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On October 29, the 14th year of Chongzhen, a military army of hundreds of people walked the wilderness.

On this day, there were some winds and snow, and the cold wind was howling, degrading people's muscles and bones, and the weather was extremely cold.

The people in the team wrapped themselves tightly, but when they looked at the past, their faces were full of excitement.

After the battle two days ago, the villages rushed to visit, and under the coordination of Deng Inspector, as expected, a coalition army was formed to suppress bandits.

Twelve villages united, and a total of 800 troops were dispatched.

Among them, of course, Xin'anzhuang is the main force, and Yang He is also elite, dispatching twenty ironclad soldiers including him, and the ironclad soldiers include Zhang Chugong and Zhang Chujing, two winged tiger guns, and Zhang Chugong holds Xin'an guns.

Fifty firearms men also sent out forty squads, and killers sent fifty squads.

The team also has two marksmen, Guan Feng and Hu Yansheng, and a new addition to the night, Pei Pochuan.

There were also five officers, including Mi Dagu and Han Guan'er, totaling 118 people.

Qi Youxin, Hu Zhiyi, Zhang Chuxun and others stayed behind, and guarded the village with the remaining young and strong, baggage teams, women and children.

Then there are the troops of each village and each village, some Zhuangzi sent dozens of troops, and some more than 100 people.

The largest number of troops was Zhanchengji, with a total of 260 men, including 50 archers and 20 bird guns, which can be described as huge.

Zhanchengji is close to the Laman Lake, the transportation is convenient, the land is fertile, a very large polder, there are more than 2,000 mouths, more than 300 households, and 4500 young and strong men.

Of course, this population is no problem to deal with ordinary bandits, but it is helpless against the Jiaoshan bandits, after all, there were one hundred and sixty Jiaoshan bandit archers at that time.

They were forced to pay two-thirds of their money, and families were bleeding profusely, and many people were even looted for the winter.

In a month or two, maybe there will be a tragedy of cannibalism in the set.

Therefore, the people of Zhancheng gathered all the people who hated the Jiaoshan bandits, and when they learned of the great victory in Xin'anzhuang, they did not hesitate, and made a desperate bet, and dispatched more than half of the young and strong people in the polder, obviously desperate.

There is also a big Zhuangzi Dai Wei in the west of Xin'an Village, and the people of the Duodai clan gathered, and also dispatched a force of 150 people.

They did not occupy the city as much, but the number of archers reached fifty or sixty, and fifty archers were also dispatched at this time.

There were other Zhuangzi, or a few archers, or a dozen archers, and finally this team had one hundred and sixty archers.

The north bank of the Yellow River in Suining basically belongs to the three regardless zone, the government is weak, and the soil quality here is relatively better, so a large number of villagers have set up villages here to protect themselves, and the population of this piece of village is added up, and it is estimated that the number of young and strong people is about 2,300.

In the past, they were unorganized and their forces were scattered, but now they are a force to be reckoned with.

However, in this joint operation, the northernmost Huangshan Sheshunheji did not participate in the battle because it was far away, but they sent people to pick up a few loads of grain and rice to express their hearts and advance and retreat together.

Twelve villages are united, and the eight hundred army is pressing towards the Jiaoshan bandits, with many people and complex sources, of course, they need to be organized.

Everyone elected Yang Xianggong, the owner of Xin'an Village, as the general office of the bandits, with Deng Patrol as the assistant to coordinate, and then the leaders of the rest of the families to sit down.

There is no objection to this result, Xin'anzhuang's combat effectiveness is obvious to all, Jiaoshan bandits came to attack, they were more than 100 young and strong against nearly 2,000 bandits, and the result was a big victory, beheading seven or eight hundred, and only a dozen casualties on their side.

The bandit heads hanging all over the wall are strong evidence, and there are piles of bandit corpses outside the village, which are seen by every household in the village.

In the past, this piece of Zhuangzi actually thought about the matter of unity, and organized to fight against the bandits together, but no one obeyed anyone, and there were all kinds of complicated entanglements of interests, and they often gave up in the end.

