PS: Thanks to book friend He Cheng for promising the reward.
Zhong Guangdao smiled bitterly.
They knew that peasant soldiers were not easy to train. Just ensuring the normal operation of the peasant association was simply impossible for them.
The Datong Rebel Army relied on its powerful force to ensure the smooth existence of the farmers' association, allocate land to the people, and ensure that the land allocated to the people would not be taken back by the government. At the same time, they could also rely on the people's land to receive land taxes.
Looking at people like him and Wang Er, although they had captured Chengcheng, they could not hold on to Yansui Town once the soldiers and horses arrived. Even if they reluctantly imitated the Datong Rebels and established a peasant association, when the official troops arrived, they would still be unable to hold on. will be eradicated.
As for dividing the fields, it is even more impossible. These few hundred rebels are now barely surviving by looting everywhere. They usually have to avoid being hunted by officers and soldiers everywhere. They dare not stay in one place for even one day.
Therefore, it is simply impossible for them to form a peasant association and form peasant soldiers like the Datong Rebel Army.
Unless one day they can occupy one place like the Datong Rebel Army and have enough powerful soldiers and horses to deal with the imperial army, then it is possible to form a peasant association and peasant soldiers.
"Third Son and the others should be almost ready. Let's stop staying in the house and hurry up." Wang Er greeted Zhong Guangdao, who was sitting on the edge of the kang, and got up and walked out of the house.
Zhong Guangdao looked at Wang Er's leaving figure, raised the bowl in his hand, and drank the water in one gulp.
Compared with going to Yan'an Prefecture, he hopes to go to Shanxi to join the Datong Rebel Army, but Wang Er is the leader of their rebel army, and most people support Wang Er, and he is just a small leader in the rebel army. I don't have much say in front of me.
Wang Er left him alone and explained the reason for going to Yan'an Mansion. If he was still ignorant, he suspected that Wang Er would probably take action directly.
"Brother Zhong, why haven't you come out yet? Everyone is waiting for you."
A man walked in outside the house. He was also a small leader under Wang Er.
"Drink a few more water, let's go now." Zhong Guangdao put down the water bowl in his hand, stood up and walked out.
The man followed Zhong Guangdao, and the two of them arrived outside the courtyard gate together.
"Okay, brother Zhong is here, let's go." When Wang Er saw Zhong Guangdao coming out, he immediately waved his hand and ordered the team to set off. Then he turned to the man next to Zhong Guangdao and said, "Third son, follow Zhong Guangdao. Brother, Brother Zhong is our military advisor, so we must protect him."
The man following Zhong Guangdao grinned and said, "Second brother, don't worry, I will protect brother Zhong. When officers and soldiers come, they must first walk over my body."
"When you encounter officers and soldiers, you must first protect Brother Wang. It doesn't matter if I die. Nothing will happen to Brother Wang." Zhong Guangdao said to the man next to him named Sanzi.
The third son scratched the back of his head with his hand and said: "Don't worry, military advisor, we really meet the officers and soldiers. I and the third son will protect you two."
After hearing this, Zhong Guangdao was too lazy to say anything more to Sanzi, a fool.
The third son and Wang Er were from the same village, and their relationship was closer than that of him, an outsider in Abao Village.
At this time, the third son was sent to him, obviously to monitor him.
However, Zhong Guangdao didn't care.
Because he never thought about leaving Wang Er and escaping alone. Without Wang Er and the rebel army, even if he escaped from the rebel army alone, it would be difficult for him to escape to Shanxi. He would probably be caught and handed over halfway. Go to the government.
When leaving, almost all the people in the village were taken away by Wang Er's rebels. valley
The team became a lot bigger, with more men and women carrying wheelbarrows and poles walking in the middle of the team. All the old people in the village followed at the back of the rebel team.
When Wang Er came to the village, he had already collected all the edible things in the village. Even the villagers in the village could only eat with the rebels if they wanted to eat.
However, the elderly in the village could only drink soup made from wild vegetables, and only one meal a day. Only the hundreds of rebels brought by Wang Er were eligible to eat two meals a day, with a piece of dry biscuit.
Although the healthy women and young men in the village also eat twice a day, they can only drink some gruel for their two meals.
Wang Er and the rebels left the village farther and farther away.
Many of the old men following the team had already joined the team, but Wang Er ignored them and just kept ordering the team to move faster.
If any villager wants to go back to take care of the elderly who are left behind, he will immediately be beaten by Wang Er's servants with sticks, and the villagers will be forcibly taken away and will not be allowed to take care of the elderly behind the team.
Zhong Guangdao, who was walking in the team, looked at the fewer and fewer old people behind him, and his heart was already numb.
When Wang Er came to this village with the rebels, the fate of these old people was already doomed.
These old people are too old to do heavy work, and they can't even walk as well as the common people in their prime. Naturally, the rebels will not take such burdens on the road.
The reason why the rebels did not drive away these old people when they were in the village and let them leave with the team was entirely to appease the young men in the village who were trapped by the rebels.
Now that these old men themselves can't keep up with the team, they can be considered responsible for the rest of the village.
"Sympathize with them?" Wang Er came to Zhong Guangdao's side at some unknown time.
Zhong Guangdao smiled bitterly when he heard this.
Wang Er patted him on the shoulder and said: "I don't want to give up on these old people, but there is no way. The officers and soldiers are chasing us. It's impossible to go fast with them, and we don't have food to share with them. We must blame them." This is the world of cannibalism."
Shaanxi has been experiencing constant disasters in recent years, but the government has never exempted them from any taxes. The people have long been selling their children and daughters without food or clothing.
The food collected from the village, mixed with wild vegetables, was barely enough to feed the rebels for half a month.
"Let's go, hurry up, we won't be able to leave if the officers and soldiers catch up." Zhong Guangdao knew that this was not the time to be soft-hearted.
Just like Wang Er said, if you want to blame it, it's this cannibal world that doesn't give the poor a chance to live.
Just as Wang Er's rebel army was rushing from Xi'an Prefecture to Yan'an Prefecture, Wang Jiayin led his people to the outside of Fugu County.
"Poor Master, please slow down and dig. The vegetables in the little man's basket are still for sale. How can you sell them if you have dug them to pieces?" In front of the city gate, a vegetable vendor looked at the government servant at the gate of the city who was looking at the load randomly. The food in the dish was full of distress.
The yamen servant who was looking through the vegetables in the basket raised his head and glared at the vendor in front of him, and said threateningly: "If you don't let grandpa look through it, tell me, are you a thief who came to the city? Grandpa, when I take a look at you, you don't look like a good person, so arrest him." .”
Several government officials nearby surrounded the hawker.
When the hawker saw this, he was so frightened that his legs became weak. He quickly handed over his hands and begged for mercy: "Master, please spare this villain. You can turn over, turn over."
