Traveling through 1942 with space

Others may not know, but Hou Xiaoge, who had been hiding under the bandits' noses, how could he not know? The bandits' talk of calling for help was totally false, and they were just trying to intimidate the victims.

Seeing that the group of disaster victims was thrown into chaos by the bandits' few words, Hou Xiaoge became anxious and hurried back.

"Uncle, come here." Hou Xiaoge squeezed out of the crowd and waved and shouted to the uncle in front of the team.

"Brother Song Chao, the bandits won't break in for a while. You guys stay here first. Let me see what my nephew wants from me." Hou Yangmin bowed and smiled apologetically to several disaster victims' leaders.

"Okay, but you have to go and come back quickly." Several leaders nodded to Hou Yangmin.

"Heiwa, what's wrong again? Did something happen at home?" Hou Yangmin pushed through the crowd, came to Hou Xiaoge and asked in a low voice.

"Uncle, I didn't go home just now. I ran outside the village to monitor the bandits. I have some news to tell you." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.

"You kid, you are so brave that you even start to monitor the bandits. What's the matter? Do you have any news to tell me?" Hou Yangmin touched Hou Xiaoge's head and asked with a smile.

"Uncle, let me tell you~" Hou Xiaoge then told his uncle everything he saw and heard.

"Humph! It turns out that this bandit has no reinforcements. He is trying to disrupt the morale of our disaster victims. Now he is back at them." After hearing this, Hou Yangmin slapped his thigh and said.

"Uncle, can't we eat first? Let the aunts in the village make something delicious. Once you have eaten your fill, you will have strength.

The bandits outside must be hungry after fighting with us for such a long time. Seeing us eating, they must be so angry that their teeth are itching and their morale is completely lost.

It's getting dark soon, let's eat and then charge again to grab their horses. By then they will have to run back for help, but it will take them until tomorrow.

Otherwise, when it gets dark, they will have to ride back on horseback to look for help, which would be really dangerous." Hou Xiaoge suggested.

"Haha! Boy, I never thought you could be a military strategist.

"Uncle listens to you, you should go back quickly! Be careful." Hou Yangmin patted the dirt off Hou Xiaoge's body, reminded him to be careful, and returned to the team.

Hou Yangmin returned to the team and told several leading victims the news that Hou Xiaoge had found out, and they began to discuss.

"Brother Yangmin, are you sure this news is true?" asked the leader of the Liu family.

The leader of the Liu family used to be a soldier. This time, he was always at the forefront in the fight against the bandits, killing three or four people in a row. He was very prestigious among the victims.

"Brother Liu, the strong man who killed the bandit leader asked a child to tell me this news, so it should be accurate.

Besides, we have been fighting for a long time, and now we are all hungry and weak, so we might as well let the women at home cook.

Let the bandits watch us while we eat and drink. If they rush over, there is an earth wall outside the village to block them. We can slowly organize the villagers to guard it this time.

If they don't charge, that's even better. The bandits didn't bring any food with them, and seeing us eating and drinking, their morale would definitely be completely destroyed.

We will eat and drink our fill and then charge again, and we will surely be able to capture the bandits. This time, let those with guns kill the horses first, and after the bandits are driven away, we will eat the horse meat.

Thousands of kilograms of horse meat will keep the villagers well fed and well-watered. If reinforcements from the bandits come, we can fight them with so many people." Hou Yangmin told Hou Xiaoge the idea.

"Okay, brother Yangmin's idea is very clever, let's do it." The leaders around were all smart men. When they heard what Hou Yangmin said, they all clapped their legs and cheered.

In this way, the men gathered outside the wall to monitor the bandits, while the women and children were arranged to return home, take out their family savings and the best food to start making pancakes.

The bandit leader saw that it was already past six o'clock and it was about to get dark. He became restless while riding on his horse and sent out a few of his men to curse and threaten the victims.

The victims felt more confident and fearless, and they started to curse the bandits.

"Come, the food is here." A dozen women carried the prepared multi-grain cakes and began to distribute food to the men guarding the wall.

