Chapter Twenty-Six: The Bandits
Zhang Taibai waved his hand at the brothers who were ready to attack behind him and shouted: "My own people! Own! Don't be nervous! ”
Meng Liu asked, "Do you know?" ”
"I've heard of it, but obviously he knows better about the Taiping Dao people of Immortal Mountain!" Zhang Taibai shrugged and said.
"Then what do you say about your own people when you are very familiar?"
"Because I have that book, the book itself is not important, the important thing is that I can use the name of the Immortal Mountain, Master will go down the mountain for a period of time every year, make friends with heroes from all walks of life, and will do good to save people, Master is a master of medicine, and he doesn't need money to practice medicine to save people, and his reputation is far and wide!" Zhang Taibai explained.
At this time, Wen Qian had already come over and worshipped: "Wen Qian of the thief group sees Zhang Tianshi of Immortal Mountain. ”
Zhang Taibai quickly stepped forward to help Wen Qian up, and said with a smile: "There is no need for this, there is no need for this. ”
Wen Qian was taken by Zhang Taibai to Meng Liu and sat down together.
"Let me introduce you, this is Meng Liu, and I went down the mountain to assist him."
"This is Wen Qian, the Huaihua general of the thief regiment." Zhang Taibai saw that Meng Liu was puzzled, and immediately explained, "This thief group was originally a thief group formed by a group of homeless people, specifically to rob the rich and help the poor, protect the safety of one party, and not be afraid of the powerful. ”
"As the so-called thieves steal money and steal the country, this bandit group was formed at that time to let those corrupt officials spit out all the money they were greedy for." Wen Qian said viciously.
"Why did you bandits come to annex the state? Yangzhou and Jingzhou are both rich lands, where the officials are all rich and rich, and cooperate with local wealthy businessmen to loot the people's fat and ointment, the north is poor, and the state is the first. Zhang Taibai asked.
"We came this time for a caravan, from Jizhou, we regarded you as this caravan at the beginning, but fortunately there were no casualties."
"What kind of caravan still needs you to take action in person, just find a group of captains to lead the team."
"This caravan is not simple, it is the Jizhou state pastor to send to the palace, hundreds of thousands of taels to Taifu Yang Liangru, these are the local taxes in Jizhou, and the state pastor has increased the taxes in Jizhou by three percent."
"Sancheng, Taifu dares to do this? He is not afraid... Meng Liu exclaimed.
"Those powerful snakes and rats have a nest, the people dare not speak out, there is a famine in Jizhou, many people have voluntarily joined us, but there are too many people and not enough things, so let me come to intercept these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."
"How could things from Jizhou be sent to Bingzhou?" Zhang Taibai asked, "If you go south from Jizhou, you can go directly through the port and take Gyeonggi Road directly to Lai'an City." ”
"I hope this matter will be kept secret, because the things are not complete, and in addition to the money, I have to go to Liangzhou to buy a blade." Wen Qian whispered, "This is the news that one of our spies has found. ”
"To tell you the truth, I went down the mountain this time to save the people from fire and water, and to uphold morality in the world, this trip is to go to Qingzhou, to Qingzhou small town as a foothold for development." Zhang Taibai said what he thought in his heart, "This time I went down the mountain, in addition to me going down the mountain, my master Taiping Dao also wanted me to change the way of the world!" ”
"Zhang Tianshi has a grand wish in his heart, Wen Qian admires it, Wen Qian will definitely inform the leader of the thief group when he goes back this time, and persuade the leader to follow the heavenly master and uphold morality!"
"Good! But you are not going to follow me, but my lord, Meng Liu! Zhang Taibai patted Meng Liu, who was a little stunned on the side.
Meng Liu came back to his senses and said, "Lord? ”
Zhang Taibai nodded heavily: "Since I went down the mountain, I have decided that you are my lord." ”
"The Taiping Dao people of Immortal Mountain have a great favor with my leader, I believe that the leader will not refuse, and everyone is thinking about the people, how many people can the thieves save no matter how great they are? A state of people? I'm afraid that you can't save even half of the state, but you are different, you can save the world! Wen Qian said.
"In that case, how about we go and intercept that caravan together and use it for the army?" Zhang Taibai proposed.
Meng Liu and Wen Qian nodded to unify the idea.
"We'll set off after dawn, how many people are in that caravan now, and where it should be now, do you know?" Zhang Taibai asked.
Wen Qian nodded and replied: "According to the report, there are about 300 people in the caravan, and there is a place in the northwest of Bingzhou, Wujin Mountain, where they will rest for a few days, and then they will enter Liangzhou all the way to Liangzhou, and we will never have a chance when we arrive in Liangzhou, so we only have these few chances." ”
"We will set off after dawn, and after interception, we will go to Qingzhou, if the bandit group is really willing to join us, then everything will have to be re-planned, with the bandit group, our strength has increased greatly."
"Okay, let's go after dawn." Meng Liu nodded.
Early the next morning, Meng Liu, Wen Qian, and Zhang Taibai selected a hundred good players from the team, and after the discussion of several people, they thought that the number should not be too much, too much would attract the attention of the state pastor, and not too little, too little might cause heavy losses.
The more than 100 people traveled day and night to reach Wujin Mountain before the caravan.
After watching the terrain of Wujin Mountain, Zhang Taibai said his strategy: "A team of sixty people ambushed at the foot of Wujin Mountain, led by Meng Liu, if the caravan goes up the mountain, there is no need to rush out, just let them go up the mountain, and when the fire on the mountain starts, immediately lead the team up the mountain, and kill people immediately when they see them, and they can't leave a single living mouth." ”
"Wen Qian led forty people on the mountain, and after leading the caravan up the mountain, there was no need to kill them, and when they rested at night, they would go in again, just kill people and set them on fire, and drive them down the mountain."
"Okay." After everything is decided, all it takes is for the caravan to go up the mountain.
At night, Wen Qian led forty men into the place where they were stationed, and after killing the guards, they went into the tent in groups of four, and killed one tent after another.
That's when it was discovered by the patrolling guards!
"Who? Someone's coming! Night Raid! Night Attack!! The guards shouted loudly, and a number of guards came out of the tent one after another.
Wen Qian took a sip and shouted, "Brothers, set fire!" ”
The more than forty people immediately raised those bonfires to the tent, Wen Qian angrily drew his knife, and cut down the shouting guard, Wen Qian killed in the crowd, and when the knife fell, dozens of corpses were lying on the ground, and no one could approach him.
The other side was frightened, did not dare to fight, and dispersed, but there were more than 60 people of Meng Liu at the foot of the mountain, Meng Liu saw that the fire on the mountain was rising, and immediately took everyone up the mountain, and killed people when he saw them, Wen Qian saw that there were not many people on the mountain, so he went down the mountain to help Meng Liu, and handed over this place to others.
By daylight, the mountains were full of corpses. Wen Qian walked over with blood on his face and said, "This time, more than 20 people ran on the opposite side, and the others were all killed by us. ”
Meng Liu asked, "What about the loss?" ”
Wen Qian smiled: "No one died, more than a dozen people were seriously injured, and most of them were slightly injured. ”
Zhang Taibai nodded and said: "Rest in place, let those who are not injured bury these corpses on the spot, and then carry all the things into the carriage and bring them back to Qingzhou." ”
Wen Qian nodded and said, "Now we can be regarded as having money and food!" ”
Half a month later, these more than 1,000 people entered the Qingzhou territory with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.