On July 29, at three o'clock in Si, I know that I am standing.
"An Cheng, why is there no one guarding the city wall? Where are everyone?" Yu Qiuhei breathed a sigh of relief after completing the mission of conveying information, and asked An Cheng Fukushima, "It hurt me that I was almost caught up by the Oda family's city gate just now. How unfair."
While he said, he opened a cabinet in Tianshou Pavilion. A stack of paper inside recorded the number of weapons and armor in Zhilicheng, and the other stack was the contract of selling the slaves. Yu Qiuping put two stacks of paper into the package, and it only appeared after finishing his work. Fukushima Ansei never replied. Yu Qiuping looked at Fukushima Ansei, who had always been honest and loyal.
Fukushima Ansei smiled bitterly, "Please come with me."
Fukushima Yasei led Yu Qiuping away from Tianshou Pavilion and followed a small path to the barracks of Zhili Castle.
When Yu Qiuping opened the gate of the barracks, the scene inside surprised him.
The garrison troops that were supposed to be fully prepared for the battle and were stationed in the city walls were now sitting on the ground in groups of three or three, leaning against the haystacks, or simply wandering around in vain. The entire military camp was so decadent.
"What are you doing? Get up and prepare for battle!" Yu Qiuping, who had worked hard along the way, couldn't help but shout angrily when he saw these people being so decadent.
The huge shouts attracted the attention of the slaves. After they saw that Yu Qiuping had arrived, their eyes were filled with joy and gratitude, but in a flash, they became helplessness and decadence again.
"Your family is all very good! They are all settled! My family is waiting for you to go back! How can you do this!" Yu Qiuping took out the letter from the package and placed it on the table beside him. "My family is still waiting for you to go back!"
"Sir, why are you here to die?" Jigang Shengzheng, who has always been known for his tough guys, is also listless at this moment. "Sir, why are you here to die for such a good person?"
"Why did you die?" Yu Qiuping spread his hands, trying to inspire their fighting spirit, but it was of little effect.
"Sir, little people, you can never go back." Fukushima Ansei smiled bitterly, "Don't you see the more than one hundred cavalry outside? With them, the little people will be chased as soon as they leave the city, and you can't even think of leaving alone."
"Then try hard to defend the city! Wouldn't it be better if you keep it!" Yu Qiuping asked in confusion.
"How to defend, sir," Mimaezaki Nakahide took over the conversation, "I heard from the retreating army that the Oda family has 6 ooo people this time! What can we do with more than 200 people?"
"We have more than 200 people who want to defend the city, but they are not satisfied with the city wall! Our armor is all in all kinds of things, some are captured, some are rotten and useless, and some are made by themselves. They don't rely on flags. They can't even recognize their identity when fighting, and they can't recognize who is their own! How to fight!" Mimaezaki Nakahide smiled bitterly, "The walls of the North City have collapsed, and we will die if there are 2Oda's family casually. They will spend a quarter of an hour to determine whether we are singing the empty city plan and kill us all in another quarter of an hour."
"Where are the military supervisors? What about those military supervisors!" Yu Qiuping angrily changed the topic.
"It ran away, it all ran away," Mimaezaki Nakahide smiled, "The day before yesterday, when he heard that Oda Jun was coming, he ran to the east without saying a word. The people of the castle town basically ran into the mountains."
"Then why don't you retreat!" Yu Qiuping asked.
"How can we withdraw, sir! Are you kidding?" Mimaezaki Nakahide looked at Yu Qiuping in amazement, "As soon as we withdraw, the old and young people in Junfucheng's family are all dead!"
"Just know." Amano Keidu suddenly said coldly.
"Master Amano, don't do this." Yu Qiuping glared at Amano Keid, but the latter ignored it without regard.
"Hehe, we have more than 200 people, we will definitely die, and there is no way out. As soon as the Oda family comes, our doomsday comes," Ogawa Yudong's face is flushed with a drink, "What else can I say?"
"Since you know there is no way to survive, why don't you stand up and resist!" Yu Qiuping asked angrily, "Go bravely to fight! Go guard the city! What's the point of staying here and waiting for death! Even if you don't do anything here, won't you still die!"
More than two hundred slave soldiers gradually gathered beside Yu Qiuping, but they all looked decadent and powerless.
"Sir, let's protect you to break through. Sir, run directly towards the mountainous area to the east. If you have the chance to run away!"
"Yes, sir, please leave quickly! We will try our best to send you away!"
"But I am here to take you to defend the city!" Yu Qiuping shouted to them, "Mr. Semei said that as long as we guard Zhili City for three days, we can exempt you from being a slave!" Yu Qiuping, who originally thought that this sentence could boost morale, unexpectedly found that everyone still had a look of no confidence or hope.
"Impossible sir," Fukushima Ansei said helplessly, "If we can't hold on for three days, we can only die here."
"If you can't defend for three days, you have to fight bravely! Haven't you ever fought against bandits!"
"Hold for three days! You don't have to be slaves anymore! Don't you want to be a free person? Don't you want to fight for it!" Yu Qiuping raised his arms and shouted.
