In the old bandit camp to the east of the pier, although it was already late at night, there were still many figures walking around, and there were even more people surrounding several large fires, with various materials placed in front of them.
A red light flashed on the horizon in the distance, and a moment later a low sound of cannon was heard. There was a commotion among the prisoners, and many people looked up and looked over.
Yang Guangdi didn't have time to look, but just took a pile of firewood from a bandit's hand. He was among the last group to arrive in Erlang Town. It was almost dark when he arrived, and he was organized to work again with almost no rest.
. These are all captured bandits, only about 10% of whom are young men and women. They have been transferred to the town to carry corpses and building materials to strengthen the fortifications of Erlang Town. Most of the remaining people in the camp are old, weak, women and children.
by a small number of sailors
The prisoners could not do any heavy work, and the garrison camp needed firewood and hay. Let these people dry the remaining materials from the old camp and then move them to the town.
Yang Guangdi has moved several times to deliver hay to the horses of the cavalry camp. This time, General Tan asked him to move firewood for lighting and heating in the town. He would take a few prisoners to dry a batch.
I looked around and saw that there was no dry place to put it. There were water stains everywhere. Just when I didn't think of a way, a voice next to me said, "Sir, officers and soldiers, put it this way."
He turned around and saw that the bandit took off his tattered clothes, revealing his skinny upper body. He carefully spread the clothes on the ground, then raised his head and looked at Yang Guangdi with a flattering look on his face.
Yang Guangdi glanced at him. He was an old bandit, with a face full of wrinkles. The white beard on his chin was half burned, and the ends were curled up in a mess.
"You're just pretending." Yang Guangdi sneered at him with disgust on his face and spat directly on his face. The old gangster didn't dare to dodge and let the saliva hang on his face.
Yang Guangdi kicked the old thief, and the old man stumbled to the ground. A woman next to him screamed and rushed over, leaning on the old man to protect him.
"You have done so many evil things, but you still have to be chopped off with a knife." Yang Guangdi cursed bitterly, and several civilians around him laughed in unison and praised him for his good scolding. The prisoners who were baking materials buried them one after another.
Yang Guangdi raised his head and ignored someone who was sobbing softly. He and his mother were also kidnapped into the bandit camp, but it didn't last long. Soon the bandits were defeated in Chuzhou, and he escaped.
Leaving the bandit camp, I never felt like I was one of them.
Suddenly a majestic voice behind him said, "Yang Guangdi, what are you doing? How much firewood have you sent?" Yang Guangdi quickly turned around and saw the short Mr. Tan standing proudly behind him, holding a waist knife in his hand.
I didn't know where I picked it up, so I hurried over and said, "I just sent the fodder for the Cavalry Division, and I will send it to the Guards Division later.
Mr. Yong said they will have a meal in the evening, breakfast and other things."
Tan Leizi hummed, "Why don't you bring us some for yourself? I didn't even take a sip of the porridge this night."
Yang Guangdi nodded repeatedly, "Then I'll eat with General A when it's cooked." "What qualifications do you have for a little kid to eat with me? I'll reward you with a few bites while you eat." Tan Leizi said to Yang Guang seriously.
The second said, "Don't call me Chief A either. The deputy gang leader just told me that from now on I will be bigger than Chief A."
Already."
Yang Guangdi said in surprise, "General Tan, what kind of official position do you have?"
"I'm in charge of the mother-in-law camp." A satisfied smile appeared on Tan Lezi's lips.
Tan Lezi walked slowly to the fire with his hands behind his back, and looked at the prisoners majestically, mainly at the young female bandit among them. Under Yang Guangdi's admiring gaze, Tan Lezi clapped his hands and shook his head and sighed, "Since I left,
I killed eleven thieves in Hezhou when I was young. I haven't encountered any thieves for a long time. My hands are itchy. Originally, Mr. Tan, I told Pang Pang that tomorrow I will break through the eight thieves' camp and kill more than ten people.
...Twenty or thirty thieves came again to discipline these women, but Pang Daren refused. He said that I was in charge of Shipai City well, so I had to do it. Poor master, I am so sharp that I can't do anything this time.
It's stained with blood, you say it's a pity, hey." Tan Leizi sighed and shook his head, choked and pulled out the knife in his hand, Longquan flowed light under the flames, but the big gaps on it a little affected the impression, but it was already majestic enough.
The surrounding bandits, women and children heard these words
, all of them were silent, and some were so frightened that they cried softly.
Yang Guangdi was also so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear. He didn't expect Mr. Tan, who looked so wretched, to have a highlight moment when he killed eleven thieves. It sounded like it was true, otherwise it wouldn't have been a zero-sum game.
of numbers.
Tan Leizi put away the knife with satisfaction. It was not his turn to count the seized property, but today's harvest has far exceeded his expectations, mainly spiritually.
"Mrs. Yuan."
