Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 93 Salt Gang
  "Then let the others go out. Only you will know!" Jia Qiang hesitated for a moment, then looked at Lin Ruhai. When Lin Ruhai nodded, he said in a deep voice.

General Luo Wu waved his hand and all the soldiers in the big tent left. Only General Luo Wu, Lin Ruhai, Zhang Zhizhou and Jia Qiang remained in the Chinese army tent.

"It seems that Mr. Zhang also knows this identity!" General Luo Wu said in surprise when he saw that Zhang Zhizhou didn't have any surprised expression.

Jia Qiang opened his visor, revealing his delicate and tender face.

General Luo Wu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw his face, and then he couldn't believe it.

"How old are you? How can you have such force?" he asked repeatedly.

"Student Jia Qiang, she will be fifteen years old after the Chinese New Year!" Jia Qiang introduced herself with a smile.

Jia Qiang's age made General Luo Wu feel like he had lived on a dog's body.

When Jia Qiang pulled up her mask again, five hundred households from Yanding, seven captains and one captain of the city guard, and four officers from the Yangzhou camp all arrived at the Chinese army's tent.

A map was hung in the middle of the Chinese army's tent. General Luo Wu had recovered from the previous blow. He was the commander of this operation.

This kind of military operation was naturally directed by General Luo Wu as a general, and Lin Ruhai and Zhang Zhizhou cooperated with him.

"Everyone, this place is called Ailing Lake. This peninsula on the shore of Ailing Lake. After this period of intelligence collection, the new entrance of the Salt Gang is here." General Luo Wu introduced in a deep voice while looking at everyone present. road.

Jia Qiang looked at the map and couldn't help but frown. This peninsula was surrounded by water on three sides, and the Salt Gang all made a living in the water. If they really wanted to escape from the water, it would be difficult to stop them.

He was thinking about the contents of the "Book of Military Acting" and how he should deploy these three groups of troops to encircle and suppress the Salt Gang if he commanded them. He also listened to General Luo Wu's next words.

'This time the Yangzhou Camp will dispatch fifteen clippers, each with a hundred archers on board, and the Yangzhou Camp's navy will block the water on the peninsula from three sides. General Luo Wu said while pointing to three places on the map.

Lin Ruhai and Zhang Zhizhou nodded. It seemed that Yangzhou Camp was trying its best to help.

There are 1,500 archers, and even the Yangzhou camp should have more than half of them.

It is difficult to train archers. The main reason is that archers need to be extremely physically fit and have a certain amount of archery talent, which is very difficult to select.

Archers are not a type of soldier that is unable to fight back when approached. Their strong physical fitness makes archers a powerful force even in close combat.

So many archers blocked three water surfaces, almost guaranteeing that the Salt Gang would be cut off from escaping from the water. Under the blockade of archers, if anyone from the Salt Gang really wanted to leave the water, they would have to pay a heavy price.

"On land, I was a little worried at first. It's not that I look down on the Salt Guards and the City Guards. The training volume of the Salt Guards is very small. The training of the City Guards is for handling affairs in the city. It is difficult to ensure combat effectiveness in large-scale frontal battles." General Luo Wu ignored the ugly looks on Yanding and the hundred households and captains of the city guard, and said in a deep voice.

As a regular army and an elite member of the regular army, how could he regard the Salt Guards and the City Guards? The little combat power of the Salt Guards and the City Guards was even more unbearable in his eyes.

"But considering that with the help of experts, no matter how weak the salt gang and the city guards are, they can still sweep away the salt gang members on the shore!" General Luo Wu glanced at Jia Qiang again and said.

The five hundred households in Yanding also looked at Jia Qiang with awe.

Even the city guards who had never seen Jia Qiang take action did not dare to underestimate Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang used more than a thousand lives to show everyone how powerful she was. No one dared to underestimate the existence of Thousand Man Killer.

Next, General Luo Wu detailed the action to each centurion, how to advance on the shore, when and where to arrive, and even the weapons that needed to be equipped.

Jia Qiang also compared it with her own thoughts and found that General Luo Wu's arrangement was very rigorous and could be said to be an extremely conservative arrangement.

But this is normal. If too many saltmen and city guards die, even if the salt gang is wiped out, there will be a lot of trouble afterwards.

Yanding and the city guards are both locals, and each has his own family behind him.

"Master Lin's guard, you keep advancing slowly in parallel with the rest of the team in the middle, and you will shoot the masters of the Salt Gang!" General Luo Wu finally confessed to Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang nodded. General Luo Wu might have underestimated his archery skills.

