Chaozhou, Chengxiang County, Tufeng Village,

The origin of Chengxiang County, the county seat named in honor of Cheng Min (also known as Cheng Min), a famous man who moved south. And located in the county's north dam head (platform) on the Tufeng Village, is the descendants of a group in the intersection of several roads, the village that gathers and builds, is also one of the few large households in the local area.

Of course, in a certain family pride and superiority, as well as the natural contempt and hostility for the mud-legged people, the leading figures led by the Cheng family unsurprisingly resolutely refused, about opening the gate of the village according to the household registration to provide food, to help the rebels and help the surrounding refugees, and to use the swords, guns and arrows that came out to meet as a basic response.

So, in the sound of heavy drums, he pushed the baffle on the fixed cart and the long ladder that had been erected, and slowly advanced towards the opposite village; And along with their relatively neat advancing figures, there was also a rain of arrows from the rear archer array that swept through the air one after another, and constantly corrected the angle of shot, the landing point, and the range according to the observation from a high place.

Behind them, more than a dozen prepared bamboo catapults, as well as matching charcoal vats, poisonous tobacco balls soaked in horse urine and red arsenic (frost), were also slowly followed behind the baffle within enough throwing range;

But the first to mobilize was not the soldiers who had already completed the formation, or the garrison that was camping and waiting, but a large group of homeless people who were chaotic and yellow-skinned; The only thing they had in common was that they all had a temporary distribution of weapons, all of which were tattered from the hands of those local regiments and village soldiers.

This is also the condition and premise that they must go through if they want to join the rebel army or share the benefits afterwards; Even if you rush at least three times as the vanguard of the attack on the walled city, and finally survive, then you can enjoy a relatively adequate food supply as an alternate member of the rebel army.

Although this is inevitably a bit cruel and ruthless, in the case of relatively limited resources, this is also the most mature experience and tactics left after the rebels have switched back and forth. Although it is out of a certain moral bottom line of modern people, Xiao Qi, who grew up in the rebel army since he was a child, has a quite agreeable and meaningful statement, but Zhou Huai'an has some psychological comfort and relief.

Because he looks at the results of these things from the perspective of modern Chinese, who live relatively well-to-do, and have been cultivated by the government with various natural morals and superiority values. If you think about it from another angle, for example, if you look at it from the standpoint of these starving and down-to-earth people;

At least until they encountered the rebels, most of them could only wait helplessly in the wilderness to die; But once he became the forerunner of the rebels, at least before he died, he still had a few full meals to speak of; Moreover, in the process of crusading and liquidating those exploiting classes, it is undoubtedly much more valuable to sacrifice for the sake of relative justice and cause, in a more dignified and heroic atmosphere.

And at least after the charge broke through the city, a considerable number of them were not without a chance to survive and enjoy; In any case, it is much better than being driven out by those powerful families, who can only starve to death and die of disease, or even cannibalism or eating soil and being supported to death, and all kinds of miserable endings.

Therefore, in the eyes of most people, including the rebels themselves, it is completely Zhou Huai'an's rebels who give them the opportunity to survive through competition and performance among these doomed people; This is a natural and simple kindness and kindness, which cannot be forced and brought in by the standards of modern society with great material development in later generations.

Thus, after a jolting call sign, they flowed swiftly through the gaps of the attack arrays that had stopped; Among them, the forerunners carried planks and dirt bags aloft through the sloping fences and uneven trenches, filling them up and paving them into makeshift paths; Eventually, it led a crowd of people wielding weapons to flood the relatively low walls and wooden walls of the village.

At this moment, the villagers on the wall were also boiling, hurriedly throwing stones and rolling logs, throwing guns, pike darts and arrows, using all means to put up fierce resistance. Suddenly, blood was splashed under the wall of the civil reinforcement wall, and the corpses were lying on the pillows, falling like rain, and the villagers on the edge of the wall, which was not high, were also soon killed and injured and were dragged down from the wall one after another, overturned, and even stumbled in one place and fell down in unison.

At this time, the projectors that arrived in range one after another still did not move at all; In a sense, this is just the first attempt of fire reconnaissance, so that the most fierce resistance on the wall, the more important people and targets, as well as the long-range means of destruction such as bows and crossbows, and the distribution of potential other threats, can be revealed and exposed one by one.

