184, Bandit II
Liu Sanzi soon arrived at the Zhaimen.
Now that the situation is chaotic, the hunters in Liefeng Village dare not go out hunting alone, and often half of the young and strong people in the village go out to hunt together.
Liu Sanzi was also happy to see Tang Dog.
During this period, even the villages of the same township rarely interacted, and if you left the village, you didn't know when the homeless mountain bandits on the road would be robbed and killed.
It is even possible that the people in the nearby village were slaughtered by the bandits, and the other villages found out after a long time.
Liu Sanzi took Tang Gou'er and Tang Dog Cub into Liefeng Village, and said with a smile as he walked: "Why did my cousin suddenly come to me?"
"I heard that Changding Township is much better than our Wuqing Township, if it weren't for the inconvenience of relocation, we would all like to move to Changding Township. ”
Between the words, there is envy that cannot be concealed.
Shu State is still relatively strict in the management of household registration, that is, the village households in the mountains and wilderness have household registration on file.
In the past, people in various villages could not move to other townships at will, and it was okay for three or five people to secretly flee their citizenship, and if the entire village was relocated, it would certainly attract investigation and interrogation by the government.
However, now Datong County can't take care of itself, let alone control the villagers to move and flee.
When Tang Dog Cub heard Liu Sanzi say this, he couldn't help but have a look of pride on his face: "Our Datong County has the protection of the hidden abyss guard of the captain of the Chu River, so that we can maintain peace in the troubled times." ”
Liu Sanzi nodded, sighed and said: "Changding Township Chuhe is benevolent, and we have also heard of it in Wuqing Township. It's a pity that we don't have such benevolence and righteousness in Wuqing Township, and now it's very chaotic, there are mountain bandits and homeless people everywhere outside, and the people of our Liefeng Village usually don't dare to leave the village. ”
Tang Gou'er's heart moved slightly, and he smiled at this time: "Don't hide it from the third brother, in fact, I and the dog cub brother are Qianyuanwei from Qinghe Village, Changding Township." ”
Liu Sanzi was taken aback, and looked at Tang Gou'er and Tang Goucub in a daze: "What? You are from Qianyuanwei? Cousin, when did you join Qianyuanwei?"
Now in Datong County, the Chu River in Qinghe Village, Changding Township, is famous, and the same is true of Qianyuanwei, which is a more elite township guard than officers and soldiers.
Datong County sent 500 elite soldiers to attack the convoy in Qinghe Village as bandits, but the result was defeated and fled, but it could not be hidden from others.
Now, which mountain bandit does not know the prestige of the Qianyuanwei of Changding Township? No matter how fierce and ferocious the mountain bandits are, they will not dare to enter Changding Township.
Tang Dog Cub said with some pride but some embarrassment: "It's just a reserve of the Abyss Guard." ”
Liu Sanzi looked at Tang Dog Cub and asked with some puzzlement, "Then what are you doing here?"
Tang Dog Cub looked at Tang Gou'er, and saw that Shi Chang didn't say anything, so he said: "We came here, in fact, to eliminate the mountain bandits entrenched in the ** Ridge!"
Liu Sanzi opened his mouth wide and shouted out in a lost voice: "What? Qianyuanwei wants to eliminate the ** Lingshan bandits?"
Then his face was overjoyed, and he said urgently: "How many people are there in your Qianyuan Guard?**The strong bandits in the Ridge are not easy to deal with, there are hundreds of people!"
Tang Gou'er frowned: "Do you know the situation of the ** Ling bandits?"
Liu Sanzi nodded, and said viciously: "Of course I know! **Ling's mountain bandits have killed many people in our village, and our Liefeng Village hates them to the core!"
"**The mountain bandits in the mountain were originally only more than 300 people, but now they have recruited a lot of homeless people to go up the mountain, and I am afraid that there are five or six hundred. The mountain bandits in the ** Ridge are not easy to deal with, and the Iron Harrier led by him is an evil bandit in the late stage of the Strong Bone Realm, and there are several powerful guys under his hands. ”
Tang Dog Cub laughed and said: "Cousin, you think too highly of them, just a group of mountain bandits, just a rabble, how can we let all the Hidden Abyss Guards be dispatched! We can easily take him down with a hundred Hidden Abyss Guard reserves!"
Liu Sanzi nodded: "A thousand hidden abyss guards should be about the same." However, those mountain bandits have been entrenched in **Ling for many years, **Ling cottage is extremely tightly arranged, and there are rolling stones and sassholes on the mountain road, if you attack hard, I am afraid that the casualties will not be light. ”
Tang Gou'er couldn't help but correct Liu Sanzi: "It's not a thousand, it's a hundred." However, it is enough to deal with the mountain bandits in ** Ridge. ”
Liu Sanzi's eyes widened: "What? a hundred?"
