"Wang Laoqi, let go quickly, you are going to drag me down." The bandit who was being pulled by the wrist shouted loudly.
"Help me, help me quickly." Wang Laoqi's body was still sinking slowly in the quagmire. The only wrist he was holding was his life-saving straw. How could he let go. As he struggled, he shouted loudly
shouted.
"Let go, I don't want to die with you. Let go now. Fuck you." The bandit who was pulled cursed loudly.
"Save me, save me, I don't want to die. My wife is still waiting for me to come home. My son is only five years old. I can't die." Wang Laoqi cried.
The cult bandit who was holding his wrist cursed and tried hard to get rid of it, but the other party's fingers gripped his wrist like an iron hoop, and he couldn't get rid of it at all. Seeing his body being slowly pulled into the quagmire, the cult bandit
Suddenly he used his other hand to pull out the weapon from his waist.
"Wang Laoqi, don't blame me, I had no choice but to do it. I don't want to be killed by you, I'm sorry."
Wang Laoqi shouted in horror: "No, you can't do this. We are all brothers in the religion. How can you ignore death and not save him? Ah...!"
Before he finished speaking, a cold light flashed before his eyes, and there was a sharp pain in his arm. His body leaned heavily to the other side. The arm that was holding the other person's wrist had been cut off. Blood spurted out from the cut. The severe pain made him
He screamed, holding the broken arm and twisting in pain. However, the next moment, he found that something more terrifying than the broken arm had arrived. Without the last straw, and because he had no chance at all,
Not understanding that it was impossible to struggle at this time, his body sank rapidly. The sludge and black water reached his chest, then his neck, and then his chin at an extremely fast speed.
Almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, Wang Laoqi's body seemed to be pulled in from the ground by a devil, and the whole person was submerged into the black muddy water. After several huge black bubbles burst in the muddy water, everything
Return to peace.
The cult bandit who cut off the opponent's arm with a knife was now free. He struggled to climb out of half of the quagmire, and rushed back to the hard ground at the edge of the forest. He sat on the ground and gasped for air, with a look of shock on his face.
Very white.
"Ah. What is that?" The dozen or so congregants who witnessed all this looked at him dumbfounded, and suddenly screamed and jumped away like frightened mice.
"What's wrong? What are you doing? You bastards, when disaster strikes, you all fly away. You all fucking ran away. Are you still human? What's the ghost's name?" the bandit cursed angrily.
"Your hands, your hands..." the other bandits pointed at his hands and shouted.
The cult bandit looked down and jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on. He saw the broken hand on his wrist still holding him quietly. Blood and mud mixed with blood came out from the broken wound.
Rushing together, it's terrifying.
"Ah!" the cult leader yelled, forcefully opened the hand and threw it aside. Suddenly, he knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
"What evil has been done? What are we doing? What on earth are we doing? How did we end up in this situation? So many people died during the attack on the city. We are going to die too. We are all going to die. Not one of us.
We can't survive. We are the ones who have committed sins and we will all go to hell."
The surrounding believers looked at him silently, and they understood his mood. Because their mood was the same as his. How did things get to this point? Why did it become so difficult? Don't you want to enjoy the blessings of the Holy Communion?
?Why did you suddenly follow the rebellion and attack the city, and get to where you are now? You become a rebel, and you can die at any time, and you can't help yourself. That's all, the key is the disillusionment of hope. The Holy Duke has been exposed, he is a pirate
The bandit is a liar. Although it has not been completely confirmed, Chief Meng's performance has shown that all this is true, and even a fool can see it. The sky is falling.
More than a dozen congregants just sat beside the trees in a swamp filled with mosquitoes and a stinky swamp, crying in the dark. They had no hope for the future.
"Wait, why don't we run away? This is the best chance to escape. Why should we follow them? Do we think our lives will be long? What are the benefits of following them? Let's run away. If we don't run away, we will be alone.
None of them will survive." One of the congregants suddenly stopped crying.
"Yes, why should we suffer such a crime? Run away, let's just run away." Someone suddenly realized.
"Where can I escape? If I escape home, I will die."
"What are you afraid of? The imperial army is coming. I don't think the Qingjiao will last long. Tens of thousands of people can't even attack a small town. How can we resist the imperial army when it comes? They have too much time to take care of themselves, how can they still cause trouble for us? Let's
After returning home, we didn't mention anything about joining the Qingjiao, and just hid with our family. We would come out after everything calmed down. The court would not punish us, and we didn't kill anyone or set fire to anything? We were deceived by them.
"
"But I killed someone. I just...just...cut off Wang Laoqi's hand..."
"Hey, it's not your fault. You just cut off Wang Laoqi's hand to save yourself, and you didn't kill him. He was killed by the quagmire, which has nothing to do with you. We won't tell anyone, and no one will know.
.Don’t worry. Brothers, if you want to survive, this is your chance. I think we should stop searching and walk along the woods. We can go out tomorrow. Even if we can’t get out, we can still find a place to hide. Absolutely
I can’t go back to the team. What do you think?”
