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Chapter 83 Blood and Fire

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The sound of trumpets from the northeast made Li Li feel a little anxious. He stood up and stood on tiptoe to look out, wanting to see the situation on the battlefield through the camp.

The sun sets west, but the sky is still bright. Li Li looked at him in vain, and his vision could not penetrate the numerous camps at all.

The battle has begun for several days, but both sides seem to be in the "warm-up" stage and have not entered the "finals", at least as of yesterday.

Looking around, then looking around, Liang Sen sat on the ground, leaning his back against the wheel, bent his knees and holding his legs to take a nap.

He and Liang Sen were handcuffed with iron chains on their feet, and the other end of the chain was handcuffed to the wheel axle of the carriage. In this way, it was impossible for him to run away.

There were idle people everywhere in the camp. These people gathered together and spoke, but because they spoke in different dialects, Li Li couldn't understand at all.

The war began, and Li Li and Liang Sen, as well as other young and strong people who transported food and supplies, remained in the camp as "non-combatants".

The troops left Yique and camped on the east bank of Yishui. The Yishui flowed dozens of miles further northeast and then flowed into the Luoshui. Nearby is Luoyang.

Today, the army has been put into combat, mostly cavalry, probably to confront the incoming enemy troops.

The area south of Luoyang is not the main battlefield. It is said that the main force of the official army is on the west side of Luoyang and is about to fight the main force of the Eastern thieves. If it is defeated, no one will come to save the young and strong people who are left in the camp.

If one side wins a battle, it is best. If one side loses and the enemy comes to chase after him, then the young and strong people in the camp can only seek blessings for themselves.

The best result is to escape the pursuit. The worst result is not to die immediately, but to be seriously injured, die, unable to die, live, not long, and survive, and survive for several days, and die in a miserable state.

Li Li thought about it and looked at the shackles on his feet. He and Liang Sen planned to run around in the chaos, and the owner was not stupid. When they were left, they were shackles and locked them together with the carriage.

While "guarding the house", he is also in jail, and people come to inspect from time to time.

If the enemy attacked, they would not be able to escape. They would either be captured or their heads were cut off to make up for military merit.

No matter what ending it is, it is not what Li Li wants, so...

Li Li was using cover to protect Liang Sen, who was pretending to be napping, giving him the opportunity to unlock the locks on his shackles with his own tools.

Liang Sen and his younger brother were sold to a local snake in Xunyang City. Liang Sen was forced to act as a broken beggar on the street to ask for money, while his younger brother was forced to learn craftsmanship and become a thief.

Liang Sen also learned the technique of unlocking locks and made several fish hooks that Li Li secretly hid and bamboo sticks into lock-opening tools. Starting from the morning, the two of them cooperated with each other and tried to unlock the locks.

I don’t know if Liang Sen is not good at learning skills or the structure of the lock is a bit complicated, but I have been struggling for a whole morning but I can’t open the lock.

Li Li was anxious, but he couldn't urge the young man to avoid the other party's mentality being unbalanced and he couldn't unlock the lock. He saw sweat oozing from Liang Sen's forehead and comforted in a low voice:

"Don't be anxious, today won't work, it's clear..."

Before he finished speaking, a slight "click" sounded. Li Li was happy, looked around, and then calmly leaned his shackled right foot to Liang Sen's hand.

Liang Sen, who successfully opened his shackles, managed to hold on to his excitement and carefully opened the lock for Li Li. At this moment, the camp became noisy.

It seemed that someone was shouting something, and more and more people were shouting, and the soldiers looking up at the building around the camp also sounded the horns one after another.

The two looked around and found many soldiers running around, pushing the young and strong people gathering, shouting something.

Although he had an accent, Li Li barely heard that it was "the enemy attack!"

My heart moved: The enemy is here? This is a camp. Could it be that he was defeated in front of me?

The defeat is like a mountain of fallen, and no matter how large the camp is, it is useless. If you don’t run away, you can only wait for death.

Of course, it may also be that an enemy cavalry came to harass him, but Li Li felt that the reaction in the camp was so big that the situation must be wrong.

Li Li looked at Liang Sen and saw his friend looking at him with a look of surprise. He took a deep breath and whispered, "Don't panic, take your time."

Liang Sen nodded and continued to help Li Li unlock the lock.

Around the surroundings, there were more and more shouts, and then the dust was ripped in the northeast direction, and Li Li could see the flying dust through the tent.

The sound of horse hooves came out, and many soldiers in the camp went to the wooden fence and began to shoot arrows outwards. A large number of young and strong men were driven away by the soldiers, picking up spears, bows and arrows to prepare for battle.

