Chapter 158 Troubled Times
Once the hero draws his sword, the people of this world will suffer another ten years of disaster.

The period from the end of the Sui Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was extremely exciting and brilliant.

During this period of time, countless wonderful and brilliant heroes have appeared.

It's really like you finish singing and then I take the stage.

As the saying goes: Heroes emerge in troubled times!
But why are heroes more likely to emerge in troubled times?

Heroes and tyrants are not born

————Those learned through practice.

practice!!!!

It is a very cruel thing.

It will be a success!

Behind every heroic figure who can leave his name in history, there are countless bones and broken families.

This created a legend.

One story after another.

What later generations read are just a few strokes in history books, and what they hear are just stories!

But only when you really live in this era will you know what cruelty is!

What does it mean that human life is worthless!
in this era,
People are also food reserves!

This era is fertile ground for the strong and hell for mediocre people.

The ambitious people took advantage of this great wind of the times to rise up and fight for the world!

Aspire for the highest authority in the world!!!
Ordinary people can only be passively dragged into this epic game.

Being caught up in this game between ambitious people.

This era is a large gambling table, and these ambitious people are the gamblers.

The chips of these gamblers are these innocent civilians.

Ordinary people are sad in this era!
It's hopeless!

It's miserable!

This was a gamble that had nothing to do with them, but they were dragged into it.

at this time,

Siming Mountain!
Countless soldiers were fleeing, crowding, and running wildly.

They are struggling to escape from this battlefield!

This bloody battlefield has nothing to do with them!
Wang Ming's words were not very beautiful and were not well-spoken.

And it’s very simple!
But it touched the hearts of these ordinary soldiers.

Let these soldiers' fighting spirit completely collapse!

Not only did it destroy their fighting spirit!
It also ruthlessly extinguished their hopes.

Wang Ming told them that after this battle, there would be countless battles waiting for them!

Others may not know how cruel the battlefield is, but how could these ordinary soldiers on the battlefield not know?

I just met a comrade today and exchanged names with him, but the next moment I will never see him again.

On the battlefield, if your skin is only scratched by the enemy's weapon, you may never see the sun rising in the east the next day.

On the battlefield,

Human life is the cheapest thing!
It is also the most fragile thing!
Like a candle in the wind, it can be extinguished at any time.

If not now, then I don’t know when, I will probably not be able to return to my hometown.

They would die anyway, and with so many people rebelling together, how could they follow?

People all have a herd mentality!
Those who originally did not want to run, fearing the punishment that would come with running away, saw more and more people running and finally followed in their footsteps.

It can be said that the battlefield in Siming Mountain was in chaos at this time!
chaos!
Very messy!
Extremely messy!

Various spears, swords, shields, bows and arrows, and other weapons were thrown away at random and left on the ground on the battlefield.

Helmets and military flags were ruthlessly thrown onto the ground and trampled upon!
The fleeing soldiers were pushing their companions who were blocking their way, urging and shouting at them.

The officers and the eighteen rebel kings naturally tried their best to stop these frantically fleeing soldiers.

Not all of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the eighteen rebel kings wanted to escape, and not all of the troops were in chaos.

Many of those who become officers do not want to escape.

Because they are already vested interests, they naturally will not run away.

This battle has nothing to do with ordinary people! But it has something to do with them.

This is their battle.

It is their battle for wealth and power.

It is the ladder to their success.

If this were an ordinary historical world, then these eighteen rebel kings and sixty-four groups of smoke and dust would have been completely defeated.

The army was defeated like a mountain!
Soldiers deserting when they are ill is contagious!

Even the God of Death Bai Qi and the Genius of War Han Xin were unable to save the situation.

But obviously this is not an ordinary historical world!

This is a world of martial arts, a world of inner strength and true energy.

This world not only has martial arts, internal strength and true energy, but the masters have surpassed the limits of ordinary people.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the generals and officers in these armies, they finally left a force of 200,000 men on the battlefield.

These officers and generals have enjoyed the benefits of this chaotic world!

They got more than they could have gotten in times of peace.

They are the trendsetters of this troubled times!

They are strong, they are heroes, and they are also heroes!

This cruel and chaotic death is not their hell.

But it is their paradise, and they are like fish in water in this era.

Easier to get money and wealth!

It can also break the shackles brought about by the class stratification of the old era and gain fame and fortune that cannot be obtained in peacetime.

How could they not fight to the death?
Of the remaining 200,000 troops, nearly half are Zhu Can’s troops!
these people……

Do not!
Many people in Zhu Can's troops can no longer be called human beings.

Under the rule of the man-eating demon king Zhu Can, they also embarked on the path of cannibalism.

From the initial resistance,

The initial discomfort,
To the numbness behind,

The latter habit.

Gradually they became abnormal, crazy, bloodthirsty, and psychotic.

They have gone crazy!

In that army, you either eat or you are eaten.

If you survive, you are no longer a human being.

It’s not that there were people who defected from Zhu Can’s troops, but they were only a minority.

It was suppressed in less than a moment.

Then he helped others and stopped a group of deserters.

Then there are some people who do not run away on their own initiative.

Some of them were truly loyal to the rebel king and had been favored by him.

But many of them actually stayed because of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty!
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was a two-faced person.

What he did was two-sided.

What a wise ruler should do is to recruit talents (creating the imperial examination for the first time), develop the economy (digging a canal to connect the economies of the north and south), and expand the territory (three expeditions to Goryeo)...

He basically did everything a wise ruler should do.

What a foolish ruler would do is waste people's money and labor, be ambitious, and impose more corvee labor and taxes.

Just digging the Grand Canal resulted in countless casualties and countless laborers died of exhaustion.

The three expeditions to Goryeo killed countless good men, who could never return to their hometowns or see their parents, wives and children.

He basically met all the criteria for being a tyrant.

Therefore,
Because of him, many families were broken up and many people could not make a living.

This group of people stayed at this time.

They just wanted to take revenge on Yang Guang.

(End of this chapter)