Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 625

"Did Chito and the other officers catch him?"

"Liu Qianhu has already been arrested, and most of the officers were killed. Few of them survived."

"Has anyone escaped?"

"No one escaped."

"Okay, go and bring all the officials up!"

There are more than 20 military officers in the city, from Xiaoqi and above, Baihu, Shibaihu, and those who have no official titles but have specific positions. More than half of them were killed in the riots before the city was broken.Only a dozen or so people were brought before Wei Aiwen.

One by one, their hands were tied behind their backs, their hair was in a disheveled bun, and some of them were still bleeding.All of them were panting heavily, as if they were still in shock.

"Which one is Liu Qianhu?"

Just as Wei Aiwen asked a question, the thousand households roared loudly: "Rebels!!! Rebels!!! The court will punish you sooner or later!!! Rebels!!!"

Wei Aiwen knew a little military dialect, heard his scolding, frowned, and asked, "Is this Liu Qianhu?"

Lin Fu said: "It's him. There are several soldiers around this dog. They have saved his life by protecting him with all their might."

"Did the soldiers catch him alive?"

"There is one, a half-grown child, who was stabbed and scolded endlessly. If we hadn't snatched him down, he would have been killed by the military household." Lin Fu asked, "Do you want to spare his life..."

"Of course I have to stay. I forgot the three major disciplines and the eight precautions!" Wei Aiwen said dissatisfiedly, "Show the health worker, and save him if he can. He is just a small soldier. How much crime can he have?"

Lin Fu quickly responded, "Yes."

Wei Aiwen glanced at Qianhu who was arrested.Not immediately.Ask: "How are the military households?"

"For the first few, I will place them in the Martial Arts Hall, and the rest of the younger ones are waiting in front of the Martial Arts Hall." Lin Fu said, "Do you want to call them here?"

"Okay, you call the leader here." Wei Aiwen made up his mind.

The two leading military households were called, and when they saw Wei Aiwen standing in the middle of the crowd, they knew that he was a senior official among the thieves, so they quickly knelt down.

"Get up, we don't like this." Wei Aiwen said in military terms, "What's your name?"

One of the two military households is Hao Guoxin and the other is Cui Zheng. They are both in their thirties.After Wei Aiwen asked, he knew that Hao Guoxin was a blacksmith here, and Cui Zheng was a horse breeder.

Wei Aiwen chatted with them casually, and knew that they were all children of military households born and raised in the local area.Because of Zhenli's relationship here, the guards are relatively well-equipped, and the young men also practice from time to time.Not only are there complete weapons and armor, but also some horses and mules.

Wei Aiwen knew from the conversation that they hated this group of "masters" very much.The hereditary officers and military households in the guards were originally robes, and gradually became the relationship between landlords and serfs. In theory, the official land in the guards belonged to the state, and it was cultivated by the guards as food, but in fact, almost all the harvest was for the officers. If they take it, ordinary military households can only get a small amount to survive.The military households are not only the state serfs, but also the slaves of the military officers. They have been used as slaves without pay for generations.Not to mention being poor, he was often tortured and killed by military officers.

Wei Aiwen knew these things long ago. After he entered the city, he saw military households killing and raping the family members of officers, even women and children. He knew that the hatred during the period was extremely deep, and it was far from ordinary contradictions.

"Since this is the case, I will vent my anger on your suffering brothers today." Wei Aiwen said, "I will hand over the man to you in a while, and you can judge and judge yourself. It is up to you to decide whether to behead or kill and feed the dogs." .”

Hao Guoxin and the others didn't know how the gangsters were planning to deal with them. They were very afraid that the gangsters would recruit and surrender, and they were a little uneasy when they said they would surrender Liu Qianhu and others.Now that I hear that I want to vent my anger on them, I am overjoyed.Quickly knelt down and kowtowed again, saying:

"This group of wolf-hearted guys, the little ones have long wanted their lives."

"Okay, take them away." As he spoke, he ordered the soldiers to take most of them to the martial arts hall and hand them over to the military households for a "struggle meeting", and then hang them all.Only the master who managed the accounts in the thousand households was left behind for inventory checks, and another hundred households were left behind.

