Wang Jiuling asked Xu Sanduo and several brothers to take some weapons and ammunition and plan to exchange them with the local Miao people for some food.
Coming all the way from Jiangxi, Wang Jiuling discovered that people here love guns far more than those in the ocean. When he asked, he found out that banditry is serious here, so every household likes to own a gun to protect themselves.
When it comes to western Hunan, there are ravines, dense streams, undulating peaks and caves. There are more than 10 counties at the junction of Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. They have been weakly governed areas in the past dynasties. The land is barren, natural disasters are frequent, and the economy and culture are very poor.
Backward, since the Song Dynasty, banditry has continued into the Republic of China, and the bandits in western Hunan have been particularly harmful. Many bandit leaders have taken advantage of the dangerous mountains and rivers in western Hunan to separate themselves and claim dominance. They set fire to people in the wind and killed people in the dark of the moon. They robbed homes and houses and robbed local people.
There is no way to survive the disaster. In addition to the regular bandits who come to rob homes and homes, there are also wandering bandits.
When Xiangxi demons deal with bandits, they also have to deal with soldiers and bandits. To build a stronghold, the terrain must first be steep. This is what Wang Jiuling saw at the moment. The stronghold was built on a steep mountain. There was a road leading up to it, and it was marked with countless stones.
It's just like the novel of the evil Zhong Pu, which is composed of words piled up one by one.
Villages like this are usually built by a landowner and villagers from the same clan. In the south, a village usually has a surname. It is different from the north. The north is full of plains, so it is easy to gather, so the villages in the north are called
It’s called a village. In fact, many villages are as big as small towns in the south and have everything. Let’s not talk about places that are twice as large in the south. Take the Panyang Lake Plain for example. In fact, the level of the land is really like that in the north.
There are very few places with a difference of less than one meter. They are basically terraced fields, but they are not like the loess high slopes. The south is mountainous and hilly.
Wang Jiuling rode his horse to the gate of the village. The gate was tightly closed. A young man in ethnic minority clothes in the tower shouted: "Who is it?" At the same time, the fire gun in his hand was also pointed at Wang Jiuling, but Wang Jiuling said
I don’t know what the fire gun is about. I don’t know if the iron sand inside will shoot at them as soon as I pull the trigger.
"Brother, don't get me wrong. Put your gun away and be careful of misfire. We just want to buy some food. Are these hundreds of people waiting for rice to be cooked?" The reason why we say hundreds of people are waiting for rice to be cooked is mainly because we are afraid.
These people are unwilling to sell rice to the independent group. At the same time, let's try to intimidate them. Boy, don't say no so early that there is no rice. I have hundreds of people. When most people hear this, they will worry that these soldiers will rob the rice if they can't buy it. That will cause a lot of losses.
Big, and more importantly, if you attack normally, you will lose your life.
The young man was stunned for a moment and did not directly answer Wang Jiuling's question, "Are you the national army?"
Wang Jiuling nodded, and the young man said, "Just wait, I'll report it to our master!" Then he strode up the mountain.
Not long after, a man in his mid-thirties wearing ethnic minority clothes came down, gave Wang Jiuling a Chinese hand-over gesture, and said, "Hello, what do you do for me, sir?"
Wang Jiuling also hugged him, "I'm sorry!" and then continued: "My troops are passing through here and they have no food, so I want to buy some food from you!"
"Are you sorry? Sir, we don't have much grain in stock in our village. You also know that not only is there little cultivated land in Xiangxi, but it is also barren and the yield is not high. At the same time, banditry is serious here. A lot of grain will be destroyed and harvested by the bandits before it is mature.
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"Really? That's it! Just sell some to us. It's impossible for more than 300 of us to go hungry. A few people can be managed easily. If more than 300 people have no food to eat, it is inevitable that a few will harass the people as long as there is one
Just a quick meal”
"Sir, do we really have no food?" The man said aggrievedly: "If there are only a few of you, I can treat you all, but there are hundreds of people to eat and drink. Our small village does not have that much food at all!"
