Song Dynasty

Chapter 63 Look, This Is the Subjugated Slave ([-])

Gu Lie was stunned: "Still recruiting? If we recruit another 200 people, we can cross the river?"

"Who would think that we have too few soldiers? Our ship still has space, just squeeze it. Don't worry, as long as we recruit people, there will be no chaos." After Wang Shen said, he turned to the soldiers around him and said, "You guys Take responsibility, you all know the rules of my recruitment, just follow it. Gu Dutou, why don't you help me see it too."

"Yes, General."

Gu Lie nodded: "I still don't understand."

Apparently those soldiers were often engaged in recruiting, so they immediately shouted with all their strength: "Don't be chaotic, everyone, we are not a charitable house, and we only carry our own people if we want to carry them. General Wang said, we The army recruits another two hundred athletes. If you are spotted by us, you can cross the river together. If you want to be a soldier, come to us to sign up, line up, line up."

All the people fell silent at the same time, and then tens of thousands of people shouted loudly: "We want to be soldiers, we want to be soldiers, the officer will take me!"

Soon, the commotion of the people calmed down, and all the young and strong people lined up to accept the screening of the Sizhou State Camp one by one.

Sizhou Battalion has its own standards for recruiting recruits. First, they must be over 16 years old and under 40 years old. They must be healthy and strong. They need to lift a [-]-jin box on their chest and keep it still for three seconds.

In fact, the country in the Northern Song Dynasty was prosperous and strong, and the nutrition of the people was very good. The height of young men was generally between 1.6 meters and 1.7 meters, and they worked in the fields for a long time.

Apart from age and physical condition, the most important thing is honesty.Usually, the soldiers would ask the applicants a few questions, and if they thought they were good enough, they would lead them to Wang Shen to register.

At the beginning, Gu Lie was skeptical about what Wang Shen said, "As long as you recruit people, there will be no chaos."It's strange to say that as soon as those soldiers shouted, order was restored at the pier.

He walked up to Wang Shen and asked, "General Wang, I still don't understand. We only recruited 200 people. Even if those 200 people were selected by us to take across the river, there would be more than 1 people left. Can you calm down immediately?"

Wang Shen was sitting behind a table grinding ink. A soldier had already put a big umbrella over his head, and the rain was falling with a rustling sound.

"Hope." Wang Shen raised his head and said: "The people are like this. As long as you give them a glimmer of hope, there will be no chaos. As for not being selected, you can only blame your bad luck. This is arranged by God, who can have it?" Method."

Gu Lie nodded: "Indeed, I admire it."

Soon, qualified soldiers one by one were led to Wang Shen, registered their names, received their weapons, and bid farewell to their relatives under the envious eyes of everyone.

Among the selected soldiers, except for a few who fled alone, most of them took their families with them.They also know that after crossing the river, the family will be separated by the Yangtze River's natural moat, and they may never see each other again in this troubled world.

For a while, wives sent off their husbands, parents sent off their sons, and children sent off their fathers. There were soft weeping everywhere.

"Daddy of the child, you have to take good care of yourself, we will be fine. Don't worry, we are fine, we will go back to our hometown and wait for you. When the peace comes, remember to come back!"

"Daddy, don't leave me...Mom, don't hit me."

"Shut up, don't hold your father back, do you want him to die in Jiangbei?" Before she finished speaking, the woman began to cry.

……

"Boy, you can rest assured. Don't worry about us. If you are alive, you have left a seed for our grandson's family. Even if your parents are dead, you will have an explanation for your ancestors."

"Father, mother, the child is not filial, the child will not leave!"

The father was furious, and slapped his face: "Get out, if you stay here, it will be a death sentence, and you will be really unfilial."

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"Zhi Niang, I'm not human, I'm not human, I'll leave you and go on my own, me, me, me..." A recruit kept slapping himself.

The woman put a hairpin on her heart: "You thief, if you don't leave, if you don't leave, I will die in front of your eyes." Tears poured out like springs.

……

This scene keeps happening.

Although Gu Lie's heart was hardened, after watching it for a long time, his heart felt sour.

He looked back at Wang Shen, Wang Shen registered the recruits expressionlessly, and asked a few words kindly from time to time.

This man... this man has only iron and stone in his heart, and the straight mother thief is harder than Lao Tzu.

Wang Shen turned his head, and the eyes of the two met in the air: "Gu Dutou couldn't bear it and wanted to sympathize with them. Back then you went from Shaanxi to Jiangnan, then to Hebei, then Tokyo, Shanxi, Huaixi, and now It’s Jiankang. I haven’t been back to my hometown for many years. You are also miserable. Look, this is the end of the subjugated slaves. For the sake of the country and the nation, if you want to fight back to your hometown and drive the Jurchen Tartars back to the north, you have to send Put away your children's love for me."

"If Gu Dutou can't bear it, he can go back to the boat."

"Okay, out of sight is out of sight." Gu Lie suddenly felt a little depressed, and walked towards the boat through the crowd.

After walking a few steps, someone grabbed her clothes: "Officer, do you want a woman?"

