Verse 352 Timely Rain – Horse Thief

Gou Huan and Gou Ying, whether the two brothers are loyal and unyielding to resist to the end, or surrender to the Cangzhao army with interest, whether they live or die, this will be discussed later.

It is said that they can easily achieve the goal of going north in a single place in the mountains, but after Youzhou restored social order, the Liao army freed up its hands to severely crack down on various underworld forces of horse thieves and bandits, forcing these groups of horse thieves composed of Khitan refugees to hastily break out of Youzhou to find another way to survive.

The Khitan people in eastern Liaodong had broken their homes, and they came to Yanshan Mansion for the first time to survive, and they were not familiar with geography, and the horse thieves formed were not accustomed to the encirclement and suppression of the official army, and they did not like to retreat into the depths of Yanshan, which could not be freely ridden and looted, so they re-pretended to be refugees while continuing to take advantage of the chaos and loot frantically while migrating to find an ideal place to settle, but as Jizhou gradually restored order, they finally had to choose to hide in the mountains.

Panshan covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers, the mountain is majestic and precipitous, like a giant dragon, coiled in the north of Jingjingjin, there are thousand-year-old temples in the mountain, Faxing Temple, that is, many temples and Taoist temples such as North Shaolin. Qianlong's imperial book "even Taihang, arch Shenjing, put the stone, away from Cangming, walk the thistle, pillow the Great Wall, cover the heaven of Jizhou, leaning down to the heavy ravine, such as the stars arch north and dare not compete with the person also." This indicates the characteristics and important geographical location of Panshan.

For horse thieves and thieves, Panshan is an ideal place, and the Khitan horse thieves who have been wandering and migrating have taken a fancy to them, and as a result, they quickly converged and took a step at a time.

The cause of these horse thieves' fate was the result of the thieves arranged by the Yan Zhi Cui family in the eastern part of Yanshan to anger the Liao army.

Zhao Yue led people to destroy the lair of Dulu Mountain. The scattered bandits of the Cui family were in constant contact with Dulu Mountain, and soon learned that the lair still existed, but the door was locked and the inside was empty. This surprised the thieves, and for some reason, all kinds of speculations arose, and the people of all departments were panicked.

In a panic, I urgently inquired around. I also learned that the situation changed dramatically overnight, the Cui family was discovered by the government to be a spy of the Jin Kingdom, and was ruthlessly eradicated, and the fish that slipped through the net were severely pursued, and the Cui family's century-old foundation in Yanshan Mansion was gone.

The leaders of the various bandits, who had been trying to maintain their composure, knew the news, and their faces instantly became ugly.

They felt that the old nest had swept away all their wealth in a state of emergency, and the horses had quickly and quietly evacuated. And the men and horses who were scattered outside were not informed. Now that I look at it, I am undoubtedly deceived and used by the Cui family, and I was decisively abandoned at the juncture.

Thinking about the Cui family's power in the officialdom of Yanshan Mansion, it is completely possible to detect something bad in advance and quietly evacuate in advance.

So to throw them away, is it to fend for the periphery?

Thinking about the Cui family's past style of behavior, this is very logical.

The Cui family is extremely strict.

These peripheral people, even if they are very dependent on the leader, know that their final nest is in Taihang Mountain, but they don't know where the nest is in Taihang Mountain. Taihang Mountain is so big, people who are not familiar with it have gone, where can they find their nests?

went to blindly search, only afraid that I would starve to death in the Taihang Mountains.

Do so. Originally, it was to prevent leaks from anyone caught in the looting. At the time, everyone was in favor of not knowing the specifics.

Now I see that the Cui family has already had a strong man break his wrist, no, it is a premeditated plan to get rid of it directly if he is in trouble.

Now what?

Even if he still understands and is loyal to the old master, he wants to go to Taihang Mountain to try his luck and find the old nest there and return to the Cui family's subordinates, but the money and horses are concentrated in the old nest of Dulu Mountain, but they are gone, and he does not have enough of these configurations. How can you quickly transfer to the distant Taihang Mountain?

