The villagers exclaimed that the man who broke into the village on horseback was actually Pang An's younger brother Pang Cun. Many people remembered that he was the first person in the village to defect to the Chuang Army, and he also had a very bad time with the Chuang Army.
Difference.
Pang Cun was originally an Orion and knew how to use bows and arrows. Because he was the first person in the village to defect to the Chu army, Zhang Pizhu, who was recruiting soldiers here at the time, was deeply impressed by Pang Cun, and later directly recruited him.
Pang Cun was promoted to Qinjunbiao.
He had just passed through a bloody battle in Yingzi Mountain. He was similar to Zuo Liangyu and Dong Yuan. His clothes and armor were in pieces, his face was covered with blood and smoke, and he looked murderous.
"Have you seen any traces of officers and soldiers near the village? Has our village been invaded by officers and soldiers? I will avenge the villagers!"
Zhang Pili was determined to capture Zuo Liangyu alive, but he could not find any trace of Zuo Liangyu and Dong Yuan, so he had to spend all his time searching on the roads in Xiangyang and Zaoyang. Pang Cun was a local
He was sent to look for Zuo Liangyu's traces. He was worried that his hometown village might have been destroyed by Zuo Zhen, so he stopped by the village to take a look.
The villagers looked at each other, not knowing how to answer, and all looked at the village elder. The elder in the village looked very ugly. He glanced at the house where Zuo Liangyu and Dong Yuan were having fun, and then looked at the man who was riding a tall horse and holding a soldier.
Pang Cun, who was armed, replied slowly: "This... was the Chuang army defeated by the officers and soldiers?"
"Hey!" After Pang Cun dismounted, he hung his weapons on the saddle, then walked into the villagers and laughed, "The commander is like a god with his troops, and he is invincible in every attack. Zuo Liangyu has already been captured by us.
No scrap will be left alive, and the villagers will no longer suffer from the infringement of officers and soldiers in the future."
His words made everyone in the village speechless. Several villagers focused their attention on the clan elders, and the atmosphere was strange. Pang Cun had been a soldier of the Breakthrough Army for a period of time, and his ability to observe words and emotions had increased a lot, and he suddenly
Feeling something was wrong. He looked around, but couldn't find the shadow of his brother Pang An in the crowd. He couldn't help but feel suspicious and couldn't help but ask:
"Where has my brother gone? You...please tell me clearly, what happened? Where has my brother gone?"
Seeing that the clan elder could not answer, and the villagers' eyes wandering, Pang Cun immediately realized that something must have happened to his brother. At this time, a girl's scream suddenly came from the distant house, and Pang Cun could hear it.
It was very clear, and I felt that this voice was extremely familiar. Wasn't it clearly the voice of my niece?
He thought of some terrible situation, and immediately pulled out the sword from the edge of the saddle. The cold light from the blade was so strong that the villagers were frightened. Several people immediately knelt down, kowtowed to Pang Cun and begged:
"It was the officers and soldiers who did it, it was the officers and soldiers who did it! Brother Pang, we didn't do anything. This has nothing to do with us!"
"What the hell is going on!"
Pang Cun held the waist knife in his hand and rushed towards the direction where the woman's screams came from. The clan elder hurriedly blocked him, but Pang Cun kicked him to the ground.
"Who's going to stop me? You're going to kill my niece!"
He rushed over, and his body suddenly erupted with divine power that had never been seen on the battlefield. He split the door open with just one knife. Behind the door, there was a short, foul-smelling man with sinister eyebrows, and two upside down figures beside the wall.
A girl in a pool of blood.
Seeing such a scene, and seeing the armor the man was wearing and the weapons on the table, Pang Cun immediately understood what had happened. How could this officer and soldier attack such a young child?
And those villagers, those clan elders, how could they sacrifice such a young child to the government and army for fun in order to protect themselves? Are they still human beings!
Pang Cun's two nieces were insulted by Dong Yuan. They were both strong-tempered people. If they didn't obey, they would directly hit the wall and commit suicide. Dong Yuan was spitting on the corpses of the two girls, cursing bad luck, and suddenly saw the door.
It was smashed open, and a burly man broke in with a knife. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground before he even put on his clothes.
"Dog thief!"
In his grief and anger, Pang Cun didn't look carefully to see if there was anyone else in the room, so he slashed at Dong Yuan with all his strength. Zuo Liangyu, who was hiding aside, immediately pulled out his sword and slashed Pang Cun's wrist from the side, and then
He kicked the waist knife away with one kick.
