Chongzhen's seven-year famine swept all over the north of the Ming Dynasty again, since the second half of last year, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and other places have not rained, the drought followed by the overwhelming locusts, where there is no grass, the people peel the bark, eat Guanyin soil, in the most serious drought area, the whole village has become a ghost, hungry corpses everywhere.

In addition to natural disasters, there were also man-made disasters, soldiers and bandits came and went, went and came, burned down the villages, and only some of the larger prefectures and counties survived, or some villages gathered for self-protection.

As far as the eye can see, the whole land is full of yellow flowers, and occasionally a dark cloud drifts by, it is the locusts that have eaten up all the crops in the place and migrated elsewhere, there is not a trace of green in the land ravaged by locusts and starvations, the leaves, grass roots, and even the bark of the trees have been eaten up, the dried riverbed is exposed, the dried silt and fields at the bottom of the river are full of large cracks, the bare withered wooden stakes stand on the loess, and occasionally a gust of wind rolls up countless dust, Slowly cover up a few starving corpses on the side of the road that were cut to only two thigh bones......

On the official road from the inner countryside of Nanyang Prefecture to the West Gorge,

Monk Yan rode on a tall horse, and his bare head was tied with a red cloth a few times to block the scorching sun, and a naked woman sat in his arms with her hands covering her private parts, and sang in a low voice with her mouth open. Two tears fell on the loess from the corners of his eyes along the tear stains that had long since dried.

"The little lady doesn't have any sewing, this time the flavor is upside down, call me my brother. Don't be anxious......"

Monk Yan and several shirtless men around him laughed and sang, "...... I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."

Many of the flamboyantly dressed homeless people in the front team turned their heads back and stared at the woman's body unscrupulously, their cheeks and the whites of their eyes were flushed, this symptom was called Liver Yang Evil Fire, in fact, it was due to eating less vegetables and eating too much meat.

Monk Yan rose more and more. Stretched out his hand and groped between the woman's crotch: "Brother will see if the little lady has a seam"

There was lewd laughter all around, and the woman's eyes were closed, and the corners of her mouth were raised. But with a strange smile, just half an hour ago, a woman without a smile in front of her had turned into a two-legged sheep and was eaten by those rogues......

Monk Yan is a well-known thief leader in Nanyang Mansion. The core team has nearly 800 people. There are also 300 cavalry, plus the outcasts who are coerced, known as tens of thousands, and the momentum is not much worse than the 32 battalions in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places. The composition of Monk Yan's team is quite complex, with bandits, rogues, and deserters. There were even border troops in the Xuanda area to join, and thousands of soldiers and horses in Henan lost some in the Jisi Change. The remaining combat effectiveness is not even as good as that of the Liukou, but it is still surviving in the major state and county capitals.

At this moment, a horse suddenly rushed to the road, and many homeless people panicked to get out of the way, and the rider didn't care whether they were dead or alive, so they rushed over.

"The head of the house, there is a big village in front, and a few farmers are collecting firewood and grass, and they have fled back when they see us" The sentry rode in front of Monk Yan, and after finishing speaking, he took advantage of Monk Yan's contemplation and looked between the woman's legs unscrupulously,

After a while, a few more horsemen came galloping in, bringing back similar news, that the stockade was very large, and it seemed that there were at least a few thousand people in it.

"Boss, do you want to fight or not?" A nickname Cao Cao asked

Monk Yan was accustomed to touching the bald head, and after thinking about it, he said, "There are so many people, what do you say?" To fight or not to fight? ”

Another bandit who had been hot for a long time said: "Let's fight the big boss, the small ones haven't eaten chickens, ducks, pigs and geese for a long time, and their mouths are greedy."

Everyone around them agreed, in addition to food, there are gold and silver treasures in the village, beautiful women, breaking the village are theirs, they broke the Xu family village three days ago, robbed a lot of gold and silver, and women and children, but the children basically finished eating, and they began to miss the smooth and tender pieces of meat.

Monk Yan laughed and said: "Okay, let's also give him a thing, what is the first and then the soldiers, let a few people go to shout, say that Monk Yan crossed, let them open the door of the village to welcome, dare to say half a word, slaughter a chicken and dog without staying, open the village, still slaughter a chicken and dog without staying, haha." ”

The people under him screamed strangely, and a few couldn't help but pull out their horses and turn in circles on both sides, making it a miasma everywhere, many of these core teams are soldiers, at first they heard the official army is a change of color, only dare to sneak into the house robbery, but slowly they suddenly found that the official army is even worse than them, after ambushing the Ming army several times, many local county officials even took the initiative to send gold and silver to pray for peace, so that the name of Monk Yan is more resounding, and more and more people defect, and gradually become the climate, This kind of villager self-protection village all the way over does not know how much to break, the woman in the arms was also robbed two days ago, these rogues are more vicious than locusts, leaving only ruins and broken walls where they pass, those who refuse to leave are killed and eaten, and everything that cannot be taken away is burned all by fire.

