Win the Ding 1617

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"Gunpowder became an important guarantee for the European bourgeoisie to smash feudal fortresses and defeat feudal rule, and the knights were blown to pieces. ∮,"

Facts have proved that no matter how strong the earth enclosure is, it cannot hold the cannon.

After a night of excessive drinking and gambling, the Shenji Camp, Sanqian Camp, and Longhu Camp mobilized 1 horses and set out from Jining Prefecture to Changgou Town, which is located in the northwest of the city.

From a distance, I saw a heavily fortified town, more than two feet high, the whole body was built with rammed loess, the outside was covered with blue city bricks, and the foundation was built with strips of stone.Four or five miles around the whole town, there are more than [-] battlements, more than ten police shops, and eight horse faces, especially the urn outside the south gate. It is a powerful barrier to protect the south gate.

There are several police shops on the walls of Changgou Town. Each police shop is about two meters long and more than two meters wide, and the part that protrudes from the city wall is about one meter.There are observation holes on three sides of the police station protruding from the city wall, resembling a small horse face.

As for the horse faces, there are two horse faces on each side of the urn city along the south gate, at a distance of fifty steps.The protruding part of the city wall from the horse face is about two meters long and three meters wide. On the buttress wall of the horse face, there are lookout holes, and there are shooting holes under or beside the lookout holes.

The urn city is a semicircle, on the left side of the urn city.Open a door, there is a horse face on the city wall dozens of steps away to the left, this distance is just within the shooting range of the firecrackers, from the horse face on the left, you can severely hit the enemy attacking the door.

Not only that, there is a grass factory built at the head of the city for the soldiers guarding the city to rest.On the poles of every grass factory and on every crenel, there are many flags planted in a show of force, under the influence of the winter sun and north wind.To show off the prestige and strength of the owner of this town is extremely in place.

On the horse's face and the crenels of the police station, there are vaguely black gun muzzles. In addition to the gun muzzles, there are many figures of rejecting horses.The refusal horse is full of sharp barbs made of pig iron, even if the forcible siege is successful, in front of these refusal horses at the top of the city.I am afraid that I will be at a loss and be beaten.

Looking down the city, in addition to the usual trenches, which serve as moats, the canal water is brought in to fill up the trenches, and there are also a large number of repelling horses, barbed wire, etc., which are placed close to the city wall and the edge of the moat, so that the siege troops There is no place to stand.In front of the crenel walls at the head of the city, many wooden cities were also placed.Each door of the wooden city is five feet wide.The battlement is five feet high, and many large wooden nails and iron spikes are floating on it, which is ideal for preventing night raids.

On the open space next to the grass factory at the head of the city, there are a large number of rolling wood and stones, and cupping pots made of "fire oil". Objects, used to overthrow the ladders used by siege soldiers and horses.not only.At the gate of Nancheng, there were also several groups of rejecting horses.Even if the enemy's cavalry and infantry rushed in, facing these repelling horses, coupled with the impact of artillery fire from the top of the city and the impact of rolling wood and rocks, the situation would be described as light with heavy casualties.Similarly, at the root of the city walls on both sides of the south gate.On the outside of the trench, some important positions are also arranged with repelling horses, staghorn wood, and barbed wire.

No wonder the soldiers and horses of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion dare not come to stroke the tiger's beard!Such a city defense facility, let alone a town.Even the prefectures and cities may not be able to have it!

Seeing the fortification of the town through the binoculars, Tan Qirui and Luo Zuming were shocked.However, the more fortified a town is, the more gentry and wealthy households there are!Once it is beaten down, the harvest is far beyond what ordinary villages can compare!

"Brother Luo, don't worry! With your brother and my cannon here, this lighter is not enough!" Luo Zuming patted Luo Hu on the shoulder and pointed to the cannon in his camp.

"Then it's all up to Big Brother!"

The same surname is Luo, and Luo Hu has long been commensurate with Brother Luo Zuming under Wang Long's guidance.

"Old Tan, send someone to tell the people in the town that the Daming Shenji Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion have passed by here to suppress bandits. Let the people in the town not panic. Inform the officials and gentry in the town to meet the army at the gate of the city. yes!"

