Good Man Operation Guide

When the time came, the mountain bandits rushed to the nearest village at the bottom of the mountain, Lin’s village. Yet, when they arrived there, they were surprised to find that the Lin’s Village had already been deserted, as if they knew the bandits were coming.

A group of mountain bandits stood in the village confused, with swords still in their hands. Some unwilling mountain bandits searched the houses, but found that those villagers that disappeared without even leaving a grain of rice.

It doesn’t matter, they’ll just go to other villages!

They didn’t believe that people in other villages were gone too!

Recently, people from the village welcomed Lin Shiheng, who brought news.

“The mountain bandits came for our Lin village, and are intending to loot the villages one by one. So, run, run for your lives!”

The simple peasant man wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead, “It’s too late if you don’t escape now.”

The villagers were surprised. They had all heard about the fierce mountain bandits. If they were caught, it would be over! But if they moved, first of all, not to mention where to hide, how would they have time to carry away all their family belongings? Even if they carried away all their belongings, what if the bandits burned their houses? What could they do?

When they were at a loss and full of panic, Lin Fourth Son rushed over with a few of the village’s strongest men behind him.

“Father, there’s really no place to hide near their village, and there are too many children. If they cry, they will surely get caught. These men then followed me over, intending to defend themselves against the mountain bandits together.”

Lin Shiheng stamped his foot anxiously, “You child, how could mountain bandits be easy to deal with? You might as well report to the officials and ask the government to come!”

As they spoke, Lin Second Son ran over on a donkey, his face all sweaty.

“Father! I went to the government to tell them, but the government officials didn’t care about it at all, and said I was lying. What are we going to do now, Father?”

He was born with good looks, and was brazenly upright like his own father, Lin Shiheng. Right now, he was looking at Lin Shiheng, with Lin Fourth Son, making others look at him involuntarily, waiting for his advice.

Lin Shiheng walked around twice in a dilemma, “There nothing we can do now. They are mountain bandits, and we definitely won’t be able to beat them. I remember that there’s a canyon in front of your village. I am a carpenter and I can make bows and arrows. We should go to the top of the canyon together. Then, we make bows and arrows, and wait for the bandits to come. We stand on top, while they stand below. We can hit them, while they can’t reach us.”

“But making bows and arrows takes time. Wouldn’t it be too late?”

“My family still has some bows and arrows made for the noblemen in the city. Today, I was going to let my third son send them to the city, but I didn’t expect to run into bandits coming down the mountain. We’ll have to use them first.”

“The men with strong arms, come with me. The women, the elderly, and children, go to the back of the village. Even if we’re defeated, at least we can save them!”

Lin Second Son and Lin Fourth Son had the attitude of listening to whatever Lin Shiheng said. It affected the villagers, and coupled with his calm orders, the group of people subconsciously followed his arrangement, and the men followed him into the canyon.

On the way, they happened to meet Lin Third coming over with a bow and arrow. The group of people quietly waited for the ambush at the top of the canyon.

Slowly, the mountain bandits came. Earlier, Lin Third had sprinkled iron nails on the ground on the way over. Those horses weren’t wearing horseshoes, and they refused to walk after just one painful step. They only thought that the villagers had left traps before they fled for their lives, and they all gritted their teeth one by one, and they could only walk instead.

“Father, there are a lot of rocks up here. Why don’t we throw some rocks down later, to save some bows and arrows?”

Unlike other people who are busy making bows and arrows, Lin Second Son looked around after going up the canyon, and quickly ran to report when he found some stones.

“Okay, divide some people to move the rocks. You go arrange it.”

Lin Shiheng looked at the empty canyon below, narrowed his eyes slightly, and ordered, “In a moment, let more people be stationed on both sides of the canyon so that they don’t get to escape.”

“Okay, I’ll go!”

Lin Second Son obediently arranged for people to move rocks, and called people to stand on both sides.

While waiting, the mountain bandits went into the canyon.

Lin Shiheng brought up his most commonly used bow and arrow and stood on the far-left side of the canyon, “Release the arrows.”

–Shoo!

–Shoo!

Those who could shoot arrows fired away. Those who couldn’t shoot arrows were moving rocks, throwing them. Amidst the screams from below, Lin Shiheng tightened the bowstring and aimed at the big boss of the mountain bandits’ den.

He was quite recognizable. The group of people immediately surrounded him for protection.

–Whoosh!

An arrow shot through him with precision.

When the big boss fell to the ground, the bandits were leaderless, and they couldn’t think of rushing up together. Instead, they scattered and fled for their lives. But no matter whether they were going, forward or backward, they would all die under sharp arrows.

By the end of the day, there were dead bodies lying all over the canyon floor.

