Chapter 3: Who Robs Whom
On a small hill over a hundred meters away, the bandits of Hei Long Zhai were scattered about on the ground, basking in the warmth of the sun that was slightly past noon. The lush wild grasses surrounding them had withered, but still managed to conceal their tracks from travelers passing by below the mountain.
They have been waiting on this mountain for three hours already.
Three days ago, their scouts who were sent down the mountain told them that a group of people came from the direction of Fog Spirit Mountain, seemingly heading towards Jizhou. The group appeared to be merchants, with three large carts loaded with goods, all covered tightly and closely guarded by four burly men, as if they were carrying valuable cargo. Following the carts were over 40 servants and several maid-like individuals, as well as a man wearing a long shirt and a top hat, and a woman who looked like a young lady.
As soon as he heard the news, the one-eyed bandit chief of Hei Long Zhai's eyes widened, three large carts of goods and a beautiful woman, where could such good fortune be found. So he decided to take action on this matter.
"It's time to find a wife!" thought one of them to himself.
Within a hundred miles, Hei Long Zhai is considered the largest mountain stronghold. There are over 100 people, with dozens of rifles, including Mauser and Hanyang Arsenal guns. They should be considered strong in both men and horses.
The number one of the gang was originally a local carpenter, but later got into a fight with someone and was beaten blind in one eye. In anger, he went up the mountain to become an outlaw. Relying on his ability to observe people's words and expressions, he gained the favor of the original leader of the gang and gradually rose to the position of second-in-command. Later, when the leader robbed a merchant convoy and was killed, One Eye became the new leader of the gang. This man is timid, afraid of trouble, and also lecherous. Even people within the gang look down on him, but he has cultivated a group of loyal followers, so others can't do anything to him.
Having calculated the speed of that group's advance, he brought his men to this small hill and waited patiently for the arrival of those fat sheep.
"Boss! Boss!" A small bandit came running from a distance, shouting as he ran.
"Shout whatever you want, I'm not dead yet!" A lone eye leaned against a tree trunk, with a grass stalk in its mouth, rubbing its exposed belly with one hand, then pinched up a mud ball and sniffed it by its nose.
The little bandit ran up front, panting and pointing down the mountain: "Boss, he... has arrived!"
One eye flipped over and sat up, with excitement in his lone eye: "Those people have arrived!"
Xiao Tudou nodded and responded with a "yes".
One eye excitedly patted his thigh, picked up the shotgun and waved his hand: "Brothers, get your guns ready, block them for me!"
The bandits shouted in unison and rushed down the earth mountain with various weapons.
Qin Yang wore a cotton gown, wearing a top hat on horseback, looking around, beside him was a silk-cotton padded jacket, Miss Dai'er dressed up. The rest of the special forces members were scattered around, seemingly careless but actually arranged in a combat formation.
Before departure, Ma Zhanting came up with a plan to avoid drawing attention. He thought that if the special forces team were to head to Jizhou fully armed, it would be too eye-catching and easily noticed by people. Now, the special forces still need to keep a low profile. Qin Yang didn't want to do this at first, but he couldn't persuade Ma Zhanting otherwise, so he finally agreed.
So they disguised themselves as a group of merchants transporting goods, Qin Yang and Dai Er pretended to be the owners of the goods, while the others pretended to be bodyguards and maids. As for their clothes, they naturally "borrowed" some from local tyrants.
But this loan is made with a gun!
It's been three days since we left the base, and our team has already traveled half of the way. The road is still relatively calm, after all, a guard team of thirty or forty people is not small, ordinary bandits do not dare to make a move, only a big bandit like Hei Long Zhai would dare to do so.
"It's so hard to be a decent person!" Qin Yang twisted his neck, feeling that the collar of his long shirt was suffocating him and he couldn't breathe. He was used to wearing combat uniforms, and suddenly wearing this kind of clothing made Qin Yang feel uncomfortable all over.
"Te... Qin big brother, what's wrong?" Dai'er just opened her mouth to call the instructor, but remembered that when they left, Qin Yang had instructed them to address him as "boss" on the road, and not to keep saying "instructor", or else it would be suspicious. She hastily changed her words.
Now her identity is boss's wife, so naturally she can't be called boss anymore. Along the way, she has been calling him Qin Gege.
"It's nothing, just this clothes feels awkward!"
Dai'er's giggling sound came from beside me.
Qin Yang turned his head and saw that Dai'er was covering her mouth with her hand, her eyes curved into two crescent moons.
Dai'er wore a red satin cotton-padded jacket, with a black cloak draped over it, the collar trimmed with white ermine tails, her face lightly made up with rouge, looking rosy, her hair styled in a bun, a silver phoenix hairpin inserted at the back of her head, the silver chain hanging from the wind chime swaying with every movement of her head. Especially with a charming smile, she added a few more points to her liveliness.
Dai'er's face turned red as she saw Qin Yang looking at her, and she lowered her head.
The team is approaching the earth mountain and will soon enter the mountain pass.
A gunshot rang out!
Qin Yang furrowed his brow, knowing something was wrong, and looked up.
A group of people wearing colorful clothes shouted and rushed down from the top of the mountain, holding various types of guns in their hands, while some held choppers, wooden sticks and so on.
