Chapter 177: Li Mao Goes to Jinnan

The guests of the Yuncheng Salt Gang stayed in the kiln for a total of three days, and Chen Yufeng accompanied them to visit the kiln gang thoroughly. It happened that Xiurong Zhixian came to Zhang Zhimu again, saying that Lord Zhizhou and a group of officials were going to come to see "Tang Guifei", and Liu Banzhu had to give an extra performance before they went to the smelter to perform. The owner of the Salt Gang and the children watched a "Tang Guifei" together.

At first, Zhang Zhimu didn't agree to play this scene, but now Zhang Zhimu, a Zhizhou, can't offend them, and he doesn't pay much attention to it. But Xiurong Zhixian said that if you don't take me in your eyes, I will admit it, but if you don't give Zhizhou face, I can't explain.

Zhang Zhimu asked puzzledly: "When will I not give you the face of Lord Zhixian?" ”

Xiurong Zhixian said: "You invited me to participate in your commendation meeting, but on the ** stage, you arranged me in the second row, don't you know?" ”

Zhang Zhimu didn't expect this county magistrate to pick on here, "I said my lord, it's like you go to someone else's wedding, you can't go to the church." We have a meeting, you can't get in front of us, can you? ”

Zhang Zhimu's analogy made Xiurong Zhixian couldn't help laughing, and he said: "I don't care about anything else, you must give me this face." Otherwise, I can't explain it, I offend Lord Zhizhou, and we won't be able to get any good things such as disaster relief property in the imperial court in the future. ”

There is no way, it just so happens that there are still some people in Yaogang who have not watched this "Tang Guifei" for various reasons, and there are also some people in Xiurong who are looking for relationships around the corner, and when they find Zhang Zhimu, they want to watch this "Tang Guifei", Zhang Zhimu had to discuss it with Liu Banzhu and perform an additional performance.

These officials and gentlemen, after reading it, naturally praised it repeatedly.

When Qiu Laodong and the owners of the Salt Gang were leaving, Qiu Laodong said: "If I watched this scene when I was young, I'm afraid I wouldn't go." I will definitely stay in the kiln, as long as I have a bite to eat. ”

A salt gang owner who came with him said: "The last time you returned to Yuncheng, you left half of your soul. You'll be choked even more this time. ”

Everyone laughed and said goodbye.

When they left, Zhang Zhimu asked them to take most of the servants away. Zhang Zhimu told them that the students here must learn to take care of themselves. The school has its own student cafeteria, and the meals will be reasonably matched according to the specific situation. You should wash your own clothes. After a few years, we will give everyone back a talent who can take care of himself, has culture, has talents, and has all-round development in all aspects.

These proprietors in Yuncheng have completely carefully inspected the teaching life of Yaogang School, including the curriculum arrangement, so they all believe in Zhang Zhimu's words very much. Zhang Zhimu asked them to keep the two servants, considering that the school had not yet opened, and these children were leaving home for the first time, and it would be better to have one of their family members.

After sending off Qiu's old boss and his party, Zhang Zhimu thought of Li Mao and them again, and asked Chen Yufeng: "Uncle Chen, Li Mao, they have no news yet?" ”

Chen Yufeng replied, "Don't worry. If they can't even deal with a few little thieves, don't come back. ”

Zhang Zhimu thought about it, now these few people, with more than a hundred veterans who have gone through several battles, should have no big problem dealing with some bandits.

After Li Mao and the others left the kiln, they have been running in the direction of southern Jin, and because Li Mao often walks this road, it has always been very smooth.

After Jinyang, Li Mao and others visited the two cottage kings who participated in Chen Yufeng's wedding, because when they were in the kiln, they already had a certain understanding of the kiln, and they also told the kiln gang, as long as the people of the kiln gang came to their mountain to pass freely, there was any difficulty, just let it know. It means giving some gifts, and everyone can drink a drink. However, when drinking once, a village owner said, you should be careful before you go, those friends in the green forest suddenly don't recognize their relatives, and no one will give face.

