Chapter 70: The Tide Goes Away
Li Dingguo finally sat down to eat, because the surnamed Qin made a bet with him, betting on when Zijin Liang would die, and when his father-in-law Zhang Bingzhong would be able to stand on his own and get ahead.
The surname Qin said that Zijin Liang's life was only six or seven months, and although his father-in-law was the strongest family in the 36th Battalion of the Righteous Army, after Zijin Liang died, he would still be crushed by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.
It wasn't until Gao Yingxiang also died that he finally had to stand on his own and get ahead.
However, when the time comes, he will still be pressed by another King Chuang, and he will be firmly pressed until his death, and the most recorded in the history books of later generations is King Chuang, not his father-in-law, the Eight Kings.
Li Dingguo didn't believe that Zijin Liang would die so quickly, and he didn't believe that his stepfather would be pressed by others all the time.
So, he decided to eat, live, and make this bet with the surname Qin.
Liu Youzhu and Luo Ba did not return until midnight and brought back dozens of corpses, except for the bodies of the two Jiujishan brothers, the rest were the corpses of Emperor Guan.
It was too dark for some of the bodies to be found, so we had to wait for dawn to find them.
They also brought back many wild beasts that had been killed by bows and arrows, most of them wolves, jackals, and foxes, and they had skinned more than 30 skins and hundreds of catties of meat.
In addition, there were more than a dozen war horses that were scattered during the day and surrounded by wolves in the valley at night, Liu Youzhu and Luo Ba took a dozen brothers to shoot the wolves with random arrows, and then led them back.
At the fourth watch, Qin Chuan asked Li Dingliang to lead 200 Guan Emperor's army and 500 displaced people, either driving donkey carts or pushing chicken carts out to pull back the horses killed in battle.
After a day and a night of fierce fighting, there were thousands of horses killed or broken legs, Zhang Kewang and Guo Yan and others had no time to carry them, only transported more than 100 horses to eat meat, wild beasts ate dozens of horses, and the rest of them, Mengjiazhuang's people transported them twice before they were transported.
The weather at the end of October is dry and cold, the most suitable for curing bacon, there are 1,200 catties of green salt in the Huangcong Mountain Village, part of which is the salt that Meng Guiming exchanged for grain with the border army, which was robbed by Bashan Hu, and the rest is estimated to be snatched back from Linxian, and finally all fell into the hands of Qin Chuan.
With green salt, bacon can be dried.
There are more than 800 dead horses, mostly short Mongolian horses, each about five or six hundred catties, after slaughtering, removing the water and bones, you can get 200 to 300 catties of net meat, a total of about 20,000 catties of meat.
These meats can produce about 5,000 catties of bacon, which is enough for Mengjiazhuang to eat for several months.
There are more than 10,000 catties of water, all of which have been blanched in a cauldron, scooped up and dripped dry water, and can be put for half a month in today's dry and cold weather.
In the next few months, everyone in Mengjiazhuang can eat meat every day, and the horse liver will be given priority to those who have chicken blindness, until there is no chicken blind eye in Mengjiazhuang.
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When the first rays of sunlight shone on the ruins of Loufu Town in the early morning, the reception of Guandi Mountain arrived, and five hundred bandits drove carts of cows, horses, donkeys and mules, or pushed chicken carts and swarmed.
Wang Gang and the rear men and horses of Bao Wu transported the hundreds of stone grain and a group of cattle and sheep that they had robbed before, and transported them to the three cliffs not far from Huluchuan overnight for storage, preparing to set up a big village here, and then divided a part of the men and horses to rush to meet them, and finally arrived at Lou Fu at noon.
With the response, the coalition army has grown to 2,000 people, and they are not afraid of Zhang Kewang's sneak attack, nor do they have to worry about the tricks of the surname Qin.
Several people distributed the grain according to the proportion of the troops, Wang Gangbao and his gang took 2,800 stones, Guo Yan divided 1,500 stones, and Bashanhu only got 200 stones.
Bashan Tiger now has no territory, so he can only borrow Guo Yan's territory to settle down, and after recruiting troops and buying horses in the past two days, he will ask Guo Yan to send troops to help and recapture Huangcong Mountain.
After the grain was divided, people from all walks of life began to load trucks one after another, ready to transport them back to their respective territories.
During this period, a thief accidentally dropped a bag of grain to the ground, broke the hemp rope that tied the mouth of the bag, and the grain inside sprayed out.
A small leader scolded and kicked over, and the thief squatted down in a panic, picked up the grain, and wanted to put it back in the bag, when he suddenly froze
After a short pause, the thief hurriedly opened the sack and pulled out another small sack from it.
The little leader was also flustered, and hurriedly drew his knife, plunged it into the sack, and cut it open, revealing that it was full of dead grass and mud.
