"It's time to eat, it's time to eat." With a series of shouts, a team of cooks placed dozens of large buckets on the ground at the entrance of the camp, then turned and left.
At this time, the people who had been plundered by the Qing army had been waiting for food. Therefore, when they saw the food delivery person arriving, they immediately surrounded them from all sides and gathered in their respective groups, preparing for their daily routine. The robbery started. As soon as the person delivering the food left, four or five groups of people began to look at each other, and another fight for food was about to begin.
Zhao Congfu hid in the crowd, watching everything that was going to happen, and said in a low voice: "It starts again today."
Wu Hansheng spat lightly and said: "Her grandma is capable of fighting among herself and killing her own people, so why not fight the Tatars to the death?"
It turns out that Wu Hansheng and the members of the reconnaissance team, with the assistance of Zhao Congfu and other Jinyi guards who had sneaked into the city earlier, also sneaked into Jinan City yesterday, and all of them mingled with the plundered people, because there were plundered people. Hundreds of thousands, dozens of them couldn't notice at all, and the Qing army's supervision was relatively lax, so everything went very smoothly. Moreover, Wu Hansheng and others also heard Zhao Congfu tell them everything that happened in the camp. It's not surprising. Fortunately, they now have more than fifty people together and have formed a gang. In addition, they have prepared some dry food, so they haven't suffered much yet.
At this moment, someone was heard shouting: "What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you going to do? I haven't eaten yet? Can't you wait any longer? Do you all want to rebel?"
Hearing this sound, several gangs who were preparing to fight immediately stopped, not daring to take another step closer to the rice pail, and automatically separated a path, but everyone had an indignant look on their face. I saw a group of people swaggering in from the separated corridor.
Zhao Congfu, Wu Hansheng and others all knew that this was the group of minions selected by the Qing army. Behind them, a soldier from the reconnaissance team spit on the ground and said: "His grandma, these guys, Is this a magical thing?"
Zhao Congfu said: "Let them make trouble. Just arouse everyone's anger. Tell the brothers to be ready and we will take action soon."
The group of people were walking towards the place where the rice buckets were placed. At this moment, a man suddenly rushed in from the crowd, ran quickly to a rice bucket, opened the lid, grabbed a handful of rice from inside, and threw it towards the rice bucket with all his strength. Stuffed in mouth.
When this group of minions saw it, they immediately became furious. Two people immediately came over, caught the person who was trying to grab the meal, and cursed: "Damn you, you damn starving guy, you actually dare to grab the meal in front of the uncles." , you don’t even have the eyes to see who these gentlemen are, you are really blind.”
The person grabbing the meal struggled and said: "Help you, please give me something to eat. I haven't eaten anything for three days. If you don't give me something to eat, I will starve to death." Okay, okay, just let me eat a little."
After hearing this, many of the other people present showed some unbearable expressions. Although they fought to the death for food every day, after all, not long ago, they were honest farmers and they still had sympathy. But these minions were unmoved at all. One person said: "Someone like you should starve to death." As he said this, he kicked him a few times.
But during the struggle, for some unknown reason, the man who was trying to grab the food suddenly broke free from their hands and rushed to a rice bucket to grab some food. At this moment, someone in the crowd said: " This man is too pitiful, just let him eat a little."
After everyone heard this, they all said: "Yes, yes! What if we let him eat a little?"
"He is starving to death. We are all from the same hometown, so it doesn't matter if he is given something to eat. You are too overbearing."
After hearing this, this group of people became even more angry. One of them, a small-looking man, stood in the middle with his waist akimbo, pointed at everyone with his hand, and said: "Damn it, you are all going to rebel." You don’t want to live anymore, be careful I tell the uncle in Manchuria to kill you all."
Everyone heard him mention the Qing army and immediately fell silent. Seeing that everyone did not dare to say anything, the little boss became even more proud and said: "Catch that kid over here and beat him hard. I won't let you go." Let him eat, let's see what you can do, don't say that if he is not allowed to eat today, none of you will be able to eat."
After hearing this, several minions around him immediately rushed forward and grabbed the person who was trying to grab the food. They pushed him to the ground and beat him with punches and kicks. They only beat the person who was trying to steal the food and rolled on the ground. He vomited out all the food he had just eaten, and at the same time kept begging for mercy, saying: "Stop fighting, I don't dare anymore, stop fighting, I will kill you."
The little boss was still angry and said: "Beat, you deserve to be beaten to death. Isn't it like killing an ant when I beat you to death?" When everyone present saw it, although they were angry, they dared not speak out. .
At this time, several more people squeezed in, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying: "Uncle, he is our brother. He was really hungry just now. Please stop fighting and spare his life."