The team of displaced people in front of them walked for nearly two hours under the sun, they were attracted by the imminent stimulation of burning, killing and looting, and they couldn't even take care of the scorching daylight, and there were many old and weak people who were coerced and couldn't stand it, and they died on the side of the road while walking, and the people around them walked by indifferently, their meat was firewood, no one was willing to put their mouths down, and naturally no one was willing to collect their corpses.

Soon, the team has walked to the door of the stockade, they don't care about sitting at the door in twos and threes, or lying down, some people go to the gate of the village to solve the problem, some people look for vole holes everywhere, some people are fighting, some people even hold the snatched women to do things in broad daylight, and many people wait in line, all kinds of dirty things, can not be counted.

Monk Yan threw the woman on the ground, and several people pulled down the woman who was crying and grabbing the ground, and they kept touching it all the way, and the big boss immediately had a fresh little lady, and this woman was rewarded to them for sharing food after adultery.

The gate was closed, and there was no movement inside. On the sentry tower of the stockade, several vague figures seemed to be observing their movements......

A few bandits with blades kicked and beat the homeless people all the way to get out of the way, and walked to the door of the stockade and shouted loudly. But it was still quiet inside, no one answered at all, and a homeless person boldly stepped forward and kicked the gate a few times, but the gate did not move.

"Big boss, I'm going to rectify the soldiers and horses, damn" Cao Cao was angry, and these stockades along the way should not seek peace. If you don't resist, I've never seen this kind of scene like a person dying.

At this moment, the homeless people under the gate suddenly shouted. Many people fled in all directions in terror, and suddenly a figure stood on the wall behind the stockade, raising their weapons condescendingly, and coldly looking at the hellish scene below. But there was no panic. Not even the one who spoke.

Some of the wandering homeless people turned around, and slowly gathered again, and they looked at the people above with curiosity, some came forward and begged them to open the door, some threatened, and one fool carried a shriveled and smelly head and bared his teeth and grinned at it, and yelled like a ghost.

Monk Yan waved his hand, and several masters slowly pressed over with the core team. At this moment, a sentry came over and said, "Big boss." There are a lot of them, they have a lot of weapons, and they have a bit of a hard idea."

The sentry was in a hurry, and used all the black words.

Monk Yan hesitated, these hundreds of people standing on the wall are neither officers and soldiers, nor ordinary local tyrant villagers, although most of their bodies are covered by the wall, but they are wearing chain mail on their upper bodies, and they are all wearing helmets, they are holding swarthy spears in their hands, and the head of the spear reflects the snowy white light, you must know that Deng County is estimated to be unable to get together so many chain mails and helmets, Monk Yan can't believe it, how can a village have so many well-made instruments......

Monk Yan scratched his head and said, "It's not good, this village is a little weird!" His uncle, Lao Tzu has never seen so many chain mail, they are not villagers, they are bandits! ”

Cao Cao's eyes flashed, and he whispered to Monk Yan: "Big boss, if you break the stockade, aren't these instruments ......?"

Monk Yan thought about it, slapped his thigh and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, that's the reason, in this way, Cao Cao, you first drive the homeless people to climb the wall to probe and see if they are putting on a posture to fool grandpa." ”

Cao Cao split his hair numb, saw a few ill-intentioned companions around him, he snorted angrily, and galloped away with a few horsemen, after a while, the people with weapons in their hands in the front team of homeless people were pushed and driven out by them, and lined up in a sparse line on the gate of the village, some people jointly carried some tree trunks and piled them in the open space, as if they were going to tie them up as ladders, some homeless people knocked on the pots and pans, and some homeless people took stones and threw them at the gate and the wall.

Just when Cao Cao was about to test it, there was a sudden whistle on the wall, and a large basket tied with a rope was hung down, and many homeless people were just about to run up and pull it, and the basket was dragged up again, so several times, Cao Cao reacted, afraid that the people of the village wanted to let two people negotiate on their side, Cao Cao ordered people to drive those homeless people away, and found two leaders to let them put down their blades in front of the defending villagers, and tentatively walked to the basket, this time, the basket did not move......

