Zoumazhai is located in the mountains of Baijiling.
It’s not a deep mountain, it’s a mountain.
Because mountains that are too deep are difficult to walk and drive, which will make it inconvenient for bandits to rob and transport supplies, so in fact, most cottages will not choose that type of transportation, which is very inconvenient. place.
Zoumazhai is a standard small village. The land is enclosed as a village, and simple walls are built with stones and wood. Dozens of bandits gather inside to rob the houses.
Copyright villages are 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 small business in the cottage; they only It only needs a place to eat and sleep, as well as a warehouse to store horses, weapons and grain, so the area is not very large.
The materials in the village were almost used up, so they went out to grab them; when they were short of women, they went out to grab them too. Most of the women they captured and tortured died within a few days, and some committed suicide on the same day. This was common. Anyway, they threw the bodies into the mountains and were eaten clean by wild beasts in a long time.
Zoumazhai is not just invading Nanyuan Village. After all, there are more than fifty bandits in the village, which is equivalent to more than fifty bandits who only know how to eat and drink but not A man who creates any wealth cannot be supported by a small Nanyuan Village; there are three other villages in Baijiling area, located at different distances, and they are often robbed and oppressed by them, but Nanyuan Village Because it is the closest, the intrusion is the most serious.
There are various reasons why this Troubled Horse Village is so rampant.
First of all, they specifically chose an area where the government had no care to set up camp, which was very smart.
Although the court during the Yongtai period could not be said to be very dark, there were definitely not so many officials who loved the people as their own children and hated evil as much as their enemies. In an officialdom where "nothing can be done as much as possible, I will never care about it", few people would Take the initiative to take care of things that are not clearly within your jurisdiction... Because if you do this kind of thing well, no one will say good about you, but if you do it badly, it will affect your career.
Secondly, every time Zoumazhai goes out to rob women of money and food, they also have a certain degree of "measurement". They know very well where the bottom line of the people is, because most of them are from nearby villages. The local ruffians understand that as long as you don't kill too many people or rob too many people at once, and give the people a period of time to relax after each robbery, these villagers will not be able to fight back.
Occasionally, one or two families go out to report to the government, but it doesn't cause any trouble at all; the villagers in the mountains and fields, who can't afford a lawyer and can't write a petition, go to the government office to beat the grievance drum and ignore it. If you are wronged or not, you have to get forty blows first. Most people are beaten to death before they can file a complaint.
If you go to the extreme and rob a family of their daughter-in-law, husband, elders, and children, and wipe out the family, there will be no one to sue.
Can your next door neighbor risk his life to file a lawsuit on your behalf? Impossible.
This is human nature,As long as you are still alive and the fire does not burn you, you can endure some things.
So, today, the people in Zoumazhai will not really drive out all the villagers in Nanyuan Village. They don’t dare to do this. If they really want to do this, the government will have to do it even if they don’t want to. .
They just wanted to frighten these villagers, and used the incident of Wang being rescued by Sun Yixie yesterday as an excuse to grab more things, and then kill a few leaders who wanted to resist. This "reminder" to these villagers serves as a warning to the monkeys.
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As promised yesterday, at the end of the day, the leader of the village, Ma Si, ordered all the people and horses to get ready to go.
It is not difficult to see from the previous article that Ma Si, the leader of this village, is also a figure.
Although he cannot be said to be extremely resourceful, he is still somewhat intelligent. The fact that the Zoumazhai has been able to run rampant here for many years is all due to his planning. Otherwise, it would have been destroyed long ago just by the gang of ruffians below. Served.
As for martial arts, Ma Si is also good at it. When he was a teenager, he studied under "Huizhou Hundred Jin Sword Zhao Pozhao". He learned swordsmanship for ten years and learned all the true inheritance of Zhao Pozhao. But his master never expected that Ma Si had a human face and a beast's heart. He had long coveted the beauty of the daughter of the Zhao family. One night, Ma Si sneaked into the young lady's boudoir and committed adultery. He got angry and killed her. After that, he never stopped doing anything and took advantage of the night. A sneak attack killed all eight members of Master's family, burned all the evidence with fire, and escaped overnight with the Zhao family's confidants. After that, he did many cases in various places, until he came to Baijiling a few years ago, pulled up the mountain and became the king of the mountain.
The bandits in Zoumazhai all learned one and a half moves from Ma Si after entering the village, so they are basically all swordsmen. How powerful is this group of people... ...It’s about the same as Huang Donglai expected. It’s not that strong, but it’s definitely better than the average person who has never practiced martial arts at all.
