Zoumazhai is located in the mountains of Baijiling.

It's not a deep mountain, it's a mountain.

Because the mountain is too deep to walk and drive, it will cause thieves to go out to rob and transport materials is very inconvenient, so in fact, most cottages will not choose the kind of place where the traffic is very inconvenient.

Zoumazhai is a standard small cottage, enclosing the land for the village, building a simple wall with stones and wood, and gathering dozens of bandits to rob houses in it.

Shanzhai is naturally different from ordinary villages, they do not need any labor tools and related production facilities, to put it simply...... There is no farming, no production, and no petty trading in the cottages, and they only need a place to eat and sleep, as well as a warehouse for horses, weapons, and grain, so the land is not very large.

When the supplies in the village were almost exhausted, they went out to rob them, and when there was a shortage of women, they also went out to rob them. Most of the women were caught by them and died after a few days, and some committed suicide on the same day, which is a common thing, anyway, the corpse was thrown into the mountain by them, and it was gnawed clean by the beast in half a day.

After all, there are more than 50 bandits in the village, which is equivalent to more than 50 uncles who can only eat, drink and Lazar but do not create any wealth, and they can't afford to raise a small Nankite Village; there are three other villages in this Baijiling area, which are different from each other, and they are often robbed and oppressed by them, but Nanyuan Village is the most seriously disturbed because it is the closest.

The reason why this horse village is so rampant is varied.

First, they specially picked a territory that the government did not care about, which is very smart.

Although the court in the Yongtai period was not very dark, there were never so many officials who loved the people like sons and were jealous and hateful...... Because of this kind of thing, no one will say hello if it is done well, but it will affect the career if it is done badly.

Second, every time they go out to rob money and food women, they also have a certain "measure", they know very well where the bottom line of the people is, because the vast majority of them are originally ruffians and bullies in nearby villages, they understand that as long as you don't kill too much at once, rob too much, and give the people a period of relief after each robbery, these villagers can't turn back.

Occasionally, one or two families went out to report to the officials, but they couldn't make any waves; villagers in the mountains and wilderness, who could not afford to hire a lawyer and could not write a pleading, went to the door of the government to beat the drum of injustice, and whether they were unjust or not, they had to be beaten to death before they could file a complaint.

If you do it again, rob the daughter-in-law and daughter of the family, kill the husband, the elderly and the children, and make the household extinct, and no one will sue you.

Can the next-door neighbor risk his life to sue for you? Impossible.

This is human nature, as long as you are alive and the fire does not burn on you, you can endure some things.

Therefore, today, the people who go to the village will not really kill the villagers of Nanyuan Village, they don't dare, if they really want to do this, the government will have to move if they don't want to.

They just wanted to scare and scare these villagers, and used the fact that the Wang family was rescued by Sun Yihuan yesterday as an excuse to grab more things, and then kill a few budding birds who intended to resist, so as to "remind" these villagers and play the role of killing chickens and monkeys.

............

As said yesterday, the time is about to end, and the owner of the village, Ma Si, has all the people and horses, ready to go.

It is not difficult to see from the above that Ma Si, the owner of this village, is also a character.

Although it can't be said that he is resourceful, but he is also a little intellectual, this horse village can run rampant here for many years, all of it depends on his planning, otherwise just by the gang of ruffians below, it would have been ended.

In terms of martial arts, Ma Si also has a hand, he studied under the "Huizhou Baijin Knife Zhao Bozhao" when he was a teenager, and learned the knife technique for a whole decade, and he got the true biography of Zhao Bozhao. But his master never thought that this Ma Si had a beast heart, and had long coveted the beauty of the Zhao family's daughter, and one night Ma Si sneaked into the lady's boudoir, failed to commit adultery, and killed him in anger, and then he didn't do anything, took advantage of the night to sneak attack, killed all eight members of the master's family, burned the evidence, and absconded overnight with the Zhao family's softness. After that, he did a lot of cases in various places, until he came to Baijiling a few years ago, pulled up the mountain, and became the king of the mountain.

These thieves in the horse village, after entering the village, also learned a trick and a half from Ma Si, so they are basically all swords......men; It's about the same as Huang Donglai's estimate, not very strong, but it's definitely better than ordinary people who haven't practiced martial arts at all.

In this way, more than forty bandits and twenty horses set off towards Nanyuan Village.

