Chapter 20: The Bandits

After dawn, the fire in Wangjiazhuang has not been completely extinguished, the smoke that soars into the sky has attracted the attention of the tenant farmers of Wangjiazhuang for two or three miles around, when these tenant farmers ran to the location of Wangjiazhuang, they saw that the green smoke was still coming out of the ruins and broken walls, and on the courtyard wall of Wangjiazhuang that was not burned, the "Vermilion Bird Army for the Heavenly Walk" was clearly written in blood, and the name of the Vermilion Bird Army has been spread out since then, and many young people who could not survive came to Wuyi Mountain to find the Vermilion Bird Army.

On the sixth day, Zhang Zhixian of Anxi noticed that something was wrong, and none of the soldiers brought out by General Li came back, so he immediately sent someone to check on the situation. The people who came back reported that the 200 soldiers led by General Li were all wiped out, and the thief who signed the Suzaku Army was seen from a broken wall in Wangjiazhuang that did not collapse, so he should be the mastermind of this incident.

Zhang Zhixian was taken aback, thinking to himself how someone could kill his 200 officers and soldiers at one time, and also washed Wangjiazhuang in blood, it seems that this time the matter is not so simple. Immediately wrote a submission to Lord Zhizhou, informing him that a large number of bandits had appeared in Anxi, and the bloodbath of Wangjiazhuang, and the 300 officers and soldiers left behind in our county went to exterminate them, only to return to Benzhi County, and the rest of the 100 officers and troops led by General Li were all wiped out, and there were many bandits, and asked Lord Zhizhou to send a large number of officers and soldiers to exterminate the bandits.

In this way, Zhang Zhixian reported, and after more than ten days, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers sent by Zhizhou came in the starry night.

Li Ren and others washed Wangjiazhuang in blood this time, obtained 200,000 taels of silver, three granaries of grain, a total of 100,000 taels of other jewelry and jade, rescued 15 girls, and this time achieved the purpose of fame in Wuyi Mountain.

Liren and they returned to Xinjia Village to distribute a lot of grain and silver money to the villagers, and the whole village of Xinjia Village celebrated for three days, during which Liren sent a lot of grain delivery teams to send life-saving food to several neighboring villages. It also made Riehito and their reputation in this area reach its peak.

But how to arrange these dozen girls made Liren worried, more than a dozen girls were robbed by Wang Hansan of Wangjiazhuang, and they were ruined by Wang Hansan and had no relatives, so it was obviously unrealistic for them to fend for themselves. In the end, Liren decided to let these dozen girls set up a group of nurses in the army, and they would be helpers for the military doctor Lessan, who would care for the injured and help the soldiers sew clothes.

I don't know where the bandits got the news for the past three days, but there was a village where the soldiers had just finished delivering food, and the food they had sent was looted by the bandits. When Li Ren found out, he immediately sent Li Yong to take five people to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the bandits, and the rest of them stayed behind in Xinjia Village with him.

On the fifth day, Li Yong sent people back to report and found the whereabouts of the bandits, who built a cottage on a strange mountain fifty miles to the west, the south, north, and west of this mountain are very steep, and ordinary people can't climb up, only the east side has a road leading to the top of the mountain.

After hearing the report, Li Ren immediately gathered all the people, even those who had come here in the past few days, and marched continuously to the place where Li Yong and they were still watching.

When Rihito came to the mountain himself, he saw that the mountain was indeed steep on three sides, and when he took a closer look, he found that it was possible to climb on the west side, but it was dangerous to climb it with bare hands. Li Ren felt that he could do it, and only took three people to climb up the western cliff that night.

Approaching the top of the mountain, Rihito listened carefully, there was a sound of footsteps on it, Rihito immediately told everyone to stop, just as the cliff blocked the view of the mountain guards. Liren and the other four people, only between square inches on their feet, clinging to the cliff like a gecko, the cliff wind was blowing, and two people couldn't hold it. Rihito is now also too busy to take care of himself, sweating for the two brothers who were born and died.

Li Ren and the others quietly posted on the cliff for an hour, and when they heard someone shouting on the mountain, someone was attacking in front of the village, and they asked the sentries above to go to support immediately.

As soon as the sentinel's footsteps left, Rihito and the others climbed up like tanuki. When he reached the top of the mountain, Liren saw that it was the back of the cottage, and beckoned the three brothers to follow him and came to the east side of the cottage under the window eaves of a wooden house.

Li Ren and the others were just about to touch the hall when they heard a girl in the room speak: "Mother, is my father just hiding in Tibet and being a bandit all his life?" ”

An old woman's voice: "Child, your father has no choice, the government forced us to have no way to live, so your father took the whole village up the mountain." ”

Young girl: "Mother, we must have left the original place, now this place is far away from our Fuzhou, we don't need to be bandits anymore, right?" ”

Old woman: "Child, you don't know, they don't want to do it anymore, but can they do it now?" The heads of your father and the villagers have been rewarded by the official government, and the Great Song Dynasty has painted and printed graphics throughout the country, and you can catch your father everywhere, and you will be good a long time ago. The old woman paused, sounding like she was crying, and said, "Ah! It's fate, too, but it's hard for you, my good boy. Woooooooooooooooo ”

Young girl: "Mother! Don't say that, if it weren't for us, Dad wouldn't have embarked on this road, mother, don't cry, woo! I will be obedient and never ask again. Whining!! ”

Liren heard as if the two mothers and daughters were hugging and crying, and thought to himself, there is a door!

Immediately beckoned the three brothers and whispered: "These two mothers and daughters seem to be the wives and daughters of the owner of the village, we tied these two mothers and daughters, pulled them in front of the owner of the village, asked him to open the main gate, let our brothers come up, and capture the village." The three brothers nodded together. At this moment, Rihito's words seemed to be heard inside, and he heard the young woman in the room shout, "Who is it! Outside! Speak up! Be careful with your aunt's sword. ”

When Li Ren heard this, he beckoned to the three brothers: "Do it." Then he pulled out the Flame Blood Knife from behind his back and rushed in first.

The girl in the house had wide apricot eyes, her eyebrows were tightly locked, she was wearing a red and white shirt, and her sword was on her chest. Seeing a handsome young man rushing in with a strange red knife, he immediately shouted: "Where did the thief come from, dare to come here to commit murder, and he will not retreat, or he will not be merciful with his aunt's sword." ”

Rihito rushed in and stood two swords away from the girl, and saw an old woman of about forty sitting in front of the bed, and in front of the old woman stood a slim girl with a sword in her hand. The beautiful girl was holding a sword, very heroic, and Liren had the idea of playing in his heart, and immediately put the Yanxue knife on his shoulder and said, "Hehe! Can't the girl see that so-and-so is a girl, and since so-and-so has come in, she hasn't wanted to go out until she has achieved her goal. ”

When the girl heard this thief's nonsense, she was angry: "Thief, don't even think about it, my aunt and grandmother will die here, and I won't accept your heart!" The thief looks at the sword. As she spoke, the girl stabbed Rihito with a sword.

Liren didn't want to hurt anyone, he dodged left and right, dodging the girl's sword, not only dodging, but Liren didn't say: "I didn't cut it!" Ha ha! Didn't cut it, haha, you're so stupid! ”

The girl didn't hurt Liren with her sword, and the more she couldn't hurt her, the more angry she was when she heard Liren's teasing. Just when the girl was about to go crazy, Riren said to the girl, "Girl, don't you look at your mother." Hehe. ”

The girl looked back and saw that her mother had been captured, and the knife was on her neck. The girl was stupid, and the sword fell to the ground.