"Brother, let's run away quickly. We can't stay here any longer, that thing... that thing... is going to kill people again." Director Sanzhai said with a trembling voice.
"Let's go!" Bao Meng yelled, and several leaders were waiting for these words. As soon as Bao Meng finished speaking, several people rushed out of the door frantically. Bao Meng looked back while he was busy, and saw Lin Jue and Gao Muqing together.
There was no pursuit, Lin Jue was smiling at him while holding the two firearms.
Bao Meng gritted his teeth and cursed angrily in his mind: "You just laugh, and when I bring my men in, I will skin you and cramp you. I'll risk more than a dozen lives, and I will catch you."
"Bang!" The originally closed hall door was knocked open, and two men covered in blood rushed in. Bao Meng and others had just rushed to the door, and they were so frightened that they immediately stopped. He immediately recognized those two men who were leading the army.
The little bosses Wang Sheng and Zhao Yi.
"Wang Sheng, Zhao Yi, you... what's going on with you? Why didn't you rush in without anyone after asking you for so long? Ah?"
"Master of the Dazhai! Master of the Dazhai! Brothers...all the brothers are dead...all killed by them. All dead!" Wang Sheng cried loudly.
"What?" The blood in Bao Meng's body was cold from head to the soles of his feet. They were all dead! Just now, he asked if they were all dead, but he really made it true. They were really all dead. How could this be possible?
"What's going on? What's going on? How come everyone is dead?" Director Sanzhai grabbed Zhao Yi's neck and shouted sternly.
"Master of the third village, there are so many of them. They were all hiding, and they suddenly appeared out of nowhere. We clearly checked the houses in the entire village, but suddenly, four to five hundred people appeared. First we shot them with bows and arrows.
Then they rushed over together, and we were all killed before we had time to rush in. We were surrounded outside, and they were all their people." Zhao Yi cried.
"It's over, it's all over. I fell into their trap. They were ready. It's not that we want to eat them, it's that they want to eat us." Bao Meng murmured to himself.
"I don't believe it, how is this possible? Let's rush out." Ren Qiang shouted and rushed out of the hall.
"Master of the Third Village, you can't go!" Zhao Yi shouted loudly.
Before he finished speaking, there was a loud sound of arrows piercing the air. Ren Qiang just rushed to the hidden door of the hall. A shower of arrows shot from outside. He was hit by several arrows in the chest in an instant. He screamed and fell to the ground on his back, motionless.
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The two leaders crawled over from the blind corner and dragged Ren Qiang away from the hall door. When they checked his breathing, they found that Ren Qiang had already died.
"The leader of the big village, the leader of the third village... is dead." A leader shouted in a trembling voice.
"Master Dazhai, what should we do? We are all going to die here." Several leaders asked in panic.
Bao Meng's heart felt cold. In the blink of an eye, the life and death brothers around him were dead and injured. The situation turned out to be so unexpected. I thought that everyone in Luoyan Valley would be killed today, but now it is
I have reached a dead end. Now I really have no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. What should I do?
In the hall, Lin Jue and Gao Muqing straightened two chairs. The couple sat side by side at the end of the long table, looking coldly at the helpless people.
"Master Bao Dazhai, can you tell me now, who is the tiger and who is the fox?" Lin Jue's provocative voice came from afar.
Bao Meng felt ashamed and angry, but was speechless. He turned his head and looked around to see if there was any way to escape.
"Master Bao Dazhai, don't waste your energy. You can't escape. My people are all around you. Unless you can fly to the sky and escape from the earth, you won't be able to escape today." Lin Jue sneered.
Bao Meng said sadly: "Why do you have so many soldiers and horses here? I have sent people to search the main stronghold before, but there are not so many people here."
Lin Jue laughed loudly and said: "I allowed you to search the main stronghold because all my people are hiding in the cave behind the main stronghold. Where can you search them? If not, how could you bring only two hundred people up here? You
I thought you had an absolute advantage, but I didn’t know you had already fallen into my trap.”
Bao Meng was stunned and said angrily: "You thief, you are plotting against us. You plotted against us from the very beginning. You thief, you are treacherous."
Gao Muqing scolded in a cold voice: "Bao Meng, who betrayed his trust? Who had evil intentions from the beginning? You should know it very well."
Bao Meng argued: "When did we break our covenant? I didn't touch a hair of yours even when you were in my stronghold. Isn't this a promise of keeping my promise? Otherwise, I could kill you all in my stronghold."
Lin Jue sneered and said: "Master Bao Dazhai, it's not that you don't want to kill us, it's just that our conditions are too generous. You are very greedy. We gave Shirenshan Dazhai to you, but you still want our lives."