In this way, more than forty bandits and twenty horses set off towards Nanyuan Village.
Why doesn’t everyone ride a horse? Because the cost of equipping each bandit with a horse is too high... It allows you to ride a horse that can kill people. It is all trained and different from ordinary horse riding, and the saddle and hoofs are also required. It is very troublesome to regularly go to the cobbler and blacksmith in the nearby village for maintenance; if you are a bandit of the size of Shuibo Liangshan, it is possible to afford it, and an average small village can have twenty or thirty horses. It's like in the TV series... In a village of more than a hundred people, more than a hundred people all rush out on horseback. That's absolutely nonsense. With such professional operation capabilities, you can just switch to a horse trader, which is more profitable than being a bandit.
I've gone off topic again... let's get back to the topic.
At Shenshi, Ma Si led the horse team to the entrance of the village first. He saw no one at a glance, and there was not even a wisp of smoke in the village.
Seeing such an abnormal scene, Ma Si naturally muttered in his heart: "Huh...are you trying to play an empty city with me?"
Ma Si is not Sima Yi. He won't turn around and run away because he thinks too much;After waiting for a while at the entrance of the village, when the twenty or so people walking behind arrived, he ordered five minions to go into the village to explore the way.
Those were five bandits, not regular troops. When the bandits execute orders, they have to look at the situation... They also know in their hearts that if there is an ambush in the village, then they will be cannon fodder and die. It would be a waste to die, so they were very cautious in exploring the path, which can be said to be timid and procrastinating.
After about an incense stick (about half an hour), these five guys were still wandering around the entrance of the village, and they had only broken into a dozen houses in total.
Ma Si was a little tired sitting on the horse, and finally said impatiently: "Okay! Stop searching! Come into the village and grab whatever you see! Whoever grabs more points can get it "More!"
As soon as this was said, everyone, especially the five who had just entered the village, rushed into the village as if they had been suddenly hit with blood, and began to plunder wildly.
The robbery lasted for a long time, and these guys almost emptied the village of grain stores and valuables from people's homes; the twenty people who came on horseback, except for the village owner Ma Si, In addition, everyone has dismounted from their horses, because the backs of the nineteen horses are all tied with heavy cargo... All the bandits also have satisfied smiles on their faces, even Sun Yixie who was killed yesterday The two men who were scared away had also forgotten their original purpose of coming today.
Ma Si thought: "Perhaps the people in this village were frightened and ran into the mountains to hide in order to save their lives. They thought that if we robbed them of money and food, we would not do anything to them."< /p>
After reaching this conclusion, he didn't care much about the "empty city strategy".
Unexpectedly, at this moment...
"Zhai——Master——" a roar suddenly came from the road outside the village.
Not long after, a gray-faced bandit with scorch marks all over his body crawled up to Ma Si and said with a cry: "Zhao! It's not good! We... …Our village has been taken over! Go back and take a look!”
“What?” Ma Si was shocked when he heard this, and then shouted, “What’s going on?” /p>
"Haah...haah..." The guy was also running in a hurry. He took two deep breaths and then said, "You...not long after you left, a man came in front of the village gate. The man named Sun Yixie and the man named Huang Donglai were clamoring to kill you... When the brothers saw that there were only two of them, they opened the village gate and came out, intending to tie them up and hand them over to you to be cut into pieces, but who knew? These two people are very powerful in martial arts. The brothers are no match for each other. They died and were seriously injured. They even set fire to the village. The younger one also tried his best to escape and report to you..."
"That's unreasonable!" Before Ma Si could wait for the gangster to finish what he said, he yelled an order at the people and horses around him, "Young men! Follow me back to the village quickly! Leave your things on the horse and pick them up later!"
The bandits are really obedient this time, because they are also really anxious...My hometown has been replaced, can you not be anxious? If the little bit of softness I hid is gone, what if the copycatWhere will they go if the fire is gone?
So, Ma Si took the lead and galloped towards the mountain stronghold.
The remaining forty bandits all threw the things they had just robbed on their horses or on the ground, and hurriedly started running back along the road.
The two places were neither close nor far apart. After the horse walked for a moment, he saw thick smoke rising in the sky in front of him. He suddenly felt angry in his heart. Evil grew out of fear, thinking that the man named Huang and the man named Sun would never be let go.
However, when he rushed back to the village, he found that...the so-called "fire" was actually just a pile of firewood, which was set up and burned in the middle of the village. The walls and houses of the village had no firewood at all. Fire.
