Chapter 15: Be a Competent Bandit
Luoliang Mountain, located on a small hill in the northwest corner of Binh Duong Province, is undergoing a radical change.
Mountains of coal, red-hot brick kilns, warm houses, flat and wide terraces.
After the arrival of Tang Xidong, everything has changed, not only in Luoliang Mountain, but also in the cottage.
These people, who have never regarded cottages as their home, began to take root here in their hearts.
Life starts towards a better life, and when people have hope, there is hope in life.
From the sorrow at the beginning to the joy now.
Everyone is tired, but the peace and joy that comes from the heart cannot be hidden.
And for everything new in front of you, it all starts with a scholar.
Perhaps many years later, this place will become a holy place for the birth of legends, but at this time in Luoliang Mountain, people see that everything is just new and beautiful, and the legend has not even been revealed.
The activity ground where the guarding team was training was dusty, and Tang Xidong stood on the edge of the wooden fence and watched the training scene and nodded from time to time.
The effect has basically been achieved, the weapon has been sharpened, and the rest is waiting to see blood.
These young and strong, the tenacity that has been tempered, in the practice day after day, fades not only the dead skin on the body, but also the weakness of the heart.
Solidarity is strength, and when you realize the importance of partnering, you will grow in courage.
In the past, many people had no concept of cottages, but now, after Tang Xidong's education from time to time, cottages have become homes, places where you need to throw your blood to guard, because there are your own family and friends.
The most important thing is that there is hope here, and these people gradually can't let go of this place in contrast to the beautiful cottage and the cruel world outside.
This is how the sense of mission was born.
The day of the caravan's return is getting closer.
Tang Xidong hurriedly walked into Liu Lianqing's courtyard, and Liu Lianqing, who had just received the news, sent someone to summon him to discuss matters.
Looking at Liu Lianqing's expression sitting on the chair, Tang Xidong knew that it was time to come.
Sure enough, the first thing Liu Lianqing said was: "The Kang family's caravan will return to the city in five days." ”
Deng Dahu and Liu Dagou next to them obviously already knew that they were staring at Tang Xidong at the moment.
They know that the cottage depends on the scholar in front of them.
This scholar has brought too many changes to the cottage, and in the hearts of the three people, I hope that this time will also succeed.
Whether it is Liu Lianqing's grudge or the crisis of the cottage, this dose of strength is needed.
"The owner of the village can rest assured that Tang has a plan in his heart and will definitely do his best." Tang Xidong didn't say much, and even he wouldn't believe it if he said too much.
Do your best!
From this day on, Tang Xidong asked everyone to put down their work and build a simple wall along the official road at the foot of the mountain.
Luoliang Mountain, at the foot of the mountain. An official road leading to Binh Duong City winds between mountains and dense forests.
An official road, west of Luoliang Mountain Shanyang, east is a dense forest.
For example, what Tang Xidong wants to do is to surround Shanyang.
In order not to surround himself, but to not let go of a living mouth.
Kang's family is a behemoth for a cottage, but the grasshopper shakes the tree, and you have to do it.
At night, more than a foot of the wall has been enclosed, and there are no people on the official road, and it is quiet.
The group walked down the mountain path, and these people carried pickaxes, shovels, and baskets in their hands.
Inside the wall, under the guidance of Tang Xidong, the digging began.
The excavated earth was piled up not far away, and the hole gradually grew larger, and then became a square.
Busy figures, elapsed time, raised mounds, and deep laneways.
What Tang Xidong wants is to cut off the official road, an official road more than ten meters wide.
On the surface, the official road is still the same, but in fact, a roadway about three paces wide has been dug out of the ground.
Only a thin layer of ground remained, supported by stakes and thick planks underground.
To rob, the first step is to block the road, and if the road is not blocked, people will run out.
What Tang Xidong wants to do is that people can run, but goods can't run.
If the road is cut off, the cars and horses will not be able to pass at that time, and the grain will naturally be left behind.
The three-step-wide roadway took one night and more than 100 manpower to dig it.
The inside is topped with dense wooden stakes and is topped with wide planks.
Every day, people pass by the official road, and Tang Xidong has to wait for the arrival of the Kang family caravan.
As soon as the caravan comes, the wooden stake is removed, and then someone is sent to hit it, and the layer of soil on the surface of the official road can collapse in an instant, and a deep pit can appear in front of you.
In addition to cutting off the caravan's front road, Tang Xidong also prepared the same method to cut off the caravan's back road on the official road 100 meters away.
When the time comes, as soon as the official road before and after is broken, it will be impossible to escape.
Tang Xidong also asked carpenters to make simple board cars day and night.
A thick layer of wood was nailed to the front of the cart to prevent the caravan from firing arrows.
When the time comes, put heavy stones on the cart, lay an ambush in advance, and wait for the official road to be broken, then you can divide into two teams to emerge from the front and back of the caravan and block the caravan's retreat.
Blocking the caravan with the front and rear cutting off the road and two car formations, and then the garrison team with short arrows and flanking back and forth, will inevitably cause the unprepared caravan to suffer casualties again and again.
In the dense forest opposite, Tang Xidong also made arrangements, piled up the ignition in advance, and then drew a fire belt, once someone wants to enter the forest, they can ignite the dense forest, so that the other party can taste the taste of "igniting the fire".
On this side of the official road, there is a fence to block it, and when the time comes, send other people from the cottage to hold wooden guns and pierce through the holes left in advance in the wall, and you will be safe.
Tang Xidong didn't know if he had thought it through, but obviously this was the only way he could think of now.
After spending three days and nights to do everything well, and then doing exercises at the cottage training ground day after day, Tang Xidong felt that he had already counted seven or eight points.
After Deng Dahu and Liu Dagou heard Tang Xidong's plan, they both praised Tang Xidong again and again for being a good scholar, and before they had a short encounter, they thought that the matter had been completed, and even Liu Lianqing was excited, looking forward to the caravan coming to die as soon as possible.
After making all the preparations, Tang Xidong asked the patrol team to ambush on both sides of the official road from which the caravan came day and night, and send back the news at any time.
A day later, on this afternoon, just before the day the caravan had returned to the city, the patrol sent back the news.
The large caravan of the Kang family had already appeared twenty miles away.
The Kang family caravan was a day ahead of schedule, and the previous news was not prepared, it may have been a smoke bomb released by the Kang family to prevent accidents, but fortunately, everything was prepared.
The whole cottage was boiling in an instant, and everyone was nervous and busy.
Send a small team to the dense forest to ambush it, see the situation, and be ready to light a fire at any time.
Then he led the guard team to ambush in the dense forest on the edge of the official road, and the board carts loaded with stones in the dense forest had been hidden.
The guarding team was divided into two teams by Tang Xidong, with Li Shangquan in charge on the south side and him personally leading on the north side.
Behind the wall, Liu Lianqing hid behind with a large number of mountain bandits, waiting quietly.
The war was about to break out, and Tang Xidong was also a little nervous.
After coming to Daming, the first war he faced was about to start.
Silently waiting for the caravan on the official road to arrive, time passed little by little, and finally faintly, a mile away from the end of the official road, a vague shadow could already be seen.
Tang Xidong knew that the target must have appeared.
So he hurriedly ordered the mountain bandits behind the wall to be ready to cut off the official road in front of him at any time.
Just when Tang Xidong was nervously waiting for the caravan to arrive, an accident appeared.
An accident that no one could have foreseen happened just a few hundred meters away.