The pursuing team led by Wei Yuan quickly left the fleeing bandits behind.

The panicked escapees will not be long before they run out of stamina during the escape and are killed by the seeming slow pursuers.

So soon after these scattered bandits escaped from the valley, they were chased by soldiers. After some were killed by muskets, the rest had to leave the trail and burrow into the surrounding forests.

In this way, they are left behind by their pursuers. Wei Yuan led 100 soldiers to resume marching columns at this time, and rushed straight down the trail to the Tsushima Ridge lair.

At this moment, in the Tsushimaling bandit village, all that is left are dozens of old, weak, sick and disabled - Lin Shiwan has already brought out all the elites. So when the special operators climbed up from under the watchtower and used short crossbows and throwing knives to deal with the sentries, it did not cause any twists and turns.

Soon after, a large force of 100 men rushed down the narrow ridge. It was only then that the unresponsive left-behind personnel realized that something was wrong. However, the time left for them by the enemy was too short, and when the troops rushed halfway up the ridge, the well-organized special combat team pulled the small explosive bag in front of the gate, and the gate was blown open.

The smarter ones would have run away from the cave beneath the stockade, and the stupid ones would have scurried around the stockade like headless flies, and then they would be shot and killed by the soldiers who rushed in. In fact, there are a few brain-dead people: in such a race against time, they are still robbing the silver taels in the public treasury...... Needless to say, what will happen to this generation.

......

In the evening of the same day, the 100 soldiers who remained in Balzigou to clean up the battlefield returned to Tsushimaling with a ticket of prisoners. The so-called "cleaning up the battlefield" is actually just going down to capture prisoners and replenishing guns, and as for the corpses or something, naturally there is a team to deal with the aftermath.

The Red Gun Battalion was stationed in Tsushima Ridge that day. It was not until the evening of the next day that the "aftermath brigade", with a number of 500 people, rushed from Longyan County to Balzigou.

Originally, the first batch of manpower was not used so much. But when Li Qianhu and his subordinates returned to the guard station, they became staunch revolutionary fighters overnight, swearing to be incompatible with the bandits who killed the people.

So after hearing that reinforcements were being organized here, Li Qianhu, who was heartbroken for the country, came uninvited with 300 tattered-clad Hanako......

Considering that the social situation in Ningyang County is relatively complicated, and the mass base is not as thick as that of Longyan, Ding Liqiu also agreed to Li Qianhu's request - these people can be regarded as their own people and can be used in future suppression actions.

After these 500 people came to Balzigou, it only took half a day to clean up all the corpses and throw them off the cliff.

After that, the large army was in the bandit village for two more days. After all the belongings were cleaned up, the coalition army went down the mountain and went straight to Ningyang County...... Behind him came the rumbling sound of bandit explosions.

After a large number of people came to Ningyang County, the originally deserted small county town was suddenly as lively as a boiling pot.

Ningyang County was originally just a guard city, a "township-level county" specially used to prevent bandits, and it belonged to the standard poor mountains and bad waters in the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a good place to distribute dick silk officials.

So as soon as Wei Yuan arrived in Ningyang County, he waved the official document and took over all the authority of this small city with a big palm - there is no county order here, only a chaotic county cheng, so the takeover is very smooth.

Some of the guards in the county town called Hanako and the third class of officials were also mobilized. At this time, the 300 "elites" brought by Li Qianhu played a role in maintaining discipline and "teaching by word and deed".

When the local armed forces in Ningyang County got the "peers" to show up and know that following the boss would not only improve their lives and have meat to eat, but also get the opportunity to reward silver and pick up rags, they suddenly became geared up and bowed their heads to orders.

Then Ding Liqiu came.

With 200 reinforcements from Xiamen, Ding Liqiu and Wei Yuan met in Ningyang County. It was already the end of October, and after completing the last task, the first company had to rush back to the big staff to participate in the founding ceremony, so these 200 soldiers were actually here to change guards.

What's the last task? Lin Jiazhai.

......

Lin Sanmen held the stone edge with both hands, and his eyes were full of fear when he looked out.

The exterior wall of the Hakka tulou is closed, and in order to prevent bandits, only narrow portholes are opened at the high part of the wall.

The position where Lin Sanmen was standing at the moment was above the gate of the tulou. There is a reserved enemy platform here, and a large number of elites of the clan are guarding here with crossbow machines, ash bottles, and long hooks, and there is a rolling oil pot on the side.

Although Lin Jiazhai is a tulou complex, once something happens, the clansmen will automatically gather in the largest "ancestral building" of the Lin family. This ancestral building is not only sturdy and sturdy, with sufficient money and food, but also a ditch and suspension bridge on the periphery, which is the core building of the Lin family.

However, today Lin Sanmen stood on the tulou that had sheltered the Lin family for many years, but his eyes were full of despair.

...... On the day that Lin 100,000 bandits were ambushed in Bald Ditch, Lin Sanmen knew the news. After those scattered bandits ran away, some members of the Lin family naturally thought of going home as soon as they could, just like Lin Shiwan.

And Lin Sanmen was immediately shocked when he learned the news. He then not only ordered his people to gather their goods and money and grain in the ancestral building, but also sent spies to inquire about the news.

As the spies returned, the bad news kept coming.