Separated, transferred on foot?

No kidding. Waiting to slowly pass through a pass to search for the Cui family's forces, will the checkpoint be arrested and killed by the government?

I can't go anywhere, so I can only stay honestly in the familiar Yanshan and still have a way to live.

What they didn't know was that the nest of Taihang Mountain was also exterminated by Han Shizhong not long after.

The foundation of the Yanzhi Cui family is completely gone. lost their master, lost the nest of Taihang Mountain, even if they were not abandoned, they looked for the past. It must also be the same as the remnants of the forces in Taihang Mountain, and soon fall apart, and from then on, each will follow its own path with its own mind.

Poor us, these heroes of the green forest, trust his family so much, and work so faithfully and diligently all these years, and give them all the fruits of robbery with peace of mind. In order to make a big deal in the future, he mixed up with the founding hero to seal his wife and son, but the result was so pathetic, and he was played for too long, too ruthlessly, and too miserably.

Why are we so stupid?

At the beginning, he knew that his family was cunning and unreliable, but he still believed them.

The thieves were furious, but they were helpless.

I can't find the Cui family, and I can't retaliate if I want to.

The more helpless they were, the more these already ferocious guys felt the ruthlessness and ruthlessness of the Cui family and became more resentful.

But it's useless to hate it.

The harsh problem in front of us is that after the harsh winter, the food savings of the cottage have been exhausted, there is no follow-up supply from the Cui family, and there is no food, how to survive?

Also, where should we go from here?

Without the co-owner pinching these bandits together, the leaders of the various departments no longer want to work for others and be betrayed, and no one obeys anyone, they just want to be their own big brother, and it is natural and tacit to form a group of independent mountains.

Engage in food, solve the current existential crisis, this is easy to do.

They were accustomed to being robbers, and when they saw the influx of Khitan refugees, the various ministries were excited, and immediately spontaneously took action to rob horses, money, and food.

But the Khitan refugees who went south were all angry and resentful, killing each other all the way and swallowing each other all the way to come here.

These independent hills, most of them were four or five hundred, and as few as one hundred and eighty people, and each department relied on this strength to rob the refugee tribes, and was fiercely counterattacked by the Khitans with their scimitars, and even if they adopted tricks such as night raids and sneak attacks, they still suffered heavy casualties.

The leaders of the thieves were full of hope and confidence, but they encountered Waterloo and realized that independence was free and happy, but it could not be done. If you want to live a good life, you still have to gather strength and use the group advantage to seize the huge wealth sent to the doorstep of the Khitans.

They led their subordinates to gather in the old nest of Dulu Mountain, and slaughtered and plundered the refugee tribes with thousands of people, and really achieved great results.

The more they robbed, the more experienced they became, and when they learned that many Khitan magnates and tribal leaders were condemned by the angry Liao Emperor for being afraid of war and incompetent, they were condemned to the south border of the Minfa distribution, so they sent out sentry sentries to reconnoiter everywhere, mainly staring at these people to rob.

The Khitan lords are demoted or demoted. The elite of his subordinates lost a little in Liaodong, and his strength and prestige were greatly damaged, but the floating wealth of the family accumulated over the past hundred years was not less, and they were all rich, compared to other refugee tribes, there were still many tribes with strong forces, plus other weak tribes along the way. That's more wealth.

Others can't rob these people, but the thousands of bandits who gathered in Dulu Mountain are not difficult to grab like a powerful army, and they are also done neatly.

People, kill them all. The corpses were thrown into the wild forest to feed the wild beasts, or burned and destroyed. All the belongings were snatched.

In the Dulu Mountain cottage, with the progress of the crazy slaughter, mountains of gold and silver were quickly piled up.

Precious Dongzhu, ginseng for the elderly, luxurious and exquisite carpets and silks, fine war horses and even horses, cattle, sheep and ......

Wow –

The thieves were all happy.

These things are our own.

