Chapter Ninety-Six: Destroying the Bandits
But how could these officers and soldiers and villagers let these bandits escape? No matter where they fled, there were always villagers or officers and soldiers who followed closely, and for a while, many bandits fell to the ground.
Looking at the bandits who fell to the ground, Zhang Kainiu was extremely anxious. He knew that this time, they were likely to suffer a heavy blow, and if that was the case, it would be difficult to recover from it.
At the critical moment, Zhang Kainiu shouted: "Brothers fight with them, those who can break through will break through, and those who can live are one, and there is a chance to avenge the dead and injured brothers!" After saying this, Zhang Kainiu picked up the weapon in his hand and killed the officers and soldiers.
Zhang Kainiu's kung fu was quite good, and he killed several officers and soldiers and villagers in a short time. When he was about to break out of the encirclement, he saw a big man with a long hammer blocking his way.
As soon as Zhang Kainiu saw this big man, his heart was half cold, because when he attacked the county seat last time, because this big man's kung fu was very strong, many bandits died under his hammer.
This big man is Chi Mu'er, I heard that I was going to stop the bandits, Chi Mu'er didn't say a word, took the long hammer, and came with Liu Yuan.
Chimur raised a long hammer and slaughtered all sides, and soon killed several bandits. Just as he was thinking about how these bandits didn't have a decent opponent, he saw a man with good kung fu rushing over on horseback, and his heart immediately became happy.
There was no way, Zhang Kainiu had to bite the bullet and fight with the oncoming Chimur. Among the bandits around Wu County, Zhang Kainiu's kung fu is still quite good.
It's just that he met Chimur, so after a while, he was at a disadvantage. There is no way to open the cow, so you can only muster up the courage to fight with Chimur with all your might, and strive to find a chance to break through the encirclement.
In terms of strength, Zhang Kainiu is far from being Chimur'er's opponent. But now there is a threat to life. The open cow burst to its full potential. Finally, after struggling to pay a little for a small injury, he got rid of Chimur'er's resistance and fled quickly towards the outside of the village on horseback.
Zhang Kainiu, who successfully escaped from the interception of the officers and soldiers, didn't care about the brothers who were still surrounded by him, desperately urged the war horses under his seat, and ran madly in the direction of the cottage.
Running and running, hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, he opened his cow and turned his head to look, and couldn't help but be startled. Chi Mu'er, who had just fought with him before, carried his own long hammer on his shoulder, and actually caught up closely behind him!
Seeing that Chi Mu'er was not far from him, he was almost scared when he opened his bull soul. Why is this guy so perverted? With his own feet, he can pretend to catch up with himself on horseback.
But now that this situation is gone, he has no other way but to continue to ride his horse and gallop, trying to get rid of the pursuing Chimur behind him.
But as it turned out, the idea of opening the cow was wrong. I saw Chi Mu'er move his legs and quickly chase after Zhang Kainiu, and the distance is getting closer and closer.
Seeing that Chi Mu'er, who couldn't get rid of the pursuit from behind, he had no other way to open the cow, so he simply reined the horse, stopped in place, and clenched the weapon in his hand to prepare to fight with Chi Mu'er.
Zhang Kainiu was not Chimur'er's opponent in the first place, and he suffered some minor injuries in the battle just now, and his strength was even worse. On the other hand, Chimur'er, this guy, has endless strength, and in the big battle just now, he chased Zhang Kainiu for so long, but Ren is still full of energy. In a short time, he smashed the open cow to the ground.
"Hey, this kid is too unbeaten." Looking at the Zhang Kainiu who fell to the ground and could no longer die, Chi Mu'er shook his head, picked up the long hammer, and walked in the direction of Qiaojia Village.
By the time Chi Mu'er rushed back to Qiaojia Village, the battle here was nearing its end. Thousands of bandits were quickly killed and wounded under the joint attack of officers and soldiers and the villagers of Qiaojia Village. When the last bandit saw that the situation was not good, he immediately dropped his sword and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
This incident was like a contagion, and when the rest of the bandits saw this, many of them also looked like this bandit, threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground.
As more and more bandits surrendered on their knees, the battle soon ended. Half of the more than 1,000 bandits were killed by officers and soldiers, nearly half of them surrendered, and only a very small number broke through the encirclement and fled back to the mountains.
Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu were one of the lucky few who escaped, and the officers and soldiers and the people of Qiaojia Village took the leader Zhang Kainiu as the focus of attention, and Wu Laoqi took the opportunity to kill several officers and soldiers and broke out of the encirclement. And Zhang Xiu, who had been following behind Wu Laoqi, also took the opportunity to sneak out of the encirclement and hide in a dense mountain forest outside the village.
This forest is the gathering point before Zhang Kainiu enters Qiaojia Village, in order to prevent the gathering point after the scheduled retreat, the two of them waited in this mountain forest for an hour or two, but only more than twenty or thirty bandits came to the forest to gather, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, they did not dare to stay for a long time, so they had to take these twenty or thirty bandits Bawangzhai to the peak where they were located.
In order to avoid being discovered by the officers and soldiers and the common people, Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu hid and walked, so the journey was very slow, and as a result, before they reached Bawangzhai, they encountered a group of bandits who fled from the route.
