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"Gunpowder became an important guarantee for the European bourgeoisie to blast open the feudal fortress and defeat feudal rule, and the knights were blown to pieces."

Facts have proved that no matter how strong the earthen fence is, it can't carry the cannon.

After a night of drinking and gambling, the Shenji Battalion, the 3,000 Battalion, and the Dragon and Tiger Battalion dispatched 10,000 horses and horses to drive from Jining Prefecture to Changgou Town, which is located in the northwest of the state capital.

From afar, I saw a town with strong walls, more than two zhang high, the whole body was made of loess rammed, the outer bread was made of blue city bricks, and the stone was used as the foundation. Four or five miles around the whole town, there are more than 900 pheasant moats, more than 10 police shops, eight horse faces, especially the urn city outside the south gate, under the cover of the flanks of the two horse faces and the two forts at the corner of the city wall, it is a powerful barrier to protect the south gate.

There are several police shops on the city walls in Changgou Town, each police shop is about two meters long and more than two meters wide, of which the part that extends out of the city wall is about one meter. The police shop protruding from the city wall has lookout holes on each side, resembling a small horse face.

As for the horse face, along the two sides of the urn city at the south gate, fifty paces apart, there are two horse faces on each side. The part of the wall protruding from the wall of the horse face is about two meters wide and three meters wide, and on the battlement wall of the horse face, there is also a lookout hole, and there are shooting eyes under or next to the lookout hole.

The urn city is semicircular, on the left side of the urn city. Leaving a gate, there is a horse face on the wall dozens of paces away on the left, which is exactly within the range of the firebolt, and from this left horse face, you can hit the enemy attacking the door fiercely.

Not only that, but there was a grass factory at the head of the city for the soldiers to rest. On the poles of every grass factory, on every battlement, there are many flags planted with great power, under the action of the winter sun and the north wind. The majesty and strength of the owner of this town are in place.

At the battlements of the horse face and the police shop, there are faint black holes in the muzzle of the gun, in addition to the muzzle, there are many figures of rejecting the horse. The rejection horse was full of sharp barbs made of pig iron, even if the forced siege was successful, in front of these rejection horses at the head of the city. I'm afraid that I will be at a loss and be beaten.

Looking down at the city, in addition to the commonplace moats, which served as moats, diverted the water of the canal and filled the trenches to the brim, there were a large number of horse-repellent thistles and other things, which were placed close to the ditch edge of the city wall and the moat, so that the besieging troops had no place to stand. In front of the battlement wall at the head of the city, there were also many wooden castles. Each of the wooden cities was five feet wide. It is five feet high, and many large wooden nails and large iron thorns are floating on it, which is the most ideal to prevent night attacks.

In the open space next to the grass factory at the head of the city, there are a large number of rolling wood stones, fire pots made of "fierce fire oil", in addition, the auxiliaries on the city wall are also equipped with a large number of ramming rods, forks and other objects, which are used to overturn the ladders used by the siege soldiers and horses. And that's not all. At the gate of the southern city, there are also several groups of rejected horses. Even if the enemy's cavalry and infantry rushed in, in the face of these rejection horses, coupled with the blows of artillery fire and rolling logs and stones at the head of the city, that situation would be light in terms of heavy casualties. Similarly, at the base of the walls on both sides of the south gate. On the outside of the trench, some important positions are also arranged with horses and horses, staghorn wood, thistles and other things.

No wonder the soldiers and horses of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion did not dare to come to brush the tiger's beard! Such a city defense facility, not to mention a town. Even the various prefectures and cities may not be able to have them!

Seeing the fortification of this town from the telescope, it immediately made Tan Chery and Luo Zuming feel a pang in their hearts. However, the more fortified towns like this, the more rich and wealthy gentry there were! Once it is defeated, the harvest is far from being comparable to ordinary villages!

"Brother Luo, don't worry! With your brother and my cannon here, this igniter is not enough to see! Luo Zuming patted Luo Hu on the shoulder and pointed to the cannon in his battalion.

"Then it's all up to Big Brother!"

is also surnamed Luo, Luo Hu has already been commensurate with Luo Zuming's brothers under the guidance of Wang Long.

