Chapter 312 For Our Homeland
I can't wait any longer!
That damned Qin Wangchuan, he's unworthy of being a soldier!
Soldiers are here to defend our borders and protect our people! Under no circumstances should a knife be pointed at the people!
The young faces were brave and fearless, their eyes filled with an eagerness to go into battle and kill the enemy.
Apart from the man who slaughtered pigs at home, Lu Qingqing didn't recognize any of them; she hadn't even looked closely at their faces.
At that moment, she looked at them one by one and memorized them.
This is just a little over a hundred people on the outskirts.
"Alright... Let's take the poison and the poisonous smoke and go together!"
“You hide around. If Qin Wangchuan is truly heartless and ignores the students’ attempts to stop him, then we must create chaos so that the students and civilians can escape.”
"As for Liu'er, she should not appear unless absolutely necessary..."
The last resort, of course, is when everyone is trapped in a predicament from which there is no escape.
Liu'er nodded hesitantly.
"Do you need me to be your maid and keep Miss Liu company?" Chaolu asked.
She's strong; she can protect you to some extent.
"No!" Liu'er refused.
"Qin Wangchuan won't keep strangers around! I can manage on my own."
No one spoke again.
They all took the medicine.
Tears welled up in the villagers' eyes; they wanted to stop them, but they couldn't.
This is suicide!
He might never come back!
"Qing..." Old Man Lu's throat was choked up, unable to speak, and he wanted to give Lu Yun some instructions.
But then he thought, with his two children being so outstanding, what advice could he possibly give them?
"Father, don't worry, our intention is to save people. We'll escape after evacuating them. Nothing will happen," Lu Qingqing reassured him.
Old Man Lu nodded: "What I want to ask is, what can we do?"
“That’s right, Qingqing, what can we do? We can’t just sit around doing nothing,” Liu Lizheng shouted.
Just as Lu Qingqing was about to speak, she was interrupted by shouts from afar.
"Miss Lu—"
"Miss Lu—"
Another messenger has arrived!
"Something terrible has happened! Qin Wangchuan has sent people to various towns to conscript men. Some villagers couldn't bear to leave their land and were caught while plowing. Knowing that the villagers are hiding in the mountains, they are planning to burn the mountains down!"
Burn the mountain!
Are you crazy?
The mountains and forests are all connected, and in the spring, the wind is strong, and they can burn everything down overnight!
Not only Ming'an County, but all the surrounding counties will be doomed!
"Was it Qin Wangchuan who gave the order, or did they act on their own? They couldn't possibly be unaware of the seriousness of this matter!"
"It's just a scare tactic, it must be a scare tactic!"
Despite saying that, Lu Qingqing couldn't help but feel that Qin Wangchuan was really capable of doing it!
"You lunatic, damn it!"
Lu Qingqing looked at Fu Leng: "Call everyone out! We can't wait for reinforcements, everyone move out!"
"Yes, young lady!"
Fu Leng pulled out a command arrow and shot it into the sky with a "whoosh".
"Roar~ Bang!" A red firework exploded in the sky.
"What's this?"
The villagers stared wide-eyed.
So...mysterious!
Lu Qingqing: "A single arrow pierces the clouds, and a thousand armies come to meet us!"
"A massive army???"
"Oh, there are only a thousand troops, not ten thousand horses."
Villagers: "..."
At this moment, all his eyes are O-shaped.
"Old Lu, is your daughter a princess who has been separated from her family for generations? You're not her biological father, are you?" Liu Lizheng asked stupidly.
"Of course... oops!" Old Man Lu realized, "This is my own daughter, who came out of my belly!"
"Pah! Pah! It came out of my wife's belly!"
Lu Qingqing looked at the shocked villagers: "Everyone heard it, those madmen want to burn the mountain, so now it's not just about saving the people in the city anymore."
We must save ourselves!
"Auntie, how do we save ourselves?" Sixi felt particularly excited.
