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Volume 2 | The Raging Wind Does Not Stop

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“Remember, on the battlefield, people who don’t want to die will die first …… even though your enemy is a group of useless people.”

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At the top of the mountain, a large flag was hoisted slowly. At first glance, it almost looked like it was read ‘Xinghua Village’. But after paying close attention when the wind blew hard, what was written there were the words ‘Xing Zi Lin’. Big and small mountain bandits hid themselves behind the grass, wearing homemade armor, their long bows and daggers aimed at the people below.

A flash of silver light passed over the mountain, Chang Geng narrowed his eyes to look. There was a Heavy Armor that was unknown from nowhere stolen while standing on a hill, resembling a shooting target, the wearer’s face could not be seen from this distance.

The bandits robbed the Marquis of Order himself, Chang Geng for a while did not know whether he should laugh or cry.

But when he looked back, he found that Gu Yun did not smile, in fact, what was displayed on his face was just the opposite. He looked very angry, forcing a word from his teeth, “Idiot.”

Chang Geng quickly thought about it, lowering his voice, “So the rumors about South Border officials colluding with the bandits aren’t just rumors, but truth?”

Gu Yun did not say anything, his expression grew darker.

During the Great Liang dynasty, the original products of the East Sea were pearls, the original products of Loulan were quality grapes, and the original products of the Southern Border were mountain bandits.

In the past two years, when farm dolls were introduced, farmers could not find work. Some farmers followed the traveling merchants to make a living in the north, some decided to leave the light to go to darkness and become mountain bandits. When goods and rations become cheaper, money becomes more valuable. Thus, there will be fewer people who will buy food, but instead, they will hoard gold and silver; this has contributed greatly to increasing the level of looting of bandits.

Mountain bandit culture is very wildly spread here, there are more bandit dens than rabbit nests, this situation can be said to resemble the saying 一 ‘wild fire will never stop, reborn with a gust of spring breeze’.

The relationship between the Southern Border Army and the War Department is similar to that of a child and his stepmother; their funds are far from efficient, they are unable to fight back the bandits.

And although the bandits won in numbers, their general combat strength was limited. If they face the imperial army, they can only end up being swarmed nest after their nest, that’s why they will also be very afraid of garrison troops.

When people have money, all they want to pursue is peace and stability. No one wants to live the life of being chased 一 mountain bandits, in the end, they are still human.

Thus, in the long run, the Southern Border Army and local bandits have formed reciprocal relations.

Southern Army Commander Fu Zhi Cheng was originally a bandit. On the one hand, he controlled them, trying to let them just loot money without hurting people, but on the other hand, he didn’t protect them either. Funding for the Southern Border forces is very limited each year, and for them to be able to defend themselves to this day, the ‘contributions’ of these bandits cannot be ignored.

Collusion between officials and bandits is certainly not something to be proud of, Gu Yun is fully aware of this. In the past two years, the Emperor has promoted farm puppets and opened up business channels, this is clearly a big policy for the country to make the country rich and strong. But no one knows where the problem lies, not only is the national treasury empty, even military funds must be reduced again.

The South has just experienced flooding, the disaster has passed but the process of liberation is still ongoing. If fighting broke out, the bandits would start to spread to villages and cities, people would be increasingly destroyed. But if the imperial court really wanted to remove the commander of the Southern Border Army because of this incident, Gu Yun could not think of anyone else who could guard this place.

With these two dilemmas, people can only choose fewer; Gu Yun had no choice but to temporarily think of a way to save Fu Zhi Cheng.

After a few years in the future, when the Silk Road is completed, the commercial road inland Great Liang will be fully opened. Much silver from abroad will be able to flow into the Great Liang, allowing the country to have room to breathe. When that time comes, they will not only send troops, but they will also adjust the path to the Southern Border, tightening control of the area far from the emperor, only with two approaches taken at the same time can they really clean up this problem.

Unfortunately, except for himself, other people don’t seem to want to understand this problem.

Actually, not because they don’t understand it. It’s just that in their eyes, the Beating Order and flattering His Majesty the Emperor to increase their wealth in the future is far more important.

On the way, Gu Yun had thought of various ways to protect Fu Zhi Cheng, he secretly and intentionally sent a letter to inform him. But unexpectedly, the man decided to do something like this.

What kind of bandit would carry their entire nest, fly the flag and hit the drums, making it clear to the other party who they really are?

Trying to rob an emissary from the imperial court, this is no different from a rebellion.

