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Chapter 189 I Want to Join You
Just now, when the Tartars attacked from the north and the south, the Han laborers were terrified.

Of course they had seen the ferocity of the Tartars.

The two armies of the Tartars, a total of four cattle and more than 1000 riders, charged with great power.

The earth trembled, and under the light, one by one cavalry was seen rushing towards them like beasts in the night.

For a moment, those laborers felt that the time of death had arrived.

They are all aware of the brutality of the Tartars, they are not merciless in killing people, they are inhumane!

For them, the lowest level of Han people, in the eyes of the Tartars, they are not even as good as a cow or a horse.

Usually, there is no need for any reason, just kill them if you say kill them.

And there is only one reason why the Tartars did not kill them, that is, they can work for the Tartars, which is also the wealth of the Tartars. Killing them is equivalent to losing property.

Now, they are with the Ming army.

No matter what reason they came here, they could not escape death.

The Tartars will not understand them, saying that they were taken captive...

The Tartars would only make an example of them, kill them, and even hang up their corpses for the public to show to other Han people.

But what happened next really surprised them.

The fighting power of this Ming army is simply too strong.

The artillery bombarded, the firecrackers fired...

As a result, the more than 1000 Tartar cavalry were defeated before they could reach the front of the position.

They saw with their own eyes the Tatar officials holding the banners fall off their horses.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

The Ming army raised their guns and shouted, each with high enthusiasm, proud and proud from the bottom of their hearts.

Their blood seemed to be boiling with it.

The cheers seemed to have a strange magic power, which made them also infected.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

All Han laborers also shouted.

At this moment, as if they had a share in this victory, there was a sense of pride.

"The laborers are going to clean the battlefield, and they are not allowed to hide property! If anyone is found hiding property and reports it, they will be rewarded with five buckets of food! Ten catties of meat!

If someone tried to escape while cleaning the battlefield, everyone should report it, and the reporter would also be rewarded with five buckets of food and ten catties of meat.

If someone escapes, if you don't report it, everyone in the same group will be punished together, and they will all be killed!

Don't have other thoughts, clean the battlefield with your heart, work hard, and don't cheat.

If you do well, each person will be rewarded with three white flour steamed buns and one catty of cooked meat at the end! "

Zhao Cheng held a loudspeaker and shouted loudly.

Troubled times use heavy code.

It's pointless to talk ten thousand words to these people.

You have to sit continuously, and you have to kill when it's time to kill. These people dare not make trouble, so as to avoid greater losses.

……

Now these Han captives also know that labor refers to them, and Mr. Zhao likes to call them laborers.

Listening to Mr. Zhao's words, their eyes lit up.

As long as you clean the battlefield with your heart, you can get rewards, three white flour steamed buns per person, one catty of cooked meat...

Cooked meat!
How long had it been since they had cooked meat?
Master Zhao seems to mean what he says.

In order to convince everyone, baskets of steamed buns were lifted out in advance and placed under the city wall.

There are also large pieces of meat on the side.

"You guys go to work now, do your job well! After cleaning the battlefield, eat immediately!"

Zhao Cheng gave an order, and these laborers rushed to the battlefield with a "hula".

They are in groups of ten.

Each group has a strong sergeant, holding a rifle and bayonet cold, staring at them.

These workers had no intention of fleeing at all.

With the searchlights on, there was little chance of them escaping.

They even want others to run away!

One by one seems to be cleaning the battlefield, but in fact, their eyes are sly, just staring at the companions beside them!

The people beside them are all their fellow villagers.

But if someone dared to hide the loot, or even wanted to escape, they would never be polite at all, and would definitely report them immediately.

They don't want to be involved.

You hid the booty, you ran away, you got free, and you made me sit here and be killed... Why!

However, it has to be said that money touches people's hearts.

These Tartars all carried treasures, and some of them wore gold ornaments, which were very attractive.

When Jin Chuan turned over a corpse, a piece of dog's head gold fell from the corpse.

This made his heart beat faster in an instant.

Dog head gold!

Just such a piece, after selling it, is enough for him to buy a piece of land in the countryside, build a house, and buy a beautiful lady...

Life is complete!
Jin Chuan stepped forward to step on the piece of dog's head gold with his foot, turned his head and looked around.