The victims, who used to be given at most two or three taels of bark flour and multi-grain cakes every day, had to go all out today. The cakes distributed to each person weighed half a pound, and two were given at a time.

These two cakes can also be considered grains. There is no bark powder in them. They are made entirely of bran powder, with a small amount of cornmeal mixed in.

The men only had three or four taels of bark flour and multi-grain cakes a day at most. They had never seen so many delicious foods. One by one, they took the cakes and started chewing them in big mouthfuls.

Some men whose families were in particularly difficult circumstances looked at the hot pancakes in their hands and said that they would rather die than eat them.

The morale of the disaster victims was high, but the bandits looked at them eating pancakes with long faces and lost all their morale.

The third in command of the bandits was a reckless man who only knew how to fight and kill. He was completely oblivious to this and only knew how to whip the horse's butt and his little brothers beside him.

"Go, ask them for the boss's body. We'll go back to ask the second brother for advice. I'll give in this time." After letting out a sigh, the third leader of the bandits sent people to negotiate again.

When the victims heard that the bandits only wanted the boss's body and not the women and children, they were tempted, but they couldn't make up their minds and looked at the leaders.

“Since the bandits said so, it proves that there is really no reinforcement.

We can't let the bandits go back. If so many of them return intact, they will definitely bring reinforcements to settle accounts with us at night." Hou Yangmin shook his head and said.

"Yes, only the bandits are allowed to rob us, but we are not allowed to rob the bandits? We are all disaster victims now, with neither houses nor land. We can kill them and run away early tomorrow, and the bandits won't even know who did it." The man from the Liu family said gritting his teeth.

"Okay, Yangmin and Brother Liu are right. Now that we're full and satisfied, let's fight these damn bandits." The other few people ate the last bit of cake, looked at each other and made a decision.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they pretended to take out the bandit leader's body and let the bandits come and claim it.

"Bang bang bang!"

Six or seven bandits armed with machetes and dung forks came over with horses, ready to carry the boss away, but they were frightened by a burst of gunfire and fell to the ground.

When the remaining bandits looked up, they found that the horse had been shot in the head and killed on the spot, and two unlucky guys were also shot and fell to the ground wailing.

When the bandits behind saw the victims resisting, they immediately fought back, and thus a fight between the victims and the bandits began again.

Another hour later, when it was completely dark, the bandits abandoned more than 30 corpses and fled the village in panic.

When the victims saw that the bandits they once feared were defeated, they all cheered loudly.

But after the cheers, there were waves of cries from women and children looking for their fathers, followed by wailing and crying.

After a final count, it was found that more than sixty people had died in this bandit attack, more than twenty were seriously injured and would not live long, and everyone had some minor injuries.

You have to know that most of the victims were mobilized to resist the bandits this time, including four to five hundred young and strong men, more than two hundred women, and dozens of fifteen-year-old children.

The victims also had a lot of weapons, including more than ten muskets and a dozen hunting bows. But facing the fierce bandits, so many victims still suffered heavy losses.

In fact, after Hou Xiaoge looked at it, he found that most of the dead were scattered households killed by the bandits when they first entered the village, and the teams from clans and villages that resisted later did not suffer many deaths.

At this time, Xiaoge also understood what the elders said: people living alone will not live long, and only by gathering together can they go far.

But the bandits did not get anything good either. More than a hundred people came in and dumped more than seventy corpses and the spoils on them.

In the "end of the world", human life is worthless. After lamenting, the victims gathered together and began to divide the spoils taken from the bandits.

After a final count, they looted more than 50 silver dollars, two gold rings, more than 3,000 French francs, some weapons, clothes and two dead horses from the bandits.

The division of spoils is naturally not democratic, but rather it is distributed by a few leaders based on their contributions.

The final calculation determined that the victims who died would be paid thirty francs, and the seriously injured twenty francs.

The remaining French currency, dollars, weapons, clothes, and gold rings were divided among several villages and clans according to their contributions.

As for the other victims who were slightly injured or contributed, they did not suffer any loss either. Each family was given two pounds of horse meat and each person had a bowl of offal soup in the evening. The rest was naturally divided among the clan members and villages.