"You're not joking with me, are you? How can a hundred people deal with five or six hundred mountain bandits? You are sending you to death!"
Tang Dog Cub waved his hand: "Cousin, don't worry, since we dare to come, we won't be afraid of them." My cousin doesn't know how powerful our Abyss Guard is. ”
"As long as my cousin tells us about the situation in ** Ling, we have only a way to deal with them. ”
Liu Sanzi looked at Tang Dog Cub suspiciously: "Could it be that you Qianyuan Wei are all powerful people?"
He also knew that there was a huge gap in the strength of those who practiced martial arts, and a Blood Condensation Realm martial artist could easily deal with hundreds of strong men.
Tang Dog Cub thought for a moment: "You can say the same." Although our reserve force of the Qianyuan Guard cannot defeat ten with one, ten Qianyuan Guards will definitely be able to easily defeat the Fifty Mountain Bandits, and if one hundred Qianyuan Guards form a battle formation, even a thousand mountain bandits will be no problem. ”
Liu Sanzi's face changed, and he didn't believe in Tang Dogcub's words, he didn't want this cousin to die at the hands of the mountain bandits, but his hatred for the mountain bandits made him unwilling to give up this opportunity for revenge easily, and his parents were killed by the mountain bandits in ** Ling.
He thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth: "Okay! I'll tell you what I know!"
"However, it is impossible for a hundred people to attack the ** Ridge, they must be lured out!"
Tang Gou'er's eyes rolled: "Could it be that the third son and brother have any way to lure them out?"
Liu Sanzi snorted coldly: "Now that **Ling has recruited a lot of displaced people, there must be a shortage of food, as long as you pretend to be a grain transport team, the mountain bandits in **Ling will definitely not be able to help but take action." ”
"If you really want to deal with them, I can talk to the patriarch and see if I can gather the young people in the village to deal with the mountain bandits together!"
Tang Gou'er was overjoyed and said: "The third son brother is really scheming! If you are willing to help in the Hunting Wind Village, it will be better, then we will wait for the good news of the third son brother!"
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Although the ridge is low from a distance, in fact, it is five or six hundred meters high, as the old village of the mountain bandits, it is the most precipitous place in the ridge, and the layout is solid.
Dangerous narrow mountain roads, steep cliffs, all kinds of hidden castles, wooden rolling stones and other traps, as long as there are hundreds of people guarding them, if there is no blood condensation and martial arts powerhouses to attack, it is difficult for tens of thousands of troops to kill.
In the past, Datong County had led the army to attack the ** Ridge two or three times, and dispatched thousands of soldiers, but the results were all in vain.
However, now the mountain bandits in ** Ling are also troubled, there are basically no caravans passing through ** Ling recently, and a few villagers are traveling together, and there is no oil and water.
If you attack the village, it is not easy to use the hundreds of people in ** Ling, after all, the young and strong people in those villages are behind their homes, and once the mountain bandits attack, they will definitely resist to the death.
In ordinary villages, three or two hundred young people can still be taken out, and when the mountain bandits attack, the old people and children have to go to the battlefield, and each village has a wall, even if it can really be forcibly attacked, the casualties will not be light.
Iron Harrier is a late stage martial artist in the Strong Bone Realm, but the biggest difference between the Strong Bone Realm and the Blood Coagulation Realm is that the protection of the Strong Bone Realm is weak, and there are really twenty or thirty young people with sharp blades and lifeless attacks, and they also have the opportunity to fight and kill the martial artists of the Strong Bone Realm.
Especially in the mountains and wilderness, the Orions are extremely powerful, skilled in bows and horses, and have rich combat experience, and they can hunt and kill evil beasts that are more powerful than the warriors of the Strong Bone Realm.
Iron Harrier may have had the courage to fight with his life before, but now, he rarely rushes to the front line.
In case of any accident, or if there is a strong person in the Blood Condensation Realm or a ruthless person who is good at using a strong bow among the targets of the attack and kills, and accidentally gives his life, the thousands of silver taels that he has accumulated with great difficulty for more than ten years, as well as the wife and concubine of the three rooms, will have to be cheap.
To put it bluntly, once he dies, the former bandit leaders who called him brother and brother will definitely sleep with his women, spend his money, and beat his children.
In the past, there was still a little grain storage in **ling, there was no income in the past two years, the rice tank was almost bottomed out, and a few bandit leaders such as the iron harrier had to target those villages.
To attack the city and pull out the village, 300 mountain bandits are definitely not enough, and the iron harrier cherishes his life, so he has to recruit the homeless people to go up the mountain, preparing to use them as cannon fodder.
But until then, food must be given to the homeless. There was a sudden increase of two or three hundred people on the mountain, and food was even more scarce.
Iron Harrier and other bandit leaders have already discussed doing a big deal, and the target is Dapu Village, which is more than 30 miles away from **Ling.
