Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 9
Zouma Village is located in the mountains of Baijiling.

It's not a deep mountain, it's a mountain.

Because the mountains are too deep, it is not easy to walk horses or drive cars, which will make it very inconvenient for bandits to go out to rob and transport supplies, so in fact, most cottages will not choose places with very inconvenient transportation.

Zoumazhai is a standard small cottage. The land is enclosed as a village. Simple walls are built with stones and wood, and dozens of bandits gather inside to rob houses.

Shanzhai is naturally different from ordinary villages. They don’t need any labor tools and related production facilities. To put it simply... Shanzhai does not farm, produce, or do small business; they only need a place to eat and sleep, and It is enough to have warehouses for horses, weapons and grain storage, so the area is not very large.

The supplies in the village were almost used up, so they went out to grab them; when there was a shortage of women, they also went out to grab them.Most of the women died within a few days after being captured by them, and some committed suicide on the same day.

And Zouma Village is not just invading Nanyuan Village, after all, there are more than fifty bandits in the village, which is equivalent to fifty or so uncles who can only eat, drink and scatter but do not create any wealth. A small Nanyuan Village cannot afford to support it; there are three other villages in this area of ​​Baijiling, which are far and near, and they are often robbed and bullied by them, but Nanyuan Village is disturbed because it is the closest. The situation is the most serious.

There are various reasons why Zoumazhai is so rampant.

First, they specifically chose a land border that the government doesn't care about, which is very clever.

Although the imperial court during the Yongtai period was not so dark, there were definitely not so many officials who loved the people like their sons and hated evil like their enemies. Be clear about the things that are within your jurisdiction...Because if this kind of thing is done well, no one will say hello, but if it is done badly, it will affect your career.

Second, every time Zoumazhai goes out to rob money and food women, they also have a certain "property". They know where the bottom line of the common people is, because most of them are local ruffians and bullies in the nearby villages. As long as you don't kill too much and rob too much at once, and give the people a period of time to relax after each robbing, these villagers can't fight back.

Occasionally, one or two families go out to report to the officials, which can't make any waves at all; the villagers in the mountains can't afford a lawyer, and they can't write pleadings. Forty boards, most people are beaten to death before filing a complaint.

If it is done to the extreme, the family's daughter-in-law and daughter are robbed, the husband, the elderly and children are all killed, and the family is wiped out, and no one will sue.

Can the neighbor next door risk his life to sue for you?Impossible.

This is human nature, as long as you are still alive and the fire does not burn yourself, you can bear some things.

Therefore, today, the Zoumazhai people will not really drive out the villagers of Nanyuan Village. They dare not. If they really want to do this, the government will have to do it if they don't want to.

They just want to frighten these villagers, and use the fact that Mrs. Wang was rescued by Sun Yixie yesterday as an excuse to grab more things, and then kill a few early birds who intend to resist, and give these villagers a "reminder" ", play the role of killing chickens and monkeys.

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As agreed yesterday, when the end of time was near, the village owner Ma Si ordered all the men and horses, ready to go.

It is not difficult to see from the above that the owner of the village, Ma Si, is also a character.

Although it can't be said that he is resourceful, he is also somewhat intelligent. The fact that the Zouma village has been able to run rampant here for many years is all due to his planning.

In terms of martial arts, Ma Si is also good at it. When he was a teenager, he learned from "Huizhou Baijin Dao Zhao Bozhao" and learned the sword skills for ten years, and he got all of Zhao Bozhao's true biography.But his master never thought that Ma Si, who had a beastly face, had long been greedy for the beauty of the daughter of the Zhao family. One night, Ma Si sneaked into the lady's boudoir, failed to commit adultery, and became angry and killed her. In a sneak attack, all eight members of the master's family were killed, all the evidence was burned, and the Zhao family's treasures were wrapped up and they fled overnight.After that, he did many cases in various places, until he came to Baijiling a few years ago, pulled up the mountain, and became the king of the mountain.

The thieves in Zoumazhai also learned a few tricks from Ma Si after they entered the village, so they basically all use swords; the combat power of this group of people...is about the same as Huang Donglai's estimate , not too strong, but definitely stronger than ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts.

Just like that, more than forty bandits and twenty horses set off towards Nanyuan Village.

