Chapter 70: Nine Wood Thirty-Three

In the battle of the twenty-nine villages, there were no three out of ten evil witches outside the Black Shrine, and the evil witches of the Black Shrine also lost a part, which can be described as a huge loss. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Kugi Thirty-three was lucky. Her brigade was tasked with attacking the bandits' lair that night and did not participate in the attack on the twenty-nine villages. She and her Witch didn't want to participate in this kind of attack on civilians, as Witch Maiden, Kuki Thirty-three and her Witch Maiden had too different ideas, and people like them would be ostracized among Witch Maidens - just like Koha and Bird had done in the first place.

As a member of the small collective, Xiaoye and Xiaoniao were bullied by nothing more than throwing all the dirty work to them and reducing their food rations, nothing more. And as a member of the big collective, the bullying they were treated would not be so simple.

Although there is an internal response, the task of attacking the bandits' lair is definitely much more difficult than the task of attacking the twenty-nine villages, at least until the operation begins. The bandits are accustomed to setting up their nests in hidden locations that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if the sentries are not taken away, the witches will storm the cottage and pay huge losses.

This happened to two of the evil witches. Due to his lack of influence in the cottage, Neiying could not transfer the sentinels away, so he could only take the best means. However, the targets that can be controlled by the ** means are limited, and it is impossible to transfer all the sentinels. Coupled with the fact that they did not know the location of the secret whistle, after the evil witch who was ambushed outside launched an attack according to the original plan, the alarm soon sounded in the cottage, turning the sneak attack into a tough battle. In the end, the witches used their numerical advantage to annihilate the enemies in the cottage, but they also paid a heavy loss.

However, Kugi Thirty-three did not encounter such a situation.

Their mission is to attack the White Maniac's cottage with the other four brigades, as the most powerful bandit force in the Twenty-Nine Village except for Little Thumb, the White Maniac's cottage is heavily guarded and has a complete sentry system. Although Neiying was favored by the white madman, and the white madman specially arranged a maid for her, she had little say in the cottage. Feeling that she should not be able to complete the task of walking the sentry, she secretly escaped from the cottage before the attack was launched.

The five evil witch girl brigades responsible for attacking the white madman's cottage are the five most unpopular brigades on weekdays, and coincidentally, the evil witch girls in these five brigades are all from the wooden word camp, and they were born at the same time. The monthly "offerings" they hand over to the Black Shrine are at the bottom of the ranks of the major groups, because they do not rob caravans or attack villages, but at most threaten to force a certain amount of supplies from the villagers.

On the night of the attack, the sentry post of the White Maniac Cottage was unchanged as usual. The five evil witches of the brigade wanted to attack the cottage from the front as originally planned, but just as they were about to start their operation, an accident happened.

When Nei Ying fled, he was afraid that the maid would get in the way, so he killed her. This girl was snatched by the white madman from the village of the kingdom of Egus, originally a slave, and after being robbed by the white madman, she worked as a concubine for the white madman for a while. After the evil witch was caught in the inner circle, the white madman ignored her and asked her to serve the living of the lady of the village.

One person's trash can be another's treasure - this may be a bit of a misnomer here, but that's the case. The white madman doesn't want her, but a little bandit boss has taken a fancy to her. This girl was a slave and was used to being oppressed, and the little boss just coaxed her with sweet words, and she became the little boss's lover. The little boss really liked her, and he carved a wooden puppet with a knife every once in a while and gave it to the girl.

Since the girl was born, no one has treated her so well except her family. So she also fell in love with the little boss and would have a tryst with him every night in the firewood room in the backyard. For the sake of the girl, the little boss did not participate in the attack on the 29th Village, and took the initiative to ask the white madman to stay in the cottage.

Robbery is a fat difference for bandits, and everyone rushes to go to the usual small actions, let alone such a big operation as attacking Twenty-Nine Villages. The small bosses except him were all scrambling to participate in the operation, and the white madman was worried that there was no one left behind, so he made a favor and let him take full charge of the guard of the cottage.

Normally, the girl would go to the firewood room first, but on the night of the attack, the girl did not appear in the firewood room. The little leader waited in the firewood room for a long time and did not see the girl coming, and his heart became more and more flustered. He comforted himself and said that maybe there was a delay at Mrs. Zhai's place, so he quietly slipped to Mrs. Zhaizhai to check the situation, but found the girl's body.