It seems that the Cui family is finished, and the people are gone, and they have ruthlessly abandoned us. It's a good thing for everyone.

At the same time, in the east, they could not go too far to rob the area, Cangzhao amphibious army 10,000 soldiers in the commander of the dragon slaying sword Sun An, chief of staff Qiao Yan, generals Intercept Dao Hu Tengji, Xiashan Hu Tengji, Xiaoyang by Ji Pang Wanchun and the generals Lei Jiong, Ji Ji and other leaders, set up warships, disguised as the southbound Liaodong defeated army from the coast and quietly landed from the coast to participate in the plundering feast.

This area had just been swept back and forth by the pirate army that had gone to Yanshan to carry Zhao Yue's harvest. Many small towns were breached and plundered, and they lost the number of troops they could defend. Before it had time to rearrange it, the refugee flow forced Yanshan Mansion to deploy a large number of troops to maintain order in the important places where the government was located, and there was no energy and troops to take care of these places that were no longer worthy of strict guarding.

Sun Anbu did not touch the important town of the official residence, and quietly entered Yanshan Mansion without any resistance, and cleaned up the people and looted in the area around the parked boat, and transported the immigrants away, so as to facilitate the advance and retreat and keep the secret. Then they were divided into a group of 1,000 people not far away, and they went deep into it with tacit understanding, and then cleared up some people from the main villages and forcibly kidnapped and transported them away, incarnating as local Khitan villagers, but staring at the rich nobles and tribes who moved south to rob and kill everywhere.

Their results were even more brilliant.

In the midst of the tumultuous tide of refugees. Some of the Liaodong refugees chose to go west to get closer to the emperor, and some chose to go south to Yanyun.

In the backward era when there were no means of timely communication such as telephones and telegraphs, the rulers of Yanshan Mansion did not know which Liaodong nobles would move south, did not know where these people had gone, and did not know whether they had disappeared forever in the mutual robbery and annexation of you and the robbery of you on the way south, or the raids of horse thieves, and were busy dealing with the refugees who surrounded the government and made noise, threatened and cried, and had no energy, and perhaps did not care at all about these nobles who went south to cause trouble and seize their power, and in fact, they could not find out what was going on.

In this way, the actions of the Dulu Mountain robbers and Sun Anbu, one killed and killed clean, one should be killed, and the rest of the people were loaded and transported away, and the crime scene was also cleaned up.

Duan Jingzhu, in the depths of Yanshan, had been quietly stinging and did not participate in the looting.

The task given to them by Zhao Yue was to lurk in this place for a long time, not to attract attention and expose the target for a momentary fortune.

The Xishan Inn of the Yanshan horse thieves is located in a densely populated area. There are many heavily guarded government towns in this area, which is not a good place for killing and looting, and there are no powerful underworld forces committing crimes in this area, and they are all passing through weak refugees who can get timely help in order not to be robbed and through crowded areas.

Those powerful tribes and nobles went south to Yanjing to 'report', but most of them did not go to this safe area, it can be imagined that they had food and drink, and they were not in a hurry to ask for help from the government, and they loved to pass through less populated areas such as the area near Dulu Mountain, just to facilitate the looting of compatriots to make a fortune and strengthen themselves.

The Xishan Inn has no black hand on the refugees and the weak, and it is operated as hospitable as a serious hotel, and no black force roaming this area can loot the inn, although the inn is located in a relatively remote area, it can exist safely.

The operator suddenly changed to a group of people unknown to the locals, and the inn also had a good excuse for the original owner to sell the store and leave for fear of the disaster brought by the refugees, so that the locals believed and accepted, and won the trust, and the inn lost the suspicion that it was the trouble caused by the gangsters robbing the store, and really stood firm.

But no matter how smart Zhao Yue was, he never thought that the refugee wave would lead to such a terrible situation in Yanshan Mansion.

He asked Duan Jingzhu, Shi Yong, and the Pan brothers to use the Dulu Mountain Cottage as a second nest that could be made public for horse thieves, and the plan to use this cottage to gather horse thieves from all parts of Yanshan to do big things naturally failed in the refugee disaster.