Everyone around was busy, and no one seemed to notice him.

Even the strong soldier overseeing the work happened to be looking in another direction.

good chance!
Jin Chuan pulled the corpse closer, squatted down, pretended to examine the corpse, and took the opportunity to touch it.

cold!

However, exciting.

Although he knew that his life was in danger, Jin Chuan still felt his heart beat faster and his blood surged when he touched the dog's head gold, and he couldn't help but want to take the risk.

Fight!

Jin Chuan and his group happened to be at the farthest point of the battlefield, only a few hundred steps away from the nearest forest.

Jin Chuan grew up in the mountains and forests and is very good at running.

He reckoned that as long as he ran away with the dog's head gold, the Ming soldiers who oversaw the work might not be able to catch up with him.

Taking a few deep breaths and mustering up his courage, Jin Chuan picked up the dog's head gold and was ready to run.

"Jin Chuan! What are you doing? How dare you steal gold!"

Suddenly, there was a shout beside him.

But the companions in the same group urged him to follow him.

Jin Chuan was startled, with a normal conditioned reflex, and ran away with the dog's head gold.

The reminder had been prepared for a long time, and he jumped up and hugged Jin Chuan's calf, and Jin Chuan fell headfirst to the ground.

His heart suddenly turned cold.

The plan failed!

"Master Jun! Come quickly! I'll report! Jin Chuan stole the dog's head gold and wants to run away!"

Cui Fa hugged Jin Chuan's calf tightly, even though Jin Chuan kicked him, he would not let go, and shouted at the same time.

When he yelled, all the people around rushed up, and the overseer's soldier didn't even need to do anything, they pinned down Jin Chuan firmly.

"Turning! Villain! You villain! You killed me! Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!" Jin Chuan shouted at the top of his voice.

"spit!"

He spit out a mouthful of spit on Jin Chuan's face.

"I killed you? It was you who wanted to kill us first! You stole the dog's head gold and ran away, and we will all be dragged to death by you!"

"Jin Chuan! Why are you doing this?"

"Jin Chuan, we are all fellow villagers, you are too ruthless! You are trying to kill us!"

"..."

The workers in the same group are almost all from the same village as Jin Chuan.

At this time, they didn't hate the Qiangdi army, only Jinchuan.

Jin Chuan actually wanted to escape secretly.

Master Zhao of the Qiangdi Army said that they are all in the same group, if anyone dares to escape, the rest will be executed!

Jin Chuan escaped, that is the murderer who killed them!

The movement here naturally attracted everyone to watch.

Zhao Cheng got the news, came over in person, and took the dog's head gold from Jin Chuan.

After confirming that Jin Chuan really wanted to escape, without further ado, he was escorted to Jin Chuan and executed on the spot.

With a gunshot, Jin Chuan was headshot, and the corpse was dug a hole along with the corpses of the Tartars, sprinkled with lime, and buried.

With this gunshot, all the workers shivered.

They believed even more that Mr. Zhao was not just talking, and that those who hid the loot and escaped would really be executed.

After that, no one dared to break the rules again.

After cleaning the battlefield, Zhao Cheng asked everyone to clean up and maintain personal hygiene.

Then, distribute the big steamed buns.

Light a bonfire and barbecue.

At the head of the city, piles of bonfires were lit, and the barbecue was fragrant.

Each laborer was given three big steamed buns and a catty of barbecue.

In addition to the meritorious service of urging the report, he got five buckets of food and ten catties of meat, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

The soldiers of the strong land army are the happiest, eating barbecue, drinking beer, handing each other flowers, bragging about the mountains...

The workers looked at it with envy.

This kind of day is really like a fairy!

They just ate white flour steamed buns and a catty of roast meat in their mouths. This is a happy life that they can't even live in the New Year.

However, compared with the soldiers of the strong army, what is their life worth?
He has a wife and two sons.

He guarded the five buckets of rice and ten catties of meat as his lifeblood.

This is the foundation of their family's survival!

However, seeing the soldiers of the strong land army so cheerful, he suddenly felt... the life he lived in the past seemed not to be a human life at all!

He rolled his eyes and saw Zhao Cheng walking through the crowd. When he was toasting with the soldiers, he turned around and told his wife:
"Take care of our food."

