Chapter 175: Eating and Sleeping and Fighting Bandits
Riding on the back of a smooth horse, Xu Dingyi finally figured out what was going on with Ding Stick's appearance before, but he didn't have time to sigh about it. Whoever they go to now, they will be killed, but self-reliance is also a dead end. If it weren't for the fact that they were walking too slowly, Goxinga probably wouldn't have even left them with livestock.
"Brother Ding Stick, what are you going to do?" Xu Dingyi asked about Ding Stick's plans.
"We must not let this bastard of Guo Xinga succeed!" When Ding Stick mentioned Guo Xing'a, he hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched.
"You're right, but what should we do! And about the five hundred or so brothers? You can't starve to death in the wilderness! "When Xu Dingyi and Ding Stick teamed up to rob the road, it was basically Ding Stick who came up with the idea and he did it.
"Let's go farther, there must be some remote villages or unguarded towns, after the brothers get some clothes and iron tools, let's stay away from Guoxinga!" There is no better way to do it.
"Senior brother, I thought about it when we came to vote for Brother Xu, but where can we get it! Moreover, the officers and soldiers have always been not far from us, as long as we make a move, the officers and soldiers will be able to catch up immediately! Yang Cuier objected to her husband's opinion, because her husband's opinion was completely a stroke of luck and was too uncertain.
"Go and cast a gust of wind, Li Qiao! I have some friendship with him. He doesn't have many men, but he has a lot of horses, so let's go to him and get some saddles and food blades. Xu Dingyi also didn't agree with Ding Stick's idea of trying his luck.
"Guo Xing'a is with us, we were only afraid of hurting him in the past!" Ding Stick had also heard of Li Qiao's reputation, he was originally a horse dealer outside his mouth, and raising and training horses was first-class. His subordinates are all one person and three horsemen, so they come and go like the wind, so they get the nickname of a gust of wind.
"It's okay, we won't stop after we find him, just pull him up and run, no matter how powerful Guo Xing'a is, he can't catch up with us!" Xu Dingyi also has some experience, he will definitely not be able to beat Guoxing'a, and sticking to it will definitely be a dead end. Since you can't beat it, run away.
"Good!" Ding Stick nodded, in fact, he was still not very relieved, but there was really no other way out for them.
A gust of wind Li Qiao's cottage is not far away, just in the northwest of Zhuozhou above the mountain, more than 200 soldiers, more than 1,000 fine horses. Ding Stick and Xu Ding found Li Qiao's old camp after a day's shirt, Xu Dingyi and Ding Stick also had good reputations, Li Qiao did not suspect the two, and opened the door of the village and let the two in.
As soon as Ding Stick and Xu Ding put on a piece of clothing and stuffed steamed buns in their mouths, they directly said "run" to Li Qiao, and don't ask for anything and run quickly. Li Qiao took advantage of the location of the mountain above to argue with the two, and then as soon as Xu Ding appeared, Li Qiao immediately ordered people to prepare horses. Li Qiao is a good man who listens to people's persuasion to eat well, and the second is because of his nickname. Li Qiao's nickname is a gust of wind, although most of it is to praise his subordinates for their quick action, but in fact, there is also a hint of irony. Li Qiao rarely fights tough battles, and once he finds that he is not right, he will run, and it is also a gust of wind when he runs.
Although a gust of wind ran fast, only more than 300 people ran out. When Ding Bang and Xu Dingyi's men packed up and went out with a gust of wind, Guoxing's infantry had already begun to attack, except for the vanguard troops who rushed out, the remaining more than 400 people were all blocked in the cottage by the officers and soldiers.
"My brother!" Xu Dingyi looked at the direction of the mountain above, filled with grief and indignation. Li Qiao's subordinates were well fed and drunk, and Ding Stick's subordinates were already few and became frightened birds, and they were the first to run away as soon as there was a disturbance. Therefore, among the more than 400 people who were blocked, Li Qiao's subordinates were a very small part, most of them were Xu Dingyi's subordinates, and Ding Stick's subordinates did not have one. Among the people who ran out, Ding Stick's subordinates were the most, and his subordinates lost more than 100 in Xu Dingyi, and now there are about 150 people. Li Qiao's men were half blocked, and there were still about a hundred people left, while poor Xu Dingyi now only had a few dozen people in his hands.
"Brother Xu, don't be sad, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, let's go!" Although Li Qiao's loss is not small, his mood is much better than Xu Dingyi.
