【008】 The Past of the White Bandits
Qingyang County has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the climate and scenery are excellent. The mountains are towering, the ancient trees are towering, and the original beauty is extreme.
However, things are all divided into two. Although the scenery of the deep mountains and old forests is pleasant, it is also convenient for the robbers and robbers to 'hide and seek' with the officers and soldiers.
In Qingyang County, in a mountain called 'Chicken Comb', there is such a group of robbers. They usually hide deep in the mountains, and specialize in raiding passers-by. During the harvest season, they will also pour out their nests and raid nearby villages.
This bandit is called the 'White Bandit Gang', and their leader is named 'Zhou Bailong'.
Speaking of this 'Zhou Bailong', he can also be regarded as a well-known figure in the boundary of Qingyang County. When he was young, he was also a suave 'scholar', and he was almost admitted to the academy.
However, an accident later changed his life.
The system of appointment, dismissal, and selection of officials in the Beiyang Dynasty was extremely imperfect and unscientific. It takes the form of 'the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the brother dies'. In such a way, the officials produced, with the exception of the first generation, are often mediocre.
These mediocre people are not doing very well in governing the local area and developing the economy. But when it comes to flying eagles and lackeys, bullying men and women is their strength.
Before Li Cang, the county magistrate of Qingyang County was a 'fourth ancestor' named 'Sha Ke', and his only hobby was to rob people's daughters.
Nashake even absurdly stipulated: In the 'Qingyang County Town', before the daughter of any family gets married, the sedan chair must be stopped in his county office for three days before it is allowed to be sent to the groom.
As for what he did during these three days, everyone knows by heart.
Under the persecution of Sha Ke, many families quietly got married before sending their brides to the county government.
Under Sha Ke's subordinates, there is a strange team called the 'Somei Team'. On weekdays, I don't do anything else, and I specialize in helping Sha Ke find 'beauties'. Although Qingyang County is big, under Sha Ke's search, a woman with almost a little grace will not escape his clutches. It's outrageous.
said that Zhou Bailong has a childhood sweetheart's wife, who rarely goes out. But when Zhou Bailong entered Beijing to apply for the academy, Zhou Bailong's mother was seriously ill, and she had no choice but to go out to grab medicine.
Coincidentally that day, Sha Ke went out and happened to meet Zhou Bailong's wife.
Seeing the beauty, Shako's obscene heart instantly became restless. Zhou Bailong's wife was taken captive into the county government, but the woman was extremely strong, and in order to save her name, she actually bit her tongue and committed suicide.
Zhou Bailong passed the exam in one fell swoop and went home to report the good news, but he heard such bad news. In anger, he gathered dozens of neighbors who had been bullied by Sha Ke for a long time, and killed the county government with a steel knife in his hand.
The people who can be admitted to the Imperial City Academy are definitely the dragons and phoenixes among the people. At that time, Zhou Bailong was already a low-level Xuanling, and he still had the ability to 'fight beyond the ranks'.
In Zhou Bailong's anger, those people in the county government who usually followed Sha Ke to do evil were all cut into two sections. Shake's head was also hung on the gate of the county office.
Zhou Bailong led people and gathered in the mountains and forests.
That year, Zhou Bailong was twenty years old.
It was also because of this that Li Cang, Ge Liang and others, who were seriously injured and retired, were appointed here
In a flash, it was twenty years.
In the past 20 years, Zhou Bailong has lived in the mountains and forests, and his personality has changed greatly, and he has evolved from hating officials at the beginning to hating all the soldiers and civilians outside the mountains.
The personality is mutilated, which causes his personality to become brutal.
He began to kill, brutally, just like Shako, hateful.
Li Cang and Lei Wu sent troops to encircle and suppress many times, but because of the terrain, they all ended in failure. Zhou Bailong continued to 'wander' for a few more years in the deep mountains.
The ruffians and hooligans near Qingyang County, wanted criminals, and prisoners who had committed serious crimes fled to the 'Cockscomb Mountain' one after another and became members of the 'White Bandit Gang'.
As a result, 'Cockscomb Mountain' and 'White Bandit Gang' have become a nightmare in the hearts of people in Qingyang County
The morning light is faint.
A funeral procession slowly walked out of the city gates.
This day is the day of Li Cang's burial.
Six big men, carrying Li Cang's coffin, walked at the front of the team. Li Mo followed behind the coffin with a sad expression. There were nearly 100 people in the team, all dressed in vegetarian clothing.
In the green mountains and forests, the white funeral procession, like a snow-colored dragon, spreads from the city gate to the suburbs.
The coffin fell heavily, and the moment the big men filled in the soil, Li Mo's vision blurred again.
Ye Junlin was dressed in white, standing behind Li Mo, his expression was cold, but it was very close to the scene at this time.
The coffin is buried and the tombstone stands.
A person, even if he has once dominated the world and looked at the sky. But at the moment of death, what fame, what profit, what sorrow, what joy, what love, and what hatred are just a wisp of dust on the coffin
Li Mo knelt in front of the tomb, and then nearly a hundred people in plain clothes all knelt down.
When you prostrate and get up, you announce the end of a person's life
The sound of horses' hooves came from afar, like the sound of a light drum.
Ye Junlin raised his head and looked towards the mountains and forests in the distance, only to see that among the layers of forests, there were thousands of horses galloping. Their hairstyles are noisy, their clothes are noisy, and their weapons are noisy.
Such a team is naturally not a regular border army.
Then they are naturally the White Bandits.
Ye Junlin's face showed a trace of contempt: Zhou Bailong is also a person who has read books after all, how can he govern his subordinates in such a chaotic manner, like a group of rabble.
Oh no, they were meant to be a rabble.
The horses' hooves were raised, and the dust was scattered everywhere.
Li Mo looked at the thousand-horse 'White Bandit Gang' gang that was speeding over, and there was no trace of fear on his face.
But some of the funeral procession were already panicking, especially the women. The notoriety of the 'White Bandit Gang' is far and wide, and it is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the people of Qingyang County and is difficult to erase.
Li Mo glanced at Lei Wu and seemed to make a look.
Lei Wu understood, and waved a bright red flag at Qingyang County.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded again, this time from the middle of the city.
Seven hundred well-equipped 'Yuejun Army' rushed out of the city, Tsing Yi, Qing Jia, and Qing Gun. The uniform movements and uniform equipment and armor are very eye-catching.
This cavalry is the entire military strength of the 'Qingyang County City'. Although there are only 700 horsemen, they can not fall behind in the slightest against the 1,500 horsemen of the 'white bandit gang'.
The cavalry approached, bounded by the funeral procession, and confronted each other from the north and south.
At the front of the 'White Bandit Gang', a half-old warrior who looked like a scholar stood in the wind.
This person is Zhou Bailong, who is dressed in white, riding a white horse, and holding a white fan. Although he has been a bandit for many years, the book is angry and still exists.
Li Mo looked directly at him without the slightest cowardice.
Two people who are destined to fight to the death face each other, but there is no spark.
The two sides were about half a pillar of incense opposite, and Zhou Bailong smiled. Then, with his team, he departed suddenly.
No shouting, no scolding, no fighting.
Everything came in a hustle and bustle, and then quietly left.
Everyone didn't understand what Zhou Bailong's move meant. In fact, even Zhou Bailong himself didn't know why he came and why he left