It turned out that they were talking about a group of bandits on Taiyue Mountain, and they were reversed in the nest, and the three masters destroyed the big masters and the second masters, and they became the owners of the village. This guy is ruthless, and he doesn't care about the rules of the rivers and lakes. Several caravans that had previously been related to them have been looted. As a result, the officers and soldiers had to encircle and suppress them. However, because their cottage was built on the mountain, there was only one road from the mountain pass to the village, which was an easy to defend and difficult to attack. The officers and troops attacked several times, but they were repelled by them rolling stones down the mountain. These officers and soldiers could only retreat with a few symbolic gestures. Inevitably, I will kill a few more people, cut off their heads, and go back to ask for credit.

In this way, the bandits of this Taiyue Mountain are even more rampant. Even the caravan of the Salt Gang would rather go around.

There are many mountains and few places in Shanxi, and it is not easy for people to survive, so there are many people who go out to do business and make a living. The entire Taihang Mountains cut off the eastern and southern parts of Shanxi. Shanxi is mountainous and there are many thieves, and the thieves in Shanxi have not been completely exterminated in all dynasties.

Li Mao still has some understanding of the bandits in Taiyue Mountain, and Li Mao has not been to the mountains to deal with them before. This mountain is also a century-old "time-honored brand", the original owner of Taiyue Mountain is surnamed Pan, and the owner of the village is named Pan Qing. It has been several generations since Taiyue Mountain was passed down to him. This Pan Qing of Taiyue Mountain is also similar to Yan Xing of Niutou Mountain, and his family has invited him to teach him since he was a child, and this person is also considered a civil and military all-rounder. In particular, Pan Qing is very righteous and makes friends with heroes from all walks of life.

Once, Wang Dongling, the second master, went up the mountain to a person, and this person was met in a tavern when the second master went down the mountain. At that time, the second boss was careless, and there were few people around him, and he was surrounded by a few people and couldn't get out. The man who was drinking together in the tavern was named Lou San, and when he saw that the catcher was surrounding the tavern, he also drew his knife. The two of them rushed together to escape.

It turned out that this Lou San also committed a crime and was wanted by the government. At this time, there was no way out, so he followed Wang Dong up the mountain together. Anyway, Wang Dong thought that Lou San saved him. Pan Qing saw that Lou San was also a good martial artist, so he left him on the mountain and named him the third master. At first, Pan Qing was also wary of the newcomer Lou San. But Lou San is very smart, and he quickly won Pan Qing's trust. Every time he went down the mountain to rob, Lou San spent all the money on these minions on the mountain, and slowly Lou San also had some of his cronies.

Due to the severe drought in Shanxi for many years, the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and there are fewer pedestrians in the past. The food on the cottage is not abundant, and then the minions on the cottage begin to complain. Lou San's people took the opportunity to fan the flames again, and the discontent in the village spread. Wang Dong found that the situation was not good, so he told Pan Qing about it, but Pan Qing didn't take it to heart at all, and said: "When I find an opportunity, I will go down the mountain to find a big family to rob it." Everybody has silver, and if there's a woman, it's fine. ”

But before Pan Qing and the others could rob any big family, Lou San and his cronies made the first move.

Once when he was drinking, Lou San ordered people to put sweat medicine in the wine. Without waiting for Pan Qing and Wang Dong's medicinal strength to pass, Lou San used a knife to hide their heads. Lou San usually put in a lot of effort, and he already knew Pan Qing and Wang Dong's cronies very well. He tricked the cronies of the two into the lobby of the cottage one by one, and the ruthless Lou San killed them one by one.

After killing the cronies of these two people, Lou San did not show mercy, and he led people to kill more than 100 family members and relatives of these two people. Only some young women were left and distributed to his cronies in the cottage. These Lou San's cronies can usually only watch these women swallow their saliva, but now they have given them to themselves, so they are naturally happy to thank Lou San. Lou San told them that this good day has just begun, and if you follow me and him in the future, there will be better days.

After succeeding, Lou San exerted his ruthless growth, and all the caravans in the past were robbed, no matter what friendship he had with Taiyue Mountain before, it didn't matter, and it was useless for anyone to intercede. In this way, Lou San grabbed a lot of things. The minions on the cottage got benefits, and they could eat and drink spicy food with Lou San, and they all followed Lou San with all their hearts.

With the success of time and again, Lou San became more and more bold, he began to go down the mountain to rob several large households, and once again even took people to prepare to rob a large household in Pingyao. The family resisted desperately, and only after the official army heard the news that he led people to retreat to Taiyue Mountain.

