Section 74 Raid and Disturbance Warfare

"Did Chiho and the other officers catch it?"

"Liu Qianhu has been caught, and most of the officers have been killed. Didn't catch a few alive. ”

"Has anyone escaped?"

"No one escaped."

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

More than 20 officers in the city, from the small banner and above, to the 100 households, the 100 households, and the personnel with specific positions who have no official ranks, have been killed in the violent * before the city is breached. Only a dozen or so people were escorted to Wei Aiwen.

One by one, their hands were tied behind their backs, their hair was disheveled, and some of them were bleeding. One by one, they gasped for breath and seemed to be in shock.

"Which one is Liu Qianhu?"

As soon as Wei Aiwen asked, the thousand households roared loudly: "The anti-thief and anti-thief court will sooner or later clean up your anti-thief."

Wei Aiwen knew a little bit of military language, listened to his scolding, frowned, and asked, "This is that Liu Qianhu?" ”

Lin Fu said: "It's him, there are several pro-soldiers around this dog, and they saved his life by desperately protecting him." ”

"Did the pro-soldier catch it alive?"

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

"Of course you have to stay. The three disciplines and eight points of attention have been forgotten," Wei Aiwen said dissatisfiedly, "Show it to the hygienist, and save it if you can." He's just a little soldier. How much sin can it be? ”

Lin Fu hurriedly responded: "Yes." ”

Wei Aiwen glanced at the thousands of households who were arrested. It doesn't fall right away. Q: "How are the military households?" ”

"For the first few, I placed them in the martial arts hall, and the rest of Ding Zhuang were waiting in front of the martial arts hall." Lin Fu said, "Do you want to call them?" ”

"Okay, you call the leader." Wei Aiwen had an idea.

The two military households led by them were called, and as soon as they saw Wei Aiwen standing in the middle of the crowd, they knew that it was a senior official among the thieves, and quickly knelt down.

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

One of the two military households is called Hao Guoxin and the other is Cui Zheng, both of whom are around 30 years old, and they are thin and small, and they are described as withered, and they look like soldiers to put it mildly, and they are not as good as local farmers. Wei Aiwen asked, knowing that Hao Guoxin was the blacksmith here, and Cui was a horse breeder.

Wei Aiwen chatted with them casually, knowing that they were all children of local military families. Because of the relationship between Zhenli here, the guards are quite well equipped, and Ding Zhuang also practices from time to time. Not only are they fully armoured, but they also have 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 guard house were robes earlier, but gradually became the relationship between the landlord and the serf, and the official land in the guard was theoretically state, and was cultivated by the guards for food and salary, but in fact, almost all the harvest was taken by the officers, and ordinary military households could only get a small amount to make a living. The military households were not only serfs of the state, but also slaves of the officers, and were treated as slaves for generations. Not to mention being poor, he was often tortured and killed by military officers.

Wei Aiwen has long known these contents, after he entered the city, he saw the families of the soldiers killing the families of the ** officers, and even the women and children did not let go, and he knew that the hatred during the period was very deep, far from ordinary contradictions.

"That being the case, let me give vent to your suffering brethren today." Wei Aiwen said, "I will hand over the people to you in a while, and you will judge and judge yourself, and it is up to you to decide whether you want to cut off your head or slaughter and feed the dogs." ”

Hao Guoxin and the others didn't know how the thieves were going to fall, they were very afraid that the thieves would surrender and rebel, and they were a little uneasy when they said that they would surrender Liu Qianhu and others. Now I hear that I am going to give them an outing, and my heart is overjoyed. He quickly knelt down and kowtowed again, saying:

"These wolf-hearted guys, the little ones have wanted their dogs to die for a long time."

"Okay, let's take the people away." As he spoke, he ordered the soldiers to escort most of them to the martial arts hall and hand them over to a "struggle meeting" before they were all hanged. The master who managed the accounts in the thousands of households was left for the inventory of materials, and another hundred households were left.