"Old talk, send a person to the past, tell the people in the town, the Daming Shenji Battalion, the 3,000 battalion of soldiers and horses passing by here. So that the people in the town do not need to panic. Inform the town officials and gentry to greet the army at the city gate! ”

"Lao Luo, you're doing this in vain! Such a town, since it has already been a thief, will definitely not let the officials and soldiers enter! It would be nice if he didn't come out to beat our stuffy sticks! Regarding Luo Zuming's arrangement, Tan Chery was very unimpressed.

"Don't worry, two adults! If these thieves dare to come out, they will be handed over to our brothers! Horse Harrier! Luo Hu waved the horse lance in his hand, whirring the wind, and loudly passed the military order in his mouth, ordering Ma Harrier and others to line up and prepare to meet the enemy.

rode away, and the formation began in the Beijing camp here.

The three trumpets were loud, the drums and horns in the camp were loud, and the Chinese troops around Luo Tan and the two of them waved their orders and flags respectively, commanding and dispatching the army and horses to line up. But he saw that the horse team of the 3,000 battalions was the first to slowly come out; When they reached the limit, there was a sound of gold, and they all closed it together. The horse team stands on the first floor; Red flags were waving in the ranks, and the fire team of the Shenji Battalion stood on the second floor; With the blue flag as the mark, the cannon queue is on the third level, and the black flag is swaggering.

In the main formation of the two, the banners of the Shenji Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion were erected, and the banner of Daxu was erected. In an instant, the procession was completed, and only the order was given in the camp.

I have to say that the soldiers of the Beijing camp, combat effectiveness and military discipline aside, the level of this queue and the suzhì in the formation are unique in the Ming army. The array that stretches for more than two miles, the knives and axes are generally neat, and because the clothes and armor are distinct, the banner is brilliant, and it is even more impressive, which is completely the standard of the honor guard!

Two dull firecracks came from afar, and the officers of the 3,000 battalions, who had been sent to give orders, returned wolf.

"My lord! The dog thieves in the city didn't let us enter the city, and they scolded us! ”

"Say what?"

"Say that we are just some gentlemen who rely on Lao Tzu and his family to cling to the nobles of the court, relying on the momentum of these old bad leaders, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and eating in the capital, just wait for the breath, it's okay to follow Ning Yuanbo to fool around, sooner or later the whole family will not end well."

As the saying goes, don't slap people in the face, don't scold people. Anyone who is a gentleman and a little bit of a pursuit hates others the most when they say that they are relying on the power of their family.

How could the rich man Meng of Changgou Town be so unscrupulous that this group of Jingying disciples could swallow this breath?

"Fire!"

Resisting the king's division, collaborating with the enemy, and insulting the court. These charges are enough for Luo Zuming to negotiate Chery and use them to deal with the possible impeachment of the DPRK and China.

In the face of the twelve-pound cannon shells, the horses and deer under the city became vulnerable, and a piece of broken wood rose after the cannon.

"Aim for the head of the Urn City. Call me! In the future, dare to build such fortress fortifications and cast artillery privately, it is clear that he wants to rebel! ”

While shouting and bombarding the artillery team, Luo Zuming also found a new charge for the old men in Changgou Town.

"Donkey balls! Lao Tzu has always been called a thief for so many years. Lao Tzu himself thought he was a thief! Looking at it now, this group of people wearing official and military uniforms and waving the banner of the imperial court are much more powerful than Lao Tzu! And it's also above board and high-sounding! ”

Wang Lung complained twice in his heart, but his face was still full of smiles.

Hundreds of large and small shells fell intensively on the city wall of the south gate and the urn city, causing the bricks and stones to burst and the dust filled the sky, and the fire began to appear on the city. Bursts of crying could be heard from inside the city.

"Brother Wang Lung, Brother Luo Hu, do as we say. The hole has been torn open for you. The rest is up to you! ”

According to the agreement on the distribution of spoils negotiated when he came, "four soldiers and six thieves", the Beijing camp took 40% of all the seizures, and the dragon and tiger battalions composed of Chuang Camp and Cao Camp were divided into 60%. However, all the mules, horses, armor, weapons. Food, these things are all owned by the Dragon and Tiger Battalion.

"Lao Li. It's up to you to transport these things! ”

Lao Li, a sturdy man in the rivers and lakes, and more than 100 equally strong men in the rivers and lakes behind him, surrounded him. As the leader of the Cao Gang at Jining Wharf, this battle is also of great benefit to him.

