Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five: Chastity and Martyr Shen Chunniang
An Chun led six young archers to crawl up a slope. From a distance, he saw a dilapidated camp standing on the south slope of the top of the mountain. Hundreds of homeless bandits gathered around the fire and cursed.
Noisy.
There were not enough tents at all, and old and young women with dull and dirty expressions were huddled in the haphazardly built shacks, making the whole place look like a refugee camp.
Song Wen couldn't help but brought a few of the best young men to touch him. An Chun turned around and whispered: "Brother, I counted more than seventy strong men in total, but there are less than 70 men with swords, guns and iron weapons."
Thirty, not a single bow or arrow!"
Song Wen made an estimate and nodded: "It's best to start when it's dark. These guys don't eat well. I guess many of them are blindfolded by night blindness..."
An Chun nodded, but before he spoke... Suddenly there was a noise at the entrance of a tent in the camp, and a man ran out with bloodstains on his upper body and his pants pulled up...
"nnd, this stinky bitch is not afraid of death! She actually stabbed me with a hairpin... Come on, two people who know how to bandage me, that bitch almost smashed her head on the pillar!"
Song Wen was stunned for a moment, and a rush of blood rushed into his head... Chun Niang, Chun Niang... A woman who was born in a brothel actually chose to commit suicide to prevent the thieves from insulting her!!!
Song Wen gritted his teeth and roared behind him: "The sword and shield soldiers are in front and the spearmen are in the back. The archers listen to my orders and shoot out all the arrows at once!"
Chun Niang came to Qingshan Village not long ago, but this woman with a cheerful personality has already won the love of everyone in the village! Her plump and swaying figure has made many young people's hearts flutter... The biggest dream of young people when they brag in private is
In the future, I will find a beautiful and cheerful woman like Sister Chunniang...
The news that Chun Niang had been killed instantly ignited the anger of all the hot-blooded young people. Everyone gathered on the other side of the slope with their waist knives, shields and spears tightly, looking at the gentleman Song Wen in front of them.
Song Wen used his last sanity to wait for the results of the other teenagers' investigation. An Chun saw three teenagers on a high hill quickly pounced on and pinned a sleepy thief on sentry duty to the ground. The most courageous teenager
He picked up the back of the knife and hit the thief hard on the back of the head!
Blood spurted out, and the unfortunate ghost kicked his legs a few times... and died.
Several teenagers were stunned for a moment, as if they were a little panicked because of the murder!
An Chun turned around and waved his hand, and Song Wen stood up fiercely, pointed the saber in his hand at the center of the camp where the most young thieves were, and shouted... "The officers and soldiers are suppressing the bandits! Kneel down and beg for mercy. Anyone who resists will be killed!"
More than a dozen feathered arrows flew out in a whoosh, and the miserable screams of those who were hit by the arrows were immediately heard from the still dazed thieves...
The distance was too far, and the hunting bow could not reach the thieves in the center. Several of the refugees on the periphery were injured by arrows! On the contrary, An Chun and the two good shooters set up powerful crossbows and shot them to death directly.
One shot and wounded two thieves, but the shirtless guy was still a bit bloody. He picked up a simple sword and howled for all his men to gather together to fight the enemy!
The camp was in chaos. Taoshan County was a poor and poor place. It was far away from the Grand Post Road and the official canal road. It had no specialty mines and not even much good farmland, so it couldn't support many local soldiers and warriors.
In addition, it is not far from Bianliang, the capital. The Forbidden Army either defends Bianliang or guards against the Liao and Xixia people on the border. Instead, this group of refugee gangsters reigned supreme here for a long time...
Because it is a lower-class county, there is not even a county magistrate. One county captain and one chief clerk are the ones who call the shots. The chief clerk only wants to live in peace and quiet for three years so that he can be transferred out of this remote place. The county captain is also afraid of being chased.
Responsible... so I didn't report the incident of this group of homeless gangsters to the police at all!
