Chapter 53 Niutou Mountain is in a desperate situation
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In the wilderness outside the western frontier of the Heavenly Demon Clan, the living environment is quite difficult, because it is difficult to get enough food, the cottage is often unable to gather more bandits, if the number of people in a cottage is more than three hundred, it is considered a strong large cottage, if the number of people is more than a thousand, it is almost a large force that can make people near and far frightened.
In Heihu Mountain, there are 2,000 sand bandits in the cottage, and almost all of them are bandits who have survived a hundred battles.
The strength of Heihu Mountain, which is so perverted, makes people from near and far talk about it.
Heihu Mountain has always refused to accept the bandits who defected to the past, and recruited them all. They are not afraid that the bandits will be overwhelmed and the food will not be enough to support, they have their own methods.
The Heihu Mountain Cottage is the most frequent force attacking the surrounding tribes, and the burning and looting of the surrounding tribes again and again make them very rich, and in the robbery battle, the continuous death of people is also the best means for them to consume the bandits.
After being plundered all year round, one after another, the remaining bandits are all iron-blooded elites, and they are all fierce and unspeakable.
Such a gang of bandits, if they are not rampant, it is almost impossible to justify.
Every year, Heihu Mountain will forcibly impose an annual levy on the surrounding sand bandit cottages, that is, protection fees.
At first, the sand bandits in the other cottages reacted very fiercely to Nianfu.
However, when the bandits of Heihu Mountain used the most cruel and bloody means to destroy a few cottages that dared to disobey Heihu's order, the cottages within hundreds of miles no longer dared to say no to Nian Fu.
The nearby cottagers endured the blood in their hearts and had to pay protection money to Heihu Mountain year after year, and they exchanged their anger for the right to survive year after year, thinking that they could go on in peace.
However, no one expected that when they received the Black Hu Order again this year, they were shocked to see that it was a double-sided order.
That is to say, this year, Heihushan will collect double the annual tax from the surrounding cottages.
The sand bandits in the surrounding cottages were all in an uproar, gritting their teeth with hatred, licking blood from the knife edge for a year, and finally had a little savings, which could save some food and wealth for the winter, but they had to give it all away, and the vampire demon snake in the wilderness was not so cruel.
However, the discontent had just grown, and one night, after the news spread that all eighty-four members of the cottage had been slaughtered in flagrant defiance of the Black Hu Order, the bloody news suppressed all the grievances.
Those cottages, large and small, are in danger for a while, and even if they double the annual endowment, they dare not pay it.
In the wilderness, everyone is worried about the New Year. The mutual fire between large and small cottages in order to grab each other's wealth also became extremely fierce in an instant.
Between the rolling mountains, a mountain in the shape of a bull's head is hidden in it, and the bull's head is facing east, and the two protruding stone pinnacles are like two horns on the bull's head.
Halfway up the mountain, you can see the stone wall, the suspension bridge, the wooden tower for observation and archery, and the faint stone house behind you through the stone wall.
In the sinister environment of the barbarian, Niutou Mountain Cottage is a blessed land, there are few natural disasters nearby, the number of low-level demon beasts is sufficient, Niutou Mountain is thirty-five miles west, there is also a swamp rich in plant tuber production, when Kusru took a few brothers to fall in love here, and scattered more than ten bandits who occupied Niutou Mountain, and since then he has made a home here, after so many years of construction, now Niutou Mountain Cottage has been quite dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
It's just that at this moment, this cottage is empty and lifeless, and the two guards at the drawbridge are also listless, sitting there with bone spears and staring at the sky.
Looking over the suspension bridge and entering the interior of the cottage, you can see that many stone houses have their doors open, and useless sundries are thrown in front of the door, and animal skins and rags are blowing in disorder on the ground with the wind, and no one cares.
At the top, Ertu, the former majestic lord of Dazhai, is now full of gloom, his face is full of loneliness, and he will no longer be domineering.
A few years ago, after the owner of the old village, Kuslu, disappeared for no reason in a battle, Ertu resolutely took the entire cottage in his hands, so many years, he relied on his extraordinary strength and prestige to build Niutou Mountain better than in the past, the number of people over two hundred, the mountain also has a thin savings.
