Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 208 Revenge
There seems to be a special factor in the Chinese people's bones. Normally, the thing they like to do most is farming.

I spend all day thinking about how to cultivate the land properly, produce more crops, and live a happy life with my family.

But once the land and crops are destroyed, survival is seriously threatened.

These people who are usually honest and simple-minded can burst out with great strength and fight to the death with the other side.

If you don't let me farm, I will farm you.

Right now, the people of Maoer Mountain have been completely enraged.

Since the government doesn't care, they will organize themselves spontaneously and fight those beasts on the other side of the river to the end.

In the evening, Qu Shaoyang led three teams to guard and patrol along the river bank.

During the day, everyone dug pits, set traps, and laid ground guns in some easily accessible places on the river bank.

The ground guns of this era are set up with old-fashioned muskets.

Bury the back half of the gun in the soil and tie the trigger with a thin wire. The height of the wire should be about half a foot to one foot from the ground.

If someone trips over the wire, the ground gun will fire.

The old-fashioned musket was loaded with lead bullets and gunpowder, and when fired, the lead bullets were sprayed out in a fan shape.

Although the lethality is not great, the attack range is wide. At the same time, the gunshot can also serve as a warning, killing two birds with one stone.

The ground guns are laid at night and removed during the day to prevent people from getting injured by accident.

Ever since the wolf plague last year, every family with a little money in Maoer Mountain has bought some muskets, and there is no problem picking some out to set up as ground guns.

But it was strange that ever since Qu Shaoyang and his team started patrolling, the other side of the river suddenly became quiet. For more than ten days, no one crossed the river to do evil.

Faced with this situation, some people said that maybe the other side saw someone patrolling over here and got scared.

Some people also said that there might be a traitor here and someone leaked the information.

Others said that they might have stolen enough and were planning to stop.

No matter which one it was, it's settled now and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Qu Shaoyang did not think so. He always felt that there was something fishy going on.

These people on the opposite side are used to eating and running around, how could they stop easily?

Besides, the long winter hasn’t begun yet, and those people on the other side of the strait have no food security. How can they possibly be quiet?

"You guys must not underestimate the enemy, I guess they probably did it on purpose.

They just want us to let our guard down so that they can suddenly attack us and give us a severe blow.

In this way, we can also adjust our strategy." Qu Shaoyang called several captains together to discuss countermeasures with them.

Next, everyone went home to harvest the fields. After harvesting the corn stalks, they piled up haystacks in the fields, on the roadsides, at the entrances of villages, etc.

On the surface, this is a pile of corn stalks, but in fact, it is hollow inside and can hide people. There is also a hole reserved for observing the outside.

At night, the big guys stopped patrolling and instead hid in the haystacks.

It can block the wind and keep warm, and it is also relatively concealed.

In this way, in the eyes of others, it is equivalent to withdrawing patrols, which can confuse the other side.

Sure enough, on the third night after the patrol was stopped, a group of people, about forty or fifty people, sneaked over from the other side of the river.

The men rowed their boats across the river and then tied the boats to the willow bushes by the river.

Afterwards, they took the belongings in their hands and walked carefully into the village.

Qu Shaoyang was sure that the people on the other side would become more and more greedy, and many people would definitely come once they had the chance. Therefore, he led his men to withdraw the ground guns during the day to avoid alerting the other side.

The people on the other side are not stupid either. They have been secretly observing by the river for many days. When they are patrolling here, there will inevitably be lights and sounds of people talking, so of course they will not come over.

There was no movement for several days, and the group was very happy, thinking that their plan was successful.

So they all bent their backs and ran into the village.

These days, many families have harvested their crops. Some families have small yards, so they simply pile corn cobs and other things in the open space outside the yard.

During the day, the women peeled the corn husks, and either left a few leaves to hang on the racks, or peeled all the corn husks and put them in the corn hut to dry slowly.

This made things convenient for the Koreans. When they entered the village, they went to the place where corn was piled outside the yard.

When they arrived at the place, everyone took out a sack and started picking corn cobs into the sack.

The people were delighted to see the ears of corn cobs with full grains. They stuffed them into the sacks without caring about anything else.

At this moment, Qu Shaoyang and his men had quietly surrounded them from all directions.

I didn't know who fired the first shot, but then I heard a burst of gunfire, followed by a series of screams.

More than ten people who were holding sacks of corn cobs fell down in an instant.

The rest of the people were also panicked. They just lay on the ground, mumbling something.

Qu Shaoyang waved his hand and everyone stopped shooting. Then everyone held their guns, someone lit a torch and surrounded those people.

"Who knows what they are saying? Tell them that if they dare to come again in the future, they will all be killed, leaving no one alive."

Qu Shaoyang looked around and asked.

In the early years, Korean people crossed the border to reclaim wasteland along the Yalu River, especially in Tadian, Maoershan, Shuidong and other places.

Initially, these people came in the morning and left in the evening, but later they gradually developed the habit of coming in the spring to farm and returning in the autumn after the harvest.

Later, they simply settled down here and formed small villages.

Some local people interact with them, and after a while, they start to speak a little bit of their language.

Then someone in the crowd spoke up and tried to scare the group of people.

Those people were so scared that they were trembling like shattered straw. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy, promising that they would never come to steal things again.

Finally, Qu Shaoyang waved his hand and said, "Let them put down the food and take back the dead and injured."

Killing a few people will serve as a deterrent and a revenge for these people's cross-border robbery and murder.

Even if they went back and reported to the authorities, they would have an excuse: who asked them to come and provoke us first?

Why is it okay for them to beat people to death, but we can’t defend ourselves?

But if these forty or fifty people were really beaten to death, the matter would become a big deal. I am afraid that the government would put all the blame on Qu Shaoyang and others in order to shirk responsibility.

Everyone just wants to live a peaceful life, and no one wants to get into trouble.

So, after Qu Shaoyang said this, no one else objected and they just made way.

The group of uninjured Goryeo people stood up tremblingly, and some supported the injured, or carried the dead, and stumbled back.

I went back to the river, found the small boat where they were hiding, climbed up onto it, and then rowed to the other side.

As a result, just as they reached the middle of the river, someone on a boat lost control of the boat for some reason and the boat capsized, and all the people on the boat fell into the river.

Fortunately, these people could swim and they finally swam to the other side.

(End of this chapter)