Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 235 Yang Menglong's Story of Suppressing Bandits 4
Fang Yizhi's carriage was in the middle of the road, blocking more than half of the official road, and he opened his arms wide, blocking the remaining half.This is a serious obstruction to traffic. More than 2000 horses, mules, and camels of Wuyang Guard were unable to move forward because of his immoral behavior, and they were blocked on the official road.Yang Menglong looked at Fang Yizhi helplessly, and called, "Master Fang, what do you really want? There is a war ahead, and you are blocking us from passing, what's the matter?"

Fang Yizhi said: "It is precisely because there is a war ahead that we cannot let you pass!"

Yang Menglong said: "Get out of the way! I'm not in the mood to waste time with you here, I'm rushing to the battlefield!"

Fang Yi said word by word: "You, no, can, go!"

Yang Menglong said: "I know you are doing it for the good of Nanyang, but delaying like this is not a good idea! Otherwise, you let me go there and wipe out the bandits, and then we will work together to find a way to push back the transfer order to the west of Liaoning. OK?"

Fang Yizhi will not be fooled: "If you destroy the bandits in one battle, you will not be able to reject this order! Yang Menglong, you listen to me, the army retreats [-] li, and then sets up camp, and then sends Qingqi to the besieged west. Just drive away the rogues in Xia County, don’t go and destroy them! Once you destroy them, the military department will transfer you to the west of Liaoning immediately. How many of you will come back alive? Is it easy for you to train this elite army? Once you The elite soldiers in Liaoxi are overwhelmed, who will protect the peace of Nanyang? Not to mention, the surrounding state capitals, and even the chief ministers, will all scramble to show their knives and divide your property to nothing. I won't leave it to you!"

Yang Menglong said: "I said Master Fang, do you think too darkly about your boss?"

Fang Yizhi said angrily: "I didn't wrong them! I have been floating in this dye vat for 20 years, and I really know them too well! Listen to me, encircle the bandits without suppressing them, and drag this transfer order over. I will make up for the wasted food and salary!"

Yang Menglong frowned and said: "But winter is coming soon. If we don't solve it as soon as possible, many people will die! People in the city can say, what about the rogues outside the city? They have no cotton-padded clothes, no food, and a few snowfalls , How many people are still alive? No, I can't promise you!"

Fang Yizhi roared: "I am the magistrate of Nanyang, of course I have to consider the people of Nanyang first, as for these refugees, it depends on their fortune!"

Yang Menglong also roared: "They are also human beings! They are thousands of people, not livestock! I can't promise you, I can't let thousands of people freeze and starve to death because of me, you give me Step aside!"

Fang Yizhi poked his neck and said, "No!"

Yang Menglong's eyes widened: "You really won't let me?"

Fang Yizhi said: "If you don't give in, you won't let it go. Even the chief envoy has to be polite when he sees this mansion. What can you, a guard commander, do to this mansion!"

Yang Menglong shouted: "Come here, carry him aside for me!"

Fang Yizhi shouted angrily: "How dare you!?"

Yang Menglong really dared, with an order, Xu Meng and a muscular man with the same burly back strode forward, stretched out their hands and lifted Fang Yizhi into the carriage, and pushed the carriage to the side of the road with extreme movements. Rough... With their size, they can't be gentle even if they want to.Fang Yizhi punched and kicked in a hurry, and hissed: "Yang Menglong, if you don't listen to me, you will regret it! You will all die in Liaoxi...you all come back to me, come back!"

Yang Menglong ignored it, whipped his horsewhip, and two thousand cavalry and infantry on horseback poured down the official road towards the county town like a flood that burst a bank, and the smoke and dust raised drowned out the angry curses of the magistrate.

Fang Yizhi was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet, tears came out, the master was indignant, scolded Yang Menglong for biting Lu Dongbin, he didn't know good people, he choked his mouth full of dust, and coughed into a bow immediately.

Bargaining continues on the county side.At this time, another group of refugees joined the ranks of the army of rogues, making their number approach the 350 mark, and 350 ladders were built, and the momentum became even more astonishing.The people on the city wall also panicked, and raised the price to [-] shi of grain, which was about the same as the negotiation, but at this time, when there were more rogues, the psychological price was naturally raised, and they insisted on [-] shi of grain, otherwise The fight is about to start.Xixia County has many mountains and forests but little cultivated land, and the land is barren. The farmers have worked hard for a year, and after paying taxes, there are not many grains left. How can they get so much surplus grain?No way, let's continue talking.When a group of rogues dragged out two dusty bed crossbows out of nowhere, clumsily twisted the strings, put two spears on and pointed them at the city wall, Mr. Zheng Jing showed an expression of wanting to cut flesh , Painfully agreed to the request of the rogues—to buy peace with [-] shi of grain.As soon as the words were finished, there were waves of cheers from the city, like a sea tide, and the rogues, no matter men, women, young or old, jumped and shouted excitedly, embraced each other, and beat each other.The blackmail was successful, and they could live longer!

But Zheng Jing insisted that the 350 shi of grain should include [-] shi of beans, not all wheat, which made the bandit leader Man Tianxing a little upset.The nutritional value and taste of beans are not as good as wheat, and you will fart after eating them. Who wants this stuff?He stared at the city wall and shouted: "Fire two spears with a bed crossbow, let the county magistrate know how powerful we are, and see if he dares to talk so much nonsense!"

His deputy, Zhi Duoxing, hastily shouted: "Brother, please don't! This crossbow has been in use for an unknown number of years, and it might fall apart once fired. What else can we use to intimidate other counties?"

Man Tianxing bulged his eyes and said: "But the county magistrate insisted on giving us a hundred stones of beans! It was a hundred stones! He must have a lot of wheat, but he just refused to take it out, and didn't give him any color to see." How to do it!"