At present, the establishment of a general office for the suppression of bandits is logical.

Yang He is responsible for this position, and without the absolute command of this team, he will definitely not send troops.

On the 27th, after he was elected as the general office, he immediately issued a series of orders to finalize the number of troops to be sent to each village, especially the share of grain and grass to be apportioned, and so on.

The joint army still wants to eat him?

That's impossible.

However, Yang He also stated that the bandit village had a lot of savings, and if he could exterminate the bandits, he would pull out 10,000 taels of silver from them as a special fee for raising troops.

After Yang He proposed to exterminate the bandits, the general office of the bandit suppression remained unchanged, and set up 500 village warriors to maintain law and order in this area.

All the villages praised it, they had wanted to do it for a long time, but the cost of raising troops made it difficult for everyone.

The 500-strong standing army of the township warriors is a great burden, and they need at least 160 stone of grain and grass every month, 150 catties of salt, as well as military uniforms, uniforms, weapons, silver salaries, etc., and I don't know how much they need in a year.

With so many people, it is difficult for a state or county to afford it, let alone some Zhuangzi.

At present, the family is sad, and it is not a simple matter to pay this salary, these young and strong people are still family laborers, they are gone, and the rest of the people are even more bitter and tired.

However, Yang Xianggong said that some of the money seized from the bandits would be used as food, and that would be easy to do.

Yang He also finalized which part of the soldiers were soldiers and which part was auxiliaries.

Who's in front, who's behind, and how the team should assemble everything.

Therefore, on the 28th, there was a day of noise, and the villages gathered at the time of today, and they forced towards the bandit village.

At the same time as the formation of the coalition army, Yang He also sent sentry cavalry to investigate the movements of the Jiaoshan bandits.

It just so happens that a new addition to the night is not available for Pei Pochuan.

This person has a mysterious origin, and he still has horse armor, and it seems that the armor was captured by the Qing army.

He also used a horizontal knife, the bow horse was skillful, and there was a classical charm in his demeanor, which was quite similar to the Han and Tang Dynasties, which made Yang He a little curious.

However, after inquiring about Deng Patrol, this person is indeed the former Li Zhuang Zhuangmin, and he also has a wife and children in Zhuangzhong, all of whom were killed when the Jiaoshan bandits attacked, and he himself escaped by going out.

Seeing that his heart for killing thieves was true and his origin was innocent, Yang He took this Pei Pochuan and put it in the sentry team.

Pei Pochuan is skilled in riding and has outstanding sentry ability, and he sent back the news that the Jiaoshan bandits were still in the village and did not go out.

……

The cold wind splits the face, and the fine snow wind flies.

Yang Hece walked on horseback, and the roadside was covered with half-human-high dead grass, and there was some residual snow, and the road surface was frozen solidly.

From time to time, you can see the barren beach and the lake, the north bank is the flood discharge place of the Yellow River, the river and the lake are quite a lot, fortunately, there are basic wooden bridges and stone bridges between the rivers, no need to detour.

On this side, there is also a large expanse of plains and wilderness.

"The geography and transportation in this area are good......"

Yang He looked around, thoughtfully, at this time he was wearing an iron helmet and iron armor, a thick dark red sable fur collar cloak, and his woolen gloved hand was just grasping the reins.

Minister Yang rode his horse beside him, with an eight-petal hat and an iron-tipped helmet, armor and arms painted with red paint, and a thick cloak.

He carried a big stick, just looking around vigilantly.

There were also Han Daxia, Chen Qiuao, Hu Chengcheng, Zeng Youyu, Zhang Chugong, Zhang Songtao and others riding behind them, and the rest of the ironclad soldiers walked and followed.

They all wore iron helmets and cloaks.

There are a lot of horses in the village, but they can't ride horses, so they can only walk.

Inspector Deng shrank on his horse tremblingly, and his fat body was squeezed tightly and silently.

The fat and thin soap is subordinate to Liu Kedi, Wang Ding, Zeng Yuzhi, and the three archers followed.

