The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 455 Liansheng is also a gambler

Although this robbery was based on more and less, it was the well-trained green battalion of the Qing army equipped with muskets.

It stands to reason that every time they attack the grain transportation team, the brothers in the village have to recruit those hungry people who are about to starve to death, and they have to wait for the enemy to enter the sky and form a death squad to surround the enemy army before they can rob the grain and grass.

When encountering a team with muskets, they dare not attack easily.

Even so, the loss is heavy every time.

After several visits, every household in the village showed filial piety.

There used to be one or two thousand strong cottages, but now there are less than one thousand.

If this continues, I'm afraid it won't be long before only the old, weak, women and children are left in this village.

However, in this troubled world, reckless people like Zhao Erhu, Jiang Wuyang, and Shi Jinbiao can't see the future at all, so just drink as much as they can now.

Even if he met Pang Qingyun, it was just going from one road of no return to another road of no return.

But now that Chen Zhao is here, it will naturally be different.

He wants to turn the road of no return into a broad road.

……

The team happily returned to the cottage.

This trip to robbery was very rewarding.

Dozens of pack horses, dozens of carts, 8000 taels of military pay, thousands of stones of rice flour and cloth, hundreds of pigs and sheep, thousands of sets of ordnance, plus hundreds of muskets and corresponding gunpowder and bullets. It's really a big deal.

What's more difficult is that Chen Zhao immediately beheaded all levels of officers of the grain transportation team. There were four close-range raids, and the losses of the Shanzhai brothers were minimal.

There were only a few injured.

This is simply unique in the previous robbery career.

So on the way back, everyone was in high spirits.

Even Shi Jinbiao, who always had a straight face, rode beside Chen Zhao and said with admiration: "Master, we have never fought such a happy battle."

Chen Zhao said with a smile: "In the past we just blindly acted recklessly, but now I have made up my mind, we will act smartly in the future, and we need to use our brains to see the world, we can't just stay in the cottage and be bandits all the time."

Shi Jinbiao's expression changed: "The master wants to recruit someone?"

"Recruiting security?" Chen Zhao laughed: "Is there only one way to recruit security in the world?"

"Isn't it Zhao'an? Did you vote for the Taiping Army?" Shi Jinbiao asked doubtfully.

Chen Zhao patted him on the shoulder: "Championship, don't think too much about it now, just us, no matter what we do, there will be people blocking our way. If we want to avoid being blocked by others, we need to run on ourselves and become stronger."

Shi Jinbiao looked puzzled.

What happened to the boss?Why are you talking so profoundly?

He was not like this before!
He was puzzled here, but Jiang Wuyang was very excited.

He took off his shoes casually, put a pair of military boots on his feet, and said with a smile, "How is it?" '

"Brother Wuyang, this is what the general wears." A younger brother shouted.

"Haha, brother Wuyang is now a general!"

"Oh, Brother Wuyang will be the general!"

Everyone booed and shouted excitedly.

Jiang Wuyang also laughed. Although he was unshaven, his face was so energetic and handsome.

When the team returned to the village, they were warmly welcomed by their family members, and Chen Zhao also met his wife Liansheng immediately.

Liansheng didn't follow Zhao Erhu willingly, she turned out to be a skinny horse.

What is a thin horse? It is a woman who was bought to teach singing, dancing, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, and is going to be sold into a rich family as a concubine when she grows up.

Although the skinny horse is involuntary and its status may not be very high, the quality of life can be guaranteed.In troubled times, life is precarious. This kind of fate is at least a lot more stable than being affected by the flames of war. Surviving with difficulty among various forces is at least a lot more stable. Lian Sheng has no resistance to this.

But Zhao Erhu wishfully thought that Liansheng was forced into the fire pit, and he made his own decision to rescue her.There should be some selfishness of Zhao Erhu in this, thinking that Liansheng is a childhood sweetheart, and Liansheng should never leave him, and brought her back to be Mrs. Yazhai.

Compared with becoming a concubine of a wealthy family, how has Liansheng's status changed? She still has no freedom, and she has lost her good living conditions. She doesn't know where her next meal will be.

