Chapter 41: Continuous Suppression of Bandits
The shape of the fish mountain resembles a soft-shelled turtle, or it is said that the ancient Yugu temple was built on the top of the mountain, so it is named.
Because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty composed the "Song of the Gourd" has the sentence "My Mountain is flat and the wild is overflowing", it is also known as Wushan. Zhang Hua, a scribe of the Western Jin Dynasty, wrote the famous "Goddess Fu" according to the love story between Peng Xianchao and the goddess Zhiqiong in Yushan in Jibei County during the Wei Jiaping period. Wang Wei, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, also visited Yushan and wrote "Yushan Goddess Song Shrine".
It is a pity that the quiet and beautiful Yushan is now occupied by a group of hundreds of thieves, who are ruthless, not only often blocking the road to rob passing merchants, but also several villages at the foot of the mountain are often affected.
Such a well-known thief must have saved a lot of money, and he should have been targeted by Li Nan.
After a half-day attack by 3,000 soldiers and horses, the bandit camp built on the top of Yushan Mountain has been opened, and hundreds of corpses of thieves wearing various clothes have fallen to the ground horizontally, extending all the way to the inside of the village.
Li Nan stood in the open space in front of the big village, pointed to the copper coins piled up like a hill and shouted: "According to the old rules, the first group of people who attack the village can take ten pieces of money, and each person who participates in the battle will take three pieces of money, five pieces of money for the wounded, and fifty pieces of money for the dead!" ”
Looking at the soldiers who were happily queuing up to receive money, Zhu Hu, who was standing beside Li Nan, said with some dissatisfaction: "Dutou, is the money you gave them too much." ”
"If you don't give them money, how can they have the motivation to fight?"
Li Nan patted Zhu Hu's shoulder and said earnestly: "There is a gift to gain, you are now leading a team of thousands of people, don't be so stingy." ”
After the soldiers were satisfied with the money, they carried the sacks full of human heads down the mountain, which was a certificate of killing thieves who promised the local county order to suppress the bandits, and they could exchange the five heads of the county government for the same money.
"There are dozens of live bandits, what to do?" Hu Sanniang, who was wearing a light cyan dress and holding a double knife, came over and asked.
Li Nan said indifferently: "They all have the blood of innocent people on their hands, so they are all cut down." ”
Although Hu Sanniang couldn't bear it, she still obeyed the order to leave, and after a while, the screams of the surviving bandits sounded in the cottage when they were dying......
This was the seventh mountain bandit lair that Li Nan led them to exterminate.
Since Dulonggang Sanzhuang reluctantly agreed to all the conditions, Li Nan asked Zhang Hao and Meng Li to start training these armor guards.
Although these armor guards who were originally just peasants were not trained enough on weekdays, but fortunately, their physical fitness was not bad, and after training for more than half a month, they could obey the command and even if they could be used, after all, Li Nan was not dealing with a strong soldier, but a bandit with worse strength.
The owner of Sanzhuang was naturally not worried that Li Nan would go out with his own soldiers to conquest, so the Zhu family sent Zhu Hu, Hu Bing and Sanniang from the Hu family, and Du Xing, the housekeeper from the village, was sent by the Li family.
These three people are called assistants and are actually surveillance, and they naturally have a secret hatred in their hearts for Li Nan, the culprit who forced them to submit to Sanzhuang, and even the Sanzhuang armor guards are quite dissatisfied with Li Nan forcing them to take risks to suppress the bandits.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the same is true of Li Nan's great cause of making money from bandits.
When the three thousand armor guards met the enemy, Zhu Hu and others did not want to contribute, and secretly dragged their feet, and the box soldiers led by Li Nan and the armor guards looked down on each other, and there was friction from time to time, and these difficulties were all revealed in the first attack on Aishan.
In order to establish his authority, Li Nan did not force them, and led more than 100 of his own soldiers to the bandits' lair, and opened fire with a knife in his left hand and a shell gun in his right hand.
Whether it is an ordinary bandit or a bandit leader with good martial arts, he can't resist the barge gun, a weapon that transcends the times.
Zhu Hu, Du Xing, and Hu Sanniang were all shocked by Li Nan's strong lethality, and those armor guards all regretted when Li Nan gave the soldiers who participated in the war a share of the stolen goods.
