Autumn is strong, the cool breeze rises, there is a very big mountain range called Luo Mountain in the northwest direction of Linglong Town, there is a peak in the mountain called Skull Ridge, the origin can not be examined, but the locals know that this mountain peak is indeed full of corpses and bones, skeletons into pieces, mixed with the mountains and jungles can be seen everywhere, shocking, no one in ten miles and eight towns dares to go up the mountain at will, but not because of these skeletons but because of a group of people on this mountain!

There are not many people in this group of more than 300 people, as for what they do, some people say that they are bandits, but they do not go down the mountain to rob, and they do not see officers and soldiers to suppress, but there are often people in the nearby three mountains and five mountains who come to worship the wharf, they are the people who carry the handle of the green forest road in Zhaoyuan, Shandong!

Zhaoyuan has been famous for gold mines since ancient times, where there are interests, there are forces, and where there are forces, there are disputes, but since the appearance of pulsatilla, Luoshan is surprisingly calm, and there is no such thing as killing people and fighting because of turf, and if there is any friction, each family will go to find Pulsatilla to deal with it as soon as possible! The person who spoke within a radius of 100 miles was the pulsatilla on Skull Mountain

Pulsatilla is a man or a woman, how old the general people don't know, rumor that he is ruthless and only took half a year to level the forces around Luoshan, some people say he is an old man, some people say he is a young and strong man, some people say that he is a deserter from the border army, and few people know how the truth is in the field, anyway, Pulsatilla is firmly in the top spot in this area, as long as the gold mines in Luoshan must be supplied on time every month to ensure safety, more than ten years have passed and nothing has happened, but recently this peace has been broken!

There is a pine tree on the top of the peak, there is a big flat stone under the pine tree, a person sits on the top of the stone, looking at the layers of mountains, the mountain is golden and gently knocks the smoke pot in his hand

"Big brother, three more of our brothers died, and when I went to inquire about the news, I was done, but the hateful thing is that I don't know where to start! All with one stone! A strong man came over at this moment. Swearing in his mouth.

The man on the stone raised his head and glanced at him, his face full of murderous anger, "Didn't you say that they ran out of food, they should have retreated!" Why did you hold on for so long and not leave! ”

"I have already inquired about the grain they bought in Zhoujia Zhuangzi in Shannan! These people seem to have a lot of money in their hands, and they don't even ask the price to buy rice! ”

"What is the origin of these people, the guy in his hand doesn't say anything, and he still has money, saying that they are bandits, but they don't rob and spend money to buy food, saying that they are officers and soldiers. It is impossible for the officers and soldiers of Zhaoyuan to come to fight us, and besides, the officers and soldiers are worse than the bandits in these years, which is really confusing! The stone man frowned and said, he really couldn't understand that just more than ten days ago, a group of people of unknown origin suddenly came and began to drive people around Luoshan.

No one knows who the Lu family is, but only Pulsatilla has the right to say in this land. Since he was slapped in the face, Pulsatilla naturally wanted to find the venue, so he sent more than 100 brothers to kill him, but more than 20 dead and wounded escaped back. This is an unprecedented thing, Pulsatilla knows how brave his men are, they were all men who fought with the Manchus at the beginning, how could they be overturned by these people! When I inquired about the battle situation, I was angry and almost vomited blood. What's the situation of the war, it is said that the small leader first wanted to negotiate with others, but the other party saw a group of people coming from a distance and didn't even wait for them to speak. The fire was full of firepower, and dozens of people were killed in an instant, and they fled!

This can provoke the pulsatilla, personally led his subordinates to step on the point of raid and occupy the familiar geography to do a job to get back some face, but it quickly fell into the quagmire, the other party was killed more than ten people and was enraged, directly besieged the skull peak, pulsatilla occupies the terrain advantage, and resisted hard, so that the battle situation is entangled, one can't get in and one can't get out, and the other party doesn't know what method to use or how to mix into the mountain. Almost every day without saying a word, there are a few brothers who have been killed, so that no one dares to go out of the village to wander in the mountains, seeing that there is not much food in the mountains, do you want to be trapped to death?

