times and five out of two. Array, among the rear crossbowmen who are trying to re-shoot.
As a result, the morale in these auxiliary pawn arrays also vented as Ge Shutic’s eyes sank to the bottom. The first to make an uproar and shouts of exclamation began to escape from the auxiliary pawn crossbowmen. The few seven or eight donkeys and mules were suddenly exposed.
And the spearman and the array of sword cards, who were struggling to repel the enemy again, couldn't help turning their heads frequently and becoming shaky, and they were about to fall apart on the spot in the next moment. However, Ge Shutic took the last few trainers and took the initiative to meet the enemy's surprise soldiers.
"It's a pity that you are about to die before you get out of school?"
At this moment, he was talking so much in his heart, but his wife's haggard face appeared. Maybe it would be a good thing for her to die here. Can you give birth to that child without worry, and receive compensation and help as a military member, rather than a relative of the remnants of the old dynasty
However, just when his brother Shutic shot empty the crossbow in his hand, he only missed most of it lightly. He only shot one of the workhorses in the chest and caused it to roll to the ground; he dropped the crossbow again. Based on years of experience in the game, the machine held the card diagonally upward with his left hand, trying to buy another moment for the last of his life.
Then he was knocked into the hand by the force that looked like a heavy hammer, and his left hand lost consciousness in the severe pain; but one of the enemy riders couldn't help but stopped and stopped with a spear. He moved faster to take off the short knife held in his mouth, his eyes quickly pierced the horse's belly through his unarmored protective calf, and he dragged his hand to the other side with the painful screaming of the blood spring splashed by the man and the horse.
At this time, the other enemy rider turned around in irritation, and almost swept him sideways before knocking him to the ground, rolling a few times in the dark. However, two other trainers used swords and spears to chop off the leg, and the other stabbed someone, and he just overturned to the ground. However, before he was knocked to the ground, he struggled to get up again, and saw that the strange soldiers were already there. Killed in front of:
Just as he tried to grab the short knife with his well-displaced right hand, and was about to make a dying blow, he heard a familiar voice yelling:
"All lie down, don't get up"
Then, in the blood and the smell of leather and sweat in the battle, the scent of fireworks suddenly became thicker; suddenly it turned into a number of thunderous roars that seemed to be very close, and large waves of air engulfed in the sand and splashed away. Then, like raindrops, it patted on the elusive brother Shutic, almost covering the gaps in his bun, helmet, ears and back of the neck.
When he tried to shake off the accumulated sand on his head and face, and he was humming in his ears and being supported by someone, he could only see the auxiliary pawns who had been scattered into several parts, chasing and killing them everywhere. The fleeing enemy army. However, in this somewhat dim and distorted world, apart from the continuous buzzing buzzing sound, there was no need to hear any other sounds.
Then he touched the sticky side face hard, only to find a handful of smeared flesh and blood fragments; in an instant, as something flowed out of the ear canal, he also heard more chaotic noises in this world Become real again. Can not help muttering to himself:
"Does this win?"
More than half an hour later, as these enemy soldiers died or fell one after another, the five-headed Deng Liao who was chasing by the auxiliary pawns also leaned under an old tree, sitting on the ground and panting, and was suddenly relieved. Can't get up
But I was a little scared and unimaginable in my heart, I would actually burst out such courage and endurance at the last minute to chase such a boss from such a long distance. But in any case, it really survived, and now this hurdle is over.
To be honest, the reason why he signed up for this assistant pawn is really forced by life in a certain sense. Yes, it is the result of life. Although he has settled down for several years, and is still one of the benchmarks of skilled labor and hard work in Zhuangzi, he has enough food and clothing, and has a second child with that pretty girl.
But the strange thing is that no matter how hard you work, the annual harvest is better than the year, and the money that is exchanged afterwards has gradually increased, but it seems that it is always not enough. It was like the basic harvest of his Zhuangzi last year. After four points were handed over and one point was left in the village, he gave him half a room of millet.
In addition to the centimeters earned by working in the daily idle time, the vegetables and chickens raised in front of the house and the rear of the house; it is enough to make the eaves full of chicken, duck and smoked fish under the eaves, and the table top is thick. The pickles, sauce jars, and new brew jars are each filled with a large one.
