Goddess Wanhua Mirror

On the side of the temple, it was Lude's idea to actively light the fire to attract the bandit's attention.Although it is true that we can continue to maintain the blackout, we can use the cover of night to stay a little longer, but we can't hide in a room for a while, and he is worried that those bandits will set fire to the village to vent their anger after finding that there is no one in the village.

If the villagers had no houses, even if they kept their food, they would still have a hard time surviving the cold winter.

The light of the fire successfully attracted the attention of the bandits. Looking from the slope of the temple to the village, many torches were rushing towards them, like pairs of greedy eyes in the dark night.

The villagers guarding the main gate are very nervous. Although they now occupy the advantage of the terrain, they have the courtyard wall of the temple in front of them and three circles outside the gate to refuse horses, but they are just farmers after all, not soldiers who have seen blood. So many people start to feel afraid, and this fear will infect others around them.

Looking at these trembling villagers, Lu De knew very well that if they defended it alone, the temple would most likely be breached by bandits before dawn, and no one would be able to live by then.So he called Ron, the eldest son of the village chief, and whispered a few words in his ear. After hearing this, the big fool nodded, turned his head and went to the backyard of the temple.

Soon, more than 200 bandits gathered in front of the slope where the temple was located, and stood at a distance of more than 200 meters, which was just the effective range of a conventional archer.

Zach looked at the temple from a distance, and with the eyesight of a high-ranking soldier, he roughly observed the defense situation in front of the temple.If there were only those repelling horses and the earth wall less than two meters high on the opposite side, then his men could launch a frontal attack, and they only needed a bag of cigarettes to capture here.

They may not be able to attack the city, but it is absolutely easy to destroy your village of hundreds of people!

"Go up and shout with a loud voice, tell those soil turtles, give them half a bag of cigarettes to think about it, hand over all the food in the village and add twenty young girls, or we will rush in later, and no one will be left behind!"

Zach asked his subordinates to go up and shout. Although he said so, he never thought about fulfilling any promises at all. When he got what he asked for, he would still ask his subordinates to rush up and kill people and talk about conditions. It's just to suppress the morale of the opponent.

However, just as the bandit boy was about to shout, a guy with a louder voice suddenly appeared on the hillside.

"Listen, Bandit Zack, your son is in our hands, if you don't want any troubles with this kid, just take your bastards and get out!"

"Oh shit..."

Hearing the shouts of the villagers, Zac was shocked!

He looked up to the temple, and saw that the villagers erected a wooden frame at the gate, and his son Buddy was tied to it.

Although Zach had expected early on that the news might be caused by his son revealing his secrets, he never expected that this kid would leak so thoroughly. Not only was he arrested by the other party, but he was even his son Such important information was given out.

It turned out to be good now, the villagers directly used him as a hostage, and in turn threatened to retreat.Seeing that all the subordinates around him were looking at him, Zach's face was a little uneasy for a while.

"Boss, it seems to be Buddy."

"This little trash..."

Seeing his son being arrested, Zach couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

Maybe it was God's punishment for the heavy killings in this life. Although Zach has slept with countless women in his life, he is almost fifty now, and only Buddy is the son of a prostitute.So the anger in my heart turned to anger, but I couldn't really watch him being hacked alive by the villagers.

But it's absolutely impossible to admit cowardice. With so many brothers around him watching, if Zach really compromised with a group of villagers for his own son, then he, the bandit boss, would probably end up as a bandit boss.

Seeing that the situation was a bit delicate, Zach, who was caught in a dilemma, was worrying. At this time, a small boss of his subordinates suddenly ran over and whispered a few words in his ear. Zac's eyes lit up immediately after hearing it.

"What about people?"

"It's right behind, it'll be there in a while."

On the side of the temple, Lude was also observing the bandit down the slope. He found that the other party hadn't responded for a long time, so he couldn't help but looked up at Buddy, whose shape was very suitable for cosplaying Jesus, thinking that this guy might be a fake son, right?

At this moment, the light rain that had been falling for most of the night finally stopped, and there was some movement at the foot of the mountain.Some bandits came out with some firewood from the village, lit two big fires, and then escorted two familiarly dressed people out, shouting at the hillside.

