Chapter 32: Oolong, the war begins

Tang Ji has lost weight, and her originally chubby face has become more three-dimensional.

I've been worried about my beloved all the way, and I've lost my appetite. How could I not lose weight?

It's not that she didn't ask her father for help, but Tang Mao was firm in his attitude.

As she entered Lizhou and was about to see her lover, Tang Ji felt mixed emotions.

She really couldn't bring herself to say such sad words when they met, but she couldn't refuse her father's arrangement.

"If..." She also had expectations in her heart.

But how is it possible?
The Yellow Turban rebels were so powerful that they were suppressed in less than a year.

Tang Ji couldn't think of any other way for Jin Mao to escape.

Just like Tang Mao’s mood at the moment.

In fact, Tang Mao was the one who least wanted to dismiss Jinmao.

Isn't this a slap in the face?
"Jinmao, Jinmao, you are so disappointing."

As long as there is a possibility, Tang Mao will support Jinmao.

Unfortunately, the Jiao family is deeply rooted and cannot be influenced by an outsider like him.

...

On top of Huangyan.

Gong Lei was born in Tangxi Township and is illiterate.

He has been very honest since he was young, and Jin Mao specially wrote the word "Jiao" for him before leaving.

He also reminded: "If you see a large group of people, or a group with a Jiao flag, report it immediately."

The county governor's convoy passed by Huangyan, and there happened to be a flag with the word "Jiao" on it, and there happened to be a large group of people.

No doubt about it, this is the Jiao family team!
Gong Lei immediately took people back to report.

...

Lizhou Township.

"what?"

After listening to Gong Lei's description, Jin Mao was incredulous: "Did I misjudge the strength of my opponent?"

"Could Jiao Jiao be a famous figure in the Three Kingdoms period?"

Jin Mao likes to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but he is not very familiar with this period of history.

There were many famous people with the surname Jiao during the Three Kingdoms period, but there was no one like Jiao Jiao.

As the enemy gets closer, Jinmao has to make a decision.

"The enemy outnumbers us, let's go!"

"Go hide in the mountains first."

"Gong Lei, thank you for making another trip to inform Bai Shi and others that the plan has changed."

Currently he only has a hundred men under his command. In order to better ambush Jiao Jiao, he sent his two hundred most elite men.

There were three to four hundred enemies, so Jinmao could only run to protect himself and then look for an opportunity to fight.

By the time Gong Lei took the ten men away, Jin Mao's men had even fewer men and ran even faster.

This will make things difficult for He Wei.

If he follows Jin Mao up the mountain, he will appear cowardly and his personality will collapse; if he doesn't follow him up the mountain, Jiao Jiao will definitely not let him go and his life will be in danger.

However, after just a moment's hesitation, Jin Mao and his men disappeared.

"Don't leave me." He Wei never said this in the end and chose to face the cruel reality.

"Let's go hide at my cousin's house first. Jiao Jiao can't be so cruel as to massacre the whole village, right?"

...

Two nights ago,

Bai Shi led his men over mountains and across rivers and ran to the Hushan area of ​​Lizhou.

In addition to the 200-man personal guard team, the county soldiers also came in full force, with 200 men, and the 400 Yao soldiers also followed.

Originally, the Yao army had less than 400 people, but when Pan Lin learned that they were going to fight Jiao Jiao, he did not say a word and brought a dozen of his former farmers to join in.

Pan Lin suffered a lot during this period.

He hadn't expected the work to be so hard.

In the first few days of oil pressing, Pan Lin was secretly delighted: "Such an easy job, with meat to eat every day, only a fool would not do it."

As the amount of rapeseed harvested increased and the daily workload became heavier, Pan Lin realized that he was happy too early.

"Is this something a human can do?"

"I get up earlier than the chickens and sleep later than the dogs every day, and I only have two meals before I can rest."

"I didn't have to work so hard when I was practicing martial arts!"

Gradually, he discovered that the peasants who worked together to press oil had amazing endurance. Even the fool Liu Fang could last longer than him.

