The strongest militia

() In a wooden house with a signboard of 'Juyi Village' on Yingzui Ridge, the left-behind bandits headed by the second master, Xu Mingyuan, were standing in the hall with their hands tied, using somewhat complicated He looked at Deng Chenggong, who was sitting on the tiger skin chair that only the head of the family would dare to sit on, with terrified eyes.

Although these bandits suddenly became more honest than ordinary people, Deng Chenggong knew very well that as long as they were given some chances, these guys who had been wandering on the edge of life and death all year round would fight him unceremoniously, which is strange in the bandit circle Nothing unusual.

This time, because Deng Chenggong went up the mountain overnight, besides Liu Ergou, a bandit anyway, he took with him to lead the way, only Li Zhu and other seven young people from Lijiazhuang could assign tasks.However, most of these young people only learned how to shoot. If something went wrong, Deng Chenggong did not believe that these young people had the ability to suppress these bandits who had been dealing with life and death all year round.

In view of this situation, Deng Chenggong stared at Xu Mingyuan, who was standing below with a calm face, and said: "As a bandit, I think you all know that there will be such a day sooner or later after you embark on this road. So now I think I would like to ask the second master a question, how do you think I should deal with you?"

When they were escorted to the hall, Xu Mingyuan and the others already knew that their leader had been shot in the head by the young man in front of them.This means that Xu Mingyuan is the only leader in the entire cottage now.

Regarding Deng Chenggong's question, Xu Mingyuan said with a wry smile: "Since Deng Yingxiong has said that there will be such a day as a bandit sooner or later, then what do we people have to say? Whether life or death depends entirely on it." You have a word, but I want to make a statement in advance, that is, those of us who stayed behind in the village are mostly ordinary people in the vicinity. It is only because we have no way to survive that we have to become bandits. In the past, we rarely go down the mountain to rob houses. , so I also hope that Deng Yingxiong will see that we don’t care about human lives, and let my brothers live, and I will let the heroes deal with it. Even if I die, I will get back the lives of the brothers, and I will admit it!"

Listening to Xu Mingyuan's soft but hard answer, Deng Chenggong lamented that the scholar's wisdom is really extraordinary, that is, he bought the hearts of all his subordinates, and even transferred the crime of neglecting human lives to himself.If he killed these bandits, it meant that he was no better than the bandits, so Xu Mingyuan's intention was to save the lives of all his brothers if he didn't kill them.

In fact, when Deng Chenggong broke through the mountain stronghold, he did not intend to wipe out the gang of bandits. Although he came from the [-]th century, he somewhat understood that in this era of warlords and people struggling to make a living, going to the mountains to become a bandit may have to be for the sake of saving one's life. chosen path.The reason why he gave Xu Mingyuan the right to deal with this group of people was more because he wanted to see what kind of guy this scholarly temperament was.

After somewhat understanding the character of the second leader, Deng Chenggong quickly said: "Since the second leader is so loyal, it really doesn't make sense for me not to give you a way to survive. Okay, I can give you a way to survive, but you must promise me , from now on, you won’t harm the people anymore, can you do it?”

Regarding this request, all the bandits naturally said in unison: "Yes!" Some bandits even used the routine of swearing and swearing as usual, and Deng Chenggong was only upset about this.

After waving his hands to stop the noise from the crowd, Deng Chenggong said: "Tonight, I will wrong you to squat in the next room for the whole night. After my people come to take over here tomorrow, I will decide whether to keep you or let you go. However, if the second master doesn't mind, I would like to talk to you about Yingzui Ridge. I wonder if the second master will give someone Deng some face?"

Of course Xu Mingyuan didn't dare to say anything more about this. After Deng Chenggong decided, he asked Liu Ergou to take the young people from Lijiazhuang, and drove all the bandits with their hands tied to a side room to rest. After arranging two young people to take care of them, Under the arrangement of Deng Chenggong, Liu Ergou took the other three young men to watch the watchtower.As for Li Zhu, after cleaning up the bandits in the cottage, he was dispatched by Deng Chenggong, and asked him to rush back to report the news. At the same time, he arranged for Li Zhu and the villagers in charge of guarding the village to escort the bandits back to the cottage after dawn. .In any case, placing such a group of bandits in Lijiazhuang is somewhat risky.

Deng Chenggong, who had arranged everything, walked behind Xu Mingyuan and untied the rope that bound him, pointed to a wooden chair in the hall and said, "Sit!"

