Early the next morning, after breakfast, I said goodbye to Ma Xiaofang, Ma Ruyan and my baby daughter. Zhu Hongsan was fully armed and took Zhu Hongyi to the playground. Seeing that six hundred people were already lined up and waiting for themselves.

Zhu Hongsan came up to the stage and said, "Everyone knew about it last night." We're going to crack down on bandits today. Everyone has been training for a year, and whether it is a mule or a horse depends on this time. I hope you don't pee your pants. After saying that, there was a burst of laughter.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "Everyone knows military discipline, listen to the command on the battlefield, and the capture must be handed over to the public." I'll repeat, don't blame me for being unsympathetic for violating military discipline, everyone hears it. ”

"Hear me, sir."

Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied with everyone's morale and said, "Okay, let's go." Then he and Zhu Hongyi rode in front, Li Fugui led the way, and the two battalion commanders led the way with their troops divided into three columns to follow. Finally, ten wagons pulled the baggage.

Zhu Hongsan walked in front and looked back at his troops from time to time. Like all rich landowners, when he had nothing to do, he took out his money and counted it. Zhu Hongsan is the same, looking at his capital with pride, this is the capital of his own business. Looking at the six hundred people, there are not many, but wearing the same clothes and taking the same steps has a feeling of being angry.

Zhu Hongsan thought: Only 600 people are menacing, what if the book says tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? Han Xin said that the more troops he led, the better, and said that Liu Bang could bring 100,000. I don't know how many I can bring, not just these six hundred.

Zhu Hongsan: Their first stop was Hengdao Village, which was ten miles away from Zhaojiaji. Hengdao Village has a population of less than 100 people, and the bandits will not take a fancy to such a small village, so they will go there and see the situation. After all, it is Zhu Hongsan's first battle, so you must be careful.

In the evening, we rushed to Hengdao Village, this small mountain village is really in a mountain col, very hidden.

The people at the entrance of the village saw Zhu Hongsan and them, and when Zhu Hongsan entered the village, they all ran away. There was only one old man left at home.

Zhu Hongsan sent Li Fugui to understand the situation, and then organized a team to camp outside the village.

After a while, Li Fugui came back and said to Zhu Hongsan: "There are still twelve miles from Zhaojiaji here, and three miles from the lake. Since the accident two months ago, the villagers have not dared to live at home, and they have run away whenever there is any movement. I just told them not to be afraid. Later, the village chief will come back and see me. ”

After dark, the village chief of Hengdao Village came, a farmer in his thirties, saw Zhu Hongsan and Li Fugui kneeling down and kowtowing, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, you can come, you can't live this day after these lake thieves come." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "This village chief, do lake thieves usually come?" ”

The village chief replied cautiously: "How can they look down on a small village like ours, but there are usually a few strangers who always wander around in this generation. ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Are there any big towns around here?" ”

The village chief said: "Yes, there is a big town five miles south of here, called Yangzhuang Town. There are more than 500 households, two or three thousand people. We usually go there to buy everything. ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Is there a market in Yangzhuang Town?" ”

The village chief said: "Yes, every fifteenth day of the new year is the big gathering, and people within a radius of twenty miles have to go. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and asked Zhu Hongyi to give the village chief a tael of silver, and the village chief went down happily.

Zhu Hongsan said: "There are two days left on the first day of the new year, tomorrow we will go to see this Yangzhuang Town, I feel that the lake thieves want to fight the idea of this town." ”

The next day, Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Hongyi, Li Fugui, Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong to change into ordinary clothes and rush to Yangzhuang Town to check the situation.

The five of them dismounted on a small hill one mile away from Yangzhuang Town, and the five of them stood on the hill and looked at the town below. This town is really not small, and it is about to catch up with the Zhu family farm. Yangzhuang Town was built on the edge of Liangzi Lake, next to a small wharf in Hu. There are a few fishing boats on it. A street in the town. A few shops.

The five of them were observing, and Zhu Hongsan saw a small fishing boat coming from the lake, and instead of stopping at the pier, he went around in a circle and entered the reed pond by the lake. After a while, someone came out of it, tidied up his clothes, and walked along the road in the direction of Yangzhuang Town.

Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Yong on the side: "Qian Yong, there is something wrong with this person. You ride a horse to catch him, remember not to ride fast when you are around, walk slowly, don't let him run. ”

Qian Yong agreed to ride a horse.

The four of them watched from the hillside, and the man saw a horse coming behind him, and stood on the side of the road to let Qian Yong pass. Qian Yong slowed down and chatted with him a few words. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and lifted him on horseback and ran back to the hillside.

After Qian Yong came back, he threw the man, and Zhu Hongyi stepped forward and stepped on his head and said, "Don't move." ”

The man also said, "You are too bold to know who I am, let me go, or I will kill your whole family." ”

Zhu Hongsan squatted down and looked at him and said, "Oh? It seems that you are a fellow believer, and you are on that path. ”

The guy said: "I am the general of this lake, the general of Hebei Yuqilin, and the general of Lu sat down as a pioneer officer. Let me go. ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Hebei Jade Qilin? I'm still in time to rain Song Jiang. Lao Li, show him your waist card. ”

Li Fugui showed the man a glance at his waist card of the canonical history. The man was frightened.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "This hero, let's talk about what you want to do?" ”

The man gritted his teeth and said, "I won't betray my eldest brother." ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at the ground, found a stone and put it on the ground, put the man's finger on the stone, stepped on it with his foot, and ran it twice, and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, do you hurt?" ”

The man screamed and shouted, "I won't say anything if you kill me." ”

Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong: "Stripped his pants." Then he found a straw stick on the ground. said to Li Fugui: "Pierce it along the place where he urinates and prick it into the bladder." ”

Li Fugui had an eyelid, and said in his heart that Zhu Hongsan's heart is really black, and he can think of such bad moves.

The man was so frightened that he shouted, "Don't pierce, I say." ”

Zhu Hongsan motioned for Zhu Hongyi to let go of his head. Zhu Hongyi let go of his feet and stepped on his back again, Zhu Hongyi is now two meters tall and can have three hundred pounds, and a pair of big feet are so hung that guy out of the.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Say, what are you doing here?" Where is your general? How many of you are there? ”

That guy is all honest.

It turned out that this guy's name was Zhang San, and because he and the general were from Henan, he made him a small leader of the lake thieves. They want to take advantage of the first episode of the new year to get a handful, and then spend the Yangtze River Beitou Li Zicheng.

Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Next, how many people are there?" How many bosses? ”

Zhang San immediately went on to say that he and the general Lu Liu were both from Henan, and they had come to Huguang a year earlier. Because he robbed and killed people in the city of Wuchang Mansion, he led a group of people to Liangzi Lake and fell into the grass. Lu Liuhao fought bravely and became the leader, because he likes to listen to the Water Margin. It is self-styled and called Hebei Jade Qilin. I thought it would be a good day, but a scholar came two months ago and said that his name was Dong Yuan. and Lu Liu said that Liangzi Lake was not in danger. It's better to go north and vote for Li Zicheng. In the future, Li Zicheng can also be a prince when he founded the country. Lu Liu was moved by him, let Dong Yuan be a military advisor, and then organized people to go north for the last time in the first day of the junior high school, and chose to be in Yangzhuang Town. Because Yangzhuang Town is the largest town within a radius of 50 miles, and there is a team to protect the village, there has never been an idea of bandits daring to fight Yangzhuang Town before, plus the first day of the new year is a big set in Yangzhuang Town, many people come to the market, and there are many goods, which is a good goal.

Zhang San is very good with a kiln sister in Yangzhuang Town, and wants to lead her north together. Come and meet today and take her away.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "When do you want to start the first year of junior high school?" ”

Zhang San said: "At noon. ”

Zhu Hongsan heard that it was useless, and nodded to Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongyi's feet were strained, Zhang San's sternum was crushed, his hands ran and his feet pedaled, and he was breathed after a while.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Dig a pit and bury him, let's go." ”

Back in Hengdao Village, Zhu Hongsan said to the four of them: "We came at the right time, tomorrow is the first day of the new year." We'll leave tomorrow morning, and we'll see what happens. ”

The four of them nodded and went their separate ways to prepare.

