Chapter 55 Suffering

The news that Dengzhou City fell and the governor Sun Yuanhua fell into the hands of the rebels quickly spread all over the world, which immediately shocked the whole of Denglai and all parts of Shandong.

People can't believe that in a strong city like Dengzhou Prefecture, the city has sufficient food and salaries, sufficient troops, and piled up military weapons. In the eyes of others, no matter how bad it is, it is not a problem to persist for a year and a half. If you do a good job, it is not impossible to persist for two or three years, but Dengzhou City is patrolling. Fusun Yuanhua was personally in the town, but he couldn't even hold on for a month, so he was easily taken down by the rebels.

So some people didn't believe it at first, but when the news was repeatedly confirmed, they had to believe the news, and the whole Shandong was in a mess for a while.

It turned out that all kinds of chaotic demons in Shandong were very frequent. In the second year of Chongzhen, he gathered people to rebel and was finally suppressed by the officials and soldiers. After hearing about the chaos in Denglai, these hidden demons from all over the country once again began to take advantage of the situation to make waves, making the whole mountain Dongdu is in chaos.

Of course, the news also reached LiuDi's ears as soon as possible. LiuDi's head was a little big as soon as he heard it. Sure enough, he still let him guess that Dengzhou City was conquered by the rebels without holding on for a long time, so the rebels would immediately plunder in the next step.

Ninghaizhou is less than 200 miles to the east of Dengzhou City. Although it can't be said that it is flat along the way, there is no dangerous pass to stop them. There are quite a lot of cavalry among the rebels. As long as they want, they can almost raise their legs to reach Ninghai Prefecture.

The Ninghai State Office is located in Mouping County. The county seat is only about ten miles away from his Xishan Village. It can walk to reach the side of Xishan Village, and a large amount of grain and grass have been hoarded in Xishan Village and Yangma Island, which is very attractive to the rebels, and this kind of thing can't be hidden.

So no one can guess when the rebels will come outside Xishan Village. As long as the rebels come, there will not be too few, so whether Xishan Village can be defended becomes a question.

At present, there are only two elite infantry platoons in Xishan Village, but only half of them use wolf tooth rifles, and the other half still use southern Japanese rifles. There are not many spare barrels and spare parts, and there is only one repairer. Although the ammunition base is not small, in case the rebels come a few Thousands of people, they are still difficult to fight.

Fortunately, during this period, Li Futong and two other second lieutenants, together with some non-commissioned officers and several trainee officers, were still quite diligent. They prepared the knives and guns stored in the village and made a large number of bows and arrows and crossbows using simple round rod machines and circular saws.

At the same time, they received a large number of refugees here, selected young and strong men, trained them, and became the villagers of Xishan Village, which can be used as auxiliary soldiers.

In a short period of intensive training, these villagers have more or less mastered some basic knowledge of fighting and have basic combat ability, but this is only limited to letting them defend the city. If they take them out to fight with the rebels in the field, they will panic as soon as there are more enemies.

At present, Xishan Village has also trained three or 400 people, divided into two companies, led by Li Futong and another second lieutenant officer to lead a company and use as auxiliary soldiers of their infantry.

Before the sea was frozen, he finally came here to deliver food and ship the refugees. At least he also sent them two new 12-pound guns, which made Liu different have four 12-pound howitzers at hand. Two guns were placed in Xishan Village and Yangma Island, making it a certain heavy Support ability of firepower.

However, in Liu's eyes, such military equipment is still too weak. Although they look at the current force, looking at Ninghai Prefecture, even if Ninghai Prefecture's garrison comes, they are not afraid at all. In the whole of Muping County, Ninghai Prefecture, Zhuangbao Village, which has such strong force, is no one to the right.

Once a large number of rebels attack, it is really dare not to say whether Xishan Village can be preserved. For this reason, Liu is so anxious that he can only find a way to continue to collect some refugees and train them into new villagers. Even if these people don't have time to give enough training to be of great use, but When necessary, we can still maintain the order of the refugees in the village and the earthen, so as to avoid internal chaos first.

Sure enough, just after the fall of Dengzhou Prefecture, a large number of refugees began to flock to Ninghai Prefecture. These refugees were originally villagers from villages around Dengzhou City. After the rebels arrived outside Dengzhou City, they sent a lot of people to plunder and attack the village fortress.

