Chapter 239: Bandits Enter the City (Part II)
The robbers entered the city in a great way, and the total number was not much, five or six hundred, and the weapons used were not only similar to the sabers used by the northerners, but also cylindrical weapons, which sounded a man to death.
The people in the city are hiding at home and don't dare to come out, this is a mountain bandit who robs the house, and no one dares to provoke it. But the gentry in the city had to come out to mediate, hoping to meet their demands by building a relationship with the bandits, so that they could leave sooner.
The entire soldiers of Mao County were all disarmed because of the non-resistance policy of the county lieutenant Sun Yi. The leader of the bandits was a young man who, although masked, seemed to be very talkative. Sun Yi walked forward with his cronies and gentry and had just finished introducing himself, when the young man had ordered him to be tied up.
"This master, if you have something to say, don't be rude!" Sun Yi was afraid that these mountain bandits would be unreasonable, and now that the things he was worried about had happened, how could he not be nervous.
The young man walked over with a fierce look on his face and shouted, "You are the county lieutenant of Mao County?" ”
Sun Yi nodded hurriedly.
"Then Lao Tzu is right to tie you up, go out and listen, you are simply a bully, Lao Tzu has always looked at a bully like you unpleasantly!" The young man beckoned, "Little ones, hang this grandson of the king and the eight turtles on the tower of the city, and drench his mother in the rain for a day or two." ”
This young man's voice is very tender, his words and actions are not ambiguous at all, and many of his subordinates obey him, and at the moment they are shouting while tying up Sun Yi and hanging him from the city tower. Sun Yi had never enjoyed the treatment of the hanging city tower, and he screamed and begged for mercy.
"This is the end of not being able to get along with the people!" The young leader pointed to Sun Yi on the city tower and said proudly.
When the gentry saw that the county lieutenants were treated like this, they didn't dare to breathe. Fortunately, the robbers entered the city and did not kill and plunder. It looks orderly. Just repeatedly asked about the location of the granary.
"How can you, this king, take your men with you? If King Jing knows that you are here, I'm afraid it will ......"
The elder gentry was halfway through his words, and the young man's face sank: "Who is the king?" ”
The elder gentleman realized that the people of the Daoist did not like this title, and asked, "I don't know how many positions Your Excellency ranks?" ”
"What's the chair? Lao Tzu is the army commander, please call Lao Tzu Huo army commander. We have the final say on the commander, he is the oldest old man, and we listen to him in everything. ”
The titles of "army commander" and "commander" are the first time that everyone has heard of them. It's strange, and it's not the point. However, there are always black words that ordinary people can't understand, and the gentry don't feel unusual.
The gentry looked at each other, this young man didn't seem to have much experience in dealing with the gentry, how could he have any reason to say his surname casually? The older gentry then asked, "This Commander Huo, you have come to Mao County...... I don't know what the purpose is? ”
"Nothing else, call out your stewards!"
The older gentry looked up the tower, and the young man remembered that he had been hanged upstairs by him.
The young man cleared his throat and said, "Although Lao Tzu is a bandit, he is very moral. Our commander said that there are three purposes for entering the city. To sum up, it is the three lights. ”
The older gentry asked, "What is the Three Lights?" ”
"Kill, burn, rob!"
"Huh?" As soon as Huo Yi's words fell, the gentry were in an uproar, if it weren't for the fact that they were surrounded by mountain bandits, they might have opened their legs and slipped away. These mountain bandits are really not easy to match, not only to kill all people, but also to burn them all and rob them all, and the most ferocious mountain bandits in the world are nothing more than that.
Huo Yi blinked, as if he felt that he had missed something, and added: "Don't be nervous, what our commander means is to kill all the recalcitrant ones, burn all the granaries, and rob all the ill-gotten gains and distribute them to the people." It shouldn't have been missed, Commander Lian? ”
The one who was silent on the side was Lian Yusheng, the captain of Liu Yu's personal guards, and the commander of the Fifth Route Army at this time.
Although these armies were divided into eight routes, in fact there were only six routes, the first route army did not, the fourth route army was vacant, and the remaining two three, five, six, seven, and eight route armies, each of which had about 300 to 500 people, and the fifth route army and the eighth route army together had about 700 people, in addition to the 400 who entered the city, there were 300 people guarding prisoners of war outside the city.
Lian Husheng nodded and said, "What Commander Huo said is right. ”
Those gentry felt very strange, they were also military commanders, and this young man's qualifications were not necessarily much older than that year, and it was this stunned young man who had the final say.
Huo Zhi instructed the gentry: "Then let's start acting, point out the location of the granaries in the city, let's start setting fires, and then ...... those ill-gotten gains" Speaking of this, Huo Ill swept his eyes coldly, and found that the faces of these gentry were not very good-looking, and after thinking about it, he understood that these gentry were all made by ill-gotten gains.
"Give to the people!" Choleria disease is most supplemented after the disease.