However, Duan Jingzhu and the others have been sending people to stare at the Dulu Mountain Cottage, seeing that the remnants of the Cui family's horse thieves who were originally scattered have merged into a single force in order to survive and use the tide of refugees for greater benefits, and they are overjoyed and crazy when they see these people grabbing their wealth with the powerful power of thousands of people and horses, and then seeing this group of people getting rich because of the joy and madness, they can't help but smile.

This group of devils who have long been dehumanized focus on robbing the Khitan nobles and big tribes in the south, and the BMW alone has obtained a few horses, and there are so many war horses, cattle and sheep that can be seen in the cottage that the huge cottage is almost impossible to put down, and it is really explosive.

However, seeing that this group of madmen had a cottage to live in, but even the heavy yurt tents of the Khitan people were snatched and stored, Duan Jingzhu and they understood that this group of people was worthy of being Yanshan old bandits, with brains and long-term plans, but they were afraid that after making the refugee money, they would decisively abandon the ideal cottage of Dulu Mountain, or break up or continue to move elsewhere together.

They should be afraid that the old master will be arrested and interrogated by the government and have already exposed the secrets here, so they should prepare in advance to prevent the government from encircling and suppressing them as soon as they are freed from the refugee flow.

They slaughtered and plundered the Khitan nobles so frantically, sooner or later they would be exposed, and abandoning the cottage was also to avoid being attacked by officers and soldiers afterwards.

With tents, they can use the familiar Yanshan Mountain to change to a new secret place at any time, making it impossible for the government to deal with it.

It is estimated that they are more likely to break up.

Because small strands are more convenient to conceal. The leaders of the thieves are also unanimous, and they only gather together for temporary benefits.

As the Liaodong Intelligence Network reported that there were not many refugees in Liaodong going south, Sun Anbu saw that there were no Khitan nobles and big tribes worth looting passing by, and continued to pretend that the Khitan villagers in the village had a stable rest, waiting for news from Duan Jingzhu.

The horse thieves in Dulu Mountain fell into the crazy joy of looting, and they still wanted to make a big deal, but they didn't know the situation in the north, and they were still staring at the Khitan nobles.

And as the difficult refugee tribes have been resettled and processed and continue to move south, the follow-up refugees have also been relatively reduced, and the pressure on the Yanshan Mansion to maintain stability has been relatively reduced, and some troops can be freed up, when they noticed that there was a large number of robbers in Dulu Mountain who were frantically looting, they were immediately furious, and wanted to hit this group of people hard, reduce the evil and chaotic arrogance that permeated the land of Yanyun, and tried to draw troops as much as possible, and organized five thousand elite cavalry to rush to chase and suppress.

It's a pity that this team of cavalry horses and equipment is well-equipped, and people have strong combat effectiveness, but they are not familiar with the terrain of Dulu Mountain, and they come with a fierce and arrogant attitude.

Five thousand elite divisions, including the generals who led the team, did not survive, and gave the horse thieves sophisticated equipment in vain.

However, the horse thieves knew that this place was exposed, and taking advantage of the annihilation of the Liao army, the government would not know the news for a while and a half, and hurriedly organized the transfer.

Duan Jingzhu's department would let this group of people escape in time, and hurriedly notified Sun Anbu to come over quickly, and he also hurriedly started.

There is an agile secret agent, who has used the secret climbing rope arranged when he evacuated the Dulu Mountain Cottage last time, climbed up from the unguarded steep wall, quietly sneaked into the cottage, observed with a telescope, and deliberately screened out a suitable assistant from the hundreds of thieves' kitchen personnel, at this time put on a similar appearance, sneaked in again, took advantage of the busy cleaning up and chaos of the cottage, found an opportunity to slaughter this person and hide the body, mixed into the kitchen, and easily put chronic drugs in the pot of mutton soup boiled...... (To be continued.) )