Chapter 159: Killing
Even if Luo Daniu strengthened his patrol, the news that Qin Chuan was burdened quickly spread throughout Lou Fu.
That night, Emperor Guan's army caught more than a dozen villagers who had sneaked out of Lou Fu on the periphery, and after bringing them back and beating them severely, these people were all recruited.
These people, without exception, are all the gentry and gentry who have planted in Lou Fu's eyes, including the Jingle Wu family, the Dongcun Hu family, the Lanxian Zhang family, the Chijianling Feng family, etc., and even the Taiyuan Ninghua Palace.
Of course, the three cliffs and the East Hulu River are also indispensable.
In addition to these dozen or so spies who were caught, there were still many fish that slipped through the net, and overnight, the news that Qin Chuan was seriously injured and unconscious spread all over Jingle and Lan County.
Second, Jingyou and Lou Fu suddenly became lively around.
Countless spies blatantly sentry in the vicinity, Jingle Wu family, Dongcun Hu family, Chijianling Feng family, Lanxian Zhang family, as well as Wang Gang Leopard Wu of the three cliffs, Ren Liang of Donghuluchuan, etc., all of them couldn't sit still, and they dispatched troops one after another, forcing Lou Fu.
In this day and age, nine times out of ten, people who are seriously injured and unconscious will eventually die of fever.
They are waiting, waiting for the death of the surnamed Qin.
When the time comes, Lou Fu will naturally fall apart.
The 1,500 Guan Emperor army is not to be feared.
They will swarm into Lou Fu and divide the money and grain, cattle, sheep and horses, women's heat, etc.
Everyone knows that Lou Fu has a lot of grain, at least 15,000 stone or more, more than 20,000 taels of silver, more than 20,000 taels, cattle, sheep and horses, and just the mules that pull the carts, and the grain transportation teams of each family have sent more than 1,000 heads.
In this regard, Lou Fu naturally expected it.
During Qin Chuan's coma, Lou Fu's major affairs were discussed and decided by Wang Jizong, Luo Daniu, Li Dingliang and Liu Youzhu.
Someone suggested that someone should be sent to Taiyuan for help quickly, and if someone in Lanxian County and Jingle wanted to rebel, please command Du Yingtang to send troops to suppress it.
But as soon as this proposal came out, it was vetoed by several people.
Asking for help will only make you look weak, and it will make those hanging hairs more unscrupulous.
What's more, the chief steward didn't seem to have the word "asking for help" in his mind, and he never planned to ask Ming Ting to help him.
The next morning, when the spies of those gentry and big families appeared around Lou Fu and Jingle, the Guan Emperor's army also dispatched one after another, and began to hunt down the spies on a large scale, chasing them out for dozens of miles, showing off their might in the areas of Dongcun, Jingle and Tieshigou Mountain, and erecting the heads of many spies on the surrounding mountain beams with wooden sticks.
Those gentlemen were naturally not frightened, but they couldn't figure out the details of the other party for a while, and they didn't dare to act rashly.
It wasn't until Emperor Guan's army retreated, and on the third morning, they led their own soldiers and horses one after another, joined up with other families, and came to Lou Fu in a mighty way.
This time, Emperor Guan's army did not go out, but retreated to Jingle and Lou Fu to strengthen their defenses.
Li Dingliang and Liu Youzhu took a tiger squat cannon and a two-foot-eight-inch Franco machine gun to Jingle in person, amassing 700 soldiers, while Luo Daniu and Luo Ba stayed behind to guard Lou Fu and control the panicked villagers.
Wang Jizong hadn't slept all night, discussing military affairs with Luo Daniu and others at night, while Bai was patrolling back and forth in Lou Fu to appease the villagers.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Lantern Festival.
The coalition forces of the major households have approached Jingyou, with a total of 2,000 troops, stationed at the north end of Jingyou and on the other side of the Fen River in the east.
To the south, the 1,200 allied forces of Ren Liang and Wang Gangbao 5 had also crossed Tieshigou Mountain and were stationed in the area of Hongyaling.
