Thousands of people in Heishui Village had nowhere to go at the foot of the mountain. The leaders sent people to Honghuo Village to look for Zhou Yuanbao, but they learned that the fifth master was missing. The group of people suddenly became confused and didn't know what to do next.
After nightfall, snowflakes began to fall from the sky again.
The bandits who are very familiar with the Northeast climate saw the falling snowflakes and knew that the snow tonight was much heavier than the previous light snows. In other words, tonight was the real first snow. This snow fell.
After arriving, the cold will definitely hit you. If you sleep in the wild with nowhere to protect yourself from the cold, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Most people's families are in the mountains and they can't leave even if they want to. Although there are a few singles who have no relatives in the mountains, but in this situation, they don't know where to go, and they don't know where to go even if they want to leave.
After all, if you want to go north, you will definitely not be tolerated by the Siler people on the ground. Songyang Grassland in the south has become a training ground for Long Rui's army. The terrible thing is that it is only a dozen miles away.
Long Rui's army was stationed there with great fanfare. To go south at this time would be to fall into a trap.
The morale of the bandits was now at an extremely low level.
More than a dozen little bosses gathered together, all of them looked solemn, while some sighed and were at a loss.
"The fifth master has disappeared, Du Zitong has blocked Baimuzhai, and the life or death of the first master is uncertain. What can we do?" One person looked sad: "The whole family is still on the mountain, and I can't leave even if I want to."
"There is a message from the mountain asking us to abandon our weapons and surrender, or...!" One person glanced at the other leaders and whispered cautiously: "How about we surrender to the third leader?"
One person sneered and said: "It's easy to surrender, but it's not easy to survive. We are followers of the first master, not his direct descendants. We don't know anything about the situation on the mountain now. The one who made the call said it was the second master and the third master together.
Rebellion, but... we don’t know if it’s true or not. Maybe they are using the banner of second master to deliberately deceive us, just to use the name of second master to scare us and make us surrender. What if this time it’s
The third master wants to usurp the position of Lord of Black Mountain. If we surrender now, we may face disaster."
"Disaster?" Someone frowned and said, "What do you mean? Is it possible that he wants to kill all the thousands of us? The total number of young people in the entire Zijin Village is less than 2,000. Even if they all come out, they will still be dead."
There are not as many people as us, so if he really dares to be ruthless, we will just fight him."
"Confused." The man said angrily: "If he were so stupid, he wouldn't be able to take the position of second master. Let's surrender. Although he won't kill everyone, but...!" Looking around
Circle, looked at the other little leaders and said: "Do you think we, a dozen or so people, can survive? Don't forget, we are all promoted by the big boss. In Shen Xuangan's eyes, we are
A close confidant of the great master, since he created
On the contrary, if you want to take the position of the Lord of Black Mountain, will you still tolerate the leader’s confidants?”
Someone immediately nodded in agreement and said: "What Lao Huang said makes sense. Let's surrender. If Shen Xuangan orders us to go see him, should we go? If we don't go, that means we won't surrender, and he will still hold on.
The village won't let us go up the mountain, but if we really listen to him, if we all go up the mountain, I guess he will have people kill us all immediately." Looking at the small group of people shivering in the cold wind.
The bandits whispered: "Kill us and recover these brothers, and his conspiracy will succeed."
"If you say this, we really can't surrender." Someone woke up and said anxiously: "If you give up your weapons and surrender, you are just waiting to be beheaded by him."
"Then what should we do? If we don't surrender and we can't fight, we just stay at the foot of the mountain and starve and freeze to death? His grandma, if it had been before, would have been lying on the hot bed hugging her mother and soundly asleep.
It's better now, let alone a hot bed, not even a fucking hot bed." One person said bitterly: "It's really not possible to wait for death like this, so I ran to the officers and soldiers and surrendered to them. Last time we attacked the officers and soldiers.
, many brothers were captured by them, and the officers and soldiers were able to release them and give them a way to survive. If we surrender now, the officers and soldiers will never kill us."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone else's expression changed.
