Listening to the report from the prisoners, Chen Mu chuckled.
Just like the tens of thousands of people around Zhang Jiao who would rather commit suicide by jumping into the river than surrender to the army.
No one among Xu He's prisoners was willing to surrender, and no one was willing to help the officers and soldiers sneak into the camp to act as internal agents.
This is simply unimaginable to modern people.
Let’s not talk about how many traitors emerged one after another during the national crisis. After the Song Dynasty, there were countless literati and officials who betrayed the country.
These people are actually worse than a group of mountain villagers, and they are still a group of farmers who have been here for hundreds of thousands of years.
They know more about justice and integrity than those who led the way in later dynasties.
How ironic and disgusting is such a comparison?
But this is the bones of the Han people!
Zang Hong rebelled against Yuan Shao in righteous anger and was besieged for a year. The people in the city were willing to die generously with him.
Zhang Jiao raised the banner of vigorous resistance to the tyranny of the Han Dynasty, and people all over the world rose up. When the army was defeated, 50,000 people jumped into the river and committed suicide, unwilling to live an ignoble existence.
Liu Bei upheld the principles of benevolence and righteousness, treated the people well, sat on the same table with the people, and ate with them. When Cao Cao went south, more than 100,000 people were willing to cross the river with Liu Bei.
In times of great dangers and difficulties, our faith becomes clearer and clearer, and when the situation is pressing, we do not lose sight of the truth.
Since ancient times, the Han nation has always been a great nation. They have their integrity, their pride, and their courage.
Wei Qing and Huo Qubing fought in the northern part of the Great Wall, and sealed the wolf in Xu. Dou Xian came to Yan's aid with horses, strangled stones, and wrapped his corpse in horse hides.
Even in the Three Kingdoms era, any country that stands up can defeat the foreigners and prevent them from bullying us.
It was at this time that the backbone of the Han nation stood up high and announced to the world that our nation is called "Han" and that we have tall and hard bones that allow us to stand on top of the world.
Only after thousands of years, what should have been a more advanced social environment and stronger comprehensive national strength, the backbone of the nation has been broken in two, and it has become a colony of the great powers.
Perhaps, there are many reasons for this.
But what cannot be denied is that the nation’s self-confidence has withered for too long since the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Those who come from later generations are not even as good as the mountain people of our ancestors.
Have you been on your knees for a long time? Will there ever be a day when you can stand up?
Chen Mu raised his head and looked towards the mountains and forests in the distance. There seemed to be thin clouds and mist.
Maybe? This is the meaning of God wanting him to return to the time when the backbone of this nation was still there.
If you want to be a hero, can you bear the burden on your shoulders?
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"General, another letter has been sent from the mountain."
The soldier handed the letter over.
Xu He was illiterate, but he guessed the content. He moved the letter to a literate subordinate and said with a wry smile: "It's another letter to persuade you to surrender."
The subordinate opened the bamboo slips, took a look at it, and nodded: "This is the third letter in the past two days. Do we want to reply to the army?"
"No return."
Xu He was resolute and said with a firm face: "The officers and soldiers are cruel and unkind? Do you want us to surrender and then work as slave farmers for the powerful? It is absolutely impossible. If you don't reply, you will tell them? We will never compromise with them. You have the guts."
Just keep standing around and see who can last longer."
Chen Mu still underestimated Xu He's determination? In fact, Xu He was already preparing for the village as early as last year? So the food he saved? Not only this year's summer food, but also last year's summer food and winter food.
Don’t think that ancient farmland production was insufficient to feed the people. You must know that the cultivated land area in the Han Dynasty reached 800 million acres, with a population of 50 to 60 million, and almost every person had more than ten acres of farmland.
As mentioned before, if you want to support a family of five, you need at least twenty acres of land. If you want to live a better life, you usually have about thirty or forty acres, even if you are a rich farmer.
Therefore, based on the average calculation for a family of five, that is fifty or sixty acres of land, which is more than enough to produce food to feed the family.
But just as the world's food production in future generations is more than enough to feed 7 billion people, yet countless people still starve to death or suffer from malnutrition every year. This does not mean that how many people can be fed by how much food there is.
After land annexation, food was concentrated in the hands of powerful people. The powerful people used food for business, traded with foreigners, and treated food as commodities. Sometimes they would rather rot in warehouses than help the people. This is the same as milk pouring into the river. It can be seen that land annexation
terrible.
Xu He killed the tycoons of the two counties, occupied the land, and gave it to the people for farming. The plain area of the two counties had nearly two million acres of fields. With an output of seven or eight shi of summer millet and winter wheat per mu, the annual grain production was nearly 1,500 acres.
With more than one million stones, even if 200,000 people consume it every day, millions of stones can still be saved and stored in the village. Coupled with this summer's grain, it will be enough to last for two years.