Tell me, should you die?"
"I didn't! This is a misunderstanding." Bao Meng shouted.
Lin Jue said coldly: "You are really a hard-boiled duck. We know everything. Village leader Ruan told us everything. Your plan is that after we capture Shirenshan Dazhai, we will kill Gao Dazhai and me.
Kill all the brothers under me and seize my Luoyan Valley Dazhai in one fell swoop. In this way, you can unify the eastern part of Funiu Mountain. Moreover, you can blame us for the destruction of Shirenshan Dazhai, and you become
You are a hero who avenged Shirenshan Dazhai. You will not be blamed in front of other Funiu Mountain villages. This plan is really perfect, but it is a pity that you are bankrupt."
Bao Meng looked at the unconscious Ruan Ping's body on the ground in shock, and cursed angrily: "Ruan Ping, this thief, betrayed me. This thief, I treated him like a brother in vain, and he betrayed me."
Lin Jue shook his head and said: "You wrongly blamed him. He did not betray you. On the contrary, he has been defending you. Just now he tried to persuade you not to do anything, but you didn't listen to him. He knew that I had arranged it
I know everything, knowing that once you take action, I will mercilessly eliminate you. He tried to persuade you not to take action, but you are bent on getting rid of us, and you can't listen." Bao Meng was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth and shouted.
: "He...he knew that you were ready, why did he write a letter asking me to come? Isn't this betrayal of me?"
Lin Jue chuckled lightly, stood up and walked over to Ruan Ping, stretched out his hands to pick him up from the ground, and lay him flat on the long table. After checking Ruan Ping's wounds, he found that Ruan Ping had just fallen to the ground and fainted, and there was nothing wrong with him.
Other injuries, breathing and heartbeat are still normal, and I feel a little relieved.
"Master Bao Dazhai, that letter was written on the day we took full control of Shirenshan Dazhai. At that time, Chief Ruan thought we didn't know anything. That morning, after we took full control of this place, I urged
He wrote a letter and asked you to take over the village immediately. As soon as the letter was sent, we took control of Master Ruan and all the soldiers and horses in your Beishan Dazhai. In fact, after the letter was sent, Master Ruan returned to the village.
There is no chance to send any news to the outside world. So, you wrongly blamed him." Lin Jue said in a deep voice.
"What? You...you...so it's not you who betrayed your trust first?" Bao Meng shouted.
Lin Jue nodded and said: "From this point of view, we are indeed the first. But we are trying to strike first, because if I don't strike first, there will be a dead end waiting for us."
Bao Meng shouted: "But...but how did you know?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Guess!"
"Guess?" Bao Meng said in astonishment.
"Yes, it's a guess. It's just a reasonable guess. We are guessing you based on human nature. How can you let go of such a great opportunity to destroy my Luoyangu Village? If it were me, I would do the same.
Take action. So we guess that you will definitely be detrimental to us. This has also been confirmed by the mouth of Ruan Village Leader. You don’t need to scold Ruan Village Master, he refuses to tell you your plan. Look at the hair on his head.
The injury was caused by his own suicide attempt by hitting the wall. In order to protect you, he would rather commit suicide than tell the truth. It is a pity that by committing suicide in this way, he has brought it upon himself."
Bao Meng looked at the unconscious Ruan Ping lying on the long table in shock. He didn't know what to feel in his heart. It turned out that the injury on Ruan Ping's head was caused by suicide and hitting the wall, not from the battle. It must have been Gao Muqing and Fang Junshi who were interrogating him.
Ruan Ping refused to tell him about his own plan and simply committed suicide to keep it secret. This was actually a warning. If Ruan Ping had died and he had not seen Ruan Ping when he arrived here, he would have become wary.
"Master Ruan is actually very loyal to you. We rescued him, but he still refused to tell the truth. But I told him that if he didn't tell the truth, I would shoot you directly on the mountainside when you arrived.
No matter whether you have any conspiracy or not. But if he tells the truth, there may be room for negotiation. Village leader Ruan should know that I mean what I say, so he finally proposed an exchange condition before he would tell us the truth."
Lin Jue paused and sighed softly: "To be honest, I have a good impression of Master Ruan. When we came here to act in the dragon pond and tiger's den this time, Master Ruan showed his bravery and fearlessness, and experienced life and death with us.
, we almost all died here. This can be regarded as a life-and-death friendship. Although I controlled him, I did not use torture to force him at all. I respect him as a man, and good men cannot
Humiliated. If this matter were not related to the life and death of everyone in Luoyan Valley, I would never be disrespectful to him. Unfortunately, I can only control him and force him to tell me the truth."
