pappabearbooks Chapter 62 The zombies are attacking the village again!
Chapter 62 The zombies are attacking the village again!
Chapter 62 The zombies are attacking the village again!
"By the way, Commander, I heard from those Qing soldiers that a group of lamas seems to have come to the city!"
"Those guys couldn't explain it either. Anyway, according to them, these lamas seemed to have been sent by the Qing government, and they even had a conflict with their garrison commander. Apparently, they've never gotten along well with their garrison commander."
hiss--!
Upon hearing the word "lama," Rock gasped.
He mainly recalled the battle outside Zhangjiatun, and he knew how amazing the evil magic these lamas possessed was.
Although there are indeed a lot of evil and unorthodox spells in this world, each one extremely cruel, that does not mean that those spells are useless.
On the contrary, if these spells are used properly, they can absolutely reverse the course of a war!
"—This is really troublesome. I wonder what abilities those lamas possess. I hope these guys don't pull off anything too outrageous!"
Rock sighed. These strange spells were the biggest variables he had encountered in this phase of the war.
Not long after, the Green Standard Army soldiers returned to Kaiyuan City with long faces. As soon as they saw the garrison commander Wanfu, they started crying and wailing, embellishing their previous experience with the Luo family army.
"You scoundrel, you're incredibly audacious!"
Even though Wanfu was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but get angry when he heard about the treatment of these Green Standard Army soldiers in Luo Family Army. He really didn't expect that Luo Family Army would not take the government army and the imperial court seriously at all!
After unleashing a torrent of vicious curses, Wanfu waved his sleeve and said to the Green Standard Army soldiers kneeling before him, "You may all return to your camp. The Luo family army's blatant disrespect for this old man is truly hateful!"
"However, the Luo family army has a complex background and enormous power, so dealing with them will require a long-term plan."
Several Green Standard Army soldiers nodded repeatedly. They didn't want to listen to Wan Fu's long-winded discussion anymore. They just wanted to quickly hide in their own little nests to catch their breath and relax their tense nerves.
They had previously visited the Luo family army, but it had truly terrified them. Many Green Standard Army soldiers even doubted whether they would return, thinking they might actually be killed by those strongmen of the Luo family army!
As for retaliating against Luo's army, they really didn't think about it that much.
With their own abilities, let alone retaliating against the Luo family army, it would be good enough if they didn't retaliate against the Luo family army. As for when the big shot will take action against the Luo family army, or whether he will take action against the Luo family army at all?
Faced with these problems, they have no choice but to accept them passively, as if they could control the thoughts of important people.
After the Green Standard Army soldiers left, Steward Wei asked Wanfu, "Sir, should we do something about the Luo family army next?"
Wan Fu glanced at him, then snorted coldly and said, "Old Wei, I only managed to fool those Green Standard Army soldiers a few times, how come you were fooled too? Have you forgotten what I told you before?"
"At this juncture, all I need to do is play it safe. Once this period is over, I can step down and return to the capital. At that time, we won't need to deal with any problems the Luo family army may have; whoever takes over my position can handle them!"
"So we'll pretend we don't know anything about this. If we really can't swallow this anger, we'll go back to those bandits and rally them to deal with the Luo family army. Let those dogs fight each other!"
Although the bandits would occasionally present Wanfu with various treasures and even spend large sums of gold and silver to buy his safety, Wanfu never truly regarded these bandits as his own people.
Bandits are bandits. The reason they are willing to be humble and subservient now is simply because they don't want to go against the imperial court and they don't have the guts.
So to Wanfu, these were just a pack of wild dogs who feared his authority and could never be tamed.
In that case, isn't it perfectly normal to take advantage of them as much as possible before they stop fearing themselves?
Not long after, the three bandit strongholds received news from Wanfu.
"Are you kidding me? Is that old bastard Wanfu playing a trick on me?"
Upon receiving the news, Tie Liancheng, the leader of Black Flag Ridge, had just seen the messenger off when he suddenly overturned the table with a loud bang.
"Damn it, I threw out so much gold, and it all went to the dogs! And this old bastard actually kicked the ball back at me!"
They had originally hoped that Wanfu could directly mobilize government troops to wipe out the Luo family army, but unexpectedly, Wanfu sent a messenger to tell them that if they could wipe out the Luo family army, they would be doing a service to the court, and he would be willing to give them a local militia organization.
But the problem is, what use is a mere militia unit?
