choke element

At the beginning of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty's southern journey, all the people in the world who lived in peace and contentment turned into thieves, and thousands of people were killed.

In order to cope with this situation where the world is in a state of chaos, Emperor Gaozong issued a new law on archers to strengthen grassroots force, and set up 190 six patrol villages in the east and west of Zhejiang, Jiangnan, Jinghu, Fujian, and Guangnan. Calming place.

Archers and soldiers were both useful at that time.However, as time went by, there were clamors from all over the place that the finances were tight. Not only did the archers and native soldiers not make up for their shortages, they often borrowed from others. dead.

With the financial resources of the Song Dynasty, even a small county in the border area will not be unable to support a hundred archers; in a rich military state like Fuzhou, the local officials really have to find a way, not to mention a hundred people, but a thousand people, thousands of people. can also be recruited.It's just that money from all over the world has places to go, and no one is willing to invest money in archers and inspection villages.

Of course, the government wantonly embezzled national wealth and ignored the process of force.That is, the process of wanton plundering and oppression by the noble gentry and subordinate officials, which made the people miserable.Over the past few decades, Song State's management of local security has become more and more useless, and there are more and more thieves from various sources.

For example, around Gushan, which is only more than [-] miles away from the city of Fuzhou, there are no fewer than five or six villages, and each village refuses to obey the king.The officials in Fuzhou city could only stare blankly. After a long time, a symbolic tax collection would be enough.

In the evening, these villages in the mountains become lively.

The fleeing common people or soldiers gathered by the cliff spring and chatted. Some people discussed that the few thin fields on the mountainside might not be able to grow food, so they might as well ask for some jute seeds, plant some jute in spring, and sell them to sea merchants later.Some people complained that the large grain ships on the sea were going north one by one. No wonder the officials urged them so hard. Several relatives at the foot of the mountain had a very difficult life.

Speaking of which, some people hate the tunnel and would rather go to the sea to survive.

As soon as this thought came out, it was immediately stopped by the old man in the village.The old man said, Mr. Wang in the south of Guling is a man who lives on the sea.There are people in that village, as well as heroes who deal with Mr. Wang on a daily basis, such as Mr. Zhao and Mr. Cai Ba, who are not ruthless people, and who don't have dozens or hundreds of lives in their hands?
They even attacked the county town and came to our village and killed people!Steal the woman!Seize the food!
You are such an ant, how can you compare with a hero?When you go to sea, you are fishing at most.If you want to do anything else, you will die in an instant!

Having said that, several young people still exchanged glances with each other, showing eagerness to try.

There are always dangers. Death is not necessarily terrible. As long as there is a chance to make money, buy land and land in your hometown to start a family and start a business. The danger is worth it!

Thinking of this, people subconsciously turned their heads to look south of Guling, the stockade the old man said.

After a long distance, he suddenly found that the village was brightly lit.

What happened?

The young man with good eyesight climbed the vines and trees and slowly descended the ridge. He got a closer look and came back and said: "At the entrance of the village, there are all people with bows, arrows and swords and guns! We are afraid that something is going to happen, so we still have to go!"

The people scattered in a rush.Anyway, it's getting dark, so I'm hiding in my shack, and I'll see it tomorrow when the sky falls.

The people gathered in Wang Ziqing's stockade are naturally pirates.The guards at the gate are usually guards in the village, but they are villains who kill without batting an eye when they get on the boat.At this time, not only the people in the village were patrolling, but also more than a hundred fierce fighters brought by Zhao Xique, Cai Ba and others from all over the place.

Pine torches were lit everywhere in the village. On the high platform in the middle, Cai Ba looked around, but he didn't feel any danger, but was full of confidence in his own strength.

Sometimes he would stand up and walk back and forth on the high platform. Under the night, he could vaguely see the rise and fall of the sea, and his heart was full of pride.

In recent years, because of the close maritime contacts with the Northern Great Zhou, people who do business at sea or those who rob at sea have a better life than before. Many pirate leaders have more money in hand and recruit subordinates. It's easier, and even with the strength at hand, you can blend with big shots who were afraid to get in touch with before, and even exchange some benefits...

If this situation can continue for a few more years, how can the pirates be more than mere pirates?

Cai Ba followed Zhao Xique and had been at sea for more than ten years, and the friendship between the two is really good.

So when he thought of this, he became more confident: If Zhao Xi can have a good future, I, Cai, should not be bad, right?He had to give me something to keep me comfortable for a few years!

Just as he was thinking about it, a pirate leader walked up to the high platform and said: "Chief, two or three hundred people have been circling around for more than an hour. They have only scared away a few rabbits. Should we let everyone rest? This is useless. !"

"After all, Old Wang didn't come back, but that idiot Wang Erbai did come back..."

The leader of the pirates said disdainfully: "I have a close friend who just reported that there are at most 40 people who landed with Wang Erbai. We have more than 400 brothers in this village. Even if there is something wrong, ten dozen One, also crushed them, what are you afraid of?"

"That……"

After all, the pirates are not an army, and if the people below are slack, the leaders above have to be considerate.

Cai Ba nodded and said: "Have half of the people come back to rest, and the rest will continue to patrol as usual, don't make Boss Zhao angry. You go to spread the word, just say, and work hard for half a night. I will give up two beautiful girls tomorrow morning, let them enjoy themselves." Le Yile, it doesn't matter if you kill him!"

His order is really a combination of leniency and strictness, which is very touching.However, the pirates had no discipline, and the number of pine torches held high inside and outside the village suddenly decreased by [-] to [-]%. Most of the pirates who were looking for sentries took the opportunity to go back to rest.

Below Guling, Shi Tianni got up from the lush grass, and asked in a deep voice: "Everyone! You are familiar with the map, have you memorized the road? I will go up the mountain road in a while, and I fell, and no one will save you!"