"You are crazy." Someone scolded in a low voice: "Go and surrender to the officers and soldiers? Can you imagine that? We just went up the mountain after being harmed by those bastards. Now, I would rather die than surrender to them."
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"Yes, even if I die in the hands of Shen Xuangan, I will not surrender to those thieves. How many people have been killed by the officers and soldiers, and how many of our brothers have died in their hands. If we surrender to them, how can we spare those dead brothers?"
Pass us?"
An older leader shook his head and said: "You can't say that. It was the Liaodong Army that tortured the people, and it cannot be compared with the Long Rui Army."
"Old Jia, the world is as dark as crows. They are all officers and soldiers, there is no difference. Didn't many of our brothers die at the hands of Long Rui's army last time?"
Lao Jia solemnly said: "To be honest, we took the initiative to attack Long Rui's army. If they didn't fight back, were they still waiting for us to kill them? When the two armies fought, casualties were inevitable. In the past, the Liaodong Army attacked us, but Long Rui's army attacked us.
After the sharp army came to the northeast, they did not take the initiative to provoke us. We went to fight them first." Looking to the south, he said: "Before, our formation was in chaos at the foot of the mountain, and there was a lot of scattered sand. That was the best time to attack.
But the Long Rui Army stood still and did not take advantage of the situation to attack us. I... No matter how I looked at them, they had no intention of killing us all."
"They didn't understand the situation clearly, so of course they didn't dare to act rashly." Someone said: "Don't expect them to be good people. These people and the Liaodong Army all eat from the same pot. I can't trust them."
Lao Jia sighed: "I can't believe it."
What can they do? Now the five villages in Heishan are like this. Brothers in each village are killing each other. Under this situation, do you think Heishan is still the opponent of Long Ruijun? We don’t think about ourselves, but also about our wives.
Think about it, kid. If the opposite side is the Liaodong Army, I will fight them to the end even if I only have one breath left. But...if the Long Rui Army is really different from the Liaodong Army, I really don’t think I have to fight with them.
They fight to the death."
At this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Someone is going down the mountain, someone is going down the mountain, everyone, be careful...!"
The leaders followed the sound and saw a sudden light on the road down the mountain from Heishui Village. The fire was bright in the winter night. Several leaders were surprised. They dispersed and called their brothers to be on guard, but they headed forward.
Went to see what was going on.
The bandits had already grasped their weapons and were getting nervous. Only when they saw that there seemed to be only a few torches coming down the mountain and the number of people was small, did they feel slightly relieved.
Now even the lowest-level bandits understand in their hearts that if the people from Zijin Village on the mountain really come down the mountain, Long Rui's army in the south will never miss the opportunity and will definitely rush from behind. Once this happens, they will immediately be trapped in front and rear.
The consequences of a pincer attack would be disastrous.
So everyone felt relieved when they found out that only a few people came down the mountain.
After Lao Jia waited for the little leader to call the bandits to form an array, they all squeezed to the front of the crowd and stared at the firelight on the mountain road. Following the firelight, they saw several people walking down the mountain to the intersection where they could go down the mountain.
, finally heard a voice saying: "Zhou Hongji framed Zhongliang, forced his second sister-in-law to kill, and has been executed!"
In fact, everyone had already guessed that since the men of Zijin Village had taken control of Blackwater Village, the leader must be in trouble. After hearing this, they were finally sure that the leader was really doomed.
The expressions of the bandits in Heishui Village varied, some were angry, some were sad, but most of them were confused and at a loss. There was also a commotion among the team.
Lao Jia and other people standing at the front had already seen clearly that the person speaking was none other than Shen Xuangan, the third master of Black Mountain. There were only a few people around Shen Xuangan, but one of them was burly and not the second master Xuanyuan Chong.
Who could it be?
Seeing Xuanyuan Chong appear, many people changed their expressions slightly. At this time, they also knew that the previous shouts on the mountain were not deceived, and the second master actually stood with the third master.
In other words, the incident in Heishan was not just caused by Shen Xuangan alone, but the second master was also involved. Since these two masters have joined forces, and the first master is dead, the overall situation has been decided.
There is absolutely no possibility of reversing the situation.