"The condition he proposed is that if you don't kill us, I hope I won't do anything bad to you. Both parties will still act in accordance with the agreement in the covenant. The captured materials and prisoners will be shared equally between the two families. I hope I can let you go.
.I agreed to him for the sake of life and death together. I don’t want things to end up like this. Therefore, the leader of Ruan Village just tried his best to persuade you, hoping that you can change your mind. He can’t directly warn you.
, because I warned him that once he directly warned me, I would take action immediately. He knew all my plans, and he also knew the power of the firearm in my hand. He knew that he could only do what I said. Without his mediation,
You couldn't even enter this stronghold, so you were ambushed by my soldiers and horses on the mountainside. You have seen the fortifications and terrain on the mountainside. Just a few hundred ambushes can annihilate you all on the mountain road.
You have no place to escape. The fact that you can step into the main village is because the leader of Ruan Village has given you a chance."
"...He tried to persuade you to agree to my request, and in his words he hoped that you would not do anything casually. Unfortunately, the leader of Bao Dazhai couldn't listen to this at all. Instead, he scolded him for cheating and was determined to kill us. This led to
We have to take action. You had a chance to avoid all this happening, but it's a pity that you didn't seize it. In my opinion, Chief Ruan Village has given a very obvious warning, but it's a pity that you are too confused to listen to his words.
You can't blame anyone. It's just your inner demons and greed. It's your fault that you don't even want to listen to your brothers. In the end, it's your fault, Bao Meng, for being stupid. You ruined everything."
Bao Meng understood everything. Only then did he understand why Ruan Ping said just now when he was about to take action, "Once he takes action, it will be doomed." He also said half of "They have already...". It was a pity that he was beaten by him.
He was thrown out and fell into a coma. That sentence should be: They already know our plan, and they are already prepared. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to listen to what he said. Bao Meng felt regretful and wanted to stab himself.
It takes two cuts to resolve it. If we had been more careful and cautious, how would we be where we are now?
"Fourth, I can't help you. I regret that I didn't listen to your advice. Indeed, I was too stupid. I was too stupid." Bao Meng paused and sighed, regretting it.
Lin Jue and Gao Muqing looked at him quietly without saying anything. Bao Meng felt sorry for himself for a long time, then he raised his head and said to Lin Jue and Gao Muqing: "Don't say anything anymore. It was me, Bao Meng, who was at fault first. I shouldn't be so arrogant."
I'm thinking of attacking you. But Chief Gao, Military Advisor Fang, it won't do you any good if you kill me. After killing me, no one will mediate for you in Funiu Mountain, and other strongholds will not let you go. They will
If we jointly attack you, you will be unable to resist."
Lin Jue laughed and said: "What a joke, do you think we will be afraid? We can recruit prisoners. Your Beishan Dazhai and Shirenshan Dazhai can at least add one or two thousand troops to us. We are strong enough."
But looking down on the entire Funiu Mountain, they are just here to kowtow, but they still dare to attack us? Even if they all unite to attack us, will we be afraid? When we only have more than 300 troops, how could we be afraid of you? You have more
With five or six times our strength, why don’t we dare to attack Luo Yangu directly? We won’t be afraid of anyone.”
Bao Meng frowned and said: "But in that case, you will not be able to live in peace. Fighting will not benefit anyone. If you are not recognized by other cottages, there will never be peace in Funiu Mountain."
Lin Jue thought for a while and said: "This is right. I admit that there will never be peace, but when it comes to that point, there is nothing we can do. When we come to Funiu Mountain, we have already entered hell. Who can't help it?
Let us live in peace, and he won’t be able to live in peace either.”
Bao Meng said: "But if you let me go, I can mediate for you. Our Beishan Dazhai still has some status in Funiu Mountain and can still speak. No matter how strong you are, you are still an outsider. It doesn't matter.
How about we talk about the conditions?”
Lin Jue glanced at Gao Muqing, who shrugged his shoulders and made an impeccable gesture.
Lin Jue turned around and said with a smile: "Okay, what Bao Dazhai Master said makes some sense. You might as well listen to Bao Dazhai Master's conditions, maybe we can reach a deal."
Bao Meng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If the other party was willing to listen to the conditions, then there was still hope of survival. Bao Meng's mind began to stir, and his lifelong wisdom reached its peak at this moment, and he soon thought of the conditions.