Therefore, Xu He was not worried about the long-term siege by the government troops. According to his estimation, at most half a year, the government troops would retreat because they could not bear the heavy consumption.
This is inevitable, and Xu He knows it well.
At this moment, another subordinate came to report: "General, the officers and soldiers from outside the village have come to provoke me again. This time the person is changed. It is not Guan Yu. The person who comes calls himself Zhuojun Zhang Fei."
"Is it Zhang Fei who repeatedly killed several generals in Bocaiqushuai at Changshe?"
"Exactly."
"Go out and have a look."
Xu He left the camp and came to the pass on the mountainside.
I saw Zhang Fei on his horse, shouting provocation at the foot of the mountain, saying that if all the Yellow Turbans were cowards, he would fight twenty of them each.
The open space at the foot of Woniu Mountain was very large. It was already a valley. The officers and soldiers cut down the surrounding trees and cleared away the weeds, leaving a piece of yellow land. Zhang Fei yelled and cursed in the open space.
"Are you Yellow Turbans all cowards? Of the 200,000 people, not one of them can fight? Whoever dares to come out to fight, I can fight 20 of them!"
Zhang Fei's voice was so loud that it was five hundred meters away. You must know that this was five hundred meters, and Xu He could hear it.
However, there are echoes in the valley, and it is normal for them to travel far.
Xu He said angrily: "General, it's really hateful for Zhang Fei to insult us like this. Why don't we send out capable generals to kill him."
"this......"
Xu He hesitated and said: "I heard that Zhang Fei is brave enough to be worthy of all men."
The left and right said: "No matter how brave he is, how can he defeat twenty people? If he can capture Zhang Fei alive, it will defeat the spirit of the army."
"good."
Xu He thought about it and nodded: "Then send twenty people to fight him."
Although it is not easy to run horses in the mountains, there is flat ground below the mountains. Xu He immediately selected twenty warriors from his army and led the horses down the mountain. They waited until they reached the gentle slope at the bottom of the mountain before mounting their horses and galloping.
Twenty people went to kill Zhang Fei.
In fact, Zhang Fei was bragging at that time, because he had provoked many times in the past two days and the Yellow Turban Army did not come out, so he borrowed some distilled wine that he had secretly drank in the morning, cursed for a while, and the cowhide began to fly into the sky.
Regardless of whether Zhang Fei or Guan Yu are powerful generals who can defeat tens of thousands of people, they can charge into battle and kill hundreds of people just like Yang Zaixing.
But firstly, it was on the battlefield, so there was more room for detours. Secondly, there were personal guards to help them prevent sneak attacks from the side, allowing them to concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front.
As for such a fierce battle between generals, the space is limited, and it is difficult to defend against sneak attacks from behind. After all, it is easy to dodge hidden arrows with open guns and difficult to defend against. Even if Zhang Fei is very skilled in martial arts and can defend against behind, what should he do with his boasted horses?
One against ten outside Changshe City is a good example.
If Zhang Fei hadn't been so strong in the battle, something big might have happened at that time.
In an infantry battle, fighting ten at a time was already the limit, and now it was twenty. When he saw the enemy actually coming out, Zhang Fei almost peed, and Jiu Jin was half awake with fright.
"Damn, it's really coming out."
Learning the new vocabulary that Chen Mu occasionally popped up, Zhang Fei muttered in a low voice, rolled his eyes, thought of an idea, and said loudly: "The land here is small, come to the more open place over there to fight!"
After that, he drove his horse to the gate of his military camp.
Chen Mu learned how to set up camp from Lu Zhi, and also had some insights of his own. He ordered the soldiers to clear away all the nearby vegetation and create an open space. The military camp was about one mile away from Woniu Mountain Pass, which was a distance of 400 meters.
Generally speaking, it is impossible to build a camp at this distance, after all, it is too close. However, the entrance to the mountain is also four to five hundred meters away from the mountainside pass, so this distance is just right, and there is no need to worry about sneak attacks.
The forest at the foot of the mountain is dense and the place is narrow, making it really difficult to fight.
But at the entrance of his military camp, a large area was cleared, and there was a space for fierce fighting, so the reason Zhang Fei found was very sufficient, and it was difficult for people to find fault.
If the Yellow Turban Army did not dare to come over because they were afraid to fight at the gate of the official camp, Zhang Fei could instead laugh at the enemy's cowardice.
In this way, it was the officers and soldiers who were timid and did not dare to fight, rather than Zhang Fei who did not dare to fight.
This is a way to kill two birds with one stone. Occasionally listening to the nonsense of the fourth brother seems to be useful.
Zhang Fei thought proudly in his heart.
As a result, he had just run a few dozen meters when he heard the sound of horse hooves behind him. When he looked back, his face turned green.
The iron fools of the Yellow Turbans actually chased him out.
Depend on.
Isn't he afraid of his teammates?