Ertu coughed lightly, smiled bitterly and said slowly: "Old brothers, your eldest brother is gone, and there is nothing to do with me, the brothers under him are all going their own way, I will open the back hole in a while, divide the savings, and you all go." ”
"Nope. ”
"Big brother, let's not leave ......"
More than a dozen people below looked sad. The faces of those old brothers are full of vicissitudes left by the struggle to survive in the wilderness, the corners of their eyes may be dimmed, but their hands are still so hard and powerful, those hands, I don't know how much blood and human life are stained, if under the leadership of a stronger village owner, these people are all heroes.
But......
Ertu looked down at the stump on his left side lonely, and a wrenching grief made him extremely desolate.
In the past, it was a cottage of nearly 200 people, but today only these brothers are left in front of them.
These old brothers have been loyal to them for so many years, but they can no longer take them to continue to work hard.
Ever since the gang of bandits in Ertu and Shafengjiao a year ago mistakenly poisoned an arrow during a hunting battle, and the calf of his left leg twitched into a shriveled bone stick and became disabled, it was as if the sky was about to fall.
Ertu Ke is a powerhouse of the fifth order of the Tuman Heart Sutra, and he has the undisputed strongest strength in a two-hundred-person sand bandit mountain fortress. He fell, and then the most powerful pillar of the Niutou Mountain almost fell.
In the wilderness, it is the day of licking blood with a knife, only the strength to survive, a lame and greatly reduced strength of the big village owner, can the cottage he leads not be bullied.
Later, the sand bandits in other mountains even dared to openly rob the hunting grounds of Niutou Mountain, and some lonely brothers were often beaten with blue noses and swollen faces.
Gradually, the hearts of the people in the cottage became more and more scattered, and slowly some people sneaked away to join other forces.
And as soon as this opening is opened, it can no longer be contained.
There were more and more people walking in the cottage, and later, only a group of old brothers who had received his life-saving grace and more than 30 minions who had nowhere to go were still barely supporting the cottage.
However, for Niutoushan, this is not the final disaster.
Ertu's eyes were melancholy and haggard, and he withdrew from his brothers' faces and slowly fell onto the black beard on the stone table.
It was this nightmarish black beard that became the last straw that overwhelmed Niutou Mountain.
Since Ertu was lame, Niutoushan has been unable to make ends meet in a year, and the double protection fee is almost a desperate bad news for them, what do they rely on to pay?
But if you dare not pay, what awaits them is that the entire cottage will be slaughtered, that is, if you want to escape, Heihu Mountain has the ability to dig you out of the ground, and then kill Liwei fiercely.
After hearing the matter of double annual endowment, the remaining more than 30 minions under Niutou Mountain also dispersed in a hurry, it can be said that now there is only one village owner and more than a dozen old brothers left in Nuoda Niutou Mountain, which is almost an empty mountain.
Ertu's hand trembled and picked up the double-sided black beard on the table.
The eyes of the bandits below were all focused on this village owner for a while. Since Brother Ertu was crippled, he no longer had the brave and fearless domineering spirit he used to have, and all that was left of his body was endless decadence and desolation.
The brothers looked at each other and let out a long sigh.
Ertu's rough big hand brushed back along his forehead, held the black beard order on his chest, and said lightly with a wry smile: "The brothers' love and righteousness are understood, but if you stay with me, you can only be innocently slaughtered by Heihu Mountain in the end......" Ertu's voice was full of helpless sadness: "Since it is only a matter of time before our Niutou Mountain is completely removed, let me, a waste person, stay and deal with the robbery, you will divide our savings from previous years, and then all of them will take refuge in other cottages." ”
After Ertu finished speaking, there was a commotion in the stone cave.