Although General Zuo is old, he is still a ruthless figure who has been on the battlefield for many years. He is experienced and has very ruthless timing and angles of attack. After he kicked Pang Cun's weapon away, he stabbed Pang Cun several times and dodged.
Dong Yuan, who was behind him, half crawled and half ran to the side and picked up the weapon.
"Trespassing? It's a pity that you came here to die alone!"
Zuo Liangyu was also startled when he first saw Pang Cun, but when he saw that there seemed to be no reinforcements rushing in, after confirming that there was only one Pang Cun, he immediately became courageous and danced a ferocious sword flower on his hand.
smiled and said:
"Do you really want me to carry one more head back to Xiangyang?"
Pang Cun was stabbed on the wrist and shoulder by Zuo Liangyu. He carefully took two steps back until he retreated outside the gate, only to find that the villagers had gathered into a group and surrounded the yard.
Although there were a large number of villagers, everyone looked timid. When they saw Pang Cun's eyes sweeping over them, they immediately lowered their heads, never daring to meet Pang Cun's eyes.
Dong Yuan hurriedly put on his clothes and then smiled and said: "Where did this intruder come from? If you don't catch him, then the whole village will be a thief! Tomorrow the army will come to kill you and the whole village!"
Dong Yuan's threat made the surrounding villagers pale in horror. Everyone looked at each other and saw that there were actually seven or eight strong villagers picking up iron farm tools and cautiously surrounding Pang Cun.
Pang Cun felt that all this was simply unreasonable: "Damn it! The officers and soldiers have been defeated. Zuo Liangyu's troops have been killed by the intruders long ago. Why are you afraid of the officers and soldiers? Why do you listen to the officers and soldiers? Today you are in harm's way.
My niece will be killed to protect herself. Will the army come tomorrow? Who else will be killed? Do you plan to spend your whole life like this, being timid, low-brow and submissive, and just being a cow and a horse all your life?"
"Hmph." Zuo Liangyu snorted coldly. He held a long sword in his hand and stepped closer to Pang Cun. "Everyone, come here. As long as we kill this intruder, today's matter will be revealed... Otherwise, otherwise, otherwise
Your whole village will suffer together."
"this……"
The clan elder who represented the villagers' opinions was hesitant. This Pang Cun was different from Pang An. Looking at Pang Cun's posture, he also had war horses, armor and weapons. He killed an intruder today, so he really didn't have to worry about retaliation from the army.
, but what if Chuangjun comes to take revenge again?
These two, they are just ordinary farmers in the mountains, and they cannot afford to offend any of them.
Alas! The villagers just want to make a living. Whether they are in the army or in the army, what do they have to do with them?
But Zuo Liangyu was aggressive, glaring at the villagers with his vicious and sharp eyes, while Dong Yuan added to the threats by adding insult to injury. In comparison, Pang Cun's eloquence was similar to that of his brother Pang An, and compared with Zuo Liangyu and Dong Yuan,
Far from it.
The villagers received threats from Zuo Liangyu and Dong Yuan, and increasingly surrounded Pang Cun... Several people had blocked Pang Cun's escape from the siege from various directions, and his heart rose.
I felt a terrible chill and a few drops of cold sweat ran down my forehead. I never thought that my fellow villagers would actually want to kill me in order to please the officers and soldiers.
"But if we kill him...will our fields still count? Will we have to return them to the master of Xiangyang?"
Just when Pang Cun's life was hanging by a thread, there suddenly appeared a middle-aged farmer with the same cautious and timid expression. He was afraid that after killing Chuang Jun, the land that had been divided for cultivation would return to the hands of the Xiangyang City gentlemen.
I couldn't help but wonder a few words.
"This...it depends on what the Yamen says..."
The clan elder did not know how to answer this question. When the other villagers heard this, they also thought of their own land. Although the Chuang Army implemented the reform of the new camp land law in Zaoyang, it was not thorough, and not everyone started from the land reform.
Benefits can be obtained from it, but the number of gainers definitely far exceeds the number of losers.
Once everyone thought about the land, the balance in their hearts tilted again: If Pang Cun was killed and the Chu army retaliated, what would happen to the land?
The threat from officers and soldiers may not necessarily fall on oneself, but breaking into the fields distributed by the army is a real benefit.
The few people who had surrounded Pang Cun looked at each other and then turned their attention to Zuo Liangyu. The malice hidden in their eyes suddenly revealed that they had experienced hundreds of battles and had killed countless people.
The human Zuo Liangyu was so frightened that his hair stood on end.
That kind of malice is not the terrible accumulation of killings, but the most ordinary and banal malice.
"If... if we kill the officers and soldiers, Tian will be fine, right?"