choke element

Chapter 21
The military uniform worn by the little boy was very loose, obviously picked up from the deceased, and it was simply modified, but it still didn't fit.

Li Ting squatted down, reached over with his hand, and closed the wound in the middle of the military uniform, trying to cover the whitened muscles and the torn internal organs as much as possible.The military uniform was soaked in blood and became sticky and heavy. Li Ting pulled it a little harder, and his hands were covered with blood.

"This little boy is called Han Lai'er, and he is the second son of Han Renqing, the leader of the rout at Guchengdian. He and his elder brother were two, and they got along well with my younger brother Li Yun... His elder brother died of illness last year. Li Yun even cried a lot... It seems that when the Gucheng Store was attacked, Han Laier happened to be playing outside. He was rushing back along the main road, just bumped into the enemy, and was spotted."

Having said that, Li Ting stood up: "Do you still remember Han Renqing? That Fuzhou native."

"Of course I remember." Guo Ning nodded: "We fought with Qingbaikou once. Old Han was originally a veteran of the Xiaojie Army in Fuzhou. Soldiers embrace."

"Yes, he is a rare kind person."

Li Ting responded, looked at the black smoke rising from the direction of the Gucheng Store, and looked down at the corpse again: "The old lair of this kind man has been dug out, and his son has been killed! This knife is really neat, and the one who did it was ruthless." I don't know who is under Yang An'er's command."

As he spoke, his face was livid, obviously extremely angry.

Twenty miles south of Guchengdian, to the west of Ansu County, is the Wazi River parallel to the Fu River.The water pool formed by the retention of the Wazi River is called Wuguan Lake, and Li Ting and others stopped here.Therefore, Li Ting and Han Renqing are close neighbors, and the two groups have frequent contacts on a daily basis.

Life is not easy for the stragglers. It is inevitable that they will be short of food today and short of salt tomorrow, so they have to support each other.Over time, the friendship between the two families is very deep.

These defeated soldiers all have courage, if they really want to let go of their reckless actions, what can't they do?The reason why he lived in such embarrassment was that he wanted to avoid fighting for a while and live a peaceful life in this damn world.

Even if some people fall into the grass and become bandits.For example, like Monk Luo, there is nothing taboo about doing things, but they generally have certain rules, so they will not burn, kill and loot, let alone attack and kill the strongholds of defeated soldiers.

The defeated soldiers had a hard time, and so did the common people.

In this world, how many poor people are struggling for their lives, why should they embarrass their own family members?
It's great now, even this little chance to survive is almost gone!

Three days ago, Guo Ning told Li Ting that he might as well send someone to pay attention to Yang Aner's actions, but at that time, no one thought that Yang Aner's actions would be so violent.

Li Ting sent out five or six scouts, most of them came back yesterday, and reported that four or five rout camps had been breached, and people in the camp had been looted and kidnapped.

When Guo Ning and others rushed to Fuhe, they bumped into the Guchengdian camp and were also breached.This is a fairly large-scale camp, at least there are nearly a hundred rout soldiers in the camp, and the number of ordinary people is twice that!

A few days ago, that guy Xiao Haohu had killed many companions in Anzhou.It is roughly estimated that more than 200 people died in the five outposts near Anzhou, and no less than [-] people, women and children were involved in the disaster.

But Xiao Haohu still wanted to be the commander of Anzhou Capital after all, and had no intention of becoming the target of public criticism, so he acted with restraint.Such as Wang Shixian with an ambiguous attitude, after being captured, he was beaten severely and cut off a finger.

Yang An'er was different, he was far more powerful than Xiao Haohu, and his actions were even more intense, almost like massacres!

Li Ting took a few steps forward and stood among the trees beside the river beach looking out.

Afterglow at dusk, gradually dissipating.On the other side of the river, Yang An'er's men and soldiers walked into the shadow under the embankment and disappeared.Suddenly they lit the pine torches again, so Li Ting could clearly see their distant figures.

The light of the setting sun, the light of the torches, and the faint light of the fire in the direction of Guchengdian are all reflected on the water surface, and the swaying water waves reflect a touch of red, like blood.

Maybe it really was blood.

"Yang An'er is going to rebel! He's going to Shandong anyway, and he doesn't plan to stay in Hebei, so he doesn't have any scruples! But..."

Li Ting turned back like a whirlwind, and stared at Guo Ning fiercely: "According to what you said before, Yang An'er and his group go to Shandong, which is beneficial to us... Maybe that's the reason. Treat our Paozawa brothers like this?"