That arrow could summon a thousand troops!
Soooo cool!
"The rise and fall of the nation is the responsibility of every citizen; when Ming'an County is in trouble, the whole nation must step up!"
"Attack! Attack!" Sixi and Wang Jincai shouted.
Liu Erzhu then realized that he was the leader of the mutual aid group, how could two teenagers have beaten him to it!
So Lu Yun, who had also just realized what was happening, almost immediately followed suit, waving and shouting.
"Attack! Attack!"
Villagers: "Attack! Attack!"
After the shout, some people whispered among themselves: "What do you mean by 'skin with a sheen'?"
"What skin? Isn't it a butt?"
"Huh? Really? I didn't hear you clearly."
"Hey, never mind what, just keep shouting! Don't make us look stupid."
...
Lu Qingqing stretched out her arm and said, "Now, we must unite all forces that can be united!"
Go and call everyone from the other villages down the mountain; we can't just sit here and wait to die!
Except for the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the young, everyone who was strong and healthy, regardless of gender, pitched in!
Their forces are scattered, so we will also wage guerrilla warfare!
Come on! Let me explain it to you!
Lu Qingqing squatted down and found a few stones.
"Organize a team in each township! I will assign a hundred soldiers to each team to lead you in killing bandits and soldiers!"
In a narrow encounter, the brave shall prevail! Anyone who thinks they lack the courage to kill should not become a hindrance!
Use strategy to win, don't confront them head-on. If they have a thousand men, find a way to scatter them, defeat them one by one, and then hide so they can't find you!
Blah blah blah...
Blah blah blah...
"Your subordinate Wei Heng has arrived with 850 men to report for duty!"
When he finished speaking, Qianjun arrived!
"Okay, let's start the grouping now!"
Another quarter of an hour passed.
"Did you all understand? Do you remember which town each group is responsible for? Say it one by one!" Lu Qingqing shouted loudly.
"Group One, led by Fu Leng, with Lu Yun, Liu Erzhu, and Lin Zhuang as deputy leaders, will lead Liuyun Village, Hama Village, Shangguan Village... to deal with the bandits in Changle Town,"
"Group Two, Group Leader: Lu Feiliang, Deputy Group Leader..."
All eight towns and eight groups have completed their reports.
The remaining two groups, along with Lu Qingqing and Mo Lang's team, will enter the city!
The division of labor was completed in a short time.
Saving others and saving yourself are both urgent matters!
"Alright, for Ming'an County! For our homeland, let's go!"
Ming'an County.
The main east-west street.
The people were crammed together in one circle, like livestock waiting to be slaughtered.
Outside the circle, Magistrate Xu, dressed in official robes, was kneeling.
He's dressed very formally today.
He wore a black double-ridged crown and a black and silver belt.
Now his hat was knocked askew, and his green official robes were covered with footprints.
"Magistrate Xu, you plead for the people and are supposed to be a benevolent official who loves his people like his own children. So why won't you hand over the grain?" the deputy general asked coldly.
"We soldiers are fighting on the front lines, resisting the rebels. Is it right for you to neither take people nor supplies?"
"I have heard that in this area, only Ming'an County is the richest, and no one has starved to death even during famines!"
"No," Magistrate Xu replied, repeating his previous statement.
"Where did the food come from? If there were food, everyone wouldn't have to flee the famine. The city is almost empty now."
"Xu Hengzhi!" The lieutenant kicked him again.
"Don't push your luck! Do you really think we're fools? Since you don't care about the lives of ordinary people, then... kill them!"
"stop!"
Magistrate Xu looked at the man sitting indifferently to the side drinking tea and shouted:
"Qin Wangchuan! Your grandfather swore to defend Longxi to the death, protecting the people of the city from being trampled by foreign enemies. He was deeply trusted and rewarded by the late emperor. Are you not afraid of ruining the Qin family's reputation for loyalty by doing this now?"
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