Chapter 8: The Horse Bandits Arrive (1)

  "Oh no! Oh no! Fellow villagers, get ready quickly, the horse thieves are coming again!"

  Suddenly, a few gong sounds came from the village entrance in the distance. Li Han's face, who was focusing on training the villagers, was stunned for a moment before he immediately reacted and took down the QCW05 hanging on his chest and held it in his hand.

  "Wow~~~~"

  Just then, the village had just suffered a bandit raid, and two people in the village had died. For a time, the other villagers who had gathered to watch him train young villagers to shoot were all panicked, and the barking of dogs, the sound of gongs, the angry shouts and curses of adults, and the crying of children mixed together, instantly making the scene even more chaotic!

  "Everyone has quieted down!"

  He pulled out the pistol from his waist and fired three shots into the sky, then Li Han shouted to calm down the panicked villagers. "Old people and women with children, go back home and block the doors and windows from inside! Don't open them no matter what we shout outside! Young and strong men, who still think they are men and have eggs on their bodies, get the wooden bars, stone axes and other heavy objects, push them out to the village entrance to block the way! Those with guns, prepare yourselves, Stone, remember those accurate shots you made earlier? Each of you will take a rifle and thirty bullets, go to the big tree or the grass house roof at the village entrance, wait for my order to shoot accurately. The rest of you, go to the village entrance, fight to the death and don't let those beasts enter our village! Stone, I have a dangerous task for you, stand at the village entrance and pretend to be an ignorant villager who doesn't know about the bandit attack. I think these bandits will come quickly, but they won't know what's happening in the village since they only heard gunshots earlier. If that's the case, we can catch them off guard..."

  Li Han calmly arranged the orders one by one, and at this time, facing the possible revenge of the horse bandits, many people in the village were panicked. Suddenly, someone took the initiative to stand up and lead, and many people's emotions stabilized a little, and they moved according to his instructions!

  "...no...no problem..."

  The stone listened to his orders, but his face turned white. However, he wasn't a fool and after a slight turn of his brain, he understood the underlying meaning. He hesitated for a moment, looked at the villagers who were all staring at him, gritted his teeth, nodded in agreement. But his face had turned completely white!

  Li Han climbed up a relatively tall tree nearby, took out a 20x telescope from his waist, adjusted the angle and looked far away at the village. In his field of vision, the dust flying high in the distance had already explained everything.

  Although very curious, why the horse thief's revenge came so quickly, however, who still has the leisure to care about this at this time, immediately adjusted the magnification of the telescope to the maximum, wanting to see clearly, how many people have come!

  "Hah, good fellow, just over a mile away... unexpectedly there are twenty-one horses, quite an imposing sight. Young men, get ready to take action!" After Li Han confirmed this several times, he finally came down from the tree. With one order, although everyone was nervous, they all knew that the number of horse bandits was far less than their own numbers. So they followed his instructions and took up their positions. Li Han also climbed up a big tree with dense branches outside the village. He found a spot with the best lighting and lay down, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

  Shitou followed his orders, carrying an axe in his hand and a bundle of firewood on his back, standing not far from the village entrance, looking like a villager who had gone out to chop firewood early in the morning. Cough, although Li Han felt that his expression was stiff and fake no matter how he looked at him...

  Just as the leading bandit was approaching on horseback, the young man steadied his tense emotions and suddenly shouted: "Fellow villagers... the horse thieves are coming again... run quickly!" While shouting, he used all his might to throw down the axe and gallbladder in his hand, quickly climbing over several wooden carts piled high with things blocking the village entrance, disappearing from the bandits' sight.

  The horse bandits also saw Shi Tou, but they didn't take him seriously and continued to charge towards the village recklessly.

  As they approached the village, Horse Thief Jia shouted: "Sixth Master, according to reason, this Lou Village should be within the taxation range of One Eye, but that kid is not worthy, two days ago at Ma Family's compound he was actually beaten by a group of rebellious civilians and more than a dozen brothers were defeated. I heard yesterday Seventh Master occupied his Xiao Huang Zhuang, now his strength is no good, we can only reluctantly help him collect the taxes for Lou Village as well..."