Why don't everyone ride a horse?Because it would cost too much to equip every bandit with a horse... The horse that allows you to ride a slasher is trained, it is different from ordinary horses, and the saddle and hooves are also required It is very troublesome to regularly go to the cobbler and blacksmith in the nearby village to maintain it; if you are a bandit of the size of Shuibo Liangshan, you may be able to afford it, and it is not bad to have [-] or [-] horses in a small village. Like in the TV series... In a village with more than a hundred people, all of them rushed out on horseback. That is absolutely nonsense. If you have such a professional management ability, you can simply switch to a horse dealer, which is more profitable than being a bandit.

It's getting too far... Let's get back to the topic.

At that time, Ma Si led the cavalry team to the entrance of the village first, but he didn't see anyone, and there was not even a wisp of cooking smoke in the village.

Seeing such an abnormal scene, Ma Si naturally murmured in his heart: "Heh... is this just playing with me?"

Ma Si is not Sima Yi, he will not turn his head and run away because of thinking too much, he just waited for a while at the entrance of the village, and when the twenty or so people walking behind arrived, he gave the order to let the five minions enter the village to explore road.

Those were five bandits, not regular troops. When bandits carry out orders, it depends on the situation... They also knew in their hearts that if there was an ambush in the village, they would be cannon fodder, and their death would be for nothing, so they This wayfinding was very cautious, it can be said that he was timid and procrastinated.

After about a stick of incense (about half an hour), these five goods were still wandering around the entrance of the village, and they only broke through the door to check a dozen houses in total.

Ma Si was a little tired sitting on the horse, and finally said impatiently: "Okay! Don't search! Come into the village for me, and grab whatever you see! Whoever grabs more points will get more points!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone, especially the five who had just advanced into the village, poured into the village as if they had been shot with chicken blood, and started to plunder wildly.

This robbery lasted for a long time, and these gangsters almost emptied the village's food stores and valuables from the people's homes; the twenty people who came on horseback, except for the village owner Ma Si, all got off their horses. Come down, because the backs of the nineteen horses are all tied up with heavy cargo... All the bandits also showed satisfied smiles on their faces, even the two who were scared away by Sun Yixie yesterday Hey, I have forgotten the original purpose of today's visit.

Ma Si thought: "Perhaps the people in this village were frightened, and they all ran to the mountains and hid in order to save their lives. They thought that we would not do anything to them after we robbed them of money and food."

After reaching this conclusion, he didn't care much about this "empty city plan".

Unexpectedly, at this time...

"Village-lord-" a roar suddenly came from the road outside the village.

Not long after, I saw a gray-faced bandit with scorched clothes all over the place crawling up to Ma Si, crying: "Village owner! It's not good! We... our village has been taken away." ! Go back and have a look!"

"What?" Ma Si was shocked when he heard the words, and then his anger rose sharply, and he shouted, "What's going on?"

"Haha...haha..." That guy was also running in a hurry, he took a few breaths, and then said, "You...not long after you left, a man named Sun Yixie came to the gate of the village A man named Huang Donglai clamored to kill you... The brothers saw that there were only two of them, so they opened the gate of the village and wanted to tie them up and deliver them to you. Powerful, the brothers are no match, dead or wounded, they even set fire to the village, and the little one escaped with all his life to report to you..."

"That's unreasonable!" Ma Si yelled at the people around him before he could finish speaking, "Little ones! Come back to the village with me quickly! Leave the things on the horse and come get them later!"

The thieves are really obedient this time, because they are also really anxious... The hometown has been changed, can you not be in a hurry?Not to mention the softness that I hid, where would they go if the cottage was burned?
So, Ma Si took the lead, and galloped towards the cottage.

And the remaining forty or so bandits threw the things they had just snatched on the horseback or on the ground, and hurriedly started running back along the road.

These two places are not close to each other, nor far away. After Ma Sixing walked for a while, he could already see thick smoke rising from the sky in front of him. Thinking that the one surnamed Huang and the one surnamed Sun must never be let go.

However, when he rushed back to the village, he found that...the so-called "fire" was just a pile of firewood, which was set up in the middle of the village and burned intensively. The walls and houses of the village did not catch fire at all.

He took a closer look and found ten corpses lying on the ground inside the gate of the village, all of them were his subordinates.

At this moment, a certain thought flashed through his mind: "I only left ten people in the village, so the one who came to report just now is... Oops!"