"You two tell those wood turtles on the mountain! Who are you?"

Under the coercion of the bandit's sword neck, two captives dressed as villagers announced their names loudly. They were Tang and An Sen. They were the two people who were arranged by the village chief to buy iron ingots in the town the day before yesterday.

Lude only confirmed that Buddy was a traitor after they set off, so they didn't know the situation in the village.And they were supposed to return to the village this afternoon, but they didn't see anyone until dark. Now they finally know what happened to them.

The capture of these two people suddenly made the bandits have hostages in their hands, and Zach's face also put on a grim smile again. He felt that now the initiative had returned to his own hands.

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Because two villagers accidentally fell into the hands of bandits, both sides now have hostages.Hearing the stern cries for help from fellow villagers not far away, the villagers on the side of the temple inevitably began to feel shaken.

After showing the hostages on his side, the bandit didn't do anything right away, but Lude knew that the other party was putting pressure on them.

Villagers are not like bandits. Everyone is from the same village. Even though there are frequent disputes and conflicts on weekdays, there is still a sense of fellowship.Seeing that the old neighbors in the past are now in the hands of bandits, everyone will inevitably have a feeling that things hurt others.

Lu De looked around and realized that if this dragged on, the villagers on his side would lose their mental pressure, so he stood up and shouted.

"The leader on the opposite side, let's make a deal!"

"Want to change people? All right! One for one, two for two, I come out to play around, and never trade at a loss."

"At any rate, it's your own son, so it's not justified to change it?"

"Ha! So what about my own son? It's amazing that I just find a woman to have another one. I heard that the women in your village are pretty good, haha..."

Zach at the bottom of the hill spoke lightly, as if he didn't care about Buddy's life or death at all, but his hand holding the sword was already clenched.He is very clear that the key to negotiation is not to reveal the truth in advance, so he must not let the other party know his true thoughts, and it is best to counter-press them first.

So Zac drew his sword and walked up to one of the villagers.

"Why don't you do this! Two for one, I think it's a loss, how about I remove some parts for the two, and make two and a half to exchange with you? If you don't speak, I will take it as if you agree La!"

As soon as Zac finished speaking, without waiting for any reaction from Lude, he directly thrust his sword into the hand of one of the villagers, and then twisted the blade twice, cutting off the villager's little finger and ring finger with a small piece of palm. When they got down, the villagers whose hands had been beheaded immediately let out an extremely stern wail, which caused the bandits to cheer.

In the dark night, the screams of the villagers could be heard clearly in the ears of every villager on the side of the temple, and everyone's complexion became very bad for a moment, and some timid ones even squatted on the ground and sobbed softly.

Noticing the reactions of the surrounding villagers, Lude realized that he had lost this round.The two captured villagers may not be big people, there are not many in the village with them, and there are not many without them, but if they are allowed to be tortured to death by the bandits, the morale of their side may also follow. collapsed.

And this is exactly what Zach expects, he clearly knows the gap between villagers and soldiers, fear will remind them of the fact that they are sheep!

At this time, Zac cut another villager with a sword, this time cutting off his ear. A bandit wrapped the "parts" that the two had cut off in rags, and then rode straight up to the village. On the hillside, he shook the blood-oozing cloth bag in his hand outside Juma, and threw it directly into the courtyard of the temple.

The horrifying grin on the other party's face was uncertain under the flickering light of the fire, like a humanoid monster invading the world from hell!

"Mr. Zach, why don't you do this! Your son will be exchanged for one, and we will send some food in exchange for the other. What do you think?"

"Okay! I don't want to bargain for a carload of food per person!"

Hearing Shan Shang let go, Zach had a triumphant smile on his face.

Soon, the horses were moved away from the temple, and seven or eight villagers with pitchforks and sickles were in front of them. Location.Zac kept his promise, and only sent four men to escort two villagers to exchange hostages.

After the hostages and supplies were exchanged between the two sides, the villagers retreated almost as if fleeing, while Buddy returned to Zach.Father and son faced each other, Buddy lowered his head and didn't dare to look at his father's face, while Zach shouted in a low voice.

"Look up and look at me!"

"Father, I..."

"Snapped!"