The first forty soldiers got up one by one.As they moved, the blades of the armor specially painted with black paint to prevent moisture lightly collided, making a crackling sound; they drew out their knives one after another to check, and then retracted the knives back into their sheaths, the blades shining with cold arcs under the moonlight.

"Don't worry about defense! There is absolutely no problem with this path."

Shi Tianni paused for a moment, then asked again: "Anyone want to vomit anymore? No stomachache anymore? All strength recovered? Are you able to stand on both feet?"

Some in the ranks of soldiers muttered something dissatisfied, while others laughed in a low voice.

"Then proceed as planned, break in from the front and rear gates of the village at the same time, kill all those who resist, take away the valuables in the village, and set fire to it!"

This kind of thing has been done hundreds of times by the soldiers in the north, and all of them are familiar with it.He didn't say much at the moment, just looked at Shi Tianni and waited for him to issue an order.

"set off!"

The forty soldiers were divided into two teams and walked up the left and right mountain roads.The moonlight was very bright tonight, and they had obtained a detailed map of the place in advance, where the turns, steep places, and rugged places were all clearly listed, so they didn't hold up torches. After hours, the Haikou village with dazzling lights everywhere is in front of you.

A soldier stood in the shadows, couldn't help laughing and said: "This is too damn bright, are you begging someone else to fight?"

Suddenly, a crisp whistle sounded from behind the stockade!

Everyone, including Shi Tianni, rushed forward.

This village is very loose, there is not even a decent gate, only a loose wooden fence at the intersection.The armored soldiers were dressed in heavy armor weighing tens of kilograms, and they overthrew them like beasts of prey.

The sleeping pirates who were napping near the fence were immediately killed, and those who tried to resist only survived for a breath or two at most.

They resolved the battle in an instant and continued to go deeper.

The pirates who had just returned to rest in the village were the first to respond. With the sound of gongs and drums, many people rushed towards them brandishing their weapons.

Shi Tianni remained completely calm, and the rhythm of his forward steps did not change, and he did not even issue any orders.

100 people, no more.Shi Tianni was familiar with battles of this scale before he was 16 years old.When he led the villagers to subdue the local powerful, the number of enemies was probably this number.Later, when he joined the army and was involved in a wave of fighting between large countries and heavy troops, there were few opportunities for such small fights.

Now that they meet again, he feels a little kind, and he misses the carefree life of a teenager.

21 people crashed into the enemy formation.

No, that cannot be called an enemy formation.Shi Tianni's subordinates have been on the battlefield for a long time and received continuous and rigorous training. They have steady steps, tight formation, and flawless slashing and assassination movements. This is called a military formation.

The chaotic group of shirtless men on the opposite side can only be regarded as a herd.It is not a genus of tigers and leopards, it is at most a group of wild dogs.

Shi Tianni thought easily, and swung the long knife freely with instinct.Around him, twenty swords were shining brightly, cutting off the enemy's weapons and cutting off the enemy's body, and the soldiers kept moving forward.

The pirates tried their best to resist with swords and guns, but as the bravest dozen or so were easily killed, those who followed began to flee wailing.It's no wonder that these people are used to the kind of person-on-person fighting in the chaotic environment of the deck of a sea ship; they have no concept of covering each other and advancing and retreating together.

Before half a cup of tea time, half of the first batch of pirates who rushed up fled away, and half of them turned into scattered corpses on the ground.

Suddenly there was a crackling sound. It was someone shooting arrows at the soldiers from the stockade, and then someone rushed up under the cover of the arrows.

But bows and crossbows are very easy to damage in the humid and salty environment at sea, and it is impossible for pirates to have the discipline and conditions to maintain them.The arrows they shot were weak and weak. When they hit the heavy armor, at most they knocked off a piece of lacquer leather, and the fine iron armor underneath was not damaged at all.

The arrows did not serve as a cover at all, and the pirates who rushed up the second wave turned into corpses in a blink of an eye, and were stepped on by the soldiers.Behind the soldiers, blood flowed all the way.

The soldiers stepped over the corpses, knocked over several shacks, and rushed to the high platform surrounded by lights.

Not long after the battle broke out, Cai Ba knew that Wang Ziqing must be dead, and the old boy had been exposed!The murderer from the north came to kill him, and there will be no future troubles!
Closer, closer!These murderous people are all iron men, and all of them have become blood men!All that blood is the blood of the brothers in the village!

Northerners are terrible.They are ten times more powerful than the rumors said, and the current situation is simply like a tiger falling into the flock!This is not fighting, this is destroying!

Cai Ba turned around and jumped off the high platform.

Enduring the severe pain in his ankle, he wanted to go back, but found that the back of the village was also in a mess, so he had to turn back.Suddenly, I saw an acquaintance in front of me, who was the pirate leader who was on duty tonight.

Cai Ba grabbed him violently and cursed angrily: "Didn't you just say that if we beat one out of ten, can we crush them? Why don't you crush them!"

When the leader of the pirates is heartbroken, how can he answer?He struggled desperately, shook off Cai Ba's hand, then rushed a few steps, changed direction and fled.Cai Ba's subordinates were flustered, and more than a dozen of them ran away.

Cai Ba jumped on his feet and yelled a few times, but no one paid any attention.

Turning his head again, he saw Zhao Xi walking swiftly and approaching wildly.

"Boss Zhao, let's go together!" Cai Ba kept yelling loudly, and then Zhao Xi fell down in front of him.

He rolled forward and rushed forward, only to see blood and brain matter spurting out from a huge wound on the right side of Zhao Xique's skull, and the inside of his skull had become a hollow.

Cai Ba screamed in fright, and when he looked up again, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes.

His head was flying in the air.In the next instant, everything is over.He is comfortable.