verse 29 Bandits, bandits
After experiencing that black shop and black village, continue to go east,
Zhao Yue and his entourage sometimes go to the countryside and remote areas, observe the countryside, sometimes deliberately pass through the towns, counties, states and towns, observe the towns, during which they continue to encounter all kinds of black shops that are ruthless and murderous, and more are sky-high prices to steal customers arrogantly and forcibly extort overlord shops, the former is terrible, the latter is not weak at all, always the official store colludes, you are a guest, if you resist the store, the thugs and street ruffians can't restrain you with violence, then, the local official forces such as the government and even the army will soon appear...... Directly clean you up with the violence of state power.
The victim thought of the yamen suing for rights and fairness, but there was no chance at all.
It is usually forcibly taken away by direct violence,
Find a convenient place to loot all the victim's belongings, and at the least is to wantonly humiliate and beat you, so that you are bruised and wailing until you can't spare it, and even cripple you, until you have no money and can't afford to leave this place, and then they laugh and leave.
The victim suffered this evil in a foreign land, and was helpless, and was inevitably reduced to a crippled beggar, but he could not get food in an environment where society was evil, and naturally died of pain and starvation. What is even more arrogant and ferocious is to directly kill them, and then drag them into the field and bury them casually, and these profit-seekers who collude with officials and businessmen to harm passers-by are fine, and often they will not even have trouble.
If you feel that you have a strong background that is not easy to provoke, you don't feel that you can be awesome and not afraid.
The store or official personnel will be hypocritical and hypocritical, and first coax you away, so as to avoid the local people who are watching the excitement also know that your identity is not good to cover up, and bring it to the "safe" somewhere to set your words, first find out your details, and then decide how to clean you up according to what the consequences will be, if you are judged to get rid of you, you may not be in trouble, no one can trace them, then, you are the prince today, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the poison.
As long as the interests are large enough, they dare to take risks in close collusion.....
Even if you have a lot of power with you, the army can't get you in a hurry, and you can rush to the yamen to complain, then it is not fair and safe.
The officials will not judge the case against you...... Even if you have some background.
The most representative sentence of this evil phenomenon is: This is Lao Tzu's territory, you are here, and you have to hold on to the dragon.
In the meantime, it is natural to play all kinds of faces, or fierce and brutal, or cunning and pretending to enforce the law fairly and seriously...... It's all routines, and there is actually no difference between ancient and modern.
It's just that Zhao Yue and his entourage will not seek social fairness and official justice, and whenever they encounter such a disgusting thing, they simply turn into robbers, regardless of whether you are a black shop or an official violent machine, and those who dare to block it to commit murder or pretend to enforce the law impartially will be killed directly.
If you want to trick me to rob me and hurt me, why don't I kill you first and rob you all...... Kill directly to the town mayor, Zhixian and even Zhizhou's house......
In this dangerous process, from the governor of the city, the county magistrate, the commander of the soldiers and horses, the head of the arrest fast, and the mayor of the town...... Profiteers and other large households...... Judging from the money verified by various local tyrants and bullies in the countryside, Zhao Yue has a rough idea of the financial situation in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty after the disaster, and on the other hand, he has also determined: the harmful forces in the form of bandits and robbers that are not conducive to the government are indeed almost gone, and all kinds of big villains have either drowned in the immigration frenzy, or have been incorporated into the organization, and now they have become positive and decent civil servants representing official power, and the way of harming people has turned into a more terrible public social...... Bad guys don't have to risk being robbers and thieves, the whole society is almost black, and it is more convenient to be able to do evil to passers-by "legally and reasonably" as a "good citizen......
However, when they came to a place at the junction of Shanxi and Shandong, it was very strange that they encountered bandits again.
Just not rob them.
The bandits are engaged in battle with the officers and soldiers.
The bandit side held the narrow passage up the mountain and hid it in the mountains, I don't know how many people there were, but it is estimated that there will not be many, only a few hundred.
The strength of the officers and soldiers under the mountain is clear at a glance, at least thousands.
When Zhao Yue and the others saw it, the two sides were fighting fiercely.
The officers and soldiers were numerous, and they had the advantage of bows and crossbows equipped by the state, and their momentum was very strong, and they attacked the mountain with a large number of arrows.
The bandits have the advantage of geographical advantages, stuck in narrow mountain roads, homemade rough wooden shields can also cover the rain of arrows, and there are also some standard bows and crossbows and homemade crossbow arrows and stone-throwing fierce counterattacks.
The offensive surface of the officers and men was limited by the terrain and was too narrow, and although they had the advantage of the military formation, they could not be used, and they were attacking from the back, and they were easily blocked by the bandits' condescending rocks and arrows.
The bowstrings trembled, and the arrows whistled. From time to time, the bandits are shot by arrows.
The officers and men were even more uncomfortable, and it was most difficult to resist the stones thrown from a high place just by squeezing on the narrow mountain road, and they would inevitably be killed and injured even if they had shields...... Screams on both sides rang out one after another. However, the officers and soldiers reorganized by the government after the disaster were indeed much stronger than the original hooded soldiers, and they knew that it would be difficult to attack and dangerous, but they did not give up lightly, and fiercely refused to deflation......
In the end, the officers and soldiers quickly pushed in front of the bandits.
The two sides were immediately plunged into the most dangerous melee hand-to-hand combat.
