Chapter 312: Heaven, Hell
Perhaps it has always been smooth sailing, when the guards of the village saw the second and third masters returning with the brothers and supplies, they did not suspect him at all, and a group of people cheered to welcome the return of the heroes of the village, and opened the gate of the village without vigilance.
No one thought about why the two masters and their guards had changed their clothes, and why the five masters were not in the team, so that Xue Langjing and the words they had thought of were useless, and a group of people entered the cottage smoothly.
Entering the stockade and walking for a short distance, Xue Langjing, who was standing in the crowd of the Xue family, glanced at the 'bandit' who was a few steps away from her, and then the two took advantage of the cover of the crowd to take the arrow and wind it, and pulled the bow and arrow to the full, and the tip of the arrow was aimed at the ground.
After taking another five steps, the two men turned around almost at the same time, raised their bows and arrows, pointed the tips of each arrow at the sentry on one side, and aimed and shot.
"Get on the arrow, shoot", at the same time, the middle-aged 'bandit' standing in the middle behind the two also shouted.
The two sentries fell in response, and the other officers and soldiers who were pretending to be bandits and had already prepared to send out their forces immediately took out their bows and arrows and wound them up, catching the bandits who had not yet reacted by surprise.
And those officers and soldiers who pretended to be villagers also quickly put down the burden on their shoulders and took out their weapons and bows and arrows from the baskets to participate in the battle.
Because these officers and soldiers have been involved in the suppression of bandits for a long time, although they dare not say that all of them are sharpshooters, they are also familiar with archery.
There are hundreds of them, and on the bandit side, excluding those sent out to loot, there are only one hundred and thirty or forty people who can participate in the battle, and it is impossible for these people to stay here, and now there are only a few dozen bandits here.
Just these people, because there is an event in the village today, came to wait to welcome the triumphant procession.
After a round of attacks, there were not many bandits left standing.
Those who were far away were hit by bows and arrows, and those who were close became prisoners under the well-trained officers and soldiers.
The only three who remained escaped because they were out of range.
After this change, they were all frightened, and they only knew how to shout while running.
"Someone is attacking the village, someone is attacking..."
But Xue Langjing and the others did not leave it alone after shooting, but continued to draw arrows to wind up in case of accidents.
Therefore, after this round of shooting, when they saw a few people still standing, the two immediately chased after them.
In the end, these three people naturally became the souls of their arrows.
Xue Langjing shot down two people, and the other one shot down one.
Although they successfully killed the people, it was clear that their howls must have alarmed the people in the cottage, and they must have reacted by this time.
But this is also inevitable, after all, there are dozens of people on the other side, and more than 100 of them can't be wiped out instantly.
After the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle eliminated this group of bandits, they marched into the interior of the cottage under the leadership of the county lieutenant, that is, the middle-aged man who commanded the shooting.
This group of bandits was originally a rabble, and under the hastily assembled, where could they be the opponents of the officers and soldiers who came prepared and fully armed.
In particular, the two strongest bandits were captured by Xue Langjing in a few moves, and the rest of the people were naturally defeated and retreated, constantly being captured, shot, or surrendering early.
They are not difficult to deal with, but the most difficult thing to deal with is a group of old and weak women and children in the cottage, these people probably think that these officers and soldiers must abide by the rules, and they can't do anything to their own group of old and weak, let alone shoot themselves and others, and the resistance is particularly fierce.
Especially the women among them.
Normally, among the people at the bottom, which woman does not go to the ground?
Their strength is not bad, and some scholars who are not engaged in farm work are afraid that they are not as strong as them.
Therefore, this group of women became the main force of resistance, and it really caused a lot of pressure on everyone for a while.
And their purpose is also clear, no matter how powerful these officers and soldiers are, they are only more than 100 people, and there are hundreds of people here, as long as they rescue people from the hands of the officers and soldiers, it is entirely possible to organize a rebellion and drive people out when the time comes.
More than 100 women, with no weapons and only farm tools, led a group of old and weak to resist hundreds of officers and soldiers armed with knives and bows, one can imagine how fierce their resistance was.
The reason for this is naturally because the days in the cottage are the most comfortable and comfortable days in their lives.
For them, this cottage is more like a paradise, such a beautiful place, how can they be willing to let it be destroyed.
And the most important point is that once the cottage is suppressed, they will inevitably face prison.
Prison is definitely the most terrifying existence for them, even death is better than imprisonment, heaven or hell depends on their battle.
Therefore, the women can almost be said to have the determination to fight to the death and resist the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers.
On the side of the officers and soldiers, before they came, they had imagined a variety of assumptions, but they never imagined that they would encounter such strong resistance from the women, and even almost made them helpless.
It was hard for them to imagine why these women would be so resolute, so desperate to fight to the end.
What is Heaven and what is Hell?
In their past lives, needless to say, those who didn't have enough food and clothing or warmth, otherwise they wouldn't have become homeless.
As low-level women, their whole life seems to be full of endless farm work, endless housework, even if they are a little free, they have to find ways to do some manual work, earn a few copper plates to subsidize the family, and don't know what the word "comfortable" is.
Here, as long as you cook, wash and wash clothes for the village, and complete a certain amount of tasks, the cottage will distribute food and clothing, and food and clothing are the most basic.
And they stay in the cottage all day, and there is no farm work for them to do, at most they are allocated one or two small plots of land, and it is good to plow a few times once in a while, and if they want to live a better life, they just do more work.
Compared with the past, life is as comfortable as it gets.
It's heaven for them.
But once the cottage is destroyed, they are dragged to prison, which is not only a ruined good life, but they will become prisoners and female prisoners.
For a woman, this is hell.
After subduing this group of bandits, the entire bandit suppression team encountered stronger resistance, but Xue Langjing did not make another move, but chose not to interfere.
The reason why she stopped was not because she didn't feel that the team needed help, and it wasn't because the other party was a woman that she couldn't do it, but because she heard the conversation between the women.
Their words made her feel complicated, it turned out that the good and bad, right and wrong in the world are not so clear!