"How many gang members are there at the new headquarters of the Salt Gang?" Lin Ruhai interjected and asked.

What he knew was the previous information, and he needed to know the latest news.

"Since the Chinese New Year is about to come, the Salt Gang has called back the gang members to hold an incense hall. The latest information obtained shows that there are more than 3,200 people!" General Luo Wu reached out to the guard on the side and asked for the latest information. He glanced at it and answered. road.

"Once this operation is successful, the Salt Gang will become history!" Zhang Zhizhou said happily.

This is where he has the deepest enmity with the Salt Gang. If the Salt Gang is not eliminated, his son Zhang Ximing will never leave home in the future, and his status in Yangzhou will be greatly affected.

His own son was kidnapped. Although he was rescued, everyone knew that the young master who dared to kidnap Zhizhou definitely had powerful help behind him.

If the Yan Gang is not eliminated, others will think that he is incapable of revenge. At the same time, he needs to be vigilant at all times for his own safety.

"Is there anything you still don't understand?" General Luo Wu looked at the people in the Chinese army tent and asked in a deep voice.

"I need three thousand two hundred arrows!" Just as everyone was about to leave, Jia Qiang suddenly said.

General Luo Wu and everyone in the tent were startled. With 3,200 arrows and more than 3,200 members of the Salt Gang, Jia Qiang's meaning was obvious.

Lin Ruhai wanted to persuade, but considering that this was outside and Jia Qiang didn't want to reveal her identity, he suppressed and said nothing.

But the worry in his heart has deepened. Jia Qiang's murderous intention is getting stronger and stronger, and now she doesn't care about 3,200 lives.

It was not that he thought the members of the Salt Gang should not be killed, but Jia Qiang's attitude. Jia Qiang planned to kill 3,200 lives personally.

"I will order someone to get 3,200 fine arrows and put them in a carriage and follow you for your use!" General Luo Wu replied in a deep voice.

It’s just three thousand two hundred arrows, it’s nothing.

It's just that Jia Qiang's arrow consumption has been a bit high recently, and it's hard to replenish it in Yangzhou. Anyway, this operation is a joint operation of three parties, and he can't shoot the arrows by himself.

In addition, the arrows shot on the battlefield cannot just come out of the pot of arrows.

After everything was arranged, the three parties acted at the same time. First, the navy ship from Yangzhou Camp sent Yanding and the city guards to Yiling Town near Ailing Lake.

Yanding and the city guards did not enter the town, but pushed outside the town towards the peninsula.

At this time, even if there were spies from the Salt Gang in Yiling Town, they would not be able to pass on the news.

The peninsula passes from Yiling Town, and the land has only one direction. It is blocked and advanced by Yanding and the city guards. On the water, the fifteen Navy clippers not only blocked the water, they also controlled all the ships sailing on Lake Ailing.

The navy's clippers plus hundreds of archers on each ship made it impossible for any ship that was discovered to escape.

Many of these ships have a close relationship with the Salt Gang, and they usually serve as the Salt Gang's eyesight.

Under normal circumstances, such an eyeliner would be extremely effective. Any attempt to raid the Salt Gang from the water would be discovered in advance.

But in the face of the cleanup by Daqian's regular navy, these informants can't play any role.

For those who dare to resist, the archers from Yangzhou Camp will show them how powerful they are.

By the time Yanding and the city guards advanced close to the entrance of Yanbang Hall, fifteen fast boats on the water had already dealt with the situation on Ailing Lake and prepared a blockade.

Lin Ruhai and Zhang Zhizhou marched with the team. Originally, they did not need to be on the front line.

However, Lin Ruhai and Zhang Zhizhou both trusted Jia Qiang and believed that there would be no danger if they stayed with Jia Qiang.

It was noon now, the wind and snow had stopped long ago, and everything was white.

Under this weather, the members of the Yan Gang would be seeking death if they really entered the water. Without a boat, breaking out from the land was the only option.

Without Jia Qiang's presence, General Luo Wu would have sent an extra regular army to join the land battle.

However, increasing the mobilization of the army will bring trouble to General Luo Wu. He mobilized 1,500 archers this time, which is already the limit of his cooperation with the Yangzhou Prefecture and the Yanyun Envoy Yamen. Such actions have risks. The rule of thumb is not to send as many troops as you want.

If the Yangzhou camp sends troops to participate in land battles, it will reduce the number of arrangements on the water.

