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 move around and drive, it will make it inconvenient for bandits to rob and transport supplies. Therefore, in fact, most cottages will not choose places with very inconvenient transportation.
Zoumazhai is a standard small village. It forms a village by enclosing the land and building simple walls with stones and wood. Dozens of bandits gather inside to rob homes and houses.
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 small business in the village; they only need a place to eat and sleep, and It only needs a warehouse to store horses, weapons and grain, so the area is not very large.
When the materials in the village were almost used up, 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.
And 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 uncles who only eat, drink, and do nothing but create no wealth. A small Nanyuan Village cannot afford to support it; there are three other villages in the Baijiling area, located at different distances, and they are often robbed and oppressed by them. However, Nanyuan Village is the closest because it is invaded. The situation is the most serious.
There are various reasons why this Troubled Horse Village is so rampant.
First, 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 cannot 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, it will be ignored", few people would take the initiative to take care of things that were not important to them. Make it clear what matters are within your own jurisdiction... Because if you handle this kind of thing well, no one will say good things about you, but if you handle 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 "measurement". They know very well where the bottom line of the people is, because most of them are ruffians and bullies in nearby villages. They 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 won't be able to fight back.
Occasionally, one or two families go out to report to the government, but it doesn't make any waves at all; 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 drum of grievances, regardless of whether they are grievances or not. Forty bucks, most people are beaten to death before they can file a complaint.
If you go to extreme lengths and rob a family of their daughters-in-law, kill their husbands, elders, and children, and wipe out the whole family, there will be no one to complain.
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.
Therefore, 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 scare 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, to give these villagers a "reminder" ", which plays the role of killing the chicken to scare the monkey.
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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 still has some intelligence. The Zoumazhai has been able to run rampant here for many years because of his planning. Otherwise, it would have been destroyed long ago just because of the gang of ruffians below.
In terms of 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. The combat power of this group of people... is about the same as Huang Donglai estimated. , not very strong, but definitely better than the average person who has never practiced martial arts at all.
Just like that, 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 with 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 change your career and become a horse dealer. It's more profitable than being a bandit.
I'm going 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 looked around and saw no one. There was not even a wisp of smoke in the village.
Seeing such an abnormal sight, Ma Si naturally muttered in his heart: "Ha...are you trying to play an empty city with me?"
Ma Si was not Sima Yi. He would not turn around and run away because he thought too much. He just waited at the entrance of the village for a while. After the twenty or so people walking behind arrived, he gave the order for five minions to go into the village to explore the village. road.
Those were five bandits, not regular troops. When bandits carry out orders, they have to look at the situation... They also know in their hearts that if there is an ambush in the village, they will be cannon fodder, and their death will be in vain, so they This exploration was carried out very cautiously, which can be said to be timid and procrastinating.
After about one stick of incense (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 will get more!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone, especially the five people who had just entered the village, rushed into the village as if they had been suddenly hit with blood, and began to plunder wildly.
This robbery lasted for a long time, and these guys almost emptied the village of grain and valuables from the people's homes. The twenty people who came on horseback, except for the village leader Ma Si, had all dismounted from their horses. Come down, because the backs of the nineteen horses were all tied with heavy cargo... All the bandits also had satisfied smiles on their faces, even the two who were scared away by Sun Yixie yesterday Well, I have also forgotten the original purpose of coming today.
Ma Si thought to himself: "Perhaps the people in this village were frightened and hid in the mountains to save their lives. They thought that if we robbed them of money and food, we would not do anything to them."
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 scorched marks on his clothes crawled up to Ma Si and said in a tearful voice: "Master of the village! It's not good! Our... our village has been taken away. ! Please go back and take a look!"
"What?" Ma Si was shocked when he heard this, and then his anger surged and he shouted, "What's going on?"
"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 named Sun Yixie came to the village gate. A man named Huang Donglai is clamoring to kill you... When the brothers saw that there were only two of them, they opened the village gate and came out. They wanted to tie them up and hand them over to you to cut them into pieces. Who knew that these two people were very skilled in martial arts? It’s amazing. Brothers are no match for us. They were killed and injured. They even set fire to the village. The younger one also fought his life to escape and report to you..."
"That's unreasonable!" Ma Si didn't wait for the gangster to finish what he said, and he shouted an order at the people and horses around him, "Young men! Come back to the village with me 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? Not to mention the little bit of softness they had hidden, if the cottage was burned down, where would they go?
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 and evil in his heart, and his heart was filled with anger. I thought that I must not let go of those surnamed Huang and those surnamed Sun.
However, when he rushed back to the village, he discovered that...the so-called "fire" was actually just a pile of firewood, which was placed in the middle of the village and burned together. The walls and houses of the village did not catch fire at all.
He took a closer look and found ten corpses lying on the ground inside the village gate, all of which were his 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 his horse's head and ran back towards Nanyuan Village...
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Today's "switching family" plan was thought up by Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie together.
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 Sun and Huang towards This is the only way for bandits to pass.
At Shenshi, when two groups of bandits passed the road one after another, the villagers hid in the forest and watched, standing still.
After all the bandits had passed, Sun and Huang took more than a dozen relatively strong villagers to Zoumazhai.
With Huang Donglai's lightness skills, it was easy to climb up the uneven wall of Zoumazhai. Moreover, only two of the ten bandits guarding the village were standing guard at the gate. Even if they watched Huang Donglai climb the wall, they couldn't stop him. he.
After entering the village, Huang Donglai knocked down four of them 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 gate of the village.
Sun Yihe and the dozen or so villagers filed in. When the bitter and resentful villagers saw their enemies kneeling on the ground and being ambushed, they rushed forward like crazy and attacked the bandits who had thrown away their weapons. Beaten to death.
Sun and Huang did not stop these villagers - they had never been 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 created the illusion that the village was burned down.
Huang Donglai went to find the bandit's clothes, and went to the stove to simply "make up" himself with pot ashes and charcoal, and then went to "report to the village leader."
Not long 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 waited for a while, and 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 wait a while to take a look.
After a while, they finally waited for the more than forty bandits on foot. When this group of people... arrived, they had already seen the thick smoke in the sky, so they were all anxious and panting. And because they had spent a lot of energy moving things while robbing 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. Therefore, they were startled by the sudden appearance of men and horses in the forest. Many of them were unsteady on their feet, fell to the ground, and then tripped. They blocked the people behind them and trampled 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, handed poisonous powder packets made from the backing paper of dog skin plaster and tied with string, wrapped in "Huang's unique formula", to the bandits. Throw it away; for a while, the sounds of coughing, choking and screams could be heard endlessly. Some of the bandits inhaled the poisonous powder and fell to the ground on the spot. Some of the bandits were blinded by the poisonous dust and burst into tears. They hurriedly rushed in with the knives in their hands. He was slashing at his companions around him...
By the time the poisonous powder gradually dissipated, nearly thirty of the more than forty bandits had fallen to the ground or were injured. The rest were also panicking, looking at the masked men around them thinking they were being attacked. It's a waste of time.
At this time, Sun Yixie picked up the trident and shouted: "Fight with me!"
The morale of those farm men was greatly boosted by his drink. They came from both sides of the road with various long weapons (mainly farm tools) to kill them. They vented their hatred and anger accumulated over the years on these defeated mountains. On the thief.
When they were getting ready 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 his own red-eyed people), 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, the man and the horse, appeared on the hillside at the end of the road.
