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Everyone found a few wooden shovels in the village. There was no need to think about hoes. People were wearing self-defense when they ran away.

Only one old man had a chipped hoe in his house.

Fu Tinghan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and went digging with the soldiers.

The five old men were willing to help them shovel the soil after Fu Tinghan took out some dry biscuits.

After working for most of the day, they shoveled out all the soil soaked in feces and water, packed it in sacks and piled it on the car, and the soldiers escorted it back.

The five old men ate all the cakes they had just received, not giving Fu Tinghan a chance to regret it.

Fu Tinghan didn't regret it. Seeing that they really had nothing to eat, he even gave them half of his dry food.

The old people took it, were silent for a while and then said: "Is Lang Jun really Zhao Jiajun?"

Fu Tinghan raised his eyebrows. After making trouble for a long time, they still didn't believe him.

Fu Tinghan thought for a moment and asked Fu An to take out the Zhao Jiajun flag he was carrying.

The old people were illiterate, but they had seen Zhao Jiajun's flag and recognized the pattern on it.

They made gestures on the word "Zhao" to confirm that it was indeed the pattern they had seen. Their eyes turned red and they immediately knelt down to Fu Tinghan, "General, I found the two things you mentioned, can people in our village be able to do it?" came back?"

Fu Tinghan supported them, pondered for a moment and then said: "If they are all still alive, they should want to return to their hometown. If no one comes back, after Meng County is recovered, this village will also have a new population, and you will have new neighbors." ."

With tears in their eyes, the old people nodded and said, "It's good to have people there, it's good to have people."

Five people, or five old people, are really lonely. They are counting the days every day. What they smell in their breath is the smell of decay. They don't know who will be the last to leave. Will they rot at home by then? no one knows.

Therefore, those who die first may not be in pain, and those who live longer may not be happy.

The five of them were all born and raised here, and they are most familiar with this area. After trying their best to recall, they actually found a place, "There is a place far away from here, called Nanshan. Oops, there is a place like Nanshan." It's different here. There are several mountains connected together, and there is the hot spring you mentioned in the mountains. The smell is not good, but it is pungent."

"By the way, the rocks there can also explode. In Laoguan, the village next door, his eyes were injured by the exploding rocks. He was blind in one eye and died early."

Fu Tinghan was overjoyed and asked, "How far is Nanshan from here?"

"It takes a day and night to walk, and another half a day to get there," the old man said, "I went there when I was young. It's been almost twenty years. My legs and feet are not good, so I'm afraid it will take two days and nights to get there."

He said with some pride: "I went to build the yard for the county magistrate at that time. I got eighty cents. You, my brothers and sisters, were married with eighty cents. Hehehehe..."

Fu Tinghan smiled and asked, "Does my husband still know the way there?"

"You know it, you know it. The mountains around here are small. Just go in the right direction and you can find it easily."

Fu Tinghan took a look at the sky and thought that Shi Le might come back from Xiayi County at any time to counterattack. He couldn't wait for dawn and immediately stood up and said: "Let's leave now. We have cars and horses. We will travel quickly all night and try to find a place before sunset tomorrow."

As long as there is sulfur, nitrate made from the soil just now, and some other things, he can make gunpowder.

The five old people did not hesitate and were willing to follow. Even if only one person was needed to guide them, the five people were unwilling to separate. Their reasons were very good. They were still thinking, what if they remembered where to find saltpeter along the way?

When he came out, Fu Tinghan brought three cars. One car went back, and there were two more cars. It was not difficult for him to ride directly and give the car to the old people.

He is not very good at rejecting people.

The group of people lit torches and moved forward, only stopping for a rest in the second half of the night, and then started walking quickly when the light was slightly bright.

Soldiers ran beside and behind the vehicle.

The old man lay on the window and looked back, and couldn't help but sigh, "This is faster than when we used to repair the yard."

"That's right, these are all soldiers, or Zhao's army. Can they be the same?"

When Fu Tinghan finally found the place the next day, Zhao Hanzhang's army finally invaded Meng County and seized the next tower. However, Shi's army did not retreat. They still occupied most of the city. However, because night fell, everyone temporarily ceased fighting.

There is no fighting tonight, but Zhao Hanzhang is even more busy. Today's attack will cause huge casualties. The camp is brightly lit and full of screaming soldiers;

After entering the city, all kinds of information began to be collected. What worried Zhao Hanzhang the most was the condition of the private houses that he had just searched and seen.

Meng County is under the rule of Yuzhou. Zhao Hanzhang once established a school here, as well as a Yushan Hall, a textile workshop...

Although the loyalty of the people could not be compared with that of Xiping in Chen County, it was not lower, so as soon as she entered the city, she wanted to find someone to find out about the situation in the city, but the Zhao Jiajun only found more than 80 people from the occupied area. More than twenty of them came out of the cellar on their own.

Zhao Ze lowered his head and reported: "They said that when the Shi army attacked Meng County, all the young men in the city went up to the city tower, and there were heavy casualties."

"After Meng County was captured, Shi's army massacred more than 6,000 people. Many people fled from other city gates. Most of the people left in the city were old, weak, women and children," Zhao Ze's voice became lower and lower. , "Because we conquered more than a dozen cities in a row, many of the people in the cities opened the city gates. Zhixiong was afraid that the people in Meng County would do the same, so... he just allowed Shi's army to massacre. Now there is not a tenth person left in the city, except Shi. There are not many people left alive in the army.”

Zhao Hanzhang clenched his fists and asked, "Where are the teachers and students in the school?"

"Half of them died when they were guarding Meng County, and the rest were all dead when Meng County was breached." Zhao Ze paused and said, "A lot of the children from Yushan Hall survived at that time, but they were all charged as suspects." To serve as army rations, I don’t know how many are still alive at this time.”

Zhao Hanzhang's heart shrank and she punched the table hard. She suppressed her anger and asked, "Didn't I say that if the city cannot be defended, the people, the workers in the workshops, the Yushan Hall and the school should be transferred first? Didn't Xun Xiu How can we defend the city?"

The generals lowered their heads and did not dare to respond.

Zhao Hanzhang took a deep breath to suppress his anger, and said with a sullen face: "Place the people we found. We are familiar with Meng County. There may be street fighting tomorrow, and the other side may have reinforcements, so we must be careful outside the city and don't let anyone trap us." Got dumplings.”

She asked: "Is there any news from Sui County?"

Ji Shuyan was in charge of this, and he said, "No."

Zhao Hanzhang frowned and said to him: "Find a way to contact them and give them a day. If I can't reach Meng County, they will all go home and farm for me!"

She has broken into such a strong city tower in Meng County, what are they still fussing about over there?

There is only one chapter tonight. I plan to try my best to adjust my schedule and try to update it as early as possible tomorrow.