Chapter 19 Winning Three Villages in a Row

After the military order was issued, they camped at the foot of the mountain, and Hubei belongs to central China and has an obvious subtropical monsoon climate, so they are not afraid of the wind. Within three days of camping, a southeast wind blew.

Wang San was about to urge Shi Bin to send troops and sweep away the dragon village in one fell swoop. saw Shi Bin smiling and asked him to shoot a hundred arrows wrapped in a surrender book into the stockade. In his opinion, this is just a group of mountain bandits and has no value, even if he surrenders, he has no right to arrange, but a lot of burdens. Anyone who guards the city gate looks down on his own business, let alone a group of rabble robbers. However, after a little thought, I immediately understood Shi Bin's intentions.

"Big brother's strategy makes it good. In this way, the rabble of the other side will definitely be disintegrated, and there may be infighting. I think that if you can go down with one drum, you can even deliberately let go of some of the mountain bandits and let them run to Huben Village and Ziyun Peak. Do you mean that you still want to secretly recruit some people who are still conscientious to strengthen our strength? Wang San smiled slyly.

Shi Bin didn't think about it, and deliberately let some of the bandits go to the other two stockades to report the news. So he suggested that this move should be written more vaguely, indicating that not only to eradicate Qinglong Village, but to come to all the bandits in the vicinity, but as long as they are obedient, they will have a way to live. And let the army be prestigious, causing all bandits to fight among themselves.

"Yes, it is the best policy to let these mountain bandits surrender without a fight, and it would be good if they could recruit some righteous soldiers. You know, they weren't born to be bandits. ”

As soon as the flag was waved, the fifty sergeants were immediately divided into five rows of ten men each, formed a battle formation, and installed the small trebuchet at the bottom of the mountain.

The first is to shoot the hundred arrows into Qinglong Village. Before the infantry attacked, the "artillery" bombarded the bandits, who had never seen the world, and were dizzy and frightened. However, Shi Bin is an only child who is not in the right family, and at most he can take care of his own food, and the typical inappropriate family does not know the price of firewood and rice. In less than ten minutes, the five earth-shattering thunderbolts were knocked out, and the mountain gate was broken, and the effect was obvious, and the bandits who were still alive were the main village that they climbed back to. In his understanding, this is very much in line with 'one blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion'. But Wang San and the other brothers were in a lot of pain. This earth-shattering thunder is three taels of silver (about 900 yuan), Shi Bin actually played it like this, and it seems that he still has a bit of a taste of watching a play, as if he is not enjoyable. If it weren't for the limited number of shells, I guess I would still want to have a good time.

Shi Bin sat in front of the camp and watched the attack, and a group of well-trained soldiers covered each other's advance. Although the bandits have rolling logs and stones, it is difficult to have sufficient activation speed in this mountain forest, so it is not very lethal, as long as they hide behind trees and boulders, there will not be many casualties.

When he touched the destroyed mountain gate, no one was injured, which made Shi Bin very happy. He is a person who values life, not a person who treats human life like a mustard. So he did not hesitate to order the trebuchet to be carried to the mountain gate of Qinglong Village again. However, in order to protect the trebuchet from damage, it was better to make a few solid deer rocks and put them in front of it. The soldiers who came with them knew that their commander was completely thinking about them, and they were even more energetic and imposing.

Under Shi Bin's order, all the soldiers attacked, and ordered that unless the commander Wang San ordered a hand-to-hand attack, it would be considered a violation of the military order to attack without authorization, not only would there be no reward but also a head would be lost. As soon as the trebuchet went up the mountain gate, it fired ten more earth-shattering thunderbolts in a row, and resolutely did not fight hand-to-hand, only released cold arrows. Maybe the mountain bandits were stupid by the earth-shattering thunder, and they were afraid of the crossbow arrows, and they only dared to hide behind the wall and did not dare to rush out of the cottage to fight.

Seeing that this was already the case, Shi Bin also went up to the mountain gate and shouted: "I am Shi Bin, the head of Jingzhou, please come out and answer Zhou's family." We're not trying to wipe them out, we're just cleaning up the roads. ”

There was a lot of noise in the village, and soon the door of the village opened, and out came a man with a thick face and a beard, who seemed to be called a "beautiful bearded man".

"Lord Shi, what do you mean by this? Killed my brother but said that he was just cleaning the road, could it be that he was deceiving me that there was no one in Qinglong Village? Please keep your mouth shut! Zhou Madness roared angrily.

