Chapter 430: Rich and Rival Country
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The light cavalry charged the heavy infantry in a chaotic formation, and suddenly like a pack of wolves, the five hundred or so cavalry swept over like a whirlwind, leaving corpses all over the ground, both enemy and own. In this way, more than 200 people were killed in the Iron Guard.
The infantry of the escort team led by Jiao Ting roared and killed. Hit the Iron Guard with ten times as many troops.
Jiao Ting charged ahead, and the sledgehammer in his hand can be described as the nemesis of the heavy infantry. Hit the chest, a dozen holes. Later, the guards took the Yanling knife and greeted the head and face. The armor of the iron guard is with a neck guard, but after all, it is a very thin layer of fish scale armor, which cannot resist the slash of the Yanling knife at all, not to mention that the ants have more bites to death, and the difference in numbers is as much as ten times.
Bang, ah, weapons collided, blood splattered, screams continued, hundreds of guards were scattered to defend, more than a dozen of the pattern of beating one was annihilated, and when the last guard fell, the noisy gold mine was finally quiet.
Jiao Ting led the infantry to clean up the battlefield, Yang Zhi led people to control the miners, and Chao Gai, Luo Yun, and Luan Tingyu went to capture the eldest prince of Lu.
Luo Yun led people to search the room and couldn't find where Lu Daran was, so he asked the trembling maid, and the maid said that she had been in the room. But please search carefully again and still can't find it, the bed is still hot, it looks like you haven't escaped for a long time.
Luan Tingyu said: "There is a secret passage in the room, find the back of the cabinet, under the table, and under the bed. ”
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Sure enough, a secret door was found behind the cabinet of the eldest prince of Lu, and under the secret door was a tunnel. Luo Yun led people to enter the tunnel, Chao Gai said: "The enemy is dark and I am clear, chasing in the tunnel is not a way, let him go." ”
Luan Tingyu said: "This kind of mechanism secret passage is generally not too long, too long ventilation is a problem, and searching within three or four miles outside the courtyard wall will definitely see results." ”
There are cavalry arranged outside, and it is not easy to be a fish that slips through the net.
The vault of the Lu family was built very tightly, and there were more than 50 iron guards guarded alone, all of whom were first-class good hands, and the recruits of the guard battalion died more than ten people here, and finally used the tiger squat cannon to bombard at close range to complete the defense of the vault.
Luo Yun led two hundred personal soldiers to take over the vault in an all-round way, Chao Gai and Luan Tingyu were also stunned when they arrived, the huge vault had hundreds of square meters, and the room dug out of the mountain was lit with more than a dozen large candles inside, and hundreds of boxes were neatly stacked on the ground.
"Luo Yun, open the box." Chao Gai said.
Immediately, Luo Yun and his soldiers smashed open the locked box with steel knives, which were full of gold bars, and the gold bars were shining one by one. There are nearly 200 boxes in total, all of which are full of gold bars, and a rough estimate is almost nearly 20,000 catties of gold.
Chao Gai also couldn't hide his joy: "With such a harvest, our Jeju army will not have to worry about it." ”
Luan Tingyu said: "The Lu family's family background is so thick, they have to rob our silver mine in Yishui County, I really don't know whether to live or die." ”
Chao Gai said: "The Lu family deceived people too much, our county, the government, and the court all sued, and no one gave us an explanation, so we had to ask for an explanation ourselves." ”
Immediately Chao Gai ordered the vault to be sealed, carefully checked that there was no secret door mechanism, then rest assured, there was a big war in the gold mine, the miners were scared enough, Yang Zhi led the troops to watch them all night, three thousand miners did not move, early the next morning, Chao Gai gathered the miners. After screening, it was found that there were no direct members of the Lu family among the miners, the Lu family and their cronies were all iron guards or supervisors, and the miners were all bitter haha, with a salary of 200 wen a month, no rest days, poor food, poor housing, and no bonuses to get.
Chao Gai said: "From today on, this gold mine will no longer be surnamed Lu, and now it will be renamed Zhaoyuan Gold Mine, if you are happy to still be a miner here, but the benefits have changed." ”
Someone asked, "What's changed?" ”
Chao Gai said: "You listen carefully and read out the benefits to you." ”
Immediately, Zhu Wu arranged for a civilian staff with a loud voice to read aloud the welfare benefits, the basic treatment is the same as that of silver mines and copper mines, the most ordinary craftsmen have a monthly salary of 500 Wen, three days off a month, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the New Year have certain bonuses and other benefits, and the year-end bonus is issued according to the work situation. Three meals a day are guaranteed to have white flour steamed rice, and fish and meat are eaten five or six times a month.
The miners were stunned, and an old miner in his forties boldly asked: "Can you really give white flour steamed buns and rice, and can you still have fish and meat?" You can't fool us again.
Chao Gai was not angry, and said: "It's time to have breakfast in a while, you can go to the canteen to see, all kinds of welfare canteens are pasted, and the literate ones read well to the illiterate, and if you scatter, let's have breakfast first." ”
The mine also found hundreds of miners who had been abused to death by the Lu family in recent years, and Chao Gai ordered Luan Tingyu to register them one by one, and the details were in the register.
The miners had a morning meeting, and came to the kitchen as usual, the usually dirty and messy canteen was completely renewed, although there were still no seats and benches, but the ground was clean, more than 20 places where rice was served began to be served, and the miners each held a rice bowl and waited in line to eat.
