Chapter 150: Natural and Man-made Disasters

In the name of the labor army, the old village chief went to the army outside the village to inquire about the news, and the results of the investigation were very disappointing to him and the villagers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the village chief returned, he told everyone that the troops stationed outside the village were not regular troops, but warlords...... Security Corps!

This news made all the villagers sad at once.

It turned out that in that era of war and chaos, the country had not yet been unified, and the Kaifeng Bishui area had been controlled by several big warlords in turn, and those warlords were blindly recruiting troops and horses in order to expand their power, no matter who came, so that they could be full of wings and sit for a long time.

However, the country of that era was poor and weak, and even the big warlords who spanned several provinces were unable to organize and maintain a regular army of hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, so the soldiers they recruited to serve as the army often faced the embarrassing situation of being silent and fighting without guns.

As a result, the morale of the warlord army is very low, and the phenomenon of desertion is very serious, and in order to keep their own army, these warlords are forced to come up with a set of extremely intelligent, but helpless military constitution to envelop their army.

With limited funds and equipment, warlords often divide their armies into three, six, nine, and other ranks, and organize regular armies and war overseers on the basis of their own cronies and elite soldiers, and the focus of food and salary resources is tilted toward them, treating them as pro-armies and as the basis for their rule and maintenance of combat effectiveness.

And the remaining old and weak soldiers, the warlords will naturally not let them go back, so those warlords often set up large and small security regiments in addition to the regular army, regardless of the size of the number, all of them will be given the title of regiment commander, and then all the remnants of the defeated soldiers they can find, the bandits, the sick and the like are all inserted into it, which is used to patrol and maintain the ground in peacetime, and is trained into an army in wartime as cannon fodder.

And such a unit is the most notorious security regiment in the old society, which does all kinds of evil.

Unlike the regular army, the salaries of the local security regiments are extremely insecure, often in arrears for several months or even years, and the military equipment is even more varied and extremely backward, and there are even red tassel guns with large blades, and there is no way to talk about military discipline and military regulations, so that they are called "soldiers and bandits" by the image of the lower-class people.

Such soldiers and bandits are actually no different from robbers, and there is no way to talk about military salaries or anything, so in order to maintain the team, the regiment commander will connive at his subordinates to take advantage of every opportunity to loot and make a fortune in the country, and those warlord leaders can only turn a blind eye to this.

And today, the 100-odd army that came to Gejia Village is actually such a security regiment that people contemptuously call soldiers and bandits.

Such a troop with all kinds of bad deeds appeared outside Gejia Village, naturally there was nothing good, they said that they were ordered to search for rogues and bandits, but people with a discerning eye can see that this is the use of power for personal gain, taking advantage of the fire to rob!

Robbery and extortion by soldiers and bandits were commonplace in those days, and if they had been in the past, the villagers might have relented, but now they can't.

After all, this is a disaster year, food is life, if you rashly put the soldiers and bandits in, it is difficult to guarantee that the food will not be all robbed by these soldiers and bandits, then the consequences are really unimaginable.

So, the people in the village unanimously decided to let the village chief send another hundred oceans to the soldiers and bandits to send them away.

In this way, before the sun went down, the village chief walked out with a hundred silver coins raised by the villagers, hoping that the soldiers and bandits would be able to talk about it and disperse, but finally returned...... But it was just an ear thrown back from outside the village wall by the security team.

At the same time, the members of the security group shouted at the villagers of Gejia Village, saying that they must open the door to greet the boss within half an hour, otherwise they will attack and attack the villagers of Gejia Village, and one of them will cut off one ear.

This naked threat made the villagers of Gejia Village indignant, in this year of great famine, if it were placed in normal times, maybe the villagers would be soft, but in such a famine year, letting these soldiers and ruffians come in is no different from suicide!

The villagers have no choice at all.

In the face of that bloody ear, more than 100 households and more than 500 people in the village unanimously decided that they would rather die in battle than open the door to the soldiers and bandits, otherwise they would die, die without dignity.

You can live if you fight, but if you don't fight, you can only die.

In this way, hundreds of villagers with earthen guns and broadswords and only two box cannons fought with the soldiers of the No. 100 Security Regiment on the earthen wall at the entrance of the village, and fought from dusk to midnight in the middle of Beidou, and there was still a stalemate.

In that battle, the villagers of Gejia Village, relying on their brave fighting spirit, not only were not broken through the village by the security group, but also killed more than a dozen soldiers of the security group, and several times beat the reunited soldiers and bandits all over the ground to find their teeth, and lost their armor.

A group of untrained, half-starved peasants beating an army to the ground in search of teeth may sound comical, but it is a true portrayal of the era.

You must know that although this security regiment is a numbered unit, it is also very unpopular with local warlords, so it is very poorly equipped, and there are no technical weapons such as artillery and aircraft, and even foreign guns are limited.

And the most lethal thing is that these soldiers have extremely poor military discipline, and they are all deadly traders, so they are generally addicted to drugs, and they are basically out-and-out "two-gun army". As soon as this really starts, you often have to touch the cigarette gun and smoke a few puffs after walking a few steps, otherwise you will even tremble your hands, let alone dare to charge to death.

Such an army, in a hurry to meet the battle, and its morale was low, so it was not surprising that it was corrupt, so it charged down three or five times, and many brothers were killed and wounded, not to mention a large number of people who openly raised their smoking guns on the ground, and smoked on the ground.

The battle was like this, and the most anxious person in my heart was the head of the regiment Wu, who took the lead, and saw that his soldiers were addicted to cigarettes one by one, and he couldn't hold on for long, so he turned in circles like ants on a hot pot.

Ya originally wanted to take advantage of the famine and make a windfall with the order to suppress the bandits, but she didn't expect to be disadvantaged.

And it's quite sad to say, the reason why Regiment Commander Wu is in a hurry is not because of the dead cannon fodder, and even he hopes to die more, because in this way, he can break up a little less stolen goods, what he is worried about is that if the security regiment can't even take down such a small village, then if it spreads, I'm afraid that his reputation and future will be completely over.

But just when this head Wu was already exhausted and was about to give up, a military master beside him suddenly gave him a poisonous plan.