Chapter 278 It's not a big deal if you can solve it with money
Sure enough, I saw the horse bandits occupying several small mounds of hills jumping towards the convoy with flying ropes. Their movements were surprisingly consistent and fast. It seemed like they had done it countless times before.
Lei Lei stretched out his hand and made a retreating gesture, and the guards beside the carriage took a few steps back.
The horse bandits hooked onto the carriage as if they were in an uninhabited area, quickly occupied the carriage, and tried to drive the carriage away with a wave of the horse rope.
Lei Lei shouted loudly: "Come on, capture them alive."
Yun Wu looked down and saw that their people had surrounded the horse bandits who had landed. It was difficult to break out.
The second leader shouted: "No, brothers, leave the carriage and fly away!"
Ye Shang hugged Yun Wu and jumped down the hill. He flew in front of him and kicked him to the ground: "Want to leave?"
Yun Wu went up and followed her, put her hands on her hips and said angrily: "Ask your aunt if she agrees, arrest them all, and those who want to escape, just hide and die, don't leave any survivors."
A row of archers rushed out and drew their bows to dodge the horse bandits who were trying to fly away. Several of them flew into the air and were shot down.
Yun Wu looked down at the second leader lying on the ground: "I think you should be a smart person, why don't you guess if one of you can escape now?"
The second leader's tanned wheat face looked helpless: "I have advised the eldest brother not to come to rob me, but they didn't listen. It's over. This time I really lost my wife and lost my troops."
"At least you can save your life by letting them be captured." Yun Wu advised.
The second boss looked towards the big boss: "Brother, surrender, you can't beat me."
One look at their guards and you can tell that they are made from licking blood from the knife edges, and they are better trained than these horse bandits.
If you continue to fight, it will undoubtedly be an egg against a rock. If you surrender without killing, at least you can save one life.
The big boss looked at the brother who fell down from the flying rope and shouted angrily: "Fuck! You've been tricked!"
Who could have imagined that a convoy of wealthy people would actually bring such strong troops, and those guards were all real soldiers!
Much stronger than these old and young remnants.
"Hey, what kind of background are you bringing so many archers with you when you go out for fun?"
These archers are really accurate. They can hit the fleeing brothers with one arrow and knock them down.
"Brother, I told you that these people are untouchable." The second leader was lying on the ground, looking at the blue sky with a look of despair.
What's the point of trying to dissuade him again? The eldest brother won't listen to his advice as soon as he gets the upper hand.
He could still be persuaded before, but recently because he couldn't get any good food from the robbery, he became increasingly frustrated.
If you can't keep your temper, you'll get beaten.
The big boss also sat down on the ground. The dart on his leg was so painful that he gritted his teeth, but he did not dare to take it out for fear of heavy bleeding.
"If you lose, you lose. What do you want?" the big boss yelled.
The boys next to him all gathered around him.
He Lianfeng and Helianjue jumped out of the carriage and walked over. When the big boss saw their faces, their expressions changed.
"The eldest prince?" Damn, how could he be so unlucky to snatch something from the royal family of Daxia!
The second leader raised his head and glanced at He Lianfeng and He Lianjue, then closed his eyes and fainted.
"Second Master!" Several brothers rushed over: "Second Master, what's wrong with you? Second Master, you can't faint. What should we do if you faint? Please think of a solution quickly."
The big boss dragged his legs and rushed over: "Second brother, it was me who harmed you. It was me who didn't listen to your advice. We have been hungry for too long. I just want to grab some food and go back..."
He Lianfeng looked at him. He had a beard on his face and his hair was as dry and yellow as weeds. It was hard to tell who he was.
"Who are you and how do you recognize this king?" He Lianfeng asked.
"I once followed General Lu into the palace to thank him and met the fourth prince." The big boss replied.
"Who are you?"
Since he was a person who had entered the palace and was a subordinate of General Lu, how could he be reduced to a horse bandit?
The big boss laughed at himself: "It's normal for the eldest prince not to know the small people. The small people are just a hundred households. They were injured on the battlefield and couldn't use their left hand to use force. After that, they were kicked out of the barracks."
He Lianfeng frowned: "Even if you are disarmed and returned to the fields, you will not fall into the trap of becoming a bandit. After all, you were a member of a hundred households before. Don't you have any sympathy after being disarmed?"
"There was no compassionate compensation at all. It was all withheld by King Anren. Many of our brothers were soldiers who were disabled and driven away at that time. We didn't get any compassionate money, not even a grain of rice!
Many injuries last a lifetime. If your body is not good enough, no one wants to work. How can you survive without falling into trouble?"
Yun Wu asked doubtfully: "No one wants your work, but you can actually rob it?"
Only then did she take a closer look. Among the horse bandits who had just rushed towards the second leader, some had their hands cut off in half, some were walking lamely, and some were missing an ear.
Yun Wu's heart tightened, as these disabled people had occupied this trade road for so long with their cruel bodies.
No wonder so many of them don't fight head-on, but use zip lines to sneak attack, rob and run away.
Men who were injured while fighting for their country could not get any sympathy or find any work.
How can they not turn into bandits? This is forcing people to become bandits.
"My second brother invented the flying rope and the repeating crossbow. We use these things to rob property. Moreover, we are soldiers and have the foundation. Although we have difficulty in moving, our execution ability is better than ordinary people."
The big boss said with some pride: "We are not useless!"
He was suddenly very angry: "But no one wants us! They despise us for being disabled! They would rather hire those who are powerless than physically mutilate us!"
Yun Wu looked at He Lianfeng and He Lianjue: "They are all disabled soldiers who have been disarmed from your country. What do you say?"
Helianjue said angrily: "What on earth is the emperor going to do when he embezzles so much money? Does he really want to rebel?"
He Lianfeng laughed: "Why do you still call me Imperial Uncle? He is already a prisoner of the imperial court and has been demoted to a commoner long ago. He has really caused misery to many people!"
If the compassion for the disabled had not been withheld, how could these people have difficulty making a living and be forced to become bandits?
If it weren't for these horse bandits, how could those caravans have been robbed, and how could the prices of various goods shipped from other countries have increased several times.
How can the people of Daxia bear such high expenses!
Link by link, it seems like one thing, but it involves the entire Daxia Kingdom.
"Brother Wang, what should we do with these people?" Helianjue couldn't believe that the emperor's uncle would deduct compassionate compensation from the disabled.
And he couldn't believe that these people, dragging their disabled bodies, had stayed here for so long as bandits.
If he were in Guanzhong, he would never have imagined such a thing.
It's really as incredible as those words written in the notebook.
"Fourth brother, you are the closest to the emperor's uncle on weekdays. Please tell me how to deal with it." He Lianfeng threw the question back to Helian Jue.
Helianjue: "..."
"Why don't you give them some money and let them go and let them do some small business..."
Helian felt that there was nothing else but that he had a lot of money and anything that could be solved with money would be easy to handle.