Chapter 44: The Verge
That night, Wang Xika tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, always thinking about the affairs of the tax officials during the day.
On the contrary, Meng Jianniang looked indifferent and said: "When the robbers come, they will be killed, this is not a normal thing, don't think about it, go to sleep." ”
Wang Xijia said: "It's not a robber, this is a tax collector, and they will definitely take revenge if they kill other people's tax collectors." ”
"Poon!" Meng Jianniang played Wang Xijia with a brain meltdown - she rarely did this action after she got married, but she was still so skilled in bounce.
"Aren't tax collectors robbers? Why should the food you grow be given to those you don't know?" Meng Jianniang's legal awareness is obviously very weak.
"But if you kill their people, they will definitely come to retaliate, and many people will die at that time, are you afraid?" Wang Xika still couldn't sleep.
"You said before that you wanted to conquer the world, just kill a few people and it will become this virtue, what do you use to conquer the world? People want to retaliate, won't you fight back? Don't you have a gun? The craftsman and Zack have a grudge, Zack is our friend, shouldn't we help our friend avenge it?" Meng Jianniang still looked indifferent.
Wang Xijia thought about it, the craftsmen were just a group of primitive people who used cold weapons, and they already had automatic rifles, and their combat effectiveness was not of the same level. If you really want to fight, the battle loss ratio of hot weapons against cold weapons is very high. Besides, this time it was the craftsman who took the initiative to provoke him, and if he was destined to fight a battle with the craftsman, it was also the arrangement of fate. It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, if you want to fight, just be prepared.
Wang Xijia stepped up his war preparations, rushed to produce 5,600 AK47s, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, and also made long-handled grenades, which armed every young man in the village to the teeth, and issued one gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to each household. Wang Xijia led a group of young people to train combat skills every day, and it didn't take long for a team of about 300 people to be formed. After that, he ordered people to dig a trench along the entrance of the village, set up a post, and sent people to stand guard every day. After all this was done, Wang Xijia was much more relieved, this level of defense was impossible to break through in this era.
However, the craftsman's revenge never came—after all, all the tax collectors sent out for the first time were all solved by Zack, and there was not a single person left, and the craftsman naturally did not know what was happening in Shanghekou Village. It's normal for a few people to die in this era, maybe where were those tax collectors eaten by dinosaurs?
Life in the upper estuary seems to have returned to its former calm, and the guards are much more relaxed. Everyone started playing football and motorcycles again, as if it hadn't happened.
The middle craftsmen sent another wave of tax collectors, and as soon as they entered the village, they were wiped out by the villagers, and no one was left alive, and the body was buried at the entrance of the village. Then the craftsman did not send any more people, and now Wang Xijia does not have too much discomfort with this kind of murderous scene, he is mentally and physiologically prepared, and even looks forward to the craftsman sending a large army to come over to fight. However, no, the artisan tribe does not seem to know where the tax collectors sent out have disappeared.
Early one morning after the rain, the village names suddenly noticed that the river had suddenly stopped. The water at the mouth of the river is directly from the mountains, and there has never been a break in the flow, and it has been raining lately, and the river has even flooded in the village in the past, so how can the flow be broken?
Could it be that because of the overnight rain, a landslide occurred on the mountain and the river was diverted? Wang Xijia took Lang Naduo and Peng Lianhu to the mountain to check on it, and only then did they find that something was wrong, and a group of craftsmen had already seized the water source on the mountain, built an earthen dam, and forcibly created a dammed lake halfway up the mountain. The water level of the lake is already quite high, and once the craftsmen open the sluice gate to release the water, the consequences are unimaginable.
Wang Xijia was shocked. Although this group of primitive people has no science and technology, their tactical literacy is not low, and they actually came up with such a trick, if they didn't come up to investigate, they wouldn't have to make a flooding of the Seventh Army?
It turned out that the craftsmen sent the tax collectors for the second time at the same time, and when these tax collectors entered the mouth of the river and did not come out, the supervisors knew that there was something wrong with the village, and the craftsmen who had been in battle for a long time immediately thought of countermeasures. If the Wang Xijia came up a few hours later, it would all be over.
