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

Chapter 415 Chapter 3-[-] Yiling Rebellion [-]
The soldiers chattered about their experiences, their eyes turned red as they talked, their voices choked up, and they couldn't continue.Most of them came from other provinces. If they hadn't been homeless and homeless, who would want to stay in the mountains and rivers of Jingxiang, be treated as bandits and bandits, and let the officers and soldiers kill them?The locals call them locusts, making the place uneasy. They also want to go back to their hometown and live a good life, not to be annoying here, but they are already homeless!
Wang Rui sighed deeply and motioned everyone to stop talking.His eye circles were also a little red, and he said loudly: "Don't say it, don't say it. It's not easy for you. You have struggled to survive in this troubled world that eats people and doesn't spit out your bones...Have you ever thought about why this happened?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but Sun Yue'e was the first to react, and said bitterly: "Because Mr. Zhang has usurped my Sun family's property, and even colluded with the government to ruin our family!"

Wang Rui said: "Yes, it is those local tyrants and evil gentry! It is because those local tyrants and evil gentry invaded our fields that they ruined our family and made us homeless! It would be fine if they took the land and then paid taxes, but they obviously They took our land and didn't pay taxes. Those of us who don't have an inch of land still have to pay the land tax. Can we survive? Do we have any choice but to leave our hometown? ?They have ten thousand hectares of fertile land, rich clothes and fine food, extravagant desires, and they don’t have to do anything. Naturally, many people will send a lot of wealth to them and ask them to laugh at them. What about us? We live in low-rise and dilapidated houses, With the face facing the loess and the back facing the sky, they have been farming the barren land year after year without taking a breath all year round. They still don’t have enough to eat and have no clothes to wear. If they fail to pay taxes, they will be forced to ruin their families by the tax collectors. !" He shouted loudly, his voice was like a thunderbolt, "but the imperial court let it go, and even raised taxes again and again, wishing to suck our blood dry, is it reasonable!?"

Everyone gritted their teeth.People who own tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land don’t have to pay any taxes, just lie down and enjoy it, and they still think about how to take away the poor property from the peasants all day long. They don't care about tax collection, even if their families are ruined, they won't be spared... It's unreasonable, God has been blind for a long time.

Wang Rui's eyes were like lightning, almost piercing through the dark clouds in the sky. The mountain wind blew his cloak high. With the mountains and the rolling Yangtze River as the background, his figure looked extremely tall: "During this time, everyone has been Ask me what I want to do when I gather you up, give you so many weapons, and train you day and night. Now I can tell you what I want to do. Like you, I also escaped from Shaanxi. You have eaten I have suffered, I have suffered all the grievances you have suffered, and you know what you need most. I don’t want to tell you some big truths, you don’t understand, in fact, I don’t understand either. I want to take you The thing to do is very simple: go down the mountain, kill those local tyrants and evil gentry who eat people and don't spit out their bones, and grab their fields and share them with everyone!"

With a bang, everyone was shocked.An old farmer with white hair in his thirties exclaimed, "This is a rebellion!"

Wang Rui shouted loudly: "Rebellion? If the court insists on thinking this way, just think of us as rebels! The world has been turned upside down. There is no justice or fairness in the world. God is blind! God is unfair. , let us use the knife in our hands to seek justice for ourselves!"

In the bitter wind and rain, thousands of ragged miners carried mining tools and walked towards the mine along the winding mountain road under the escort of hundreds of officers and soldiers. Those who walked a little slower would be whipped immediately.Most of these poor miners are from refugees, their lives are cheaper than ants, and their officers and soldiers don’t care at all. There are many people with legs.

Li Fugui, the chief executive, poured a sip of strong wine into his mouth and called, "Let them speed up a little bit. When will they be dawdling like this, when will they get to the mine?"

A group of subordinates were very dissatisfied with the slow speed of these miners. After receiving the order, they whipped the whip twice as hard. Hairy bone suddenly.A man who had been whipped so bloody and bloody lost consciousness and fell to the ground. A corporal swung a whip and lashed at him violently. When the whip came down, a piece of flesh rolled up, and he cursed as he whipped: "I told you to pretend Die, I tell you to pretend to be dead!" After whipping a few times, seeing that the miner was motionless, he tried his breath and stopped breathing, the corporal cursed, drew his knife and stabbed the dead miner twice in the heart to prevent him from breathing. He pretended to be dead, and then pointed at the bloody corpse and said loudly: "Have you seen it? This is the end of pretending to be dead! Hurry up, we will arrive at the Jiguanshan mining area in the afternoon, and then start mining!"

The miners moved mechanically with fear and deep-seated hatred.

