Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 491
"Xu Dingguo intends to test us with Heilouzhai. This battle must be won and fought well, so that Xu Dingguo will appreciate and trust us."

After the old master's analysis, he thought that although Xu Dingguo accepted Zhao Zhongyi as his adopted son, and also granted him the right battalion guerrilla title and the rank of general, those were all false, and he had to fight this battle well before he could be truly captured by him. Trust reuse.

They decided to fight the battle with all their might.

Mobilize all Red Gun members, and the people of Yongcheng and the refugees to act together.

Although ordinary people have little fighting power, a large number of people can also strengthen their momentum, and can help transport money, food and property, and can also expand the influence of the Red Gun Society through mobilization and fighting.

For a moment, Yongcheng was like a pot of boiling water. Countless people rushed to come first. Red Spear members from various sub-altars were ordered to gather, and the people and hungry people also rushed to the front.

Fortunately, the Red Spear Club has been developing for a long time. It originally held altars in various places and established schools and altars. It would not be disorderly to organize these people.

The seniors from each sub-altar will form a group of troops, with members of the Red Spear as the battalion, the rest of the young and strong villagers as the auxiliary battalion, and the old and weak who follow as the follower battalion.

Each village elects a leader to lead the team, and each battalion appoints a battalion leader.

The prestige established by the Red Spear Society in various places made the arrangement of the old master and Zhao Zhongyi well implemented. Although there were many people, it did not appear chaotic.

Members of the Red Guns from all over the country often went on missions before, whether it was selling salt or grain, or going to gangsters to eat gangsters, they had always been organized and fought, even if they were not on such a large scale, they still had experience.

Chen Twelve was assigned a task.

The villagers in charge of leading Daqiuji were transferred from the camp. He was a little unhappy, but Zhao Zhongyi talked to him personally, saying that it was just a different division of labor. He was just a soldier in the camp, but when he arrived in Daqiu The camp manages a group of people, the task is heavier, and it can play a greater role.

He also said that if he performed well this time, he would be promoted to manage a team of soldiers and become the leader of a 12-man team.

So Twelve Scythes immediately cheered up, and he returned to Daqiu, and immediately started to lead the team.

There are many people in Daqiu, and this time almost all of them came out.

Even his 60-year-old mother took his seven-year-old nephew to follow, and he even saw several 70-year-old grandmas in his family wanting to go with crutches.

"You are old and your legs and feet are inconvenient, so don't go."

"Our bodies are still strong, let's get some food too."

"Yes, Twelve, we are still in the same family, you must not take care of us."

Chen Twelve was a little helpless, "Although the elder brother said that everyone is welcome to go, he also refers to young people who are too old to keep up with the team. This journey is less than fifty miles away, and there will be wars. Don't worry, take down the black building." Village, and will distribute some food to everyone at that time."

"If you don't go, how can you get anything, you have to go and get it yourself."

Seeing that the old people were unwilling, Twelve Sickles went directly to the young people in their family to persuade them. The sick were all left behind.

The most elite villagers have joined the Red Spear Club, but there are still some young and strong, so these young and strong men form an auxiliary battalion, and the rest of the women, young and old people form an accompanying battalion, gathering all the shoulder poles and cars of each family.

Arranged according to the sentry team, each arranged a person in charge of the team.

The whole Daegu is very lively.

After a day's arrangement, the team finally set off before dawn, and countless people and horses walked in the morning light, covering the mountains and plains.

Almost all of the Red Spear Society was mobilized, forming ten battalions of soldiers in the left, right, front, back, middle and right sides, each armed with a red tasseled spear. Zhao Zhongyi's guard battalion even rode mules and horses, and there were quite a few bows and arrows.

In addition to Fatty Wang's battalion, there were dozens of elite servants and firearms among them, and then there was a sentry team sent by Xu Dingguo, and a dozen small cannons were pulled out.

But it is also fluttering with banners and momentum like a dragon.

Behind these thousands of young and strong Red Spearmen, there is an auxiliary camp composed of young and strong villagers and refugees, as many as five or six thousand, and there are even more women and teenagers accompanying the camp, most of whom are refugees hungry people.

They are full of enthusiasm for this attack.

Although many of them carried shoulder poles, hoes, and the like, and did not even have a wooden gun, hunger forced them to go with them.

Take Heilouzhai, and everyone will share food.

Fifty miles.

The team walked for a day and a night.

Near the foot of Mangdang Mountain, I also deliberately spent the night to rest.

After dawn the next day, he rushed to Heilouzhai.

Although the action was not secret enough, for Zhao Zhongyi, he did not intend to make a surprise attack this time, because according to intelligence, the location of Heilouzhai was relatively dangerous, and the defense was relatively tight, making it difficult to sneak attack.

You can only attack by force, so there is no need to sneak around.

People and horses arrived one after another.

