Chapter 339, Swell Bandits

There were only a few hundred stragglers in this small settlement, Ren Xiaosu saw that there were still small children running around at the entrance of the earth kiln dug out in the distance, it looked like this small settlement hadn’t taken shape for a short period of time.

The river valley area has a lot of small rivers, in Ren Xiaosu’s opinion, where there are rivers, they should be lush and green, however, the river valley area is not.

The ground was largely sandy, and when the river passed by it would wash away the soil on both banks downwards, and perhaps in a few years’ time the riverbed would form a new concave valley, and when the dry season or the river was diverted, it would leave behind a valley on the ground that was like a scar.

The whole land, as it were, was cut out by the current.

The place chosen by the stragglers was relatively flat and suitable for planting some crops.

Originally, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan planned to stay here for a while now, to get a good understanding of the banditry in the entire region with the stragglers here.

As they were talking, smoke and dust suddenly rose up in the distance, and from afar, they thought there was a small sandstorm.

An older woman nervously said, “Why are there people again, whose family is it this time?”

Ren Xiaosu asked, “Is that bandits coming?”

“Isn’t it bandits, that smoke is the sand raised by the motorcycle they rode,” the older woman said as she ran in the direction of the earth kiln, she also shouted over there, “Quickly bring the children back to the kiln.”

Only to see that the distant band of bandits was rapidly approaching, gradually everyone could see the silhouettes, the motorcycle they were sitting on was as muscular and gnarled as a wild beast, and the sound of the engine and the exhaust pipe was like a wild beast roaring.

This scene was exceptionally rough and violent.

From afar, people could still hear the excited roars of these bandits, who saw these stragglers as if they had seen their prey.

Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan glanced at each other and then mixed in the group of stragglers, intending to wait and see first.

The stragglers seemed to have experience in dealing with this, after hiding their children, they stood on the flat land and lined up as if they were welcoming their officers, only the line was twisted and the moods of each other were different.

Ren Xiaosu counted, this group of bandits has more than twenty people, in the entire river valley area is not a force, just do not know how many people are still hiding in their lair.

But see the group of bandits riding a motorcycle around the homeless people wildly and roar, this is the demonstration of the bandits, circle after circle, they ride in a circle is getting smaller and smaller, and the homeless people can only out of fear, tightly shrunk into a ball.

Gradually, when a look of fear appeared on everyone’s face of the stragglers, the band of bandits gradually came to a stop, and a man jumped off his motorcycle and pulled down the scarf he used to cover his mouth, “You’re the ones who farm here?”

“Yes, yes, yes,” a straggler said fearfully, “Been farming here for years!”

“What’s the point of farming,” the bandit spat on the ground, spitting out the sand in his mouth, then laughed, “I see that there are quite a lot of big men here, a man should be born with great vigor, what’s the point of hiding here every day, cowering and farming? ”

“What are we going to eat if we don’t farm,” the stragglers whispered, “We just want to grow some crops and be able to feed ourselves.”

“From today onwards, you guys follow me,” that bandit leader patted the faces of the stragglers in front of him, “Follow me, eat good food and drink hot water, in the past, it was the consortium that bullied you, in the future, follow me to bully the consortium!”

Ren Xiaosu observed these people, just like what Yang Xiaoguan said, these people’s motorcycles were 80% new, the automatic firearms in their hands were even newer than the motorcycles, it looked like they had just renewed their equipment not long ago.

What was even more exaggerated was that several people in these people’s team were carrying two guns on their backs, as if they had more guns than they had room for.

Maybe the new equipment gave the bandits the bottom of the air, more than twenty people dare to want to bully the consortium ……

Once the stragglers heard that these people even wanted to fight with the consortium, then they were even more scared, “We won’t fight with the consortium, we will only farm.”

However that bandit leader’s face sank: “We have to fight even if we don’t, brothers, escort them all back to me!”

Ren Xiaosu froze, together this is a robber coming, probably too many guns, making it so that there are now more guns than people, so this group of bandits then want to expand their size.

This matter must also have something to do with the civil unrest in the northern bandit dens, the entire river valley area is now in chaos, people are starting to misbehave!

“Going with them?” Ren Xiaosu asked in a low voice.

“Let’s go,” Yang Xiaoguan responded, “We might be able to learn more about the current situation of the River Valley region, and there are only about twenty of them, so they won’t be able to stop us if we want to leave.”

“I’m trying to say, why don’t we just exterminate them ……,” Ren Xiaosu muttered.

In the situation of a gun pointing at them, the stragglers had to go back to the kiln and bring their children, and were escorted all the way to the north to march.

That bandit leader rode a motorcycle to skate beside the team, the motorcycle clattered, he shouted proudly, “You also don’t think that I, Jin Lan Jin someone is overbearing, to say that you are the outermost settlement in the river valley, so you don’t know the situation, and now in those settlements in the north, the people were long ago robbed by the various mountains, even if we don’t take you away today, tomorrow there will be other people come to .”

“But we don’t know how to fight,” cried the stragglers.

“Who doesn’t know how to fight? I’ll give you guns, so you don’t have to save bullets for me, just raid! And you don’t want to fight, it’s okay, you can still do other things,” Jin Lan said with a laugh.

I don’t know what this Jin Lan’s so-called other things are, but this sentence confirms Ren Xiaosu’s guess, it seems that there are really too many guns and bullets to use up before robbing people.

However, Ren Xiaosu searched for how many arms Qing Zhen and the others had put into this place, how it seemed like the entire river valley area was in chaos.

If this goes on, the river valley area will definitely die a lot of people.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, since ancient times.

And after the war has subsided, I’m afraid that the entire river valley region will be consolidated and a very large bandit organization will be born.

Is this the purpose of Qing Zhen, with killing to sieve out the “impurities” of the river valley area, so as to achieve the purpose of integrating the whole river valley area bandits? And then hold this force in his hands?

And he just put a batch of firearms and bullets, let a group of bandits all inflated.

Automatic rifles were rare for bandits, but the consortium knew very well that guns and bullets were the least valuable.

Although there was no evidence, Ren Xiaosu was certain that this was definitely Qing Zhen’s doing, and there would be no one else.

Moreover, Ren Xiaosu was very certain that there must still be Qing Zhen’s backhand in this river valley area, that was the force he would eventually use to complete the integration of the bandits.

At this point in time, because Yang was fighting with Li in the south, the northern defense was empty, and at most, there was only an independent regiment left at each ledge.

If this bandit army went south, the barriers would definitely be unbreakable, but if they wanted to destroy all the factories outside the barriers, I’m afraid that they would be able to make Yang’s economy gasp for three years at once.

And I’m afraid that Yang’s at this point still thinks that the northern bandits are not enough to be feared, after all, which consortium would take the bandits into consideration and just let them play with mud in the river valley region by themselves.

I’m afraid that Zong and Yang would have a huge headache if they were enemies with such a rival.