Bald ditch corpses are everywhere...... Tsushima Ridge has been breached...... The green-coated officers and soldiers occupied the county seat with the guards...... The official army is coming to attack Linjiazhai......

The bad news was approaching step by step, but Lin Sanmen had no choice. The biggest reliance of the local tyrants: the bandits have been wiped out. And the so-called intertwined local relations also disappeared after Weiyuan took control of the county.

At this time, the extermination of Lin Jiazhai has become politically correct, and no one who does not open his eyes dares to talk nonsense again: the crime of gangsterism is to kill the head and rob the family. The biggest official in Ningyang County is just a chicken-like county official, and the rest of the sticks are desperately carrying rice and grain to the labor army, and there is really no one who is mentally handicapped.

Lin Sanmen actually sent an envoy, intending to admit that he would hide the wave in front of him first.

However, the conditions offered by Wei Yuan were unacceptable to him: all 3,000 men, women, and children of the Lin clan surrendered, left the house, and waited for the officers and soldiers to fall.

What's the difference between that and letting them kill themselves? Everyone knows the brutality and greed of the officials and soldiers, and if they surrender unconditionally, it is really better to commit suicide - at least the suicide can be cleaned, and there is no need to watch the officials and soldiers loot their homes and bully women and children.

As a result, the Lin family, who shared the same hatred, decided to fight to the death with the officials and soldiers.

The Lin family, who became a vulnerable group overnight, will never remember the innocent people who have been brutally killed and robbed by bandits over the years.

......

After three days of reorganization in the county seat, early that morning, the coalition brigade with strong morale set out...... The Lin family was already ready at this time.

However, Lin Sanmen, who was the patriarch, knew that his family was about to be in trouble.

The information channels that Lin Sanmen has mastered are not accessible to ordinary clansmen. He knew that the officers and soldiers who came this time were not trivial, not in the ordinary sense, and if Lin Jiazhai relied on sticking to it, he would probably not be able to stop it.

If it were according to his own opinion, he might as well offer gold and silver and surrender on his own initiative...... No matter what the outcome is, it is better than being breached by someone and the whole clan becoming prisoners of war.

However, his opinion is not a fart in the face of the internal political correctness of the Lin family, where the clan elders "resisted to the last moment".

So when he stood on the gate of the fortress today and saw the strange and neat troops on the other side of the trench, his heart was filled with fear.

The composition of the coalition army is as follows: 400 regular troops, 500 laborers + troops brought by Longyan County, and 500 people from local troops + 500 people provided by local large households.

The tasks of the latter two are mainly encirclement and blockade. As for attacking the fortified and breaking the village, including taking care of the spoils afterwards, the regular troops from Longyan and Li Qianhu will be responsible for them - they are veterans and know the rules of traversing.

After looking at the opponent's military appearance for a while, Lin Sanmen was originally going to leave. He doesn't know how to fight, and he wasn't in charge of this place in the first place.

However, the next moment, the chubby Lord Cheng Liu of Ningyang County came out of the queue. Lord Liu and Lin Sanmen originally had a little friendship, but today, under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes on both sides, no one could care about that friendship.

I saw that the county lord was dressed in an official robe, trembling and trembling to the front of the trench, took out a document from his sleeve, and read it aloud.

The text is very short, and there are not a few sentences in the Communist Party, and the content is even more cliché: urge the people of the Lin clan not to make mistakes again and again, go against the government, and open the door and surrender as soon as possible, so as not to add another rebellious charge of "resisting the heavenly soldiers" to the major crime of "banditry".

After Liu Xiancheng finished reading the text, the official articles of both sides were completed. 5 minutes later, seeing Wei Yuan, who was not responding in the Lin family's tulou, waved his hand and gave the order to attack.

The first wave of attacks was 5 people.

These 5 guys are the best marksman in a company. Their task after coming out of the ranks was to solve the drawbridge.

Since there are moats, there will definitely be drawbridges. The suspension bridge of the Lin family's tulou, like all the other suspension bridges in the city, has now been pulled up and erected diagonally in front of the gate.

After the five soldiers came out of the ranks, they first looked at the direction of the wind, and then they took the 28 large covers equipped with scopes and came to the downwind and began to aim.

Under the gaze of thousands of people, a crisp gunshot kicked off the war.

The five sharpshooters standing diagonally opposite the gate of the stockade, after the leader of the squad fired a shot to determine the position, they then began to fire a salvo.

The goal is to pull up the cables of the suspension bridge.

At a distance of 100 meters, the 28 large covers equipped with scopes can be said to be unmissable. After five people aimed at a point and fired a few rounds of guns, the thick hemp rope at the wrist was stretched and broken after a "bang".

At this time, the Lin family on the door reacted.

Although they immediately counterattacked with their bows and crossbows, it was of little avail: all five gunners stood 100 meters away, accompanied by shield-wielding guards ready to defend against the arrows.

After breaking a rope, the drawbridge has become semi-diagonal. Then it was simple, the five men came upwind and continued to shoot for a few rounds, and the other hemp rope was soon broken, so that the long suspension bridge fell headlong, and the dust on the other side of the trench was raised.

...... Except for the Crossing Crowd and the army they had trained, the rest of the people present were dumbfounded.

...... The melon-eating masses who had been waiting to watch the brutal trench attack and defense were seen for the first time a new method of warfare, and they now knew what a sniper rifle was.