The battle battalion first surrounded Heilouzhai, the auxiliary battalion retreated in four directions and set up camp, and the accompanying battalion stayed in the camp last night to stand by.

Zhao Zhongyi came a stone's throw away on horseback, and looked at the Heilou Village. At this time, the Heilou Village already knew that someone was coming, so it was full of people and was on guard with all its strength.

Seeing someone coming on a horse, someone shouted at the gate of the village.

The village owner knew that it was from the Yongcheng Red Gun Club, but he didn't know that Zhao Zhongyi had changed his name to Xu Zhongyi, became the adopted son of the Henan admiral, and was also promoted to the right battalion guerrilla, so he only thought he was here to eat gangsters.

He took the initiative to bow his head, saying that the brothers in the stockade had eyes that could not see Mount Tai, and had intercepted the goods of the brothers of the Red Spear Society, but at that time they did not succeed in robbing, and instead suffered some losses, but they were wronged first, so now they are willing to make amends Apologize, send 500 shi grains and [-] taels of silver, hoping to resolve the conflict.

For this condition, Zhao Zhongyi sneered a few times.

The Red Spear Club had conflicts with Heilouzhai before, but it was only a trivial matter, and they didn't suffer any losses. This time, they didn't come here for revenge, it was purely Xu Dingguo's task.

Zhao Zhongyi stood there, shouting the name of the village owner Zhao Heihu directly to the village.

"Master Zhao, you and I don't offend each other, but since you insist on making trouble, I, Xu Zhongyi, am not a soft persimmon to be pinched."

"Besides, the suppression of Heilouzhai this time is also based on the military order of Henan Admiral Xu Junmen."

"I miss you, I am also a local neighbor, and I will give you a chance. If you open the door and surrender now, I am willing to recommend a thousand bosses to the Zhao family,"

The village was silent.

Then a person was hanged down, holding a white flag and came to Zhao Zhongyi.

First, send 500 taels of silver.

Zhao Zhongyi directly handed over Xu Dingguo's encirclement order to take back, and told Zhao Heihu that he is not here as a senior brother of the Red Spear Society, but as a guerrilla from the Henan Admiral Biaoying Youying.

Fatty Wang even threatened that person directly, "General Xu is deeply appreciated by Xu Junmen, and he was accepted as a foster son by the army. He has a bright future. If you know good and bad, you should surrender quickly, and then you can give Zhao Heihu a position as a battalion officer." , otherwise, break through the stockade and leave no one behind!"

The man hurried back to the gate of the village and asked his superiors to hang him up.

After meeting, he handed over the military order to Zhao Heihu, and relayed the original words.

Zhao Heihu fell into deep thought.

This man was originally a small landlord, with a hundred acres of land in his family, and he also did some business. When he was young, he even studied, but he failed in the examination, so he dropped out of school and devoted himself to business. From selling pears to selling salt, he has been in the world for many years. , Take the slant of the sword, take the risk, but also earn a good fortune, and also win some reputation in the world.

It's just that the world is too chaotic later, without a strong backing, he will become a fat sheep in the eyes of others, and he has no choice but to kill officials and rebel, and become a bandit.

Some brothers took over the mountain and became kings, established Heilouzhai, and attracted many refugees to occupy one side. They not only cultivated the fields, but also looted houses everywhere. Anyway, in the troubled times, everything is just for survival.

There is nothing good or bad to talk about. He also helped victims of disasters, but he also killed innocent people.

Facing this army surrounded by mountains and plains and that military order, Zhao Heihu was both angry and frightened.

Despite the fact that Heilouzhai is known as thousands of people, in fact, the real core people are his three hundred thieves, and the rest are more than a thousand thieves, young and old.The rest, who are said to be tens of thousands, are actually recruited refugees. They are resettled around the Heilou Village, farmed and cultivated, and occasionally brought out to build momentum and move things.

Most of the time, they planted land and reclaimed wasteland under their protection, and paid rent to Heilouzhai after harvesting, which was equivalent to their tenants.

Usually, the three hundred thieves are already very powerful, they come and go like the wind, appear and disappear like ghosts, and ordinary people really can't control them.

But now, there are so many people coming from the Red Gun Club, especially the official status of the other party.

Even if this Xu Zhongyi was defeated, Xu Dingguo might still come.

But he was absolutely unwilling to surrender.

"Stay safe first!"

Outside the village, Zhao Zhongyi, who didn't get a response, wasn't too disappointed.

"How to fight this village?"

In fact, Zhao Zhongyi had never commanded so many people. At first he was just a tenant in Huangtian Port outside Jiangyin City. Later, he raised the banner of loyalty and went to Jiangyin to join the army. In front of the city, he was just a deputy sentinel.

To assist the sentinel, he managed only eight teams.

Now there are more than 1 people, which is really a big scene.

