He swallowed it with his mouth. (Wen Gu stopped to gasp, tore off strips of rags from his body and hastily wrapped the wound.
With food in my stomach, my already numb body gradually regained consciousness. I only felt a sharp pain in my fingers. I couldn't help but grit my teeth and endured it for a while before I felt better. I was about to turn around and leave when suddenly two children looked like clay monkeys. He threw himself on the body of the woman whose head he had robbed, and cried pitifully, calling "Mother" one after another.
Xiao Chuba was shocked, turned around and wanted to run away, but the desperate cry and wailing sound was like a sharp knife piercing Xiao Chuba's organs. He had been eating more anxiously just now, and instantly he felt that his mouth was filled with the smell of blood. , I felt nauseated and my stomach was turbulent. I couldn't bear it anymore and vomited out all the steamed buns I had just swallowed. I choked and coughed repeatedly, and my mouth was full of blood-red steamed buns dregs.
Xiao Chuba finally coughed and gasped. Seeing the filth he had vomited, he knelt on the ground and cried in despair. His cry was hoarse and shrill, but it was quickly drowned in the murmur of the crowd chanting sutras.
Amidst the fanatical chanting, more than 20,000 refugees gathered together, like a huge turbid wave. In order to survive, they broke through and swallowed up the villages in Lunan with destructive power, heading in one direction towards Dadianzhuang. The direction is coming. There are endless corpses left along the way.
In front of Yunsheng Temple, despite the cold weather, there is a bustling labor scene. More than 20,000 refugees in the refugee camp have been mobilized by the New Taoists to dig a huge trench around the Taoist temple and the refugee camp.
The specifications of this trench are that the width of the trench is one foot and two feet, the bottom of the trench is five to six feet, and the depth is one foot and five feet. The excavated soil is piled on the inner wall to form an earth embankment, which increases the relative height of the inner side of the trench. higher.
Around the refugee camp and Yun Sheng Temple, approximately 3 kilometers of trenches need to be excavated. The project is huge and daunting - not to mention that the snow is frozen and the ground is hard, making manual excavation extremely laborious. However, in the Taoist opinion, This is the only way to save the refugee camp and the Taoist temple.
Tens of thousands of refugees are a destructive force. No matter how many 21st century "spells" Zhang Yingchen has, he is very vulnerable before this wave of refugees coming for survival. Facing the masses who have been blinded by fanaticism and hunger, You must have enough means to intercept them and let them settle down.
Machine guns are the best method. But Ye Mengyan's team only has two light machine guns - too few. The only way to stop them is to use trenches.
To this end, he mobilized more than 20,000 refugees in the entire refugee camp, and specially sent people to Dadianzhuang to ask for help from the bankers. He also mobilized the people of Dadianzhuang and neighboring villages, and also borrowed a large number of farm tools. , earth basket and carrying pole.
The person said it well - the Taoist promised to use grain as wages, not to mention farm tools. It was originally a slack time for farming, and the displaced households and extinct households left many farm tools that they could not take away. It was enough for more than 20,000 people.
Except for the Taoist priest and the naturalized people from Lingao, everyone had doubts in their minds: Can such a large-scale trench be built in a short time? Mr. Zhuang asked tactfully:
"When will it be completed?"
The Taoist leader replied nonchalantly: "Oh, it will be completed within ten days."
It is simply unbelievable. Indeed, if it is completed within ten days, it can be completed before the refugees arrive. But on such a huge scale, even if it is operated by the government, it will take several months to complete.
Could it be that this Taoist Zhang has great handling skills? Mr. Zhuang and the other principals of the banker all found it incredible.
Zhang Yingchen returned to the refugee camp. He immediately sent a message asking the refugees who had led teams to dig ditches and river projects to come see him.
Digging trenches is essentially the same as dredging rivers and canals. It doesn't require much advanced engineering technology - in China, building water conservancy projects in winter is something that farmers often do during their leisure time. Almost all young and middle-aged laborers have done it.
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Zhang Yingchen met with the first one hundred people and explained to them the current urgent situation and his plans. He also promised that all refugees who participated in digging trenches would be given additional relief rations based on the amount of earthwork.
The refugees all regard him as a god who saves people in distress. Now that the "god" has said so and there is additional food supply, naturally everything will be done - the refugees are also afraid that the stable life they have finally obtained will be destroyed. They all expressed their opinions at the moment
Willing to get started right away.
Zhang Yingchen drew a rough outline on the blackboard and gave specific dimensions.
"Don't dig out all the ditches on the north side," Zhang Yingchen pointed at the blackboard. "Leave ten dirt roads across the ditches. The roads are only wide enough for one person to pass through."
"Are the real people going to let the refugees in?" one of them asked.