Ma Si knew that he had hit the trick, so he quickly turned his horse's head around and ran back towards Nanyuan Village...

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Today's plan of "changing homes" was conceived by Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie after discussing together.

First of all, as early as this morning, when the bandits were still sleeping late, the villagers of Nanyuan Village had already left the village collectively.

All the old, weak, women and children in the village hid in the mountains under the organization of the village chief, while the remaining [-] or [-] peasant men all carried the "poison bombs" and weapons prepared yesterday, and followed Sun and Huang towards the mountain. The only way for the bandits to go.

In Shenshi, when two groups of bandits passed the road one after another, the villagers hid in the forest and watched, standing still.

After all the bandits had passed, Sun and Huang led more than a dozen stronger villagers to Zouma village.

With Huang Donglai's lightness skills, it is easy to climb up the uneven wall of the Zouma Village, and the ten bandits guarding the village are only two guards on the gate, even if they watch Huang Donglai climb the wall, they can't stop him. he.

After entering the village, Huang Donglai threw four punches and two kicks to the ground, and the remaining six knelt down and surrendered knowingly when they saw this; then, Huang Donglai ordered them to open the gate of the village.

Sun Yixie and the dozen or so villagers filed in. Seeing that their enemies were all kneeling on the ground to be subdued, the bitter and vengeful villagers rushed up like crazy and threw the bandits who had lost their weapons into chaos. Cudgel to death.

Sun and Huang didn't stop these villagers either - they were never saints, and they knew that they were not qualified to stop them.

After the villagers calmed down, Sun Yixie directed them to collect some firewood from the village (bandits also have to cook on fire every day), and lit a fire, creating the illusion that "the village was burned".

On the other hand, Huang Donglai went to find a set of bandit clothes, and went to the stove to simply "make up" himself with pot ashes and charcoal, and then went to "report to the village owner".

Not long after he left, Sun Yixie led the villagers out of the village, returned to the previous ambush, joined other villagers, and prepared for the next step...

They waited for a while, and Ma Si rode over by himself.

Sun Yixie was very patient. He saw that Ma Si was alone, so he decided to let him go first, wait a little longer, and take a look.

After a while, they finally waited for the more than 40 bandits on foot; this group... When they came here, they had already seen the thick smoke in the sky, so they were all anxious, panting, and Since they had exhausted a lot of physical strength moving things during the robbery in the village, it was already at the end of their strength at this moment.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Sun Yixie gave an order, and the villagers hiding on both sides of the road rushed out and threw dozens of "poison bombs" that Huang Donglai taught them to make into the crowd.

The gang of thieves were too busy running forward, and had no time to pay attention to the situation on both sides, so they were taken aback by the people who suddenly rushed out of the forest. Many people lost their feet, fell to the ground, and then tripped again The people behind them stepped on each other... 40 people were in a mess in a blink of an eye.

The villagers, on the other hand, covered their faces with uniformly colored red cloth, and threw poisonous powder packets wrapped with "Huang's unique formula" made of dog skin plaster backing paper and string among the bandits. For a while, coughing and screaming were heard endlessly. Some bandits inhaled the poisonous powder and fell to the ground on the spot. Some eyes were blinded by the poisonous dust, and they burst into tears. The companions around me hacked...

By the time the poisonous powder gradually dissipated, nearly thirty of the more than 40 bandits had fallen to the ground or were injured, and the rest were also panicked. Looking at the masked men around them, they thought they had been hacked. It's dark.

At this time, Sun Yixie picked up the trident and shouted: "Follow me!"

Under his drink, the morale of those peasants was greatly boosted, and they came from both sides of the road with various long weapons (mainly farm tools) to cover up and kill them, and vented the hatred and anger accumulated over the years on these already defeated mountains. on the thief.

When they were in the midst of killing, they washed their faces in the village, and Huang Donglai, who also changed his clothes for safety reasons (for fear of being hacked to death by his own people who were red-eyed), also rushed to the village.

Huang Donglai's joining completely extinguished the hope of those bandits to fight back.

Not long after, these Zoumazhai bandits who had been rampant in the Baijiling area for many years were wiped out here.

It was also at this moment... Ma Si, one man and one rider, appeared on the hillside at the end of the road.

(End of this chapter)