At present, the search team of the Planning Institute took the warehouses and mansions of the captives one by one to count and seize the materials, and there was nothing exciting in the city of Qianhusuo, nothing more than food, weapons and livestock. The most valuable was the seizure of more than two dozen horses and mules. The size of the horse is very small, and it is about the common fruit horse in the Yunnan-Guichuan area.

It took a day to count the supplies and hold the struggle meeting, and in the frenzied atmosphere of the struggle meeting, Liu Qianhu and his party were all hanged on the trees outside the village, and how to deal with their dependents caused quarrels among the military households, some wanted to divide the women, some advocated killing them all, and the two sides argued so much that they almost used knives. Zuihou still had the upper hand in the opinion of "cutting the grass and eradicating the roots", and the military households dragged the officers' dependents and doglegs to the river beach outside the village, told them to kneel, and then beheaded them one by one.

When the military households were killing, Wei Aiwen called the hundred households that were specially left behind. This hundred households had long been frightened to the point of not possessing their bodies, and when they saw Wei Aiwen, they collapsed to the ground, begging for mercy.

"Spare your dog's life." Wei Aiwen said, "You get out of here immediately, and immediately go to the Haikou Thousand Households Institute to find Tang Yunwen and go in a hurry."

"The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare"

"Go quickly, if you dare not go to the emergency, you will hand over your whole family to the army." Wei Aiwen turned his head to the side and signaled the direction of the lower river beach, where screams kept coming.

"Yes, yes, yes, the small one must go" Baihu hurriedly got up.

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

Subsequently, all the military households in the two cantonments were removed, and they were scattered and resettled in various communes. As for the houses, materials and land in these two cantonments, they were accepted by the People's Committee for Civil Affairs and resettled separately.

As for Hao Guoxin and Cui Zheng, one was assigned to the machinery factory to be trained as a worker, and the other was assigned to raise horses under Nick. Wei Aiwen recruited a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old young people from the military household to enrich the teaching team, preparing for the initial training and then conducting political training. Now they are all blood-stained people in their hands, and they are not afraid that they will go dark if they don't follow the crossing group.

You Laohu took his more than 300 horses and horses and crossed the county border of Lingao-Chengmai. He regretted a little that the flag had not yet been ready, and that the march was not majestic at all.

The task force is tasked with creating momentum, so the Tigers can slow down the march along the way. When encountering a village, the people in the village always take a break, and the people in the village flee from the wind, and the tiger does not send people to chase after him, but only takes care of everyone's discipline, and is not allowed to enter the people's houses without permission, nor is it allowed to take away the people's things. Before leaving, put some slogans on the wall and so on.

Along the way, they encountered larger fortified villages, and You Tiger always sent people to collect grain. Seeing that they had cannons in the village, they didn't dare to disobey, so they gave more than a dozen stones of grain to deal with it, and You Lao didn't ask for much, anyway, as long as the news of the arrival of the Fubo army was spread.

In this way, his men and horses walked all the way to rest, stop and go, and walked for a day before they arrived at Chengmai County. This speed makes You Tiger feel surprisingly slow, but in fact, according to the normal post road itinerary of the government, Qiongshan to Chengmai is half a day, and Chengmai to Lingao is one day.

When the scouts of the tiger arrived at the city, the summer was long, and the gate of this county town had not yet been closed, and the villagers were in and out, and there was no intention of preparing for war at all. It wasn't until the team appeared that the county town panicked and rushed to close the city gate.

You Tiger knew that if he wanted to seize the city, he could do it even if he ran and charged. However, 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 white young man who loves to read books and has a bookish atmosphere. He is half a military enthusiast, but the object of his fever is modern military, and he is not interested in modern gadgets. Belong to the queue to shoot the party.

Because he loves to read books very much, and usually considers himself a "staff officer" and "military advisor", You Laohu simply uses him as his chief of staff to give him advice.