Why don't everybody ride horses, because it's too expensive to have a horse for every bandit...... You can ride a horse that cuts people, it is all trained, different from ordinary horses, and the saddle and hooves are also regularly maintained by the tanners and blacksmiths in nearby villages, which is very troublesome...... In a village of more than 100 people, more than 100 people all rushed out on horseback, which is absolutely nonsense, and with such a professional operation ability, it is better to change careers and become horse dealers, than to be a bandit.

It's far away again...... Again, back to the point.

When Shen Shi, Ma Si led the horse team to the entrance of the village first, and he saw no one at a glance, and there was not even a wisp of cooking smoke in the village.

Seeing such an abnormal scene, Ma Si naturally muttered in his heart: "Heh...... Is this an empty city trick with me?"

Ma Si is not Sima Yi, he will not turn around and run away because he thinks too much, he just waited at the entrance of the village for a while, and after the twenty or so people on foot behind arrived, he ordered five minions to enter the village to explore the way.

Those were five bandits, not a regular army, and when the bandits carried out the order, it depended on the situation...... They also knew in their hearts that if there was any ambush in the village, they would be cannon fodder, and they would die in vain, so they were very cautious in exploring the way, which could be said to be timid and procrastinating.

After about a stick of incense (about half an hour), these five goods were still wandering around the area at the entrance of the village, and a total of more than a dozen rooms were checked.

Ma Si sat on the horse and was a little tired, and finally said impatiently: "Okay! Don't search! Let me enter the village, see what you have to grab! Whoever grabs more points will get more!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone, especially the five who had just advanced to the village, poured into the village as if they had suddenly been beaten with chicken blood, and began to plunder frantically.

The robbery went on for a great time, and the men were almost emptying the village of grain and the valuable things of the common people, and the twenty men who were riding at the time of their arrival, except for Ma Si, the owner of the village, had all dismounted from their horses, because the nineteen horses were all strapped to their backs with heavy goods...... The faces of all the thieves also showed a satisfied smile, and even the two minions who were scared away by Sun Yihuan yesterday had forgotten their original intention today.

Ma Si thought to himself: "Maybe the people in this village were frightened, and they all ran to the mountains to hide in order to save their lives, thinking that if we robbed the money and food, we wouldn't do anything to them anymore." ”

After getting this conclusion, he didn't care much about this "empty city plan".

Unexpectedly, at this moment......

"Zhai-Lord-" A roar suddenly came from the road outside the village.

After a while, I saw a gray-faced bandit with a scorched clothes crawling to Ma Si, and said with a crying voice: "The owner of the village......! Our village has been served! Go back and have a look!"

"What?" Ma Si was shocked when he heard this, and then his anger rose sharply, and he shouted, "What's the matter?"

"Huh...... Haah...... "The minion was also in a hurry, he gasped twice, and then said, "You...... Soon after you left, a man named Sun Yihuan and a man named Huang Donglai came to the village, clamoring to take your dog's life...... The brothers saw that there were only two of them, so they opened the door of the village and came out, wanting to tie them up and hand them over to you with a thousand knives, who knew that these two people were very powerful in martial arts, the brothers were not opponents, the dead and wounded, they also set fire to the village, and the small ones were desperate to escape and ...... with you."

"How can this be reasonable!" Ma Si didn't wait for the minions to finish speaking, he yelled at the people around him and ordered, "Little ones, follow me back to the village quickly!

The bandits were really obedient this time, because they were really anxious...... My hometown has been changed, can I not be in a hurry? The little bit of softness I hid is gone, not to mention, if the cottage burns down, where will they go?

So, Ma Siyi took the lead, quickly whipped his horse, and galloped towards the cottage.

The remaining forty or so thieves threw what they had just robbed on their horses or on the ground, and hurriedly began to run back along the road.

The two places are not close to each other, and they are not far away, and after a while, he could already see smoke rising from the sky in front of him, and he was suddenly angry from his heart, and evil was born to the side of his guts, thinking that he must not let go of the one surnamed Huang and the one surnamed Sun.

However, when he rushed back to the cottage, he found ...... This so-called "fire" turned out to be just a pile of firewood and grass, which was set up in the middle of the village and burned intensively, and the walls and houses of the cottage did not catch fire at all.

When he looked closer, he found ten corpses lying on the ground inside the gate, all of them his own men.