Then, he quickly walked towards Zhao Cheng.

As soon as he took a few steps, an alert soldier stepped forward and forced him with a bayonet.

"Stop! What are you doing?"

"Master Jun, I have something to say to Mr. Zhao! Can you let me go?"

The trigger is scary.

However, he spent a day with this Ming army called Qiangdi Army, and he knew that these sergeants looked mighty, but they were actually very reasonable.

Usually as long as you don't make mistakes, they will be very kind and even joke with them.

Therefore, his courage gradually became stronger, and now he is not too worried about being killed.

"Have something to say to Mr. Zhao? Just wait a moment!"

The vigilant soldier told his companions, and ran over to report to Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng turned his head to take a look, and nodded in agreement.

The soldier came over and searched the reminder twice before letting him go.

Zhao Cheng was forming a circle with Niu Dali and several soldiers, eating barbecue around a bonfire.

A group of people were sitting on the ground, each with a bottle of beer in front of them, and a pile of empty wine bottles were scattered on the ground next to them.

The provoking heartbeat accelerated.

He is a little unimaginable.

This Lord Zhao seems to be a garrison officer.

Moreover, the prestige in the minds of his subordinates is very high, far surpassing that of ordinary defense officers...

He felt that even the Jurchens did not respect Master Zhao as much as the soldiers of this team did to them.

But Mr. Zhao not only didn't show off, but just like ordinary soldiers, everyone sat on the ground and grilled meat around the campfire.

These soldiers did not panic, but naturally, as if it was just a very common thing.

This kind of feeling made the trigger feel very fresh, and at the same time, I was very envious.

Zhao Cheng held a Huazi in his hand, took a sip, and exhaled a smoke ring, then asked:
"You want to see me? If you have anything to say, just say it!"

"I want to be a soldier! I want to join you!"

He thought of a lot of reasons and a lot of excuses, but when he opened his mouth at this moment, he just uttered this sentence.

"join us?"

Zhao Cheng had a cigarette in his mouth, his eyes were squinted by the lingering smoke, and he took a look at the reminder.

"Why? Why do you want to join us? Don't you want to be a commoner of Daming and want to be a savage in the mountains?"

"Hahaha!"

Niu Dali and the others burst into laughter.

Prompt to flush.

"I... I really didn't want to be a commoner of Daming before. Not only me, we all had this idea.

Because we used to be the common people of Ming Dynasty, we didn’t have enough to eat. I had two older sisters who starved to death.

Because I am a male, our family's food is limited to me, and my two older sisters starved to death.

I also had a younger sister who was drowned by my father in a water tank just after she was born.

Fortunately, the Tartars came later!It is said that the Tartars kill and eat people... But after the Tartars came, we had something to eat.

Not all!There was two years of famine, when there was no food, and the Tartars killed those who had no food. My mother took the initiative to go out and let the Tartars kill them.

The remaining food was enough to keep my father and me alive, and the Tartars didn't kill us.

But from there, we have land to plant and food to eat.We planted land for the Tartars, and the Tartars gave us food, enough for us to eat two meals a day!
We planted land for the landlords and gentry in Daming, and we would starve to death...Of course we don’t want to go back to Daming.

However, we are willing to follow the adults!Your Excellency is a good official!You love soldiers like children, if we can follow you, we will definitely have enough to eat.

My lord, just accept me! "

The more he talked, the more excited he became, he knelt down on the ground with a thud, and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Get up!"

Zhao Cheng gestured.

Niu Dali stepped forward immediately, stretched out his arm, grabbed the collar of the reminder, and picked him up like a chick.

"Kneeling is not fun here! My lord hates people kneeling the most. If you dare to kneel again, be careful and I will beat you!"

The cow frightened vigorously.

The reminders are dumbfounded.

It's not fun to kneel down?
Zhao Cheng glared, Niu Dali smiled and didn't care.

Niu Dali was born with supernatural power.

I used to be tall because I didn't have enough to eat, but I was as thin as ribs.

Even so, the strength is astonishing.

In the past few months, he has eaten four meals a day, which is enough for each meal, plus high-intensity training, and more than a dozen battles.

Niu Dali has been trained and grown up long ago.

(End of this chapter)