Pan Lin's unyielding character made him grit his teeth and persevere for seven days. Then, he felt pain all over his body.

Pan Lin couldn't help but be curious: "Idiot, don't you feel any pain?"

"It hurts." Liu Fang said woodenly, "How can hard labor not hurt?"

"Then how can you bear it?"

Liu Fang looked at Pan Lin as if he were a fool: "Forging iron is much more tiring than this job."

Pan Lin's eyes widened, and then he remembered that the big man in front of him was a blacksmith.

From then on, Pan Lin seemed like a different person, immersed in pushing stones to squeeze oil.

If Pan Lin had been to the afterlife, he would know that this is called labor reform.

No matter how evil you are, after ten years of hard labor, you will become a lamb.

Pan Lin is a smart man. Once he puts his mind to something, he can quickly master the trick.

He also discovered that many of the stone-pushing techniques could be applied to his stick techniques.

He used to take a tough approach, but now he has more thoughts, but it needs to be tested in practice.

As Pan Lin's skills became more and more proficient, the villagers gave him the title of "Oil Pressing Master".

It also made Pan Lin a little happy.

“It turns out that it feels so good to be part of a group.”

Looking back on the past, Pan Lin found that he could not go back.

In the past, apart from being free, I was surrounded by idiots and had to do all the work by myself. Who could understand that kind of sadness?
Although he is inferior to others now, he only needs to do one thing well to receive countless praises.

These sincere praises are much better than flattery from cronies!

The only regret, perhaps, is that I cannot go to the battlefield and become famous.

but!
Today, Pan Lin has another chance to go to the battlefield!
The enemy was still Jiao Jiao, who had played tricks on him before.

"It's nature that plays tricks on people."

Standing on the top of Hu Mountain, Pan Lin looked leisurely at the mountain below.

"Old Jiao, you will never think of this until you die."

"The burial ground you chose for me has now become your burial ground!"

Hushan, he is very familiar with it.

The next morning, Bai Shi led people to install a simple catapult on the mountain, which was built by Liu Fang under the guidance of Jin Mao.

And pull up the rope net downstream.

In the afternoon, when a fleet floated up the Zhejiang tributary, Pan Lin confirmed on the spot that this was Jiao Jiao's fleet.

So, when the fleet was intercepted by the rope net, five small simple catapults launched stones the size of a human head.

Suddenly, sunken ships appeared one after another on the water, and those private soldiers wearing iron armor sank to the bottom of the water without even a sound.

Seeing Jiao's private soldiers trying to cut the rope net, Pan Lin raised his mace and shouted, "Kill!"

The confidants rowed hard, and finally Pan Lin became the first person to board the enemy ship to fight.

Bai Shi was not to be outdone and led his men to attack from the other side.

The second echelon of county soldiers, led by Liu Mu, surrounded the two banks, waiting for the right person to appear.

The entire surface of the river was filled with shouts and cries of killing.

...

Lizhou.

When the county governor's convoy rested for a night in the countryside, He Wei bravely went out to check, only to find out that Gong Lei had made a big mistake.

He Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Gong Lei didn't lie at all.

"Don't say anything, call Ming Gong down the mountain quickly, and don't feed the bugs anymore."

There are a lot of mosquitoes in the summer of May, especially in the mountains.

He Wei asked his two cousins ​​to go up the mountain, and then went to pay a visit to the prefect where he was resting.

"What guard is Wushang County Assistant?"

Tang Mao was just about to take a rest, but when he heard He Wei's name, all his sleepiness disappeared.

"Let him in."

Soon, He Wei came in and paid his respects with great ceremony.

"Where are the people from Jinmao?"

Tang Mao was very rude: "Fleeing for fear of crime?"

He Wei was afraid of death, but he was a slick official, and he was very slippery: "Report to the governor, the county lord has gone up the mountain to catch game for you, and will come down immediately."

Catching game late at night?
Tang Mao laughed angrily: "I'll wait for him to come."

(End of this chapter)