Having such an organization, to put it bluntly, means they can become a legitimate armed force recognized by the imperial court, but other than that, there are no other benefits.
The imperial court would not allocate any funds to them because of this, nor would they obtain any official positions of any real significance. At most, the imperial army would not arbitrarily suppress them.
But the problem is, they aren't being constantly wiped out by government troops anymore, are they?
They are currently keeping to themselves and the government troops, and even if they are organized into local militias in the future, if the government troops use their plundering of the people as an excuse, wouldn't they still be able to legitimately exterminate them as bandits?
That's why Tie Liancheng was furious. He felt that he had been tricked by that old bastard Wan Fu, and that the conditions and benefits that the guy offered were not sincere at all!
Upon receiving the news, the other two bandit groups reacted similarly to Tie Liancheng. They immediately convened a small private meeting, and after some discussion and debate, they unanimously decided:
They would keep to themselves and the Luo family army, and as long as the Luo family army didn't cause them trouble, they wouldn't cause them trouble either. However, they had to strengthen security measures at the gold mine and station more bandits there!
With such a huge gold mine right in front of them, they couldn't believe that the Luo family army wouldn't be tempted at all.
Even so, they did not want to encounter Luo's army proactively, especially not to venture into Luo's territory to launch a deep attack.
In the eyes of the three bandit groups, if they worked together, they might actually have no problem wiping out the Luo family army.
If they put in all their might, the three bandit groups could muster a force of nearly 2000 men, including several hundred cavalry alone. Such a force would not only be able to cause trouble for the Luo family army, but they would even be confident of clashing with the government troops!
But then what? After all that effort, what benefits did they gain from annihilating the Luo family army?
Although the Luo family army was wealthy, it wasn't enough to keep all three families eating their fill. Moreover, if they fought against the well-equipped Luo family army, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
None of the three bandit groups were willing to suffer heavy losses at this critical juncture. Doing so would only benefit the other two groups and would be meaningless; they would not sacrifice themselves for others.
So after all that trouble, the bandits couldn't do anything to Luo's army in the end, and Luo Ke even noticed that the number of bandits he had encountered in his territory recently had decreased significantly!
"That's really strange. Have all these bandits gone into hibernation and stopped going out?"
When Rock learned that the Cossack cavalry had been patrolling everywhere in recent days without finding any bandits, he muttered a few words of puzzlement.
He was unaware that the reason there were no bandit activities on his side was twofold: firstly, the Luo family army had scared away almost all the bandits in the surrounding villages; and secondly, the three major bandit groups had issued strong orders to restrain their men from causing trouble for the Luo family army.
That's why the Luo family army's territory seems too peaceful now.
Although there were no bandit attacks, the Luo family army's territory was never completely peaceful. Not long after, Luo Ke suddenly received a report from the cavalry that a large number of living corpses had gathered outside a certain village!
"Damn it, it's so cold outside, don't these zombies freeze?"
Rock couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath, his mind filled with confusion.
To be honest, the more Rock dealt with the zombies, the more he felt that these guys were very strange in every way, and very different from the zombies he had imagined.
For example, with the outside temperature so cold and the zombies having no means of insulation, how do they manage to keep the water in their bodies from freezing and turning into frozen meat?
If you throw a lump of fresh meat into the snow at minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius, it won't be long before the meat becomes as hard as a brick!
But the zombies can still move around freely, and these corpses neither rot nor get tired, like a perpetual motion machine, running around all day long, and no one knows where they spawn from!
"Prepare for battle, let's go take care of those zombies!"
"By the way, take precautions. Let's try to capture a few zombies to study. Maybe after some research, we can find something unusual about them?"
Rock gave orders to the cavalry, then suddenly thought of capturing living corpses for research.
Although he didn't have a laboratory, no biologists around him, or even a microscope, that didn't stop Rock from conducting research on the zombies.
Whether it's why the zombies don't freeze, or whether the perpetual motion zombies can be used as labor, these are all very valuable research projects.
In particular, Rock thought that these zombies were able to keep moving, which made them the best perpetual motion machines. No matter where the energy in their bodies came from, if they were used properly, wouldn't they be able to be used as a small-scale industrial energy source in an instant?
Thinking of this, Rock suddenly became eager for the living dead.
Meanwhile, the undead, who were still wandering outside and gradually gathering to prepare to attack the village, had no idea that they had been inexplicably targeted by a ruthless capitalist.
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