But the worst is the supply and marketing cooperatives and mobile sales carts in the counties and towns, each time they can bring a dazzling array of good things and new things that change every year; there are always enough things that make people tireless. But I can't help but take out the new money in my bag that I haven't covered my heat, wanting to control something.
You should know that in addition to paying the father, staying at the farm, keeping the seeds and self-eating, he layed a full 45 dan (stone) of millet this year, plus half a large pig and a dozen chickens bought by the father. In the end, it was replaced by a few large coins that were clean and surplus and heavy, which made people extraordinarily practical. That was a large sum of money that he had never seen in the first half of his life.
At first, he just saw a big rattan-husk iron-skin pot. It is said that the hot soup can not be hot in summer, but it is still warm in winter, and it took nineteen writings to buy it after biting his teeth. Then he saw a thick set. The charcoal paper only needs four texts, so I can’t help but buy it for Da'er for enlightenment; after all, he should also participate in the mobile education in the village in two years. Can't everyone else just go empty-handed, right
So I bought a ruler for making new clothes and mattresses for the New Year at home, and thought of the woman’s tattered toe cap cloth, and wanted to replace it with a plain and stain-resistant cloth; except for the piglets that were sold every year when they were not raised. He wanted to buy two more pairs of rabbits, and he could raise a bunch of them by relying on the vegetables and weeds grown at home. In the future, whether it is to sell rabbit cubs or sell skins and meats. . . .
I want to buy a little too, and I want to buy a little too, and then everything becomes out of control. Seeing that the few strings of green money received in the bag, it was as if one's own feet had grown wings, flying into the air one after another. He still owed a hundred and ten texts to the account before he looked at the waist-length objects piled up under his feet, and suddenly realized.
Originally, he wanted to go with the people in Zhuangzi to a factory near the riverside according to the situation in the slack period of the farm, and sign a part-time job with a ten-day payment or a piece-by-piece odd job; so that this year's Yuanri Neng Not so tight. But after reading the notice in the town, I found that signing up to work as a pawn seemed to earn more than part-time work.
The resettlement fee as an assistant soldier alone was enough to cover his busy work throughout the winter. Moreover, during the military period, he also had income and other subsidies, not to mention the head-to-toe clothes that he could wear home after the fact to make money; not to mention that he also had the experience of losing in the army and fighting against anti-insurgency elements.
So he was busy pressing his fingerprints as soon as his head was hot. Then, after returning home, the barbarian wife cried and complained for several days, but when things came to an end, he still packed his bags in advance and sent him on the road. After all, the cost of fleeing under the Taiping Army is also unacceptable to those people who have only lived a stable life for a few years.
After he started on the road, he soon ended the self-pity and self-pity brought by the family's mother-in-law, and recalculated his future plans in the army. After all, even if the worst result caused him to die immediately here due to unlucky luck, his mother-in-law who couldn’t talk about that can still get pensions and subsidies as a military member, instead of letting her belongings go completely deserted. Children will also have the opportunity to grow up in the future, and they can rely on this opportunity to get a share of food.
But being able to survive round and round is different. Although he can raise his second child until he is five years old, he will send it to the government-run boy camp to study for work; and there is no restriction on gender, which makes many people who have daughters considered a burden consciously take advantage of it. But he was different from what others thought. In addition to the family business left for the boss, he actually wanted to have a daughter and then give the whole decent dowry from an early age.
—I am the dividing line —
Zhou Huaian, who had been transferred to the city of Jiangling, was also listening to many follow-up reports from the Huainan war and the complicated new situation. The first problem is that, judging by the cross-data from the Accounting Department and the Planning Department, the baby boom of newborns under the Taiping Army has initially emerged after years of accumulation.
Because of the relatively peaceful daily life of food and clothing, coupled with the limited daily entertainment methods, it is inevitable to create a person with great strength. Coupled with the overall improvement of the medical and health environment and the surplus accumulation of agricultural and sideline products, the birth rate and survival rate of infants and young children will directly increase in both directions. (End of this chapter)