The gentry exploded in the middle of the pot, these bandits entered the city, they didn't want money, they didn't want women, they had to burn grain and rob the rich to help the poor, they had never seen such a ferocious mountain bandit, and they had never seen a mountain bandit who liked to do superficial work so much. These gentry have long heard of the principle of the bandits, but the principle is also limited, and the bandits' own work cannot be forgotten, that is, robbery! Why don't these mountain bandits robe?
After discussing with the gentry behind him, the older gentry came over and said, "We...... I am willing to take out some of the goods to honor Commander Huo! ”
He thought that the young man couldn't wipe his face and asked for something, so he spoke for the young man.
Huo Yi said angrily: "What did you say? Lao Tzu put this word aside, before we leave here, we will not kill a person, we will not take away a penny or a grain of grain, this is the rule set by our commander, in addition to our external three-light policy, internally, we also have three-light. It can't be called three lights, it should be called three killing lights! Kill all the traitors and delayed fighters, kill all the people who disobey orders and disobey orders, and kill all those who disturb the people! What, you want me to go to Hades? ”
The older gentry hurriedly said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”
There was a burst of shame in his heart, and he said that it was no wonder that these mountain bandits could be mixed in the surrounding counties, and even King Jing and King Huai were afraid of three points, in addition to strong combat effectiveness, advanced weapons, and such strict discipline, it was simply more binding than the ordinary army, and then look at those mountain bandits, one by one, they really did not disturb the people or make trouble, and they were well and orderly.
"This Commander Huo, please go to the county governor's mansion to rest, we ...... There is good wine and good food to entertain. ”
The gentry originally wanted to bribe this young man with something else, but this was also a last resort, who knows what will happen to these mountain bandits at night? Some mountain bandits speak well, but they can't do it in terms of execution. After the mountain bandits occupy some manors, they usually say some beautiful words, but at night, the mountain bandits begin to sit still, rape and plunder, and even cause murder, but people have knives and weapons, and the men, women and children in the manor can only bear it, and the young and strong can not resist when they see their wives and daughters being insulted, and the next day they will send away those who killed a thousand knives with a smile.
Originally, the gentry thought very well, looking for wine and food to get the young man drunk, and then finding a few beautiful prostitutes to serve at night, as long as the steward did not make trouble, the following would generally stop.
Who knew that Lu Daohuo was ill and shouted: "We don't eat wine and food, let's kill chickens and sheep." ”
On the one hand, he said that he didn't eat wine and food, and on the other hand, he said that he would kill chickens and sheep, and he didn't have to face one set behind him, but two sets in person!
Huo Yi added: "Kill chickens and sheep to comfort the people, and at the same time post notices, let the people of the whole city come out together, eat and drink, of course, you will take care of it!" ”
This is an order issued by the leader of the mountain bandits, kill chickens and sheep, and let the whole city come? After they came, it was not very convenient for them to kill, steal, or rape and plunder? Even if they know that it will be very dangerous when they come, the people have to come, and when the time comes, if someone does not come, they will be searched by these mountain bandits from house to house, and those who are searched will definitely die!
The gentry were ordered to come out, and when they learned that the bandits had begun to go to the granary to prepare for the fever, they were extremely panicked, and at the same time had to go down and order the people.
"Some people are going to attack these mountain bandits at the banquet, but I stopped them." A gentleman came over and spoke to the older gentleman.
"Don't use force with these demons as a last resort, you have also seen it, they are climbing up to attack the city, and they don't even need ropes!" The gentry laughed and said, "The grain transport team outside the city has one or two thousand regular troops, and they are no match for them, can the garrison battalion in the city fight them?" One light, and man died, who has ever seen these murderous bandits! ”
The people reluctantly came out of their houses, the men with anger in their eyes, and the faces of the women and children smeared with soot, for fear that the robbers would have a special habit of attacking the children. And those children who were originally very disobedient and crying were also very obedient and quiet at this time, and they were also frightened by these hungry wolf-like bandits, and they didn't even dare to cry.
The people were lifeless, like prisoners about to be judged, and one by one stood at the door of the county governor's mansion. Huo Yi was invited by the gentry from the granary, Huo Yi looked at everyone and said in surprise: "So many comes? ”
"Everyone who can come has come." The older gentry said helplessly, "There are many who are bedridden. ”
"Okay, okay, you don't have to ask for the couch, you have to take care of all the mouths."
The gentry exchanged their heads and ears, obviously a little bit incomprehensible to Huo Yi, so many mouths, could this young man really want to entertain the people of the whole city?
It is also that the gentry are afraid of the government on weekdays, and in the years since Sun Yi took office, in addition to squeezing the people is squeezing the rich, the money and grain have basically been greedy by Sun Yi alone, and the originally rich county town is not as prosperous as before, and many merchants have moved elsewhere.
As soon as the banquet opened, the people began to be lively, killing chickens and slaughtering sheep. Angry fire, and tables and stools moved from the county governor's mansion and all over the city, anyway, the people want to open it, some of them eat enough today, and there will be no bowl-sized scar on their heads in the future. (To be continued......)