After Xu Mingyuan thanked him impolitely for this, he slowly sat down on the chair happily, and when both of them sat down, Deng Chenggong asked: "I think the second leader seems to be similar to the bandits in this cottage. Some are different, if I'm not mistaken, you should have read a lot?"

Hearing this question, Xu Mingyuan twitched and said, "That's right, before going up the mountain, Xu studied at Yanda University for two years."

Although Deng successfully guessed that Xu Mingyuan should be an educated person, he never expected that this guy in front of him turned out to be a student of Yan University.You must know that the college students these days and the college students in your own life are basically the same as the sky and the earth. In the words of later generations, the college students these days are really "rare" things!

'Then why did the second leader go up the mountain to become this hateful bandit? '

This question seemed to touch on Xu Mingyuan's sad matter. After a pause, Xu Mingyuan talked about the reason why he went up to the mountain to join the bandits.In this day and age, it is a very common thing.That is, Xu Mingyuan originally had a very happy family in the eyes of people in this era.It's just that a disaster happened to one of my younger sisters, and a commander of the local garrison fell in love with her. When the door-to-door marriage proposal failed, she suddenly raised troops to snatch her.

The consequence is that Xu Mingyuan's younger sister hanged herself after being insulted, while Xu Mingyuan's parents passed away after being beaten and appealed to no avail.After hearing the news, Xu Mingyuan rushed back from Yan University, and after assassinating the commander in anger but failed, he had to go into the mountains and become a bandit in order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers.Perhaps because of the respect for cultural people these days, Xu Mingyuan, who has no power to restrain a chicken, has suddenly changed from an ordinary accountant to the second head of the cottage in just two or three years of being a bandit. , It can also be said that the superior is inferior to everyone.

After listening to this slightly sad and bloody narration, Deng Chenggong also understood that when encountering such a thing, as long as there is still heat in his chest, he would seek revenge on this kind of enemy who killed him if he wanted to.It's just a pity that in this era, those "Qiu Ba" officers who hold military power are still considered security commanders by the KMT government.I'm afraid Xu Mingyuan's revenge will be hard to avenge!

Looking at Xu Mingyuan with tears in his eyes, Deng Chenggong used some insincere means to seduce him: "Then Mingyuan never thought about revenge?"

Xu Mingyuan said angrily: "How could I have never thought about it, but that guy is protected by guards every time he goes out. I am a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken and no power to back him. What can I do with him?"

Deng Chenggong ignored Xu Mingyuan's glare and said, "Then if I have a way to avenge you, how are you going to repay me?"

Although Deng Chenggong knew that it was a bit unethical to repay his thoughts like this, but he finally met a talented person who had studied in college in this era, and he couldn't say anything.You must know that the talents of a college student are likely to bring him unexpected help in the future.In this regard, Deng Chenggong can do it by himself no matter how unscrupulous means are, not to mention that there are not a few people who work hard to repay their kindness these days, and others can't say anything about him doing this.

Hearing that Deng Chenggong was capable of avenging himself, Xu Mingyuan immediately jumped up from his chair and said, "As long as you can avenge this bloody revenge for me, it doesn't matter if I sell my life to you."

Facing Xu Mingyuan's eagerness, Deng Chenggong waved his hand and said, "If I avenge you just to take your life, then the loss outweighs the gain. I know, it's a bit unethical to take advantage of the fire, but you are a talent, I don't want to let you Your talents are wasted. What's more, I should make a career in the future. Not having two talents is always a problem. Let me put it this way! If I can avenge you, then I hope that in my life Heart, you must be loyal to me without hesitation. Of course, this kind of loyalty is based on my refraining from doing harmful things, so you should understand?"

He concealed his plan as much as possible, but Xu Mingyuan knelt down on the ground and clasped his fists sincerely and said: "Xu Mingyuan has met the big boss, as long as the big boss can avenge Mingyuan's deep hatred, Mingyuan vows never to be so serious in his lifetime." Betrayal, if you have two hearts, the world will perish."

The oath uttered by such a scholar is undoubtedly more credible than those bandits. In addition, Deng Chenggong also knows that a mere oath can't prove anything.What he wants is to temporarily use the prestige of the second master in the cottage to stabilize the first site that has traveled through this era.Although it is somewhat embarrassing to be a bandit leader as soon as he crosses, but as far as he knows, among the future founding marshals, there were people who were engaged in banditry at the beginning of the revolution!There are many heroes in the reckless, which is undoubtedly a wise saying in this troubled world!