Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 862
Surabaya is also an extremely important tributary of the lower section of the Huaihe River. Sui River, Bian River, Tong River, Yi River and many other rivers converge in the basin. There are lakes such as Qingshui Lake and Fuling Lake in the south, and Pei Lake and Juye Lake in the north. Together they form a huge water system connecting the Yellow River and the Huai River.

The water area here is vast, the rivers and lakes are interconnected, there are many swamps and reeds, and the topography is extremely complex.Therefore, in troubled times, this area often becomes the source of disasters. Since there are not many routes for the army to sweep in depth, once the rioters gather here, scabies can often breed troubles in their hearts.

In the early years of Zu Ti's northern expedition, this was the starting point, and he raised a large number of traveling food, and finally swept the land of Henan.A few years ago during the Huai Shang War, many rebellious soldiers from the Jie Kingdom fled into this area, and it has grown into a large-scale rebellious army.

In the past few years, although the Xuzhou Army has made great strides in other places, sweeping the entire territory of Xuzhou, even as far as Qing and Yan, but they have nothing to do with Liu Zheng's rebellious army entrenched here.Moreover, due to the frequent wars around, the leaders of the Xuzhou Army did not have any strict military discipline, and the local villagers did not have much awareness of welcoming the king's teacher. In order to avoid the disaster, a large number of people poured into Heze. Then it was controlled by the rebellious army, but it gradually grew stronger.

Earlier, Xi Jian, governor of Xuzhou, also organized several encirclement and suppression campaigns against the rebel army, but either most of them assembled and were trapped by the terrain and road without success, or a small group of advances was broken separately.And Liu Zheng's rebellious army also made full use of the advantages of the terrain. If the invading enemy is too strong, they will break up the troops into pieces and use the complicated rivers and ditches to hide their whereabouts. If the enemy troops enter separately, they will concentrate their advantages The troops were beaten hard.

Up to now, this place has evolved into an embarrassing situation. The rebel army wandering in the Surabaya area cannot be suppressed, and if they are ignored, it will turn into a heartache.Therefore, we can only place some troops around to prevent these chaotic troops from rushing out of the troubled place in Heze.

Wang Xue is a soldier of the Surabaya Rebellion Army. Although the name sounds poetic, he is actually a burly man with a pockmarked face and a burly man at the age of 35.His ability to serve as a soldier in the rebellious army has nothing to do with the level of force. The main reason is that he is an official household in charge of fishing and hunting in Langya Kingdom. His ancestral fishing and hunting skills are quite superb. Therefore, he was elected as the leader by the surrounding rioters.

People may think that the Surabaya area occupied by the rebel army is in chaos and the people are in dire straits, but in fact, the river and marsh is much calmer and more peaceful than the outside world.There is no lack of solid soil and islands between the ditches and grassy marshes, and the people occupy one side, and make a living by fishing, hunting and collecting firewood.

Wang Xue was originally from Fei County in Langya, and was originally the feudal state of the Jin Dynasty and Yuan Emperor in the south.But when Wang Xue grew up, the original lord, King Langya, had already crossed the river south and became emperor in Jiangdong.However, as an ordinary official household in Langya County, Wang Xue didn't know much about such major events, only that the big king's banner was changing at the top of the city at that time, and no matter who occupied the place, these bitter cold official households couldn't do it every day. finished thing.

The reason why he was coerced from the countryside of Fei County to Qingshuize, which is hundreds of miles away to the south near Surabaya, was not what he wanted. He only knew that at that time all the officials and households in the county were used as soldiers to fight south.At that time, Wang Xue already had a wife, family and children in the village, but those soldiers didn't reason with him, and handed him a bamboo gun with a rusty tip in his hand, and then he was dragged all the way to the south, where he was stationed in the early days. In Siyang City, there are not many opportunities to fight and fight, and they just cultivate land around Siyang.

But after a few years, the team moved on to Jiaocheng, which was closer to the Huaishui River, and stayed longer this time.And Wang Xue was also able to participate in several battles with the team. Although it was called a battle, it was not a tragic fight. It was often the leading generals who led the family troops to charge forward. The ordnance howled, and when it rushed into the battlefield, there was no trace of the enemy.

After fighting like this for several years, either staying north of the Huai River or staying south of the Huai River, the direction of the charge changed several times, and he didn't even know who he was following or why he was fighting.All I know is that when the soldiers in the front line charge forward, they will follow, and when the soldiers in the front row retreat, they must retreat faster, otherwise the ending will be extremely tragic.

After a few more years of this kind of life, Wang Xue is gradually passing the age, and he doesn't even know where the hometown is. As for the wives and children who were abandoned in the countryside in the early years, they have long forgotten, and perhaps they have already turned into a few piles in the wild. corpse.Occasionally, I miss my hometown, but I don't know what to miss.

Later, in a battle, Wang Xue and the surrounding comrades rushed together. He had never experienced any fighting, but he found a pair of mother and daughter lurking in the grass around the chaotic battlefield.At that time, Wang Xue had already run away from the brigade in the chaos. After discovering the mother and daughter, he was very excited at first, because there was an order in the army that as long as the heads could be brought back, they could be exchanged for rice grain.