In recent years, Chang Geng has been hanging out with ordinary people, traveling all four sides. He has long had knowledge of community livelihoods in the current situation. After thinking for a while, the cause and effect became clear to him. He saw Gu Yun’s expression and whispered, “Yifu, I think this might not be General Fu’s work.”

Gu Yun coldly replied, “Nonsense, Fu Zhi Cheng is not this stupid.”

These bandits are an illiterate group, it would be very difficult to be able to find someone who can read and count, this whole mountain might have to share one person to do accounting work. Maybe they could catch some unclear rumors from somewhere, then decide to approach them with the aim of lurking while showing their strength at the same time, then, after that, they could show their abilities to Fu Zhi Cheng.

Above, a bandit waved a simple tong hou, shouting at the foot of the mountain to a group of Gu Yun people, “Who are you, say your name!”

Next to him, Shen Yi didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry, pulling an arrow from behind him, “Grand Marshal?”

Gu Yun, “Shoot him.”

The arrow in Shen Yi’s hand was released almost simultaneously with Gu Yun’s orders. Like poking bamboo, he immediately hit the bandit holding the hou tong. A bird screamed and flew into the sky, its sharp voice echoed throughout the valley.

The whole mountain was shot.

When Officer Sun saw this, he no longer felt proud to catch Fu Zhi Cheng’s weakness, he immediately became afraid, got off the train and kept saying, “We can’t! Marshal, we can’t, there are at least a hundred bandits on this mountain. We are just a small group of people, the Generals also don’t wear their armor, we are totally unarmed! There are also Your Majesty, Your Majesty comes from the royal family, we must not be careless … “

Gu Yun did not look at him, and instead waved his hand at Chang Geng, “Your Majesty, are you diligent in martial arts training?”

Chang Geng slightly bowed, “In order to become a small cavalry under Marshal, I should still have qualified.”

“Come here, I’ll teach you how to fight mountain monkeys.”

After Gu Yun finished, he herded his horse and rushed forward. Chang Geng didn’t hesitate in the slightest, immediately following behind him. All Black Iron Camp soldiers are well trained. Once Gu Yun moves, they will immediately understand their commander’s intentions. They all began to rush forward, leaving only the cries of Officer Sun, “Marshal, we can’t 一”

The next moment, there was strength behind his neck, his whole body suddenly became lighter 一 Shen Yi lifted it with the hilt of his sword, throwing it on his horse.

Sun Jiao shouted, his eyes turning white from the fall.

Shen Yi reluctantly said, “Mr. Sun, please don’t shout anymore, this general will definitely prevent you from dying, rest assured.”

When General Shen said this, he could not help feeling sad for himself 一 because Marshal Gu was a young master born from the Marquis manor. Since his childhood, there have always been elderly servants who followed him everywhere, ordering them to do anything had become a habit. After he grew up, he realized that there were no old servants at Camp Black Iron, so he considered Shen Something to be his old servant, how absurd he was.

After saying that, Shen Yi looked at Mr. Sun, who had fainted, “This is the first time I’ve seen an officer who is very similar to a eunuch.”

At the top of the hill, a bandit reported to their leader, “Big Brother, I heard the eunuch call ‘Marshal’.”

The bandit leader’s entire body was buried in the Heavy Armor, he pushed his protective mask, shouted angrily, “Stop talking nonsense, quickly shoot arrows! Surround! Surround them!”

The sound of horns blowing from within the valley was heard once again, the bandits shouted as they shot down from above, directing towards Gu Yun’s ‘army’ consisting of several people.

No one knows whether these bandits intend to increase their courage or something else, surround them while continuing to beat the drums and sound the gong, one advancing forward from one direction, the other screaming and screaming, rushing from the opposite side of the mountain, around them, dust and sand scattered in the air.

It is unfortunate that most of their horses were robbed from the hands of traders; how could they match the one-in-a million gods horse in the Black Iron Camp? They soon fell behind.

Gu Yun made a move, some of the warriors behind him immediately understood and began to spread out in various directions, the target for the arrow fired from the mountain immediately fell apart.

Rows of bandits were directly in front of them. Gu Yun unsheathed his sword, his long blade shining bright like snow. He said to Chang Geng, “Remember, on the battlefield, people who don’t want to die will die first …”

Chang Geng was almost blinded by the sword in his hand.

His sword resembled a flying dragon, one slash could send blood scattered to four sides, two in and two out, the bodies of the bandits piled into a mountain.

Gu Yun casually completed the second half of the sentence, “… even though your enemy is a useless group of people.”

The bandit leader held Qian Li Yan and watched from above. Once the situation went wrong, he immediately said angrily, “I told you to surround them, what happened?”

