"Shameless moth thief, don't run away if you can!"
The Taishan bandits were almost going crazy. The battle was suffocating, and the enemy's provocation made them even more furious. They didn't know the calculations of Xi Zhicai and the leaders, and they couldn't understand the sadness in Xi Zhicai's heart. At this moment, they felt
His only thought was to catch up with these hateful Yellow Turban thieves and tear them into pieces.
"Stop, shameless thief! Do you dare to do it or not? Let's see who is the turtle bastard?"
The bandits waved their weapons and leapt across the mountains, but they were unable to catch up with the enemy. They shouted in anger, but their anger grew higher and higher.
"You are the thieves, your whole family is thieves!" The bandits can walk the mountain road very quickly, but just a year after they put down their swords and guns, they have also crawled around in the mountains and played hide-and-seek with the officers and soldiers.
They were also very familiar with it. Not only did they easily leave the bandits behind by relying on the distance they had previously opened, but they also had the energy to quarrel with the bandits.
"Those who dig food in the soil with hoes are dutiful people, and those who grab food with swords are thieves! I have cultivated forty acres of paddy fields by myself this year and traveled all over the world. Who dares to say that I am a thief?"
The person who spoke was a man with a very big frame. His figure should have been very burly, but because of his shriveled skin and flesh, he looked a little out of place. It is conceivable that if he hadn't suffered too much hunger, this man should have been a strong man like an iron tower.
It's not like the skeleton it is now.
While he was scolding, he did not forget to lean down to pick up some rocks and other things from the ground and throw them randomly behind him: "If you thieves hadn't come to stir up trouble, I would be saving my strength at home and waiting to open ten acres of land next year.
Let’s use up all the quota and tidy up the forty acres this year! What a nice snow! Next year will definitely be a good year!”
The extremely simple truth left the bandits speechless and could only silently avoid the stones thrown from the mountain. The pursuit slowed down unknowingly.
"Then we are not thieves. Those who don't work in the fields are all the bosses. Don't we minions use hoes in peacetime and knives in war?" Some people felt aggrieved.
With such a large scale, how could the Taishan bandits be able to support themselves by just looting? They were also farmers. Zang occupied Langya and was eyeing Mount Tai and Qingzhou. They were just eyeing the population and land of these two places.
The only ones who are truly free from labor are the leaders and their personal soldiers, just like Sun Kang's three hundred soldiers. These are the private soldiers of each family, real elite and professional soldiers. The rest of the thieves are semi-soldiers.
A peasant is a half-thief. The lower his status, the closer he is to a peasant.
"Forty acres? Or paddy fields? How can a small soldier... not even a soldier have so much land?" Those who know the business are simply envious.
In Qingzhou, the output of one acre of land is one hundred catties. The output of paddy fields is much higher than that of dry land. The output of fifty acres of land in one year is even less than five thousand catties! Fifty husks of corn.
!
Even if you pay half the tax, if a person eats two liters a day, more than half of the corn harvested in a year will be left. In a few years, won't he become a wealthy family? Maybe he can support his children in education!
We had known for a long time that Qingzhou became rich after it was transformed from chaos to rule, but who would have thought that it would become so rich. No wonder these people, who are not even soldiers, dare to come and fight against the big boss. If it were me, my family would be so rich.
There are so many fields. When it gets dark and you close your eyes, there is so much hope. Whoever dares to grab it will have to fight hard!
I heard that the hussar general also proposed to appease the chief master and other masters. I heard that the conditions were not very good and asked most of the bandits to disarm and return to their fields. The masters were very angry and everyone was also very angry.
These are troubled times! In troubled times, only the sword is the most reliable, and those who are digging in the soil are the most worthless and pitiful. Anyone can step on them. Therefore, the anger of the leaders has been transmitted to the entire army.
When Zang Bajun entered the army for the first time, he was holding back his energy from top to bottom and was ready to vent his anger.
But now, the minions are beginning to waver.
A man can cultivate fifty acres of land, and the tax is only half for the first two years, and will decrease year by year... This is not looking down on us, it is clearly a benevolent government!
"Anyone who doesn't dig in the soil and eats with his hands is not a thief! I made hundreds of farm tools this year and built a water tanker for the village! I only spent half of my wages and married a wife. Who dares
Are you saying I'm a thief?"
"Yes, he who doesn't rely on his own strength to rob is a thief!"
The strong man's words resonated.
In an instant, the two sides chasing and escaping on the mountain suddenly turned upside down. The fleeing side was confident and confident, and the momentum was like a rainbow; the chasing side's anger gradually disappeared, eyes flashed, and momentum was sluggish, but the pursuit became slower and slower.
"Don't listen to their nonsense. The richer Qingzhou is, the greater the rewards will be after winning this battle." Zang Ba did not fully believe Xi Zhicai's analysis. He always felt that Xu He should be an ambitious talent like himself.
Yes. How could an ambitious person take action so resolutely without discussing the terms carefully?
If it were you, even if you were on the side of Qingzhou, you couldn't take action at this time? You had to wait until the foreign enemies came to the city, then Shi Shiran showed up and put forward the conditions that had been planned long ago, such as separatizing Taishan County and defaulting to Jibei County.
Just put forward your demands for jurisdiction and the like, and then engage in a random battle with a foreign enemy so that the opponent can retreat in order to preserve your strength.
This is how Zang Ba cooperated with Tao Qian back then. After driving the Yellow Turban Army to Qingzhou, he directly occupied the Langya Kingdom with Tao Qian's endorsement.