  The bandit Heihei burst out laughing: "Isn't that right? I've long heard that the one-eyed kid is a softie, and it's not like he's got the old man's keen eye. At least half of Master Gui's 25 concubines were stolen from him, and it's impossible for them to have caught his eye! However, when it comes to our Justice Village's marksmanship and martial arts, isn't it said that 'Master Gui is mighty, and Scarface is extraordinary'? I heard there's a family in this village with a former high-ranking official, and they've got a pretty little daughter. Why don't we, Sixth Master... heh heh, pick one for Scarface and Master Gui each, and the rest of us brothers can divide the leftovers?" This sparked a wave of lewd laughter.

  "Damn it, I've been eyeing the land under Lao Lü's jurisdiction for a long time, every single piece of it is rich and prosperous! Previously, we didn't dare to come and collect taxes because of Gui Ye and Biao Ye's orders. Now that his son has fallen, unexpectedly Gui Ye gave these few richest places to that one-eyed waste. Yesterday, Old Qi received Biao Ye's order and took a stroll around Xiao Huang Zhuang, damn it, he even distributed a woman to each of the brothers below, not to mention adding four fast horses and five foreign guns... it makes me so angry! One-eyed is also a waste, what can you say to those unruly commoners? If they don't pay taxes, just rob them, are we afraid they'll report us to the capital? Who doesn't know that in this paper mill town, our Righteous Village is the only imperial court...". The "Sixth Master" with a face full of scars and two faint knife marks on his face pointed at the obstacles blocking the village entrance with his whip, his face twisted in anger. "Damn it, it seems that the 146 lives lost in Ma Jia Hezi's village still haven't taught these lowly people to know the law...".

  "Wah hoo~~~, thank you Sixth Grandfather for your mercy..."

  Free activities, bandits love free activities, free activities mean a lot of income, free activities mean that for a long time to come, the flower street in the town, they can go as many times as they want. Faced with the copper coins and silver that are about to be obtained, the bandits' eyes all turned red at once.

  The bandits soon arrived at the village entrance and saw that it was blocked by a pile of obstacles, making it impossible to ride their horses past!

  The horse thieves didn't even bother to take the trouble to move them away, so at this time several horse thieves got off their horses and tied the reins to some small trees nearby, leaning against each other or holding guns, with a few rough and rude words in their mouths, they seemed to be familiar with the place, and slipped into the village.

  "Sixth Master... something seems off!"

  That fierce-looking bandit had just dismounted, when another bandit followed up beside him, "Look at this village, it's quiet to the point of being strange..."

  The bandit pointed to the village, which seemed to be quiet except for a few occasional barks of dogs, and couldn't hear the usual crying and begging voices that they were used to hearing early in the morning, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

  "Now that you mention it..."

  Boom!

  Just as the sixth master hadn't finished speaking, the horse thief on the side suddenly heard a gunshot. Then he felt that his eyes seemed to turn blood red in an instant, and the air around him was filled with a familiar smell. The horse thief sniffed, then his face turned very ugly, it was the smell of blood, and it was close!

  "Fire!"

  A loud roar came from the village, it was Shi Tou's. They had agreed earlier that they would let people in, but if possible, they must not enter the village. Moreover, as long as Li Han did not fire the first shot, everyone had to endure and wait until he fired his gun!

  Actually, Li Han himself also let out a sigh of relief. When he saw those eight or nine bandits who had dismounted their horses sneaking into the village entrance earlier, he was really worried that the villagers would not be able to hold back and fire first. However, it seemed that everyone finally held back. The first shot, he directly took out the person who looked like the leader of the bandits... Capturing the king first is the first lesson for soldiers, especially snipers! Because one bullet can sometimes decide the outcome of a war!