The group went all the way north to prepare to flee to Kouwai, although the hinterland of Zhili was rich, but there were many officers and soldiers, except for a few of them, there were no other horse bandits. Now that they have met the evil star of Guoxing'a, they can no longer move around Beijing, so they can only escape back to the mouth and make plans. But less than ten miles after running out, an officer cavalry with a red-edged blue dragon flag had already caught up. The mounts of these officers were extremely tall, a head taller than their horses, and their limbs were slender and their impact was extremely fast. When the group was stunned, the officers and soldiers had already crossed in front of them and blocked their way.
"Damn, rush over, there are two hundred of them!" Xu Ding was sad when he was in the first place, and was blocked by the officials and soldiers, which made him even more angry.
"Kill!" Ding Stick and Li Qiao also knew that they couldn't do it if they didn't play with their lives.
The horse bandits are all skilled horsemen, they live on horseback all the year round, and they are very good at kung fu on horseback, waving their spears and horse lances in relatively loose conical formations and rushing towards the officers and soldiers. Nearly 200 officers and soldiers lined up in a phalanx, standing still in the face of the onslaught of the horse bandits, neither avoiding nor launching a counter-charge.
"Shoot!" Cheng Tai is trying his new guy.
More than 190 five-shot shotguns began to shoot when the bandits were still more than 80 meters away from them, and they ran out of bullets in the chamber in less than 10 seconds. However, a lot of bullets were wasted, and after the first blow, the bandits had already retreated. The killing distance of the shotgun is very limited, only about 100 meters, and in order not to waste the remaining ammunition before, Goxinga did not load them with deer bullets in the first few batches of bullets, but used iron sand. Therefore, the lethality of eighty meters away is already very limited, and it is almost impossible to kill, but the injury can be done very well.
The weight of iron sand is relatively light, and after flying too far, although it can also hit the human body, it is already hurting the skin but not the bones. However, the effect was very good, and the iron sand was scattered very well, and the overwhelming iron sand hit every bandit and their horses in the charge. People can still endure the pain, but the horses can't bear it, and they can't stop tossing and jumping, and hundreds of horse bandits are thrown off their horses. The formation of the horse bandits charging also went around and retreated.
"Damn it, the official arms are too powerful!" Li Qiao's arm was also hit by a grain of iron sand, and he was cursing while picking out the iron sand with his fingers.
"Phew, I can't rush over, get around them!" Ding Stick spat out a mouthful of blood foam and gave up his intention to attack.
"Hard fighting is not the way, take a detour and get rid of them!" Xu Dingyi's luck was still good this time, only a few people such as him and Yang Cuier were not injured.
"Let's try it with a bow and arrow!" Li Qiao was a little reluctant, and his men were even more powerful in riding and archery than the Mongols. He also had a careful idea in his heart, he wanted to defeat these officers and soldiers, and get a big horse like that to try.
"Our bows and arrows have the same range as their firearms, but their firearms can hurt a dozen of our brethren at a time, and we can only shoot them alone at a time. Let's go! "As soon as Xu Ding found out, the guns of the officers and soldiers were like cannons, and they were a large piece of it.
"Alas! Walk! Li Qiao also remembered the scene just now, the bow and arrow were not as fast as the fire gun in terms of rate of fire or killing effect.
A group of horse bandits began to change their path, preparing to bypass the cavalry of the official army, but they discovered something very disgusting. These officers and cavalry have always been motionless in the way, but as soon as the horse bandits move, the officers and soldiers will immediately follow. Moreover, the horses of the officers and soldiers used to run faster than them, and now their horses are more or less wounded, and they are much slower. So no matter how much they try, the officers and soldiers will always stand in front of them.
The horse bandits changed directions several times in a row, and the officers and soldiers were able to rush ahead of them, and then blocked them motionlessly, blocking their roads. It wasn't until a few months later that Ding Bang, Li Qiao and others knew why the officers and troops always stood still, because they wanted to save horsepower. Moreover, if at that time, Ding Stick and the others did not frequently turn to play short-distance races with the officers and soldiers, but ran down in a general direction to play endurance races, the horses of the officers and soldiers would definitely not be able to run twenty miles.
Everyone can see that unless they kill this group of roadblockers, they will have no chance of escaping. However, before they could fight hard, more than 300 officers and cavalry came to kill, and they raised three battle flags with bright yellow trim on a white background, with "Yongguan Three Armies" and "Xiaogan Eight Banners" written on the left and right sides, and on the middle side was "Manchuria's First Dare to Fight"! The later officers and soldiers had a tacit understanding with the previous two hundred horsemen, and stopped their horses on the flanks of the horse bandits, forming a flank attack on the horse bandits. However, they dismounted, lined up the infantry phalanx, and began to erect artillery.
