Shouts echoed throughout the battlefield, and the entire battlefield was surrounded by blood and fire.
Starting early in the morning, the rebel army launched the most ferocious attack uncharacteristically. All the leaders of the rebel bandits at all levels rushed to the front line. It seemed that they had received some death order, and they all rushed forward wave after wave regardless of life or death.
Come up.
Are the rebels here to risk their lives today?
Fortunately, the defensive terrain chosen by Ding Yunyi was very good, which prevented the rebel army from fully deploying its troops, and allowed his brothers to offset the serious disadvantage in strength to the greatest extent.
However, today's fighting was unprecedented since the Battle of Yingzhou.
The bandits were killed and retreated again and again, and they rushed forward again and again. The sky was overwhelming and the mountains were roaring.
Ding Yunyi and his brothers are fighting hard. They don't know when this battle will end, but as long as one of them is still alive, they will still fight to the end!
Death, at this time, has become the most trivial matter.
The rebels suffered huge casualties, and the officers and soldiers also suffered huge casualties. There was a lingering smell of blood in the air, and the horses that had lost their owners were walking back and forth on the battlefield in a daze.
Sneezing, it seems that he is trying to find his master again.
For a whole day, the two armies fought repeatedly on this small battlefield. The rebel army did not give the officers and soldiers any time to breathe, and they were attacking wave after wave with human lives.
Finally, at night, which they had been waiting for for a long time, the thieves stopped attacking, and the noisy battlefield suddenly became quiet.
The brothers were breathing heavily. The day's fighting had exhausted them. As soon as the rebels retreated, the energy and spirit that had been full of momentum seemed to be taken away all at once. They lay on the ground, unable to do anything.
Be willing to get up.
Tired, these brothers are really tired from fighting from Yingzhou to Linquan.
Ding Yunyi was equally tired. He had to start every battle. All his brothers were watching him, and he could never let them down. With such a numerical disadvantage, the only thing he could rely on now was the determination of these cavalrymen to fight to the end.
Breaking through? It seems unlikely at the moment. Although this place is suitable for defense, it is almost a dead place.
He searched the battlefield to see if there were any surviving brothers among the corpses, although this was unlikely.
Not seeing a living brother among the corpses, Ding Yunyi sighed and sat down. A soldier beside him, who looked to be less than twenty years old, handed him dry food: "General, eat some."
"Thank you." Ding Yunyi broke off some dry food, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. Even though he had no appetite now, he had to replenish his physical strength for the battle that would come soon:
"May I have your name?"
"Hulu."
"how old are you?"
"nineteen."
"Nineteen, you're not young." Ding Yunyi smiled: "I think you killed at least four or five people today. You are very brave. Aren't you afraid?"
Houlu raised his voice and said, "The general has an order to kill those who are below the third level!" Houlu would rather die in the hands of the rebels than have my head chopped off by the general."
"Okay, okay!" Ding Yunyi couldn't help but praise.
Houlu suddenly asked cautiously: "General, didn't you say that reinforcements will arrive in a few days? But why haven't they arrived yet?"
This sentence attracted all the brothers around him, and this was also their biggest concern.
"Yes. Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?" Ding Yunyi sighed, and he didn't know how to explain to his brothers: "That day when I left Xinyang, the commander personally assured me that the reinforcements would arrive within five days. Maybe they had someone on the way.
Something has been delayed."
This is a trick when explaining.
Based on the current situation, Ding Yunyi must shift the responsibility to Hong Chengchou, otherwise the morale of the army may be lost.
Houlu was inspired to have some confidence: "I think that for an official as big as the Commander-in-Chief, he would never lie to others?"
Yes, an officer as big as the Governor would never lie to others? All the brothers thought in unison.
Ding Yunyi smiled bitterly, how should he answer the brothers?
"Have a good rest. When the reinforcements arrive, I will take you back to fight." Ding Yunyi patted his shoulder and stood up.
After inspecting for a while, he saw that Li Dingguo, who was captured by him, was tied up and placed in a corner with his head lowered and silent. Occasionally, he raised his head and met Ding Yunyi's eyes. His eyes soon showed numbness and hatred.
Ding Yunyi smiled, walked to him, untied the rope that tied him, then sat down next to Li Dingguo, and handed him the dry food in his hand: "Eat some."
Li Dingguo was not polite, took it over and stuffed it into his mouth after a few mouthfuls.
At fifteen years old, he was just a child. He had not had any food or water for a day and a night after he was caught, and he was really hungry.
"You are still a child after all, why do you follow the rebels and do this decapitation?" Ding Yunyi asked in a calm tone.
Li Dingguo glared at him fiercely: "The government forces the people to rebel, and the people have no choice but to rebel. If the government hadn't forced us to have no way out, who would be willing to rebel? Behead? I'm not afraid of death. Am I still afraid of beheading?"
Dog Officer, even if you kill me today, sooner or later my foster father will avenge me."