Knowing that these bandits are not convinced by the two powerful masters, only by teaching them a lesson can they change their wolf nature and obey Shi Bin's words. Shi Bin said with a little ridicule: "Zhou Dangjia still wants to fight a dozen?" ”

"It's not that I want to fight, but I have to fight, I can't swallow this breath and these brothers!" With that, he retreated to the cottage and prepared to fight again.

"Okay, but I'm welcome to strike at any time and vote. Let's fight! Infantry, artillery, give me all the attack! Shi Bin ordered loudly.

When they were only more than 20 meters away from the wall, the crossbowmen shot more than 200 crossbow arrows into the wall, and the arrows were wrapped with lit tarpaulins. In the past, the houses were all civil structures, and a fire broke out if one was not careful, let alone such a large-scale arson. In less than a quarter of an hour, there was chaos in the village.

Seeing this scene, Shi Bin, Wang San, and Zhao Gang were all full of joy. And they all think that Zhou Luo may hold a white flag to surrender later. Shi Bin felt a sense of accomplishment and was very proud. But just when he was complacent, he almost let him meet Hades.

Zhou Madness is worthy of a "madman", which is worthy of the name. Just when Shi Bin and the others were happily chatting about how to fight Huben Village and Ziyun Peak in the future, he actually rushed out of the gate of the village, rushing almost twenty meters in one go, and was less than ten meters away from Shi Bin. If it weren't for the guard's quick reaction to block him with his body, it is estimated that Shi Bin would have been split into two by him. Because of this, the guard who blocked Zhou was hit on the shoulder, and the other guard was smashed by the axe that broke his leg. As for Zhou Lu, he was stabbed into a hedgehog by a few spears.

When his soldiers saw that their own capital was almost killed, it was a great shame, so no one carried out a long-distance attack according to Shi Bin's military order, but turned to an active attack that combined far and near. In this way, he didn't shoot a few more arrows or hit a few earth-shattering thunders, and Qinglong Village was taken down.

Qinglong Village was easily taken, in order to avoid his subordinates blocking all the bandits in the village in order to avenge themselves, so he immediately ordered to open an opening and let go of a few mountain bandits.

After entering the cottage, Shi Bin and Wang San searched for it, and their eyes lit up. There are 10,000 taels of silver, and 100 taels of gold. Good swords, guns, swords, and halberds are enough to equip a whole number of people.

Looking at the mountain bandits who surrendered in the field, Shi Bin was a little difficult, he didn't love to kill, but some had to die, but how much to kill?

As if he saw Shi Bin's thoughts, he said: "Big brother, if Ci is not in charge of the army, he should not kill prisoners, but some people who have done too much should be killed." This time, the brother will do it for him, and next time he will have to order the eldest brother himself. Shi Bin smiled and nodded, very happy that Wang San came to help.

"Listen, all those who didn't play in the battle just now came out. Go to the left and get twenty sticks, and you will be free. Wang San ordered. Although he had participated in the battle but there was no homicide, he came out and stood on the left, and he was fine with forty military sticks, and the rest remained unchanged. ”

Looking at the remaining mountain bandits in the field, Wang San smiled coldly: "It seems that you refused to surrender even after the life lawsuit?" ”

After saying this, several bandits in the field immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, kowtowing like pounding garlic, saying that they had no choice but to resist the officials and soldiers because of Zhou Lu's obscenity, but they really did not intend to resist.

"So I should let you go?" Wang San asked rhetorically. "Then who will pay for the lives of the civilians and my subordinate soldiers who were killed by you? Come! Chop them all down for me! ”

After a while, dozens of heads rolled to the ground. Scared those mountain bandits who had been spared into a cold sweat. As soon as Shi Bin asked if they would accept Zhao'an, they immediately expressed their willingness to recruit An, for fear that they would also be killed, and no one would let go of a chance to live, not to mention that being a soldier and eating food was also a legitimate messenger.

With the precedent of Qinglong Village's attack, Tiger Benzhai and Ziyun Peak were easily defeated. Some of the bandits who had murdered people even sorted out the gold and silver the day before and sneaked away.

After capturing these three villages, Shi Bin is a nouveau riche, not only has he got a lot of gold and silver treasures, but he also has a well-equipped battalion of men and horses. Although he knew that firearms had an overwhelming advantage over cold weapons, looking at the huge gap between cold weapons and firearms in attack during the attack, this made him want to have his own territory to form a firearms unit similar to the Ming Dynasty Shenji Battalion.