Chapter 1544 Unexpected Disaster


    The sun has already reached the afternoon, and in another hour or two, it will almost get dark. The days in autumn and winter are originally short, but when the cold wind blows, and November enters, the days become shorter than the day before. .


    ??In the northwest of Anhan, about thirty or forty miles away, there is a mountain valley called Lijiagouzi, and there is Lijiazhai in Lijiagouzi. In the fields near Lijiazhai, there are small groups of farmers and women who are busy handling the last few farming affairs.


    Winter is coming soon, and the fields need to be plowed and plowed once in a while. Otherwise, it will take a lot of effort to plow the fields in the spring after the winter freezes. Also, the fields have been used for a long time. Years have passed, and some miscellaneous ashes mixed with weeds and other materials from the fields have to be hoeed into the ground to add some fertilizer and replenish some field strength, so that there will be a good harvest next year.


    No matter how chaotic the world is, people still need to eat.


    The same is true in Sichuan and Sichuan. Even though there is a chaotic three-party war, food is something that people must have a mouth to live. Crops and other things must still be planted...


    I originally thought that there would be a war this year. If it was true, it would mean that Zhuang He, who had been farming for a year, had all the people in Lijiazhai ran out and had no intention of tidying up the fields. As a result, his father didn''t even fight. When I arrived at Anhan, I found out that the harvest in Lijiazhai was at least 30% less than in previous years!


    The harvest was reduced by 30%. In addition, we always said that we would go to war. As a result, during these days, we did not see any soldiers fighting with swords and guns. Even the entire autumn harvest did not encounter any invasion of soldiers and horses. In Lijiazhai, These people from Sichuan and Shu naturally slowly relaxed in their hearts, and they didn''t look like they were all fighting.


    The mountains have always been very isolated, and you have to walk ten or eight miles to reach the next village. Therefore, the people in Lijiazhai are nervous and have no idea about the dangers from the outside world. They talk to each other while working in the fields. They couldn''t imagine where to go, just like in their imagination, the emperor of the Han Dynasty must be plowing the land with a golden hoe.


    Despite this, the person in charge of Lijiazhai is somewhat more knowledgeable than the average villagers and women. Not only did they seize the time to let the young men in the village temporarily grind the rusty gun tips, and repair the originally crumbling village walls, The sentry tower was renovated, and several training sessions were organized. It was quite dusty and lively, so it somewhat reassured people.


    The village defense system is actually similar to that in World of Warcraft. If something changes, the warning gong in the village will sound, and the people working outside will flee to the village desperately, and then rely on half of the rammed earth about two people high. The stone wall was built for defense, and firewood was piled high in the middle of the village. If they really encountered a large army, they would light up smoke and ask for help from distant villages or even Anhan City...


    ??Although this year’s harvest has been reduced, this year’s autumn tax has not been missed! After receiving the autumn gift from Lijiazhai, the nobles in Anhan City also said that if Lijiazhai is in danger, they will come to help!


    With this backing and the fact that everything has been peaceful for a period of time, the people in Li''s village are less panicked psychologically. Even the people who take turns guarding the sentry at the corner tower in the village are also All a little lax.


    Seeing that it was getting late, the few old and weak people who were on duty at the sentry post, well, of course they were old and weak. The young ones were all working in the fields. Could it be that the old men were still working in the fields, so they just chatted about each other. When I got up, I no longer had the vigilance I felt at that time in the morning.


    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. Among the people on duty, there was an older middle-aged man. Because his family was poor, he had never married. A few days ago, there was a family in the village. First, they suffered a disaster years ago. The older man could not survive. , and then passed away. Not even the youngest one knew why. Perhaps he caught the cold while escaping from the labor force in the mountains. He couldn''t survive it even after returning to the village. The whole family was wiped out. A poor little widow was left.


    Normally, if there is no male son in the family, the farmland will be taken back to the public land. As the family''s public land, although this poor woman is quite pretty, everyone is afraid that this woman is too hard-working and will overcome her superiors and overcome her. They didn''t dare to ask for it, so they wanted to drive out of the village. But this middle-aged man was not afraid and got married on his own initiative. No, this became the biggest hot headline in the village during this period. Even in front of the middle-aged man, he still laughed at her.