He took a closer look and found ten corpses lying on the ground inside the village gate, all of which were his own men.
At this moment, a certain thought flashed through his mind: "I only left ten people in the village, so the one who came to report just now was... Oh no!"
Ma Si knew that he had fallen into the trap, so he quickly turned around and ran back in the direction of Nanyuan Village...
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Today’s "change of homes" The plan was devised by Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie after discussion.
First of all, as early as this morning, when the bandits were still sleeping in, the villagers of Nanyuan Village had already left the village collectively.
The old, weak, women and children in the village hid in the mountains under the organization of the village chief, and the remaining forty or fifty farm men all carried the "poison bombs" and weapons prepared yesterday and followed. Together, Sun and Huang headed towards the path that the bandits must take.
At Shenshi, when two groups of bandits passed the road one after another, the villagers hid in the forest and watched, standing still.
After the bandits were gone, Sun and Huang took more than a dozen relatively strong villagers to the Zoumazhai.
With Huang Donglai's lightness skills, it is easy to climb up the uneven wall of Zoumazhai, and only two of the ten bandits guarding the village are standing guard at the door. Even if they look at Huang Donglai Climbing up the wall couldn't stop him.
After entering the stronghold, Huang Donglai knocked down four of the minions with three punches and two kicks. When the remaining six saw this, they knelt down and surrendered; then, Huang Donglai ordered them to open the door. Village gate.
Sun Yihe and the dozen or so villagers filed in. Seeing their enemies kneeling on the ground and being ambushed, the bitter and resentful villagers rushed forward like crazy and killed those who had already been killed. The bandits who lost their weapons were beaten to death with sticks.
Sun and Huang did not stop these villagers - they were never holy mothers, and they knew that they were not qualified to stop them.
After the villagers calmed down, Sun Yixie directed them to collect some firewood from the village (the bandits also had to make fire for cooking every day), lit a fire, and made a "village quilt". "Burn" illusion.
Huang Donglai went to find bandit clothes, and went to the stove to simply "make up" with pot ashes and charcoal, and then went"Report to the leader of the village."
Soon after he left, Sun Yixie led the villagers to withdraw from the village, returned to the previous ambush site, and met with other villagers to prepare for the next step...
They After waiting for a while, Ma Si rode over alone.
Sun Yixie was very patient. He saw that Ma Si was the only one, so he decided to let him go first and then wait and take a look.
After a while, they finally waited for the more than forty bandits on foot; this group of people...when they arrived here, they had also seen the thick smoke in the sky, so they were alone They were all anxious and panting, and because they had spent a lot of energy moving things during the robbery in the village, they were already at the end of their strength.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Sun Yixie gave an order and the villagers hiding on both sides of the road suddenly rushed out and threw dozens of "poison bombs" prepared by Huang Donglai to the crowd.
The bandits were just running forward and had no time to pay attention to the situation on both sides, so they were startled by the sudden burst of people and horses from the forest. Many of them were unsteady on their feet and fell down. They fell to the ground, then tripped over the people behind them, trampling on each other... The forty people were in chaos in the blink of an eye.
The villagers all covered their faces with red cloth of the same color, and each one made of the backing paper of dog skin plaster and tied with string, wrapped in "Huang's unique formula" of poison. The powder packets were thrown among the bandits; for a while, coughs, choking and screams could be heard. Some of the bandits inhaled the poisonous powder and fell to the ground on the spot. Some of the bandits had their eyes covered by the poisonous dust and could not stop crying. In a hurry, With the knife in his hand, he slashed at his companions...
By the time the poison powder gradually dispersed, nearly thirty of the more than forty bandits had either fallen to the ground or collapsed. The rest of them were injured and panicked. Looking at the masked men around them, they thought they were being tricked.
At this time, Sun Yixie picked up the trident and shouted: "Follow me!"
The morale of the farm men was greatly boosted by his shout. On both sides of the road, various long weapons (mainly farm tools) were carried to cover them up, venting the hatred and anger accumulated over the years on these bandits who had been defeated.
When they were about to kill, Huang Donglai, who had washed his face in the village and changed his clothes for safety reasons (for fear of being hacked to death by one of his own people who were red-eyed), also arrived. .
Huang Donglai's joining completely extinguished the bandits' hope of counterattack.
Not long after, these bandits from Zoumazhai, who had been running rampant in the Baijiling area for many years, were completely wiped out here.
It was at this moment... Ma Si, one man and one horse, appeared on the hillside at the end of the road.