Chapter Sixty-Nine: The New Residents of Jintang Village
Jintang Village is more than 20 miles northwest of Jinding Cottage, the terrain is dangerous, and the previous ruins still remain. It was built in the second year of Yuanfu in the Song Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 500 years in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.
However, such a strong history, in the late Ming Dynasty, this special environment did not add any luster to Jintangzhai, but Jintangzhai became more dilapidated. The neighborhood has also become quite desolate, and standing on the walled wall and looking around for a long time, there is no human population to see.
Due to the turmoil of the past few years, the original residents of this area have long since fled one after another. Although there is also land that can be cultivated in the southwest of the Luohe River, due to the shortage of manpower in the Jinding Mountain sphere of influence, the reclamation of this place is very simple.
Moreover, there were many thieves in the vicinity of Jintangzhai and the Wuqi camp a little further north. Although they were either wiped out and absorbed under the strong rise of Jinding Mountain, they were directly driven out of the country. However, there will still be outlaws who come to loot from time to time, and compared with other reclamation points in Jinding Mountain, this place with worse public security is naturally not worth the Zhang family's increased investment.
And it is precisely for this reason that from time to time, there will be thieves who have a fluke mentality and directly entrench themselves in Jintang Village. Therefore, it will not take a while for the armed forces of Jinding Mountain to come here to clean up.
A while ago, there was a report from the subordinate tunding of the reclamation point, and a new batch of thieves in Jintang Village were entrenched. Now the leaders of Jinding Mountain are about to start cleaning up the side of their couch again.
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On this day, the weather was quite sunny, and a minion was leaning against the earthen wall by the gate of Jintang Village at this time. Judging from his sloppy and unmotivated appearance, this minion's life situation has not been very good lately.
The minion's stomach screamed uncontrollably again, the last time he ate was the day before yesterday, and he felt very hungry. However, the current stock of food in the village is almost at the bottom, and he must finish his shift for the day before he can get a bowl of porridge in the evening.
The minion felt that he was really hungry, so he straightened up, ready to find out where there was some artemisia grass nearby to support his stomach. The expression on his face changed as soon as he shifted his head, as he saw a group of cavalry approaching in the distance.
This group of cavalry numbered about thirty horsemen, and the armor they wore was completely in the style of the imperial border army. The whole team marched in a fairly orderly manner, and it can be seen that this cavalry is a well-trained elite force.
"It's smoking (black words: soldiers come to arrest people), everyone quickly copy Qingzi (knife, some black words are mouth sharp)." The minions knew that something was wrong, and immediately opened their mouths and called the police loudly.
After hearing the call to the police, the other thieves who were still resting in the stockade picked up the guys. They stepped into defensive positions under the leadership of a man who looked like a leader, watching warily at the approaching cavalry outside.
The leader of the thieves was dressed in tattered cotton armor, and like the other ragged people around him, his hair was unkempt and his face was yellow, and he had not eaten a full meal in a while. After exchanging views with a few men around him for a while, he walked up to the wall and watched the rapidly approaching cavalry in the distance.
As the officers and soldiers outside got closer and closer to the cottage, the leader of the thieves found that the cavalry on the march were well equipped and their armor was neatly packed. In addition to their bows and arrows, some of them carried an iron pipe behind them, which was supposed to be a weapon such as a firearm.
The leader of the thieves immediately decided to ask the minions in the stockade to prepare the only bows and crossbows. Even the three-eyed guns, which had long been out of gunpowder, were taken out to make a strong noise.
The cavalry in the distance came to a halt two hundred paces away from the stockade, and everyone dismounted and stood still. Only one cavalryman with a pennant walked forward more than a hundred paces, waving his flag at the thieves in the stockade, and shouting for the person in charge of the stockade to come out and answer.
"The yellow-edged and black-background seven-star flag is the banner of the chaotic monkey Zhang Da. It's just that I don't know if this group of cavalry drove Duhe Fort or from Jinding Mountain. A knowing minion knew the flag and introduced it to the leader on the side.
Since Zhang Mengjin and Shen Yiyuan and several other big thieves captured Baoan County, Zhang Mengjin did not allow several other big leaders to put their hands into Jinding Mountain. Therefore, there are some knowledgeable people in the Genshin Impact One Yuan gang who know that Jinding Mountain is the territory of the Chaos Monkey.
After Zhang Mengjin accepted Zhao'an, the cavalry team left behind in Jindingshan also openly waved the banner of the original chaotic monkey. Now even if the black and white people are blind, they know that Jinding Mountain is the nest of Zhang Mengjin and his gang.
The leader of the stockade also recognized the origin of the other party, but he saw that the other party's cavalry stayed in the distance on guard, and he was a little hesitant to go out and answer the other party. After the flag-waving cavalry outside shouted again, the leader finally sent one of his minions out to talk.
The minions who received the order immediately walked out of the cottage, and after talking for a while with the cavalry waving the flag of the opposing party, they returned to the side of the principals of both sides.
"The eldest brother is a person from Jinding Mountain, and it is Zhang Xiucai and the little white wolf under Zhang Da's family who are leading the team. They ask you to go out and talk to them in person, and they are willing to retreat another three hundred paces from the cavalry. Each side took three people and talked on foot a hundred paces away from the stockade. The minions who came back to answer the question sent back the other party's request, and at the same time, the cavalry outside the stockade really retreated to the rear.
The leader of the thieves saw that the opposing cavalry had retreated, and he himself finally settled down. The thief leader's caution is not because he is timid, after all, Zhang Mengjin and his gang have become officials and soldiers, and their gang is still a thief, so they naturally have to worry about what Jin Dingshan thinks of his group.
The leader of the thieves picked two of his good subordinates in the stockade, and each of them carried only a waist knife. Slowly, he finally walked out of the walled gate.
At this time, the other party was also walking on foot, and they were also three people with only three waist knives. The first of them, a man with two fingers on his left hand severed, asked the thief, "Report the head-on." ”
The leader of the thieves didn't hold the shelf, he directly opened his mouth and replied to the other party: "Smoking on the top of Papaya Mountain in Xiahuan County, I don't know which leader of the friend who came over is Zhang Da's master?" ”
The man who came to the leader of the thieves clasped his hands into fists and raised his left shoulder and stretched it back, and after saluting, he said: "It turned out to be a friend of Papaya Mountain, disrespectful and disrespectful." I was exalted by my brothers in the Word, and I was given the name Little White Wolf. ”
"The leader of the little white wolf Yu of Jinding Mountain, I have also admired the name for a long time." Dingshang Yan had heard the name of the little white wolf, and he also knew the other party's surname Yu, so he also saluted and set up a relationship.