However, no response was made.
Yu Qiuping suddenly became a little confused.
"That is, since you are going to die," Mimaezaki Nakahide smiled angrily, "Are you going to stand up and fight to die bravely?"
"That's right." Yu Qiuping, who was angry, replied coldly.
"So... since we are dead at all times, we are waiting to die, or we are still brave enough to die in battle. Isn't it all meaningless? If we die, we will lose everything." Mimaezaki Nakatsuhira said quickly, wanting to see how Yu Qiuping explained.
"That's right." Yu Qiuping replied calmly, but his heart was already like a turbulent wave of rivers and a power that was indescribable was the struggle of fear.
Yes, everyone is going to die. So, what is it that supports us and keeps working hard?
What is it? What makes people work hard to walk the path of life.
Mimaezaki Nakahide grabbed his head in pain and buried his head deeply in his knees. "I should have understood it long ago!" He whispered, like confession, or like complaining, "From the day when we became slaves, we were destined to suffer in dire straits and fire in this life, never to stand out, no freedom in our lifetime, and be enslaved. I was still fantasizing that we would be different from other slaves and would live a good life one day." He looked at Yu Qiuping with tears, "Sir, I have given us hope, making us feel that life still has hope and light!" The slaves around him looked at Yu Qiuping gratefully when they heard this sentence, but finally sighed.
"But in the end, I'm still meaninglessly dying. I'm dead and I don't know anything." Mimaezaki Nakahide looked at the sky helplessly. The sky gradually covered the thick dark clouds, covering the sun.
"Yes, this is meaningless," Yu Qiuping suddenly smiled a little crazy, which surprised the slaves. "No matter what kind of family we were born, no matter how we grew up, no matter how happy and happy life we ​​had, no matter what kind of dreams we had."
"People are always going to die. Whether they are killed, dying from illness, or dying from old age or starving, they are going to die." Yu Qiuping said, his thoughts became clear, but his emotions became excited. He suddenly understood that in his subconscious, in the depths of human nature that had not been awakened, what supports the human beings who will die, and has been working hard for thousands of years.
"Then our lives are meaningless! We were born into this world, were they meaningless from the beginning?" The boy's roar seemed to awaken nature, and the sky suddenly became gloomy. Not only the slaves, but also the personal soldiers behind him, Charlie, and Amano Keito were also attracted by the boy's unusual infectiousness.
"Or! Our ancestors! The ancestors who opened up this land and raised generations of people, those ancestors who sacrificed their blood for the continuation and glory of their families, and the parents who raised us, would they be meaningless if they died?" Yu Qiuping shouted at the top of his lungs. The people around him listened nakedly.
The sound stopped briefly, and the world seemed to listen to the boy's roar silently. The sky became more and more dimmer, as if the curtain slowly descended before the opening. The courtyard was pitch black just to wait for the protagonist to appear.
"No! It's not like this!" The young man with a wide eyes shook the entire city with a roar, and even the Oda family outside the city could hear it clearly.
"Only those who are alive! They can give meaning to the dead!" Yu Qiuping shouted out the answer to the question, the memory buried deep in the reproduction and inheritance of human beings. "Only those who are still alive! If you can think of the greatness of our ancestors, we will also have the ambition to make achievements! If you can think of those respectable people, we will also cultivate ourselves and achieve success! If you can think of our parents who love us, we will also love and care for our children! If you can think of the martyrs who sacrificed, we will also fight for the family without fear of sacrifice! If you can think of their precious will! Inherit their will!" A strong roar pierced everyone's heart, as if it suddenly opened the treasure chest that had been hidden for a long time, making them realize the meaning of life.
"And we! We fight bravely today! Even sacrifice! We want to entrust our will to those who come later! This is the only way to fight against the cruel reality!" Everyone was stunned, and then the fire in their chests was burning.
Yu Qiuping pulled out the slaves' contract from his arms, and angrily pulled them into pieces one by one, throwing them into pieces, throwing them into the air, "From now on! You are all free people! Even if we are destined to die, we must get rid of the slave's identity at the last moment of our lives and fight for freedom!" The slaves, no, are now the slightest people, looking at the flying fragments, tears filled our eyes.
The dark clouds in the sky swayed and violently hit each other.
"Trust our will! to those who are still alive! Entrust your children, your younger brothers and sisters, and all the living people in your family! Let future generations be proud to remember their ancestors in the future, and their ancestors worked hard for freedom!" Yu Qiuping raised his arms again and shouted, this time he got the roar of more than two hundred men from the heart! Roaring towards the sky and at this cruel reality!
Yu Qiuping suddenly felt a little exhausted and didn't know what words to use to end the speech. What words seemed to be insufficient.
Finally, that sentence flashed through my mind.
"Get up! People who don't want to be slaves!"
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky and tore through the dark curtain. For a moment, the stars in the sky and earth were faded. This young man named Yu Qiuping stepped onto the stage of the Warring States Period with this shout.
Chapter completed!