Then, through the observers on the special lookout car, a simple flag is passed to the rotating archer array to make corrections to the long-range suppression means, and to cause as much damage and weaken as possible.

Of course, in the first impact of these displaced people, what was easily opened were small villages and small towns with insufficient background; And this Tufeng Village, which covers an area of several tilts, is obviously not among them. I saw that these homeless people, who had only eaten enough for a few days and could not change the essence of their physical strength and weakness, and who only relied on the number of people to pile up a group of spiritual energy, once they were blocked for a while, they quickly showed all kinds of physical exhaustion and declining morale.

Then the beat of the drums was beaten again, and the displaced people, who were in a dilemma under the wall, as if they had been stimulated and touched by some kind of stimulation, hurried desperately to the two sides and ran to the sides, and re-revealed the strict queue that had approached many swords and shields.

But the first to strike were more than a dozen poisonous fireworks from behind the array baffle, and in an instant, a long trail of smoke burst out. Although most of the lower hit rates were above the wall and landed inside, startling with bursts of screams and screams. But just the few shots that hit the root of the wall and the side of the wall caused a lot of damage in the crowd in an instant.

Although they were directly hit, in fact, no one died directly; But the fire and poisonous smoke that burst out as a result of this were scattered and shrouded in a lot of heads. and then these villagers, who lacked armor and other means of protection, were burned and burned to the point that they screamed and screamed, and they rushed to escape, pushed and trampled;

Many people were so panicked that they were simply squeezed off the wall, causing even more lethal secondary injuries; At the location of the landing point, a vacant space filled with smoke and flames was cleared.

It's just that this kind of straw shell has a poisonous smoke fireball with charcoal inside, although it is very useful for hitting fixed targets such as crowds or building arson, but the poisonous smoke produced is also indistinguishable from friend and foe, and needs to be avoided in the attack route.

"The walls are messed up."

"Fix the alignment, step up the projection of the smoke ball."

"The shooters are all moving."

"Stretch the angle of fire, go over the wall and continue to hit the backup that may be gathered."

"The Strikers have landed on the wall."

"The gate opened. It's on. ”

"The garrison stepped forward, and the front row changed into knives and spears, beware of thieves escaping through the wall and opening the door."

The wooden lookout car, which is used to give orders, is also shrouded in a bustling crowd of people. Zhou Huai'an looked at the battle situation in front of him with some sighs. Large sections of the wall had been occupied and emptied by the rebels who had climbed up the long ladder, and more rebels poured in along the gates that were wide open from the inside out.

As a result, "those who descend will not die" and "kneel on the ground and beg for mercy will not kill." The cries echoed one after another, and even overwhelmed the clamor of the clamor for a time; Instead of more fierce fighting and screaming, this also means that after the stockade is broken, the other party has lost most of the will to fight.

Although the progress is not bad, it is easier or easier than Zhaojiazhai, but Zhou Huaian always feels that there is something unfinished; Because the other party's stockade is on the platform of the block back mountain, the elevated lookout car placed on the mound can still observe the angle is still limited; If only there was a hot air balloon that could be further elevated.

His heart suddenly moved, and then he gave up; It is not difficult to achieve the technical conditions of this thing, whether it is used as a fuel for lift, or as a leather and glue for ball sealing, in fact, it is not difficult; But it's not yet time to be born, and it's a waste to be in such a rural place.

By the next morning, Zhou Huai'an was already standing on the roof of the Cheng ancestral hall, the largest building in the village, looking down on the gathered crowd.

After the floating wealth and household belongings that people copied out overnight were simply classified and screened, they were piled up on the grain drying field in front of the ancestral hall, which made people look very greedy and hot.

Next, it is time to reward those who assisted in the attack and survived; Although not everyone is willing to join the Rebels, and the opportunity to get a stable ration, only about one-third are willing to continue to follow the Rebels to win the opportunity;

However, Zhou Huai'an still fulfilled and fulfilled his initial promise relatively generously, and specially allocated a part of the spoils from the inventory, converted them into corresponding money, food, and materials, and even gave weapons and carts, and let them leave on their own.

Most of them took their things contentedly, and scattered them back to the village with large bags and small bags; But there are still a small number of people who leave in groups with weapons or something; As for whether they will become new bandits or thieves, it is not their own business for the time being, it should be a headache and worry for the local tycoons.

(End of chapter)