warring states careerist

Chapter 621 In the eyes of the fugitive soldier ([-])

Where he lay, he was lucky, or the spell blessed by Yi Wu was really effective, lead bullets fell on his side, but he was not injured at all.

In front of him was an undead Qi soldier who had been shot in the leg by lead bullets. His palm-sized wound was bleeding and was a rotten mass. I can't move anymore.

The soldiers of the Naqi who pretended to be dead frowned, thinking that their comrades in the village were also shot by muskets in the battle of cutting the most, and their arms were rotten shortly after returning home. They used a lot of herbs and asked the wizard, but why? Neither healed nor died within a few days.

"Even if you climb back, you won't survive."

Shaking his head secretly, he was cursing those nobles again in his heart. He was captured in the most land many years ago. He lived a good life in the prisoner camp for several months, and was "bewitched" by the Xuanyi Department of the Mo family for a long time. His hatred for war The attention will naturally turn to those noble people who are seeking personal gain.

The reasoning of the Mohist school is too simple and too suitable. After fighting back and forth, the nobles got their fiefs, but these disciples couldn't even get a hair, and they also delayed their own family's property.

The aristocrats had a lot of property, including slaves, slaves, and fief serfs, and rewards and more fiefs when they went to war.

My share of land will not be exempted from taxes just because I went to war.Taxes are normal, and the war has to go out, so the family has less labor to cultivate, and when they come back in autumn, they have to repay the loan money. They are getting poorer and poorer, but the nobles are getting richer and richer.

He lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead, really pretending to be at ease.

Quietly raised his head and looked at the fortress, secretly said: "Hurry up and finish the fight, you rush out so I can surrender, how can I surrender after such a beating?"

While thinking about it, several black shadows whizzed out again, and all the people said in their hearts: "Hey, I don't know which guy who was urged to die by the ghost died. The nobles are hiding behind, but they can't catch them." .It would be great if the cannons of the Mo family can hit farther.”

Turning around a little, looking back at the ditch, he found that the Qi army in the second wave of attack had already started forming a team, followed by a group of soldiers. attack.

A row of feathered arrows flew through the air, but few of them flew to the fortress, most of them stuck into the slightly sloped soil slope in front.

He looked at the second wave of soldiers who had raised their shields and moved forward. He slapped his thigh and said, "This is not good. I died in a bad place. Either I was trampled to death or I was easily killed by the Mohists." Killed with a musket. When they retreat, I have to change places quickly..."

He wandered around for a while, but didn't know where to go. At this time, the drums had already sounded, and the second wave of Qi troops shouted forward. With the previous cover, this wave still maintained the basic formation.

Qi Pawn, who was pretending to be dead, held his head and kept praying.

"Don't step on me, don't step on me..."

He didn't dare to open his eyes to look, but he heard the sound of screams and footsteps coming from beside him. His luck was really good, or maybe the Qi people's formation had been loosened. Except for the calf being stepped on, there was no other place. no damage.

With the cover of those people in front, he quietly raised his head to see where it was safer, so that he could choose a good place later.

But he didn't want to raise his head to see the person in front of him lying on the ground even though nothing happened, and even glanced at him before lying down.

The distance between the two of them was very close, and the Qi soldiers were not embarrassed, so they whispered: "Are you pretending to be dead too?"

The person who was lying on the bed with him scolded: "Whoever wants to be beaten, he will be beaten, and my land will be confiscated. If I die, who will support my parents? The Mohist family doesn't kill prisoners, and doesn't build capitals, so hurry up and beat them." I'll go home when I'm done."

The soldiers of that Qi said, "Where is your family?"

"Anping."

"Me too. I said, we have to change the place, this place is in the front, or we will be trampled to death, or we will be shot to death with a musket..."

The two crept closer, and then pretended to be dead and said to the man, "Can you go down the city wall? Can't you hit the muskets there?"

The two of them looked in the direction of the fortress together. The second attacking Qi army had rushed thirty or forty steps before the rammed earth slope of the so-called city wall, when they heard a bang, bang bang, not the movement of muskets.

A large row of Qi soldiers rolled and fell to the ground, howling on the ground.

That Qi soldier had participated in the battle against the most, and said in surprise: "That is the Mo family's tiger squatting cannon, I am afraid it will not work under the city wall."

With this muffled sound, he immediately recalled the fear of the year. During the battle of cutting the most, a group of them rushed to the front of the Mohist formation, and many of their partners were killed and injured by stones like locust plagues.

Afterwards, he also knew that that thing was called a tiger squat cannon, and it was extremely simple, that is, a broken iron can, weighing thirty to forty catties, usually tied with a rope and two people could carry it, and when fighting, it used a broken bracket or When a pile of soil is piled up, it only takes twenty or thirty steps to shoot, and all the hits are gravel.

Because when marching, he wrapped it with hemp rope and carried it on his shoulders. This thing is also called hemp rope cannon. He almost died under this thing at the bottom. At this time, the memory of the beginning was awakened, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

After a few shots were fired, there was the explosion sound of the iron thunder that he was more familiar with, and the rising smoke could not clearly see the situation under the city, but there was no need to look at it.

"Under the city..."

As soon as he finished speaking, many Qi people threw down their weapons and fled backwards in the gunpowder, but the sides of the fort that formed sharp corners could shoot sideways directly, and the fleeing people would face attacks from three sides and fell to the ground one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the third wave of the Qi army had rushed to about thirty or fifty steps behind them, but more than 20 heavy iron balls fell from the sky, directly breaking up the formation of the third wave.

