Chapter 137: Fright
Both teams started to fight for real, using knives, guns, hoes, and shovels to get whatever they could. The two sides soon fought each other, making clanging sounds that were terrifying.
Let alone Su Qing'an, where had the children ever seen such a scene? They were all scared. Su's father and others were also shaking with their legs. They were pushed forward to resist. They couldn't see who was who. They picked up a piece of iron and were pushed forward.
Su Qing'an, Su's mother, Su Dagu and others were sweating for them.
Many people escaped, but they didn't think about escaping. The men were still ahead, and everyone died together. And there were many children in the family, so they couldn't escape.
So they only protected the children and hid in a safe place. The children were trembling, and the adults were also trembling.
They had been digging for food in the fields all their lives, and they had quarreled and scolded with people in the countryside, but where had they seen such a scene?
Real guns and real knives, one side saw someone chopping a knife on a person's body, and on the other side, another person was hit on the head by a hoe and fell to the ground on the spot.
Countless blood flowers floated in front of my eyes, and screams kept coming in my ears...
The women and children of the Su family hugged each other tightly, and everyone was very scared, their teeth were trembling and clattering.
Su Qingmei hugged Xiaobao and pressed his head tightly against her chest. I don't know if she was afraid of scaring Xiaobao or she needed strength to support and rely on.
She pressed the child tightly against her chest, but she didn't know that Lu Xiaobao was not afraid, but struggled to turn his head to look. Staring at the chaos in front of him, his big eyes didn't blink, and he couldn't stop staring at the front. Su Qingmei wanted to press his head, but he was angry with Su Qingmei and slapped Su Qingmei with his little hands.
Su Qingmei was very surprised.
After a big melee, Huang Shenzhi's side, which had fewer people, won in the end.
I don't know whether it was because the men in the team were well fed or because Huang Shenzhi, as the leader, was brave enough to infect his men, but in the end, Huang Shenzhi's team won.
In the other team, the leader fled with those who could still jump around, and the rest who were unwilling to leave and the wounded and disabled stayed where they were and surrendered.
In this battle, both sides suffered a lot of casualties.
Huang Shenzhi did not let the women help clean up the battlefield, but only asked the men who could still move to dig a pit and bury the dead on the spot, together with the dead on the other side. The wounded and disabled who could not move healed their wounds on their own.
The relatives of the dead immediately cried. For a while, the crying was deafening, sad and heartbreaking.
Mother Su and Aunt Su looked at the scene, thought of their sons, and cried with them. Su Qingliu also cried while hugging Yaya. Hongxiu also thought of her father and elder brother who died on the battlefield, and cried bitterly. Seeing that Zhou Dajiang was also injured, she immediately cried and rushed over.
Su's father and uncle were also injured.
Neither of them had ever taken a weapon, but they thought of their family members who were still behind them. If they fell, the women and children would be in danger, so they rushed to kill with all their strength. Fortunately, the other side was a mob, worse than them, so they won in the end and survived.
Su Dahu was not injured, so he was called to dig a pit and clean up the battlefield.
The other side fled in a hurry, leaving a lot of things on the ground. Su Qing'an handed Lu Xiaobao, who was looking at her, to Su's mother and walked over.
Huang Shenzhi ordered his men to clean up the battlefield and sat on the ground to wrap his wounds alone.
When he looked up, he saw Su Qing'an silently putting the other side's weapons and iron tools into a pile. When he saw the grain bags and bags, he stopped to look through them and put them into a pile if he saw any useful ones.
Huang Shenzhi sat cross-legged, holding one end of the cloth strip in his mouth, and his men held the other end. He looked at his wounds and then at Su Qing'an.
Huang Han settled his family and brought people to collect the spoils. Seeing that Su Qing'an was already in action, he came over and praised her with approval. He stuffed the account book into her hand, and he and several men under him sorted out the things that could still be used, and asked Su Qing'an to keep the accounts.
When Huang Shenzhi counted the number of people at last, more than twenty men died, dozens were injured, and many were seriously injured. He collected several carts to carry the seriously injured.
And many of the family members escaped, nearly three hundred people, most of whom joined later. Huang Shenzhi did not pursue them.
Seeing that the other side still had a lot of soldiers left, he also took in those who died, those who were seriously injured, those who were slightly injured, and those who were willing to join his team.
After counting in this way, the overall number of people did not change much, but the number of men increased a lot, nearly five hundred people.
The other side left behind a lot of weapons and ironware, several carts of food, and several carts that the other side could not take away, which surprised Huang Han.
Those who escaped had already escaped, and most of those who stayed behind had no way to go. At least no one dared to bully them with the main force, and they had food and drink, so they were willing to follow the main force.
Huang Shenzhi saw that the battlefield was cleaned up, so he ordered to continue on the road.
Su Qingmei glanced at him and saw that he was willing to give the dead some dignity after the battle, digging pits to bury them, so as not to let the dead bodies be exposed in the wilderness. She looked at him with a high opinion.
And Huang Shenzhi's operation also made him gain the hearts of most people in the team.
In general, on the battlefield, both sides will take care of the battlefield after the battle, but there are not many wild people like them who are willing to dig pits for the other side to bury them. It shows that Huang Shenzhi still has a kind heart.
Moreover, leaving the corpse exposed in the wilderness is easy to breed bacteria. When all kinds of germs come together, it will really be a living hell.
After a fight, the team was a little dull along the way, and no one could hear anyone talking in the team. Everyone just focused on hurrying along, as if they had not recovered from the fight.
Walking along the way, they were nervous. Any movement on the road was like a frightened bird.
The team was no longer long and sparse, and everyone walked closely together. No one dared to complain about the leader's orders, and no one made any suggestions. Once the order came down, they executed it immediately.
So the rest of the day went smoothly, and they walked ten miles more than usual.
When they set up camp in the evening, everyone stopped whispering to each other, and only focused on their own work. After finishing the work, they went to get the meal, and rested on the ground after eating.
The Su family was also very silent today. Usually everyone would talk together, but today they didn't have the mood to chat anymore, and just washed up and went to bed.
Su Qing'an had been walking for a whole day, and she was tired and scared, so she hugged Xiaobao and rested early.
She slept soundly until the dawn of the next day.
When Su Qing'an was awakened by the whistle, she saw that Su's mother and others could not wake up the children, and they were already screaming.
Su Qing'an hurried over to touch them... and found that Yaya and Qingxing had already started to have a fever, and Jinhai and Qingyang also had a low fever.
She hurried to see Lu Xiaobao again. Seeing that his temperature was normal, she breathed a sigh of relief.
When Lu Xiaobao saw that Su Qing'an disturbed his sleep, he frowned and snorted in dissatisfaction, turned over and continued to sleep.
Su Qingliu looked at him blankly, and felt that this child was mentally strong. Seeing that Su Qingliu, who was shaking Yaya over there, was about to cry in anxiety, he hurried over again.
This morning, the children in the camp had some minor problems to varying degrees, probably because they were frightened by the fighting and casualties yesterday. I heard that many children had nightmares last night.
The team was delayed because of this.