"They are all the people of God, and they have no choice. It's just that they now believe in evil heretics. As long as they can return to the right path, we still have to save them..." Zhang Yingchen made a face of compassion.
In addition to the ten dirt roads across the ditch, several observation towers were built with dirt on the embankment. These were prepared by him for the shooters of Ye Mengyan's team.
Zhang Yingchen immediately took these more than 100 people as the core and selected another 2,000 young and strong laborers to form 20 teams, one for every 100 people. Each team had a captain and four supervisors. The captains put paper flags on their waists to supervise the coming and going.
, they are the main force in trench digging. Each team is responsible for a project section, and each section starts work at the same time.
However, two thousand people were far from enough, so about 20,000 additional refugees in the refugee camp were mobilized, and it was announced that anyone, regardless of age or sex, who could dig and move a basket of earth would receive a relief biscuit or five potatoes -
This condition is also the same for the people in all villages around Dadianzhuang.
In famine years, the most important thing is food, which is more important than money. As soon as the Taoist leader's order came out, not only the refugees came to work enthusiastically, but also the people from nearby villages came one after another. Men, women, old and young, as long as they could walk
Everyone carrying farm tools, baskets, poles and wheelbarrows rushed to the construction site day and night and worked hard.
The disciples of the Taoist priest served as record keepers and were distributed in various project sections, handing out bamboo sticks and chips as vouchers for receiving work meals.
The project was carried out very intensely, and the work was rushed day and night. Every night, Zhang Yingchen ordered people to light piles of bonfires along the trench to provide light for the people working on the project and to resist the cold at night. Borrowed from various temples
The big pot was lit day and night, boiling water and gruel, and supplying it at any time.
Even so, people who have been malnourished for a long time have to perform such heavy physical labor and do not consume enough protein and calories. As many as 100 refugees and civilians die on the construction site every day.
Zhang Yingchen stood on the piled earth embankment and looked at the sweaty people digging and transporting earth like ants swarming in the ditch and earth embankment. Every time he raised his hand, the people would give out a burst of warm cheers.
One after another, hoes, shovels and poles surged like a sea tide. He stood on the earth embankment, with the wind blowing his robes slightly, feeling like he was "flying like a fairy" - this feeling was intoxicating: many people followed it
Acting according to one's own will, is there anything more enjoyable in the world than this? No wonder the real leaders are people who are pure in desire and live a simple life. Power is the best aphrodisiac, so why do you need wealth and women?
On the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first lunar month, the project was completed, and the whole project only took six days and nights. Several men from the banker came here and saw that such a magnificent fortification had been erected. They couldn't help but click their tongues - the real person's ability is really not good enough.
After the completion, Zhang Yingchen asked carpenters and plasterers to build a small house on the north side of the earth embankment as his headquarters. He asked the soldiers of the special reconnaissance team to carry a box that he had hidden in the temple to the earth embankment.
"Xiao Ye, once the refugees arrive, your troops will be the key." Zhang Yingchen said to Ye Mengyan, "When the time comes, the bullets will be the tranquilizers to reduce their fever, so you have to be careful."
"It's okay." Ye Mengyan nodded, "I made a secret code agreement with you. If you make any gesture, my men will shoot you."
"Okay." Zhang Yingchen said, "Be sure to remember that you cannot set foot on the dirt road across the trench alone before I give you an order!"
The crowd of refugees pouring into Linyi, after leaving countless corpses along the way, finally arrived at a place still seven or eight miles away from Yunsheng Temple. Several followers of the Nanwuliang Sect in black clothes hurried back.
"Master Lei Xiang! Master Wang Xiang!" The believer knelt down and saluted, "Ten miles ahead is the lair of the demon!"
The two people who were called Incense Masters were the actual commanders of this group of refugees. This large group of refugees was nominally headed by the "Saint Si Yu" of the Nanwuliang Sect General Altar, but in fact it was headed by a group of people.
Because he disliked the smell of the refugees and the too noisy chanting and music, he followed the refugees in a big sedan chair with the saint, and only went there when he was distributing blessings.
Show your face. Put these two people in charge of maintaining order among the refugees.
One of them, named Lei Zilin, was a poor scholar in his forties. He crossed the sea from Liaodong and moved to Shandong a few years ago. Because he had no food and clothing, he became a religious man.
The skills of physiognomy and medicine have also gained some fame in the general altar. This time, he was asked to follow the refugee group, directing the believers to burn incense, carry flags, chant sutras and chant mantras, and he was regarded as a literary team.
The other one is called Wang Xing. He has a quiet appearance and seems to be an ordinary person who doesn't like to be troubled. In fact, he is a bandit leader in the Yimeng Mountain area.
The Wushu group of believers in the refugee group led more than 300 strong believers - many of them were deserters of officers and soldiers, and bandits who had lost their group. All of them were brave and ruthless people, carrying sharp weapons.