Next to him, a small bandit said, frowning, “Big brother, I don’t know!”

At this moment, another bandit ran over, “Big Brother, everything is not going well!”

However, in just an instant, a cavalry had appeared at the mountain entrance. The bandit holding the tong hou did not have time to pull his neck. The sword blade flashed, his head immediately separated from his body.

Gu Yun’s horse riding expertise was extraordinary, driving across rocky mountains as if he were on a flat surface, while crossing a very narrow road, he slashed with his sword, terrible screams immediately sounded from behind a large rock 一 turns out, there was someone hiding there, waiting to ambush 一 Gu Yun waved blood on his sword. He seemed to wait for Chang Geng for a moment, then said, “There are many places that can be used as protectors in the mountains, and there will always be snakes hiding behind them. You are good at martial arts, but you won’t always be able to avoid ambushes.”

Chang Geng swept his eyes and saw that there was indeed a bow mechanism set ready behind a large rock, waiting to shoot. His horse was not an extraordinary war horse, although he had to follow behind Gu Yun with difficulty, but he only felt that the blood in his whole body began to become hotter, he asked, “Yifu, how do you know?”

Gu Yun grinned, “Already used to it.”

As soon as he finished, a stone suddenly fell from above. Gu Yun seems to have eyes above his head. He herded his horse and jumped forward, the rolling stone almost grazed the tip of the horse’s tail. At the same time, Gu Yun’s entire body left the saddle, grabbed the vines beside him and quickly lifted himself into the air. Chang Geng instinctively leaned back when he heard the sound of the slash, after all, he still didn’t want his cruel Yifu rising high to splatter blood all over his face.

Gu Yun looked at him from above, raised his eyebrows and smiled. He whistled, trained horses immediately followed his voice.

Chang Geng’s heart was beating like crazy, Gu Yun’s smile was about to steal his soul.

Gu Yun shouted at him, “When fighting with monkeys in the mountains, remember to always take advantage of the altitude first.”

By this time, the bandits ‘wrapper circle’ had fallen into total chaos. Some entrances to their nests were quickly taken over, they began to spread and run in all directions like flies. One by one they were killed by arrows that shot from above. Chang Geng hurried after him, only to see Gu Yun had mounted his horse again, and at the same time, issued a special arrow from behind him.

Bows and arrows are very heavy. The long bow seemed to weigh tens of kilograms, equipped with a box the size of a thumb. Chang Geng narrowed his eyes, thinking, ‘Is there a gold box on the bow?’

In the next moment, the white vapor gushing out from the longbow confirmed his speculation. The shaft of the arrow seemed to be made of iron, creating a sharp echo sound when released from the strings, as if twenty fireworks had exploded when the arrow shot into the sky 一 The iron arrow resembled a miniature version of the Baihong arrow, pierced the sun, hit a large rock.

The stone shook for a moment, then fell without warning.

The monkeys scattered, their leaders obstructed by the Heavy Armor. It took a while for him to look up, but before he could see anything, both Armor and himself had been buried under a rock loudly!

Chang Geng smiled and said, “Yifu, this is what I know, in battle, we must first capture the king, am I right?”

He was guarded by Gu Yun all the time, whooshing through hundreds of wild mountain bandits, not a single hair on his head that was falling apart, his clothes fluttering in the wind. At first glance, he resembles a charming young master.

Gu Yun took out ‘tch’, thinking to himself, ‘Here it is, the next time I return to the capital, I’m afraid the number of women who throw me with their handkerchiefs will be reduced by half.’

After half an hour, Gu Yun brought several ‘unarmed’ Black Iron Camp warriors and proudly marched into the bandits lair.

Since most of the bandits saw their boss die, they immediately fled to escape. They are familiar with the terrain in the mountains. Once they scattered into the mountains, they would disappear in the blink of an eye.

Gu Yun only has a handful of people, so it’s uncomfortable to chase after them. They were only able to catch some of them who were unable to run and hang them like birds.

Gu Yun sat on the tiger skin chair belonging to the bandit leader, feeling rather uncomfortable. He stood up and took the tiger skin from the chair, “The throne of the king of the mountains is truly unique.”

The four beautiful tiger skin chair legs had been sawed off, a pile of gold piled underneath, then covered the top with wooden planks.

Gu Yun, “Can people lay golden eggs when sitting on this?”

Shen Yi coughed, gesturing for Marshal to speak with common sense.