Jia Qiang stood on the shaft of the carriage. There was another carriage behind him. The carriage was equipped with arrows. Four coachmen drove the carriage and were also responsible for providing him with arrows.

Next to his carriage were the sedans of Lin Ruhai and Zhang Zhizhou. They chose the sedan to make it easier to follow Jia Qiang closely.

Without pursuing speed, bearers can be commanded more easily than horses and will not make any mistakes.

A scout horse in front waved the flag in his hand, and all the fifteen hundred people from Yanding and the city guards stopped.

"Be careful!" Lin Ruhai opened the sedan curtain and said with concern.

"This is a bunch of rabble!" Jia Qiang said with a smile and waved her hand.

He was wearing armor, and as long as it wasn't an armor-piercing crossbow, an artillery piece, or a super powerful master, ordinary Salt Gang members wouldn't be able to break through the armor's defense.

He signaled to the four coachmen driving the two carriages. The four coachmen hesitated slightly, but the order they received was to obey him in everything.

The two carriages moved forward, while 1,500 salt soldiers and city guards took out their shields and used them with simple spears to form a defense across the peninsula.

The plan formulated by General Luo Wu initially considered letting Yanding and the city guards charge.

If it weren't for Jia Qiang, a warrior-level archer, this might have been the arrangement.

But if the salt men and the city guards were to charge forward, many members of the salt gang would take advantage of the chaos and escape.

Ordinary members of the Salt Gang would just run away, but if a senior member of the Salt Gang really escapes, the Salt Gang is likely to revive.

In the end, it was decided that Jia Qiang would attack the entrance of the Salt Gang, causing chaos within the Salt Gang. It would be difficult for the members of the Salt Gang without any fighting power to survive if they tried to attack the defense line of 1,500 sergeants. This can also maximize Possible kill salt gang to help the public.

Jia Qiang's mission is to find the masters among them and shoot them to ensure that no masters can break through the sergeant's defense line on land.

But when it came to execution, no one expected that Jia Qiang would lead two carriages of arrows towards the entrance of the Salt Gang.

Jia Qiang concentrated her eyes and searched for possible hidden posts.

However, after advancing for more than a hundred meters, he did not find any hidden hills, which made him a little puzzled.

Shouldn't this kind of hall be set up with open and hidden posts outside to form a comprehensive monitoring system, and if any abnormalities are found, a warning will be issued in a timely manner?

Why is it that the entrance of the Salt Gang seems to have no decorations and no defense at all.

In fact, light and dark posts should have been arranged originally, but the problem is that it is too cold outside. This kind of weather is extremely cold for Yangzhou. In addition, it is almost the Chinese New Year, and there are three thousand people in the hall. There were two hundred gang members, and no one in the Salt Gang believed that anyone would come looking for him at this time.

Finally, behind a small forest, he saw a large square and many buildings on the other side of the square.

Dozens of adobe houses surround the tall building in the middle. The surrounding adobe houses are the residences of the main members of the Salt Gang. After all, the Salt Gang is a gang composed of private salt dealers. They often have to change gangs, and their residences are not exquisite.

Only Juyitang, which represents face, would be more demanding.

Even so, the Juyi Hall here was originally a Taoist temple. Once the government discovered this place, it would immediately change its location.

The Salt Gang was able to survive because they were good at evading.

Had he not offended Zhang Zhizhou severely this time, Zhang Zhizhou would not have risked his own face and invited the Salt Transport Envoy Yamen to work with Yangzhou Camp to annihilate the Salt Gang.

Zhang Zhizhou sacrificed a lot of favors and sacrifices for this joint operation.

The two carriages passed through the forest road and arrived at the square. There were dozens of fires in the square, and a group of people surrounded each fire.

"Sir, we are too close!" the driver warned in a trembling voice.

"Remember to give the arrow to me in time!" Jia Qiang ignored the coachman's fear and confessed in a deep voice.

He held a treasured bow in his left hand and grabbed a handful of arrows from the carriage with his right hand. He placed one of the arrows on the bow string with deft fingers and drew the bow to shoot without any hesitation.

The arrow hit the person closest to him, then passed through that person's body, passed through the fire, and knocked down the person on the opposite side. The arrow then shot through another person next to the fire in the same row behind, and passed through again. Killed one person over the fire.

"Enemy attack!" The two gang members who were warming themselves by the fire suddenly found their companions falling down and saw the fire exploded.

When they screamed, Jia Qiang had already shot seven arrows.

(End of this chapter)