Seeing this, Wang Jiuling was planning what to do, but the girl who had been watching Wang Jiuling's reaction on the village came down. In fact, he came down not because Wang Jiuling was handsome and charming, but because he suddenly thought that the guns in the village were all muskets.
, when encountering a large group of bandits, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend the village. The Kuomintang officer in front of me has hundreds of people there. Now that they are out of food, they should be able to get a few to rob.
The girl slowly walked down the mountain and stood halfway up the mountain, "Let them come up!"
The man answered "yes", opened the gate of the village and said to Wang Jiuling: "Please!"
Wang Jiuling and others were not polite and followed the man anxiously to the village. The village looked relatively small from the outside, but when we got inside we found it to be very big. The village was relatively long but narrow.
The woman who just spoke was sitting in the lobby. Wang Jiuling was observing her. This woman looked to be only eighteen or nineteen years old, but everyone in the village seemed to respect her.
A hundred times the man served tea to Wang Jiuling, and the woman said: "The clothes of the officer are different from those of the Hunan and Gui soldiers I saw before. I wonder where the officer comes from? What are you doing here?"
At first glance, Wang Jiuling felt that the woman did not want to know this, but was just asking casually. How could she ask so many questions at once, "This is a military secret and cannot be disclosed, but we have run out of food and want to buy some from the girl?"
, of course there will be more, we now have more than 300 mouths?"
The woman said: "I'm dissatisfied, sir. What my uncle said just now is true. We really don't have any extra food. If anyone has more, we all want to buy some?"
Wang Jiuling wants to see what tricks you are playing. You must be asking me for help. Otherwise, if you don't have food to sell, you won't invite me here. Wang Jiuling didn't say anything and kept sipping the tea.
When the woman saw that Wang Jiuling was silent, she didn't know what he meant. She didn't know that he was already a gangster. A teenage girl was still pretending to be serious here. Maybe she could really suppress others, but she wanted to suppress Wang Jiuling, a future generation.
,That is impossible
I have never seen anything in the later generations. I have had shootings with leaders, visited prostitutes, and university professors call prostitutes "mother". I have long been used to it. Even if we don't talk about future generations, let's talk about this life, we have walked out in a hail of bullets.
, I think it could be described as...
The girl finally lost her temper and said, "You are soldiers. We want to get some guns. If you can help us, not only will we not take your money for food, but we will also pay extra if you rob us."
Wang Jiuling thought that being so generous would cost a lot. "How many guns do you want?"
"Not many! Twenty!" the girl pretended to be calm and said, but the fact that he wanted twenty guns was definitely a big deal among the cottages. However, Wang Jiuling was used to it and thought he wanted how much. It turned out that
Only twenty
However, Wang Jiuling still said calmly: "Twenty guns, the price is not cheap? And I made it here in Hanyang."
"A Hanyang-made rifle on the market costs 150 oceans with ten rounds of ammunition. But if you buy more, it can still be cheaper, but I can still give you 150 oceans per gun, and the food will be provided to you for free."
"Haha! Little sister, a gun made in Hanyang here costs 300 yuan, but I can give you 20 rounds of bullets." Wang Jiuling said in his heart that if you can buy a gun, you don't have to worry about us buying it.
The girl raised her eyebrows and said, "Why is it so expensive? People buy more. Even if it's not cheap, they will give you more bullets. You just added ten more bullets and it cost one hundred and fifty oceans. I don't think so."
That’s ten bullets!”
"Little sister, if you only want two or three, 150 oceans, I will give it to you. But what you want is twenty rifles. When hundreds of people came out, I suddenly lost twenty rifles.
I have to tell my superiors when the time comes. It’s impossible to manage things without money. There are some things I won’t say. I believe that with a brain as smart as yours, you can figure it out. There is no way I would throw away my future for a few hundred oceans, let alone in the future.
According to military law, this is a crime of beheading."