"Lao Luo, it's all in vain for you to do this! Such a town, since the thieves have been passed on, will definitely not let the officers and soldiers in! It will be good if he doesn't come out and beat our sap!" Tan Qirui was very upset about Luo Zuming's arrangement. Disapproval.

"Don't worry, my lords! If this group of thieves dare to come out, they will be handed over to our brothers! Ma Yaozi!" Luo Hu waved his horse lance, whistling, and loudly issued a military order, ordering Ma Yaozi and others to set aside The formation is ready to meet the enemy.

As soon as they rode away, the Beijing camp also began to line up.

The horns were blasted three times, and the drums and horns in the battalion were loud. The Chinese soldiers beside Luo Tan waved their flags and commanded the formation of troops and horses.But I saw the cavalry of the [-] Battalion coming out slowly first; when they reached the limit, they all stopped with a sound of gold.The cavalry stands on the first floor; among the ranks, the red flag is waving, and the firecracker team of the Shenji Battalion stands on the second floor; the blue flag is used as a mark, and the artillery team is on the third floor, waving the black flag.

In the main formation of the two of them, the banners of Shenji Battalion and Sanqian Battalion were set up, and the big flag was erected.In an instant, the formation was completed, and only the battalion was waiting for the order.

It has to be said that aside from the combat effectiveness and military discipline of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, the level of formation and the quality of formation are considered to be unrivaled in the Ming army.The array stretching for more than two miles is as neat as cutting with knives and axes, and it is even more breathtaking because of the distinctive armor and glorious banners. It is completely the standard of the guard of honor!

Two muffled bangs of firecrackers came from a distance, and the officers of the [-] Battalion who had been sent to deliver the order came back in embarrassment.

"My lord! The dogs and thieves in the city will not let us enter the city, but scold us!"

"Say something?"

"Say that we are just dudes who rely on my father and family to cling to the nobles of the court, and rely on the power of these old bad guys to eat, drink, prostitute, gamble and wait for our breath in the capital. It's okay to follow Uncle Ning Yuan Fooling around, sooner or later the whole family will end badly."

As the saying goes, don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and don't expose your shortcomings when you curse someone.Most of the playboys, those who are a bit pursuing, hate others to say that they rely on their family's influence.

The rich man Meng of Changgou Town is so unscrupulous, how can this group of Jingying children swallow this breath?

"fire!"

Resist the king's teacher, have evidence to cooperate with the enemy, and insult the court.These charges are enough for Luo Zuming and Tan Qirui to deal with the possible impeachment of North Korea and China.

In front of the twelve-pound artillery shells, those Juma and Luzhais under the city became vulnerable, and a piece of wood rose up as soon as a shot passed.

"Aim at the top of the Wengcheng. Hit me! In the next day, dare to build such a fortification and forge artillery privately, it is clear that you want to rebel!"

While yelling at the artillery, Luo Zuming also found a new crime for the gentlemen in Changgou Town.

"Donkey ball! I have been called a thief for so many years. I also thought I was a thief! Now look at this group of people dressed in military uniforms and under the banner of the imperial court. They started to rob houses. It’s much better than Lao Tzu! And it’s still upright and dignified!”

Wang Long complained a few words in his heart, but his face was still full of smiles.

Hundreds of large and small artillery shells fell on the south gate wall and the urn city densely, causing the bricks and stones to crack, the sky filled with dust, and flames began to emerge from the top of the city.There were bursts of crying and howling faintly coming from the city.

"Brother Wang Long, Brother Luo Hu, do as we agreed. The hole was torn open for you. The rest is up to you!"

According to the spoils agreement that was negotiated when they came here, "four soldiers and six thieves", all captured, the Beijing camp will take [-]%, and the dragon and tiger camp composed of Chuangying and Cao Ying will divide [-]%.However, all the mules, horses, armor, and weapons.Food, these things all belong to Longhuying.

"Old Li. These things will be transported away by your gang!"

Lao Li, a strong Jianghu man, was surrounded by more than a hundred equally strong Jianghu heroes behind him.As the leader of the Cao Gang in Jining Wharf, this battle is also of great benefit to him.

Except for the capital camp and the intrusion camp, the ships in his hands were used to transport the seized away.As the biggest reward, Jining Prefecture will no longer have a foothold for Wenxiangjiao.Instead, the Cao Gang ruled the world.