"Okay, let's do it."
More than a dozen congregants quickly reached a consensus. After they disappeared quietly, everything returned to calm. Only a severed hand that was left in the forest lay there bloody. Soon flies, mosquitoes and ants
It will crawl all over that hand, and soon it will eat up all the flesh and blood, leaving nothing left.
Similar scenes were staged all over the sand dunes and swamps. The demoralized and resentful believers had long had enough. In the evening, dozens of search teams sent out were like mud cows entering the sea. Only seven or eight teams withdrew, and the rest
All of them never came back without a trace. Some of them died from the bites of poisonous snakes and insects, some were buried in the mud, some were knocked down by poisonous gas, and more of them chose to escape and escape from this hell forever.
Such situation.
Meng Xiang was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it. However, his determination remained unchanged. He had no intention of giving up the search for Lin Jue until he saw the support of the imperial army arriving. And his persistence was rewarded in the second half of the night.
…
Although Lin Jue and others hiding in the thin willow forest had cattails to feed themselves, they were not living in paradise. The heat during the day was unbearable. They gritted their teeth and endured it and it passed. But the biggest problem was thirst.
The tender stems of cattails can provide some water, but it cannot keep up with the body's consumption. The cavalry had to drink water from the swamp lake outside the forest. The water was turbid and had a strange smell. Although Lin Jue strictly ordered them not to
Even though they drank this kind of water randomly, many people still couldn't resist their thirst and drank to their fullness in a short time.
Soon, bad effects occurred. A dozen cavalry soldiers drank dirty water and began to suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea, and they fell unconscious. Is there any other way to treat them? Everyone could only worry. It was difficult to stay up until dark and the heat was very hot.
Gradually they dispersed, but the mosquitoes were flying everywhere again. The mosquitoes that finally saw flesh and blood were like a group of lingering demons, flying around everyone, and lying down to suck blood whenever there was an opportunity. The mosquitoes were swatted with crackling sounds.
The sound echoed in the thin willow forest.
In fact, the simplest way to repel mosquitoes and provide drinking water is to light a fire. Boil dirty water to drink, and a fire can drive away mosquitoes. But at this time, no one dares to light a fire, because as long as a fire is started, it may be eaten by outsiders.
The bandits found out.
Several cavalrymen who went to guard the hills in the south had seen the opponent's movements during the day. The opponent was blocking the official road and setting up camp, and sent men to search everywhere. At this moment, they did not dare to move at all.
However, in the middle of the night, a dozen soldiers couldn't bear it anymore. Thirst and mosquitoes defeated them, so they sneaked to the edge of the willow forest, built a small shed with willow trees, and raised a fire to boil water.
Drink. They thought that the willow shed could block the firelight, but they forgot that in the dark night, even a little light would attract people's attention. Several bandits on a sand dune not far away discovered the firelight exposed from between the willows.
By the light of the bonfire, they immediately reported the news to Meng Xiang.
Meng Xiang personally confirmed the news. The fire on the opposite side of a huge swamp lake was definitely not a bonfire of the lost search team. Because no manpower was sent to search in this area. Because there is this swamp lake lying beside the Chi Road,
No one would think that the two hundred cavalrymen would get off the Chi Road from here. There is no road at all.
Although I don’t know how that group of people did it, the fire revealed their whereabouts. And not long after, seven or eight bright bonfires appeared there, which basically confirmed that there were a large number of people hiding there.
.
Meng Xiang immediately ordered preparations for a siege. In order to appease the dissatisfaction of the religious bandits, Meng Xiang decided to allow them to slaughter all the remaining livestock and horses. Hundreds of livestock were slaughtered to satisfy hunger, which somewhat alleviated the pain caused by hunger.
Feelings of dissatisfaction. The Qing Sect’s teachings about not eating meat and fish have become bullshit now. They are so hungry that they may even eat people. After several hours of deep sleep, the believers are in good mental and physical condition.
At dawn, Meng Xiang issued an order to encircle and surround them from both sides.
At dawn, two groups of bandit soldiers and horses began to walk down the road from the east and west sides and entered the swamp and miscellaneous trees. Going out in large groups has its own advantages. They can clear roads across mountains and build bridges over water. Thorns and miscellaneous trees can be used with long knives.
Cut out a path. You can also use branches and weeds to pave the way when you encounter swamps and swamps. Finally, when the sun was shining, the two teams finally formed an encirclement on the east and west edges of the thin willow forest.
Meng Xiang was naked, and the tattoos on his body were covered with ants and flies, but he didn't care. His eyes were shining with excitement, because he could finally kill Lin Jue and this group of hated cavalry.
Surrounded and killed. Standing on the slope at the edge of the forest, Meng Xiang had already seen the open space in the middle of the thin willow forest and the crooked shacks. He even saw a few war horses standing there in a daze.