Suddenly, a loud roar erupted in the bandit formation, and then the group of thieves was divided, and two jumped out of it...... The giant man, one is more than two meters tall, and his hand makes a thick copper stick, and the other giant man is a little shorter, it should be no more than two meters tall, but it is much thicker than the former, and it is also a stick, but it is iron, black and speckled maroon, not rust, obviously soaked in blood.
The two of them fiercely rushed towards the group of officers and soldiers to fight indiscriminately, the advantage of the long stick was swept away from a distance, and the dense spear that squatted down to avoid the fierce stabbing of the officers and soldiers swept away violently, and the officers and soldiers screamed again, and I don't know how many officers and soldiers in front of them were swept off their calves by these two sticks...... On this occasion, as soon as they fell, they were trampled indiscriminately, either dead or seriously injured, and the two giants tore their mouths and broke into the enemy group, and the sticks flew up and down like two evil pythons, so that the officers and soldiers broke their guns and broke people's arms, broke their legs, and screamed in chaos......
The group of officers and soldiers gathered on the narrow mountain road was overwhelmed by the fierce rush of these two people, and they involuntarily began to retreat in a chaotic manner.
Seeing that the little advantage gained by the strong attack was about to be lost in the blink of an eye, some of the officers and men roared and jumped out and trampled on the mountain walls, trees, and hills on both sides...... rushed up, and saw that the armor uniform was obviously a local middle-level officer, but it was not a court standard weapon, but a common simple knife among the people, and he bravely pounced on the giant man...... The force is not ordinary.
Several others wielded hooked knives and iron maces...... A miscellaneous variety of weapons followed the man and rushed up to besiege the two giants.
These officers were obviously various civilian warriors before the summer disaster, not soldiers who originally existed in the government.
In the disaster, in the face of wave after wave of ferocious rebels and civilian immigration, the small group of armed forces could not resist this ferocious trend, knowing their sins, or accustomed to and nostalgic for the life and convenience of various bullies in the Great Song Dynasty and unwilling to go to the pirate country to be restrained or even punished, and afraid of being killed like ants by the frenzy, they had to join the official forces in a hurry to protect themselves in the disaster. They have been promoted to officers at all levels, large and small.
These people have tasted the benefits of being in the government, and they have seen the social predicament after the disaster, and they know that it will be difficult to have a good life if they return to the kind of powerful life of the people who dominate a place in the past, and they are willing to settle down and try to serve the court as officials, so that they can rely on the official skin to fish and meat more conveniently, and on the other hand, they may be able to take the right path from now on to fight for a powerful and powerful general, and even a wife or a son or something. At this moment, the psychology of bravely moving forward to kill thieves is a large part of the motivation cause.
This kind of martial arts expert maniac who wanders on the edge of battle and danger all day long is not comparable to ordinary officers and soldiers who have nothing to do.
Enlistment in the army to receive serious training time is too short, they are not good at the army's battle array, but good at this kind of free fighting by personal force, the past martial arts and even the green forest career also determines that they are suitable for adapting to this kind of mountain terrain life and death struggle, similar battles have long been used to, at this time rushed up to besiege, for a while really blocked the two giants seem to be unstoppable fierce impact.
The generals will be entangled, and the soldiers on both sides will be able to kill in one place, squeezing and fighting on the narrow and inconvenient mountain roads, and the battle will become more and more dangerous and tragic.......
This gang of bandits is obviously a gang of bandits outlaws, in the face of several times the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, they are not afraid and retreat, and they are indeed quite powerful, everyone shouts fiercely, and the few people also rely on the advantage of the narrow terrain and their own ferocity to fight, wielding also miscellaneous weapons, not only blocking the momentum of the officers and soldiers, but also gradually gaining the upper hand, pressuring the officers and soldiers to retreat down the mountain......
On the side of the two giants, the battle is even more dangerous and fierce.
The first to come to the Park Daohan, the body is flexible, the knife is tricky, the person is cunning, the strength is not weak, he is a fierce opponent, and he has repeatedly threatened the two giants.
Some of the other officers have the strength of their handles, wielding iron whips and iron maces, and from time to time they harden their opponents, restraining and increasing the loss of the giants' strength; Some bully the giants, whose weapons are too long and heavy, not fast enough to be quick and fighting, waiting for opportunities to sneak attack......
But hard power is hard power. This is even more true in the battle on the battlefield.
The two giants are tall and fierce, and their martial arts are also powerful, and they are desperately fighting with the two enemies and gradually grasp the initiative......
Yang Yizhong, who was in the northwest and did not know the specific changes in the interior, was surprised to see that the officers and soldiers in the interior actually dared to fight so much, and that they were not the kind of rotten army that he had known for a long time, who were cowardly and afraid of death, and had no will to fight, and who were completely vulnerable to a single attack.
"The inland army, which has not been fighting for a long time and has rotted early, can still have some of the demeanor of our Western Army warriors? This...... Incredible......"
Zhao Yue glanced at him and continued to inspect the fight over there, but also said lightly: "The martial arts evil soldiers, greedy for the wealth of the thieves' nest, want to destroy the thieves and make a windfall." ”
These officers and soldiers are loyal to the country and bravely kill the enemy and suppress thieves, and they are purely for the selfish interests of promotion and wealth.
Moreover, the vast majority of these officers and men are all kinds of strong, murderous, and vicious civilian forces that have just joined the army, and they themselves are not lacking in fighting and killing, and they are brave and aggressive.