074. The Desperate Situation of the Rogue (Part 1)
Yunxi's death shocked Beixi greatly. According to what he said before, he could indeed leave. After the identities of the bandits were exposed, they had no other choice but to kill and silence them, otherwise returning to the city would be a dead end.
The next battle is a decisive battle that everyone must fight for, and Beixi does not want to participate in it anymore.
Huwa glanced at Panhu at the door. The dog had just gone out for a walk. He sighed and asked, "I can completely understand Mr. Beixi's concerns. If you want to leave now, I have no reason to force you."
Stay, but do you think you can still leave? That group of bandits did not live on the other side of the Baixi River today, but lived in an empty house outside the village wall."
After the bandits retreated today, they did not return to the other side of Baixi River to assemble. Since the villagers of Baixi Village did not cross the wall to pursue them, they calmly moved to the vacant houses outside the wall. The purpose of the bandits' doing this is obvious.
I don't want anyone in the village to have the chance to escape during the night.
The circle of houses outside the village wall in Baixi Village have all been demolished, but there are still many villagers' residences further away, which are now occupied by rogue bandits. No matter who it is, as soon as they step out of the village, they will be immediately discovered and attacked.
Intercept and kill. The leader of the rogue bandits has obviously realized that their identities may have been exposed, so they will never leave any survivors alive and will only massacre Baixi Village.
If the rogue bandits initially came for the treasures buried in the village, then even if they could not grab the treasures, they could not stop now. If the news was spread back to the city, they would all have committed a capital crime or even the crime of annihilation. Bei
Xi wanted to leave now, but it was already too late. The bandits had already prepared a desperate plan. Can he leave alone?
Beixi obviously understood what Huwa meant, and his shoulders could not help but tremble slightly in the darkness. Huwa added: "You don't have to worry too much. It's not us but them who can't afford the time. We must take the initiative to attack and launch a decisive battle."
They were the ones responsible. That group of bandits suffered nearly half of their casualties. Since we were able to defeat them twice by relying on the village, we can also win the final battle."
Beixi said in a trembling voice: "Young sir, you should know the difference between elite military formations and ordinary villagers. Relying on the village wall and with masters holding down the formation, Baixi Village can still defend it, but once we cannot withstand it, the villagers will be completely defeated.
, victory or defeat can only change in an instant. If the bandits want to win, they must deal with you and me first."
Huwa comforted him again and said: "Of course I know how powerful the military formation is, but they are also human beings. They have been hungry for so long after continuous fierce battles. Even if they want to fight desperately, how can they still have the original fighting strength? And the villagers inside the village wall have suffered casualties.
Although it is heavy, its strength is not really damaged."
Beixi asked in surprise: "Have they been hungry for a long time?"
Huwa: "Of course, they didn't expect to spend so long with Baixi Village. It's good to be able to bring a meal of dry food with them. And can they find food to feed so many people around the village?"
Huwa was right, those bandits had been hungry all day. Every year in spring, summer, autumn and winter, the city would send out a military formation to patrol the roads connecting various villages throughout the territory. This was a way to protect the environment and the people.
Symbolism. This year's routine patrol after the onset of winter happened to be the turn of the first team led by Nong Neng. The sacking of Baixi Village was something that had been planned for a long time.
During the routine patrol, the military formation reached a deserted place. They suddenly entered the wilderness, changed their clothes, and went near Baixi Village. They planned to make a surprise attack and then quickly returned, regained their appearance and continued to patrol the city walls. No one could find the flaw. They
The planned operation was very short, and he didn't even bring long weapons or bows and arrows. How could he carry a lot of dry food on his back? He only had one meal at most.
The villagers of Baixi Village have long moved the food stored by each family into the village wall. The only edible food outside the village is the sweet potato grown on the west hillside. But the sweet potato has been dug up by the pig-headed people.
.Although there are many empty houses left by the villagers, there is no food in them.
There are no large wild animals around Baixi Village. If you want to hunt, you won't be able to find many prey. Moreover, they don't bring bows and arrows, and it is difficult to hunt with swords and shields. Even if they are lucky, they can catch a few rabbits and other small animals nearby.
, how can there be enough to fill the bellies of so many people?
The bandits could have withdrawn, but now they have no way to retreat. They can only stay outside the village and try to win a decisive battle in the shortest possible time. Because as long as they leave, they cannot prevent Baixi Village from spreading the news, at least like
Experts like Beixi and Huwa can quickly rush to other villages or city walls to report the news.
When Huwa clarified the situation of the bandits, Beixi finally felt a lot more at ease. He praised: "Young master, you had a brilliant plan. You knew that the bandits didn't bring enough dry food, so you let the pig-headed men dig up the mountains outside the village."
Potatoes, leaving them hungry."
Huwa smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't know the identity of the bandits earlier, how could I have thought of so much. Letting the Shanjiao people dig up the potatoes was just compensation from Baixi Village to persuade them not to cooperate with the bandits to attack the village. But now looking back
,Thankfully I did this!”
While the two were talking, snowflakes suddenly fell in the courtyard outside the house. This was the first snow here since the beginning of winter this year, and it actually fell heavily. The falling snow soon dyed the village and the mountains in a fog.