"Your shopkeeper, Master Chen, has sent a message. Of course, our brothers from the Cao Gang are going in water and in fire! Isn't it just to transfer grain to the Yellow River! It's a trivial matter!"

A cry.The infantry of the Dragon and Tiger Camp began to rush into the city along the opening of the city wall destroyed by the shells, and the leader was Ma Yaozi who had bet with Luo Zuming and Tan Qirui yesterday!

"Shoot! Shove! Shove in! Everyone will have a horse!"

He kept waving the sharp knife in his hand, loudly motivating the pawns around him, and occasionally pushed aside the arrows flying around his head.

Luo Hu and Wang Long looked at the figures of Ma Yaozi and others appearing and disappearing in the smoke and dust with a smile. Almost every battle was fought, some elites of them appeared, changing from ordinary soldiers to leaders, from infantry to horse soldiers .

In a blink of an eye, the banner of the Dragon and Tiger Camp and the banner embroidered with Luo and Wang characters appeared on the top of the city. Several soldiers who broke into the camp raised the horse and threw it into the moat below the city, opening a wider road for the comrades. .

"Okay! The city is broken!"

Not waiting for Luo Zuming's joyful voice to land, there were bursts of shouts from the city, and a group of figures rushed up the city along the horse path.

"Damn it, the Liaodong Tartars are here!"

Not only the figures of Liaodong rebels appeared on the top of the city, but also the movement of Liao rebel cavalry near the east and west gates.It can be seen that the Liao thieves are planning to use cavalry to attack the official army from the east and west wings so that the official army will completely collapse!

Wang Long squinted his small eyes, and looked contemptuously at the Liao bandit cavalry who were gathering inside the two city gates.

"Brother Luo Hu, I'll take people to the east gate, you take people to the west gate! Let this group of thieves come out, let's show them what kind of heroes our heroes from Chuangying and Caoying are!"

After several contacts with Liao thieves, the Longhu Camp gained a lot, and the cavalry soldiers in the camp who used to ride mules and donkeys were replaced with genuine war horses.

Regardless of the omissions in Wang Long's words, Luo Zuming hastily mobilized the soldiers and horses of the [-] Battalion to quickly line up to meet those Liao thieves who planned to attack him.

"Two brothers, just go ahead! My [-]-battalion soldiers and horses will watch the enemy's formation for you! I will definitely not let you have any worries!"

Two groups of cavalry rolled up smoke and dust soaring into the sky, and moved towards the east and west wings like an earth dragon. After a while, the sound of shouting and killing and the clash of weapons were carried by the wind.

"Boys, give me a hard bang!"

Tan Qirui also became ruthless and ordered the gunners to beat the city into flames.

At sunset, the battle in Changgou Town ended.

The gains are also huge.

In the big mansion of the gentry surnamed Meng, several generals and chieftains checked their harvest with smiles on their faces.

More than a thousand people with shaved hair and braids were captured, of which there were more than two hundred real slaves, and the rest were all traitorous Han people.The captured Liao thieves had just arrived here, and they were full of fifty tank boats.

Under the identification of the people in the Cao Gang.Soldiers from Chuangying and Caoying plucked out several altar masters and incense masters of Wenxiang Sect from the crowd like wolves and tigers, and the rest of the minions, Xiao Xiami, were tied up countless times and knelt on the hard floor. Dirt.

The remaining hundreds of members of the Meng family were naturally looked down upon by the Jingying, but they were picked up by the Longhuying.These people are proficient in martial arts, and they are good at horseback riding and fighting.Many people can also use firearms, so they are naturally regarded as strange goods by Chuangying and Caoying.

As for the savings of several generations of the Meng family in Changgou Town, they naturally became seized by the officers and soldiers along with the stolen goods of the Liao thieves.Hundreds of food, thousands of mules and horses, nearly a million silver dollars, gold and silver, Nanzhong Tongbao piled up in several rooms, cloth and satin in warehouses, armors, knives and guns piled up like mountains, and whole boxes and boxes Jewelry and jade wares, rare books of calligraphy and painting of celebrities in all dynasties.Zhou Ding, Shang Yi, Qin brick, Han tile and so on.

However, what pleased Chen Guoxi the most was the correspondence between this descendant of Yasheng and the gentry in Shandong, Denglai and other places. Letters, documents, and the canon documents given by the Qing court to the descendant of the sub-sage, etc. are all evidence.