    They may not necessarily all have bad intentions, but there is really nothing new to talk about in the village, so they kept talking about these trivial things. Unavoidably, some people expressed concern about what happened in the middle-aged man''s room, and even Volunteering to do some work for him...


    The middle-aged man didn''t have any idea. He squatted in the corner with a grass root in his mouth and squinted his eyes. He just smiled. When others urged him to hurry up, he said slowly: "The family was wiped out before. When I begged, I didn''t see him. You dare to ask for it, but now that I''ve pulled him out, you''re here to do this and that... I''m easy to do, so you don''t have to worry about it! Besides, you guys can''t even control your own wives. , still have this leisure time?”


    ??Or if a middle-aged man pokes a sore spot, some people will immediately stop listening. They will pull the middle-aged man to compete, not only to compare the size, but also to stand on the edge of the sentry tower to see who can go farther...


    The middle-aged man was so coaxed that he couldn''t avoid it, so he laughed and grabbed someone to try. As a result, he just stood on the edge of the sentry tower and was about to lift up his robe when he suddenly froze in place and couldn''t get it out for a long time. When he came, others immediately laughed and sat down in a ball, gesticulating and laughing at the middle-aged man.


    ??The middle-aged man ignored them, showed his yellow and black teeth, and pointed in the distance with a hoarse voice: "Then...what is that..."


    At first, some people didn''t take it seriously, saying it was an old bachelor''s excuse. They were about to laugh at it, but they looked up and saw a three-color flag appearing on the mountain road in the distance, reflecting the setting sun. The glow seemed to be blooming with brilliance, stinging everyone''s eyes.


    War, war!


    Those guarding the corner tower suddenly remembered the sound of a gong warning. The peasants working in the fields subconsciously raised their heads. Some of the quick-thinking ones had already dropped their farm tools and ran towards the village without thinking. , while others stared blankly, watching the tricolor flag getting closer and closer.


    The shocking sound, crying, sounded from the village in the village, mixed in one place, alarmed Sino, breaking the peace that originally belonged here ...


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    Under the tricolor flag, Wei Yan looked at the panicked civilians in Lijiazhai and sneered twice. He did not urge the soldiers to move forward, but just moved forward slowly and unhurriedly. If the Shu military stronghold can be easily taken over, why would they regard such a civilian stronghold as a roadblock?


    Beside Wei Yan, there is Du Hu.


    After receiving the promise from General Fei Qian of the Conquest of the West, this king of the people immediately became much more active. When he heard that he was going to attack Badong, Anhan and other places, he almost rushed to clear the road thorns for Wei Yan and others. Guide direction.


    After all, the people who belonged to Duhu had suffered a lot of losses from Liu Qi and others in Badong County and had several villages wiped out. They had long been full of resentment. They came here this time, firstly for revenge, and secondly. In order to preserve Duhu''s own reputation. Under the leadership of Du Hu, the people on the side had their eyes red with excitement, and they made some strange noises that they had no idea what they meant. They waved their swords and guns, and they wanted to rush into Li''s village immediately and have fun!


    The hatred between Han people and Hu people is often like this.


    ??According to race, it is not wrong to retaliate with tooth for tooth or blood for blood, but when it comes to the head of an individual, it is a purely unnecessary disaster.


    ??Those who killed Du Hu’s gangsters were not from Lijiazhai, but the people from Lijiazhai had to bear the wrath of Duhu’s gangsters. Is it wrong? It''s wrong, but it''s very common. In later generations, isn''t it also often the case when there are ethnic and religious conflicts?


    Wei Yan saw the warning beacon ignited in Lijiazhai, with three black smoke rising straight into the sky. He couldn''t help but smile, waved his hand, and said loudly: "Come forward! Break the stronghold!"


    In an instant, the well-trained Zhengxi soldiers had formed an array and began to attack the gate of Lijiazhai. Duhu, the king of the tribesmen, also sent a group of tribesmen as support to follow. The formation marched to the left and right of the Western soldiers.


    There were not many defensive measures, and there were not even a few panicked arrows in the Lijiazhai. They did not even need to use gunpowder. The heavy battle ax directly chopped off the latch and knocked open the gate of the village. A cup of tea was not available. In a short time, Lijiazhai in this small mountain valley was declared to have been breached.


    "Those who surrender will not be killed!" Wei Yan ordered, and then glanced at Du Hu.


