Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 80 Night Fire
Pulling people's heads to build momentum, so as to use this as a capital to increase their status in the Northern Dynasty, and to get a high-ranking official with a generous salary, Xu Min's calculations are very smart.And Boss Zhao got Xu Min's promise, and he was also very positive.

In his heart, he had long regarded the people of the Xu family camp as his capital, even if he had the name of the Xu family, as long as he held a knife and gun in troubled times, it was his own.With the name of the Xu family, not only can he successfully cleanse himself from being a bandit, but he can also immediately transform into an officer or even a general of the new dynasty. Why not?

How many people he can recruit will determine whether he will be a garrison, a capital, or a guerrilla general in the new dynasty, so Boss Zhao is also very concerned, and arranges his confidantes to go to the surrounding areas to recruit rogues, hooligans, and ruffians to come to join in the big event and give them good wine The good meat was entertained, and the money was distributed, and then the old brothers took these rascals to various villages to recruit strong men.

Three thousand is too little, and five thousand is not much. It would be more satisfying if it could be worth ten thousand.

Early in the morning, a recruiting flag was set up in front of the lakeside Xu Garden on the outskirts of Ganpu City. Boss Zhao ordered people to kill pigs and sheep. A long line of large iron pots was set up in front of the camp to boil water and stew meat, and the fragrance wafted ten miles away.

A large apricot-yellow flag was erected high, with the words recruiting soldiers written on it.

A few rogue teenagers stood under the banner and yelled loudly.

"Xu Family Camp is recruiting soldiers. Bo Yuntian, leader of the Zhao Camp, as long as he is selected, he will be given half a tael of silver and three dou of food every month, and he will be exempted from corvee service. If one person serves as a soldier, the whole family will benefit!"

"When you enter the camp, you will be given one or two taels of silver. It's a rare opportunity, so don't miss it."

"Sign up quickly, you won't have a chance if you're late."

Boss Zhao is also a talent, and he specially sent someone to invite an opera troupe to set up a wooden stage and start singing. The singing is still the kind of sex, with frivolous clothes and frivolous opera words, which is difficult to be elegant. This little play is the most popular among the common people in the countryside. As soon as the play started, people from far and near came to watch the excitement.

There are also many small businessmen who also heard the news, set up small stalls, hawked and hawked, hoping to take the opportunity to earn two small money to support their families.

For a while, the front of the barracks at the gate of Xu Garden was bustling like a temple fair.

"Master, let's sign up!"

A few brawny men opened their skirts, rolled up their sleeves to reveal two colorful arms, with various tigers, leopards, wolves, and bears tattooed on them. Coupled with their thick build and slightly ferocious faces, it made some rogue boys under their banner look a little bit fear.

A slightly older rascal boldly stepped forward, "Which way are you brothers on?"

The head of several strong men with flowery arms grinned, but it was even more ferocious, "We are originally from Nanzhi, and we boiled salt in the Lianghuai Salt Field."

The rascal looked at them like this, and thought that there is no such thing as salt for boiling salt, and it is true that they are selling smuggled salt in Lianghuai.

Immediately said, "Brothers, wait a moment, I'll go and call our boss." This rascal is only a half-year-old boy, he used to hang out at Haiyan Wharf, and his boss is a salt smuggler.

Haiyan County is famous for its rich sea salt, which is as white as snow. It was very famous from the pre-Qin period to the Han Dynasty. Even in the Ming Dynasty, it was also a famous salt field in western Zhejiang.There are [-] salt fields in West Zhejiang Salt Division, and Haiyan County has three of them.

Centered on Ganpu is the Baolang Salt Field, including Liuliyan and Changchuanba.To the north of Zhapu is the Luli Field, and from Ganpu to the southwest of Zhapu is the Sea Sand Field.

The three major salt farms in Haiyan County belong to the official salt farms and have a large number of salt kitchen households. They obtain licenses to cook sea salt and sell the salt they produce to government salt warehouses.

However, because sea salt has been an excellent salt farm for thousands of years, there are so many private salt farms here, and illegal salt sales are naturally prohibited. There are illegal salt smuggling everywhere, and salt dealers have become the biggest influence on the road here.

With the three major official salt farms as the center, dozens of private salt dealers, large and small, were divided.

The pirates in the southeast sea dare not easily provoke these private salt dealers.

Although the rogue boy is young, he has been hanging out in Haiyan County all year round, but he is very alert and is very familiar with the various salt gangs in the county, which is why he was arranged here.

Seeing that these big men were very unfamiliar, he immediately ran to report.

After a while, some flowers came out.

As soon as the visitors met, they first reported a few words on the road, which were some secret codes and slang words among private salt dealers, so as to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings.

