Chapter Twenty-Three: Snatching Food and Snatching Women

This person's shout naturally attracted everyone's attention, and Butcher Chen immediately stepped forward and reprimanded: "What are you shouting!" ”

Li Xuan was also attracted by his voice, and after carefully taking a closer look at the scene in front of him, he found that this person who shouted for mercy was very different from the other two captured bandits.

First of all, he was dressed, he was not wearing a short robe like the others, but a robe that only modern scholars wear, and although his robe was tattered and smeared, it still made him look very different from the others.

Perhaps noticing that Li Xuan was looking at him, this person continued: "Grass King Wenhua, I am willing to contribute my meager strength to Your Majesty's great cause, and the small one can lead Your Majesty's heavenly soldiers to attack the Water Dragon Village!" ”

Hearing this person's words, Li Xuan was even more sure that this middle-aged man with an obscene appearance was not a rough bandit who couldn't read big characters, because this person's speech pattern was very similar to Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu, maybe he was really a scholar.

It has been more than half a month since he came to this era, but strictly speaking, there are only one and a half scholars that Li Xuan has seen.

The first one is naturally Liu Bagou, and the remaining half is Qian Mengjiu, and the others basically don't know a single big character, only a few can recognize a few words and can write their own names.

He was a little curious, how did this person who looked like a scholar become a bandit?

But before Li Xuan could speak, a guard beside him frowned: "You mean Water Dragon Village?" ”

Wang Wenhua nodded quickly like a chicken pecking rice: "Yes, the villain knows the size of the roads in and out of Shuilongzhai, and Shuilongzhai just robbed a big village not long ago, and grabbed a lot of food, silver and women!" ”

The first half of this statement is to advance its own effect, and the second half is obviously to increase the interest of the crowd.

"Water Dragon Village?" Li Xuan didn't know what this thing was, and Liu Bagou on the side was also confused.

At this time, Qian Mengjiu walked to his side, and then lowered his voice and said: "Shuilongzhai is a relatively well-known group of forces within a radius of hundreds of miles, its strength is average, and it will never go to the big villages and towns or large-scale caravans, only attack some small mountain villages and small caravans that have no ability to resist, and kill all the young and strong everywhere they go, and rob all the property and women. However, its location is very hidden, and no one knows where the old nest of the water dragon village is located. ”

At this time, a bandit guard next to him also spoke: "Those people in Shuilongzhai know that they are afraid of the weak and afraid of the hard, and they will only do it to the weak, which is really a shame for the people of the green forest of my generation, but if we go to grab a handful, we should gain a lot." ”

Several other bandits around them also talked about their disdain for Shuilongzhai, and there was a hint of greed in their disdain, these people wanted to rob food and women.

At this time, Wang Wenhua said again: "What a few heroes said is that those people in Shuilongzhai bully the weak and fear the hard, and they dare not start from the government and the strong, they only know how to harm those defenseless people!" ”

Li Xuan put his gaze back on Wang Wenhua and said slowly: "Oh, it looks like you should also be a scholar, how did you come to Shuilong Village?" ”

You don't have to think about it to know that normal scholars will never run out to be bandits, and the status of scholars in this year is so high in society, even if they have no fame, but it is quite easy to survive.

Wang Wenhua will show a bitter and hateful expression and said: "Your Majesty, the grass people were originally the teachers of Taohuaxi School, three months ago, the water dragon village attacked the hometown, burned and looted, the grass people's wives and children and students all died tragically under the bandits' knives, and the grass people were not spared, but those bandits saw that I could read and write, and count the accounts, so they left me alone and brought me back to Shuilong Village!" ”

As he spoke, Wang Wenhua quietly raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan quickly, and then lowered his head again and continued: "The grass people and the bandits of the Water Dragon Village are not in the same place!" ”

After Li Xuan heard his words, he didn't answer him immediately, but turned to Liu Bagou and said: Prime Minister, this person will be kept first, and you can watch and deal with the rest! ”

Liu Bagou said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

When Wang Wenhua, who was behind, heard this, he immediately kowtowed and shouted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace not to kill!" ”

It's just that when he raised his head, he saw that Li Xuan had already left with a few people first, and he looked at Liu Bagou and Butcher Chen with a smile on his face.

Butcher Chen obviously didn't have a good impression of the dog-like smile on Wang Wenhua's face, so he just snorted: "Look at what to see, look at Lao Tzu gouging out your eyes!" ”

Liu Bagou didn't know what to think, and he didn't talk to this Wang Wenhua, but waved his hand and said, "Take him with you, let's go back!" As for the remaining two! ”

Liu Bagou's eyes swept over the remaining two bandits who kept shouting for mercy at this time, and said with a straight face: "If you and other thieves dare to offend the Son of Heaven, you deserve to die!" ”

As he spoke, he nodded slightly at the few Huangzhushan bandits who were pressing them, and then the bandits smiled fiercely, and then each drew his knife and killed the two people on the spot.

Seeing Liu Bagou's upright appearance, but after directly condemning the death sentence of the two captives, Wang Wenhua, who had just stood up, did not stand firmly, and then collapsed to the ground again, and then the half-dry crotch was wet again.

Butcher Chen laughed when he saw this scene.

When the bandits in Huangzhushan saw it, they all laughed in unison, and Butcher Chen said directly: "I didn't kill you, what are you urinating!" ”

On the way back, Li Xuan's mind still recalled the 'battle of national fortunes' not long ago, and he sighed a lot in his heart.

The battle just now was not a battle at all, at most it was a fight, and it was still a small scale, and both sides were not organized in a fight.

The combat effectiveness of these bandits is so weak, if the officers and soldiers kill them in the future, what will they do!

At this moment, Li Xuan still doesn't know that in fact, the three hundred county warriors under the county magistrate are not much stronger than a group of bandits in Huangzhushan, regardless of whether the regular army is still bandits in these years, small-scale battles are almost the same, but don't expect all the soldiers and bandits who participated in the battle to fight, they can wave their flags and shout on the side, and it is very good that they did not run away before the battle broke out.

Li Xuan's intuitive understanding of the war in the era of cold weapons basically comes from the film and television dramas of later generations, in the film and television dramas, the war is cruel and fierce, those soldiers carrying spears, swords and shields collide with each other like a tide, regardless of the death of their comrades-in-arms beside them, their own blood flows, and they are all like the three hundred warriors of Sparta.

After the battle, there was no end in sight to the corpses on the entire battlefield.

According to his conjecture, even if the officers and soldiers of this era are not as fierce as the soldiers in film and television dramas, as long as they maintain basic organization and combat effectiveness, then it is definitely not something that these rabble in Huangzhushan can resist.

Thinking about it like this, it made him feel even more desperate for the future, and Li Xuan could imagine that when the officers and soldiers found Huangzhushan, he would have to embark on the road of escape again.

No, he's going to have to change the damn situation!