Zhi Duoxing said: "Brother, let's take it as soon as we see it. Thank God for getting 350 shi of grain here! How about we talk to them again and ask them to give more wheat and less beans?"

Man Tianxing said: "Okay, you have a lot of ideas, talk to him again, a hundred stones are too many beans, we can only ask for fifty stones at most, and the remaining three hundred stones must be wheat, there is no negotiation... If possible, it is best to force them to pay more salt, we haven’t eaten salt for a long time..." Staring at the county wall, he said bitterly: "If it weren't for the strong wall, I would have entered the city long ago, love Take whatever you want, do you need to spend so much talking with that ignorant magistrate?"

Zhi Duoxing shrugged helplessly, and continued to bargain with Zheng Jing with full enthusiasm, saying that beans were not worth the effort, they couldn't ask for so many beans, and the 350 shi of grain had to be all wheat.Of course, if Xixia County can give them two hundred catties of salt, they can accept fifty stone beans.And the army of rogues has already begun to advance the fruits of victory in advance, taking out the last bit of food for cooking, and the two big-waisted women of Mantianxing opened a sealed small wooden barrel in the eyes of everyone's expectation, and filled the half of the barrel with crude oil. Pour the salt into the pot and stir-fry with the pepper until it is browned, then grind it into powder, and then distribute it one by one, a small handful for each person.Those who received it wrapped the little things in dry lotus leaves and put them in their pockets.This will be their dish in the future. Sprinkle a little bit on the rice when eating, it will have a little taste.After the blackmail was successful, they had to prepare to run away. First, they took the booty and hid in the mountains for a few days. After the limelight passed, they walked out of the mountains and headed for the next county.In this business, the most important thing is to know when to enter the market to place an order, and when to close the position and leave the market. Don't blindly chase the rise and fall, otherwise the officers and soldiers will teach them how to behave.

This is what Wuyang Guard saw when he arrived: smoke was rising in the camp of the rogues, tens of thousands of people were scrambling for food, while bags of wheat and beans were being hung down by hanging baskets on the city wall, Bags, the rogues cheered... This group of rogues was so happy that they didn't even let out the sentry cavalry, they swarmed into the camp and waited for dinner, or disassembled the siege equipment and prepared to transport them away !Wuyang Weiquan, who was preparing for a fierce battle, was dumbfounded. Han Peng pointed at the chaotic camp and called out in disbelief: "This...is this the rogue who gave the imperial court such a headache? Why do I look more like a beggar?"

Xu Gong felt the same: "Looking at them like that, they are really worse than beggars!"

Xue Siming looked a little ugly, snorted, and said: "If you are one of them, you should know that being a beggar is luckier than them! If a beggar is lucky, he can even get a bowl of rotten rice for half a meal They were full, and they even ate up the bark and grass roots. All states and counties regarded them as demons. Everywhere they went, the city gates were closed and they refused to let anyone in. I don’t know how many people starved to death on the road Got it!"

Xu Meng said in a low voice: "This kind of mob is not difficult to deal with. There is no need for 2000 people, and 500 people are enough to destroy them."

Yang Menglong said: "The rogues are never difficult to deal with. As long as they can feed them, even millions of them will be wiped out overnight. Well, stop talking nonsense and prepare to attack!"

The trumpeter took out the horn and blew it. Hearing the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry of Wuyang Guard immediately separated from the two sides and galloped towards the left and right wings. The stringed mountain mulberry crossbow is flat, and the crossbow is loaded with arrows, aiming at the bandits. Behind the 450 shooters are a hundred musketeers, heavy electric guns are carried on their shoulders, and the ammunition has already been loaded.The pikemen lined up in three rows, and hundreds of four-meter-long spears surged forward slowly, like a moving steel forest. Four hundred horizontal swordsmen drew their horizontal swords from their sheaths and slapped the shield one after another. There was a muffled bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang

Until now, the rogues who were in a mess noticed the unusual movement behind them. They turned their heads one after another, and they were horrified to find that there was a black embankment on the field that had been harvested, and it was moving at 88 steps per minute. Steps, that is, the kind where the feet take a natural step forward, not the kind of big step where the left and right feet take a step forward) The speed is rapidly approaching their camp, and the densely packed gunpoints are dimming The cold light was reflected under the bright sunlight, and the hundreds of archers walking in front held their crossbows more flatly, one after another deadly crossbow arrows lying quietly in the arrow slots, pointing at them.It's hard to imagine what it would be like if these hundreds of powerful crossbows were buckled at the same time. Presumably those hundreds of crossbow bolts would burst out with a whistling sound that made the hair stand on end, turning into dots of deadly stars in the air. Seal their last sliver of life, right?There is also the cavalry, which is also spread out on both wings. The rider controls the horse with his legs, holds a strong bow in his left hand, and holds a white feather arrow in his right hand, which has already been set on the string.Some people even carried Shansang crossbows of the same standard as infantry. This is a frightening weapon. Its range and lethality are much stronger than bows!As for the sabers worn by the cavalry, there are also four or five meter long spears... Just thinking about the terrifying scene of splitting your body like a saber cutting tofu, or riding a spear piercing yourself and your companions into a string, all People will shudder!

God, what kind of shit luck did they have, that this small place encountered such an unreasonably well-equipped army!And it was after they successfully blackmailed them!
God this thief, really don't leave them any way of life!

Unlike the general Ming army, if the general Ming army suddenly appeared behind them, they would rush up to their camp without hesitation and kill them, or send their servants to ask them to surrender, but this army did not. Do, they are just silent, approaching them with unusually neat steps, this kind of silence is more frightening than the roaring cavalry!

"The officers and soldiers are coming!"

A panicked howl broke the suffocating silence, and the entire camp exploded!
(End of this chapter)