Almost all the villages within dozens of miles around Dengzhou City have been attacked. Anyway, many villagers asked for money, land and land, and there was no family property that they could not give up. As soon as the chaos came, they fled their homes one after another in order to avoid the rebels and began to move towards all directions. They thought they were safe. Fang fled.

Naturally, Mouping County is also an option. Many refugees flocked to Mouping County. By the middle of January, many refugees had entered Mouping County and gathered outside Mouping County.

The government of Ninghai Prefecture certainly dares not open the door to accept these refugees, and all townships and villages also dare not accept these refugees, not to mention the relief. Not to mention that they do not have enough food, even if they do, they dare not dare to take out to help these refugees at this time.

Who can guarantee that among these refugees, there are no rebels or some strong people hiding among the refugees? Once they are allowed to enter the city or village, who can guarantee that once the rebels attack, they will no longer make trouble in the city or in the village?

So although these refugees fled to Mouping County in the severe cold, they still could not get any relief. However, some people soon heard that in a Xishan village near the sea in the north of the city, there was a Liu Dashan who had been serving porridge outside the village to relieve the hungry people.

So these refugees immediately flocked to Xishan Village, wanting to find a bite of food in Xishan Village and continue to live. If Liu Dashan people in Xishan Village can be kind-hearted and take them in, they can get a shelter from the wind and rain, and they don't have to be in such cold weather. It has drifted everywhere.

The temperature in the first month is still very low, and there is a heavy snow, and the temperature has been as low as dripping ice. Many of these refugees don't even have cotton-padded clothes, but as long as they can wrap the rags around their bodies, try to wrap them up as much as possible. To keep warm, some people wear shoes on their feet, but some people even lost their shoes and staggered on the frozen road barefoot.

Many people's toes have frozen black and purple, and they can't be preserved. Many people have no food in their stomachs and can't provide enough heat for their bodies at all. They walk and fall down. Since then, they can no longer get up. They are so cold and hungry and die on the road.

It can be said that such a situation is everywhere on land in Denglai and other places. Every moment, people are killed on the roadside, but no one has ever asked. As long as someone falls, many refugees will immediately flock up and grab the only cold-proof clothes on them and immediately wrap them. However, Then he left the body of the red fruit and continued to stagger towards the front where they didn't know their destination.

Several horses stood on a mound more than 30 miles west of Xishan Village. The men on the horse's back looked very tough, with a single knife with a black scabbard around their waist, a shield on the horse's buttocks, and a horse gun in his hand.

But they were not wearing military uniforms, but civilian clothes, wearing a strange cotton hat on their heads, and the brims on both sides fell down, just protecting their ears. There was also a furry thing hanging horizontally on the two hat ears, just protecting their noses. The whole face Only the eyes and mouth were exposed, and the hot air kept spewing out of the mouth, forming white frost on the fur that protects the nose, but it looked very warm.

These people silently stared at a road passing from the direction of Dengzhou, and the road was full of refugees fleeing.

A refugee staggered on the road, moving forward with difficulty step by step, as if he could no longer support his body, but he still dragged a boy in his hand, who was about ten years old, equally thin and staggered forward with him.

But everyone can see that the two of them can't hold on, especially the adult. The eyes in both eyes have begun to be lax and unable to focus, but with the last breath and instinct, they pulled the teenager and struggled forward step by step.

Suddenly, the refugee staggered and fell to the ground. He struggled for a long time and couldn't get up again. The teenager cried and threw himself beside him, knelt on the ground and cried loudly, begging the passers-by to give him a bite to save his father, but everyone looked at the ground indifferently. Although some people showed a trace of pity in their eyes, no one stopped, even giving them a bite of food.

After the refugee fell down, he struggled and gradually stopped moving. Although he still had a breath, he didn't even have the strength to speak. He just took the teenager's hand stiffly with one hand, showing a trace of unwillingness, reluctance, and strong sadness in his eyes, but he also said one sentence. If you don't come out, just look at the teenager quietly.

(Today, I would like to thank the Taoranting on Guilin Road and the Yingzhiwu brothers for their rewards! Oh, oh! Oh yeah! **It hurts so much that it has been blown up one after another! It's so cool! Brothers, there is a monthly ticket! Let me go back?)