Seeing the heavy copper coins in the hands of the box soldiers, all the difficulties were solved, and in the subsequent battle against bandits, the armor guards bravely stepped forward to kill the enemy, even Zhu Hu and others could not stop it.
Li Nanzheng was leisurely standing on the edge of the cliff of Yushan looking at the beautiful scenery under the mountain, thinking about the next target that needed to be killed, but he heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and looked back, it turned out to be Hu Sanniang who was ordered to kill people.
Li Nan looked at the double knives in her hands that were still dripping blood, and asked, "Killed them all?" ”
Hu Sanniang shook her head slightly: "There is a henchman of the owner of the village, he said that he wanted to exchange important news for his life, and I didn't dare to call the shots, so I came to you." ”
"Oh?" Anyway, he is fine now, Li Nan chuckled: "Then let's go and have a look." ”
Li Nan, who is dressed in a black robe, is more than seven feet tall, although he does not have the appearance of Song Yu Pan'an, but he also said that his eyebrows are clear and beautiful, and the most eye-catching thing is that he always has a faint smile on his face.
These days, Li Nan led 3,000 soldiers to conquer bandits everywhere, which can be said to be like killing people like mowing grass, which gave him an extra temperament of killing and daring.
Li Nan is angry, and the Qinghu Sanniang who accompanies him is also stunning in the world, Yuxue's skin looks like a hibiscus, her jade hands are slender and she holds a treasure blade, and her eyes are enchanting.
Seeing the two leaders coming, all the soldiers respectfully flashed to both sides and made way for them.
The armor guards of Hujiazhuang whispered: "Li Dutou is heroic and promising, thousands of times stronger than that dog thing Zhu Biao, it would be good if he could marry the little lady of our family......"
Li Jiazhuang has always been not on good terms with Zhujiazhuang, and at this time, these soldiers also gloated and said: "That's right, as the old saying goes, beauties are matched with heroes, and Li Dutou is as good as the Hu family's lady." ”
Although the soldiers in Zhujiazhuang didn't say much because of Zhu Biao's face, they also thought the same in their hearts.
Hu Sanniang is a person who practices martial arts, and she has long heard the whispers of others, and she can't help but fly her cheeks when she walks.
In fact, when she saw Li Nan leading a hundred people to sweep the bandits' nest that day, Hu Sanniang was moved by his brave and fearless heroic posture, but the two sides had different positions, so she could only bury all her thoughts.
Secretly glancing at Li Nan beside her, Hu Sanniang couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Li Nan walked into a wooden house at the back of the cottage, the strong smell of blood came to his nose, and among the pools of blood full of decapitated corpses knelt a bandit with a cloak of hair.
Seeing the respectful demeanor of the others towards Li Nan, this thief also guessed that he was the person in charge, and quickly kowtowed vigorously regardless of the dirt on the ground, and shouted in his mouth: "I beg your lord to spare my life, I am willing to exchange the treasure of the village master!" ”
"Huh." Li Nan smiled casually and said, "What treasures can you thieves have?" ”
Li Nan's indifferent attitude frightened the bandit, and in order to survive, the thief hurriedly said: "Birth Gang! A few years ago, the owner of the village once robbed a birthday gang! ”
In the Song Dynasty, there were tea, salt, flowers, stones, etc., and the so-called birthday gang refers to the batches of birthday gifts transported in formation.
Whether it is the current emperor, the queen mother, or a minister with real power like Cai Jing, when they celebrate their birthday every year, local officials have to express it, and they give all kinds of gold and jewelry.
Hearing that it was the Birthday Gang, Li Nan, who was now short of money, became interested, waved his hand and said, "Say it, I promise not to kill you!" ”
The desperate bandit didn't notice the ruthlessness in Li Nan's eyes, and quickly explained where the owner of the village buried the birth gang.
The thief didn't lie, and there were three big boxes buried under the dead trees on the cliff behind the wall.
Li Nan picked up a large ingot of snowflake silver, and sure enough, the inscription on it was written with the words "Supervising the Creation of the Birthday Gang", the leader of the bandits was quite smart, and knew that such money could not be spent, so he hid it.
Not far from Yushan is the official road that Jingdong Road must pass to Tokyo, it seems that this is not known which appeasement envoy gave a congratulatory gift to the imperial court after looting the land, but these things are now cheaper Li Nan.