There were only a few hundred refugees in this small settlement. Ren Xiaosu saw children running around at the door of the earth kiln dug in the distance. It seemed that this small settlement had been taking shape for a long time.
There are many small rivers in the river valley area. When Xiaosu thought about it, places with rivers should be lush and lush, but the river valley area was not.
A large area of the ground has become sandy. When the river passes by, it will wash away the soil on both sides of the river. Maybe in a few years, this river bed will form a new valley, waiting for the dry season. Or when a river changes its course, it will leave a scar-like valley on the ground.
The entire land seems to have been cut out by water flow.
The place chosen by the refugees is relatively flat and suitable for growing crops.
Originally, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin planned to live here for a while and learn more about the banditry in the entire area with the refugees here.
As a result, while they were talking, smoke and dust suddenly rose from the distance. Looking from a distance, they thought there was a small sandstorm.
An aunt asked nervously: "Why are people here again? Whose family is this time?"
Ren Xiaosu asked: "Are those bandits coming?"< /p>
"Aren't they just bandits? The smoke and dust are the sand kicked up by the motorcycles they ride," the aunt said as she ran towards the tuyao. She also shouted to the other side: "Take the child quickly." Go back to the kiln."
I saw the bandit team in the distance approaching quickly, and gradually everyone could see the figures. The motorcycles they sat on were like beasts with muscles, and the engine and The sound of the exhaust pipe is like a roaring beast.
This scene is particularly rough and violent.
In the distance, people could still hear the excited roars of these bandits. They saw these refugees as if they were prey.
Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin looked at each other and mingled with the group of refugees, planning to wait and see first.
The refugees seemed to have had experience in dealing with the situation for a long time. After hiding their children, they stood in line on the flat land, as if to greet the chief, but the line was crooked, and each other was in different moods. Not the same.
Ren Xiaosu counted and found that there were more than twenty bandits in this group. They were not considered a force in the entire river valley, but they didn't know how many people were hiding in their lair.
But I saw the group of bandits riding motorcycles and roaring around the refugees. This was a demonstration by the bandits. Circle by circle, the circle they rode in became smaller and smaller, and the refugees He could only huddle up tightly out of fear.
Gradually, when the faces of the refugees showed fear, the bandit team gradually stopped. One man jumped off the motorcycle and pulled down the scarf he used to cover his mouth: "You guys? Are you farming here?"
"Yes, yes," a refugee said in fear, "I have been farming here for several years!"
"What's the point of farming? "The bandit spat on the ground.He spat out the sand in his mouth, and then said with a smile: "I see there are a lot of big men here. Men are born to be passionate. What's the point of hiding here and farming every day?"
“If we don’t plant the land, what will we eat?” the refugees whispered, “We just want to plant some crops so that we can feed ourselves.”
“From today on, you Follow me." The bandit leader patted the face of the homeless man in front of him: "Follow me, you will be popular and drink spicy food. In the past, the consortium bullied you, now follow me to bully the consortium!"
Ren Xiaosu observed! Looking at these people, just like what Yang Xiaojin said, these people's motorcycles are 80% new, and the automatic guns in their hands are newer than the motorcycles. It seems that the equipment has just been updated not long ago.
What is even more exaggerated is that many of these people in the team are carrying two guns on their backs, as if there are too many guns and no place to use them.
Perhaps the new equipment gave the bandits the confidence that more than twenty people dared to bully the consortium...
When the refugees heard this, they found that these people actually wanted to fight against the consortium. Then he was even more frightened: "We don't fight with the consortium, we only farm."
However, the bandit leader's face darkened: "If you don't want to fight, you have to fight. Brothers, give them all." I'll take you back!"
Ren Xiaosu was stunned and thought that they were here to rob people. There were probably too many guns. There were more guns than people, so this group of bandits wanted to expand their size. .
This matter must be related to the civil strife in the bandit den in the north. The entire river valley is now in chaos, and everyone is starting to act unruly!
"Follow them?" Ren Xiaosu asked in a low voice.
“Let’s go,” Yang Xiaojin responded: “Maybe we can learn more about the current situation in the river valley area, and there are only more than twenty of them. If we want to leave, they can’t stop us at all.”< /p>
"What I want to say is, why don't we just kill them..." Ren Xiaosu muttered.
With guns pointed at them, the refugees had no choice but to return to the kiln, take their children, and were escorted all the way north.
The bandit leader was riding a motorcycle and strolling beside the team. The motorcycle made a noisy sound. He shouted proudly: "Don't think that I, Jin Lanjin, are overbearing. If I say that you It is the outermost settlement in the river valley, so I don’t know the situation. The people in the settlements in the north have been robbed by the mountains. Even if we don’t take you away today, others will come tomorrow.”
"But we don't know how to fight," the refugee said with a sad face.
"Who doesn't know how to fight? I'll give you a gun. You don't have to save bullets for me. Just do it! And it doesn't matter if you don't want to fight. You can do other things," Jin Lan haha said with a laugh.
I don’t know what other things Jin Lan is talking about, but this sentence confirms Ren Xiaosu’s guess. It seems that he robbed people because he had too many guns and bullets.
However, Ren Xiaosu thought about whether Qing Zhen and the others would invest here.How much munitions were released, why does it seem that the entire river valley area is in chaos.
If this continues, many people in the river valley will definitely die.
Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. This has been the case since ancient times.
After the war subsides, I am afraid that after the entire valley area is integrated, a very large bandit organization will be born.
Is this Qing Zhen’s purpose, to use killing to screen out the “impurities” in the river valley, so as to achieve the purpose of integrating the bandits in the entire river valley? And then hold this power in his hands?
And he just dropped a batch of guns and bullets, and the group of bandits swelled.
Automatic rifles are rare among bandits, but the consortium knows very well that firearms and bullets are the least valuable.
Although there is no evidence, Ren Xiaosu has determined that this must be Qing Zhen's doing, and there can be no one else.
And Ren Xiaosu was very sure that there must be Qing Zhen's backup force in the river valley area, which was the power he would finally use to integrate the bandits.
At this time, because the Yang family was fighting with the Li family in the south, the defense in the north was empty, and each fort could only have an independent regiment at most.
If this bandit army goes south, the barrier will definitely be unbreakable, but if they want to destroy all the factories outside the barrier, I am afraid that Yang's economy will be suffocated for three years.
At this time, the Yang family probably thought that the northern bandits were nothing to fear. After all, which consortium would take the bandits seriously and just let them play in the mud in the river valley.
The Zong family and the Yang family would probably have a lot of headaches if they were enemies with such an opponent.