    Du Hu nodded quickly and said: "General, don''t worry, those who surrender will not be killed..." Before coming, Wei Yan had made an explanation. Those who resisted would naturally be killed, but if they said they had surrendered, they could not be killed indiscriminately.


    “We are under the command of the Han Dynasty conquering the west, not rogue bandits! Those who surrender will avoid death!”


    The young and strong men in Lijiazhai still looked good during training on weekdays, but when it came to the battle, they all lost their courage. Seeing the Zhengxi soldiers and the people rushing in, shouting and screaming, there was chaos. Some people even turned around and ran away shouting, "The stronghold is broken! The stronghold is broken!"


    There has been peace for a long time in Sichuan and Sichuan. Not only Lijiazhai is like this, most of the civilian villages in Sichuan and Shu, even if their equipment is better than Lijiazhai, they are just competing with other villages for water resources. Ah, land, etc., they have just fought some chaotic wars, and almost all of them have never been on the battlefield. Therefore, when they saw the real iron-blooded army coming, they were only in panic.


    There used to be a grain drying ground in the village, which was also used for gatherings on weekdays. Now it is full of people from Lijiazhai. All the people in the village have been driven out and gathered here. The one at the front was a gray-haired old man, standing tremblingly in the cold wind. When he saw Wei Yan coming, he quickly crawled to the ground, kowtowed first, and then said shakily: "General... General." …I don’t know that the general’s arrival has offended Huwei… There is still some food and grass in the village, and the young man is willing to dedicate it to the general’s use… These people in the village are all kind-hearted people, old and young, and they can also help the general in farming… Just General, please stop recruiting young men..."


    The old man was verbose, lost his teeth, and his articulation was not very clear. He talked vaguely for a long time, which made Wei Yan roll his eyes. Seeing that the old man wanted to continue verbose, he raised his voice and said: "From here to the next village. How far?"


    "Ah?" It took the old man a long time to react and said, "About twenty miles..."


    "General Zhengxi is merciful and cannot bear to kill more lives...Twenty miles, well, I will give you a day''s rations and go to the next village. If you don''t evacuate within three days, don''t blame us for being blind!" Wei Yan shouted in a deep voice.


    "General!" The old man was shocked, and the people in Lijiazhai behind him were also crying. "If we are driven out of the village, wouldn''t it mean that we will lose our chance of survival! General Zhengxi is kind and shows mercy. Get around us! We are all innocent people..."


    "Innocent?" Wei Yan clicked his tongue twice and said, "Let me ask you, have you ever sent food and grass to the people of Anhan? Do you know that the food and grass you sent helped the Liu family of Anhan, so that the Liu family could send soldiers , kill us, Zheng Xierlang?”


    "General! We don''t know about this... this general. We are also being coerced... The Anhan soldiers are forcing us to pay food and grass, and we have no choice..."


    Wei Yan laughed and said, "Isn''t that it? Soldiers of Anhan, you have nothing to do, do you deserve to be slaughtered by you and others like us Zheng Xi''erlang?"


    “General! General…”


    The old man from Lijiazhai was still waiting to argue, but he saw that Wei Yan had already turned around, "If you want to blame, blame your Anhan General Liu! He collected your food and grass, but he couldn''t protect you! If I give you one hour, if Anyone who delays his departure will be killed without mercy!”


    The people in Lijiazhai were still thinking about discussing some conditions, but they saw the gangsters on the side jumping out, waving their swords and guns viciously, and driving the people from Lijiazhai away. They could only express their grief. With a loud sound, they were driven back and forth, like a flock of sheep, heading towards the next village.


    "General..." Du Hu watched the people from Lijiazhai, who were full of grief and anger, slowly leaving. He scratched his head in confusion and said, "If we do this... the more people in Anhan will be harder to attack." "?"


    Wei Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "That''s wrong. On the contrary, it''s better to fight..."


    Duhu: “?”


    ?? Wei Yan did not continue to explain, but turned around and climbed up the wall of the village. He watched the people in Lijiazhai slowly crawling forward, crying and shouting, and curled his lips slightly. For these people in Lijiazhai, it is indeed a natural disaster, but under the shadow of war, who are not like this?


    Under the overwhelming nest, are there any eggs left?


    (End of this chapter)