In addition to the fact that both the Beijing camp and the Chuang camp had to use the ships in his hands to transport away the capture. As the biggest reward, Jining Prefecture will no longer have a foothold for the Smelling Fragrance Sect. Instead, the Cao Gang ruled the world.

"Your shopkeeper Chen has spoken, and our Cao Gang brothers are naturally in the water and in the fire! Isn't it just to transfer grain to the Yellow River! It's a trifle! ”

A shout. The infantry of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion began to pounce on the city along the mouth of the city wall destroyed by shells, led by the horse harrier who gambled with Luo Zuming and Chery yesterday!

"! Fill it! Pour it in! Everyone has horses! ”

He kept waving the sharp knife in his hand, loudly motivating the foot soldiers beside him, and occasionally striking away the arrows flying around his head.

Luo Hu and Wang Long smiled and watched the figures of Ma Harrier and others disappear in the smoke and dust, almost every battle is fought, they have some elite appearances, from ordinary soldiers to leaders, from foot soldiers to horse soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, the banner of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion and the banner embroidered with the characters Luo and Wang appeared on the head of the city, and several soldiers who broke into the camp struggled to lift the horses and throw them into the moat under the city, opening a wider road for their comrades.

"That's it! The city is broken! ”

Before Luo Zuming landed with a little joyful words, there were bursts of shouts in the city, and a group of figures rushed up to the city along the road.

"Damn, the Liaodong Tartars are here!"

Not only did the Liaodong thieves appear on the city, but also the movements of the Liao thief cavalry near the east and west gates. It can be seen that the Liao thieves are planning to use cavalry to give the official army such a sudden attack from the east and west wings, so that the official army will completely collapse!

Wang Lung narrowed a pair of small eyes, and looked at the Liao thief cavalry who were gathering in the two city gates with contempt.

"Brother Luohu, I'll take people to the East Gate, and you take people to the West Gate! Let this group of dog thieves come out, let's let them see how the heroes of our camp and Cao Ying are heroes! ”

After several contacts with the Liao thieves, the Dragon and Tiger Battalion has won a lot, and the horsemen in the camp who originally rode mules and donkeys have also been replaced with genuine war horses.

Ignoring the mistakes in Wang Long's words, Luo Zuming hurriedly mobilized three thousand battalions of soldiers and horses to quickly line up and prepare to meet those Liao thieves who planned to sneak attack him.

"Two brothers, just take care of it! My 3,000 battalions of soldiers and horses will give you to watch the enemy plunder! It will definitely not let you have worries! ”

The two strands of cavalry rolled up smoke and dust into the sky, and went to the east and west wings like an earth dragon, and after a while, the shouts of killing and the clash of weapons were swept by the wind.

"Sons, give Lao Tzu a hard bang!"

Tan Chery was also ruthless, and ordered the gunners to beat the city into flames.

At sunset, the battle in Changgou Town ended.

The harvest is also huge.

In the mansion of the gentry surnamed Meng, several generals and leaders checked their gains with smiles.

More than 1,000 people were shaved and braided, including more than 200 real slaves, and the rest were rebellious Han people. The heavy goods that the captured thieves had just arrived here were full of fifty boats.

Under the identification of the people in the Cao Gang. The soldiers who broke into the camp and Cao Ying pulled out several altar masters and incense masters of the Wenxiang Sect from the crowd like wolves, and the remaining minions were tied up countless times, kneeling on the hard dirt ground.

The remnants of the Meng family's hundreds of families, Jingying naturally looked down on them, but they were picked up by the Dragon and Tiger Battalion. These people are skilled in martial arts, and they are good at horseback riding and fighting. Many people also use firearms, which is naturally regarded as a strange commodity by Chuang Ying and Cao Ying.

As for the savings of the Meng family for several generations in Changgou Town, they naturally became the seizure of the official army together with the stolen goods of the Liao thieves. Hundreds of hoards of grain, thousands of mules and horses, nearly a million silver dollars, gold and silver, piled up several rooms of Nanzhong Tongbao, warehouses of cloth and satin, piles of armor, knives and guns, as well as whole boxes of jewelry and jade, rare books of calligraphy and painting of celebrities in all dynasties. Zhou Ding, Shang, Yi and Qin bricks and Han tiles, and so on.

However, what made Chen Guoxi most happy was the correspondence between this descendant of Yasheng and the gentry in Shandong, Denglai and other places, as the master of the altar of the Wenxiang Sect in Jining, his letters and texts with Wang Ke, Abatai and others, as well as the canonical documents given by the Qing court to this descendant of Yasheng and other hard evidence.