The head of the strong man with the winged tiger tattooed on his arm is Zhang Mingyang. Although he has never been a private salt dealer, his family is a hereditary official household in Nanjing Jinyi. In Beijing, the Salt Gang and the Cao Gang and the Caravan Gang are well-informed. They even joined the Yangzhou Salt Gang and the Xuzhou Cao Gang for a period of time.

His elder brother later made a fortune in Beijing and became a wealthy businessman. He used to help manage the business, and later joined the army with his elder brother, with rich experience.

Facing private salt dealers in several small counties in western Zhejiang, a few words shocked them.

"I don't know why the seniors came to Haiyan, but if there is any difficulty, my brother is willing to help out with some money." The salt seller with the two-headed wolf tattooed on his arm did not dare to take it.

"We used to hang out at the Yangzhou wharf and often ran on the Yangtze River. Now the situation is turbulent. Yangzhou has been slaughtered into a ghost town. The Yangtze River is also under strict investigation. Our brothers are also in trouble. We have been running south. Now I heard that We are recruiting people here, so we plan to come here to do something.”

What Zhang Mingyang said was straightforward, he just came to join the group.

"Senior, why don't you follow me to meet our Boss Zhao?"

"can."

After seeing Zhang Mingyang and his group, Boss Zhao was more cautious. He tried his best and tested his words a few times. Finally, based on his experience in the world, he believed that these people should indeed be on the right track, and they should have no evil intentions. They are in trouble now. , Come to seek refuge in the gang.

After confirming it, Boss Zhao was very excited. He is now recruiting everywhere, whether you are a hooligan or a beggar or a thief, but good and bad people are mixed, and there are not many real ruthless characters.

After all, he used to be a mediocre guy. Although he has rich experience in the world, he was beaten by his rival salt dealers and fled into the mountains and grass. There is nothing to praise. Now he has created such a Xu family camp under the name of the Xu family. People like the fourth child act as helpers.

"On the rivers and lakes, since the brothers intend to join the gang, then we will not be brothers but brothers in the future. From now on, we will share the blessings and share the difficulties."

Zhang Mingyang was not polite, and asked directly, saying that when he was in Yangzhou, he was also famous on the road. Now that he is here, he wonders if he can take care of a battalion of people.

"No problem, Brother Zhang will bring your brothers here to recruit people. If you can recruit 500 people, you can take care of [-] people. If you can recruit [-] people, you can take care of [-] people. I will recruit some old brothers over here." How about help?"

"Of course it's fine."

Boss Zhao directly took 100 taels of silver to Zhang Mingyang, and then said to him, "Brother, don't think it's too little, keep it first, and then we will eat delicious and spicy food together, eat big pieces of meat and divide the money. You recruit people first, I promised to give one tael of silver to settle down, five taels of silver per month plus three buckets of grain, but if someone recruits, I will give five taels of silver first, and owe the rest first.”

"An Jiayin is also in arrears?" Zhang Mingyang asked.

"You can't feed too much. Raising soldiers is like raising dogs. If you feed too much, you won't be able to control them. Of course, we are brothers, and the benefits will not be lost to you. If you recruit a soldier, I will give you another coin. "

Zhang Mingyang laughed a few times, this guy is really too much.

Holding a few ingots of silver ingots in his arms, Zhang Mingyang pretended to thank him. As soon as Boss Zhao and the others left, Zhang Mingyang winked at Ruan Qi and began to act according to the plan.

It was smoother than expected. Not only did they successfully join the group, but they were able to deceive Boss Zhao into trusting them, allowing them to start their own business directly. This time it was even smoother.

As soon as the flag was erected, the next step was to call for recruits. According to the plan, officers and soldiers from the Banner Bearer Battalion disguised themselves as rogues, gangsters, salt farmers, pirates, and other identities, and came in twos and threes to recruit soldiers.

He quickly recruited more than 200 people, and then went to Boss Zhao, hoping to get some weapons.

As a result, Boss Zhao was surprised that he recruited so quickly, but he was also very excited. He gave more than 100 taels of An Jiayin as agreed, and gave Zhang Mingyang more than 20 taels of commission, and then only drew a dozen pairs of knives and guns for weapons, "These are for you first. Trustworthy brothers, pick some strong and honest servants to serve as your servants, and equip them first. As for the others, find some wooden sticks and sharpened bamboo poles to use as spears first.”

Zhang Mingyang thanked him with a smile, took the things back, and asked the brothers to arm themselves. Their weapons were all hidden nearby, except for some short knives and other weapons secretly hidden on their bodies.

In the afternoon, many people came one after another, but they were the team that had gone to the countryside to recruit young men.

