Chapter 87: The villagers form a village to defend themselves
Yuan Tao, the king of heaven, sat on the head of the horse, and the whole person looked arrogant and confident.
Yang Lin set up Yao Tiandong, the big boss of the local tyrants, and the northern Sichuan was shaken, and everyone was shocked one by one, but only he calmly analyzed the situation between the two sides.
Although the volunteers were strong and strong, they were very few in number, and they were only four battalions of soldiers and horses, and now they are less than 2,000 people, which is far worse than the rebel army (Yao Huang).
Now that the Great Western Army has entered Sichuan, the biggest threat to the official army is that Zhang Xianzhong is the Great Western Army, not Yao Huang, which is also the Yao Tiandong of Yang Lin, although Yang Lin set up an ambush to capture the big boss, but he did not dare to lead the army to go deep into the territory to encircle and suppress the battle.
The main force of the Volunteer Army is stationed in Xiangru County, more than 400 miles away from Zengkou County, and it takes more than ten days for ordinary soldiers and horses to rescue.
He only entered Zengkou County five days ago, and even if Yang Lin led his troops to rescue, it would be three or five days later, and now this time is just the time to act on his own.
Yesterday, Yao Huang captured a large cottage near Jiulong Township, and although he killed 40 or 50 people, he also looted hundreds of loads of grain, which was enough to temporarily relieve the pressure on grain.
When soldiers eat food, there are soldiers when there is food, Yuan Tao wants to rob for two more days and loot two more cottages.
If Yang Lin leads his troops to run thousands of miles, he will either face it head-on, or retreat to his lair.
Now the Great Western Army is aggressive, and everyone does not believe that Yang Lin dares to fight a protracted war with Yao Huang.
The people in front of them turned over on their backs, and there were neighing of war horses everywhere, the shouts of the people, seeing so many people and horses passing by, the small cottages around were frightened one by one, and the men retreated back to the village like a tide, and everyone was confined to prevent anyone from approaching.
At the time of the fifth watch, everyone rushed to Jiulong Township, and the scouts came to report that there were hundreds of loads of grain in the village, and if you add more than ten large families around, there would be thousands of loads.
If this raid is successful, everyone will be able to survive this winter.
Since the troubles of Yao Huang, everyone has not farmed, but looted all day long, so sitting and eating empty, many local villages in Bazhou and Dazhou have no food to rob.
In order to solve the food shortage, Yao Tiandong, the leader of the last year, led tens of thousands of horses to attack Pengzhou, but he was defeated by the official army, and the tens of thousands of grains looted were not transported away at all, and the government was cheaper.
This year, taking advantage of the reinforcements of the CD Mansion by the official army, everyone thought that they could take Pengzhou in one fell swoop and seize the grain and grass in the city, but the official army counterattacked and did not take advantage of it at all.
Soldiers gather with food, and without food, who wants to become a homeless person with you?
In order to solve the grain shortage, Yao Huang began to cultivate the land since last year, and the displaced people who came from the busy farming period went to the land to farm, and followed the various masters when the farming was not working.
In two months, Yao Huang invaded on a large scale, who expected that Yang Lin would set up an ambush halfway and defeat the local tyrants, and in the end, his big boss Yao Tiandong was defeated and killed.
After two months of suffering like this, everyone really couldn't stand it, and in order to show that he was fighting for the throne of the big boss by force, Yuan Tao led his troops to attack.
Everyone originally tried their luck and broke through the two cottages and found hundreds of loads of grain, you need to know that this is the area that Yao Huang used to dominate, and I didn't expect everyone to hide so much food.
Thinking about it, the people of the country are thrifty, and everyone is prepared for disasters and famines.
In the past, under Yao Huang's rule, everyone did not dare to store food at home, but now after the recovery of the volunteers, everyone no longer hides grain in the deep mountains and old forests.
Yuan Tao divided his troops to attack other cottages, and threatened that if he assisted Minzhuang to guard the gate of the village, after the village was broken, he would not rob everyone's wealth.
Who wants to listen to Yuan Tao's nonsense, and who dares to listen to it?
In the past, they were all engaged in robbing houses and houses, often wearing masks and blending into the crowd, looting villagers' property, or publicly extorting, and killing people without blinking an eye.