So, thousands of rogues just looked at the basket slowly rising in such a daze, the two leaders kept waving their hands downward, they didn't care, closed the wall, I don't know when a large group of people appeared, a scholar in white clothes was surrounded by many heavily armed sergeants in the middle, these sergeants were wrapped in dark armor, seeing this situation, except for those who were still clamoring, all the rogue koku had an inexplicable panic in their hearts, whether the team was strong or not, they knew at a glance that although the wall was not a Ming army, But as soon as their momentum came out, Monk Yan and the others knew that they might have encountered hard stubble today.

The third king whispered in the ear of Monk Yan: "The big boss, you can't beat it"

Monk Yan snorted and said, "Lao Tzu is not blind, and he still uses you to scrape his face?" Cao Cao has already sent someone up to see how they react. ”

Just when everyone held their breath, the basket was finally hung on the wall, the two leaders got up with a big grin, and only took a step, a few people on the wall stretched out their hands to help, seeing this, Monk Yan, Cao Cao, and the King of Heaven all secretly breathed a sigh of relief, since they can talk, it means that the power of this village is not enough, otherwise there is no need to do more, just start fighting.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and the two leaders had just gotten out of the basket, and before they could stand firmly, the two sergeants suddenly picked up the swarthy guy in their hands and just followed the door of their heads!

Fluffy......

Even the homeless people under the gate could hear these two muffled sounds, and one of the two leaders fell softly on the wall. The other was unsteady on his footing, and when he was about to fall, several hands grabbed him violently. Pull him back to the wall again!

Rumble!

The homeless people below exploded, many of them threw stones in anger, and some people were angry and scolded.

At this time, the white-clothed scholar waved his hand and slowly walked towards the few sergeants who were beaten and kicked, and some sober people secretly guessed in their hearts. I'm afraid the leader of this village is going to give the two leaders a dismount and then talk, right?

Then what happened next surprised them, and the scholar took two steps and seemed to say a few words. Several sergeants with spears stepped forward and stabbed the two leaders who were lying on the ground, and two muffled screams were heard......

The homeless people below the stockade stared blankly at the slaughter above, forgetting even to shout and scold. Cao Cao. The king of heaven also looked at the two leaders in a daze, and they died in an instant, they didn't even have time to speak, they were stabbed into a hornet's nest, Monk Yan's face was full of horizontal flesh and kept shaking, and he even forgot that the hand that subconsciously touched his head stopped in mid-air.

There was a shout from the wall, and some sergeants put the two corpses up with guns and held them down, and several men with ghost-headed knives stepped forward. In the eyes of thousands of rogues, one of their arms was cut off with a single sword!

Bang bang!

Two bloody arms fell to the gate of the village. Kicking up a cloud of dust from the boss, then two arms, two feet, two feet, and finally, two heads with open eyes were thrown off, and they rolled to the feet of the displaced people in front of them.

In the end, the two corpses were finally dropped, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief......

A huge flag slowly rose from behind the wall, and there were two black characters on it: "Bandit Army"

"His uncle, they are demonstrating to Lao Tzu! These dogs" Monk Yan's hideous face shook a few times before he spit out two sentences.

"Big boss!" King Guo Tian's face was also full of anger: "Fight, break the stockade, no chickens and dogs will be left!" ”

Monk Yan nodded emphatically: "Catch that leader and kill him alive, otherwise it will be difficult to eliminate Grandpa's evil breath!" ”

As the leaders began to direct the displaced people to press forward, the battle was on the verge of breaking out......

Xiucai looked coldly at the noisy and restless rogues under the Zhaimen, and asked, "Which family is patrolling today?" ”

Tan Xinghua said with a dark face: "It's Liu Heihu's camp head who Yuncheng took refuge in."

Xiucai waved: "Kill Liu Heihu, Liukou didn't know when he arrived at the door, it's useless to keep him"

Lu Baifa, the battalion officer of the Zhongzi Battalion, said in a low voice: "Liu Heihu also has more than a dozen henchmen at the head of the camp, do you want to wait until you destroy these rogues in front of you before you do it?" ”

Before Xiucai could answer, Wu Jinyuan, the commander of the Yongzi Battalion, said angrily: "If it weren't for Liu Heihu's well-behaved last time when the old battalion mutinied, Lao Tzu would have cut him on the spot, what else is there to say now?" ”

Zuo Liangqi of the Renzi Battalion said: "These rogues are like chickens and dogs in front of our bandit army, they are vulnerable, Liu Heihu does not respect the orders of the generals, and robs the Quartet in private. ”

Lu Baifa didn't make a sound, and walked down the wall with a few personal guards, and after a while, more than a dozen bloody human heads were picked up with bamboo poles and hung in the village.

