In the tavern in Yuanbao Town, there are some men sitting in twos and threes, in addition to drinking soju to warm up their bodies, they are chatting and gossiping and bragging.

"Alas, have you heard about Zhaojiagou?"

"What did you hear, and what's interesting?"

The man was waiting for his question, his eyes swept to the wine glass, and the curious person naturally hurriedly filled it for him, seeking an explanation.

"I'll tell you, don't go out and spread the word."

"Don't worry, man, you say, we won't spread the word."

Only then did the man tell the story:

There was a 12-year-old calf in Zhaojiagou, and the owner said to him at night: "Be careful when you sleep, beware of bandits!" ”

The calfherd, not knowing the height of the sky, jokingly exclaimed, "What happened to the bandits?" Can you cut off my bird? There's a kind of call for him! ”

Unexpectedly, all these words were heard by the bandits, and the calf disappeared the next day. Later, the owner and his neighbors found his body in a ditch outside the village, and his genitals were really cut off by the bandits.

"Isn't it? I think this is a bit mysterious. Someone still didn't believe it.

The man looked at him coldly, "What's the matter, have you forgotten how the little calf was unlucky?" ”

The man who said just now that he didn't believe it immediately shrunk his neck and pretended not to hear it.

Others pondered the story for a while, and some were skeptical. I doubted the truth of this story in my heart, but I didn't dare to say it in my mouth, for fear of falling into the ears of the bandits and bringing disaster to myself.

However, Yuan Pengfei did have some convincing, because this was indeed something that bandits could do.

And perhaps, this person is still sent out by the bandits to find the target of reconnaissance, in the bandit's black language, this is called "inspection" or "insertion of thousands".

Zhu Kaishan knows a little about this aspect, Yuan Pengfei learned from him, plus he collected some information everywhere, and he has a little understanding of bandits.

Among the people who fell into the grass, there are a group of people who are indeed "forced to go to Liangshan" for various reasons, but in summary, they can't survive.

However, most people become bandits, mainly for money and sex. It is said that there was a song among the bandits: "When the horse rings, you are happy, you ride a big horse to drink wine, and you eat food with a woman in your arms." ”

[Note: Gluttonous Manchu food, the shape is similar to steamed bread]

This is all really beneficial, otherwise a few people will pin their heads to their trouser belts and become bandits, really think they are Confucian saints!

Robbery and ticket kidnapping are the main activities of bandits, and they also show the ferocious side of the bandits in the truest way.

Let's talk about the story he heard a few days ago, there is a bandit nicknamed "Flying on Ice" near this Yuanbao Town.

One day, I robbed an old lady's house and found that the old lady was wearing a gold trowel on her hand, but she couldn't pick it up, so she directly chopped off the old lady's finger with a kitchen knife.

Who believes them if they say they are good people?

It's almost the same to say that they are dehumanizing.

Of course, it is not without reason that there are many bandits here, and the bandit flood first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, it reached a small climax.

After the defeat of the Qing court in the First Sino-Japanese War, a large number of Qing weapons were lost to the people of these three provinces. Zhu Kaishan had two earthen guns, which were the weapons of the Qing army.

The Gengzi War in 1900 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 became the main breeding factors for banditry.

Japan and Russia co-opted a large number of bandits and gave guns and ammunition to help them fight, and the more famous Du Lishan, Zhang Zuolin, Feng Delin, these bandits, all helped the Japanese fight Tsarist Russia.

It is said that some Qing court officials estimated that there were more than 1 million guns and 60,000 bandits in the three eastern provinces.

Of course, in addition to the continuous wars for several years, all this is also due to the fact that the Qing court is too weak and has weak control, otherwise bandits would not be so rampant.

Why Yuan Pengfei cares so much about bandits stems from a conversation between him and Zhu Kaishan some time ago.

Back two weeks ago,

Yuan Pengfei and Zhu Kaishan sat on the kang, and when they talked about it, he asked bluntly: "Godfather, I have no opinion on you going to Laojingou to investigate the truth of your brother's death, but have you ever thought about how to take revenge?" ”

Zhu Kaishan was silent directly, he really didn't think about it, he just wanted to figure out the situation first, and he was trying to find a way to avenge his brother.

Yuan Pengfei: "Godfather, Uncle He is your brother in life and death who made trouble with the Boxers, this ability is definitely not bad, and if you can kill him, it means that the enemy is more powerful." It's too difficult to find someone to take revenge single-handedly, and maybe you have to put yourself in it. ”

"And what do you want to do?" Zhu Kaishan asked rhetorically.

He didn't think Yuan Pengfei had any good ideas, but he just thought that this kid could analyze problems and was quite smart.

It's just that Yuan Pengfei's answer was beyond his expectations.

"Godfather, what about me, I have a two-handed crop handle, and my marksmanship is okay, find a way to get a few guns, recruit a few people to pull up the locks, I don't dare to say that I have a hard top with the Qing court, but it's no problem to clean up the two enemies."

Of course Zhu Kaishan didn't believe it, and thought he was drunk and nonsense!

However, when he saw Yuan Pengfei's so-called crop handle and the improvisable marksmanship, he had to believe it.

So the two agreed that when he found out the truth of the matter and figured out the information, Yuan Pengfei would take someone to take revenge with him.

At this time, he came out to engage in guns, the goal was very clear, there were still 3,000 nails in the rotten ship of the Qing court, he would definitely not be able to provoke it alone, and the target could only be chosen on the bandits.

Of course, the bandit with the gun is not a lamb to be slaughtered, and the tiger must be killed first. The first step is to figure out the information of the opponent and then make a plan.

"Flying on ice", which robbed the old lady's golden tweezel, was the first target he chose. Nothing else, just because he is a soft persimmon, if you want to clean him up, you must clean him up first.

Zhu Kaishan told him about the Green Forest Newspaper number, and this thing also has distinct personal characteristics. For example, double darts, good fighting, and fast guns, which shows good marksmanship; Flying on the grass, flying on the ice, and a gust of wind indicate that the movements are agile;

Judging from the intelligence collected these days, there are about a dozen people under Bing Shangfei's men, there are not many fast guns like Shui Lianzhu, at most two or three, and the rest are some earth guns and cold weapons, the earth guns have a short range, a single shot, and the threat is not great.

Yuan Pengfei has two water beads in his hand, coupled with his accurate marksmanship, it is easy to find an opportunity to clean them up. It depends on when these bandits show up.

Saying that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Wen Jie pushed the door in, walked to Yuan Pengfei's side, and whispered: "Second brother, Shopkeeper Xia called me to come to you, saying that you have news about what you want to ask." ”