"With these, the young marshal will get twice the result with half the effort to implement the new policy of the lord in Shandong!"

"With this ironclad evidence in hand, look at that bastard in the DPRK who dares to come out and make noise!"

Rummaging through these seized texts. Chen Guoxi and Tan Chery couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Damn! No wonder we fought Liaodong Tartars so hard, it turned out that this group of dog thieves secretly ventilated the news. Provide food and grass, and hide tartars in private! ”

In a few letters, Luo Zuming discovered more appalling secrets.

Ordered people to put these texts away properly, Luo Zuming, Tan Chery and Wang Lung looked at each other and smiled, they all felt that the smile on each other's faces was so obscene and shameless, "It's time to divide the dirty!" ”

As agreed. Everyone takes what they need.

Grain, cloth, armor, knives, guns, gunpowder, and large and small artillery on the city, from small bronze cannons and tiger squatting cannons to big Buddha Lang machines and eight-pounder cannons, all belonged to the Chuang camp and Cao Ying, and were transported away with the help of the Cao Gang. As for whether it was transferred from the canal south to the Yellow River, or where it was transported and sold, this is not a matter for Jingying to consider.

The brothers of the Cao Gang, in addition to carrying heavy materials such as grain and cloth onto the ship, also took advantage of the familiarity of the people to pull out the incense smelling disciples one by one from the crowd and handed them over to the Dragon and Tiger Camp and the Beijing Camp.

In the same area, intrigue has been fought for many years, and I don't know how many times there have been friction and fights in private, but now there is such an open and honest opportunity, even if it is rumored to be on the rivers and lakes, fighting Tartar for the court and the world, who is not allowed to stretch out his hand to praise the Cao Gang for its benevolence and righteousness?

Those gold and silver fine and soft antique calligraphy and paintings, fifty percent of the head belonged to the Beijing camp, and thirty percent went to the Cao camp and the dragon and tiger camp. The rest of the gold and silver was given to the brothers of the Cao Gang. There are also 10,000 pieces of silver and dozens of jewels, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which were handed over to Chen Yingwu, the governor of Jining, who rushed to hear the news.

In the eyes of the two lieutenants and the two masters, although these silver and property are almost the same as the leftovers of sending Hanako to the meal, they are not taken for nothing.

"Parents, if we want to report success to Jingshi and Jinan, please list your name on the success paperwork! When the time comes, the reward of the imperial court will be great, and the military merit of exterminating the Liao thieves will be great! ”

knew that this group of generals had bad intentions, but Chen Yingwu had to close his eyes and jump into the fire pit! If you don't sign on this document, "Suppressing Slaves and Thieves and Squires", then these eight masters will go up with a document, and there is no need to weave other charges, just say, "The slave thief and the thief are dozens of miles away from the state city, but the officer knows nothing, is there anything strange in it?" An understatement of doubt will make all the ups and downs of the sea of his own decades of hard work in the cold window go down the drain.

How dare people not bow their heads when they are under the eaves? Looking at the many compliments on the report documents, Chen Yingwu gritted his teeth and signed the report documents, using the Zhizhou seal.

"When this document arrives in the capital, Chen's parents are afraid that they will become Lord Chen!" Chen Guoxi also teased this family from the right path.

Then, it was the thing that made this future Lord Chen sweat like pulp.

After the grain and floating wealth were divided among the Beijing camp and the Chuang camp and the Cao camp, there was still a large amount of property that could be distributed. For example, the furniture and supplies in the Meng family's mansion are all extravagant for the people in the nearby villages.

"Ask the old parents to send a list of documents, so that the squires of Jining Prefecture come to Changgou Town. Let's announce the punishment of the thief. ”

Chen Guoxi is still a smiling businessman's face.

"Look at the killing!"

The people of the nearby villages poured into the long ditch with such thoughts.

However, many squires and scholars near Jining Prefecture who have always been the only ones in the Meng family are worried in their hearts, and they instinctively feel that this time they will go to the ceremony to watch the ceremony, which is similar to the effect of the Empress Dowager Lu's invitation to a banquet. However, if you don't go, immediately a hat with an ambiguous relationship with the thief will be rightly buttoned down!