Tie Tou was taken aback at first, then burst out laughing, reaching for his gun. Qin Yang stretched out a hand to stop him: "It's rare that someone knows how boring our journey is, let's have some fun and give them a show!"
The special forces soldiers around him couldn't help but secretly smile when they heard this.
He eyed the shabbily dressed stranger, then rode his horse to the front of the troops and shouted: "Friends on the opposite side, what brings you here? Why are you blocking our way?"
"Ah...... uh, this road is...... is...... is......" A stutterer opened his mouth, but couldn't get a whole sentence out for a long time.
"Iron Head" couldn't wait any longer, and with a loud shout: "This mountain was opened by me, this tree was planted by me. If you want to pass through this road, leave some toll money behind. Daring to say no? I'll take care of the killing, not the burying!"
"Ah, yes...yes..., I was just about to say that!" He stuttered and nodded, suddenly reacting; "This is my line, how did you say it, who's kidnapping who?"
The bandits and special warfare personnel all burst out laughing.
One of them stepped forward, pushed aside the crowd, and walked out. He bowed to Qin Yang and said: "Sorry, boss, we're from Hei Long Zhai, making a living on this road. Since we met today, it's fate. Leave the car and people behind, you can go!"
He pointed at Dai'er beside Qin Yang.
The special forces member's face changed immediately, and Tie Tou even stretched his hand into the cotton-padded jacket and grasped the gun handle of the mirror-faced box.
Qin Yang's face still wore a smile as he playfully sized up one of his eyes and said, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The smile on his face disappeared, and with his hands on his hips, he sneered at Qin Yang, "Sorry about that, brother's gun isn't vegetarian!"
The bandits behind him echoed in agreement, and several people even raised their Hanyang-made guns.
"Bang!"
Two gunshots rang out, and two bandits standing on the rocks fell down simultaneously.
The bandits followed the sound of gunfire and looked over there——
Iron-headed man with a murderous aura standing on the cart's shaft, holding a mirror-faced box gun with white smoke still rising from the muzzle.
"Don't move!" Iron Head shouted loudly, his sharp eyes scanning around, suddenly raising his hand and firing a shot. A bandit who was secretly holding up a gun had blood splashing from his forehead and fell to the ground.
The special forces members almost simultaneously drew out their dual guns, with the muzzles pointing at the surrounding bandits.
The bandits were stunned, staring at the nearly 100 blue-glowing muzzle-loading guns surrounding them, unsure whether they were robbing others or being robbed themselves.
One of them fell to the ground with a thud, his head knocking against the earth, and begged: "I didn't know you big shots were coming, I'm blind and ignorant, please just let me off like a fart, I have an 80-year-old mother above and infants below who still drink milk!"
Looking at the eye that kept kowtowing on the ground, and then looking around at the pale-faced bandits covered in dust, Qin Yang thought for a moment before calling Iron Head over and whispering a few sentences in his ear.
"Great, this move is good!" Tie Tou nodded repeatedly!
Tie Tou walked up to one of the eyes, pulled out a gun and pressed it against the eye's forehead, sneering coldly: "Originally, I was going to take you all down with one shot each, but our boss is kind-hearted and doesn't like to kill hastily, so he gave you a way out - hand over your weapons and we'll spare your lives!"
"By the way, I quite like your clothes, take them off and give them to me!"
"What... what... what...!" One eye was already speechless!
It's freezing cold now, how can they survive without clothes?
"Cut the crap!" The iron-headed man pressed the muzzle of his gun against the temple, increasing the pressure slightly, and the muscles on his face twitched.
"Alright, I'm taking it off!" One eye was frightened and hastily used both hands to tremble and take off the upper body's cotton-padded jacket, throwing it on the ground.
"Take it off!" Ironhead commanded.
One eye had no choice but to take off the cotton pants as well.
Tie Tou nodded in satisfaction and turned his head to look at the surrounding bandits, shouting: "What are you still stunned for? Take off your clothes!"
The bandits immediately became flustered and threw their clothes on the ground one after another.
In an instant, more than a hundred men wearing only shorts were squatting on the ground, shivering in the cold north wind.
Dai'er and the female special warriors turned their faces away in embarrassment.
Two special warfare soldiers ran over, picked up the clothes on the ground, and gathered the bandits' guns into the last big cart.
Qin Yang was enraged by Tie Tou, he originally just wanted Tie Tou to confiscate their weapons and that would have been enough, but unexpectedly Tie Tou made such a big fuss. However, thinking about it again, this is also good, giving them a lesson, should be able to make them behave themselves.
Watching them make a big fuss, he nodded to Tiedou and led the special forces team to escort the convoy into the mountain pass. From afar, he threw out a sentence: "Kid, remember that we are from the 29th Army's 109th Brigade! Next time, be more careful!"
It wasn't until Qin Yang and his group were gone from sight that the bandits dared to get up from the ground.
A little bandit walked forward and asked in a low voice: "What shall we do now, boss?"
"What the hell, let's all run back to the mountain stronghold!" One of them glared with a fierce gaze and cursed, leading over a hundred bandits in a nude sprinting competition on this cold winter day!
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