A middle-aged woman with rough hands came over and said, "I'm here, sir. Please give me your instructions, Mr. Tan."
Tan Laizi proudly said to Yang Guangdi, "Look, this is the big management team of the Pozi Camp. I just appointed Mr. Tan."
Yang Guangdi didn't know what to say and nodded blankly. Mrs. Yuan looked at Yang Guangdi and quickly realized that this child was not an important person. She ignored her and said directly to Tan Leizi, "Report Tan."
Sir, there are seventeen women in this place. I just took a look and found that quite a few of them are
The wives and concubines who are in charge of the plate and the team have always bullied me in the past, but now I have to take care of them..."
Tan Leizi waved his hands and said, "Well, you have to take care of what should be taken care of, but Pang Daren said that private revenge is not allowed in the camp." Mrs. Yuan said in agreement, "I understand that officials who are in charge of the official say what they say to others.
Forget it, both the slave family and Mr. Tan told the truth that these few are quite pretty. The slave family understands everything, so they should be kept and listen to the master's words honestly...
"
Tan Leizi interrupted with a dry cough, "Master Tan, I am a decent man. How many people are there in the income camp here?"
"We have taken in only two hundred and seventy-one, which makes it almost three hundred."
Tan Laizi chuckled and said, "It's almost just not enough. Let's do this for now. When the things are done, you can go get twenty-nine more. Is there anything else?"
"I want to ask Mr. Tan for a riding whip." Mrs. Yuan glanced at the female captive next to her and said bitterly, "These bitches are all from the camp of the gangsters. They will not obey unless they are beaten."
"That makes some sense. If you need to fight, you should fight." Tan Laizi said thoughtfully.
All the female prisoners on the ground lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Tan Leizi. Only one woman glanced at him, her eyes full of resentment.
After a while, several more people finished drying the firewood. Tan Laizi waved his hand, and Mrs. Yuan took a thin branch of firewood, whipped a few women on the ground, and asked them to pick up the firewood and send it to the town. Yang Guangdi also picked up a firewood stick.
Bao followed the team and soon entered the town. Soldiers from the garrison camp were everywhere, and they were surrounded by small groups. The alleys and broken walls in the north were piled with corpses and stones. The large group
The young and strong prisoners were still being guarded and busy carrying bricks, stones and timber from the south to the north.
There were fires everywhere, and the water stains remaining on the stone slabs of the streets reflected the light of the fires, creating a bright scene.
Another cannon shot came from the north. It had been fired many times during the night. The soldiers in the garrison camp were used to hearing it, so no one cared about it. After walking for a while, Yang Guangdi arrived. Their commander-in-chief was supposed to support the Cavalry Division, but when he arrived,
There are not enough civilians in the local area, so each department has dispatched some separately, and some of the town police soldiers have been dispatched to guard the old and weak outside. Now they are scattered everywhere, and there are only seven or eight people left here.
, even the general manager was about to be promoted. Fortunately, General Tan transferred a few more women, who could just cook. Yang Guangdi put down the firewood. This was a former alleyway, with bricks on both sides that had not collapsed.
The wall looks like it used to be home to a wealthy family, but now the alleyway is filled with piles of corpses of bandits, with heads, hands, feet, and bricks densely intertwined.
It looks quite scary.
Old man Zeng was also waiting for food here. He held a torch and stood in front of the pile of corpses to look at something carefully. When he heard Yang Guangdi calling him, he sighed and came back to sit down.
Over there, Granny Yuan was already instructing several women to raise the fire and set up pots. She borrowed a fire from the third company nearby. There was a well not far away. Granny Yuan asked two women to fetch water. The two of them struggled to carry the water back.
The one in front stopped for a moment in front of the pot. It was the woman who had glared at Tan Leizi just now. She struggled to lift the bucket, but her hand suddenly slipped, and the bucket fell to the ground and gushed out.
The water half extinguished the fire.
Granny Yuan couldn't help but grab a half-burned piece of wood and slapped it on the woman's face. Sparks flew everywhere and the woman howled miserably.
"Let you cause trouble! I tell you, you are no longer the woman in charge of the family. I am now in charge of the team. If the family leader died, I will trample him to death, and the baby you gave birth to will also be trampled to death." Then
The woman screamed and was about to fight Granny Yuan, but Granny Yuan was quite powerful. She grabbed the woman's hair and pressed her to the ground, then burned her bare feet. Amidst the sharp screams, the air was suddenly filled with flesh and blood.
burn
Burnt taste.
The soldiers in the nearby garrison stared at Mrs. Yuan blankly, never expecting that a woman could fight so fiercely.
Mrs. Yuan looked like she was crazy, "Look, you can still bully me, I'll burn your face!"
As she spoke, she pulled back the wooden stick and tried to push it towards the woman's face. The woman's hands were flailing and she tried to stop it.
"stop!"
Tan Laizi seemed to have just come to his senses. He suddenly roared, stood up and shouted again, "No burning!"