At this time, Mr. Sun, who wet himself out of fear, had changed his pants. Seeing this situation, he immediately realized that this opportunity must not be lost, because it would never be able to return once it was lost. Changing his cowardly behavior, he boldly stepped forward and shouted, “Who gave you the courage to rob the imperial court envoy on the way? Who made this plan? Speak!”

Chang Geng initially held and admired Gu Yun’s special bow, after hearing these words, he looked up and said, “Robbing a messenger is treated the same as a rebellion, but as long as that person is not a leader, ordinary bandits can only be thrown out. But for brave men like you all here … “

He stopped here, expressing a smile that had a deeper meaning. He ignored some of the bandits who were shivering in fear, looking as if he had only said one sentence accidentally. He quickly turned his attention to another man, smiling as he asked, “Yifu, your bow and arrow are very good, can I have them?”

Gu Yun waved his hand, “Take it.”

Sun Jiao was shocked, not understanding the Fourth Prince he had just met. At first, he just felt that the man was not arrogant at all, he was gentle, very good at talking, and also not the type of person who was full of calculations. But now he realizes that he might be blind.

Chang Geng said this one sentence, the bandits were not that stupid, they immediately shouted.

“We peasants do not know that you are imperial emissaries, gentlemen please forgive us!”

“It’s not easy to make a living on this road. In this small area, we can’t see a single person for a few days, who would have thought that when we started, we would immediately meet with imperial envoys. We are innocent farmers. … No, we are not completely innocent, but we still have families who are young and old, it’s not easy at all! “

Sun Jiao, “…….”

At this moment, a Black Iron Camp soldier suddenly walked quickly and whispered in Gu Yun’s ear, “Marshal, South Central Inspector, Tuan Kuai sent a messenger, said that he had heard the news about the Marquis being harassed by local gangsters, he will soon arrive with two hundred personal guards. “

Gu Yun looked up without his expression, just in time to meet with Sun Jiao’s eyes, the blood on Marshal Gu’s body was still not dry, scaring the traces of the glint of victory inside Sun Jiao’s eyes.

Fu Zhi Cheng was originally a bandit. Even though he later surrendered and was recruited into the army, and even with his amazing abilities, it still made no sense to him to become a high-ranking officer at the border.

But unfortunately, with the rebellion of the Western Region that year, theft from the South also took this opportunity to attack the Great Liang region. Gu Yun has gone west, there are no personnel available in the imperial court, they have no other choice but to raise dead horses and order Fu Zhi Cheng to lead the troops in the Southern Border.

However, Emperor Yuan He still did not believe him. Southern Central Inspector Kuai Lan Tu was specifically designed to hold Fu Zhi Cheng, holding two hundred personal guards in his hands, as skilled as elite troops, allowing him to act as he pleased at a critical moment. Even though there was a real incident that occurred, these two hundred soldiers still could not fight against garrison troops stationed in the Southern Border, but it would not be difficult for them to get out of the siege and send a message back.

Both Kuai Lan Tu and Fu Zhi Cheng can be described as enemies clashing in narrow streets, both sides have long wanted to bring the other side to their deaths, the person who will arrive soon will definitely not have good intentions.

Gu Yun, “My feet have just entered the bandits’ den but Inspector Kuai has’ heard ‘the news, the news system is even better than the Land God⭐ himself.”

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Tu Di Gong [土地公], a popular local deity, is believed to be responsible for managing certain village affairs.
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Sun Jiao also knew that Kuai Lan Tu did not pay attention to the good time, departing too fast. He quickly tried to cover up, “To tell the true Marshal, our journey is a secret. We did not expect to meet His Majesty while on the way, how would I dare to leave the Prince at risk? I have no choice but to ask the Inspector to send some reinforcements … “

“Mr. Sun has good intentions,” Chang Geng said with a smile. “But how do you know that this trip to the South will be risky?”

Sun Jiao might know that his supporters will arrive, his back also becomes straighter. He said, “This time, when your subject was ordered to go to the South to calm the troops, I have long been aware of the situation of the bandits who are raging in this region, therefore in order to prevent unexpected incidents, I intentionally asked His Majesty to order before leaving 一 turned out, something went wrong, but fortunately, the Marquis was very experienced and not bothered in the face of danger. “

Gu Yun smiled amusedly, ignoring his flattery.

Sun Jiao, “These bandits are raging fearlessly, becoming more and more courageous. If they even dare to rob court officials, then what will happen to commoners? If we don’t get rid of this problem, the southwest will remain unstable. I am right in bringing the Great Liang’s First Beating Order. The first Beating’s command will go directly to General Fu. “

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