"Your foster father? Zhang Xianzhong?" Ding Yunyi was not angry when the other party called him a "dog officer": "Li Dingguo, I'm afraid your foster father may not be sincere in his rebellion. He was once a policeman in Yan'an Prefecture, and was later dismissed.
After completing his duties, he went to Yansui Town to join the army. He was sentenced to death for breaking the law. The commander-in-chief Chen Hongfan noticed his strange appearance and interceded with the commander-in-chief Wang Wei. He struck him with a hundred military sticks and was removed from the army. From then on, he lived in the countryside. Later, he joined the bandits and bandits.
He became one of them..."
"You're talking nonsense." Li Dingguo shouted loudly.
Zhang Xianzhong was dismissed from his post as a police officer, and was famously beaten with a hundred military sticks as a soldier. He regarded this as a lifelong shame and humiliation. He never told people around him, so not many people knew about it. When Ding Yunyi mentions it now, it is inevitable that it will cause a stir.
Li Dingguo's protest.
"Don't you believe it? If you have the chance to see Zhang Xianzhong again in the future, ask him face to face to see if he is willing to admit it." Ding Yunyi did not care about the other party's attitude: "You call yourself 'rebels' and do justice for heaven. Unfortunately, wherever you go, if
The locusts passed through the border, leaving no grass behind. The officers and soldiers killed them just as much as the common people, and they were more courageous in killing the common people than they were in killing the officers and soldiers. Li Dingguo, am I right?"
Li Dingguo remained silent.
What Ding Yunyi said was true. Everywhere the "rebels" went and every city they fell into, they looted and killed. For this reason, he had tried to persuade his adoptive father several times, but he always said that he was young.
Still do not know.
"There is a man named Luo Rucai among you, nicknamed 'Cao Cao'." Ding Yunyi once again mentioned this man in front of Li Dingguo. Luo Rucai was very famous among the bandits, even more so than Gao Yingxiang. All the bandits knew that this man was loyal and did things well.
Zhengyi, and everyone is willing to listen to him.
Sure enough, when he heard the mention of "Cao Cao", Li Dingguo's attention was attracted, and he heard Ding Yunyi say slowly:
"You are convinced by Luo Rucai, saying that he is benevolent and righteous, and even refuses to kill upright officials. However, in the past, Luo Rucai could not marry a wife. After he became a bandit leader, he was surrounded by hundreds of beauties, all of them as beautiful as flowers. I'm afraid this is what he likes to do.
The reason for robbing the thieves. Li Dingguo, what is the difference between this and those corrupt officials? Are these hundreds of women willing to follow him? I don’t think this is necessarily the case. The matter of robbing civilian girls is probably a serious problem for Luo Rucai.
A common meal.”
Li Dingguo did not expect that the officer and soldier in front of him knew so much about the affairs of the "Rebel Army". Everyone knew that Luo Rucai liked women, but no one cared whether the women around him came willingly or were snatched.
Now that Ding Yunyi said this, if you think about it carefully, most of them were unwilling.
Ding Yunyi's face was calm and his tone was calm: "So, robbing the rich and giving to the poor, doing justice for heaven is just a slogan. It's good to be able to protect yourself. The bandits are just a mob. They won't give in to each other when they win, and they won't save each other when they lose. They gather together just for the sake of
They have no other purpose in robbing families and homes. Bandits are gangs of relatives and friends. Their purpose is to rob, not to conquer anyone. In the past, there was Huangchao in the Tang Dynasty, who was just like you. According to your words, they were also 'rebels'.
', But the common people do not miss Huang Chao, and they will not miss you in the future, because you are just some hooligans, and even if you really take over the world in the future, you are not just hooligans who take over the world."
It stands to reason that Ding Yunyi would criticize the "rebels" like this, but Li Dingguo unexpectedly did not refute, and instead seemed to be deep in thought.
Although he was young, he had already had his own ideas. He followed Zhang Xianzhong, firstly because he had been by Zhang Xianzhong's side since he was a child, and secondly, he firmly believed that the "Rebel Army" was for the common people to conquer the world and overthrow those corrupt officials.
But now every word of Ding Yunyi cuts to the essence of the "rebels", showing no mercy.
"Many of the officers and soldiers are not good. They are as vicious as bandits." Ding Yunyi sighed: "If it weren't like this, the world would not be in chaos. But now we are beating me and I'm beating you. We are beating each other.
We are our own people, but let foreign enemies take advantage. At the border, there are golden pirates who are watching eagerly. In Fujian, those Taixi people are always thinking about occupying our land. What about the court? The court has no choice now and has to deal with you bandits.
Only if you are destroyed can the imperial court be free to deal with the threat from Hehe at the border, otherwise it may be unclear who owns this great country."
As he said that, he stood up slowly: "You are still young, and you don't understand many things yet, but you will understand sooner or later. I won't kill you, even if we are both dead, I won't kill you, I will make you open your eyes
Open your eyes and see if what I said is wrong." (To be continued...