With a crisp slap, Buddy was mercilessly knocked to the ground by Zach with a cold face, and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

"Trash! You can't do this well, you still have something to learn in the future!"

After beating his son, Zac turned his head and ignored him, raised his long sword still stained with blood, pointed at the temple on the hillside, and shouted orders to the horse boy beside him.

"Little ones! Your boss, I am not in a good mood today, so how about we rush up and chop off those ignorant jackass?"

"Okay! Kill all the men and keep the women!"

"Come on!!!"

Under Zack's order, the bandits who had just exchanged hostages launched a frontal attack without saying a word, and more than 200 people howled and rushed forward.

Facing the bandits rushing up, the villagers hurriedly prepared to refuse to close the gate, and then threw the bricks and stones prepared in advance down the hillside through the courtyard wall.This is the most accessible means of long-range attack in the village.

However, in the face of stone attacks, the bandits were well prepared. Almost every one of them had a crudely made wooden shield.This thing may not be useful in the face of the standard weapons of the regular army, but it is very useful for blocking the stones thrown by the villagers.

At a distance of 80 meters, the bandits rushed up the hillside quickly. A group of people resisted the stones and boiling water thrown by the villagers, and quickly destroyed the crudely made horses in front, clearing a road leading to the gate. road.

Seeing that the vicious bandits were about to charge up, the front row of the two sides could almost see the expressions on each other's faces clearly.At this time, there was a sudden burst of anger among the villagers.

"Now, light the fire!"

Before the bandits who rushed up side by side understood what had happened, the villagers in front suddenly gave way to a gap more than one meter wide to the sides, revealing a strange-looking hollow log, and behind this wooden pier, a man holding a torch The villagers are putting open flames behind the wooden pier.

The bandits who rushed to the front only felt a flash of white light in front of their eyes, and accompanied by a loud bang, a terrifying force that had never been seen before immediately blew them all upside down, directly knocking down a large group of people .

"Ahh! My eyes, my face!!!"

The sudden special attack caught the bandits by surprise. Many people even subconsciously thought that there was a magician in the village, and this fellow was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, which caught them by surprise.

So under Zach's surprised eyes, the horse boys who had rushed up aggressively ran down again because of a loud noise.

And Lu De was standing inside the courtyard wall at this moment, looking at the bandits who fled, and whispered a little proudly.

"I am the number one firearm in the world!"

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Based on the existing conditions in the village, Lu De succeeded in building a few "cannons" before the bandits came to attack their house, and the actual combat effect was as he expected, catching the bandits by surprise.

Like the traversers in most novels, running and making guns and cannons in the magical world using cold weapons, and then hanging and beating various sword masters and mages from a distance has always been one of the romances that men have full of tricks. Lude also No exception.

But when he actually did it, Lude found that not to mention the barrel, just how to get the black powder made him stumped.

One sulfur, two nitrates, and three charcoals, the ancestors of Huaxia did leave a very concise and concise information on the formula of black powder, but it is not easy to obtain all these three seemingly inconspicuous raw materials in Songshu Village.In addition, his main business is still busy with preaching and creating gods, so the preparation of the blackening medicine was temporarily thrown aside by Lude.

However, Lude later discovered that there are actually alchemical products similar to gunpowder in this world, and the means to obtain them are not difficult.

After the autumn harvest in Songshu Village, the villagers who had surplus food and didn't panic wanted to hold a grand and important harvest festival this year, so the village head bought a half-carload of fireworks when he sent people into the city to pick goods last time.

Lude was very surprised when he saw this thing for the first time, but he was soon awakened by the memory and discovered that little Lude had actually seen it a long time ago, but he was left behind when he came here.

Just like the black powder on the earth, the fireworks powder in this world is also a by-product produced by alchemists during Xia Jiba's messing around. The ingredients are different from black powder, but the effect after being ignited is the same. And the color is more gorgeous, so it is made into fireworks.

It is worth mentioning that when the fireworks powder was first discovered, the alchemist who created this thing thought of selling it to the nobles and applying it to military affairs, but the nobles saw that this fancy thing has no magic at all The fireball created by the teacher is very powerful, so I am not interested at all.

