Lu Ming

Chapter 289 Longyan Battle ([-])

On the same day that Du Dewei's team set off to investigate in the north, a meeting was held in Yantou Village, more than 40 miles south of Longyan County, to discuss the future of the whole village.

Yantouzhai is also one of the famous local gangsters.The steep terrain of Yixiantian is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is stuck on the commercial road from Meizhou and Shanghang to the west of Fujian, so there have been an endless stream of gangsters emerging from this place for hundreds of years.

Now the toll booth in Yantouzhai is run by a group of strong men headed by Ma Shixia.Under the horse's posture, this man is fat and fierce, with high martial arts skills. He was born in the frontier army in his early years.Later, because his superiors falsely claimed credit for this person, he cut off his superiors in a fit of anger, and then ran back to his hometown to occupy the mountain and become king.
Generally speaking, the style of Yantouzhai is a bit similar to that of Pingfeng Mountain after its transformation: they mainly set up card charges, supplemented by robbery.

As for the robbery-based bandits in the North Maling, they were naturally at odds with Yantouzhai at this time, so the relationship between the two parties was once tense.

This kind of situation is very normal: colleagues are enemies, liars look down on robbers, saying that robbery has no technical content, robbers also look down on liars, what are wretched people dragging?
In fact, the two sides had gone too far—Tumaling had a lot of people, and the leader of Yantouzhai was the leader of the three armies. The two gangs finally fought to a tie, so everyone now uses Longyan County as the boundary and does not communicate with each other.

This situation was broken by the time traveler not long ago.After the security notice was posted with the endorsement of Chenjiazhai being Miaopo, the big and small gangsters in the vicinity couldn't help but ignore it.

Now, at least in theory, the "defense according to danger" of one of the gangsters' two magic weapons is no longer feasible.Of course, it's meaningless to face the Gang head-on. The gangsters can't even beat the battalion soldiers, let alone the elite of the 200 Red Gun Battalion.

And if it is not a last resort, who is willing to give up the feng shui treasure land of their own wealth and turn to the arduous guerrilla warfare?
Therefore, Tsushimaling Lin Shiwan, who was facing huge strategic pressure, had to break the routine this time and send the Seven Leaders surnamed Shi to contact Yantou Village.

In fact, after seeing Ma Shixia, Qi Ye only said one sentence: "When you meet such a strong army, if the brothers on the road don't join hands, everyone will meet at the gate of the county government. It's nothing more than me waiting for you." It’s only a few days earlier that his head was hung up, but Ma Dang is very skilled in martial arts, so he might be able to come a few days later.”

Of course, Ma Shixia understood the seriousness of the situation, so after sending Qi Ye to rest, he held a high-level meeting in the lobby of Yantouzhai to study countermeasures.

The seven or eight heroes present at the meeting are all the core figures in Yantou Village, and they are dressed in strong clothes, burly, with round faces and thick eyebrows, and they are sitting on the top chair at the moment, with his name standing next to him. The nine-ringed sword that shakes the rivers and lakes.

"Boss, if you want me to tell you, you don't need to care about Shi Laoqi's nonsense." A hot-tempered little boss couldn't help getting angry when he saw that everyone sitting there was frowning, and said loudly: "That red gun The camp is all about flattening Maling and making a name for itself, but Lin Shiwan is sitting on the bench, so what are we going to do? We don’t have to give someone a back.”

"Nonsense!" A man in his 40s with a wrinkled face leaning on crutches slammed the crutch on the ground.This person is Chen Youshou, the third head of the Yantou village. He injured his leg a few days ago, so he is currently on crutches.

Chen Youshou, who was the oldest in the audience and had the longest time of "entering the industry", was quite popular in the village at this time and said fiercely: "In the recruitment notice, you will start with Maling, and then we will follow. Once Maling is suppressed , the officers and soldiers turn around and kill with the momentum of a big victory, how to deal with it then?"

"Hmph, the big deal is that the whole gang climbed over the mountain to escape, how long can the officers and soldiers stay? Isn't that how the old people came here?" The little boss still refused to accept it, and sacrificed the gangster's final inheritance: the enemy advances and we retreat.

"Living."

Just when Chen Youshou opened his mouth to refute, the horse sitting on top stretched out a palm and pressed it down.After seeing the big shopkeeper speak, the rest of the people also stopped talking.

"For the matter of abandoning the village and entering the mountains, let's listen to the news from Xiao Wu."

Following the words of the horse's posture, everyone turned their attention to a man sitting at the bottom.

This man was short in stature, dark-skinned, with a simple and honest face. He was the first man who went to Tianhou Palace to sell hens to the cross-travelers: Lin Dajin.

After hearing the big shopkeeper's words, "Lin Dajin", who was originally sitting there, suddenly changed his expression - a clever and treacherous face appeared on his face.

"Everyone knows the charcoal pit in Heipigou, right?" The man named Lin Dajin, whose real name was Xiaowu, didn't enter the topic, but talked about an irrelevant matter.

After seeing everyone present nodding slowly, Xiao Wu continued: "Recently, that group of short hairs transported tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder from the lower reaches, and the ground of Heipigou was completely covered by the short hair gunpowder. Now that group of people who are struggling to dig coal no longer need to go down the pit."