Therefore, he felt that Xi Zhicai was a little too pessimistic, and he wanted to think about it carefully. But he didn't expect Tian Feng to actually dare to provoke him. He simply took advantage of the situation and attacked, thinking of defeating the enemy troops first, grabbing a heavyweight hostage, and asking
Ask what's going on before telling you.
Unexpectedly, before the enemy was chasing him, his morale was falling again and again. While he was angry, he couldn't help but feel worried.
The attitude shown by the Qingzhou Army was too confident and too calm. Could it be that Xu He really became an idiot? He is obviously a very smart person? Why did he suddenly...
His encouragement is not very effective. The real gangsters do not need his encouragement, their eyes are shining, and they are chasing faster and faster as if there is wind under their feet. Those minions with low fighting spirit are focused on planning.
If I were to be a commoner in Qingzhou, I would be able to save a lot of money in a year, and in a few years I would be able to live a good life that I envied before. Where would there be morale left?
In fact, as soon as they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Zang Ba's team was already out of touch. The gangsters and personal guards rushed to the front in twos and threes, but the large group of people lagged far behind.
Zang Ba finally realized something was wrong. He looked back to ask Xi Zhicai, but found that Xi Zhicai had not followed him at all. When he looked back down the mountain, through the mist of snow, he found a small group of people protecting the man.
The familiar figure retreated out of the mountain.
"It's not good..." He finally woke up and shouted in his heart that it was not good.
Xi Zhicai is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. He is very aware of the importance of this battle to Cao Cao. There is only one reason for him to give up, that is, it is impossible to do anything and there is no way to save it!
"Stop, stop!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, but it was already too late...
"Kill the thief!" From the mountain col to the west, there was a loud shout of killing. It was like a dam collapsed, releasing a long-suppressed wave of anger, shaking the sky and shaking the earth!
Looking in shock, Zang Bazheng saw his old partner Sun Guan covered in wounds. He and Yin Li supported each other and ran at the front, followed by hundreds of remnant soldiers running like wolves. From time to time, someone would suddenly fall down and roll on the ground.
In the snowdrift, I never got up again.
Behind them, two "Xu" flags stood side by side. They were fluttering in the wind, and under the flags, countless warriors shouted battle cries and came fiercely to kill.
"Kill the thief!" Before Zang Ba could make any move, the horns and drums on the east hillside were blaring. It was Guan Hai who had left and returned. The more than 10,000 militiamen under his command seemed not to be affected by the previous defeat at all.
Everyone held their heads high and their chests high, with fighting spirit in full swing.
"Protect the family and kill the thieves!" Immediately afterwards, Tian Feng's 10,000 militiamen suddenly stopped, turned around, and raised a variety of crude weapons. Although the weapons were crude and the formation was full of holes, but every time
The look on his face was extremely determined, making it impossible to question his fighting spirit.
"Kill the thief!" The fǎngfo valley echoed, and the sound of killing reverberated throughout the wilderness.
Several more black lines faintly appeared behind the snow and fog in the distance. Each black line was probably composed of more than 10,000 people. Those holding knives and those holding sticks. There were no hand weapons to hold, so they raised them.
With sickles, hoes, branches, bamboo poles, and even fishing nets.
Almost everyone is disheveled, but everyone is high-spirited.
God knows how many militiamen Qingzhou mobilized for this battle. Zang Ba had no intention of counting. He knew that he had fallen into the most dangerous situation in his life.
Qingzhou is empty and crowded. Isn’t this a big joke?
Qingzhou has been in chaos for a long time and the people's livelihood is in decline, but the total population is more than 300,000 households, of which the former Yellow Turban Army alone has nearly one million people. According to what we have seen and know so far, Qingzhou's mobilization power can definitely reach
All the people are soldiers!
There are nearly 300,000 young people and more than a million militiamen. The tide can drown 30,000 of them with just one spitting breath.
What's more, there are thousands of Xu He's elites among them, and Xu Shu, who is full of scheming, is commanding and dispatching?
In the endless sea of flags, a certain sunny and cold young man sneered condescendingly: Using the crowd to bully the weak? Let's see, who has more soldiers!
"Xu He, you thief actually went back on your word? Didn't you say you wanted to find a way to survive for your brothers? Could it be that your way to survive is to be Wang Yu's dog?" Zang Ba was full of grief and indignation, shouting at the top of his lungs, and made an unwise move towards
Xu He, who had made a choice that caused him to fall short, questioned.
"A way to survive?" Xu He sneered: "The so-called way to survive is to allow farmers to have their own land and residents to have their houses! It means that you, thieves with knives, will not be allowed to harm the hard-working and diligent people! For your sake
Is it just a way of survival to mess up Qingzhou with ambition and turn it into what it was before? Zang Ba, do you know any shame?"
His voice was not high, but the guards around Tongguo shouted in unison, but his words spread throughout the wilderness, arousing countless responses: "Zang Ba, you know how shameless!"
At this moment, the mountains responded and the people responded. Endless questions filled the whole world.
Zang Ba felt ashamed and angry, and a mouthful of blood rushed to his throat.
"Kill! Those who surrender will be spared death, and those who resist will be killed!"
The next moment, Xu He waved his flag, and the whole mountain responded at the same time. The crowds were rolling in, and countless soldiers and horses filled the mountains and fields to kill them. Even the bravest bandits had their livers and gallbladder broken, and their hands and feet were trembling.
"Poof!" Zang Ba's blood finally failed to suppress. The battle was lost, his dream came to nothing, and the foundation he had worked so hard to build over the years also came to nothing.
It's over, everything is over! (To be continued...)