At this moment, a certain thought flashed through his mind: "I only left ten people in the village, and the one who came to report just now was ...... Oops!"

Ma Si knew the plan, so he quickly turned the horse's head and ran back in the direction of Nanyuan Village......

............

Today's plan to "change homes" was conceived by Huang Donglai and Sun Yihuan together.

First of all, as early as this morning, that is, when the bandits were still sleeping, the villagers of Nanyuan Village had already left the village en masse.

The old, weak, women and children in the village all hid in the mountains under the organization of the village chief, while the remaining forty or fifty peasant men all carried the "poison bombs" and weapons prepared yesterday, and followed Sun and Huang towards the road that the bandits must pass.

When two groups of bandits passed through the road one after another, those villagers hid in the mountains and forests and watched, standing still.

After those thieves had passed, Sun Huang and the others took more than a dozen sturdy villagers to the horse village.

With Huang Donglai's light skills, it was easy to climb the uneven wall of Zoumazhai, and the ten thieves guarding the village were only two of them sentry at the door, even if they watched Huang Donglai climb the wall, they couldn't stop him.

After entering the village, Huang Donglai took four minions with three punches and two feet, and the remaining six knelt down and surrendered when they saw this, and then Huang Donglai ordered them to open the gate of the village.

Sun Yihe and the dozen or so villagers rushed in, and when the bitter villagers saw that the enemies were kneeling on the ground and being ambushed, they rushed up as if they were crazy and beat to death the bandits who had lost their blades.

Sun and Huang didn't stop the villagers—they had never been a virgin, and they knew they weren't qualified to stop them.

After the villagers were angry, Sun Yihuan instructed them to collect some firewood from the cottage (the thieves also had to make a fire to cook every day), and lit a fire, creating the illusion that "the village was burned".

Huang Donglai, on the other hand, went to find a set of thieves' clothes, and went to the stove to simply "put on makeup" for himself with pot ash and charcoal, and then went to "report to the owner of the village".

Soon after he left, Sun Yihuan withdrew from the village with the villagers, returned to the previous ambush site, and joined the other villagers to prepare for the next step......

They waited for a while, and Ma Si came on his own horse.

Sun Yihuan was very patient, he saw that there was only Ma Si alone, so he decided to let him go first, and then wait and see.

After a while, they finally waited for the forty or so thieves on foot...... When they came here, they had already seen the smoke in the sky, so they were all anxious and out of breath, and because they had used a lot of physical strength to carry things during the robbery in the village before, they were already at the end of their crossbows.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Sun Yihu gave an order, and the villagers hiding on both sides of the road suddenly came out and threw dozens of "poisonous explosive bombs" that Huang Donglai had taught them to prepare into the crowd.

The bandits were already running forward, and they had no time to pay attention to the situation on both sides, so they were startled by the sudden attack of the men and horses in the woods, and many of them themselves were unsteady on their feet, fell to the ground, and then tripped over the people behind them, and trampled on each other...... Forty people were in chaos in the blink of an eye.

The villagers, on the other hand, covered their faces with uniformly colored red cloths, and threw the poisonous powder packets made of dog skin plaster and strings, wrapped in the "Huang's unique formula", to the bandits; for a while, the coughing and screaming were incessant, and some of the thieves inhaled the poisonous powder, fell to the ground on the spot, and some of their eyes were blinded by the poisonous dust, and they couldn't stop crying, and they hurriedly took the knife in their hands and slashed at their companions......

By the time the poisonous powder gradually dispersed, nearly 30 of the more than 40 bandits had fallen to the ground or were wounded, and the rest were also panicked, looking at the masked people around them and thinking that they had been blackened.

At this time, Sun Yixiang picked up the trident and shouted: "Kill me!"

The farmer's morale was greatly boosted by his drink, and he copied all kinds of long weapons (mainly farm tools) from both sides of the road to cover them up, and vented the hatred and anger accumulated over the years on these bandits, who had already collapsed.

When they were on the rise, they washed their faces in the village, and for safety reasons (for fear of being hacked to death by their own people who were red-eyed), Huang Donglai, who had also changed his clothes, also arrived.

The addition of Huang Donglai completely extinguished the hope of those bandits to fight back.

Not long after, these bandits who had been rampant in the Baijiling area for many years were wiped out here.

It is also at this moment...... Ma Four, one man and one rider, appeared on the hillside at the end of the road.