This group of bandits was the same group of bandits who stayed behind in Bawangzhai at the beginning. These bandits brought Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu a piece of desperate news that their carefully selected Bawang Village, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, was actually captured.
It was Yan Xiong and Liu Haini and others who captured the Bawangzhai cottage. According to the original plan, Yan Xiong and Liu Haini led people to wait not far outside Qiaojia Village.
After Liu Yuan led people to surround the bandits in Qiaojia Village, he would hand over some of the surrendered bandits to Yan Xiong and Liu Haini, and let them deceive the gate of Bawangzhai Cottage.
As a result, Liu Yuan's luck was very good, among the bandits who surrendered, there was actually one of the eight leaders of Bawangzhai. This guy turned out to be the leader of a small group of bandits in Wu County, and after the bandits gathered together that day, he became one of the eight leaders.
But this guy was greedy for life and afraid of death, and soon after the battle with the officers and soldiers began, he saw that his bandits had suffered many casualties, and he was immediately frightened. Seeing that some bandits surrendered, he also joined the alliance and knelt on the ground with these bandits and became prisoners.
Liu Yuan and the others quickly handed over this bandit leader and some of the bandits who surrendered to Qi Wei and Liu Haini. With this guy, one of the eight leaders, Yan Xiong, Liu Haini and others successfully opened the door of the Bawangzhai cottage.
The next thing was much simpler, Yan Xiong and Liu Haini's men quickly took the cottage, annihilated and captured a large number of bandits, and only a few bandits took advantage of the chaos to escape.
In the end, Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu gathered the remaining bandits in Bawangzhai and counted the number of people, and at this time there were less than 100 people left on their hands.
Seeing that there were only so few people under them, Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu were very desperate, and they discussed it. felt that according to the current situation, they were no longer suitable to survive in the territory of Wu County.
So, Wu Laoqi and Zhang Xiu fled from Wu County with the remaining bandits of less than 100 people, and went to the nearby county capital to find a place to live.
So far, the bandits in Wu County, who have never been wiped out for decades, have all been counted in less than a year after Yang Yun came to Wu County.
Of course, when reporting to the imperial court, Yang Yun followed the advice of Yan Xiong, Ju Yuanguang and others. Report to the imperial court, after several wars. The officers and men of Wu County were successfully eliminated, and the bandits led by Zhang Kainiu and Wu Laoqi, totaling more than 5,000 people, greatly reduced the pressure of the bandits on Wu County.
But there are still two bandits in the mountains of Wu County, Yan Xiong and Soaphorn of Rhino Valley hooked up with Liu Haini, and there are more than 2,000 bandits in both bandits. Therefore, it is hoped that the imperial court will support Wu County, continue to manufacture weapons and recruit officers and soldiers, so that Wu County and County will have the strength to compete with bandits.
Emperor Fuhuang Yang Chengfeng was originally right, and he felt a little guilty about arranging this son to a barren place like Wu County. For Yang Yun's requests, he generously agreed to them one by one.
Although he did not send a single soldier to Yang Yun, he did not send a tael of silver. But with the permission of the imperial court, Yang Yun was much more bold when it came to making weapons and recruiting county soldiers.
And this time, the fight with the bandits. The great victory can be achieved in addition to the strategic planning of the people and the courageous progress of the officers and men. Tie Shan and others, weapons made of coal, also played a great role.
After improving the technology, the quality of iron weapons has been greatly improved, and in the process of fighting the bandits, the weapons of officers and soldiers and the weapons of the bandits have collided. Generally, it is the weapons of the bandits that are broken, so in the process of fighting with the officers and soldiers, many bandits are immediately at a disadvantage because their weapons are damaged by the other party, and they are quickly killed by the officers and soldiers. As a result, in this battle to encircle and suppress the bandits, the number of officers and men lost very little, and the casualties were only less than 100.
For a long time, the bandits in Wu County have been a thorn in the hearts of Yang Yun and others, although the scale of the bandits has been greatly reduced later, but these guys are hiding in the shadows, and from time to time they have to jump out to destroy the development of Wu County, so that the people are worried.
This time, these bandits were finally completely driven out of Wu County, which made Yang Yun and the others feel much more relaxed, and they can now finally develop the local economy wholeheartedly like other county governments.
According to Yan Xiong's suggestion, the size of bandits in the Rhino Valley and Baojiaogou has not decreased, but has increased a lot. This time, all the bandits who surrendered in Bawangzhai were arranged to the bandit cottages of Rhino Valley and Sajiaogou.
For such an arrangement, these surrendered bandits are very satisfied. Because they've adapted to life in the mountains and forests, they won't get used to living in the county. Now let them continue to be "bandits" in the mountains, of course, they are happy.
This is also a good thing for the county government, if these surrendered bandits kill them all, it will be a little cruel, but if they are all locked up in the county government's prison, in this way, a lot of manpower and financial resources will be wasted.
And if they are directly allowed to live in Wu County, they are worried that these guys who have been robbing homes and houses all the year round will affect the security of Wu County. So arranging them to continue to be bandits in the Rhino Valley and Sapocaogou is the best option.