"Master Gao Dazhai, Military Advisor Fang. If you are willing to let me go, the territory of Shirenshan Dazhai will be yours, and I will not have any involvement in all the supplies and personnel. Including Laojun Mountain and Luoyan Valley, they are also yours. Not only that.
In this way, I will convene a meeting of Funiu Mountain Village to expose Zuo Zongdao's actions and tell other villagers that by destroying Shiren Mountain Village, you have eliminated a threat for everyone. You will make them agree to your official status in Funiu Mountain.
Take over Shirenshan Dazhai and become an official member of my Funiu Mountain. In this way, you can eliminate the hatred of other villagers towards you and live in peace. What do you two think of this condition?"
Lin Jue admired Bao Meng very much. This man was really flexible and flexible, and he made the biggest concession at once. And the most attractive condition was the last one. He would come forward to help Luoyan Valley Dazhai obtain the land in Funiu Mountain.
The recognition of all the cottages. This recognition is not optional. In the small world of Funiu Mountain, it seems that there are many cottages, each occupying the top of the mountain. But they are all descendants of the generals of the original Shu Kingdom, and they all maintain the common
is a basic principle. Although they compete with each other, in fact, the rise and demise of each copycat must ultimately have a legal status in their eyes. To put it more broadly, it is an orthodox status.
Just like the princes of an imperial family competing for the throne, you are a prince, so you are qualified to compete for the throne. It doesn't matter if you beat each other to death, the person who wins the throne in the end is still a royal heir. If there is an unrelated person mixed in
If someone interferes with it, that person will definitely become the target of public criticism. The situation in Funiu Mountain is similar to this. They are very xenophobic. If they are not recognized by them, they will be the enemies of Funiu Mountain. Zuo, the leader of Shiren Mountain Dazhai
The reason why Zongdao wanted to marry the fourteen-year-old Mo Qiaoer was because he was well aware of this situation. Even as the son-in-law, there was a possibility that other villagers would accept him.
If Luoyangu Dazhai wants to take root in Funiu Mountain, force is important, but the recognition of other villages is also indispensable. Force can only guarantee temporary peace, but it is not a trivial matter to cause public outrage. The lion is napping.
There will always be a time when a group of hyenas are waiting around. Unless the lion keeps its eyes open forever, it will be eaten by them one day. As for Lin Jue, the only purpose of his trip to the Funiu Mountains is to let
Everyone in Luoyan Valley was able to gain a foothold here. Lin Jue could not stay here, so if he wanted to stabilize the situation in a short period of time and allow himself to leave with peace of mind, the conditions proposed by Bao Meng were indeed very attractive.
Lin Jue's original plan was naturally to annex Beishan Dazhai together and control nearly half of the eastern Funiu Mountain area from north to south. This would suddenly increase the strength of Luoyan Valley to the point where it was unbeatable. However,
The risk of doing this is that if you expand too fast, it will cause a lot of trouble. For example, if the territory is too big, how can you hold such a large territory? Although you can recruit troops, this does not solve the fundamental problem.
To defend such a huge territory, it would require a large number of soldiers and horses. For Luoyangu Dazhai, the cost of defending the territory is many times higher than that of others. For example, the territory of Beishan Dazhai is in Bao Meng's hands.
Maybe only one or two thousand people are enough. Because Bao Meng is from Funiu Mountain, his Beishan Dazhai is legal in Funiu Mountain, and other strongholds will not attack him for no reason. Therefore, Bao Meng does not need to raise
There are too many manpower to guard against it. But if the same territory is in the hands of Luoyan Valley, it will probably require twice as many troops to guard against it. After all, it is still an issue of legality. No matter how much territory Luoyan Valley Village occupies, it will not be able to protect it in other places.
People seem to be occupying it illegally, and they can harass it anytime and anywhere. So the bigger the territory, the more trouble it will cause.
Considering the actual situation, unless Luoyan Valley Dazhai can wipe out the entire Funiu Mountain, the larger the territory, the more cumbersome it will be. The troops will definitely not be enough. Barely occupying such a large territory will make Luoyan Valley Village fall into trouble.
When encountering enemies, you are always in a difficult position of fighting.
Lin Jue and Gao Muqing had an in-depth discussion on this issue two days ago. After analyzing Zuo Zongdao's situation, Lin Jue realized some special rules in Funiu Mountain. Gao Muqing also agreed with Lin Jue's view. She has always felt that she is moving forward.
Too fast will cause a lot of uncontrollable troubles. According to Gao Muqing's idea, she actually just wants to occupy Luoyan Valley. She has no big ambitions. She just has no choice but to protect Luoyan Valley.