Wang Xue copied the rusty ring head knife in her hand and rushed towards the trembling, quail-like mother and daughter. The mother was holding the young girl who was only six or seven years old in her arms, and kept kowtowing to Wang Xue to beg for mercy. Wang Xue didn't understand, but it looked like this.However, Wang Xue didn't feel much about this, and still swung the knife in his hand to cut it down. In his opinion, these two fresh lives were just a pile of military rations.

But when he was rushing forward, his ankle was tripped by kudzu vines in the grass, and he fell to the ground. The blade brushed against his ear and flew. There was a burning pain on the left side of his face.

In his military career for several years, although he didn't go through any fierce battles, just running around like this, Wang Xue also experienced a good skill.But after the fall, he didn't turn over right away, because from this angle, he could see the weeping woman rising and falling, with plumpness flashing from the torn clothes on her chest.Although the woman's whole body was smeared with silt and grass clippings, this bit of plumpness brought him a temptation far beyond filling her belly.

So after he got up, he was not in a hurry to retrieve the weapon, but rushed towards the woman with a grinning grin, and pushed her down in the grass. As for the young girl who was in the way, he threw it aside.The woman was very obedient, and even catered to her. Wang Xue had even forgotten that feeling, but felt that this woman was much more attractive than his wives living in the countryside.

But he was still not enjoying himself, the sudden sharp pain from his back interrupted his movements, he turned around in shock, and found that the young girl was holding the ring knife he had just discarded, standing behind him holding the knife, her face With a ferocity that is not commensurate with his age.However, the wound on his back was not caused by the young girl swinging a knife, but a stream arrow flying from the battlefield.

The woman under him pushed him aside, then stood up and took the knife from the young girl.At that time, Wang Xue had already closed his eyes, waiting for the butcher knife to fall, the arrow directly pierced his left abdomen, the more he struggled, the faster he died.Living in such a world, he had already prepared to die in the wild one day.Before he died, he suddenly remembered something. He took out a grain cake soaked in blood and sewage from his bosom, and handed it to the young girl.

The reason for this move was not to beg for mercy, the arrow had already penetrated his belly, even if the woman didn't kill him, he might not survive.He was just worried that the mother and daughter would not dare to pick up his body, and worried about wasting food.This piece of grain cake was the life-saving ration he received before the battle. It would be a pity if it was just eaten by fish, shrimp, birds and insects.

The girl took the bread, chewed and swallowed it, but the woman's knife did not cut it off after several swings.Instead of killing him, he healed his wounds, but the method was not clever, when he broke the arrow and pulled it out, it tore his wound even more seriously.

Then Wang Xue cried, partly because of the pain, and partly because the woman was sweating nervously, holding the rags to cover the wound for him, which reminded him of his wife at home.His wife's entry price is only a broken net plus three big fish.He made the fishing nets by himself, and he caught the big fish by himself, perhaps because the price was too cheap. Even if they were thrown in the village and left to fend for themselves, Wang Xue didn't think it was a pity.

But at this moment, he was crying, probably not in such pain since birth.His crying made the woman even more bewildered, and the girl panicked, and stuffed the blood-soaked bread back into his mouth.

Perhaps it was because of the woman's careful care, or perhaps it was because Wang Xue was really hard-pressed that she survived such serious injuries in the end.It's just that when he was able to stand up, the battle was already over. The original battlefield was empty, and there were only rotten corpses lying on the ground.Most of the corpses were disheveled, and in some places there were obvious signs of being cut.This reminded Wang Xue of the fatty barbecued meat he ate when he was sick, and he couldn't help but feel nauseous, and the woman looked at him with trepidation and apprehension.

Finally, Wang Xue took the woman's hand, hugged the little girl, and left the field of asura.They are like a family, wandering in the wilderness for a few days, and finally accepted by a dock surrounded by mountains and rivers.After being injured, Wang Xue would suffer from chest and abdominal cramps with a little effort, but he has extraordinary fishing and hunting skills. He kneaded hemp and weaved nets in the dock wall, and led people to fish and hunt in the wild marshes to add food. He is very respected in the dock wall.

In this way, several years of peaceful days passed in the dock wall, and the chaos came again.One day, a group of dozens of knights suddenly appeared in the desolate wilderness outside the dock wall, and rushed directly into the fort, saying that Wang Shizhuangwu had already repelled the raging Jiehu army, and the next step was to sweep the Central Plains, so Need to gather people's strength.Nearly a hundred households in Wubi were evicted, and the population was counted. Each person had to donate two dendrobium grains and five feet of hemp, and agreed to deliver them in ten days.

This variable immediately cast a shadow over the originally peaceful dock wall.The old owner of Wubi stepped forward to argue, but what he received was just a whipping, and he died after two days of wailing.Then Wang Xue was elected as the leader, but he couldn't raise the food that the soldiers asked for, so he could only lead the people to escape from the Wubi where they had lived for several years and enter the Qingshui Lake a few days before the deadline.

(End of this chapter)