The girl's death grieved the little leader, and although there was no evidence, he felt that it was the missing Mrs. Zhai who killed the girl. Carried away by hatred and anger, he immediately gathered the whole village, including the sentinels, to hunt down and suppress Mrs. Zhai.

Before the evil witches could start attacking, they heard a loud alarm in the cottage, and they thought they would retreat. But I didn't think that it didn't take long for a squad of bandits to come out of the cottage with torches.

At the suggestion of Kugi Thirty-three, the evil witches changed their attack plan and ambushed a group of bandits in the mountains, capturing a few alive. After some interrogation, the bandits confessed important information that the cottage was almost undefended at this time. When Jiumu Thirty-three heard this, he immediately suggested that everyone attack the cottage.

In this way, the witches captured the white madman's cottage at the cost of zero casualties, robbed all the supplies, and burned the cottage as originally planned. Before retreating, they also easily eliminated several groups of bandits who returned to the village to fight the fire, and the little leader also died under the random arrows.

After the failure of the operation in the 29th Village, at the suggestion of Kuki 33, these five brigades buried the materials on the spot, withdrew to the territory of Rimi Shrine as quickly as possible, and returned to their original activity areas, and concealed the matter of the materials, so that the operation failed. Due to the heavy losses of the evil shrine maiden, the great shrine maiden of the Black Shrine did not punish the major teams participating in the war after the war. She checked the battle damage and found that many of the evil witch girl brigades in the eastern area of Liangyue City had lost their formation, so she transferred Jiumu Thirty-three's brigade and asked them to establish a stronghold near Xiaoyan Village.

Although the Great Shrine Maiden of the Black Shrine did not punish the evil shrine maidens, this does not mean that she has accepted the failure of the operation in the Twenty-Nine Village. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the great witch of the Black Shrine is ready to become famous all over the world, and now she has lost more than half of her old book, but she hasn't even heard a sound, how can she balance her heart?

The name is gone, and the profit is not obtained, and the great witch of the Black Shrine has to take the villages and caravans in the territory to vent his anger. She asks the witches to triple their monthly "offerings", and if you last time you made an offering to the Black Shrine with a sack of wheat, this time it's three sacks of wheat, or the equivalent of supplies, and you will be punished if you can't pay it.

However, after that rainstorm, the harvest situation in the villages of Liangyue City became very bad, resulting in a significant reduction in the tax revenue of the territory. Previously, Yishan had an evil fire with Maier because of the appearance of Julis, and also pushed the reason for the poor harvest of the territory on Maier.

The harvest in and around the village was so poor that it was difficult to feed themselves, and if they had to pay another protection fee to the witch, they would starve to death. Rabbits are forced to bite people in a hurry, let alone people? Jiumu Thirty-three knew this truth, so she didn't dare to push it too hard, so she went to these villages every three or five days, and asked them to take out a little food every time, and if they could take a little, it would add up.

It's still early before the end of the month, and Kuki Thirty-three is not in a hurry. As a result of the attack on 29 villages last month, all the brigades were transferred out of the activity area and did not hand in their contributions, so this month's contribution has tripled from the previous month's supply. In the previous month, Jiumu 33's brigade handed in the least amount of contributions, even if it was tripled, it would not be much, as long as it continued according to the current state, it would definitely be able to make up the supplies at the end of the month.

On the morning of July 9, Jiumu Thirty-three led the whole team of evil witches to Xiaoyan Village to forcibly levy supplies. As he approached the village, Kugi Thirty-three saw a sentry hurrying towards the village. The same happened to her first two visits, and after the sentry informed the witch of the size of the witch, Smoke Village gave up on resisting. She didn't want to hurt innocent people, and she didn't want her subordinates to get hurt, so it was a good thing for her.

But this time the situation was different. The village chief of Xiaoyan Village did not take the villagers to greet him at the entrance of the village, and there was a dead silence in the village.

Did they all run away?

Kugi Thirty-three shook his head slightly, feeling that this was impossible. The villagers of Xiaoyan Village can run today and tomorrow, but what would they do if Jiumu came every day on the 33rd day or lived here?