When Guo Yan, Wang Gangbao, and the others rushed to hear the news, they opened hundreds of sacks with pale faces and found that they were all filled with another small sack filled with dead grass and mud, and only a thin layer of grain was filled with a thin layer of grain sewn with linen.
"The two masters, surnamed Qin, the son of a bitch raised us as monkeys, Guo can't bear this tone, the one in charge is willing to step on Mengjiazhuang with Guo and kill the one surnamed Qin?"
Guo Yan was furious, pulled out his knife, pointed in the direction of Mengjiazhuang and asked.
Wang Gangbao Wu was also so angry that he pulled out his knife almost without thinking, and shouted in unison: "Kill into Mengjiazhuang, kill the surnamed Qin!" ”
The surrounding subordinates also raised their swords and guns, and they were furious, shouting in unison.
Li Biaofeng and Tongtianzhu shouted the most excitedly, they had been trying to kill the surnamed Qin for the past two days, but because they had no chance, the surnamed Qin had not been able to intercept and kill when they rushed into battle, and they had been unwilling to be angry.
Also excited is Bashan Tiger, as long as he slaughters Mengjiazhuang and kills the son of a bitch surnamed Qin, those people in Huangcongshan will naturally collapse without a fight, and he will be able to easily regain his territory.
Soon, two thousand men and horses threw down the mountain of sacks and went straight to Mengjiazhuang with murderous spirit.
Yesterday they didn't have siege equipment, and they didn't dare to fight Mengjiazhuang, but now they have 2,000 people, and they don't even need siege equipment.
They worked desperately, folded more than 2,000 brothers, and stole the grain with all their lives, but it turned out to be a fake filled with grass!
Anyone who encounters this kind of thing can't bear it, it's really unbearable.
You have to kill so many people to get out of that bad breath.
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Qin Chuan didn't look at the murderous two thousand people, but squinted his eyes and looked into the distance.
In the distance to the east, Zhang Kewang was leading a group of subordinates, riding a horse and fleeing towards the west.
chased a cavalry behind, under the banner of unknown people, and drove Zhang Kewang to the ground.
After a short while, the cavalry suddenly turned around and rushed straight towards Mengjiazhuang.
Soon, Qin Chuan smiled.
"Prepare the horses, let the Guan Emperor army also be ready, and we will kill them at any time."
"Okay."
A few old bandits from Jiuji Mountain went excitedly.
The 2,000 men and horses of the coalition army also slaughtered outside the walls of Mengjiazhuang with great vigour.
Guo Yan, Wang Gangbao, and the others entered the range of 100 steps, and then pointed at Qin Chuan on the gatehouse and scolded.
scolded him for being insidious and cunning, causing them to kill so many people, scolding him for being ungrateful, wolf-hearted, and dog-hearted, Bashanhu kindly took him in, but he was stabbed in the back, taking advantage of people's danger to take over the cottage, people like him should be cut down from the oil pot with a thousand knives and tormented for seven days and seven nights, and they will never be able to live forever.
The 2,000 men and horses also shouted and slaughtered, and rushed towards Mengjiazhuang.
After the overwhelming bricks flew out from behind the wall, smashing them into crying fathers and mothers, the group of fools who were carried away by anger calmed down a little.
After eating a few rounds of bricks in a row, they began to waver.
At this moment, there was a tremor from the soles of their feet, as if a giant beast was about to break through the ground and devour them all.
The coalition knew that it wasn't a behemoth, but an iron knight rushing towards them.
Someone was the first to turn around and saw the cavalry, and also saw a general flag with "Tiger" written on it.
I don't know who shouted: "It's Hu Dawei, run." ”
As a result, the coalition forces, which had already been smashed by bricks, scattered in a hurry without waiting for the leader's order, and did not care about those partners who had already climbed the wall, but ran desperately to the west.
Guo Yan and Wang Gangbao Wu originally wanted to bring the men and horses back and form a formation to resist.
Because, among their 2,000 people, less than 600 have horses, and these people are likely to be able to run away, but the remaining 1,400 people are probably more than lucky.
This run will inevitably hurt my muscles and bones, and I don't know how many people will survive in the end.
But, no matter how they screamed, their men continued to flee as if they didn't hear it.
At this time, the gate of Mengjiazhuang suddenly opened, and another cavalry came out from inside.
The leader was raised by the son of a son of a bitch surnamed Qin.
There is no need to remind from the side, Guo Yan and Wang Gangbaowu, as well as Li Biaofeng, Tongtianzhu Bashanhu and others, invariably pulled the reins of the horse, kicked both legs, and let the sitting war horse spread its hooves and fled to the west lifelessly.
The tide is over.