Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 106 The Plague of Locusts
Seeing that the little devil finally ran away, the soldiers all breathed a sigh of relief, happier than that the plague had passed.If this guy doesn't leave, they should have a nervous breakdown!Some people even cheered, if there is a waist drum, it must be knocked on.

Unfortunately, they were happy too early.Yang Menglong ran to the gate of the military camp, suddenly stood still, turned around and glared at these cheerful guys, and said viciously: "Don't be too happy, I will come back to deal with you after I finish dealing with those bugs!"

The soldiers looked at his angry look and smiled even brighter.

But, they stopped laughing right away.

As soon as Yang Menglong left, Qi Hu slowly walked over and made an action that frightened everyone: he bent down and picked up the two deadly flags... There was a sudden cry in the military camp:
"Old man, don't..."

Qi Hu climbed up to the high platform, smiled, and said: "I see that you and the general are having a good time, your hands are itchy, and you want to play this kind of game..."

A corporal got up abruptly and called, "Old man, Little General Yang is messing around with us! We are soldiers, and we practice the ability to kill the enemy, not a spinning top. We turn around all day long and get a fart." Use! Let’s not practice this, shall we? Let’s continue to practice spear, sword and archery, shall we?”

A hundred households were even more ruthless: "How about we practice long spears against each other? As long as we don't make us spin around like tops, we will do anything for you!"

The so-called pike stabbing means that all the pike soldiers are divided into two groups and use unsharpened wooden spears to stab each other, focusing on attacking the opponent's chest and abdomen. The face, neck, and crotch are not allowed, as doing so may kill someone.Hundreds of wooden spears were poking at each other, thorns and thorns were coming, and the screams were shaking the heaven and the earth. What a spectacular scene!Everyone hates this training and talks about it with a stern tone, but now that Baihu brought it up, no one objected. Instead, they all agreed. This shows how unpopular Yang Menglong's training is.

Qi Hu grimaced and said, "Practice whatever I ask you to practice. If you talk too much, rush uphill or do the duck walk!"

All the soldiers immediately grimaced, and they even began to miss their military sticks... They had learned about duck walking before, and their legs hurt for no reason when they saw ducks walking. Rushing uphill was even more terrifying, with hundreds of people on a bare hillside. He screamed and rushed up, then ran down while rolling and crawling, then rushed up again, ran down... After a few times, even if you are a big man as strong as an ox, you will be almost breathless.Yang Menglong was strongly opposed to being beaten with a military stick. One blow with the military stick would leave his whole buttocks to a bloody pulp. In the end, he would have to pay a sum of medical expenses. If it was not worth it, anyone who violated military discipline would be asked to go sprinting!In the past few days, when you are eating, you can often see some unlucky people screaming and rushing towards the hillside. In the end, they gasped until their trachea was almost torn and their heartbeat almost stopped.These two things are definitely more terrifying than military sticks. Compared with having to squat on the ground and move forward step by step even when walking, and running until you almost lose your breath, queue training is easier...

The small flag was waved, and the barracks began to jump around again.

The military field was also full of chickens and dogs. Countless military households looked at the locusts that came out of the soil one by one, with terrified expressions, and kept muttering to themselves: "What should I do? What should I do? Some peasant women even knelt down on the ridge of the field, kowtowing to those scary little things, begging them to let go of their crops.During this period of time, all the waterwheels have been put into operation, and more than a dozen hand pressure suction wells have also been built and put into use. The irrigation problem of the military field has been solved, and the crops have regained their vitality, whether it is wheat or newly planted corn, Sweet potatoes, potatoes, and alfalfa are all green and very pleasing. The smiles on the faces of the military households are getting wider and wider. They are full of hope for a bumper harvest this year. Who would have thought that locusts would emerge at this juncture!These little things are terrible. Once they become a disaster, they will cost hundreds of millions, and they can eat up the crops in a blink of an eye. Now there are more than tens of millions of nymphs emerging from the fields. This year is destined to be no harvest. But what to do?
Someone suggested: "Why don't we raise a sum of money and ask a Taoist priest to come over and do a magic trick to drive away the locusts?"

This proposal is also reasonable. In previous years, when encountering locust plagues, everyone did this.But some people objected: "Let's forget it. We used to hire Taoist priests to do some magic tricks. We spent a lot of money, but the locusts still ate up our crops!"

"Then what do you say?"

"How do I know?"

"Little General Yang is here! He must have a solution!"

At a loss, everyone saw Yang Menglong rushing towards him, as if seeing a savior, they surrounded him with a whoosh, and reported the situation to him, hoping that he could come up with an idea.Yang Menglong solved the irrigation problem when he first arrived. In the eyes of everyone, he is a capable person, and he must have a way.

