"Stop."

The deputy of the team shouted loudly, and then it became a password that was conveyed to the backwards in unison.

"Stand"

"Stand"

As a result, his vanguard team could stop under the wall in the front and back squeezing and contraction of some irregular change formation. Then the standard-bearer behind Xu Si put a small red flag on the spear shaft and shook it back and forth several times in the air.

As the queue slowly parted and gave way to the rear, a dozen specially made flatbed carts were pulled over, with not only a whole tank of smoking charcoal fire and hemp bundles of smoke balls, but also bamboo catapults operated by two people.

"The fire-throwing team ignition."

"Ten steps forward."

"Put"

I saw that more than a dozen poisonous smoke and fireballs thrown at close range suddenly rose from these carts, and disappeared behind the walled wall in a high and high arc; Suddenly it was as if a nest had exploded behind the door, and there were shrill exclamations and intricate screams, and the smell of burning and smoke slowly rose from behind the gate.

"Rush to the car."

Xu Si shouted again.

"Prepare to gouge the door."

And the other small flag that was waved with this order, which was escorted by Xu Si's rear team in the center, and the thick ram fixed on another big cart, was also slowly pushed by the shirtless laborers shouting the trumpet, and ran over the fields and vegetable furrows to approach and aim at the gate of the village;

The ram was roughly cut from a whole trunk, and at the head it was a large piece of polished round-pointed bluestone; The objects seized from the Tutuan coalition army that attacked Changle County are now being used in Zhaojiazhai itself.

With the shirtless labor that shouted loudly, accelerated by the combined force of the last few steps; The stone hammer head on the simple rushing cart, with a tooth-aching inertia, slammed against the door with a thud, and in the dull shaking of the splashing earth and rocks and the clattering splash of gray and white sawdust, it made a clear bowl depression on the door of the large log nailed;

And in this successive reciprocating impacts, the righteous soldiers behind Xu Si also replaced the spears and cards in their hands with more suitable axes, chisels, knives and saws, etc., and stared closely at the gate that began to appear obvious cracks and breaks, just waiting for the moment of rushing in.

。。。。。。

More than half an hour later,

When Zhou Huai'an rode a horse and came to Dazhai surrounded by the apprentice team, he saw that the originally high gate had been opened, but the fragmented fragments were trampled on the ground; And many of the wooden fences in front of and inside the door have also been overturned. The corpses on the ground were scattered everywhere, and they were piled up here and there;

As he walked through the shallow trenches and the makeshift "antlers" made of leafy branches, he was immediately greeted by a pungent smell of burnt and fishy odor. There was a miserable and devastated scene everywhere, except for the faint sound of scolding, crying, pleading, and the collapse of buildings in the distance.

"You take people out into the streets"

He couldn't help frowning slightly, and bit at Cheng Da, who was following him.

"Try to put as many people as you can."

"Stop letting them rob and burn houses at will."

"It's going to come in handy next."

In a sense, this process of attacking and breaking the village is also a kind of trial and test in disguise; Or the potential opportunity for some inner instincts that are suppressed by daily heavy labor and rules to be released. Therefore, Zhou Huai'an continued:

"If you don't listen to the advice or refuse to stop, you are allowed to deal with it on the spot,"

"Also, take those trash who cower or don't dare to rush forward, but grab things faster than anyone else"

"Give me another list, and send them to the rehabilitation team of the labor team afterwards."

"Even if there is more shortage in the war corps, these useless scourges cannot be left behind."

It doesn't matter if you are greedy for life or afraid of death for a while, you can get used to it and change it after going into battle many times; Greed and profit are not too big a problem, and they can be guided and corrected through appropriate rewards and punishments;

But once you have both and you don't deal with it in time, it will become a potential negative example, which is the real source of trouble and the rat poop that spoils the pot of porridge.

Next, a few freshly baked bloody human heads were hung on the gate of the village, and after more than a dozen mourning people were flailed on the side of the door, several main streets of Zhaojiazhai basically restored some kind of temporary order of cold and slaughter. But the battle didn't end there.

After breaking through the largest main gate, there was no decent force in the huge Zhaojiazhai that could resist. The first to break through the guards almost rushed all the way up the mountain, until they reached the front of the Zhao mansion, only to encounter a more resolute confrontation again, and were blocked in the way.

This Zhao family's mansion, which covers an area of several acres, although it is surrounded by rammed earth walls, is obviously far from being comparable to the earth-added walls of those thatched huts and thatched huts under the mountain in terms of building materials and structures; Because the bow and arrow can't be nailed to the top at all, even if the sword slashes and chisels on the top, it will crumble and drop a little bit of white ash.

Zhou Huai'an deliberately pinched a piece of caving wall skin, and found that it was really hard to use a lot of strength to knead into powder, and the ingredients were obviously similar to the building materials of the Yongding Tulou or Kaiyuan Diaolou in later generations; Its composition should be made of sieved laterite, lime, silt and rice milk mixed into a mud plate, after drying hard as iron stone and over time, in addition to not being resistant to rain and need to be repaired, it can almost resist most of the means of attack, including muskets and earth cannons in later generations.

Therefore, the earth masses and family members who are high above can constantly fire arrows and throw stones to the outside to knock down those righteous soldiers who try to climb the wall or smash the main entrance. In the time that Zhou Huai'an caught up with him alone, these red-eyed soldiers who were hot-blooded and red-eyed had already suffered at least dozens of casualties one after another

"Stand down, that's not going to work."

Zhou Huai'an commanded loudly.

"Let the more professional come."

Immediately, more collected firewood and charcoal and bottles and cans filled with grease were loaded on large trucks and slowly pushed uphill to the mountain.

Then a few more soldiers from Orion volunteered to try this and slowly climbed to the mountain behind the mansion, watching the enemy for the team.

After pouring more grease on these carts full of firewood, the players rushed forward to block the gate and burn it, and after adding the bundles and cans one after another for more than an hour, you could slowly hear the screams and screams coming from behind the door, and it seemed that the main wooden door panel had been completely burned.

At the same time, the small group of people who had already struggled to climb the edge of the hill behind the mansion also began to throw and set fire to the rear of the mansion with poisonous smoke and fireballs decorated with baskets.

After a while, the stubborn remnants of the enemy trapped in the mansion finally made some kind of desperate decision, and they suddenly slammed open the burnt gate, and rushed out in a cloud of soot and sparks, and crashed headfirst into a simple array of several transport carts and swords, spears, and long-handed bows.

And then, just after nothing.

With the shouting of the remnants of the people in it for mercy and begging, as well as the swords, spears, bows and arrows thrown one after another, as the last stronghold of resistance, the mansion that monopolized the highest place in Zhaojiazhai also announced that it had changed hands. Then, it was time for the men led by Zhou Huai'an to count and search for the loot.

At this time, there were also shouts and shouts from the bottom of the mountain, but it was the rebel archers who stayed outside who had already begun to rush into Zhao's village and began to search/loot on a large scale; This is not something that Zhou Huai'an can control and influence.

I saw that these newly joined rebels were scattered in groups shouting loudly, claiming to search and kill the Zhao clan and its minions, naturally including the Tutuan soldiers who were scattered and hiding, and the strong men who tried to fight against the rebels before.

Because the distinction between those strong men and the ordinary people in the village is too blurred in this case, there are many Tu Tu and Zhuang Ding who pretend to be ordinary people and try to abscond, and many people are killed as Tu Tu in the resistance.

For a time the village began to cry loudly again, and it was filled with a terrible chaos; It seems that because of the long-term fierce fighting and bloody experience, the resistance spirit and brutality of these peasant troops are also revealed to each other.

(End of chapter)