Lin Shiheng withdrew his arrow and looked back at a group of men whose eyes were full of light and excitement.” They must have left people in the den. We killed their people, the mountain bandits in the den would definitely retaliate when they find out. It is better to strike first!”

A group of red-eyed men responded immediately. There weren’t many mountain bandits, and Lin Shiheng took three brothers to look for them. In addition, Lin Fourth snuck in to release those captives, and finally, they gained a big victory. Lin Shiheng found the belongings in the main room and distributed them to the men who came along.

Everyone’s eyes were full of admiration and yearning.

When the government learned the news, they sent officers to ask the people to hand over their belongings in the bandits’ den. Under the leadership of the dim-witted Emperor, the officials in the government also followed the pace of the court, ‘advancing’ with the times. They didn’t dare to deal with mountain bandits because they are afraid of fierce resistance, and they were a group of people who were used to being oppressed by the government.

But this was now a group of people who had killed people, protected their homes, and regarded those possessions as their trophies of war under Lin Shiheng’s words. Coupled with Lin Fourth fanning the flames and the arrogant attitude of the officials, several village people were outraged and killed the officials.

After they killed them, they were very confused. That was an official of the court, how could they live after killing those people?

They subconsciously looked for Lin Shiheng for help under Lin Fourth’s suggestion.

Naturally, Lin Shiheng ‘reluctantly’ announced his separation from the court and the start of a rebellion.

His biggest shortcoming was that there were very few people.

But it didn’t matter. If he rebelled well, more and more people would come.

Mo Chenke had no idea what happened in the distant Lin Village.

After he came back, he was sent by his father to fight with the imperial army. According to their plan, he should go all the way north until he reaches the capital. But now, there were two Princes and a civil rebel group, and the four groups of people restrained each other, because there was a common enemy at the moment. They haven’t fought yet, just waiting to see who could take the lead in bringing down the capital to get the world.

After 3 months of hard work and numerous wounds, he finally took a city that his father had indicated he wanted.

The Third Prince didn’t hide it from him. Before, he directly took out the military map, pointing to the ideal city, and announced that this was the next destination of the army. Satisfied with his son, the Third Prince dropped the ‘carrot’ directly in front of him, “If you can take this city, my son, I’ll talk to the General about your marriage to his daughter.”

Mo Chenke’s spirit shook, he couldn’t wait to wield the army to take the city and marry the General’s daughter, to become the future heir to the throne.

But before he set out with the army, the Third Prince stopped him with a pale face.

Not only he, but also some senior generals and his eight brothers.

Everyone sat together and had a meeting.

The discussion for the meeting: Another civil rebellion group emerged.

Although this rebel group had only been formed a short while ago, it was much more powerful than the civil rebel group before. They took the city that was being watched by the four sides as soon as they struck.

Mo Chenke listened and expressed his opinion, “How many horses do they have?”

“Only a few thousand.”

A few thousand?

Mo Chenke simply had to laugh. How could a few thousand men and horses fight a war? He immediately asked for orders, “This son would like to lead the army, and take the city for our own army.”

The Third Prince, who always agreed immediately when Mo Chenke asked for orders, didn’t answer this time. He only frowned and pondered for a moment.

“No. The city is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If they can take the city, they must have some ability themselves. What’s more, they are fighting under the idea that ‘the government is forcing people to rebel’. We are standing opposite to the court, if we clean them up this time, what would the people think of our army?”

To put it bluntly, it’s the new civil rebellion that was too sneaky. It was only when the most difficult days came, such an anti-governmental group came out. Recently, the four sides were shackled to each other, and court officials were busy taking refuge left and right, and they didn’t have time to wrong the people. Even corrupt officials acted with little scruple, and they didn’t dare to shoot for too much benefit.

This certainly was a good reason. But why would a new civil rebellion group rise up?

Mo Chenke didn’t think so much. Knowing that those people couldn’t be cleared out yet, his expression slightly sunk, and his heart didn’t feel comfortable. He desperately wanted to prove himself by battling, and naturally wanted to go to the battlefield more often.

“Father, what is the origin of the rebels this time? Are they like that Zhao Fang duo, who lead together?”

“The news was just handed over; the situation is still unclear. I only know that the other party is Lin. They only have one General, and there’s no news of claiming a Prince as its leader yet. Let’s look at it for now. If he wants to take refuge in other parties, though there are a few thousand people, we could also try to woo them.”

Lin…

Mo Chenke eyebrows jumped for a moment, before starting to think, his heart had already shown some uneasiness.

But soon, a disdainful smile appeared on his face. They were too silly to fight in a war.

Even if that person’s surname is Lin, so what? How can he not know the small Lin family’s ability?

A nest of countryside village workers, not to mention that most of them share the same surname, even if they had the same surname, he was 100% sure they weren’t even related to the Lin family.