Yang Menglong was so dizzy from the noise, he raised his hands to signal everyone to shut up, walked quickly into the farmland, and stared at the land.

In front of him, nymphs emerged from the soft soil and crawled towards the straw.

Wang Tiechui sighed: "Our wheat seedlings are the best growing in the county. According to this growth rate, we will definitely get a bumper harvest... We are about to head, but the locusts are here. God is not blind!"

Yang Menglong grabbed a locust casually and said calmly: "They are just a bunch of little bugs who got impatient and ran out to steal their mouths. What does it have to do with God?" He turned to the old soldier and asked: "How did you deal with locusts in the past? ?”

The old military household said in a hurry: "What else can I do? Please Taoist priests do the trick, please God calm down and take the locusts back!"

Yang Menglong chuckled: "It doesn't work if you ask Taoist priests to do it, you have to ask the ancestors of locusts!"

The military households were stunned: "The ancestor of the locust?"

An angry shout came from not far away, and it was from Mr. Tian.This old man was patrolling the fields with a cane. He saw locusts gnawing at his crops in swarms, and his heart hurt as if he had been cut with a knife.He waved his crutch and roared at the tenant farmers: "It must be you untouchables who disrespect the gods, so the gods will bring disasters and let locusts eat up my crops! My more than 1 acres of fertile land are all destroyed now, and you have to compensate for these losses." Give it to me!" The tenant farmers were silent and looked desperate.They worked hard for the landlord, getting up early and going into the dark. Although they didn't have enough food to eat, they still had something to eat. Now that the locust plague has come, Mr. Tian only lost one season's crops, but they didn't even have hope of survival. there is none left!
After getting angry at the tenant farmers, Mr. Tian pointed the finger at Yang Menglong again: "It must be the ghost of you poor soldiers who deliberately harmed my crops. I will never stop with you!!!"

Yang Meng jumped up and shouted angrily: "What are you talking about? Which eye of yours saw us messing around?"

Mr. Tian pointed at Juntian with his crutches: "There are far fewer locusts in your army fields than in mine, and you still say it's not your fault? I'm going to the yamen to sue you, and I have to ask you to pay for my losses." No!"

Yang Menglong laughed back angrily: "Idiots who don't have enough shit because gravity is not enough, I don't have time to argue with you now!" He pinched the nymph in his hand to death, "Let go of chickens and ducks! They dare to eat ours!" crops, let our chickens and ducks eat them all! My chickens and ducks have been waiting for this feast for a long time!"

The military households were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and shouted tremblingly: "General Xiao Yang, you must not do it, you must not do it! Locusts are sent by God to punish us. If we hurt the locusts, it will be disrespectful to God. God will Inflict a more terrible punishment and destroy our family!"

Yang Menglong roared: "A group of idiots! Do you need a bigger punishment from the sky? Just this swarm of locusts is enough to destroy all of your families!"

Chen Baihu murmured: "General Xiao Yang, losing one season of crops is a small thing and has angered God..."

Yang Menglong turned his head and stared at Chen Baihu, and roared: "It's not a big deal to lose a season of crops? Tens of thousands of acres of military fields have no harvest. What will you use to feed thousands of people? What will you use to feed your wives and children? This is Is it a trivial matter? This is a trivial matter, so what is a major matter? Does it mean that all the people in the thousand households must starve to death to be considered a major event?" He stared at the military households who knelt on the ground and kowtowed, furiously: " Do you know why you are so poor? Because you are stupid! Because you are ignorant! It is perfectly normal for bugs to eat crops, just like we only eat and never eat poop, but you regard it as a miracle, like you Big fool, you are not poor, who is the poor? Do you think that if I lend you food, it doesn’t matter if the crops are eaten up by locusts? Let me tell you, there is no door! If you don’t do what I say, I will I won’t lend you a grain of rice anymore. If you really fear God so much, you should die early and reincarnate early. Let’s see if God will let you transfer to a good family for the sake of your fear of them! Chen Baihu, release the chickens and ducks immediately, or your whole family will get out of the Qianhu House!"

Chen Baihu cried out: "Little General Yang, I really can't do this, God will be angry!"

Yang Menglong stepped down, and several nymphs became meatloaf: "You are afraid when God is angry, but you are not afraid when I am angry, right? Maybe it will take next year or the year after God to kill you when God is angry. Once I get angry, I can starve your whole family to death right away! If God really had eyes, he wouldn’t use natural disasters to drive those of us who are poorly clothed and hungry to death. Since he is so ruthless, why should we Worship him? Put chickens and ducks right away, and eat up these bedbugs!" After a pause, he added: "Also, grab me a catty, I'm going to fry them in oil tonight and eat them as a dish!"

(End of this chapter)