"Lao Yu." You Lao Hu calls everyone "Lao X", even Du Wen is also called "Lao Du", "We are now in Chengmai, and it seems that the people of Sixiang are scared, but I don't know how scared the officials in this city are." According to the commander's meaning, it is better to build momentum with great fanfare, so how can you build momentum? ”

"Of course, it's a siege posture." Yu Zhiqian was confident, "But just setting off a cannon outside is not a pressure." ”

"Don't analyze the situation, just talk about what to do."

"The county seat can't run, and I try to harass the place as much as possible." Yu Zhi sneaked up on an idea, leaving some men and horses here to monitor the county seat, and other troops launched armed marches nearby, collecting grain all the way, beating a few large households, and by the way, requisitioning many people, cutting wood under the city to build siege equipment, digging trenches, building camps, and posing as if they were fighting.

"We are few people, and the people in the city are not blind. So we have to make it look like we're in the vanguard, and there's a big team coming from behind. Then the people in the county will panic. I had to go out and ask for help. ”

You Tiger Hahadaxiao patted him on the shoulder: "It's really good for you, let's have a good night's rest today, and tomorrow we will divide our troops to go out to harass Chengmai." Let's arrange a camp now. ”

The army's regulations stipulate that as long as there is a camp, trenches should be dug, earth fences should be built, and deer barreds should be erected. You Tiger estimates that harassing Chengmai will not end in a few days, and the fortifications of the camp should be repaired stronger. When I set off, I specially received a few rolls of barbed wire. Then the soldiers erected a simple watchtower about ten meters high, and they could clearly see every move on the head of Chengmai Nancheng. The three mountain grenades brought with them were also fortified and shelters were built for artillery and ammunition trucks to protect against the rain.

You Tiger led people to inspect the camps, not to mention the soldiers, and the morale of the militia was also very high. Everyone speculates that the city will be attacked tomorrow, and they are all talking about how to break the city quickly.

You Laohu did not say that the task was just harassment, he checked the sanitary conditions of each company and platoon in accordance with the regulations, and urged the cooks to boil water to burn everyone's feet. Compared to the regular infantry, the militia rarely trained for long marches, and they also dragged artillery and carried baggage along the way. As soon as the tents were set up, many collapsed and fell asleep. You Tiger urged the militia captains to wake up all the people who were asleep and tell them to eat and burn their feet.

After the inspection, You Laohu and Yu Zhiqian went to the watchtower again and watched the movement on the city with night vision binoculars. I saw that many torches and lanterns had been lit on the city, and many Ding Zhuang had been added to patrol the city.

Compared with the strangely shaped Lingao county, Chengmai county can be called a decent county, boxy. The north gate is also set up but not opened, but the city wall is not high and thick, and the fortification is not tight. The two led the troops all the way, and felt that Chengmai had a slightly larger population than Lingao, and the land development was also better, so I don't know if it was the relationship between the proximity to the city.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning led by Yu Zhiqian, half of the people came to Chengmai County, and they went deep into Chengmai County, and they took the rest of the people to wave their flags and shout under the city, and the militia also released firearms to the city from time to time, bluffing.

When the people of the city saw that they had gone away, and that there were only a hundred people left, they became emboldened. There were constant shouts and curses in the city, and sometimes arrows were shot down. The Fubo army was five or six hundred meters away from the city, and even the cannons in the city could not hit it. They shouted at each other in the city and under the city.

Surrounded by guards and heralds, the Tiger stood on a mound and commanded a harassing battle. Watching the militia crackling with one-eyed three-eyed firearms, he knew that there was actually no iron inside, and it was just a fun. He couldn't help laughing, this kind of war is a bit rare, I don't know if it's a sparrow war. In the midst of his thoughts, suddenly the drawbridge was lowered, and more than 200 Lian Yong and Minzhuang swarmed out of the city gate, rushed through the trench, and shouted to kill.