A soldier patrolled the camp to see if there were any young and strong people hiding away from the war. Seeing Li Li and Liang Sen leaning against the car, they cursed and rushed up to drive people to defend, but found that they were handcuffed beside the car.

After the soldiers left, Liang Sen continued to help Li Li unlock it, perhaps because he was too nervous, he couldn't open it.

This person was obviously nervous, and the more nervous the more his hands were, the more he could not open it. Li Li looked at the panicked crowd around him, looked at his increasingly nervous partner, coughed dryly, and sang a fisherman's song in a low voice.

On the banks of Pengli Lake, countless families rely on water to eat water. Fishermen sing fishermen when fishing on weekdays. People row boats with rhythm to express their feelings, but they don’t feel so tired.

The fisherman's songs sung in Poyang dialect made Liang Sen stunned for a moment. Listening to the familiar melody, he seemed to have returned to Baishi Village on the shore of Pengli Lake.

Every morning, I would go out for fishing with Ye Niang, or cast nets everywhere in the lake with Li Li, Wu Xiang and other friends. This kind of life is hard but happy.

The shouts started, and the two looked up and saw a large number of arrows flying into the sky outside the camp. After reaching mid-air, they drew an arc and fell down.

It was the rain of arrows thrown by the enemy. It fell into the camp, and countless people were caught in arrows and fell to the ground, screams and wailing sounds mixed together.

The rain of arrows hit and took their lives when they landed. Li Li and Liang Sen were leaning against the carriage and were hit by several arrows. Another arrow was inserted between Li Li's legs, and he was almost ruined.

Li Li, who would be shot by a stray arrow at any time, knew that he was afraid it would be useless, so he continued to sing the fisherman's song without interruption.

Liang Sen, who became nervous again, looked at his childhood friend so calm and listened to the fisherman's songs in his hometown, and his heart began to calm down again, remembering his hometown and the endless Pengli Lake.

In spring, catfish play on the water, and fishing songs fill the lake; in summer, the water in Pengli Lake is rippling, carp wears lotus flowers, and fish fill the cabins with one net.

It is cool in autumn, and the geese come to settle down, and the mandarin fish is fat and strong; it is snowy in winter, and the island is white and the bream is busy fighting the cold.

As he listened, Liang Sen smiled. Even though arrows fell into the camp, stirring up blood flowers, in his opinion, it was raining on Pengli Lake and water flowers blooming on the water surface.

Amid the shouts, the people defending on the wooden fence kept falling down, and the fire arrows shot in from outside slowly ignited the camp.

In the fire, there were panicked figures, some people struggling to put out the fire, some people were rescuing the baggage, and some people fell to the ground by arrows, and they fell in front of Li Li and Liang Sen.

The man was caught in an arrow on his back, and the arrow penetrated his chest. The man fell to the ground and twitched for a while. After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood foam, he stopped moving. His eyes widened and he died with his eyes open.

Li Li looked at the unlucky person who died with his eyes closed, saw the arrows flying everywhere, and continued to sing fisherman's songs.

I don’t know how long it took, but the shouts came like a tide, but it was the movement from the east of the camp. Countless people shouted and ran south, as if they were attacked by enemy soldiers on the east of the camp.

The soldiers and young men everywhere who were almost unable to hold on, heard these movements and jumped off the wooden fence and ran to the south of the camp.

After the enemy attacked, there was no movement in the south. Li Li felt that this was the trick of "surrounding three and missing one", and the determination to disintegrate the camp's resistance.

At this moment, Liang Sen opened the iron lock, and the two of them quickly got up, took small knives and other small tools in the carriage, and then ran to the south without hesitation.

Following the crowd, I rushed out of the camp gate. Before I could even be glad to run fast, I heard the sound of horse hooves on both sides.

Looking around, a large number of cavalrymen came around.

In order to prevent heavy rains and heavy floods, the camp is not just by the river, about one mile away from Yishui in the west, so the enemy cavalry can attack left and right (east and west).

The soldiers who escaped from the camp were young and strong, running in the wilderness. Facing the galloping cavalry, they had no ability to resist at all, and countless figures disappeared under the iron hooves.

Li Li saw from a distance that these cavalry did not even need to take action, and they could knock people down one after another by riding their horses and hitting people.

The charge of cavalry was like a hot sharp knife, inserted into a crowd like tofu, and easily dismembered the crowd.

At this time, you can't hesitate. Li Li made up his mind and said to Liang Sen: "Come with me!"
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