As soon as the government saw that Lou San was making more and more trouble, they sent troops to suppress him. But not only did it not succeed, but it made Lou San more and more bold.

After listening to the introduction of the owner of the village, Li Mao said: "The position occupied by this group of people in Taiyue Mountain is very important, and they are stuck on the road to Jinnan. If you go around it, it's too far. ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "If we rush hard, we will definitely not be able to get cheap." They were more than a thousand people, occupying favorable terrain. If you want to take down Taiyue Mountain, I think you have to outwit it. ”

Li Jing brought ten of his people with him this time, and he said, "Li Gongzi, didn't you always give them gifts before?" As long as we go up the hill and take down the leaders, the rest of us will be a mess of sand that will be easy to deal with. ”

Li Mao, who has not spoken, said: "I have been thinking about this issue all the time. Since this gang of bandits must be destroyed, we will think of a way to destroy them. I have a way to go up the mountain with a small number of people. However, it was difficult to go up with a musket. ”

Li Jing said: "As long as we go up to a dozen and take the gate without muskets, it will be easy to do at that time." ”

Liu Chenghuang suddenly thought of a solution, he said: "We can use bamboo poles to carry pigs and sheep up the mountain to give gifts, and hide the musket in the bamboo poles, how about it." ”

Li Jing saw that this method was good, and said, "It's just right to use these bullets of ours for firing primers." It's a pity that there are too few such bullets. ”

Li Mao made up his mind and said, "That's it, you are all pretending to be coolies carrying goods, if they let us into the customs, we will be half the battle." After we entered, if they insisted on searching our bamboo poles, we would do it in advance. If you don't search us in advance, we'll wait until we see Lou San before we do it. ”

Li Mao took people to buy some pigs, sheep, rice noodles and other things, and came to the foot of Taiyue Mountain. This time, Liu Chenghuang took the hundred musketeers and did not act with Li Mao and the others. Because Li Mao understands that if the inn at the foot of Taiyue Mountain can be opened, it must be related to the bandits of Taiyue Mountain, and maybe even the entire inn is the eyeliner of Taiyue Mountain. Li Mao stayed here for one night, and he wanted them to send a letter to the mountain.

When he stayed in the store, Li Mao tentatively asked the owner of the inn, "I heard that the Bodhisattva has been replaced in the temple on the mountain, can we, the old pilgrims, still go up the mountain to burn incense?"

The innkeeper immediately understood what Li Mao meant, Li Mao wanted to go up the mountain to worship the mountain. He said, "Oh, we don't know about the mountains." However, no temple is afraid of incense. Not to mention an old pilgrim like you. ”

The innkeeper understood what he said, and Li Mao also understood it.

In the yard of the inn, Li Jing carefully found a pigeon flying out of the backyard. Back in the guest room, Li Jing quietly said to Li Mao: "The innkeeper Feige passed a book and informed the mountain to hold a banquet to entertain you." ”

Li Mao smiled knowingly.

Early the next morning, Li Mao took more than a dozen people, carrying pigs, sheep and rice to the mountain, although it was a familiar road, the group until the sun was about to set in the afternoon, and came to the cottage.

Everyone put down their things in front of the cottage and rested for a while before panting.

Li Mao was alone, and when he came to the gate of the village, he was about to shout, but above the village, the person first asked: "Who is coming?" ”

Li Mao shouted loudly: "Old friend Xiurong Li Mao is here." ”

Obviously, the person guarding the gate on the mountain knew who Li Mao was, and he shouted down: "Li Gongzi, wait a minute, I'll go and report it." ”

After waiting for half a pillar of incense, the suspension bridge in front of the gate creaked down. Then a small boss came down with a few minions.

After the little leader who came down saw Li Mao, he clenched his fists and said, "I'm sorry Li Gongzi, I've kept you waiting for a long time." First in our cottage changed the owner, let people go up the mountain, must be approved by the big boss, and it will be delayed a little time. ”

Li Mao also pretended to be polite and said: "Be cautious in the cottage, safety is the most important thing." ”

The little leader said: "The big boss has ordered, everything sent must be checked, Li Gongzi don't be surprised." ”

Li Mao gestured with his hand and said, "Please!" ”

The little minion who came down began to check what Li Mao had brought. There is no problem with checking the little minions report, these minions thought to themselves, they are all good things that are about to be brought in, and they can kill pigs and sheep at night, and what else to check.