At present, the search team of the Planning Institute took the captives' warehouses and mansions one by one to check and collect supplies. There was nothing exciting in the city of Qianhusuo, except food, weapons and livestock.The most valuable was the capture of more than 20 horses and mules.The horses are small in size, about the fruit horses commonly found in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.
It took a whole day to count the supplies and hold the struggle meeting. In the frenzied atmosphere of the struggle meeting, all members of Liu Qianhu were hanged on the trees outside the village. How to deal with their family members caused quarrels among the military households. Some people want to divide the women, some people want to kill them all, and the two sides argue so much that they almost want to use a knife.In the end, the opinion of "cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots" prevailed, and the military households dragged the family members and dogs of the officers to the river beach outside the village, ordered them to kneel down, and beheaded them one by one.

When the military households were killing people, Wei Aiwen called the hundred households who had been deliberately left behind.The hundred households had been scared out of their wits for a long time, and when they saw Wei Aiwen, they collapsed to the ground, begging for mercy repeatedly.

"Forgive your life." Wei Aiwen said, "Get out immediately, and go to Haikou Qianhu Office to find Tang Yunwen for emergency!"

"Small ones don't dare! Small ones don't dare!"

"Hurry up, if you dare not go to the emergency, you will hand over your whole family to the military household." Wei Aiwen turned his head to indicate the direction of the river beach, where there were continuous screams.

"Yes, yes, yes, the younger one must go!" Baihu quickly got up.

Wei Aiwen called two soldiers and told them to escort the hundred households all the way to the border of Lincheng.

Subsequently, all the military households in the two villages were removed, and they were dispersed to various communes.As for the houses, materials and land of these two settlements, they will be accepted by the People's Committee for Civil Affairs, and resettlers will be resettled separately.

As for Hao Guoxin and Cui Zheng, one was assigned to be trained as a worker in a machinery factory and the other was assigned to raise horses under Nick.Wei Aiwen recruited a group of [-] and [-]-year-old youths from military households to enrich the teaching team, preparing for political training after preliminary training.Now that they have blood on their hands, they are not afraid that if they don't follow the transmigration group, they will be in the dark.

You Huo led his 300-odd horsemen across the border of Lingao-Chengmai county.He was a little regretful that the flag hadn't been finished yet, and the march was not majestic at all.

The task of this task force is to create momentum, so that the tigers along the way can slow down the speed of the march.When you encounter a village, you always take a rest. The people in the village run away, and Youhuo doesn't send people to chase after it.Before leaving, put some slogans on the wall and the like.

Along the way, when encountering larger fortified villages, You Huo always sent people to collect food.Seeing that they were carrying cannons in the village, they dared not refuse to follow them, so they gave them a dozen shi of grain to deal with, and Youhuo didn't ask for much, anyway, all they had to do was spread the news of the arrival of the Fubo army.

In this way, his men and horses walked all the way, stopped and stopped, and just arrived at Chengmai County after walking for a day.This speed makes You Huo feel that it is surprisingly slow, but in fact, according to the normal post road itinerary of the government, it takes half a day from Qiongshan to Chengmai, and one day from Chengmai to Lingao.

When Youhu's scouts arrived at the city, the summer was long, and the gates of the county town had not yet been closed, and the villagers were coming and going, showing no intention of preparing for war.It wasn't until the brigade appeared that the county town panicked and rushed to close the city gate.

You Huo knew that if he wanted to seize the city, he could do it even by running and charging.But since He Ming didn't want him to occupy Chengmai County, there was no need to bother.He immediately ordered to occupy a high ground outside the city and set up camp on the high ground.

The company commander of this infantry company is also a veteran, named Yu Zhiqian.Yu Zhiqian is a fair and clean young man who loves reading and has a bookish air.He can be regarded as half a military enthusiast, but the object of his fever is the modern military, and he is not interested in modern gadgets at all.Belonging to line up to shoot the party members.

