I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 18, Officials Force the People to Revolt

In addition to spear training, Xu Wei bought a large number of crossbows, and even asked the carpenter team to make crossbows. With the lessons learned from the attack on Zhaozhong Manor last time, Xu Wei also knew the importance of long-range firepower. With black powder, even if he recruited tens of thousands of refugees, he would not be able to capture the manor, and Xu Wei, a modern person, prefers to kill enemies from a distance.

But archers need three years to train, but crossbowmen only need three months. Relatively speaking, the training time for crossbowmen is shorter, and it is easier to form combat effectiveness. Especially Xu Wei also taught them to set the scale and make a protractor. For a crossbowman who can shoot accurately, let him determine the angle, and others can imitate this angle to shoot in a covered manner. Although the accuracy cannot be guaranteed, the killing range is really wide.

Moreover, the lethality of crossbow bolts depends on the number of arrows. The price of arrows in this world is generally 10 yuan, but now it has risen to 20 yuan. Even the imperial army did not prepare too many arrows, and slowly Wei used two rough iron rods to make a manpower lathe. Just cut out wooden sticks of the same length and stir them on the lathe. In a few seconds, straight and round arrow shafts were produced one by one. Using a manpower lathe The cost of making arrow shafts will not exceed two yuan, and the efficiency has been increased dozens of times. The carpenter team can produce thousands of arrows every day. If more people are added, the production can be doubled several times, and the arrows are greatly enhanced. The combat effectiveness of Xu Wei's crossbow archers.

So Xu Wei attaches great importance to crossbows. If it weren't for the lack of production, he would like every soldier to be equipped with a crossbow. But even so, Xu Wei still got thousands of crossbows, and his army was completely crossbowed.

After a month of intensive training like this, Xu Wei and the others spent all the money in their hands. The [-] armed guards cost Xu Wei more than [-] million yuan. Even so, Xu Wei couldn't get them all equipped with cowhide armor. It can make cowhide armor popular among senior officers, but most soldiers still use rattan armor and rattan shields.

But this is already much better than the original Yellow Turban soldiers. It can be regarded as fully equipped and barely looks like a soldier. Now it is time to see their effect.

So Xu Wei equipped them for actual combat, and the target of the actual combat was the powerful people at the foot of Hukou Mountain.

Zhongping 2 March 3st.

Xu Wei led 3000 guards and surrounded Wubao, a family named Huang Haoqiang, at the foot of Hukou Mountain.Behind Xu Wei are tens of thousands of refugees.

The refugees followed up immediately after seeing Xu Wei's escort coming out of the mountain. They didn't know where the refugees got the news, but the speed was not much slower than Xu Wei's and the others. When Xu Wei surrounded Wubao, behind him unexpectedly There are already tens of thousands of refugees, and they look like the leader of the martial arts alliance in Wei County.

Xu Wei was shocked, where did the news come from?

And Xu Wei will know that his generous handwriting last time has shocked the people at the bottom of the entire Wei County. As long as they surround Wubao, they can get a stone of grain. They will gather behind Xu Wei, and they don't want them to attack the city anyway. With the experience of last time, they surrounded the other three directions to help Xu Wei and the others contain the troops in Wubao.

As for the deterrent effect of Weijun Taishou's creation of Jingguan, it is simply a joke. People are starving to death, and they will care about the threat of death. In the eyes of the refugees, a full meal is more important than death.

Not to mention that after the prefect went back last time, the government began to collect taxes again, and the tax collectors came to force food, even the family's seed food.

The common people were unconvinced and asked: "Didn't it mean that one year's imperial grain will be exempted!"

The tax collector said fiercely: "Whoever told you that you want to be tax-free, you can go to whom. Anyway, the prefect said that this year's tax must not be less, and what I collect is last year's tax!" After speaking, he robbed the people Only rations and seeds!
Last time it was Jizhou Mu Huangfusong who said that he would be exempted from taxes. Unfortunately, he went to fight against the rebels in Xiliang after less than 2 months as the world's state shepherd. His tax exemption policy has naturally disappeared.

The current prefects and county magistrates are all officials who have been sold to Zhao Zhong for money. Of course, Zhao Zhong is very sensible. He and Lingdi split the accounts with Lingdi, and Lingdi takes the bulk of the money. This makes Lingdi very happy. I think Zhao Zhongzhong is more obedient than Huangfusong.

Huangfusong will only take money from him, but also reduce his income. Jizhou is the most important source of taxation for the imperial court. The reduction of taxes in Jizhou has reduced the imperial court's income by a quarter. I lost hundreds of millions of dollars in income!
After having this source of income from selling officials, Emperor Ling was dissatisfied with the hero who occupied the official position because of his meritorious service in suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising. This did not cut off his source of income, so he issued another order. People must be selected and eliminated, leaving qualified people.

What Emperor Ling meant was to let these people call them money for officials.But it's a pity that the desperate tyrants are all poor, and they can't afford millions or even tens of millions of official money!
Therefore, many heroes who suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising were dismissed. For example, the poor Liu Bei was dismissed because he could not afford the money. The county captain of Anxi County, which he had worked so hard to get, was replaced by corrupt officials who bought officials.

Corrupt officials here in Wei County are especially bad. They have to pay enough money for Zhao Zhong to be robbed, so they don’t even want to wait for Xia Harvest, and directly expropriate them in the spring. , these refugees have defected to Lei Gong, who is said to know the thunder method, so Xu Wei's dispatch this time has so easily gathered tens of thousands of people, because they can survive here from Xu Wei!
After Wubao was surrounded, Xu Wei first used refugees to disperse Wubao's forces, and then washed the ground with bows and crossbows, shooting tens of thousands of long arrows in a row. Go up the city wall, use a crowbar to dig out the city wall bricks, make holes, and place gunpowder!
"Boom!" A dock was breached by Xu Wei and the others, and the guards rushed in through the breach.Then use the village as a unit to kill and injure the private soldiers in the prisoner's dock!

But what Xu Wei encountered this time was fierce resistance. Even though the city wall was blown down, the servants of the Huang family resisted desperately under the assembly of the Patriarch.

Different from Zhao Zhong's manor, Zhao Zhong just hired some servants to take care of his manor. The servants are all laborers. Naturally, they have no morale when they see the city wall being breached. Few people are willing to sacrifice their lives for the boss's wealth.

The Wubao of the Huang family is all Huang clan members, everyone is a family, Wubao is their home, and the cohesion is naturally higher. They also know the fate of Wubao being breached, so they naturally resist desperately. Xu Wei They paid more than two hundred casualties to conquer this Wubao!
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