These two groups of people did not attack, but only waited for the hiccup surnamed Qin.
……
Qin Chuan began to have a fever on the night of his coma and began to talk nonsense.
Lao Huang and Huang Liuxi were always by the bedside, and the method taught by Qin Chuan when Huang Liuxi was injured and had a fever kept wiping his hands and feet with rags soaked in warm water to cool him down.
Wang Jizong applied all his jars of knife wound medicine to Qin Chuan, and the Lang Zhong who bleed Huang Liuxi last time was also tied up overnight again.
Wen Suxin came a few times, and each time he brought a bowl of carefully boiled meat porridge, and personally poured it into Qin Chuan's mouth one by one, and only after feeding it did his cheeks and eye circles redden.
……
Qin Chuan had a long, long dream.
In the dream, he stood at a junction at a bewildered intersection, with a sheep's intestine on the left, zigzagging towards a large mountain into the sky, and a flat avenue on the right, paved with gray cement, wide and straight, as if leading to a noisy city
Standing at the intersection, he suddenly remembered himself sitting in front of the computer and eating chicken, drinking and skewering with friends on the street.
After a while, he appeared again to copy a big knife and kill seven in and seven out among hundreds of bandits and bandits, rushing left and right surrounded by a group of fierce and vicious Jiannu.
He was confused.
Who am I?
Why is it here?
After being confused for a long time, he suddenly remembered a delicate and shy face, remembered the taste of fragrant jade, and his heart couldn't help but move.
Then, he took a step and walked to the left.
Subconsciously, he could find the shy woman to the left.
It was as if she was on the mountain, and although it was cold, there was no one nearby, and the woman was like a lamb to the slaughter, leaving him to do whatever he wanted.
By the way, he remembered that he was a man who could do whatever he wanted.
As he walked, he suddenly became a little sleepy, so he leaned against a tree by the side of the road and slept for a while.
After some time, he felt a warm sensation in his lips, as if something was flowing into his mouth.
He subconsciously swallowed the shareholder into his throat, and then slowly opened his eyes.
This is the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Lantern Festival.
He was unconscious at noon on the third.
The large coalition forces have just come to the quiet tour.
Wen Suxin had just fed a spoonful of gruel into his mouth, when he saw that he suddenly opened his eyes and shook his hand, the spoon fell on Lin.
Qin Chuan tried his best to swallow the gruel into his stomach, and tried to show her a smile that he thought was very confused.
……
In the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Cao Wenzhao led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to defeat the King of Chaoshi in the Huoshui area of Huozhou, and chased all the way north along the Fen River to Meng County on the same day, approaching the Shouyang area.
The guerrilla Cao Bianjiao took the lead and led 800 Guanning iron cavalry all the way to clear the wanderers along the way.
Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, sent Zanhua Zhang Zai to lead his troops to force Shouyang first, Zijin Liang and others were afraid of Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew, and when Lu Xiangsheng approached from Hebei, he hurriedly fled south into Henan through the area of Shexian County.
At this point, the Shou area returned to the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Dingchen ordered Zhang Yingchang to garrison Fenzhou, and Cao Wenzhao to garrison Pingding, defending the east and west sides of Taiyuan respectively.
Now that Shanxi is in good shape, Xu Dingchen is also in a good mood.
As soon as he took office for a month, he achieved two great feats, one was to capture the head of Jiannu and capture two generals of Jiannu, and the other was to pacify the bandits in Shanxi.
This, there is a news from the capital, Ah Shan has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and was given the title of five-grade Xiao cavalry captain by the emperor, and the emperor also praised Xu Dingchen and Du Yingtang and other Shanxi generals, if nothing else, a few more rewards should arrive.
Xu Dingchen's heart was full of joy and joy, and the Lantern Festival should be held in Yangqu Drunken Xiaolou to hold a banquet, and the banquet was held for the political envoys, the commanders of the envoys, and the officials of the three major yamen.
Just as he was drinking happily, an official suddenly ran in with a panicked look and whispered a few words in Xu Dingchen's ear.
Xu Dingchen's face changed greatly, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap".