Because he loves to read books, and usually regards himself as a "staff officer" and "military adviser", You Huo simply takes him as his chief of staff and advises him.

"Old Yu." You Huhu calls everyone "Old X", even Du Wen is also called "Old Du". I don’t know how frightened the officials in the village are. According to the commander’s intention, it is necessary to create momentum with great fanfare, how do you think it’s better to create momentum?”

"Of course it is necessary to put on a siege posture." Yu Zhiqian was confident, "But just setting off cannons outside is not enough to create pressure."

"Stop analyzing the situation, just talk about what to do."

"You can't run away from the county seat. I think I can harass the place as much as possible." Yu Zhiqian came up with an idea, leaving some troops here to monitor the county seat, while other troops launched an armed parade nearby, collecting food along the way, hitting a few big households, and requisitioning many more by the way. The people came, felled trees under the city to make siege equipment, dug trenches, and built camps, posing as if they were fighting,

"We have few people, and the people in the city are not blind. So we have to pretend that we are the vanguard, and there is a large group of people coming from behind. Then the people in the county will panic. They have to go out and ask for advice. .”

You Huo laughed loudly, and patted him on the shoulder: "It's really you! Okay, let's have a good night's rest today, and tomorrow we will send troops out to harass Chengmai. Let's arrange camping first."

The army's regulations stipulate that as long as one camps, trenches must be dug, soil enclosures repaired, and deer villages erected.You Huo reckoned that harassing Chengmai would not be over in a few days, so the camp should be strengthened.When I set off, I specially took a few rolls of barbed wire.Then the soldiers built a simple watchtower about ten meters high, and they could clearly see every move on the top of Chengmai South City.The three mountain grenades brought in also built artillery fortifications, and also built rainproof shacks for artillery and ammunition vehicles.

You Huo led people to inspect the camps. Needless to say, the morale of the soldiers and the militia was also very high.Everyone guessed that the city would be attacked tomorrow, and they were all discussing how to break through the city quickly.

You Huo didn't say that the task this time was just harassment. He checked the sanitary conditions of each company according to the regulations, and urged the cooks to boil water to scald everyone's feet. , and some Chinese patent medicine prepared by Liu San, and he can continue to walk the long way the next day.Compared with the regular infantry, the militia rarely had long-distance march training, and they dragged artillery and luggage along the way.Many collapsed and fell asleep as soon as their tents were set up.You Huo urged the militia captains to wake up the sleeping people and tell them to eat and burn their feet.

After the inspection, Youhuo and Yu Zhiqian went to the watchtower again, using the night vision binoculars to watch the movement on the top of the city.I saw that many torches and lanterns were already lit on the top of the city, and many young men were added to patrol the city.

Compared with Lingao County, which has a strange shape, Chengmai County can be regarded as a well-regulated county, square and square.The north gate is also set up but not opened, but the city wall is not high and thick, and the fortification is not too tight.The two led troops along the way, and felt that Chengmai had a slightly larger population than Lingao, and the land development was better. I don't know if it was because of the proximity to Fucheng.

There was nothing to say all night, and Yu Zhiqian led the team early the next morning. Half of the troops came and went deep into Chengmai County. ,bluff.

The people in the city saw that they left a group of people, leaving only more than 100 people, and they became more courageous.There are constant shouts and curses in the city, and sometimes arrows are shot down.The Fubo army is five to six hundred meters away from the city, and even the cannons on the city cannot hit it.Two times, they shouted and cursed each other in the city and the city.

Surrounded by guards and messengers, You Tiger stood on a mound, directing the harassment battle.Seeing the militiamen crackling and firing the one-eyed and three-eyed firecrackers was really lively, he knew that there were actually no irons in it, and it was purely for fun.He couldn't help laughing, this kind of battle is a bit rare, I don't know if it counts as a sparrow war.While thinking wildly, suddenly the suspension bridge was lowered, and more than 200 Lianyong and Minzhuang swarmed out from the gate of the city, rushed through the trench, and shouted to kill.