"Break up the head of Liu Heihu's camp and assign it to our six battalions, so that the instructor will pay attention to their reactions, and kill those who have tricks in their hearts."

Xiucai looked at the ants rushing towards the gate of the village and said: "The bandit army actually bullied people, it's a joke, pass on my general order, open the gate of the village to meet the enemy, don't let them get away, and also, the thieves and those cavalry must be wiped out."

The officers of the six battalions of benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, faith, loyalty, and bravery, and the cavalry battalion all bowed down and said, "Obey the orders of the great master!" ”

In the dense suona sound, the heavy gate slowly opened in the frightened eyes of the homeless, these homeless people endured the squeaky sound that made people's teeth ache, looking inside through the walled door, the front was a team of cavalry with a snowy ghost head knife, the knights quietly waited for the wooden door to open, those mounts impatiently snorted nasally, the homeless people in the front row saw this scene, they all shouted in horror, countless people turned around and scurried to the back, and the crowd behind them collided together, the walled gate only opened two positions, a sharp gong, The cavalry battalion formed an arrow and poured out of the gate of the village, and suddenly, in the open space outside the village, there was a sound of crying and horses' hooves......

For the Liukou, this team of murderous cavalry is like a god soldier descending from the sky, they were caught off guard and suddenly became chaotic, the cavalry battalion officer Le Chu waved a knife through the neck of a panicked homeless person, a head sprinkled with blood flew away, with Le Chu waved his hand, the cavalry battalion two rows of men and horses swooped down in the left and right directions, the arrow pointed directly at the cavalry of the Liukou rear team, with the gate of the village opened, a team of soldiers with spears and knives on their backs rushed out, and pressed towards the Liukou.

It was too late for Monk Yan to react, when they were still hesitating, the two cavalry rushed towards them across the panicked front team, their style of play was just the opposite of Houjin, they drove the homeless people as the vanguard, and the elite cavalry was ambushed behind, and when the homeless people were entangled with the official army, the cavalry rushed forward, and often caught the officials and soldiers off guard, but Monk Yan has always been wandering in Henan Mansion, and did not learn the essence of the ambush left and right of those rogues in Qindi, and Wang Zao and others started from Shandong to kill bandits and rogues, They knew this trick best, and by the time Monk Yan realized that something was wrong, the cavalry on the left had already collided directly, and the cavalry on the right had gone around in a circle, blocking the escape route.

"Who would have thought that the bandits who occupy the mountains should still have so many cavalry? Grandpa slept with countless women, killed many people, and ate a lot of human flesh, and he didn't live in vain in this life......" When the notorious Monk Yan was beheaded, he only left this one sentence

Wang Zao was talking about Xinghua, Duan Jiucheng, and the battalion officers came to the battlefield together, on the main battlefield one mile away from the stockade, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, and the corpses of the soldiers of the core team of those rogue were everywhere, and the resistance they organized only lasted a few quarters of an hour before it collapsed, and these vicious enemies seemed to have the purpose of killing them all, even if they put down their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy, it was useless, most of the corpses still maintained a kneeling posture, but their heads fell to the side.

On the left side of the battlefield, some frightened homeless people sat on the ground, their eyes just looked at the silent bandits around them, on the side of the dirt road outside the stockade, some homeless people were forced to drive sharp piles into the ground, from time to time a homeless person was carried out by the bandits like wolves and tigers, and they were inserted into sharp wooden stakes like this, these people were not dead for a while, and the screams could be heard for ten miles away, no one dared to resist, they were more cruel than evil spirits, but when they met people who were worse than them, they were more docile than sheep......

"How many people can be singled out?" Xiucai asked left and right

Everyone looked at Tan Xinghua, Tan Xinghua shook his head: "I can't pick out a few, I estimate that it would be good to pick out one or two hundred, don't look at most of these captives are old, weak, sick and disabled, but they will never hesitate to attack those defenseless women and children, in the past, those instructors were often deceived by their honest appearance, and indulged many wicked people, now they have experience in questioning and confessions, and it is difficult to deceive them!" Monk Yan has been rampant in Zhongzhou for many years, and these people are all in the hands of a lot of blood debts......"

Xiucai nodded and said: "I'd rather kill the wrong ones than let them go, including those cannibals, those captive women stay in the stockade, and the rest of those who haven't done evil things will send people back to the east to work as coolies, I will exchange them for some firearms and come back."

Everyone smiled slightly when they heard this, in this hell on earth, they missed the life in Weiwu Castle, the Taoyuan Township in the troubled times under the protection of adults...... (To be continued......)