Chapter 50: Breaking the Village 2
No matter what kind of stockade it is, the most important building inside is always where the owner lived, and the storehouse where supplies were stored.
Liu Gao was dead, and in this case, there was no point in attacking his residence, so Xu Shiyang planned to take control of the more important warehouse first.
Obviously, the bandits have the same opinion as Xu Shiyang.
When Xu Jiajun arrived near the warehouse, he found that the enemy had already started infighting, and a group of old bandits were shouting and scolding around the sturdy brick house in the middle with a large number of coercions.
In response, there was a similar scolding from the warehouse, and the two sides fired a few arrows at each other from time to time, but neither of them could achieve a result worth mentioning.
Xu Shiyang listened attentively, and there was a bandit next to him who led the way to explain to him in a courteous whisper.
After a while, he probably understood that the group of old bandits who were now besieging the treasury probably belonged to the side of the group under Liu Gao, and they were shouting loudly, saying that Liu Gao was dead, and the Xu family army would arrive tomorrow, and asked the people inside to hand over the warehouse, and they could divide their luggage and flee for their lives.
When the bandit leader went down the mountain to fight with the Xu family's army, he left 30 cronies to watch the house, 10 of which should be in Liu Gao's private house to protect his family, and there were 20 people in this warehouse.
Now, the warehouse defenders are scolding the bandits outside for not being moral, and one of them doesn't seem to believe that Liu Gao is dead, and shouts that when he returns, he will cut all the bandits outside into the oil pot with a thousand knives.
The bandits outside finally got tired of waiting, and they were in a hurry to grab some food and money to flee for their lives, and there was no time to delay.
Several old bandits gathered around to discuss, and after a while, one of them shouted loudly: "Then the Xu family army, please move the thunder department, Liu Gao's house has already hit five thunderstorms in the sky, and this village can't hold it!" When the day dawns, the Xu family army enters the village, and we can't survive! ”
"Now we can only break this door, we take the money and food, and hurry down the mountain to escape a way to survive while it is dark! We can't afford to wait! Brothers side by side! ”
"Up! Above! Above! ”
Several old bandits made a noise, brandishing weapons to force the overwhelmed coercion to rush forward. A rain of arrows immediately shot from the wall of the storehouse, and several of them fell screaming, while others turned and tried to retreat.
How can the old bandits allow retreat? Several people stepped forward, howling and slashing through the crowd, killing nearly 10 people in an instant, forcing the coercion to turn around and rush forward again.
At this time, the others dismantled a beam from nowhere, and a few strong old bandits took it as a ramming city, and under the cover of the coercion, carried it straight to the warehouse gate.
With a thud, the wooden door shook violently, and there was a scream of terror from the warehouse, but the heavy door and thick latch of the warehouse blocked the blow.
"Come again!"
The bandits outside the door howled, lifting the beams and striking the door again.
"Come again!"
"Come again!"
"Come again!"
The attackers were ferocious, lifting the beams again and again and slamming over, the gate creaked overwhelmingly, and the defenders also knew that it was the last moment, and they kept shooting arrows, but the people outside were assisted by a large number of new bandits, and they were not afraid of the dead at all.
What's more, it is actually quite difficult for the defender's bow and arrow to shoot people directly.
Finally, when the attacker hit the tenth blow, the strong gate could no longer hold it and collapsed with a bang.
Xu Shiyang stood in the distance, smiling and admiring the bandits' infighting, the two sides fought wonderfully, and no one paid attention to his side at all.
"Now it's our time to play."
Seeing the bandits crashing open the door of the warehouse for him, Xu Shiyang was really happy, these bandits saved him a lot of effort.
Xu Shiyang, Luan Tingyu, and Sun Li rode war horses, roaring out of the darkness and rushing straight towards the cheering attackers, while the others held swords and axes in one hand and torches in the other, shouting and walking to follow.
The bandits who had just made a breakthrough looked back in amazement and looked at the sudden new opponent in disbelief.
"Xu Jiajun!"
A terrible scream pierced the night sky, and happiness went so suddenly that some old bandits suddenly had an urge to cry.
Luan Tingyu took the lead in rushing forward and riding a gun to pierce an old bandit.
Sun Li followed, and the iron whip smashed the head of the other old bandit.
In the end, Xu Shiyang made a mistake in choosing a target, and only hacked a new bandit to death.
And then the bandits completely collapsed.
Some of the old bandits thought that they would die if they fell into the hands of the Xu family, so they fled into the night without taking anything with them, and a small number of them had the opportunity to find a rope and go down from the unguarded wall, but in the absence of food, it was certain that none of them would have a chance to survive for a month.
The rest of the people all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, most of them were new bandits, there were as many as 200 people, but there were also dozens of old bandits, including the defenders of the original warehouse.
When they saw the cavalry of the Xu family, they were no less shocked than the attackers outside, not only because the Xu family soldiers appeared here, which meant that Liu Gao was indeed dead, but also because the cavalry of the Han people had not appeared on the land of Qi Province for a long time.
A place that can raise cavalry is strong! This concept alone is enough to create a deep sense of powerlessness.
So far, the old nest of the second master of Fulai Mountain has become the first village on the mountain to be conquered.
But knowing that after dawn, Xu Shiyang's fifteen tun infantry entered the stockade, and he had extra manpower to control other places except warehouses.
The first destination, of course, was Liu Gao's private house, which was also visited by other bandits, and in just one night, Liu Gao's wife, concubines, and children were tortured to death, and the utensils in the house were also smashed.
Later, when the prisoners of war were interrogated, Xu Shiyang learned that Liu Gao's cronies who stayed here saw that they could not do anything, so they first betrayed their leader, and despite the pleas of Liu Gao's wife and concubine, they opened the door and welcomed the other bandits into the house .......
At that time, Xu Shiyang and the others were still guarding the most important warehouse, and they couldn't spare the manpower to deal with the atrocities here - in fact, Xu Shiyang didn't know that such a tragedy had happened here.
Even if he knew whether to save or not, he would probably hesitate, after all, when Liu Gao tortured others before, he had never been soft.
On the same day, Xu Shisong accepted the surrender of Yan Shun and Wang Ying, and led his subordinates to receive the cottage of these two bandit leaders without blood.
Xu Shibai led the troops of the three dock forts, and occupied several villages on the south side of Fulai Mountain at a small price, these cottages are where the new bandits and their families live, and each of the three main peaks of Fulai Mountain has one, and the new bandits usually cultivate some small fields on the nearby mountains to fend for themselves, and only in wartime will they be recruited by the bandit leaders.
At this point, except for the big shopkeeper Luo Daoren's own cottage, the entire Fulai Mountain has been occupied by the Xu family.