The big officials who were with the banquet were suddenly silent and looked at him one after another.
"Really?"
Xu Dingchen stood up and asked the official sharply.
"Lord Huifutai, the people who are annoying have arrived outside the drunken sky, the adults can call them in, and you will know as soon as you ask."
"Quick, get them in."
"Yes."
"No, the official himself went out to meet them."
, Xu Dingchen held the hem of his official uniform and hurriedly walked out.
Du Yingtang and other officials realized that something was wrong and followed them out.
When I arrived outside the restaurant, I saw a group of people standing on the street, about fifty or sixty people, about half of whom were tied up tightly by the five flowers, and their heads were covered with cloth bags.
In addition, the gang also led dozens of horses, which were very conspicuous on the streets, and some of them carried large sacks on their backs.
The leader of the group was a man of extraordinary height, with long hands and feet.
"You're the messenger?"
As soon as Xu Dingchen came out, he asked the man.
The man clasped his fists and saluted, and said simply: "Under Li Dingliang, Lord Qin's personal soldiers have seen Lord Futai." ”
"Where is Qin Chuan's letter?"
"Your Excellency, please wait a moment."
Li Dingliang beckoned to the back.
The group of men in the back pushed about two dozen people tied up in front of Xu Dingchen.
He opened the mouths of a dozen sacks on horseback and poured out the contents of the sacks.
The hideous-faced, miserable heads rolled all over the street.
Xu Dingchen's face changed in fright, and he took a few steps back.
Du Yingtang and other officials also changed color and pushed back together.
Immediately after, everyone gasped.
Because, those bald heads with the same head only have one braid at the back of the head.
Li Dingliang stepped forward and tore off the cloth bags on the heads of the two dozen or so people who were tied, revealing their shiny heads and hideous and terrifying faces.
Xu Dingchen and the others gasped again and retreated again.
A few bold guards stood in front of them, drawing their swords, nervous.
Li Dingliang said lightly: "These Jiannu heads and these twenty-seven living mouths are the congratulatory gifts given by Lord Qin of my family to Futai Darao Lantern Festival, congratulating Lord Futai on his two miraculous achievements when he took office. ”
Xu Dingchen's face turned pale: "This ...... Where did these slaves come from? ”
Li Dingliang shook his head: "I'm really sorry, my Lord Qin doesn't know where these Jiannu came from." ”
"On the morning of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Lord Qin led a hundred guards to inspect the township in the area of Xitougou in the west of Lou Fu, and suddenly two hundred Jiannu came out of the mountain beam in the east and went straight to Lord Qin."
"At that time, there were nearly 300 villagers in that area, in order to protect the innocent villagers, Lord Qin used only 100 guards to resist twice as many Jiannu as himself, and when the reinforcements arrived, more than 70 people had been killed in the battle, and Lord Qin had eight arrows and seventeen knives in his body, but he still fought bravely to kill the enemy and beheaded 100 Jiannu. and did not pass out until reinforcements arrived."
"Only later did we learn that among the two hundred Jiannu, there are fifty bayalas and one hundred and fifty vests, which can be described as the elite of the Houjin army.
"Now, Lord Qin has woken up, and he came down to ask Lord Futai a few words, why did the elite of Jiannu suddenly appear in the depths of the Ming Kingdom? How did the two hundred Jiannu pass through the side wall and travel thousands of miles south to reach Lou Nu in a grand manner? ”
"The Jin merchants of Zhangjiakou Fort are the people of the Ming Dynasty or the lackeys of the Houjin? The military and political generals of the two towns of Xuanda are the great Ming Ruishi or the national thieves who are in cahoots with the lackeys of the Houjin? The group of civil and military ministers in the court who receive a large amount of silver every year are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty or the rebels and thieves? ”
This series of questions, Xu Dingchen was speechless, and his face turned pale.
The big officials present were all pale and did not say a word.
"Lord Futai, my Lord Qin also entrusts me to bring you a word."
"Lord Qin, if Lord Futai can't cure those Houjin lackeys, he will go on a killing spree."