Seeing the local rioters coming, the township chief Bu Dajing sent a fast horse to report to the county seat, and beat gongs and drums to let the men go to the village to prevent the local rioters from sneaking up.
Different from other places, there are many hills in northern Sichuan, and everyone often lives in the village in order to guard against fierce beasts and robbers (this is also the reason why the Qing army has not captured Sichuan for more than ten years).
Now seeing the local tyrants attacking, although everyone is frightened, those grain merchants desperately greet their guys, be sure to keep the grain, if they are robbed, they will really go bankrupt.
Besides, the few loads of grain just collected at home are the lifeblood of the family, and it will all depend on them in the coming year.
In order to survive, everyone shouted loudly one by one and fought back.
Bu Dajing, the head of the township, comforted everyone vigorously, the official mansion is only fifty miles away, and the reinforcements are hurrying up, and when the time comes, it will be more difficult for the local tyrants to loot their property than to ascend to the sky.
Seeing that the deception was not good, Yuan Taoling personally led the team to take the lead, and more than 1,000 people, some wearing armor, some wearing quilts, and some wrapped in turbans, rushed over with a roar.
Yuan Tao, the king of heaven, promised everyone that if the gate of the village was opened, one person would be rewarded with food, and one person would save it to eat, and it would be enough to eat for several months.
And the inside of the village is even more hatred of the enemy, food is the lifeblood of everyone, in order to protect the food, we have to fight up, everyone will throw stones down.
You come and go, the two sides fight together, although the local tyrant is brave, but the mountain is dangerous, the people are condescending, desperately throw the stone and firewood down, although the local tyrant is many, but for a moment and a half, it is difficult to get any cheap.
Yuan Tao stood in front, a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, although the people in the cottage were strong, but they had no combat experience at all, everyone desperately threw stones, torches, etc. outside the village, and if it went on like this, it would be finished sooner or later.
After throwing the things almost away, he can lead his own soldiers to rush over, break through the gate of the village, and kill them to loot the grain.
But slowly, the smile on Yuan Tao's face slowly disappeared, there were too many rolling logs and stones on the walled city, could it be that the news was exposed, and the other party was prepared?
Yuan Tao was in a hurry, and the township chief Bu Dajing was even more anxious, it was only Yang Wei's 2nd battalion stationed within a radius of 100 miles, and the local tyrants were so powerful that they were difficult to beat.
To defeat the Soil Tyrant, you need to wait for reinforcements, but now the biggest threat is Zhang Xianzhong, not the Soil Tyrant who fights pettily.
Seeing that there are fewer and fewer stones, the soil riots continue to surge up like ants, and if they go down, the stockade will be breached sooner or later.
After thinking about it, Bu Dajing asked everyone to save the stones, lest the stones run out, and when the time comes, the stabbing hands will not be able to deal with the local riots at all.
Seeing that the stones thrown by the cottage decreased, Yuan Tao didn't know what to do, so he immediately asked the homeless people who were cannon fodder to retreat and personally command the soldiers and horses to kill them.
The Chinese population is numerous, and since ancient times, there has been no shortage of homeless people, let alone homeless people to use as cannon fodder.
In order to increase the combat strength of the troops, these reckless people mostly selected a small number of young and strong soldiers as their own soldiers, so as to protect their own safety and defeat the enemy at critical moments.
The rest of the homeless are used as cannon fodder, consuming the opponent's firepower or blocking the opponent's attack.
If the original group of local tyrants was still called the Hanako Army, now the local tyrants are pro-army, it can be said that the armor is clear and the morale is strong.
Seeing a group of more ferocious ones, Bu Dajing was shocked, and everyone panicked for a while, and desperately threw the stone down.
But this group of people were wearing thick armor and helmets one by one, and it was difficult to be injured except for those who were directly hit.
Some are even more ferocious, facing the rolling stones, constantly rushing to the top.
Standing behind the battle, Yuan Tao's heart was dripping blood, unlike ordinary cannon fodder, this pro-army was a place for himself to settle down, but if there were too many casualties, even if he captured the cottage and grabbed food, it would not be worth the loss.
In order to avoid casualties, Yuan Tao ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, withdraw the pro-army, and then send cannon fodder troops to attack the mountain.
In this way, the situation on the front line eased slightly, and the township chief Bu Dajing and others also took this opportunity to prepare more stones for another battle.