The iron ball didn't fly out from the fortress, it should have been shot from the top of the city, crossed the low-rise fortress, and hit the heads of the third wave of Qi soldiers who were assembled to attack.

More than 20 iron balls can't kill a few people, but the front has been defeated, and the formation that was finally assembled was broken up again, but they didn't even touch the corner of the wall. How could the Qi army, which was attacked by the third wave, move forward? They retreated directly, regardless of any orders to retreat and die, and rushed back to the trench in a swarm.

Qi Zu, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, scolded: "Mr. Wu knows how to fight a shit? The Mohists say that no one is expensive, and nobles are no different from us. A 16-year-old kid knows how to fight a shit? We are here to die!"

At this time, the scattered Qi army at the foot of the city was about to arrive here, and the Qi soldiers hurriedly got up and shouted: "It doesn't work here, take advantage of the chaos and run to the side..."

The two of them ran towards both sides, neither daring to get close to the ditch, nor to the top of the city, nor within a hundred steps of the city. They ran dozens of steps to the side, already out of breath. Angry, if they run again at this time, they are afraid that people will notice them, so the two of them pretended to be dead and got down together, not wanting to hear a third person's voice next to them, cursing: "You stepped on me, I'm blind!" eye?"

Hearing the accent, it was either from Anping or Linzi, and then he looked down to find more than 20 people lying beside him, and the leader seemed to be Chief Sima.

Seeing that these two people were also pretending to be dead, Chief Sima shouted, "You pretend to be dead, so why are you still stepping on us?"

The two hurriedly apologized, and told each other where their hometown was, but it was not far away.

The chief Sima said: "Let's just stay here. The Mo family's cannons don't shoot this way, and the muskets can't reach it, and it's not easy to be stepped on here. Hurry up and finish the fight, and I will be captured to eat the Mo family's corn buns for a few days." , it’s time to go home. In these years, whoever sends a nobleman to death is a fool.”

That Qi soldier seemed to have seen a bosom friend, and hurriedly said: "The most battle, have you been arrested?"

As soon as Chief Sima heard this, he said with the sound of cannon fire again: "Isn't it just being caught? He also gained three or two catties from eating, tsk tsk, the Mo family's food is really delicious."

"The mustard leaves were pickled with salt, steamed in a pot, and two drops of oil were put on it... Tsk tsk, paired with that corn bread, I have never eaten such a delicious meal at my age."

"Although I have to dig canals every day, it's much better than being in the army. I'm full. Sometimes there will be a show at night, and I will teach you how to farm. When I left, each of us gave half a catty of corn seeds..."

Among the 20 people next to them, some of them were arrested and followed suit, and some of them were new recruits. How could they know what oil means, because at this time there is only ointment, and oil is a word to describe the luster and luster. The so-called millet oil Oil.

Because of the presence of vegetable oil in Sishang, which is neither fat nor ointment, it was named after the word used to describe the leaves.

After the chief Sima finished speaking, he said again: "You are all fellow villagers, can I still lie to you? If you don't want to die, you want to eat, just wait here."

A pawn who was only fifteen or sixteen years old asked, "Brother, when will this be over?"

Sima Chang said: "Isn't it fast? Younger Ziwu doesn't know how to fight. Shihe and Gongzaoye are the ones who captured the King of Chu and King Yue. How can they compare? Wait, the Mo family doesn't kill people if they are arrested, and they don't kill people." Zhujingguan, what are you afraid of?"

The Qi soldier before said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to stay here."

Sima Chang said: "It's all right, I just checked before going into battle, this place is all right. As for the lives of dozens of fellow villagers, I've thought about it before the fight."

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old pawn whispered, "A few days ago, there were rumors in the army that they would surrender by taking off their shirts and waving their shirts."

Sima Chang laughed and scolded: "If you do this at this time, will you be punished if you go back? If the Mo family directly took down Linzi this time, I would have surrendered. If he doesn't hit Linzi, I will still belong to the nobles when I go home." People, surrendering at this time is not an option, you have to wait a few days."

"It's okay, it's fine here, if you can't step on it, you won't have a gun."

As soon as he finished speaking, as if to confirm his words, there were a few more cannon shots, which indeed hit a place two or three hundred steps away from them, and then the sound of Ming Jin was heard. , actually leaked.

The Chief Sima murmured: "Young Master Wu also said that he would take us home, the home of the ass, and he was sending us to die. If we really want to go home, it's not easy? The Mo family didn't even plan to beat us. He slaughtered Wucheng, and the Mohist family wanted to fight it down. They said it all, and only punished the culprits. If he really wanted to take us home, he died, and the Mohist family kept their promises, would they not let us go back? Going back now, we are rushing Last autumn harvest..."

The Qi soldier squeezed out a mouthful of broken, white, frothy saliva from between his teeth, and spat: "How can you not see us in the eyes of the nobleman? Don't think about his own death, you can only wait for the battle to be over... How long can the Mo family hold us this time?"

Sima Chang said: "The Mo family is reasonable, and it benefits the world. They talk about the autumn harvest, and they will be locked up for a month before letting us go?"

That Qi soldier nodded and said: "That's right. I'm catching up. People from the Mo family are easy to talk to."

(End of this chapter)