The old brothers all blushed and shouted:
"No, big brother, Niutou Mountain was co-founded by our brothers, how can you leave you alone in a crisis. ”
"That's right, our lives were saved by the eldest brother, we share blessings and hardships. ”
"Yes, it's a big deal to fight with Heihu Mountain, one is enough, and two are profitable. ”
The second leader, Huo Ran, stood up and shouted angrily: "Big brother, isn't there still a month before the deadline of the Black Hu Order, this month, our brothers will go to those tribes to rob his mother a few times, maybe we can grab a big vote." When the time comes, with the savings in our back hole, we may be able to make up double the annual endowment. ”
When the other brothers heard this, they shouted again:
"Yes, big brother, we haven't reached the end of our rope yet, why are you discouraged first. ”
"Yes, big brother, don't divide those savings in the back cave at every turn, that's our life-saving money this year, keep it for the New Year's gift." ”
The three-headed leader glared at him and shouted:
"Big brother, don't always think about driving us away, if there is no big brother, my brute bull was killed by the poisonous arrows of Sha Fengjiao a year ago, and the big brother lost a leg in order to save me, at this time, if I leave the big brother, will I still be a fucking person." ”
Ertu was moved in his heart, knowing that these brothers were all for the sake of fulfilling themselves and maintaining Niutou Mountain, but there was not much savings left in Houdong, and it was so easy to make up for double the annual endowment within a month? Looking at the fiery eyes of the brothers, Ertu choked in his throat and was about to speak, when suddenly there was a "boom", and the stone gate that was hidden in the hole was kicked open, and a large group of people walked in with a swagger on their faces.
"The people of Shafengjiao?"
The dozen or so old brothers stood up in shock at the same time, and then they were all furious, clenched their fists one after another, and some of them were short-tempered and even directly pulled out their bone spears and shouted angrily:
"How did you get in?"
"Shafengjiao dog, get out of here. ”
Shafengjiao is another cottage, adjacent to Niutou Mountain, there are only seventy-five miles of mountain road between the two villages, the strength of the two villages is equal, and the hunting ground between each other makes the stumbling under the yin hand do not do less, Niutoushan does not know how many brothers have been lost because of this, Ertu's leg was crippled by the cold arrow of the two leaders of Shafengjiao a year ago.
Among the group of people who broke in, the one at the front was tall and strong, with a fierce scar on his face, and there was a hideous smell when he laughed.
The enemy was very red when he saw each other, not to mention that the other party actually went straight into the hinterland of his cottage, which was simply a naked threat and a slap in the face.
The fierce hunter ignored the angry eyes of the fire, looked straight up, stroked his palms and said with a cruel smile: "Hey, the majestic lord of Ertu Village in the past, why is he nesting there like a dog today, and old friends don't say that they come to greet him, this is not hospitality." ”
The tall bandits behind him laughed at the same time.
Ertu sat there coldly, looking at these unlucky guests like a knife, and asked in a deep voice: "Hunting vultures, breaking into my cottage for no reason, I don't know what to learn?"
"Don't dare. ”
Hunter Wuzhu clapped his hands with a smile: "It's that the end of the year is coming, my brothers don't have any surplus food for the winter, we usually protect your Niutou Mountain for so many years, and now come to collect some New Year's gifts or something, it's not too much." ”
"New Year's Gift?"
"It's not too much of a, so what is too much?"
The brothers of Niutou Mountain were in an angry uproar when they heard this, and everyone pumped their guys up, and the momentum in the stone cave was raging for a while. Now everyone in the wilderness is worried about Heihu, Sha Fengjiao is really bullying Niutou Mountain, and he came to rob them of the last surplus grain.
That's the same as extermination.
The three-headed leader glared at the bull's eye and scolded: "Collect your mother's annual endowment." "Wielding a bone spear, he was about to rush forward.
The eldest brother's leg was crippled by the hunting vultures because of saving him, and now that the enemy is in front of him, the eyes of the three leaders are red.
Hunter Wuzhu looked at the angry crowd and didn't care, looked up to the sky and laughed, slapped hard, and four more bandits came in outside, mixed with two people who were covered in blood and dying, and who were beaten almost unrecognizable.
The four bandits threw the two bloody bodies on the ground in the hole with a "snap".
The brothers of Niutou Mountain were surprised to see that it was not the two brothers who were guarding the suspension bridge at the stone wall. Seeing that the two brothers were beaten so miserably, everyone in Niutou Mountain was stunned.
Now that these two people are crippled, then Niutou Mountain is almost an empty mountain, and only the eleven old brothers in the stone cave are left.
Hunter Wuzhu sneered:
"Ertu, counting you in the mountains, there are a total of twelve people who can breathe, this time I brought twenty-one brothers, all of whom took the best weapons in our village, you say, if we are ruthless, can we kill you all?"
Outside the cave, more people slowly poured in, and surrounded the brothers of Niutou Mountain with a sinister smile.
The brothers of Niutou Mountain gasped and looked at each other with bone spears.