President Li smiled and took another sip of wine. The death of the miner did not affect his mood.In the past two years, Nanyang did not know what kind of shit luck it was, but it actually learned to extract fertilizers from phosphate rock. The value of the useless phosphate rock suddenly doubled, and hundreds of tons were mined every month and shipped to Nanyang. Even Daming Road in Hebei has people coming here to purchase, and the purchase is several hundred tons, loaded on a ship and sailing along the Yangtze River, transferred to Cangzhou for unloading, and then transported to Daming Road by horse-drawn cart.Soon, there was a trend of phosphate mining in Jingxiang area. The huge profits here made many people excited.Seeing that there is a profit to be made, the feudal king and the government will certainly not stand idly by. These carts of ore are all money, how can they let these Kuhaha people earn it in vain?First, the government posted a ban to prevent civilians from mining phosphate rocks on the grounds of protecting Fengshui. Then King Xiang went to the court to beg for the "barren hills" in the Yiling area, and Jingxiang officials showed up to support them. What's in the bag.It took a lot of effort for these soldiers to drive away those annoying miners. Now the entire mining area belongs to them. The princes and officials made a lot of money, and they also made a small fortune. Naturally, they worked hard La.

However, the gloomy voice in the forest interrupted Li Baihu's sweet dream: "The mountains and rivers in the northwest are high and long, how can a man go back to his hometown. The waves behind the Yellow River push the waves ahead, jump on the waves and fight!" Under the horrified eyes of the miners and officers and soldiers Among them, hundreds of men with knives and guns appeared one after another from the forest, holding their weapons tightly, staring at the hundreds of officers and soldiers who were showing off their might, with bloodshot eyes.The officers and soldiers screamed in fright: "There are bandits! There are bandits!" The miners were even more scared out of their wits and wanted to escape, but all their legs were shackled by shackles. How could they escape?Suddenly there was chaos on the mountain road.

In the chaos, a man in black came out from the crowd and said in a strong Shaanxi accent: "Brothers, don't be afraid, we are not bandits. We are also miners just like you, but our mines have been robbed by the government." We went, and killed many of us! We are wronged and owed, what we are looking for is the minion of the government who helped the evil, not you, as long as everyone stays on the ground and doesn’t move around, everything will be fine. We'll let you go after we clean them up!"

His tone was very sincere, and his strong Shaanxi accent reassured the miners... Many of them came from Shaanxi, and they were all fellow villagers. Presumably this group of strong men would not make things difficult for themselves, right?Holding the mentality of tentative belief, they squatted obediently in place, and they couldn't escape anyway if they wanted to!
Li Baihu regained his composure, drew out his plain saber, pointed it at the bandits, and shouted sharply: "You guys are so courageous, you dare to rebel! Aren't you afraid of being punished by the Nine Clans!"

The man in black snorted contemptuously: "If you rebel, you will kill the nine clans? Before we rebelled, many people's families died or only one person was left. What is this? You are so ruthless, let you do all the bad things, today I want you to come and go, kill me!"

Hundreds of bandits uttered a loud shout in unison, and they lined up neatly and divided into three rows, approaching the officers and soldiers.Their equipment is very simple. Those who hold rattan shields and a dog-leg-shaped short knife are the elite of the elite. Most of them don't even have this. The meter-long javelins are made of slender metal poles inserted into wooden sticks. Behind the sword and shield soldiers are the pikemen, holding three to four meter long spears cut from moso bamboo, which is ridiculously shabby.But no matter how shabby the equipment is, it is still a guy who can kill people. Plus there are hundreds of people, it is even more terrifying. Li Baihu shouted in horror: "Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Shoot these bandits to death!" , the man in black waved his long knife and shouted: "Cast!"

Without saying a word, the javelin soldiers in the front row shouted loudly, rushed forward a few steps, swung their arms, and the javelin weighing three catties poured out with the sound of the wind, and flew towards the officers and soldiers huddled together.Immediately there was a loud scream. The equipment of this group of bandits is terrible, and the equipment of the officers and soldiers is not much better. The armor is purely legendary. When a round of javelin rain came, it was bloody bad luck immediately. Many people were hit, the javelin came out through their bodies, and they fell down screaming. A round of javelin knocked down more than twenty of them.Li Baihu managed to dodge a javelin, and seeing so many casualties among his subordinates, he was so frightened that his liver was torn apart, and he shouted: "Shield, shield!"

Is it too late to think of using a shield now?

Before the shield players formed the shield wall, the second round of javelins flew over again.The pitifully thin shield was pierced as soon as it was hit, and the arm of the shielder was nailed to the shield, and the screams were earth-shattering.The shield player who was lucky enough not to have his arm pierced was not much better. With such a long javelin nailed to the shield, it was useless at all. The formation was in chaos. The third round of javelin rain poured down immediately, pinning them to the ground.These officers and soldiers huddled together, and each of them was a target, which made them suffer particularly heavy casualties under the javelin attack. After three rounds of javelin rain, nearly half of them had been knocked down.Li Baihu and the others have been beaten out of their bodies. Fortunately, each javelin soldier only has three javelins. When they saw that their javelins were exhausted, the surviving officers and soldiers screamed, dropped the guy and ran away. I don't know if I can outrun these premeditated rebels, anyway, I just need to run faster than my companions!