"Chen Kang, take five hundred taels of silver to Jiuqu Jiang's house, ask him to bring someone over to cheer, and promise them a thousand taels of silver after the deed," Pulsatilla said coldly

"It's big brother!" After Chen Kang finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave!

"Wait a minute", Pulsatilla suddenly stopped him, "Send a team of brothers down the mountain, give me the Zhou family Zhuangzi to calm him, kill him a chicken and a dog, I want to kill chickens and monkeys to let them know that whoever dares to disobey me Pulsatilla is a dead end!" As he spoke, he continued to knock on his cigarette pot!

Just south of Luoshan is Linglong Town, which is the designated place for Ji Ying and Hu Haitian by Lu Wang, but this is just a dilapidated town, and there is really nothing to wander around.

There are four villages and a peak in the southeast direction of Luoshan Mountain, named Qingshan, and there are several villages under the mountain called Qingshan Lijia Village, Qingshan Wangjia Village, Qingshan Chen Family, and Ji Ying Zhoujia Zhuangzi where they buy grain. It's strange that the villages in the mountains all have walled walls, but looking at that kind of low walled wall, Ji Ying wonders what role it can play! "Maybe it's anti-weasel, haha", Hu Haitian lay on the grass and chewed hay in his mouth, laughing happily, this is their base, next to a reservoir in the mountains between Linglong Town and Zhoujia Zhuangzi.

The sun is very pleasant, and it is the afternoon when people are sleepy, and the sergeants under his command are either chatting with the big names or sleeping in the shade of the trees!

Ji Ying was not as optimistic as Hu Haitian, looking at the pool of noodles and money in a daze, "I really thought that the chief asked us to be the king of the mountain, but it is not as comfortable as being the king of the mountain, this special day and night drilling in the forest is really hard, I didn't expect Skull Ridge to be so difficult to fight!" If the chief is here, I guess it's another meal! ”

"If there is no explosives and muskets, it is not easy to fight even if the commander comes, these people are not ordinary bandits, they are soldiers, officers and soldiers, and they are definitely border troops, I can feel it", the person who said this was a hundred households, named Chen Hu, Huang Degong, who was ordered to accompany Ji Ying and his brothers to recruit Yuan to occupy the territory, mainly used to settle the affairs of the official! It's just that I haven't seen a single officer and soldier yet, but I have fought with the local leader!

"Pull it off, this is Shandong, far away from the northeast, what kind of thing can the border army run to this mountain", Hu Haitian glanced at Chen Hu, with an expression that I read less and you don't fool me

"No wonder they all say that you are coarse, do you know where Zhaoyuan is, you can't understand the map that your patriarch showed you", Chen Hu laughed and took out the map of the Lu family from his clothes pocket and spread it on the ground, "Look." This is Zhaoyuan, which is close to the coast, and this is Yantai, and North Korea is opposite, well, do you know what kind of place this is? Chen Hu asked, pointing to a place on the North Korean side

"I beg to know, if you have something to say, what kind of score to put on", Hu Haitian looked impatient, but he wanted to know.

"This was originally Dongjiang Town, do you know whose territory Dongjiang Town is?" Chen Hu ignored Hu Haitian's anxiety and turned his head to look at the lake in front of him, "Dongjiang Town was originally General Mao Wenlong's territory. Back in the day...... Later, Yuan Inspector killed Mao Wenlong and caused a mutiny, and then the group of dragons without a leader and the Manchu Qing took the opportunity to send troops to Dongjiang Town...... At that time, how many officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang River fled to death, some became rogues, some became pirates, and some occupied the mountains and became kings, and it is not an exaggeration to fall here! ”

"Looking at your pretending virtue, could it be that you are also a deserter from the Dongjiang River?" Hu Haitian quipped

"That's not it, but I was really just a pawn of the border army at that time, and General Mao Wenlong's name was thunderous at that time, that is, because of his layout in Dongjiang Town, the Manchu Qing Dynasty couldn't stretch his legs and stand straight. It's a pity that Yuan Inspector finally ...... after killing General Mao Hey, North Korea is not our Ming Dynasty now."