Guo Ning pondered for a while and sighed.

Since the big dream a few days ago, Guo Ning has a lot of new insights and ideas in his mind.Just because of his knowledge, he felt more and more that the situation in front of him was both sad and absurd.

The stragglers distributed in the various state armies in Hebei were originally the backbone of the imperial army.Everyone has combat literacy, experience in military command, and the tenacity to contend with powerful enemies.Reduced to the present situation, each of them is full of strong resentment for being abandoned by officials and generals, and is full of despair about their own difficult life.

As for Yang An'er's troops stationed in Dingxing County, they used to be law-abiding people.They were squeezed to the point where they couldn't survive, so they fought against the imperial court desperately.

Strictly speaking, the defeated soldiers and Yang An'er's troops should not be enemies.The two could have collaborated, even merged.

The sufferings suffered by the two parties actually all stemmed from the dilapidated rule of the Dajin Dynasty, from the increasingly fierce ethnic conflicts within the Dajin, the collapse of the economy, the decline of people's livelihood, and the incompetence of foreign wars.

The Jurchen aristocratic group wantonly conquered the land, corrupt officials were harshly inspected and expropriated;They are the real enemies.

But the airs of the Dajin court are still there, and the huge regime spanning thousands of miles has not yet collapsed.Although they have suffered heavy losses, there are still countless recruiting divisions, commanding army divisions, Xuanfu divisions, and the governor's office, as well as countless Meng'an Mouke troops, town defense troops, guards' troops, and Yi troops.

Since Dajin is the imperial court, it is only natural for the imperial court to do evil.For hundreds of years, the Khitan people have been like this, and the Jurchens have been like this, everything is normal.The defeated soldiers fought for their lives in the sea of ​​corpses and blood, and suffered countless hardships, but no one thought about the key issues, or dared not think about them.

Tens of thousands of brave warriors struggled to survive one by one with their heads covered.The most courageous ones are nothing more than planning to join the Mongols and eat some leftover carrion.

And Yang An'er, a long-standing rebel, is smarter than ordinary routs.

Presumably, his vision is wider and his ambition is bigger, so he knows who the enemy is and wants to fight against the enemy.

However, they do not master the correct method and can only act within the scope of their own understanding.

They only regard the broken soldiers all over the mountains and plains as strong men who are easy to coerce and fat meat which are easy to be slaughtered.So, according to the thousands of years of bandits' routine of coercing people, they swung their knives at them, and first killed the same poor people until their heads rolled and their blood flowed into rivers.

Those they slaughtered and coerced were all Guo Ning's robe partners!
Without Li Ting's urging, Guo Ning couldn't sit idly by.

"Since we are here, we have to do something. However, Yang An'er's troops can easily destroy the old city store, so there must be a lot of troops. Let the archers disperse their vigilance, and the rest of the soldiers rest here for a while. Let's go across the river to explore Check it out. I remember that there is a slope with lush forests in the east of Guchengdian, which is very suitable for investigating the situation... That place seems to be called Gao Linpo, right?"

Li Ting quickly said, "Exactly."

"Let's go to Gaolinpo."

"it is good!"

Guo Ning turned around to look around, and asked in a deep voice, "Has Master Hui Feng arrived?"

In the dark field, Monk Luo's heavy voice resounded: "Here we come! Sajia is here!"

"The enemy is not an ordinary bandit. We must set up scouts and secret sentries near the Gucheng store. Please trouble Master Huifeng to go out and grab a tongue and come back to question."

Monk Luo laughed and said, "Okay, okay."

Hearing Guo Ning's order, Li Ting couldn't help being surprised.

He is not familiar with Monk Luo, and in the past few days, he has only seen the stomping footsteps of this fat monk wherever he goes, like a mountain of meat.How can this be a material capable of fine work?

Just as he was surprised, he saw Monk Luo take off his toga, only wearing a dark gray bunt.He nodded slightly to Guo Ning, and jumped into the forest beside the road.Li Ting's eyes blurred as the bear-like figure swayed lightly. At first, he saw a bald head flashing, but then he disappeared.

"Master Huifeng's skills are extraordinary, and he has his own abilities. Li Erlang, let's go and find out by ourselves, don't worry."

"Good skill! Really good skill!" Li Ting was stunned for a while, and seeing that Guo Ning was heading towards the river beach, he hurried to catch up.

(End of this chapter)