"With these, the Young Marshal will be able to get twice the result with half the effort in implementing the Lord's New Deal in Shandong!"

"With these ironclad evidence in hand, look at that bastard in Chaozhong who dares to come out and make noise!"

Go through the seized documents.Both Chen Guoxi and Tan Qirui couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Damn! No wonder we took so much effort to fight the Liaodong Tartars. It turns out that this group of thieves secretly tipped off the news. They provided food and grass, and secretly hid the Tartars!"

In several letters, Luo Zuming discovered more shocking secrets.

After ordering people to put these documents away properly, Luo Zuming, Tan Qirui and Wang Long looked at each other with a smile, and they all felt that the smile on the other party's face was so shameless, "It's time to divide the dirty parts!"

According to the prior agreement.Everyone gets what they need.

Grain, cloth, armor, knives, guns, and gunpowder, as well as large and small artillery on the top of the city, from small copper cannons and tiger squatting cannons to big Buddha Langji and eight-pound cannons, all belonged to Chuangying and Caoying, and were transported away with the help of the Cao Gang.As for whether to transfer from the south of the canal to the Yellow River, or to sell it somewhere, this is not a matter for the Beijing camp to consider.

The brothers of the Cao Gang, in addition to carrying bulky materials such as grain and cloth onto the ship, took advantage of their familiarity with each other to pick out the Wenxiang Sect disciples from the crowd and hand them over to Longhuying and Jingying.

In the same area, they have been intriguing for many years, and there have been countless times of friction and fighting in private. Now that there is such an open and aboveboard opportunity, even if it is rumored in the rivers and lakes, who is not allowed to stretch out his hand to praise the Cao Gang Daren and righteousness?

Fifty percent of those gold and silver fine and soft antique calligraphy and paintings belonged to the Beijing camp, and [-]% went to the Cao camp and the Longhu camp.The remaining gold and silver were handed over to the brothers of the Cao Gang.There was also [-] silver and dozens of pieces of jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which were handed over to Chen Yingwu, the magistrate of Jining, who came after hearing the news.

In the eyes of the two lieutenants and the two heads of the family, these money and belongings are similar to the leftovers sent by beggars, but they are not taken for nothing.

"Parents, we want to report victory to the capital and Jinan, so please list your name on the report! When the imperial court rewards you, this military contribution to exterminating the Liao thieves will be great!"

Knowing that these generals had bad intentions, Chen Yingwu had no choice but to close his eyes and jump into the fire pit!If you don't list your name and sign on this victory report document, "Extermination of slaves and thieves and gentry affairs", you will follow this group of eight uncles of Qiu and you will go to the document together. You don't need to make any other charges, just say, "Slave thief and The person who communicated with the thief is dozens of miles away from the state city, but the person knows nothing about it, is there something strange about it?" An understatement of a question will make my family study hard for decades in the ups and downs of the officialdom. It was all in vain.

How dare you not bow your head under the eaves?Looking at the many good words for him on the victory report document, Chen Yingwu gritted his teeth and signed the victory report document, using the Zhizhou seal.

"When this document arrives in the capital, Chen's parents are afraid that they will become Mrs. Chen!" Chen Guoxi also teased this family member who was born in the top class.

Then, it was something that made this future Mr. Chen sweat profusely.

After the spoils of food and floating wealth were divided among the Jingying, Chuangying, and Caoying, there is still a large amount of property that can be distributed.For example, the furniture and supplies in the Meng family's mansion are all the extravagant expectations of the people in the nearby villages.

"Please ask the old parents to issue a notice to order the gentry and people of Jining Prefecture to come to Changgou Town. We will announce the punishment for those who cooperate with thieves."

Chen Guoxi is still a smiling businessman.

"Look at killing people!"

People from nearby villages rushed into Changgou with such thoughts.

However, many country gentry and scholars around Jining Prefecture, who have always followed the lead of Meng's family, are worried in their hearts. They instinctively feel that going to watch the ceremony this time may be bad or bad, and the effect is similar to the effect of the Empress Dowager Lu's invitation to a banquet.However, if you don't go, the hat of having an ambiguous relationship with the gangster will be taken off right away!

really.On the gates of the four gates of Changgou, the most shocking thing for these scholars and gentry is not the soldiers of the Beijing camp and the Longhu camp who are showing off their power on the top of the city, let alone the dark muzzle, but the list that people are constantly reading. arts.