"Sinner Ding Stick, the Counselor remembered that you were a decent person, and your bad deeds were not good, and gave you a way to renew yourself, but I didn't expect you to be a thief without changing your nature, and you ran out to be a thief again. Now the Lord will give you another chance, and within a quarter of an hour, lead all the bandits, abandon their weapons and surrender naked, otherwise the army will not be left behind! "Again he rode alone to the bandits, and then shouted with a tin horn.
"Ding stick, my lord said, he doesn't want to kill more, you abandon your weapons and dismount, and everything is still done according to the old rules! Otherwise, how many people you can take with you today, adults can't guarantee you! But this time the guy didn't leave, but stayed where he was and shouted again.
"Brother Xu, what do you say?" Ding Stick gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do, and turned his head to ask Xu Dingyi.
"Dismount! Don't let the brethren die! "Xu Ding was already disheartened when he saw the cannon, this thing had caused him too much trauma.
"Damn, you guys are actually going to surrender, aren't you gentlemen!" Li Qiao was ready for a desperate battle, but he never expected these two people to surrender.
"The artillery of the official army is powerful, and there will be only a few brothers left after one cannon, so there is no need to let the brothers die! We are not surrendering, we can leave with our clothes, weapons and saddles, and Guo Xing'a will not kill us, and he will not force me to surrender! Ding Stick lost his soul, he said that he couldn't feel good, but felt very depressed.
"Alas! Leave a way for the brethren to live! Xu Dingyi looked up to the sky and sighed.
Li Qiao couldn't support it alone, so he could only follow the two of them off the horse, and he was still half-convinced that he could leave his clothes and weapons. Guo Xing'a was very trustworthy, and after saying a few witty words to Ding Stick, he still stripped the men's clothes and let them go. Li Qiao finally knew why Ding Stick and Xu Dingyi appeared in front of him in that state, because he only had a pair of pants left.
In the following days, Ding Stick and others continued their escape to relatives and friends, and Guo Xing'a also began his happy life of eating, sleeping and fighting bandits. A group of people chased after me, happily through Zhuolu, Huailai, Chicheng, Fengning ran all the way to Guyuan County, Guoxing'a swept dozens of large and small horse bandits along the way, especially after leaving the Great Wall, it was possible to kill several shares in a day. The horse bandits outside the mouth have long lost the wealth of Ding Stick, Xu Dingyi and others, but they can get some gold and silver, and they have more horses and better. In addition to the war, Guoxinga was able to live a happy life of counting money and hand cramps, and specially asked people to send supplies from Gu'an and transport their seizures back. Gold and silver fruit Xing'a can be stored in Shanxi Qianzhuang nearby, but things such as jewelry, playthings, horses and other things can only be transported back to Gu'an.
Sometimes, when Guoxinga buys grain on the spot, he has to bring a copy to Ding Bang and others, who are now also hungry and full, and they are completely gone. There are a lot of horse bandit factions outside the mouth, and Ding Stick and the others are a little unable to eat, and there will be a difference every three or five times when they are stopped outside. And once if it wasn't for Guo Xing'a's shot, Ding Stick and their group of half-naked men were almost robbed by another wave of horse bandits, and Yang Cuier was almost robbed. Of course, Guo Xing'a has to protect his guide, someone bullies them Guo Xing'a wants to give them a head, they really can't open the pot, Guo Xing'a also has to be relieved.
After playing for a month, Guo Xing'a decided to go home, he came out to make extra money, and fighting horse bandits was not his main business. Ding Stick is finally ready to go to his old enemy Wang Da Pole, Ding Stick has already harmed many relatives and friends, of course, Wang Da Pole can't be cheap.
Hearing that Ding Stick came to vote, Wang Da Pole set up a Hongmen banquet in the lobby, and then personally greeted him. He was going to bring in the stick, and then greet him with his own hands with eighteen kinds of torture. As for Yang Cui'er, Wang Da Pole has also planned, and he wants to let Ding Stick see it.
However, Wang Dazhuzi didn't know that Guo Xing'a, who was three miles behind Ding Stick, was also ready to greet him. Guo Xing'a has already calculated that Wang Da Pole is the last stop of his journey to suppress bandits, and because Wang Da Pole's reputation is too good, Guo Xing'a also specially went to the county government to borrow some torture instruments to come over, and was ready to arrange the last journey of Wang Da Pole's life.