Chapter 455: The Corner of the Troubled Times
"The bandits are here again, folks, kill!"
In the Yunlong Mountain, dozens of village names saw more than 100 bandits rushing over, but instead of being afraid, they picked up hoes and sticks in the field and shouted to meet them.
The bandits are also dressed in tatters, but their weapons are much better than those of ordinary people, although they have all kinds of hooks, forks, axes, and axes, but they are powerless against the people who have a slightly smaller number of people and no equipment at all.
The people here are very brave, and if they have a stick in their hands, they will beat it with a stick, and when the stick is broken, they will throw it with a stone, and they will not pounce on the other person and bite it with their teeth, and they will not let the other party rush in front of them anyway.
A strong mountain man with a wooden stick seemed to be the leader of this group of people, he knew the truth of hitting a snake and hitting seven inches, and the thief should take the head first, so he saw one of the leaders of the bandits, rushed forward with a few steps, raised the wooden stick and smashed it down.
"Bang..."
Although the bandit leader didn't react for a while, he still subconsciously raised the sledgehammer in his hand to parry, and in the hand of this mountain man was an ordinary wooden stick, which hit the hammer and suddenly became fragmented.
Seeing that he had no weapon in his hand, the bandit leader turned into surprise and laughed.
"Wu You, what's the matter, like last time, fight with Lao Tzu with your fists?"
Last time, Wu You held a pitchfork in his hand, and the three or five thieves with waist knives who were stunned couldn't get close, and at the last moment, he shot out the pitchfork directly, which was close to the body of the bandit leader.
However, even if he didn't have a weapon in his hand, this Wu You still threw a powerful punch and knocked out several front teeth of the bandit leader.
Thinking of this, the bandit leader was full of resentment.
Hearing this, the mountain man known as Wu You looked at the ground, his eyes tightened, and he immediately bent down to pick up the stones, but suddenly heard the sound of the wind, quickly dodged, turned around and scolded:
"Dog thief, grandpa has a weapon in his hand, and he told you to split your head!"
"You don't have it, Lao Tzu does!"
The bandit leader laughed, of course he knew the reason why he couldn't let the other party get the weapon, and he didn't care about taking advantage of people's danger, pressing step by step, it was completely a way to take advantage of your illness and kill you.
The leader of the bandits also knew that Wu You had been a soldier in the guard in the past, and he was very skilled, if he had the weapon in his hand, he would never be able to defeat him.
This time, the bandits came in a hurry, and there were quite a few of them, more than a hundred people, and it seemed that they were pouring out, and they were bound to win.
There were only a few dozen men among the mountain people, and although none of them retreated, this chaotic style of play soon became overwhelmed and began to retreat gradually.
Wu You took advantage of the chaos to escape from the bandit leader's field of vision, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a waist-breaking knife lying quietly on the ground, and at the moment he picked it up as if it were a treasure, turned around and shouted:
"Folks, retreat to the mine!"
Under the leadership of Wu You, the remaining 30 or so mountain people retreated to the mine in a hurry.
The mine had been abandoned for many years, and the entrance to the cave was only the size of three people, and a few mountain people were killed by bandits chasing after them before they could retreat inside.
"Damn, they retreated to the mine again, what should I do?"
The bandits outside seemed to be afraid, and the leader gasped a few times and gave up his plan to attack directly.
These mountain people have long lived in their own villages, and a total of about 200 people are hiding in the mines, and the bandits can't attack them at all, so they have survived until now.
"Last time, we attacked hard and lost more than 30 brothers, and we almost went in!" The bandit leader was a little indignant, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly smiled lewdly, waved his hand:
"Come on, pile it for me!"
......
After Wu You retreated to the mine with the remaining men, a group of people soon came up to greet them, but unlike the fierce battle outside, almost all of them here were old and weak women and children with little combat effectiveness.
The court was useless, so the official army came to suppress it once, but was defeated by the bandits, and then turned a blind eye to the increasingly erosive situation.
There were two Zhuangzi mountain people settled here in Yunlong Mountain, there were originally more than 100 households, nearly 1,000 residents, after a lot of sacrifices, unbearable long-term attack by the bandits, and finally spontaneously gathered together to resist.
But these years are not peaceful, the bandits are fighting more and more, the equipment is getting better and better, but they are fewer and fewer, and now, the two Zhuangzi men who have the strength to go out to resist are basically dead, and only the last thirty or so remain.
However, these men did not die in vain, and the old and weak women and children in the village survived, but no one knew how many days Wu You could hold on with the only remaining men.
"Cuihua, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Zhuangzi's people, I'm useless, and I've been beaten back again..."
Wu You first happily held the village girl in his arms, and excitedly raised the tattered waist knife in his hand, but then his face was sad, and his words carried deep self-blame.
The village girl in shabby clothes covered Wu You's mouth with her hand, leaned her head on his arms, and said softly:
"Brother Wu, you are the man I have recognized in my life, if it weren't for you, I don't know how many women in the village would have to suffer from the insults of the bandits."
Hearing this, Wu You's face was even more unwilling, and he said with red eyes:
"If only I could have a handy weapon, just one, those bandits I will kill one by one, come two, kill a pair!"
Suddenly, a mountain man with a white scarf on his head ran back and shouted from afar;
"Brother Wu, it seems that the bandits outside haven't retreated yet!"
"Won't it?"
Wu You's face was full of surprise, and he took advantage of the faint light to stare out, and sure enough, he heard a burst of firewood and grass burning "crackling".
At this time, I only heard the people outside shouting:
"Wu You, don't think that everything will be fine if you hide in, tell you, even if it is smoked, Lao Tzu will smoke you too!"
Hearing this arrogant shout, Wu You and several mountain people were full of shock, and they looked at each other, the bandits actually wanted to burn the mine!?
Although this mine occupies an advantageous location, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is still not a way to hide here for a long time, and the lack of light always has an impact on the elderly and children.
Now that the bandits have set fire to the mine, the smoke is bound to spread into the cave, and if they hide inside, the old man and the children will be choked to death.
Thinking of this, Wu You didn't hesitate to get up and pick up the waist knife and said:
"No, you can't let them burn the mine and kill them!"
The rest of the mountain people are the same, "Horizontal and vertical are all dead, and the big guys will be killed together!" ”
"That's right! Fight with the bandits! ”
Although there were only about two dozen men hiding in the mine, none of them retreated in fear, and they all knew that behind them were wives and children.
"Brother Wu, I'm waiting for you to come back inside." Speaking of this, Cuihua took out a sharpened stone, aimed it at her snow-white neck, and said resolutely:
"If you don't come back, I won't live alone!"
Wu You took Cuihua in his arms and said:
"Come back, I will definitely come back, I will become a general, and I will marry you with eight sedan chairs!"
Cuihua nodded with sobs, and a group of old and young people watched Wu You and the twenty men drill out of the hole without looking back.
Although it was a dim cave, Wu You could still see the light beating in the eyes of others, and Wu You understood that it was survival and unwillingness.
A dignified seven-foot man, hiding in the mine to survive, and now he has to die in the hands of these bandits, who can be willing.
With an indomitable momentum, Wu You led the villagers out of the cave, but no bandits were found outside the cave, and a mountain man pointed to the front and shouted:
"Brother Wu, look!"
In the distance, the bandit leader stood on the mountain bag with a dozen archers, and he had already finished his bow and arrows, as if he was waiting for them.
"Hahaha, Wu You, you're still out!"
In an instant, Wu You was shocked and fell into the scheme.