The layer of snow was white. This sudden heavy snow also forced the bandits into a desperate situation.
The bandits had houses to live in, and they could light fires in the houses to keep out the cold, but they had nothing to eat, and it was impossible to evacuate because the heavy snow would clearly expose their tracks. Beixi stood up and said, "The bandits arrived before noon yesterday.
, if they only bring one meal of dry food, they will definitely not be able to wait much longer, and they will launch a decisive battle after dawn tomorrow at the latest, so I need to inform Lingbao immediately."
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In the southeast corner of the village, in a very spacious courtyard, there was a blazing fire burning in the house. On the fire, a skinned rabbit was stuck with a branch and was roasting until it was sizzling. But there was no one else in the house, only the bandit.
The two leaders, the eldest and the third.
The third child was injured yesterday. His thigh was stabbed by Shigure's slashing knife. Although the injury was not serious, he still had some difficulty in moving, so he did not participate in today's dawn raid. The second child who accompanied the boss lost his life.
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I just heard the boss say: "There is no prey around here. The villagers have also moved all the food. The brothers only caught a few rabbits. You are injured and cannot starve. The decisive battle is imminent, so you should eat your fill quickly."
The third child shook his head and said: "Sir, you are the main force in the decisive battle. You can't go hungry." There were no outsiders at this moment, and the mentality of the bandits had obviously changed. They no longer cared about being exposed or not. The third child called him boss again.
as "adult".
The boss waved his hand and said: "I am a monk in the Four Realms. During my cultivation, I can live without food."
The third child: "Bigu is just a kind of practice, and it is not suitable for such a fierce battle. You still need to eat... Ordinarily these foods should be given to the wounded, but the decisive battle is imminent, so only the elites who are not injured can eat first.
Order something."
The boss was no longer wearing a mask at this time, and his face was clearly that of Nong Neng, the captain of Feihong City's first military formation. He said with a gloomy face: "Now we are in a desperate situation and must massacre Baixi Village. But even if we don't leave a single person alive,
, how can you explain that you were delayed for so long and suffered so many casualties during your routine patrol after you return?"
Even if they could kill people and silence them, they still couldn't explain this matter. Originally, they only visited the city symbolically every quarter. Such an elite army would not suffer such casualties unless it encountered a fierce battle with an extremely powerful enemy. This
The gangsters' first two crimes went smoothly, and although they encountered some troubles the second time, there were no casualties, but this time they couldn't hide it anyway.
The third child said: "The only way for the brothers to survive now is to blame the pig-headed men and announce to the outside world that the monsters colluded with the bandits to massacre Baixi Village. We just happened to discover it during our routine patrol and started a fierce battle. Then it will be over.
Those pig-headed men can't explain it even if they want to, and the city lord will only believe us and not the monsters."
Nong Neng nodded and said: "This is indeed our only chance to survive, and those monsters also came to the village yesterday to harass and robbed a lot of sweet potatoes. They are not involved. I saw Beixi and Ling during the fierce battle.
Bao, as for our identity, they should have guessed it. But those pig-headed men can't know it clearly. They can only take the blame for the so-called bandits."
The third child frowned again and said: "Putting the matter on the monster clan is the only option, but we suffered nearly half of the casualties in two fierce battles, and the brothers are also hungry. The villagers of Baixi Village have obviously been trained, and there are also masters
If we stay in power, even if we risk our lives to massacre the entire village, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive for a few people."
Nong Neng: "Then what should we do? You always have the best ideas. Is there any other way?"
Lao San gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, there is another way we can try, which is to negotiate with Baixi Village."
Nong Neng said in surprise: "Now that we are in a life-and-death situation, they are still willing to negotiate with us? And Baixi Village cannot leave any more people alive, otherwise the news will spread and the brothers will have no way to survive."
The third child: "Why can't we talk? We can reveal our identity and speak clearly. Now we have been forced into a desperate situation where we must kill the village to death. If we do that, it will not be a good thing for anyone. We can let Baixi Village go, but
The masters in the village and all the villagers must swear an oath to report to the city wall according to what we just said. As long as they do this, they will be guilty of the same crime, and it will be too late to change their words, and you and I still have enough time to deal with it."
Nong Neng: "So, we have made great contributions to the city wall, and the brothers who were injured or killed can also receive compensation. But can Baixi Village agree?"
The third child: "Whether they agree or not, we have to try. Although their current casualties are heavy, they have not damaged the foundation of the village. If we are forced to fight to the death, it will be an unbearable price. As long as I can retreat
, and can keep oneself alive, it is not impossible to agree.
What's more, negotiation can also play a role, which is to dispel the fighting spirit of those villagers. Since they see the opportunity to survive, who must fight for their lives? But there is only one consequence of doing so, that is, someone will be lax in the future and leak the truth.
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Nong Neng pondered: "We can only talk about the future in the future. We have to pass the current hurdle first. If Baixi Village agrees, even if some villagers change their words in the future, it will not be trustworthy. After all, they are the ones who said it first. How can we
What about slandering the military formations guarding the city? And after this incident, you and I don’t want to stay in Feihong City for a long time. Pack your things and leave as soon as possible.” (To be continued..)