You Huo didn't expect that the enemy dared to go out of the city to fight, but the necessary precautions were still in place. The infantry platoon covering the militia immediately formed a double horizontal line.

"Shoot!" The native second lieutenant of the commanding infantry platoon swung his command knife fiercely, the sound of the Minie rifle was deafening, and You Huo clearly rushed to the front of the dozen or so townsmen and folks as if they had hit a wall. fell backwards.The village warriors probably didn't expect that the gun bandits' firearms were so powerful that they could kill and injure people half a mile away, so they hesitated in their charge.

The soldiers of the infantry platoon loaded their bullets immediately, followed by the second and third volleys. The rate of fire of the Mini rifles far exceeded all the firearms at that time. There were many people, and the rest of them were in a mess and ran towards the city in a noisy manner.

"The turtle son still wants to come out and fight!" You Huhu spat, "Just retreat!" He couldn't help but feel a little regretful, the militiamen around him took up their spears and formed a formation, ready to fight at any time. He himself also wanted to try the power of the frontier army's long sword.

"Battalion Commander! Let's set up a cannon and shoot his mother!" The leader of the artillery cadet team excitedly ran to ask for a fight, "Kill the prestige of the dog officer in the city!"

You Huo looked at it for a long time before saying, "Forget it today!"

He had already learned from the reports of the scouts that a dozen or so people had sneaked down from the other two city gates in the middle of the night, and the scouts followed his order not to capture them, but to follow them.It was found that three or four people went to Fucheng, and the rest went to various places in the county.

You Huo analyzed that this must be for the county to send people to various places in the county to mobilize Xiangyong to step up defense of the city.The more township warriors gathered in the county, the more news that they went to Chengmai to besiege the county, the more spread the news, so he didn't intercept these envoys and let them go everywhere to ask for help.Today, the Minzhuang Township in the city bravely came out to fight, which shows that they will not have too few people ready to mobilize.

In his heart, he wished to fight a big battle under Chengmai City and make a great contribution.Moreover, he is full of confidence in his own firepower and the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, thinking that as long as he is always vigilant, he can repel no matter how many people come to attack.

The next day Yu Zhiqian brought back dozens of shi of grain and two to three hundred people.The two started working hard in the city.While repairing the camp, he cut wood to make ladders and carts for siege.The officials and gentry in the city saw that although the Kun bandits had only a small force, they drove the peasants to make all kinds of preparations for attacking the city. In addition, they knew that the Kun bandits' weapons were sharp, and they were very frightened. Mobilize the township bravery in the county to enter the city for reinforcements.

"There are more and more Xiangyong in the city." You Huo said, "If we capture the city, we can capture a large number of prisoners."

Yu Zhiqian did not speak. He felt that the defense of the city had gradually relaxed due to the fact that his own troops had not increased in the past few days, so he suggested to start shelling the county town.

"We don't have enough people, so people will look down upon us, so let them taste the shells."

"Okay, the militiamen in the province will pull back the shells and gunpowder."

In order to increase the tense atmosphere, You Huo approved the artillery cadets to bombard the south gate of the county seat. Although the shells of the 12-pound mountain howitzer could not destroy the city wall, it destroyed half of the city tower and many battlement parapets, killing and wounding many townsmen and braves who defended the city.In particular, the grenades and incendiary bombs fired greatly shocked the soldiers and civilians defending the city—they had never encountered such powerful artillery fire.Several fires broke out in the city, and some houses were destroyed by shells that penetrated into the city.After continuous bombardment, the defenders of the city were demoralized.If He Ming didn't want them to destroy the city, Chengmai would have taken it immediately.

You Huo felt that this was not powerful enough, so he discussed with Yu Zhiqian: Instead of wasting shells here, it is better to use howitzers to break up a few villages, destroy a few big families, and take advantage of the time of fighting to eliminate a group of local powerful factions, laying the foundation for future rule .By the way, earn more loot. Isn't the executive committee shouting "we can't fight a war" every day?Arresting people and robbing food and property can somewhat serve as a stopper

(End of this chapter)