What's even more frightening is that Zhao Erhu and his brothers are bandits who dare to rob the army's rations. Such a method of death will sooner or later be wiped out.When the time comes, what will be her fate?
Is she willing to marry Zhao Erhu?There is nothing he can do if he is not happy, Liansheng is powerless to resist.

So at the beginning of the movie, when he saw Pang Qingyun wearing an officer's uniform, he had an idea in his mind. Later he learned that the other party once had more than 1000 troops and was considered a mid-level officer. Of course, he would take the initiative to seize this person. Opportunity.

Lian Sheng, who was born on a thin horse, has undoubtedly seen all kinds of high-ranking officials and nobles, and Pang Qingyun's general's uniform is familiar to her.

Although the man looked like he might fall at any moment, the uniform showed his identity.

The escape where he unexpectedly met Pang Qingyun was not Liansheng's first escape. He had done so several times before, but he always came back on his own.

Pang Qingyun asked: "Since you ran away, why did you come back?"

Liansheng replied: "I ran many times, thought well, and came back every time."

Why do I come back every time, because I am alone, unaccompanied, and have no one to turn to.

Except for Zhao Erhu, she has no one to rely on.

Pang Qingyun is a potential person who can be relied on. He confided to Liansheng: My brothers, more than 1600 people
Able to command three battalions, this is already a mid-level military officer.

Pang Qingyun's rank is not low, Liansheng wants to take a gamble and put his bet on him. If Pang makes a comeback in the future, he may become a phoenix from a crow.

In troubled times, men can no longer survive, so they can risk their lives to do something.What can a woman do if she wants to be in the top position?The only capital is the body.

So Lian Sheng is also a gambler, just like Pang Qingyun.

……

But now Pang Qingyun has not appeared yet, and although Liansheng has fled many times, he has not cuckolded Zhao Erhu after all. Based on the principle of "learning from past pasts and avoiding future ones, heal the sickness and save the patient", Chen Zhao is willing to give Liansheng a chance to reform himself.

It was winter, the kang was already lit, and the room was as warm as spring, so Liansheng helped Chen Zhao take off his winter clothes outside.

"Liansheng, sit down first, I have something for you."

Chen Zhao didn't let Liansheng's hand, he took Liansheng's hand by himself, gently pushed him to sit on the kang, took off his winter clothes, and threw it aside casually.

Liansheng was surprised, but he didn't think too much about it. He watched Chen Zhao tidy up by himself, and he didn't see any baggage or anything like that. With a flick of his wrist, there was an extra hole flute and a lyre in his hand.

"Oops." Even though Liansheng was used to being a wife in the village and had long since stopped playing, she couldn't help but exclaimed when she saw Chen Zhao juggling two musical instruments.

"This is……"

"This is a lyre, this is a hole flute, I think you used to see it often?"

While Liansheng was surprised, he couldn't help feeling sad when he heard Chen Zhao's words, but he said, "Yes."

"As bandits, we have to always consider the old and young on the mountain, so we ignore you. I know you don't want to live such a life, so I plan to change."

Liansheng's face changed when he heard Chen Zhao say "...you really don't want to live like this..." After hearing him say "...so I plan to change.", he couldn't help being surprised.

You want to change?

How do you, a bandit leader, change?

Looking at Liansheng's expression, Chen Zhao knew what Liansheng was thinking, so he smiled slightly and didn't answer. He just wrapped the lyre on the kang, adjusted it a few times, and started playing.

Liansheng watched him play the lyre in a decent way, and couldn't help laughing in his heart: "You are a reckless man who has known how to fight and kill since you were a child, and you are used to being a bandit. What kind of qin can you play? Besides, you think you can play all kinds of things. Play a piece of music, and I'll feel at ease from now on, okay?"

"Zhao Erhu, Zhao Erhu, I know you are a good person, but you don't know what I want?"

As soon as he thought of this, the sound of the zither had already sounded. Liansheng only listened for a moment, and his expression changed suddenly.

(End of this chapter)