The official document written in the vernacular that ordinary people can understand is very clear.

Uncle Ning Yuan followed the imperial court's order and implemented a new policy in Shandong that "officials, gentry, and errands should all pay for food". At the same time, he also stipulated that the total amount of land rent should not exceed [-]% of the output.The interest on loans and mortgages shall not exceed one and a half cents.

Those rough-handed and dark-faced farmers didn't even care about the virtues of the landowners for decades, their eyes were full of greed, and they just talked loudly about how much less land rent they could pay, How much less interest to pay.

In addition to the fact that someone read aloud official documents to the original servants and tenants of the Meng family, announcing that they were the people of the imperial court and no longer the private property of a certain family.It is even more announced that the land it cultivates.Those who can prove that they are contributions are allowed to find out the certificates of five households in the same village, and then apply for the land lease and take it back for farming.

"This, this, what is this about?! The Meng family is guilty, but why are the land and servants in the family treated like this?" Some people were filled with righteous indignation at this behavior that blatantly did not follow the rules.

in town.The original big and small houses were also chaotic, with people constantly coming in and out, carrying furniture, bricks, tiles and wood, and preparing to renovate the house after the spring.

Under doubt, it was the officers and soldiers who divided up all the houses of the Meng family.Those who are busy moving.It was the unscrupulous people who were assigned to the Meng family's house during this swindle.

"This, this is blatantly attracting people to be bandits!"

Seeing that the beautiful mansion built by the Meng family for many years was occupied by a group of unruly people, and the original exquisite layout was divided into fragments, it made the squires even more heartbroken.

"Anyone who is willing to work in Uncle's farm in Denglai and other places, will register in front of the God of Wealth Temple and Guandi Temple. There is a salary of one silver dollar per month, and three meals a day are enough for two meals. There is meat every day. Send out two sets of clothes for the four seasons."

The bursts of noisy voices conveyed the treatment of laborers recruited by Uncle Ning Yuan's farm to everyone's ears, regardless of whether you were willing to listen or not.

"The world is going downhill! The officers and soldiers are bandits! What kind of system is that!"

Several Qiyue with beard and hair like silver kept tapping the bluestone ground with crutches to express their inner dissatisfaction and anger.

"That's right! You must know that agriculture is the foundation! Now famine is everywhere, and they don't know how to reward farmers and mulberry, but they confuse farmers to work! To grow cotton that can't be eaten by hunger, isn't it putting the horse before the horse?!"

"That's right! Li's blatant competition for cotton and wheat fields is clearly harboring evil intentions, and he wants to starve my Shandong people to death!"

However, in front of several officers and generals and suspected officers and generals, all the country gentry and elders obediently put away these righteous and strict accents.

There is no other reason.

The generals of Jingying and Longhuying asked the squires to read the confession of the captured slave leader and the confession of the Meng family steward.

"In the study of the sage and scum of Meng thief, we also seized a large number of letters, many of which were written in the names of all of you here. From a certain family's point of view, with your loyalty to the court and familiarity with the books of sages, you only want to To serve the country; these letters must have been forged by the Meng thief in order to bluff, and ordered people to fake your names. Tell me, are you right?"

Outside the mansion, there was the sound of crying and shouting to escort the Meng clan to Jiaodong. In front of the stage in the town, hundreds of servants who resisted the officers and soldiers were tied up and were about to be beheaded.What you see and hear in your eyes and ears are the serious consequences of resisting Uncle Ning.

Such a scene immediately made these dozens of gentry give up the idea of ​​resisting.

"The young marshal who was in charge of Xingyuan affairs in Jinan for Uncle Ning Yuan had given orders that those who communicate with thieves will be killed without mercy! This is the order of the court and the emperor! All family properties are handled in this way. As for the New Deal, my lord The young marshal said that it depends entirely on everyone's wishes. Absolutely not to force others to make things difficult!"

Looking at Chen Guoxi's round face with a smile like Maitreya Buddha, several leading gentry wished they could go forward and strangle him to death on the spot!

But I don't have the guts! (To be continued..)