Really. On the city gate of the four gates of Changgou, what shocked these scholars and squires the most was not the soldiers of the Beijing Battalion and the Dragon and Tiger Battalion who flaunted their might on the head of the city, let alone the muzzles of the black holes, but the list that was constantly being read out.

The official document written in the vernacular that the common people can understand is very clear.

Ning Yuanbo obeyed the decree of the imperial court to implement a new policy of "the official gentry and the errand pay the grain together" in Shandong, and at the same time stipulated that the total amount of land rent should not exceed three percent of the output. The interest on the loan and mortgage shall not exceed one and a half cents.

Those scruffy and dark-faced peasants did not care at all about the virtue of the landlords for decades, and with the fire of greed in their eyes, they only talked there rudely and loudly about how much rent they could pay and how much profit they could pay less.

In addition to the fact that some people read aloud the official documents of the Meng family's original domestic slaves and tenants, announcing that they would be the people of the court from now on and no longer the private property of a certain family. It is also announced that the land on which it is cultivated. If it can be proved that it is a contribution, it is allowed to find the certificate of the five households in the same village and then apply for the land deed to return to cultivation.

"This, this, what kind of system is this?! The Meng family is guilty, but why are the fields and slaves in the clan also like this? "There are people who are outraged by such blatant disobedience.

in town. The original large and small houses were also chaotic, with people constantly coming and going, carrying furniture, bricks and wood, and preparing to renovate the houses after the beginning of spring.

Under doubt, it was the officials and soldiers who divided all the houses and courtyards of the Meng family. Those who are busy moving. It was Diao Min who was assigned to the Meng family's house in this clever robbery.

"This, this is a blatant attempt to attract bandits!"

Looking at the Huatang mansion built by the Meng family for many years, it was occupied by a group of Diao people, and the original exquisite pattern was divided and fragmented, which made the squires feel even more painful.

"If there are those who are willing to go to Denglai and other places to do things in the Uncle Grange, they will register in front of the Temple of Wealth and the Temple of Guandi. There is a salary of one silver dollar per month, three meals a day, two dry and one thin. There is meat every day, and two sets of clothes for the four seasons are issued. ”

A burst of noisy voices sent the treatment of the laborers recruited by Ning Yuanbo's Grange to everyone's ears, regardless of whether you wanted to listen to it or not.

"The world is falling! Officers and soldiers are thieves! What a system! ”

Several bearded Qiyue kept banging on the bluestone ground with their canes to express their inner dissatisfaction and anger.

"That's it! You need to know that agriculture is the foundation! Now that there is a famine, I don't know how to reward the peasants, but they trick the peasants into working! To grow hungry cotton, isn't it a reversal of the cart before the horse?! ”

"That's it! Li's blatant cotton competition for wheat fields is clearly harboring evil intentions and wants to starve to death for my people in Shandong! ”

However, in front of several official and military generals and suspected official generals, the squire Qiyue obediently put it away.

There is no other reason.

The generals of the Beijing camp and the Dragon and Tiger camp asked the squires to see the copies of the confessions of the captured slave leaders and the confessions of the Meng family's housekeepers, and first confirmed the charge that the Meng family was in collusion with the slaves and thieves and the bandits, and sat on the ground to share the spoils.

"In the study of the sage and scum of the Meng thief, we also seized a large number of letters, many of which were in the name of everyone here. In the eyes of a certain family, with your loyalty to the court, familiar with the books of the sages, and only want to serve the country; These letters must have been forged by the thief in order to blaid and forged them in your name. Tell me, yes and no? ”

Outside the mansion, there was the crying and shouting of the Meng clan people escorting them to Jiaodong, and hundreds of domestic servants who resisted the officers and soldiers were about to be killed in front of the stage in the town. What you see and hear in your eyes and ears is the consequence of resisting Ning Yuanbo's sternness.

Such a scene suddenly made these dozens of squires give up the idea of resisting.

"For Ning Yuanbo, the young marshal in charge of the affairs of the Xingyuan in Jinan, he has ordered that those who are thieves will be killed! This is the will of the court and the emperor! This is the case for all family properties. As for the matter of the New Deal, the young marshal said it, it all depends on your wishes. You can't make it difficult for you! ”

Looking at Chen Guoxi's round face with a smile like Maitreya Buddha, several squires led by him couldn't wait to step forward and strangle him to death on the spot!

But I don't have that guts! (To be continued......)