This leader knew very well that there were less than fifty local soldiers and warriors in Taoshan County, plus a dozen official servants, which was more than enough to defend the county town, but it was a fantasy to come out to suppress bandits!
To the west of Taoshan County, there is a group of water bandits near the river bend with thirty or forty people. Further north in Daqingshan, there is a group of real strongmen. It is said that there are three leaders who have gathered hundreds of thieves.
Robbery and kidnapping are flourishing at the border between the two counties.
With so many thieves, which one does Taoshan County dare to deal with? The chief official of Gouxian County does not even dare to come out of the county seat. This place is only a few hundred miles away from Bianliang... But they dare not report the crime to avoid affecting their political performance!
Suppressing bandits...I don't believe it? Even if they come, what will happen? A few rotten country soldiers can't even get a few copper coins all year round...How can they come out to fight against desperadoes like myself?
Hei San carried a simple sword and gathered a dozen of his cronies. It was with these people that Hei San was able to hijack more than a hundred refugees...
Hei San looked at the dozen or so young men in Tsing Yi who were still shooting arrows on the slope on the left, and immediately felt relieved!
They didn't even have the shabby mandarin duck jackets worn by the rural soldiers, and there was no flag. It seemed that they were a ragtag group of people temporarily recruited from Taoshan County! They probably wanted to pick some soft persimmons to gain some military exploits... If they were full, there would be thirty or fifty of them.
It’s overwhelming!
Hei San took the surname Man and kicked a trembling old refugee to the ground, who was scurrying with his head in his arms. The old man's broken teeth mixed with blood spurted all over the floor...
Hei San howled: "Why are you panicking? The dog soldiers and dog officials in Taoshan County can't even get together the swords and guns, so what can we do to kill the grandfathers? We, the seventy-odd men, will disperse them all together..."
...Kill the leader of this gang. The two dog officials in Taoshan County will be scared out of their wits. Let's take advantage of the situation and kill in Taoshan County...break the county seat, drink, eat meat, steal money, and women, and we will be officials and emperors for a few days.
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Thirty or so of Hei's henchmen began to gather the homeless thieves with swords and guns, kicking and beating them. They held up a pile of broken door panels, coffin lids, etc. to resist the few arrows, and then rushed out of the village gate in a swarm of swarms.
The two earth slopes were not far apart. Hei Sanyi took the lead and was the first to reach the bottom of the slope with his sword. When he looked up... it was like five thunders hitting the top!
A dozen archers had already retreated to the right side of the slope, with their bows and arrows aimed at the exit of the mountain col. A complete military formation rumbled on the slope...
A row of brand-new and neat iron and wooden shields were arranged in front, with more than a dozen sharp spears pointing directly at the heads of people like myself, and behind the shields were densely packed rows of young people holding knives and shields... There were no flags, drums, or sounds.
, a large group of soldiers, all wearing short blue clothes and jackets, stood silently on the slope and stared at them.
Hei San swallowed and turned around to find a way out, nnd... something is wrong! Since when did Taoshan County have such a group of rural soldiers who don't even have military uniforms?
What about the official army? Where are the dozens of rural soldiers guarding the county? Are they not planning to kill all the grandfathers from the other side?
Hei Sanyi gritted his teeth and shouted: "We are all bastards who can't survive. They are unwilling to trade their lives with us. Kill them! If we kill them, Taoshan County will be ours...kill them!"
A dozen of the most trusted thieves waved their weapons, inciting the remaining dozens of stupid and frightened refugee bandits to charge towards the mountain... I have seen bold and courageous people rushing forward, shouting and howling, waving iron rakes, knives and spears.
Song Wen roared... "Charge in formation! Avenge the brothers and Sister Chun Niang..."
"Ah! Come on! Ah...ah..."
With a huff, the young men who were already excited roared in unison, and the battle formation that had been easily arranged instantly disintegrated... Song Wen sadly discovered that the older boys in the first few rows, who were physically strong, instantly left their companions behind, and then
The sword and shield soldiers and spearmen formed a group and rushed towards the thieves who were charging up the bottom of the slope. This chapter has been completed!