In the face of Fatty Wang's question, Zhao Zhongyi did not show any timidity. After all, although he was only a post officer, he has experienced more than a dozen battles from the township regiment to the provincial camp, and then to the imperial camp.

"First let go of one side and don't encircle it, encircle three and miss one, leave them a road behind the mountain, let them escape, and disintegrate their fighting spirit."

"Feint attack from left and right sides, storm the main gate, call in artillery, blunderbuss and archers, suppress the defenders on the wall with firepower, transform the shelf car into a shield car, cover and approach the gate, then dig a hole under the gate, put the gunpowder barrel under it and blast it , Blast open the gate!"

The fighting style Zhao Zhongyi said was actually used by the army when he participated in the battle before, and it was quite satisfactory when dealing with an earthen village.

Fatty Wang was also from the old Ming army, and he gave a thumbs up when he heard it. This arrangement is indeed in place.

The order is passed down, and the ministries carry it out.

Heilouzhai did not expect that the Red Spear Society would have cannons. Although it is mainly a tiger squat, plus a few small Frang machines, but no matter how small the cannon is, he is still a cannon, not to mention that Xu Dingguo even transferred the newly adopted son. Thirty nine-headed bird guns.

This big gun is also equivalent to a small cannon.

A dozen small cannons, 100 large blunderbusses, and more than [-] shotguns, plus archers, knocked out the gate of the village with a volley.

Heilouzhai is more famous because of their thieves team of 300 people. Who would have thought that there would be guns?

On the other side, a shield was set up on the car to support the front, covering the soldiers rushing to the door, digging violently with a hoe, iron shovel and pick, and quickly dug a few blast holes, stuffed the powder barrels in, and then dealt with them quickly , an improvised blasting chamber is completed.

Fire up, back off.

hidden.

The people on the walled city were so suppressed that they didn't look up, and they couldn't even stop them. They watched them wave their hoes, and then quickly turned around and ran away.

The next moment, there were loud bangs and thick smoke.

Dusty.

Half of the gate of the village was blown away.

There is a big gap in the gate of the stockade, like a mouth that has lost its front teeth.

When they were in the fortress, someone shouted in panic, "The head of the family was killed by the bomb,"

"Run!"

Zhao Heihu was a bit unlucky. His gate was quite large. When he went down the mountain to rob, he even brought back a pair of stone lions from a big family's gate and placed them at the gate.

It's very majestic.

But the explosion just now knocked the stone lion away, and the stone lion's teeth shattered, just hitting Zhao Heihu's head, punching a hole in the iron helmet, and then headshot him.

One hit kill.

The gate of the village was blasted open, Zhao Heihu died, and the rest of the thieves had no fighting spirit, so they scattered.

All the people in the village ran to the back mountain, only there was no siege.

Before the gunpowder smoke cleared, Zhao Zhongyi had already led his horse into the village!
Fatty Wang was stunned behind, and sighed to his confidants, "Damn it, my little brother is really fierce."

"My lord, hurry up and go in, all the good things will be robbed if you go late." The servant reminded.

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Heilouzhai didn't resist much.

This is due to the encirclement and lack of one in advance.

When Zhao Heihu died, his morale collapsed and they fled separately.

This allowed the Red Spear Society to easily seize this dangerous village, but those who escaped did not escape far, even those thieves with horses did not escape very far, and there were intercepting teams everywhere outside. Layer after layer.

The Daqiu auxiliary camp led by Chen Twelve intercepted more than a dozen of them. These thieves are usually very powerful, but at this time they are like dogs in mourning.

Chen Twelve led the team to overturn a few javelins.

Then the rest were surrounded by spears, and finally had to dismount and surrender.

They cut off the head of the murdered thieves, snatched everything from him, even the dead horse, and divided them up on the spot. Everyone laughed and skinned the dead horses , and then divide the meat into small piles, one for each person.

The person who got the meat was very happy and hung the meat directly on his body.

Several captives who surrendered were also unceremoniously knocked down to the ground, and their bodies were stripped clean. Not only their knives and guns were taken away, but their clothes and shoes were also robbed, leaving only a pair of shorts, which were then tied up .

The horses were also led by them excitedly.

Some people grinned and grinned, and even couldn't wait to grab the horse meat that had just been distributed, and grabbed it in their hands, biting it and swallowing it raw.

The two brothers, Ah Fu and Ah Gui, moved swiftly, and each got a knife in the crowd, and Ah Fu even snatched a helmet, "Brother, this iron helmet is for you!"

"Brother, you wear it yourself, I'll grab another one in a while!"

Chen Twelve handed a leather helmet to Agui, "You wear this leather helmet first."

"Uncle, I paid several big horses, now you can ride big horses too."

Chen Twelve was also very excited, "Don't let your guard down, keep guarding, don't let anyone escape from us!"

(End of this chapter)