When the little boss saw someone urging him to fight, he became more and more enthusiastic and said: "No one can say anything today. I have to beat this kid to death." After hearing this, several of his minions also fought more vigorously, and they only managed to defeat the robbed man. The people who were eating kept screaming, and some people came up and beat the few people who were kneeling to save their lives. Many of the people present were so angry that their whole bodies were shaking, and their fists were clenched tightly.
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Stop, no more fighting." The crowd narrowed, and Zhao Congfu and Wu Hansheng led ten people to surround them.
It turns out that the people they brought to snatch the meal and plead for mercy were all deliberately arranged by the people they brought, and the people who made the crowd booed were also arranged by them. The purpose was to arouse everyone's indignation. Now it's almost done. Zhao Congfu and Wu Hansheng also came forward to give the final incitement.
It’s just that the little boss didn’t realize it at all. He just looked arrogant and said, “What’s wrong with you guys? Are you coming to pull this horizontal carriage? You also want to get a beating, right?”
Saying that, he came up and grabbed Zhao Congfu's front. Zhao Congfu sneered, grabbed his wrist with his left hand, and slapped him hard on the face with his right hand. Only the little head was hit. After turning three times, he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
And someone in the crowd immediately shouted: "Good fight, good fight, kill these bastards."
After the little leader stood firm, he covered his cheek with one hand, pointed at Zhao Congfu with the other, and said: "You...you..."
Zhao Congfu ignored him, turned around and said to everyone: "Folks, we are all Han people, and we are all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, we were plundered by the Tatars and came here, so we are all in the same boat." He turned around and said
Pointing to the group of minions, he continued: "And this group of bastards are obviously Han Chinese, but they have defected to the Tatars and helped the Tatars to bully us. Everyone is saying whether to spare them or not."
Everyone's anger was suddenly aroused, and they all said: "No mercy, no mercy, beat these bastards to death."
This group of minions couldn't help but panic when they saw the public's anger. However, a small leader jumped out again and said, "You are so brave. What are you going to do? Do you want to rebel?"
The man from Manchuria will come later to see how to deal with you and teach you all..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Congfu took a step forward, grabbed him by the collar, and said: "You bastard, you rely on the power of the Tatars and rely on the power of others, I will kill you first today."
As he spoke, he pulled out the decree hidden on his body and struck the little boss with a knife into his heart. The little boss screamed and died immediately.
Whether it was the minions or other people, they were all shocked when they saw Zhao Congfu suddenly taking out a knife to kill someone. They were all in a state of excitement just now, but now they were all startled.
But at this moment, Wu Hansheng immediately shouted in a very cooperative voice: "Folks, kill these gangsters for eight days." As he said that, he also pulled out the dagger he had collected close to him and stabbed another minion to death.
The other Jin Yiwei and reconnaissance team soldiers hidden in the crowd immediately started shouting: "Kill, kill them, kill them all." Then they rushed out immediately.
Everyone has a herd mentality, and everyone's anger was already aroused at this time, so when they saw someone taking the lead and others responding, they couldn't bear it anymore, and they immediately followed suit, so they shouted together.
: "Kill, kill them, kill them all." Then they all rushed towards the group of minions.
At this time, all the minions panicked and hurriedly begged for mercy. But at this time, everyone's anger had completely exploded. They ignored their begging for mercy and rushed forward with a flurry of kicks.
He vented all his anger, resentment, grievances, and sadness on these minions.
Unfortunately, these minions only had fifty or sixty people. There were tens of thousands of opponents there. They were knocked to the ground one by one. They were beaten to the ground and rolled around, screaming. The soldiers of the reconnaissance team who were beaten just now were pretenders.
After they came out, they screamed, but this time it was true. At first, some sounds could be heard, but after a while, they stopped moving. And there were still people who were not relieved and beat their bodies fiercely. Is there any
The young corpses were beaten to a bloody pulp and were in disgrace.
And just when everyone was fighting vigorously, they suddenly heard someone shouting: "What are you doing? What are you doing? Stop now." When everyone looked at it, they saw a small group of Qing soldiers walking over and questioning everyone.
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It turned out that the Qing army never paid attention to the fights between the captured people for food. Therefore, when the conflict first broke out, although the Qing army had a small group of people guarding nearby and saw it, they did not act rationally.
But later the Qing army discovered that today was a little different from the previous fights for food, because the guards guarding them were Han soldiers who could understand Chinese and heard words such as "Tatars" and "dogs fighting against human power". I also felt something was unusual, so I decided to come over and have a look.
When the Qing army arrived, the common people couldn't help but be shocked, because those who were killed were all the minions of the Qing army. This was such a big deal that many people even became frightened.
At this moment, Wu Hansheng suddenly shouted: "Folks, we are all dead, fighting with the Tatars."