So easily defeated these vicious officers and soldiers?
The bandits couldn't believe their eyes, they were all stunned there.The young man in black sneered, this group of guards is really bad, if the adults really want to rebel, it will be so difficult to sweep Huguang with [-] new troops!He slashed with a long knife and shouted: "Sword and shield soldiers, attack!"

The captain of the Sword and Shield Soldiers hesitated: "They have already collapsed..."

The young man in black asked coldly, "Are they dead?"

The sword and shield captain said: "Not yet!"

The young man in black said: "Since they are not dead yet, let me kill them!"

The captain of the sword and shield soldiers gritted his teeth, held up the dog-leg knife, and shouted: "Follow me!" The 150 sword and shield soldiers roared and chased after the panicked officers and soldiers.The young man in black shook his head. In his opinion, these sword and shield soldiers were not resolute in attacking, and their momentum could only be described as average. If they were blocked, they would probably retreat immediately... In a word, they still need to practice.But the officers and soldiers didn't see it this way. When they saw so many sword-and-shield soldiers rushing down the mountain like tigers, they were so frightened that their legs softened. Some ran desperately, while others fell down and crawled forward on their hands and feet in embarrassment. Extremely.The sword and shield soldiers rushed among them, put their rattan shields against the officers and soldiers' chests, stabbed the lower abdomen with short knives, and slashed at the neck.This kind of weird-looking, shabby short knife turned into a terrible murder weapon in their hands... The whole battle was almost a one-sided massacre, and the dozens of guardsmen who survived the rain of javelins hardly made any move. Organized resistance will be fatal.

The battle ended quickly, and the corpses of nearly a hundred officers and soldiers were covered with the mountain road, and they were about to become a delicious meal for the wild beasts in the mountains.Those terrible bandits stripped off all their clothes, intending to wash away the blood stains on them and mend them before wearing them again.There was also a pile of miscellaneous weapons, including spears with rat teeth marks all over the shafts, rusty knives, firecrackers that exploded when struck, soft bows, fluttering arrows... …This stuff is really eye-opening.The young man in black didn't say anything, he just asked people to search more carefully, take the scraps of copper and iron back into the furnace, and recast weapons.He also asked people to find keys from the officers and soldiers, and unlock the shackles of the miners one by one. Of course, the shackles also became their trophies. These are good iron, at least much better than the iron used to make knives. This is good Of course you can't let go of things.

The miners were unscathed, and watched an action movie for free, but they were a little bit overwhelmed, their feet were free, and they looked silly, as if they were still in a dream.The young man in black said to them: "Okay, you are all free, hurry up and leave. The officers and soldiers have killed so many people, and they will definitely not let it go. They may launch a crusade. If you don't leave, you will be implicated. "

The miners all smiled wryly.Walk?Where can they go?They were captured by the government to serve hard labor. If they escaped home, they would definitely die.Someone boldly asked: "The head of the family, by your accent, you are from Shaanxi, right?"

The young man in black said, "Yes, I am from Shaanxi. In fact, most of us are refugees from Shaanxi."

Immediately, many miners shouted: "We are also refugees from Shaanxi. We were captured by the government and brought here to mine. Some people tried to escape on the way, so they killed several... Boss, what's your next step?" What’s the plan?”

The young man in black said: "The next step? I haven't thought about it yet, but as long as I'm still alive, those dog officials will never be safe!" My name is Wang Rui, Wang Rui, who was forced to be ruined and homeless by you! The man was killed by me and my brothers, it has nothing to do with these miners, come to us if you have the ability, we are waiting for you in the mountains!"

In the distance, the few officers and soldiers who managed to escape the pursuit of the sword and shield hand were flying up and down with their soles, and they ran without getting mud on their feet. Li Baihu was one of them.

The miners couldn't help being overwhelmed by the young man's heroism, and shouted one after another: "Master, we are also homeless, let us work together with you!"

"The government of Gou Ri broke my father's leg and snatched away my mother-in-law. I don't know if I'm dead or not. Now I'm left with this rotten life! Master, I'll do it with you. Even if I die, I will be ruthless." Bite those dog officials hard!"

"Yes, even if it is death, we have to bite those dog officials hard!"

Wang Rui smiled and said: "Okay, everyone is welcome to join the Rebel Army. From now on, everyone will share joys and sorrows, live and die together, as long as we twist together, we will surely make those dog officials pay for what they did. cost!"

(End of this chapter)