In order to fight against bandits, Lu De asked the village chief for these fireworks, and organized a batch of "earth-made firearms" by hand.But what is very funny is that Lu De thinks that he made the Daming Tuhuo, but in fact the Tuhuo was made by the people of the Song Dynasty, and the real thing he made is closer to the pine wood cannon of Tubalu. In a sense Said, full of joy.

This batch of firearms directly used the sawn wood section ready by the carpenter's house as the barrel. In order to hollow out quickly, they first sawed the wood section vertically, dug a straight groove on each side, and then closed the wood.The seams are closed with clay, and the blacksmith makes hoops to hold them in place.

Then they sealed one end with clay, dried it with fire, and poured explosive powder obtained from dismantling fireworks into it.In order to increase the damage area, Lu De did not fill these wooden cannons with solid projectiles, but stuffed a lot of scrap iron filings and small stones into them to make large shotguns.

In actual combat, this kind of one-time big sprayer became a blockbuster, destroying a large area with one shot!Although no one was killed, more than a dozen were injured, and the morale of the opponent who was successfully frightened collapsed, and a lot of injuries were caused by falling while climbing down the mountain.

In the first round of head-to-head confrontation, the villagers won a complete victory with zero casualties, which boosted morale and swept away the previous haze.Everyone looked at Lude with reverence in their eyes, and then praised the kind female medicine goddess, thanking him for giving the priest wisdom in times of crisis, and helping the villagers resist the bandit attack!

Looking at the villagers who were pretending to believe, Lu De turned his head to look at Aina who was also excited, and couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart.

"How can this goddess look like a wise Yazi!?"

On the other side, Zach looked at his subordinates who fled back in embarrassment, the expression on his face became more and more gloomy, and he was so angry that he almost trembled.

At this time, the little leader who led the charge came to him covering his face. Zach couldn't help frowning when he saw this guy's face at this time. Large and small holes, inlaid with many messy things.

The unlucky guy didn't dare to cover his face, and said tremblingly.

"Boss, there are magicians in this village!"

"Fart your mother! How can there be a magician in this dilapidated village? That dilapidated temple is probably not a big sect, what are you afraid of?"

"But do you see the injuries of me and my brothers?"

Zach looked around, and it was true that the wave of brothers who rushed forward was very miserable, but none of them died.

At this time, Zach noticed the wooden shield in one of the people's hands, walked over and snatched it, and then held it in his hand to show it to everyone present.

"Is this what you call the magician's magic? Can't even break a shield made of broken wood? You are all bluffed! This is the little trick those villagers made to scare you cowards!"

Looking at the black and black but intact wooden shield in Zach's hand, the bandits present looked at each other for a while, and found that the boss was such a jerk, that what he said seemed to make sense.

Those who can come out to be bandits are basically brave and ruthless villains. In addition, Zach often promotes his "wolves eat sheep" views on weekdays, so his subordinates don't want to be fooled by a group of villagers. so deflated.

So under Zack's instigation, these desperadoes quickly regained their confidence as professional bandits and prepared to attack again.

On the side of the temple, Lude was also observing the bandits down the slope from a distance, and seeing that they did not retreat after their first attack failed, but were reviving and preparing to attack again, he immediately felt quite troublesome.

It can be seen that the quality of Zac's group is good, at least among the bandits, they can definitely be called the top level.On their side, there are only about 150 villagers who can take up weapons to fight, and there are four wooden cannons left on hand. The difference in combat power between the two sides is still obvious.

Lude was thinking about how to retreat from the enemy. At this moment, he suddenly felt someone tugging at the corner of his clothes from behind, so he looked back, and saw a rather surprising scene——Aina was shining.

"I'm going! What's wrong with you?"

"I, I don't know, it just feels a little hot here."

Pointing to her chest that was wrapped in cloth strips but still protruding, Aina's face was emitting a golden light, and her two small hands kept fanning, feeling like it was a rainy night in late autumn but the weather was very hot.

Seeing that the surrounding villagers were busy consolidating their defenses, and no one had noticed their side yet, Lude hurriedly pulled the little nun who was about to evolve into a light bulb to hide in a corner where no one was around.

Looking at the abnormal situation displayed by Aina, and the prayers of women and children in the temple not far away, Lude faintly realized something.

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