"Short hair has silver, gunpowder is endless, and it is still being brought in by boat recently." Xiao Wu paused for a while when he said this.After seeing the reaction of several people present, he continued: "I heard the news in the short-haired kitchen that monks would blow up temples if they ran away; no matter whose village, any dangerous place would be blown up."

Having said this, Xiao Wu pointed to the direction of the gate of the village: "If you leave this time, when you come back, the sky will be broken."

"What a guts!"

Someone in the room immediately scolded.

After listening to Xiao Wu's words, everyone here knows that guerrilla warfare seems to be a dead end—once this group of short-haired people occupy the village and blow up the sky at the entrance, then Yantou village will be completely destroyed.

The same reasoning goes on: officers and soldiers do not need to go all over the mountains and plains to fight guerrillas in the future: no matter where the gangsters settle down, they only need to attack the stockade.

A suitable location has natural dangers and can accommodate gangsters. It is necessary to build some buildings to store food and goods. It is not so easy to find a nest where some barracks are built. Card charges.

Although bandits are good at drilling through mountains and forests, they are just means: setting up card charges, or sitting on the ground to attack and rob big households and business travelers is the goal.If there is no bandit den, what's the point of eating and sleeping in the open?
After Xiao Wu's explanation, the people present suddenly felt a wave of fear: the skills passed down by the elders for thousands of years are useless in front of this group of weird officers and soldiers?
After figuring out the precarious situation they are facing now, those people who were just clamoring to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight and the enemy advance and retreat suddenly shut up.

This is exactly the goal to be achieved by passing through the crowd.

To be honest, both sides are a bit wary now: the last thing the people who travel through the world are unwilling to do is launch a protracted guerrilla war.

But because the gangsters don't know the real details of their opponents, they have to choose a way to deal with the cracks given by the passers-by: they can neither defend nor run away, so the final choice can only be to take the initiative to attack.

Seeing that the brothers had unified their minds, the head of the family Ma Shixia turned his head and said to a person sitting in the corner with a pleasant face: "Mr. Lan, do you want to help plan the current situation?"

"Hehehe, I can't talk about planning, but I can say a few ways to deal with it. Let's refer to it together."

Following the voice, a middle-aged scribe with a smile on his face came out from the corner.

Mr. Lan went up the mountain more than a month ago, and the guarantor was Lin Chaofeng from Longyan County.

Lin Chaofeng is a rich landowner in the county seat. Not only does his family have a pawn shop, but he also runs a business of buying and selling mountain products in the nearby area.Both of these businesses have to deal with gangsters: pawnshops can sell stolen goods, and men who collect mountain goods often have to pass by toll booths.Therefore, Lin Chaofeng had quite a lot of contacts with the nearby gangsters, and the two sides can be said to have a symbiotic relationship.

And the Mr. Lan he introduced, whose real name is Lan Da, is also from the Jianghu, but he is just a clerical worker—Mr. Lan's major is Fengshui geomancy, searching for dragons and acupuncture points.

The reason Lan Da came to live in Yantou Village this time was to avoid disaster.

Last year, this Mr. Lan helped a town general to light an ancestral point at the border. Over the past few years, the town general has flourished, and now he has become a general in command.
Of course, this kind of behavior can be regarded as a side-ball that leaked the secret, so according to the industry practice, Mr. Lan Da had to dormant and meditate for a period of time afterwards to avoid the backlash of the secret-so he came to Yantou, which is far away from the border. stronghold.

Since Mr. Lan entered the village, he quickly became a master respected by the whole village.

Mr. Lan, who knows astronomy first and geography secondhand, is not only knowledgeable and knowledgeable, he is also a very kind person, never putting on airs of being a scholar.

He often told everyone some magical stories about searching for dragons and pointing acupuncture points, exploring tombs and fighting against each other.

In addition, such things as writing fortune-telling, acupuncture and massage, watching prescriptions and picking up medicines, which are miraculous in the eyes of the villagers, are all trivial skills for Mr. Lan - usually for minor illnesses such as colds, everyone swallows two of Mr. Lan's self-prepared The pills are ready.

The big shopkeeper Ma Shixia is more interested in Mr. Lan's main skill: searching for dragons and acupuncture points.You know, Ma Shixia himself was a member of the frontier army in the early years, and Ma Shixia happened to know about the promoted general in Mr. Lan's mouth. This made him feel itchy.

So Mr. Lan formally put down the shaman for the horse, and then told him: If you can find a good cave and move the tomb of the ancestor of the Ma family there, it may not be difficult to become a town general in the future—but once it comes to troubled times , with Ma Shixia's fate, similar to the fate of Liangshan's 36 Tiangang stars, then Ma Shixia must have the fate of being a founding general in the future.

What Mr. Lan said made the shopkeeper very excited.Of course, this matter has to be considered in the long run: finding the acupoint is not that simple, it takes time to visit, buy various magic weapons, and pay a large sum of money to the husband after the event.

So recently, Mr. Lan's status in Yantou Village has risen sharply. Although he is a guest minister, everyone now regards him as a military adviser.

(End of this chapter)