Zhang Fei's eyes widened.
However, all the bullshit has been blown out. If he runs back in despair now, will Mr. Zhang still want his face?
In desperation, Zhang Fei could only rein in his horse at the gate of the camp, turned around and prepared to fight back.
"Third brother seems to be too much."
Liu Bei looked worried when he saw that the other side had actually sent twenty people to the camp.
Chen Mu patted his forehead and said, "Is it possible that Third Brother has been drinking again? Hurry up and send people to search his tent. This is too much."
Guan Yu held the Qinglong Yanyue Sword and said, "I'm going down right now. If my third brother can't hold on, I'll go and help."
"Um."
Liu Bei nodded: "Although this is a breach of trust, for the sake of my third brother's safety, I have to do this."
Guan Yu then went down from the camp, put on his armor and mounted his horse, ready to go out to help.
Here Zhang Fei has also joined hands with the enemy.
However, unexpectedly, Zhang Fei had already knocked down three people with just one light.
It turns out that when he was in Changshe, the people Bo Cai sent out were all generals with a reputation for being brave in the army.
After all, Bo is the commander of Yingchuan Qu. Although he does not have senior generals like Guan Hai with a force value close to 90, he still has a bunch of junior generals with a strength value of 30-40.
But Xu He only had no outstanding generals under his command, they were just ordinary people.
If Chen Mu's force value is compared to 1, the force value of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty is 10, and well-trained soldiers can reach 15-20, then the force value of the people sent by Xu He is between 20 and 30 at most.
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In addition, during the chase, the enemies were disconnected from the front and back. Zhang Fei struck first and took advantage of him, killing him three seconds before going up, and the situation would be much better.
It's just that there are many enemies after all. Although three people were knocked down first, the remaining ten people surrounded them and they soon fell into a hard fight.
Guan Yu was already waiting below, waiting for Liu Bei and Chen Mu to send him a signal.
Liu Bei and Chen Mu saw that the battle below was in a stalemate. Although the outcome could not be determined for the time being, Zhang Fei was not at a disadvantage, and it was not as bad as it was for a while.
For a time, Zhang Fei was in a stalemate with more than a dozen people, and they fought dozens of rounds with no result.
"Third brother, I'm afraid it won't take long if we continue fighting like this."
Chen Mu was suspicious because he saw that Zhang Fei had more defense than attack. Although the defense was airtight, and because he suffered the loss of a horse being killed last time, he had more defense against the horse and would not make the same mistake again.
But there is almost no offense. I have only heard that the best defense is offense. I have never heard that you can win by defending all the time. If you continue to fight like this, don't you have to lose?
Liu Bei's force value was much higher than Chen Mu's, and he could clearly see the battlefield pattern. He smiled and said, "Third brother wins."
"Won?"
Chen Mu wondered: "How can you tell this?"
Liu Bei explained: "Don't look at the third brother who has more defense and less attack. He almost only has the power to parry, but look at the physical strength of that group of people."
Chen Mu looked attentively.
I saw that the soldiers sent by Xu He were all panting from exhaustion and had to be replaced several times and took turns to go into battle.
Zhang Fei, on the other hand, fought for dozens of rounds, dancing with an eight-foot steel spear like a tiger, and his physical strength was still very strong, and he didn't feel tired at all.
"This is going to kill the opponent."
Chen Mu laughed.
Fighting on the battlefield not only requires martial arts and strength, but also physical strength.
When it comes to a broadsword, ordinary people can cut it casually a few times, and they can last only tens of seconds at most before they are exhausted. Even soldiers who have been trained for a long time can only cut it for a few minutes, and they will never be able to fight like Zhang Fei.
So long.
However, the reason why a strong general is a strong general is that he is physically strong.
Xiang Yu was chased by the Han army to the edge of the Wu River, where he was hacked several times and killed hundreds of people, which shows how abnormal the physical strength of the fierce general was.
Although Zhang Fei couldn't take down this group of soldiers in a short time due to their large numbers, but if they put their physical strength to the test, this group of soldiers would be completely incomparable to the powerful generals.
Soon, after more than ten minutes, Xu He's soldiers couldn't bear even the wheel battle, and they were so tired that they couldn't even pick up their weapons.
Zhang Fei grinned: "That's all you can do? Then I'm going to do it for real."
After saying that, the eight-pointed steel spear swept across like a silver moon, and swept down two more people.
Then he drove the horse and the tiger entered the flock of sheep.
The Yellow Turban soldiers were exhausted and could no longer defeat the fierce tiger. Soon, they were all knocked off their horses like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
If it weren't for Chen Mu's repeated orders not to kill anyone, Zhang Fei would have stabbed countless holes in their bodies.
Seeing Zhang Fei's bravery, the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly shaken, and they cheered one after another.
There was silence in the village, and everyone was as quiet as cicadas.