This Dapu Village, by the mountains and rivers, has nearly 2,000 Dingkou, more than 500 young and strong, there are many people who practice martial arts, the fields in the village add up to more than 20,000 acres, it is one of the largest villages in Wuqing Township.
In the past, even the Iron Harriers did not dare to provoke Tai Po Village easily, but now they have no target to loot, so they have to target this difficult bone.
In the 10,000 acres of land in Tai Po Village, even if the harvest is not good, 10,000 handfuls of stone rice grain can still be harvested, which is not a small amount.
Iron Harrier's plan is very simple, that is, to use the bandits in the mountains as the backbone, envelop the displaced people everywhere, and then use the displaced people to attack Tai Po Village and disrupt the defense of Tai Po Village.
Judging from the current situation, it is easy to wrap up three to five thousand displaced people.
More than 10,000 stone rice grains, even if most of them are robbed of the displaced people, as long as they get more than 30,000 stone rice grains, it is enough for **Ling to eat for a year.
Moreover, with food, he can recruit more displaced people, and then he may be able to learn from the Chu River in Changding Township and become the soil emperor of Wuqing Township.
Just when Iron Harrier and others were making wishful thinking, suddenly a mountain bandit came to report.
The mountain bandits who came to report were overjoyed and said loudly: "Big boss, we found that there is a convoy of more than a dozen ox carts, with more than 50 people, coming from the direction of Datong County towards ** Ridge!"
"The bags on the car are all white rice, I'm afraid there are not as many as 10,000 catties, and there are many beasts to eat!"
The iron harrier's face was overjoyed, and then he looked at the bandit suspiciously: "Is it really grain? At this time, how can there be a grain convoy?"
The mountain bandit said with great certainty: "Back to the big boss, we have seen clearly, there is no doubt that it is grain, when the convoy passed through the thorn forest, the ditch broke the bag and sprinkled a lot of white rice!"
The three eyes of the second master next to the iron harrier laughed: "It's really great! Big brother, let's lead our brothers to take down this convoy!"
"As long as we rob these 10,000 catties of rice and grain, it will be safer for us to entrap the displaced people and storm Tai Po Village. ”
Iron Harrier frowned slightly: "It's impossible for them not to know that ** Ridge is our territory, and a grain transport team passes by here, don't you think it's strange?"
The spy smiled: "Don't worry, big boss. In fact, the small one also found out a piece of news. ”
"What's the news?" the Iron Harrier asked in a deep voice.
"It's about the Chu River in Datong County. This Chu River is really powerful, and it has actually collected tens of thousands of displaced people. In the case of Changding Township, it is barely enough to feed 20,000 or 30,000 people, and to feed tens of thousands of displaced people, there will definitely be insufficient food. ”
The spy paused for a moment, and then said: "Therefore, there is news from Changding Township that they are willing to buy rice and grain from other villagers at a high price, three taels of silver and one stone of white rice, and many people from the other three townships have already transported grain to Changding Township. ”
The iron harrier gasped: "Three taels of silver and one stone of rice grain?
In the four townships of Datong County, plus the county seat, the production of one million stone rice grain is considered to be small, even if only one-tenth of the rice grain is transported to Changding Township, it will take 300,000 silver taels to get it.
Changding Township is notoriously poor, and I am afraid that if all the money and silver of 20,000 or 30,000 people in Changding Township are gathered, they will not be able to make up this silver.
In the current situation, Datong County is not enough to protect itself, and it is impossible for those errand servants to leave Datong County to collect taxes in various townships.
And the township grain is big, without the support of the government, crazy will be with the fierce and barbaric mountain people to forcibly collect taxes, no villager will honestly hand over most of the rice grain.
Obviously, once the villagers collected the grain and left enough rations, a considerable part of it would be transported to Datong County in exchange for silver.
In Datong County, it is definitely impossible to pay three taels of silver and one stone to buy rice and grain for the villagers.
The spy added: "This convoy must be transporting grain to Changding Township. The small ones found the people from the Hunter Wind Village in the convoy, and there were some fresh faces. It is estimated that it is because they are worried about the looting of the homeless, so the guys from Liefeng Village will join forces with other villages to transport rice, grain and meat. ”
The three eyes also said: "Big brother, don't hesitate! Now the mountain is almost unable to open the pot, if you let my brother know that we let go of this grain team, I'm afraid we can make a lot of noise!"
The Iron Harrier groaned slightly, and then laughed loudly: "Didn't those literati say that Heaven and Buddha are to blame, don't be sorry for yourself for this God's gift!"
"However, these mountain people dare to pass by our ** Ridge, I am afraid that there are some means, just in case, we need to call all the people to act together, so as not to lose! Let those new homeless people know that we are powerful, and dare not have different hearts!"