PFC Chapter 559: Being a Naughty Child in Troubled Times 22
Chapter 559: Being a Naughty Child in Troubled Times 22
He asked Xiao Bao if the children could teach their family members. After getting a positive answer, he went back and called a meeting of the villagers, asking the women and other children of each family to learn martial arts as well. Even if they only learned a few moves, it was better to have some skills than none at all.
No one objected to this proposal. Some of the reasons for not coming here to study before were not only because they were reluctant to spend the two dollars, but also because they really didn't have the time as they had a big family and a lot of things to do.
In the past, there were families who only sent one child back home and then brought the child back to teach the other children. However, they did it in secret because they were afraid that Xiao Bao would find out and send their child back, and they were also afraid that the villagers would laugh at them.
Now that it can be done openly and Xiao Bao has agreed, he must be very happy about it. This is no different from taking advantage.
Xiao Bao also took the initiative to help them organize some basic martial arts teaching methods, so that they don't have to teach the same moves to everyone regardless of their physical condition.
At least in Xiao Bao's case, talented and untalented children, men and women are taught differently.
As a result, the people in the two villages had a better impression of Xiao Bao. They respected him from the bottom of their hearts and felt that he was a true master of teaching.
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Half a month later, the news about the establishment of a militia finally came out. County officials beat gongs and notified each village and town one by one that the number of militiamen in each town must not be less than 200 and more than 500, and the number of militiamen in each village must not be less than 50 and more than 300.
If there are too few, it will be useless; if there are too many, there will be concerns that the army will become too powerful.
Xiao Yun and his team received the news from Lao Hei a month ago, and it was approved at that time. However, as everyone knows, transportation and communication at that time were poor, so it took a lot of time to reach various places.
The next step is to determine the number of people. The list will be reported in due time, and weapons will be distributed according to the list.
In addition to the thirty or so young men practicing martial arts in Dawang Village, there were also a dozen men in their fifties and more than forty young women between the ages of eighteen and twenty who signed up, making a total of one hundred people.
The situation in Xiaowang Village is similar, except that there are about ten fewer lesbians and more middle-aged men.
After the list was submitted, Dunzi and Lin Tianning began to train the new members. In addition to teaching them martial arts, they also focused on training them on how to fight in groups and how to track and shake off suspicious people.
Seeing the adults busy with their work, the children who were about the same age as Xiao Yun and Xiao Erhei couldn't sit still anymore. They also wanted to join in.
They think they are very powerful. If they can't beat grandpa and uncles, then sisters, aunts and cousins are definitely not their opponents. Why don't they look for them? It's really unfair.
After being punished for jumping around, they didn't dare to make trouble again, but they were really unwilling to give up, so a group of kids got together and decided to form a boy troop.
Led by Xiao Erhei and Xiao Yun, one of them has the highest martial arts skills and the other has the most clever ideas, making them a perfect match, a captain and a military advisor.
So while the quasi-militia were training, the Boy Scouts also started training. Xiao Yun and the other two first used them to practice their accuracy with slingshots, and also practiced throwing small stones and branches. This way, anything could be used as a weapon and there were no limitations.
While improving their military support, Xiao Yun also taught them how to confuse the enemy when they encounter them. After all, children like them have natural advantages, and pretending to be innocent can effectively reduce the enemy's vigilance.
Unexpectedly, these little guys learned it quickly and experimented with the adults at home. The effect was surprisingly good. Not only did they no longer get beaten, but they also received a lot of praise and delicious food.
Xiao Yun: ...The new brain works great.
Just like that, the twenty or so kids aged six to nine who had tasted the sweetness of success were no longer able to return from their pretense of playing the pig and eating the tiger.
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Time will not stop for anyone or anything. In the blink of an eye, it was spring of the following year. Xiao Yun was seven years old. The Japanese invaders who had sneaked in finally broke through the encirclement of the three provinces and arrived in the northern province.
This news came from Lao Hui's younger brothers. In the past six months, those little guys have been running around in the three provinces and doing a lot of bad things.
However, Xiao Xinyue was not a pushover either. If her adoptive father had not been seriously injured and she had not been unable to leave, she would have personally led people to hunt them down and would have killed them long ago.
Even so, more than ten thousand people were surrounded and only a thousand were left. They had to disperse and disguise themselves before they escaped to the northern province.
After coming here, they no longer dared to kill and burn people as openly as before, and only dared to hide in the gutter and do some small actions.
Of course, they also had a conspiracy. These people actually brought them in secretly and studied together. They had already set up several points in the three provinces, and planned to find a few points here and study together, so that both sides would be in chaos at the same time, so that their large army could attack.
With the surveillance of his rat brothers, Xiao Yun knew their actions very well. When more than 300 squashes entered Pingyuan County, Fox Lao San also started to move.
They didn't even alert County Magistrate Zhao. They just asked Lao Hui's brothers to help and create noise in the places where those people were. Many of the people were caught by the militia before they could do anything.
Of course, this is because the other party has no weapons in his hands, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy.
After that, the remaining ones became more cautious. Not only did they hide deeper and try not to go to villages and towns, they also dared not let go of their weapons. This made the capture more difficult and increased casualties.
This also caused Xiao Yun and the others to become a little anxious, but the wax gourds still didn't come. It was not until another month passed that they finally received news from Little Brother Rat that a small group of wax gourds had entered Lotus Mountain last night.
Hey! This is their territory. After knowing that there are not many people, they didn't tell the adults and took the kids straight to the mountains early in the morning!
She didn't tell the kids in advance, she just said that she was going to the mountains to practice her aim like before, otherwise she couldn't explain the source of the information.
Xiao Yun and Xiao Erhei did not take them to the deep mountains, but stayed in the place where they had practiced before. Anyway, those little squashes were coming here, and they would meet them sooner or later.
"Okamoto, you said we can bypass Pingyuan County directly from this direction. Is that true?"
"Yes, Captain. This mountain is called Lotus Mountain. It runs through Liuping, Pingyuan, and Fengxi counties. If we follow this mountain south, we can cross Pingyuan and enter Fengxi County."
"According to the compass, we shouldn't be going the wrong way, but why are we going all the way down the mountain now? We've only been walking for one night, and the area and distance between these two counties are really too short, aren't they?"
Captain Kudo said with some doubt that when they came from the three provinces before, they passed through countless counties, and it took at least two days to walk from one county to another. Could it be that the area of the Northern Province is much smaller than that of the three provinces?