Looking closely, she was a woman who was as thin as a skeleton, and she couldn't tell her age. Her eye sockets were sunken, her cheekbones were raised high, and her eyes sunk deeply.This made her look like dry firewood, and she was very afraid of people.

However, it can be seen from her facial features that if it was in the past, it should be this beauty.

"Officer, take me away, I am beautiful, I know how to serve people. I can have children, I have given birth to two children, both of them died. Officer, take me away, I promise to give birth to a baby for you Son." As she spoke, she giggled.

In the cold weather, there were flies hovering above her head, and at the same time, there was a strong stench of gangrene coming from her.Gu Lie, an old soldier, is very clear about this situation, he must be wounded and rotten.

Still wanting to be my woman, what the hell.Gu Lie kicked her and hurried away.

After walking for a while, just as he was about to board the boat, he suddenly felt compassion.As long as this woman takes a few doses of medicine and eats a full meal for a while, maybe she will get better.

"Straight mother thief, what's wrong with me, Gu Lie, Gu Lie, you are not a soft-hearted person...she seems...like my wife that I haven't seen for many years..." That's right, that The woman's eyebrows vaguely resembled the appearance of her wife who had been dead for many years, and she was so beautiful.

"Forget it, I still have dry food and wound medicine with me, give it to her, and give her some money."

Gu Lie walked back again, but the woman was already dead and fell into a pool of stagnant water.An unknown little yellow flower was planted on her shriveled head at some point.

At this time, her face was calm and fair, not so scary, and even had a strange and morbid beauty.

If this kind of beautiful woman is in peacetime, she will definitely be regarded as a treasure by her husband and will be cherished carefully, right?

It was the war since the year of Jingkang, and the long-term drought and famine that made her what she is now.

It was still raining, and my whole body was soaked, so cold.

These refugees have fled from Jianghuai to this point, and they have abandoned their homes and businesses. Many of them only wore a single piece of clothing, and there have been starvation and freezing to death.

Only now did Gu Lie realize that there were more than a dozen corpses of children and old people in the Huishuidang of the pier at his feet, ups and downs inside.If there is a hell in the world, this is probably it!

He couldn't bear it anymore, he spit out his breakfast with a wow, and burst into tears: "Officials, officials, what did you and the Emperor Daojun do? Now that this is the case, are you worthy of the common people? Your rain and dew fall, but it is so bitterly cold!"

"Slave of the subjugated country, this is the slave of the subjugated country!" A hand was placed on his shoulder.

Gu Lie turned his head to look, and it was Wang Shen who was expressionless, as if this hell on earth did not exist.

Wang Shen said slowly: "Gu Dutou, now you understand what our soldiers should do. It is to protect, protect the blood of our nation, so that the fire of civilization will not be extinguished in the hands of foreigners. I also saw what happened just now. , Dutou, you don’t have to blame yourself. Even if you saved this woman, so what, there are thousands of women like her in the world, so how can you save them.”

Gu Lie's family, young and old, all died in the internal and external wars of the Song Dynasty. He thought that his heart was as cold as iron.At this moment, the scar in my heart was uncovered by this woman, and the pain was severe: "Saving one is one."

"Confused." Wang Shen shouted: "It's a great feeling for a big man to help the people. How can we bind ourselves because of little compassion? As long as the result is correct, even if there are inappropriate means in the process, we can't help it." It doesn't matter, that is great compassion."

"Even if some people are sacrificed?" Gu Lie raised his head.

"That's right." Wang Shen nodded; "How can Xiaoren compare to Dayi, Gu Dutou, why have you become weak?"

Gu Lie murmured: "I... just feel that this is wrong, definitely wrong."

"Okay, okay, go down and rest!"

Gu Lie shook his head: "I, Gu Lie, joined the army when I was a child. I fought all the way from Shaanxi to Jiangnan. I don't know how many people died under my sword. I have seen many dead people, but today I can see clearly what is going on in this world. Only then can we see clearly how miserable these sentient beings are. If I don’t leave, I want to see this hell on earth for real.”

"Family country...Family country..." Wang Shen smiled wryly: "The country is ruined and the family is destroyed. Only at this time can we deeply understand this kind of thing... In the past, for the common people, who was the emperor? Life is still going on. And at this time, maybe they can understand what the family, country and nation mean to them, and no one can hide from the unprecedented national catastrophe."

Gu Lie pushed away an umbrella handed over by a guard, and stood silently on the ground.

I don't know how long it took before Wang Shen came over again: "Gu Lie, the two hundred soldiers are almost full, get ready, we can cross the river."

"Yes, General."

Wang Shen and Gu Lie were about to board the boat when a woman rushed over, grabbed Wang Shen's clothes, knelt on the ground and begged, "General, general, recruit one more soldier, take my son with you!"

But they saw that she was very dirty, she was only wearing a thin shirt in the cold weather, and she was accompanied by a skinny child, who seemed to be about ten years old.

This sudden scene horrified the guards around Wang Shen, who raised their sticks and were about to slam her at her head.

(End of this chapter)