The disheveled Mrs. Yuan lost sight of the woman when she heard Tan Laizi talking.
"Go and collect all the people, I can cook it myself." Tan Laizi waited for a moment and then pointed to the woman on the ground, "Let her stay and cook."
Mrs. Yuan obediently took the other women away. The woman who was burned was crawling on the ground, her disheveled hair covering half of her face, and the half of her face that was exposed was dull, and she didn't look like she was going to cook.
Tan Leizi waved to Yang Guangdi, "Let's cook it ourselves."
Several peasants fetched water and put in rice to keep the fire going. They were all so hungry that they gathered around the pot and waited for their meal.
Yang Guangdi sat in the back seat, with the pile of corpses next to him. From time to time, he glanced at the lying woman outside. After a while, he whispered to Tan Lezi next to him, "This woman is cruel.
"
Tan Laizi said absently, "Why do you still pity the female thief?" "I don't pity the thief, they are all bad people. The thief burned down my house, but my mother and I survived. I killed them all when I saw them." Yang
Guangdi touched his head and said, "I'll kill you anyway, but Mr. Tan, why did you let this
The cruel Granny Yuan is in charge, she is obviously a bad person."
Tan Laizi rolled his eyes at him and said, "You know nothing. Even if Mrs. Yuan is capable of doing things, she naturally needs bad people to take care of things. You see, that good person can take care of bad people."
Yang Guang said, "Then Mr. Tan, you are also in charge of people."
The old man Zeng next to him coughed violently and hurriedly covered his mouth.
"You nonsense puppy!" Tan Leizi kicked Yang Guangdi. Yang Guangdi turned around and ran away, circling around the fire, while Tan Leizi chased after him.
"The bad guys hit the good guys." Old Man Zeng sighed on the side, "Son, just let him hit you a few times, and he won't be able to defeat him even with his strength."
Yang Guangdi shouted while running, "Don't dare let him fight. Mr. Tan killed a dozen thieves in Hezhou, so he must have beaten him."
Old man Zeng shook his head, "It doesn't look like it." Tan Laizi stopped and cursed at old man Zeng, "What doesn't look like? Ask Manhezhou who can offend Mr. Tan from Anqing. Mr. Tan
I killed seven or eight thieves on the dock alone, and also rescued those two or three people. You once
The old man knows something, let me tell you, if you find a bandit now, Mr. Tan, I will cut him in half with a knife, so that you can all open your eyes!"
At this moment, there was a soft noise from the pile of corpses behind, and the few people who were still sitting jumped up in fright, and followed Tan Leizi to hide outside.
"There's a ghost!"
Yang Guangdi followed the fellow citizens and retreated to the middle of the street. Some soldiers around him came over to take a look, smiled and then went back.
"What the hell, he's not dead." Old man Zeng was still sitting in the distance. He turned around and sighed, "He won't live long."
"He's not dead." Tan Leizi felt relieved and wiped the sweat from his forehead. As soon as he put his hand down, a waist knife was handed over to him.
The citizen asked flatteringly, "Does Mr. Tan want to split him in half?"
Tan Laizi opened it, stepped on his feet and looked at the pile of corpses, "Get out of here, this half-dead guy, I've ruined my reputation by killing him, so let him go."
He looked around and said, "It's unlucky here. Let me cook it and bring it over to you, sir."
After that, he walked along the street to the west side and sat down on the street to wait for food. Several civilians also followed, leaving only old man Zeng and Yang Guangdi. Old man Zeng didn't care and just lit the fire there.
Guangdi approached the sound carefully, and looked carefully through the flickering firelight. He saw that it was a middle-aged man at the bottom of the pile of corpses. He was suppressed by a pile of corpses. Only his head and right hand were exposed, and there was blood in his ears.
Out of his brain
The bag turned slightly and opened his eyes, glanced blankly, and then closed them again, another hoarse moan escaping from his throat.
Yang Guangdi squatted down, and the man opened his eyes again. He glanced half a circle, and finally saw Yang Guangdi in front of him. His lips trembled for a moment and he said, "Water..." There was another cannon sound in the night sky, and Yang Guangdi crouched down.
Guangdi trembled in fright. He did not go to get the knife, but just squatted there and watched. The bandit's face was on the ground. He seemed to feel the water on the stone slab. He turned his face sideways and stuck out his tongue on the stone slab.
He licked hard, and the blood from his ears kept dripping on the stone slab.
Old man Zeng behind him whispered, "He will not survive. If you don't want to kill the thief, just send him away earlier." Yang Guangdi stayed for a moment, then touched his waist with trembling hands and got the handle of the short knife.
, he held it for a moment and then released it, and then he touched the coconut scoop along the back. He hesitated for a moment, and finally removed the stopper on it, and carefully tilted the coconut scoop over. The water fell from the mouth of the scoop and dripped into the man's mouth.