Chapter 24: Silver Punishment for Fighting with Arms
Su Ze had heard that Fu Guang’s people were tough and tough before traveling through time, but when he saw the scene of a fight with nearly a thousand people, Su Ze was still shocked.
The Changning Guard and Beishan Village fought in front of the creek. The leader of the Changning Guard was Lin Xianyang, the son of the old man. He stared angrily at the Beishan Village villagers across the creek, with hatred in his eyes.
The fight between Fujian and Guangzhou will be bloody!
In later generations of wars between Fujian and Guangzhou, guns and cannons were even used, which is evident from the strong folk customs.
In order to compete for this reed field, Changningwei and Beishan Village have been fighting for several years, and it can be said that they have formed a deep hatred.
Originally, the people of Beishan Village could not defeat the Changning Guard. After all, Changning Guard was a guard station, and the guards were not dispatched. The people of the Changning Guard were all military families, so they were naturally much better than the people of Beishan Village.
However, hundreds of families died in the battle, almost every family in the Changning Guard wore mourning, and all the strong men in the guard were recruited into the army. The strength of the Changning Guard quickly declined.
That's how the night attack on Ashida came about.
The little carrot head Lin Liangjun clenched his fists and followed Su Ze to the back to cheer for the tribesmen on the front line.
With the sound of a gong, a mighty clan fight officially started.
The two sides lined up around the stream, and villagers holding harpoons and hoes began the first round of contact.
Su Ze watched this spectacular weapon fight. He couldn't see the faces clearly under the swaying torches. Here, the Changning guardsmen all tied red scarves on their foreheads, and the villagers in the mountain village opposite had tied cloth belts on their arms. The two sides were having a simple conversation. After the probing attack, Changningwei took the lead in crossing the stream.
This is not the first time that Lin Xianyang has led villagers to participate in such a fight. He is also very clear about the strength of Beishan Village.
All the people in this mountain village built on the back of a mountain have the surname Chen. The Chen family migrated here since the war in the late Yuan Dynasty, earlier than the Wei An family in Changning.
Although the Chen family in Beishan is not a scholarly family, it is still a wealthy family in the county. Now three brothers of the younger generation of the Chen family are working in the county government and are known as the three tigers of the Chen family. This has also made the Chen family even more rampant in the county. avoid.
This time they invaded Lutian, the three tigers of the Chen family were government officials, so it was naturally difficult for them to take action. However, they also got through the second boss of the county government, who was the county magistrate, and asked the responsible officials to intervene at the last moment. .
However, the Beishan Chen family also spent a lot of money to set up a bigger ambush, waiting for the Changning Weilin family to take the bait.
Lin Xianyang didn't know the opponent's plan, he just followed the previous play style.
Generally, in clan fighting, strong clansmen, armed with long weapons such as harpoons or hoes, stand in the front row to suppress them.
At the rear are the weaker tribesmen, who are responsible for taking up positions or cheering, mainly to build momentum.
Therefore, Lin Xianyang's previous strategy was to gather the strongest tribesmen to break through the front row of defenses first, and then defeat the weaker tribesmen behind Chen's family on Beishan Mountain. The formation on the opposite side would naturally collapse.
Lin Xianyang had used this style of play several times before, and the effect was quite good. This time, naturally, he followed the old method. He successfully broke through Chen's front row defense. Just when Lin Xianyang was about to show off his power, Suddenly I felt something was wrong.
In the past, when he broke through the front line of defense, the Chen clan members behind would scream in panic, or simply put down their weapons and run away.
But this time after he rushed in, it was surprisingly quiet.
Cold sweat broke out on Lin Xianyang's back. The people who broke through the front row with him were the strongest men among the remnants of the Lin clan in Changning Wei. They were all veterans who had participated in many clan fights. They all felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere. .
"Jie, Jie, Jie! I've been waiting for you for a long time, brothers, come on!"
After hearing a burst of strange laughter, a group of obviously strong guys surrounded Lin Xianyang and the others.
"Hit me hard!"
A stick hit Lin Xianyang on the shoulder, and he immediately felt something was wrong.
In the past, the Chen family's most powerful weapons in back-mountain fighting were hoes and harpoons, but these were agricultural tools after all, and their lethality was limited.