Wang Xijia didn't have time to go back to the village to call people at this time, so he asked Lang Naduo to turn into a wolf first to reconnoiter the enemy situation, see how many people were guarding the dammed lake on the mountain, and if there were few people, he would solve it himself.
Lang Nado nodded, took off his clothes, threw his weapon and turned into a wolf, silent like a ghost. Wang Xijia thought that it wouldn't be long before Lang Naduo would come back quietly like a ghost, but he didn't. Within a few minutes, I heard a miserable howl from Lang Naduo!
"It's not good, Lang Naduo has been discovered!"
Wang Xijia and Peng Lianhu rushed to Lang Naduo with their weapons, only to see a giant wolf rushing towards them, this is Lang Naduo. He had an arrow stuck in his back, and several dogs behind his buttocks—it turned out that the craftsmen had gone up the mountain with hunting dogs, and as soon as Lang Nado approached, he was spotted by the dogs, and was almost shot dead on the spot.
Although dogs are human friends, Lang Nado is Wang Xijia's brother. It was impossible to say that Wang Xijia had to kill the chasing dog with a few shots and save Lang Naduo. Before he could catch his breath, arrows and spears suddenly flew from the sky, and the chasing craftsman began to launch a long-range attack. The three of them had to find a place to hide while shooting.
Wang Xika's heart is beating hard, he has only played CS before, and the real war is much more exciting than playing CS on the computer. If you don't pay attention, you will be shot to death by the craftsman's long hair and bow and arrow, and even if you can't shoot to death, it will not feel good to take an arrow on your body. Peng Lianhu on the side snapped a shuttle, and he didn't know if he hit anyone, anyway, it was the firepower that temporarily suppressed the craftsman's attack. Wang Xijia hurriedly dodged out and shot two shots, and clearly saw a craftsman fall - this was his first actual combat killing.
After seeing the blood, Wang Xika's mood was much more stable, and when he saw the opportunity, he flashed out and shot two more people, and suddenly his confidence increased, it turned out that his marksmanship was so accurate!
Peng Lianhu threw out a grenade and threw it in the direction of the craftsman, and for a while the earth and stones flew sideways. Only then did Wang Xijia remember that he was carrying a grenade, and hurriedly threw out four or five.
The craftsmen had never seen this kind of fighting, and thought they had encountered some kind of witchcraft, so they screamed and fled in all directions. Wang Xika breathed a sigh of relief, came out to review the battlefield, killed a total of 3 dogs, 5 enemies, and two were injured and did not lose their breath, Wang Xijia wanted to be arrested and interrogated, but before he could speak, he was killed by Peng Lianhu with two shots.
This was the first battle between hot and cold weapons in this world, and Wang Xika didn't have time to celebrate, so he hurried to check the situation in the dammed lake. Fortunately, the water level in the lake is not so high, just blow the dam open and let the water flow out.
Wang Xijia asked Peng Lianhu to help Lang Naduo go down the mountain to heal his injuries, and he guarded the lake to prevent the craftsman from coming again. He walked around the mountain for a long time, and found that the craftsmen came up from the back of the mountain, there was no road at all, and the craftsmen climbed up completely by relying on the climbing ability of primitive people, and it seemed that they could only send people to guard them.
This mountain is a strategically important place, and the village's water source is also here, and if it is occupied by craftsmen, it will be difficult to fight. Wang Xijia set up two temporary tents out of wood on the mountain and sent people to patrol day and night, so that he felt a little more relaxed, at least he didn't have to worry about drowning in the water while falling asleep.
After this small-scale battle to seize the water source, the relationship between Shanghekou Village and the craftsmen was completely concluded. The village was made to prepare for war in an unprecedentedly solemn atmosphere, and took turns to patrol various strategic points, which made it exhausting.
Everyone was waiting for the next attack of the craftsman, but the craftsman was delayed. Wang Xijia finally felt anxious, instead of waiting for the enemy to fight here, it was better to turn the passive into the active and directly lead a team of men and horses to eliminate the main force of the craftsman.
It may not be that his own motorized army can't defeat the primitive people who shoot arrows on horseback. Just as the whole village of Shanghekou was getting ready to go, the craftsmen came. This time it was not from the mountains, but from the main road taken by two groups of tax collectors. Thousands of craftsmen were stationed at the entrance of the village, and a war was about to break out.