However, this little boss is a very vigilant person, and he just feels that something is wrong today, but he can't say what is wrong. He didn't feel at ease and went to check it again, and when he saw Li Jing carrying the goods, he wanted to see the bamboo pole in their hands. At this time, Li Mao also saw his thoughts, if he was allowed to see it, things would be passive, and now the gate of the village has not entered, and it will be difficult to enter again if it is exposed. Li Mao suddenly shouted: "I said that you are still finished, if not, we will go back." I didn't come to your village much before, and I didn't do this to me. Today, I have endured it again and again, and if you are done searching, what are you going to do. If you don't take me seriously, I won't climb your mountain gate again. Forget it, let's go back. ”

Saying that, Li Mao was about to lead everyone back. This little leader was a little angry when he saw Li Mao, and hurriedly said, "Don't, Li Gongzi." I also act according to orders, you have a lot of adults, don't be like me, you hurry up the mountain, please. ”

The little leader knew that he could not afford to go back and annoy the guests.

Li Mao pretended to snort angrily and snorted with his nose, and with a wave of his hand, Li Jing and the others carried things again, followed the little leader, crossed the suspension bridge, followed the steps, and passed the gate step by step.

This walled gate is built into a city gate building type, and many people can stand condescendingly on the walled gate to defend. After passing the walled gate, Li Jing thought to herself, if there are many people who attack hard, it will not be enough. There are too many people to spread, too few and not enough people to shoot at the stockade. What a natural risk.

While walking towards the village, the little leader still felt unsteady in his heart, but he didn't know where the reason was, and when he entered the village, he began to trouble again, saying: "According to the instructions of the owner of the village, your brothers will stay here at the village. Come in with me yourself. ”

This cottage, into the gate of the village is a very wide place, after years of rest, the inside of the village is also very smooth. Li Mao and Li Jing both saw that as long as they captured the walled gate, it would be easy to deal with inside.

As soon as Li Mao and Li Jing looked at each other, they both understood what each other meant. Li Mao said: "I look at the little brother, do you have to get along with me today, right?" ”

This little head wanted to say "There...", but with a mouth, only one "that" word was spoken, and as soon as Li Mao raised his hand, a sleeve arrow shot directly into his mouth. He saw something shoot into his mouth, and reached out to pull out the arrow, but suddenly he lost his strength and fell directly to the ground. At this time, Li Jing and others also hit a few minions next to them with bamboo poles, and then drew out their muskets and ran towards the Zhaimen building. encountered a few minions who were blocking, Li Jing didn't let go of their guns, and directly knocked them down with the barrel of their guns. The two soldiers left by Li Mao and Li Jing picked up the blades that the minions had dropped on the ground, and mended the few minions that had fallen to the ground, and then they stood with knives in order to prevent the minions in the direction of the gate from reporting to the village. Li Jing, who grabbed the gate of the wall, quickly controlled the gate, and then quickly put down the drawbridge, and then "touched" the air and released a shot.

Hearing this gunshot, Liu Chenghuang and Yang Jing came up with people. The sound of gunfire was an agreed signal, because horses could not be ridden on the mountain, Liu Chenghuang and Yang Jing arranged for people to watch the horses, and led people to follow Li Mao and them on foot, and ambushed not far from the Zhaimen after coming up the mountain.

This gunshot also made the village chaotic, and none of these new masters of Taiyue Mountain had ever heard the gunshots. There was a person who was a little knowledgeable, and he said: "This sound seems to be the sound of fire in the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion." ”

Lou San was shocked when he heard this, "Fuck, send someone to see what's going on." All set. With that, he took the lead and rushed out of the lobby.

Li Mao heard a gunshot from the upper floor of the walled gate, and looked at the walled gate, where Li Jing was waving to him. Li Mao waved his hand and took Li Jing's two soldiers, and also ran towards the gate tower. He knew that he would have to deal with the large number of bandits that had rushed out of the stockade.

Wait for Liu Chenghuang and Yang Jing to take people to the walled gate. Li Mao ordered the drawbridge to be lifted.

At this time, Lou San commanded hundreds of bandits to rush over with shouts. Li Jing glanced at the bandits who rushed over and said to Li Mao, "I don't care about the affairs here." After saying that, he took his ten men along the edge of the gate tower to the side of the hill, and went into the woods and disappeared.

