Chapter 22: The Conquest Before the Autumn Harvest (Part II)
The team soon came to the outside of the station of the tree village, which was a gentle place in the woods around a small stream, and surrounded the village with planks and dirt, just as soon as he saw this, Shen Fei didn't shake his head, the big trees around the village were dense, even if they didn't invade through these trees, it would be easy to peek into the village.
But it doesn't matter, it's hostile now, and Shen Fei doesn't care about people's unprofessionalism, but if he subdues this village, then this village will be like a timber factory in the future, and he doesn't need to care about this.
Shen Fei and the others saw the storage of the tree village, and the people of the tree village naturally saw Shen Fei and them even more, no way, who let Shen Fei and the sixty or so people all be uniformly equipped, and there was a flag behind them, which looked like a regular army.
There was an immediate uproar in the village, and then, under the roar of some loud voices, the village gate was shut, and a guy with a bamboo gun stood on the fence.
Seeing that there were only about a few dozen bamboo guns on the wall, Shen Fei couldn't help grinning: "Divide six teams to search the nearby woods, and arrest them as soon as they find someone." ”
"Yes!" everyone received the order, and after Shen Fei's cultural teaching, they also saw that there were only dozens of young guards in the village, and the rest of the young men had obviously gone to cut down trees, which was a good time to weaken the tree village.
So the six squads that usually fight the most immediately rushed into the mountains and forests in a hurry, seeing Shen Fei's action of dividing the troops, the village was in turmoil, and it took a while to calm down, obviously they also knew what Shen Fei's group was going to do.
It stands to reason that there are only thirty people left on Shen Fei's side, and in terms of numbers, they are not the opponents of Shucun at all. But most of the people in Shucun are armed with bamboo guns, and having an iron-headed spear is a good thing, and as for weapons such as katanas, only a few bosses have them.
And look at Shen Fei and them, although there are few people, they can be uniformly equipped. Standing there motionless, no matter how you look at it, they are all elite soldiers, how dare these villagers, who are also lumberjacks, come out to fight in the field, and they are terrified to defend the village, and dare to go out there?
Shen Fei didn't send anyone to persuade him to surrender, and the village didn't send anyone out to inquire, so the two sides confronted each other in silence. It was only with the arrival of the two Copper Coin Commissioners with a vote of women, and the return of a small team of lumberjacks, that the village began to riot again.
As more and more lumberjacks returned with bruised noses and swollen faces, the commotion in the village grew. When there were already hundreds of captured loggers, and after Shen Fei's team all came back, Shen Fei smiled evilly: "Escort all these people to me and kneel down in front of the village entrance!"
It's really weird, Shen Fei's side plus the women are less than a hundred, and there are more than 100 captured loggers, and all of them are young and strong, but these young people are so sad and well-behaved trapped by the rope in their arms, and under the scolding of the ashigaru, they obediently came to the village gate to form a team of ten and knelt down. As for taking care of so many people. Shen Fei only sent four teams to completely complete it.
At the sight of this posture, the people in the village thought that they were preparing to kill, and they all screamed, and the cries of some women and children also resounded.
With a loud noise. The noise fell, and then the village gate was opened, and several big men with swords, dozens of men with bamboo guns walked out with sad and angry faces.
Shen Fei naturally had two teams on his side to meet him. As soon as this action came out, the people in Tree Village were so frightened that they took a step back, and in the end, it was the man with the saber in the middle. He took a few steps forward and shouted, "I don't know which one is coming?
"Well, you wild people! In the territory of my Fengyuan family, you dare to disobey the lord's rule, it is really a crime to die! Those who know each other immediately surrender to my Fengyuan family! Otherwise, you will kill the whole of your village!" The leader of the team at the front roared angrily with the hilt of his sword.
"Fengyuan family?" The head of the village was stunned for a moment, and then became stunned, obviously the Linhe Palace did a good job, and when he divided the land to Shen Fei, he also notified the forces on the land to let them know who the new owner was. Unlike some bad goods, the notice is not notified, and the new owner has to be called one by one.
The head of the village hesitated for a moment, then bowed and said, "I don't know if Lord Fengyuan is in person, the little one is willing to maintain the original tribute." ”
Shen Fei was surrounded by everyone at this time: "Hahaha, what you think is very beautiful! In the past, when the family didn't save the zài, but now the family is forced to come to the door, just say keep the original tribute? Sue you, there is no such cheap thing! Now you Shucun only have two choices, one is to directly surrender to me, when I am the direct leader of the Fengyuan family, the other is to resist, I will completely exterminate the Shucun! I don't believe that you have been killed by hundreds of young people, and your Shucun is still qualified to save zài!"
As soon as Shen Fei's words came out, not only the head of the village trembled, but all the people in the tree village trembled, especially the hundreds of young men who were tied up and knelt on the ground, and struggled in panic, and only after a burst of punches and kicks from the ashigaru did they resign themselves to kneeling on the ground.
Seeing that the head of the village hesitated, Shen Fei continued to say loudly: "Don't think about some messy things, tell you, it turns out that the fishing village, which is the same as you and only needs to pay tribute, has completely surrendered to me and become my direct leader of the village, and the head of the village, the boatman Taro and his three leaders, have directly become the retainers of my Fengyuan family!"
Hearing this, the head of the village and a few strong men with swords immediately emitted a scorching light in their eyes, but this light was quickly suppressed, and everyone looked at the head of the village.
The head of this village may have the idea of wanting to be a local tyrant, but the people under his command are all logging for a living, and because of the relationship of the work area, they are divided into several factions, and he is only one of the more powerful factions in the village.
At the beginning, he still had the intention of raiding Shen Fei to recapture Qingzhuang, but when he got closer, Shen Fei's ashigaru was more elite than all the daimyo armies he had ever seen, and this kind of strength comparison did not require a fight, and it could be detected by just looking at his mental outlook and vague sixth sense.
After having a feeling, he naturally understood that the dozens of young men he brought out were probably not enough for the other party to rush and kill. And after deducting the hundred or so trapped young people, the young people in the village are reduced by two-thirds, and if these people are killed, the whole village will be finished, and then those women and children will definitely be relocated to other villages, and the tree village will no longer exist. Maybe there will be a tree village rebuilt in the future because of logging, but that has nothing to do with me.
The people of this world are accustomed to surrendering to the strong, and surrendering to this today, and surrendering to that tomorrow, they only need to save their lives, and they do it without obstacles, and they also look above board, saying that this is the way to protect themselves from the weak.
The guys who have never been the boss don't have any psychological pressure and psychological barriers to surrender, especially in terms of interests, they don't make much money, after all, like the alliance, even if they are the leaders, they need to cut down the trees themselves, and they just share a few pennies from the people to whom they belong to their own faction.
In the past, they wanted to be independent, but because they didn't know Shen Fei's ability, they deliberately belittled it when Linhe Hall sent people to promote the new master, so that they had the illusion that they could be independent. But now that he saw that Shen Fei's ashigaru was so elite, and he had captured so many of his young men in an instant, he didn't have to think much about the result.
Therefore, the head of the village just hesitated, asked the guilty queen to discuss with a few subordinates, and then came over and knelt directly on the ground to express his willingness to surrender to Shen Fei and become the direct leader of the Fengyuan family. (To be continued......)