You Tiger did not expect the enemy to dare to go out of the city to fight, but the necessary precautions were still there, and the infantry platoon covering the militia immediately formed a double-layer horizontal formation.

The command knife of the indigenous second lieutenant of the infantry platoon commanded by "shooting" swung down violently, the gunfire of Minnie's rifle was deafening, and You Tiger clearly rushed to the front of a dozen villagers and Minzhuang and fell backwards as if they had hit a wall. The villagers didn't expect that the thieves' firearms were so powerful, and they could kill and injure people more than half a mile away, and the pace of the charge suddenly hesitated.

The soldiers of the infantry platoon were immediately loaded with bullets, followed by a second and third platoon fire, the rate of fire of the Mini rifle far exceeded that of all the firearms of the time, and within a few minutes the villagers were knocked down by more than a dozen people, and the rest of the men were in confusion and ran into the city in a hurry.

"The turtle son still wants to come out for hand-to-hand combat" You Tiger took a sip, "just retracted it like this" He couldn't help but feel a little regretful, the militia around him all picked up their spears, lined up in formation, and could be put into battle at any time, and he himself wanted to try the power of the long knife of the border army.

"Battalion commander, let's set up a cannon to bombard a few of his mother's cannons" The leader of the artillery cadet team ran excitedly to ask for battle, "Kill the majesty of the dog officer in the city"

You Laohu watched it for a long time before saying, "Forget it today"

He had already learned from the scouts' reports that in the middle of the night a dozen or so men had secretly descended from the other two city gates, and the scouts did not capture them according to his orders, but only followed their whereabouts. I found that three or four of them were heading for the city, and the rest were going to various places in the county.

You Laohu analyzed that this must be the use of the county to send people to various parts of the county to mobilize the township to strengthen the defense of the city. The more villagers gathered in the county, the more the news of their siege of the county town in Chengmai would spread, so he did not intercept these envoys and let them go around asking for help. Today, the people in the city bravely came out to fight, which shows that they are ready to mobilize not too few people.

In his heart, he can't wait to fight a big battle under Chengmai City and make a great contribution. And he was full of confidence in his firepower and the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, believing that as long as he was vigilant at all times, he could repel any number of people who came to attack.

The next day, Yu Zhiqian brought back dozens of stones of grain and two or three hundred people. The two of them went down the city and went into action. While repairing the camp, he also cut down wood to make ladders and chariots for siege. The gentry in the city saw that although the thieves only had a small force, they drove the people to make all kinds of preparations for attacking the city, and they already knew that the thieves' firearms were sharp, so they were very frightened, and constantly sent people out to report the emergency, and mobilized the villagers in the county to enter the city for reinforcements.

"There are more and more villagers in the city." You Laohu said, "If we take the city, we can capture a large number of prisoners." ”

Yu Zhiqian didn't speak, he felt that because his own troops had not increased in the past few days, the garrison in the city had gradually relaxed, so he suggested starting to shell the county seat.

"We don't have enough people, so it's inevitable that people will look down on them, so let's give them a taste of cannonballs."

"Okay, the militia of the province will bring back the shells and gunpowder."

In order to increase the tension, You Tiger approved the artillery cadets to shell the south gate of the county seat. Although the shells of the 12-pounder mountain howitzer could not destroy the city wall, they destroyed half of the city tower and many battlement walls, killing and wounding many people and villagers 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. Fires broke out in several parts of the city, and some houses were destroyed by shells that entered the city. After continuous shelling, the soldiers and civilians defending the city were disheartened. If He Ming didn't want them to break the city, Chengmai would have taken it immediately.

You Laohu 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 down a few villages, destroy a few large households, and take advantage of the war to eliminate a group of local powerful factions, so as to lay the foundation for future rule. By the way, to earn more loot, doesn't the executive committee shout every day that "we can't afford to fight"? Arresting people and robbing food and property can play a role in plugging the mouth