"I know a lot", Ji Ying listened a little distracted, "Let's talk about it more"

"It's all hearsay. Let's go back and nag about this, what are the two brothers going to do with the things in front of them? Our more than 400 people eat and drink every day, which is not a small amount, and there is no logistics, food and grass can't stay for a long time, we must either lay down Skull Ridge or withdraw to Linglong Town, what is the matter of basking in the sun here! ”

"It's not good to fight. The Skull Ridge Mountain is high and steep, and the high wall is not something that our people can knock down, and when he came, the chief was afraid that the baggage would affect the itinerary, so he only gave silver and not grain and grass. It's all about buying and eating first, our four hundred people really eat a lot every day, we have to take it easy, I don't see how difficult it is to go to Zhoujia Zhuangzi to buy food, I don't want to sell it for money, if it weren't for the monkey to scare them, it is estimated that we are all hungry now! Ji Ying also complained!

"According to me, we should occupy the Zhou family Zhuangzi, there is food, drink and territory, and the Skull Ridge is consumed, didn't the chief say, he will send people to support When the large army arrives, we will not play with our equipment to take down the mountain!"

"I now know what your patriarch asked you to do here, gold mine, not to mention anything else, we have more than ten gold mines all the way from Linglong Town! But I don't see how much gold they have made, as for such a big effort to grab the land, if there is really so much gold that has been occupied by the local government, it will be the turn of the common people there! Chen Hu said with a resentful face.

"The chief is very human, and just because others can't refine gold doesn't mean he can't, besides, do you really think that the people who open gold mines here are all ordinary people, not all of them have backgrounds, not only the big local households, it is estimated that even the adults in Dengzhou Mansion have shares!" Ji Ying said with a smile!

"Company commander, it's not good, it's not good", just at this moment, a soldier suddenly ran over with a walkie-talkie in his hand and looked panicked!

"What's wrong?" Ji Ying turned over and stood up, this is his person.

"Zhou's Zhuangzi has been flattened! It was burned and killed, and even the children and women were not left alive! The soldier was pale and sweating profusely.

Yes! Ji Ying and the three of them were shocked and glanced at each other, "Do you know who did it?" ”

"Pulsatilla, we inquired, and the other three Zhuangzi people in Qingshan said that they were made by people from Skull Ridge, and it was early in the morning!"

"Cao!" Hu Haitian stood up rubbly, "With such a ruthless hand, this is revenge for the Zhou family Zhuangzi for selling rice to us!" Check it out! ”

Miserable, unbearable! The Zhou family Zhuangzi no longer exists, and the remnants of the rock are full of charred corpses, adults and children, as well as naked women with hideous faces, a total of 247 corpses have been moved out by villagers from other villages and placed in the empty space where money is kept.

Hu Haitian's breathing became very short, his fists were clenched tightly, he was also a bandit, he had robbed and killed people, and he was stronger than he saw it, but he had never done it to such a point of leaving no grass!

"Is it because you sold us some food?" Hu Haitian seemed to ask himself, and he also seemed to ask Ji Ying next to him

"It seems that we don't want to turn back, Linglong Town has to be fatal to go back!" Ji Ying's eyes were blood-red, and he swept the numb onlookers around him and sighed

"It is estimated that if your brothers don't take down the pulsatilla, your head official will have to take off your two heads", Chen Hu said lightly beside him

"You can't get out of it!" Hu Haitian exhaled a long breath

"A grasshopper on a rope, life and death are the same fate, who called our brother fate, right?" Chen Hu actually laughed out loud at this time, lit a cigarette with his hand, and stuck it in the soil in front of him, "Life in troubled times is worthless, and the next life will be optimistic about the road!" ”

"Folks, please help bury these corpses, these silver should be used as hard money", Ji Ying said and asked his entourage to take out twenty taels of silver to stay, and turned to leave, but his back looked a little haggard!

"Order, all 127 people of the spy company are interspersed around Skull Ridge, I want to know every move on the mountain, kill people tonight!" Ji Ying's roar could be heard in the distance!

"Three hundred and seventy-five people from the independent battalion, immediately open Skull Ridge and destroy the door tonight!" Hu Haitian's voice was rough and powerful!

"Brothers kill people tonight to grab money, one hundred and twenty people who are one step slow Lao Tzu cut him", Chen Hu is a real person!

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