Abandoning the village?

It was not an easy task to establish a village, and Kugi Thirty-three did not push the villagers too hard, so they would not abandon the village and move elsewhere.

Just as Kuki Thirty-three was hesitating to enter the village to take a look, the sound of dense and rapid horses' hooves came from behind. Jiumu Thirty-three felt that something was wrong, and just as he wanted to lead his subordinates into the village to defend, nearly a hundred short maids with rabbit ears rushed out of the village. They lined up in two neat columns, and aimed their light crossbows and pocket crossbows at the evil witch at the entrance of the village.

At this time, the cavalry behind him also arrived. The difference in combat strength between the two sides is too great, and resistance is only a dead end. Seeing this, Kugi Thirty-three immediately dropped the weapon in her hand and shouted to the evil witches in her loudest voice.

"Lay down your arms! Drop your weapon! We surrender!! ”

When the witch saw that the captain had dropped his weapon, she threw it on the ground.

According to the original plan, before the cavalry of the Xiaohu family rushed up, the maid team would fire the evil witch in two rounds. At a range of less than twenty meters, the lethality of nearly two hundred crossbow arrows was quite great for the witches, and they could be defeated, and the cavalry's job was to hunt down the remnants of the enemy who wanted to escape.

Now the witches simply dropped their weapons and surrendered, giving the maids and the cavalry guards a feeling of punching the cotton. The maids took the initiative to give way to a clearing, and the cavalry escorted the witches who had laid down their weapons to the clearing, and made them crouch on the ground with their heads in their hands, and their hands were not allowed to leave their heads.

"Surrendered directly?"

Maiel was very surprised by the outcome of the battle, and so far, he has only dealt with the Witch three times. It was the first time at Big Rabbit Mountain, the second time at Nami Castle, and the third time this time. Before this, he only had the impression of "ferocious" the evil witch, and he did not have an intuitive understanding of her combat effectiveness and will to fight.

He felt that people with a fierce personality tend to have a strong will to fight, which is why he was surprised by the direct surrender of the evil witch. In fact, the evil witch outside the Black Shrine has an even worse fighting will than ordinary bandits, and basically can't fight against the wind. The policy formulated by the Black Shrine for these evil witch girls is to fight if they win, and run away if they can't win, which is commonly known as "bullying the weak and fearing the hard".

Most of the impressions given by the Witch Maiden are ferocious and elusive, this is because the Witch Maiden lacks deterrence in terms of size, and the ghost mask alone may not be able to deter the brave, so she can only use her murderous actions to deter others. They come out of nowhere to hide their whereabouts, because once the stronghold or lair is found, they are doomed - in fact all outlaws are the same at this point, except that the witch is more serious about it.

What am I going to do?

After giving up resistance first, Kugi's brain began to work at a rapid pace, trying to find a way to save himself and his subordinates.

The reputation of the Evil Witch is already stinking, and even if Kugi Thirty-three and her team hadn't done anything bad, their captors wouldn't have believed them. What's more, they have indeed done bad things, although not to the extent of hurting nature and reason, but they have also seriously affected the lives of others.

There is not a shred of pity for the outlaws. Captured witches are usually stripped of their masks and shrine maiden costumes, as they can be exchanged for bounties. As for the witches who have no clothes, the ones with bad character will do some bad things and then sell them to slave traders. Those with good character skip that step and sell them directly to slave traders. It is not too rare to describe a person like Mel who is willing to return the free body of an evil witch.

It is worth mentioning that many evil witches died in the battle of Twenty-Nine Village, and many masks and witch costumes remained in a state that could be exchanged for bounties, but Maier did not have the idea of fighting them. This is because the amount of work required to collect these things is too large, and even if Yishan and Euris send someone to help him, it will take a long time to collect them, which is time-consuming and laborious. And the matter of picking up women's clothes for money is too cheap, and Mel doesn't want to leave a bad impression on his cousin and the people who like him.

Most of the people in Twenty-Nine Village were unaware that the Oni Mask and the Black and White Witch Costume could be exchanged for money, and by the time word spread in Twenty-Nine, most of the Oni Masks had been destroyed by the angry villagers.