Zhang Mingyang saw many familiar faces among the newly recruited young men, and even saw Yang Boxing. They all pretended to be honest country farmers to recruit young men.

Looking at the lively scene, Ruan Qi sneered, "Everything went as planned, even smoother than expected."

"Well, then tonight will follow the plan."

Xujiaying's recruiting plan went smoothly. The stage was set up, the meat show was sung, the money was put out, the meat was stewed in a cauldron, and countless people came to join the army.

Many young and strong people in the countryside were forced to recruit strong men. In one day, the Xujiaying quickly expanded from a thousand people to more than 3000 people, and Zhao Boss planned to sing on stage for a few more days, at least to expand to 8000 people.

By the time it got dark, Zhang Mingyang had already recruited 800 people and set up his own battalion.

When it was dark, his battalion head was as noisy and chaotic as the other battalions, but under the superficial chaos, the battalion was already loosening up outside and tightening inside, quietly preparing for battle.

More than ten people came to Zhang Mingyang's tent quietly in the dark.

Yang Boxing, Ruan Qi and others arrived one after another.

"Then Boss Zhao is eating and drinking with a group of rascals under his command. He will probably drink all night." Zhang Mingyang sat down. He also went to drink together just now, and found an excuse to come back.

Several people quickly summed up. At this time, the Banner Bearer Battalion has taken advantage of the opportunity of recruiting and recruiting strong men, and more than 1000 people have entered. The most recruits are among those strong men.

"His Royal Highness has brought the rest of the troops to the vicinity, and they can kill them only if there is chaos here."

Zhang Mingyang nodded excitedly. The battle plan this time was drafted by Jian Guo himself, in order to disintegrate this bandit army as quickly as possible, and resolve the battle as quickly as possible with the fewest casualties.

So in the end, it was not a direct attack, but a method of internal and external cooperation to deal with these bandits.

This kind of tactic would definitely not work against regular enemy forces, but it could be said to be the best for dealing with this kind of mob.

Under the night, the Xu Garden was singing and dancing, while the barracks outside the manor was like an open-air dance, with tents and shacks everywhere, and even most of the newly recruited people sat on the ground.

They were chatting there in groups of three or five, seven or eight.

It wasn't until the middle of the night that the camp slowly quieted down.

Suddenly, a firework rose above the camp and exploded in the air, filling the sky with brilliant lights.

Immediately afterwards, countless shouts of killing broke out, breaking the silence of the night.

One by one, Zhang Mingyang, Ruan Qi, Yang Boxing and other officers of the Bannerman Battalion shouted and launched a surprise attack. After Zhu Yihai saw the fireworks signal in the sky not far away, he raised his gun and led his troops forward.

Camp bombs.

Boss Zhao and the leaders of the Xu family camp were mostly drunk, but today they attracted too many scoundrels and recruited too many strong men, causing the camp to be very chaotic.

Especially when Zhang Mingyang and the others launched a surprise attack from the camp, it caused the camp to collapse into complete chaos.

No one in Xujiaying knew what happened. They didn't know who called, where they came from, or how many people came.

In the chaos, the drunk boss Zhao was still shaking his head and failed to wake up, so Zhang Mingyang who rushed to him chopped off his head with a knife.

Several cronies and thieves under his command were also hacked down by a mess of knives.

The battalion bombed.

The newly recruited men were running around in a panic, like headless chickens, while the Bannerman Battalion was purposefully separating the camps as planned, creating chaos, without giving the slightest chance to react.

When Zhu Yihai arrived from the outside, the sky over Xu Yuan was already illuminated by fire.

After Zhang Mingyang raided Boss Zhao's old tent and took out a group of leaders, he didn't pay much attention to the chaotic recruits, but took advantage of the situation and rushed straight to the nearby Xu Family Manor.

Xu Min thought that by raising more than a thousand rogues as watchdogs, Xu's manor would be safe and secure.

Unexpectedly, the Xu Family Camp collapsed instantly tonight, and the Banner Bearer Camp entered Xu Garden in an instant.

Yang Boxing led the guard team directly over the wall and jumped into the manor, chopped down the gatekeepers, opened the gate, and let in the soldiers of the standard-bearer battalion. The entire Xu Garden was quickly captured.

Xu Min was still sleeping soundly on the young concubine's bed, and was dragged out like a dead dog, without even having time to put on a piece of clothing.

Chaos continued all night.

At dawn, the entire Xu Garden was completely occupied and controlled by the Bannerman Battalion, including the Xu Family Camp outside. The continued chaos after last night was actually the Bannerman Battalion intercepting and gathering these panicked defeated soldiers.

As the sun gradually rose, Xu Yuan regained its tranquility.

Xu Papi and his Xu Family Camp are already a thing of the past!
(End of this chapter)