When Lou San heard that the Zhaimen Building was occupied by others, and he didn't know who it was, he was so angry that his nose was crooked. He knew that the Zhaimen was the only barrier to his Taiyue Mountain, and if it was lost, Taiyue Mountain would be like a void, and he must take the Zhaimen back, otherwise whoever comes, he will be finished. He knew that he had played a little too much during this time.

When the bandits rushed over, Liu Chenghuang didn't take them to heart at all. Dealing with them, Liu Chenghuang is too confident. Yoo Sung-huang shouted, "No orders, no shooting, get ready." ”

The musketeers all put their arquebuses on the arquebuses and waited for orders. When the bandits all rushed to the bottom of the walled gate, Liu Chenghuang ordered, "Cast **." "Facing the musketeers on the gate, each of them threw two **. ** all fell into the pile of bandits huddled together. The bandits found the smoking ** smashed down on the head, although they didn't know the power of the ** yet, and they knew that it was definitely not a good thing. I just wanted to hide, but there was still no time. More than 200 ** "boom" exploded. It's okay for these bandits to bully some passing merchants, but in this case, even if they are not killed, they are all shocked by the sound of the explosion, and their souls are scattered. Those who are alive and moving, crowd and collide with each other. When they were killed and wounded and wanted to retreat, Yoo Sung-huang ordered free shooting. These veterans who have been in battle for a long time shoot steadily and steadily, shot by shot. Liu Chenghuang is as unhurried as watching a play on the side.

Li Mao is also a long-standing figure, and this time he really appreciated the real combat ability of Yaogang, which also had a great impact on Li Mao. With such a strong army, as long as there are some more men, it should be no problem to protect oneself. No wonder Zhang Zhimu had no interest in building the city wall at all. It seems that Zhang Zhimu is right.

This style of play is like a one-sided slaughter. What is even more rare is that there are a group of outstanding officers like Li Jing and Liu Chenghuang in Yaogang. Not to mention Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He, and Liu Yun, they haven't come out yet. At this time, Li Mao was in a good mood, and the original little nervousness had already flown out of the clouds.

Lou San felt a little relaxed when he saw the minions rushing to the front of the walled gate, he thought that so many people went up together, and it was possible to rush directly to the walled gate. But when he saw a batch of smoking things flying down from the gate tower, he knew that something was wrong, and his men and horses were too crowded in front of the gate of the stockade. Sure enough, after a deafening explosion, his minions were killed and wounded, and there were stumps and severed arms everywhere. The non-stop wailing of the minions who are not dead is even more infiltrating. The explosion passed, followed by another musket. This time, Lou San knew what the voice they heard was. But the minions who fell one after another made Lou San's scalp numb constantly. He swung his sword to stop the minions fleeing backwards. The minions told him that the second boss who had just led the minions to charge had been blown up. This made Lou San gasp. This second master he sealed played a big role in the process of seizing the cottage, but he didn't expect to die so quickly.

Lou San himself also knew that if he couldn't take away his own Taiyue Mountain this time, he would be gone, and his good life would be gone. Until now, he didn't expect that he would die, because he knew that there was a secret passage behind the cottage, and out of the secret passage, you could go east to Qinyuan. This is the benefit of Taiyue Mountain, to the west can block the main road of the south and north of Jin, and to the east out of the mountain is the Qin Level.

Lou San called the three masters who were trembling all over, and asked, "Third brother, do you want to live?" ”

The jaw of the third master trembled and said, "Yes, big brother." ”

Lou San said: "Our good days can't end like this, the only way out today is to recapture the Zhaimen." Even if everyone is dead, after retaking the walled gate, we will gather people again. If you can't recapture the walled gate, it is a dead end. ”

But the third master is not a fool, he said: "If the eldest brother can't do it, let's run away from the back mountain." ”

But Lou San sneered and said, "Don't dream. Today, you are not allowed to go, and the only way to survive is to recapture the walled gate. Now I command you to lead all the people and rush over, and take back the gate alive, and if you are defeated, I will be the first to kill you. ”

There was no way, this time the three masters organized six or seven hundred people, and rushed over with a shout. But flesh and blood, how can they fight against ** and bullets.

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