The staple food is hot rice, white flour steamed buns, and the dish is pork stewed vermicelli, although there is very little pork, but the vermicelli is also very fragrant, and there is an egg per person, many people cry and cry while eating.
Luan Tingyu, who came to check, asked, "What are you crying about?" ”
"I've been working in this mine for four years, and I have several scars on my body, and I've never had such a good meal once." The miner cried.
Luan Tingyu also shook his head, this Lu family is too much, it deserves to be destroyed, his rich flowing oil is unwilling to pay even the most basic living guarantee for the miners.
At noon, Chao Gai convened the generals to discuss the matter, and Chao Gai said: "After laying the gold mine, the Lu family's largest industry has lost half, but the Lu family still has at least six to seven hundred iron guards, and this part of the iron guards is in Lujiazhuang outside Dengzhou City, if you attack Lujiazhuang, it will inevitably clash with the Dengzhou official army." So let's set up an ambush halfway, waiting for them to come to the gold mine and ambush them halfway. ”
Zhu Wu opened the map and said: "According to our plan, we ambushed in the Black Mountain Gorge north of the gold mine, Luan Tingyu, Yang Zhi, Xiang Zhong, Xu Yue, and the four generals led the cavalry to guard the gold mine. Chao Tuanlian led the recruits of the escort team to intercept the Black Mountain Canyon. ”
Yang Zhidao: "After all, the escort team is a new recruit, from Yishui County, marching far to Zhaoyuan, and fighting two more battles, I am worried that the morale is not enough, and the physical fitness may also be reduced." ”
Chao Gai nodded: "Yang Jiaotou is right, but let's just order troops like this, the Black Mountain Canyon is a mountainous area, and the cavalry can't play an effective role if they go, so they can only take a risk, if this battle is also won, then the escort team has the beginning of becoming elite soldiers." ”
Luan Tingyu said: "The Lu family should be almost here, since Chao Tuanlian has decided, let's go over and arrange the fortifications as soon as possible." ”
Immediately, Chao Gai, Zhu Wu, Jiao Ting, and Luo Yun led the escort team to the Black Mountain Gorge, and after yesterday's fierce fighting, the 3,000 Danyang recruits have been reduced to the current 2,800 people, but the soldiers are full of spirit and have not seen fatigue.
The group rushed over mostly on foot, with only a hundred cavalry. By the time we arrived at the Black Mountain Gorge, it was getting dark.
Chao Gai said: "Don't sleep tonight, take advantage of the moonlight to dig fortifications on the mountain beams on both sides, be leisurely, don't light a fire, don't make a big move." ”
How many times have the men of the guard battalion been trained in repairing fortifications, and they are no strangers to digging mountains with pickaxes and shovels, piling up stones, etc., under the leadership of their respective company commanders. After all, this is the era of cold weapons, and there is no need to dig anti-artillery holes and many other complicated fortifications like in the era of hot weapons.
At about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Chao Gai and Zhu Wu inspected the fortifications separately, found that the fortifications were in good condition, and immediately ordered them to rest. Chao Gai and Zhu Wu led a small number of soldiers to take turns on duty, and the recruits of the guard battalion hid in the bunker pit one by one and slept soundly.
The sky was shining, and the red of the morning glow was sprinkled all over the Black Mountain Gorge. At this moment, the iron guards of the Lu family are in a hurry to pull out here forty miles away, unlike the iron guards of other heavy infantry, these six hundred iron guards are light cavalry, all wearing cowhide armor and carrying spears, and they are pulled over after receiving the notice, and they rushed more than 80 miles in half a day yesterday, and they shouted early this morning. The cavalry marched on the road, and there were few occasions when the horses galloped wildly, and it was not until the morning that they reached the outside of the Black Mountain Gorge.
Zhu Wuzheng looked into the distance and saw the banner of the Lu family from a distance.
Zhu Wudao: "Brother, is it all annihilation or surrender." ”
Chao Gai said: "Our goal is to completely defeat the Lu family, and if there is anyone willing to surrender, we will naturally accept it." ”
"Shoot people and horses first, since you are willing to accept surrender, after a while, my brother will find the leader and kill the leader first, and the others will naturally be in chaos, and they will surrender if they are surrounded." Zhu Wu said.
Chao Gai said: "Okay, just follow Zhu Junshi's wishes." ”
After more than ten minutes, the Lu family's iron guard team slowly walked over, perhaps because the Black Mountain Grand Canyon was too steep, this is a typical terrain of two mountains and one ditch, which is easy to be ambushed.
The leader of the team is called Lu Tianxiong, who is a direct member of the Lu family, Lu Tianxiong waved his gun and shouted: "Stop." ”
"Head, why did it stop."
"It's the Black Mountain Canyon in front, it doesn't feel right, you take someone over and shoot a few arrows on both sides." "Yes." More than a dozen cavalrymen came out into the canyon and suddenly shot a few arrows at both sides, and several pheasants above the canyon screamed in fright.
Lu Tianxiong looked at it and said, "It's okay, go into the mountain." On the top of the mountain, Chao Gai said: "It's still thoughtful and thoughtful, and I caught a few pheasants in advance, otherwise it would not be easy to deal with the past." "Thank you brother for the compliment, let's get ready for war." Zhu Wudao.