Those who participated in the armed fighting were only ordinary people farming. They didn't have enough to eat on weekdays and didn't have much strength to fight.
But this time the stick that hit Lin Xianyang was obviously much heavier, and it made the sound of metal and stone hitting the bones.
Lin Xianyang immediately realized that this was not a hoe, but a hammer and stick used by gangsters in Fujian to fight!
The so-called hammer is actually a wooden stick covered with iron!
It is impossible for ordinary people to waste precious iron sheets to make such weapons. There is only one kind of person who can use such weapons.
Lin Xianyang immediately thought of the worst possibility. He shouted:
"No! There is an ambush! It's the Arhat's Foot in the county!"
The man who had just screamed strangely lit a torch, revealing a fierce scar. The man's face was full of beard, and his triangular eyes showed a fierce light.
"Hit me!" Lin Xianyang had spent a lot of energy trying to break through the front row, and the number of people was far less than that of the opponent. He was quickly beaten to death by this group of "Arhat's feet" armed with sticks and hammers.
Lin Xianyang, who rushed in, was still unable to come out, and Chen's formation still did not collapse. Now Lin's side also realized that something was wrong.
At this time, shrill screams came from the opposite side, coming from the brothers who had followed Lin Xianyang and rushed over.
The Lin clan members on this side of the creek were even more anxious, but the Chen clan's harpoon and hoe on the opposite side were waving so tightly that they couldn't get through.
At this time, even Lin Liangjun, who was watching the battle from behind, also saw the problem. He said anxiously:
"Oops! Uncle Yang has been ambushed!"
The screams became louder and louder. Listening to the voices of the brothers on the opposite side, the stream The hearts of the Lin clan were gripped.
But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't break through Chen's front row defense.
Ma Kuai, who was next to Zaoli, had some friendship with Chang Ningwei. He couldn't help but ask: "
Master Secretary, the winner has been decided, do we want to go up?"
Domineering, let them learn a lesson again."
Ma Kuai had no choice but to shut up, and after a stick of incense passed, the leading official said:
"Strike the gong! Get your weapons and fight for silver!"
The rapid sound of the gong sounded, and the two Bu Kuai held the county government number plate, and Ma Kuai rode out of the darkness holding a torch.
The sound of the gong seemed to be a signal of truce, and the fighting people on both sides stopped immediately.
Lin Liangjun clenched his fists and said bitterly:
"In the past, as soon as our Chang Ning Wei got the upper hand, these bad dogs would jump out, but today they came so slowly!"
The county clerk in the soap-colored official uniforms lined up the crowd. When he came out, under the man's hat was a fat face that looked harmless to humans and animals.
He said with a straight face:
"The Chief Envoy has repeatedly issued orders to prohibit armed fighting, but you unscrupulous people dare to gather a crowd and break the law!"
"Left and right! Count those who have fallen to the ground!"
Bu Kuai Ma Kuai quickly stepped forward, only to see more than 20 Changning Wei Qingzhuangs led by Lin Xianyang falling to the ground and letting out weak groans.
These officers skillfully checked the breaths of the fallen people, and after counting them, they said to the book office:
"Mr. Book Office, twenty-five people from the Changning Wei Lin family were injured, and none of the Chen family fell to the ground in Beishan, and there is no lawsuit for their lives.
" A smile appeared on his round face, and he shouted to Beishan Chen's side:
"Issuing a document, Beishan Chen will send twenty-five taels of fined silver to the county government within this month. Let's break up today! If there is any more, All those who fight with weapons should be handcuffed back to the county!"
Chen, the leader of Beishan Village, happily received the receipt. He had no objection to the huge fine of twenty-five taels of silver and kept thanking the secretary's office.
The Changning Guards all lowered their heads, and Lin Liangjun, who was usually the most heartless, clenched his fists and shed tears.
A prompt sounded in Su Ze's ear:
[The location "Battlefield" was found, and the skill "Art of War" can be learned. Do you want to learn it? 】
【The location "Battlefield" was found, and the skill "First Aid" can be learned. Do you want to learn it? 】
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Silver fine for armed fighting: miscellaneous tax collected for fighting in Fuguang area.
Arhat's Foot: Unemployed gangsters in Jiangxi and Fujian during the Ming and Qing Dynasties
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