Behind them, Han Guan'er and Luo Xianjue led forty firearms soldiers, followed by one hundred and sixty archers gathered from various villages and villages, and their footsteps roared.

Most of these people did not have winter felt or cloaks, and the weather was cold, so they were wrapped in a thick long cloth from their heads and wrapped around their necks to keep warm.

Even many people have their noses covered, only their eyes exposed, and then all sorts of hats on their heads.

Looking at the people with all kinds of weapons in the back, it's basically the same, how can you do it when you march in the field in winter and don't pay attention to keeping warm?

It's just that everyone has no uniform, although they are all young and strong, but they are dressed in a variety of ways, which inevitably gives people the feeling of a rabble.

Unlike the people of Xin'anzhuang, the uniform costumes and neat weapons are full of strong oppressive forces.

The young men of each village looked at them from time to time, their eyes full of envy.

In the middle of the procession was a baggage caravan, carrying all kinds of burdens, including grain and grass for three days for the 800 army, various tents, pots and pots, and so on.

There were also people carrying long ladders and wooden planks, which were all necessary equipment during the battle.

Although there are wheelbarrows in each village, this terrain full of lakes and rivers still walks faster to carry the burden.

In the end, there were still people in the baggage team who dragged shield carts, a total of ten, which were shield carts designed by Yang He for his firearms team's field operations.

The shield cart is more than one person wide and about one person high, and there is a low arc similar to a battlement slightly to the right, but when the enemy shoots arrows, you can dodge, and when you are about to shoot, you can put the fire gun on the wooden stack.

The shield is made of hardwood, up to an inch thick, about 30 millimeters, which can be a good protection bow and arrow, even ordinary crossbow arrows cannot penetrate it, and can give the fire gun behind a great sense of security.

This is not the era of pure firearms, any shield cover is useless, and who is not afraid in the face of enemy archers?

There is a shield car to cover up, not to mention the actual protection, that kind of psychological comfort is irreplaceable.

The shield car designed by Yang He has small wheels on both sides, which can theoretically be pushed, pulled, lifted and carried, and the total weight is no more than 30 catties, which is very convenient to carry.

At this time, the lightest wheelbarrow in the folk was more than 100 catties, the light car used in the Ming army was almost 300 catties, and the partial van was heavier than 600 catties.

It's best to use this shield to protect the bow and arrow, but of course, there is no way to deal with firearms.

A well-made bird gun, with willow ash gunpowder, can shoot at about 100 paces, and can penetrate two layers of such a hardwood, hiding behind a shield cart, it is still a dead end.

For the time being, Yang He's shield car still lacks wheels, so he can only drag it around, because there is no carpenter, making wheels, which is a high-level technical work.

In the end, after the Xin'anzhuang killer team was broken, it was also a one-color winter felt cloak, neat sword, shield and spear, and the oppressive force was amazing.

……

The cold wind was howling, the weeds were undulating, and the army of 800 was approaching the bandits.

They set out from the front of Xin'anzhuang, crossed the mountain from the southeast, passed through some places of the Baishan Society, and went straight to the destination Jiaoshanzhuang.

From Xin'anzhuang to the bandit's nest, the straight-line distance is twenty miles, but this kind of country road is estimated to be more than thirty miles.

Fortunately, they are all villagers, and this kind of road is not difficult to walk, even those heavy baggage team members who carry heavy burdens are just as fast as flying.

The popularity of the people is very high, although everyone in the cold weather is full of white gas, shrinking their hands and stamping their feet, but they are all talking and laughing.

It is said that after the extermination of the Jiaoshan bandits, the townspeople will have a good life in this area.

Because there were no vehicles and other burdens, the crowd walked very fast, and they set off from Chenshi, and when they arrived at the middle of the hour, they had already seen the bandit village in front of them.

A large Zhuangzi located at the foot of Jiao Mountain, on the shore of White Horse Lake.

Yang He looked over there, and he estimated that the army had set off from seven o'clock and walked to almost ten o'clock, about three hours. (To be continued.) )