After eating the next morning, Zhu Hongsan gathered his team and came to a small forest two miles away from Yangzhuang Town, where he could see the official road outside, and his sight was very good.

Zhu Hongsan ordered the troops to rest in place, and he took the other four people to a small hill one mile away. Lie down on the hillside and wait for the enemy to come.

Time flies. It was nearly noon, and there were a lot of people in Yangzhuang Town, and there were almost 5,000 households. The surrounding villages come here to exchange daily necessities.

Zhu Hongsan and the others were watching, and more than a dozen small boats rushed out of the lake, and each small boat could have more than ten lake pirates, shouting and rushing to the small pier in Yangzhuang Town. The people on the dock saw the lake thieves coming, and they scattered in all directions. At this time, the town's village guards had received the information, and more than a hundred people came out and rushed forward with knives and wooden sticks.

It was clear that the lake pirates on board were in the vanguard. It should be more warlike. On the docks, they started to fight with the Guardians. At this moment, a group of lake thieves, about 1,000 people, rushed out two miles to the south of the town, and slaughtered the town in a chaotic manner.

Zhu Hongsan saw that these lake thieves were a bit level, and they also knew that they were attacking the west.

Li Fugui on the side said: "Third master, let our people go too." Otherwise, the lake thieves would storm the town and die. ”

Zhu Hong's three eyelids rolled and said, "You know a fart, if you don't let the lake thieves kill a batch, how will we rob things later." It's all the villagers who can't get their hands on it. ”

Li Fugui shrank his head and thought to himself, this guy still wants to grab things now? There are more than 1,000 people in the lake pirates, and let's talk about whether they can beat it for a while.

The five of them lay on the hillside and watched the excitement. The town's village guards are all on the docks to fend off the lake pirates who come up from the lake, and the lake pirates from the periphery take the opportunity to kill the town. The fire lit up, and the lake thieves began to kill and set fires. The Zhuang team is all local strong men. It's okay to fight a tailwind fight. At this time, I found that there was a fire in the back, and I saw that the lake thieves had entered the town. They all had families and mouths, and immediately scattered in all directions. Lake pirates on the docks also rushed in.

These lake thieves kill people when they see them, and they pick up their pants when they look at women. Zhu Hongsan saw several lake thieves grabbing the woman and starting to commit adultery on the street. Zhu Hongsan said: "It seems that it's not easy to do any profession, these guys will start working on the street if they want to hold back." ”

Now the four of them are only more than 500 meters away from the town, and they can see it clearly. The lake thieves were in rags. A lot of people are holding sharpened sticks. Just now, the Zhuang Guardian team has a complete weapon, and if they are trained, they can completely kill off this group of lake pirates.

Qian Yong said on the side: "Sir, these guys don't need our 600 people to come here at all, my battalion of 300 people can handle it by themselves." ”

Zhao Guodong was very dissatisfied with what he heard on the side, and snorted heavily with his nose.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Qian Yong, tell me what you want to do if you are the commander?" ”

Qian Yong said: "It's not easy to deal with them, the spear team will rush over directly and it's over." ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said: "Our order is to annihilate everything, won't they still harm the Quartet after they all run away?" ”

Zhao Guodong said on the side: "It is not easy to annihilate completely, three hundred people in one battalion is too few. But it is still possible to annihilate the majority. I will make a detour with a hundred shieldmen, waiting for the pikemen to crush them, and then the shieldmen will attack. It should be about the same. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Got it." Our combat effectiveness is stronger than theirs, but in terms of numbers, it is much smaller. Didn't I say that in class? Quantitative change causes qualitative change, and once they outnumber us by too much, that person's combat effectiveness is completely useless. In the future, it is very likely that you will lead an army to fight alone, so you must be careful and not draw arbitrary conclusions, after all, the lives of so many brothers are in your hands. ”

Qian Yong blushed and nodded, "The chief said okay, I remembered." ”